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THE JNTOETHEKIN' STAK SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1841.
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I * SA $ TC 3 . —The new Ministry seems disposed to humour the war party ; at least , so far as the i ^ plns up of as armament is concerned . . Tat Paris Journals of Holiday , contain Tery Ettle jews of any interest . The snow prevented the wr > al of the mails from the provinces , and in Paris little w&b talked of besides the question of the fortifications . Aai ^ ngthfl strange rumours current on Monday Was < « j 10 the effect : hat the Great Powers had re-• civ-fHi to execs Syria and Candia into an independent Christian State / after the example of Greece , and that the Kings of Naples and Sardinia were in the S >> M as candidates for the Crown for younger ip * . hes of their respective families ' .
Ail i he accounts received from Germany annonnoed { hat preparations fox war were every where throughcm the coufederatibn in progress . The garrison of Luxemburg has been placed on the ¦ - a-r foot ing , and the inhabitants ordered ' to Bsp-^ l j V . siBelvea with provisions lor six month * . Gotcrxkkxt are in course of taking steps to dept ' rr ^ : he post-mas ters of all the provincial town s of th . 3 privileges they have hitherto enjoyed for keeping Tjriv-c boxes and accounts , and maktng up letterhag : '< r merchants , traders , and gentlemen in the eoaijiry . The proceeds are to be applied to the Bcneril revenue of the Post-office—no donbt with the n-w of covering , in a small decree , the deficieEcy which has been found to arise from the ¦ cbeae of the penny-post . —Cumberland Pacouet .
C H-: Easl of Cardigah ias again taken the Ee-u . The Bottle Imp of th «» EleyeutU Hussars has » gaia distinguished himsetf . Again has Lord Hill been cii ' . ed upon to chy&cterise the merits of the war- ' -r of Brii < bton--the hero of the " . Moselle' 'tht ' -wed of DrnrT-iane . Doctor Sacdham , whose haia fate it is f serve , or rather to suffer , in the EleY ^ ruh— tooiqitted the mutinous offence of leaving the church ( wlither , in obedience to the Earl ' s ortler ~ , heha » accompanied the troops ) by the small e » te , idi lo / dsnip having a decided prejudice in fe ^ mir of t * e larger one . The doctor being reprimanded fo this breach of duty , straightway laid his grieviiic > before Lord Hill ; who , for the third time , adiBom : ** d the gallant coloceL
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it ; Editob of tre Sydney Gazette , Mr . George "Wiru .-u Robertson , Las been seaUuced to pay a Cue of ^ 2 , > u to the Queen , and to bi imprisoned tw # ve r&oi ; .: s , lor a libel on Captain 2 * iass , of her Majesty ' s * hij Herald . CTiuaE p ob Wages at Fobt Phiup . —The Sun t *} : " We have " heard with , considerable pain that , duna ^ toe last week , symptoms have manifested iheLai- 'ives of a combination amongst the journeytneu carpenters and joiners of Melbourne , for the pur fn , re of obtaining from their employers a higher rat « ut wages . We Sre informed thai on a previous © cai- ^ n taere was »» TSmiIar strike , and that the znasie ; s had to yield * and give them two shillings per day additional , and that toe same rate of advance is at pt-ei-out demanded . " A great ka . tt persons ( the Colombia Observer tty » b 8 ) hare been poisoned at Ceylou , by taking unwholesome turtle .
JosiPH Howe . —The brutal master of the Eton Uii : - rn vV ' orkhouse , has been oisajissed by the Commissioners . A > r w Bastile is now erecting on Shaw Heath , near i uckport , at » cost to the raie-payerawf £ 8 u 00 . SIk . LJattt , the E < jDiSTKU 5 , has been fined £ 50 by tLi- Brighton Magistrates , ou the information and oomp . jint of the lessees ot the theatre in that town , for ha v . jig without authority , or license , as required ky iLc 5-. a ; utc , caused to be acted for gain or reward , an ciitertainment of the stage , or pantomime , called The ( jfjtome King , or the Magic Eagle . The case is Jo b * rcmored into a higher court , \
Mas Shot , hkab Yoek . —On Monday , in last wetk , Mr . John Moore , who has . been assaulted , and , ciustqueatly , carried with : fcm a pistol , for proiccuon , was returning from Fulford" to York , Le w _ i = met by several drunken men , one of whom insuUed and strati at him . lloore . pulled oat his pistol , and shot him .. Moore was knm .: a . te ; y seized , and taken into custody . He has gince tiseu heid U > bail , himself iu £ 200 , and two are ' . xts in £ 180 each , to answer the charge at the nexr Assizes . How fortunate for Mr .. Moore thai Jiis « . ifijce was only shooting a man ! Had he been eoliee : ; -g moaey for the Charter ,-no bsdl vjould have ieeii iuJeen .
