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    • ^^ . fOB THE WORKING MILLIONS. _
    • Rational SanH (Eommny
    • PORTRAIT OF JOHN MITCHEL.
    • THE NORTHERN STAR, 3ATUHDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1848 .
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      _^^ . fOB THE WORKING MILLIONS . _

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      A HOHfi FOE EVERY INDUSTRIOUS MAM ASU _ms > tr & lllLY . UNITED PATRIOTS' AND PATRIARCHS ' _PQUTTABLE LAND AND BUILDING BENEFIT SOCIETY , Enrolled and Empowered by Act of Parliament to eitend over tbe United Kingdom . _Patrata . —T . S . _Dos cowi , Esq ., M . P . Thom * s Wakut , Esq ., M . P . B . B . Cabbem ,, Eso .., M . P . _««? Offee—No . W Tottenham Conrt , New Road , StPancras , London . —Dawel "Wiixuh EoErr , Secretary . Abbahged is Three _Sectiobb . " Value of Shares and Payments for Investors . Foil Snare ... £ 120 payment ef 2 * . 5 * . per Week , or 10 j . 6 . 1 . per Month Half Stare ... 60 — 1 2 | — 5 3 — _Qasxter Share ... 3 D - 07 } — 2 8 } — Applicants are requested to state ia _thnr form the _seotion tbey desire to bo a member of . * Ka Soevexokb * , Soucitobs ' , or _Redehpiioh Fees , The The p resent Entrance Fee , Including Certificate , Boles . _& c , is 4 s . per Sbaw , and 2 s . for any part of a Share . The The present _m _e Mm _^^ ina _ ii _ Postage , Is . OBJECTS . 1 , i _^ _-To enabl e membe rs to baild _Duelling Houses . Stb .-To give to depositing members a higher rate of is _ii « . _ . xu _«» a _° Interest than is yielded by ordinary modes of investment . 2 i 2 nd . —To afford _tfcemsans of purchasing Oota tree- 6 : h __ To enaWe p _arents t 0 mi _ Endowments for hol < bold and Leasehold Properties or L rod . _ftelr CaU j Kn _> ov Husbands for their * _ff foes , or for Mar . 3 3 rd . —To advance _Mortgages on Property held by riase Settlements . , mei members . 7 * . —To purchase a piece of Freehold land of suf . a aa —Ta _ecablo _Morlraeors being members to _wdiem ficlcnt value to gi-e a legal title to a County Yote for . v . _v-7 _ui « Z Members of Parliament _, tie their Mortgages . _> _^ Section I—Bv joining this section every person in town or country can become the proprietor of a House _an < and Land in his own neighbourhood , without being removed from his Friends , Connexions , or the _presentmeans Mr Mm « etf and fomHy m _* j have of gaining a UveUhood . Section II—To raise a capital by shares to purchase Estates , erect Dwellings thereon , and divide the ts Land into allotments fram half an aero upwards , in or near the towns of the various branches of tbe society . Tl The property to be tbebonafide freehold of the member aftsr sixteen , eighteen , or twenty years , from the date of of location , according ti his subscriptions . Section III Saving or Deposit section , in which members not wishing to purchase are enabled to invest sn small sums , from 7 } d . and upwards , receiving interest at the rate of 5 per cent , per annum , on every sum of 10 s . ai and upwards so deposited . , _Suowriptwn Office . — 492 , New _Oxfobd-Stbeet , where Meetings are held , and Members enrolled , every W £ _dnisdat _Everino , from Eight to Ten o'clock . ¦ _c j , pr 0 H _JE 30 D to £ 500 will be advanced to tbe members of tbe first Section in December next , when a all persons wbo have and may become members for Shares , or psrts of Shares , on or before the 3 rd of December r next ; and who pay six months' subscriptions in _advance , or otherwise , will be eligible for ah advance . ALSO , FOR THE _WOBKISG MILLIONS IN _CONNEXION WITH THE ABOVE , THE UNITED PATRIOTS' AND PATRIARCHS * BENEFIT SOCIETIES . Enroll'd _norsnaat to Aot of Parliament . Thus securing to its members the protection of tbe law for their funds and properly . L-galised to extend over the United Kingdom , with the privilege of appointing Medical Attendants , Agents , & c . An _opportoniij is now fffcred to healthy _ptrsons , up to Forty Years of Age , cf joining these flourishing Institutions in town or country . _Loxdds Office —13 , _Tottenham Ceurt , New Road , St PancraB , ( thirteenth house eastward from Tottenham Court Road ) . — Daniel Wuliah Root , Secretary . Patrons —T . S . Dcscohbe , Esq ,, M . P . T . Wasxet , Esa ., M . P . B . B . C * bbbm , Esq . M . P . F . O'Consob _, Ese ., M . . J . _Hamsabd , Esq . In the short space of f aur years these societies have paid the following _beaefits to their members . _SUiUJABT OF CLAIMS . _Siefe _* ieas » sdSttj « i-kflB . * 'At ion ... ... ... £ . 2674 1 8 | Aceouehroents ... ... - ••• . - _^ _* 0 Funerals ... ... ••• ••• '" * ° Loss by Fire ... ... ••• . '•¦• 34 13 0 JB 4354 7 9 } i Prestnt Capital funded in the Bank of England ... £ 1789 12 2 Th"se Societies are in six divisions or sections , for the Members to receive the following Benefits according to their Subscriptions : — FIRST DIVISION . 1 FOURTH DIVISION . ntranceaccoi _^ ime to age , _frorn 5 s . _toIW . Monthly Con-, Entrance , according to ere , from Ss . fid . to 8 s . Bd , _motion te Sickness and Management , 2 s . 7 d . Monthly Contribution for _Sickness and Management . £ 8 . d . _fS's F _^ frfieSS ' Per . Week :. * * ' * sS _' o _AllowanceinSickness , perweek .. .. _oVd " _Sw 4 _w _^ mineeS ditto .. .. 10 0 0 Member ' s Funeral .. 10 0 0 _m ** _iStohi 2 ° ° Ditto Wife ' s or Nominee ' s ditto .. .. 600 _Sffi _! _,, :: £ b 0 0 to 20 0 0 Wife ' s Lying-in 10 0 Sn _^ _SSSriVreek 0 6 0 Loss by Fire , from .. .. £ 5 0 0 to 10 0 « oui , i DiYlSIOS Superannuation , per week .. .. ... O 4 O Entrance according to age , from 4 s . fid to 9 s . fid . FIFTH DIVISION . MnntHv ' Contribution for Sickness and Management , Entrance , according to age , from _« s to 8 b . Monthly Con . v 3 2 s . id . tribution for Sickness and Management _^ is . Id . _AnowMcefafSetaei _? , per week » 0 15 0 AUo _^ cem Sickness , per week .. .. 8 7 0 _u-. _)^ _PntiMsi ** .. 16 0 o Alemoers Funeral .. .. .. .. 600 _iSfye ' _sorNomtoee _' _s ditto .. .. M 0 0 Ditto Wife ' s or Nominee's ditto .. .. 3 o _' o Wife ' s iAine in 1 15 0 Wife's Lying-in 0 15 0 Loss bY Fire , from .. .. £ 5 0 0 to 15 0 0 Loss by Fire .. 5 6 0 Snperannuation , per week 0 5 0 Superannuation , per week 0 4 0 _bnperannua ' THIRD DIVISION . SIXTH DIVISION . Entrance according to age , from 4 s . to 9 s . Monthly Cob- Entrance Money 0 3 0 tribution for Sickness and Management , is . 7 d . Monthly Contribution 0 10 Allowance in Sickness , per week .. .. 0 1 ! 0 Allowance in Sickness 0 0 Member ' s Funeral 12 0 0 Member ' s Funeral 2 10 _^ 0 Ditto "Wife ' s or Nominee ' s ditto .. J ' J . .. Wife ' s _Lving-in 119 0 No Levies . m this Division . Loss by Fire , from .. .. £ 5 0 0 to 10 0 0 Superannuation , per week .. .. 0 4 0 Levies according to the demands on each division per quarter . _H B __ ihe only difference in the two Societies is , the Patriots have an Accouchment benefit , the Patriarch have -not that benefit , therefore do not pay levies for it . 2 _ _T Applications for Agencies requested fiom all parts of tie country ; information for appointment of Agencies can be obtained by letter , prepaid , enclosing a postage stamp . Blank forms and information for the admission of country members can be obtained by letter , prepaid , enclosing three postage stamps , to _Dakiel Wiiiiam Rufit , General Secretary , 13 , Tottenham Court , New Road , St Pancras .

