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THE JNTOETHER]NT STAR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1844.
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QUIETING OF ° WAR " . ALARMS . THE TAHITI AN QUESTION ARRANGED . The Times of Tuesday in the following leading article from its pages , announces that the T&hiti&n question , about -which bo much fuss haB been made , and such " alarm" spread , had been amicably arranged between the two governments of England and Prance , on the terms and conditions therein set forth : — We beg to congratulate our readers on tne truly gratifying intelligence of a probable arrangement of the Tahiti question , and a termination to all fears of & rupture between ourselYes and France . The question appears to hare been settled in a way equally
honourable to both countries . The indignity to England has bees cancelled without the smallest loss of dignity to Trance : we hare got every concession that we could justly demand , and France has only given what she conld not in justice withhold . There is no occasion for triumph or exultation on our part , but simply for content and satisfaction . "We are only compensated for the affront of a French © Seer to the nation , TPfhich we could not in consistency with , oar national Task and honour overlook . And tie French Government ias acted most considerately in not binding itself to a proceeding of one © f its subordinate agents . It would have been a most Quixotio exhibition of sensitiveness and morbid
iaateur to have done it otherwise , How can a Go-Ternment rely always upon the correct and unimpeachable conduct of the officers whom it selects 1 A Government will sometimes , 6 elect whom it will , find itself brought into difficulties by theacta of its subordinates and instruments , and in such a case it is by fax tne best thing to disown them . Once disowned , neither the acts nor the apology for them are any discredit or humiliation whatever to a Government , simply because by this proceeding it makes the suet not Its own to begin with , and therefore is not * £ Alo £ isiB £ tar iU * lf , bal for another . iL D Aubi ^ ny has bees moved from Tahiti , his con--dnot has been made the subject of apology , and
satisfaction will , we are told , be made to Mr . Pritchard , for lhe ill-treatment he has received . The former officer had been previously censured by his superior , Captain Bruit , and this additional stamp upon him , accompanied with a due measure of satisfaction to the injured person , appears to be a sufficient recognition on the part of the French Government of our charge against D'Aubigny . He is not dismissed the service indeed , and it is not necessary that he should be ; so that his Government acknowledges that his acts were unjustifiable , all is done that is required . "We do not want to revetge ourselves on an individual , but only to have him distinguished from the nation . The previous conduct of Mr . Pritchard in his post also weighs with us in considering this notice of d
^ ^ ^ WrS ? % j £ 2 ? iJ * Z ] ™*^^» ******* following ^ of Mr . PntchaTd had certainly _ outstepped propriety i a } lKQt the ^ H is Majesty the King of in * he part he took towards the French after their , xh FTtHth % for the truth of which the writer pledges wscnpautm . of the idand , and had » 4 e 4 . » o » or less ; faimself . _ U On Thursday or Friday last jj [ y Ald . as the partisan and { ° »« t « r of- kwulrty to them , trough lwho if ^ ls Jy w J comea into seems bnt too probable . And though such » dispo ¦ , ^ ^ ory ) wrote to King Louis Phi ] ippe , begifcon on his part , if it attained from expressing in Hig ^ t ld haw the kindBe 8 B ^ l nfo ^ j nself , ; n positive overt acts of hosUBtj , did no ; ren-, her waa wir J in / minent f ^ deiayed not a der him liable to seizure , and deprive him of the pmi- moaml ^ ^ h Ladyship , through his first ^ ge of inviolabmty which surround *_ tbe . person of a . ; Aid ^ . ^ J hat she oi h J t ^ * mind per-British Consul , still n was a : PtovocaUve , to' ™ ienoe ,, feflt ] Ko war between France and England and , therefore , must be considered a palliation of «• : Wnent , nor inde « d likely . - ' -Ttmes , Wed-Mr . Pritchard was certainly not a proper person to < nesday bo ever appointed to the Consulate ; and his ap- J * AFRICA .
point men t reflects no credit on the judgement of his patron , Lord Palmerston . He went out to Tahiti as a missionary : this is an odd combination j in the first place ; pot that we think the worse of a : man for being a missionary ; but we do not approve 1 of a missionary wishing to be consul , and mixing the j task of converting souls with inspecting cargoes and j < iirecling trade and shipping . A missionary ought j sot to desire such a post , and therefore is not the I proper person to have it . However , Mr . Pritchard ; signalized himself , in his missionary carreer , by a ,
bold exercise of the spiritual sword , and this seems to have struck Lord Palmerston ' s fancy ; while hisi forcible transportation of two rival French missionaries to the Gambier Islands commended this head of the English missionary establishment as an active spirit and an able man to the then . Foreign -oSce . This activity , it seems , has continned , and has eoBtribnted to bring on these disturbances . The fact is , neither country has been properly or : suitably represented by its ofiicers al Tabiii . Mr . Pritchard wa 3 a busybody and a dismrber , and > M . iy Aubigny peppery and nnscrnpnlous . It would lave been ridicnlons for the two Governments t »
cave fallen out , because these two warm-hesded j men happened : o have come into collision , with ! the insignia of office npon them . We are ready ,: for our -part , to throw them both overboard , and clear boih countries of any connexion with them . ; In this state of the question -it is of compartively litde consequence which of the combatantB struck j the outward blow , and did the overt act . Both i ¦ were to blame ; and _ . though the overt act is the one > io be taken eognizanca of , because it is an overt one , } and therefore must be seen , and an apology must be i made for it ; still , both countries are clear , and both retain their character , because neither-has anything ; to do with the act , or ihe provocatives to it . j ; i ;
Whatever apprehension , muttering , and whi = pering there may have been then abont it , the chance of a war on this ridiculous subject is , we trust , all over now . Ko sensible man could ever have thought , indeed , that snch a thing was at all probable , with such a very trivial matter in dispute , and with two snch pacific Governments to discuss it . But , ¦ whatever it was , it seems now over ,- and the cloud may . we hope , be considered to have blowa off . In the Morocco quarter , too , things look equally well , The Emperor has been incommoded and peppered a ] good deal , and is willing to come to terms ; and , as i the . term . 3 continue tho same that they were before ! the hostilitiesj-and have not been at all advanced npoa in consequence of them , we presume the I lottlement will lake place before long . * i
