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THE HOBIHERN STAR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1850.
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UNITE D PATRIOTS' AND PATRIARCHS' BENEFIT SOCIETY . Enrolteapursuantto lOGeo . IV , c . 56 , * & 5 wm . IV . c . 46 , & 9 fc-iovic . c . 47 .-InsfatuUd , / u lJ ! en .,. u » ei .,.. ¦ •; ., .-- ¦ PATHONISED BY THE TVOBKDIG HttUOSa . . ' .... = - „* Tuophnnics and The Society is divided into sir sections , to meet the necessities and requirements of all classes ot mecnan ¦« nu laborers , frSm fifteen years of age to forty-five . This Sodety . consistsof above two thousand J ^ f " ' ^ Sickness fbaded capital of 2 . L 16 s . 9 dL ; having ; paid the following sums for benefits sinca \ te fo rmation , outness , 6 . 70 M . osi 101 Fttuerals , 1 , 3821 . Superannuation , 301 . Os . 4 d . Fire , 361 . 16 s . 5 W . -Tot ai . J . iM MfrJ | r * emainaer can The followingis the SCALE . OF FEES to bepaifl at entrance 3 s . most bo paid when admitted and ttie nbmhmw can v- ^^ lf ^^^ . ^« & : & 5 * 1 ^ fr ^^ iionf :::: ' ! ? I — I li - li I :::: oil I : ; :: S il i ¦ •; ::. ;¦ tJS ^» E 5 KLT AIMW . ASCE ETSICKSESS iOT ' sDPEEASirawioN . * MEHBKR'S DKAIH .-WIFB ' S 0 * NOMINEE'S DEATH , KrstSection ...... 183 . 0 a . Cs . Oa . first Section .... J . 20 0 0 .... * 1 » « » Seconaditto ...... 15 0 6 0 Secomaditto .... 16 0 0 » » ¦ Thirdditto- . ;; .. ; U 0 . 4 0 J ^^ in no 5 0 0 foprlhtJitto S e 4 0 Fourtitditto .... . 1 .. § 00 Fifth ditto ...... 7 0 4 0 fJ ^ ^ - ? , • ¦ - none Stahditto 7 . 0 none . . Sixftditto . -. -i *™ - * . •"' LOSS BY FIRE . — In all the DivisioHS ( with the exception of the Sixth ) £ 1 » . Monthly contributions to ensure the above benefits . Under 30 yearsof age . Under nt 2- " ^ Sll taS .:: I " riGeneralExpensesf ^ fjlns ^ e in . «« n ^ . / \^ £ ^ FJKto ..:: 1 8 j lid . Monthly . l _ 10 j or 2 QL 3 d . a month . 2 1 J Medicine . Sixttditto .... ^ ^ ^ wiaow ana o ^ . Fandsexb » , ftrw ^ ch , seetherdes _ d Ageaciesare established in many , of the prineipalTowns throughout * f . Kmgdom , and agnts ^ are reqw pate , toxfhom a liberal allowance is made . Every information canbe 0 ^ eVy fArnfTn ^ nhanvcourt-roadJ , St . tteOTieeofthe Society , 13 , Tottenham-court , Kew-roafl ( thirteen doors from the tap of Tottennam . couri- » v » / , I B ^^ fflo » nliy « HWiiBtoB ^ welw P 08 taSe stamps , and if for na of application , or information , three stamps must be enclosed . . Witmk RoFFr General Secretary .
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DEAFNESS ASD KOISES IN THE HEAP SPEEDILY .-. CUBED . . . DR . BENNETT , - Aurist , -whose study is devoted to Diseases of the Ear , continues , by his newly discoverea easy Remedy , to effect astonishing Cures -where Sufferers of both sexes have been Deaf ( even forty or fiftv years ) , and considered incurable , have found a Speedy andPermanent Cure by using Dr . BESTNETT'S Easy , Safe , andPainless PREPARATION , even to an Infant or the delicate nervous Female . Sold only , by Dr . Besnett , atthelnstituaonfor the Cure ofDeamess , 80 , tTpper . Stamford-street , near Waterloo bridge , Louden and sent carriage free throughout the Kingdom on receipt of 5 s . in post stamps . , _ .. Attendance to the Poor Monday , Wednesday , and Friday evenings , from G till 8 .
