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      Fbiekds and Fellow Countrymen , Before you read this letter you will have learned thst the remnant of the British Constitution has been suspended in Ireland , " and that fhe meaning of the Suspension of , the Habeas Corpus is , that the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland may give orders for the arrest of whomsoever lie pleases , and that the persons so arrested cannot appeal to the Judges of the land to secure their release upon hail .

      They need not he charged with any crime , but they must linger in their dungeon at the ¦ will of the Autocrat . This right of Habeas Corpus , and the right of being armed , are considered the great bulwarks of the British Constitution , but both ri ghts have been abrogated in Ireland ; and perhaps your English blood , and your Irish blood , may thrill with horror , when you learn that out of 656 constitutional representatives of the people , only eight Irish Catholics and two Irish Protestants contended against , and voted against , the measure . Their

      names snould be chronicled ; they are—Callaghan , For , Devereux , Scully . 6 reene , Reynolds , Sullivan , Fagan—Catholics ; Crawford and O'Connor , Protestants . And I believe that had it not been for my resistance to the measure in the first instance , that it would Lave passed amid the plaudits of the House . And you will scarcel y be surprised at the abrogation of the constitution in Ireland , when I tell you that as far as an independent Member of Parliament is concerned , it is also suspended in England .

      Mr speech was called rebellious and treasonable , ' and I believe few men would have stood the hurricane of disapprobation with which it was received . But that is legitimate , because although 1 have never interrupted any man in that House , yet I concede the same right to Members of Parliament that is contended for at public meetings , namely—the right of expressing approval or di ' sseat . But what I complain of is , that on Monday I received the following letter • — Sib , —For God'B sake do not publish yoar speech in the Xosthebk Star , as it was delivered in the Hoasa of Commons , for if you do you are to be pro-KCUted as a Felon , ander the new Act . ( Siraed . ) A Dweciive .

      r «' ow all will remember the discussion which took place in the House of Lords , relative to the publication of speeches made in the House of Commons , when Lords Brougham and Campbell both gave it as their opinion that if words spoken in the House of Commons of a felonious nature were published , with the view of making an impression upon the public mind , that such publication would come within the meaning of the Act . For these reasons you will not read my Speech as delivered in the House of Commons , because , apart from the warning of the " Detective / ' I have received Hnequivocal assurance that the desire and the wish of the Government is , to strike a blow at Chartism by ths conviction of the Chartist leader .

      This , I trust , will be an answer to some of my enthusiastic friends , who are anxious that I should be amongst them just now , and 1 beg of them to keep the case of poor Vernon in view , who was convicted for attending at what was called an illegal meeting , at which he did not speak , and then they will see the facility with which the minions of Government may tarn a perfectly legal into an illegal meeting , and yet some of my enthusiastic friendsurged on by the taunts of Government employes —would consider that I best discharged my dutv bv thus hazarding my liberty , and

      leopardising their cause . However , as my family and myself have been scattered over the face of tlie earth—some prematurely consigned to the cold grave ; others having spent more than half a century in banishment , others in VanDiemen ' s Land and Colombia ; and as I am the last and remainder of that stock in this country , and as here I have borne my fair share of persecution , it is not to be expected that I will jeopardise my liberty , and hazard a cause which is dearer to me than lif& ^ itself , by being made the victim or the tool of ^ the susceptiblilitv and credulity of others .

      Sa rank has tyranny become , that I even fear to ask a question as to the treatment that the Whig victims are now receiving , least my interference may increase the rigour to which they are subjected . But of this you may rest assured , that I am not an inattentive observer of passing events , nor shall I fail to turn ; them to the best account . My enthusiastic friends , who imagine that enough never can be done for them , would have had a taste of ths delights of office held under them , had they witnessed the treatment that I have more than ouce received in the

      House of Commons , in defence of their cause . And I now tell them , as Ihaye told them before , that I would rather be found slain amongst the ranks of those contending for freedom , than living , promoted and honoured , in the ranks of the oppressor . My own countrymen , especially those in Manchester , cannot have forgotten the years of trouble , of persecution , and of danger . that it has cost me to bring about a union of the Irish and English working classes , . while now some of them , who were then opposed to that union , and resisted it , are holding back , fearful of

      even expressing a mild opinion . Even Irish Members in the House of Commons draw the distinction between the treatment of English and Irish prisoners , one Member having actually taunted tbe Government with not having transported some of the Chartist prisoners , while those prisoners are now suffering punishment worse than death or transportation . They are upon prison fare , on the silent system , and in the felon ' s dress , and , until I was aware of the fact , they were compelled to pick oakum like felons . Good God ! is this a . state of things to be

      endured , and are ODe set of men to be treated like thieves , whilst those who consign them to degradation secured pre-eminence by violence and the preaching of revolutionary doctrines ? My friends , the Government has made a dreadful onslaught upon the Press of Ireland , and I believe you can well imagine the delight it would afferd them to victimise the only paper in England that dares to avow the pure democratic principle . Perhaps you are not aware that Lord Arundel and Surrey ,