-A . qaarrel , qnlte s& s irions at thafmin the French , llA 3 for some lime also been hanging over the Courts of Morocco and Madrid . This , our Spanish news of last night informs ns , has been amicably settled by the intervention of our ambassador , and , all hostile feeling aliayed , so : hat tte aspect ofihings abroad seems to tell , on the whole , for a continnance of peace -and tranquillity . On this arrangement , and its terms , the Chronicle of Wednesday , thus complains : — The minisierialjonrnal states that tbePeel Cabinet lias accepted the verbal excuses of the French Go-Ternment with respect to the outrage on Mt . Pritehard . After sending a most blustering message to
Paris for a categorical answer , promising instant redress , Lord Aberdeen sneaks back into the acceptance of the shadow of an apology . ML . D ' Aubigxy , who incarcerated and exiled our consul , has incurred not the slightest inconvenience therefrom , and remains in the service to receive the reward of his heroism . Tna only person ma . de -to pay for the oatxage i 3 poor Mr . -Pritchard him = elf ; and his fats ¦ wi ll no doubt serve as an example to all the representatives of England abroad under a Tory Government . If they dare to resist the unjust encroachments of France , they may be sure of being saori-Heed and disavowed , whilst the French insulters are equally sore of honour and reward from their own country , and complete sufferance from oura .
If snch was to be the result , such ihe final determination of Lord Aberdeen , why should he have so firataitously alarmed the pacific and commercial interests of both countries with his -big" words , in Parliament and in the press ? Why so prominently play the bully one day , and the sneak the next J No French Minister would have refused the trifling exenses that the English Government has been cont ^ nted $ viih . And the same with respect to Morocco . Why denounce occupation a 3 a casus beZi , and accept n when perpetrated as " -goite natural 1 " What excuse eaa Ministers make to the country for the € xpenee 3 of the preparation in onr dock yards—ex pences nttfriy thrown away and idle—if Government were determined to put up with the Kfnsal of a ! redress , however accompanied by verbal-excuses il v ^ T ^ l "' wiih the TerJ « niB * t ti » t ihe French could hate attempted this year , in the way of conquest and ocenaatkmin Morocco *
, Thei Frencti hare gamed two very great tri ' UKphs . They have laid vi&ient hands on a ProteEtant country , and ignominioualy arrested and expelled the English Consul , whs stood np for the religious mdependance of the people , after the --Government of . England had given cp their political iadependenee . For this we should have had such redress as would be manifest and patent to foreign countries , which judge of our power by our conduct on such events as ibe < & Wa « do they sec ? Whj t that " we swallow an insult and sneak out of a quarrel .
In Morocco the same : —the same repetition of acts distasteful and slighting to us , the same bullying remonstrances , ending with the same sneaking acquiescence on onr part . In both instanees we have humiliated ourselves to play the part not merely of a second-rate power , bat of a second-rate naval power , hoih in the Mediterranean - and the Pacific Ine result of the Tory pobcy ii simply , that we . nave changed places with France in the estimatioH of the wond . And we must own that-the crew of the toghsh vessel , the Warspite . playing the fiddle , -whilst the French ships were destroying Mogador , a w ^ i T * * £ liBh * rade ' is d » molt striking symdol and representation of the respective parts played by the two countries .
FBANCE . Tes Wab Qotsdos . —In Paria , as in London on bunday , the impresaon was general that a criEis had arrived . The view taken , by the French Go-Ternment of ihe Tahiti affair , and the amount of reparation they proposed making for the treatment of which air . Pritchard had been the object at the hands of their officers in that island , having been communicated to the English Cabinet , aad &s the rep }/ to that commuaicavion could not . re&cb P&ris
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before Sunday , intense anxiety appears to have prevailed on the subject . Tsb African Was . —The National stales , that the losses sustain ed by the Emperor of Morocco Rues tlie commencement of hostilities with France are estimated at 30 , 000 , 000 of francs , and this loss is every day increased by the cessation of commerce , and the impossibility of collecting taxes . " This , " adds the Natimel , is the most certain mode of bringing the Emperor of Morocco to terms . " A correspondent of the Times in that journal of Wednesday , says : — You will not be surprised to learn that Marshal Bugeaud had resolved on returning to Oran , for you will have found by my last letters that the French Government had
determined on another attempt to bring the Emperor Abderr&hman to a pacific adjustment of the differences that have arisen between him and France . In order to give time for the reply to this new proposition—in order , also , to have a fair pretext for withdrawing his troops from the frightful heats to which they are exposed , and in order to afford time for the arrival of further instructions and of further supplies , as well as for combining his operations , the Marsha 1 , * having , ' says my informant , ' remained sufficiently lovg in advance of Onebda to prove that the French were the viotora in the late battle , has resolved npon retraoing his steps , and falling back upon Oran . ' Among the supplies ordered to be sent to the Marshal are 5 , 000 mules , which the Minister of War has ( by a publio notice issued in the south of France ) proposed purchasing . This fact alone would prove not only that the war is likely to continue , but
that an expedition against Fez iB determined on . There is nothing extraordinary in this proceeding . It only shows that the war is not dc ? medat an end , and that the French are determine i on prosecuting it with vigour . The declarations of the French Government that they contemplate no aoquiEition of territory , are no doubt entitled to retpect i bat I was myself a * j ear-witness , two or three years ago , to a declaration of the late Marshal Clausel ( in private society ) that would indicate that ulterior views were at one time entertained by France . * We shall never besnre of Algeria , * eaia he , 1 nutil we have Tunis on the one side and Tangier on the other , " I feel bound to state , however , that no alarm is now felt here on the subject of the war with Morocco . The declaration of the French Government that it entertains no views of territorial aggrandisement , and its claim to credence , have removed most of the apprehension felt on the subject .