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Rev i- ? ai op the Pasttjs 8 iitvistec with Powkr » T VL-SS L ? G ! SLATIOS , TO PEKKIT IHlilB DEEDS TO BE ixq : I 2 ED i . vro . —At an inquest lately held before Mr . > asiey , that gentleman eaid , " He regruted to obse-re that attempts had recently been m&de to prerca : prisoaers giving evidence as to dea'h , in •• f c-p * . ) i" those who had been confioed with them . Ytotu i \ t puoiifl papers , he had found that inquests bad Ofr-i held at Woolwich upon seven convicts who had u : cd of fever , and that the authorities had refund permission for the fcliow-priaoners to be cxarsiacd . He had no hesitation in saying that by Jaw ijjt- Coroner conld wrnmacd their attendance to give ev ; jence , and that the authorities were liable to tw punished for refusing . Snch a circumstance wai most alarming , and required tba earliest invesfcfii'jon . "
HoHSJBLE MUEDES , A 2 TD MrTTLATIOX OF A CHILD . —A-yjut half-past one o'clock on Friday afternoon , as Cap ; ain Preseotl , of Park-street , Wai worth , was eros £ iu > Waterloo Bridge , accompanied , by Mr . Thomas Isaac , of 5 , Seymour Piace , he found a brc ^ n paper parcel lying on ihe " parapet of the bridge , inside of which was a f . iou ' . linen sheet , in frhicii was wrapped a full-grown male child , apparent ? > aoout fire days old , and evidently born alive . The iciui was completely severed from the bo ^ y , as al = o were the legs and arms . The arms wera cut
-Off jist above the . wrist , and aga-n above the elbow , asd the Ieg 3 wdre . seTered above the ancie , and fcrv ' ii above the knee . ' Abotit the body there were also , several ' deep maims and gashes : the face of the poor innocent was- not &i all disfigured . It was ihougnt by some that the child might have been BiuiaLited through the mother being delivered by instruments ; but a medical geetleman present said ii was not bo—lh * t tie child had evidently been murdered . The remains haveieen removed to the liouii of a surgeon adjacent . The affair has created % most extraordinary seasau&n in the
nfiighbonr-Miskst ajts Destttutiox . —On . Tuesday , an infuesi wii held at the Carpenters' Arms , Brookttreei , Lambeth , before Mr . Carter , coroner for Surrey , on view of the body of Richard Pratt , aged ibriy-five , whoj with his . siaer ( now in Lambeth workhouse ) were discovered in a ? r . ate of iheaunost misery and destitution , afa taiBer <* . bls abode in TrafaJgar-ccurt , the house being nearly destitute of / hrni £ nre . Prom the evidence , it appeared [ that the deceased died of hunger and cold , he being found lying" on the bare floor , without covering , no pro-Ti £ ioas being found in th « house , but a few potatoes * nd onions . The Jury returned a verdict , " That tb * deceased died from eihuustioc , produced by the want of the common necessaries ot" life , and expofore w ) the cold , during the present inclement » e ** on . "
SBSIOrS ACCIDK 5 T OJf THE BiACKWALL KAILWAT . —An accident occurred on this line of railway , ¦ w hich it is feared will terminate fatally , on Tuesday evening l&sl . At about a quarter past nine o ' clock , as Mr . Bowles , cash taker , at the Blackwall terminu ' , was walking along the . line between the Uew-read branch and the Poplar station , the down train came up , and , proceeding , on an inclined p lane , it was at full speed , Mr . Bowles , being afflicted with deafness , did sot hear the approach o , the train in time to escape from the line . He was knocked down , and picked up in a state of total insensibility . His jaw-boae was broken , the lower lip split down to the chin , and a wound of frightful exvent inflicted in the ads of the neck , close to the lose of the sknlL The unfortunate gentleman was removed to his own residence , where he now lies , with but faint hopes of recovery .
Dreadful Shipwreck . —Loss o * the Steamer IhaXis a > 'b Sjxtt Lrres . —Intelligence has just fceeu received of the melancholy loss of the London and Dublin Company ' s iteamera , -Th « a « * on her royage from Dablin to London , on the-south-west rocks of the Sdlly Islands , and all on board , con-BBting of from W to 70 persong , drowned , with the xeeptkm of a lady , two stewardesses and one man . Whea the Te » el w « diicovered in her periloui tituation by the iilandert , their boat * were aground , but with great effort * tbey raoeeeded in launching a whale-bo » t tfaroojA the bresken , and getting her » der the « tern o ? the Tha » e « . The eomniander , Cast . Gray , incited on the female * being firstlioUt © ibsrein ; aad unfortroatcly , »* won at * l * dy and two Mewudesae * bad beta pl » oed &m , the boat broke
adrift , and drove off tne land . Tnia wm pexeeired by a laihng best , which took her in tow , and meoeeded , with rreat risk , is towing her to the ihwe in lafetv . $ y t&B time the wind increased alasort to a hum-«> a . e , which rendered it inpotsible for any other fcoat to approach the Tea » eL Captain Gray then formed a raft , on which a great many of the crew got , fent it was almost immediately dished against Joe rocks , and all the poor fellows . thereon met a watery grave , with the exception of one man , who wai miraenlouslj thrown on a perpendicular rock , where ke remained till the following day , when he wa * rescued in an exhausted state . The vessel became a complete wreck , and the remainder of the reir periabed . Yeiy little of tbe cargo is » Ted . Seventeen bodies have been picked up , but of the vessel there ii act a vestige t » be seen .
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PEOM OCE LONDON CORBESPONDEXT . Wednesday Evening , Jan . l 3 th . The Wkathke , it , in London . —Snow , mow , snow ! All last night and all the day ; the severe froat having partially broken op , the metropolis is almost irtniass&ble for equestrians , dangerooa tor pedestrians , and insecure for all sorts of conveyance !; while most of the country vehicles are many hoars behind their accustomed time . Business thus impeded , and &rery thing gloomy , the general conversation assumes an equally gloomy tone ; the awfully sudden end of Scott the diver , the murder and mutilation , a la Greenacre , of the poor child whose remains were foaud on Monday , { and which , being so fully reported In the daily press , I need not further refer U > , \ form the allengrossing topics of discourse ; save , now and then , being enlivened by the detail of some recent railway ollisioos , irhich are looked upon as man ordinary occur rences .
