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      this { Satnrd&y , January lit ) is tie birth-day ef a iset year . Tee ead and gloomy * One thestend 6 ight jja ^ dred and forty . seven' is now numbered with the i things that vrere , ' bnt es the evil men do lives after * BOT . * so , we fear , will the ills of which the year bow gjsed was the wttnes ? , sumrafor at leagt same time tocome . Disease is still hurrying its xiatims to premature graves ; and if we may trust the predictions of jsedicsl prophets , the influer . ax is but the precursor gjjd herald of the Btill aore dreaded cholera . Heaven gaarf us from the JHTasiop of tkat enemy . But it is ^ Gitt to * weary H ? arm with prayers , ' unless we perform ear own duty . The Gods help them who help themselves . Let the rich cleanse the dwellings of the noor , and substitute comfortable homes for wretched

      4 ED 5 . Let employment fee found for the unemployed , fist they Kay exchange their rags for warm and fittin g cjothinsj , and forget hanger's pangs by oblain . jc 2 a fair share of the food whieh of right beloaga to tisTa . If tbjs is not done , the year now commencing ss ar be a more mournful term of time than even tha « ar which is now ko more . From one end of Ireland to the other , the wail of tfespair is borne open the winds , and wafted sck > s 3 St beorge ' s Channel , < inds a frightful response in the poking cry and muttered cprse of the starving mil-Jjens of Great Britain , "ft ' e warn the admirers of cut ' glorious institutions , ' that if this state of things costumes much longer , it is not the concession of the t six points' c-aly that trill satify the people . There c « t be a siorc terriblea ^ itation than ibj this country

      j £ 3 jet seen , and for objects eTen mora starting than the Charter . And why sot ? The people are ' starring xn a land-of plenty ; hemelcss oh a soil which , has joMn enon * h for quadruple the number" of happy ¦ £ eemeH , that there are kow of discontented slaves ; jarscs , while abundance of eloihing gnoBHnds them , jud is fabricated by them ; in short , doomed to the £ te of TtsiuxB ; all the materials of happiness . seetsing ly within their grasp , and at the game tiee . eac omcassed by-all the w « ea of an earthly hell . Lst & 9 nebj the privileged , an * , the prend , panse in : 4 hsir career , and ' learn to da jastiee and love mercy . ' Xetthem remember the lesson taught them not very Joe ? ago by another people , who failing te obtaia jfetiee for themselves , and goaded to rnadnesi by tJ ? ir snfieringp , at length execated pitiless jostioa & < q vteir oppressors . ¦ Tfce aristocracy of

      France—* £ \ ew thatmen wera brothers , bntin their lait they trod , ' ( Hhe lessons of their priests , and jtha warnings of their jSoi . Tajy knew that men were brothers , bnt they heeded not « ib Lora , So we . taught tbem the great truth anew , with fire asd ¦ srirtjswsra . ' Thcshas the aristocratic member for Canterbury described the past of another country ; pray Heaven he may not also in those lines have pictured the future cf oar own .

      With these remarks by way 9 f prefaoe , "we shall cow proceed to introduce to our readers a few poetical piscas , ' like orient pearls at random strung . Borne sheeted , and some the original contributions of friends . Te shall csmmencs with a poem by onr friend and oUesgue , Eixest Jones , - which cannot fail to win for hat gentleman new laurels . Rightly is he named , X to write a 3 he has written in the followin g passonata outburst , he must , as Kemble said of Keaa , be terribly in earnest : '—

      A SEW YEAR'S CUP . BT XXXEST JOKES . So ! merry Hew Year , I keep thee well , In ths hollew graTe of my ooeinjr ceil ; Eark ! Hark ! how aj filler * play ! Tfee winds that dash , down the frosty -way ; See ! Sea ! how tin dancers eorael To * horrors that crowd in the poor man ' s Loffle ; And my board with a dainty feast is spread , "With inEult and sneer for meat and bread ; Aa 4 a goodly thin ; is oj wassail bowl , To cbeer the thoughts of a Christian soul t Elgh I High I wave it high ! Sd huh that the rich may taste , On their golden eminence placed : 'Tis the cap of miisryj

      Cone forth from the depth of yoor marbls hold , Yon suft-sklnned heir to the enrso of gold ! Toccbssf * for once with yenr haughty eye . To see how the millions live and die : ¦ Tis a . creel life—irith its weary woe ! 'Tis a cratl death—for they parish slew ! Bet the gathering wrath of an outraged race Follows like fi 3 me on jonr stately trace : Then drink your wise with what heart you can , While I quaff my cap to my fellow man , Eiffh ! High ! ware it high ! Up to hii csrliag lip . That the child cf lords may sip :. 'Tis the enp of misers !

      Ho ! Bat for the space of a night cast aside , Th » enmbrou * pomp ef your paltry pride . Up and away from your costly board ! TTp and a trey from yonr goldea hoard ! Up and away from jour stately ha ll , And sinion * , and menials , and parasites all ! Up and away from yonr conch of down , Ana beg your bed through the streets of the town 1 'Twill tesuh yon hoT merry the life of the pear , Aad HI drink to yon , man , for my csp Bows o ' er High ! High ! WaTe It high ! Tarn not yoar h » ad aside :

      'Tis a mediejne good for pride : * 'Tis the cap of miserj ! Oh ! How you TToal < 3 shiver , and howl . a « d wail , 'Hid the pitiless roar of the storming gale ! Stripped of the glare of yonr trappings high * "f 7 hsre would he th e * yoar nobility ! A helpless , nalced , shivering thing—Prbst and Usurer—Lord and Eice ! Tn bile I can bufwt and baSa ths storm , And Itc-gh as it spins from my stricken form , ? or Ey cup Soars o ' er , and I know by the sign , As the werld whirls round , so ths turn will ba mine 3 Hish » Higk ! Wmre it high » of he

      Let him drin ^ what poured—Let kirn taste of rrhat he stored : 'Its tha cap of misery ! Silk- —orm , that crawls an the naked earth ! Tell me , what now is thy human worth ? 'VThere is the hand with its plaitie might ? ¦ Where is the thought with its tisdling light t Your Peers by the patent of nature are few , And they left yonr ranks to make war on you . 'TIS with us—with us—that the glory remains

      -Or the skilfal hands and the Echeming brains . Then—driak 1—drink!—since ages we're quaffed—The torn has come rstmd , and now yonr * s is the draught . Hiih ! High ! Ware it high . ' Why do ye blench and shrink , From what ye b 3 de us drink ? TU the cap of misery ; "Tell me , where is your safety now , With the erest of pride , but the humble brow ? Tr lies in the Start of the stricken slave :

      Per he raeasnres not by the mead yon gave . And ths bitter cup you bade him drink , He dashes to atoais on bIstwj ' s brink . Aa 3 hecries , as be casts his cSains at your feet In the sweat of thy brow , thy br « d ghalt thon cat . ' Aad he ( frisks you a roase / or the bonny New Year , 1 lisa , up with the goblet bo crystal aad dear . Sigh ! Wgh I Ware it hi'h ! For every man to taste ' Wherever born or placed ! 'Tis the cup of liberty ! The following , although from the Comk Almanac , is ^ irae portrait of one s ection sf tho * gnperior elasses ' tS whose lips Mr Jones commeads misery ' s cap ; socld that thev had ta drain it to the dregs : —

