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    • THE LAND ! THE LAI fD !
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    • TO THB LB^XirEEBS OF THE MINERS' ASSOCUIIO* OF r GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
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      . LATEST fBOM XBELAHD . . Dbbuk , Not * Bib . THE STATE PROSECUTIONS . TJHDIHG 0 ? THE BItLSBT T GRAND JDBT . COURT OF QUEENS BENCH , < ThisDat . ) The C 3 nrt tras opened * t the usaal hour ( tea o ' clock ) this morning , a » d in less than half an hoar « fter , the barwM eOTrtletelyOTWipisd . byJa ^ eK , siathegillenasweee ^ Bled bjtheiiubbc . This interest tns inoif ested in consequence ef the general opinion that the Grand Jury hk concluded the examination « f witnesses last nigat , and would remise bill of indictment this waning . At acatrter after three o'cleck the Solicitor x ~ i Attorney General entered the court , and in » lew jnhn * es * fterwaidB the Chief Justice , Justices Barton , Cr * mpton , _ nd Perrin took their seats npoatire

      At »< gusrieTio four o ^ olwik , the jury appear -d , » d handed dsvra the indictment . Hr . BonmB , clerk of tbe ctowd , read—* A trne - % 3 t—j lord , for self and bellows . " Mr .-O'&orman rcce in the jury box , wad said—Hfy Lords , 1 bej ? to express my dissent from that Vu . Chief mTksBm—Pray ^ vhat iB your name , Sir 1 Uichard O'Gormans ! Eiy Lord . The Attorney-General roi 8 , and moved that the he

      ^ rare—era now « aUed upon their recognisances . Tbe Clerk of the Crown then called upon Daniel -CPCgnnsU , ISsq-, -John O'Connell , Esq , SbomaB Sfceele , Esq ., M . T . Ray , Esq ., Johir « r » y , Esq ., -Charles G . Duffy , Esq ., and the fie * . Messzs . Tyrrell -and Tierney , all of whom appeared . Mr . RatchelV&C ., applied on behalf of Mr . Daniel O'Connell , that ho be furnished with a copy * f the indictment , under the proTisisos ef the Act -of Parliament

      The TaricmB-conn Bel for the ?* it of the defendants siade similar applications on behalf of their -clients , 5 » Tid Mr . Stcele , on his pait , made the same demand . The Crown £ } licitor said that capic ^ shsnld be ^ nrnished thiB evening to the officer , who would tiansmit them to the defendants . A lengthy discnasion ensued resp 3 ting the -defen--dantspl ^ Jing > jn the present stage of the procxdings ; _ ftex which . — The Clerk of the Crown readihe first count , and hiring read thenameiof the parlies charged , the c * isea _ ien terminated , and the Csurt adjourned at are o ' clock .

      Half-past Eight , pan . You will see by the report of ttae ^ ueeu ' 8 Bench io- < l » j-, thai tko Crown i »—yers -are endeavouring io prens the traversars to the most stringent oonstruction of the statute , as to pleading . Tbe Attornej-General ^ required that Ais day , although ihe ondictment was not declared until . uearJy ionr o ' clock , pan * should be counted as one of the four -clear days ! But the Attorney-General was defeated on this point—the court was not with him , and the -Chief Justice intimated that farther time ihan fonr days wo » ld be granted for pleading , on application to the court npon specif 1 grounds . —Cor * respondent-ef the Ck > oracle . The following additional intelligence is from the Tines- — _ _ . __ _ . .

      At ten minutes to six o ' clock , Mr . Xemmis , the Crown Solicitor , proceeded to the residence of Mr . Bourne , the Clerk of the Crown , in Harooart-strcet , when he was waited upon by Mr . P . Mahony , who demanded eight copies of the indictment , haying "bean duly authorised by the atteraks of all . the defendants , with the exception of Mr . Steelo's , to receive them . In pursuance of the Solicitor-Genelal ' s promise in court , heTeceWed them ; and before lie departed Mr . Stcele arriTed also , and w « furjnBhed with * copy for himself . Tnere is very little -risible n / " ** '" *'"'* consequent npon the finding of the bills , nor was there any great assemblage of parsons outside the courts throughout any part of the-dsy .

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      LATEST PROM SPAIN . Madrid , Not . L—Accounts from Gallicia say that the movement which took place at Vigo on the 24 th nit . was completely successful there ; the Pro-Tineial Regiment of Lugo hare joined , and the castle intimately snrrenderins :. It is reported that FerroljLngo , and Santiaj * have joined the movement . GeDerailriarte is at tk * beadoftheTigo forces . It remains t » be seen whither the prorinee generally ¦ win second the movement , Tbe Eeo states that 12 , 009 stand ofazms had been landed at Vjgofrom England .

      STRIKE OF THE GLOVE HANDS FOR WAGES IN LEICESTER . In coDseqoeno ot the repeated reduction ! in tbe pace of labour in the glove branch , by the Messrs . Jtiggs aod others in the tude , during tbe last two veers , tfae journeymen glore J _ ndt held a mc 3 ting in Mrs . Cooper * zoom , on Monday , Oct . 30 th , to " - -to Into eonaideration the prices given by tbe several manafaetaxea on the different kinds or work ; and to diacun IJje propriety of making a stand for tbe last year ' s prices on lisle thread , 44 . per day on thirty gauge ¦ woo llen , and 3 d . per dozen on the twenty-four guage 'wooBsn gloTes . It waa stated bj a somber of men that XbBj bad been rcdmsd since last year forty-one per « eat in \ belx labors ; others more , somtleas ; and that vnleo * they evuld t 3 bet ? 3 r reBnmerated for theii labour , tbey would cease work altogether . -

      Tbe meeting iras ad jonmed to the Black Swan publicivOQSd , * vheze ^ Ivt" 0 " determined , one sad . all , to strike for an advance of wages . A Committee of Management was appointed to solicit tbe manufacturers for an advance , and report progress on Tuesday . In the evening , the second-band employers held a meeting on tbe aabjeet , and agreed to memorialise the Great Saihaw , the author of tbe " v < r »* nfi Counties * Charter , " on tbe question . Tttesdat . —A . t T » rn » o ' clock , a numerous meeting was balden at the Black Swan , to recslre tbe report of tbe deputation from the manufacturers , which iras anything but cheering . Tbe decision of the Messrs . Biggs was—they would have nothing at all to do with tbe journeymen on the question of wages . A resolution wt * immediately come to , "That we strike , the whole fade . " The men insraoBy Joined together in ranks , and went to the different shops in tbe town , to solicit the whole trade to strike against tbe present list of prices , which nearly cTery man and woman did .

