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TflEftllowing letter was published in the Champion of September 2 nd , 1837 . It is now re-published in the Northern Star , for the especial consideration of all my countrymen resident or sojourning in Great Britain . In this letter they will see the groundworkthe cause of Mr . O'Coxsell ' s hatred and persecution of a man who never in his life did one act or deed inimical to the interests of bis poor but honest countrymen , the working classes . He now begs of them , in the name of God , to reflect—to use that knowledge and judgment with which the great Author of their being has so amply and so bountifully endowed them—to lay their hands upon their hearts , and , in
the spirit of true Christians , ask themselves if they knew of any one act , or deed , either done or proposed to be done , for their benefit , as a class , by Mr . O'Coxxell . Aud ask again , in the same solemn and _i-aiidid manner , do they know , or did they ever hear _, of any man , whether clergyman or lav-man , who raised his voice iu their behalf that Mr . O'Coxxell did not strive Jo crush ? If they know of any , I do not ; and I shall , therefore , feel it as au act of Christian charity should they , or any of them , give me some iniormation upon this important subject . Mr . O'Coxxell has not crushed mc yet , and with the blessing of God he never shall Paymce . _O'IIiggixs .
Dublin , January 10 , 1 S 46 . MR . _O'COSXKLL AXD _xitEEDOM OF ELECTION . To tiic _JSJitor of the Champion . Sib , _—^ fou hare laid a heavy lash on my _counttrmen for their continued support of O'ConneU . Will you lend your columns to the defence ofa in au who is persecuted for refusing to support him ? I am an ehetor of Dublin , and I told those who ashed ibc for my vote for O'Connell that I could not vote for a Coercion ilill for Ireland , merely because it wa 3 proposed by the "Whigs : that I could not pretend to be the enemy of tithes , and vote for a law adding to their weight , and _fixing the charge more linuly on tho back * of the pcvplv ; ibai I-conW « o _= vote ibr Tlio _English Poor "Law A & lcndnient Act , nor for _withholdin-j a substantial Poor law
from Ireland ; ihat I could not votu for turning a deaf ear to the cries of "J , " 3 8 , 030 starrins Irishmen , ami _giving ' than bayonets lor an answer , instead of bread ; and Dial to vote for O'Connell now . wasto vote for allthe 3 e ihiugt . Adhering to these reasons , I refused to vote fur O'Connell and against tlie small remains of Irish liberty ; and i would have refused to voia if mine had been the casti :: i . ' voice . In _England it wiil be with difficulty believed , ihat for this exercise of my elective privilege—for refusing to vote for a candidate who represents none of my _sssi ' ancats . _Ihave'betn posted in the City , by the placehunting rabble , who insist on being known as Mr . O'Conneil ' s friends , aud now exalt in the thought that they haw a country to sell ; that by these I have been posted as an entaiy to Mr . O'ConneU and to Ireland ; and this mode
of dealing with the freedom of election is practised on behalf of the " _Libsrator , - " * wnder his eyes , and , indeed , plainly with his sanction . To understand the meanness of this charge of enmity to O'Connell , you must know thatso : ue years ago Mr . O'Connell got up a society under the uaine of " Irish _Volunieers , " of which body I was then dupe enough to became a mombcr . I objected to some oi iir . _O'CoimeiVs conscientious proceedings in that body _, _r-ii which he got a packed meeting together of twentytwo persons , including many members of his own family , who , without any trial , or notice * ot accusation , pronounced a sentence of malice against _meforfjaving called in question the probity of one of O'Coffirai's trusty friends ; and fo this sentence , which had falsehood written on : he face of it , he prostituted the names of his
riiree sons and his son-iu-Iaw . He then , in the same summary manner , _gotsisty-three _lsembers of the society together , and solicited them to expel me- It is with reference to this matter that I am accused of being Mr . 0 * _ConuelTs personal enemy . It wa 3 hard lo forgive . This sentence and expulsion did me great injury ; aud the injury was done by unscrupulous power in contempt of _trath and justice . Kevcrtheless , as it very well known , 1 have shice subscribed to the tribute , and actively assisted ta swell iis amount ; and if I wanted rcvenge _. my reveuge was this , that Mr : O'Conneil , whiie he was _conscious that he had irjured me , was obliged to _acknowledge , biAbre his _committee , that I had _eoatribu _' ed essentially to secure his return at the election of 1835 . So much for personal enmity .
Let uie tell Mr . _O'CanneU ' s friends , however , ttuvtn I then contributed to O'Connell ' s return , it was neither to mortify bin nor to _serre Mm ; and if I cannot assist in returning Lim now , it is because I am reluctantly convinced that he has no object , but to make the wrongs ot Ireland sera tiie purpose of his personal ambition . Ltt jhc _"frisads of O'ftinucll _, " if the prospect of place has not _hardened them against all regard for public morals , or public _decency , look only tothe election speeches in Dublin , and the _addrass to the labourers of Kildare . Let _thaa hear Mr . O'Connell , after all his speeches , so full of piety aud morality , on the " joul-de 3 troyiug guilt of perjury , _** ' actually threaten , a portion of the elect' . _iTS with the _renjrcauw of the honest _goreniment if they did not _eote for him . i . _et him , the pious , the religious , demanding votes for the _brii-e of employment , and commanding the voters _dei-endcat on the honest government to come
up for this bribe and swear falsely that they take no bribe . Let them see him , in the address to the labourers of Kil 3 are , painting liis own character in tlie darkest colour of _proiligacy . Thus does Hr . O'Connell stand se _' . _f-convkU'd of _seeking power by the vilest of Tory artifices , bribery , intimidation , and perjury , aud of exercising it in the worst of Tory corruption—the sale of seats and _i-Skes . These sales are to be made to men , not whom the public suspects , but whom he himself denounces for viliaiiy : and all _ihis is to be unblashingly done by a man who still -sails himself a patriot , and who % iukes a _public ostentation oi"his _respect for morality and religion , as if to stomp ail he doss with the character of profane and _Ip-tpious hypocrisy . Having Mr . O'Conneil ' s real character thus writtta with his own hand , 1 look with opened , -y = s on tiie past career , and I can understand as crime , what I felt at a loss to comprehend as folly .