Window-Taxes eerou Cha&tis * . —On Friday last , a meeting of the householders of St . Marylebone , convened by advertisement , by the window-tax repeal committee , was held at the Mechanics' Institution Tavern , Cress-street , New Road . The advertisement calling the meeting stated , in brge capitals , " N . B . No OTHER BUSINESS WILL BB CONSIDERED ; " but , at seven o'clock , ihe hour announced for taking the chair , there was a strong muster of the members of the Charter Association proseot , and bat very few of the window-tax committee . Repeated calls were made for a chairman , which the committee paid no attention to ; when , at length , the Bads placed Mr . Hill ( a respect able householder of the parish ) in the chair , who , afUi calling on that portion of the committee who were
present to enter upon the bonnes * of the evening , ( which they declined doing , on the ground that so few of their number vrere in attendance , ) said , he regretted the absence of the majority of the committee ; but , as he had been placed in the chair , he would do bis utmost to give every one who might address the meeting fair hearing . Mr , Savage , in a brief address , moved the following resolution : — " That this meeting recommend the committee for the repeal of the window * tax to obtain a requisitien to the vestry , to call a public meeting of the inhabitants , to consider the propriety of petitioning the legislature to totally repeal tMs obnoxious and odious impost- * Mr . I > ieholson , one of the reptal committee , seconded the resolution , contending that agitation ; besides repealing the window-Uz , would
greatly assist the Ch&rtist cause ; he professed himself s Chartist in principle , but wished the Chartist * to join the committee , in order to obtsin s repeal of the window-tax . Mr . Qeorge Lovett , a working nun , did not like the reflation ; he considered something more than a repeal of the window-tax was required ; ridiculed the idea of petitioning so many times for that object ; alluded , in a forcible manner , to the fate ol even the National Petition fur tbe People ' s Charter ; and contended that Universal Suffrage was the only means of obtaining a repeal of the window-tax , or of any other obnoxious impost He concluded by proposing , as an amendment , " That we , the householders and inhabitants of the Borough of Marylebone , in pubiio meeting
assembled , do hereby protest against the odious windowtax ; but believe that the only effectual remedy for removing all ucjust taxes will be by obtaining Universal Suffrage . " This amendment was seconded by Mr . M-Kindley , and supported by Mr . Scott , who said it ¦ was of no benefit to working men to join the middle classes in nibbling off the leaves of the political tre * ,-they were determined not to be gulled any longer , for they would go to the root of the evil at once , by means of Universal Suffrage , and nothing short of it Jlr . Jordan also supported the amendment , and said he was opposed to sending any requisition to the vestry , for the parish beadles and tax-collectors were stationed at the door , to prevent any person entering whose coat
¦ was green , or who might not be a householder ; thus proving that tiie Vestry have no sympathy with the inhabitants at large of the Borough . He recommended the People ' s Charter as the best means of getting rid of aU oppressive taxes , and sat down amid loud applause . Dr . Webb , and Messrs . Campbell and Bell , then severally addressed the meeting in favour of the original resolution ; which , however , cm being put , was l o st , asd tbe assesdisesl of Mr . Lovett carried by an almost unanimous vote . Mr . Scott then proposed three cheers for Fesxgus O'Connor , which were given in a most enthusiastic manner ; u were also three cheers for Frost , " Williams , and Jones , a ad a ll politic a l victims ; and thr * e more for tae People ' s Charter ; whan th-i meeting peaceably separated
Meeting and Festival foe * h » Benefit of thb Political " Victims . —On Monday evening , a very numerously attended meeting , at which various entertainments were produced , took ploce at the spacious Social Institution , John-street , Tottenham Court Koad ; the proceeds of the occasion being devoted to the Political Victim Fund . It was foud that the lower hall , . though capable of acooatm&dating 2 * 0 couple to dancs , would sot accommodate moru than half tne company ; and accordingly the large rooms up stain were placed at the disposal of tbe committee , where music , singing , and social conversation reigned paramount ; while below , the disciples of Terpsichore " threaded the . mat ? dance on light fantastic toe , " till a -Iste hoar . Some capital songs were sung daring the evening ; many good things were said and done , and a truly festive night was spent by all , to the great beneat of the funds .
Mimatc&s Revolution in Si . Jahes ' s Paek . — On Sunday l&st , about noon , as about thirty - > f the mounted guard were on their way from Buckingham Palace to the Horse Gnards , some young men , who were engaged pelting each other with snow-balls , let fly , either by accident or design , a few of them at the soldiers . The latter , instead of moving forward , when , in all probability , they would have escaped further ancey&nce , turned exceedingly wrathful upon the youths , and one or two drew their swords ; a shower of snow-balls immediately followed ; the young mm stood to their mark , the soldiers evidently receiving some clumsy thumps ; and for fully a quarter of
an hour , an incessant shower of bxUs rattled against the soldiers' trapping * . At length , the foot-gusrda sent an escort , aad two or three policemen arriving at the Bame time , the ' mimic war" was coneluiied , by tbe assailants cutting , and seeking protection on the ice . Several , however , were apprehended , and on Monday some of them were convicted at Bow-street ol the offence ; and various measures of punishment were awarded , either according to the magnitude of the offence , or to the « hare taken in it by the delinquents ; one young man , very respectably connected , was sentenced to a month ' s imprisonment and hard labour , while others were merely lined 30 & . £ i , or 6 s .
A STORT &&s lately gone the " round" of the press about " a changeling ; " in which a black child is ingeniously substituted for a white one . It may be satis factory to know , now that everybody has been as much interested , as though the occurrence hid baen real , that the paragraph is merely a very clever hxsb-up of a tale some twenty-four years old ; and is no doubt the production « f a " liner , " who , driven to his ,. wit ' s end during the recent dearth of true news , dished up that story for a dinner , which has interested so many wondering thousands . The original circumstance from which the details are taken , ' occurred at the Liverpool Lying-in Hospital , near a quarter of a century since , and was enacted by a "lady" who called in her carriage to select a wetnurse , accompanied by a black footman : the inference is not very creditable to our aristocracy .