      In tbe evening another seeond-basd masters' meeting -was held at tbe Bussell Tavern , when it was agreed for every master to solicit the mannfactorew to raise the

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      pri * a of lsbonj to the amount asked for by tbe joamey fiJSD . Adjourned unUl seven o ' clock on Wednesday night Wxdsksbat . —Tbe journeymen assembled this riming , at the Black Swan , in larger numbers than on the twe previous days . 2 &J . George Backby -was called to the chair . A deputation arrived from the masters . Mr . Crofts stated that be had been to Mr . Thorpe , and be -was quite willing to give the pries on Lisle , but be would not give them tbe advance on wooL The working men immediately shouted , " We will stand for tbe whole . " A depu ** ition ef five wii then appointed by the Journeymen to meet tbe masters , Jo argue tbe Question of the stoike , « nd to bear tbe report of the masters from the manufacturers .

      The men again paraded tbe streets , for tbe purpose of getting out the bands , until dark , " when several of tbe turn-outs went to . work sjain , but were severely punished by some persons unknown , who destroyed some psrts of the machinery , broke sevezai ¦ window * , snd dragged tbe men out of their frameij making them pro mi » never to work again until they had gained the price . Thcb £ da . t . —At sine o ' clock , the men on strike collected together in vast numbers , to bear tbe report of the deputation , and reseive the advice of their leaden . The deputation announced that the

      manufacturers were determined to stand against tbe strike , and that some of the employers h&i expressed their belief that the men , having n » fnnds to stand upon , would be starred into work again . This wrs received with marks of disapprobation , tbe men expressing their firm determination to stand by their original resolution sever to go to work until they had . gained the pric 3 . A resolution was enrried that they parade the town to ask alms to support their wtvrc and families . At the dose of the day , nearly five pounds was collected , besides bread , iaeon , cheese , *« . *

      Pkidat . —At the usual time of meeting , the men congregated together in much larger numbers than any of tbe previous days . Messrs . Bnckby , Watts , and Smith addressed the meeting . After th § y had again pled ged thenweives to s * - . na lor tire whole price , & out was brought np , drawn iy tan of the manufacturers ' * aves , with a large placard , headed , » Glove bands on atnke . to wayes—Priends of humanity assist us . " Beveise , « Jix . Biggs ii the cause of our being out £ « " ^ l " " CoU 6 eto » »«« appointed for the ™ \^ a ! procemon was about to move , when an individual arrived with a mess * e , thst if they ctempLeajolv . ihep ^ mld It tote ink , cLtod ? ^! S ^ ^ " ^ ^ his instant . ppoiated three 4 tfoXkdOTS so that if one » t shouli fee taken * p another set should immediately mpply their nlacei . ! ttey had not ^ roceeded far before tbf ^ En P S sade their appearance 1 and ordered them to daiel JnBiUggiao or they would tsis them before the tbe whahad

      Mayor ( Mr . jBJggs , man been tbe esnse of -Sia tarn-out ) . " Take us and welcome ,- was the repiy Tbe police took three , namely , Charles Cox , Wb ! CoulsQB , and Wm . Green , from the party . Three more , aamely , John Timsos , Robert Allen , and Wra . Hope well , immediately filled tbeii places , and they were taken also . Three more immediately supplied then places , namtly , Hias Howard , Wm . -eoodmsa , and Jons CooBayne . They were also taken . Cocbayne fijey liberated again , who immediately resumed bis place ai a collector ; two more joined Cochayne , namely , * Biomas Stilton , and Wm . Knight , who were taxtn directly . Other two immediately left the room to jsnpply their places , but * o more arrests look jUaa , and he party Ittgged Vie iovm all day . Charles Cox , Wm . Cdsten , Wm . Green , Jabn Jimson , Robert Allen Ww . Eopewfcll , £ lias Movstd , Wm . Goodman , Thomas Shilton , and TVm . Knight , were brought before the Msyor and two oiber Magistrates , sad asked Jwhether ,

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      if they were allowed to go , would they cease hogging , and not join the party fain ? They all told the Mayor that be vn tbe caura of theii being eompelk I to t g ; and If tfeey w « re to 1 liberated that minuj" ) they would instantly -go and beg cjain ; and if they ntsnded to put them down by patting them into prison , they wovld have to take every man , for all were detamined to have the price or not work , at alL They were theD « l ? cwunillei for seven days to hard labour I At two o ' clc * a si ^ ial meeting of the Magistrates wr . i c-Jled to r-te the matter into consideration , and io tbe « veuiug a Mc ^ jstea' t" proctanution was issued , rationing a ^ l panons against boggiPD * either singly oi in bodies , rithey would to brought before the Mrjjte tm * iandpon % hed ascordlngly . As soon as tile bills ap ; : ared b «| 9 & 1 persons went through the town to solitii the HSadle clc * : ¦ to take them out of their windows , which in done nesriy all over tte town .

