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Apbil 8, 1848. THE NORTHERN STAR' 3
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TEISEUTED BI UKIET JOSIB . Sons of freed...
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CHORUS OF TBE GIRONDISTS, (Ifourir pour ...
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THE eHARTIST TRICOLOUR, BI ALFBED VEHKEL...
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THE « -KOHTHEBS STAB ." At ACEOBTIC. 'T ...
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HorrawooD.—The silk weavera ia this neig...
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THE IRISH STATE PROSECUTIONS. The follow...
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THE LONDON REPEALERS. The union between ...
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To the Neu-U-siosrsT Obubattve Cobdwaiue...
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TO THE EIGHT HON. LORD Ji BUSSgLI.. ¦ . ...
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ifonpmai vantamenk
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. MONDAY , Apbil 3. HOUSE 0*? IORDS .—lu...
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Apbil 8, 1848. The Northern Star' 3
Apbil 8 , 1848 . THE NORTHERN STAR' 3
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We give another translation of tlw 'Maresillaiss ssd * Monrir pour la Patee / from the pen of _Ebsebi Joses . *— * ( From The _Labourer for April . ) THB MARSEILLAISE *
Teiseuted Bi Ukiet Josib . Sons Of Freed...
TEISEUTED BI UKIET JOSIB . Sons of freedom ! breik your slumbers She day of glory ' s drawing nigh , Against us tyranny ' s _red numbers _Bsar their Woody _nanner high _. Sear their bloody banner high _. Hark ! hirelings fierce for brutal strife , Jar aad near sound war's alarms , And outrage iayonr vtrjarmi , The hope—the partners of jour life . To arms ! brave citizens ! Array each gallant band l Much on ! march oh ! jour tyrantr ' blood Shall drench the thirsty land . _"ftVU march ! well march ! our tyrant **
blood Shall drench the thirsty land I What demand their banded miniong ? What dares each despicable Mug ? Amid the flap of Freedom ' s pinions , Hear their rusty fetters ring . Hear their rusty fetters ring . For us ? 'lis but an insult raia That shall arouse our hearts the more , We bf oka thdr manacles before _. We'll dash them into dust again . To arms ! brava _citizens , etc .
Shall aa alien crew conspiring , Kate laws to blight a 11 _eeman ' _t hearth ? ShaU the mercenary hireling Tread all onr manly pride to earth ? Tread all our manly pride to earth . Great God ! shall mighty millions cower And ' neath a yoke so paltry yield , Shall petty despots basely wield A _natioa ' t strength—a people ' s power t To arms ! brave _eltixens , etc . Tremble , tyrants ! traitors ! tremble , _PlaguB spots of the factious few ! Plot , conspire , betray , dissemble , Tou shall not escape your due ! Yoa shell not escape your due ! 5 or _wt'llha toluieiB _ona and ail—If hundreds die—fresh thousands Stand—Every death _rectuits a band Towed to crush you or to fall .
To aims I brave citisent , etc , And now , like warriors—gallant-hearted _. Learn by turns to strike and spars-Pity those whom faction parted , And would be with us , did they dare ! They wonld be with us , did they dare ! But for these despotic knaves _. Who make them play the rainioa ' _s part , And tear their bleeding country ' s heart , Onward—onward , o ' er their graves 1 To anas ! Brave citizens , etc . Children of eaeh hallowed martyr ! Kindle fresh the kindred strife'iiii their ashes Freedom ' s Charier Shall set the seal npon their life .
Shall set tha seal upon their life . Less eager to survive the brave Than to partike their honoured rest , Now dare the worst—aad hope the _bes _^ But never—never die a slave-To anas ! brave _citizens , etc . Onr country ' s sacred love Inspires—Freedom!—those who fight with thee ! Por the land—for ths land of our sires , The hose and birthright of the free ! The home and birthright of the free I
Fight _wlthus Freedom—at tby voice Yictory hails our strong career , Till strickvn tyrants dying hear The liberated world rejoice ! To arms ! crave _citittnsl array each gallant _oand , "Mareh oa I march on ! your tyrants' blood Shall drench the thirsty land . We'll march I we'll march 5 onr tyrants ' blood Shall drench the thirsty had .
Chorus Of Tbe Girondists, (Ifourir Pour ...
CHORUS OF TBE GIRONDISTS , ( Ifourir pour la Pairie . ) The cannon are calling iu thunder Tke high-hearted children of Prance , And rending her fetters asunder , See her citizen soldiers advance .
CHOEUS , To fall for liberty ! To faU for liberty I Is tke fate the most noble—most worthy the free ! Let us rush like a vast _iaundation , Onthose who would keep usin thrall j Lex ns show them , united , a nation Can battle and conquer them all . To fall , & c . Upholding the rights that we cherish , Away ! to the scene ef the strife ; Asd soon shall onr eaemies perish , Or Sik on their knees for their life . To faU , & c To arms , then , eaeh gallant avenger , The wrongs of our land to redress I Then on ! for where thickest the danger , The soldiers of freedom shall press .
To fall for _liberty ! To fall for liberty ! Is the fate the most noble—most worthy the free
The Ehartist Tricolour, Bi Alfbed Vehkel...
THE eHARTIST TRICOLOUR , BI ALFBED _VEHKELL . Seour true ensign ia the sky , iu folds the breezes _atir ; The rallying flxg for liberty _. The Chartist Tricolour ; Displaying in its Taxied sheen , Thered , the white , with Erin ' s green , One tint doth the bright beams display Whieh lighteth up the sky—The herald ofthe coming day , When _sun-rise fresh is nigh ; And as she rises fair asd free , To he the sun of Liberty .
One , the white foam that crests the wave , When winds and tempests play-White as the sails of gallant bark That cleaveth on her way—Hay Freedom cleave her way along , As straight her conrse , as pure , as strong . The beauteous mantle ofthe earth , When Spring-time gaily coses"When grass blades dance with wind in mirth In ell their quiet tones—As glad—as gay—may we soon be Beneath our flag of Liberty . Then wave onr ensign o'er the land _. From theLixard to the Forth—Come , til cf Freedom ' s gallant band ,
From East , West , Sontb . or North—Asd ss ye see our banner fly Salute the Sag of Liberty . Salnte it ! all ye nations round , _TViea we our flig _duplsy—That flag is with more glory crowned Than monarch ' s best array . _Obeisance pay ! ye tyrants , for Itis our Chartist Tricolour .
The « -Kohthebs Stab ." At Aceobtic. 'T ...
THE « -KOHTHEBS STAB . " At ACEOBTIC . 'T he friend of the weak , T he stern foe of might , _iHarbiEger of Freedom , II eral _3 of Light , ' _Exposer of Error , Expounder of Right , iS able defender ef N store ' s jnst laws , < 0 rgsa and _jaurssl O f Labour's good cause , 3 R enegtaes' Mirror , R _eforsaers' trne pride , * T ae Democrat'b Sirisld , The ? _etriot ' s guide , 'H ater of tyrants and the Hard hearted knave , IE rer supporting E ach down-trodden slaver , IE eglster of wrongs , Recorder of mind , IS aticnal leader , N one like It we find ; IS tar of Democracy , Shina round the world , 'T illiings , _'priests , sndclass , To oblivion are hurled , . Aweke _. _KOW _. _yedavei , Arise , NOW and he . JS esolved NO W to conquer , R est not till you ' re FREE , Johh Abhott , Somers Town .
Horrawood.—The Silk Weavera Ia This Neig...
