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A waif—arise ! my eountrj ' g sons Gird on your swords for fight ; _ OT victory ot de »\ b . must soon ' Upoa each boiom light , Too long a hateful tyrant crew Have held yon all In thrall : Awake—arise ! my countr y ' s sons , Rouse _ p both one and all . Say , will yoa longer thus submit To lead tke lives of slaves * Far better let the battle field " Become saca ofyour graves : For _thoia who die in freedom ' s cause , In heaven will find a home ; Where _tyrtnts aud base parasites Can never hope to come
Say , shall the Neapolitan Crouch to the S panish voke ? Or , shall ea ch link of slavery ' s c aain Asunder now be broke ! Though cowards may stand tr . _mblintr , Aud priests may cry , ' Obey !' {" rod—nature—hunan reason-All thre * do answer—• Nay !' Man ne er was _foreied In bondage , Nor born to be _ slave ; Heshould ba f _« a as hli own thoughts—Chainlets ai ocean ' s wave !
Tea , as the winds that o ' er us sweep Refuse to be restraiu'd , So should mankind spurn slavery's yoke , Nor b » by tyrant * chain'd . Fair freedom U the gift of God I A boon to _eortalt given : Then stall so fair , so good a gift , From u » be rudely riven t 5 " o , no ! br _ r _ Neapolitans ! We'll sooner _baadUu lie : Behold year homes by Spaniards spoil ' - ; Yoar children pine and die !
_YT _ f . n patents , _vrfvet , and _littfe . ones , Aloud for vengeance cry , How can the sword _bida in the sheath Draw—draw fer liberty ! I , tbongh bnt b poor fisherman , Will freely lead jo _ on : I call on you for your support Till the good work be done . Then shout aloud with all jour might , Until it rend the sky—* Freedom for Naples and her _ssnt ! _Death—tfcalfc , or— IAberty !
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ITALIAN _PATRIOT SONG , _TUKSL-TEB BT _WlUt-JI CUIilN _BJT-HT . Hear ye tbe trumpet that calls to tha combat ? Up with your banner to stream in the sky J _children ef Ital y , forward together ! Bravely in battle to conquer er die . Down with ths austrians , with kings and cowards ! _Spurn'd be their bribe , and their fortunes _ eSed . Freedom for Italy !—what if we perish f Greatly we perish on Liberty ' * side . __"__ o _ _s , come forth , with the old men and children , Grasping your weapons at _LiberJy ' s call . Charge on the tyrant * the foes ot your couatry—Pots who for _ageihivs hell ha ia thrall .
Lond be the cry that for battle and vengeance , Rites from millions on Italy ' s shore ; She » i _! l be free , and her children united , Slaves to the Austrian despet no aorel She shell be free , or we sleep in our graves—Bettor die bravely , than lire tobe slaves .
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THE ETHNOLOGICAL JOURNAL , a Magazine of Ethnography , Phrenology , and _Archeology . Edited by _Lg __ Buss ., !_ _sq . No . 1 . London 12 , Red _Lion-court , _Fleet-Btreefc . We shall best explain tha character of this publi-• cation by the following _qustation from its prospectus : — This work is intended to embrace , first , researches into erery department of science and literature , calculated to throw light upon the mental and phjsicai peculiarities , tha primitive seats , migrations , interblendings _. and general history of the various divisions of the human family , from the earliest
periods to the present time ; secondly , a careful record of all facts __ d opinions interesting to the Ethnologist , which may from time to time te orought to light by the labours of traveller * , antiquarians , _pbiiologiite , Ac , & e . It will thos afford to the scholar , fo tae man of science , and to the general observer , a convenient medium of _cnmmnnie-tinj ; with the pubiie , and of bringing into a single centre , facta which , tbongh intimately related , require , at present , to be distributed over several periodicals , and whieh , by this distribution , lose much _, of their interest aa well a « Talne . '
The first number , which has much interested us , _-eont-iss & statement of the fundamental principles and leading _doctrinas of the new science of Ethnology : secondly , the first of a series of articles on the causes ef the mental and physical diversities ef mankind—this paper demonstrating that neither climate , food , nof any other external or _wcidentelagency pro-_ _uees permanent effects upon the colour ofthe human skin : thirdlj , an inquiry into the authenticity ofthe Hebrew chronology , frem the Creation to the reign of David—the first of a series of papers on this subject . ' Although we are not prepared to adopt all the ideas Of Mr Burke without farther evidence as to their _seundness , we must confess that we have found in the Ethko _ o-ic __ Jovbsal real ability combined witb ,
what ia still more difiealt to meet with , veritable _originality . We must , however , ' pronounce ' against one article , that entitled 'The Ruling Idea « f the Present Political Era . ' This ' Ruling Idea ' is said to be * the natural equality of men f which idea , __ fr Burke , in the name of science , asseris to be 'false . ' He asserts that there are in _hunwnity two ruling principles , wisdoH and valour , apd that ' the 2 _ oes which possess them in tbe most eminent degree , ever hate been , and ever must be , the rulers of the world . * We doubt if wisdom and valour are always in the ascendant , and dispute the _asnertion that these ' _prnciples' are monopolised by certain races , or rather classes—for we Ind Mr Burke speaking of the English aristocracy as frequently presenting us with
the large forehead and delicate physical structure of the intellectual races , ' It is something new to U 3 te hear t _ 3 t that precious assemblage , the House of Lords , is renowned for wisdom , and that its members are the monopolisers of valour ] The Russians , _Prus-ians , and Austrians rule tbe Poles , but will any one pretend that these nations _pessess higher intellect and are more brave tban tbe Poles ? Again , fake anydomestrocircleand how various are the qualities and dispositions ef its _memiers . Oae son shall posses- _vaJour—a soldier bora , but be no way remarkable for intellect ; another shall ba a studious bookworm , with no disposition for feats of arms ; and a thirds-ail be neither brave nor intellectual , provided , perhaps , with enough cunning and calculation to
makes plodding shopkeeper , but nothiBg _higher"QQblex , WiU Mr Burke assert that these three persons areof three _diEvreot races ? If so , te how many races must tke two parents have belonged ? Mr Barke asserts , that in no civilised country in the world is there more than a very small number of persons either fit to legislate for that country or to choose fit legislators for it / Headvancesseveral similar assertions in opposition to the doctrine of political equality . But supposing we admit his argument , we ehonld like to know how we are to get at , and single oat , 'the very small nam ber' fitted to be electors and legislators . Universal suffrage could hardly return a -worse House of Common _, than is returned by tbe £ 10 _Sufirsije ; and when under the boroaghmongering system , a more _restricted suffrage existed than at present history does not record that the parliaments then elected wera p-rticniariy wise or virtuous . On the contrary , tbe suffering existing at the present
time is largely attributable to the ignorance , corruption and wickedness of those parliaments . The two hundred thousand electors who returned the deputies under the system just destroyed ia France did not exhibit either in themselves or those they elected peculiar fitness for the power tbey monopolised ; on the contrary , they rendered the revolution of February inevitable , a plain pmf of theii incapacity , o : dishonesty , or both . Yet the two hundred thousand were surely select enough out of a population of thirtv-five millions ! In Austria a Btill more select system existed ; late and passing events attest its worth 1 We ara afraid that Mr Barke , determined to be ori g inal in all things , has achieved singularity bnt not success in _discuMing * The Ruling Idea of tbe present Political _tra . ' But although we cannot agree witb Mr Burke on many point ? , we advise all thinkers , seekers of knowledge , and searchers after truth to read the Ethko _ ogica _ Journal and judge for themselves . We shall bs glad te meet Mr Burke again .