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DEAFNESS . — Important Notice . — Mr . FRANCIS , the eminent aurist , who has devoted his attention solely to DISEASES of the EAR , continues to effect the : most astonishing cures in all those inveterate cases which have long been considered hopeless , and of thirty or forty years standing , enabling the patient to hear a whisper ,- without pain or operation , effectually removing deamess , noises in the head , and all diseases of the aural canal . Mr ; P . attends daily from 10 until 6 , at Ms consnlting rooms , 6 , Beaafort-btdldings , Strand , London . Persons at a distance can state their case by letter . Advice to the poor , Monday , Wednesday , and Friday , from 6 till 8 in ¦ he evening ; ' - ' - -
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CURES FOR THE USCURED ! HOLLO WAY'S OINTMENT Jn Extraordinary ( hire of Scrofula , or Exng ' s Evil . Extract of aletter from Mr . J . H . Alliday , 209 High-street , Cheltenham , dated January 22 nd , 1850 . So , —My eldest son , when about three years of age , ¦ was afflicted with a glandular swelling in the neck , which after a short time broke out into an ulcer . An eminent medical man pronounced it as a very bad case of scrofula , and prescribed for a considerable time withent effect . The disease then for years went os gradually increasing in -virulence , when" besides the ulcer in the neck , another formed bdowthe left knee , and a third under the eye , besides seven others on the left arm , with a tumour between the eyes which was expected to break . During the whele oi the time my suffering boy had received the constant advice of the most celebrated medical gentlemen at Cheltenham
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- j NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . ; j Office , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand . lT < HEi '¦ " EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE X hereby announce the following meetings : — On Sunday afternoon , September 29 th , the Metropolitan Delegate Council will hold their usual weekly meeting at the City Chartist Hall , 26 , Golden-lane . OnSunaayevening ( samedate ) Mr . T . M . Wheeler will lecture at the King and Queen ,, Foley-street , Portlandplace . Subject : 'The Evils of a Standing Army . ' To commence at half-past eight o ' clock . .. .. On Monday evening , September 30 th , a public ^ meeting wiU beield at the City Hall , 26 Golden-lane . Messrs .. lussell and Wheeler , with a : deputation from the Democratic Propagandists , are expected to attend and address the meeting ^ Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock } On Tuesday evening , October 1 st , a Working Man ' s Hall will be opened hi Church-fields , Greenwich . Messrs . G .. W . M . Reynolds , S . M . Kydd , Bronterre O'Brien j and other friends to Democracy are expected to attend . vGnair to be taken at half-past seven o ' clock . ; Admission free . . On the same evening , Mr . J . J . Bezer will lecture at , the Globe and Friends , Morgan-street , Commercial-road East , and will give a graphic description of what he has witnessed of * the social condition of the working classes , during his recent tour .. To commence at eight o ' clock . N . B . —These agents who have not sent their returns of the number of members enrolled , and also the monies in hand received for cards of membership , are most respectfully and earnestly solicited to forward the same to the General Secretary , as early as possible . . , . Signed , on behalf of the Committee , JohsAesott , General-. Secretary .
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Brother Chartists Beware ! " of Wolves in Shtepi Clothing . " BUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS !! THE ONLY CURE FOR RUPTURE is DR . BARKER'S REMEDT . of which there are numerous dangerous imitations ; sufferers are therefore ' earnestly cautioned against a gang of youthful impudent self-styled doctors , some of whom have lately left the dough trough , and othera the tailors' board , : who dishonestly counterfeit this , discovery , adopt a multiplicity of names , both English and Foreign , for obvious reasons ; forge testimonials ; profess ( under the name of a lady assumed for the purpose ) , amongst other wonders , to tell the character of persons from ' their -handwriting , produce 1 weeksand assertions the most
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THE BLOOD Our bodies have been entirely formed , art now forming , and will continue to be built vp during Lfe from the Blood . This being the case , the grand object is to keep this precious fluid ( the blood ) in a pure and healthy state , for without this purity , disease wiU sliaw itself in some way or Hit other . ,
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Education . for the Millions . : :: THISrDAY'ls ^ PUJBlISSED ,. ' : ; •'•' . ' NO . XIX . OF : " . " THE piONAL IBSTROCTOK" , PRICE ONE if ENN * \ \ . \ The obieot of the Proprietor , Fbakods O'Connob , Esq . UP ia to place within the reach of the noorest classes that Political and Social Information Of which they are at present deprived by the Government" Taxes ; on Knowledge . ' SIXTEEN LARGE OCTAVO PAGES , Price One Penny . > > 1 '
