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      The Poland Of The West. At The Present M...

      THE POLAND OF THE WEST . At the present moment , when the privileged classes of tbis country are banded together th trample upon unhappy Ireland ; when even Irish '' patriots " are turning traitors , and not a score of just and honest men—English , Scotch , and Irish—can be found in the Senate , to resist the further coercion of a ruined and despairing people ; when unprincipled journalists are doing their utmost to revive tlie embers of national prejudice , and rekindle the flames of hatred between " Saxon" and

      "Celt ; " when on this side of St George ' s Channel Ireland has no friends but those who , like her own children , belong to the ranks ol the oppressed ; and when it is devilishly attempted to chill the sympathies of even those friends , the honest working men of England ; at such a time it appears to us an act of <] juty to remind the people of England of the miseries Ireland has suffered through English _misgovernment . " We implore the Peopleof England to turn a deaf ear to the false-hearted legislators , and villanous writers who , would set them against their Irish brethren . If the English people now bravely stand in the breach between unhappy Ireland and her assailants , they will

      make the only atonement they can make for the evil done in the days ofthe past . Ireland ' s ageslof suffering demand atonement or retribution . The people of England may avert the latter by making' the former . Let them repudiate the injustice committed b y the governments of past times , and insist upon the government of the present time acting justly , and all may yet be well . Otherwise the wrongs of Ireland will not fail to draw down a heavy doom upon England , under the weight ofwhieh she will wither away and become , like the unholy empires of ancient days—a desolation and a by-word ,

      " Wben tho curse Heaven keeps for the proud shall come oi er Her merchants rapacious , her rulers unjust , And—a ruin at last , for the eartb-worm to cover—Tbe Lady of Kingdoms lie low in the dust 1 " Many a column of this journal has been filled , and worthily filled , with revelations of the sufferings of the Poles , and appeals to the generous and _liberty-loving of this and every other land , to aid that unfortunate people in their struggles for freedom and regeneration . But at our own door is a people who have

      suffered all , and perhaps more than all suffered by the Poles , with this distinction , that the people of Poland have groaned under tyranny and persecution for the past seventy years , whereas the people of Ireland have been slaves , and victims of English oppression for the past seven hundred years ! Poland has been robbed of her independence , and partitioned amongst more powerful states . Ireland has heen also denationalised , and forcibly annexed to a more powerful neighbour . The lands of Poland have been confiscated for

      the benefit ofthe conquerors , and precisel y the same robbery has been committed upon Ireland . The Poles have been persecuted for their religious faith , and the most infernal means have been tried to force them to abjure their religion , language , laws , and customs ; precisely the same persecution , for the same execrable objects , has been waged against Ireland . We might extend the parallel , and show , that in all the attempts against the rights ,, property , and dearest interests of the Polish people , the barbarous Russian despotism , has but imitated the acts ofthe constitutional government of

      this country towards the peopleof Ireland . It is now nearly seven hundred years since the Anglo-Norman brigand , " Strongbow , " commenced the work of blood and spoliation by invading Ireland . It is true , that that mail-clad ruffian , with his band of cut-throats , had been invited to Ireland by a recreant Irish prince , who had , for his crimes , been driven from his dominions , by his - own people .. Unhappily f or both England and Ireland , the Irish were only capable of offering a feeble resistance to their invaders ; feeble , not because they were weak in numbers or the material of war .

      fare , f or the reverse of that was the case ; but because their chiefs were disunited . The state of anarchy into which Ireland had fallen , previous to the English . invasion , indeed , very closely resembled the state of Poland , previous to the first " partition ; " and , that anarchy was caused by the baseness , rapacity , and ambitious feuds o f her " great men ; " and every one knows that , in our own time , Poland has saffered the like evils arising from the like

      cause . But , as two wrongs never yet made & right , no amount of blame fairly chargeable to the account of the Irish chieftains , can justif y the English invasion , more especially when that invasion was undertaken ostensibly to restore to his throne a tyrant , who , for his pubblic and private crimes , had been expelled from his coantry . About a year after the first invasion , Henry II ., the English monarch , visited Ireland , and by way of justifying the crimes of his Lieute-