The Hislorv Uf France, From Ih Invasion ...
The Hislorv uf France , from ih Invasion of Casar till the Outbreak of ihe French _Revolution . By D . Wemyss Jobson . London : Kent and Richards , Paternoster-row . At the pr ? = e _ i tim « , when Francs and Frenchmen _Qocupy the foremost p lace in the thoughts of all _mankim " , -x knowledge of French history 13 very necessary -. vetthe number ef people who know anything ol _G-iiic story , previous to tfce outbreak of tbe first Revolution , is exceedingly limited . To all unacquainted with the progress of our neighbour- ! , from barbarism to their present exalted position , this work will be exceedingly valuable , Thefirst mOEthly part contains the history of Gaul , from the arrival
The Hislorv Uf France, From Ih Invasion ...
_Martel _^ h ' __?„ l * ° _?? W and Cbarle SSS j . T _™? Hth «>» exercised a wise discretion _^ _- _. th , 8 pG _u ¥ _rfWs work . The horrors of SS _ 2 ' 3 n « * 5 _arbare _« _^ _asions . and _thebrn ! _tsUUes of petty tyrants , are , unfortunately Rn __ _KtS ? - llto * S _^ that & _™* SS Kb . of raft matters is sufficient to excite the _digest as S ? . 2 _™ T eSth ! _^ i b 3 th _Drdidicaland Chris fe _« r _£ hf _£ V eiIed _? _orBP"edby Mr-Jobson . quite right , so far M the first par i enables _uni judge , we must award to this work the praise of being _j _^ _wsaa _^ ' wel 1 worthy tUe
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An _£ _HZ S £ _4 P _^ f F rance on th Abolition of ??_ _$ _' . 5 f _^ Paine - LoDdon : J * _ffat « ° n . 5 , Paul _s- _ l ! ey , Paternoster-row . lm _^ J ! _I f L - m 8 Dt ' _whea f 0 _"l ? > incited by BclnnlreT Sh 0 nhn 5 _^ "K _^ V _^ _url and _SS _^ _MftPring to bring France once mora _add _^ Af -f ? _Jeof _anarchy , ifc would be well if this WttT a ths _F ebel _, " ° _« 8 _needleman' could be _trans-S _^ L _v * Pl 3 Btered _« the walla of Paris . i reiy _, does Pame say : — The government of a single p 8 rj 0 n is Inherently vicious , independentl y ofthe vices of the individual for , be the State never so little , the prlnee is almost always less . What proportion ii than bavwten one m » u and all the affairs of a nation ! Let tbe fools who admire a Napoleon—• Whose _gamo was empire , whose _stabegwere thrones it _-oie table earth , _whas 8 dice were human boHei '—
read , mark , learn , and inwardly digest the following *—It is true that we have seen some men of genius under tbe _dladea . So much the greater is the evil . A talented king is worse than & fool . His ambition catrles him to conquest and to despotism ; his people are soon reduced to _bewaU his glory , singing Te _T > eum while they die of hunger . We recommend this tract to onr friends . 7 S- Either this « Address' is not the Address of Pame issued by bim on the occasion of the flight of Louis XVI . to _Varennes—the Address described by Dumont , Carlyle . and other historians—or Mr Watson has prefixed a wrong date to it . In thi »
tract , the Address bears data October 25 th , 1792 . but the King ' s flight took place on the 20 th of June , ITyl , and _Pame ' s Address , signed by Acaille Ducbatelet , was published within a few days afterwards . We _suspectthat the Address , published by Mr Watson , waa written at the time it bears date , more than a year subsequent to the King ' s flight ; indeed . it _professea to have been _vtritteu after the _oMidon of _Royalty ; bat then , tbe quotations from Dumont aKd Carlyle are out of place , and , consequently , are calculated to confuse the reader .
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' We cuU fhe choicest . ' THB __ t ? 6 HISG HT _ . VAS . 'Whilst Nero fiddled Rome was burned , 'has been ra dramatised i _ more than one theatre _now-a-days The laughing mania , a serio-comic tragedy , has had a great run . Monsieur _Guiznt has _InUhed an engagement of a very lucrative character , aa the original rapresentative ofthe human hyena . " vThen , backed by a hundred thousand soldiers , he was told he would be impeached for violating the Constitution , he and hia colleagues laughed immoderately in chorus . In three day 3 the laugh ( changed to a maniac ' s ) was heard ringing through tke forest of Vincennes , from a ba _ d of fugitives ( of which Gaizot was tha leader ) _YTlttteut a roof to cover their proclaimed heads . This revolution C 2 _ sin » laughter _ is become contagions . In the British House of _Comaons wbea tbe petition of five millions of Chartists was introduced , the horselaugh sounded alone tha benches , and John O'Connell on mentioning the word Repm , was overwhelmed with astorm of _giiffaa . 'Tis all very well if thi _ executive and legislative epidemio do not rapture thousands of blood vessels by its fatal 'intensity . — American paver _.
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WISHERS AKD WISHE 3 . Oh ! know ye the wish of tha true , the true ? Oh ! know ye the wiiti of the true ? * Tit to see tho slave ' s hand ¦ Waving liberty ' s bratad , As its toil nurtured muse * les could do , And the wide world ' s oppressors in view . God ripen tbat wish efthe true ' _. Then hurra I for that wish of ths tree , the trne—Harra ! fer that wish of the true ! Aad another hurra ! For the fast-coming day When tha many shall preach to the few From the gospel as pure as the dew
, Oh ! there ' s hops in thit wish ofthe true ! Oh ! know yo the wish ofthe proud , the proud f Oh ! know ye the wish of the preud ! 'Tis to empty their veins , 'Hid the crashing of chains-Ay , the veins of their hearts , if alio Fred , So the _aeck of oppression he hovsM _. What a holy wish that of the proud ! Then hurra ! for that with of the proud , the proud ! _Sorra 1 for that wish of the proud I And & sweeping hurra ! For the clash , flash , and neigh , Where young Liberty leaps from the cloud That curls blue o ' er her enemy ' s lhroud .