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J , i n OOP E , R ' S : ; J O UE NA L ; \ J ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ . OB , ' . UNFETTERED THINKERi AND PLAIN SPEAKER FOE TRUTH , FBEEDOM , AND PROGRESS . ( A Weekly Periodical . Price Onb Pennt . Issued also :-- ! in Monthly Parts . ) " ' ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦ I beg to inform the readers of the above-named Periodical tbat the re-issne will commence with Saturday , tbe 5 th of October next . The Trade can he supplied on Tuesday , the 1 st of October . I hare rip promises to " make of ' great improvements . ' The intelligent friends -ivhb kindly assisted me with their contributions before , have intimated their intention to continue their favours . The ' Critical Exegesis , ' and other articles , so far as space will allow , shall be duly furnished by myself . . Thomas Coopeb . 5 , Park-row , Knightsbridge , Sept . 3 rd , ' 1850 . '
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. TO TAILORS . By approbation of Her Majesty , Queen Victoria , and H . R . H . Prince Albert . NOW READY , THE LONDON and PARIS FASHIONS for AUTUMN and WINTER 1850-1 , the most splendid and superbly-coloured PRINT ever before published by Messrs . Benjamin READ and Co . ; 12 Hart-street , Blooms :, bury-square , London ; and by . G . BfiRGER . HolyweU-street , Strand . This exquisitely engraved Print will be accompanied with Riding , Dress , Frock and Shooting Coat Patterns , all of the newest and most fashionable style , and every part fully illustrated both for Cutting and Making-up . Also the registered Cape and Cloak-Paletot for persons of aU nations , the moEt convenient garment every before introduced , and will admit of great variety , in cutting and making-up : every particular explained . Registered according to act of parliament , by Read and Co .,. 28 th August , 1850 . All persons purchasing the Fashions are at liberty to make and sell the same ; and all other persons not purchasing the fashions , by sending 3 s . for the Pattern and printed information , for that and aU other particulars respecting Style and fashion for . the . present season . The Print is exhibited in the
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LAND AND COTTAGES FOB TEETOTALLERS . np HE OWNER of several landed estates , X ( one of which . is only , ten minutes ride from London by a ninepenny return ticket ) , being most anxious to promote the cause of total abstinence , offers land of very superior quality at from £ 2 to £ i per acre , and cottages at from £ 4 to £ 10 per annum , to Pledged Teetotallers with a good character . Not less than one acre , nor more than four , will 1 be allotted to one family , except under peculiar circumstances . . - Applicants must state their former pursuits , present trade , number in family , and amount of capital at command , and forward the same to Mr . Haliett , at Plummer ' s Farm , Colney Hatch , Whetstone , Middlesex . No letter answered unless it contains a penny stamp .
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PRAMPTOFS PILL OF HEALTH . Price , lai ljd . per . box . THIS excellent Family PILL is a Medicine of long-tried efficacy for correcting all disorders of the stomach and bowels , the common symptoms of which are costiveness , flatulency , spasms , loss of appetite , SICK head ache , giddiness , sense of fulness after meals , dizziness of the eyes , drowsiness , and pains in the stomachy and bowels , indigestion , producing a torpid state of the liver , and a constant inactivity of the bowels , causing a disorganisation of every functionof the frame , will , in this most excellent preparation , by a little perseverance , be effectually removed . Two or three doses will convince the afflicted of its salutary effects . The stomach will speedily regain its strength ; a healthy action of the liver , bowels , and kidneys will rapidly take place ; and instead of listlessness , heat , pain , and -jaundiced appearance , strength , activity , and renewed health , will be the quick result ot taking thia medicine , according to the directions accompanying each box . . ¦ ¦ ''
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DEAFNESS ASD SIKGKG IN THE EARS INSTANTLY CURED WITHOUT PAIN Oil OPERATION . rVSE APPLICATIONS OF DR . PEARJ- SON'S wonderful discovered remedy in all cases of Deafness enables 3 uft ' erers of either sex , even an infant or most aged persons , to hear a watch tick at arms length and general conversation , although having been afflicted with deafuess for thirty or forty years , without the use of any instrument , or possibility of causing pain or dauecr to a child many of whom born 'leaf , with persons Qfallfiges whose cases had been , by the old treatment , pronounced incurable , after the use of this new discovery have had their hearing perfectly restored .
