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THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, OCTOBER i, 1845.
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PEEL AND HIS "DIFFICULTIES." IRISH "CONC...
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THE NORTHERN STAR . October 4 , 1845 , 4 - | ¦ ' —¦~ L **'' - "" " " ¦ i > —¦—"'¦¦ " - " - " . ' ¦ 'I ' . 'ij- ^ i "" '¦ - "' '"" ... " ¦ —* - . ¦— . . ~ ~^ " ^ rr ^ 5 —^ * " ~ ™ " " _ . I I
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TflE PUBGATORY OF SUICIDE : A Prison Rhvme : in Ten Books : Br TB ^ A S COOPER THE CHARTIST . J . How , Publisher , W , Fleet-street . * g- Orders from the Coun try to he tent through the " BookseUer * . MR- COOPER'S NEW WORK . To be Published early in November , in 2 vols ., 12 mo . Price Fourteen Shillings , WISE SAWS AM ) MODEM INSTANCES . A series of Prose Tales and Sketches , composed in Stafford Gaol : amongst which are Ricky Sarion the Barber ; or the Disciple of Equality . Raven Dick , the Poacher j or " Who Scratched the BuU I" Tim Swullow--whistle , the Tailor ; or "Every Dog has his Day . " 3 ? orothy Pjecroft ' s Preaching ; or "Charity begins at Home . " The Last Days of an Old Sailor . The History of Cockle Tom . The Man that brought his N imponce to bought The Lad that felt like a Fish out of Water . Signs of the Times ; or One Parson and Two Clerks , Jca , & c . gPoblishednhjobyilr . How , Fleet-stroct , about to remove to 209 . Piccadilly . .
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THE COMTOISSECJl , a Monthly Record of the FINE ARTS , MUSIC , and the DRAMA . Oostwts or * So . Til .: —Hojal Academy of Arte—The Prima Donna—Decline of the Drama—British ArchaMlogical InntitMs—The Fine Arts Commission—Shaksperian Critics—Conservatoire do Paris , & c . — Grand Prix de Rome—Dr amatic and Musical Summary —Correspondence—Miscellaneous , & c . & c . The Illustration : —A lVrtrait of Murillo , from a painting hy himself , drawn on stono by II . C . Maguire . " An Original Ballad , hy S . IVylde . OMK 10 SS OP THE T 6 . ESS . * ' To all lovers of tlie fine arts rye recommend the * Connoisseur . '" —Xorthan Star . " It ought , and we have no doubt will , continue to receive the same patronage and extensive circulation which it has hitherto done among persons of taste in the culture of the arts and sciences . "— Cambridge Independent Trets . "Tor those who take an interest in the fine arts , music , and the drama—and who does not!—this work -will Ve considered almost indispensable . " —Durham Chronicle «« Au admirable record of the fine arts , music , and the Uram & r—Kteiic ' s Bath Chronicle . " We have glanced at many critical journals , hut vre have met with none more intimately imbued with the delicious inspiratisns of ' high art . '"—jEtli «& iwvjft Weekly Jlegister . London : E . Mackenzie . Edinhurgh : Prazcr and Co . Dublin : Mason .
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ROTAL ADELAIDE GALLERY . KOYEL E 5 TERIAKME 5 T . ATMOSPHERIC Railway daily , with explanatory lecture . The Kew Zealand Chief . Pahe a Range , -will give * course of lectures on the Manners and Cus--toms of Sew Zealand , on tho evenings of Monday , 'Wed . nesday , and Friday next . Mr . Russell continues to -deUnr hisxmcqualUd lectures on Character , on Tuesday , Thursday , and Saturday evenings . Lectures on Science , & C , daily . includingMajorBemowshi ' sArtificialMemory , Beal ' a Rotatory Steam Engine , Kollman ' s Locomotive Engine for ascending inclines on Railways . Every -exening a Grand Promenade Concert , supported hy firstrate talent , both vocal and instrumental .
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COLOSSEUM . PATRONISED and visited l . j her Host Gracious MAJESTY and his Royal Highness Prince LBERT . OPES DAILY from Ten till Six . Pro--ounced by the Press , and confirmed hy every visitor « be the most perfect triumph of Art in its various oranches , both by Day and Kight , that has ever been achieved . Equal to six exhibitions . The Glyptotheca , containing works of the first artists ; Mont Blanc and Mountain Torrents , Superb Conservatories , Gothic Aviary , Classic Ruins and ^ Fountains , Panorama of Xondon , re-painted hy Mr . Parris , & c . Admittance , Ss . Children , half-price . The Stalactite Caverns , the most magnificent of all the temples which nature has tjnilt for herself in the regions of night , Is . extra , EVENING EXHIBITION , Open from Eig ht till Eleven , consists of an entirely new ^ panorama of London by night , erected in front of the day j icture , the largest in the world , comprising 40 , 000 square feet , projected and carried out by Mr . TV . BradwelL and jjaintedby Mr . Danson and Mr . Telbin . The Caverns , 3 rontSIan <^ and Torrent » y night , the GlyptOtBCCa and refreshment saloon , brilliantly illuminated , forming a promenade perfectly unique . The whole exhibition Resigned by Mr . Dradwell . Admission at the door 5 s . each . Family tickets to admit four persons , at is . each , to he had at the SorUx lodge , Colosseum , from Ten to Six : and at all the principal Libraiv-n andltusicsellers .
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WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE . MICHAELMAS SESSIONS . "jVTOTICE is hereby Given , that the Michaelmas Gene J . * ral Quarter Sessions of the Peacefor the West Riding of the county of York , will he opened at KNARESBOROTJGH , on Tuesday , the 14 th day of October next , at Ten o ' clock in the forenoon ; and hy adjournment from thence wfll be holden at LEEDS , on Wednesday , the 15 th day of tie same month of October , at Ten of the clock in the forenoon ; and also , by further Adjournment from thence , will he holden at DONCASTER , on Monday , the 20 th day of the same month of October , at half-past Ten of tha dock in the forenoon , when all Jurors , Suitors , Persons hound by Recognisance , and others having business at the said several Sessions , are required to attend * he Court on the several days , and at the several hours above mentioned . Solicitors are required to taie Notice ,, that the order Of removal , copies of the notice of appeal , and examination of the pauper , are required to he filed with the Clerk of-the Peace on the entry of the appeal : And that no appeals against removal orders can be heard unless the Chairman is also furnished hy the appellants with a copy of tlie order of removal , of the notice of chargeahility , of the examination of the pauper , and of the notice and grounds of appeal , C . H . ELSLEY , Clerk of the Peace . Oerk of the Peace ' s O & et , Wakefield , 18 th Sept , 1 S 15 .
