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THE NOETHEEN STAR. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1843.
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LATEST NEWS FROM IRELAND. Mr. O'Connell has announced that he will defend himself on his trial. Mr. Shiel is one of the counsel retained for the defence of the other defendants. Chief Justice Pennefather will preside on the trial of Mr. O'Connell.
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M-R-P O'CO ^ OR AT NEWCASTLE-UPON H ^ fc ? ^ ' I liVE . ¦^ drTo'CeMor ieciurea la toe New Music Hall , on Saturday evening , Mr . Sinclair in the chair . Mr Etdd , in a very able manner , moved tne following resolution , using many arguments showjDg the necessity of carrying it into unmediate practice , as the best means of commanding that respect sudirfiuenee in society to w ^ i they-were entitled as the prodncers of all those comforts -which the more comfortably-situated classes enjoyed and robbed them of . .... _ ...
At this moment Mr . O'Connor entered the Hall , in company -with Mr . Roberts , j | ad was received frith ! deafening ihnaders ofSpplstw ^ After n had sub- ] Eided , Mr . K . read-the resolution-: — j " That in the opinion of _ this meeting the plan of \ appealing to the diSerent traces which has b £ en : adopted in several districts maj ^ iy proper management , become highly useful ; wa ^ do , therefore reeomjnend the various tradeB to calljapBtings of their different bodies to heat . dfig ^ ctions from ¦ & © Chartists , and to form -themselves into bodies for the carrying out of the same—That it is the duty of the "Chartist public t » = s « nc 6 Mage their friends airiongst the middle . dssses by exclusively dealing wiihtfeem ; and we recomjiRnd that a canvass be immediately set on foot , and-t % at such electors as agree to support a Chartist candidate only , shall hare the support of a Chartist pcbBe . " _ .-Mr . Roberts in a very eloquent speeen seconded ¦ theresolution , and waiibudly obeerea ^^ ihe esd-of j each sentence . He' declared ^ b ^ -jrachangej&erl . aittaehmekt-to the cause oF eojaji ^ sghts , and&oBM tended that uotbingcShort ofifoe ^ holkenanejfcaBlS i remedy the existing ey 3 & ~* 'He fuljsf ^ ncun ^ d-. wkh'J the object of the resolution moved by Mr . I »« dy-& ! td : begged to second the same * . ^ " - «? - - - " - ' - UpoB . "being submitted to the meeting ^ $ . _ . was gar ; i jried-unsnunously . ST *" " \ The Chairmah then introduced Mr «; Q ^ Connor , j ¦ who was received with the most enthusiastic cheer- j ing aad clapping of hands , Afieritljad subsided " : Mr . O'Coksok said , he felt grsfrlpleasure'in again ] addressing his friends in Newcastle . v ile was sbrry-f that it should be said that . his ^ ataseitte-affected the ] cause of Chartism in this jbostrieVrBe - ^ duld not believe that principle could "Be aff 3 & £ i fa any "such
rrajt j . ¦ Ju « «< - » j * f w »* »« vv ) . « . » « . » »** w - priEciple . He approved of the resolution proposed ] byMr . Eydd . Mr . X . had referred to a letter of ] Ms ( Mr . O'Connor ' s ) on the subject . Mr . O'Con-1 nor said he always urged ugoSk i the Chartists I the utility of exclusive dealing j it was a great J fPftftTio of br inging people to " their senses—( hear ) . ] The Teal object of the Charter -was social iappines 3 j to all . Be would not think it worth his while to ; * pend the best of his life in sacrificing the more j congenial pleasures of domestic bH » in agrtaiioD , if ' ie thonght it was to end in what was commonly called & mere political change . There are other agitators in existence , who * e sole » im is the aggran- j 4 isement of monpolizing capital . They . never talked j about the powers of that earth which God gave as ; an inheritance to man , without crossing to the con- tinent for the basis of their assumptions . It were j & misconstruction oT language to call them argu- - lnents . He CMr . O'C ) looked at homef or the means ;
of accomplishing his object . Land and labour were , all he asked for his purpose . They asked money for : theirs from those who * ere , by the sxaal infinence j of wealth , coerced into their measures . They went ; ronnd their factories , begging shillings from their starved operatives . They have already thro wo to : the cocks £ 47 , 000 . Now , he believed they wanted another £ 100 . 000 ; and what did they promise in . return for it ? Long speeches for the people— j good dinners for themselves—( hear , hear , hear)—' and " plenty" for the gullible about "big loaf , " ! and *• high wages . " He iMr . O'ConnoT ) said to the I 'Working ria ^ wy , you are poor , and iwant nothing from you for my-elf ; but I say , if . " Jon have any- ; thing to spare , give it for that ^ bjeet which is for ;
yonr benefit—namely , a security against want , and ; the fear of want . I say , take tbB working classes ; out of the slave-labour market , and establish for ; them * free-labour market . I contend , when one channel of trade is dosed , open another . The one ] I propose is , to locate the people on the land . If this ' was accomplished , it would then remlin with the : masses to choose between the healthfial vocation of ' agricultural labour and commercaal . cmBery : they "; « oald then please themselves about . living in their j omfortable cottage or the miserable-. tjellar . At ; present there was no such choice ; every improve- « ment in machinery w » 3 a sure forerunner to an additional surplns in " the labonr market . The master ' then said , " Accept my terms , or starve . " The ,
operative had no power in the matter ; it was degpo- j tism , and that , too , of the worst description " . His j sonl aekened , when he walked the streeis of -our \ jaannfacturiug towns , at the misery he everywhere I beheld . He felt 'warm when ne saw those who ; caused thai misery pretending sympathy for the ; objects of their own creation . Many , of the mfll--ocracy had made almost incalculable , fortunes ; and could no portion of that' wealth be . spared to . relieve the distress they themselves ; iad caused ! The dirty rascals ate , drank , ; and rode at the expense of-theur ^ slaves . ; All classes vt politicians -were turning- their atten- i tion to the question , of the Land ; they -were dragged to it . He ( Mr . O'Connor ) would take tBis