tauTe The National states that the following ships of war are to be launched in the French dockyards during the present year : —The Poursuivant , the Psyche , and the Pomone frigates ; the Olivier brig , the Topaze galliot , the Seine tender , three steam frigates , the Vauban of 550 horse power , the Sane " of 450 , and another of the same power ; two steam conettes , the Cassini and the Titan of 220 horse power , and the Narval and Australie of 160 horse power . Loms Philippe and Ladt ALnBORouGH . —One of
The Algiers journals of the 25 th ult . add little to our pTevions advices from Africa . Colonel Eynard had arrived in that city , bringing the twenty-one stand of colours taken from the Moors en the 14 th , the parasol of the Emperor ' s son , and the immense tent appropriated to his use , which was carried on the backs of twenty-two mules , and is sufficiently spaoiou 3 to shelter 100 persons . M We now know the exact number of our losses in that brilliant affair , " says the correspondent of the Semaphore . " It cost us 21 killed ( four of whom were officers ) of the Spahis , and S 9 wounded . If wo were to credit the accounts of the Arabs , the Marshal must have greatly undented the truth in announcing that the enemy bad only 800 killed . More recent
intelligence , exaggerated no doubt by the natives , estimates the number of their killed at 3 000 . The firid of battle was literally strewed with dead bodies , which were on the following day in a state of putrefaction—so much so , that the marshal , to avoid the pernicious influence of the miasma produced by a heat of forty-five degrees ( centrigradej , deemed it prudent to transfer his camp to a distance of a "; eague—that is . four leagues to the west of Ouchdah . On the 15 th , he abandoned the Moorish camp , and ascended the Islay as far as Condiat Abderrahman . It wa 3 there Colonel Foy left him to embark in the Oronoque at Djemaa Ghazaouat , a 6 ma ! l bay , where 500 , 000 rations for tho army were committed to the keeping of the natives . We captured upwards of 400 metrical
! j j i , s j i quintals of gunpowder , cannon balls , grapo-shot canisters , musket balls in great quantity , upwards of 1 , 000 horse-shoes , and a large supply of flour ^ A portion of this last article was distributed among the soldiers , and the rest sent to the Hospital of Lolla M agrania , by order of the Marshal . We also j found a considerable provision of excellent tea , ; which our men now enjoy in the evening , at their \ ' ivouack . Upwards of 2 , 000 tents remaiEed in our ; power , 300 of which were forwarded to the camp of ! JLalla Magrania . Our soldiers converted the re-| mainder into drawers . The Marshal was to embark I on the 2 nd at Djemaa Ghazaouat , and return to ; Algiers , visiting on his way all our establishments '¦ on the coast and Orleanville . He is expected at s Algiers between the 15 th and 20 ih . "
SPAIN . Accounts from Madrid of the 26 th ult . Btate , that owing to the exertions of Mr . Bulwer , the English Ambassador , the questions in dispute between Spain and Morocco had been satisfactorily accommodated . The Bank of San Fernando had again agreed to adraQce 60 , 000 , 000 reals for the wants of the Government during the month of September . Letters from Cadiz of the 22 nd , mention that the Prince de JoinviHe had sailed from Mogador , and that he was expected with his squadron at Cadiz on the 23 rd . The Phare steamer arrived there on the 22 nd , with the two hundred Moorish prisoners taken at Mogador ; and on the 21 st another Bteamer left Cadiz , towing out five merchantmen freighted by the French Consul to esarry provisions to the garrison of the island of Mogador .
The Jntoether]Nt Star Saturday, September 7, 1844.
THE JNTOETHER ] NT STAR SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 7 , 1844 .
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RELEASE OF MR . O'CONNELL . VALUE OF LAW . PEEL'S "DIFFICULTY" TREMENDOUSLY
ENHANCED . The law has again triumphed 1 triumphed over an amount of prejudice and personal feeling that bid fair to smother all idea of justice or fair play . Still it has triumphed ! All minor considerations have had to give way ; even the one of ministerial inconvenience ; and the "Majesty of the Law"has been most honourably asserted . For this triumphant assertion of bight over prejudice and manifest interest , the country is mainly indebted to the truly independent and constitutional Judge Dbsjixs . His manly mind refused
to coincide with the tricky sophisms by which the judgement againBt Mr . O'Cokkell aad his fellow prisoners was sought to be vindieated and maintained . He saw in the means by which the " conviction" had beea obtained , a great blow at public LtBEarr ; and he refused to accord to such means the sanction of hit high nane and anthority . He refused to be a party to a prac tice that could only tell against the liberties of the people , and tend to remove the constitutional
barriers to Governmental aggression , however convenient" snch practice might be in removing , or silencing , a political agitating opponent . Wrong had been done ; grievous " error" had been committed : Judge Dekhan was not for leaving the one without remedy , by refusing to rectify the other . He held that the Constitution did afford a remedy ; and he would not consent that a constitutional right ebould ba denied even to an obnoxious , teasing , 'dangerous" agitator .
