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      To The Members Of The Land Company.

      TO THE MEMBERS OF THE LAND COMPANY .

      My Fribkosj—U Was Ray Intention To Have ...

      My FribkoSj—U was ray intention to have addressed you at seme length upon the resolutions passed at Glasgow , Lancaster , Manchester , and Birming ham , relative to the opening © fa new Land Company but my apolsgy for postponing that address antU next week , must lie found in the fact that during the whole of tiis week I have scarcel y had time to eat ray xneals ; next week , however , you shall have my notions upon the subject . In answer to several correspondents / who nave written to me upon the subject of the Tea Party , to beheld at the National Hall , en Wednesday ni ght , I beg to say , thafc I shall have great pleasure in attending there . And to all who are anxious to understand the position of the present Land Plan , and the prospect of the members being located , I beg to refer tbem to the forthcoming number of the " Labourer" for the fullest explanation Upon those subjects . Your faithful friend , Feargus O'Connor .

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      RESURRECTION OF BIRMINGHAM . GLORIOUS MEETING IN THE TOWN-HALL . Not since the celebrated times of Binningham ' s most palmy days of agitation , has such a scene been witnessed m that town as was presented on Tuesday night last .

      THE DEAD CHARTISTS , entombed by the Scotch pedlar in 1839 , have once more taken the field in the Reform movement . The Commissioners very kindl y ( seeing the inefficacy of Free Trade ) granted the Free-Labour League the free use of their own buildingthe Town-Hall—to hear an address from Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., and to welcome Mm with a sight of their revival .

      The working men , now capable of distinguishing between their friends and their enemies , selected Mr Town-Councillor Baldwin—who did not wait for the days of their strength to assist them in their struggle—to take tie chair . The vast building was crowded in every part to suffocation , although , the seats were all removed , and many who could not procure standing room climbed the posts , and remained in that-awkward situation during the whole proceedings . It was a most magnificent sight ; enough to make the heart of

      every persecuted Chartist jump with joy . The Chairman , in introducing Mr O'Connor , congratulated his townsmen upon the splendid display they had exhibited in honour of their princip les . He said , that , like himself , every other man of his class , and of all classes , should take advantage of that and every other opportunity afforded for discovering any means , bo matter by whom propounded , for improving the condition of the people . ( Cheers . ) For himself , he was not astonished that the great

      inducements promised from increasing trade had seduced many farmers , and others of the agricultural class , to abandon the pursuits of their ancestors , and try their fortunes in more fascinating and promising speculations . There was one thing clear , however , and that was that no man could now shut his eyes to the two-feld necessity of securing a sufficiency of human food , and remunerating those who produced it . ( Loud cheers . ) He had every confidence in the wisdom and discretion of his

      townsmen , and , therefore , he rested satisfied that his duty would be one of easy performance , because , like himself , all others constituting that meeting had come there to hear the value of a new princi ple propounded , and he hadj much pleasure in introducing Mr Feargus O'Connor to _ their notice . ^ , O'Connor , on rising , was received , with the most enthusiastic feelings of welcome and joy , which were repeated again and again He said—Men of Birmingham , this night affords me a great and a glorious triumph .

      There was a time when it was dangerous for me to stand upon this platform—in the days of your Free-Trade madness . ( Hear , hear . ) And , as I find you are penitent 5 and as you owe great atonement to the labouring people of England , upon their behalf I am ready to forgive you , and give you absolution for the past , provided you will never again swell the triumph of the tyrant . j ( Cheers , ) Provided that you will never again disgrace the cause of Freedom and of Labour , b y following the Free-Trade loaf—of which you could not procure

      even a slice—with gaping mouth and delusive cheer . There is no town in England that has inflicted a greater wound upon the cause of Freedom and Labour , than the town of Birmingham . Ever ready to transfer its power from quack to quack , from deluder to deceiver , until , at length , the force that carried the Reform Bill , became the jest of the oppressor , ( Cheers . ) I thought the day would arrive when I would have lived down prejudice , and when the solid princi p les that I advocated , strengthened by persecution and oppression ,