Oh ! the world for that wish of the proud 1 Oh ! know ye the wish ef the brave , the brave ? Oh ! know ye the with of tha brave t 'lis to toss out a Isnca Por the glory of France , And to dance upon Tyranny ' s grave Wberesoe ' r its black banner may wave , God smile on that wish of tha brave ! Then hurra ! for that wish of the brave , the brave ! Hurra . for that wish of tbe brave ! And hurra ! for the hand , And the casque-cleaving brand _. That the lights of a nation can save Or redeem by its world . llgb . tAng wave . Heaven bless the keen brand of the brave ! Motion . Thb _Bkljast Mak . _L-SotjAge . —A chain to unite men and keep mankind disunited . —A large issue of notes which has often a small basis of ? old .
T ___ raE . —An homcepathic hospital , where small doses of soeiety ara given to cure society . —The cbamber wherein _batcbelors receive curtain-lectures . Mirbor . —A journal in which Time records his travels . Chud . —The _aver . renewed hope of the world . — God ' s problem , waiting man ' s solution . _ _5 is _ r . —An amateur pauper . —A lover who is contented with a look . lQ . fiBA . vc _ . —A serpent which many foster because they suppose it to be harmless . — A dark place , where poor people are allowed to grope about till they hurt themseives or _someftady else . Batche _ or . _— - A mule wbo shirks his regular load . Shop . —Private interest disguised as pablicatilifcy . —A prison for himself , built by a man of the materials he deals in .
Chixa . —A hermit among nations . —A living toad embedded in stone . Papee . —A receiver of rtolen goods . Potinci . —A national humming-top / which spins the least when it hums the most . Prisos . —The grave where state doctors bury their murdered patients . _Napolbo _* . —A naughty boy who was put in a corner because he wanted the world to play with . _CiraisATiox— Mankind's struggle upwards , in which millions are trampled to death , that thousands may mount on their bodies .
ir IS TOO LAT- ! The day is net far distant when Victoria ol England will come forward proposing enlarged suffrage ? , the Ballot , remission of taxes , the abolition of aristocratic privileges- but thsy will be rejected by the peoplein tha _ominrus words— ' TOO LATE !' The day is , _coming when Victoria of England wiil propose to the Irish the fifty additional r _ em _« bers in the British Parliament—the destruction of the Protestant Church—but the Irish will reject all those with lhe ominous words— ' TOO LATE !' The day is coming when Victoria of England will propose to tbe Irish—to keep them quiet—to prevent them _joini-g their brethren of England—even the ' Repeal of the Union , with the golden link of the Crown , ' aa O'Connell defined and demanded—but B voice will be heard in Ireland , crying— ' TOO LATE . ' TOO LATEV-BostonPilot .
THB HEW W 0 HID TO THE OLD . Ifsa of _Earopa ! FfS _^ he _grkvei Where our b _'_ t _ ers sleep , Comes a voice , like coming waves , Stera asd deep ; From the hill side and ihi valley , And the mountain glen ;—Hearken ! for it bids ye raUy , In the r _ ig _ t of men !
VERY _TatTE , Ths British throne lests upon this aristocracy , and tbeir hired soldiers . The English masses have long , long since withdrawn their sympathy and _ -support the old English yeomen are degenerated into serfs and paupers ; the mechanics into a species of petri . fied machines , bating crowns and authorities of every _existing kind , for the improvements in the world are not for them—tbe world and tba world ' s _Iawa are enemies . —Boston Pilot . E . _vrosroLOGfCA- Pfim _ Eo _ s . —Insects generally must lead a truly jovial lite . Think what it must ba t 9 _loriye in a lily . Imagine a palace of ivory and pearl , with pillars of silver and capitals of gold , all exhaling such a perfume as never arose from human censer . Fancy , again , the fun of tucking yourselt np for the Bight in the folds of a use , rocked to sleep by the gentle _siphs of tke summer air , and nothing to do when you awake but to wash yourself in a dew-drop , and fall to , and eat your bed _elotMs !
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TO TIIE PEOPLE . The Press-gang Conspiracy-Forcible extinction ° f the right of Public Meeting—Bloodthirsty ferocity of the Bourgeoisi e—Press-gang sp es and prostitutes —Infamous efforts of the Press-gang to ensure the conviction ofthe arrested Chartists . The French Mepublic—The Suppression of Public Liberty Law—The Elections . Friends , _Countrymen , and Brothers , I have , in a previous letter , unveiled the dark and damnable conspiracy by which tbe Press-gang , operating on the cowardice , ignorance , and
prejudices of the sbopocracy , enabled the aristocratical Whi g government to forcibly prevent the intended procession on the 10 th of April last , and also furnished that government with plausible pretexts for passing the Gagging Bill , under which the patriot Mitchel has been transported to a felon's shore . I also warned you , in last week ' s star , that the Pressgang were manufacturing another ' panic , ' to afford the government an excuse for still further Curtailing the few remaining liberties of the people , and persecuting the people ' s leaders . Before my words were published—although not before they were
written—the arrests had commenced , and Monday last witnessed the forcible extinction of the right of public meeting . Both acts of despotism have , of course , excited the uproarious applause of the vile , venal , bribed , and brutal Press-gang . Thatthe Chartists intended to hold a number of simultaneous meetings on Whit Monday , has been known for some time past . Such meetings have been common in all agitations , and have never before excited persecution . It was understood that the meetings , called for Monday last , would assemble for tbe purpose of considering the presentation of
' the Memorial to the Queen , ' and the answer thereto , if any had been received . The false assertion of Lord John Russell , that the people were indifferent to Reform , and had no desire for the Charter , could only be regarded as a challenge to the people , which they were bound to reply to , through tbe medium of public meetings . To make plain the falsehood of the little Lord ' s assertion was , therefore , also an object of the intended meetings ; but Lord John has prevented all that . He has followed up insult by injury . He first calumniated the people , and then , by the exercise of brute force , prevented their reply .
It was , I believe , originally intended that some three or four meetings should take place in London , on Whit Monday . The object of these meetings , I haye already stated ; an object strictly ' constitutional , ' and proposed to be carried out by means perfectly ' legal . ' Finding , however , that the Pressgang were actively engaged in fomenting alarm , the Cbartist leaders abandoned their original intention of holding meetings on Clerkejiwell Green , and other places in the populous and busy parts of the Metropolis , and resolved to restrict the popular manifestation to one assemblage , at the far east of London , on a spot of ground far distant from ' the busy haunts ' of the profitmongers . This was publicly announced by placard , and other means and the same course
was taken to make known the peaceful and strictly legitimate purpose of the meeting , but all in vain . It was ipre-deterrained that such meetings should be ' put down , ' and when did the wolf lack arguments to justify his butchering propensities ? The government well knew that there was no real ground for alarm , and , therefore , employed the Press-gang to get up a false alarm . The worthy janissaries set to work , and , as on the occasion of _« the 10 th of April , ' wrote and published lies by the yard , for the purpose of justifying government intervention . They succeeded in getting up a little bit of talk , whicb the government affected to regard as a panic , and , thereupon , took 'vigorous measures' to sup press the right of public meeting .