This was indeed bold conduct on the part of Jndge Dekhas , in the teeth of a great majority of the English and Irish Judgea , and in direct opposition to the obvious requirements of Ministers ; but it was no more than his previous nprigbt and unswerving conduct as a Judge entitled ua expt it . He has earned for himself a character for manliness and rectitude , that will live long after hia body has moaldered into du 3 t : a character that must be enhanced by his successful efforts to preserve public liberty from abridgement or damage on the present
on . Judge Desman wasijoined in his constitutional view of the ease , by Lords Cottenham and Campbell ; and thus there were three of the law lords in favour of the reversal of the judgment , against tico , the Lord Chaxceizob and Lord Brougham , for maintaining it . It is tiue that the three were ill
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Whigs : but what of that 1 Will tho Tory gain by pointing to that fact 1 The simple answer is , that justice has been done—A great principle connected with public liberty has been asserted : and to say that this would sot hare been done had there been a majority of Tory law lords in the House , is to eay that the Tories would undoubtedly have committed injustice . It is well , however , for the Irish prisoners and the country at large , that it " pleased the Lord to take unto himself our dearly beloved brother , " old Abinger , when he did . Had he beea alive now , it is more than
probable we should have had another sort of tale to tell . He was one of the law-lords ; and from his general demeanour and conduct , as a Judge , tbero is little drawing on the imagination in the supposition that had he been present on Wednesday , Lords Lyndhubst and Brougham would have had the benefit of his countenance and company . Then how would the question have fared ! On the law Bench there would have been a fie ; three to three . How could that difficulty have been got over ? Only by the /
aylords taking the decision into their bands . Then there would have been no tie 1 Then the question would have bren settled with a vengeance : and the door of the Richmond Penitentiary would have been made secure indeed . As it was , the rabid partisans had their hands fastened up . Some of them manifested impatience and chagrin at the position the division or the part of the law-lords placed them in ; and even showed signs of rebelling against the obvious requirement of prudence aud right : but in the end shame prevailed : and the Jive were left to themselves to declare the Judgment reversed ,
From this case the people may learn another useful lesson . They can learn of the benefits that accrue from a reliance on the obdjnaby law . Had the palpable injustice committed on the Irish tiaversers , in the pertinacious perseverance with the trial , with a defective jury list , and the consequent packing of the glorious , pieus , and immortal dozen , been quietly acquiesced in , a precedent would have been established ; and , as Lord Denman well said , " Trial by jury would become a mockery , a
delusion , and a snare . " As it is , the foul attempt to distort and destroy the l&w has recoiled on the heads of the Government and its officials , and sent them reeling aid staggering to the Council Chamber to devise other aud more worthy means to accomplish their purpose . And this is the result of tho law . This is the result of seeking for the law ' s protection . What a lesson doeB it teach the people to seek for the power of determining the character of the law , and make it afford general
protection . The example set Mr . O Cornell and his fellow " co-conspirators , " by the Chartist conspirators of 1842 , has not been without its'effect and use . That has beea manifest throughput the whole trial , and the subsequent proceedings . The value of the conduct pursued then is the more apparent , however , from the present Judgment of Judge Denman . He makes the conduct of the Court of Quc en ' s Bench , on the Lancaster case , when the arrest of Judgment was moved for , the groundwork for a very
important portion of his general conclusion . He mentions the ease by name ; and from him we learn , for the first time , why the " fourth-and-fifth-count " men were never had up for Judgment . The fifth count was entirely set aside as bad in law ; and the division in opinion on the fourth eount was Euoh , and so well known , that the Attorney-General did not care to press for Judgment . So Bays Judge Denman himself ; and we take his saying to be a pretty clear indication , that had that Judgment been pressed for , it would have been against the Crewn .
Well , but now , what ia Peel to do 1 He long ago . proclaimed that " Ireland was his great difficulty . " Bitter experience has proved . the truth of that assertion , as Peel but too well ( for his own comfort ) knows . Whatever may have been tfte amount and nature of that difficulty hitherto . boih are now tremendously enhanced . Whatever power Mr . O'Cosnell possessed before the Trial , it is immensely augmented by this decision of the House of Lords . The Liberator goes back to thefarms of the Irish people with all the honours of martyrdom on his head , bound together with the wreath of infalibility . The Irish people
will not reflect that it is not on the merits of the question of " conspiracy" that the judgment of the Irian Court has been reversed , but . only for the manner in which the conriotion was obtained . Such a distinction is far too metaphysical for them . They know that Mr . O'Connkll was consigned to prison : they know that the offence said to have been committed was conspiracy ; they know that the judgment of the Court was given on him for having conspired ; they bow know that that judgment has been . reversed , ! set aside : they know also that Mr . O'Connell told them that
he had committed no crime ; bad broken no law , * and it is natural that they should now have greater confidence in his judge d ment and discretion than ever . But all this tends to make him the more formidable to Peel Peei has tried to put him down . The Minister's great object was to break the charm of ikfalli ? BiLirr that surrounded the " Liberator . " Ho knew that the greatest blow to the confidence reposed so implicitly in O'Conneli . would be the landing him in prison for breach of law . That he accomplished ; and so far had [ the advantage . Now ,
however , the scale is turned : and Peel has to awaken to the conviction that he has ibut ministered to the power of " his great diflkulty . " And now , what is he to do 1 Can he be quiet where he is ! If so , O'Connell is master ; plainly , undisguisedly , unmistakably , master . Can Peel brook that ? And yet what can he do ? Will he begin de novo ? Will heftry the power of the law once more 1 Will he try to remedylithe " irregular practice" that has opened the prison door , and set his antagonist free ! Will he prefer another monster indictment 1 Or will he , relying on the known
pliancy and subserviency of Parliament , ask FOR MORE THAN THB ORDINARY POWER OF the iaw ? Will , he bring in an Irish Coercion Aot , to enable him to do by Proclamation what the packing of the Jury-box has failed in -doing ? Which of these modes will he ven . ture -on ? Some one or other , we say . He oannpt remain as he is . If he does nothing—if he let the matter of prosecution remain as it is , out he must soon go I That will follow as surely as that day
follows night . It is true that another " tussle" may eventuate in a similar result ; but then there is the chance . Besides , the Minister ' s honour will have been somewhat saved in the attempt . If he fall , he will fall JU / hting „ if he fall now , he gives up eowardly , -disgracefully . Hib best courfse , as it eeems to us , ( taking only into account his position ) , will be to apply to Parliament for additional powers . Then what a stir ! Then what a turmoil Then what an agitation ! Then will ihe people of England show who are ihe friends of Ireland .