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      nants , exhibited . a document ; signed by the : Pope , authorising the English king to conquer Ireland . It is very _^ questionable' that the al- ; leged P * p al permission ; to invade Ireland / was anything but a forgery . But even if authentic , it , makes the case of the invaders no better . A subsequent Pope - granted the American continent to the Kings of Spain and Portugal / but who will dare in this day to assert the right of the Pope , or any other potentate , to divide and giveaway an entire continent , as a hunting ground for a couple of kings ? When , in the

      reign of one of Henrys successors , the Pope made a present of England to the French monarch , the English , although they were then staunch Roman Catholics , defied both : the Pope and the French king , and maintained their independence sword in hand . The invasion , of England by the Norman tyrant , William ; was authorised by a Pope ;;; . but Englishmen , who suffer to this day under the evils brought upon them by that invasion , do not regard that invasion as having been at all sanctified by the purchased blessings bestowed bythe Pope upon the Norman brigand ' s banners .

      The East and South-East coast , comprising less than one-third of the kingdom were the only parts of Ireland conquered by tlie English invaders . This part of the country is known in Irish history by the name of the "English Pale . " The rest of the island remained for a long periodessentially Irish , the chiefs sometimes paying tribute to the English kings but quite as often paying off their invaders with steel instead of gold . But although by far the greater ' part of Ire- ' land was still unconquered , the invaders

      pretended to regard themselves as the . rightful masters of the Irish soil .. The island was divided into ten sections , which Henry made orer to his principal nobles , for them to ' _subdue as they best could . From that time forth Ireland was given ovier to . the most frightful disorders . When and wherever , by force , or treachery , the invaders could dispossess the ancient possessors of the soil > they did so . Gentle and simple were robbed of their lands , and gradu . ally an alien aristocracy was introduced ,, between whose descendants and the veritable

      Irish people there has raged hatred and hostility to the present hour . For four hundred years the legislation of the . English Pale outrivalled the ukases of Nicholas . " Laws against intermarriage with the natives ; " "laws against the language of the natives ; " and "laws against their manners and customs , " constituted the English method of dealing with "the mere Irish . ' ' ' Thepeople had been deprived ofthe protection oftheir ancient institutions ; on the other hand , they were not ; allowed to have the protection of English law . They petitioned over and over again to be allowed protection , if not freedom ; but both were refused ; They were proclaimed " Irish enemies , " and doomed to interminable proscription , plunder , and massacre . ,

      Four hundred years after "Strongbow ' s " invasion , theRoyal Tigress ; Elizabeth , set about completing the work commenced by the second Henry . Although the Irish had been excluded from English law , they were now made war upon in the name of the law as'" rebels ! " We pass over the bloody records of the battles , surprises , assassinations , and executions , which converted Ireland into one vast field of blood ; but we must mention one fact . One of the means employed to Subdue the Irish was the creation of a famine . The English armies occupied the provinces , destroyed the crops and

      every description of food they could lay hands upon , above what they wanted for themselves . When one crop was destroyed , they prevented the sowing of another , until , at last , many parts of the country became a desolate waste , and , except in the towns , wholly depopulated . Innumerable families gave themselves up to the enemy , to die by the sword , rather than perish by hunger . _JThree centuries ago , English statesmen created a famine f o " reduce" the " Irish rebels ; " now , English statesmen have a famine to deal with which may create " Irish rebels ; ' " " rebels" who would now have the sympathy , and perhaps something more , of the English people . In tbe reign of James I ., six Irish counties

      were confiscated to the crown , and the entire province of Ulster was colonised by Scotch settlers . The Irish have always been a loyal race , much attached to kingcraft , accordingly when the grand struggle came between Charles and the Parliament , the Irish took the side of the king . They were rewarded for their generous devotion by further confiscations to replenish ; the Royal Treasury . Charles promised theni liberty of conscience and public worship , in return for which they advanced his Majesty a hundred thousand pounds— -a very large sura ih those days . His kingship pocketed the cash , but left his faithful subjects minus the promised privileges .