opportunity of correcting a mistake into- which many honest men had fallen , and a few rogues had taken the advantages . It had been faid by cpm ^ that he ] had deserted the Charter for the question of the ' Land . This was not the case . JTo- ^ ae who baa zead his speeches attentively could ooiae tP-sneb ai conclusion . He would not give a pmtor the Land in the end , if it was not iedged in byuhe -Charter . ] All he asked was , a few practical cx ^ rimgnts , byj -which to " prove the benifii of thet- 'iaBd to the" ! people when ihey gained tbeir politiefci . priri ] eges » i Mr . O'Connor coniinued in this gtrap-for ; nearly ! Jwo hours , and was loudly cheerfedrihronghoni ., After the cheering at the conclusion bad subsided , ' be enrolled 200 members of the Natiebal Charter \ Association , all of whom took eards-ef member- ship . _ - - J
Jar . Ktdd moved a vote of thanksTn his usual ] energetic style , to Messrs . O'Connor and Roberts , which was carried by acclamation . ' ¦ '
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THE POSCASTER FREE-TKAPE MEETlKG . i On Saturday last , the Great " West fedlngTfree ^ j Trade Meeting iwas holdefl in the Came . Market , 1 where a large and commodious hostlpj ^ na ^ been '' erected . The meeting was called iortTa » i ?| lock , in 1 the Town Hall . At that hour MessrsviDobden and I Bright , accompanied by Earl Pitzw ^ am , Mr . '; Cbildera . MJ ' ^ W . S . WrightPon , EEq ^ wdrotbers ^ , proceeded to the Hall , and Mr . Johnsajirao ;« ten- j sve miflowner , -was called to the chair , . The meet- ' ing was then adjourned to the Cattle MatS ' eU Tne ' re ' might be from 1 , 500 to 2 . 000 persons preiiSt ^ ^ reat ' exertions had been made to procure fbeiifeninicS of the farmers : but there were very few prjj&eafc .-Mr . Bright was the first speaker , and dwe | £ -aj ; great length on the injurious operation of ihi ^ n ^ iand ' Coffee Monopoly . He advanced no ne * T itf&jmeuls ; int broadly asserted that every apprcj § mc ( IiofrJLt 6 Free Trade had been attended tcith bie&gig&ZtBihe country ; and that England ' s existence ^^ j ^ on- - -depended on the establishment of Tree ^ OgQiSprin--dples . A Farmer on the hnBtings Eever ^ titfies ^ in terrupted Mr . Bright during his speech . ' - ' - » :-J ^ Mr Cobden next appeared , and in a JeDfc-Wfpeecb endeavoured to shew that the farmers ganvejtnothirg by the Corn Laws . The boasted proleajSon * f the political Landowners , was no protection * t- _ alL The farmer must not be frightened by the bngbesr of foreign competirion : for the foreigner . « 6 ula not bring his corn into this country at a lessieost' than the farmers paid for the whole of their jrekt : Chns they fiad a protection to the whole of ^ b , eir-regt . After stating thai tithes were no burdeh £ iiii&igai our idralion vat no greater ihan oikerJEpunTfries , owing to onr means of producing wealt ^ Stfr ^ con ' eluded a long speech of sophistry and / tparf , by calling on Earl Fitzwilliam and the ofl !|?* &na ' - ownersto come out for " Free Trade . " r ^^* ' - ' ¦ ' - Mr . West then requested permission "ilgjsaaress the meeting , when Mr . Cobden said , ** O , ^ gff ^ d ' s sake don ' t let us have any more speeches to-day ?*/" Mr . West— " 1 thisk your principles eiroHSbos , and fraught with great mischief ; and I wish ^ to ' iireTe that to the meeting . " ~ ~ iy . ' ^~ The Chairman— " When you are wanted ieLsf ^ ak , I will call on you / ^ vk . - " " V '
2 Ax . Wnghtson m the meantime came forward to propose a resolution in favour of Free Trade , Be spoke at length on the usual topics . .- ? ^ . Earl Fitzwilliam seconded it iu a loag :-speech , principally condemnatory of the Eliding scale . * He said ke had made inquiries how many quarters of ¦ wheat passed through Doncaster , and up the-Don naTig * tkra , to Shtffleld ; andtefoundittobs ^ CO . OOO quarters aunaally :, and if the Sheffield traSe jj ? as exlended , ikera would be more wheat « onsn | g | cfe -a&d fliey would be benefirted in proportion ^ , -4 ^^ some further remarks about Sheffield , hereti&d joud sreat ebeeriog . " - ¦¦ - _ - ¦ 'O ^ J ^ TL ? Mr . Westiand Mr . Gillenden , a workini | ioan , no » wished to speak ; but Mr . CMlderB -a . e « g (^ s « d forward , evidently to speafcagainst time , to ix&J&H people , and tbas prevent the Chartists from making an impression on the farmer ? . At lehgJl } j V | r ^ eu they saw that West would not be put « n ^ M ;; 4 Bgght said , ?* AH parties should be heard . " —;^ ' ^ Mr . GiBenden then came forward * nd . «»| M ^ a « * working man—one who felt tba 4 * e wsgfegp S& « 3 » ind , . ie yro ^^^^^^^ : titlei . peers and weaithy commoners , >®^^^§^ a cut © femployttflnfc lof two yea ^' S ^^^^^^ wifli j&oosaiids of his coantryi ^^ W ^^^ bnnger and deetitutioft ,: He kn ^^ 3 ral *|© iS * « m-i ^ -jniasa ^ imMgmi \ y ^ ixaisusoff ; « d | Sgy 3 »«» - « otfd-b © .-3 » p ^^ raft prosperitj MtU iSaCgsas dc ^ yed ^ whMgi ^ d only to effeettaBr ^ WDpHshed by- the ^ O ^ iv f thePeople ' sCiiKtOTastbeltwoffcbeland . H « B » gld more the followjcg amendment : — - - ^ - v " ** "ThaV % | Sle Mas jneetiBg enters its-protest . agaijiEt inoBopoly of * u y £ Dd eierj lisd j steels ] ¦
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it incumbent to declare that there is no hope for the desfruetion of monopoly until the monster monopoly . of class-legislation u destroyed by a thorough Radical Reform of the Commons Honse , on the principles contained in the People ' s Charter . " Mr . West came forward to second it amid cons * derable confusion . He said he came forward fo " j the purpose of stating to them his opinions ' ^ tne question of Free Trade ; but as their patir ^ gQ miiSt be nearly exhausted in listening to the lo " speeches of the members of both of
1 J ' - } j Houses p ariiamenf it ¦ was impossible for him to enter in »' j * i subject to the extent that its importance demanded . Before , however , replying to Borne of ' . be fallacies they had that day heard , he would state his honest conviction , after many years * studs , " , ^ t the establishment of Free Trade principles , "cader the existing arrangements of socioty , wo ^ d be a curse instead of a blessing , and bring rain " upon hundreds of thousands of industrwos men . Mr . Cobden has laboured hard to prove t » you that the Corn Laws do you no good ; but wa had a right to expect him to point out the beneft ^ that urould follow their repeal . Has he done BO-f ( Cries of " yes . " ) Well , he ( Mr . West ) ¦ dii not Sear him . Pray what were they ! Are we l * e hav < £ " cheap bread 1 " ( Cries of " no , no , " from the Whigs on the hustings . ) Well , that is something gained ! They used to tell us in the manufacturing towns we should have ** eheap j bread , hii » b wages , and plenty to I tin" vPV » rieniod it Msnv nf iib Tpprp . Tw > rsARti £ « d