      Satmlday . —At the hour of meeting , the men on strike appeared at their past with the cart and plc ; rrd , tnd nominated twenty-four individuals as coll- tors , ( whoro families amount- d to 166 children besides the' * wives , who , in crs they should lo impriconed the parish would have to maintain ) , and 200 more volunteered their services should tbe twenty-four to taken . Theyparad'i the principal streets , begging all day , but the-authoritics did not interfere , Sohdat . —Mr . Buckby preached an excellent sermon hi the Market-plaro , at two o ' clock , from St James , v . c 4 , 5 , and 6 th v ., to a numerous and an attentive audience for tbe 1 ne&t of tbe wives and children of tbe imprisoned turnouts , 13 s , 8 ^ d . were collected by Mr . Kinye ''

      Mojjbat , Nov . 6 . —This d » y has decided tbe battle , as tbe great Kal ob , Mr Biggs , has given the advance to a majority of his bands . Others are following in rapid succession , and ere two more days are gone , nearly the whole trade will 13 in work at tbo price . This has be sa the greatest straggle in the history of Gloveism in Leic * ster . This step taught the Manufacturers a cevere ltrson , r"it deprived them of reviving thrir rentiand taxes ( which they ixa \ ire npon their hands ) to tbe amount of ceveral pounds per w : ok , come as much n £ 100 . Tbe Poor Law Guardians , n well as tbe inhabitants in general , stood well by the turnouts . A g ' neral sympathy prevails among tbe middle classes fot the men in pi icon ; and the bands which have got tbe advan- ^ have come to tbe xecolution to support tbe remaining few on strike .

      The Land ! The Lai Fd !

      THE LAND ! THE LAI fD !

      " I have , within the last few months visited every part of France , and I declare that I have seen more misery in ons street in Dublin , th&n in all Prance ; the people are well clad , well fed , and merry ; they are all employed on Small Fabus of their own , or on eqttUable takings >" Vide Lord' Cloncurry ' s Letter in Morning ChronieJe , OcL 25 th , 1843 . London : —Cleave , Shoe-lane , Fleet-street ; Purkessj Compton-street ; Hey wood , Manchester ; Hobson , Northern Star Office , Leeds ; Guest , Birmingham ; Pat on and Lore , Glasgow ; andallAgent 3 of this paper .

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      SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 11 , 1843 . REBELLION IN IRELAND . Wfknowof no other designation , than that of Rebellion , that can be now given to the Btate of Ireland ; and when public opinion shall have roused from its present lethargy ; when the present stern demand for blood and vengeance shall be succeeded by that thrill of horror which tbe recollection of those appalling events which are sure to follow the shadows that they have cast before them ; then , but not till then , will the insulted people of Britain put the real

      rebels upon their trial ; then will the Engush nation marvel at its base subserviency to Ministerial rule ; then will all other classes discover that truth which the poople have long since learned , that Parliament is a mockery , and that the English constitution is in reality a military despotism . When , we would ask , were powers extensive as those now used in Ireland , exercised withont the consent of Parliament , except npon an emergency , which might have justified Ministerial usurpation ! No such emergency now presents itself ,: as the cool and deliberate plans of the rebels are daily printed in their organs , and are based , not upon hasty

      expediency , bat are mapped out with all the coolness and precision of a siege to be carried on according tothemostapprovedprinciplesof warfare . Great , however , as the military Ekill of the Duke of Wbllington may be , he has not yet had to combat against an enemy from whom there is no retreat . He has not yet been engaged in a conflict with publio opinion ; but of this , he and the Cabinet of which he is the military chief , may rest assured they will one day , and that not a distant oae , be arraigned before tbe tribunal of public opinion for waging war against a people whose grievances were confessed , but to whose wrongs remedies were refused .

      While the war rages , the whole press , as usual , is upon the Bide of despotism ; tbe " liberal" portion only opposing the Eangninary measures , because their own friends have not had the advantage of adopting and carrying them out . We have read the pages of Irish history with as much attention as most people ; and yet are we at a loss to discover , even in tbe most bloody times , any aot of atrocity which can be considered at all analogous to the present proceedings . What 1 in the nineteenth oentnry ; in the eleventh year of Reform , and in tbe twenty-sixth

      of profound peace , with a strong government commanding a majority that is ready for any thing ; at snch a time to see deadly war waged in the very heart of the nation ! to see our ports blockaded with our own war ships ! our towns garrisoned with onr troops 1 and all to prtpare for as onslaught against onr own people , and Parliament not consulted ! It is in truth monstrouB , It is such a state of things thai old England would not have tolerated before the blighting curse of artificial produce had paralysed her brawny arm 1 It is a state of things which

      all the nations of Europe , and even America must look upon with surprise , with horror and diBgusL And yet , while the tragedy is performed on our own stage , and before onr own eyes , the British audience will look calmly on until the checktakers shall demand pay , whsn the drama \ b over . This is one of the great evils of our present system . The people sanction that , with the price of which they are unacquainted ; whereas , if it was demanded before the performance , their mercantile souls would rebel against the injustice .

      We pass over the paltry skirmishes that are now taking place in the Irish Law Courts . We look with contempt upon the paltry charges of conspiracy —the principal of which is supported by attempting to make it crimiaal in one man for doing that which done by another is looked upon as a duty . If WEiAiji « T 0 H praises the EngliEh troops for their valour and conduct , he pays them but a just tribute ; but if O'Connkll goes beyond the allegiance Etandard , and gives a portion of them credit fer intellectual advantages , he is a traitor . If

      Beccqham speaks of cheap law , and proposes arbitration as a substitute for expensive litigation , he is a patriot ; but if O'Connell carries the principle into effect , he is a rebel . Fudge . The whole thing is nonsense : and without further analysis than a mere comparison of the respective powers of the contending parties , we should console ourselves with the reflection that victory is sure to be upon the ade of ibe people , vf aa not the cheering thought somewhat overc&Bt by the recollection of what tottering despotism is capable of attempting ere it listens to reason , and surrenders its dominion .