      Mr Drummond , and Sir Benjamin H all , frequently honour me with reading extracts from the Northern Star in the House of Commons ; and that Mr Hume , as far as unconnected words will admit of abuse , attempted to heap mud upon me for proclaiming the rights of labour . Bit although I have long borne these insolent taunts I am consoled by the hope of the realisation of a former prediction , when , in speaking of Ireland , I said , "Though a dark cloud has brooded over my country , yet in the distant horizon 1 see the dim shadow of liberty

      and my heart gladden ? , ' 11 In mv < xteev I erelaimed , can it be , And a * voice respond * , Union and liberty . ' And may that union be now so perfect as to insure the ' freedom of my country , is the fondest hope of my heart , and I have only to implore of the enthusiastic and brave , whilst I do not ask them to abate their ardour , not foolishly to try to precipitate me into useless and

      unnecessary danger . They may rest assured that of all the felons , that felon who has resisted them so long would be their dearest prize , while my countrymen and the English Chartists know , that not only Irem the day I entered Parliament , butjfrem the day I was born , I have neither said a word , nor written a word , given a vote , nor dune a single act which has been hostile to the interest of Ireland or to the

      working classes of England . And if prudence would permit tlie disclosure , I could submit to them some facts which I have used for the safety t » f others , and with which , one day , I shall arraign the Whig - Government . Now , my friends , all these things which you force from ' me , but make me ; more odious to the Government , and while you talk of the facility

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      of packing juries in Ireland , you have never cast a thought that there is no necessity for packing juries in England , as the whole list contains a long catalogue of oppressors , whose interests are supposed to be hazarded and jeopardised by the growing spirit of Democracy . Now I will suppose a case . Suppose I was arrested to-morrow , and arraigned before Chief Justice Wilde and a middle-class jury , and charged by Tom Snooks , a policeman or detective , with having been present when Jack

      Styles made a seditious speech ; do you think that any more evidence would be necessary , or do you think that if a hundred witnesses of the most unimpeachable character came forward to prove th at I was at the Land ' s End when that speech was delivered in London that it would be an answer to the evidence of Snooks ? Not a bit > f it . The Chief Justice would tell the Jury that if I wasnot there , I ought to have been there , that he trap was laid for me and I ought to have gone into it .

      I have said as much as the Gagging Bill will allow me , and in conclusion I have only to repeat my former pledge ; that I commenced this movement with the people and for the people , and with them and for them I will remain in it to the close , but the persecution that every member of my family has endured , although it has not relaxed my ardour has increased my caution . I remain Your faithful friend and countryman , Feargus O'Connor .

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      DR . M'DOUALL . TO THE EDITOR OF TBE KORTHEEH BTAE , Dear Sib , —I thank you for your notica and remarks on my arrest and tbe condition of the prisoners and their families . I hope tbe country at large will respond . There are-one or two things regarding mj cage which I shall mention . I would cot have been arrested at all had it sot been for Robert Newton , constable of ABbton , who was uncommonly annoyed at some of the Aahton lads refusing him ad mission to the meeting . He then importuned the magistrates , bat onlj two Whigs , Buckley and Lord , could be induced to sign the warrant , and so fearful were they on the cross-examination of the ' oat getting

      oat of tho big' that they impartially allowed Mr Roberts to question Newton as to what occurred bstween them , bat , at the same time , cautioned him not to answer . I was conSned in an underground necessary , commonly called a cell , without any ventilation , from four o ' clock on Sunday morning until ten o ' clock on the Monday morning following . The wiodow wa 3 the Bizeof a sheet of Bath post paper , and admitted three raya of the sun , which , illuminating the particles of dust , seemed like three long thia webs of gossamer . They did not represent the trinit ? of King . Lords , and Commons , but that of natureman and liberty—upon which I spaa many cheering thoughts and arguments .

      TJeed as I have been all my life to the open air , I need not gay that I felt horribly oppressed , especially waen the water was heated in tae pipes which run through the cell for the purpose of warming ths Tagrant prisoners in winter . I remonstrated—greater heat was applied until the pipes became too hot for the touch of any hand , lavethat of an iron or copper smelter . I stripped , coat , waistcoat , and , finally , trowsera . I fe't suffocated bet I saw tb 2 t any farther complaint would be a triatapia . to the eaemy , therefore ! patiently submitted to an extreme feot bath , removing to the furthest comer , near the

      door , the little trap in which was carefully bolted , so that not & breath of air should come in . This little trap-door , I knew , was open to the thieves in the cells ranging beyond mine , far I heard them concoct ing and arranging their plans , witnesses , and evidence with each other . Bat for one of the little panes of class , the half Biza of one ' s hand , being broken in the 8 mall window , it woald nave bsea death to a perssn so much accustomed to the free breeza of heaven S 3 I have been . As it was , the enemy succeeded , for I must certainly admit that although tUe sind lost little of itg elasticity fine body was most woefully debilitated .

      Had too trap door b = en opened a stream of air would hsve flowed from thence to the small broken square , or vice verta , or had the fire been quashed and the trap shut 1 might have done better . The specials on Sunday night broke the monotony of my solitude by trying to break in . I had a loss chat at the trap ' door with them , which they opened . They ordered the h 6 st to be lowered . It was increased . I ordered them home , as all was , aEd would be quiet , and on being summoned np , and express ing the Eame , whilst in the pre * ence of my triend Aitken , before a magistrate , they was allowed u return to their wives and families . But mark this , a

      guard of two polieemen was posted over their roum , whilst they remained , lest they should come again to my cell , and eay ' all was d—d tyranny . ' The trial you hare reported , but you have not been informed that ray witnesses broke down , confuted , and demolished the police evidence . The same two magistrates who sigsbd the warrant , committed mb Not another magistrate would have anything to do with it . There wa 3 a bloated btocknsad , a halt idiotic being on the benck , who wore a red eoat , and who Yiolated all the rules and regulations oftnaeerric 3 i aa ^ ell as tho manners and conduct of a gentleman . Who he is , I should be glad to know , especially the root from whence he sprang .