      THE RESPECTABLE HAN . i-fighly respectable Man ' I . Iscariot Ingots , E « qaire , Ha ' s' post obits' os half the ' Blue Book , ' And a mortgage or two in each shire ; And caving more cash than be needs , Why he lends the poor all he can , Aaionly lakes lizty per cent ., Like a highly respectable maa . He ' s a house like s nobltman ' s { uraish'd , His tide-board , too , blazing with plate , An 3 half iilTer , half gold , you'd declare It belonged to some pter of the State ; So it did—till he seized it in payment Ofliiseisty pereestuns per aan . ; Aad now he gives dinners to shswit . Like ah : ghly respectable man . - Ilia fatiu * in-law ' s an attorney ,

      And his brother s dealer In wine , _ Aad h . U brotber . in-law ' s ' a bum-bailiff , And his son in the auctioneer line ; So fint , you ' ve 'half wine' for your b'dls , Then are jntd , idzta , sold np by the clan ; Tur be loves to assist hit relations , LUse a highly respectable roan . ? or the atiuranee of lires he ' s an office , To make his small profits the more ; If joa sskhia to di'count , he tells yoa * For security , you must insure . ' AeaVg' all honest men oug ht to do so—Besides it ' s » o easy a plan , Aad wjtia something to leave on your deafe-bsd , Ton metuih & rejpeet&ble aian . ' It ' s said he ' s a tyrant at home ,

      . That the jewels his wife has for show , " "ITere all of them salves for some wound'" " . TLat esch diamond ' s heal'd BP s blow ; Ttit his children , on bearing his knock , Tiithe top of tbe house alwayiran—Sat with ten thousand pousds at his banker's He ' s ef course a respectable man . - ? et hB * i kiniaeii itself to young' blood ? , id Mi nkea lordlings solicit his aid , i'Jffhy he talki ^ e a father-, and ^ asks sg ^ icK , js- . i ^ J ^^^ it . ' f 5 < bs '; p 4 i 3 ] t . f ®^ w siraT ^ K ^^^ woul 4 £ ^ i * ; .-v' ^^ c * r 3 c ^^ ia ^^ Ea 2 s ^ JE £ ^ P ^ Biff toV 6 iT » ' x £ m ? WE -doiL ' To ' ft- ' eblt , Like a higal ? rcspect&tls man ,

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      Still stfase * sooandteh' declare he ' s hud . beuted-Tost he eurse * eaoh beggar he meets—Th « t for rent he uahoaa'd his old father Awfof want let him die is the streets ; Pooh ! pooh 1 he subicrlbes erery qnart » For tha alssion'ries sent to Japaa , And if that doesn ' t make one respectable Why , what is a respectahle man « * Of religion as well kDowsths raloe , For ne was the first of beginners To ran up a fashtosable chapel For elegant mi »' rable sinntrs ;' Ani to . hire a gooi-lookia ^ paraoa To tell dowagers 'life ' s bat a span , ' For he lores to serrefeoth God and Hammon Like a h ' ighly rsspectabla man , * His daDgofer has married for love

      , Though sheM offers from persons of rant . And * my Lady , ' at least might have been With themuney he had in the bank ; Bnt sinea ske thought fit to disgrace him , She may live in thebeit way gfcecan , 68 h » leaves his own daughter to starve , Lika a highly respectable man . Then he makes a fresh will every quarter—Or when he ' s a fit of' the blues' — Or his wifa has offended him somehow—Or some son will not fallow his views ; An 4 he threatens toUave them all beggars . Whene ' er they come under his ban—BVJ 1 beqaeath « H sis wealth to an hospital , Like a highly respectable mam . We extract the following lrom the Ne # Yoek Tkibuns

      —THEIRrSHJfOTHEK . * They shall hunger no more . '— RectlatUms vil . 16 . I heard the lenient of a poor Irish mother , As watch by the forme of the famished ske kept ; Tha was , wasted features of sitter and brother ffae bathed by the drops the bad uselessly wept : Oh ! sweet washer lay for the harden it bore—• They shtll hunger no more . ' While winter ' s rude wind through eech crasny was sighing Tkelast , blsekened crumb to mjfrsilom I gave : I opened my veins when mfgoungcsl was dying , Aronsad by a mother ' s oild inBtiaot to « ave —• The lips of my darling are wet with the gore-She will hunger so aore . FooS flung fey the for hunting lords ef this nation ,

      ¦ With prodigal hands to their hounds , wauld subdae In man ; & hovel the pangs of ittrration , And thankfulness waisntiat pomp never knew ; Poor babes ! I regret not jour anguish is o ' er—Ye trill hanger n « mora . Wbilefamine the flesh on their bones was consuming Itcrozad me to hear their low moans night and day—2 * 0 brand on tbe deBolate hearth . stone illuming Their couches of oeld , musty straw with its ray ; Xow calmly they rest , side by side , on the

      floor—• They shall hunger no more . ' Oh ! ctark is the clou * that isipf ads over Britain ! The wrongs of the wretched makebarren her soil ; That country with curses should ever be smitten Where perishing want is forbidden to toil-Where hunger kills more than disease or the sword , And white-handed Sloth finds a plentiful board . Ths following Toice from a ' Chartist farmer ' should convince our Irish brethren tkat the English Chartists are their traB friends : — ifllMt 14 fe * W ** & ^ 'AAWA * A fc 4 W & « AVUUy

      . *^ * * AS APPEAL FOB IRBLASD . There ' s a scream of despair from Erin ' s isle , A Bation ' s tear and a nation ' s wail . It tells of long oppression and guile , Its echo is borne on the western gale . Starvation stalks her plains among And fell disease with direful sway , Has stilled the peasants joyous song Whilst thousands pine and die away . Alas for Ireland ! will no ona save ! Can Britain's sons no help afford ? Ka 3 t myriads sink into their grave , f 7 hilstavarice counts its glittering hoard ? Shall landlords reap the harrest of their toil , And spend is luxury the peasant ' s gain , Whilst they who till their native soil Are dying fast from hunger ' s pain ? Yes ! Britain '* arm is stretched to rave , Her Caramoni Housa bath beard your cry , Coercion first ! and then tbe grays 1 LiiteD , ye rebsl Celts—and die !" Oh , Heavea ! hear and avenge this doom , Oa tjrants let thy judgments fall . Sare this wronged people from the tomb , Avert thtir dissial funeral pall . '

      And ye , ths English patriot band , Disclaim your senate ' s fiendish howl ! Proclaim iu thunder through the laud Tour hatred of Coercion foul .-Support O'Connor amd the brave few , Tha unequal atrurgle to maintain , Who ' mosgst the faithless still are true , And well their country ' s cause sustain . Thoeas JIabtis Wnrczxa , O'Coanorville . We lately received a paoket of hand-bills published and circulated by E . S . Wilkinson , ' flatter and Ssortsman , ' of 99 , ; Broad . 3 trefet , Reading . These bills are , in their way , ' cariosities' of shop-keeping 1 literature . ' The author announces that Be deals in Hantin ? . Shooting , Fishing , and [ PeacMng Hats ;' but the Eaid announcement is made subsidiary to the more important contents of the bills—denunciation of the Game Laws . The 3 e ienunciati » ns are both in prose and poetry . We subjoin a speeimeu .