HorrawooD . —The silk _weavera ia this neighbour-; _tood have for along time been _suffering the direst i oppression _fronts few unprincipled employers , in tho i shape bf reduetion in wages . Some of the employers admitted ' the reductions on certain fabrics were nn . '¦ _warranted \ the men believing this to be true , called i a _jaeeSing , _forfijed a committee , and _anointed a ie-1 _prrfatioB to wait on the manufacturers with a . list of 1 prices , to which many of them agreed ; they also i invited the manufacturers to . meet , and in connexion -with _, their workers , lorm a list of prices . This has Ibeerirejected , ahd the committee , in vindication , 3 _£ ave > issued a spirited address to tke trade . There _iisfcota class of--workmen _whs have suffered more J 4 han the silk weavers . . _Hrukisson- brought rain on ; & em first by . taking off tbe greater-part of _the ' _proi teefiye "d uties , and Sir Robert Peel has given the 1 trads'its death blow by his free trade measures . '
Abuse-of _Ghloeoiork . —We regret to announce \ the death of Dr AndeBen , of Birkenhead ; _irho ex-] pired last Wednesday . He was in his usual state of ] health ( which was delicate , ) till within a week ago , - « « heo chloroform was administered to . hira for the ] _puipo _?* of rendering the extraction ofa tooth pain-] Jess . Within _forty-eight hours a rash ef bJooi to the 1 lu Bj _^ t & _re-itened . instant _iesShi—Liverpool Mercury .
The Irish State Prosecutions. The Follow...
THE IRISH STATE PROSECUTIONS . The following- « re ihe resolutions adopted at- themeeting of fie Irish Repeaters held in _Farrihgdon Hall . Mr T . _O'Mahony in the chair . i Moved by Mr T . Daly , seconded by Mr J . S Lindsay : j That we deliberately adopt tho prosecutions of W . S ., O'Brien , Esq .. M . P ., John _SKtchel , and Thomas Francis Meagher ; and we tenter , to those gentlemen our deop and heartfelt gratitude for having asserted , in the teeth of English law , the right of self-government ; and we hereby ! promise to sustain thera in any aad every effort that they ; may make to break down English domination in- Ire- j land , which briags nothing ta her inhabitants but starvation , shame , pestilence , and death . ' ' Moved by Mr J . _M'Lean , seconded by Mr \ Maher _:-. i
Tbat the spirited , manly , and efficient conduct ef the council of the Irish Confederation , since the arrest of O'Brien , Mitchel , and Meagher , entitles them to the admiration of every lover of Ireland ' a Independence ; and we pledge ourselves to support them at every risk and sacrifice , in their noble struggle with their country ' s oppressors . ' Moved by Mr Fitzgibbon , seconded hy Mr Looney : — That we hail with inexpressible delight the determination of our countrymen to establish a National Council , and as itis more than probable that the Bug . lish government may resort to violent and coercive means , for the purpose of crushing tha gloriouB spirit which haB arisen in our long . oppressed fatherland , we believe It io be the solemn anj imperative duly of every Irishman , and friend to Ireland ' s cause , to prepare them . aelves , forthwith , with arms of soma description or other , in order that they may he prepared to do for Ireland what Irishmen should do '
Moved by Mr Kenny , seconded by Mr Dowling : — That at this time , when the courage , virtue , and patriotism of the Irish people are about to be put to the test , it is the opinion of this meeting that all who ara determined on seeking their regeneration , should abstain , as much a « possible , from the use of Intoxicating drinks . ' More than 2 , 000 persons adopted the above resolutions unanimously .
The London Repealers. The Union Between ...
THE LONDON REPEALERS . The union between the Repealers snd tha Chartists of London is now settled , and the two parties have cemented that union for the avowed purpose of establishing the rights ofthe unenfranchised in Great Britain and Ireland against the evil effects resulting from cla _= _8-lesislation . On Sunday last , a large meeting of Irish Confederates was held at the Green Man , Berwick-street . Mr R . Hussey in the chair . Messrs Reynolds , M'Carthy , _O'Mahoney , and Glass , addressed the meeting , and one of the speakers alluding to the liberation of Frost , Williams , and Jones—it was heartily responded toby the meeting ; showing that the feeling is not confined to Englishmen , bnt that Irishmen feel with them , anddenounce the illegal conduct pursued towards those men by a bad government . In the conrse of the evening , a
deputation , consisting of Messrs Handle ? , Mihs , and Wilkes , from the Chartist ; , for the purpose of asking the meeting to send two delegates to the Metropolitan Council of _Chartist 3 to arrange matters for the forthcoming demonstration , was received with load cheers . The deputation having addressed the meeting on the subject of their mission , amidst loud and deafening cheers , ( for Repeal and ths Charter , ) Messrs Glass and Hussey were then appointed to attend ; he council . The meeting , which was a _ero-vded ene , then broke up . giving three cheers for the glorions union between the oppressed of both countries . On Munday evening an aggregate meeting of the Irishmen and friends of . Ireland of Westminster , was held at the Working Man ' s . Temperance Hall , Carteret-street , Westminster . The hall waa crowded to
suffocation , there not being less than between four and fire hundred persons present , and about as many being compelled to leave for the want of accommodation . Mr Wm . Spiller was called to the chair . The first resolution recommends union-among-all classes of Irishmen . The second resolution strongly condemned the _eonduet of the government in Ireland , and their determination of standing by Ireland in the event of bloodshed . The third resolution advised an union of the working olasses of b 9 th England and Ireland against class legislation , and to prevent the destruction of the rights of labour . The _Hsolntions were moved and seconded _, by Messrs _M'Sweeney _, Driscoll , Geoghegan , Daly , _M'CleaB , Walford , O ' Mahoney , and several Englishmen spoke to them , and they were carried amidst deafening acclamation , and the whole of the speeches-breathed the true spirit of democracy , and evinced a determfc nation to be np and doing , if required . Mr Dixoa
attended from the Metropolitan Council of the Chartists , and addressed the meeting ; he said thathe always advocated the right of Ireland to a parlia _. ment . Messrs Reading and Walford were then appointed to attend the Chartist couneil on the next day _% The meeting then broke up , giving three _cheersfor Union , ( to repeal the Union ); for Repeal ; the Charter and the brave _Frencfc . A large and enthusiastic meeting of tke Irishmen , of Wapping , was held on Sunday last , in the large Temperance Hall , Mr Looney addressing the meeting , at great _length , and a determination was _evinesd , by the men of Wapping , to be up and doing . A committee was then formed to carry out the organisation of this important district , and it was Btrongly denied , by many , that the coal whippers , as a body , had enrolled themselves as special constables ; they eaid , the thing had been _magnified to suit the base I intentions of a base government .
Davies _s Club , 83 , Dean-street . —On Monday evening , a crowded meeting of the Club was held , when two delegates were appointed to attend the Metropolitan Chartist Council . The greatest enthusiasm was displayed . Liberty , - _Equality , and Fraternity are now the order of tho day . Monday next will show to the oppressors of the Rights of Labour that a union—a lasting anion—has been effected between the Repealers and the Chartists ; the days of the base , brutal , and bloody Whigs are numbered , and the men of no property will teach the men of property that tbey have duties to perform as well as rights to protect . Repeat , op the _Uxion . —The adjourned discussion on this subject will take place on Sunday morning next , in tbe Library of the Working Men ' s Temperance Hall , _Carteret-street , Westminster , at halfpast ten .