The importance of this . subject sails for core consideration than we have either time or apace to devote to it at the present . We have still to fook at Mr . O'Connell ' s position . That is not what it was . However difficult and perpfoxing Peel ' s may be , O'Connell ' s is not less so . It is true that he hits now the opportunity , if he possess the requisite qualities , to become the greatest man of thb age : and it is also true that if he does not improve that opportunity to the uttermost .
he will very soon become , comparatively , nobody : The game is , just now , is his hands , if he plays his cards well : but they must be well played . Judgment and prudence , and all the qualities of a General will be required , combined with singleness of purpose and purity of aim . If these are there ; if they be made manifest , Mr . O'Connell will become the most powerful man , for good , the world has in it . Bat if they be absent , or any one of them , his power will be as evanescent as i
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" The anow falla in the river , One moment white—then gone for ever . " He is now raised to a giddy eminence . It depends greatly on himself whether he can maintain his stand , or whether he sha . ll topple over , and be forgotten aud despised . We must return to this subject again . Just as the last line of the above was being written , the Times of Thursday came to hand , with the following demi-official notice : —
" We have reason to believe that a full attendance of Members at the meeting of the House of Commons tomorrow is desirable . It is probable that some IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION will be made . " What ' s in the wind ? Does the important communication arise out of the " reversaP * of Peel ! Is it that he resigns 1 or is it that he must have a Coercion Bill passed ? Something or other of the sort ; The Times also announces
that" The several agents for the trayersers left London last night to congratulate their clients upon a decision which was , even to them , in a great degree unexpected , bat which , fortunately for the peace and good order of the City of Dublin , must be some time known before it can be carried into effect , as a communication stating the remission of the judgment must first be made by the Clerk of the Parliaments to the Queen ' s BeRoh in Ireland , giving rise to subsequent proceedings in that Court next term , unless the prisoners in the mean time cause themselves to be brought before the Lord Chancellor by habeas corpus , and Bhow oause why they should be no longer detained in custody . "
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PEACE ! PEACE ! NO WAR AFTER ALL !! Peace ! the welcome sound proclaim 1 Dwell with rapture oo the theme-Loud , still loader , swell the strain : " Peace on earth ; good will to men . " " O , holy Moses ! Who would think that noses Could do all this !" Such was the appropriate motto adopted by the ( . lobrated Lundy Foots , tbe fortunate Irish tobacconist . And had this country and Europe been embroiled in a bloody war by the pranks of a mischief-making , busy-body , meddling British Missionary Consul , and a drunken little royal proselyte , our motto should have been , O , gats and garters ! Who would think that " martyrs , " Could do all this !
However we are , thank God ! saved from the infliction . As we predicted , popular philosophy " has been more convincing than newspaper twaddle , clerical chivalry , or tea-pot eloquence . Guizot is to scold D'AuaiGNEY , and Lord Aberdeen is to scold Pritchard : and , characteristically enough , thus ends the great European war I Now this is quite right , and just as it should bo : as we see no reason why domestic precedents should not be applied to foreign questions . AH the parties concerned in the religious row at Tahiti were subordinates ; and Sir James Graham has ( and in our opinion properly ) established the principle of
dismissing , censuring , or rebuking subordinates , if complaint comes from the proper quarter . It signifies not whether the culprit be an assistant Poor Law Commissioner , Governor of a jail , Chaplain of a prisoB , or Justice of the Peace . In the case of Tahiti the remonstrance did come from the proper quarter ; and therefore it was attended to : and notwithstanding the ungenerous provocations given , and extensive inducements held out to the fiery , the enthusiastic , the proud , and the lip-brave of both nations , by tho Press of boih countries and the belligerents of Exeter Hall , yet has " popular philosophy" triumphed over kingcraft , pric ; tcraft , and newspaper ohivalry .