      THE PRINCE AND THE PEASANT . A G 1 XS LAW DIXXr . BE Spart for the Prince ! 'Tis Mb pleasure to shoet : Quick , toyourdmies—degs , keepers , and lords ; Belt the rich flask on his gentleman ' s suit . Give him all aid that Place-worship affords . WHO Spart for the Prince ! Let his game-bags be filled , Lure ths broad wings to the month of . his . gan ; Print in round numbers the scores of his -Ikiiled , ' Aad blsson the Hood-play of Royalty ' s son . FEEDS Sportfor the Prince ! Hem the mountain deer roand , Drive them in doien * to leap to Mb lead ; If he aim at a breast in its fear-quickened bound , Though he miss , he may still bit some beautiful head

      THE Sport for the Prince ! Let him go from the feast . In the Palace where Plenty and Luxury reign ; Let him slaughter for jastime tha bird and the beast , Aad go back to a fesst in the Palace again . PHEASANT Sport for the Prince I Let him redden the eartb , Let him batcher the spoil witk a jewel-decked band , ' Battaes' for the Prince in a season of dearth , Preserves for the Princo in a bowel-pinched land . AND Food for the Peasant ! Ha , ha!—does he dare To go forth in his Hunger and kill for bis Want $ May fee tonch the wiia partriage , or slay the wild hare , Thonsh his meat may be none , and his bread maybe scant f

      Pood for the Peasant I Heisintimaa ^ . ' 1 || | f And may fee ! tho hard rubs in a . lonely one ' j lot ; j F He has months he map love , that he'll fill if he can , And he seeth no sin la the snare or tbe shot . THE ' Food for tfca Peeiant ! Vile thief ! does be dream That the rights of the ' great' sha ll be trampled " - by hiai ! The poacher , the rogue , let bis barrel-Sash gleam , There ' s the gaol for his home , and the chain for his linft . v -

      PEASANT Food for the Peasant ! Bate hind , does he hope Tnat his skill as ft ' marksaian' vril meet . with a ward , -. ' ' ^ t Save the tareat that pronounces " « B'bDBt aajpope , As too good foe ' the rlllain that coTets abpiJi IS **¦ Jii-s . '* Food for the Peasant—nay , totan not a'fpp ^ ; :. J | jj Starve and be patient , meanSlave as ^ feare l « 0 Si Leave the brave onslaught of manor andSiatber ^^^ To purses with rent-rolls , and breast wi < £# Sp | l | Ii Sport for the Princa ! Aidhim / kepperi ^^^ . *^ Pablish with praises the Wood he bas ^^^^ S ^_ ' i Food for tbe Peasant ! bring bludgeon * tt 3 >* p ^ tt ? V Dab him a felon , and brand him with * g 5 St > % *¦ " '

      TrBAKT . ' - .. Sport for the Priree , People ' .-sport for the * ri& *! Fosd for the Peasant ! my ditty is done ! But we ' ra hearts ia our bosoxt , and do they not wince When comparing the Pjor Maa with Eoyalty ' a Son ! We wish pood luck to Mr Wilkinson , and trust thathU ' poaching iatf will « gooiTMpidly . Our middleman friends ( we hare a / w )« heml 4 take a hit from the Resdins Hatter . They might take for their themesthe abominations of cUss-legiriation Charter evils

      and the necessity for the ; on Jo o land-monoDoly and the advantages of the Chartis Land Plan ; on the folly of war and national glory : and ths true glory of international fraternity . By tSiDethT s course they misht popularise their ' wares , ' Si their tUls , and accelerate the progreaa of ju ' tice , freedom , fraternity , truth and public hap-^ J ££ ^ r « S 5 &- «« * w tdlina coHiposition of a working man .

      " TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND . Ye people of EDg lend arise ia yowr might , _ Demand frcm your rulers your Charter of right . Let the snout of your miUions indignant burst fortn , 'Till tbe faces of tyrants turn pala at your wratn . Let rour accents be heard at tha ***•?**• **** . Whi ' rstke queetfof fair Albion enthroa'd sits In itat * Where th . mlaiow of power are with luxury fed , While hi * ittMectt are etarriog and orjmg for broaa .

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      [ While the WaU of tha hnngry i 8 piercing the air , And the eheek of th * orphan is wan with despair , - She pampers h « palate with prodigal meats , AVid ' admires' the' patience' that starves in her streets , The noble looks down with an eye of disdain , On . the peasant whose labour makes fertile tbe plain—Who guilds np the palace ambition to glut , Aad dies ia despair ia a desolate hut . Crush'd down by oppression ' s intolerant law , The poor flOH of toil on his pallet of straw , Paiat with iong anguish yields up his last breath , And bails trith delight the glad welcome of death . How long shall such misery o ' ersbadow the land , An j famine and pesti . 'eoce walk bend in hand , O ' er the home of our sires—tbe Ion J of our birth—Tha fairest and dearest , best spot < A the earth ?

      Up , up and be atii ring—your sinews are strong , You ' ve a sword in each suffering—a spear in eaeli wrong , In each ehild of yoar homestesd a tongue that shall apeak , Till the shaoklts of tyranny sever and break . Insist on the right which yonr Industry yicMs , To be glad in your bomej—to be free in jonr fields , 'Till released from tbe trammels of station or birth > Ye enjoy without limits the fruits ef the earth . Insist that the idle no longer shall share In the wealth that is wrong from the sinews j >?' care >

      That toil has a clnim wbieb na 1 st ? sial ! abate , That the riahes are yours which your labours escate-. Do this in the spirit of firmness and peace . Unite , and the reign ef oppression shall ceasa , Audtjrannyhumblod—her sceptre laid down , Shall cast from her brows her btood circled crows . On , on to tha victory I Shrink not nor pine , But rallj around fair liberty ' s ' shrine , Leav » , the slave-stricken dastard that ' s gasping for breath , And rush onward for liberty , gle * y or death . Bilsten . Jobh Jones .

      We have now to direct the attention of our readers to _ a volume ^ of genuine pcetry , the production of an Irish working man *—a raaslin-weaver— * whose education , whatever it may be , had to ba purchased with his own industry and perseverance * at an employment not very remarkable for its remunerative qualities . ' We onght to have noticed this volume before now , for it has been some months in our possession , but , in truth , we had no great inclination to set onrselvea to its j-erusal . We saw that the author was one of tho poetical contributors to the Nation , and we , therefore , could hardly be in doubt as to the character of his poetry . We admit that the poets of the Natios can write well , write with true poetic fire ; but their talents are fearfully misapplied .