Meetisgsfor thb ek ? _ui-vg wees . —Sunday : Green Man , Berwick-street , Oxford-street ; Bull ' s Head , _Vere-street , _Lincolns-inn-fields ; Victory , _Newenhamstreet , _Edecware-road ; Druid ' s Arms , Greenwich . Monday : 83 , _Dean-street , Soho ; Working Man ' s Temperance Hall , , Carteret-street , Westminster . Wednesday aud Friday : 83 , _Deaa-street .
To The Neu-U-Siosrst Obubattve Cobdwaiue...
To the _Neu-U-siosrsT _Obubattve Cobdwaiuebs op thb Cut op _Loitnos _, —Fellow Workmen : The time has now arrived when it Is essentially necessary that we should ba united , and occupy a position that shall enable us to make ourselves heard in the expression of our wrongs , and in the . demand of our rights . We , in common with the working elass ia this country , have either been too supine , or have confided too much to the delusive prescriptions of political quacks , false economists , and clas 3 k-gislators , nntil an eruption ofthe social elements has burst but in revolutions , wide spread and mighty in their effects and consequences , shaking the whole fabric ot civilisation , and pointing to a new order of thingsin the universal reverberations of continuing peals of moral thnnder—Equity , Justice , Fraternity , and
Protection to Labour , ia security of employ ment and fair remuneration , hava darted their electric , and exciting influences through every domicile of wretchedness _, arousing the moral and mental energies of miliions _^ hitherto degraded snd impoverished , even to destitution , whilst _producing abundance for tyrants to luxuriate npon ) , whose united load responses to the enfranchisement of labour , peals a knell to ckus distinction . Thus a new era is opened for the exercise of the energies of nnited bodies of opera _, fives , f _< T obtaining and . securing in peace those rights whieh have elsewhere been seized and consnmmated through blood and tears . There is an effort now being made in London ; in the most legitimate way , fer the redress of labour ' s wrongs ; it is our dpty to be at our post , ready to render such
assistance as circumstances may require—but divided and strangers to each other , we shall be & blot in the list of trade ? , unprotected and undeserving protec . tion . Every man sbould aet in the present crisis as thoHgh the interests of His trade and his country de . pended upon his own individnal _exertions—eyery voice we require to fill the gTand choir , and chant the bold strains of oar holy . demand . Friends , we call for your fraternity ; we ask you to fraternise only in the way of fluty to your own order , your trade , and in yonr own locality . Ours is not a political society , yet -it is impossible , to shut our minds' eye to the effects whieh political _eireinnsiancea have upon our every interest—we roust no- longer be _lethargie when questions press with vital importance to us .. To those who have deserted or neglected , or who by _adverga
_circurastancea ; -have been driven from or unable to continue in society—themen . who have . _stoodstedfaet and true , who have borne the brant and tail of its presTvatioHi call npon yon , and they have no selfish end in view . When the men who are best remunerated give their energies to 6 aecoBr the most oppres . sed , without sny advantage accruing to themselves , _exempting those advantages which we think we see _gleamint ? in the distance , of a happy social regeneratio- —tbis ib true fraternity . The offer to re-enter is ' now offered to all for two shillings and sixpence , oa the following nights only : ~ April the 10 th and 24 th , and May the 8 th , at the following houses : The Hole in the _^ Wall , _Chancery-lane ; White Hart , Fetterlane ; -Ship , Ivy-Jane , Newgate-street ; Golden Lion , Fore-street ; and Dial , Long-alley . '
' ft « TiKGHAK . —The authorities are making na all special _constab ' _ea ; I suppose to keep themselves in order .
To The Eight Hon. Lord Ji Bussgli.. ¦ . ...
TO THE EIGHT HON . LORD Ji BUSSgLI .. ¦ . _, ¦ M _tItobo _, _—^* _low ; _fl-irt _*™ b / * _rortisfln _^ the ear of a philosopher—a mite _among the millions to remind a statesman of subjects which his high position In the _politic » l heavens , and his sole occupancy with tho interest of the wealthy classes , leads him to undervalue and contemn , namely— 'he deplorable condition of the working classes—the rights they claim , tbe wrongs they Buffer—and the _pressiBg necessity of _restoringjthomtotho one , and relieving them from the other . Whoever is not in the full possession of equal social and political rights , is a dare . Whoever is not equal In all respects before the laws , is a slave . That body ot men who are debarred by law from the status of _citizenship _, _nndtr a theocracy , autocracy , aristocracy , constitutional monarchy , or a republic , nnd treated in the
administration of tbe laws as an inferior order—a 'blatant beast' that must be chained and muzzlod—are slantsi The chains may be invisible , and tho muzzle gilded , to the apprehension of the unintellectual ; they may be hugged with delight by fawning _sycophants ; borne with suppressed anguish by the fortunate few , who though subsisting comfortably at present , live in constant dread that tbe same social ruin and physical suffering which is overwhelming their relatives and neighbours , wiil ono day be theirs ; but ail are now opening their eyes to the fact , that skill , patient and persevering industry , sobriety , even for _lecgthened years , are no guarantees against dismissal from employment , the breahing up of tbeir homes , the loss of tbeir little all , and the alternative
of vagrancy or pauperism . Formerly , it was the worthless , thriftless , drunk , n fportion of ( their clans that sunk to this wretched condition ; now , as the caprice and cupidity of capital dictates , the honest and industrious , multitudes are driven into circumstances of misery and _desoralisation . They enquire the cause—they discover that they are slaves . Tbey discover that self interest is the governing principle of man in all the relations of social life . That they have never received a single benefit from legislative action , but such as was intended to give a four-fold advantage to capital . That they havo bstn removed in masses from agricultural to manufacturing labour , witb the avowed purpose of bringing those in the latter industrial _department to a minimum of wages in
prosperous seasons , -and to starvation when tbe markets wero glutted and sales could not be effected . That every encouragement bad been given to the capitalist , in tbe saving of labour by new inventions of machinery , & o . ; while no provision has been mads for tho sons ti toil , but the degradation of a pauper prison , and the no less prostrating doles of _protecting charity , whereby tbey haTe been compelled to sell their consciences for a warm blanket , and _jeo P * alB 8 their _touls b y hypocrisy , for a c wc . of coal . They discover that _theearsed * compatitlre system , ' while it increases tho country cess and poor rates , adds to the bankrupt list , crowds the insolvent courts , and brings the employers of labour down even below their own level ; overcrowds tbe labour market wish juvenile workers ; enables unprincipled ! speculators
to reduce the _proSt of trade to the injury of honest and upright employers , and compels them to practice the same suicidal system , whereby the workmen and their families are turned adrift to starve , snd the ' apprentices ' as fast as their time expires , let loose upon the world as vagabonds , or subsist at they can ou the _ovtr-taxed and necessarily meagre charities of their trade . And , lastly , they conclude , that with a population increasing , as it is said , at the rate of 1 , 1 ) 00 per day , this was _bet-vecn labour and _capitai . mest seen come to a crisis , it has done in France . For that rerolation , my lord , differs from each of the preceding ones ; and if yon , aB do the journals in the aristocratic interest , _lsok on it merely as the triumph of one political creed over the other , you make a fatal mistake .
. A groat prelate , my lord , has . said , ' All actions have their appointed result , either here or hereafter . ' Them is a law . of retribution in all Nature . Things good in themselves , becoma evil by excess . The eternal order of the universe is secured bj the maintenance of an equilibrium . The centrifugal and centripetal forces , keep planets in their trackless paths around their present sun * the distarbance of tbis order would wreck , a world . A « in tha natural , so in the moral and social- world injustice committed by ptince , peer , or peasant—by government , the _bourgeaisie _, or the mob—will bring its own retri _* iutory results .