Amongst the inventions of the Press-gang was included tbe lie , that the Chartists intended to walk in procession on Monday last . Several of the Saturday and Sunday papers contained the following . — The organisation of tbe Chartist members , has most signally failed on tbe Snrrey side of the water . In the extensive parish of Lambeth not more than 130 persons have enrolled _thimse ' _ves It ie , therefore , very questionable whether one tithe of tbe 200 , 000 men announced to walk in procession , and upset the present government will meet on Monday .
Here the ruffians of the Press speak of what they pretend to regard as an universally known fact , that the Chartists had announced tbat they intended to walk in procession two hundred thousand strong , to upset the Government . The readers of the Northern Star need not be told that the Chartists neither intended nor announced anything of the sort , nor anything that the most perverted imagination could construe into any such meaning . The proce 3 _« sionr-the intention to upset the government—in fact , the whole paragraph was an unmitigated He ; but by such lies the ' base , bloody , and brutal Whigs '—as O'Connell , in a fit of honesty , called them—were enabled to make another assault upon the last few privileges of the Commons .
The people of England are said to live under a government ot ' King ( or Queen ) , Lords and Commons ; ' but it is well known that in London no SHch authority is acknowledged . Although there has been no revolution in ' the metropolis of the world , ' nevertheless , we live under a ' Provisional Government '—provisional until the people' win their ain again . ' The members of this government are neither poets , astronomers , nor historians ; they are
simply—thief catchers ! Yes , the people of London , whose forefathers resisted the edicts of the despot Charles , submit to the ukases of Commissioners Mayne and Rowan ; and , worse still—a large proportion of the Londoners are only too happy to acknowledge the Kings of Scotland-yard , whose ' notices' and ' proclamations' have altogether superseded the old-fashioned system of law-making by Act of Parliament .
Oa Saturday evening , the 10 th , out came the proclamations of the thief-catching autocrats , forbidding tbe intended meeting at Bonner ' s Fields , on the 12 th , and announcing that' all necessary measures ' would he taken to prevent such meeting being held . These measures were , as on _« t he 10 th of April , ' the concentration often thousand troops iu the metropolis —the putting the pensioners under arms—the arming of tbe police with cutlasses—and the calling out of ' the specials' en masse . To these preparations must be added the fortifying and provisioning of the public offices to resist a siege ; and ambuscades and artillery to surprise , slaughter , and ' mow down in masses . '
The Sunday papers followed up the work commenced by the ' dailies , ' in demanding that ¦ _tbs strong arm of constituted authority' should strike a blow that would be * felt , ' and for ever put an end to Chartist demonstrations . Monday ' s Times , Chronicle , and other journals , contained the most atrocious incitements to the government , police , and military , to hesitate at no deed of violence to crush the working men . The Chronicle contained the following significant paragraph : — Wat Tile * . — This day is the anniversary of the death of Wat Tyler , who was killed on tbe 12 th of June , 1381 .
Of course , the pious wish of the Chronicle ruffian was that , on the 12 th of June , 1848 , the « authorities' of London might , by fraud and violence , obtain the privilege of sporting another bloody dagger ! Had there been no opposition to the intended meeting , the overmastering thunder storm which raged during the whole of the afternoon of Monday last , would bave sufficed to have rendered any such gathering next to impossible . As it was , the Exe cntive did wisely and well in protecting the unarmed people frora the sabres of tbe police , and the musthe
kets of the soldiery , by adjourning meeting . The Executive had no thought of an armed meeting , —no thought of war or bloodshed , —and Messrs M'Douall and M'Crae would have been highly culpable had they hesitated to take the prudent course they did take . The getters up of the meeting purposed to speak not to fight , —to pass resolutions not make revolutions , —what madness , then , it would have been bad they allowed indignation to usurp the place of prudence , and precipitated themselves aud their followers against the deadly force wbich thev had never counted upon having to
contend against . Of eourse , the daily deluders have since Monday been chuckling over the ¦ new defeat of the _ ha » . tists ; ' and once again that wretched thing , the Morning Advertiser , better known in London as The Tap-tub , ' congratulates the country on the ' extinction of Chartism . ' It adds to this flight of imagination a bit of truth which cannot be too often impressed upon the people— ' that the Chartists have no sympathy from the middle-classes . The middle-classes are , to a man , against them . '
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Indeed this is true . There may be a minority amongst the _shopocracry who in secret acknowledge the justice ofthe Chartist cause , and even wish the Chartists success , but in public they make no sign . By their silence they seem to share the hostile feeling of the majority of their class , and that hostility is of the deadliest character . Information from many quarters assures me that the great desire of the bourgeoisie was , that on Monday last a conflict might furnish the police and military with an excuse for an _iniUseriminate and wholesale butchery . ' Shoot the dogs ; grape shot them , ' has been the _furious language used by the sbopocracy generally
in reference , to the Chartists . ' Why ate not the leaders transported ? ' 'Hang the rascals ! ' have been the expressions of hellish hatred spurted from the foul tongues of the _jxmj class during the last few weeks . Yet thousands of these ruffians are in the jaws of bankruptcy . May _destruction ' s sharklike grip close upon them ! When they are reduced to the miserable condition of the men whom they are so eager to bludgeon , —see slaughtered , transported , or hanged , —then , perhaps , but never till then , will they learn to feel for their fellow-men , and have some little comprehension of the principles of honesty , truth , aud justice .
1 have yet to notice the worst doings of the Press-gang—first , the alacrity with which the reporters are taking to the unclean work of spyism ; and secondly , the horrible efforts of the editorial gang to ensure the conviction of the arrested patriots . Amongst all classes and all parties a ' spy' is reputed infamous , and it is well known that , according to all the usages of war , the mercy commonly shown to captured enemies is never extended to this loathsome section of mankind . Now the reporter who attends meetings avowedly for the purpose of taking notes of the proceedings for a newspaper , but in reality to sell his 'jottings down' tothegovernment
for the purpose of getting honest men imprisoned or transported , is—what else can he be ?—a' spy . ' It may be said that , when ' government reporters ' openly avow tbeir attendance at meetings for the purpose of taking notes for their employers , they cannot he fairly regarded as spies . Perhaps not , but they occupy scarcely a better position—that of pollticatprostitutes , soiling their skill for filthy lucre , to enable a corrupt and irresponsible government to wreak vengeance upon its enemies . I use the term political prostitutes * advisedly . ' If Mahomet allowed women no souls , we may fairly . refuse to believe that the reporting tribe are troubled with that thing called ' conscience . ' The ' suckmugs , ' as Cobbett called them , report according to order . If they report for the Post or the Herald , they will swell a meeting of thirty Protectionists to three
thousand . If they report for the Times or Chronicle , they will perform the same act of kindness for the Free Traders and Liberals . Both will depreciate thirty thousand Chartists to less than as many hundreds . They put the balderdash of a fussy fool , known to possess a well-lined purse , into something like common-sensible shape , and declare he made' an eloquent and admirable discourse ; ' whilst the real sense and eloquence of a working man , is merely noticed as ' the usual Chartist stuff , ' ' the usual abuse of the constituted authorities , ' & c , & c . Possessing a certain amount of pot-house wit , picked Up principally at ' _Cogers Hall , ' the ' Coal Hole , ' and other similar establishmenta , tbey are only too bappy to exhibit their ' talents' in turning into ridicule the proceedings of the people , and making the wrongs and sufferings of the many , the subjects of ribaldry and burlesque .