      If the English Monarchy was false and rapacious , the English Commonwealth was fanacal and sanguinary . Cromwell ' s fame was baptised in the blood of the Irish nation . The confiscations of property belonging to Royalists in England and Scotland , were annulled at the Restoration ; but not so in Ireland , The Cromwellians were maintained in their ill-gotten possessions by the second Charles , who thus testified his gratitude to the Irish

      loyalists for their support of his father ' s cause 1 In the reign of his successor , the Irish again took up the gauntlet in defence of a king who was too cowardl y and contemptible either to wear a crown , or be capable of exhibiting gratitude to that crown ' s defenders . James II . expelled from England , and vanquished in Ireland , fled to France , and the '' glorious , pious , and immortal" hero of _Orangeism became sovereign of the two islands . -

      From the time of the Protestant Reformation , a new element of discord , and pretext for oppression , had been introduced . The immense majority ofthe Irish people remained stedfast tothe faith oftheir fathers ; and , of course —for such was the rule in those days—were , tlerefore , proscribed and persecuted by their Protestant rulers . In the reign of Elizabeth , the Irish Catholics were compelled to attend the Protestant Church service , although that service was conducted in a language of which they understood nothing . If they did not attend , they were subjected to a penalty of 20 Z . sterling for each offence . When Ireland submitted to the Tule of William III ., it was on the faith of a too-celebrated document—the

      "Treaty of Limerick . " By that treaty , the Irish were guaranteed religious liberty and rights and immunities , which placed the Roman Catholic population—the immense majority—on something-like an equality with the Protestant population of the kingdom . But that treaty was disgracefully and deliberately violated by , the English Government . The " Penal Code" swept away every privilege guaranteed by the treaty . A State oath was imposed liporf the people , revolting to tlieir religious convictions— -and , therefore , rejected by the Roman patholio : populatipn , who were , thereupon , subjected to heavy and desolating penalties . Under this atrocious "Code , " a wife or child might acquire the property of the husband or father b y conforming to tbe

      Statetest . But mark the virtue of the Irish people —although any son , by turning . Protestant , might have acquired his father ' s lands , no one instance of such falsehood was ever known . In a thousand modes and forms , the Roman Catholics were harrassed and persecuted for holding fast by their religious convictions . We often hear tho Irish upbraided for their ignorance , but be it never forgotten that , under the " Penal Code , " Roman Catholic schools were shut up , and the schoolmasters banished ; if after a schoolmaster had been banished , he returned , he was liable to be punished as a felon . Did Calmiick tyrant ever invent a more damnable system to destroy the very soul of a nation ?

      The triumph of the American revolutionists so far shook the English Government , as to _cempel the dominant power to _somewhafrelax the screw . The worst of the penal laws ' were repealed . The brief period of Ireland ' s 'Par-

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      liamentary independence , " gave promise of a better future , but that promise was- not realised . Corruption bought up the sham patriots of the Irish Parliament ; and a fomented rebellion , followed by bloody proscription , _silenced in death the true patriots who sacrificed their lives on the altar of their country . We shall not here dwell upon the means emp loyed ; to carry the Act of Union , and the effects of that Union upon Ireland . The subject demands a separate article , which our readers will perceive follows these remarks . The martyrdom of Emmett and Fitzgerald

      and the host of patriots who shared their f ate , did not produce peace in Ireland . The slayings on the field of battle ; the shootings and hangings ; the floggings ; the pitch-cap _^ tortures , and other hellish atrocities resorted to by the agents of the English Government , to strike terror to the hearts of the Irish ; failed in producing the intended effect . -The blood of the . slain cried , to Heaven for . vengeance , and the miseries ofthe living left no rest for the guilty oppressors . " Arms Bills , " and " Coercion Bills , " , and "White-boy Acts , ' followed each other in rapid _successian ; but

      still there was no security for life or property , nor . was agitation suppressed . At length it became known that the agitation f or Catholic Emancipation had largely "infected"the army , and then the Government yielded— " Catholic Emancipation" was granted . But the boon was of little service to the people . It admitted a few rich Catholics into Parliament , and opened places of power and pay for the benefit ofthefew , but the mass ofthe people were in no sense bettered by the change . All their social wrongs were continued , and , therefore , agitation has continued . Therefore has the