| for our ^ opposition to them ; and now they are comxngjerwardarid admitting all our positions to be * ru £ i- ~ and appearing before the world as mendacious deluders of the pnblio 11 ( Mr . Bright : — w Come , now , West , don ' t be too hwd . " ) Are you to have Extended markets ! Earl Fitxmlliam says "Year ; -that "if the Sheffield trade is extended , you will . have more corn come through your town "; but what-savs Mr . Cobden ! for he is the authority . Whyi "; if we have Free Trade , the Sheffielders will " send their goods to America ; and the Americans will send their corn in retnrn " . This will bome into Liverpool , or Hull , and be conveyed up by railway ; and not from the farmers of Yorkshire , er bfryou * " Don navigation" — ( great interruption ) . Bat Mr . jCobden says , - " tithes abb so bdkxhkn " to you , because other nations have to pay for their religion as well as you . YeB ; but they dowtpay as much as you 4 o ; and I think you will agree with me that tithes , which are a tax upon industry should be abolished , and that speedily too . But will a Repeal of the Corn Laws do
it 1 JSo . Mr . Cobden knows this , and so he would fain , persuade yon that tithes are ne eviL Ho also say 3 taxes have KOXHIKG io do teiih your competing with the foreigner ; bnt how stands the fact louring the war , when paper money was plentiful , and prices high , the farmer had to give so many quarters of wheat , or the price of it , as his share of the taxes : when Peel ' s Bill was passed , prices fell ; BUT TAXES DID NOT PALL IS THJS SAME PROPOBTIOS ! and the farmer has to give to the tax-eater nearly one-half as much more of his produce than he did before ! Has the foreigner this to contend with No ; and Mr . Gobdenknows it . The tax-eaters , the drones , the locusts , the fundholders , the parsons , the placemen , and the pensioners , are the great
incubus that presses down British industry . The interest of the National Debt , at S per cent , is £ 24 , 000 , 000 a year ; or equal to the earnings of nearly one million of labourers at 10 s . a-week ; and if those labourers had , on an average , only three to a family , there are three millions of persons handed over as slaves for ever and ever to the fundholders ! Mr . W . then went into the " extension" question , quoting a variety of tables , and proving that reduction of wages had accompanied every " extension of commerce . " He concluded by asking Mr . Cobden if it teas true thai he had been selling MoussHn De Lainesfrom his print works , at about 100 per cent , of profit ; XNT > AT IHB SAHE XJHE BEDCCISO HIS W 0 BKME 5 5 d . OUT OP EVKBY Is . 5 d .
The Chairman then put the amendment and the original motion to the meeting ; when the amendment was lost ; although it was cheering to witness £ > o many hands held up for it iu such a quarter ~ of the world . Mr . Cobden then came forward te answer Mr . Wesi ' 8 question ; and said , that ** as to the profits he uasgetting , he wished he could make Mr . West prove his words ; and , as to the otheh , he always PAID AS HIGH "WAGES AS AST OSE ES 6 AGED 12 T the trade , and would continue to do eo . " Mr . West—* That is no answer to my question : Have you reduced pour workmen of late bd . out of tverv Is . od . ?" Mr . Cobden— "I CAN GIVE NO OTHER ANSWER" 3 3
A vote of thanks to the deputation was then carried ; and , after three cheers for Free Trade and Earl Fiismlliam , the meeting separated . It is but fair to stale that Mr . Bright , Mr . Cobden , and Earl Fiizwilliam treated Mr . West with every courtesy and respect .
The Noetheen Star. Saturday, October 21, 1843.
THE NOETHEEN STAR . SATURDAY , OCTOBER 21 , 1843 .
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THE REPEAL PROSECUTIONS . TBS BASS COMPROMISE ! THE IRISH PEOPLE SOLD FOR THE PERSONAL SAFETY OF THE "LIBERATOR . " The all-important intelligence , given in oar last , will nave in some measure prepared our readers for the second blow" of the Government struck within
the last week ; which blow , if Ireland had been H tj honest" leaders , " might hats recoiled upon those teho aimed it J but which , as it is , bids fair , even without the promised blows" to follow , to annihilate the Repeal agitation , and send , —not back to its « radle , for it has outgrown that , —but to its grave , the giant power that hicht have wos a sation's fbekdom : bnt which , misdirected , or rather
treach-. - - - erously sold by iu leaders for the sake of personal safety , seems to be doomed to add another to the { i > ng lirt of popular failures , which , in every country under heaven , have so often been reoorded : strengthening the hands of rampant despotism , and burying in the tomb the hopes of enlightened patriotism ! _ iWe again present our readers with a mass of information taken from the best sources , and giving the-viewB of opposite parties ; by comparing which ; fhey may arrive at something like the exact truth . ! Indeed we may safely challenge comparison with | wrj ~ Wcckl y Journal in the empire , for the welli selected and ample intelligence to be found in . oat pages , on all matters connected with the ** Irish 3 J « rgment , " or indeed of any " Movement" affecting ¦ the " ffiass of the people ; placing us as it does in an ^ rarivalled position compared with our contem-: JMMazies . r ; Xtor readers will lack no means of judging whether oniT-emarks this week are warranted by the events ; vfiat have transpired , I- First , then , Mr . O'Cokkell , his son Johs , the ' proprietors of the Freeman and Nation , certain members of the Repeal Association , and two Ca' tholie priests , have been held to bail to appear in the Court of Queen's Bench , next term , on a charge ^© f * Conspiracy , " Seditien , " and u Illegal Meetu inj ^ " and with sundry other offences ; all , how-~ : eveiy-comLng under the vague and undefined charge of * Conspiracy ?