The efforts of the editorial gang to ensure the conviction of Ernest Jones , and the other persons under arrest , are most disgusting . The Herald exclaims , ' There is no fear that men who declared that tbey intended outrage , and even assassination , shaU be acquitted of any evil intention , and sent out upon- society again as good and proper subjects . ' This is intended to prepare the jurors to decide the ' guilt' of the accused before-hand . The Sunday limes says—• With respect to the leaders of this lawless and senseless movement who have already been arrested , no maudlin sympathy will be felt for them either by the great body of the English public , or by that class especially of which English juries
are composed . ' This is an attempt to predetermine the fate of the accused . That beastly publication , Lloyd's Threepenny Trash , after pretending tb quote from the speeches of Messrs Jones and Sharp , says— ' Mitchel is on his way to Bermuda ; Jones , Sharp , Fussell , and Williams are caged in Newgate , as the half-way house on the road of their destination . ' And the Times of Monday , the very day on which the Central Criminal Court Sessions opened , published , a few hours before the _delivery ofthe Recorder ' s charge to the Grand Jury , a long series of reported extracts from speeches alleged to have been made by Ernest Jones , extending as far back as the 4 th of April . The real object of this foul work of the truculent Times cannot be
mistaken . I find that the Examiner is at its dirty work again , in doing its utmost to injure poor Mitchel and his family . It denounces the authorities for having , as alleged ( it may bave been only for a few days ) refrained from subjecting the patriot to the humiliation of the convict dress . With fiend-like malice the ruffian next assails Lord Cloncurry , and the other subscribers to the fund for Mrs Mitchel , remarking tbat tbat lady did her worst
to instigate a rescue -, ' and adding that' An important check to criminal conduct is the consideration that its consequences may involve not only the actor , but his wife and family , in distress or ruin . ' The mere destruction of the patriot does not suffice to glut the vengeance of this liberal miscreant ; he would fain see the wife in the union workhouse , or drink in the sounds of her last groans , as she and ber children died of hunger on the road-side 1 Such are the tender mercies of Liberals 1
In another article the Examiner- calls upon the ruling powers , to give' the whole machinery of jus . tice a thorough overhauling and re-composition , to enable it to meet wiih effect and credit the demand which is likely to be made on its powers and services . ' The meaning of this is plain enough . The Examiner desires such machinery as will _^ under all circumstances , ensure tbe imprisonment , transportation , or hanging of all the disaffected . Why not at once establish drum-head court-martials , as the only proper ' machinery' for tbe preservation of « order' and' the laws ?'
With ' petitioning' and' memor ialising proved to be mockeries—the right of public meeting extinguished by brute force—the laws employed merely as the convenient machinery to sanction , and work the rule of the sword—and , in short , the much vaunted 'Constitution * shown to be a humbug , what is left to the suffering working men , but to pray day and night for the destruction of the present system , by any means that fate may send , —even though with the fall ofthe system the country itself should perish ? What is this * country' to tbe unemployed , the starving , the politically proscribed , the socially persecuted , the gagged , bullied , belied , bludgeoned , and bayoneted millions ? * « Oh ! better fat-That the ocean o ' er aa thundered , Than be whst we are !*
The French Republic claims a few remarks . The infamous measure for the suppression of public assemblages , on which I briefly commented in my last , was adopted by the National Assembly , by a majority of 478 against 82 . Of the five members ofthe Executive Commission , both Ledru-Rollin and Lamartinb absented themselves from the Chamber during the discussion , I _suppose to mark their hostility to the measure , and Flocon walked out when the division on the clauses ; commenced but it would have been a nobler course if all three had resigned . The eighty-two members of'the Mountain' noblv protested against the atrocious law .
'You dishonour the Republic ! ' cried Citizen _Guinard , from the extreme left . ' You , the spoiled children of the Republic , ' cried another patriot , ' are strangling your parent ! ' But in vain were these patriotic manifestations ; the bill was passed in the course of a sing le sitting . This bill , says tho Times ' would , if it had existed before tbe 22 nd of February , have effectually prohibited those demonstrations which led to the revolution . It was , beyond all question , an armed tumultuous assemblage which proclaimed the Republic in France ; but the Republie has already shown more fear than gratitude to the author of its existence . ' resulted in
The recent elections have unhapp ily the return of that arch-intriguer Thiers , and that counterfeit of ' the Emperor , ' Louis-Napoleon . Happily these returns are counterbalanced by lhe election of Caussidiere , Pierre Leroux , Proudhon , and Lagrange . Ca _. _ssidie _ e , although not tao well liked by some of the ultra men of the elubs , is a thoroughly honest Republican , and a man capable of performing great deeds iu the hour of crisis . Pierrs Leiioux is a social philosopher of European fame . Proudhon , editor of the Representant du Peuple , another Comm unist , according to the admission of his enemies , ' is a man of singular originality _andjtalent . ' L agrange- is an ultra demo-
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crat of the Barb-.. * school ; a man of vast courage and energy . 1 am _ssi'ry to have to record the defeat of Thore , the able Editor of the Vrai Republiciue _, and Raspail , the Editor of L'Ami du Peuple . Both these patriots should have beenand Were very nearly-elected . The mass of the votes recorded for Caussidiere , Leroux , Proudhon , and Lagrange , were principally given in the 4 th , 5 th , 6 th , 7 rt , 8 tb , 9 th , and 12 th
_arrondissements , the quarters of artisans and working men This is a good sign . It shows that the men of the barricades are organising and concentrating their strength . Future elections will , probably , be still more favourable to the cause of labour . The proper exercise of Universal Suffrage is to be learned only by repeated trials . Annual Parliaments are the best provision to ensure both honesty on the part of the elected , and wisdom on the part of the electors . L'Ami du Peuple .