      cry of "Repeal" been raised , and therefore is the Government menaced at _^ _this moment by _aii'Iirish insurrection . : . . After , repeatedly tryingcoereive measures , the Whigs pretended to have become converts to a . better policy , and when , in June , 1846 , Sir Robert Peel ' s Government proposed a bill to authorise ; the _, disarming of . the people , the Whigs threw out the bill , and thereby caused the retirement of Sir Robert Peel from power . Since they have regained their places the Whigs have-made no attempt to try the

      efficacy of remedial ; measures , but on the contrary , after allowing _multitudes to perish of famine ¦ _¦; and i fever ,. , they have returned to coercion , ; as a means to provide for "the protection of life and property . " We have traced , or-at least indicated the long ' course of oppression under which Ireland has groaned , " and yet . 8 uffers , / and . \ ye ask the English people , whether ; that . oppression has not exceeded : —far , far exceeded—the - worst atrocities of 'which Poland has been the victim ? " _- ' ; :, ; ' : ¦ " - ; '¦''¦ - ¦ ' ¦ '' ''

      Wrong done by England , or in the name of England , 'is as much wrong _asif done by . Russia . Tyranny and cruelty are the same all the world over . No length of time can sanctify oppression , nor obliterate right . England owes to Ireland a debt of-reparation , which has been accumulating for the past seven centuries , and that debt can only be paid by the- English people insisting upon veritable

      justice to their Irish brethren . We implore the Irish people not to do Eng . lishmen the injustice of supposing that the present House of Commons represents the peopleof this country . That House is as much , the enemy of the English , as of the Irish people . The enemy of the one is the enemy of the other , and that enemy , if ever overcome , must be crushed by the united Democracy of both nations .

      The Repeal Debate. If Another Proof Were...

      THE REPEAL DEBATE . If another proof were wanting of the incompetency ofthe Cabinet to govern the country , and of Parliament to represent it , that proof was abundantly afforded on Tuesday night last _, on occasion of Mr O'Connor ' s motion relative to a Repeal ofthe Legislative Union between England and Ireland . : In the first place , every endeavour was made to induce Mr O'Connor to postpone his motion for a month , — -and Sir George Grey used the most insinuating " soft-sawder" on the occasion . Even Irish members , pledged to Repeal , but afraid of their own votes , joined their

      efforts to those of the Whig minister , on the plea thatthe House and the Irish members would then be better prepared to support itmore able to rally . Why ?—This is a question on which Irish members have been preparing themselves for years— -whicii ] they profess and ought to know in all its bearings , —and ; they ought to need nothing more than to hear the trumpet sound the charge for tlieir . country ' s battle to rush to the rescue as champions ofits rights . Sufficient notice had been given to bring them from the furthest west of Irelandand those who were absent were deserters—¦ those who voted against the measure , traitors to their country . We well know what postponing a motion at a minister ' s request amounts to _^—it is the death-blow to its success—it takea

      the strength out of its supporters , and gives government the time , in the interval , to have it negatived under another shape , so that when tlie original motion comes on , the question appears already decided bythe House . We congratulate Mr O'Connor on his indomitable courage , and the . wisdom not to have fallen into the skilfully-prepared trap . But , mark the reason urged by Sir George Grey for postponing the * motion : " other measures or greater importance to Ireland claimed precedence . " Ay ! true _tp Whig policy , —Coercion must precede remedial measures , aiid by preceding , in the natural course of events , prevent those measures ever doing good .

      Kill a man , and then bandage the wound , — that is Whig policy , to Ireland ! When the country ' s strength is gone , —when thepeople are banished or destroyed , then come with a mockery of remedial measures , —it is like raising a splendid gravestone overthe man you have murdered . Postpone the ¦ consideration of Repeal for that of Coercion ! Why , there has been one system of eternal coercion practised towards Ireland , and has it prevented _oiitirage and violence I No ! The more you coerce ,---the more will the victim struggle , — and tha more you prevent his open resistance ,