      would establish a safe standing place for themselves upon this platform . ( Cheers . ) And now , I would ask , where is the other principle from which so much was expected , and from which so much was promised , that could secure such a gathering as this ? ( Cheers and * ' None . '' ] Yes ; but there was a time when you witnessed seven ruffians l ying upon my chest , and threatening to murder me upon this platform ; there was a time when I was obliged to march the National Guard of Bilston and "Wolverhampton fifteen miles , mder

      a broiling san , into the town of Birmingham , to save it from its own madness . ( Cheers . ) There was a time when the Edmondses , the Salts , and the Douglases , denounced me as an Irishman and an alien , and dared me to stand before the people of Birmingham . I accepted the threat , however . I came , stranger and alien as I was . I stood upon this platform , in the midst of 10 , 600 people ; and , stranger and alien as 1 was , I dissolved the union of fraud—( loud cheers)—and exposed the treachery of my accusers . Now , that was

      something iu dangerous times , when you were blindly following those who had no earthl y object in view but their own interests ; and as soon as the Reform postman left their tickets for soup at their doors , they deserted you , and , like the Radicals of old . they said—Wh y do you grumble ? What do you want ? Have WE net got Reform ? ( Loud cheers and laughter . ) Are we not town clerks , and town councillors , and recipients and distributors of patronage ? And where now was the flaming George Edmonds—the physical force Kerry

      Douglaswhen he . the destructive , the deluder , was able to stand before their townsmen ? ( Loud cheers . ) The threat of a hundred thousand Birmingham men-at-arms marching to London , affrighted the isle from its propriety , the Iron Duke out of his * its , and the Opposition out of the Reform Bill . ( Cheers . ) But he ( Mr O'Connor ) would much rather see a hundred thousand men-at-arms marching in quest of their own sentry-box and their own labourfield , than on a crusade to gain power for others . ( Loudcheers . ) He understood that the Peace Preservation Society had been

      disappointed in their intention to hold a meeting in that Hall , and , no doubt , they would have edified their hearers with long orations against the barbarity and injustice of war ; but he asserted that they never would relinquish that power which they possessed of making Labour tributary to their jurisdiction . ( Cheers . ) He ( Mr O'Connor ) was more reall y and sincerely opposed to all war , to all cruelty , barbarity , and bloodshed , than any member of that society , but he considered death from starvation the worst descri ption of death , and , therefore , he had propounded a great national principle , around whose standard so

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      large an amount of national force had rallied , that the people of this country would never again endanger the success of that principle by justifying the oppressor in the application of p hysical force- ( Cheers . ) No , the people of this country have grown too wise to arm the oppressor with the deadliest of all weapons—the presumed justice ef using them . ( Cheers . ) But , upon this point , let him not be misunderstood , as * in the worst of times , he had never coined ideas to suit Jthe taste of the fastidious ; but had aftvcp & cti principles upon the same groundsj , wHltlt | Ti * reatened

      b y strength , pereecuti #£ ; ¥ aB # f ^ fdness . or tolerated by weakness and ' terS ^^ € b . eers . ) For these reasons he had neve ^ p ^ schea the blasphemous and debasing doctrines " of upcohditional passive obedience and non-resistance , or of unconditional loyalty . ( Cheers . ) No , he could not understand the description of loyalty that was due b y the millions of his poor countrymen who were stayved ; to death . ( Great sensation and cries of ^ Whame . '' ) He could not understand the policy which demanded unconditional loyalty from the Irish people , who { were compelled ia starve in- the midst of abundance created by themselves ,

      and he ( Mr O'Connor ) proclaimed , before that meeting of Englishmen , that , as an Irishman , he would not dishonour justice , disgrace himself , or insult his country , by professing unconditional allegiance to the monarch that governed her or the Jaws that persecuted her . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Yes , he was proud of being an Irishman , and he repeated to that monster meeting of Englishmen , that if he could prevent it they never should possess their liberty , an hour before his countrymen possessed theirs . ( Great cheering . ) The Irish were called barbarians by their oppressors to justify their own p ersecution , but Ireland was a civilised nation centuries before