Whew I once see in _O'CoaneS a man who makes use of his country to serve his own cuds , I can understand the past 1 can now understand why he wore the silk gown of the _persecuted _Carolin--, the wife of George IV ., and then grovelled at the feet ofthe meanest of kings , offering him crowns of laurel for his victory ( over his wife ) I can sow understand why the poor 4 os . freeholders were lirst rousai into resistance of their landlords , and then their lives and the lives of tlieir wiTes and children were sold in a base bargain with these landlords . I can now _andcrstand whv the landlords of Ireland have been for
nine ysars starring these honest freeholders to death , and » j Mr . O'ConntJJ , who * ' woubl not shed one drop of humau ul-sod , " holds a seat in Parliament , to protest against Pour _Lawstor their protection , lest it should confiscate the property of their savage tyrants . I can now undeiit : iad why he procured a charter empowering these landlords to fvna the Korth American Colonial Association , for the purpose of luring the ejected tenantry to Canada , there to perish more helplessly aud miserably titan at home . I can now understand why , in the universal love of bribery , O'Connell wished to see the Catholic viergy fed by a goMen _link—thatis , by corrupt motives , to tlie crown . I can aow understand why O'Connell , who weald Lave us , at this moment , regard tlie Duke of \ _Veliiv-: < j-j as aa incarnate fiend , should have , at one
time , joined so raise a monument to his honour ; am ? that too whfca tlie Daks mis more a Tory and less a "Whig than he now is . I can now understand why Leader and Wyse w-tc turaed out of Parliament , for being conditi _^ nal _Kepealers—that is , for wishing to givt the Whigs a trial ; and whv , uft * r the trial had been given , and the Whigs had beta proved to _h ; oar basest enemies , Mr . O'Conn- 11 should turn _roand nnd insist on giving the Whigs a trial , bo longer wanted , and become himself a conditional Uepea ! _-. r . I can now understand why Messrs . Preach , Fitzshnoa , _O'Coaiiial's sons-in-law , after thrusting _themselves into _Parliament as " unconditional Repealers , " should lirst become conditional Repealers , and then , before tit _prstended trial of justice for Ireland is brought * . o a close , _shouldlyaisllyrcsign their _sifttstamwottditional enemies of _JlejieaU aud quietly take office from then :.
Seeing , understanding these things , and twenty more of tbe _san-. e ksad , the difficulty -with me is , how any man of common sense and of honest intentions , can find , I will not say a reason , bat a plausible axcuse to his conscience for votiu ; fyr O'ConneU . At all events these are my reasons for not voting for him ; and Mr . O'Conneil's ; t friends" would have doneas wisely not to have provoked a statement of them . The discussion can hi of no importance to me . It may be of great importance to O'ConneU . For without arrogance , I am _entiCe-s to say of Jura as was _* jid by General Sapier , " When one hoocst man gives you ap . other honest liieu will ask > _cS j ?" There would ba no place for me in the "liberal *' press here . _Ifcy I hops for an opportunity of defence in the Champions I am , sir , ic , _Patxick _OTJicgixs . Dublin , Aug . 23 , _18-JT :
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3 , _Antrim-rtiace , Belfast , January 4 , 1 _& _6 . Sib , _—Si-i-iuj , hy the Dublin papers , tliat you are under piosccutioa fur _-ibelling the landlords , I take the liberty of ecd _^ _iias you a jiainphlfct , statuig the manner in which I was treated by my landlord , the late Marquis of DownsUrc . I a ' _idrissad it to _O'Connell , iu iiv ]« s he would have _notice ! it ia public , hut in _thia I was jnievousiy disappointed ' . If it should be usfcful lo you to make my ease public , I shall feel happy ; the statements I have
made 1 _c-rn verify hy affidavit , if _necessity , hut my having distributed _uuwatis of two thousand _fupiea of the pamphlet iu _IStlfist and the county of Down , without any notice having been taken by any of tho persons alluded to , is a convincing proof thai they could not he eo-trorertei or denied . I have still a few eopies on hand . Hoping that you will overcome all your enemies , and that the cause of Chartism will he benefited in Ireland through you , I remain , sir , jour well-wisher and obedient servant , VfmuM _^ _BsawicK _, Mr . Patrick O'Higgins . _;
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" The Northern Star. Saturday , January 17, 1816.
" the _northern star . SATURDAY JANUARY 17 , 1816 .
The Struggle. It Is Fortunate For Thosew...
THE STRUGGLE . It is fortunate for thosewho hare ri ghts to contend for , that their rulers should sometimes bo summoned to the defence of their own privileges , and awakened to a consideration of the title upon which they hold them , else would property ( however acquired ) , like monarchy , very speedily be based upon the principle of " right divine . " It is only when usurpers are sued upon their own titles that -they vouchsafe a
passing glance at the respective claims of those who contest the property , and those who aro entitled to the property ; and it not unfrequently happens that a defendant , supporting his claim against an illfavoured plaintiff , is compelled to admit the superior title ofa third party , whom accident alone has called into CGurt . Hence we find the landlords , in their several pleadings against the claim of the freetraders , reluctantly constrained to admit tbe title of tbe labourer to a share of the spoil .
There is nothing more dangerous to litigants than the unseasonable necessity imposed upon them of now and ihen producing their title deeds for professional revision . It not unfrequently happens that the _Ji ' sprov _/ d of the plain tiff ' s title may lead to proof of the existence ef a better title than that set up by the defendant . If we apply this commox-place rule to the case of the landlords of England , wc must , in justice , conclude that nothing could have been more impolitic than the admission and coufession that the labouring classes were in any way interested in the
struggle between landlords and cotton lords ; because , as a matter of course , the newly-discovered claimants will very naturally ask whether their share consists in oratorical laudation , the honour of their forbearance being toasted and cheered-by tlieir gorged tyrants , the credit of bearing but twenty per cent , oi the honour conferred upon a breeding sow , and to acquire even that distinction that they must have brought up their families without trouble to their employers , and without having trenched upon the pauper fund .
They will ask if their title , as copartner with the steward-in-chief , consists in being allowed to work a 3 a charity , while the partner revels in unnatural luxury , without ever having toiled . They will ask why the idle partner lives in a princely mansion , made prematurely old by habitual lethargy and gormandizing , while the active coadjutor cannot break his fast unless he has toiled from sunrise . Man is born with propensities which may bo nourished into virtues or thwarted into vice 3 , according to his training . Mildness , forbearance , and honesty will , we
believe , correct , or altogether subdue , evil propensities , bad customs , and bad habits , and law is only necessary to enrb or restrain tbe instincts of nature ; those instincts which are more or less implanted in everything created , from the maggot to man himself . Under tbe head " ascendancy" may be found the greatest evils arising from tho unchecked exercise of natural instinct . _Xot only man , but animals , compete for ascendancy , and it requires tho most rigorous laws of society to subdue its malignity , and to avert tbe dangers consequent upon its capricious exercise .