      I will defend eveiy inch of ground at Liverpool assizes , provided those localities which have bo prisoner to defend , will supply Mr Roberts and myselt with the mean 3 . Aahton will do its duty . The trial will be rer / expensive—for solicitor , counsel , and witnesses must all be paid . The question then is , will tbe people prevent me being sacrificed ? They have it in their power to say no , and it rests entirely with them to decide whether I am better in or oat of piison . There is no time to lose . Tha whole qaeation hinges on thiE—Can I take down my witnes ? e 3 or not ?—Can I secure good counsel or not ?—Can I pay my solicitor or not ?—On the selection of these questions hangs the fate of Sir , Yours most sincerely and respectfully , P . M . M'DovitL . P . S . —All aid snd assistance to be forwarded to William Aitken , schoolmaster , Ashtoa-nnder-Lyne , Lancashire . —The asazss begin on the 17 th of AngD 3 t , at Liverpool .

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      TO HENRY DRUMMOND , M . P ., AND JOSEPH HUME , M . P . Sirs , —I perceive by the reports in the daily journals , that on the occasion of the Parliamentary sacrifice of « the Constitution' on Saturday last , both of you vented your spiie and spleen against the honourable member for NottiEgham , by falsely and foully assailing the Northern Star . You , Henry Drummond , M . P ., maliciously and untruly charged Mr O'Connor with publishing in this journal , ' along column of advertisements of blasphemous and obscene books , ' and recommending them to the readers of this paper .

      To this accusation , I answer that Mr O'Connor , who is the proprietor of the Northern Star , is totally ignorant of the character ot the advertisements Inserted until the publication of the paper ; and is certainly guiltless of ever having reviewed or recommended any book—good , bad , or indifferent . The ' long column' must be eilher Air Cousins ' s or Mr Watson ' s advertisement—or , perhaps , both . I have looked down both advertisements , and I here deny your slanderous assertion , that a single obscene

      book is to be found in the list of either publisher . In Mr Watson's list I find- political , Iheologicsl , physiological and educational works . In Mr Cousins ' s list I find political , theological , and medical works , with the addition of certain novels and romances . But , I repeat , neither list includes any work on which could be founded your disgraceful libel of ' obscenity . ' Messrs Watson and Cousins are incapable of publishing obscene worKs , and , therefore , have no occasion to advertise such

      publications . Afi to your talk ahout blasphemous books , ' all ^ ensible men will value that talk at its true worth , as the ravings of a bigot or a hypocrite . You doubtless consider yourself an orthodox Christian , and . like the Pharisee , thank God you are not as other men are , but you should remember Byron's definition of orthodoxy and heterodoxy . ' The first , ' says the poet , ' is my doxy , the Becond is another man ' s doxy . ' Your doxy' is , probably , heterodoxy to Messrs Watson and Cousins . You would hardly venture to denounce Lord Brougham as a blasphemer , yet that personage could not hesitate to avow he has read the writings of Hume , Paine ,

      Godwin , Volney , Diderot , Mirabaud , Rousseau and Voltaire ; and if Harry Brougham may read the writings of these authors , why not Harry Smith or John Jonis , who have equally as good a right as his liberal lordship to ' prove all things ard hold fast that which is good . ' Some of the above-named authors have extorted the lavish praise of the ex-Chancellor . If Lord Brougham may eulogise Voltaire as worthy of ' a lasting debt of gratitude , ' * surely the Northern Star may advertise the great Frenchman ' s works . Do you , a member of Parliament , stand in need of being taught that ' blasphemy' is an undefined offence , which the professors of every religion think themselves at liberty

      to charge upon the professors of every other religion ? Are you so ignorant as not to know that the founder of Christianity was crucified and Stephen Btoncd , as ' blasphemers ? ' That Luther and Calvin were blasphemers to the followers of Rome ? That Dr Kalley , a Protestant minister , was recently pro secuted and persecuted by the Portuguese authorities of Madeira as a ' blasphemer ? ' And , lastly , can you be blissfully unconscious of the fact that you , Henry Drummond , M . P ., are a ' blasphemer 1 in the eyes of Jews , Turks , and Hindoos ; and even all Christian sects but the one you associate with ? I am afraid , however , that I cannot credit you with mere ignorance . It is often said of certain persons , that they are not such fools as they look , and my impression is , that you are not nearly so demented

      as judging by your speeches some people might imagine ( You know fiat in the enlightened assembly , of which you are a member , your fellow-legis . lators (!)—all 'honourable' men—are ever ready to bait a Chartist ; and that to set them barking and biting the ' cry' of' blasphemy' is just as good as any other . Were you merely a bigot , you would introduce a law to suppress the 'blasphemous' books , and punish the authors or publishers by fine , imprisonment , torture or death — the good old way of vindicating ' the glory of Gcd . ' But that you will not do ; you are wise enough to see that the good old times cannot be restored , so you vent your spleen , by meanly assailing a gentleman whom you hate for his popularity—that popularity being gall and wormwood to you , and such as you , who are detested by the great mass of the people .