      Present appearances by no means destroy the hope that the Grand Jury before whom the complaint of T . B . Smith against Mr . O'Connell , for arraigning the capacity of his doting father to administer justice has been submitted , may ignore ths Bills : thus finding thai all the charges brought

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      against Baron Smith , were perfectly sustained , and thafe Mr . T . B . Smith ' s title to represent the borough of YoughsQ , waa not legitimate . In such case , the whole superstructure falls to the g round ; and Lord Db Gbet and Mr . T . B . Smith will be buried in the ruins , while Lyndhurst and the English draftsmen of the Irish Beige v « 211 lay at their door all the odium of defeat . Let Mr . O'Connbll , however , not supper for one moment , that tko war will terminate outside , whatever the rc 3 nlts of the legal inquiry may be inside j and above ell let him take warning from the rrsent oh > k that his proposed adoption of Federalism has received from the united voxe of Ireland . We candidly confess , that up to

      this whol . oma manifestation of Irish opinion , we were in the habit of looking np on O'Connkll as Ireland , and the Irish hie willing slaves . We are proud , however , to have discovered our own error , and to admit that the Irish I : ~ ple hare now established a claim to English support , to which they could not before lay claim . However tbe people of England might . have pitied their ignorance , and sympathized with their sufferings , yet , so long as they were spell-bound by individual influence , were they unworthy of support . The lesson , we trust . ithat has been accorded toMr . O'Coimxz . i ., will be serviceable not only to him , but to the whole tribe of political agitators . ^ 3 t will teach them that swimming with the current of popular opinion , they are powerful ;

      —but that ruin follows their attempt to stem it . We now write for a nation , and of Mr . O'CoNNELL as the recognized leader of the national mind ; a mind which , thanks to Irish Prmness , can no longer be diverted from the pursuit of the real demooratio principle . The question no longer is , what O'Connell will be satisfied with , but what the Irish people require as the full measure of justice . Repeal can no longer be acted as the Rent-day . It has now become a stock piece , and the Irish people will not allow it to be laid aside for any other performance . In other years we might have some misgiving as to the period of Mr . O'Conneli- ' s relapse from Pbdebai .-ism to Unconditional Reprai , just preceding the

      f ribate day ; but now the stake that be plays for , being no less than his head upon the block in the event of failure , is too great to justify the supposition that the jump has been taken for tbe " nonce . " On the 19 th , Mr . O'Connell will receive what is called the national tribute . Let him bear in mind that nineteen shillings in the pound will be subscribed for Unconditional Repeal , while the odd shilling only will be the fee for Federalism . Let him recollect that there is now an Unconditional Repeal staff in every parish in Ireland , and that after the lessons he has taught the Irish people , it will not do henceforth to u palter in a double sence , " with a people determined npon attaining their country's independence .

      From the portion assumed by Lord Eliot , the Chief Secretary for Ireland , and from Sir Robert Peel ' s well-known opposition to the present system of coercion it is by no means nnlikely that once more Irelatd may be the grave , as well as tbe battle-field of the Tory administration ; and but for the influence of the Duke of Wellington over tbe doting old Peers , there can be little doubt that Sir Robert Peel would seize the present opr jrtunity of calling Parliament together , in order that the nation may judge whether tbe amount of projected conciliation was worth tbe price of the contemplated

      coercion . Unfortunately , however , Sir Robert Peel ' s hands are not only tied , but those who hold the strings are pulling in different directions ; hiB own mind going with conciliation while the patoied Chieftain ubos the weight of the Upper House to drag him on the side of coercion . If he iB wise however , he will call Parliament together , and lay his measures before the nation , or otherwise if Irjsb blood should be shed , while acknowledged grievances are unredressed , and Parliament unconsuHed , he may rest assured that his day of reckoning will

      come , when he will discover that if there is indemnity for the minister , there is retribution for the people . We fear that he draws too flattering a conclusion from the present slumber , produced by the temporary revival of trade , while he should bear in mind that the slightest reverse of fortune might call aloud for the return of the troops upon whose presence it would appear the tranquillity of Ireland now depends ; while Rebecoa , not participating in the improved trade , appears likely to draw upon the Commander-in-Chief for her full share of military protection .

      Had not Mr . O'Connbll prudently renounced his hasty adoption of Federalism , it was our intention to have proved to demonstration that Federalism would have considerably multiplied imperial difficulties , whilst its domestic working would have increased internal jealousies , and would have placed a larger amount of patronage and corruption ai the disposal of the British Minister . In fact , if ever there was a mad crotchet , an insane project ,

      devised by man for the amelioration of Ireland which would be sure to lead to a diametrically opposite result , the establishment of what is called a Federal Government pre-eminently out-top 3 all other projects in insanity and delusion . It is a scheme merely floating upon tbe surface of the superficial minds of the old Charlemout ramp of jobbing Whigs , not yet extinct in Ireland , and looking fox reanimation from domestic plunder .

      The boasted improvement gained by the Volunteers under the treacherous Charlehont , in 1782 , had precisely the same effect npon Ireland in those days that Federalism would have at the present time . The only change produced by the Volunteers in 1782 was the mere transfer of patronage from the Irish Parliament to the English Minister . And of all the sad days of Ireland ' s saddest history , tho&e days of her boasted independence , from 1782 tojhe sale of her Parliament in 1800 , were the most remarkable for treachery , profligacy , debauchery , subserviency , and dependency ; until , at length , bo manifold became the general grievances iD flic ted by the centralized conquerors of