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      Just Published . THE MISSION OF JEEP OKMERS . Price One Penny . Bythe Author of * Politics for Workers , ' 'ATract for the Times . ' . London-. W . Strange , Paternoster-row . A . Heywood _, Manchester . D . Green , Leeds . R . Brook , Huddersfield , and all booksellers .

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      DO TOD SUFFER TOOTH ACHE!—If so , use BRASDE'S ENAMEL for filling the decaying spots , rendering defective teeth sound and painless . Price ose shiixisg only : similar to that sold at 2 s , fid . Sold by Chemists everywhere , TESTlHOSIALS . ' It has given me the use of one side of my mouth , which luxury I had net enjoyed for about two years . '—E . J . Hacdoxjxd , Belford , Kcrthumberland . 'Itis the most effective and painless core for tooth-ache I have ever found . I have no hesitation in recommending it to all sufferers . '—Captain Thohas Wbight , 12 , Kewington Crescent , London , ' I have filled two teeth , and find I can use tbem as well as ever I did iu my life . I have not had the toothache since . _*—Abkabah Collins , North-brook-place , Bradford , Yorkshire . See numerous other Testimonials in various newspapers ; everyone ef which is strictly authentic . If any difficulty in obtaining it _occurs send One Shu .-LI 5 G and a stamp to J . WILLIS , 4 , Bell ' s Buildings , _Sahsbury-sauare , London , and you will ensure it by return of pOSt . _^ > AG £ XT 8 WASTED .