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WM ^ ritt : - , WEEKLY JOURNAiLJBY 'S ROBERT OVMOa Saturday , the ; 2 nd of November , will bC ' published the First Number of ROBERT QWENWEEEY JOURNAL , ¦'¦ ' I ' - ' ¦ : r BicE ; OKE PBNNi ; . ' V ' , ' A PerkidiCiii intended to instruct ' all claasei' hi ,-the principles and' practical measiiresby which ' alone > the poverty , injustice , ; and misery of the existing > system can be peaceably superseded by , universal 1 wealth , justice , and happiness . . .. ., -:, - ,. .-. . ' To be had of all Booksellers ' in-, Town , and Country . THE RECENT WoftMOBERTjlp , ' May be had of Effingham Wilson ,,, Royal Exchange ; Watson , Queen ' s Head-passage , paternoster-row ; : ana Tickers , Hotywell-atreet , London .
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Nottikoham James Sweet tegs to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums for the Wihding-up Fund : —Mr . R . Watson , Is ; Mr . T . Smith . 66 * . ; Mr . T . Hasketh . 6 d . Mr . Hobneb . Newport , Mon . —We should have sent the portraits / did we know where-we should send them for inclosure . . . The same to other Agents . Mr . Smith , Bramhope . —Itis sent to Mr . Fisher , bookseller , West-street , 'Leeds . Mr . E . Howard , Hull . —Twopence each for postage . There is every probability of their being spoiled by being sent through the post . Mr . A . Barnett , Dundee . —They were sent for enclosure early last week .
Mr . G . WiLsow , Alloa . —Your present quarter terminates on October 12 th . Mr . W . Favill , Salford . —Your letter is forwarded to the Directors . 144 , High Ilolborn ; The Lacey Fond . — Received from Mr . John Arnott thi 8 week , £ 215 s . 2 d . Erbatusi—In last week ' s Star appeared the following sum— " Messrs . Rees and Paver , 2 s . " It should have been 3 s . The Polish Refugee Fund . —The monies for the above fund will be acknowledged next weeek . — Wm . Davis , Secretary . : D . L ., Jersey . —We are much obliged for your information , and regret that it came to hand too late . We should be glad to hear from you again , should anything occur worthy of notice . " Ben" and " Mat Operatives . "—Received ;
The Hobihern Star Saturday, September 28, 1850.
THE HOBIHERN STAR SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 28 , 1850 .
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.,. - . ¦ A FREE PRESS . In proceeding with the consideration of the measures that ought to he passed by a People's , Parliament , we come next to a Free Press as the natural and appropriate compliment to the system of National Education , outlined , in our last article upon this subject . The spirit of Protestantism , and the defence by John Milton of " the liberty of unlicensed printing , " prevented the introduction into this country of the continental censorship ; but different administrations , from the time of
Queen Anne , have sought to attain , and , to a serious extent , have succeeded in attaining the object of a censorship —" that of restricting the rights of political discussion to a favoured class , by the indirect medium of official burdens and restrictions . A stamp duty on newspapers | was first imposed in 1712 by the 10 Anne c . 19 . The amount was a halfpenny on a half sheet ; a penny , if not exceeding a whole sheet . The mischievous and repressive effect of the tax was immediately made evident by its extinguishing the Spectator of Addison and Steele , at that time decidedly
the best publication issued by the Press . The worst portions of the laws , passed with the view of indirectly restricting the diffusion of political information , still remain on the statute book , having been re-enacted in 1836 , with additional penal clauses of great severity . That measure was one nominally for the reduction of the newspaper stamp duty to a net sum of Id . from 4 d ., with a discount of twenty per cent , off , to which it had risen from the time of Anne . But it had become impossible to collect a higher duty , and it was admitted
at the time by the Chancellor of the Exchequer ( Mr . Spring Rice , now Lord Monxeagle ) , that the sale of unstamped journals , published in defiance of the law , had extended to 200 , 000 ' weekly . These were all sacrificed to the interests of the stamped Press by the 6 and 7 . Will . IV . c . 7 6 , which gave the most severe and summary powers of suppression , and , in point of fact , renders it impossible for any unstamped periodical to exist when the Stamp Office may choose to set in motion the despotic powers with wliich it is
invested . The penny stamp is equivalent to a formal prohibition of newspapers of the class which exist in the islands of Guernsey and Jersoy , at the price of one penny , three-halfpence , and twopence . In those islands , as in the United States , there are few- families without a newspaper at home . In Great Britain and Ireland it is only by frequenting a public-house —and not always then—that a poor man can read the report of a trial by jury . He must obey the laws without discussing them , or learning the nature of their operation . The privilege of postage conferred b y the stamp would be a fair consideration for the penny , if