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HARE ON SPINAL DISEASE . THIS day is published , price 2 s . 60 ., CASES and OBSERVATIONS Ulustrative of the beneficial results Mbich may be obtained by close , attention , aud uersevet--ance in some of the most chronic and unpromising in . stances of spinal deformity ; with eighteen engravings on wood . By Sajio £ L IIabe , M . R . C . S . London : John Churchill , Princes-street ; and may be bad of all booksellers .
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GREAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY , W , WATEKL 00-W . 4 CE , LOSBOX . DinECTOES . The Chisholm , Chairman . William Morley , Esq ., Deputy Chairman . Henry S , Barber , Esq . James John Kinloch , Esq . John Rrightman , Esq . Henry Lawson , Esq . Prancis Brodigan , Esq . Ilenry Penny , Esq . -James Wm . Deacon , Esq . Robert Power , Esq ., M . D . Alexander R . Irvine , Esq . The Rev . F . W . Johnson John Inglis Jerdein , Esq . Tickery , A . M . . AUDITORS . C . B , Rale , Esg . T . C . Simmons , Esq . G . Thomas , Esq . PHISICIAN . John Clendinning , M . D ., F . R . S ., 1 C , Wimpole-street . SOLICITOE . "Walter Trifleaus , Esq ., Goldsmitlis * HaH . BANKEBS . Union Bank of London . ADVANTAGES OF THIS INSTITUTION . The -whole of the Profits divided asscai . lt among the Members , afterpayment of fire Annual Premiums . An ample cuaranteed Capital , in addition to the Fund continually accumulating from Premiums / uKy siijjieient to afford complete security to the Policy-holders . HALF CREDIT RATES OF PREMIUM . The attention of Assdbbbs is particularly directed to the Half Credit Rates of Premium , hy which means Assurances nay be effected , and loans for short periods secured with the least possible present outlay , and at a less prexoinm than for short terms only , and with the option ol paying up the arrears and interest , thus becoming- entitled toparticipate in the tcfiole of thiprofit of the tiijlihtturn . extract raoa thb ham cbedix bates or tbemtpm . Age 2 o . I Age 25 . JAge SO . 1 Age i 0 . Age 50 . Age 60 . £ s d . jTI . d . J £ s . d . Us . d . £ s . a . £ s . a . Ji ll 0 j 018 9 ; 1 1 ljl 8 2 2 . 1 0 3 4 2 Thus , forexample : —A person in the twenjy-fifth year of his age , instead of paying £ 117 s . € d . per annom . for an Assurance of . £ 100 , would be required to pay 16 s . &! . only fluring the first five years , when , on payment of the arrears of Premium , amounting to £ i 13 s . 9 d „ his share of the profits would he such as to reduce his future Annual Premiums to very little more than the half Premium of 18 s . 9 d . originally paid by him . The C-mit Banais is * he only Mutual Assurance Society in which this very great accommodation is given to the Assured . Transfers of Policies effected and registered ( without charge ) at the Ofiice . Claims on Policies not subject to be litigated or dispnted , except with the sanction , in each case , of a General -Meeting of the Members , to be specially convened on the occasion .. tJ £ 0 f *? \^ atttA t 0 tbecstent of £ 1000 entitled ( afte r 5 ril S ™^^/™™ VTremhims ) to attend and vote at ^ dcourrrim - ^ f * ^ h 5 cl , Wi ! lhave the sn P erin te ^ ence tSC & L f ^ fcMflaffita tf the Societ y . location to ^ 'ormafcon , may he obtained by ap-- ' Agents wantc-a in t ' « L ?? » ^ ^"" S ^ g Dirctior . \ lions from respertaWe Zl ' , ?^ , ' - 0 < : cuPi ^ , and applica-
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RICHARDSON , . MANUFACTURING CUTLER , ESTABLISHED 1805 , Near the Church , Kensington . GARDENERS'Pruning , Grafting , and RuddingKuives in Sheath , Is . Gd . each ; shut ditto , 3 s . each . "These knives arc made of tlie best materials ; I always use them . "—Vide the late Win . Cobbett in his Eng Isft Gardener . Rakes , Hoes , and Gardening Tools of every descriptor Rest made Razors , Black Handles , C « . the case , or 8 s , ^ ach ; mounted in Ivory and Silver ditto , I 0 « . the case , or 5 s . each ; Good Black Handled Knives and Forks , -2 s . per Dozen ; Ivory Handled Ditto equally reasonable . HicBAr . Dsos ' t Newlt-isvesteo Ksive I ? oa » i > e , warranted to keep knives with a good ed « e and clean , and also to give the forks a fine polish between the prongs . Three-foot Boards , cased with Leather and Cutlers' Composition , 5 s . Cd . each ; Gardeners * Ditto , 2 s . By enclosing a Post-office order prompt attention may be relied on . Goods sent to any part of the world . N . B . Wholesale and Retail .
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COALS . PROVIDE FOll "WINTER . PROVIDENT FAMILIES , subscribing Is . per week to the Metropolitan Coal Company ' s Shilling Club , cm obtain four half tons annually , without further charge , fines , < fcc . The Company ' s price current is , Best Screened Walls end , 25 b . per Ml ton ; Seconds , 21 s ., 22 s ., and 23 s ; Coke , 17 s . Cd . Office , 279 , High Holborn .
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TEETH . ^ rtTASTlCATION and Articulation Improved and JL Guaranteed . —Messrs . DAVIS , Surgeon-Dentists , 123 , PaU-uiall , opposite the Hayniarket , and 1 , New Bridge-street , corner of Fleet-street , continue to supply teeth , guaranteed never to discolour , break , or decay , and fixed without springe or wires , without extracting the old stumps , or giving any pain . A single toolh , 5 « . ; a set , £ 5 . Loose teeth fnstmed . Scurvy in the gums effectually cured . Stopping decayed teeth . Price 4 s ., Davis ' s Herniastienn : all persons can use it themselves , as full directions are enclosed , snd can he sent per post .