« m ''>' - "Here we have the game of 1839 40 and 1842-3 . plajed over again : ( he scene being now Ireland . - Tia true there is some difference in the mode of ¦ ¦ i y playing the game" ; and play" it is , compared wifh the treatment which the Chartists have suf' -fered at the hands of both Whigs and Tories . i . "We . have said Messrs . O'Cosnell and Co . have been " arrested . " We were not correct in so saying . First , a " very polite note" was sent to Mr . O'Cos-1 sell , frcm the Crown Office , apprising him that " the Crown Sslicitor had been directed to take \ proceedings against him , " and " requeuing to know when it would suit Mr . O'Cokkeu / s convenience to ; attend to enter into recognizances . " Then we are Ktold " that a Mr . Semmis waited upon Mr . O'Cos-\ JttiL , to know at what hour it would be convenient 1 for nim to give bail . " Mr . O * Cona"ell " goes in his owVcoach to the Judge ' s house f inspects the ^ splendid and extensive collection of paintings f and , " | quite at home , " shakes hands with the Judge" 1 : ff ,-New we dont envy Mr . O'Consell his good fori-tiine j Sill we must congratulate him on his being a ^ Jtejealer we beg pardon ; a J * EDERAUST " I ^ CTfLsxean , and not a Chartist . Had he been the iiajt&t he might not have fared so well . He will freaesaber that there was no polite note" sent to | 3 Ix , v $ ' € &K ? i' 0 £ , nor any anxiety shown to consult bis 0 &ar& $£ ace . Oa the contrary , he was waylaid bj ^' eommtm thief catcher , and trapped on the road as f ^ hVliad been a highwayman . The only " gentler&Sfily ^ aLls" made at the houses of Chartist victims , jiar-a been those of brutal policemen ; in many jCases dragging men out of their beds , and tearing them front their families without a moment ' s warniDg r ThfrcnIy " coach" for English nclims has been the
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prison van , tn which mea have been linked together like wD ^ beasts , haud-cuffed , and leg-chained ! In- , stea ^ , of « ghaking hands with the Judge , " we have p Iden Magistrates insulting and oppressing , and Judges fulminating their coarse-abuse and political spleen against the men they were required to honestly and impartially try . Instead of " inspecting printings in Judges houses , " Chartist offenders have been crammed into filthy and abominable dungeons , made to herd with felons ; and treated with the utmost indignity and cruelty : and all this before trial ! before examinatios !! before being ALLOWED to enter into theib recognizances I
When the ChartiBts , the poor Chartists , spoke their minds , they were persecuted : and Mr . O'Conkell and his party denounced them for having brought themselves within the power of the law . But then it was Whig law : the law which was necessary to keep the Whigs in office . Now he gets a taste of Tory , law : and cries out against the iDjustiee ! Have we not often told him , that the law is held in leash by the party in power , ready
to be slipped at their caprice ? each using it for their own respective purposes . The law which persecuted the Chartists , is the same law that now persecutes the Repealer ? . When it persecuted the Chartists , it was justifiable ; but now that it persebutes the Repehlers it is tyranny 1 and instead of trying to alter the law , Sir . O'CorwELL is even now actually trying to make merchandize of its abuse .
We remind Mr . O Connell of these things , because many a time and oft has he made brutal jest of the treatment of the Chartists ; and hounded on the Government to their persecution . We remind Mr . O'Connell of these things too , because , when the Chartists were in his present position , and Buffering brutalities and grievous wrongs , to which he is not subjected— they did not shrink and tchine , as he is shrinking and whining ! They did not eat Iheir own words J renounce their solemn pledges !! offer to TAKE LESS thaw the whole of the principles FOR WHICH THET HAD PREVIOUSLY CONTENDED !! ! AND DASTARDLY COMPROMISE THEIR CAUSE » or the sake of
personal safett I . ' . ' I No ; they were men : and stood sted / ast in the hoar of trial J We request our readers to peruse attentively tha copy of the warrant on which Mr . O'Connell and the others have been held to bail . They will there find that the Government-ncl has been so widely and dexterously spread , that Daniel , with all his popularity amongst the jury clasa , will be fortunate indeed if he obtains a verdict of acquittal . First , it will be seen that the accused is charged with "having unlawfully and seditiously conspired with certain other persons to excite discontent and disaffection ;"
thuf , as in the case of the w Lancashire Conspirators , " Mr . O'CoicfBXL may be made amenable for , —because made to be connected with , —persons whom he never heard or saw ; but who may be charged with sedition uttered at Belfast , or Cork , or anywhere elseJ We say "may be ; " for it may be that the arrests are not over yet . The " muster " -order for the Clontarf gathering , and for which Mr . T . Moroas , the Corporation Solicitor , says he is alone responsible , may be made to support the charge of "demonstrations of physical force , " to say nothing of the " monster " meetings themselves . The denunciations of the
"SAXON , "—now crmgingly , but too late , withdruwn , —may bear out the charge of exciting "jealousies and hatred between her Majesty ' s subjects . " All the harangues , laudatory of the private 6 oldiers ; all the talk about "fixity of tenure "; is met in thiB document . The " Arbitration Courts" form a Btriking feature in the warrant ; on these is grounded a charge of u assuming and usurping the prerogative of the Crown" ! M Illegal meetings " follow ; " seditious libels" are lumped ia with " seditious speeches "; and finally , the collecting and obtaining of the " Repeal rent" is made au accusation , as having been *? a mean 3 to promote and effectuate " the alleged objects of the alleged " conspirators " .
Here is , as we have said , a net large enough / We shall see whether Mr . O'Connell will make of that net a cobweb ! With the wicked and treacherous conduct of Mr . O'Connell still fresh in our memories , when like snares were laid for the reviled Chartists , we still will not designate him and his friends as " wretches wortht of the sotice op the Attorset-General . " Not Had we no other cause ot dislike towards the " Liberator " , we should be content to forgive , and , if possible , forget . But we have other and weightier charges against him .