the stamp were optional ; but as the stamp must he paid—whether postage be required or not—the postage privilege becomes a benefit to a few only of the London journals , and amounts therefore to another newspaper restriction , as affecting the diffusion of intelligence of local interest . The competition of the leading London journals , delivered by Government carriage free , so aggravates the mischief of the stamp in the case of the Provincial Press , that a local daily paper cannot bo maintained even in such towns as Manchester , Liverpool , and Glasgow . These vast and wealthy emporiums of manufactures and commerce aro deprived of auy advantages pos «
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sessed by the youngest and smallest towns in the United States . * . ¦¦¦ ¦ .---- ; ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ - : i ; ' ' - / The effect of the existing-Press Laws is , in s £ ort , ;' to give a practical monopoly in the diffusion Of . 'intelligence ; to ; a : few > apitalists—proprietors of London- daily journals , too often in-, terested in its' distortion ^ and . io suppress the natural safety valve Of > # 0 K discontent ; in consequence of whiclijh o ^ : in power are eontinually misled . asito the * tate , of th e ^ ubUc mind . A daily newspaper , speaking of the feelings of the working classes , representing their interests ; advocating theii * views , and correct ; . iii b- W $ ' / m ^^^^ i ^ . .. ' . ^ J ^ ^ ' !^ heaped upon them ! by , the . Capitalist Press , does hot at present exist , and never can exist in tliis country under the present state of the messed * it ijwi& \ &i ^ m
law . ¦ " "'¦ . ' : . / ... ;; ' ; ' . ' . . ' . " ..: ¦ ¦ ' ,. . It is scarcely / possible to estimate all' the evils attributable to this source . By deceiving the A dministration and the Legislature , as to the real state of public feeling , it produces in their minds a feeling of false security—causes a fata ! postponement of needful Reforms , and'becomes thus the proximate . ' cause of violent and sanguinary Eevolutions . Nothing contributed so " much to the ' sudden overthrow as
of the ' throne . ofLoui ^ Philippe the severe censorship , which , ' in fact ; muzzled the ' press , ; and prevented the utterance of' public opinion , The Revolution of 1848 ,, not only in France , but throughout ; ¦ , Germany . and Italy , gave " birth to a free unstamped press , and the avidity with which the people everywhere availed . themselves of , it ;_ . showed how earnestly they hungered and thirsted After the information and the mental stimula thus pro : vided . To the honour of the Revolutionary Governments , they gave ' unlimited' and ¦ unlicensed power to all parties to' publish and
maintain their own opinions ; in any manner they thought proper . They , were not : afraid to let truth and falsehood grapple , for they had the faith of glorious John Milton—that truth cb ^ ld never be put to : flight in a' free and open ( encounter ., The reactionary party , as soon . as they regained their supremacy , reverted to the old repressive system . The press was again placed under vigorous supervisiori , prosecutions , fines and . imprisonment , or summary suppression . by-armedforce , have been resorted to everywhere on the Continent , as the means of propping up Governments hated ! by the people . The press is moire shackled now than at any former period . '
If ; any one . lesson ; can , be more clearly deduced from the experience of the past ,, than another , it is , that all such violent and arbitrary measures must fail . In due time popular discontent , thus forcibly pent'up , ' will burst forth in , a destructive explosion , scattering on-all sides the wrecks of institutions ' opposed ' to the natural instincts , and the inalienable rig hts of humanity . The very best and moBt effective instrument of good government ; is a thoroughly Free Press ; Its nfluence is of the most salutary kind in producing a reading and an orderly population . Besides this , it provides the proper medium for the peaceable solution of the great social
and political questions which are now agitating the minds of the millions . In the United Statesj the leading men of all parties feel that Education , and' ¦ a Free Press , ' are the two great guarantees for the successful working of 'Democratic institutions . An ignorant democracy would be a terrible power to deal with . As the people are certain to achieve their rightful sovereignty in the future , it will be wise in Governments and Legislatures to provide , betimes , for their proper education , and the means by which , at all times , public opinion may be expressed without let or hindrance . Newspapers are less expensive and less mischievous revolutionises than barricades
and muskets , A People ' s Parliament , elected by , and responsible to , the whole people , would have no interest in stifling public opinion . It is only when despots or oligarchies usurp supreme power , ' and assume to make their whims , caprices , or fancied interests the standard by which society is to be regulated—the objects to promote which it primarily exists—that there can be any objection to a Free Press . A People ' s Parliament would abolish the newspaper stamp duty , and the duty on advertisements . It would remove all the restrictions
now imposed on newspapers , to prevent an evasion of those duties , and it would enact such improved laws of newspaper copyright and responsibility , as would tend to raise the character of the Press , while extending its in-v fluence . By such measures , a really Free Press would be enjoyed by the nation , which would perform , simultaneously , the two important functions of creating a sound and enlight-. ened public opinion , and of reflecting , accurately and faithfully , that opinion , in all its phases . .