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GENUINE TEAS AND COFFEES FOR - THE MILLION . Tlie cheapest place in London for Teas and Coffees is at the "Warehouse , 21 and 25 , Regent Street , Westminster , near the Yauxhall Bridge Road . THE Proprietor , E . WARMINGTON , takes this oppor . tunity to return thanks for the liberal support he has received since he opened the above premises ; and to those \ rt \ o have not set favoured Mm with their lalrwnsgo , E . most strongly solicits a trial , feeling assured that the articles sold at the warehouse , both in price and quality , will give universal satisfaction . Goods iu any quantity sent free to all parts of London and the suburbs ; and persons in the country , by remitting a Post-office order , mill find their instruetiouB faithfully attended to . LIST OP PRICES . Elack Tcas . s . d . s . d . Common Congou ,. 3 0 to » 2 Good ordinary , rather strong 8 4 to 8 6 Strong Blackish Leaf 3 8 to 3 10 Ditto , or Pekoe Flavour , recommended to Economists , and not to be equalled at the price ., I 0 Souchong , Fine 1 1 to 1 0 The best Black Tea 1 3 to 9 0 Being recommended from the best shipments . ^ Green Teas . XwauKay . « . ¦« .. •«• ......... . . ..... ¦«« . « & o Better ditto 8 8 to 3 10 Hyson Twankay 4 O to 4 4 Fine Young Hyson 4 8 to 5 0 Hyson 5 0 to 3 4 Ditto , Fine Flavoured ,..... „„ .. „ 5 8 to 0 0 Fine Pearl Gunpowder S 8 to 6 o Mixed Teas . To drinkers of Mired Teas we say , try our 4 © 0 * our splendid mixture of all FiueTeas 5 0 Coffees . Ordinary Ceylon 1 0 to 1 2 The People ' s Coffee 1 4 Old Java 1 0 Fine Mocha , Jamaica , or any other fine CoSfee , strongly recommended 1 S N . B . Grocers , Cofftc-shop Keepers , Co-operative Stores , and all largo consumers supplied on the most liberal eras .
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EXTRAORDINARY ECONOMY TO TEA DRINKERS . THE DESIRE OF ENGLAND . —The PIQUA PLANT , now sold at 3 s . Cd . per lb ., is three times the strength of tea , and is also equal in flavour , more delicate in taste , nfinitely more healthy , as is proved by physicians and chemists of high standing , also by persons in great numbers with the most delicate lungs and stomachs . It is most pleasant and invigorating , and is recommended to the debilitated for its inraluahle qualities , to advanced age for its strengthening properties , and to the public generally for its moderate price and intrinsic excellence . Tub Test . —The proof of the efiicacy and healthful leffect of the plant in preference to tea or coffee : —Let a ^ nervous or dyspeptic patient use two or three cups of strong tea upon retiring to rest , and the effect will be night-mars , disturbed sleep , and other violent symptoms of indigestions , ic . The Pboof . —Let the most debilitated , dyspeptic , asthmatic , consumptive , and nervous patients use two , three , or more cups of a very strong infusion of the Piqua Plant , and in the morning they will awake refreshed with their repose . It is highly recommended by physicians to in . valids and children as a most invigorating and pleasant beverage . The following are reasons why the Pioma Plant is superior to tea , viz .: — 1 st . Because it is beneficial to health . 2 nd . It does not injure the nerves . 3 rd . Children may use it with advantage to health , 4 th . It does not prevent sleep . 5 th . A quarter of a pound will go as far as three quarters of a pound of the best gunpowder tea . 6 th . It is strengthening and nutritious . 7 th . It is recommended by physicians , and tea is disapproved of by them . It greatly improves the voice ; it is recommended to singers and public speakers . TESTIMONIALS . 50 , Edgeware-road , July 1 st , 1813 . Sir , —The beverage under the name of Piqua Plant I have drank for some time . It was first recommended to my notice as a salutary beverage by a friend , who is a great dyspeptic , and I hava since recommended , it to several patients suffering from chronic affections of th » digestive organs , heart , and lungs , with manifest adrantege . —1 am , sir , yours , & c . To Mr . Wm . Evans . . John Birr , ast , M . D . 18 , Louthcr-strcet , Whitehaven . " Sir , —I am nearly out of the plant again . My sale has doubled since I sent the last order , indeed , it is fast finding its way among some of tho best families in the town , and is highly approved of . Please send me 501 bs . mmediately . —Tours , very respectfully , To Mr . Wm . Evans . J . BonsiBAD . Dover-road , Southward . Sir , —I am much pleased with your Piqua Plant ; and find that a portion of it mixed in the tea-pot with tea , is a very great improvement to any tea , particularly green tea . —Yours , & c , To Mr . Wm . Evans . G . B . Belvidere-place , Borough-road , July 17 th , 1 S 43 . „ Sir , —I have great pleasure , and indeed I consider it an mperative duty , injustice to you , and for the benefit of others , to hear testimony to the excellent qualities of the Piqua Plant . It has wholly removed a constant painful nervous d « bility with which I was affected , which produced restless nights , and consequently overpowering langour during the day . Since the use of the infusion , the disease has entirely disappeared . I sleep soundly Often for EiX , Seven , and oight hours together , and am better in health than I havo been for many years ; and others , to whom I have recommended it , hava experienced the same beneficial results . Ycu are at liberty to uso this testimonial , which I am ready to confirm in person any day you think proper . —I am , sir , your obedient servant , To Mr . Wm . Evans . G . Tahoubbin . Numerous testimonials from physicians , and others , of undoubted authority , may be seen at Evans's depot . The plant is patronised b y many of the firgt families in the land . The economy derived from the use of the Piqua Plant , compared with tea , is as follows : —lib . of the plant will go as far as lib . of tea . Sold wholesale and retail , at the proprietor ' s , Evass ' s Warehouse , No . 18 , Stafford-street , Peckham , in quarterpound tinfoil packages . None is genuine unless each package bears the signature of Wm , EVANS . A . GENTS FOE LoXDON . —Cutter , 114 , Strand , near Savoystree . t ; Johnson , 68 , Cornhill ; AbOtt , 115 , St , Martin ' Slane ; burgess , Milliner , & c , High-street , Camden Town ; Bsnn et , # King ' s-road , Chelsea - , Green , oilman , St . Johnstrcet-road - " Trueman , oilman , Millpond-street , Bermondsey ; Holmes ' , 29 , New-road , Lower-road , Deptford ; Robertson , oilm . tn . Dover-road , Borough ; Griffith , 35 , Bell-ftreet , Edgwiv Te-road ; Rowles , butcher , Islcworthsquare ; Evans ' s warCbouse , IS , Stafford-street , Peckham . Agesis fob the Couk'TKV . —Thornton , chemist , Boarlane , Leeds ; Botterill , ne . \ f Old Brewery , Burnley , Leeds ; Lomax , chemist , Holmfrith , near Huddersfield ; Houghton , 47 , Westgate , Huddersfici ' d » Prankland , seedsman , Hatton , i > ear Skipton ; Cawdell , GS > Queen-street , Hull ; Gadshy , Newall-huildings , Manclifc . "ter ; Preistley , chemist , Lord-street , Liverpool : Nott , Xe . ' sen-strcct , Bristolroad , Birmingham ; Messrs . Ferres and b ' core , Chemists to tlie Queen , Union-street , Bristol . ^ One Agent wanted in each town and village where there is none . Any rcrpcctable trade approved of . No licc-ncs required .