June Htb , 1848 . P . S . The strange scenes of which Paris has been the theatre during the last two or three days are most dispiriting . A thoughtless mob , containing , no doubt , a large number of paid agents shouting' Vive I ' Empercur' in honour of that contemptible humbug , Louis Napoleon , and a government impotently energetic against a monstrous reaction ) the creation of their own weakness and folly , are spectacles calculated to almost break the hearts of those who
regarded the 24 th of February as the dawn of democratic freedom , happiness , and glory . Surely the people of Franee will not again bow their necks to the yoke of monarchy ; surely they will not take for a new tyrant the London ' Special , ' who took up a bludgeon on tbe 10 th of April , to aid the English aristocracy and bourgeoisie in their unholy war against the rights and liberties of the oppressed English people . I fear much tbat civil war and the re-establishment of royal tyranny are in store for France . This comes of' moderation . ' Oh ! for one hour of ' 93 !
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THB ' JBISH * r __ 9 H . ' . The ' Irish Fbxon' ( late Unhid Irishman ) will make its first appearance on the 24 th inst . The prospectus i 0 issued , and announces that tap new paper will advocate and enforce , amongst others , the following prinoiples : — Thatthe Irish people have _ajaatand _indefoasible right tO thU island , and to all the moral nnd material wealth and _resources thereof , to possess and gqvern the same for their own use , maintenance , comfort , and honour as a state ;' That the _custom culled tenant _t-lght _, which prevails par . tlcularly in the north of Ireland , is aju « t and salutary _oostom both for north and sooth , tbat it ought to be extended and secured in Ulster , and adopted nnd _eaforoed by common concent in the other tbree provinces of the island .
That every free man , and every man who _dosirea to become free , ought to have arms , and to practice the use of _thsra . That _tbejaovertign style , title , honour , and _dlgniiy et an Irish Felon to British rale , are higher , more _glortavu , and mors sacred , than - those of any King or Queen on earth ; and that the life aDd liberty of one Irish Felon are at least as precious and sacred as those of one King or _Queta , one viceroy , one judge , or sheriff , or juryman . That every man In Irolftnd who shall hereafter pay taxes tor the support of' the State , shall have a just right to an equal voice with every other man in tbe government ef that State , and the outlay of those taxes . That no ' _Combination oi Classes' ia _Irfckud is de . _slrablo , ' tilt , or possible , save on the terras of che rights of the industrious classes being acknowledged and secured .
_THTfi IRISH _ E _ OTJE . _Doulih , JuN- 10 . —The negotiations between the Old and Young Irelanders have resulted in a mutual determination to dissolve their respective associations , and establish in their stead a new and general organisation , to he entitled , 'the Irish League for fhe Attainment of the Legislative Independence of Ireland : ' _Acoarding to the Fresman of thiB morning , the directing bodies of the existing associations , viz , ths Committee of tbe Repeal Association and ihe Council of the Confederation ' , are to be the original
members of the new ; and every contributor of one shilling shall be entitled to become a member . To se care unanimity , and guard against the possibility of division , no mattter can be introduced at the meetings which shall not have bsen approved and sanctioned by a majority of the members of the council . One of the fundamental rules of ' the hew org anisation , that is to be , is , that no member shall be held bound by the expressed opinions of any other member . Suoh is tha _basiB of' the solemn league and covenant' between the rival houBes ef Burgh Quay and _Abbey-atreet .
BERMUDA
THS PLiOB OV _EXILTS OF JOHN MITCHBL . Bermudas' Islands , or Somers' Islands ; a cluster of small islands in the Atlantic ocean . They are in number about 400 , but for the most part eo small and so barren , that they have neither inhabitants nor name . They were first discovered by Juan Bermudas , a Spaniard , in 1522 ; in 1009 , Sir Geo . Somers , an Englishman , was wrecked here , and after his shipwreck , formed the first settlement . The most considerable of these islands are St George , St David , Cooper , Ireland , Somerset , Long Island , Bird Island , and Nonesuch , The first contains a town ( St George ' _a Town ); the two following , some villages ; the others , only farms dispersed .
Tha air ia so healthy , that sick people from the continent of Amerioa , frequently go thither for the recovery of their health . The winter is hardly perceptible ; it may be said' to be perpetually spring ; the trees never lose their verdure , and the leaves only fall when new ones begin to appear . Birds sing and breed without intermission . Bat these advantages are counterbalanced by frightful storms , accompanied by formidable thunder , which are announced by a circle round the moon . Some fertile plains are seen , but , in general , tbe country ia mountainous . The soil ia of divers colours , brown , white , and red , of which the first ib tbe best ; although light and atony , it is , in general , rich and fertile . The water is , in general , salt ; tbere is but little fresh , except rain water , preserved in cisterns . The inhabitants gather two harvests of Indian oorn in a year , ene in Jul y Decemberthis forms tbeir
and the other in ; principal food . They likewise oultirate tobacco , legumes , and fruits sufficient for thoir _wanta . Their trees are p rincipally cedar and palmetto . Besides these they have orange trees , olive , laurel , pear trees , Ao . The red wood ia peculiar to these islands ; ita coloured fruit foeda worms , which become flies , a little larger than tbe cochineal bug , instead of which they are used . There are no venomous reptiles . _Building of vessels is the principal trade of the inhabitants . These islands extend from _IS . E . to S . W ., about forty _, five miles . The whole _Bhore is _snrrounded with rocks , most of whioh are dpy at low water , but covered at flood . They are 230 league * S . E . Cape Fear , in North Garolina . Tha north point of these islands lies in . Ion . Uo . 28 ' W . ; lat . 32 o . 22 ' N . Population a few years since , 10 , 381 : white 5 , 462;—slaves , 4 , 919 . — _Popular Encyclopedia ,
[ There are 2 , 500 convicts continually working there in gangs upon the dock-yards and fortification , whioh are most extensive and formidable . Bermuda is garrisoned by two companies of Royal Artillery , 0 _B 8 of Sappers and Miners , Royal Marines , and both battalions of the 42 nd Royal Highlanders . It is also the principal naval rendezvous for her Majesty's fleet on that station . The governor is Captain Charles Elliott , R . N . The Thames convict hoik , a huge leviathan of the deep , is moored at Bermuda . ] Mrs Mitchel —We have been informed that this lady has purchased a passage for herself and a portion of her family in a vessel which wilt sail for Bermuda in a few days . It is to be presumed that she is impelled to this step by the hope of frequently enjoying the sooiety of her unfortunate husband ; but it is soarcely necessary to say that it the same discipline , or anything like it , be observed in this case as is experienced by other oonvicts , ber object will not be accomplished by the voyage . —Dublin World .
Mrs MrrcHBL . —A portion of the family of Mr Mitchel have arrived in Nowry , his native town , wbere , we understand , itis the intention of Mrs Mitchel to fix her residence during the banishment of her husband . — Newry Examiner , Jobs MrrcHBL —A younger brother of John Mitohel Bailed from Liverpool , on _Saturdaj , in the Britannia , for New York . He purposes , it was conjectured , to proceed to Bermuda , on matters of a family nature , to his brother . The Great Western steam ship plies regularly between New York and Bermuda , the voyage being about seventy hours . By later accounts wele * wn . that there is after all nothing settled . ' So says Mr John O'Connell in the following letter addressed to the Frbbman ' s Joubhal .