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help > of tne Priests . The insurrection of BaK ingarry , * ° easil Jy' ^ put down-b y , a . few policemen , might have been , nay , would have been , a bloody , if not . a successful , revolution , and Smith O'Brien havejbeen . somewhat besides a convicted felonj had notthe priests arrived ; with ; spiritual ' terrors ' , and . alarmed by the Protestant and freethinking opinions of . soine of the ( most influential ; among the leaders , held'back the people from the standard of ' revolt ;; but - now , the pastors are thefirBv in . the field , " ahdaU the vast machinery of religion will be put in motion , to urg 6 the people on to destroy one of the institutions of the country . Only those who know the Irish mind inti-^^^ SfiS ^ lS *
mately , can understand the power religion has over the impulsive devotees who kneel ~ at Catholic altars . It isnot , as with the colder Protestant , a mere seventh-day matterj it enters into their , lives , and becomes a part ' of their politics ; and their pastors , disowned by Government , and treated contemptuously by the clergy of an establishment , which has no hold , even upon' the , > espect , mtich less . the affections , of the ; , people become to them as the veritable ministers ' of the ' Almi ghty ;¦ and whenihey raise the banner , are followed as implicitly and as devoutly as ever Mahomet wasby those ' who were in search of a paradise , peopled - with the black eyed houris of Oriental fable . - ¦• ' : ' : . ' ; "• ' •¦•
Ifthe priesta are'in earnest , then they can give to . the Tenant-Bight League a power , which no government , however averse , can afford to disregard ; and we may make sura that , in this instance at . least , they have their hearts in the work . As men they could not have been indifferent to the scenes ; of oppressionand tyranny under which their countrymen were daily suffering . Their hearts must have been as callous as the rocks which form their mountains , if they ¦ had = not bled at the scenes of distress which have never been absent
from their eyes ; They could not have stood at the bedside—bedside did we say ?—we mean by the heap of dirty , mouldering straw , upon which : some famine ^ Btricken wretch , or some victim of man-bred fever and pestilence was breathing his last , while wife and children stood round , with grief rendering yet more haggard their hunger-wasted faces and shrunken limbs , without a deep curse bursting out of their human nature , at the system which worked , or permitted such atrocities ; and tHey could not have looked around upon that land , among the most fertile of all the lands of the earth—a land capable of supporting ten times the present number of its
inhatants in plenty and happiness—they could not have' ' seen drove after drove of fatted beasts , and ship load upon ship load of golden , grain , sent from the very dharnel house of famine to the abode of comparative plenty , so that the insatiate cry for "rent ! rent ! ' ' might be satisfied , and the gaping jaws of moneymongers , and usurers ; and'such vile creatures as fatten and swell upon the misery and downfall'of the workers , without feeling that landlordism had squandered its resources in debauchery ; and at the last gasp of its profligate and reckless existence was seeking to prolong it's life , by sucking the very' heart ' s blood of the despairing workers .