      They have devoted their pens to the wicked work ef setting people against people , for no better reason than that the one are called English and the other Irish . The nationality-humbug ia the grossest of delusions . The Russians are in possession of undisputed nationality—are tbey free ? Frenchmen , in spite si their great reverse at Waterloo , have preserved their nationality , of which they are not a little rain , but will any one have the hardihosd to assert that Frenchmen are free ? We admit that it is well for the Swiss to maintain their nationality . We admit it is well for tho Poles and Italians to seek the recovery of their national power . Bat if we thought that nationality' was to be the only end of Polish and Italian struggles , wo would never a ? a \ n

      write or ntter another word in favour of either Poles or Italians . Our quarrel with the Nation poets is , that they have lateured madly , if not wickedly , to lash their countrymen into a fury afainst England , while , at the same time , they have done n 9 thing to teach the people how to win real liberty , or preserve X waen won . Had Ireland her ' green flag , and all the rest of the theatrical paraphernalia of nationality the Nation poets sigh for , it does not follow that the mass of her people would be free and happy . We , Englishmen , have a national Hag , ' St George ' s redcross banner , ' the ' flag that has braved a thousand years , the battle and the breczs ; ' a fhg which was the victorflagat Agiacourfc and Waterloo ; whieh floated victorious over the captured spoils of the mighty Armada , and France and Spain's naval hosts

      at Trafalgar . Possessingsueh a ' flag , we ought , according to Nation Botiens , to be a very happy peop le ! England has a mighty nary , a brave army , innumerablecolonie 3 , on her possessions'the sun never sets . ' What a great people tbe people of England must be ! What more can the Naiiox peets hope for , what more could they desire ? Yet all this ' glory , all this pomp of empire , all the power and all the wealth of our countrj . are monopolised by a privileged few . The mass of the people of England are politically and socially disinherited , and possess neither political power nor social comfort . Now , what guarantee will the Nation poete give to us , that when they have made Ireland a ' nation , ' Irishmen will be better off than Englishmen are ? Nationality may co-exist with the vilest slavery , aa Englishmen know full well .

      We must do the author of the volume of poems before us , the j astice ef saying , that he ia , by no means , the most rabid of the Nahos tribe . He exhibits a very laudable desire to unite Irishmen of every creed and every P 3 rfc of Ireland . So far , so good , but we are sorry that his fraternal sympathies Bhouid stop there ; The ' patriot . ' whose one idea is the exaltation of his own country , only requires the aid ef favourable circumstances to make him the scourge of mankind . The non-pelitical poems in this collection we esteem higher than the pelitica ) , for reasons already indicated . We will , however , give specimens of both : —

      A SONG FOtt TRUE MEN . Again , again , the tempest tones Of Ireland ' s true defenders , Arise , and ring above the groans And taunts of eold pretenders ; An 4 prsuder yet theranks they'd smash , Shall wing young Erin's thunder , Till heaven itself shall feel the crash That cleaves our bonds asunder . For here ' s no heart Hath lot or part "With CbrUtian-creed ' s reviler ; Nor here's tbe lip Hath yearned to sip The flesh-pots of tbe spoiler , 'Twas not to gain the world ' s applause , Nor yet our country ' s favour , "We plunged osr spirits in her cause , And made it ours for ever : Twjs not ta raise her struggling soul , Till hope itself graw torture , And then to basely sink the whole Iu some unholy barter . Oa , here ' s no heart Hath lot or part TVith Erin ' s faith's reviler ; If or here ' s the lip Hath yearned to sip The flesh-pots of the spoiler 1 We rose to see this island freed—For this , our hearts adore it ; ¦ We rose to blend our every creed In sacred union o '« r it ; "We rose to shatter-foreign thrall , What knave would dare deny it ; And once again , or stand or fall , In Heaveu ' s name we'll try it . And here's no beart " ^^ aSv ^ • Hath lot er part -jSfc With sacred faith's rfivile ? ; Nor here ' s the lip ^ Hath yearn'd to sip- ^ . The fleBh-potB of the spoiler !*"

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      THOUGHTS FOR THE FRE ^ EET , Remember the proud year fortj-three , Ye men of tha steel , toned era , 'Whose fall hearts heaved like a hill-heim'soci lies , Bound Ifullaghmast cud Tara ; When the fiery foam of Outgushlng weirds , From leaden starn and gifted . Broke over your ears like the clash of swords By conquering bands uplifted t Men ! these are tbe days of doubt and guile j Of falsehood , fraud , and folly : Then ask jour hearts have ye yet an isle Por which to bleed wore tolly . Oh yes—jVre the eame grean , laughisg land . And tbe same hearts to tuioro her ; But men ! there ' s the same cold foreign band ,

      liko a black blight bungiog o « r her . And your hearts have leaped in the living light Of tbe ereed that proud year brought yoc ; And now , In the Keth of ban and blipbt , Will ye stand by the truths It tasght you 1 Can ye benr nilh the frowns of a wayward fate , And your glariou * work renew , m . n t Can ;« sm le at the false world ' s eravon batet Ob , ye can if ye be but true men : And a bold . tongued spirit that brooks noSfratst ! O ' er our wave-walkod sbores doth hover ; Bat the word and the mil of an upright Qoi Shall > ving it th * e inland over : Aad tbe heart that strangles tho henoat thought That its innate wbiaptrer teaches , Shall Bbrhi-1 and shrink into soulless nought , Whtrever that spirit preaches . Then up over mountain , rath , and moor , From Wexford to Slievegallen , Ye men of tbe hearts tb&t havo grown too pure For a thing that is dark to dwell in ! True men of east , west , south , and north , ( False ones we well can spare ye , ) Up , up and the thoughts that your eools bring forth , Iu heaven ' s blue faca deolaro ye ! Then , on in the aaal tbat looks not back ! And the hope tbat truth inspires Shall light ye a lamp if the sky grow black , At the flash of j our free bills' fires : And if round ye the guests of dissensions rlee , Speak ye to their boltless thunder ; WMle ouohoiy shred of tho green flag flies , True men shall bu ranged eloso under !

      Irish Friezb .

      IRISH FRIEZB .

      'Tia not . tbe coat , 'tis not its hue , Its texture , cut , or red or bine , Tbe might of mind can show , Or tell tbe deeds tbe arm can do For mankind ' s weal or woe ; 'Tis not the brigtmgt gleaming brand That marks the truest , bravest hand , When slaves or tjranta take Uiek stand To save or sink a ruined land ; Oh no ! believo me , no 2 Howe ' cr the gilding band of art May varnish each unseemly part , Or deck tbe outward bowl ; Tbat wonder-working tliiag , tho heart , Or makes or mars tho whole ;

      For who tbe foamy mountain sees , When all unmarshallvd by the breeze , ' The warrior billow rests at ease ; And so beneath a coat of frieze , May rest a hero ' s sou ) . "Iwas mountain might , ia frieze array ad , That first and last , on death ' s parade , In Erin ' s causa was seen ; Till even viet'ry turned dismayed ' From ruin ' s reeking sheon : And witnebB mute , but proudly true , To this our island e ' er wo view ,

      Ia mounds of more thin verdure S hue , Wkh bright flonerats glancing through That loe . blood nourish'd green I Oh ! bold and true of heart and hand , Wben vengeance whirled ber dripping brand , And tyrants tough t their knees ; And flags ond sbouts for fatherland EUctrifigd the brstae ; 'Twas rustic chiefs that foremost led The foremost feet where foemen fled ; And oh , may hoaven bs their bid , Who thus bavo fought , and tlius have bled In coats ef Irish frieze !

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      NANNY . Oh ! for an hour when tbe day is breaking Down by the shore nrhen tbe tide ia makinj ! Fair as a white cloud , thou , love , near me : None but the naves ? nd tbysolt to hear me : ' Oh 1 to my breast how these arms would pres 3 thee Wildly my heart In its joy would bless theeg ^ Oh . how the soul thou hast won would WOO ^^ - . Girl of the snoir-neck . ' closer to me . J || p ? S Oh ! for an hour as the day advances ; ^ ' - ^ "J ( Oat where tbe breez * on the broom . b ^ h dantrc ^^ Watching tbe lark , with the san-r ^ fef or uoj , ' ¦ ' }' Winging the notes of hls ' heaven . taughtgJKffUS !