The landlords of England , long in possession of territorial dominion , have , as a class , so cherished the propensities , habits , _mannei-s , and customs in which they were born , nursed , reared and educated , that they now find It impossible , by any amalgamation of those evil attributes , to agree upon laws absolutely necessary to keep natural instincts . within the limits of social convenience . If the Whigs could have succeeded in holding possession of political power , without admitting the rightful claim of an unenfranchised class aa joiut tenants in legislation , they would have gladly done so . If capitalists could hold silent dominion over passive and non-resisting labour , they would dole eut apitifulexistenceof wages as the ostentatious
offerings of charity ; and if the landlords could dofenil their estates against the clamour of the League , without calling a superior title to their aid , they would cheerfully fight the battle without mentioning the claim of their serfs . Kay , so thoroughly acquainted are those in whose judgment they confide of those facts , that the savage proposition has been mooted of transferring the claim of tbe petulant pauper to the consolidated fund . It is not the first time tbat we have had occasion to comment upon this system of feasting the strong upon the weak . A system which , however , it may serve to prop an administration for a season , is sure , in the long run , to create a war of strife between the _despoiler and the _d-. spoiled .
Some men affect a _coquetishignarance as to the real cause of that strife which has been so long raging between the rich oppressor and the poor oppressed . The fanatically satisfied would ascribe it to the evil genius of artful and designing men . The _propounded ot a crotchet policy would foist their owu nostrums as its correction , whilst the powerful vaiuly hope to crush it by the exercise of tyrannical laws ; but when the wise man reflects upon the awful amount of sorrow , vexation , degradation , and plunder to wliich the poor have been subjected , his astonishment and only wonder will be , tbat vengeance has not long since had
its revenge , and that the war has not terminated in the extermination of the _wrong-docre . Plundered of their common land , stripped of their poor rights , their wagc 3 measured by the whim of griping capitalists , and by tbe capricious exercise of justiccmade law , their homes made desolate , their wants mocked , their subserviency reviled , their submission laughed at , their tranquillity ridiculed , and their faces "round by the law ' s oppression , it is no wonder that they should amalgamate a 3 outlaws , and fight their battle single-handed against tlieir manifold oppressors , suspicions of all save themselves , and resolved to rely upon that only power which can right them .
Such is the cause of war ; such arc the elements that have created it ; and such are the implements with which the battle must now be foug ht . This new suggestion of quartering the poor upon their own taxes is strictly in conformity with the precedent established by the Whigs with regard to Ireland . The Catholic people of that country complained of the Tithe imposition , and the government , to whom the afflicted looked for redress , said , "We acknowledge your grievances and will redress them ; but it shall be by a mere change of masters . You shall no longer pay a hundred shillings unto
Esau , whom you detest , but you shall pay £ 5 to Jacob , whose voice in your behalf will , be thereby smothered , and no longer heard ; and wcwill give unto Jacob twenty-five of the one hundred shillings that more righteously belonged to Esau , beeau ° o then Jacob would cease to contend against his brother . " Now , as the Church and the Stato have recently stood iu the same relation as Esau anil Jacob—Esau _representing the Church , and _Jacok the landlords , who arc the Stato ? The poor are to _bs sacrificed , lest Jacob should make an assault upon the dominion of Esau , who is still strong in the State . We trust , however , that when the voice of
Jacob reaches the ear of the blind , that they will recognise it only as the precursor of the hairy hand of Esau which is to follow .
j In this struggle it is impossible for the most ashitc j to give judgment until the several titles of the reispective claimants are clearly , distinctly , and _un-
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eiuivocally before tho tribunal of judgment . W hare canvassed them all minutely , and wo d _istincw aver that the ten millions per annum of property usurped by the Church must revert to the whole people , whose patrimony it is , before their poor P ittance ran be diminished by the fraction of «™ atom for the satisfaction of landlords or cotton lords ; ami if that ' s not sufficient , tbe lands which belong to the poor must be restored to their kindly use , so that in due time they may onjov the fruits of their own
industry , EOT TUE POOR MUST SOT , CANNOT , OUGHT sot to stauvk . Nay , ought not to be satisfied with a mere lingering existence , while those who traffic in their toil live sumptuously in protected idleness . However unheeded our voice and our warnings may have been , we once more caution tho government , the landlords , the parsons , and tho League against a repetition of this practice of feeding the DISSATISFIED POWERFUL upon the paltry pittance ofthe unprotected powerless .
Had it not been for the acquiescence of the landlords in the plunder of the poor by the Poor Law Amendment Act , and had the spirit of the 43 rd of Elizabeth been practically carried out , they would require neither eloquence nor newspaper support to protect the joint property of themselves and their labourers from tho assaults office trade . ' But with what colour of right , and under what feasible pretext , can those who have boon foremost in the ranks
of plunder , now invite the plundered to join m defence of the stolen property ? Were we not fearful ofthe interregnum between the first rumble and the final settlement > f the question , and wcro we not apprehensive that during that doubtful interval the most unprotected would be the greatest sufferers , we would cheerfully aid in the overthrow ofa proud and pompous faction , whose justice is fear , whoso mercy is caprice ' , and whose charity but springs from _ostest-ition or a dread of tho results of famine .
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SPLIT IN TIIE CABINET . The old soldier again . '—Weuixgto . v appears to bo the " RED CAT" ofthe Pkkl Cabinet , and having no doubt received significant hints ofthe withdrawal of the many proxies that he holds in his pocket in case of his acquiescence in any measure calculated to damage the agricultural interest , declared his intention of opposing and resisting an attempt to repeal
the Lorn Laws . Our poor mend the -nines , whose activity increases as the time for the fulfilment of its prophecy approaches , must hear of those ministerial dissensions with befitting sorrow . Alas ! what a day Thursday r . ext will be for the Thunderer , and how dates will be jumbled , and how circumstances will coincide , and how WE , —that is , the Times , —will have been right after all , whatever Apollo should send from Delphos .
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NO TOTE , SO MUSKET ! The news from America—to make room for which we omit our summary of this day ' s news , as weil _i s much important matter—will be read with nervous anxiety . Wc are not of the war party , because war is the trade of tyrants , the ruin of democracy , the blight of trade , aud the changer of honest industry into lewd aud licentious idleness . While such are , however , our own feelings , we cannot fail to cherish a preference for one of tfic belligerent parties ; and
inasmuch as American Institutions represent our principles , and English Institutions do not , and because our maxim is " measures , not men " we give the balance of preference to Republican Amcric _*> Moreover , the territory which is likely to constitute the cause ; of war , more naturally , if not more legally , belongs to America ; but beyond this title we should be sorry to sec tho pimplo of a desolating " pox" generated upon a limb , or the smallest member belonging tothe great Republican body .