These prosecutions , if the Government can procure a conviction , may serve it for a time . O'Connell may succumb under the lashqf the law , as indeed he has alheadt done . He may calculate ou shelving the agitation ^ with a few lawyers' clap-traps in the Four Courts , and a few months of " martyrdom " in Kilmainham Gaol ; hoping that this will do for " his time . " Aye , and he may succeed , too . But will the struggle for freedom end there 1 ! Will tbo now awakened masses be for long content with such
a relurn for their " shillings , which , like drops from the heart ' s blood , have been wrung from their miserable incomes ! Will M Youn g Ireland" unlearn its " war songs , " and the " Spirit of the Nation" wither or die with the treachery of O'Conkell \ We shall see ; but it Btrikes us that persecution , —found so utterly powerless to crush Chartism in this country , —will not be found more efficacious in dealing with the democratic spirit of the people of Ireland , suppressed though the cry for Repeal may be in a whine for
" FEDERALISM" ! !! Do the Tories suppose that the means by which Whigs immortalized Chartism in England will suppress Repeal in Ireland ! When did persecution ever yet change the current of opinion , except indeed it was to divert it for a moment from the principle , to the consideration of the best means to destroy the oppressor 5 Chartism was persecuted
and appeared tor a season to slumber ; but it rose , not so much to advance its own principles , as to destroy the Whigs , who persecuted its votaries 3 So with Repeal . The unjust and extravagant use of the law may for a season arreBt the external progress of Repeal ; but the moving mind will go on ! and when it again breaks out , it will be in indignation against those who used persecution as a substitute for law !
How has Mr . O'Connell met" blow" the second ? We have before seen how he met " blow" the first . We announced in our last , the astounding intelligence , that he , who had solemnly pledged himself never to enter the " Saxon" parliament again , had backed out of that pledge , and announced his intention of petitioning the " Saxon" parliament for ^ justice" upon those who had signed the Clontarf Proclamation . We announced that after all his revilings of the people of England , he had at length , in the hour of his adversity , implored the help of the English people ! These were strauge tidings , no doubt , to our readers ; but vie have stranger revealmenls this week to disclose ! Last week Mr . O'Conhell was yet a " Repealer . " His language then
was" The only tyranny he disliked was the tyranny of the Union , and the only oppressor he recognized was the enemy of Repeal . " " The Repealers wonld not shrink from their doty to obtain a National Legislature again—( cries of * No , never ! ' ) No , they would not ; and he requested that those gentlemen who presented him with the address from the Loyal Repealers of Manchester , would inform their lriends in that town that they were determined to use evert effort to effect a Repeal in a legal way , and to Bay that be ( Mr . O'Connell ) had no doubt of success , if the people took his advice—no more doubt than he had of the rising of to-morrow ' s sun —( great cheers ) . "
" It was manifest the Repeal was comma /—it was perfectly manifest they must have it on one condition —their not putting themselves in the power of their enemies . But this he told ^ hem—to have confidence in him —( cheers ) . Let him be sneered at , but he deserved their confidence—( enthusiastic applause ) . " Again" The more they proclaimed , the moie prudent they SFOxld be in adopting the means for < -ffectual ! y
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CARRYING THE REPEAL . So far , ' ^ fc ^ ( Mr , O'Connell ) was not much abasb ^ j by a proclamation —by the last blow of the e- ,, Ord- ( great applause ) . No , he was nofc m the . east daunted , Upou the contrary , he was dr ably sure of success , and he called upon the P eople of Ireland to listen to him while he said f , aat ( they then had an opportunity of making their country a nation again—( loud cheers ) . All they h ^ d to do was to obey him —( loud cries of Wewj' / i . wewill . '" ) Ar . d he concluded in these very words : —
" Hurra then , for Old Ireland and Repeal—( tremendous applause )! Whoever ( they would remember ) committed a crime gave strength to the enemy ; therefore let Repealers pledge themselves to a perfect obedience to the law , and he would pledge himself , and vow solemnly before the Inhabitants of the empire , thit he would never be taken away fr om the legal pursuil of agitating for a Repeal of th e Union until he saw an Irish Parliament ONCE MORE sitting in College-green—ifpeal applause , which lasted for a considerable time , after which the Learned Gentleman resumed his seat ) . " At the Repeal Banquet in the Rotunda ,
"Mr . O Connell said , —The next toast , gentlemen , is one that you * will respond to with ; rapture , — "The Repeal of the Union "— ( long-continued cheering ) . Having spoken so often on this toast , he should not trespass at length on the theme . Oue thing he would say ,
IRELAND WOHLD NEVER ACCEPT OF AN INSTALMENT OF THE REFEAL . THAT JUSTICE COULD BE OBTAINED FROM A LOCAL LEGISLATURE ALONE . " Now we think here are proofs enow of O'Connell ' s sentiments as a Repealer ! There is no mistaking any . one of the ; above sentences . Notwithstanding his absurd talk about " petitioning , " and " going back" to the " Saxon" Parliament , he was still ah avowed Repealer . " IRELAND WOULD NEVER COMPROMISE . " " Never accept an instalment of the Repeal . " Such was his language . But now , —only a week intervening , how shall wo astonish our readers when we tell them that MR . O'CONNELL HAS AGREED TO COMPROMISE !
Has offered to take an "INSTALMENT" OF REPEAL !! Yet so it is ! " 'Tis true , ' tis pity ; and pity 'tis , 'tis true . " We complimented Mr . O'Connell last week on the wise discretion he had shown in foibidding the Clontarf meeting , rathor than ri .-k the shedding of the blood of the unarmed people . Mr . O'Connell , iu so doing , did perfectly right ; and had that been his worst offence , he might have laughed at the taunt of cowardioe flung ia his teeth by the bloodhounds of the Tory press . Again , oa his arrest , "
he issued a letter to his followers , which will be found in our " Iriah News , " imploring of them to observe "the strictest and most profound tranquillity . " This , too , was perfectly right . This it was his duty to do . But what then ? His appeal to the people to join the ranks of rhe Repeal Association was responded to by hundreds of thousands . His demand for more " rent" was answered by the collection of hundreds of thousands of shillings , and the accumulation of tens of thousands of pounds . His requirement of the exhibition of the physical strength of his party was enthusiastically met by the
assemblages of immense multitudes , numbering , according to the Repeal organs , from one hundred thousand to one million of enthusiastic and resolute Irishmen . And lastly , —hardest task of all , —when the crowning demonstration was suppressed by Proclamation , and the people insulted by the spectacle of two or three thousand men-butchers trampling upon the rights of millions ; and again , when the " sacred person" of their darling leader was outraged by the grasp of
the law , and that leader bid them preserve profound tranquilitjy" they ' obeyed his orders . They have been profoundly tranquil ; aud thus carried out to the very letter all his requirements . Ihe people have done their duty : is O'Connell prepared to do his ! The people have fulfilled their part of the contract : is he ready to give them their reward ? Is he leading the way to " College Qr . ren ! '' Is he ready With " his machinery to carry the REPEAL" and give to Ireland ' her Independent aud purely Irish Legislature " ?