      —the more deadl y will you make his secret vengeance . Are the Government , so blind and so bad , that they cannot see the only way to _prevent outrage , is to remove the cause ? Not alone to punish the offender—but to render the offence unnecessary , by making the people happy and contented . We admit , that in some cases terror may deter from crime , violence , or resistance , —but Ireland ' s is not a case like this . The Irish have passed the boundary of fear , —they have reached the worst ,- —what can they have to dread from Government ? What bares the man , standing above the smoking ruin ofhis cottage , by the dead bodies of his

      murdered wife and children , with hunger , gnawing at his heart , and madness in his brain , what cares he for bayonet , ball , or truncheon ? Ah ! . your coercion is but child ' s play , and your power , great as it is , turns powerless from the excess of ruin you have made ! And it was for a measure like this > Sir George Grey wanted to postpone the question of Repeal ! In the next place , wa wish our readers to notice the manner in which the question was treated by the House . There was no discussion—no debate—a few RepealMembers spoke , and nobody replied , with the exception of the

      acrimonious * , _dfivelhng of Mr Walter , or Major Blackall _' s patriotic statement ; that he would have voted for the measure had it been brought forward by any . other member ! 1 here again is an instance of the policy of faction-Men not Measures ! Hostility to an individual makes this patriotic gentleman turn traitor to his constituency , and- * ecording to his own assertion—belie his own _convictions 1 Sir George Greys speech was one unmeaning sneer , advancing not one single reason against Repeal , or against granting a . Committee , except the _all-poten _^ one with Ithe truckling

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      slates of power— " Werthe Cabinet , will it shallhdtbe . ' ''" ' - _;" ' _^ '; _j ! ' ; ,., r ' We newprbce _& l to consider the grounds on which Mr O'Connor , based his . motion . * \ He did _' not argue the _case ' as one of pounds , shillings , and pence ; he did not enter into long calculations of exports and imports ; he did not make the whole gH i >! the question one M " commercial prosperitv , ' ' as the modern political _economists irivaria _%# 6—a prosperity that maybe , and , owing to mismanagement , ; in most instances . _^ concomitant with ' popnlar misery : he did not argue tbe question as one of _nrmeuhaas . but as one of man—as one of

      right . As a conquered country , Ireland had a right to resist , oppression ; andif there had been anything binding in the Act of Union ; every one of its provisions had been broken , and a contract broken by the one party could not be binding on the other . That . Union , too , was carried by bribery and intimidation- * the Irish people had no voice in the matter--a corrupt parliament of hirelings had voted away the inalienable rights of their country . The arguments of the Honourable Gentleman were unanswerable , and therejwas hot even ' anlattem pt to answer them . Nor was it

      necessary , for the Janissaries were at their post . But the words of Mr O'Connor were verified , and let it go' forth to the world—the Ministry were afraid of having their conduct to Ireland investigated . But those years of black tyranny , without one gleam of _Bunshine across them , speak for themselves . Ireland speaks for herself . Why do . a people starve upon a fertile , soil , beneath a element sky , _apd a genial clime ? Because they are aliens in their own country—paupers on their hereditary land—slaves in the mansions of their fathers 1 Because their collective wealth is

      drawn away ' at the point ofthe bayonet , because the ships come empty and go away full , from their magnificent harbours ; _because a swarm of foreign usurers and middlemen have got their vice-like grasp upon the country , and while they drain it to pander to the rioting of absentee landlords ; drain it again _, to . ' , make fortunes for themselves ; because , industry is a crime , bearing a . heavy _jenalty , since , when a man has enriched his ittle holding by his labour , that suffices for lis eviction , and letting his land at higher rent to another , a victim in his turn . ' Repeal

      would do much . toremedy this . , A Parliament under the very eyes , within reach of the very voices of the people , dare : not play such pranks before the world , as when girded by corruption's citadel _^ St Stephen ' s .. And , itis to be hoped , the Irish people haying gained Repealj will return ' men worthy , to be their Representatives to College Green . To enable them to do this , we trust they , will obtain political power ; and , possessed oftheir native Soil , the Franchise ) and Repeal , Irishmen may indeed behold their country become . "The first flower of the earth and first gem of the _ssa . "

      While , however , the Legislative ' Union is repealed , we hope to see ; the union' ofthe English . and Irish people , more ' , closely cemented with every day , ; a union of feeling , Ja union of-interests , a union of liberty . When Irish _and'English are united in the great cause of mutual freedom _^ monopoly must go down before them . This faction knows , and , therefore , it has ehdeayoured to breed reciprocal hatreds aud jealousies between them by every means in its power .. These are vanishing before the truth—the mighty truth—that-, the same hand which has crushed Ireland , is heavy on the heart and strength of England , too —and the words of the poet are being manifested— :