Wherever class legislation lias planted its unhallowed hoof , class distinction has been the invariab ' e result—a distinction marked by idle superiority aid industrious inferiority ; aud if a cutting from th ' _a unhallowed Upas tree should bo planted upou a po ; - _tion of the Republican territory , four times as larj , e as the kingdom of France , with the power and the will of British blood-trafiickers to nourish it to its extremest desolating growth , it might , and most prcbably would , cany the monarchical contagion info
the republican bosom . Iu our further observations upon this subject , we shall rather deal with the question , as M . _Gt-izor has placed it before the public , and upou which we havo already briefly commented ; and taking the speeches , the resolutions and votes of Congress—the comments of the American press , and the feelings expressed at public meetings / as unequivocal auswers to M . Glizot ' s threat , we venture a hint to the Republic , the adoption of whicli may have the double effect of sparing bloodshed , and adding largely to the scanty population of that Republic - . —
Lot us suppose , then , that France should laud a hundred thousand , or any number , ot soldiers in America , those soldiers will not consist of the weak or unhealthy ; and tho French people being for the most part fond of _ the land , and inured to agriculture , would become excellent farmers . We have always looked to the press as a much more powerful engine than the bombshell or the cannon , and very much prefer its use . The moment those Frenchmen land as enemies and usurpers , let them be converted into friends and settlers , Instead of being met by an antagonist force , let them be assailed with a welcome of the following description : -SOLDIERS OF FRANCE ! DO YOU COME
TO SHOOT YOUR BROTHERS , YOUR FATHERS , OR YOUR FRIENDS , AT THE BIDDING OF A TYRANT ? WE IIAVE . NO CAUSE OF QUARREL WITH YOU-OUR _QUARREL IS WITH YOUR OPPRESSORS . BIDETHEREFORE , AMONGST US ; FORTY ACRES OF GOOD ARABLE LAND , WITH A LOAN OF 100 DOLLARS , TO BE REPAID IN EASY INSTALMENTS , AS A TAX TO UPHOLD A GOVERNMENT THAT WILL PROTECT YOU , TOGETHER WITH YOUR NATURALIZATION AS SUBJECTS OF A FREE STATE , IN WHICH EVERY MAN IS REPRESENTED BY HIS OWN VOTE , SHALL BE YOUR LOT .
The Morning Chronicle , the property of Sir Jonx _EiSTiiorE , a huge and unprincipled money jobber , sings a peaceful note through its cockloft American correspondent , lent tho anticipation of war should have an . injurious effect upon the speculations of tl-. e proprietor . Every one of these private letters from America wcre written by some hired scribe in a garret in the office of the Chronicle at the bidding of the jobher , and therefore must be received as such .
Upon the other hand , every newspaper coming from America breathes a warlike spirit ; while , as comiug events cast their shadows before , General Cass , the leader of the war party , and the aspirant for presideutal honours , is supposed to be actuated in Ilia belligerent spirit by the notion that such course will best insure popular favour . We would , therefore , much prefer drawing our _conditions from this concentrated force of public opinion , than from the pliant hand of a pliant money scribbler .
No doubt fome of the merchants on 'Change were forewarned of American feeling , and hence , wo find a _ihwnward tendency in all money _spaculations . TI e propositions to buiid _block-houscsj-augnicnt the navy , and call out the militia of America , taken in connection with the signs to wliich he have before adverted , can leave but little doubt that a rumpus is at hand , whether Texas , Oregon , Cuba , or American hostility towards England should be thu immediate propelling
cause . Our readers will recollect that many months ago , when tho money press of England attempted to convince us that the . American people themselves would be divided upon a question of war , that wc then stated that whatever the cause of quarrel may be , Americans would rally to the cry of " Revenge !" America speaks of raising a militia of 200 , 000 freemen , with homes to protect , institutions to defend , and a country to lig ht for . England proposes to raise a militia of 40 , 000 , as substitutes for the Ci AL-
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L ANT SOLDIERS who aro to fight for monarchical | intervention with Republic ' . institutions . We may ' p > ok freely of the mode of courting _brotherhosd with the French Boldiery , but we know how rigorous tho law U in nil casos whore an attempt is _mado to insp ire OUR GALLANT DEFENDERS with true courage , patriotism , morality , or Christianity . They are attributes boforo whoso iniluonce tyrants Mush _< _* tnd usurpers tremble . Wo may , however , speak of ourselves ; and , again commending . tho American news to all who are likely _fc > be ballotted ft 3 militiamen , we say , for ourselves , without interfering with their taste , NO VOTE , NO MUSKET !
I Patrick O'Higgins, Esq. Is Order To Lo...