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TO THE EMBARRASSED . —IMPORTANT . THERE are thousands of persons who have struggled long against the force of misfortune , but ' few are aware that by a very recent Act all small traders owing debts not exceeding £ 300 , farmers , and all others owing to any amount , can be entirely raised from their difficulties at a small expense , and without imprisonment or bankruptcy . AH such Mr , Weston begs will apply to him at Moira-chamhcrs , 17 , Ironmonger-lane , Cheapside , by letter or personally . Persons summoned for small debts should apply immediately , as they may thereby save themselves from frcouoiit and lengthened commitments to prison .
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NOTICE TO EMIGRANTS . nnHE Undersigned continue to engage Passengers for A First-Class Past-Sailing AMERICAN PACKET SHIPS , which average from 1000 to 1500 Tons , for the following Forts , vis . : — NEW YORK , I BOSTON , PIIILADELl'HIA , | NEW ORLEANS , BALTIMORE , | BRITISH AMERICA , Ac . Emigrants in the country car engage passage by letter addressed as underneath ; iu wluch ease they need not be i » Liverpool until the day before the Ship is to Siiil ; anil tkey will thereby avoid detention and other expenses , besides securing a thcapcr passage , and having the best berths allotted to them previous to their arrival . For further particulars apply , post-paid , to JAMES BfiCKETT & SON . North End Prince ' s Dock , Liverpool .
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TO TIIE 3 IEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ORDER OF INDEPENDENT ODD FELLOWS , IN MANCHESTER , SALFORD , AND OTHER DISTUICTS . BRETHREN , —A Placard has lately been circulated through this and other districts , signed W , Hat ' clilie , C . 8 ., containing the grosses : falsehoods , and holding out a delusive bait to entrap the unwary , hoping by this means to get you once more within their power , that they may make a selection of Victims to glut thair vengeance . We need scarcely warn you to beware of their machinations , for too ninny of you have already experienced their tender mercies . You have the choice befora you—whether jou will submit to a tyrannic despotism , where the Executive claim to be superior to tbo Law , and to assume an uncontrolled right over your liberties and your properties , or whether you will enjoj tho blessing of just and impartial laws , with tho power of regulating your own finances . What free man would hesitate for a single moment ? They insult you with the gross falsehood , that numerous applications have been made for re-admission , and that arrangements have been entered into fer that purpose . They may spare themselves the trouble ; none who are happily free from their unjust and iron rule will ever again voluntarily place themselves within their grasp . Look at the miserable remnant they can boast in the Manchester and Salford Districts , and ask yourselves the question if THIRTEEN THOUSAND MEMBERS iu those two Districts alone would have left the Order , unless upon good and sufficient reason . They know the rottenness of their cause , and they have recourse to the vilest falsehoods ami misrepresentations , to andeavour to recover their lost ground . Tlwy boast of their new system and the stability it will gire to the Unity . We spurn their shallow pretences , and laugh to scorn their insidious attempts to get the Funds of the whole of the Lodges under the control of a central potvar . They would make you believe that you are in ; in " awful" situation , and that you must inevitably perish unless you are taken under their protection . "Yes , such protection as Vultures give to Lsimbs—covering them and devouring them . " Do not let these vile falsehoods havo the least weight with you , our Funds are amply sufficient to meet all demands upon us , notwithstanding they are using their utmost endeavours to retain in thou hands that money which is ours ; but they shall he signally disappointed . And your security is greater , that we reject with scorn their cold-blooded calculations that would deprive the Widow and the Orphan of relief in thtir hour of destitution , and that we profess the ancient principle of Oddfellowship , never to see a brother want ; and we shall be the better ennbled to make our . professions goed that we have no extravagant salaries to pay ; nor to support the expensive machinery of a cumbrous and compl - cated government . They profess to take the sense of Lodges as a paltry subterfuge to enable them to get out of the difficulty in which they have placed themselves ; the opportunity is well chosen , after they havo cut oft * upwards of 20 , 0 'JO of the most determined opponents of the system . Their idea of the whole Unity becoming n mutual benefit society ie a farce , and one -wlnoU they tvell know cannot bs carried into effect , and which only holds out a premium for carelessness and neglect . They state that wc have nothing to lose . It is tine ws have not , as they have , heavy salaries to be reduced—nor the immense profits made by those who supply th « Order with goodsnor the snug jobs got up to reward their crawling sycophants—they have all these to lose ; but their losses shall 1 be our gains . In the meantime , our cause is progressing in spito of every obstacle they can invent . Our present numbers are statsd below , and we receive daily the most flattering assurances of support from every part of the kingdom ; it is but a question of time with tens of thousands , who arc ready to join with us heart and hand . Let them , therefore , proceed in the cause they have adopted ; let them exhaust th « ii- whole stock of calumny and falsehood ; we deride their puny efforts ; our cause U the cause of TRUTH AND JUSTICE—and we will prevail . The folloivhur Disti-icts have already joined us , viz .: — Liverpool District , - No . of members 4000 Huddersfield „ „ 1 G 76 Manchester „ . „ 9 ( 592 Salford „ . „ 21 ) 36 Stockport „ - „ 215 Eccles „ „ 750 Rochdale „ - ,, 78 Gorton „ ' - „ 17 Devonshire „ „ 20 Bury „ . „ 52 Aberdeen „ - „ 29 Disley „ „ 170 R . HYDE , C . S ., Pao . Teji .
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This day js published , under the sanction of the G . M . and Board of Directors of the National Order of Independent Odd Fellows—NO . II . OF THE NATIONAL INDEPENDENT ODD FELLOWS * EXAMINER . Price Twopence . CONTAINS : Appointment of the Officers of the National Order of Independent Odd Fellows ; Report of the Manchester Board of Management ; Quarterly Committee of the Manchester District ; Liverpool Address ; A list of the Plunderers of the Order ; Stockport District ; Minutes of the Provisional Committee ; Probe ' s Strictures on Ne Sutor ; Yiudex v . the " London Journal ; " Ratcliffe , the defaulter , tabooed at Doncaster , < fcc . 4 c . To be had of the Booksellers . Printed and published by J . and W . Pope , 43 , Tibstreet , Market-street , Manchester . To whom all orders and communications are to be forwarded .
The Northern Star Saturday, October I, 1845.
THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , OCTOBER i , 1845 .
Peel And His "Difficulties." Irish "Conc...