      England was discovered , and was made barbarous b y English laws . ( Cheers . ) He would now inform them of his expectations from that great National Plan , of which , he had been the propounder . ' He found England , that is the English industry , paying forty millions of money in little less than a year for the produce of other countries , which they might have more beneficially secured from the land of their birth—( cheers)—and this incubus borne by the industrious portion of the nation ,

      for no other assignable purpose than that the speculators in labour may close the free labour market , create a degrading dependence , and make England tributary to the foreigner , and a beggar at his door , for the food her sons could produce at home , if every man was allowed to live in the sweat of his own brow , instead of , as now , the industrious starving and the idler ' s luxury simultaneousl y increasing . ( Great cheering . ) Their worthy chairman had proclaimed a great and irrefutable truth , when he told them that the fascinations of trade had

      seduced the husbandman from his natural pursuits , and they would soon discover that this system of drying Nature ' s pap would lead to the starvation of Nature ' s children . ( Cheers . ) The Earth was our mother , and if our tender nurses or guardians compelled us to depend upon the foreign breast , our strange nurses may wean us—nay , famish us—whenever they p leased . ( Cheers . ) But the worst was not the mere expenditure of forty millions in what we mi g ht have produced ourselves more profitably at home , but the grievance was augmented threefold , by the fact that the

      abstraction of that amount of money from productive uses at home led to diminished foreign tradeto diminished domestic consumption—and to the diminution of English wages by more than one hundred millions . ( Loud cheers . ) Now that ' s the enemy , that ' s the hobgoblin , against which my system contends . My system prop oses to make every man his own producer and his own consumer . My system proposes that every man shall be capable of judging of the value of his own free labour , so that when the capitalist requires to hire it , if the free labourer discovers that he can earn 31 . a

      week as his own master , he will not work for 15 s . a week for another master . ( Cheers . ) But in this p lan , as in our attempt to secure political equality , we have been most frustrated by these who have measured labour ' s right by the comparative , instead of the positive scale—by those aristocratic tradesmen who , receiving 30 s . and 2 l . a week themselves , scoffed at my battalion of fustian jackets , blistered hands , and unshorn chins , who had but the alternative of entering the competitive labour market , or the poor law bastile . ( Cheers . ) Now , however , the demands of an increasing idle class upon

      the exchequer of a diminished labour class , has puzzled the wits of our rulers , and they are unable to make both ends meet . ( Cheers . ) Yes ; these things would never be accomplished by a House of Fools , who were wholl y ignorant of all labour questions ; and he would make bold to assert , that he would select from the labour community 658 , who would make fools of the 658 philosophers in the House of Commons—( cheers)—I include myself . One principle of political economy tells us , that when one channel of industry is closed , another , as if

      by magic , is opened ; but now that the necessit y of importing a large amount of food has closed all artificial channels against labour , where is the possible outlet , save in the return , of man to his ' natural pursuits at agriculture ? ( Cheers . ) But then I am told that he could not be trained to the performance of agricultural work . How silly ! when we know that God created the laud , and man to till ; and the devil created machinery , and decreed man to be ground b y it . When we knew that ' it takes seven years to learn to make a coat , and not seven minutes to learn how to stick a

      cabbage . ( Great laughter and cheers . ) That it takes seven years to learn how to make a pair of shoes , and not seven seconds to learn how to dibble a grain of wheat . ( Cheers , ) But every princip le is difficult in its practical details , when its object is the improvement of the industrious ; but the most complicated are simple and manageable , which declare man to be born in the Custom House , and buried in the Exchequer . ( Cheers . ) No system of taxation which requires the enforcement of means for idlers to live upon , is complicated or difficult ; but every system is visionary and impracticable ,

      when its object is labour ' s benefit . ( Cheers . ) You have been studiously kept in i gnorance of the value of the land , while , from it is produced , by the simplest , most health y , and remunerative labour , everything you eat—everything you drink—everything you wear—every thing " you eat off of—everything you lie upon—everything you lie under . ( Laughter . ) Now are you Hot ignorant , when ^ you appear as tonished that your bed and bedclothes , your table , your chair , every stitch upon your back ^ is all produced from , the Land ; and that man ' s labour , applied to that source , constitutes it his bank , wherein he can coin his sweat into the most valuable

      produce , that can be exchanged for every article of luxury produced in other climes , or manufactured by machinery . ( Cheers . ) That is not the sole value of the Land Plan , because it further tends to diminish the competitive surplus in the labour market , asd thus increases wages , b y opening up this new channel for the employment of reproductive labour . ( Cheers . ) For instance , the dismissal of thousands of hands from railways fand other works , has thrown a great competitive * surplus into ; the labour market , and yet with this power to diminish wages , I have not reduced the wages of