I PATRICK O'HIGGINS , ESQ . Is order to loave nothing to doubt or surmise , and to establish the fact unequivocally , we think it a duty that we owe to ourselves , to our readers , to our Irish brethren , and to Mr . _O'llioams' to keep the whole case clearly and distinctly before the public . Nothing can bo more manly , independent , and forbearing than the letter of Mr . _O'Higqins to tho Champion , and from its perusal the feeling created in the English _miad will be that of astonishment that apeoplo so brave , so justice-loving , so patriotic , and shrewd as the Irish , should have been made so long subservient instruments in the hands of a mere juggler , to be used for the destruction of every honest , upright , and indopcndci . it patriot who would not " Jump Jim Crow" at the bidding of the great
showman . Mr . _O'Hiogixs' besetting sin has been consistency ; not that dogged consistency whioh rejects truth and adheres to old and exploded orror , but that consistency which holds fast to principles which gain strength by repetition , and become powerful by controversy . Tlie appeal which Mr . O'lliaoiss makes to the justice of the English people will not fail of a rcsponso , while wo aro sorry to announce that he sternly refuses all pecuniary aid from the English Chartists , who , he' says , will require al * their own funds to maintain their glorious position in the approaching struggle . Let our friends take heart , however , when we announce to them the g lad tidings , that _O'Hiogiss is not deserted even in Ireland , and tliat a number of patriots of all classes fsociety have boldly ceme forward as Irishmen to claim the honour of sustaining him in his struggle
against TllE PRESS , THE INFORMER , AND THEIR SPIES . Is it not refreshing to every Irishman expatriated by treachery from his own country to learn that the nation has not lost its character , and that patriotism has not yet been banished from the land of the brave by _tl _* e treachery of approvers . Elsewhere we publish a letter to Mr . _O'lliooiss , which will show tbat from the persecution of the martyr will spring ton thousand patriots to arenge the martyr ' s suffering . It is ever so . Tyranny ever fails in tho exorcise of its lewd power , and the torture that it provides for others invariably recoils upon itself . Last night , at &
powerful committee meeting—at a respectable committee meeting of the United Trades and _Chartisfs of London—an address , to be presented to Mr . Duxcombb on Wednesday next , was highly approved of , with the exception of ono passage , in which tho name of O'Cox . _fKtLwas mentioned , —not even with respect , but merely in connexion with Mr . _Duxcosibk ' s sympathy for all who aro oppressed by the law . There was a universal burst of manly indignation at the bare mention of the INFORMER ' S name , immediately followed by a proposal that the
health of Pathick O IIigcins , and thanks to him for his manly resistance to tyranny , should be placed upon the list of toasts . Wo wish the Liberator could have been present to have heard the judgment of the English people . But enough . When the time conies we will publish every sentence and cvory word of _O'lliooixs' trial , if it take three Stars ; and wo will try , as far as our poor a ilities serve , to make amends for the treachery ol the Irish press ; while the Liberator may rest assured that during his Bt . journ in England he will be made more familiar than ever with tho honoured name of Patrick
O'Higcixs . Here follows the memorandum of the Liberator ' * spit en . Let it be preserved as a record of his treachery : — [ From the Freeman ' s Journal , Nov . 18 . ] The _Liberatob . —I next wish to call the attention of the meeting to a document transmitted to me by post this morning , Itis headed , " Tyrants turning tenants out . " It is a document exceedingly well printed . In it , the strongest possible argument is used to induce the tenants to murder their landlords ( hear , hear ) . This hideous paper has been some time in Ireland . Some persons
havo seen it distributed in the northern parts of this country atlluldoyle , especially to the labourers employed ou the railway . A copy of it eamc into the hands of Mr . _Ai-ltins _, who was able to trace it to the person that circulated it , that person being a stranger . The moment I saw it , I got Mr . Arkins to go to the castle with it to the commissioners of police , nnd he loft it with them accordingly ; and , accordingly , they took not a single step with respect to it from that day to this ( cricB of shame . ) Nothing can be worse . I will deposit this with Mr . Ray , and move , "Thatit hh _refeubed to the standino COMMITTER , TO SEE IE WE CAN TRACE THE AUTHOR OUT
AS TUB POLICE AND TIIE GOVERNMENT SEBM TO BE RATHER IDLE ON TIIE SUIIJECT . " I will not give it to the paper * , as I don't like to give it further circulation . " The resolution was put and carried . . Again , on the 23 th of Nov ., the Liberator , that is to say , Daniel of Durrynane Beg , " wished to call the attention of the meeting to the fact , that , on that day fortnight , he had felt it to be his duty to denounce u certain infamous document , a handbill , headed ' tyrants turning
tenants out . ' If proper inquiries had been _instituted there could not be the slightest dilHculty in finding out the guilty authors of this atrocious paper . He hoped . th _^ t some true-hearted and intelligent man would lay _holiPoi the miscreants , and so become au honest and upright . DETECTIVE , WHICH WOULD IIE A QREAT DESIDERATUM . hast week , he handed a copy of it to the government reporter ; and the copy which ' remained , any one connected with the police might have . "
College-street Ofticc , Jfonday , Nov . 24 . Mr . Quigly , one of the clerks of the llepeal Association , came before tho magistrates , and said , " The document which 1 hold was taken down from the door of Conciliation Hall this morning , by Mr . Thomas Hanlon , who is with me . Mr . Ray , chief secretary , took it to Mr . O'Connell , and ho commanded me to bring it to this ofticc to see what course the magistrates would take . " Mr . Tyhdall read tho document . It was headed , "Landlords and Tenants . Tyrants turning tenants out . "
Mr . Tyndall ; " I wish we could discover the author of it . If you have a wish to find out the author , it is the best way to send it to tha superintendent of police . Take it to him to the Castle-yard , and say Mr . O'ConneU sent it to him . " Mr . Quigly said , " Mr . O'Connell had a great wish to find out the author , " mid then withdrew . —Freeman ' s Journal , Nor . 2-3 . After having read the foregoing , is it not evident that Daxiel _O'Goxsm . is the informer ? And this is the hypocrite who affects great , sympathy for his poor suffering countrymen , while , a *; the same time , he hounds on the bloodhounds of the law against any one who attempts to render the poor fellows assistance . How long , 0 Lord ! will poor Ireland be doomed to plunder and delusion 1
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_TllH EXILB _EtHD _IarOIlTAMT _COMMBSICATIOM . — * Wo _haro _receired the following letter : —Flaase excuse me troubling you with this letter , but havliagread in your glorious _tftor of December 27 th , that a petition was adopted at a public meeting held in Rochdale , praying for the pardon of " John Frost , Zephaniah WiUiamg , JohnJone 8 , _ond'WaHamEllis , / orp « _i- _! _idjxitJ ) iji in an outbreak at Newport , " I am induced to remind our Rochdale and other friends , that William Ellis "did not participate in an outbraifc at Newport , " but that William Ellis was convicted , before Lord Chief Justice Tindall , Mr . Baron Parke , and Mr . Baron Rolfe , at a special commission , held at Stafford , October 3 rd , 1842 , "for , on the night of the I 5 th of August , 1842 , setting fire to , and burning , and demolishing , the house of tlie Rev . J . E . _Aitkiiis _, of Hanloy , " in the Staffordshire Potteries , and of which said crime I am as convinced that William Ellis is innocent as that I am writing this letter . I will here state two facts , out of many , tliat
ought to satisfy any reasonable man of his innocence . First , tho only evidence that in any way connected Elft ' s with the fire , was that oti mail ofthe name of Goodwin , who swore that he " Baw him at tho fire , that his face was blackened ; yet he would not swear whether Ellis had a cap or a hat on , as he had only a side view of his faco . " Secondly ; since thetrinl , the following circumstances havo come to light , which , if known sooner , would have completely destroyed Goodwin ' s oamnabli : he , and caused a triump hant acquittal of Ellis : —A gentlemen of tho name o _ f Woolrich , a master join » r and carpontor , who resided in Burslom , near tt Ellis , and was on duty on thenight ofthe 28 th of August , 1842 , as a _specinl-consUble at _Burslcm , says that ho saw " W . Ellis , tha the was smoking his pipe , that
ho stood talking with him for twenty minutes , " at tho time that Goodwin swore he saw him at the firo ! Mr . Woolrich told me the above himself , and that he had known Ellis sixteen years , lie took me to the spot , whero _hs stood talking with liim , and which I declare to be two miles from where tho fire took place . I hope I have stated _sufficiont to spur alt on in the _goed work of asking for a pardon for Ellis , hut should any friend or friends require more information _respectinghiscase , by writing to me aa bolow I will cheerfully give it . Hoping you will give this an early insertion in the 5 _tai-, and begging pardon for taking up so much of your valuablo space , I am , dear sir , yours truly , G . B . Mam . _Boothen _Villn , Stoke-upon-Trent , Potteries , Staffordshire , Jannary ISth , 18 W .