      ' A fellow-feeling makes us woidrons kind . " "Ireland for the Irish ! " and '' England for the English l" is the mutual cry . Let it be shouted , side by side—from John o' Groats to Connemara—from the Giant ' s Causewayto the Cliffs of Dover—it will be the knell of oppression—it will be the . birth-peal of freedomfor the solitary fortresses of tyranny must sink before the confluence of our united nations .

      Parliamentary Review. Ireland, In Severa...

      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . Ireland , in several of the phases of that most difficult and complicated of State problems , has entirely occupied the attention of the Legislature this week . On Monday , Coercion ; Tuesday , Repeal ; Wednesday , Roman Catholic Disabilities ; and then , on Thursday , back again to Coercion ; the notices of motions which had been given by members on various subjects for that evening , having been withdrawn in order that the debate on the second reading might proceed .

      The debate and the division of Monday night , amply justified the motion and the debate of Tuesday . The easy unconsciousness with which Sir G . Grey requested Mr O'Connor to postpone his motion , for anjnquiry into the causes of the degradation and misery of his native country , in order that the Government might be enabled to proceed more rapidly with another measure , cast inthe some mould as those which have for so many centuries oppressed Ireland , was of itself a proof of the necessity of such an inquiry . It showed a complete ignorance of thestate of

      feeling in Ireland , with reference to English legislation , and an extraordinary obliviousness of the natural emotions of humanity under such circumstances , which would , if such things happened in any other country , excite our special wonder . But , as Lord Bacon has truly 8 aid , " _^ M an is a bundle of _habits , " and the Eng lish have been so long accustomed to look upon Ireland and Irishmen in much the same light as the benevolent fishwoman regarded the eels , that they have at last imperceptibly persuaded themselves , that skinning alive is a process the Irish have got quite used to , and care nothing about it .

      Into the question of Repeal , or the topics embraced in Mr O'Connor ' s elaborate speech in support of his motion , it is not requisite to enter here , these questions having been commented upon in previous articles . But the manner in which an influential section of the Irish members Stood by their colours on that occasion , forgetting _whatever personal or party motives they might have heretofore

      had to induce themta act otherwise , was most creditable to them , and is a hopeful omen of better times for the . country they represent . The strength of England has always consisted , to a great degree , in the divisions and differences which have existed ; amongst Irishmen . Religious and political feuds have been the true foundations of English supremacy—and we repeat that , small as the minority was which voted with the Hon . Member for

      Nottingham , it comprised nam es which give promise of better days for Ireland in the good times coming . - We hesitate not to say that Repeal , as a practical question , wasimmensely advanced by the debate on Tuesday night . . After the lapse of many years , it was rescued from the position of a mere empty _brutumfttlmen , and once more placed before Parliament as a substantive question , with which , in future , it will have to grapple . Of course its first reception was precisely what mighthave been expected . Secure in his majority , the minister barely condescended to repl y , and the short speech in which he announced his determination to refuse the

      inquiry , consisted more of personal allusions to the manner of the hon . morer , than any attempt to answer the matter of his address . In faet , he felt that the majority was large enough to dispense with the use of reason or argument on the occasion , and he substituted somewhat supercilious personalities instead . Of the well drilled forces atthe command of the various f actions , not one , with the exception of Mr Trelawny _, opened his lips ; and that precocious young man evidently did . so with the view of firing off a pop-gun , which he had not the opportunity of discharging the previous night on the subject of Coercion . Despairing , we presume , of being more successful in future , he seized the lucky chance , and was as imperti-

      Parliamentary Review. Ireland, In Severa...