      Oh ! to be there , and inylQTBjjfforgjne , lpj&Ha » J ? Soft as a moonbeam smiling o ! $ j&& ( jj * - «^ j ^| li | Thou would but love , and I . wsR ^^^^ JheS ^ -sw . j Girl of the dark eyo ! closer topo ; - *> ^«(^ _ ^ b . ^ Oh ' for ak hour where { be sun firjft MB ^ flK ^ W " ( Out in the eve tvith iU red shee ^)_ roIl flil . UB )^| & ^ Brnsbiog the dew fr « n the gale's Boftvingieta , ' Pearly and sweet ,.. with { by long dark ringlets : Ob I to be thereon this ^ FwM bteide tb » e , Telling my tale , thoughl UnoWifou'd chide me j Street were thy voice though It should undo me—6 iri of the dark locks . ' closer to me . Oh J for an hour by night or by day love Just as the Heaven and thou might say , love . Far from the stare of the cold-eyed many , Bound in the breath of my deve-eoul Nanny ! Oh ! for the pure chains that have bound me , Warm from tby rod lips circling round mo 1 Oh 1 in d ; f eon ) , as tho light above mo , Queen of the pure hearts , do I lova tbee ! The following is one of the mo 3 t magnificent lyrics ever penned ; had the author never written another line , this hymn of Ireland to Ihe ^ ' God of Freedom , ' would of itself have won lor him the poet ' a crown : —

      HY BETROTHED . Ob , come my betrothed , to thina anxious bride , Too long have they kept then from mr fide [ Sure I sought thee by mountain and mead , asthore ! And I watched and I wept till my heart was sore , Wbile the / aloe to tho fulse- did any : We will lead her away by the mound and tho rath , And we'll nourish her heart in its worst than doatb , Till her tears shall have traced a pearly path , For the work of a future day . Ahjfllttlu they knew what their guile could do { It has won me a host of the stera mid true , Who bave sworn by tbe eyo ef the yellow sun , Tbat my home is their hearts till thy hand bo won :

      And they ' ve gathered my tears and sighs ; And they ' ve ivoven them into a . cloudy fronn , That shall gird my braw lika an ebony crown , Till these feet in my wrath shall haw trampled down All , all tbat betwist- ^^^^^^ Then come , my betrotlt ^^ tTiy ^ pi ^ s brido ! Thou art dfcu ? to my breast as myneart ' s red tide \ And a wonder it is you can tarry so long , And your soul eo proud , and your arm so Btrong , And jour limb without a chain ; And your feet in their flight like the midnight wind , \ fhon he bahs at the flush tbat he loaves behind ; And your heart so tvarm , and your look so kind—* Oh . come to my breast again ! ' (

      Oh , my dearest bae eyes like the noontide sun \ Bo bright tbat my own dere scarce look on : And the clouds of a thousand years gone by , Brought back , and again on'fhe crotrdod shy , , Heaped haughtily , pile o'er pile ; ¦¦ Then all in a boundless blaze outspread ,. . Rent , shaken , and . toss 9 & 6 * er . their flara | 8 ig bed , Till each heart byj& 0 ght . of the hea ^ s was read , Were-as nOu S ^)^^^ ll |?^ BmljeJf * And to ne 9 itmy ^^^|^ M ' mirtn s 5 n S To-the fiaj ' -Mi ^^ pS ^^^ oe ' ry wing ! Htfw his eho > us ji&pe ^ l | p | pugh tbd ^ ron toasa Of erasbiHs ^ bwawWifcwe ^ Dgith'onMi Aid tbf ' -crunijWing of toaJiong etiftng ! . retii ' weetroBTj ^^ as tie sigh tbaJ . ali ^ . Frdpi the ner ^ o * <|| op . e ' <> f a maidenVs lips ; Whefi the , eye ' fir | i # iTaHe *! iB < 1 } tB 4 iBve ejJipse , In liis soul-creating eimg ! '

      Then come , my bctrfetbedfto thine anxious b . ride J Thou liaaJtfRmed too long , but ! may not cBide ; ^ r a ^ tjglj&aud . lbs fiop ^ o ^ i ^ . h ' ome thou art t fc ^ tnb . j&fajiiit ffe ^^ S Jjf-Jipjsrtii S ' Bearj '; OnjlWrij ^^^^ w ^ lJl ^^ S ^ J > ¦ Jaj it ^^ I ^ P ^^ ffiM ^ f ^ ^ V ^ 4 S ^ g ^^^ Kft ? i j 4 ; 'Will jou nifi | l || S 50 ' ^ S ^ pi * tho oceau ' a'breath . Tjbat tbe ^ toi ^ y wapdjj ^ Ss lovo to . s ^ Jig : ' . " . Tor I ' ve ^^ i ^ p ^ fcir i ^ CT 01018 tvv ' ^^ ° ^ ' ' ® i ^ Teo tli ^ paad to one . Jur t in . e ^ ' © li ™!; *" S > . ' js $ Mf r ay BhWb ^ hro . nfeMa gioroWajBea , <| p = And shriek theantl ^ : oBde . atMpr "' me , \ gL& ' Then , make me a grP %% ' ^ igM *® 11 ^ 86 ^^' I For I love the Bpoynndi ^ jw ^ ^^" !/ : ^'

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      Than a golden oloud on an evening ssy , More fair is ths spot where I ' d wish to lie ; There ths angel of spring is on winter's path , Ero tbe foam of bis lip hath kit the heath ! While the boor bs bad toasocl from bis brow of gloom Seems only a shower of silver bloom . Oh , my heart and mj soul ' s in the wave and the wold , And their paradise glories of green and gold ; And the life-like sigh of tbo rainbow rills , And that laughing monarch of Ulster's bills , Whote riven . rocls lips in the amils appears They have worn , and may wear , for a thousand

      y eam I Then raake me ft crave by ther Yf hitehoueo snore , For tha longer I loek I love tfca is ore , Wsro my nearest and dearest not cradled there 1 Oh , the first of their food was it * ocean air . ' And their love of home ' s in this inward tide , Tbat fires nty soot with a gaelie pride : ' For theirs was a race whose plnmes of yore Oft danced in the Hash of tbe good 1 ulujmoro . But oh , for toy sire ' s adopted land I 1 ' rs an Irish heart and an Irish hand '; - And the heart would dore , if che ltsii £ could & > , What her friends might wish , and her £ > vn might ruo

      Let others sigh for a gilcttd bod , With Its curtaias o ? snarbJe round cheirhfcad- ; : 3 fo curtain or couch of art for me , 1 would rathor repose in the wildest sea , Where the tempest prince in his mirth migSt'come ; . And over me ruar a tower of foam ; Or rattle around with hi » eteeds of spray—How my spirit could laugh at their wildest n « igb !• And his goldun baits , as tbi-y cleave tbe clotrdj Would gild me o ' er my slimy abroad . TJben makavoe a grave by { he VPhitehouse shore ; - For tbe longer I leok I lova the more ! There aie a few pieces in thfe volume , utterly ? out of place in the good company associated witb them ;

      we allude to' Lines on the blank leaves of a beak ; ' . 'Love and Leisure ; ' ' Genius and no Moonshine ;' and ' iMatt Mucksstave . ' With these exceptions-we can conscientiously recommend ibis volume to the lovers of poetry ; who we trust will encourags the author to further attempts , in which attempts wg . shall hope to 6 nd Mr Davis something less of a nationalist , and more of a democrat ,- none the less as Irishman , but something more of a cosmopolite . Earnestly praying for that anion ef Englishmen Irishmen , and Scotchmen , which moat result in tbe freedom and happiness of the three caaatrieB , we ropeat the heartfelt wish expressed in our last number , that each and all of our readers may Sad in 1848—' A Hippr New Yeab . '