      Excepting , perhaps , Mr Sillett ' s book , on farming , I am not aware that Mr O'Connor has ever recommended any book to the readers of the Star . 1 alone am responsible for the censure or applause beBtowed upon any book reviewed in the Star . For anything I know Mr O'Connor may never look at the review columns , and certainly he knows nothing of the reviews until the publication of the Star . I do not spare censure when I think censure called for , but on the other hand I do not , and never will , hesitate to applaud and recommend a really good and clever work , even though it should not be shaped according to the fashionable orthodoxy of the day . I am content to ' Selza on Truth wherover found , On Christian or on Heathen ground , '

      Believing with the poet , that' The flower ' s divine wherever it grows . ' You , Henry Drummond , M . P ., proceeded in your speech to assert , that ' the hon . member for Nottingham had in his journal advocated the principles of M . Proudhon , which went to deny the right of any property . ' I shall simply reply to this , that you have asserte dwhat you knew to be an outrage on truth . You went on to say , " He ( Mr O'Connor ) had in the course of certain articles published in this journal , said , addressing tbe people , ' Tlie land is yours , and one day or other you will each of you have your share of it , when you &hall have acquired sufficient knowledge and strength

      to assert the principle that the land is the people ' s inheritance , and that kings , and , priests and nobles have stolen it from the people , and only hold it through their ignorance . ' I cannot at this moment call to mind where you have found this extract , or whether there is any foundation for your imputing it to Mr O'Connor . Any way I will say that Mr O'Connor need not be ashamed of it . For my part , I should be only too happy , could I acknowledge myself its author . But can you not see , 0 wise M . P ., that in charging Mr O'Connor with the sentiments just extracted , you

      have contradicted a preceding charge ? In one breath you charge Mr O'Connor with advocating principles which go to ' deny the right to any property , ' and in the next breath you charge him with teaching the people that the right to possess the land is naturally theirs and that they will recover their property in the land as soon as they have acquired sufficient knowledge and strength to assert their right . For my part I declare my belief that this is most wholesome doctrine , and that whoever preaches it does more for the advancement of mankind than such statesmen (!) as you will effect though you should legislate (!) for a thousand

      years to come . Yes , I declare—I echo the assertion ofa great pnn - ciple , a principle founded in eternal right , that THE LAND IS THE PEOPLE'S INHERITANCE , AND THAT KINGS , AND PRIESTS . AND NOBLES HAVE STOLEN IT FROM THE PEOPLE , AND ONLY HOLD IT THROUGH POPULAR

      IGNORANCE ! I do not court persecution , but under any circumstances this princip le I will maintain . It is not against property I war , but against the fraudulent appropriation of national property , by the p lunderers and oppressors of the people . Towards the conclusion of your speecn , y » u > Henry Drummond , M . P ., said I— The hon . member for Nottingham in these articles , attacked the very tenure of property , and sought to destroy society as it now existed . In one of those articles the hon . member for Nottingham said , " For myself , 1 freely avow that I have no respect for society as it s at ' present constituted . ' Civilisation' means illrequited labour and a bastile for the millions . ¦ Civilisation" is a huge lie—an organised hypocrisy . Banish ' civilisation . ' ( Hear , hear . ) " Thus you

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      are reported in the Morning Herald . If the report is correct , I shall show you to have been guilty of a wilful perversion of facts . In the first place you knew that Mr O'Connor bad nothing whatever to do with the Address in which the . passage you professed to quote occurs . I can truly assert and prove that Mr O'Connor conld not have seen that Address until the Stab of July 8 th was published , and very likely even then did not notice or put himself to the trouble of reading that document . You could be under no mistake as to

      the parties responsible for that Address , it being headed as an ' Address from the Fraternal Democrats to the Working Men of Great Britain and Ireland' and signed ' G . Julian Harney , Secretary . I leave the public to pronounce judgment on your conduct in asserting that ' the hon . member for Nottingham , Said , &C , &c . ' The hon . roeniler J 1 J noi esy , &c , and is not answerable ( or the sentiments you have ascribed to him . Those sentiments are mine , and the words are mine , and I glory in avowing tkem .

      Here is a correct copy of the passage you have misquoted : — 'We ( the Fraternal Demoor&ts ) frankly avow that we have ao respect for society ssat present con stituted . ' Civilisation' means ill-requited labour , starvation , gaols and bastilea for tho masses . To the millions civilisation is a huge lie , sn organised hyno ' crisy . Perish » uch civilisation . ' Tbe word such is in italics in the ori g inal . I must now trouble you Henry Drummond , M . P ., to turn to the report of your speech on Hume ' s Reform Motion , as published in the Morning Chronicle of June 21 st , in which you describe ' society as at present constituted , ' and the ' civilisation' of the presftnt day in the following words : —

      ' In tho first place , they must consider who were the persona making theae demands . He wae eure tbat the greatest portion throughout the country at the present moment were pernonB who , from various causes , were suffering great distress , and ho believed that there was no distress which a man was capable of suffering equal in pain , both to body and mind , to that of seeing his family around him starving to death ( hear , hear ) , whilst he felt that he had the ability to support them had he but the means ( Hear , hear , ) Many gentlemen must remember

      that passage in tho first of our modern poets , who when he would describe the acme of human suffering , takes the case of Count Ugolino , and there describes much such a scene as that to which he had ad ' verted , . vi any gentlemen had also read no doubt , tbe very painful accounts which were published not very long ago , detailing sufferings of such a nature that they had nearly destroyed aU the finest feelings of humanity—that had gone even tbe length of leading mothers to contemplate and provide for the death of some of her children that one might have somewhat more to give the others . '

      This is yotir picture of' civilisation , ' and if you had the heart of a man within you , you would cry with me , ' PERISH such CIVILISATION !' But there is this difference between you and me . I belong to the working classes , and have known in my own person the Bufferings of the working classes ; you belong to that privileged minority who thrive by the sufferings of the people . Is it true that you are related to the Duke of Athol , the too celebrated lord of Glen Tilt ? Is it true that you are brother-in-law to the Earl of Kinnoul and the Bishop of Rochester ? These are , for aught I know to the contrary , all 'honourable men ; ' but not the less deeply interested in society as at present constituted , and that ' civilisation , ' which according to your own showing , dooms the masses to horrors ri . vailing the miseries of Count Ugoliuo .