      1782 , that Ireland rose en masse , not against English , tyranny , but against Irish profligacy ; and at length , the triumph of Charlehont was completed by the ruin of Ireland . There never was an important period of the history of any country more ignorantiy paraded as a proof of its greatness , than that of Ireland ' s history from the year 1782 to the year 1800 ; while , in fact , the so-called triumph was gained in America , and wrung from the necessities of the English Minister , and taken advantage of by Lord Charlemont and the Irish Whigs as a fitting opportunity to establish Irish independence , but actually used by him and them for the purpose of destroying Irish liberty , and of establishing their own centralised and increased power upon its

      rums . _ That Ireland is justified in now looking for Belfrepresentation in consequence of the inability of the Imperial Parliament to deal with those domestic grievances which fester the Irish mind , is admitted in the tardy inquiry now set on foot to discover the real seat of the disease , added to the fact , that the distemper of that country has , for tbe last fortythree years , surpassed tbe skill of each succeeding administration . Thus , we bring the Btate of Ireland , as admitted by every Prime Minister within the period , as proof that Ireland has not been properly governed ; and is , therefore , justified in calling for self-representation : while we give-the following extracts from statemen of older times in proof of the

      fact , that never has England , from the moment of her assumed dominion in Ireland , from 1169 , —done justice , or even attempted to do justice to the Irish people . Mr . Pitt says i—( aj" The Irish Constitution is a deformed resemblance of the British . The evils with which Ireland is afflicted lie deep in the situation of the country . But the imperfection of the Irish Constitution is admitted , and to that mast be added the complicated grievances and defects of the state of the country at large , with respect to tie want of a diffusion of property , to the extraordinary disparty of rank , and to the scanty means of social improvement , all producing , in a proportionate degree , misery in one extreme , and oppression in the other . If any institution be . iuadequate to pro-

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      vide an effectual remedy for these e ^ ils , it is , I do not hesitate to say , the Irish legislature . From its own nature it is , and nmst be , incapable of restoring tbe internal happiness of the country , and fixing the prosperity of the » people . The Legislature , formed as it is , must remain radically defective . I have spoken an honest and fair opinion . " Mr . Dundas , created Viscount Melville , in 1802 , saya : —( cj "It ia a melancholy truth , that there does not exist in the great body of the people of Ireland that confidence in the Parliament of Ireland , which is { essential to its utility . I need not go far to cearoh for

      the reasons of this essential defect ; it grows oat of the frame and constitution of the Parliament of Ireland . It is generally acknowledged that the poor of Ireland experience all the miseries concommitant to a state of want and wretchedness . " Lord Hawkesbust , afterwards Lord Liverpool , says : — ( e ) " The course of events which for some time past have taken place in Ireland , have firmly rivetted me in the opinion , that there must be something radically wrong in the internal situation of Ireland . " Mr . Windham says : —( d ) " I maintain that the

      disorders of Ireland have grown chiefly out of the constitution of Ireland , established for near a century and a half ; and it is impossible that a Government dislocated in every limb , should enjoy health , or long survive those diseases , some slow , some acute , which are sickly of aspect and-make her feeble of heart , bat the seeds of the mkchief are in the constitution itself . " Lord Grenville says : —( e ) Does there or- does there not exist a necessity for a change in the system of the Irish Government . I declare I never conversed with any wellinformed man from Ireland who did not say

      that the present state of things , as they now existed in that country , could not continue consistent with the general safety of the empire . " Mr . Addington Bays : - ( f ) " It is a melancholy bat I fear an incontestable truth , that the state of Ireland has at no period of Us history with which we are acquainted been such as to afford satisfaction to any mind that can appreciate the conditions of civil eocietya Tbo bounty of Providence has indeed been displayed in that country by a fertile soil , and by abundant means of internal improvement and prosperity ; its inhabi tants have not been less distinguished than those of

      Great Britain , in corresponding stations of life , for eloquence , for literary and scientific acquirements , and for those talents and exertions which have established the naval and military renown of the British empire . Their form of Government is the same as oars ; bat it wants its true characteristic—it does not , like ours , bestow and receive general confidence and protection : it is not , like ours , connected with the indissoluble ties , with the obvious interests , the fcaliags , and the sentiments of the great body of the people . " Lord Auckland asks : —( g )*\ & \ % not true that , whilst Great Britain has advanced ,

      Ireland , possessing the same climate , a fruitful soil , excellent ports , and a numerous people , to whom tbe Common Parent of all gave great acnteness and ingenuity , has nevertheless been involved in comparative disorder , poverty , turbulence , and wretchedness ! I might add , without exaggeration , that in the six hundred years since the reign of Henry II . there has been more unbappiness in Ireland than in any other civilised nation not actually under the visitation of pestilence or internal war , neither

      prosperity , nor tranquillity , nor safety were to be expected from a Government , founded in the pretensions of a small part of the community , to monopolize the representation , patronage , and resources of the whole . The insufficiency of Buch a system has been felt and lamented for a century , and is become now more than ever unsatisfactory to the bulk of the Irish nation , and utterly incompetent and unsafe with re ? peot to the general interest of the British Empire . "

      Now , such are the recorded opinions of English Ministers and Statesmen as regards the constitution and government of- Ireland , from the earliest days of British usurpation down to the close of the last century ; all bearing most forcibly upon the increased independence of Ireland . Thus we bring our charges of incapacity against the English Cabinet down to the year 1800 , upon tbe evidence of those great authoritieswhile the acknowledged condition of the Irish people , their unanimous demand for self-government as the only means of redressing their grievances ,

      added to the unbroken chain of testimony of all Statesmen from 1800 , to the present time , that the disease , by which Ireland is afflicted , was beyond cure , furnishes proof incontrovertible that England is not capable of governing Ireland , and bringtog us to the natural conclusion , that Ireland must consequently be allowed to govern herself . We have shewn that the battle of Ireland was before fought in America ; and what has been , may be again . Who knows but once more the expatriated sons of Ireland , may be enabled to serve their fatherland , to which , although affording them no asylum ,

      their affections still cling , and in whom a hope to return to yet exists ! For ourselves we confess that the odds are more than a thousand to one in favour of the nation against the Duke , the Vicerot the Attorney-General , the Ex-Chancellor , and the present ocoupant of the Woolsack , with Sid-Mouth and Castlereaqh at their back ; and therefore , after eight months continuous writing upon the subject , wo close our present remarks with our former declaration ; that one of three sacrifices must now be made : the union by the Ministers ; the Irish priesthood by O'Cqnnell ; or O'Connell by the people .