      nent , both in manner and . matter / as couldf _? well conceived . / : _* As '; a > speech on tho _quests _jbefore the House , it -was totally wide of _ffo point ; and if itwent for anything at all , it J ? _imerely to exhibit more glaringly the utter j ? norance and incapacity of Englishmen to \ eJt hie for Ireland , s But though the House co uM listen approvingly to his glib _impertinence because they squared with its own prejudices ' it had not the same' courtesy and pati ence to extend to the speech of Mr Pagan , the hon member for Cork ; an Irishman- well acquainted * with his country , and who has given _deepstudv

      to the subject . One would nave imagined that when the question really at issue was the fit . ness of an Imperial Parlrament to legislate % Ireland , the members of that Parliament would have at all events carefully avoided a course of conduct which , in itself , emphatically implied . their condemnation as a competent legislative body , and proved the correctness of the position taken up hy the advocates of Repeal . A more disgraceful and disorderly interruption to new member , and to a speech evidently pre , pared with great care upon the subject , perhaps never _tookp lace in that house - and the matter l ff

      was made worse by the exceedingy oens ive , _ill-judged , and ill-tempered debut of Mr Jchn Walter ofthe -Ernes ' , the colleague ofthe hon . mover of the motion for inquiry . Mr Walter evidently wanted tobe witty , but his attempts at badinage miserably broke down , and were at length transmuted into feelings of bitter mtrtification and real hostility . Two or three more such exhibitions , and the principal wielder of the thunder of Printing-house-square , will discover that whatever he may be in the classic regions of _Blackfriars , he is at a discount in Westminster .

      Despite , however , the superciliousness of the Home-Secretary , the silence of the rank and file of the factions , and the impatient and unmannerly interruptions at the close of the deba te * we repeat that the discussion , as a whole , materially advanced the question . Each subsequent discussion will place it more and more io the position of a practical matter which must be settled , and that too in the right way—namely , by carrying it . If it be constantly and judiciously kept before the Legislature and the Publio , it must be carried at no distant day . The events of the last few years have very much tended to open the ieyes

      of the English people , to the real merits ofthe question ; and from extensive experience of the feelings of various parties" and classes , we are prepared to say that the public opinion on ! this subject has very greatly changed- Whether frem selfishness , or a conviction of the justice ofthe demand ,... many .-, who but a short time since would have sneered down the slightest mention of Repeal , now listen complacently and approvingl y to the arguments by which it is supported ... _. . .- Our own conviction is that it presents the only means of reall y elevating- Ireland in the scale of nations . Exotic Government has been tried for centuries in that island . We all see its

      results . Whatever the consequences . of selfgovernment may be , it is altogether impossible they can be worse than those which flow from our present system .

      Mr A.Nstey's Biu For Repealing The Lot O...

      Mr A . nstey ' s BiU for repealing the lot of rub . bish , which encumbers the statute book , with reference to the civil rights ofour Roman Catholic fellow-subjects , was received on Wednesday in a manner which promises this time to settle a long mooted question . Mr Watson was by skilful manoeuvring Jon the part of the intolerants defeated on a similar bill last year ; but the debate and the divisions of Wednesday seem to augur a different result on this occasion .

      The Irish Members Gallantly Struggled Ag...

      The Irish members gallantly struggled against the Coercion Bill on Monday night , In availing themselves of every constitutional obstruction to the progress of that measure , they are onl y doing justice to their country . It is a maxim of English law , that it is better to let ten guilty persons escape , than unjustly condemn one innocent individual . But the very reverse of this is applied to Ireland for the crimes of a few individuals , whose

      districts are to be deprived of the protection of the laws and rendered liable to all the evils of a suspension of the constitution . There is neither justice nor reason in such a course , and we repeat , that in opposing its adoption , the Irish members are doing their duty . Ireland will also see with gratitude the noble and determined part borne hy Mr O'Connor and Mr Wakley , the only two English members who have throughout consistentl y voted for justice to Ireland .

      Upon the inconsistent , if not treacherous conduct of Dillon Browne , and the equally singular position taken by Henry Grattan , we reserve comment at present . Time will probably soon show to what influences we are to attribute the " Jem Crowism" of the former gentleman , at all , events .

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      $G- The Great Length At Which We Have Re...