PEEL AND HIS " DIFFICULTIES . " IRISH "CONCILIATION , " AND ENGLISH "SHORT CROPS" AND "SPECULATION . " Hitherto Peel has had a most wonderful " run of good luck . " Coming into power , as ho did , at a period of great " commercial depression ; " when " late PANIC " had hung on the limbs of commercial enterprise for years , paralysing every exertion , and superinducing gloom and dismay in all minds ; coming in at tlie end of a cycle of bad harvests , and at the end of ten years of gross mismanagement on the part of the "Whigs , whose blundering , or whose
anxiety to feather their nests , so bare from their long exclusion from power , prevented them from raising an income equal to their expenditure , and who , therefore , were constrained to add to that debt the enormity and expense of which has acted like an incubus on the energies of the nation for tho last half century ; coming in , under such circumstances , and having the foresight to take advantage of the great confidence reposed in him to give a turn to commercial aiFairs , to institute the principle of direct taxation on realised property and income—and being blessed , moreover , with three great and glorious harvests in
succession , which caused food literally to abound coming in under these circumstances , and when America was recovering from the depressing effects of her " late PANIC , " consequent oh the immense issues of papei ' -inoney and the accompanying frenzy of speculation—and when , with this , the war with China was brought to such a fortunate termination as to open up to our merchants and traders a market of most immense extent : coming in under these circumstances , and being aided by adventitious ones , Peel's career has been eminently successful as a whole ; and he has been tho first
Minister for the last thirty years that has had showered on his head such high commendations from all classes of the commercial and trading world , almost irrespective of old party distinctions . His financial measures ; his repealing of m any of the duties on raw materials and on products employed in manufactures , and exacting a tax from property and income , brought him not only an income equal to his expenditure , but left him that wonder of modern times—A-sunrixs wherewith to purchase ilic repeal of ether taxes that pressed on the productive energies of ihc kingdom ; and tkuslie
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was enabled both to restore " confidence" in the " money market , " and thus make " accommodation " easy , and give an impetus to the general manufactur in ? interest , setting the becalmed vessel on the stagnant waters once more afloat on the tide of " men prosperity ; " though his operations have / . red on the owners of property and enjoyers of income the t ( t < e they regard as so oefcouj'beyond the possibility of wriggling it off so long as the present charge on the debt lasts . The good harvests also aided his financial measures most opportunely ; for , by making food plentiful , and thus rendering it unnecessary to _ . * .. n * * i ¦«
purchase from abroad , they retained at home immense sums of money to be employed in industrial operations , that would otherwise hare had to be sent to other countries in exchange for the corn wc were short of . The improved aspect of aiFairs in America , on the recovery of that country from a dive and misery-scattering monetary revolution , and the new Chinese treaty , also came in aid of his measures : so that altogether , so far , Peel was "i : i luck ; " and he has had the credit of havingbrought about a period of " prosperity" totally un - precedented in all our previous histories of
"Prosperities" and their accompaning "Panics . " In periods of rnosi'Kniir , few parties , even the most virulent and unappeasable of politicians , are disposed to fi ; id fault with tfco Minister .: and from a like cause , in periods of distress and "ruination" scarcely any Minister can stand . It was from this cause , that so many of the trading classes so readily gave up the Whigs at t he last general election : anxious as they were , that somebody else should try to tinker up the old kettle ; and aware as they were that any change could hardly be for the worse . With this class , 2 > ok " tical reasons £ 0 a very short way . As for patriotism , they have no conception even of the meaning of the term ; much less of the duties Which it imposes on them . They may be attached to their " party ; " and >
in ordinary times , willing to be as subservient to party as can be desired : but with them the real touchstone of goodness is such success in finance as will bring about " a roaring trade ; " and to the sleeve of the man who for the time being can accomplish this , will they pin their faith ; sacrificing to him the principles and claims of their party as readily and with as little remorse as a Leadenhall butcher sacrifices the lives of young lambs . Many who ac * from motives such as theso , contributed no small share of the exertions that raised Peel to power ; and by them he has been well sustained : while the general success of his financial and trading measures has blunted the edge of tho keonusfc opposition , and altogether ( for the Itime ) disarmed those that arc neither "hot" nor " cold . " -. '
Not that Peel ' s career has been wholly free from difficulties . Far from it . But then his position in relation to his ( once ) party and the circumstances of tlie times , has enabled him not only ( for the time ) to surmount some of those difficulties—but actually to turn them to advantage . He had to work a party , pledged to the teeth to maintain a certain course of policy both towards Church and State : that policy he had to break down—and he had to make the party
pledged to maintain it , his instruments for their own destruction . Placed as he was at their head ; being their only "leader ; " being the only man they had capable of grappling with the difficulties of the hour ; fearful of losing their hold of that power which they had once more wrung from the hands of the incompetent Whigs ; hungryfrom a ten years' absence from " the loaves and fishes" : thus circumstanced , they were constrained to throw themselves into the inexorable Minister ' s
arms , aud be dragged by him through all the mire and filth of tergiversation , apostasv , and unfaithfulness . Once chained to the car , thcro was no retreat . " In for an ounce—in for a pound . " Independence once gone , there was no step in degradation at which they could halt : and thus the first " difficulty" that Peel had , —a difficulty at one time most formidable , —was , by dextrous management , turned even to advantage : and the world was edified by seeing political morality trampled under foot , and
the essence of the "high and noble" in the land noting themselves down as obsequious tools , giving the lie to all their previous high-sounding professions . Once oft * tho firm ground of principle , and once launched OU tho current of expediency , like swine in water , they cut their throats with their own pettitoes : and Tim cheat Gossekyative iuuty , formed out of the wreck of Toryism , has had its brief hour of existence , and is now numbered with the tilings tha were whoso end was shame .