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      Labob FARm . —It ia tho intention of the Duke of Sutherland to abolish the large farms in ? Sutherlandshire , ns fast as the present leases fail im The prosent tenants , or , a 3 they are there denominated 1 tacksmen , ' are frequently a in-resident , and hold as much land aa will graaa twenty thousand'sheep . It is his Grace ' s intention in fntnre to divide-these large holdings iato four or more farms , a clause- enforcing residence beige inserted in every lease . Another part ot the duke ' s plan is to create arable farms at rents varying from £ 50 to £ 100 per annum . His Graoeof Sutherland has been highly extolled for his benevolence , but he < ny ] deserve greater praise for carrvisg out this scheme than were he to distribute t&e whole of his immensu revenues in alras-, and although hemay not be able 4 o lestore those to their homes who have been so cruelly dispossessed _ to create these gigantic sheep-walks , yet , by carrying out his humane intentions , he will afford employment ior the poor , and give honest industry an opportunity of obtaining its reward .

      isvAittvs Attempt by tbb Russian Djffotism — Some of the Paris juurnals lately copied from the Prussian newspapers an ac . eunt of an attempt , on the part of the Russian Government , to carry off to Siberia , from the territory of Prussia , if . D orabrow . ski , who waa a party in tbe Jate political ferial at Berlin . This piece of intelligence , which appeared incredible from the fact being contrary to the most elementary notions of tho right of nations , is con firmed by letters from correspondents worthy of oredit . The following appear to be the circumstances of tho oase : —M . Dombrowski , the only son of General Dombrowski , who commanded the Polish legions in Italy tinder the directory , anil whose same is found inscribed on the Arc-de-Trionaphe at Paris , is a native of the grand duchy of Posen , and

      consequently a Prussian subject . After the death of his father , he was educated at Berlin , and afterwards served in the Prussian array as officer of artillery . A % r sorae vears' aerviee he Quitted the army and married a Polish lady , who brought him some property in the kingdom of Poland and in the grand duchy of Posfln , close to the frontier . When th&insurrection karat out last year in different part 3 of Poland , M . Dombrowski , being at his wife ' s property ,, was implicated in one of tha movements whieh' hati for its leader , Pantaloon Potocki . After this attempt had failed , he succeeded in reaching . 'the Prussian territory by the swiftness of his iorse . He was there arrested , and in the course ef timo tried at Berlin ,, for having troubled the tranquillity and order of a neichbourins country . The court condemned him

      to two years' imprisonment in a fortress . The > newa of this sentence , which it e&nsideKd altogether too light , greatly irritated the Russian government in Poland , looking as it did , on M . Dombrowski as the accnmplioe of Potocki , who was hanged last year on jsgibbet in the citadel of Warsaw . The Russian f&vernmer't , in consequence , understanding that M . Dombrowski had been allowed , under heavy bail , to visiNiis proDerty before he underwent his confinement , gave orders to the Russian authorities on tho frontiers of Posen t ^ , seize on his person , even if in ^ Sing bo th < 7 violated the Prussian territory . A ^ Jtter from Berlin , in the Cologne Gazkttb , states Sow this intention failed : — 'A party " of Cos 3 ocks , ' 8 nys

      is lettes , proceeded twice to the property of M . pornbrowski , and not finding him , endeavcure ^ to nduce thp peasants to betray him . Far from doing so , the latter pave him warning of what was soinj ? on . Beincr ala' ) informed by the sub-prefect of the trap laid for him , M . Dombrowski took refuse at the house of his fathpr-in . law . Count Lacki , and it is nnw announced that he will arrive in a-few dajs afc Berlin to constitute himself a prisoner . The news of this affair has excited a prolound sensation here . It may be remembered that the narn 9 of M . Dombrnwsbi was affixed to ( ha gibbet on which Potoeki suffered , and that tho horss on which he escaped was killed at its foot . This circumstance can givean idea el Russian justice . '

      Demise op an aoed Radical . —The Glasgow Ptosa records the death of an old and much respected radical reformer ( Mr William Lang , printer ) , which * oscurrecl afc Dunoon on Tuesday last . Mr Lin ? was in the seventy sixth year of his ag& ,. although fop a number of years past unable to- take an activepart in the business of pelitical agitation , ha was devotedly attached to those principles of radical reform in tbe Ifgislature of tbe country , whieh gained for him , in darker and more precario « 3 times , a reputation which was by no means- favourable to hi ? advancement amoBgst certain classes in the community . In the dajs of Sidmoutli and Castlereagb , and when spy & ' chmond had a local habitation ard a name , Mr Lang was taken into custody in 1810 , along with- his brother iti-law , Mr Turner , of Thrushgrove . oa . a charge efhigh treason ( the treasonable part of Mr Lang's-eonduct being the crime of having printed the resolutions adopted at the public i-aeetin- ? held on the grounds of Mr Turner < n behalf of narifamentary reform .

      , New Industrial Resource fob Boys , es Glasgow . —In Glasgow there is , and has . been fear a considerable period , a large class ef ragged urckins , from ten to twelve ysars , who C 2 * ry on a regular trade in c atching rats , and disposing , of them alive to parties who rftward thea . fop- their labour at rates averaging 1 J ; ! v to 2 d . a head ,, acceding to size and the number iu the market . By t 5 hi = ) profession these daring boja eara a livelihood * and some of them who are wall up to their business , make as much as ten shillings a week .. The process of catch-, ing the vermin is exceedingly sirapl » , and generally pretty successful . Having discovered a bole in a stable , cellar , or back building , ¦ wh ^ To rats are

      plentiful , the snascr takes a piece sf card of some length , upon the end of which h& makes a noose equal to-the size of the bole over whkh he has resolved to w ? 4 ch , and after pitting dowa niealor bread to attract his istended pypv . he stations himself with the cowl iu hia hand , watching like a patient anp , ler natil his victim paps out his head or nart of his bodj ; , vihen by a sH&len jerk hv hooks him in the B 0030 , and then with Iho aid ef his bonaet , er some ciher thick eloth , ssizsa the living prize as if it was » canary or a mavis . Ilnvrng deposited the rat is > a cage or place of safety , he returns to his work , and in this way proceeds to rid tbe tenement whstfo he carries on operations of hordes of useless ami destructive YGIBiin . —ffvteffW PoH .

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      ( From the Qaeettt of Tuesday , D « c , 28 . ) BANKRUPTS . Thomns Chatto , llorpeth , Northumberlandi , linendrajjor—Edward Evans , Wrexham , Deabighslure , shop . keeper-Th-imas Joshua Fentun , Palcoii-sqaare , City , wins merchant—Robertllimvurd , Landpurt , ilarnpshiro , brewer — Win . leo , Wobiirn-grccn , BuckstiRhamshire i fruiterer , —Jolin Smith MtiUng , Scarboroivgb , Yorkshire , joiner—Susannah ifitton , High-street , IIowuslow , eloShicv —Edward Norris , MancUe 9 tev , coramissioxv agent— Chavle 3 Norton , Ellesmere , Shropshivu , miller—Richard Miller Shorter , C ! imomilo . 3 troet > City , corn dealur-r-Edsrard Snow , Nottingham , draper—William Jame ^ Townghend , WelloloEesquaTB , cork manufacturer .

      SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . Jolin Anderson , Edinburgh , tailer—George Forrest , Jarmrk , brewer—Samuel Lning , Edinburgh , maimfac ^ tuver of KBlp-Jamea Robertson Vactllarimil , Gliisgow , commisBion mercliant— Daniel Mackenzie , jun ., Glasgow , merchant—John Mackenzie , lately sheriff substitute of tho Lowes—Thomas llartin , Kilsyth , manufictv . ver-AndrewiMercer , sen ., and Andrew Mercer . jun . Edinburgh and Glasgow , mercbaiiM-Alexander Pwrtfons , Eainburah , Bpirit doaltf - Donald Bp berteo- * , Perth , Vintner-Willinm Hood Rowan and Stcp ! ionB ; . iwan , Glasgow , ship builders-James Sloan , aud Ryocrt Faulda Simpson , Gbsgow , merchants-Hugh % ai and Henry Dayid Hill , Ediuburgb , banke ^ ,

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      . TRADES MOVEMENTS , LONB 9 ! f SH 0 BJUS 3 BS . — TO IBB EDITfJB f-F TttS ' NoBTHBBJf Stab . '— l ! you would allow mo a cornet in your invaluable joHna * ] , fto note a movement that ia now being made to rsfiy the trades of the me * tropolis , you would much oblige a few jealous friends of freedom with whom J h # f 6 the honour to act . If erer there was a tiniff in the histwy of mt country when it behovtd the tforicing paepin io think deeply upon their own position in society ' , tij . it tiuia is the present , for who thai h&M- a niimf above tlie 7 eriest slave can look back fer fee laft fjw years , and mark tha gradual depression' of trade , jn sli its bearings , but must feel some alai * 5 n aad apprehension aa to the presen t frightful atats'of society .- It is traowahave had an abundant harrest ; hut those wh 0 tilled tho soil , wwed tho $ eedHfrl leaped tha ^^

      > , glorious fraite of tho Mrtb , are starving amid die plenty ot their own creation . It is true we ' havff cleared awaythe aboraiiiablo c » rn lam ,- tbat have been auch a barrier to our commercial speculation and national enterprise , but where i 9 ,, a r m-woiserf reward ? wherei is the happiness , peace , and plontv , whifrbv ? aa to follow upon the death of tiffs * miked and oppressive law , that withheld l&od froui thepeople f Here—cry the thousands of inctarriouslyinclined mechanics who sro wanderiiiK firfk ' ed beggars through the land—here is our reward . It ia time that tJhB trades skovAtl be moling in tbeae matters ; it ia time ; that all wltoliveon theirovvii-Idbnur should not only thinfe , but resolve upon aoai' 6 brief and united mode of aetion . I hold that the people ot this couniiry possess the ; ower , whenever tfcey possess the will ,- to wer& out their own eaano } - patioa .

      To acconjpSsh'so deabsftle a eensunimation ! a"ferr of the most influential members of tho West ' S&d and City Societies of Sadies' Shoemaker * , hav © resolved upon agitating th 3- metropolis , hy hcWing diseuaaiens upon' the meat important subjects "nti . ne « ted with th&'ihtereits «> ft 3 o working m ^ u . T&eaa debateswillbecontinued ^ ii- Sunday evenings , axd * alternately in different partstff t 5 ie tonu , in ordert o afford all an opportunity to attend . . It 13 requested that all wb& can make it con-rev nient will attend ^ nd endeawm 1 to form an iuniou of diido ss we ]] as mta . ; ADD'RE 88 OP TR 3 WJOIJTT 0 OX 5 MITTEE OP ¦ TH 3-WBST END AND CITT ' WOMEN'S MEN , : BBCoaorso to the aanoKAt asmotatsos of ch ' ited ' - TftAD » 9 .

      ¥ eUov 8 hopmato » ,- « Wo lira In ^ an ags of gelfi > hm 89 aijd cowoppoBitlon , an * dwell in » lana of exaction an * cpjrawion . Eaoi msnpentiTtl y ' w ^ . aarent to the wel . fare-ofbis fellow * erontare , appear * - only Eolioi ; ou 3 ta promote his own individual interec *; oven though it be to the roiH of nisneig'Vbour . It ia-from this prinfipfo of'eelf . IoTe that the gnawing aro taking adrantape of tJredgnorant—thestroDgof the weot—the rich of tao pew—and the poor of cas-anothar ; -. which gives to the rlcb . the lion ' s ehare , nci'Jo those wtto-work tho burdirt , aod'toil longest , the smallest-wages . Thai some memherj of ioeioty shwild become poof » hrouf ; h idlenssi , imprudtfneo , or sxtsavagaaoe , is not anrpriMDj ;; but for wholo communities to become poor by industry , is moastrous . T 6 labour and tract , and to labour iu fear of atill gruator ivantevoa in tho mida 6 of otremdanoo , is thntwhish-tanderg -the condition of the

      British thoemaker womb than that oC the nugro slave . Thesiave dmads ao waDtsfjunployraeot fears no want ufbraa ^; his master if bcoml by lav ? aud interest toproTldi far him and his family . Tho m-Mtor ot the black is coropelled by interest tcnuse- overy means to promote his-liaUtb , and prolong' hfaJi&j as ho wiil have to keap him while sick , hnry him whim 'dead , aad buy a new OR& in hiS'Stoai . It is otborwiBe-nith tho j ?) urnpjmaa bdoomalies-j his master loseu ncth ' ajj-cither by liis death oe his < iise £ > ar # a , but oft-n eaino-an adyuDtaue by obtain , ing o& 6 in his place to do more work for less wages , R ' . member tho capitalists , as-a « las 8 ? bavo no sympathy for yoa- ; their chief objeet Is-io obtain from you . the greatoi » amount of labour at > th 6-v ( 3 y lowest price ; wbiht , by reducing wages , oridecrcnting the numb « r cf " their workmen , tbty convert e 7 W 7-chau ^ o and circumstance into profit .