My lord , although tho working classes , and those immediately abovo , but fast merging into the vortex . ' _v-hlch Is swelling them np , are slaves , they ate equally as much justified in asserting and demanding their rights as were the m 3 il-clad barons , who on tho field of Kunnymeds extorted Msgna Charter from King . John ; an were the earnest Puritans who dethroned tho tyrant Charles , and proclaimed tha Commonwealth ; as were the Whigs , who ejected James , and enacted thi ) Bill of Big hts ; as were the middle class Refbrmtrt ' , who , under the guidance of tbe Whigs , used * the mob' te start and run down thtir game ( as the 'Squires do their dogs , ) aad thus carried the Eef- > rmBill ; as were the Corn Ian _Repealsrs , who nnder presence of getting cheap bread for the poor , but , in reality , ' to take advantage of it for further reducing the worker ' s miserable pittance of wages .
Yes , my lord , if John wag a h / rant , who for curbing tho turbulence of his nobles , was opposed by them with arms ; if the Stuarts were tyrants , with their Star Chamber , their _illegalarrests , their religious bigotry , their doctrine of' Divine right to govern wrong , ' < fcc . ; if the oligarchy were tyrants , in their opposition to tho claim of the mercantile and trading orders , for _sa extension of tha Suffrage ; then they , too , are tyrant * who deny those liberties to ethers , which by both moral and physical force they obtained for themselves . You , my lord , and your party , have taught the lessons to the people—history hss taught it—the boasted , but in . complete , Constitution' teaches It—your * Reform Re .
volution' practically exhibited it { that _resistance to tyranny iB a Briton ' s right—that ' political offence * , ' as they are called , are hot to be classed with criminalthat rebellion of * right _aaaiUBt might' comes not In the category of crime—that offences which arise out of a struggle fer an equal participation in political and social _privilfgeB _, have no moral turpitude , TheBe doctineahare made an indelible impression oa tbe minds , of the excluded millions , who are fully convinced that tho pretended ' Tirtual representation' of the people by tho present system is a palpable falsehood , and that « it is impossible for thoso who live on the profit of labour to represent the labourer . '
Allow me to call your attention to the following facts : Siz millions of mtn , standing in the ranks of labour , with eig hteen « r twenty millions of women and children , of whom they are the natural protectors and guardians are shut out of the gates of the constitution , and are sneer _, inglytold , in language * tantamount to that of a negro song : — ' It ' s of no use knocking at the door any more Xon ' re not good-looking , and yeu shan ' t come in . ' All these men aro considered to bs ' a rude rabble rout , ' not worthy to utter their complaints , or demand justice from ' an assembly of the first gentlemen in tho world . ' Host of them are struggling for an independent and honourable exlsteuca ; thousands of them are literall y Starving ; yet , with few exceptions , and when their cob . ditlon is mentioned with feigned compasssion to . bolster up some sinister _measuro of political economy , to enrich the capitalist , their heart-rending cries for work that they may have food , are heard with cool _indifference , replied to witb bitter irony , and their few advocates interrupted with sneering cries of' Oh ! oh !'
The Eoclftl wretchedness of these _flavcs is treated as an endemic ; the causes of that forlorn condition as a miasma , irremediable and . irremovable ; the speech from tho throne sometimes affects to pity , at other times to commend theBe patients of misrule , for their' _uuexamp led patience and pious resignation to the inscrutable will of Providence . ' Politicians aver that it always has been so , always will , snd that all hopes of a radical cure are _ebiaeriesl . The . ministers of the benevolent Jesus , forgetful that his system of morals , Lis plain and unmistakable apophthegms , incnlcate n ot a partial but an entire relief to human miseries—not a sectarian and _proselyting charity , tut such as that exhibited ia bis ad .
mirable parable or history , of the Good Samaritan—dare to nttsr that God ordained the poverty cf man , and , by plain logical consequeneo _, that he is the author of all tho squalor , vice , crime , ignorance , of which poverty is the main [ cause , aad which' are always , its concomitants . The government _tTsats their outbursts of desperation as symptoms which are best allayed by a due administration ef grape-shot , musketry , and rockets ; and il tbo cries of his famishing , children , and tbe murmuring of hiB wife , should stir the bile of some poor weaver tc harangue his brother unfortunates about their common miseries , ihey try the ; chilling influence of a felon ' s cell on his excited cranium , or introduce him to the taming _disciplina of a chain gang . ¦
Amidst all this mess of suffering humanity , my lordnotwithstanding tho taunts about their inability to conduct _tht _* r own _aflalrs , their _ignoranpa of what is best for themselves , and the _necessity , that the capitalist _, orders should have the same : care and compaseioa for them as tho wolf has for thelamb— there are men , who , ( like Drew , the blacksmitb _. ' tbat wrote a prize essay by fire ligbton a bellows b » his knee , amidst thosgoalliag of _ulsUtUa ones , ) oan . _mast _^ the . _iaoat deep and _raeta _« physical subjects , _i There are-mea '; who ' can work -out some of the most ., difficult problems in Buolid ; who stjidy the meebanical powers and ' theii- adaptation to the work of production ; who walk the _Heavenf ) with the astronomer ; dive into the arcana of nature with the
chemist ; soar into tbe , _regions of fancy , with , the pott ; who study man-In the physiological , psycholog ical , moral , _sqd social aspects of his nature . Your supply of intellectual and moral education , by the late extension Of the means of _instruetion _^ faul iy and sectarian as it ia — _williacreasa theirn » m _^ er , tmdgivoa moral power . to _thle m _« 8 _ses , which . will heaTe up the crust of . society , like some mighty volcano ; bury tho asinine brayer * at the people ' s miseries among the _petrescent remains of former worlds , and elevate ta the seats ol these insolent _poplnjiys , men careful to understand tho ' condition of the people— to consult their wishes to produce by wise and salutary _msasurts an _tquipoise and consolidation of the claims of all .
There are men ready to ao _allthis , my lord , ay , In yaur own ranks of society , men tbat commiserate tho cendition of starved , soul-tortured , dying labour- *!*?* _hsar ita wailiiigs—that _, are above the paltry selfish _prejudices of their order , and are . firm in the conviction that the only way to preserve its existence , and mBko it permanent in society Is , to'do justice ond love , mercy . ' Ay , and tbere nre men among tho slaves tuenwelMs , who have looked death in the . face so -steadily , so con . sUntly , as to peattrate lae _. blacfc veil which _ebrouae » , _andconoluao thatthey have two _rlghte-to liw-todit **
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if society _deprWes'thenl of tEo 'farmer they can at r _^ l lhelatter . Mark It , m > lord , this Is all that is _speody _qnietag by a B 0 , alet , ran 8 ket i or a g { li 9 ide > grave . It will soon oomo to this : jou must save the peop le—slaughter thorn wh _» n they rise in _despatr-or fan with your order _amfdit the wreck and ruins of that coBetitution in which you glory . The dikes , the _emnankniMits of soolety , are saturated by an ocean of discontent ; it i 8 rushing into the foundations of tho social
fabrle ; the once solid and oompaot basis of society is becoming a shifting quicksand . The modern Babylon is invested ; iu rulers are at ease ; thoycnrl tbe Up ; they _isugu to acorn tho coming hurricane ; the handwriting _'snevsrtbelc ABupon the wall . Anon a'Gideon' Bhnll onnf' 'barley oake * shall overturn their tents ; his BOO lamp . _bearers shall _stiikopale panic into the hearts of the 100 , 000 mercenaries that man its walls . There is possibility—awful probability—in all this . There is no magic In tho word' finality . ' Britons are not impetuous r-tbey bide their time .