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      my men in any one department , consequent upon that glut , —( loud cheers)—but , on the contrary , if the Plan progresses , as I have every reason to expect , before the summer passes I hope to be able ^ to employ ten thousand labourers at my remunerative employment . ( Tremendous cheering . ) What ministry , or what power of the press—the corrupt , the profligate , the liberty-slaying press—will be enabled to resist labour in such a march as that ? ( Cheers . ) The press may denounce me , and may seek to alarm yoa ; but I tell you that I heed its wrath but aa the invective of the scolding cook , the kitchen-maid , or the dog-boy , who scold at their master ' s bidding . ( Loud cheers . ) It is ten years and more since I told you that we lived in new times , and required new minds to govern us , but it is hopeless to talk to a scion

      of the House of Bedford , of the ini quity of the tithe system , while his famil y are such large partakers of the plunder . It is hopeless to expect any assault upon the worn-out privileges , upon which idlers live in luxury , frora those who are the largest reci p ients from that source , but , as well may . they hope to continue the old rule of aggression over the improved and improving mind of this country , as to expect the destruction of the gas and gasometer , and the return to the farthing candle—to expect the destruction of steam navigation , and the return to a reliance upon wind and wave—the

      destruction of the printing press , that quick medium of exchange of opinions—theidestruction of the electric telegraph—and of the results of the manifold discoveries , all tending to displace man from his natural position , as to hope that , while all other sciences are rapidly hurrying on to the goal of perfection , the science of legislation is alone to stand-still , or that the mind created b y the improvements in those sciences , will tolerate the legislation of the farthing candle minister in these days of gas enlightenment . ( Loud cheers . ) Then , when they talk of increased taxation as necessary for the increased

      improvement of our national defences , I say , " Go , level your maritime defences—go , spike your guns—disband your mercenaries—put your idlers upon the peace establishment , and rely upon a cordon of generous hearts for the protection / of your nation ' s greatness and your national wealth . " ( Loud cheers ' . ) Let every soldier be " placed in his own sentry box , in the centre of his own labour-field , and then , England may defy the foreign invader—( Cheers)—• but now that her exploded system , of which she was the propounder , the founder , and the upholder , is tottering into ruins around her ,

      she hopes that a recurrence to the paper architecture of the original projector will still protect her in the midst of universal convulsion . Look to the Italian states , struggling for liberty—look to Austria seeking to uphold its despotism—look to Portugal living in a revotion—look to Spain , with a population of fourteen millions , and only ninety-nine thousand electors—look to France , where legitimacy , as it is called , depends upon the life of an ailing old woman—and look to America , where the temptations of the landless have enabled her rulers to wage a most savage , barbarous ,

      unjust , and unnatural war for the augmentation of a territory which all the population of the world could not cultivate—and then , tell me that any thing short ' of an improved system of social and political protection will satisf y the improved mind of the country . ( Cheers , and a voice— "You forgot Switzerland . " ) Yes ; but I haven't forgotten Ireland nor England neither . ( Cheers . ) Well , then , is it not something that we alone should be ready to take advantage of the worst that may occur ? and , is it not something to be able to boast of the p leasure that I derive from my labours on behalf

      of the industrious ? I have been in Worcestershire this morning , and bought seven more horses —( loud cheers)—and nearly a score of cattle to make manure for the labourer , and ploughs , and harness , and scufHers ; and now , after some experience in "the principle and working of co-operation , I am enabled to propose in the next month ' s number of the " Labourer "' —the whole of which I have written this week —( loud cheers)—a further reduction in the rent of allotments to four per cent , upon the outlay . ( Tremendous cheering . ) And I have been enabled to recommend the