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      TOOTHACHE . WHES yeu have tried all other Enamels , and found . tbem USELESS , make one trial only of BARKER'S GENiJINE WHITE ENAMEL , invariably acknowledged to be the best discovery yet made fer coring toothache , filling _decayedT'teeth , _snl rendering them USEFUL and 0 R 5 AME !? TAL through life . Enough for six teeth , sent post free ; with directions , & c _, on receipt of One Shilling , and stamp ; by Alfbed Basksb , li , King-street , Long-Acre , London . Agents wanted .

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      RUPTURES ( Single or Double ) PERMANENTLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS . Dr Hector de Roos . 69 , Great Queen-street , Holborn , London , 'will for . ward post free to any sufferer a perfect cure for ruptures , _Ts-hich has never been known to fail in hundreds ofcases during the last twelve years , on receipt of _? s 6 d by Post Office order or postage stamps . Gratuitous advice on ill diseases personally , or if by letter , enclose two postage stamps for the reply . Hours ten till one :

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      MINSTER LOVEL . TO BE DISPOSED OF , to the Highest Bidder , A Three Acre Farm , No . 6 , in full crop , and now ready for gathering in , consisting of one acre and a half of barley , one acre of potatoes , and half an aere in cabbage , peas , beans , & c . The land is of superior _quality , bang some of the best on the estate . A good substantial Five-roomed House and oat-housing , the house well fitted up , with a pump in the back kitchen , famishing a constant supply of good soft water , cupboards and chimney fixtures , and may be entered upon immediately . Application to be made to Mr Dyson , _Brizenorton-Toad , Minster Lovel , Oxfordshire , or to Mr Wm . Hamer , Schoolmaster , Lower-moor , Greenacre ' _s-moor , Oldham . N . B . —If by letter ( _poBt-paid , with a stamp for a reply .

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      _O'CONNORVILLE . TO BE DISPOSED OF , TWO FOUR-ACRE ALLOTMENTS , adjoining each other , in the very centre of the Estate , with Large Barn , Cart House , Water Tank , andPi ? geries . Thelar . dis cropped with wheat , barley , potatoes , Swede and white turnips , and is exceedingly well _adapted for a family . For terms , apply Cif by letter , pre-paid , with stamp for answer } to Mr Keen , 31 , O'Cennorville , near Bickmansworth , Herts .

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      _SSIG'S END . TO BE DISPOSED OF , the Right of Location on Two Acres of Broke-up Pasture ; the crops consisting of potatoes , cabbages , Swede and white turnips , mangelwurzel , broccoli / kail , & c , with twenty-seven apple and pear trees . Inquire of F . Staples , No . 16 , Snig's End . Staunton , or of W . Staples , 68 , Chapel-streei Pentonville , London .

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      TO BE DISPOSED OF , _g A TWO-ACRE FARM , at _SSIG'S END , partly cropped . It is excellent Land , asd beautifully situated . Ili-healthis the cause of the present holder ' s giving it up . Apply sir by Letter , containing stamp for reply ) , to the directors , at tbe Office , 141 , High Holborn , London ; L . M . Lamb , Cheap-street , Frome * and Disbom , No . 15 , Snig ' s End , near Gloucester .

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      T _™„ _„„ T 0 BE DISPOSED OF , WO POUR . ACRE _FARriS , adjoining each other , beingji Family Ticket , in full crop , consisting of barley , potatoes , Swedes , cabbage , peas , tares , _mangelwurtzel , and onions . There is a quantity of fruit trees on the faraB _^ n full bearing four piggeries , and a good tank , with agricultural implements . Ap , ly to Johv _J . EAHAN _SiMpsos , Nos . 28 and 29 Moat _tanoten , near Gloucester . AU letters must be post ! aid . N . B . —A number of Pigs , which must be taken at a _valuation .

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      TO BE DISPOSED OF , A FOUR-ACHE FARM , at _CHABTERVnA _^ _^^^ without crop . Apply to Mr John _Statjstos , No . 20 , _| Brizenortonroad , ChartKrille , near Witney , Oxfordshire , or of the Directors , IU , High Holbern , London .