Yetekan Patbiots' and Exiles' Widows' and _Cihldben'a _Pomos . — I beg to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums from Dewshury : —T . S . ISrooke , for the Veteran Patriots' Fund , 10 s ; for the Exiles ' Widows' and Children ' s Fund , 10 s . ; Jamas Fox , for tho Vetoran Patriots' Fund , Is . 3 d . ; for the Exiles ' Widows' and Children ' s Fund , Is . 3 d . Also , of 20 s . from W . Weir , Hamilton , being "the proceeds ofa raffle got up by the members of the National Charter Association ( of Hamilton ) , for the relief ofthe veteran patriots and exiles' widows and children . " And I beg , also , to thank the writers of these two letters for the clearness and distinctness of their directions as to the application of the monies . —Thomas CoorKit _, Sec , 131 , Blackfriars-road .
David Wilson . —The lines are _inadmissable . Will the _Chabtiits _' of Birmingham favourtheChartists of Bolton with the full particulars ef John Roberts ' ease ? The Bolton Chartists have agreed at a public meeting to send a memorial to her Majesty for a commutation of his sentence , and want full particulars . Direct for Mr . W . _Pietoance , 18 , Duncan-street , Bolton . Nottingham . —All persons having any Chartist Convcntion money in their hands , are respectfully requested to forward the same without delay to Mr . James Sweet , news agent , as the accounts must be immediately closed . Petitions for the restoration of " Frost , WiUiams , and Jones , " also for " William Ellis , " lay at
all the nows houses for signature . Haste and sign ! _h o _timo must be lost !! The petition will _closo on Monday next , the 19 th instant , at four o ' clock . The Dixon Fund . —All parties having books or monies in hand for thu Dixon Fund , aro requested to forward tho same immediately . Mr . Dixon has taken a house in order to commonco business . Address , Thomas Whittaker , Treasurer , t ! 8 , Devonshire-street , Hulmo . J . W „ New Town , Montgomeryshire . —Any person who joins the Chartist Co-operative Land Society previous to tho close of tho 1 st section , will of course be one of that section whether he has paid up his share or not .
_Euos . M . Wheeler informs the friends at Brighton , referred to by Mr . _Ceoperin last week ' s Star , thathe was absent from London when the money arrived , but that immediately upon its receipt he informed Mr . Cooper , through the medium of Mr . Stallwood , that he could have the money any time he was passing Mr . _Wlieelei- 's residence on his road to the publisher ' s . Mr . Wheeler resides at a distance of nearly three miles from Mr . Cooper , and is put to considerable trouble and expense in sending to that gentleman ; he therefore hopes that parties having money to send to any funds for _U'llieh . that _gsnllnnan is treasurer will scud it direct to his residence , 143 , _Blackfriai- 's-road .
West _Uidino _Ehtctio . v , —A resolution appeared in the notice to correspondents of last Saturday ' s Star headed West Riding , and saying that it was of vital hnpor . ' tar . ee that there should boa Chartist candidate brought forward at the West Riding election , and calling on the West Hiding secretary to call a delegate meeting for that purpose . Where this resolution emanated from I was unable to discover , although I made diligent _Uliary , and I hare hud uo communication upon tho suiject from any locality in the Riding , therefore , I concluded , I would not be justifiud in calling a meeting . Further , a resolution was passed at the last West Riding delegate meeting , that a special delegate meeting should bo held on tho first Sunday in January , to take into consideration the vory subject contained
in the anonymous resolution , and which appeared in the repwt of that meeting in the Star . I sent a notice to the Star , that the said spocial delegate meeting would be heldon the firstSunday in January . The only localities that sent delegates to that meeting were Bradford and Halifax . It is rather too bad that the Bradford people , who nobly do their duty in such cases , and who travelled sixteen miles to do this important business ( but considered they were not justified in entering into it , seeing there were no delegates from any other locality but Halifax } , should be called upon . to travel another sixteen miles to do tho business which they came to do before . —J . Crossland , W . R . secretary . Wm . Bell . —Tho Executive ' s "Address , " and tlie notico from Mr . Stallwood , will answer his wishes .
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RECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LA 1 TD SOCIETY . SHAEES . FEB MB . O ' CONNOB .
£ s . d . Warwick , per J . A . Donaldson ,. „ .. . ' H i > John Built , Birmingham .. ., „ „ - > 12 D Wigton , per T . Bell .. „ .. .. 4 9 0 Mountain , Queen ' s Head , near Halifax , per John Bates „ „ 7 15 ll Georjfie Mills , per R . Burkett . 5 _•_ ' ( i Halifax , per C . W . Smith .. .. .. 4 4 _!> Ciu't'iagton , per — _Ll-c 10 3 2 Oldham , per W . Ilamer 20 I ) Witham , per C . Fish .. .. .. .. 548 John Smart , Broinham .. .. .. „ 0 10 0 _Uptoh-upou-Scvern , per W . Brown „ .. OHIO Bristol , per It . II . Williams 4 2 1 Alexandria , per J . _M'lntire .. _.. .. 4 1 ( 5 4 Kidderminster , per G . Holloway ... „ 2 0 0 Septon , per L . Lodge „ _ 10 0 _Uampaie , per W . Walker „ „ „ I 8 G Carlisle , per J . Gilbertson 5 0 0 Leicester , per G . Xoon .. .. „ .. 200 Glasgow , per J . Smith .. .. .. „ 10 14 2 Fer Mr . Tordiff , Waterloo , I ' udsey , near
_-Bradford .. .. 13 10 0 Bradford , per J . Aldcrsoa .. .. „ ell ) 0 Hamilton , per W . Weir .. „ „ „ 1 _ _q 0 Rochdale , per E . Mitchell ., „ .. 10 0 0 Ashtor-Miider-Lyne .. „ „ ,. 282 _Sa'ford ., .. .. .. _,. ,, 208 _"'"'"P 5 0 0 Manchester , per J . Murray 20 0 0
iNote . — ihe sum acknowled ged from Boulogne on the 3 rd of January should have been £ i 17 s ,, not £ 3 17 s . SHARES .