      As to you , Joseph Hume , M . P ., a few words will suffice . You followed the member for West Surrey , and declared that' the paper from which the hon . gentleman had quoted was no credit to any one . ( A laugh . ) * * Any paper which pandered to the passions of the multitude by propagating such doctrines / ally deserved the term profligate that had been applied to it . * * And the men who propounded such doctrines , and held out ouoH daneerous principles to the ignorant and unthinking should be shunned by all persons , ana scouted from society . ' Thank you for nothing , Joseph . It is no fault of yours that the means at present employed to crush the independent Irish press have not before thi 6 time been put into

      requisition to destroy the only public journal in England , which such shoyJwys and political charlatans as you stand in awe of . Are you not a wretched counterfeit of a ' Reformer , ' when , acknowledging as you do , that English misgovernraent and Whig treachery are the prime causes of Irish disaffection , you nevertheless , with a hypocritical whine , declare yourself' placed in the painful position of supporting her Majesty ' s government , ' in strangling ' the constitution , ' and handing over Ireland to the rule of the sword ? Both the hon . member for Nottingham and this journal have earned your hatred , by exposing the humbug of your Reform dodge , and , therefore , you join chorus with the West Surrey sage in raising a howl against ' the dangerous doctrines' of the Northern Star .,

      On so notorious a ' brown-bread , ' sham-Radical as you , Joseph Hume , M . P ., I do not think it necessary to waste further remarks . I beg to remind you , Henry Drummond , M . P ., that on the occasion of your election at Guildford , on the 6 th of August last , you said : — ' I was born 3 Tory—and I stuck to Toryism till it became as dead as a door nail . ' You went on to say : — ' Whigism is as dead as Toryism , ' and you added : — ' It has been determined that class-legislation shall come to an end—in that

      determination I join . ( Loud cheers . ) * * » There must be perfect equality for all . No one class shall domineer over another , or be domineered over by another . ( Loud cheers . ) ' This speech gave me some hopes of you , even though ' born a Tory . But my hopes have suffered shipwreck , and I am afraid you have sadly disappointed your constituents and that the cheer 9 will not be so loud' the next time you address a Guildford audience . Oh !—as Burns says when addressing the Deil : —

      • 0 wad ye tak a tksugM an' men 1 ' You read the Northern Star . Good . That is the one hopeful feature of your otherwise deplorable case . Read it attentively , reflect on this letter , learn to speak the truth , eschew the shocking habit of bearing false witness against your neighbour , and you may yet redeem your character . If , however , these words of warning are too late , if you are resolved to persevere in the road to ruin , the best fortune I can then wish you , will be—that the next election for West Surrey , may leave you politically , like Toryism , ' as dead as a door nail / G . Julian I-Iamey . Northern Star Office , July 27 th , 1848 .

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      EXECUTIVE NOTICE . Letters have been received from njany of the must important diatriota of England and Wales , giving favourable accounts of the progress of the movement generally . The great question for the ' present is efficient uiguulaatillfll , 9 UU 1 TUII 1 rC {/ i / i > u oli » v ••• .. ] . u . . „»__ day , we have reasons to believe tbat tho elements of a gigantic movement party for the Charter exist in thia ocuntry . One thing is plain—the Russell Ministry are treathing their last , and the present House of Commons is imbecile for good , and powerful only for evil . Such s parliament cannot govern . Ths breaking up of narties is inevitable : and , therefore , tbe collecting and husbanding of onr strength is reinrtom .

      During these past ten days , important meetings have been continuously held in London and districts and our colleague , Mr M'Crae , has gone to Scotland , to oement the bonds of union on both sides of tbe Tweed river . We deem it advisable to issae no address . Next week we shall address our friends at length . . We have received numerous applications for missionaries , but the St&te of SUr fioanOBB pi'flVeilt U 8 complying with the requests of our friesda . L « t no Whig servile or Tory journalist rejoice at thia announcement . We cannot put our hands into a fund

      for seoret service , by which to make an impression on the ' Tihb 8 , ' and astonish the' Speciatohs '—surprise the ' ExAUiNBas' of the' Chromicleb '—and have our office filled with official ' Dispatches ; ' bat we can do greater things : we can move England and Scotland from Land ' s End to Land ' s End , and will awaken the dozing minister , one of these mornings , to such a cry for the Charter as will make him wonder at the meaning of the oft-misquoted phrase— ' Voxpopuii , vox d'i . '— The voice of the people is the voics of God !' Signed on bahalf of the Executive . Samuel Kids .

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      LAMENT FOR MITCHEL . Air— ' The Flouieraof theFortst . ' O , Erin , thy Bons and thy daughters in anguish May weep , far their dearest and bravcat is gone ; Exiled , o ' er thy wrongs and thy aorrowB to languish , Far , far , from the friends of his heart and his home . Bright gem of thy green islo—fair freedom ' s devoted—Tbe terror of tyrants—the friend of the slave—Whose patriot bosom , all pure and unspotted , Now beats under chains o ' er the dark briny wave .

      Gold , cold , is the bosom that aigha not in sorrow ( Nor weeps for the Exile one sad silent tear ; No bright hopes to lighten his heart for the morrow , No fond friends to soothe him , so lonely and drear . There , far horn the land / or whose freedom he straggled , To breathe but for Erin in Becret a sigh-There stung with sad thoughts that his country is troubled , Perhaps in a hoik's darkest dungeon to die . Cast out from his home , the land of his fathers , The scones of hia childhood , bis own native shore , Where death , like the frown of a thunder cloud gathers ,

      And hearts once so happy , are happy no more . Bereft of one noble , one soul-stirring besom , A Mitohel , who felt , Erin , deeply for thee : But , b'ighted too soon , like a flower in its blossom , And oast out to wither ' mid the deep rolling sea . O Erin , when will the sweet harp of dear freedom , Be heard on thy mountains , thy mosrs , and thy plains ? O , when will a Mitchel ' s heart , silently bleeding , Beat gladly to hear thou hast broken thy ohains ? His bouI it was free as thy fierce foaming fountains ; It sought but the millions in bondage to pave ; Then weep , Erin , weep , o ' er thy moorlands and mountains , F « r Mitchel , the injured , the true and the brave .