Hoist your old standard , my lord— 'Retrenchment Economy , and Reform ' -add to It , ' _theRishts of Iiabour , ' and be assured that nothing leas than' _TJnlvtr . sal 8 uffrag 0 ' will satisfy the people . : Excuse tho candour of one whose name to know , 'To theo it matters not Te whom related , er by whom begot . ' An _Educated Artisan .
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. MONDAY , _Apbil 3 . HOUSE 0 *? IORDS . _—lur-urow or Loxbahvt , —The Earl of _Abebdbeh rose to put a question respecting the entry of Sardinian troops into Lombardy . He said : ' The polioy of Austria in Italy may bavo boen good or bad , but certainly it was not aggressive ; there was _eiery _reason , en the contrary , to suppose and apprehend that the _eggroeslon would proceed frem the other side . The state of Italy rendered this probable , and this probability was increased , and must havo been increased in the mind of every man who recollected the onoient and constant policy of the house of Savoy , It was tbe _masim of one oftho princes of that homo constantly to have it in view tbat Lombardy ought to bo considered as an artichoke , to be eaten leal by leaf ; but King Charles Albert
seems to fancy that he has so good an appetite that he ought at once to devour the whole plant , ( A laugb _. ) But , bo this as it may , it is to be observed that , amidst all the convulsions which we have witnessed around us , convulsions mest unexampled and portentous , the Sing of Sardinia ts the first power who hss directly controverted the public law of Europe . ( Hear , hear . ) He has thought right to command bis troops to enter the territory of _neig hbouring , friendly , and allied power , without the slightest pretext ofa grievance , without any provocation , and without any complaint or reason assigned whatever , and also in direct violation of engagements by whioh he as well as this country was solemnly bonnd . ( Hear , bear . ) I think , my lords , that this first violation of public lawshould not pass altogether unnoticed by those who doBiro to preserve tho peace of Europe . ( Hear . ) I do not wish , however , to be misunderstood . I have nothing to say to the endeavours of tbe people of lombardy to shake off the power end dominion of
Austria . That is their own affair . If they succeed in this endeavour , I only hope that they may find themselves as happy , and as prosperous as tbey will be more freejthan tinder the government of Austria . But your lordships uronotto suppose that tbis endeavour is made against an usurping power , or tbat the _Auetrion Government Is to ba held ns a government of usurpation , Lombardy has been under the dominion . of the family of Austria for three _centarUs ; and since the peace of Utrecht bas been positively assured to the Emperor and his family by all _Europe ; therefore thoso are not dominions which the King of Sardinia , who has himself received great accessions to his territory only the other day , can consider as having been _naurped by the houso of Austria . ' ( Hear , heor _. ) He concluded by asking whether her _Mojesty'a government had at any time declared to the government of Sardinia that any aggression in violation of those engagements by wbich tho _Kiog of Sardinia as well as tbis country . were bound , would not be viewed by Great Britain with indifference %
The Huron ' s of Lansdowne eaid , that though this country was not bound by any treaty io abs \ _bI tiie Austrian government . ia tho defence of Lombardy , yet her Kajesty ' s government had thought it right to instruct their minister to _express their hope and confidence that in the present alnrmlng and _eglta -ed slate of all tbe eountries In that part of tho world , his Majesty the King of Sardinia might be advised , to preserve a perfect neutrality _. He could only say in conclusion that the entry ofthe Sardinian troops into Lombardy had been made not only without the concurrence , but against the advice oftho British government , nnd in the faee of _instruetions sent to our representative at Turin .
lord 8 TAN 1 ET was deeply impressed with the propriety of referring as little as possible at tho present time , either in that or the other house of _parliament , to what was passing ia other countries . ( Hear , hear . ) But he could not help saying , that he had _beard with much _satisfecllon the statement tbat ber Majesty's government had thought it their duty to represent to Ihe King of Sardinia thoir desire tbat he sbould not put himself at the heid of any expedition for the invasion of Lombardy . Lord Aberdeen had , however , very properly taken the opportunity of pointing out to the house and the country that an example of aggression had been oet , which , If followed up b y other powtra , might be attended with very dangerous consequences , ( Hear , ) He believed there was no man , either in that or the other
house of parliament , who would not recognise tho doctrine which hod been so freely and fully laid down by her Majesty ' s government , of the right of any nation , in connexion with the sovereign authorities of that nation , to iatroduco any internal reforms , any modification of their constitution , which they Bhould conclude to be for their own national advantage —( hear , hear )—ond that there was no justification for any other nation , from the remotefear of probable _couieauenceB , inteifering with the internal affairs of tbat nation with an armed force . ( Hear . ) But if tbat doctrine were fully admitted , and if in deference-, probably , to their own sense of right nhdprudence , the government of Austria bad abstained from any _atlrmpt to interfere with the _affitira of Naples , Sardinia and Sicily , then Austria had shown on example which mi
and a regard for the rights of other parties ght hare been expected to _savo her from an armed invasion on the part of Sardinia . ( Hear , hear . ) ltwasadangereuB doctrine to admit tbo right of any other nation , from sympathy with the supposed grievances and injuries inflicted upon another , to enter it with the avowed object Of overthrowing the reigning power . ( Hear , hoar . ) And if there wbb a country in the world whose essential Interest it was to rebut and reject tbis doc trine ns to ihe right of Interference , it was _thig country , with Its _widespread and outlying colonial possessions . ( Heor , hear . ) It of all others , therefore , should most strongly protest _agalnBttho attempt of any oouotry by foreign force / whether on the part of tho sovereign against the peopio , or on tho part of the people against the sovereign , to interfere with the Internal affairs of
Other states . ( Hear . ) He did not understand his noble friend to have askedhcr _Msjislj ' s government to inter _, pose by force , or In any way to assist Austria , but he understood hia nobis friend to call their attention to the fact that amid the universal convulsion of the states of Europe , nnd _aumWlng the rig ht of all to modify their own constitutions , this was the first instance of carryingout the dangerous doctrine of propagandist _^ which , if not condemned by the public opinion of Europe , might lead to invasion , by the more powerful and » eUvo . of the _rlehts of the lesser powerB- ( _hear )—for he believed thai unless it was put down by the general Reuse of Europe and the civilised woild , even the best efforts of her _Mai _. BU ' fl government , supported as thoy would be , without Mference to political feeling , would be utterly unavaillag towards preventing tho spread of a sanguinary war throughout _Eorope . ( Hear . )
A _diSCUSSion then arose on the subject of emigration to Canada , and after disposing of Bome unimportant _business , their lordships adjourned . HOUSE OF COMMONS , —After tbe reception of petitions and conversations on a variety of subjects , arising out of questions put to members of the government , On Lord John Russell moving the order of tbe day , - Tbe 8 tate of Ibelabd , was brought forward by Lord Joceltk . He said , tbe attention of erery member of that house , and of the public , had been call d within the lost few we eks to the language and conduct of certain individuals In Ireland , and he wns sure tbey had all 6 een with indignation and disgust— ( loud cheers)—the language of those mischievous and traitorous men—( renewed cheers)—avowedly with tho object of overturning the _lustitutlonB of the country , and levying war on Her Majesty ' s Crown , hy exciting to overt ' acts of rebellion Her Majesty's subjects in that country , ( Cheers . ) With similar _filings the people of this loyal country had seen that men had been found in Ireland so devoid
of their own and all national honour , is to beat this _moment ' _seekin ? , ho believed , in a foreign country , the arms to carty out their traitorous objects , ( Hear , hear , * ) If he were not tho representative of an English const * _, t ' uency , he should have called tho attention of English members to the effect such language as had been used in Ireland naa likely tb have on discontented Individuals here . He hnew the large body of Hur Majesty ' s _subjects . were loyal and _faltBial ; yet , even In tbiB country , such' language , " could hot be left uuohecked without danger ; bat'he ; uni ? flturr . l and the dangerous state of _sftUlis in Trelau flVd . uid ' '; prpvo "his best apology for the _obser . _vatfons ' witb wbich he hRd prefaced his question to tbo noble-lord . "Hot that he apprehended any real danger to the ' inattt ' ut _^ ona of tho cou ntry in Ireland , He be . lieved that the throne of our beloved sovereign , _ston- 'lng