PER GENERAL 3 ECRETART . £ *• * £ s . d Birkenhead .. .. 200 Rachel Rowall .. 0 0 U John Pomcroy .. 014 Selbv .. .. " 0 v Independent Cord- _BurAlev .. ,. ' 9 0 fl waiiiore .. _.. 0 18 8 Todmorden .. .. 010 Camberwell .. .. 200 J . Cleave .. .. 0 : i " _g Westminster .. s 15 0 S . Ackermau .. Oil Mr . Kendall .. 004 Boulogne _*" .. .. 4 s George Fox .. .. . " 12 2 Truro .. " .. .. 5 S 0 _W-iiTingtoi 2 13 0 Mr . Griffiths , New M . iN 0 10 Town .. .. 4 4 G CABDS AND RULES . Norwich w § f 0 „ _, LEVI FOB THE LAND CONFEUENCE . _TER MR . O ' CONNOR
Bristol , per R . II . Williams „ _,. ,. 003 PER GENERAL 8 ECBETABY . Per Socretary .. 013 Camberwell ,. .. 0 1 0 Sunderland ., .. 010
N . B . In those cases where , from the number of the shareholders being hunted , it would be expensive to send tho Directory Fund of one halfpenny par month per share 111 a separate order , it is recommended that it should be sent direct to me iu postage stamps . Individuals beloiviii ! . ' to my class , will remit their amount in a similar manner . NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION , EXECUTIVE . PER MR . O ' CONNOR . Mountain , Queen ' s Head , near Halifax , per J _J'ntcs ' ... u Oldham , per W . Hamor 0 _{_ _ Rochdale , per C . Shaw .. ,. " 1 9 9 Campsie , per W . Walker „ .. ;• 0 l 0 „ Birkenhead , per T . Cupm .. .. „ 0 _] 0 n Boulogne , per D . Reid .. „ ., " _ „ u _Heyirood , per J . Miller .. „ „ " 0 lo 0 Mr . T . Brook , Dewsbury " 010 «
PER GENERAL SECRETARY . Mr . _Penrcey , Ro- Marylebone ( cards ) 0 18 therhithe .. .. 010 _Trowbridge .. .. 0 ii 0 _Westminster .. 013 Tower Hamlet * . O . uhai » , T . Ker 3 hair 0 0 ti Mr . Godwin . oil ) Dito , J . Tweedalc 0 1 0 w , VICTIM FUND . Mr . V , ells , Tower Hamlets „ .. 0 0 0 J _^ r _* Inst week ' s Star the sum of 3 s . ( id . was _vhuTw _^ _j- _* . torn Mr . George , of Windsor , for the _™ ii ! _f - " _" :. . StCa . ? 0 t ' _* _i - a , ld th 0 _w" ' " veteran patuoto m the heading should also have been omitted . Tuojus Martin _WaeswH , Secretary .
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MONDAY . Free TradS . _*—Tiie protectionists and anti-mono « _polists are marshalling their forces for the grand fi ght wliich commences on Thursday noxt , while tlie Times is directing its thunder at the camp of General Richraond , the Commander-in-Chief of the Protectionists . The drilling that the squeezable county members are receiving at the hands of their respective constituencies is an awful warning to the Whig party , who vainly hoped to purge the House of Commons of aris tocratio influence bv the Roform Bill . Mr . E . Yorke , brother to the Earl of Hardwicke , and his nominee for Cambridgeshire , has had the least taste in life of agricultural decency ; for , notwithstanding the commanding influence of the noble lord , ho has been
hooted , groaned , aud hissed for his support of Peel ' s tariff , and his refusal to pledge himself against further agricultural inroads . Now we be _» our readers to bear in mind , tliat in April , 1342 , when Sir Robert Peel proposed bis tariff , that wc proclaimed the fact that the farmers would not open their eyes to it ' s effect till IS _1 G , and that they would not feel the effect disastrously until the autumn of that year . We also stated , that , when it was felt , both landlords and tenants would become levellers , and giYe to Chartism the character of insi gnificant mildness—m proof of whicli , we may observe that tho Three-and-a-IIalf per Cents , have had a taste of tlieir quality , a feeler has been thrown out as to how relief from poor-rates would square with their hook , and reconcile them to free trade . The county cess is in the margin of Bundries , whilst the most vigorous of tho Protectionists demand a sweeping tithe reduction , if not a
total abolition , of the impost . Won't the Chartista be angels as soon as the mild landlords have received the last bite of their MAD DOG ! Thk Cobs Tuade . —By St . Paul the sliding scale goes bravely on ; wheat and all are slithering down , notwithstanding the latest statistical revelations of the Times' foreign arithmeticians , that there is no wheat anywhere to be had for love or money , even if tlie ports wcre opened . It is the funniest thin _» in tlie world to read the philanthropic speeches of Protectionists and anti-monopolists , the one hugging tho agricultural labourer to death , and tho other squeezing the very puddings out of his operative client , to prepare him lor an eternal gorge of cheap bread . However , both are beginning to believe at last that cheap and dear ave relative terms , and that the man is as badly off when the loaf is but twopence as when it was a shilling , if ho hasn't the twopence to buy it .
Money _Mahkrt . — Notwithstanding that the Government Commissioner for the reduction of tha National Debt OPERATES , as the fancy term it , to tlie amount of £ 150 , 000 a-week , depriving the market of so much of its spoil , yet the Oregon , the four millions extra for the French navy , the demand of a constitution by the people of * Prussia , the state of Ireland , the calling out of the Militia , the deposit of the countless millions for railway operations , the impossibility of customers to pay their tradesmen ' s Christmas bills , and the certainty that the lawyers will have their full whack out of the millions when they are paid , all these little circumstances multi . plied produce a conviction of the great fact , that we are near SOMETHING , ifnotthe END ; and hence we find all the newest devices of the jugglers failing to keep up p rices . Consols are going down , shares are a drug , and Exchequer Bills alone denote the follv of individual confidence in the Prime Minister .