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ON THURSDAY , ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY YORKSHIREMAN TO DO HIS DUTY . O » Thursday every Yorkshireman will do his duty , and till Thursday , Yorkshire expects every Englishman to foruUh the menu of the full and efficient performance of duty . Never have we had such an opportunity of proclaiming the strength of our cause , the virtue of our people , and the
hopelessness of factious opposition , as that which now presents itself . Weak in numbers , weak in principle , and still weaker in popular affection , the dominant faction would fain meet Parliament with the presumption that a new struggle had furnished the means of keeping up the game for another Session . The time is therefore auspicious ; the object is allimportant ; and nothing will be left undone which money , treachery , and deceit can snpply , in order to give effect to this the last kick of limping
Whiggery . If the nation *! voice can be toothed by pretext and promise ; if the people , by a set of hired jugglers can be turned from their course ; and if confidence can , be restored to the oft-convicted traitors ; then may Chartism wait upon treason , and Universal rights slumber in the tomb . O » r friends will bear in mind , that the taae trick waa attempted to be played by the tottering Whigs in 1817 , at the- very commencement of the senioo , when hypocrite * met -to build monuments to thoae martyrs who died for the principle * which the Old
Mortality" men would commemorate by statues of eold marble , while they hare filled their dungeons with those who would have stamped them upon the heart , and would have made them the basis of Universal right . Remember that then , O'Connor , singlehanded , and alone , met thirty-seven Whig members of Parliament , and unaided , save by the working men , after * seven hoars' debate , carried an amendment for Universal Suffrage , and thus met the trick upon the threshold , and defeated treachery at the very outset . This wu to have been the signal for a series of " practical " meetings to keep the Whigs in ; but being promptly met , and triumphantly defeated ,
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the course was abandoned ; -and , what is most curious , no account has yet been rendered of the funds , though the subscriptions were large . The meeting of Thursday is for the purpose of throwing the mantle over deformed Whiggery , by A SACRIFICE OP ALL MINOS DIWEBKNCES at the shrine of office : the plain English of which is , the adoption of any scheme , trick , finesse , or stratagem , by which the rule of one odious party may be preserved for another season of profitable abuse . This meeting , if successful , is to be followed by one at Leicester ; bat there , werejaice to learn , that every ;
post is manned , that every Chartist Jb on his ground . Leicester . is to be followed by a similar demonstration at Manchester , another at Birmingham , and a whip in the metropolis , at an hour when the slaves cannot attend . If we succeed , however , at Leeds , all further experiment will be abandoned : and therefore , the eyes of the nation should be turned to this great aud mighty event ; this first challenge of a new , this last effort of an old , faction . If all former proceedings of our party hare been confined to our columns , let it be borne is mind that the proceedings of the 21 st will be conveyed to the furthermost corner of the earth , upon the wings of the Imperial press . They would gladly pass off the
demonstration as the mere experiment of an unfledged party ; but they have so unwittingly bound up the strength of Whiggery with the result , that no sophistry can now separate them . On Thursday , they will cry " Hear us ! oh I hear us ! or fear ye to bear the truth ! " While we hare been listening to them , and feeling their stripes for eight long years , they forget that they were fatigued to impatience , in a few moments , by the , humble prayer and respectful petition , of one million two hundred aud Efty thousand claimants for justice . Did they hear the nation . Breaking as one man , even for one night ! No ; they laughed at the appeal , and condemned without trial .
The day of trial has passed away , and we hare now arrived at the day of judgment . Honest politicians should rely upon practical aud substantial acts for popular applause , and not be oompelled to court favour , with Bpecioua phrase , in the very teeth of practical oppression . What new claim have they to lay to our favour ? what new title to plead to our support ! On Thursday night , Wb ' gs and Whiggery , Government and the Chronicle , will have reason to regret the error into which folly and ignorance has precipitated them : while B a inks , in extacy and triumph , may rejoice , and exclaim ,
" Thou cans't not say I did it . " No ! had the judicious advice of the Mercury been taken and acted upon , we should have dealt locally with the Fox and Goose club ; we should not have required forces beyond the borough precincts to settle accounts with our neighbours ; while Whiggery should Jiave waited for the result before it made itself party to tho experiment : but having proclaimed a national display , aud having provided an entertainment , the rery seats whereof sre to cost the sum of £ 600 , sorely , nothing short of a Whig benefit could have been in contemplation 1 Did erer play bill present promise of more amusement ! Every favourite actor is annoanoed as being engaged for the performance , and , in order to ensure a select
audience , the price of admission has been raised to an amount never before known , with not even a bottle of pop to refresh the audience , —all for " the feast of reason and the flow of soul . " With scenery , admission , and extras , about £ 1 , 500 will be spent upon the juggle , in the very midst of a famishing , naked , perishing , unemployed people ; and , good souls , all this to benefit the poor 1 No thought of Belf ! No ! Out upon the grovelling notion , the low idea , the filthy thought ! u Cheap bread , " " good government , " and " love their neighbours as themselves , " and to do unto others as they would be done by , " is the one , the sole , and only , object of this pious , saintly , philanthropic , justice-loving , heaven-born , immaculate association of birds and beasts !
With great pride , we put this question to out millions of readers : —Was ever camp so faithfully and vigilantly watched , as we have watohed oars since the commencement of the campaign ! Have we been once caught napping at our post Has the garrison been once surprised through the negligence or treachery of its only sentinel ! Since the Middle Class Committee was prorogued ; since the Corn Law League was dispersed over the country ; since the Ballot-mongers , Albsri ' s slave staff , the education-mongers , emigration-mongers , and legality-mongers have
presented themselves , have we not watched their every movement , disclosed their every stratagem , and reported their every defeat t Aye , we have . But these were only skirmishes , mere detail squabbling . On the 21 st , we come to the grand battle , the recognition of the principle . Oa that day , England , in the capital of its most important county , mast proclaim her freedom , or admit herself a willing ¦ lave . On that day all England will be represented at Leeds ; aye , and Scotland and Wales also . Wo will have no retreating , no evasion , no finesse . Let the whole intermediate time be spent in deliberation
upon the all-important result . Should we allow the faction to succeed , they will continue to hold office , ou the strength of minorities neutralised by popular affection , as declared at Lkeds . Should they succeed on tbe 21 st , they will designate their opponents as tyrant majorities , while they will represent themselveo as the very axis upon which popular opinion turns ; thereby making the people volunteers in the New Poor Law Bill , Rural Police Bill , Madhouses Regulations , New Bastile Scheme , Royal Dog-kennel , Riding-house , and Stable plan , with all the other crimes which have prematurely turned young Whiggery into a hoary old sinner .