unshaken amidst the shock that had overwhelmed the mast powerful monarchs of Europe , rested not on th * bayonets of _^ her soldiers , but on the loyalty and _affec . _tiens of her peop le —( loud cheers )— the " _astitut ' _ons of . this country rested on a sound nnd brood basis , and It wns satisfactory to know tbat the most enlightened Germans , _Biruggitag for constitutional freedom , showed their anxiety to follow the examp le we had set them rather than thnt Of any other nation in the world . { Hear , hear . ) "fortunately , the design In Ireland was apparent ; but men might bo urged into open acts of treason against tbeir Sovereign by tho traitorous language of these _mischievoua persons . T _^ c danger , he ap p ' _rehended , _wn-i to those individual _^ and not to tba institutions of tbe state . Fortunately for Ireland , a neble ¦ lord was at the hi ad of tbe government . in that country who had rallied _amnd him tho united support of Fro-
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_tostants and Roman Catholics , ( Cheers . ) He believed that that noble , lord _. by _. his ability , and his courage , -baq rallied round _bioi ' all loyaTniVn of all _religious persuasions and all political creeds . ( Cheers . ) But it had been seen that while that noble lord bad stretched forth his arm in _vindicotlon of tho law he had been unable to put a stop to this treasonable language . The contlnu . ance of language such as tbat must eventually lead to hostile collision and bloodshed , and , although we might not fear tbo result , otill the consequence must be deplored . ( Hear , hear . ) With the recollections of past conflicts , knowing tbat years could not wipe out the stala of bloed shed In civil contest , In tbe name of those who wished war away from our shores—in the name of all her Majesty ' s loyal _suhjeott- , ho asked _Jho noble lord at tbe bead of tbe government , whether bo thought that there was sufficient power vested in the government to crush tbis rebellions spirit , or whether he did uot think the time had come when noma altera .
tion should be mads in that law which alloRCQ tho instigator to be at large whilo the victim of bis instigation suffered ; and when some powers should be given to the executive government to meet with rigour and effect whatever emergency night arise . ( Hear , hear , ) Lord J . Russell . —I rise , Sir , with considerable anxiety to answer the question whieh the noblo lord baa put . It is quite true that _language of the nature ho has described has been used in Ireland — language exciting the people to rebellion against the Crown—language exciting them to acts of violence against persons and property , with a view to establish Ireland as a separate notion—a nation _independents the Crown of these realms . Such language msy at some periods be passed over as tho mere raving of a distempered fancy , and which can have no effect . But unfortunately it is not io at present .
( Hear , hear . ) I belltve that the effect _whloa haB been produced by that language may be attributed partly to the oxciteable nature of those to whom It is directed , —partly to tho very great _dintreas which has been felt by all classes now during three years—a distress whieh naturally induces men to listen to any doBpernte lan _> gunge , —and thirdly , to tbe great excitement which ban been created b y tha events which have recentl y taken place in France and some other parts of Europe . But , whatever may bo the the cause , it ia certain that tho utterance of tbis _languagehaB been followed by the manufacture of pikes—( bear , bear ) — by the formation ol rifle clubs , and by various other preparations , all of which are openly avowed by a part of the press of that country to be with a view of stirring up civil war in Ireland . ( Hear , hear ) Now , Sir , I cannot but agree
with the noble lord that , ' viewing these proceedings as the c & ibo and instigation of eivil war , it is not to muoh hor Majesty ' s Government , not to much the instltutleui of tbe country that aro in danger , as tbe peace of Ireland , and the well-being of all classes , especially those who are engaged in the occupation of trade and commerce , in that country . ( Cheers . ) My belief is , that those who bave used tbo language to which I hava adverted bave done so for the purpose of raising themselves , oareless of the bloodshed and ruin which may ensue Bir , it is , however , a mo . it difficult and most delicate task for the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland to decide what is best to be done under these circumstances . . The noble lord © _ppoiite haa paid what I consider a just tribute to the noble lord now at the head oftho government in Ire . land , ( Cheers . ) I hope I need not assure the house , that
while my no _, bTe friend is anxious to put down disaffection arid rebellion , it Is at the same time his warmest wish to listen to complaints , and to apply , so far _bb in his power , a remedy or an alleviation to any distresses or evils that esiit . With respect to tbo means now at the disposal of tho government in Ireland for the purpose of meeting the _conepirasy to wbich I allude , my noble friend the _Lord-Llenienent has been in constant com . munlcation with my right hon , friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department and with myself , and lie has informed us that , while on the one side tbere were evident preparations for rebellion , on the other side he had received the most gratifying assurances of loyal support—( cheers )—from a great number of persons , both Protestant and Roman Catholic ; from clergymen of tbe one , and priests of tho other religion ; f rom
all classes — landlords and merchants — and , in fact , from a large numbar of persons of all parties and classes in the country . ( Cheers . ) The noble lord opposite must excuse me if at the present moment I deolino stating what further measures are in contemplation by tbe Lord Lieutenant and her Majesty ' s government in Ireland . I trust he will bo satisfied with the assurance that both in this country and in Ireland we bave most carefully looked into the law applicable to the case—that we have entered hito the most constant daily communication with tha _Lord-Lieutenant ; and that should he be of opinion that further powerB are necessary thon thoso which have yet been obtained by tbe government , I shall then feel it my duty being convinced that such measures as be may » sk _ean be no mere than aro necessary for the occasion—to come down'to this house aud atk this house to intrust the government of this eonntry witb -such powers , ( Great cheering . ) Sir , Lord Clarendon has to consider in any proposal he may make , and in any wish he may express
, that if he shsuld appear—or if there should be the least semblance of his appearing , to favour ono reli gious denomination more than another , or of bis favouring ' any particular class of ths community above any other _cfnss , be would thereby lose a great deal of that support which he has hitherto obtained—( cheerB ) , —and wbich haB _proceeded , _aglhave already [ said , fr & m landlords nnd clergymen of the Protestant persuasion , and from priests of tbo Roman Catholio persuasion ; all these have joined in giving tbeir best assistance to him in the maintenance of peace . ( Hear . ) But tho noble lord may rest assured that it Is the full determination oi Her Majesty ' s government , having tho utmost confidence in Lord Clarendon , ( hear , hear ) , and in his administration of public affairs , to do all that ia In hiB power to support tha law in Ireland , ( hear , hear ) , and maintain tho peace of that country ; and , furthermore , that we _sholl not shrink , should it prove necessary so to do , from asking this houso for the grant of any further powers that may be requisite , ( Cheering . )
A conversation of some length and interest then took place on the subject of the dilatory proceedings of tbe government in bringing- forward & bill for the repeal of the Navigation Laws , especially after the allusion mode to such a measure in the speech from the throne . : wag terminated by a declaration from Lord Jons _Russill , that before the Easter recess be would announce the final views of the government on the _subjeet , Jewish Disabilities Bill , —On tbe Question / pr going into committee on this , bill , Mr _Goeinq moved as un amendment , that ' eolong , at least , as the House of Commons exercises the authority whieh at present it does exercise ovor the established churob , no Jew ought to possess the franchise , much less be allowed to sit in that house . ' Ho protested against the bill as an act of national wickedness , which was certain to draw down on the country the direct vengeance of God ,
This lei to a debate whioh terminated in the amend _, ment being negatived without a division , and the house then went into .. committee upon the bill , when several amendments were proposed and negatived . After the different clauses had been agreed to , a scene of considerable excitement occurred in consequence of the indiscretion of Mr Law In proposing that the . _raport of tbe committee should not be received forthwith ( as is usual when no amendments aro mado _ifea bill , ) but should be _pestposed till Friday . Lord J , Russell ' overwhelmed Mr Law Mth ridicule , and as Mr Law had based hlg ' oppaflition on . his attachment to the church of Eng ; land , annoyed him very considerably by regretting that tbe defence of that church had fallen into such hands . Mr Law complained , In consequence , of the wont of courtesy exhibited ' towards him by Lord ' Johh _Ro-seli _. but was ' aftorwards pacified on bis lordshi p ' s declaring that , although ho did not think Mb ( Mr Law ' s ) conduct either very wise or very discreet , he meant him person _, ally no _disresptot .