      distribution of bonuses , besides the interest paid upon deposits in the Bank , out of a source wholly created by my own industry , perseverance , and economy . ( Renewed cheering . ) Now this is what practical co-operation has taught me , and if my suggestions are acted upon , I will henceforth be able to locate ten for one . ( Cheering ) . I presume you are aware that I have purchased nearl y 300 acres of land within twelve short miles of Birmingham—( uproarious applause)—and what a demonstration there will be from Birmingham , to witness that realisation of the Chartist

      principle on May-day . ( Loud cheers . ) And how the value of that princi p le will be developed , when the able-bodied man on strike , and unable to procure employment , shall visit his friend , who is his own master and employer , and , instead of skill y and the workhouse , shall be welcomed to a p iece of bacon in the freeman ' s castle . ( Renewed cheering . ) I shall build nearl y a hundred sentry boxes there , and will they not be more forcible propounders of the principles of freedom and the value of labour , than their most eloquent expounder ? ( Cheers . ) I should like to see the recruiting sergeant

      and his kidnappers beating up for recruits in the Elysian fields ; I should like to see the women making chin-stays and ' cap-bows of their military favours . ( Cheers and laughter . ) Ah ! the p lace for them to recruit is in the bastile and the market place , amid despondency and despair ; at an Irish funeral , or the factory town . But I have no objection to an augmentation of the militia to any amount , provided the defenders of privilege are selected from the privileged order , and compelled to meet the foreign invader . ( Great cheering J When I am located near you , I will return the complement of this invitation . ( Loud cheers . ) And then as I progress , you shall witness my

      operations , while I will instruct you in the value of their fuller developement . ( Cheers . ) I now enlist yon once more on behalf of the Charter and the Land , telling yoa that you must rely upon my honour , and disregard the vituperation of a prostitute press—that I will remain amongst you as a hostage—( cheers)—that I am bound to you by ties of affection and feeling , which no power can sever—that I have a pride in your success that no words can express , and that in spite of all the opposition of the world , I will go on struggling with you till I lead your wives and little children out of the house of bondage into the land of freedom , and p lace every man in his own sentry box , in the centre of his own labour field .

      [ Mr O'Connor resumed his seat amidst the most deafening cheering ; his speech was frequentl y interrupted b y the waving of dense columns amid the wed ged mass of human beings trying to escape the suffocation , while a beastly drunken attorney ' s clerk , who stood in the front of the gallery , after frequent attempts to create a disturbance , was unceremoniously hustled out of the meeting . ] Mr Fossell proposed , and Mr Fallows seconded , a vote of thanks to }; Mr O'Connor , for his exposition 0 f his principles , and encouraged h ) m to persevere in hh good work . ° Mr Smith rose , in the organ gallery , to propose as an amendment , " That that meet .

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      inK felt great disappointment in not hearing a full developement of tha details of the Land Planr-and that the meeting be therefore adjourned to another night . " After frequent inquiries by the Chairman , an individual in the bod y of the Hall seconded the amendment . The Chairman said that he was sure Mr 0 Connor would answer any question that was P « t to him , but that . the meeting was not called for discussion . Mr-O'Connor , however , requested that Mr Smith-mi ght be allowed to proceed , when that gentleman continued , and said : That he was sure many felt equall y disappointed as himself at not hearing the details of the Land Plan more fully developed . ( Shouts of " No , no ; ' ' and"Read ; , the rules . " ) It was for that reason