Those who have read the controversy , between all other descriptions of Suffrage and Universal Suffrage , of which we undertook tho defence , havo now the whole case before them ; and who can for a moment withhold his voice in favour of the latter ! Hare we not demolished every shadow of a shade of sophistry , enlisted by our opponents in their pigmy war against our natural rights ! Have we lefc them an hair Vbreadth of resting ground to stand upon % And , while they talk of differences in our ranks , are they , any two of them , agreed upon their details ! while they admit the principle , upon which they agree , to consist in kkepins ran Tobies
out . They call you tyrants and exclusionists , and yet , parodoxically enough , say you have no power ! They call you tyrants , while you triumph by reason only ; and their dungeons are full of victims , whose only crime was opposing brute-force by moral persuasion . They call you exclusionistp , while they refuse to you that which they posaess themselves 1 You seek not to dispossess any man of his right , but merely to arm yourselves with legitimate power , which being exclusively monopolised by others , has caused England to degenerate into a slave-land , and her people into serfs .
You were neither tyrants nor exdusionista when you prostituted yourselves in 1832 , and listed under the false colours of a treasonable rabble of the hungry aristocracy . When your drunken earcaeea staggered under the weight of your own prostitution—when yon proclaimed yourselves regicide * , homicides , incendiaries , burglars , robbers , plunderers , » nd $ coSen at women , then you were * moral , virtuous , sober , religions , life-respecting property-preserving people . But now that you have become strong in virtue , and threaten to defy tbe tempter , you are % band of murdering , property * destroying Infidels , although not a single crime ean be laid to your charge .
On the 21 st , then , we re-acknowledge the bond , and sign our new covenant for the first year of liberty , and the eighteen hundred aad forty-arst of the ChriBti&n era . Let this national document be Bigned at Leeds , on that day , by all the delegates ! Let it be prepared on parchment , and , with their signatures , let it be presented to the Queen , together Frost ' s restoration addresses .
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FEARGUS O'CONNOR'S POSTSCRIPT . In onr overland mail-bags , we found a long letter to the Editor , apparently intended for publication , expressive of the Proprietor ' s opinion of the manner in whfeh his paper has been conducted duringhis unavoidable Absence . It is a little too personal and complimentary for publication : we , therefore , only sa j of its general contents , that they express unqualified satisfaction—whioh we are as glad to see as to think that we hare deserved it . The Postscript is , however , as he says the best part of the letter , and we , therefore , give it . It is as follows : —
P . S . I have been induced , by a newspaper notice and some other reasons , to send yo * about one hun . dred and sixty-four closely written folios of matter , the produce of four days' labour , for insertion ia the Star , in the hope that the noble patron and ctitV may discover , in my style , such an improvement as shall ensure for toe his kind consideration . Th » notice to which I refer runs thus : — "We learn ; also , that the Marquis of Nohmanbt intends to mitigate the remaining portion of Vincent ' s imprisonment , in consequence of the improved tone of his writing , and the avowal of his intention to conduct his pro * ceedings in a different spirit for the future . "
Now then , to exhibit my "improved tone ";—and , to begin with ' criticism , let me inform the scribe who penned the above , that "mitigate" is not the word which should have beea used to express the intention of the Noble Marquis . Imprisonment cannot be mitigated ; though the severity of its concomitant circumstances may : " remit" is tht word which ought to have been used . I truBt that , while perusing my composition , the Noble Marquis will make allowances for one who writes with a rusty pen , and under the dis&draa . tage of perfect seclusion from the world , some in * teroourse with which is necessary for tbe arrange * ment of literary productions .
However , notwithstanding the several disadvaatagea under which I labour , I have hope and expectation that in my improved style he will recog * nise my title to hiB consideration , while for my future proceedings I promise to be more circumspect than I have been , by attesting two meetings of the peopU for one which I was in the habit of attending before , being convinced that from the scholars in the school of tdveraity , man can best learn wisdom .
if the specimens which I forward should be thought of a- too political nature , I beg to advertise you thai have , since my sojourn in this secluded spot , written a variety of works , andamong them a work entitled "TheDevil on Three Sticks ; " but from the similarity in the name , I beg that the critio will not pre-judge me as having either robbed , borrowed from , or even presumptuously attempted to imitate the admirable work of Dr . Smollett , entitled " Tht Devil on Two Sticks . " No , bo far from it , through * out fourteen volumes which I have written , there ia
not a single quotation from any author , living or dead . " The Devil on Three Sticks" consists of three volumes , one containing the adventures of Phipps Fribble , ( a consummate governor , ) and Morgan Rattler , his secretary ; one , " The Beggar King and his subjects ? ' and one , " The Comicalities of the littlest Lord in tbe world . " Perhaps jon may hare ¦ desire to see the work , but you must rest satisfied with the bilUof fare , and wait patiently for the repast . The five first and the last chapters of the " Adventures of Phippa Fribble , " then , contain matter of which the following headings may give you som *
notoon : — Chap . 1 . —Wherein Morgan Rattler recounts to his Excellency the rocks on which his Excellency ' s predecessors foundered , and the course which he recommends , to avoid the possibility ot a similar catastrophe befalling his Excellency . Chap . 2 . —In which the Beggar King objects to ¦ the company kept by Phipps Fribble , and proposes the alternative of keeping better company , or of abdicating spontaneously , toavoid the disagreeable neces > 8 ity of being coerced to submission ; and which , the curious mode of coercion being ingeniously made known to the Viceroy , produces tbe desired effect .