      Awake , hapleea Erin , awake from thy slumber— \ O , stay not in serfdom and sorrow to Bigh—Arouso fer thy freedom , in loud battle ' s thunder , Till conquered and helpless thy tyrants shall Jie . O , say not tbe land of an Emmett , departed , Shall groi > n with the chafna that a despot has made ; O , aay not a Mitohel , the pure , noble-hearted , Shall sleep with the felon , and sink in the shade . Tbe voice of his bosom , that beats with emotion , Is heard in the roar of the wild heaving wave ; It comes on the breast of the far distant ocean ; I ' , speaks to the tyrant , the serf , and the slave . Then ' . hough he ia absent , his spirit is speaking In accents of freedom , sweet Erin , to thee ; The R " and the Thistle , like iond ones , are seeking To twine round his bos > m , that drojpa by the sea . J . P «

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      Mancitest&r —A special meeting of the Man * obester branch of the National Land Company , will be held in tbe People ' s Institute , on Sunday morning , July 80 l 1 , at niue o ' clock . Wolvbrhampton ' . —A gonsral meeting of the menu b 3 is of the Caartiat Atsociation will be held in the Sooiety ' a meeting room , Bricklayers' Arms , Walsal . street , next Sunday , July 30 th , at balf-paat aercn in the eveniag . IIuddkbsfxeld . —The Wed Riding delegate meeting will bo held on the fir . t Sunday in August , at Mj J . iseph Ibet ? on ' s , Te nperanco Hotel , Buxton-road , Hucder .-Qekl , whan a secretary will be elected , tha preseat ons > bein ^ absufc to rotire . To commence at elevon o ' clock ,

      ToDMjRDEN . —On Sunlay naxfc , July 30 , a Chartist carap meeting will be held at Studley-pike , to com « menea at twu j ' utaik . A collection will bo made for the purpose of dtlending the political prisoners at York & 5 < iiz- ; 3 . The GstiiiBAL Deleoatb Mebting of Lancashire miners will be held on Monday , August 7 th , at the Bull ' d Head , Lamberbeid green , Pemberton , near Wigan , Cbair to bs taken at eleven o ' clock in the foroaoia .

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      / IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . ( Cond'udedfrom the EighUpago . ) Mr Retnoids thought it of little importnnct . < i . ther this unconstitutional measure extended to Soin out , - * p to March . His opinion was so strong nfainstthe . : v , ei pla or tbe 1 ) 111 , that if it was proposod to pass it : . <¦ ,, . yea years he should n ^ t be inclined to divide the hv ' -: tpon . it . ( Great laughter . ) Thej m ' Rht laugh , but bo , uld assure them tliatthe proceedings of that evenii ¦ - -,,., uld be received In a very different spirit in Ireland . ' . VJiea it reached Ireland tbat on a Saturday they a ,.,, . , led , and in a few hours suspended the constitution i . tbat

      country , and that Wfccn ho , as oneof the repreom ; ive 3 of Ireland , made an obs ervation tending to c . . vcy his strong opposition to the measure , instead of •• - > ¦ ving any sympathy he was laughed at , whnt were Hi- i ^ - 'ingg of the people of Ireland likely to be ? He wou' : : ; . ! vUe those gentlemen who were ia t he minority not t ,. ! , ¦ . ublo hon . meinterB byTOtinff again on the question . , u ^ erS . ) Though he entertained great respect tor the Iu ; .. i . iember for Middlesex ( Mr Osborne ) , he must say he ; v \\ not prepared to go with him at present in any attenv . ) 1 . either to modif y the provisions of tho bill or its pohfcr . ¦ i uxist . ence . ( Ilenr , lienr . ) Hi 6 belief was , tt at in lieu ci .. ^ ln * called a Bill for thoSupension of the Haoeas C ..-y . h Act , it would hereafter ho called a Bill to Facilits :: 'hr

      Hepeal of tbe Union . H * had promised tocive no >; t u > us opposition to the measure ; that promise lie waf ¦(•<¦; .. red to keep ; and he called upon other hon . momb ... ¦ ¦ i . t to insist upon another vote . ( Cheers . ) Mr O'Connoh said if he had agreed with the hon . . member for Dublin ( Mr Reynolds ) , ' that tho pa ^ sii : ^ oi this moacui'O would nccelecate tho Repeal of iKe 1 ' : 'U , hfl would have voted for it . Lord J Russell said that the act of ! 833 provi ' . V > that it should remain in operation from the 22 nd ¦• : ' bruary tili the l 6 t of August ensuing ; the presfnt ! . ;;' : ¦ lade the period Bomewbat longer , though not much . : - ' - - I ' . K re-Bpect to the object of the hon . member far Mi li '! - ; sex ( MrOsborne ) , wh » se mind aeemed imbued wit :. ' .. I : necessity of considering some remedial raensurea l' « ' v . the house separated for tho session , he begged to rrmini Mm tnat a ereat part of the supplies had yet . to be vot ¦ ¦ ?