What has been his conduct ! What his speeches since the striking of this " second blow" ! We refer our readers for tho answer j to his speech delivered last Mdnday , at the usual weekly meeting of the Repeal Association , in the Corn-Exchange . Let every man peruse that speech attentively ; think upon it ; and then say whether [ the offer to " compromise" has not ( been made ! First of all Mr . O'Connell attempts to wriggle out of his abuse of the " Saxona" I He " pledged himself that he would , in accoidance with the Chairman ' s suggestion , drop the word 'Saxon' ! " This
announcement was met by " laughter" aud " cheering , " and " continued laughter and cheering . " The Corn Exchange patriots are notorious for cheering anything that falls from Dan ; and truly we are not surprised that : they should indulge their risible faculties with " continued laughter" at this Jim Crow jump of tho "Liberator . " O , what » glorious revenge have the long insulted , long reviled , Saxon population , in this self-prostration ; this dirtlicking humiliation of ttheir foul-mouthed libeller 1 But Daniel does not stop here . Having , as he thinks , made his peace with the "Saxons , " he forthwith sets about forming an "holy alliance" with
them . He first announces that he " was readt to TAK . E A DEPENDANT PARLIAMENT , " " offered him by the British Government" ! [" . don't be wish he may get it" ? J—and then , by way of steadying fhia hearers , and allowing them to recover from the shook such announcement must have been , he prooeeds to say that : — " He had received a proposition from a gentleman of high station in the popular cause of England , who was exceedingly anxious for the well working of any system that would give freedom by means of their own representatives to the Irish people—( cries of hear , hear ) . "
We refer our readers to the speech itself for the above proposition . Mr . O'Connell proceeded to say : — "He met these suggestions in the spirit in WHICH THEY WERE 1 MIAWN AND DICTATED ' , and he told thtm what had occurred in the Association already , and that if the people of England , or RATHER ' . A SUFFICIENT PORTION OF THEM , CAME FORWARD ,
THERE WOULD BE NO DIFFICULTY IN ARRANGING TBE REPEAL ON THOSE DEPENDANT TERMS ALLUDED TO . It might be said that consenting to take a dependant Parliament was shrinking ; but he cared not what taunt Was made pse of . // was no shrinking . On the oomrary , it took away from thoir enemies every argument that they could use against them . He ' repeated again that that Association WERE PLEDGED T 0 . THI 8 . " And again : — ~ "
" He had spoken particularly of a federal Parliament , as a means by which Repeal could by obtained , and also likely to conciliate both nations , but it was not such a one as he HA . D looked for—( hear . ) He had before delared himself ready to accept a federal Parliament . HE WOULD NOW REPEAT , THAT HE HAD BEEN ALWAYS , AND WAS NOW , READY TO ENTER INTO AY ARRANGEMENTS WHICH
WOULD GIVE IRELAND SDCH A PARLIAMENT . It had been hinted to him that many parties in England would readily meet his views on this point , if , on the completion of Repeal , their arrangements should be of a popular natare . He would tell them in England that as soon as they had formed a parly strong enough to assist the Irish people , HE WO U LD JOIN THfcM IN OBTAINING FEDERAL 1 ZATlON —( cheers ) . HE WAS READY TO MAKE A CONCESSION so as to find out a common point of unity . "
Now , let the reader go back , and read once more this man ' s solemn asservations , repeated over and over again , only ou the previous Monday ; to keep ia mind these " sacred vowb" * ' registered in heaven" i that " Ireland would never compromise ; "" woucd accepi . \ o instalment ok Rm'Kal '; " and ihat "he
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i would never be taken away from the legal pursuit of agitating for a Repeal of the Union , until he saw an Irish Parliament onoe more sitting in College Green" ; and then say -whether this man is not trifling vrith the holiest feelings of humanity ! Bartering a nation ' s aspirations , that the game of delusion may be continued tor "Ms time ' Betraying the cause of which he is the all-powerful chief , to save from a gaol his { own cowardly carcase 1 We call thia " shrinking , " let him say what he will . Peace and " profound tranquility" on the part of the people say we : but we ] also say " measurespractical , peaceable , constitutional heasures , to carry the Repeal" ! Not a j betrayal of it ! Not a shrinking from those measures J J Not a whining
about" FEDERALISM" !!! But our readers will be anxious to learn who the " illustrious unknown" is , that " high in station in the popular cause in England , " has offered his assistance to the t 4 Liberator" to obtain Federalism . Know ye , then , j ' tis Joseph Sturgs the Brummagem Solon , whose legislative system is so " complete , " that it cau be made to work either with a majority or minority , a man who did hia little
best to bring the principles of Democracy into contempt by settingatdefiance the voice of the . people expressed through their representatives , and violating the principle that the majority shall rule . This is the man that is now helping Dan to hoist the rag of " Federalism . " Ah ! JJoskph , it wont do 1 Three Millions of Chartists petitioned for REPEAL ! and they will not allow you to hand them over to Dan , for compromise , as quietly as Dan hands over the Irish people to the Tauries !