      It is a melancholy fact , that even the admission of existing grievances must be wrung from the fears rather than from the justice of our rulers as evinced in the present enquiries , into the state of Wales , at the instigation of Rebecca , and into those of Ireland , upon the demand of the nation .

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      ( a ) See Debret ' s Parliamentary Register , 3 rd Ses aions Par ., vol . p . 612 , 613 , ant 623 . ( b ) Ditto vol . 7 , p . 708 and 724 . ( c ) Ditto vol . 7 , p . 673 ( dj Ditto voi , 7 , p . 736 . ( e ) Ditto vol . 8 . p . 262 . ( f ) Ditto vol . 8 , p . 48 . ( g ) Ditto vol . 8 , p . 331 , 332 .

      CHARTISM AND REPEAL . THE DUBLIN WORLD AND THE NORTHERN

      STAR . Thb Editor of the Dublin World , ia acknowledging the compliment we honestly paid him some time back , namely , that he was " evidently not subsidized by the managers at tbe Corn Excbai / ge" ; has emtraced the opportunity thereby afforded of taking Mr . O'Connor to task for certain supposed inconsistencies ; and , at the same time , has condescended to administer a little advioe to us , which , though we may demur to its propriety , we have uo doutt was honestly intended , and in the like spirit it shall be responded to .

      Differing , in fo / o , from the " Free Trade" notions and occasionally other views put forth by the World , we have , at the same time , always respected what we have deemed to be the honest convictions of our contemporary ; and where honesty reproves or advises , we trust that ; we shall ever be found willing to bow to reproof when deserved , or to act upon that advice when our own judgment tells us that it was needed .

      First , with respect ; to Mr . O'Connor , the World says : — " The Repeal Association may have committed errors —we think it has been guilty of serious mistakes—bat the Northern Star should be the last to accuse it , seeing how lately those * whom it delights to honour- -were eager to join its rank * To be oindid , and without meaning any discourtesy , we must be allowed to nay that had we thought as ill of Mr . O'Connell as Mr . Feargus O ' Connor has lor a long while declared he doeai we never would have solicited permission to be enrolled a Com Exchange associate . If you doubt a man's political honesty , it ia worse than folly to seek a connexion with him . "

      It ia true that Mr . O'Connor has thought ill of Mr . O'Connell , and has had but too good reason for so thinking . But if Mr . O'Connor has been opposed to one individual of ths great Repeal mon -

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      ment , he has never been opposed to the Rspea question , nor to the great body of Repealers . When he joined the Repeal Association , he came forward for Ireland , and not for Mr . O'Connkll . He came forward to aid in the carrying out of the great principles ! for which he had contended and struggled , when representing his native county in the Imperial Legislature . Has oar contemporary forgotten , that long before the Dublin World wa ^ called into existence , Mr . O'Connor had raised the shout for . R e peal in the teeth and in defiance of the Whig aristocracy , the " ehoy ^ hoy" liberals of Cork !

      that Mr . O'Connor was the man who forced Mr . O'Connbll to the testing of the " Saxon" Parliament on this very question in the year 1834 ? that Mr . O'Connoh throughout his public career , since the time that O'Connell made a " present " of him to the English " Tory Radicals , " has unceasingly advocated | the right and necessity of Ireland ' s legislating for herself , nntil the result was seen in the British masses ( to the number of nearly three millions and a jhalf ) acknowledging the principle and demanding ! the "Repeal" in their memorable " National Petition" of 1841 % that this paper (

      established by Mr . O'Connor ) , the senior of the World by Lome few years , has , from the first day of its existence ? been' the unyielding advocate of that " Repeal" which Mr . O'Coxubll has so often yielded to expediency , and which , if he possibly can , he will yield again ! j Let the World remember the 3 e facts ; and it will surely be at no loss to comprehend why Mr . O ' Connor was deeirous of aiding his countrymen in their struggle for self-government . True , Mr . O'Connor—aye and others of the Chartist leaders who joined the ; Repeal body—had entertained feelings of hostility towards

      Mr . O'Connell ; feelings engendered by his repeated betrayals of the principles of liberty , ( which we can . prove if need be ) , and his disgusting libels of the working classes of this country ; bat when they thought they saw him inclined to act honeBtly for once ; when they thought he was really in earnest in his agitation [ for the Repeal , they generously smothered their feelings of resentment , —honour to them !—and made sacrifice of their own wrongs on the altar of the common good . Should Mr . O'Connor be reproached for so acting 1 It might have been more in accordance with the loftier ideas of patriotism , seemingly entertained by the World , that Mr . O'Connor should have sacrificed his

      duties as a public man to his resentments as a private man ; but we are not of the same opinion . Nay , | more ; when the offers of co-operation on the part of Mr . O'Connor and the English Chartists were { spurned by O'Connell and his tools and sycophants ; when in return for such proffered aid , Mr . O'Connor and his friends were , week after we 2 k , vilified land abused , calumny heaped , upon calumny , and ( lie npon lie , Mr . O'Connob did not retaliate ; he bore vituperation without deigning to notice his assailants ; and , week by week , his pen and tongue wia still employed ia advocating their cause . In our opinion his only fault was , if he was faulty at all , that he bore with the vituperations of his slanderers too long .

      But the World continues : — " It is e ? 7 y , " aaya our contemporaay , " to impute bad motives to a political rival or opponent j" and " were oar advice considered of the leaat value by the Northern Star we would recommend it to deal led ia personal abofe of Mr . O'Connell . " Now we beg to say that we vety often consider the advice of the World to be of no little value-There is no paper that we&read with more attention , and often with no small profit . What oar contemporary may mean by ' * personal abuse" we hardly k . now . But this we do know , that the reading of

      the World ' s " gentlemanly" criticisms on the " errors" and "serious mistakes" of the "Repeal Association" haf helped considerably to open oar eye 3 to the real character of the present agitation , and perhaps tended , in no slight degree , to produce those effusions from our pen which our contemporary is pleased to term " personal abuse . " Let the World refer to the back pages of the Northern Star from the time that the Repeal agitation assumed the { character of a reality , down to the Clontarf " blow-up "; and show , if he can , that from our ! pen one word of abuse of Mr .