_Si ___—I _saoBt _sinoertly regret to have such reason to _faor that the desired coalition ofthe Repealers is not 89 immediately practicable aa is predicted in tbe Mo & _himo _Fseemah of this day , that I cannot let thc week close without making public my impression on this subject . I have received from a roost important quarter , a remonstrance , couched In the very strongest terras , against giving up the Repeal Association founded by Daniel O'Connell . Difficulties of detail ako have to some extent intervene ;! upon points of great importance ; but my great reason for fearing that the coalition may not
very speedily occur is , from tho remonstrance in _question , The importanco of the _quarter from whence it comes cannot ba overrated j and I sin bound also to say , that communications to tho sanw effect , from _o-. hcr quarters , also of great importance have reached » since the _firet came to hand . I . therefore , pray th , SS the _Rspsnl _Association throughout the _couniry to understand that , as yet , notbin ? i < , art „ . a . r ' , I am , dear Sir , your obliged Servant , a _Ddbliw . _Jms _H . -Thes * tlDS 8 ofthe Repeal _As-BwiSSa _« w _Postponed for a fortnight . Mr John
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' -exposition of tbe primn O'Connell made an embora _ . '—into the proeo « _oiplea on which he was ready to ens * . - ~* tbtbs posed union . Several letters for and ngai __ .. Imgue were rend , the most influential of which _werarai from the Roman Catholio BiBhop of Meath andid , Dean of Ardagh , whose diocesan , Dr O'Higgins , ia at _. t ; present in Rome . The Bishop Pf Elphin is also ad-l- > verse to ths merging of the old _aasooiation . Nothiogig beyond tho suspension and the speech was done , ? , until the opinion of the country can be collected J . The statement of Mr John O'Connell was _receivedid with considerable hissing fros the body of the _ aii , i , where it is said the Young Irelanders eongrega ' edi __ some force .
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THE _ BS _ _VT £ I > CH-ttTJSTB—JOHH o _' _cOSMELL _' B _1 & _8 AS 0 K S —MOIK _ABBI 8 T 8 _BCMOOMD—TBiS ' «» H _TXtBCHS' A »» D THK ' IBISH _SfltOH '—STATE OP THE MIDLAND DI 8 TBICTB , J , APPALLING _msBBT—8 TATB OV _TUg CHOPS—0 NIVEK 8 A- - PACP £ BIS _ AND _-ESPEBATION OF THE _r-AgiNTBT . ( From our own Correspondent . ! Dobwh . Juhe 12 th . And so the Whigs ara going to ' troat' the people o > England to a dose of the . BpeciSc which they bave just t now administered so industriously in Ireland . ' Well ,, tbis bangs _Bnnagher , ' and tbey _aoy over bere , that t Banagher beat the devil . ' If this be true , his clovon « « hoofed msjtsly cannot hold a candle to _ourrulurs boyond I the herring-pond , Aftrr all , we ' mere Irish' are no beU » ter than overgrown fools . We Imagined that we _alona I _wauld came In for the watchful oare ot the Whigs , and I
thatthough they might 'kill ua with kindnm _, ' or give a _i few of us the benefits of b ' tree passage' to Bermuda or - Sydney , to Spiko Island or Norfolk _Idand , to * Nova I 3 emblfl or the Lord knows where , ' still we never - dreamed , they WOUlct _oonce-e tba same _pTVnVeges to 'true * > born Britons , * though they might be Chartists or Cob- federates , or even tinged with a ' _tasta'of Republicanism We imagined that the Whigs had something of tbe sag » ° _> city and prudeace of the fox ia them . Reynard , it ifl \ remarked , seldom commits depredations on the hea _« > roost or _duck-honse in the vicinity of his den—the rook Bcarcaly ever annoys tbe farmer In tha neighbourhood o tht rookery ; and , uatll now , peopio , over bere , imagine- ! that we alone were to be the prey ef the foxes and carrion crowa of the English government . Wo knew tha our _ruUrs consider any treatment ( hanging _Hstlf uot
excepted ) too good for tbe * alien' Irish , but wa had no notion that thsy ns . the temerity to wage war with their own people , and , like the _famlne-strieten mothers of Romeln old times , and of Shibbereon on yesterday , try a protraoted straggle tor existence by sucking the lifeblood of their own children . Built _Bpptars t _» t we are mistaken . As _thfr canny SeOtchman says— ' _NaobOllJ can tell what may oome to pass _noo , ' and people must no longer be surprised at any audacity , or Illegality , or ty « ranny perpetrated by tho m 6 n' !) at the head of the BritU _ _government . The chivalrous Kraest Jones was a stumbling bloc- in their way -, __ e must bo removed at all hazards , and FuBsell , Williams , and tha rest must ba victimised as an example to all other Britons of the ' lower orders' who would dare to _assert the dignity ot human _naturs or claim those rights and privileges ot *
Englishmen , which existed since the tyrant John quailed before the brave barons on the _olassio field of Uunnymede . Men of England , will this bel Is there no ap _« peal—no resource—no blood in Abe « _nee brave , fearless , and unbending sons of Britain ? Will Ernest Jones ba tent after John Mitchel , or raiist hia Jess-talented fellow' _ieloas * be g & cri-oed at the Bhrino of _Wblg-robbery and revenge f ' Qod forbid ! ' said our noble Irish O'Connor ' that I should be a special constable '— ' Sod forbid that tbe honest , bold-spoken men , now in tha gripa of the government , should bs ruined beeause they loved their country and said tbat Englishmen ought to be free ! The people of Dublin ara much exasperated at tbe Cbartist arre & _ts in . London and elsewhere .. Thtre is _ perfaot community of feeling now between the struggling classes ef Ireland end England—at all events the peopio
oi this country are no longer careless spectators of nbat id passing _arnongft the English enemies of Whiggery and corruption . _Brnesl Jones Ib very popular in this cityhis talents are - > uch admired , and his unflinching antagonism to the common foe , makes that gentleman an objeot of much anxious inquiry and solicitude . We fervently wish that he may not fall s prey to the bloodthirsty villains in whoBe snares ho _ as become entangled . In my last communication I hinted , nay—expressed my conviction , that thero was a likelihood ot a complete union of R : pealers being immediately effecud in Ire . land . The national hopes ran high—men ' s pulses throbbed with delight at the glorions prospect ; bat alas . ' I fear we are doomed to disappointment . John _O'Connell—the puny , middling , insignificant John O'Con .