The priests must have been either more or less than men , if they could have seen this arid borne it tamely ; and besides , the very existence of their order was at stake , and they could not afford to stand by passive spectators . The Protestant clergyman , belonging to a church richly endowed by laws , can do without a congregation . Perhaps , indeed , sure of their pay , the less souls there are for them to shrive , the better they are pleased . They can manage to get on without being disturbed from their port wine after dinner , or their snug bed at night , to ride over miles of mountain or
bog , to comfort the last hours of a dying sinner , but the Catholic priest is in a very different position . The existence of a peasantry is to him a necessity . He must have a flock . The voluntary , or semi-voluntary offerings , upon which he exists , come , for the most part , from among the poorest in the land . Every cabin levelled to the grouud by a remorseless middleman of a remorseless landlord— -every small farmer ' s crop seized ,, or cows driven for arrears , substracts something from his income —and every- death or emigration diminishes his congregation . The temporal as well as the spiritual . condition of the people , is bound
up with his own self-interest , and putting out of sight that even the . very blackest hearted and most callous of men could not live among an' affectionate' peasantry in the same way as the Roman Catholic pastor lives among his flock , ' without , to some extent , sharing in their joys , sympathising with their troubles , ; and being touched by their miseries , we see sufficient of mere worldly reasons , to account for the priests sinking , fov the time , their old religious bitterness , and joining with the " black north " in a bold struggle for the attainment of tenant right for all . Ireland , heralded in by the vast meeting at Enniscarthy , mentioned at greater length in another part of our columns .
Of course , landlordism , both here and in Ireland , shrieks out its universal affright at the idea of an attempt to interpose between the lords of the soil , and the Blaves who till it . They regard it aa au impious interference with the most sacred of rights , that those who , through long centuries , have abused the usurpation , dignified by . the legal name . of a constitutional trust , so as to make it the means of subserving their own indolence and debauchery , and inflicting ruin , expatriation , and death , upon hundreds of thousands—whose crimes , or errors , or both , have been the means o f wrecking the happiness of a warm-hearted people , and desolating one of the loveliest of God ' s creations—should not be called to an
account for their paBt miscalled stewardship , but be prevented from making of it , in the future , such a Moloch as it has been in thepast . Their outcries reach even up to the heavens which have so long looked down upon their misdeeds . Forgetting the wrongs of property , they appeal to its rights ; and ask , who dare to meddle with them as clamorous as foul birds of prey , scared in affright from the carcase upon which they have been battening . And well may peasant landlordism , in trembling horror , clamour thus , and be afraid ; for the day if not of retribution , of reckoning ,
is coming to them aud theirs , and that quickly . The eyes of roformers of all countries , as well as of Ireland , are turning to the land as the only niean 3 of securing the temporal salvation of the people . They feel that without a right to plant his foot upon the soil , man is but an alien in the laud of his birth ; that without some right to draw from the bosom of the universal mother the necessaries of existence , he js but an outcast in the world . They feel that if the land is to be held any longer by it privileged aristocracy , that aristocracy must hold it as a trust , and not by any divine right in
disguise—in trust for the good of the whole people , and not as a means of making them paupers and slaves ; aud that the agitation for Tenant Ri ght in Ireland , where the trust has been overmuch abused—to England , where it has been abused more than enough— will be as certain as the progress of au epidemic , which , propelled by natural laws , roves resistlessly from east to west , and no man staying its march . In fact , this Tenant Eight , giving the people some sort © f hold upon the earth , rests upon a wider basis than a mere Irish agitation , which is but a sign heralding the advent of Justice to the nations of the earth ;
aud before that cry the demou of class desdotism first holds his breath in terror , and then stuns us with his outries . The landlords and their organs wish to know why the \ uyr k to be invoked to regulato their bargains with their tenants , any more than auy other sort of commercial bargains ? " The tenant , "they say , "is free either to take their land or let it alone . ; why , then , should tha
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The readers of . the " Northern Star , and the Democratic party generally , are informed , that there is now a & j ^ ° *^ - ™ T Steel engravings : lately distributed with the '' Northern Star . " -They consist of ; KossuiH , ' - '¦¦ Meaoheb , . ¦ ; ¦ - , ; Lo ' bisBunc ... . Mitohbv Ernest Jones , - Smith O'Bries , Richard Qastlbr , , John Faosr . These Engravings have excited the admiration of every , one who has seen . them . They are faithful portraits , aud . are executedm the . most brilliant style ,. Price Fourpence each . ; . There has also been a reprint of the undermentioned portrays , " which , have been given away at different times jwith , ttie . " Northern . Star , " and which are striking likenesses , and executed in the most brilliaHt manner—Andrew Marvel , " > " . ; William Oobbeit , Arthur 0 ' Connor , : Henry , , unt , Patrick O'Hiooins , J . O'C nnor , Bronterre O'Brien , W . P . Boberts . J . R ; Stephens , There is also a re-issue of the two large .... ¦•'•¦ : ' 'prints , « THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF 1839 . " " THE PRESENTATION OF THE NATIONAL PETITION , by Mr . DUNCOMBE , in 1842 . " To be had of J . Pavey , Holy well-street .