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      LAND AND CHARTER SILK HANDKERCHIEFS . A fresh supply of New Colours suitable to the Season . Ladies' Ties , full figured , with Shield , Is . Sd . ; ditto , ditto , with Shell , is . 8 a . The abovo elegant designs are wove in beautiful and chaste colours , and cannot fail giving satisfaction teall Ladies purchasing , Sent post free to all parts of the Kingdom ior 2 d . extra . A quantity of the Men ' s on hand , at 8 s . led ., 4 s , and 5 s . 6 d . each . To bo had on application to Mr T . Clark , Ut , High Holborn , London .

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      TO BE DISP 03 ED OF , A FOUR-ACRE 9 ARM at SNIG'S END , well cropped , consisting of barley , potatoes , turnips , cabbage , < fcc . ; also , thirteen large fruit trees , all bearing fruit . It is called by Hr O'Connor , ' the Plum of the Estate . Apply to Jakes Cabiw , No . 19 , Snig ' s End , near Gloucester .

      Rational Sanh (Eommny

      _Rational SanH ( _Eommny

      Sir O'Connor's Propositions. As It Is Th...

      SIR O'CONNOR'S PROPOSITIONS . As it is the intention of tbe Directors to visit each branoh of the Company in support of their views for its future management , and to abide by the resolutions of the members , we think it impolitic , and a useless encroachment on the columns of the Stab , to publish resolutions adopted previouslo the contemplated interview of the Directors with tbe members . _Lkbds . —Mr T . Clark attended a meeting of the members of this branoh on Thursday evening last , for the purpose of explaining the proposed alterations in tha constitution of the Company , all the

      alterations were assented to , except tbe proposal for a lease , a large majority ot the members of the branch _deciding in favour of freehold . DoxcAtTBB , —On Tuesday evening Mr M'Grath attended a meeting of the Land Branch of this place , held at the honse of Wilkinson . Mr Peter Fcden in the chair . _ The several propositions for amending the organisation of the Company were discussed teriatim and unanimously agreed to . After having past a vote of indemnity to the directors for re taining office nnder the circumstances of tbe Company , beyond the prescribed term , the meeting dissolved .

      _DKffSBDBr . —A very fall meeting of tbe members of this branch took place in the Cloth Hall on Thurs day evening . Mr M'Grath was present to explain the propositions of the directors . The several points were most oarefally discussed and unanimously adopted . Voles of thanks having been passed to Mr M'Grath , and MrSncksmitb , the Chairman , the meeting separated . _NawcisTtK _dtob-Ttne . —A special meeting of the members of this branch of the Land Company waa held on Monday evening , Sep . 18 th , for the purpose of hearing the directors explain tbe proposed altera _, tions in the regulations of the Company , and the following propositions were agreed to : —1 st . ' That tho affairs of the Company shall not be woundup , and that members shall be allowed to sell ont their _Bharea . ' 2 nd . ' That location by bonus bs substituted for location by ballot . ' 3 rd , 'That eaoh paid-up member Bhall pay to the said fund one penny per

      share per week ; tbat is ,. twopence per week for two shares ; threepence per week for three shares ; and fourpence per week for fonr shares ; and that the nonpaid-up members shall commence paying op their shares in th i same ratio , and then commence paying to the AidFnnd . ' 4 th , 'That a lease for life and ainety-nine years in reversion , be substituted for a conveyance in fee . ' 5 th , ' That the aid money bs repaid to tha Company , In half-yearly instalments after three years ' occupation . ' 6 th , ' That the rents ba reduced from fire to four per cent , npon the outlay . ' 7 th , ' That the estates ef the Company which are or may be purchased , shall be transferred from the hands of Mr O'Connor , to tbree trustees , to be appointed by the Company . ' 8 th , * That no more members be entered in the Company . ' 9 tb , ' That this meeting unanimously agree in voting , that the directors have faithfully performed their arduous duties , from the period of their taking office up to the present time . '

      Chbmea — A Meeting Of The Members Of Thi...

      Chbmea — A meeting of the members of this branch of the Land Company was held at the Free Traders' Arms , Exeter-street , on Tuesday evening last . —Mr Fcrd in the chair , when the following resolutions were agreed to : — 'Tbat a committee of seven be appointed , and five to form a quorum . ' 4 That no business be transacted unless five of the committee be present . ' The following gentlemen were appointed to serve on the committee for the next _threa months . Messrs Reed , Webster , Barratt , Vincent , Rouse . _Dsllibar , and Banco . Mr Vincent , scrutineer ; _MrDallibar , secretary , and MrBance _, treasurer . This branoh will continue to bold tbeir meetings every Tuesday evening at seven o ' olock , at the above place , to receive contributions and transact b . _i ' _neis .