Another " difficulty" that Peel had to contend with was Ireland . Indeed he proclaimed this as " the difficult ! . " Bound up , as he was from former identity , with the Orange faction , his elevation to power was the signal for the rival faction to " Bubble , bubble , toil and trouble , " at the agitation for a Repeal of tlie Union , which had boon recommenced when the reins of power were slipping out of the hands of the Whigs , and when it was evident that the days of iutkoxage were numbered . And a formidable " difficulty * Ireland from the first proved ! Fuel was artfully added to the agitation-lire , to
" Make the Hell broth boil and bubble , " 'till it threatened to boil over ! Defiance of the SAXON was deemed so noble an act , and so worthy of undying fame , that the life-imparting chisel of the sculptor was set to work to preserve the attitude and eternize the action and the words ! Pekl was dand . to " go to W—which dar ' he closed in with : and for mouths he was kept in the very " hot water" of the " State-Trials . " Though worsted there , still the hard-fought battle of the courts had the effect of letting off the superfluous steam , and of lowering the heat of the cauldron down to safety
degree : and then Peel sought to take advantage of his position , and overcome his master " difficulty" by a series of cunning concessions and well-timed " conci liations . " To this end , wc had the project of endowing Maynooth—an adroit attempt to detach the Roman Catholic clergy from the " embodied discontent , " and to leave the master spirit of the ' difficulty " without one main means of moving the masses . To this end also , wc had the New Colleges , conceived in the most " liberal" spirit—a spirit , which , while it did not give ascendancy to Catholicism , did put down the ascendancy of Orangeism . To this attempt at ' conciliation , Peel gave up the
dearlycIiGi'ished " prejudices" of his youth—the " r-ni . vcims" on which he had rallied his party after tho Reform-Bill dispersion : and to this end did your Saxdoss and your Gladstones vote their former life A LIE , and " embody" in practice the principle * they had unceasing ly and uniformly decried . To this end , also , were the Orangemen snubbed . A great show of impartiality , and of a determination to deal with both agitating parties alike , had to be made : and therefore Mr . Watson and another Justice , who attended Orange " monster meetings" rabid Orangemen , were dismissed from the magistracy . But still all would not do . The " Repealers" were not to
be so foolishly caught . The endowment of Maynooth was accepted , with the insulting commentary that tho hand that conceded it would also concede Repeal when the agitation was strong enough to be appeased in no other way . The New Colleges were spurned , because the scheme of education was a " Godless " one : for the pupils in them were not handed over to either one set of priests or the othw . The Roman Catholic priesthood were not to be detached from th effort to " raise Rome , " through the instrumentality of a " good cry" for nationality , by such a mere « sop in the pan" as Maynooth , although there was the den lnk
" go , to bind them to the State" in prospect . And thus Peel ' s " concession" and " conciliation " faded o its object . His I risa « difSculty „ wasnot lessened His " goodluck" BeerasilltlliscM ( ltolmc forsaken km , and the tide of fortune to have changed : for while he thus failed to hook the party for whom he set the bail , he exasperated into active waiwc the party who did support him when first he encountered the "diffipiilK- » tt „< "i „ , i- • v . «« , ui mumj . He fiulcu in winimu ; new friends-and lie has arrayed against him his old ones . The dismissal of Mr . Waison and Mr . Akcudale stung . the . Orange" faction to
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madness ; and while Lord Wischelsea in England has flung his " commissions , " as Lord-Lieutenant of several counties , into Peel ' s face , through sympathy with his Irish Church brethren , and as a reproof for Peel ' s sacrificeof his " friends , ' tiie Earl of Rodex and the Marquis of Dow . vsiiike , with scores of J . P . ' s , have repeated the acts of Mr WaUon , and dared Peel to take a similar revenge That challenge Peel has not dared to accept : and there he is now , with tho Roman Catlioiic . preklcs PROTESTING against his New Colleges Act as a " godlesi scheme of education , " , and calling on the tvtn ^ riAea n * wl wliiln T . Aivl Wiv / mrr ot ? k in 7 ? . nfr _
Irish people to spurn it from them with indignant contempt , because the priestly "finger" is excluded from the College " pie ; " there lie is , with « o thanks for his Maynooth Grant , to carry which ho broke up his own party , and scattered " Conservatism" to the winds ; there he is , with O'Cosxkll as insulting as ever , preferring his demands , and bitterly taunting the "firm Minister" with having given way to popular demands in his numerous " concessions ; " and there he is , with the Orange institution revived : with the old waning embers of bigotry fanned . into a flame ; and with the bristles of the whole sect of Irish Church
Protestants " set up" against the " traitor Peel . " If Ireland everwas a difficulty to the present Ministry , it is doubly so now ! Ministerial " conciliation" having failed , a new kick has now to be taken . The ORDINARY LAW is again to be invoked on the "disaffected" Repealers : on those who will not he satisfied with the small " sop" thrown to them , as a taste of what they may get , if they will only behave themselves decently towards the Government . "Conciliation" having proved inefficacious , coercion is to be tried . The defeat and ingloriousness of former prosecutions seems to be forgotten ; ami it would appear that the " gentlemen of the long robe" are to make another effort to " lay" the evil spirit of Burgh-quay by the heels . At least , we iufer as much from the following significant urticlo from the Mornina Herald of Monday
last : — "How long , oh Catiline , wilt thou abuse our patience V was the indignant exclamation of the Roman statesman to the Roman incendiary . With one voice all good men in the empire have long thus apostrophised Mi \ 0 'Connkll— " Catiline , " as the Chancellor most truly termed him — " Catiline , without his courage . " Long impunity , however , lias made the timid daring . It has become a serious question whether , towards such a man as this , further forbearance may not savour of criminality ? A mountebank , harmless in the mere collection ' of his pence , becomes dangerous by the circulation of those poisons to which tliepublic may fall a sacrifice .
It seems to us high time to crush a nefarious system , held , we are satisfied , in equal abhorrence by every risht-minded subject , whether Roman Catholic or Protestant . The reflecting Roman Catholic cannot full to see , that , by the present Minister , Irish agitation lias been stripped of all its pretences , for he has made equal Jaw nndequ . il favour a reality . The loyal Protestant must admit the justice of the principle which deems civil distinction to be neither an inheritance nor a monopoly , but the legitimate reward of talent , guided by industry , and not disqualified by sedition . Both must be blind indeed not to perceive , that as Christians and countrymen , they have a common
interest in the prosperity ot the realm , which , like a house , if divided against itself , must fall . It is the sacred duty—it may be the salvation of ailfirmly to denounce that withering conspiracy by which , under pretence of repeal , all that they hold dear or estimable in life may be ultimately compromised . Wc say , advisedly—under pretence of Repeal . Wc deny that Mr . O'Oossell ever seriously _ contemplated such a measure . Other considerations apart , he is by no means such a blockhead . With Queen , Lords , and Commons , opposed to it , he must feci its impracticability , save through a . rebellion . Now , a rebellion , he declares , he deprecates , and though , he savs it . we believe him . Of
course , wc feel called upon to give some reason for so revolting an ad . iiission . We believe him , then , because rebellion would cast down the idol of his worship—his own selfish interest—it would compromise at once his profession and his safety . It is not only not incredible , it is on the contrary consistent , that he whose sole divinity has been self , should of all extremities deprecate rebellion , Little does it matter , however , what he means , if what he does leads in that direction —if the clear tendency of his whole course is to sow discontent among the people , to frustrate where he can , and to malign , when he cannot frustrate , the good intentions of the Government . Tho most liberal concessions have
regularly been met by this man ' s obloquy , and the practical , we may call it the paternal benevolence of the Minister has been encountered , but not checked , by the baseness of his ingratitude , Abundant evidence of our assertion crowds upon us . We content ourselves with his conduct on the Maynooth grant and the Irish Academical Institutions Bill . What he does mean we arc not called upon to explain . If wc were , we would answer unhesitatingly , that wc believe his object , and his exclusive object , since the Emancipation Act , was the successful furtherance of a mendicant calling , disguised under the desecrated name of patriotism . But of what moment is his latent meaning , if his overt