Trade . —Every available penny that can be scraped together by way of loan , discount , or sale of railway shares , is being applied to manufacturing speculation in expectation of the roaring trade to be derived from free trade . DON'T THEY WISH THEY MAY
GET IT . Court Cincuun . —The Queen has been busily engaged in rehearsing her speech for the opening of Parliament during the last week , and we learn with pleasure , that Prince Albert , all tho royal nurses , and the ti « ir babes in the nursery , who constitute the Royal audience , have expressed their unqualified approbation of the continued assurances of peace trom all FRIENDLY powers , andespecially with the confidence with which the vote for the necessary SUPPLIES for the year is anticipated .
_Revobm . —The Duke ol Newcastle , whose right to do what he likes with his political slaves of the aristocratic class , we neither question nor object to , has given the Right Honourable Mr . Gladstone his walking paper for Newark , no doubt for having re-joined tho Peel Administration upon the principle of free trade-that is , SUCH FREE TRADE as Sir Robert Peel will condescend , to soothe the anti-monopolists with . The " Times" axd thk Pbimk Minister , — -Ii there were any two horrors that more than any other haunted our great contemporary , they wcre those of
Lcaguism and Ministerial reserve . The League wore traitors , and Peel was a tyrant tor withholding ali knowledge of hi * measures from his party , " Tempora mutantur "—the times change , says tiie Latin proverb , " * t nos mutamur in iliis , " and we change with them , says the Times' proverb ; and hence we now find Leaguism tot be philanthropy , benevolence , beneficence , humanity , Christianity , charity , and godliness itself , while the mo 3 tapplauded feature in the Premier ' s multifarious character i 3 HIS SECRECY ; an Irishman would exclaim . " Ogh ! wisha thunder and b—y wars ; is ' nt it a . quair world we live in . "
IRELAND . Effects op Class Legislation , — -The reader haa observed how many _chanfes a single death of a church dignitary , an army dignitary , or a navy dignitary may involve , but we doubt that he has ever seen the almost endless changes that the dismissal of a ministerial dignitary may entail . We'll try to give him a list . The Duke of Newcastle , tha proprietor of the houses of the Boroug h of Newark , aud consequently the owner and disposer of the votes , has dismissed Mr . Gladstone from the representation of his slaves . The convocation of tho collective wisdom is at hand , and Mr . Gladstone being Minister for the Colonies , his black and white clients m \\ , _fi _f course , expect their advocate to be at his post , and , therefore , it is necessary to provide against such a contingency as a general _election which might
entail the loss of the Prime Minister ' s right hand . Mrs . Lawrence , proprietor of the slaves of Ri pon , has died and has left the inheritance in her slaves to Earl de Grey . Mr . Alphabot Smith , the Irish Attorney-General , is the executor to Mrs . Lawrence ' s will as far as the slaves are concerned , that is , he represents Ripon , and Ripon is the surest refugo for Gladstone , therefore , Chief Justice Pennefather resigns the Chief Justiceshi p , of the Queen ' s Bench , Mr . Blackburn resigns the mastershi p ofthe Rolls , Smith succeeds him , Greene succeeds Smith , Brewster Warren , or lleim , or some other cock , succeeds Greene , Corballas or Martley or some one else succeeds Brewster , some one else succeeds tho fortunate fellow , and so go on the changes consequent Smith resi
upon ' s gnation of the Borough of Ripon , but then _commotices the patronage to be bestowed upon Earl do Grey tor the adoption of Gladstone . 1 his sort of promotion reminds us very forcibly of a trial at which we were once _preseRt ' before some Dublin Magistrates . .. A party of wags resolved upon _, having a lark after the theatre , and repaired to a celebrated chop house , iii _Capel-street—thev were not there very long when the fumes from the CRmnuR reminded each of his peculiar grievance , aud that one of his companions was the peculiar cause of it . A row , of _courso , ensued , and all being implicated except tho waiter , he was called upon to state the facts , and having a horror , as all the Irish have , or rather used to have , of being ax informbr _, and with a sense of his master ' s interest , and a keener
sense of his own honour when questioned as to the cause ofthe row , and pushed as to who was thcaggressor , he swore that lie heard nothing till he saw Grad y kicking Mills , Donavan kicking Grady , ltouke kickin _*** _Donavan , Moore kicking ; Rooke , SUauglmesscy kicking Moore , Flagherty kicking Shaughnesscv , and that he , the waiter kicked Flagherty until they wore all finall y kicked out into the street , whereupon the magistrate observed " Why , then it appears that you are tho aggressor after all . " "Whv , thin to bo sure lam" was the reply . "Then we fino vou a pound , " sins the magistrate . ' _« Thank you , your honour , it is onlv three shillings a piece for the gentlemen , and thev'll pay it with all the veins in their hearts , won't you , vcr honours V "Aye , Mic , ten times aa much , for by _Jasua you are an honeet fellow . "
Molly Maguirbism . -Wc give the following specimen ot the kmdly disposition of Mrs . Ma _^ uire ' _s children when they are treated with even common decency : — "One Good _Tuas Desebves _Another . " -. We learn that Captain Atkinson , the celebrated sportsman , who some years ago resided at Clanhugh , in this neighbour hood , and afterward * at the Cottage , Rathoweii , was surrounded by a large party ofthe Molly Maguires , whilst shooting on a bog in the nei ghbourhood of _Carrick-ou-Shaunon last week , aad ordered to _doliver up his fowlin _g - piece ; this he refused to do , and drew a _uistol from his breast to tire at the fellows ; it missed lire , and the Mollies immediately wrested both the gun and pistol from him , and would m all probability have given him something not very agreeable in return had not a resident 011 the bog come tothe rescue with a short gun , and swore ho would shoot some ofthe party if the arms were not restored , tilling them at the same time of the _( jencvosity of the
captain towards him «„ d his who . The gallant captaia _amUruesportsmuuMt appeared , was on the bos a week previously , and " convenient" to the hut of this poor man ( whose wife was in her confinement at the time ) He re quested that the captain would not fire " convenient" to the house , explaining the delicate state of his wife . Captain Atkinson instantly retired . to a distant part of the _bojr , and alter returning home from his day's sport , desnatched a messenger to the hut with many comforts that tho poor family wore strangers to , and called a few day * after to inquire aftur the patient . On hearing of his generous kindness to , the poor man , the Mollies instantly returned the arms to Captain Atkinson , aud cheered him lustily , promising to protect the gamo for him , aud that no person would be allowed to shoot there but himself . _TheMollieither _, straight betook themselves away , wishing him long lift ( . _ehoutuig hhu us they went along , — _irertwn ft _ttwmliiw .
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