      Tho Marquis of Lansdownb sale , before the huiis ? pro . cceded further in its ordinary business , he noul i call attention to an act just sent up from tho othir ! ousebeing an act to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act m cer . tain eases in Ireland until tho 1 st of March , : c ,, \< and he begged leave to move that the bill be re--. ' : v . first time . The bill having been read a first time , The Morquis of Lansdowne , in moving tlv ' ;\ ispen . sion of the standing orders , that the bill ivi b'l . t pass throu / hall its stages in one sitting , called at ; em :. into the fact , that three days' had not elapsed since the subject of the rebellions movewent in Ireland was incidentally discussed on the motion of Lord Glengall , Without bringing overwhelming proof as to the charact r i ^ . i ox . tent of that emergency under the pressure of which their lordship ; were called on to legislate . In lle . 'itii , Cork , ¦ Wa terford , Tipperary , and Kilkenny , the club si . -. d ' .. ikea practical possession of the country , Sinco ti > o Lord-Lieutenant hud proclaimed Dublin , CorlJ , and ^ . ' .. crford ,

      the acknowledged leaders of the conspiracy had cote trom town to town , and county to county , foS > tbe pai ^ ss of reviewing their forces and ascertaining the extra t of the power on which they might immediately rclj . These proceedings were taken without disguise , at if their object had been to make out a case for the men sure now proposed . There being no doubt as to the fa ' t ^ . ' . i was for their lordships not only to apply t ^ o remedv v' * hich circumstances admitted ; they must ^ iro it prompt and . decisive operation . Those who had thus put tii » n . =. elvea out of tho pale of the constitution , who had formally reuounced their allegiance and proclaimed war without submitting themselves to its dangers , were i ; i n < - > way entitled to receive the benefits of those wisepr . caution * and mild regulations which the law of that house and the country had prescribed for the protection , not uf rebellious , but loyal subjects ; and therefore , noting on tha precedent of 1803 , he moved that the standing orders be dispensed with , that this measure might pa-. ^ at ohco . Ho ventured to promise that without delay it would receive Her Majesty ' s assent .

      Lord Brouodam belived the remedy , to be etixtual , must be speedily carried , He , therefore , entheH approved the proposition of his noble friend , anl had no doubt their lordships would with one voice paf ? the bill , let this measure bs vigorously enforced , and tlwi e ueed be no fear as to the result It was not wanted tiv ^ rvvent what was utterly impossible—the Beveranco n ' . ' i ! ic empire , but to avoid civil war ; for , although atr < = n > ptg to repeal the union failed in their foul and wickeii objects , they would not fail to involve Ireland in confusion and blood . He hopod there existed in Ireland , as ii < England , such rules of prison discipline as would prevent ' . hu issue of such treasonable correspondence as hadfouud its ! way from within the walls of Newgate to the Irish pupevslast week . The Earl of Wicklow complained of Mr Dufty bein ? allowod from his pmon lo publish most seditious uid traouonable language . The Marquis of Lansdowne said although the letters to which the noble earl referred were dated from the prison , thero was reason to bolieve they wero not written there . ( Hear , hear . )

      ThoEarlof EttENB 9 EonoH gave his cordial ; iss > j ntto the measure , but diil not think it would prevent rebellion . If it had been proposed six or eight weeks aye it .-light have done so . But a system of organisation lnuj been Been read by ^ e noble * marquis were ns 4 "new . ' ' Three months ago Lord Stanley read from tke Unit-.: ' Ikish . man similar language ; and it was three months -. ? ' > >* hen , he ( Lord Ellenborough ) called attention to the 3 V :: teof Irelani , aad asked it the government meant to come to parliament for anj other powers that those which they taen possessed ; It was then said that if the Lord-Lieutenant asked for further powers they would come to par . liament for them ; and were they to understand tliat the Lord Lieutenant , only oa the 18 th of July saw the necessity for further powers ? T hey had saen the organisation of those who advocated rebellion ; bat bad tho wellaffected been organised , and put in possession of arms ? in the commencement of a rebellion organisation waa everything . Hethought this measure would now facilitate the rebellion . He said three months : igo th : it no man ought to be permitted to carry arms in the then state ef Ireland ; and he did not believe that any measure whatever would now be likely to prevent the rebellion of tho south without the arming of the north .

      The Marquis of Lanbdowm ; would not be Provoked by the speech of the noblo earl , the Eonly ono , bo was happy to say , of that character which had boeri t ' cU ^ erod ia either house . He had chosen a bad opportunity to go into details as to time , as to opportunity , and so on , but he would assure the noblo carl that on every one- ot ' these points , at a fitting time , on any flay the noblo carl thoao to name , he wr uld meet him on behalf of tbe government at home and of the Lord Lieutenant , between ' whom and the government at home they had been the roost perfect concert . He wouldjnot ) then sa . v more , as he did uot think , even after the speech of the noble earl , that ho intended to obstruct tho passing of the bill , which was so important ahould as shortly as possible , become the law of the land . The Earl of Olenoall warned the catholic clergy io be careful in advising the people to rebellion , in some of the young priests were doing , as every revolution In Europe had been destructive of the interests of tha Roman Catholic clergy .

      The standing orders were than suspended , and tho bill was re id a second time , passed though committed , was reported , read a third time , and finally passed in about two minutes . The Health of Towns Bill passed through committee , and their lordships rose at a quarter to seven , no doubt congratulating themselves on having gofc through a fair piece of work for an hoar and thr > : e quarter * sitting . MOSDAT , Joly 24 th . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Alabm in Liverpool . —Mr Cabdwell presented a petition h otn Liverpool , signed by all the authoritieg and respoetable inhabitants of tbat town , praying for the extensien of tbe measure for suspending tlie Habeas Corpus Act to that town . Tbe adjourned debate on Mr Kioan ' s motion rnhitivs to the striking of tho juries in the recent triah in Ireland for sedition , wbb resumed , and after a discussion uegatired without a division . Tae house then went into a committee of supply on the army estimates , and several sums were voted . The Incumbcred Estates ( "Ireland ; Bill was thon read a third time , and passed . TUESDAY , Jolt 25 th .