Tho quoolion then boing settled , WO Bhould abstain from further reference to it was it not for the anti-national aad unprincipled course pursued by the Irish Liberal" Press . It is not long since a tender was made of the blood and sinews of the Irish people to fight a religious battle for the Heir of the elder Bourbons ; while a similar proffer is now tendered to the young Orleans powdermonkey to maintain that very ascendancy which under God and the heirs of the elder Bourbons , the
same Irish brigade was intended to destroy ! And iu the exuberance of national fervour , the Freeman's Journal anticipates the landing of a large French force at Hastings ; and triumphantly asks what impediment could be offered to their progress to Birmingham , and thence to Manchester , or to Liverpool and thence back again ? Doubtless our cotemporary ia familiar with the old story of the Scotchman who was caught scaling the wall for the purpose of committing theft ; and who on being asked " where are you going V very coolly answered , " Bock agen . "
Now we beg to assure cur warlike cotemporary , that some such awkward question as " Where are you going 2 " would be put to the French invaders , long before they reached the point of anticipated reembarkation ! Nay , should the experiment be tried , we would strongly recommend to the experimentalists the propriety of mooring their boats within leap of the shore and at tho very point of debarkation . Should they be fool hardy , and commence their march to Birmingham , which we very much doubt , not a man would go home to tell ihe story I It is
quite true that there lives and reigns predominant a dreadful and unconquerable hatred of things as they are in tho minds of the working olassea of this country . It is also indisputable that the strongest type of national hatred , —the tall chimneys , the rattle boxes , the chilling bastiles , and the prisons of England , —would present themselves to the invaders on their march to Manchester : but even there ; in the very depth of the lowest hell of English suffering , would be gathered an amount of mind , of sinew , of blood , and of national feeling , which WOULD SAVE EVEN THE ALTARS OF MOLOCH FROM
THE HAND OF THE DESTROYER , RATHER THAN ALLOW THEIR RUINS TO BE COMMEMORATIVE OF THE VALOUR of a HIRED FOREIGN SOLDIERY and of their own inability to deal with a domestic oppressor . And if the national mind of Ireland has not degenerated since tho time that its fervour consigned an Emmett to the scaffold , we cherish the hope that his last sentiment on the subject of foreign interference dwells io every Irish mind . That young patriot said , in adverting to thp probability of a French invasion : " that the invader should land only over his lifeless corse . "
Hating and detesting as we do all wars on whatsoever pretext they may be undertaken , we have a double hatred for this unprincipled system of " here you are , " and "there you are "; now ready to fight for black—now for while ; now Jor friend—now for foe ; NOW FOR ANYTHI 1 VG , and ALWAYS FOR NOTHING . We did not calculate falsely when we asserted , in opposition to the assurance of the Times , that the people were for peace and against war : and we oannot sufficiently congratulate ourselves and the people on the fact that the pacific sentiments contained in the Weekly Dispatch and the Northern Star have proved to be a more correct representation of popular feeling than those belched by the missionaries at Exeter Hall , and insisted on by a majority of t he English Pre 33 .
In t'onclusion then , we , together with the people , rejoice i * hat the bustle , the danger , and the expense of war is . *«* * ° be substituted for the blessings of peace . In peace the organization of the popular mind progress « and is directed to the establishment of permanent g > f ) od « In war its highest aspirations are lost amid the cIa 9 h of arms . la peace the character of a good civilian is more estimable than that of the best wan " ' or » n war a drunken drummer is of more importan w tQaQ eves the venerated Father Mathew ,
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| IRELAND'S CAUSE . WAR TO THE POCKET . Nothing can be more whimsical than the convenient rules of logic by which the strong and mighty solve the probabilities , and adjust the possibilities , of war ; the state of preparedness in general constituting the premises , and the chances of success leading to the hoped-for conclusion . There is only an unmanly sensitiveness and sententious morality about the casus belli when success is problematical ; or as the Irishj sportsman has it , "when the odds are even . " i
Now , we are not going to talk about Tangiers , Mogador , or Queen Pomare . We are not going to waste time in conjectures about a very uneven conflict—a conflict in which all tbe weapons of destruction are on one side , and the blood-letting and payment of the expenditure on the other side ; a war ia which tho wealthy always find profit and the poor a loss . No : we are going to speak of a war at which , according to the old ada e , " two can play" < % war in which virtue , morality , health , vigour , abstinence , —and not as some of our friends would have it , " sacrifices , " —and the surrender of luxuries , are the weapons .
We are not going to recommend " war to the knife ; " though we can nevertheless appreciate the courage of a Palafox : but we are going to recommend was to the pocket . > a war more deadly to the griping capitalist , to the cunning diplomatist , to the unjust ruler , and to the proud monarch . The war which Ireland is now about to wage against her old oppressor , the English oligarchy , and the Irish Custom House Officer ; a war of extermination ; extermination of English sinews and Irish vices ; a war in which Ireland has everything to gain , and nothing to lose ; a war in whioh her people may
gain health ; wealth , knowledge , and nationality ; a war which | we trust to see concluded only by a declaration of Irish independence , achieved by a union of Irish mind , directed by Irish interests . The Irish people are now about to purebase their freedom by ] the sacrifice of their vices ; vices that have been engendered , nurtured , fostered , and encouraged by her bittereit enemies . And it is laughable to witness the tone of that portion of the Press devoted to ; the inculcation of " good sound moral principles ; " that Press that has been in the habit of ascribing all the murders and inquietude of the
country to dissipation and the unchecked ase of intoxicating : drink 9 . A portion of the Press that has racked { its brain and fuddled its columns in the endeavour to aid the Government in the suppression of illicit distillation , by whioh drunkenness was placed within the reach of the very poorest of the poor ; that Press which would justify intoxication only when measured by the Exchequer standard , has turned round with its usual and rather increased ferocity , and denounced this—the most noble national sacrifice of a national vice that ever was offered at the shrine of patriotism .
The Times whimsically enough designates this new system of warfare as putting " the cart before the horse "; and argues the little injury that England can sustain from the threatened tactics ; while the Dispatch of course muut desire "justice to Ireland ;" but is afraid that the licensed victuallers and the publicans will be the principal sufferers in the contest . The Repeal of the Legislative Union has been more consistently advocated in the columns of the Northern Star than in the hottest of the Irish Repeal journals . The question is so much better understood by the English than the Irish working classes , that our lecturers one and all can expound the principle ,
and disousB its merits better than they are discussed in the Conciliation Hall . The Irish Press has done much ; it has done its best , to arm itself with all the difficulties arising from English indifference , English neutrality , pr English opposition : obstacles existing not in the brain of Irish journalists , but created to serve their interests . The English people have maintained ; a most glorious position on the question of Repeal , in defiance of the opposition of its Press and its leaders ; and it is for these reasons that we hail the adoption of a system whioh must lead to thought and knowledge , and to right and proper conclusions .