Chap . 3 . —Wherein Phipps Fribble and Morgan Rattler are in consultation upon a Liberal Apothe * cary ' s Memorial on behalf of a Liberal elector sentenced to transportation for a rape , aud in which the Viceroy and Morgan are assisted by the cotes of the Learned Judge , taken upon the trial ; and how , an election being at hand , and parties being balanced Morgan Rattler proposes , and his Excellency accedes , to an appeal from tbe memorial and Judge ' s notes , to the printed list of voters , and the astounding effect which the perusal produced , and the decision consequent thereupon .
Chap . 4 . —How Morgan Rattler discovers an inctt ^ nation in his master , to become free of the Beggar King ' s controul , with the sad result which threatened to follow , butwhioh was fortunately avoided by a timely submission . Chap . 5 . —An awful chapter ; in which utter ruin threatens Phippa Fribble , in . consequence of canvassing tho wife of one of his new subjects , for the support of her husband , in aid of his government , after the manner in which those favours are gained at Naples , and at other foreign Courts ; and how Morgan Rattler reconciles matters .
There are thirty-seven other chapters , the last of which contains Morgan Rattler ' s account to the Prime Minister , of the ineompetoncy of Phippa Fribble , with a recommendation of his being brought home and placed under the immediate controulof the Minister ; and Phipps Fribble ' s recal , together with his total change of policy . Such is a taste of what you have to expect ; and I think I could not hare employed my long leisure to a more becoming and grateful purpose , than in handing down to posterity , a specimen of that style which I own in my preface to owe chiefly to
the retirement so necessary for reflection . Alas ! how fortunate would it have been for my persecutors , had they allowed me te go ou thinking and laying my half-digested thoughts before the passing breeze ef changeable opinion , instead of allowing me the opportunity of stamping them in imperishable characters ; for I have the vanity to think , that though my offspring should but quicken daring the life of its parent , that yet , the posthumous brat maf £ ain strength , aad lire to furnish lessons of wisdom to succeeding generations . Authors , who are independent of the holy brotherhood of critics , are nevertheless bound fast in the no less irksome bonds of
the fraternity of publishers ; but , regardless of the one , and independent of the other , will make m % tcorkt succeed in the market . The very best chapters may be immeasurably inferior to the rery worst to be found in any of the inimitable productions of Cervantes , Lb Sage , Fielding , or Smoilett ; bat , as far aa regards the portraiture of character , and the faithful following of nature , I will fearlessly place them in competition with the works of any living author . This you wHl ascribe to native modesty ; but lam willing to submit the issue to any twelre judges , always barring a Yorkshire , Lancashire , or Monmouthshire Jury .
You will compare my letter to that of a lady , whereof the postscript forms the greater part . Be it so ; I had the leisure , and my pen ran away with me . Again , lam , yours , F . O'C .
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NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . W * h » d purposed to give in this week ' s Star , aa elaborated article on the whole bearing * of the lair on political associations , and a safe and certain plaa of abidiagbythe present organization , in defiance of even Whig lawyers , backed by Whig Ministers . The approaching Weleome-to-DAW . " Demonstration has , however , precluded it , and we must content ourselreawith the following short heads of guidance to which we claim toe precise attention of those wh » de&ire to be safe * Let all thafpeopie of every locality be of onr AWjlatioajaad i as recommended ii the admirable
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REVIEW OF THE EFFECTS OF EMANCIPATION AND REFORM . The present position of Ireland—the boasted boons , especially those of Emancipation and Reform—together with the recent declaration of many Protestant landlords , as to their future intentions towards their Catholic tenantry , as coupled with a consideration of the suffrage by which one man's .. , '
property constitutes another man ' s vote—induces us , nay , compels us , as journalists , to take ft retrospect of the effeot of those , measures upon that country , her people , her rulers , her leaders , and her aristocracy , for the last twelve years . We pass over all < ' antecedent time , as the lapse of ages whose bloody landmarks were to have been shaken by Emancipation in 1829 , and which were to have been wholly uprooted by Reform in 1832 .
We would willingly seal the blood-stained pages of the old almanac , and gladly impute to ignoranoe those bye-gones , over which Emancipation and Reform , as peacemakers , were to hare made the injured aad the injurer , the Catholic and the Protestant , shake hands , and bury in oblivion all those sorrows and heart-burnings , which had so long affected Ireland , as with a periodical plague . By Emancipation ( which comes first in order ) we never did expect to see its fruits yielded in the abandonment of faith by either party , Protestant or Catholic , as the terms of full enjoyment of the
measure . No ; we hailed it as a license to each to worship his God without restriction from a rival church , or the interference of a rival party . We looked npon Emancipation as the wedge , but not of faction ; as the victory , bat not of party . We looked upon it as a grand national moral triumph , achieved by the sound , really religious , and the just of all parties , by which the injurious and tyrannical domination of a law church , established in barbarous ages , was to bend , in the first instance , to a Christian toleration , according to modern refinement . And as advance in civilization had slowly led to toleration , through the darkness of the past , we
had a right to look upon the new light of reform as that bright and shining lamp , which was progressively , but surely , io lead all to that state of equality , upon which persons of all denominations should lire , aud by which alone we can hope for peace on earth , and good will among men . We looked upon Emancipation as a sure stepping-stone to this desirable object . How often have we written the fact , that with the most perfect religious equality , civil disabilities may exist to a frightful extent , while oivil equality is sure to level all religious differences ; and , yet how the fanatic will fight for mere moonshine , while he is torpid and slothful upon all questions of substantial right .