      O'Connell emanated ! Up to the last moment that we could conscientiously do so , we supported Mr . 0 'Conhbi . i ,, despite his " personal abase" of us . It was only when the enemy struck that blow which Mr . O'Connell had courted , and showed their readiness to go to " law , " or to " war , " which he had bo often ! " defied" them to do ; and when be then exhibited the spectacle of a " leader" withont 11 measures , " jand a " general" without" plans , " with which to meet and beat the power he had so "high and haughtily defied ; " it was then that we expressed our animadversions upon his conduct , in tbe tone and manner which our judgment dictated to us was

      our duty . When we saw an offer made to sell " Repeal" for M FEDERALISM" ; when we saw shamelessly exhibited O'Connell ' s willingness to truckle and compromise—to barter and betray the hopes and prospects of the too-confiding people of Ireland , for the sake Cas we believed ) of his own personal safety ; it was then that we denounced , fearleBsly and honestly , the conduct of the would-be betrayer . ' ? What we have written , we have written . " We have exposed fraud and falsehood ; and if suoh exposures are deemed by onr contemporary to be (" personal abase , " we willingly plead guilty to the " soft impeachment . "

      But the World Bays something about " imputing motives . " We have said we read our contemporary . We do so j iand from another article in the same page in which is that on which we are commenting , we find something like " motives imputed" to the Repeal patriots , as the moving Bprings of their patriotism , which we submit to the reader throws as ( upon all ordinary occasions ) into the shade . In commenting upon the " charge" of Judge Burton , the ; Editor of the World administers a well deserved flagellation to the "liberal" hacks who are now bawling against the partial application of the law ; "Short-sighted scribes , " says the World :- 1 *

      " Can you not call to mind when the Whigs had undertaken a crusad e against the Chartists , bringing tbe Six Acts ] to bear upon them , and throwing them into dungeons , that we warned you in how short a tiaie this harsh treatment might famish a precedent for dealing vigorously with the Irish Repealers ? " But , adds the World , the Government is more desirous of awing than punishing their political adversaries : and , —

      " The Repealers , npon the other band , we mean the leaders of the party , are as innocent a set of fellows as ever engaged ia a conspiracy , They have marched , talked , collected money and spent it merrily , but they never meditated a rebellion . What , though they spoke of fighting men , they had no notion of fighting , ei their counsel will assert in the Queen ' s Bench , should it become necessary ; and then , as for their

      waxsongs , they jwere harmless effusions . The best thing Sir Robert I ^ eel can do ia to send a batch of « The Young Ireland * lawyerlings to mangle law in the Colonies , and appoint a score or two of other patriot * , who are ready to die for fatherland , to lucrative situations in the Customs , Excise , and Constabulary Force ; and thea withdraw bis supeifluoua military power . The Whigs did this , and they succeeded ; and the Tory Premier should profit by the example . "

      If our contemporary does not mean to " impute motives" here , then do we not understand him . If he is not after this charged with " personal abuse'' of the immaculate patriots of the Corn Exchange , then were we never more mistaken . What ! to " impute ! ' to the " Libbbator" Tom Steele , and Co ., that they have " collected money , and spent it merrily" \ that " though they epoke of fighting , 4-1 * A ** LnJ HA M . A&S . A ** a 6 C MLi ! M —M t A \ - _ A It . 1 they had notion of fighting ! that their

      no " " war songs , " those " thoughts that breathe and words that burn , " ! meant nothing at all , at all !! and were mere " harmless effusions" ! that" Young Ireland " would forge ); its " high and haughty reaolv . es" » t o die fox fatherland , " and would sell all its hopes of anti-Saxon { nationality , and the restoration of the glories of Brian Borihome , for " lucrative situations" in the M Colonies , the Customs , 4 he Excise , and Constabulary" ! J O hideous " personal

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      abuo" ! "The Whigs succeeded by sack vil « means ; and the Tory Premier might profit by the example" ! O J monstrous , "impntetion"I Letour contemporary look to it . WewHI not venture to advise him ; bat fearful are we , that unpopular aa the Northern Star is at the Corn Exchange , the World is likely t © be , if possible , still more unpopular . One question more and we have done ; the World in commenting upon present agitations and present associations , asks : —

      " Even aa regards the principle ? of the Chaiier , moat it not ha obvious to the NorthernStar that they were as faily appreciated forty years aja , and piurhaps more prudently and resp : stably advocated , tt-i they Era at the present hoar ?" We answer No . Sorely onr contemporary must have been asleep to what has bc 3 n going on in " thb Would" forthelaBt * forty years" when he put to us the above question . Forty years ago , the principles of the Charter were hardly known . The Richmond 3 , the Foxes , the Greys and others , who had some years before , spouted " Universal Suffrage "

      as a party clap-trap , had , like the heaven-born " Minister , shelved " the principles of the CHARXBE , " and were busied only with denouncing Pitt and the War ; which war they afterwards carried on as ' vigorously" as Pitt had done , when once they obtained place and pay . The great mass of the people , drank with " blcjd and glory , " hounded on by s / aassin-like priests and prostituted writers , were madly engaged in the crusade against the " principles of the Chaster , * under cover ot a struggle to put down " Jacobinism" and M Atheism . " The famed "

      Corresponding Society" had cea . ed to exist . Thelwall , Hobnb Tooke , Hardy , and other advocates of the M principles of the Charter , " unable to stem the tot ' rent of popular delusion , had retired into private life . Hunt was unknown ; and Cobbett had not yet put forth the energies of his giant mind in support of thoce principles . Such was the real state of things M forty years" ago . How different now . The people of Britain have bought their experience dearly , and it has not been lost upon them . They now look back with loathing upon the " triumphs" and M victoriea" of forty years ago , and execrate their own folly and the villainy of

      their deluders . Now , millions have given their adhesion to the principles of the Charter , and flock in thousands to listen to their exposition and assertion . These principles , either under the uncompromising name of Chartism , or the new-fangled names supposed to be more palateable to the middle classes , are steadily advancing ia the local governments , and gradually acquiring Municipal power . The number of its champions in the Legislature are at least as numerous as they were forty years ago ; and the Chartists have , confessedly , the balance of power in many of the electoral districts : and are rapidly acquiring power among the electoral body .