This new proposition places the whole quc s'ion of Repeal on a new basis : aud , as we have been the first to combat every obstacle thrown ia the way of the measure , whether by friend or foe , we shall now proceed to comment on the proposal to achieve the Repeal by the declaration of an Excise and Custcm House war . Firstly , then , we may observe , that this is not a new idea , j It was a similar resolution' on the part of the Americans that led to their declaration of Independence . Secondly , Ireland is in a better position toiharrass the enemy by this description of warfare than the Americans were . Independently of these important considerations , the Very first campaign will refute the boast of the English
oligarchy and the aristccratio Unionist ? . The answer to the just [ complaints of the Irish people ever has been : " What could you do without us V M See the protection j we afford you'' ! " Sea the terms of equality on ; which we tiado with you" ! ^ We are the rich husband ; we took you witheuk dower ; and we would be divorced from you tomorrow , was it not for our tender solicitude about your unprotected state . " " How is it possible that Ireland can derive other than advantage from her union with a great and [ wealthy nation" ! The reader has read such stuff as this over and over again : but how awkwardly it all squares with the lamentations of those Journals who now be ^ ia to discover that Irish poverty id a consequence of English misrule and injustice , iand no ° i Jriah improvidence .
We rejoice , then , at this new decision of the R pealers , because it will teach our rulers that full political rights must instantly follow a thorough social Reform . We hail it , aiao , because it will teach our [ tyrants a salutary lesson , while it will also convince the people that to be free a nation needs but will it . But then she must will it in the right way . Nay more ; it will have the effect of preparing them for the full fruits of the ' change , whenever it takes place . As long as the Repeal agitation was the mere bustle of the momentarily excited thought , we measured Mr . O'Connell by
his own standard . If he deolared the year 1843 the Repeal year , he being the voice of Ireland , and the mind of Ireland being guided by him , we bad a right to hold him to the fulfilment of his promise , or to the assignment of good oause for its non-perfortoanoe . | And when in his unopposed course he declared 1 ^ 544 to be the " clinching" year , we were justified in laughing at him : but it was not because he failed to accomplish his object , but because he was aware that he had promised an impossibily Such has been the medium through which we have heretofore ! viewed Mr . O'Connell ' s conduct . And
now we venture to give him some wholesome advice . Far fram- 'trammelling him , our greatest difficulty has been | to remove the obstacles which ho has placed in ! his own way . He will now have new materials wherewith to fight the battle of his country ; and we require no pledge from him as to the day , the month , or year ia which the object iB to be accomplished . We demand no more from him than a good and sound cultivation of the sober thoughtful mind of ¦ Ireland ; and we hate no fear as to the course into . which the new stream will run . It will flow towards * Chartism ! He cannot stop it ! It is impossible ; because
it is the only safe island in the whole ocean of political thought whereon true principle can establish itself . Nothing , in our opinion , is s . o mean , so petty , so contemptible , or so wicked as to profess a desire to achieve a great object , and at the same time throw every obstacle in the way of those who undertake it . And we think we speak the voice of reason , of safety , and tbe nation , when we assert that this , the new tactic of the Repeal Association , justifies , if it does noi even demand , the postponement of its accomplishment . Had the Repeal been c ffected before the ] working classes of Ireland were * prepared for its recaption , it would have been a second Reform
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Bill , whereof the people ' s share would have been " the Bill , the whole Bill , and nothing but lhe BilP '; for those calling themselves the u middle-class Liberals" would have reaped tbe rich harvest of the change . There is nothing so dangerous to the interests of the working classes of a coantry , as the premature achievement of a great political change ; and there is nothing so necessary aa good and sound preparation , whereby the people themselves may be enabled to ensure the benefit of the practical working as well as the theory of the novelty . We should not like to see the Repeal of the Union carried , until we can refer our readers to some more substantial
proof of the people ' s preparedness for the measure than the mere panoramio view weekly presented at the Conciliation Hall . And right glad are we to find that debating societies , meeting houses , aad reading rooms are to be established throughout the country for the promulgation of Repeal principles . Let this be extended to every district in Ireland . Let each have its own lecturers . Let workiug men in their own homely language state their own grievances to their fellows , and propound the remedies that they have learned from their instructors . Let us no longer find that all the oratory , all the honours , and all the rewards , are confined to briefless servile barristers , pettifogging attorneys , and speculating trades .
Let poverty commune with poverty : and then will Repeal in Ireland become like chartism ia England , a principle which neither tyranny can crush , nor persecution overthrow . On , then ! War to the pocket ! and however a timorous time-serviDg prostitute Press may pat the Irish people on the back , and however a desolating government may tickle them by closing an insulting session by the removal of disabilities to which no Catholic would now submit , let the Irish people always bear ia mind that their own strength , and not their tyraats love of justice , has led to the mitigation of every law that has beea mitigated : and that to-morrow , if the English oligarchy and their Irish Orange
Protestant brethren had the power , they still retain the will to crush them ; to bruise them ; to plunder and insult them . ' Aad if they accept , a boon , let it be not with thankfulness , but with pride ; with the consolation that it is a tribute paid to their own strength . It is well for the oppressor to talk of " forgiving and forgetting : " but let the oppressed cherish and preserve a glorious and highminded national vengeance , softened by the prida of power and the pity due to a fallen foe . War to the pocket . War against vices , passions , dissipation , and immorality ; and the laurels won in the conflict will be worth a nation ' s wearing . Let war to the pocket therefore , be the motto of the Irish warrior .