The existence of religious ascendanoy is conclusive evidence of the existence of exclusive political power . The removal of religious disabilities seldom confers substantial political power upon the emancipated ; and yet will they still struggle for an augmentation of religious right , only in the vain hope of thus strengthening their forces for a general assault upon the enomy . But , as we shall presently show , that struggle must embrace the enfranchisement of all , else will its want of completeness fail of producing a perfect or a satisfactory result ; and that it should be so is natural , because , surely , if he
contend , as we do , for perfect religious equality , and show that , however it may be nominally obtained , yet that it cannot be actually preserved with perfect oivil equality , we prove that civil rights , which is the tree , must be first planted , bofore religious liberty , which is the fruit , can be tasted . In fact , civil l iberty is tbe trustee ; religious liberty one of the truata . Those who advocate the oue , and fall short of the other , are aa erroneous in their notions as the sportsman who expects to manage hia horse without a bridle , or the mariner who hopes to steer his vessel in her course without compass or rudder .
We now turn to a consideration of the profit and loss upon Emancipation ; and let us consider who have been actual gainers , and who actual losers , for the gain of others , by that measuro . By Emancipation , the senate , the bar , the army , the navy , the privy council board , and , in short , all offices , with the exception of those which only one man at a time can fill , such as Prime Minister , Commander of the Forces , and conscience keeper to the Monarch , were thrown open to Catholics . These offices , in
the language of those who contend for " British glory , " and " social equality , " we are told , are equally open to the rich and to the poor ; but , in tbe words of HorubTook . k , so ia the London Coffee House ; but if a poor man goes there , will he get his dinner without money ? We may push tho question farther , and ask , if the poor man , trio honestest poor man in the kingdom , goes there , will he be admitted , though having plenty of money to pay his way , yet wanting tho lirery of the house—the genteel apparel .
The profit of Emancipation to the rich has been to place Catholic Judges upon the Bench , not a whit less oppressire man their Protestant brethren , the moment they become part and parcel of the system , but , on the contrary , jealous of pubiio opinion , fearful of public criticism , knowing that promotion has been a sop to party , rather than the reward of merit ; and , in order to preserve an honest fame , they lean harder upon the poor crutch by which they have hobbled through tho mud to office , and thus prove their impartiality and fitness for office , by pressing most severely upon those of their own persuasion . A Catholic promoted to the rank of Queen ' s Counsel by Emancipation , would
not take twenty shillings and elevenpence from the most oppressed religious brother , even in defence of tbe moot favoured tenet ol the proscribed church , in preference to twenty-ono shillings from an exterminating Protestant , who appears as his opponent to the orthodox faith . And , as Catholic litigants are generally poor , and Protestaut ones are generally rich , and as the promotion to a silk gowa mast be paid for by those who seek shelter under its magical influence , thus has Emancipation bo far raised the price of law to the poor client , while it has blunted tbe energy of the advooate , and alarmed the apprehension of the Judge , So much for the legal benefit of Emancipation to rich and poor .
By Emancipation , the Catholics were promised the total abolition of Tithes . B y Emancipation , the Catholic tenantry and labourers were impliedly to be guaranteed in a defensive controul over their landlords , by such a sweeping Poor Law , leviable upon the estates of those landlords , as would insure to the Catholic tenantry that great protection which self-interest ever furnishes against the caprice of the most tyrannical , by making each proprietor pay for tbe poor of his own creation .
Let us be distinctly understood . Catholic Emancipation was held out to the Irish people asasnre guarantee of religious , social , and civil equality;—of religious equality , by the exemption from the payment of any impost , except their own chosen pastors ; of social equality , by the introduction qf such a system of Poor Laws , as , while it left the landlord full possession and undisputed right to do what he like * with his oum , yet , nevertheless , imposed upon him the obligation of paying for the indulgence such a price as would preclude the possibility of inflicting ruin upon any , without imposing a
corresponding sacrifice upon himself . Politically , Emancipation promised a guarantee against the further UraBionof religious right by exclusive civil power ; ii promised the enactment of laws , and the appointment of such , officers for their administration , as should render justice to all without reference to religious persuasion ; and that society , thus remodelled and invigorated in its social and religious relations , should by degrees , and as religious animosities were healed be moulded into a perfect civil state , as the means , the only means , of preventing a relapse into the fever of religious strife and Christian warfare . -
Emancipation was purchased at the expence o £ a tremendous swsrifice of principle to expediency . Nearly three hundred thousand political slaves , whose very existence depended upoa that holding i '¦' '¦¦
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which , constituted a 40 sl freehold ^ were sacrificed with , their families , amountingto over two millions , to this religious gratification , for the wealthy Catholic to hold political station . The Catholic priesthood , however , upon the part of the Catholic people , stipulated for aa equivalent , before they consented to so monstrous a sacrifice of the poor , for the exclusive benefit of the rich . At the head of the stipulating party , waa the memorable Dr . Dotle , Roman Catholic Bishop . This stipulation embraced a honourable provision for those who cheerfully surrendered their little all , for the glory of their religious triumph , in such a measure of Poor Laws as would furnish real relief to the unwilling idler , who , in consequence of the treaty , was sure to lose his political qualification . .
However , inasmuch as the Irish people never do receive that course of education which would fit them for those offices thrown open by Emancipation , and , inasmuch , as they bow , after twelve years ' probation , pay 25 per cent , increased tithe , in the shape of rent ; inasmuch as they have got onl y such . a system of Poor Lawa as their leaders , their priests , and themselves repudiate and condemn ; we are justified in asking , in what , then , consists the religious and social improvement in the condition of the poor Irish Catholics , consequent upon Emancipation ! ,
But if Emancipation bare failed in producing that state of religious and social equality , or even relief from religious disabilities , what are we to say of Reform , which was to hare given full and complete effect to the measure 'jof religious relief , by means of the civil liberty thereby established ? To relieve the mind of all religions animosities , to equaliie society , and to give to all equality before God , in recognition , if not in belief , of the subdued Protestant parson , was a step actually necessary , as the precursor of civil equality ; and , in consequence of this great and mighty magical change , Reform promised to be the trustee of all .