      _$ g- The great length at which we have reported the Repeal Debate , and the space occupied by several other matters of importance concerning Ireland , compels us for the present to withhold a numher of communications , including reports , & c ., fiom Win . _laton , Bilston , S » lford , Wakefield , Preston , Todmorden , Sheffield , Mr Martin Jude , ite ., & c . T . Jones , Liverpool . —We have net room to spare for any notice of that ass who tails himself' the New Mess / ah . ' J . Quay . —We 'do not know where Symmons _' s work on Switzerland can be had . _Sismondi's work is published by Chapman , Strand , London . E . Kobehtso . v _, Plymouth ; A . Dbtsdaie , Liverpool ; T . Alxomd , London , and G . Cork , Ipswich . —We have not room for the letters of these correspondents ! Jambs _M'Cobmack , of Stockport , who has visited the

      Lowbands Farm , writes as follows : —I have Tisited tie cottages ; all is plenty , peace , and happiness . Tho children with rosy cheeks , flushed with rural health , not like the factory operatives in . Stockport . At the Ledbury , Gloucester , Worcester , and Cheltenham markets there are no potatoes or other _regetables cared for but the' Chartist potatoes , ' aa they arecalled . The Land Flan must , and will succeed . Bbadfom > . —It appears that tho Braofobd _Obskrvib has been giving currency to the Whistler ' s lies , at the same time refusing to publish any counter-statement . A correspondent , Robert Ryder , sends us a long letter which he sent to the _Obseuveb , in reply to ' tte mistier , ' but which the editor of that j aper refused to pub . _lisb , adding to his refusal the impudent observation , that the ' Whistler' deserved the thanks of the shareholders for having thoroughly canvassed the Land

      Scheme ! We have not room for Mr Ryder ' s letter , the publication of which , in our columns , i _' b indeed unnecessary , after the finishing the Whistler" has had at the hands of Ur O'Connor . Mb Geo . Dbre , Scarborough . —Wo hate not got any of Mr Duncombe ' _s portraits left . The Petition plate is charged Is ., and the coloured and mounted plates of O'Connoi'Tillc , 4 s . 6 d . , In whoie parcel can we enclose them ! Ur Joun J _« boan , Todenham . —Wa never supplied the paper , nor have we received any I _' _ost-offlce erder in payment . Mb Jones , Liverpool . —Mr Harney knows how to perform bis duties without the help of Mr Jones ' s imp _. rtinent interference . R . Darling , Blyth . —Tho money is acknowledged hy the committee ' s secretary in this number of the Stab . The Somkbs Town report _rnnst'stand over . '

      T . Pamo ** . —Next week . W . * 5 * ewto _** _, Stepney . —Wehave no _reom for your letter , A brief communication would have our attention . T . M .-R _., Glasgow , sends ui a well-written letter , but for which we cannot find room , protesting against Mr O'Connor - private affairs , or the private affairs ef the Stab , being made the subject of publio discussion , Our correspondent considers theBlanderous statemtnts of the _press-Rang respecting the balance sheet to be at tacks upon the auditors more than npon Mr O'Connor , and , as he knows that the delegates weuld not have selected incompetent or dishonest persons for auditors , he would have been quite satisfied if Mr O'Connor had not written one word in the way of answer to his assailants . He hopes that the columns of the Stab will henceforth be filled , with better matter than replies to the falsehoods of the vile press .

      ma , NOTICE . —As I hare a considerable number of cases on hand , requiring ulterior proceedings , I must , In order to enable me to do justice to my clients , decline receiving until further notice any more legal corres . pondence _{ _eeeept sueh as relates to eases in * - ""•)• whether for the Stab or otherwise . ALL LETTERS CONTAINING NEW CASE 3

      WILL REMAIN UNNOTICED ( - _^ _LlTTXBS TO BX _inilBESSED IN _FOWIE TO MS at 16 , Gbeat Windmill . _itbiet , Hai kabkkt , Lo »» on . Ebnes t Jokes' . Even should fresh oases be acoompanied by f ees , thoy will not be attended to .

      « .. . Death, ., ¦;,, On Monday Lmt. The...

      _« .. . DEATH , ., _¦; ,, On Monday lMt . the 6 th inst ., Mary Ann , the * M » of Mr John Gatbarl , after a long and painful illns *" . leaving hor husband and three small children tobeffa _" her loss . She lived respected by aU who knew her , aaa has died deeply resreHea . <_ _J » - >

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 11, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_11121847/page/4/