acts manifestly tend to mislead the ignorant and encourage the disloyal ? We repeat it—if the wise policy of one of the wisest Ministers England ever saw is to be allowed its fair probation , this man and his abettors must no longer be permitted to evade law and neutralise legislation . It is now manifest that 3 zo Government , he it Whig or be it Conservative , can satisfy Mr . 0 'C ' oxxei . l . The question then is , whether wc are to be ruled , as heretofore , under the English constitution , or coerced under the Irish dictatorship ? This is our alternative . It may happen that Mr . O'Cosxkll may not succeed in the concealment of his meaning , or that a very mercurial
and not very prudent population may mistake it , and then who can calculate on the very frightful , yet very possible contingencies ? May not the crisis really arise , which , to serve a purpose , this man affects to fear—a crisis in tho convulsions of which his voice may become powerless ? Who can answer for a phrensied rabble—where dwells the magician who can modulate at will the yell of fanaticism or soothe the paryoxism of popular insanity ? If the crisis should arise , what excuse will the Minister , or what solace will the nation find in the admitted fact , that the prime mover of the madness never meant it ? We will go even further still . We do not believe he would await it . Wo have little doubt
that when the " poisons in jest" were circulating freely—when a whole empire was flung into convulsions—when the hell-hounds of civil war had been let slip , and when law and life and property and civilization became the prey or playthings ol the infernal pack , —we have no doubt at all that the innocent author of such terrible calamities , without power to stay them or courage to share them , would consult in flight an ignominous safety . His nature ia not changed since the death of Mr . Magbatii , or since the Irish secretaryship of the present Minister , or since the memorable night when Mr . DonEitir evoked the " vow in heaven , "—than convenient vow behind which he hides and slanders —that Christian \ ow which permits the sin and ^ remits tho responsibility . His whole career justifies our supposition , for what has it exemplified but one course of selfishness the most
invariable and intense ? In him the characteristics of his country arc reversed . Her dauntless chivalry is changed to caution , or rather to cowardice her careless generosity to sordid avarice ; her heartthat gushing spring of all her thoughtless , but often noble impulses gives way , in him , to the cool head to calculate , and tho itching hand to grasp Wc defy the vilest slave that flatters him to point ott a single proposal which lie did not precede or follow up by a pecuniary demand . Far fie it from us to attempt to enumerate the mendicant claims or pa uotic imposts-the association rentlthe pre-SL ^ t T * he , WP ^ wnt-the enrolment sand fft ~ , TM l c ontobufci <> n and the thousand other spul-sickemng expedients by which a starving people ' s little is made less . If , however £ nfL CC the ^ mancipation Act must S ! n ^ P a million !! The Court parasite , mtnelaee of mankind , nl «« hia ho «» n ™ £ ™ „ , i
„ CLw ¦¦' f « . > rwhich he earns his wages . T & Sf a f „ cmlc ne least no hypocrite . 5 S , i x ^ , P 8 rallel throughout history ' s annals a patriot holding out the Cap of Liberty for aims } ± q a patri 0 t ! Tnen wag AKISIIDEg unjust ; fur corrupt ; and Marvel a hire-„« , ? ' rm ure , 3 \ . surel J ' this s ^ m must ha ™ an enu . ihe nation expects , and justice demands it . Let the same dauntless spirit which , despite every obstacle , gave equality to the Roman Catholic , now extend justice to the Protestant , by crushing a tyranny odwus alike to both . We tell the Minister , and we tell him advisedly , that all which is valuable in the Roman Catholic community will hail his interference with gratitude , and his success with i ™ n *
may depend upon it , though terror keeps them silent , the intelligent are disgusted with the transparent jugale , and the poor an tired out with the intermin . able extortion Indeed it is high time . There was never exercised under the mask of freedom a more iron , relentless , unforgiving despotism-no , not in the worst days oi the worst revolution . Wc appeal to the most infatuated follower of O'Coxxell whether ,-in his wildest dreams , he dare exercise a ¦ m W—whether he dare breath a scruple without being dcnounccd-whcthcr , on his vcrv first step to what they told him was liberty , he did not find lumsolle a slave ? If any man doubts that passive obe- ; iicjicc lva'S tho condition of his favour , Kt him
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recur to the period of the Reform Bill . That measuse threw , as lie then loudly boasted , half the representation of Ireland into his hands . How did he exercise that power ? Did lie select as members those who could expose the wrongs , while they exemplified the genius of their country ? Alas ! the laud of BcmcE and Sheridax , CuniUN , and Paw-nut had mutes for its representatives !—obedient mutes who did the bidding of their master , even to the strangling of their own independence ; a quiesc ent vassalage was notoriously their sole qualification . When , the Sneaker claimed for them freedom oi speech , he might ns well have solicited the wisdom of Solomox ; of what use , indeed , could speech have i * ash it * fn 4 l » o nnvin / 1 nf llm RaIaikm Tlt ! l Tl .. i
been to those wuo were denied the faculty of thought which , even had they possessed , they were prohibited from exercising ? In this , his nomination parli . ? ment , the lust of gain alone interfered with the lust of domination . But the ruling passion could not be restrained , and even the hated Saxon niiirht assume the livery , provided he purchased it at— " s < w two thousand pounds . " At this very moment the dictatorial principle is as avowed as eve-v—sixty slaves are to he returned at the next election , provided they consent to have no will of their own . This is a condition precedent-to their elevation , if elevation , indeed , that can be called which would degrade even . M'Hale ' s " cow-hoy" representatives . If , however , the system is not crushed—if the Conciliation Hal !
convention is permitted to tax , and legislate , and denounce as usual , wc arc far from doubting this disgusting consummation . An organised reign of terror is established , and those who arc audacious enough to be independent , are left a choice between oxile and proscription . But though absence may screen the person , it cannot protect the reputation . " . Ko flight can evade the winged venom of Conciliation Iiall . ^ Age , sex , station , patriotism—all that is honoured in life or even sanctified by death , onlv whets the obh ' quy of the Christian convention . The whole world has been its high way , and as its French prototype possessed its orator , so does Burgh-qu . iv its slanderer of " the human race . " Arc we called
on lor examples ? Stand forth from your obscuritv " ye base , _ brutal , and bloody Whigs , " stung by the scorpion ingratitude you nourished . ' Bgar witness , Lord Brougham , slavered now , and slandered now—as if one poison could counteract another ! Attest it , thou shade of Geokge tlie Fourth , to whom on his knees tlie insolent irresponsible blandly promised a diadem and a palace , and whose memory he pursues with ceaseless vituperation . When a hollow pretext wiis wanting for fawning upon the Melboubxes and the Nouuasbys , in order to get places for the tail , did he not di .-J cover that the Coercion Bill ivas Lord Giikv'J , which was Lord Melbourne ' s measure ? and more
shameless still ! did not Lord Melbourne meanly submit to take the credit of being incapable o ' l doing the very tilings which , under Lord Gkev , he had notoriously done ? Did not this venal demagogue pretend to discover that Lord Noumanuy had for the first time governed Ireland on principles of equality ; when it was notorious that tlie administrations of Lords Wei . lf . slev . and Axolksky , thoush partially unjust to Vrotestants , were founded on tills principle ; and did not Lord iVokmaxbv , like Lord Melbourne , meanly submit to profit by what lie knew to be foully false ? Again—did the " virtues oi George , the pious and the good—did the sailon frankness of his son , William IA ., secure thoiu an
immunity ? Where is the exception among the rival sections—which of their leaders—we name them—Peel , Russell , Roebuck—has escaped ? But , alas ; how should they , when even he who concentrates the perfections of them all—he , England ' s glory , Europe ' s champion , the envy , were he nu % the admiration of the whole world—when Wklijkurox himself has had his setting splendour bayed at by these mongrels ? Bid the lustre of their talents , or the memory of the services lavished upon the Roman Catholics of Ireland , shield Pluxket or the unburicd Busiie ? Was the modesty of England ' s matrons , or the valour of her soldiers , unrevilcd ; was not her population wholesale spat upon as " Saxon ?"