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Mr . Sanderson , Galashiels , —We intended to giv « some portions of the addresa be forwarded , bat have not na yet had room . Other patties have been prosecuted , and successfully , for defacing placard announcements . Whether his friends would succeed ig another question , which nothing but trial can solve . AYR—The Irish Girl's poetry in our next . Will Mr , Richard M'Lachlan send us bis address . J . H . Carlisle . —We have no room at present J . W . H ., Strood . —We have not seen the article In the Weskyan Chronicle of the 30 th of August , which he praisea aa being highly democratic Mb . West and Mr . Fauvey . —Aa Mr . "West b . M mialaid tbe address of Mr . Falvey , be would feel much obliged if that gentleman would correspond
with him , in order that the necessary arrangement may be made for the forthcoming discussions in Manchester and Maeclesfleld . Mr . West ' s addrest Is—6 , Watson Walk , Sheffield Mr . Taylor , of Manchester , painter , is requested to communicate with Dr . M'Douall aa soon as possible , and to direct , 52 , Walcet-aquare , Lambeth , London . John Carr , Fulhah . —His communication and Enclosures we have forwarded to the General Secretary , Mr . Wheeler , to be by him laid before the Metropolitan Delegate Council . They will , no doubt , deal with the question as becomes Caartiata . DR . Mainwarings Pills . —We are obliged to withhold the advertisement of these Fills till next week . Want of space at tbe late hour we received it is tne
reason . Vindex —We bare not room thi 8 week . John Jackson , Bradford , writes to say that he did not stand pledged to attend tbe discussion at Ecsleshill , as set forth itr the report inserted last week ; but that be had led many to believe that it was 1 probable he would be there . The other portions of bis letter Mr . Jackson will see the propriety of our declining to meddle with . He and the parties he complains of must settle the matter , between themselves . William Dawson , Holbrook—Mr . O'Higgins ' s address is—Patrick O'Higgins , Esq ., 14 , Narth Annestreet , Dublin . J . P ., Chester . —No room . Charles Freebairn . Salford . —No room .
Morgan Jenkins . —Thomas Sawyers , of Lewisbam , writes as follows : — " Having seen that a subscription list was open for that persecuted patriot , Morgan Jenkins , I cannot but feel surprised attheapatfcj shown by the Chartist body , especially as his wbole property baa been sacrificed for the sole cause of Chartism . I hope , Sir , we shall throw off tbit apathy , and strain every nerve to place him again in hia once comfortable position . The locality to wcid ) I belong , although small , are determined to a cuui to render him every assistance that lays in their power . My | nrm prayer ii , that each locality will do likewise . " James Williams . —The letter is too lengthy for onr
columns . Mr . Harper , thk " Anti-League Lecturer , " aud the Charter . —In reference to a statement in tbe report of the Hull Meeting , on the Corn Law qae * tion , we have received the following letter ¦ : — " * your last week ' s Star I find a brief report of a lecture that I delivered at Hull on Monday , the 26 th ult , « Free Trade . In that report I am charged with ' very ridiculous attempt to prove that the Ch arttfi instead of bettering , would make the condition of tie working classes worse than at present . ' This aUK * ment is not only unfair , but positively nntroe . l never altered the above sentence , nor one wh ich « as at all capable of sucb a construction . I did «* that if the working classes had the suffrage to-dtf . V 4 m ** V Wb VAd ^ v W ^^ & ^ AHK v # wm # ^ 4 rf ^ # ' UHW HAV " ^™«" ™^^^ *
and they continued to act in the same way that v tfv nnmbere . of them have acted—that the same cooi » « action would only tend to sint them deeper sw deeper in destitution . The matter which called fow this sentence was as follows : —I was speaking of toe Trades' Unions- and the CoIIiera * Movement , aw was reprobating the eonduct of those men wb ° _ *™ ever ready to become traitors to their fellow-work ing men , aud serfs to the slave-driving capital ' '' * the sake of a temporary benefit The truth of »* position I am prepared to maintain before either *\' Kydd or any working man in the kingdom , no ** ever ridiculous the attempt may be . At tbs »»« time , I would state that I have ever advocate d »» rights and interests ef the working classes ; ana d « only advocated , but have suffered severely for sow
advocacy . —John Harper , Doncaster . " Infamous Brutality . —A correspondent at Bra ^ , j . Wilta , sends as the following : —Monday , the 2 t >» of August , was Bradford Leigh fair , and for want " a better job , one of the police , stationed at Bradfom w » s on the fair ground , and saw , or he th ougnt w saw , a young woman pay a bad sixpenny-piec e w person , in payment for some apples . Without w charge being made against her , the b rute too * upon himself to drag her away to the Blind-noiw a most miserable place of confinement ^ ew poor creature was locked up for the night , notw _ standing her oft-repeated declaration of 1 ° " ° ?^ - The next morning ( Tuesday ) , on the BIu >* - ^| being visited , she was found almost dead . *'? " ^ t » she was of very delicate constitution , a ° U ) Ui T ( f ment brought on fits , which she never got ° »* ^ again . About ten o ' clock she was fonnd a corp «» Coroner ' s Inquest has since been held on tne „ and a verdict of " Died by the visitation oi " ^ returned . And " I am informed that the P ° ' r £ |; ia to be applauded for his humanity and kuia » w" « viour !
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A THE NO R THERN STAR . j Septembeb 7 , 1844 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 7, 1844, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1279/page/4/
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