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      I A LIST OF BOOKS - KOW POBLI 8 H 1 KO BT . B . D . COUSINS , 18 , _DUKE-STREET , mncoln ' _s-inn fields , London , THE SHEPHERD , by the Rov . J . E . Smith M . A , Vol . I , price 5 s . _6 d . —Vol . II , price 3 s . —Vol . HI , price 6 s . fid . cloth boards ; or the three _voloraeg in oae , half-bound in calf and lettered , price 16 s . _efutatton _ofOwenlsm , by 9 . Redford , of Worcester ; with a reply , by the Rev . J . E . Smith , M . A . Is . ' New Christianity ; or the Religion of St Simon , with a coloured Portrait of a StSimoniau Female ; translated by the Rev . 3 . E . Smith , M . A . Is . The Little Book , addressed to tbe Bishop of Exeter and Bobert Owen , by the Rev . J . E . Smith , M . A ; 6 J . ; _bypostlOd .

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      Price Twopence , , THE RIGHT OF PUBLIC MEETING A LETTER

      Portrait Of John Mitchel.

      PORTRAIT OF JOHN MITCHEL .

      Specimens Of A Splendid Portrait Of The ...

      Specimens of a splendid portrait of the first vie tim of the Whig Treason Act , are now in possession of our agents . The portrait will be shortly ready for presentation . That of Smith O'Brien , and those who are sharing his fate , are also in course of preparation . None but subscribers will be entitled to those portraits .

      Mk U'Ciwn'jnuk's Touk. On Monday, The 23...

      MK _U'CIWN _' _JNUK'S TOUK . On Monday , the 23 rd of October , Mr O'Connor will be at Aberdeen ; on Tuesday , at Dundee ; Wednesday , Edinburgh ; Thursday , Glasgow ; Friday , Carlisle ; Saturday , Newcastle ; and after the Conference has concluded its labours , he will make a tour of the North of England and the Midland Counties .

      Next Saturday's "Star" Will Contain A Fu...

      Next Saturday ' s " Star" will contain a full report of the Irish Trials up to the latest period . Agents are requested to send their orders early in the week .

      The Northern Star, 3atuhday, September 23, 1848 .

      THE NORTHERN STAR , 3 _ATUHDAY , SEPTEMBER 23 , 1848 .

      Ireland. " Alas I Poor Conntry, Almoat A...

      IRELAND . " Alas I poor conntry , _Almoat afraid to know itself . " " Hereditary bondsmen 1 know ye not , Who would be free , himself _mnet strike the blow ?"

      The deplorable state of that British province called Ireland , is foreshadowed in our first quotation ; her hope of nationality ; as depicted by her great agitator , in < wr second . To think of Ireland just now , that is favourably or hopefully , is sedition ; to talk of Ireland ' s wrongs is conspiracy ; to write the history of Irish sufferings is felony ; to contend for Ireland ' s regeneration is treason . The mind becomes familiarised with acts of barbarity and cruelty , just as the appetite becomes palled with delicacies ; and to such an extent have our barbarous

      rulers carried those barbarous exhibitions , that apprehensions for the highest crimes are matters of every day occurrence , and therefore diminished in interest , until the blood-sucking Press of thiSjCOuntry is * upon the eve of the last act of the tragedy , endeavouring to prepare the mind for the execution of those who are to be tried for the Irish rebellion . And , strange as it may appear , and although the excitement of the times , or the wellknown prejudices existing in the public mind , furnishes sufficient grounds for the postponement of trial ; and although the boasted English Constitution ( now no

      more ) used to declare the fact , that every man should be tried by a jury of his peers , and that every man put upon his defence should be held innocent until he was pronounced guilty , and that every man shall have a fair trial , yet , notwithstanding these boasted privileges , it is an undeniable fact that no political offender is tried by a jury of his peers , nor is held to be innocent until pronounced guilty , nor has a fair trial . Nay more , it is an indisputable fact , that he is not tried upon the oral evidence submitted to the jury , but thathe is convicted upon the prejudice created by the Press . It is impossible to contend against those feelings of doubt , apprehension , and fear which

      may naturally exist in the minds of a jury and when the mind * creating press confirms those feelings of alarm , and proclaims that the only means for their suppression is the destruction of the captured victims , those victims are ] not tried upon evidence , but convicted by cherished prejudice , and upon the hope that their fate may be a lesson to others . But however our rulers may cherish the hope of ruling Ireland by the law of the sword , the perjury of suborned informers , the venality of class-made judges , the fears of an aristocratic

      grand jury , the prejudice of a packed jury , and the salutary example of the gallows and the gibbet , yet we tell them that although the ranks of famine may be thinned , that man pays more obedience to the laws of Nature , than to the edicts of Man , and as long as SELF-PltESERVATION continues to be the first law of Nature , and until our oligarchy can repeal or amend God ' s laws , or revoke Nature ' s constitution , the hunger of man will be a more dreadful enemy than the strongest vengeance of the disaffected .