      HOUSE OF LOHDS . —Tie house met at twelve o ' clock , when the Rojral assent was given by commission to the Habeas Corpus Suspension ( "Ireland ) Bill . The Harriago ( Scotland ) Bill was raad & third time , and passed . HOUSE OP COMMONS . — The Colonieb .-SU- Wm . Moleswobth brought forward the following motion : ' That it is the opinion of this house that the colonial expenditure of the British empire demands inquiry , with a view to its reduction ; and , that to accomplish this object and to secure greater contentment and prosperity to ths colonists , they ou ^ ht to be invested with largo powers for the administration of their local affairs . ' Mr Hdtt seconded the motion . Mr Ha wes replied , and the debate was adjourned . WEDNESDAY , July 2 Ctb .

      HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Jfr R . M- Fox withdrew his m otion on the Parliament of Ireland . The Waste Lands ( Ireland ) Bill was withdrawn . Tho Sale of Beer Bill weiu through committee , and the houEO adjourned .

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      • HveB of Men of Letters and Science , who flourished in the time of Geo . III . By Henry Lord Brougham . London : Enlgbt and Co .

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      Maschebtib —Mr Daniel DatiGfan will deliver a lecture in the People ' s Institute , on Sunday , July 30 th . Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock in the evening . A members meeting of the National Land Company will ba held at two o'clock in the afternoon . West Brohwich —A meeting will be held on Sunday eTening next , at six o ' clock , at the Rose Inn , Patadisa-street . Olbhah . — On Saturday next , Mr James Leach will lecture in the Working Man's Hall , at six o ' clock . Subject : ' Chartism and Repeal . — Notice . — A special meeting of the members of the National Land Company , will be held in the Schoolroom , at two o ' clock . Leicester . —The shareholders of the No . I branch of the National Land Company will meet at their room , 87 , Church-gate , on Tuesday night next , at balf past seven .

      Souih Losdos Chabkst Hall . — Mr Thompson will lecture on Sunday evening next , at eight o ' clock . Subject : 'Man , his social and political Toweh Hamlets Vicnu Coidiittbe —All persons holding books or monies on behalf of the above , muBt bring them ia on Tiarsday evening , at eight o ' clock , at Pewy ' u Coffee-house , Shoreditoh . A . meetingfor special business will ba held . J . H . Seepheed will deliver an address on the pretent aspect of tha timeB , at the Itoyal United Friends , Tabernack-walk , Hoxton , on Monday evening at eight o'clock . Bradford . —The members of the Land Corapany are requested to meet on Snnday , July 30 th , at two o ' clock . The room haa been broken intoi and some of the books Btolen . The Chartists will meet at six o ' clockat the same place .

      , Mebthtb Ttdvil . — Tbe members of branch ho . 1 , of the Land Company , are requested to meet a ' tha Barclay and Perkins , Pontmorlaia , at seven o ' clock , on Monday evening next , the 31 st inst . Cokglsios . — Ths quarterly meeting of the membars of this branch will be held in the Chartist Room , Mill-street , on Tuesday , the 1 st of August , at half-past seven o ' clock in the even-ng . " * LecGHB 3 EOUGH . — A Midland Counties delegate ineetm * will be held on Sunday , August Gib , at the Wheat Sheaf Inn , Ward's-end , at ten o'clock in Ihe forenoon . Delegates from each locality are invited to attend , and to bring certificates sigcei by the president of their council .

      Liv £ Bpool —The CharfciBt Association and Land Compan y will meet in future at J . FarreU ' s Ternleranca Hotel , 62 , Richmond-row , opposite Comus" reet to which bouse- J . Farrell ba » removed .

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      IRELAND . C OMMEN C EMENT O F THE INSURRECTION . ( From the Fourth Edition of the Morning Chronicle of Thursday , July 2 fth . ) Liverpool , Thursday Morning . —The following intelligence was received ( per special engine ) last evening , by Mr Gonway , editor of the Dublin Evening Post : —

      HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM IRELAND . Dublin , Wednesday . — Commencement of the Rebellion . Thurles , C ' onmel , and Kilkenny in arms . Defeat nnd diaaffeotion of the troops . Bwoing . of the railway station at Thurles . the ^ whole of the South of Ireland is in rebellion . A Bpecml engine has just arrived in Dublin , from fourmilesthis sido of Tnurled ( eigUy-two miles in two hourjlu ^ The Nation at Thuiles ia on fire ; the rails for several miles are torn up ; and as the engines arrive , the mob intend detaiaing them . At Clonmel the fighting ia dreadful , the pe ° P e arrived in masseB . The Dublin club leaders are there , the troops were speedily overpowered . Many refused tfl act .

      The military at Camok have shewn dmaffeotion . and have been driven back , and their quarters fired . At Kilkenny the content is proceeding , sad hare the mob are also said to bo successful . No news from Waterford or Cork '

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      AND NATIONAL TRADES' JOURNAL .

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      VOL-JXI . No 562 _ . __ Jf ND 0 ? 1 - SATURDAY , JULY 2 % 1848 . ' ~ ., «^¦ JSS , ' . % ,,

      To The English And I Ris H Chaktists. ~"~"

      TO THE ENGLISH AND I RIS H CHAKTISTS . ~ " ~ "

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 29, 1848, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1481/page/1/