O Connell cannot blame us for his position . We have , in spite of himself , striven to aid him , and to promote the professed object of his agitation . We have borne patiently with his scoffs , and scorn ; his calumnies and falsehoods . We have passed unnoticed the pitiable scurrilities of that miserable sycophant , Ton j Stkele . iWe have refused to reply to the libels of his bribed press . We bare striven to undo the mischief he was doing in setting race against race , by labouring to promote a kindly and fraternal spirit on the part of the
English and Scottish people towards their Irish brethren . And we beg to assure the gallant people of Ireland , that however much we may have felt it to bd our duty to comment in severe terms upon the conduct of Mr . O'Connell , we have but one feeling towards them , —that of sympathy ; but one wish , —that of seeing them successful in the struggle for self-government . With them we will struggle again 3 t coercion , and against treachert ; against the despotism of their oppressors and the falsehoods of 1 their leader . And we
now tell that leader , —and in so telling him we speak the sentiments of the British masses , —that he shall have no assistance from them for the humbug of federalism . If he has his ' * measures , " peaceable and constitutional , " " prepared for the carrying of Repeal , " let him go on with them ; and we are with him . If he cannot carry Repeal under present legislative arrangements ) let him say so , aud hoist the banner of the CHARTER as the means of rendering triumphant the flag of / Repeal . If he will do this , we are also with him . But NO compromise No instalment ! I NO FEDERALISM MS DOWN WITH ALL HUMBUG ! ! !
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there would be no Labour at all , or social existence at all , if " all taxation" was repealed ! But while the League have developed this queer " new move , " we do not hear that they have moved to let the dupes who gave them the £ 50 , 000 know what has been done with their money ! Now such a motion &a thai would be attended with some practical good . We should get to know how much John Murrav has fobbed ! We should learn what has been the amount of his " taxation" ; and should also be in some wise able to judge whether it would not be advisable to apply his doctrine of " freedom from all taxation" to himself . How comes the £ 100 , 000 on 1 Does it come in fast t or only dribbhngly ?! We fancy that folks are » asking" what ' s the good of it t "
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THE LEEDS MERCURY AND THE LAND . The Mercury has given up the controversy ! To us "hehas not another word to say . " How could he ? We have pinned him down so completely , that he cannot make another shift : so he is compelled to " give in" with as good a grace as his saturnine nature will permit of . But when giving in , " he reiterates his opinion , that in the " wordy" article to which he took exception , we " intended to support and uphold the statement , that a profit of £ 300 a-year might be realized , after paying the rent of the land , and the wages of labour , from four acres of land ; " and he again avers that" no one could read the language of that article , without
entertaining the same opinion . '' Now this we must again rebut ; even at the risk of being deemed "destitute of deoenoy and good manners . " We again tell the Mercury that this is " misrepresentation . * Wo again defy him to shew from our " words" that any man could by possibility come to such conclusion . -We again tell him , " vulgar and low-lived" as it may be , that he cannot , for his very soul , derive suoh an " opinion" from our " words . " We again tell him , . that the " statement" was manufactured by himself ; palmed upon us ; and he then ( most honestly ) proceeded to combat , and refute it !! leading the world to believe that he was combatting and refuting onr ** words . "
His conduct , during . this controversy , has been most disreputable . He first misrepresented us ; wilfully misrepresented us . Of this we complained , and asked him to explain . We told him that unless he did vouchsafe such explanation , we should be justified in interpreting his silence into acquiescence with our accusation of wilful invention . He did esaay an " explanation " . In doing so , however , he passed over our " words" entirely , and adduced a portion of a letter written and published four months before our " words " were penned , as his justification for attributing to us the " statement" he put into our mouth ! We then exposed the " trick . " . We called it an unworthy shift . We designated his conduct as dishonest ; we said he was
a turning , twisting , eel-like opponent : and because we did so , the Mercury now says that we " are SO entirely destitute of decency aud good manners , as not to be able to conduct a controversy ou matter of fact without vulgar and low-lived abuse" . It is "decent" to put " words" into the mouth of your opponent which he never used : it is " vulgar and low-lived" to expose the fraud . It is " decent" to try to wriggle out of the mess , by bringing other people ' s " words" to uphold your assertion that your opponent made the statement you attributed to him : it is ¦ " vulgar and low-lived" to designate this as ttickery , and to follow your shameless and dishonest , opponent fully up , aud lay him sprawling on his back in the dirty kennel of invention and falsehood !
If the conduct of the Mercury throughout this controversy has been in accordance with " decency and good manners , " we are quite content to be considered aa " vulgar and low-lived . " We know where his conduct has landed him ; and we know also that he has enabled us to crow " cock-a-doodledoo" over him moat lustily . The Mercury avers that we shrink from upholding the statements of Mr . . O'Connob , respecting the * £ 300 CLEAR PROFIT , from four acres of land ; and that " we leave Mr . O'Connor and Mr . John Linton to their fate . " We do neither one nor
the other . Ia the first place Mr . O'Connor never made such a " statement . " He gave a rough calculation from mehort , of what Mr . Linton had done , Mr . Linton , seeing that there were inaccuracies in that calculation , forwarded to us a plain and clear 11 statement" of what had been the actual result of his experiments upon some three quarters of an acre of land . That " statement" bore out Mr . O'Connor's rough estimate in the main ;• and on that " . statement'' have , ever since , been all our reasonings , calculations , inferences , and conclusions ( as well as those of Mr . O'Connor in the
Star ) been founded . We have not " left" either Mr . O'Connob or Mr . Lin row , " to their fate . ' * The " statements" which we have made on the authority of either of those gentlemen , we are still ready to uphold , if the Mercury should again venture to gainsay them , or try to refute them . And in doing this , we will not try to pin him down , even to "decency . " He may be as " vulgar" and as " low-lived" as he pleases . The public will know how to discriminate between the
argument and the " abuse . " The more of the latter , the less of the former . And , whenever we see a man shy off oa the pretence of " vulgarity" and " low-livedness , " we always set it down that he is conscious that he is beaten ! Were it not so , he , would stand his ground , and triumph . Were " vulgarity" or " low-lived abuse" resorted to against him—the exposure of the one , and the exhibition of the other , would be his justification . None but the really contemptible ever affect contempt .
For the present we must deaist . Other matters claim both time and space . Some other day , wo will return to it . We have another Report of Mr . Bain £ s > to bring before the public , to show that " thb Land ; THE SOIL , is our only resource . " We shall dish that up for him some day ; and give some other matter that will tend to manifest the soundness of his advice .