nell—cannot bear a reconciliation . He has grave reasons why he should oppose a junc . _tna of _Conciliation Hull with the Confederates . He l _» advised by certain ' unmentionable' parties , not to suffer ' tha house that Dan bulk' to be _upsot , even though the salvation of Ireland depended upon iti overthrow .- Oh n » l tbat brawling braggart would ' ray ther die m the floor of tho House of Commons _tbsn tbat a Coercion Bill sbould pan tor Ireland . ' Yet the Bill did paBs , and John did not give up the ghost . Ho will now prefer to give his last kick * b the rostrum of Conciliation Hall , ' _rayther' than allow a treaty of peace and union to be r-tiflsd with . 'Young Iseland , ' Na booh _lish , that anion wiK be < ff _.: oted , and that peace will bu proclaimed in spit * of him , and ha won ' t' die' neither until he will see himself oai hia
' moral foioa' tem . _fooleiy , driven from the counoil » of brave and unpurchaseable Irishmen . The reign of' hum . bug' Is ovtr . Spouting is how out of season . The ' rent ' Is ' gone ou ' , ' too , for last week it _ivas but £ 9 or so ; and the Irish peasant would now laugh to scorn the ' _Rspaal warden' who would ask him for the accustomed _shil'iog-. Faddy would prefer laying out his shillings on a good _ovoppy , ' or a trusty Mitchel' than exchange them for Thomas MatShew Raj ' s bit of printed pasteboard . Oh l no J John av / tic , your ean is set . Yon mutt beeome 8 ' felon , ' or you must , in vulgar parlance , * ahut up' alto _, gather .
There will be a fall meeting of the Confederates at _Mnslo Hall , on next _Wedhsiday evening . ' It is supposed thst it will eclipse even the glorious hosting ofthe 7 th inst ., though Indeed that was a magnificent _aifur . The Confederates are not cowed by the fata cf Mitchel . They will go oa , and I feel strong _hepej that we are near a successful termination of our struggles . Bravery end honesty cannot ba foiled fer ever . The right is en our tide . Truth is with us , and 'Magna est Veritas et prevalebit . ' The _Etehino _Fbkekan of last Saturday in a second edition , bad a rumour that T . F , Meagher , E < q ., and Richard O'Gorman , Esq , were to be arrestsd on th © ' Felony' Act on this day . Up to twelve o ' olock nothing has taktn place in this way , but I would not wonder if those gentlemen were Inmates of the _station-house this very night ,
Oa Saturday , the first number of the Ibish _Tsiduhe made its first _appearance It is respectably ' got up . ' —good type , correctly printed , and gives a fair qian . tlty of matter for the price . Itis embellished by a very exeellentlikeness of John Mitchel , _engraved on wood , accompanied by _abrief , and vary loosely and c ' _umaiiy _nritton memoir of the glorious exile . It also h 19 ts ¦> novelty ( in Irish journals ) , of a feuilkton , lu which a _oiatar tale by our illustrious countryman , Willi _«> m Cir ! et 6 n _, is consm need . This tale is called ' the Evil Eye , ' and promises to be a story of great interest—as ia every _thlnar
from the prolific pen of Carleton . The leading . - nicies of the _Tbibunv . are iu the right spirit of thorough-going nationality . One thin ? I must say , bowevir , f * cnt the proprietors ofthe Tribune would want to bri _; r moro spirit and more talsnt to the task they bave _undertaken , Mr _Catleton ' a light does note _ _t-.-ud its _riv'Unce without the boundaries of the feuilleton . The _original political writing , is , to say the least of it , compiled in tha true ' penny-a-line' fashion . This will never do for tho otherwise _ropectably-cenducted _Tbibdns . Tot * poetry is mllk-and-waterish enough too . But I trust each sue ceeding number will bring improvements .
The Ibish Felon will _comi out on Saturday , tho 2 U _ inst . It will have imtnesse circulation , and I am certain it will deserve K , Mr John Martin , of Loughorne , will be Its registered proprietor and chief editor , assisted by the Rev . ; MrKenyo _ , Thomas Darin Reilly , and Jamea F . Lalor _. Esq . —a sen of tha late worthy representative of the Queen ' s County , Patrick Lalor , Esq ., of _Tennaklll . With such a corps the Ibish _Feuh * will be tha ' leading journal , ' if not of Europe , at least of Anti . Saxony . Those young men are all _possessed uf first-rate talents , and if they are not' felons' 3 t heart , tUcre ' * not a ' _Cottoner lu _Cark . ' The Felon will ba a worthy successor of Thb United _IaisHsnn , ani If evtr a num . ber of It should come into ths hands ot the bravo Mitchel ia his exile , he will rejoice that his mantle h » _s not fallen on unworthy Bhoulders , or his pike got into the hands of cravens , or runaways , or traitors . Success to tbe Felon .
I have been on a ramble through some of the midland dlstrictB Of Ireland during the last week . Tba appearance of _thecouutry at tbis moment would _ramicd one of many scenes tobe met with In Eastern climes . Grandeur and Desolation—Ma ? nificonco and Meanness , — _PltBty and PoTerty—Luxuriance acd Sterility—Improvements and DscBy : the Few wallowing in all the good things that a rich soil and 0 _spUn _^ M climate can proflUCO ; tho Maht—the Millions— suffering all » . _** - _heirOTB Of famine , p _estUence _, and tyrannic _ewuy . Such U Ireland at present . The newspaper piotures pf Irish _sai 3 ery are terrific , indeed , b _« t , alas ! they fall far short Of tbe awful reality . I was not prepared for the _revolting _mlaerj wb icn I feund _tJl ovur tha wide circuit whioh I travelled and amongst almost every grade and s _.-ction of the people—from the holder of twenty acres , donn to the mere cottier end day labourer . * W * t 8 _auothat _ptrson to tell me of these things I could not b . _jlicva him . Bus as wb la Ireland , ' seeing is _believing , ' and the
say ' Blgnt * ani sounds ' with which I became av qiaiuted oa last wetk , bball never be era ? ed from iay memory . Thoso who remember tbe mare mournful _passages in Goldsmit h ' s beautiful description of * The _DwcrteJ Villaff _^ , ' will understand me when I _assert , that his remarks aro more or less applicable to almost ov- r _> _Itiali hamlet aud village at tho preBent hour , Tbe country _tjaema with be _ utT (—rich , luxuriant , surpassing _bfft'ity , the flowers bloom as gaily _aa-i us vividly ns t >\ r ; tho aoue-biri _' . s mi the _fragrant air wi : h their joyful _ _otss as in tbe days of old the fields * mile with the promise of an early and abundant harvest , _ProTidiiice , lu 1818 , bos lefc no ' . hing undone to raikj this co ; mlry one if tho richest mid the _hsppiett r _^ _'ten * of the globe . But , _alaBl here I must turn tlw picture , _5 h . ft tho scene , and now , behold the pro _^ _p-c fwhich opens to tiie view ; b- > _oti along that sweet sunny hodgo row by the wa ) Bide , where tha _hip-russ ia opening its maiden blossoms , and _wliwo the _rod-breaat Is twittering her soft notes of _lovo
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 17, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_17061848/page/3/
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