The report was then ordered to bo brought up in slanUr . The houso _resumed , The report was agreed to , and the bill was ordered to be read a third time en Monday . The house adjourned at one o ' cleck . TUESDAY Apbil 4 th , HOUSE OF LORDS , —The Marquis of Lokdokdebbt in presenting somo petitions , seized the occasion to oxpress bis unqualified approbation of tbe coarse pursuer ) bythe government In Ireland , and to declare his full confidence in the firmness , of Lord Clareodon _, and in tho bravery of the soldiery / should their services unfortu . nitely be required . ' Their lordships disposed bf some unimportant business , and adjourned at an early hour . HOUSE OP COMMONS . —Sir J . C . Hobhouse , thc n jeoted of Nottingham , having been returu « d by the rotten borough of Harwich , took the oaths nnd his Beat
Mr F . 0 Connor presented a petition from the chairman of a publio meeting held at _Nencastlo-upon-Tyne , pro ; Ing tho house to address Her Majesty to grant a free pardon to Frost , TVillinma , and Jones and alt other political _offenders . Tbe late Illboal Ejectionb in GalwAt . Mr St Geo & qe _, whose name had been mixed up with that of Mr Blnke in the Galway evictions , entered into an eiplc nation of his conduot as an Irish landlord , for tbe purpose of showing that he had not done anything either Illegal or illiberal towards his tenantry .
In answer to ' Mr _SrArroBD , Sir G . Gbet said tbe government wero about to bring in a bill to meet such cases . The bill would provide that whatever might be the legal right ofthe landlord , and ivh & tover the nature ofthe tenure , no ejectment should be put In force without duo notioe being given to tbe tonant , and also with _, out due notioe being given to the board of guardians in oases-where tbe act of ejectment wns likely to produce extreme _destitution . The bill would also provide tbat _nei houses should be destroyed or pulled down at midnight , even under legal right , The bill was under pre . paratlon , but that was its general purport .
IaELAK » _.-iTnE _« _Fatioh ' NEW 6 PAPBB — Mr B . Cocnhane wished to ask the right bon . gentleman the Seoretary for Ireland-whotber hia attention had beon called to tbe following paragraph , which appeared in the last number of tho Nation newspaper , published in that country , and , if so , whether Jt was the intention of the _government to ; proceed _ngalnst the editor of that pspftr \ The paragraph was this : —' Ireland ' s necessity demands tho desperate remedy of revolution—It demands , and will justify before God and all men really made in Hi- ! Image , this last , resource of nations leng _oppmsod . A revolution means a peaceful or a violent uprooting of a government or an _ups & _ittog © f society ; Its business is to cure the evils it cannot enduic- » _- . o cure )! em sa with
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little loss of blood and time as the means of tho ravolu- - _tionists and tbe nature of tbe opposition against tbem i may allow . The cohtlaental notions all bad tbeir grie .. _Tosces , but oursnte Immeasurably greater—they sought t the right ot meeting , but we seek the right of existence ;; they sought liberty of the press , bat we se » k liberty to _'< __ lire ; tho real alternative wi th Ireland is decimation - 'hi t revolution . It is evident to all men that our foreign i government is but a clubof _grave-dlggera ; _theyfostor _: poverty , and protect pestilence ; fevor , taxation , exUe , , deathall arise from tbeir felonlOUS taking _flwfty Of OUr *
, means of life ; we aro decimated not by tho will of God _,, but by the will ofthe Whigs ; obedience to a government : which rules to rob and , legiBl & toe to destroy io a high . crime , alliance with it is a conspiracy against the botion ; votes of confidence in suoh governm ents are _di-ath warrants ; _keepiisg orderfor them is doing undertaker's work ; aiding tbem in the administration ot the law Ib finishing off without accusation or trial fresh myriads of eur doomed populace , ' He held Mr Duffy , wbo was the editor of that paper , to be guilty of holding most treasonable language . In that _parograph .
Sir W . Soheeville suid tbat ha had not seen the ex . tract to which the hon . member referred , and tbe bon , member ' s perusal of it was the first _notice of i . which he bad received , but be bad been for some time in the bnhitof reading in productions from Ireland language equally extravagant . Of course be was not able to state wbat th : intention ofthe government with respect to the paragraph in question was ; but no doubt the nt . tentlon of the Lord Lieutenant had been called to It ; he believed everything would be left in blB hands ; and tbat he would take such steps respecting it as he thought proper .
Mr V , O'Connor eaid , that seeing the harned Attor . _ney . _Qeneral in bis place / he wished to nek him whether his attention had been drawn to a letter published ia The Tikes newspaper of that morning , in which it was eaid that the government might be destroyed by other means than by open warfare . Be thought tbat nothing in the United Ibishham , Natios , or any other _aewspaper in Ireland , could exceed the language of that letter in barbarity . The ATTOBN _« r _. G £ _» _SBAi said , tbat if tho hon . gentlemen bad given bim notioe of his intention to put the question , he should have been prepared to answer it , but be had been engaged the whole day in the Houso of Lords and had not seen tho letter in question , and w & B _, therefore , unable to give any opinion respecting it .
_BrrscoPAt Revenues , —Mr Hobsman moved 'that in the opinion of this house , tke' distinction between tho episcopal end common funds , restricting thc application of the _Burplus revenue oi the archbishops and bishops to euiscepal purposes , and primiUing no part of it , in any circumstances , to fee- applied to the raliefof parocbial _destitution , Is inexpedient , nnd ought not to be eon * tinued , ' Tbe hon . member after showing the _necossity for the adoption of the resolution , gave the following illustrations of the misapplication of the ecclesiastical revenues by the commission to which the management of these revenues is entrusted . A strong and general opinion prevailed tbat in the recent administration of _eeolesiasticdl affairs , the interests ef tha episcopacy had been mere cared for than those of tbe parocbial clergy .