      Sue , then , your condition as a body of artisans , and ask yourselves , What is tbe remedy . ? and the unnni » moas response will be—assosistiony . organisation , ani co-operation . By associationaloae caa you 3 m . -c-B ? fullycontrnd with the laonstsr , co ^ ipotitioa . For one moment rvfl ' . ct on tba miserable pittance , viz . from pumps Xd . t * w ? Its If . per pair , doled 3 Utin mrnny parts of tlsa metropolis , em of vvbiob theji ^» nejmon has lo provide grindery , candle , and keep hit ) 'tools iu or-tr ; what can he then hare left for bis fnmilj ^ nSutur'iuy nieht ? I » not this a lamontable state of - "things t > et this ia not the woisstslda of the picture . About Sodich Toivnand Betbttal Green , and tha esstera-part of the metropolis , a ajstM-n-of niidilamen has crapt > uy who traploy a

      lurganumber of slaves to labour for them , ot such wa ^ es a&-enables- them to acrre she manuftr&tiwers » itii BcramV shoos at 15 b . per dozen ! Bj > the tireets of such cotnpe . tition tbe condition of the labourer- 1 * becoming uorsaand worse . Tbe labourer hao no-protection but by ovgonasation . The moniod classes- , are associating in every possible form and foaturo to . niafca more money ; , they aanuot raaka more withcat itB comina ; either directly or indirectly from tho labourer . Then why not the labourer orgaaiso to make hi * labour more valuable ,, by demanding better WBge » fji-it- ? ' The ' organisatiott of labour , a question of intons « - interest , must soon take the lead of all others , because , ( ofv the mass of mankind , it is- a question of lifu and do 2 . itu ''

      Arouse yourselves , vrorkiD * . in 3 a , from your epathy ami incctlvitj ! bo no lonytr . i ! je wiUing sliirti of the unfeeling manufacisrsrii , aiid . tha-tool ot ihe m < -rciles » speettlatora ! The bettering ofjyour ! condition lieB in jour own-hands . The condition o :.. > tho working ulssats has become one of the great qncMi-HB- of tho age ; and if working men will bestir thoQ& ^ irts , earnestly and enthusiastically , to omancipata , them&sWeB , ' . ho woik wilL be done . Then , sliopmates , lotncttflia call bemnde in Tain , but unite , under tlte aus ^ jees- c-f the Nution :. l Aeso ~ ciaiiun of 0 aited Trades , a : > dnhow to the , ' couutry , and to » world at large , that j $ n . nK d » ttrminud no lunger

      to-Bubmit to tbe iron armofcupital , bus that you ara aliro to the instructions given , by one of tt , e grttatcstv statesmen of | the day—Sir JfeobtMs Peel , i . e . to take jour own affairs into youn owrn bands ; that whatev *? has hitherto occurred to disuse you , shull ba in futura obviated ; that heneefor , thour mo » to shall be 'Oaward , aad we conquer—bnckvrardMayd ' vto fall ! ' Then will tbe clarion of your renown-, bu a « urd throughout the Ituiij , and you will be blcsjed-a ^ i ^ nofactors by genera--Hon 8 yet unborn , while the appin >» inff voice of consoieacs will swell the general sympjianji , and history will wito your names with light in the Book of Immortality .

      In order to carry . out the caoijilete organijation of the metropolis , the ecsiBiitteo of tha VVost End aud City hare , united , and will enter membtca at ( id . each , on ime-ting nights , at the Klng . and Qjeen ,. Folvy-street ; tho Three Compasses , LitUo ,. irarjl ^ boaf-3 trest , Murvlukone ; the Fish , F sher-atrsetj . Iled Liosi-square ; tiie iSail and iSell , Kopomaker-strset ,- Piasbu ^ y . v the Marquis of Sranby , Kcntington ; tho Chapel . hcuw , Cfaapel-atrcet , P « n : onvillc ; tbe Britannia , Hig ^ . street , Hacknpy ; and oa any day at G . Qeeenslnde ' s * 2 Ii > Aliorton-strcut , H « iS !>> n and at J , Snuthyes ' , - Grists , 27 , Uuion-atreelf . il ' arylefcone , Bj order oi , tho Committed , TiiroHAS Holmes , Chairman , aaass SnixniE 8 , S i ^ r . eJ ^ ry . CABD-LstW-OrBRjff ^ fs . s . —At a quavtorly . meeting of the Cird-Loom Opsra-tires' Association ,, representing fiffeonof tli 8 ; lsr « e 3 t raanufacturia ^ districts , held at Kochdale } , December 19 th , tfee . following resolutions were pat > s $ d < ananimoasly : — -

      That -se , as repr » soat «' ave 3 of large sad ¦ importbat districts ^ in Lancasiiisre , Clieahirs , and f ^ rksbire , do hereby * declareoiy . -S"J 9 !«) iivictiori thattSjo Tok Hoars * Bill , carried out ; h 9 i 5 J , *« ay 3 nd I ' uHy , ia ^ calculited tobeneit both , the eraplc ^ . d mid employsr ; J 1 S it Would cause greater regularity of unplojment , by tnforciag a UDia&rmsystem , of regujatins the hou «( .. o £ laboar ^ to BR 3 , nothiBg of yia-inaiiHty of young r . ^ ysoAis ami females to-woi » more than , tr ; S heura a day , axlK a < lu& regard to t !> . eir hctlilj , . : Mid aa moralij i uud inteilectual beingB . ' And as opMiatiseaourseWeB , ancyay representing vast lumbers of < H « rfltinre 8 , wo do cockier the conduct of anj parties a ; temj !< an ? to-get ura -an nijitattoa for tha repeal of tie whole-, or afiy part , of tho Ton Hours' Bill , as highly condenaiatory ; ami . that such parties Bra deserving : q £ tin oonsuro of- the working classes ffonprAllir .

      \ ViNLi 7 , 0 N : KiiLMAKsRS v - ^ Received oa behalf of tho ilor 3 e-. 5 jailjaii ^ ers atrike . 4 i WinlatoB , the . following subscrJRtions ;— £ . s . 6 , Winlatoa ... U . «» . 2 11 5 . Swalsvelli ... ... ... 0 S I ) Wblaton MilU ... „ , Oil 0 Carlisle ... ,., 0 2 0 Bni ^ Edgs Collierj' ... k .. 0 5 9 Total £ 3 9 2 Winlaton , Dtc ^ S&th , 1817 . """"""""""" Wioan ' . —On Ss-JW - ay , the 2 nd of JanHary , 1 S 13 . a deleaate rneet ' iEg v / iii ba held at rho hoiwe of Mr Wr « . Mach , ^ p . al-bridge , Skevin ^ tor ) , when all trades connect ^ with the National Association are expected to b ^ represented . The chair to be taken at three o ' cl ct \< i precisely . All parties wanting ; cards and rule 3 of the United Trades' Association , are requested , to call or send to Warrington-lariO , when tudr corv . r . iumcatioa will ba punctually attended to by J . L' 2 N £ Gan , Disirict-Secrclary . Th ^ Ten Hour s' QuBsnoy . —Clerks . Bhopmen , and vther advocates of short time , are generally lar . cj ^ supporters of Ath eriouius , ami similar insti- . tux ' ions . but , in asking f .. r short hours therascivc ? , t > . ey aro sometimes forgetful of oihers . 1 "IH . tiio ^ lasgiw AiniN-EUM advertises for a supenntende' - librarian , porter , and boy , their honrs of 1 after deiiuctin ^ ' time fcr meals , being in the cases , eleven , twelve , and twelve * hours per diem . It .. in _ also aigtiirporter is to commence with a sala r librarian . with £ 25 . Christopher . North says , ' love cat ? , for both are grnol ; io mention . that tf * f ^ Some fine flax , •¦ been grown in v

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      MYtriiiCK . ' % !> , < . { My Ulick is Bturdy and strong , ' ^ S ^ r-And light is his foot on tbe hea ' ther ^ L ^ And tratb has boea wed to his tongue ^ Siaee first we were talking together : ' And though he is lord of no lauds , Nor cas \ le , nor cattle , nor dairy , My boy nag his health and his hands , And a heart-load cf lore for his Mary ; And what should a maiden wish mere One day at tbe heel of ths eve , f I mind it was saowiog and blowing ; Hy mother was knitting I believe ,

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 1, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1451/page/3/