      There is no reasoning mind that must not have come to the conclusion that one of two results must have eventuated in the agitation of D aniel O'Connell , and his coadjutors , They had an ignorant but acute mind to deal with —they were oracles , whose words were injunctions , whose injunctions were commandments . One result was , prosperity through fidelity ; the other was , prosperity through resistance . And can it be denied , that the Irish people have borne oppression tamely and submissively ,

      rather than violate a law in the teeth of that commandment which declared , " that he who violates the law is an enemy to his country , aud strengthens the hands of the enemy ? ' ' And , as far as the people are concerned , can it be denied that all honour—all praise—has been awarded to their fidelity , while their only reward has been the aggrandisement and promotion of their false and truculent leaders ? until at length they are driven to the sad alternative of realising by resistance what was denied to fidelity , passive obedience , nonresistance , and long-suffering .

      Perhaps , when Ireland ' s history , since the period of Emancipation down to the desolation of that land by famine , is written , it will

      Ireland. " Alas I Poor Conntry, Almoat A...

      present one . of the strangest anomalies that the records of the world can furnish . All her woes are declared to be contained in foreign representation , while the panacea for all her sufferings consisted in self-government . And yet will it be believed , that while the machinery by which local power was to be achieved has undergone the most minute revision , in the hope of feeding the locally-great , and crimping them in the service of prostitution ; that during thirty-three years of hot , continuous , and ardent agitation , not one single step has been taken in the road to political or

      social regeneration , or even amendment ? And hence we find , that in France , in Prussia , in Austria , and other countries , where agitation constituted no portion of popular right ; as if by magic , in those several countries the very principles denounced by Daniel O ' Connell and his staff of local place-hunting beggars , have been adopted as the basis of political power , while the solution of the vexed Labour Question—tortured and twisted as it has been in all countries—is admitted to be the only solid

      basis of the social question . And with these two great facts staring us in the face , will any man say that the dying followers of the dead —ay , of the pampered living , too—are to be considered criminal for following that teaching , and obeying those doctrines which were promulgated for the benefit of a class , and turned to profit by a Whig Government , who not only tolerated , but encouraged the wildest sedition , and the most fantastic agitation , so long as they relied upon those means to secure their own elevation .

      A . member of that Government , and now the President of the Board of Control ( Sir J . C . Hobhouse ) , declared in his place in Parliament , in 1822 , " That it would be impossible to tranquillise Ireland , though there was a rope round every peasant's neck , or a soldier , with a fixed bayonet , at every peasant ' s back . " And yet , as if these words were intended to foreshadow the future , we find that the boast of the Press now is , that fat policemen and well-fed soldiers cheered joyously when summoned to the slaughter , and that the only drawback is , lest

      they may not MEET THE FELLOWS-and , although we are assured that the greatest contempt is entertained for Smith O'Brien and his associates , we , nevertheless , discover that they are escorted by policemen with " capped and cocked pistols , ' ' and soldiers with "fixed bayonets . " Those very soldiers and police , whose only fear we are assured is lest the fellows would not stand , and who , upon the pretext of a frown , a smile , or a gesture , would establish the treason of their prisoner , ' and cheerfully take his life in the hope of honour , distinction , and reward .

      We do not state it exultingly , but we repeat it as a caution to Ireland ' s oppressors , that the woe and desolation , which they are now causing to the Irish poor , will one day recoil upon their own heads ; and , strong as may be their reliance upon the power of the sword , we would warn them that , in these days of quick transit , and when there is a mind upon every passing breeze , which cannot be cribbed , cab

      bined , or confined , stabbed , sabred , or shot , we would warn them , under those circumstances , to put their own house in order while there is yet time for repentance ; to abandon their vicious ways ; to retrace their dangerous steps ; and not , as of yore , to hug themselves in the fond conceit" that England is the world , and her Constitution the envy and admiration of surrounding nations . "

      No nation can beast of strength or selfreliance that has lost the affection and confidence ofits people . No island , falsely depending upon foreign trade , can long hope to preserve its superiority , when her chief customer shall have conceived , not her humiliation , but her downfall—and let England , and England ' s manufacturers , draw a salutary lesson from the consignment of tea imported from

      England into the Boston river , and gaining experience from the past , and recollecting that what has been may be—let England _^ take heed , lest American cotton , in 1848 , may effect what English tea , exported to America , effected in 1776 ; and then the disciples of physical-force Whiggery will learn that there is more danger in the idle labourer than there is security in the armed soldier .