Why was France insulted in the person of her Sovereign , the lustre of whose crown is lost in that of his virtues ? Was it meet that liberty should be wounded in the persons of Mika and Espariero , or if Russian absolutism required that her Emperor should bcbranded as a " monster , " was it to maintain slander ' s impartiality that the peaceful tomb of Washington should be outraged , and republican America placed under proscription ? These aie your demagogues ' . Your tribunes of the people ! Your liberty-brawler *! Your Irish toleration-mongers ! Give power to such men i ' . Why the very graves of buried despots would disgorge them to do homage to their masters . Tlie grovelling reptiles , spawned from the Liffcv ' s slime
upon Burgh-quay , perfect in themselves , arc also , specimens of their tribe throughout the world . The transformation from , the demagogue to the despot is of course , Givetlieill but authority , and they aro sure to avenge themselves on those principles of freedom by proclaiming which they hypocritically attained it . No matter what distinction adventitious circumstances may have drawn between them—whether robed in the purple ofDomiiuk , or disfigured by tho rags of RonEsriEanE , they are all the same . The same infernal fetters link the whole fraternity—thesame frigid philosophy which shuts out man and nature from their sympathies—the samchard , crafty , mercy-hating spirit , which , in our memories , crushed
throne and altar in the name of liberty , and then mocked its goddess from thcscaftbld of tlie guillotine . May Heaven avert the sway of such men from deluded Ireland ! The mild majesty of England ' s Queen would be superseded for the worse even by the Council of Throe Hundred , and our holy Church needs neither light nor purification from the fires of the Inquisition . Wc have not the least objection to Mr . O'Conkell ' s antics , so long as they merely render himself ridiculous , lie may parody ambition to the top of his bent , iu the robes of an alderman , ortravestie Punch injthc chair of a lord mayor—he may even befool himself upon "Tara of the lungs , " and bow his " uncrowned" head for the Milesian cap from which Saxon
tyranny has purloined tho bells ; but when he approaches the very verge of rebellion—when he supersedes th & legislature by the levying of taxes , and the courts of law by the crcattou ' of tribunals , and the executive by what he boasts to be a monster organisation—when a weekly congress holds its permanent session in the metropolis of Ireland , despatching , through the country its missionaries of sedition—when every authority , institution , aud establishment in the land arc made the subjects of ridicule or slander ; and when the unhappy people , now impoverished by mercenary exactions , and now inflamed by revolutionary falsehoods , are taught to repudiate the Government of England for the
sympathy of America or the fraternisation of Francewe do say it is an unnatural state of things , which should be at once terminated . Sir Robert Peel may rest assured that the Roman Catholic community , their nobility , gentry , aye , and a vast portion ot their clergy also , grateful for the conciliatory spirit of his system , await but his signal to tender their co-operation . The ancient Roman Catlioiic names of Ireland—tho Fixoals , the Trimiilestoxs , the Gormaxstowxs , the Bellews , are not to be found in the muster roll of sedition . They stand aloof in significant estrangement , and represent thousands and tens of thousands who have long been disgusted at the shameless imposture by which their body have
been misrepresented , impoverished , and disgraced . Ireland , long compromised by the extremes of liota parties , relics tor relief from both on the firmness ef the Minister , Wc speak in no spirit of exclusiveness—we stop not to ascertain the colour of his creed who evades the law or violates the constitution . Whether it be the first Protestant magistrate in the land , or the paltriest mountebank that tumbles on Burgh-quay , let each , we sav , have an equal measure of justice . By this just system , promptly , and rigidly , and fearlessly carried out , the ncoplc of heland will feel that they are under the rule of an impartial and a paternal Government . This article is not an ordinary one ; nor U it ft ' " an ordinary pen . Assuredly it is not from any f " usual writers in the Herald . The very form of ihc article , —to say nothing of its power and force , so far
superior to the ordinary twaddle of r ««« tH «" >"~ bespeaks this . The Herald is the Ministerial organ : and the article in question bears all the external impress of demi-authority . It is intended to serve l * f > or three purposes : to frighten 0 'Cox . veu , i » ^ first instance , by letting him know that inisclnct towards him is brewing ; to pave the way f ° neW legislatorial measures to put down political ag « a 101 and political societies in Ireland , and to sccum c support ol the Whigs to such measures , seeing >• the measures of " conciliation" to ivhich boihf «* ' ° " [ were jnrties , have failed to satisfy even in degree , and it is intended also to quiet the perturbed spu ^ of Orangeism , by showing the teeth of the LA » more ready to bite against the file of
Repeal-The picture that the Lord OnAscEtLon it ! f O'CoxraoL , in the article just quoted , ( for ^ c cMtt the article to Mm ) is a masterly one ; onc . wc S " to say it ,-which the actions oi the original m « than justify . The shameless mendicity of the Bui ? i quay " patriots" has long stunk in the nostrils ot ^ true lovers of freedom : and the tyranny ^ " ^ over thought and action by the imperious dicw ^ > has long been the scorn of every friend to P rac ' liberty , These things mako it difficult for < ' * ^ Repealers—those who are so from princip le—"' f ' they recognise the right of all people to judge or own wants , and supply their own necessities , , * . i -. ~ wicHC ^ transgressions of the first principle oi mucr- by the money-gorging freedom-denying J llll { a A y , , " Conciliation Hall , " wc say , make it diBic J- . Jj , the actcrs-out of the democratic creed to toucn j ^ them , because he that handles pitch must est *« ^ J « dvulctl ; still , if the THREAT convey '
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 4, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_04101845/page/4/
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