He was bound to believe that opinion well founded , ( Hear , hear , ) Lctthtm compare tbe condition oi the parocbial clergy with that of the episcopacy . At the present moment there were no lees tban between _4 , 000 and 5 , 080 parishes In which tho beneficed clergyman had no house . What _inotance could be produced of a _blabop not well provided with a residence ? The _eeclesiesUoal Commissioners had spent £ 40 , 000 in providipg clergymen with houses , nbilo tbey had expended no { lees' tban £ 140 , 060 on the palaces of the bishops . Above 3 , 000 of the beneficed clergymen had incomes under £ 150 ; some even had incomes under £ 10 & year ; but by act of Parliament the incomes of the poorest prelate approached tbat of a Secretary of State , This
was not all ; having such incomes , provided for tbem by act of Parliament , had the _bishops'been contest ? Had not au act of Parliament been passed , limiting the ic come ofthe Bishop of Durham to £ 8 , 000 a year , but had there not been years in wbich ho had received £ 15 , 080 , £ 20 , 080 and _crea In one instance £ 26 , 000 ? ( ' Hear , hear , ' nnd cries of' No , no . ' ) Why , in 1815 he found that the Bishop of Durham received £ 37 , 161 , from wbich ho hsd to make a payment of _£ 11 , 000 to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners , wbich left the net _income , as he had stated it _, at £ 26 , 600 a year . It was also known that the income of the Bishop of Salisbury , which was limited by aot of Parliament to £ 5 . 000 , varied from £ 5 , 000 to , in 1845 , £ 17 . 000 .
. Lord _Asulet , Mr Plumptbe , and Lord St , Macb , ban ' Bg supported Mr _Horsman ' s motion , Sir Q . < Jb * v explained how the distinction between the episcopal ahd common funds had arisen ; but declared himself unprepared to maintain its permanency . The resolution of Mr Horsman struck at the very root of the Ecclesiastical Commission , without providing any sub . Btituto for it . If tbe abuses were so great as Mr Hors . man contended , ho ought not to meet them by an abstract resolution , but by an net of Parliament rtmed y ing them in detail . There were at present in _preparation by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners measures which would _effect considerable improvement is the mode of tbe receipt and management of the episcopal funds . He sherefore should move the previous question on _tbereso . _lntii-n of Mr Horsman , in order to prevent the house from coming to a precipitate vote in its favour , when it wbb not iu _possession of all the necessary information _.
Sir It . Inglis and Sir R . Pbel supported the govern _, ment view of the case—the latter , however , after jhowing the great want of church accommodation , expressed _himBolf favourable to Mr Horsman ' s object , but thought a bill better than an abstract resolution , und tbat such a bill should bo prepared by the government . . Mr _BhioflT , with reference to tho alleged deficiency of church room , said tbe statements on that subject were fallacious , because cburehmen _nlwijs excluded from their _rtports _thenccomaiodation provided by dig . _centers . With respect to tho Incomes of the bishops , he said , if they looked back to the two laBt _Archbhbeps of York , it might be shown tbat those two individuals , who lived a long timo , received more than £ 1 , 500 , 000 , or nearly £ 9 , 000 , 000 . This wns either state money , or
money belonging te the church , and in either case it was scandalous that in any religious establishment whatever there should bo such gross misappropriation of these enormous _fundc _, whiles thero was a vast mass of spirit * ual destitution in almost every part of thc country . Un . der these _circumstances _. be was amused with tbe coolness « lth which the nobis lord at tbe bead of tbe government said the other night to the hon . member for Cseker . month , thatit would bs satisfactory to bim to know that cho new archbishop was to be limited to £ 15 , 000 a year . It was insinuated last year by the right hon . member for Ripon that bishops , after all , were not so hard worked , _? hd yet here was ail instance of an archbishop receiving about three timoB as much as the Prime Minister .
He believed that the noble lord at the head of govern _, ment would not live so long as an archbishop , If he con . tinued to bo Prime Ministor : ( Laughter . ) If there waB any class of individuals easily sitnated with respect to temporals , with work slight aad pay exceeding , it was those comfortable gentlemen who sat on the bench of bishops . He found that they had a strong J _dlspo . _eition always to go with tbe government of tbe day , and he believed it waB a point of etiquette with them never to change their seat 9 , but always to sit on tbo same sldo as the executive government . - Ho considered—and the opinion was also very generally entertained ih tbe country—that the existence of tbe bench of bishops had not only been unfavourable to the progress of public liberty—( bear , hear , ]—but also to tbe Christian religion itself .
Mr Gladstone defended the bishops , who , according to bis account , are a very active , very hard-w & rked , and very poorl y paid , body oi men , With respect to the mo . tion , although be agreed with Mr Horsman , that there ought to be no insuperable barrier to prevent : he appli . cation of tho surplus of the ecclesiastical funds to the mitigation of parocbial destitution , yet he objected to the declaration ofthe principle that no part of that _surplus should be applied to tbe formation of new bishoprics . His opinion was , that , if tho _gsvernment founded new bishoprics from time to time , wbereverit was _asccr . ained that tbere wns an opening for tbem , it would only be pursuing a good and wise economy .
Lord J . Rusbii . Ii said , it had occurred to him that there were many things at present in the Church which required reform ; but he could not forma definite opinion upon'tbe mode of accomplishing that reform , until he had consulted the new Archbishop of Canterbury . _Otherrcforms must be _introduced with that for which Mr Horaman r . owcalled ; und he had uot as yet made up his mind , nor would he ' make a declaration of hia plan to tho houso until he hail had a full conference with the Archbishop of Canterbury , for the improvement of the views whiohhe new entertained . Mr _HrstE declared his hostility to the formation of any new _bkkoprIcs . II any such measure were proposed , it would bo e , question whether we had not too many buhopricsalready _. That question had been raised last _session ; and it would be the worst policy for tha church to renew it again .
Tho motion was ultimately withdrawn , on the un . _derstanding that the government are to take the matter up . _PoBtic Woeks ( Ibelabd ) . —A conversation of con . ¦ ¦ _-iderable duration took placo on a motion of Colonel Dunne forthe production of a mass of returns , showing the _expenditure undertaken by tho authority ef tho Board of Works iu Ireland , under the aot 9 and 10 Yic , c . 107 . Tho CnAacELLoa of the Excbiqdeb stated , tbat hie only objection to tho production ( of _iheso returns was , that " they would be _verj- ' voluminous , very useless , and very expensive , for tbey would cost Boveral thousand pounds . ' Colonel Dunne agreed to withdraw his motion , and to mpvo for a return of the expenditure In a particular barony which ho would select .
PoiAHD . —Mr C , _Aubist moved—' That a dutiful . _lddress bo _presented to Her Majesty , on the occasion of the recent _important political events in Austria , Poland , and Pruseia , nod _prayinp H « _MiSarty that she will not _COUBenttO any new territorial 'of' other arrangement consequent on such events that does not recognise and _seCure te the Palish people their lawful liberties and independence . ' Mr Osdobne seconded the motion , and at tho same > lrpe remarked , that there wero not forty _members present , Tho houso was then counted , ' and ob only _thirty-one _roiWntwie , remained In , I * stood Adjourned , at a quarter to iweheti
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 8, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_08041848/page/3/
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