      We learn now that the qualification for the next American President is hostility to England and sympathy for Ireland , and that General Cass , a candidate upon that principle , is the favourite in the field , while Clay , the representative of Commerce , stands hindmost in the list of favourites . And in the present state of Europe—the present state of our finances—and the present state of the Labour mind of this empire , can those who now base their ascendancy upon brute force contemplate , or dare they hazard a guess , as to the effect that an" American war would have upon

      Commercial England ? Next week we shall report the first act of the Irish tragedy , about to be performed on the Tipperary stage , and if there can be a justification offered for the most vio lent outrages we would find that justification in the admission of the Press , that the present Irish movement is an agrarian warfare , in which the starving and the destitute are the actors , while the landlords , taking advantage of the reign of terror to secure the submission of their serfs , are desolating the fields , laying waste the haggard , gutting the hovels , dispersing the MERE IRISH , and thus constituting the recruiting service of sedition .

      The Irish believe in divine maxims ; they believe "that he who dies by the sword is better than he who perishes from hunger . " It is not long since tbey witnessed the sad catastrophe of Ireland ' s decimation . It hath not passed from the mind that the putrid bodies of the unburied famished , tainted and contaminated the air ; the sad recellection still remains , that mothers have eat their lifeless babes—that pigs and dogs have lived on human flesh—that the land has been one

      seabound dungeon , a vast howling desert , filled with the wailings and despairof the dyingIr , ish ; while the administrators of English bounty , English charity , and the English funds , appropriated to their own kindly use those alms which were kindly given for tbe sustainment of Irish life , and thus we prove that Ireland suffers more from domestic treachery and misrule than even from English oppression ; and thus we prove that the plunderers of the lifepreserving fund furnished by England , rather than the Irish people , are the fomentors of Irish rebellion and the murderers of the Irish

      people . We remember a season of famine , and we remember to have heard a Rev . Mr Smith , Protestant parson , and one of the distributors of English charity , collected from the Opera _Hosse and other places of amusement , under the patronage of George the Fourth ; we remember to have heard the rev . parson boast that he had fed his hounds upon the oatmeal supplied for the support of the poor . And , in conclusion , _, we would ask what punishment beyond exposure has been inflicted upon those pious reprobates ? What justice beyond that vengeance to which distress goads the angry mind , have the Irish complainants received

      against their oppressive landlords ? and it is no answer to us that the land is theirs , that they themselves have been pauperised by poorrates , while their rents are withheld for to such an argument , we would answer , that we have never heard of a landlord per ishing from hunger , while , in the midst of pity for them , and of national distress , but few have abated aught of their luxuries . But , relying upon the laws of the God of Nature , in preference to the laws t . man , and disregarding the _taunts of the disci ples of Malthus , we assert , that when calamity comes upon the land , the

      sufferings should be measured by a graduated scale , and that from the monarch upon the throne , to the humblest being—who is as much the object of God ' s love and protection—all should equally bear that calamity . " Hunger will break through stone walls ; " and presummg that the God of England is also the God 0 _Germany , and presuming that Prince Albert is imbued with the eame parental affec .

      Ireland. " Alas I Poor Conntry, Almoat A...

      tions . as men : of . the humbler class , ; . we woald a 3 k that Royal Prince , now partaking of the sports of the field , and the frolic of the dance , while the subjects of his loved consort are _starving—we would ask him , how far the laws of her Parliament would restrain his action if his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , the Princess Royal , and the rest of the Royal family , were crying for food , and were ready

      and willing to work , but could not procure employment , and threatened with transportation if he " openly and advisedly" proclaimed his suffering , or banished as a thief if he invaded the rights of property to preserve the life of his _' _. family . ? " Oh ! " says the ghost of Malthus , "the poor-house I" Then , we would ask the Royal Prince , in how far the hope of repose in that sanctuary , separated from his Royal Consort and his Royal babes , would still his German blood , or subdue his German pride ?

      The / act of the matter is , that the solution of the Labour Question is contained in the aphorism of the Yorkshire shoemaker , who said , ' ¦ that all the stuff ' ee the werld wor made for all the folk ' ee the world , and he hadn't a share of itl" And however sophistry may argue—however power may command—and however executions may follow in the wake of the perverted law , it will require more thansophistry , power , and the law , to reconcile the judgment of man to the justice which consigns a brave , a generous , a grateful , and laborious people to degradation , starvation , and the gallows , in a fertile land , calling for their Labour , and willing to render an abundance in

      return . " Oh . ' but , " says the Irish reviler , " they are not laborious—they are idle ;' ' and in return , we ask , then why recruit them to populate your colonies ? How comes it that in other countries they struggle for the lion ' s share of toil ?—how comes it that they make your best soldiers , your best sailors , and your best policemen r The answer is apt and easy . Because abroad the field of industryjs open , and there is remuneration for toil ; but at home there is a tax upon industry , ' , because the moment the property of the lord is enhanced in value by the sweat of the serf , the rent is raised by the standard of his industry ,

      or he is ousted from his mint by one who bids over his head _atj the auction mart . But fear not , green land of Erin , your cause is not confined to the sea-bound dungeon , it is now agi tating the world , and your poverty , brought about by domestic treachery , sanctioned by British misrule , will speedily cease , and your woes are fast recoiling upon the heads of your oppressors . Whatever may be the decision of the Tipperary juries , we will chronicle every ward of evidence adduced against the accused ; and should the verdict be " guilty , " it may be reversed by that tribunal too large to be packed and too virtuous to be polluted .