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PORTRAIT OF Sffi _ ROBERT PEEL . This . ' admirable , likeness of the Great Statesman , is ' now ready , and -may' be had of any of the Agents , price the same as the previously published Portraits . ' London Agent , Mr . Pavey / Holy well-street , ' , fiti-and ¦ ¦ •• . ¦ ¦' , ¦ .. " ¦ < ;; . . - ,. ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦' . ¦ ¦ . ' ,
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" ' ; PORTRAITS OF THE AMERICAN - •! PBESIDENTS . ,..:, ¦ .: This Magnificent , Historiqal , . Engraving , printed on a whole . sheet , containing ; Portraits of all the American ' President s , is now ready 1 for delivery . 'Agents who have not furnished the Pub- I Usher with a list of the numbers they require , ' are requested to do so at once , when the , Prints ' shall be immediately forwarded
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' * * * i I y . in "i ' i i" ^^^^— ¦* I * ' ' fi f * »/ /* / f IRISH AGITATION .
It was thought by some people that the fire of agitation which , from time to time , for many years haB blazed so fiercel y in Ireland , had burnt itself out . That tribune of the people- — O'Connell—who used to gather them together by thousands on their native hills , and pointing to their mountains and valleys , rivers -and plains , tell them , that that glorious land ought to be their Own , while Celtic tongues responded with the shouts of " Repeal , " and " Ireland for the Irish , " has " gone down to his fathers , '' and the mantle which he wore has not fallen to any of his descendants . The Smith O'Briens and Mitchells of a later
day , are prisoners in that vast prigon housethe Australian continent ; and Orangemen and Pvibbondmen are pressed down by the strong hand of the law . Famine and pestilence , too , have swept with the wings of the destroying angel over the ill-fated isle . Thousands of the'boldest hearts and strongest arms of Ireland , despairing of peace in that abode of horrors , have fled from the star of the west , to that great community in the farthest west , which is spreading abroad its vast arms over the best half of the world , and are there adding their own ' sense of wrong , and there avow thirst for vengeance to that flood tide of
dislike for England , aud jealousy and hatred of her power , which pervades every current of feeling , manifested by our Anglo-Saxon cousins across the Atlantic ; and those who are left behind , hunted from their homes by the tools of landlordism , the roof tree pulled down almost as soon as they have left its shadow , nestling upon the ruins of their own hearths—dying in ditches by tho roadsidepent up in the overcrowded workhouses of bankrupt unions , and rotting in their fever wards ; this broken , stricken , despairing , outcast , beggared remnant , did not Beera to have nerve and sinew enough in them to join in a fresh agitation .
'But out of misery and uttermost degradation the wailing cry for help breaks forth in tones of misery , till it is taken up by others than those of the mere peasant class , and , for almost the first time in the history of Ireland , Irishmen seem to have consented to sink their party feuds , to bury their local animosities , and to forego their religious discords , for the purpose of making one great effort to redeem their native country . It is out of the
misery aud wretchedness of the people of Ireland that that Tenant-right League , which promises to become so powerful , has arisen ; and the union of Roman Catholic priests , and Presbyterian clergymen , which Jends to it bo much of p&wel' itild hnpCl'tance , shows how strong the motives must be , which have sufficed to bring together iu even the appearance of amity , those who have hitherto been almost aB irreconcileable as fire and water
And this same union wh ich serves to mark the strong impulses at work , goes far to ensure the success of the League . In Ireland no great movement can succeed without the
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• • - ' ¦ ' ¦¦ ' ' n ^ VW ' f ^ 3 ^ MBfiR ' ' -2 S , ' -185 ip ! . ' '' - ' THE NORTHERN STAR , ___ — .- ¦ 4 ; ¦ -.- ^^^^^ WM ^ ritt : " - ia Educationfor the Millions WEEKLY JOURNAiLJBY ROBERT OVM-
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 28, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1593/page/4/
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