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SaEFPlELD .-THE TRADis .-The Type-Founders still continue out on strike ; the masters in Sheffield being with those in London , bound in a heavy bond not to accede to the men ' s demand although there is at present symptoms of a division among them . The men get well supported , considering that there aTe four trades out besides . The Table Blade Forgers continue out ; the masters stating that some of their demands are more than the state of trade will allow them to comply with This has forced the Table inife Hafters out ; and as their demands are said to be reasonable , the masters promise them their prices as soon as the settlement ° [ the disputes with the other trades will enable them to find them employment . Tne Fork Grinders are likewise out ; and in their address , which gives a horrible account of the pernicious effects of fork grinding upon the human frame , they state that a very numerous class who work at ihe common articles CANNOT EAEN S 10 RE THAN SIXPENCE A-DAY , OF FOURTEEN hours Labour ! when all the necessary expenses are deducted .
Coupar ANGOS . -0 n the evenings of Saturday and Monday last , a Miss Helen M'Donald from isdmburgh paid us a visit , and gave two addresses on ' FtMALB Education . " The fair instructor drew the attention of her numerons audience to the prejudices that exist against females taking any part in public bodies , either Secular or Religious , denounced the employment of the fair sex in Factories and Coal Mines , reprobated the System of Education as at present taught to all classes , both rioh and poor , and brought to those present a comprehensive view of the evil effects of war , called on all to come forward and lend their aid both individually and collectively in assisting her to give her sisterhood their social and natural rights , and to join the Temperance Movement as a moans of freeing the mind of all from bigotry and superstition . Suoh lectures cannot but do good ; and soon may woman be in possession of that knowledge and station in social society she was sj clearly desigaec ; o occupy !
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NEW MOVE OFlTHE LEAGUE . REPEA . L OF ALL TAXATION 1 ! We must call particular attention to the " new move" of the League , as developed at Wakefield on Friday last . ; For rears we have been expounding the doctrine that our difficulties , including the " verge of Bankruptcy" and " ruination" have sprung from excessive taxation : and that it was hopeless even to
dream of being better , until we dealt with an almost untpanng hand with that ticklish question . We have oftentimes set forth the gross injustice that would assuredly be inflicted on all classes of tax payers , by any measure that would further depreciate prices of articles of produce , while our tax-engagements remained fixed iu money-amount . We have also , times without number , demonstrated that any measure of free j trade must inevitably enhance the burden of taxation , unless the amount of taxation was reduced , so as to meet the u altered circumstances of the country . "
Hitherto , however , it has been impossible to get the Leaguers to touch the ; question . They have fought most exceedingly shy of it . Look it in the face they would not . Tackle it , they dare not . Now , however , the Rubicon ie passed ! Now , however , the League have' touched ! Now , they have handled ! and handled to some purpose , too Be it known , that on Friday , Oct . 13 ; h , 1843 , Mr .
John Murray , hired tool of the League ; paid emipsary of that body ; and representative extraordinary of the League in Wakefield on that particular day ( having been sent down from London expressly ); this said Mr . John Mi / rratv being hired and paid as aforesaid , did , before the face of hundreds of British subjects , and when acting on behalf of the League , propose that " Labour should be freed from all monopalies , and ALL TAXATION" i i !
Now that's what we call ; going the " whole hog " with a vengeance . " Labour freed from ALL taxation" ! What will Sir Robkrt Peel say ? There is a blank look out for him ! Labour necessarily bears the burden of " alljtaxation . " Nothing ; nor nobody else , but Labour and the Labourer , can by any possibility pay taxes . " Labour is the source of ALL wealth . " "\ Free Labour from ALL taxation , " and you have jno taxation at all ! ! Again we ask , what will Sir > RoBERT Peel say !
We now get at the meaning of the League , with respect to taxation . They are for maintaining " National faith" " with a hook ''! John Mcbbay , specially representing and acting for the League , proclaims that ** Labour ought ] to be freed from ALL taxation . " What is the DEBT-man to do \ What is the armt to do ? How is the navy to be paid Where are the " pretey mis 3 es" or the pension list to look ? How is the civil list to come ou Where is Albert to get his £ 30 , 000 ? What are o become of the privy councillors ? What of the inecuhists ! And what of g the salaried hen | O ! John Murra y ! and O ! you the League ! What a hornest ' s nest you have thrust your ugly hoof into &t last !
For ourselves , we have never dreamed of freeing labour from ALL taxation . " We have maintained that taxation ought , in justice , to be monstrously reduced : reduced from £ 60 , 000 , 000 to £ 4 , 000 , 000 a-year : but that is the extent to which we have sought to go . John Murray and the League seek to sweep taxation away altogether ! ! ! Mr . Cobden once talked of vw arresting the wheels of Government . " John M ^ ubray , the paid representative of the League , has shown us how the League are to accomplish the " arrest" !!
Say not , that this is not the intention of the League . Every Leaguer in Wakefield voted that such was his intention ! Every mother's son of them voted that " ALL taxation" ought to be abolished 2 ! i We must mention another extraordinary circumstance connected with this Wakefield meeting . All the reports yet given I to the world have been
furnished by the Leaguers themselves : and yet not one of them has set forth the wording of Mr . Murray ' s resolution ! They eayihe moved one , " embodying the principles of the Free Traders . " The " em bodying" was such as we h $ ve set forth : it therefore follows , even according to ) their own showing , that it is a principle with the Leaguers that Labour ; i . e . the nation ; " ought to be freed from ALL TAXATION"' !
What say the Labourers themselves , to such a doctrine * Labour now seeks j protection . Labour ia taxed ,- 'heavily enough Go ; d knows : and for that taxation Labour ought to well-protected . But what protection could Labour cjxpect ; what protection would labour be likely to ] have , if it was "freed from all taxation" I Labour is badly off as it is
Latest News From Ireland. Mr. O'Connell Has Announced That He Will Defend Himself On His Trial. Mr. Shiel Is One Of The Counsel Retained For The Defence Of The Other Defendants. Chief Justice Pennefather Will Preside On The Trial Of Mr. O'Connell.
LATEST NEWS FROM IRELAND . Mr . O'Connell has announced that he will defend himself on his trial . Mr . Shiel is one of the counsel retained for the defence of the other defendants . Chief Justice Pennefather will preside on the trial of Mr . O'Connell .
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A THE NORTHERN STAR .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 21, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1235/page/4/
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