      But the World says that the principles were " perhaps more prudently and respectably advocated than they are at present . " Perhaps they were not . At the period the World speaks of , honest Major Cartwright was the only " advocate" of the principles of tbe Charter . Major Cartwri « ht was , indeed , in the be 3 t sense of the word , " respectable f for he was honest . " Comparisons are odioua , " says the proverb ; and we do not think it worth while to compare present with past names , or we might shorr that both within and without " the House" the principles of the Charter are advocated by parties at least as " respectable" as those by whom they were advocated

      manyyearssince . Ourcontemporaryshouldremember that there may be more than onedefinition of the word " prudence . " It may be that in other days our principles have been " prudently" advocated in the way that the World "imputes" to the present Repeal agitators , with a " prudent" eye to their own personal ends . Yes ; the " principles of the Charter " haye , ere now , been advocated by those who sought and were quieted by " lucrative situations" in the "Colonies , " the "Customs , " and the " Constabu . lary . " Thank God such " prudential" agitation of our principles no longer exists . In lieu thereof we have the principles advocated honestly ; and whatever the World may think , that is the sort of " prudential" and " respectable" agitation to our taste .

      Yes those principles are advancing , Forty yean have not rolled by ia vain . The mind of the masses is at last thoroughly awakened . There may be pauses ; there may be defeats ; apathy may occasion * ally take the place ef action : but ' •* Onward" is the motto and " Forward" is the cry . * * No peace witbi ttrannt" we have inscribed upon our banners , and We will wage to " victory , " oar contest with oppression ! Come it alow , or come it task , The Charter shall be won at last !"

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      SCOTCH JUSTICE (!) versus FREE DISCUSSION . Ocr readers will remember our comments last week upon the illegal and tyrannical treatment of Mr , Jeffery by the Edinburgh Sheriff ; we have now to record the capture and treatment of " Ths Man Patekson . " He writes" Ou Tuesday evening week , I waa apprehended on a warrant for contempt of Court , and to answer for disturbing the public meeting in the Waterloo Rooms . I was kept in a dark all fourteen hours , they refusing to take bail , although it waa offered to any amount , When brought before the sheriff , yesterday , after ascertaining I was indicted for next week , he adjourned my cfse till Monday week , on my finding bail . "

      The trials of Paterson and Robinson for" blasphemy" are probably on by this time . The result shall , in due coarse , be made known to our readers We request our Edinburgh friends to send us a paper containing reports of the trials , as soon as published .

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      ' ^¦/ W ^ V ^ tf ^ P ^^ WWWWVUW THE MOUNTAIN IN LABOUR . The world a short time since was informed that Mr . Thomas Attwood , was again " coming oat . " That he was prepared with a plan to unite all parties , and a remedy for all existing ills , " What can it all mean V has been in every body ' s mouth ever since the time of this startling announcement Birmingham was beat up , and canvassed for a " vote of confidence" , in Mr . Attwood ; and sixteen thousand expectants were found gullible enough to express their " confidence" in the man before they knew anything of his intended measures ! At

      length , after many mysterious announcements oi what would be seen by-and-by , this week haa brought us a document from the pen of Mr . Anwood , addressed to the sixteen thousand jwhich , fot superlative and inimitable fudge , is unmatchabto amongst all the specimens of " prose run mad" that it has ever been our lot to peruse . We have no room for this precious specimen of ex-legislative wisdom this week . Next week we may give it , and attempt an analiziiion of its component parts : " indeed that be possible , in the meantime , we inform our readers that "the Mountain" has not laboured in vain ; it has " brought forth ""A MOUSE" !

      To Thb Lb^Xireebs Of The Miners' Assocuiio* Of R Great Britain And Ireland.

      TO THB LB ^ XirEEBS OF THE MINERS' ASSOCUIIO * OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND .

      Gentlemen , —As the Executive Committee fieW their meetings on Saturday last , you will find yoni » P " pointmentaas follows : — North Staffordshire . Mes » rs . D . Swallow and Lom ^ South Staffordshire , Mesers . Scott and Butler ; De"r Bhlre , Messrs . Heming and Microft ; Yorkshire , Me «» P . M . Bropby andHolgate ; lancashire , Messrs . Eem Birrill , Dennettj and Auty ; Wales , atessrs . * viaon , George Williams , and David Griffiths ; D ""**? and Northumberland , Messrs . William Thomaaon . W £ Hammond , John Alexander , Joseph Wild , John J » £ and Eliaha Kinaay ; Cambeiland . ISeasiB . Join . Hafl » and Matthew Haledsy j Scotland , Messrs . W * GlougB »» Benjamin Emoleton , Robert M'Culty , Septimusp ***» Benjamin Wataon , Benjamin Pyle , Thomas SmW » " ^ Daniel Thompson . John Bali , # Gen . Secretary to the AbsoosW 8 ' Newcastle-on-Tyne , At the Central Criminal Court , i * 013 ^ , » Stoyer , was tried for the murder of Peter ^^^ t German , by stabbing him witb a knife , in Silt ^^ , y Golden-bquare . Tht » fa « ts were clearly proved . * T ^ j , ¦ was pleaded in mitigation , but was not ett&ooa" ^ &ud UK'tprisouer was sentenced to death , j

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      4 THE NORTHERN STAB . 1

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 11, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct827/page/4/