Up to the year 1829 the Catholics were minors : Emancipation rendered them of full age , and constituted a national majority ; and then those of their own oppressed , insulted , and proscribed creed were looked upon , and naturally , as the fittest arbitrators to demand , if not an account of the long trust , at least , a fair adjustment , and a proper settlement of accounts for the future . To this end , representatives wera sought from the ranks of the old champions of religious liberty ; and the new franchise , being a £ 10 beneficial interest , was supposed to constitute such an independence as would remove that
subserviency inherent in the old forty-shilling freeholders . This opinion was fully justified by the result , inasmuch as a great number of Roman Catholics , many of them wholly unknown till they appeared upon the hustings , were chosen , and properly chosen , by a Catholic people , as the first-fruits of their glorious religious triumph , followed by their political advancement . With such a force in the citadel , and the Catholic people of Ireland ready to back them with their hearts' blood , will our most sanguine Catholic friend kindly direot our attention to the victories of so powerful a party , after an eight years' campaign !
Let us now consider whether or not amount of value can give effect to an erroneous principle . The forty-shilling freeholders were disqualified , and turned upon the faoe of the earth as vagrants and wanderers , lest in their overwhelming ! numbers , they should everywhere return their newly-qualified fellow-Catholics . The first experiment opened the door of St . Stephens , to Roman Catholic representatives , chosen by an independent Catholic constituency , rendered independent by the possession of a £ 10 beneficial interest of those , who hare been bo long and bo well nursed by Mother Church ,
an ever-flowing , never-dry milch cow ; well fed upon Catholic blood and sweat . The "beneficial interest " being an abstraction from the wealth of Protestant landlords , they saw no reason why they should thus furnish weapons of offence to tbe enemy . Hence we find the extermination of ten-pounders to be set about , and accomplished just as easily and coolly ^ as that of the two-pounders . The principle ia the same ; and the facilities for putting it into operation similar . Well ; what ' s the result ! Why , just this . We find an unchristian , exterminating dog , an infidel destroyer , one Sir Anthont Brooke , Bart ., a Sir Johk Makkell , and others of the same black kidney , declaring , amid the cheers of ruffiansprouts of Protestantism , their determination
to let their "beneficial interests" to Protestant interlopers , rather than the Catholic sons of old and good tenants on the land ; or to renew for the old occupants , at a sacrifice of 30 or 30 por cent , in the rent . That is , that a Protestant voter shall get , for £ 100 per annum , what an old , faithful , and solvent Catholic shall not get for £ 130 , nor , in fact , at any price . This is the resolution of an association of Protestant landlords , for the murder of their Catholio tenants ; and it is considered not only legal , bat praiseworthy , and is highly lauded by the Protestant ) press . Now , suppose the Catholic tenants , holding those unfortunate ' beneficial interests , " were to form themselves into an association , and pass the following resolution : —
Resolved , " That we , tho Roman Catholic tenants , upon the estates of ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ , having learned the intention of our landlords to give a preference of 30 per cent , to Protestant tenants , and to oust all those of the Catholic faith whose holdings confer votes , and deeming such intention to be a violation of all Christian duty , gentlemanly feeling , and , justice , have come to the following determination ; that is to say : we shall not interfere with the just right of the landlord to secure his rents , and to dispose of such farms as may fall out of lease to the best
advantage ; neither shall we defend defaulters nor countenance opposition to the legal claims of the landlord ; while , at the same time , we do hereby solemnlydeclaro , that if a single act of injustice be done in furtherance of the brutal resolution of our landlords , we will have recourse to all those means with which Goo has armed man for self-defence ; and if a single Catholio life shall be sacrificed in the promotion of the landlords' object , we hereby pledge ourselves to avenge the ungodly act , by the sacrifice of a double number of our Proteatant oppressors . "
Now , what would be the result of such a resolution ! Why , the immediate proclaiming of the Liberators mitigated Coercion Bill , for the preservation of Protestant life , without referenoe to Catholic suffering . And yet , while this hellish conspiracy ia formed against tht emancipated Catholics , by their Protestant brethren , we find the energies of the Royal Loyal National Humbug Association , wasted upon repeal buttons , Emigration to Jamaica , committees of supply , and so forth 1 without daring to grapple with the real" exterminators , " whose denunciation is left to us . This is the beneficial interest which the poor man acquired by Emancipation and Reform .
They have supplied a gratification to the rich , while they hare furnished disqualificationj extermination , and destruction , to those by whom the rictory , such as it is , has been won . Thus it ever has been ; and thus it erer will be , until man , wheresoever he roams , shall carry with him the title-deed of his freedom . Will this , and such like instances of sacrificing thirty per cent ., rather than enfranchise the independent voter open the eyes of the supporters of Household Suffrage ! Will this teach the people that they must throw off the whole , load of oppression at once , instead of looking for an instalment of justice from their tyrannical rulers I
Emancipation and Reform have been a profit , and a great profit , to the rich Catholic , while they have been the ruin of millions of their poor , and , therefore , defenceless brethren . True , all the victories have been bloodless—that is , all the blood hat been shed upon om tide , and that the wrong side ; witness Rathcormae and other spots , where Catholio blood still cries in vain for vengeance—witness the sweeping of estates , the persecution of the people , and the aggrandisement of the Generals , who , in tho hottest fire , have kept themselves free from scratch *
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while the soldiers have borne all tho blows , and allowed the officers tornn off with all tha spoil . Such JTave been the inestimable blessings conferred upon the people by Emancipation and Reform .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 16, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct362/page/4/
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