      The Kight To Labour. ¦ ^^ Our Neighbours...

      THE KIGHT TO LABOUR . ¦ _^^ Our neighbours across the English Channel have , after along and fruitless talk about the " Right to Labour , " and the " Right to Existence , " at length decided that neither of these " rights' '—if they exist at all in nature—are to have any existence within the New Repub * lie (!) of the _bourgeoisie . They have , however , invented a new " right'' which they call the

      " Right to Succour , though what is meant by that very novel phrase we confess we are at present utterly unable to comprehend . We suspect , however , it means neither more nor less than a juggle , by which the middle classes mean—if they can—to humbug the people , and clutch for themselves all the substantial benefits to be derived from the late revolution .

      It needs no ghost to come from the grave to tell us what the result of such conduct must inevitably be . History is full of warnings and examples . The principles on which the middle classes of France are now acting , have always , and , while they are applied to practice , ever must produce divisions , strife , misery , recklessness , and ultimately bloodshed .

      " The Mob At last fall sick of imitating Job , " and past revolutions so misapplied only furnish the materials for new ones . We observe that the middle class organs of this country are in extacies with the proceedings of their order in France . But it is seriously worth their while to give this question a little more thought than they have heretofore done , and ask themselves whither their own system is likely to carry them ?

      We are very much mistaken if the Political Economists , in whom they have hitherto implicitly confided , are not likely soon to realise the saying , " When the blind lead the blind both fall into the ditch . " Despite of the desperate and cruel methods resorted to for the purpose of repressing Pauperism , it has overcome all their opposition te its progress ; and , at this moment , the rates are but little below what they were under the old law , with every prospect of their increasing .

      Nothing can be more c lear than that the New Poor Law Act has been a failure , if it is tried by the expectations held out by its advocates . It was intended to abolish out-door relief entirely , and by the force of a purely coercive and primitive system , make the whole of the labourers of England " independent "" living on their own resources . " It was assumed that there was work enough for bod

      everyy who liked to work , and that by refusing any assistance except within the Union Workhouses , under the harsh conditions attached to them , none but idle , lazy _vagabonds would accept it . On this supposition they prohibited Union Workhouses from having more than thirty acres of land attached to them , and also all out-door work to be given to the able-bodied poor . Many parishes that

      had reclaimed farms of considerable extent either from forest or w aste land , by means of such labour , and thereby lessened the pressure of the rates , were obliged , on the passing of the New Act , to give up these farms . The whole of the policy of the late Commission was studiously directed to discourage , not only out-door relief , but out-door productive labour ; and we recollect a case in which aa otherwise most efficient Master of a Union was discharged , against the will oOhe Guardians , because he was a keen spade cultivator , and made a productive garden of a small field which _otherwise would have grown _nothing but coarse grass and rushes .

      It requires little argument on our part to . show the monstrous ignerance of such proceed- _ings as these . Whatever tends to prevent b the production of food , or of raw _matLTou iWv _^ Z _^ ° ' iS' _V se a _^ in , ur . y to the entire community . More espe- - cally 1 S such conduct to be deprecated £ d i Eft * _^ t _^ s place in the midst of if f ™ S / r , ffU TH * the > _-. nution of ) f _^™ 0 f subs _! It is now _appa _. i

      _^ _^* . rent to every man who has given the subject * t _J _£ _t ?; f tt c _» ns * deration , or who knows any- _y-SSS » _to 6 , _^ th * our foreign trade , on ia _£ 0 so much dependence was placed , is de . «• _hiS _^ . _ton-e-wdn . It has reached its its nfmwJ ? ' _™ hencef ° rth the greater er ! _£ _?« 5 _t _f / _ompetitors-the increasing facili . j * . _£ ? _^ " dvant _^ es of these _competitors-and _ d er

      _kets tZ _^ mT ° Deutral _<* ° Pen mar- _« _. _wlenitSu _^ , _^ , the time ha _* «»» *» ¦ _^ i « _nJj _? M _OUnto * dut 3 rof E _» glish states- ; esfhP 2 l esul » t 0 " fifl <* some new outlet for for 111 _t VY ° J the P e _* _™ k _»™ ofi v ofi none at present so readily accessible , so imme- me-( lute in its advantages , and so unobjectionable _* ble n every point of view , as the increased and and improved cultivation of our own soil

      , Emigration schemes—whether under th « thm direct sanction of Government , and carried ond on by its recognised and authorised agents or * or tor 3 _ _appear to u 3 . altogether unsuitable asa as a

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 23, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_23091848/page/4/