      , and as he Wished for more information upon the subject , that he proposed to adjourn the meeting to ahbther night . Mr O'CcijHNOR again came forward , amid renewed cheers , and said : It is not to my indisposition to : develope the Land Plan more fulljv but to the impossibility of doing so at a ra & ftftig * of this kind , that Mr Smith id to attribute the want of that information that he expected , / but it is rather hard that after having written thousands of columns upon the subject—after having written a Practical Treatise upon the subject— -after having made

      innumerable speeches upon the subject and after rules had been printed upon the subject—which Mr Smith mi ght have read—( loud cheers)—that I should be called upon to enter into voluminous details and figures , as he states , when , in the state of un avoidable confusion , it would ba impossible to pitch the voice in this vast assemblage so as to preserve a necessary unbroken line of argument . ( Cheers . ) But I am told that Mr Smith ' s anxiety is based upon other grounds . I have learned that he himself is the propounder of a new and a rival plan . ( Cheers

      and laughter , and a cry of " No . " ) Well , I regret it , as I wish for all hel p ] upon this question . ( Cheers , and a cry from the same voice of " His plan is practicable ,, and yours is hot . " Hisses . ) Well , I thank my friend for his rather incautious admission that . Mr Smith is the propounder pf a plan , while the same person denied the ' assertion when I made it . ( Great laughter and cheers . ) r Well , but even that shall not ' prevent me from rendering all the assistance in my power to Mr Smith , or any otherHperson who will kindl y volunteer to take a portion of the burden off my

      shoulders , upon the same terms that I bestow my labours . ( Loud cheers . ) And , in presence of this meeting , I beg to assure Mr Smith that the columns of the Northern Star and my best assistance shall be at his command , free of charge , for the developement of his p lan . ( Great cheering . ) But am I to enter into details , published in our rules , for the information o f all who will not take the trouble to read them ? ( Cheers . ) But if it is any satisfaction to him and others , hoarse as I now am , I will state that the principle is , that every man who pays £ 2 . 12 s . 4 d . is entitled to be balloted for

      two acres ; that every man who pays £ 3 . 38 s . 6 d ., is entitled ts be balloted for three acres ; and every man who pays £ 5 . 4 s . 8 d ., is entitled to be balloted for four acres ; then , if he want fuller information as to the value of the system , let him read Mr Sillett ' s admirable practical w . ork upon the subject , and there he will ^ nd that Mr Sillett gave £ 236 . for two acresof bad land , without a stone or building upon it ; and that this Mr Sillett would not accept of £ 4 . a-week to leave his two acres of land , and go to any other employment . ( Lo ud cheers . ) Again , let him read an account of

      the operations of Samuel Bridge , in the " Labourer ' s Friend" Magazine , wherein it is shown that this man paid an enormous rent for four acres of clay land , and which he cultivated in the rudest way , selling his wheat straw—and that that man , even upon the rudest system , was able to purchase his four acres , and to purchase over forty acres more land and erect buildings upon it , and all out of the produce oi his own industry expended upon those four acres . ( Loud cheers . ) Let him read my letter upon the profit to be made upon the cultivation of three acres of land , and there he

      will find it shown , that after paying rents , rates , and "taxes , and all outgoings for fuel , clothing , ' for family , and expense of implements , and after allowing 17 s . [ Gi . a week for food for the family , that a man from 157 days ' labour , and after paying those outgoings , and living well , and educating his famil y , will have 44 ? , profit at the end of the year . ( Loud cheers . ) And then let it not be said that this is only my assertion because the " Farmer ' s Gazette , " which reprints the whole letter , says , in answer to a correspondent , "that very much

      more may be realised from three acres of land than what is stated by Mr O'Connor . " ( Great cheering . ) And then the editor of the " Farmer s Gazette" refers his correspondent to a treatise upon the subject , written by Mr Quin . But I do not even halt here , for when I am your neighbour , if Mr Smith could insure me a sitting audience of a . thousand or two thousand people who can hear , he shall have as many lectures as he pleases upon the princi p le , the object , and the details of the Land Plan . ( Great cheering . ) And with these observations I leave the question with vou .

      The amendment and original resolution were then put from , the chair , whan the ori ginal resolution was carried ; and upon the Chairman submitting for or against the ori ginal resolution , only two hands were held up against it . s , : Mr Gponwpr proposed , and Mr O'Connor seco'hded , a vote of thanks to the Commissioners for tire free use of the Hall , which was carried unanimousl y . A vote of thanks was then proposed to the Chairman , vxhicli was seconded by acclamation , and cirried . amid rapturous applause .

      The . CnAIB # AN expressed himself thankful to his townsmen for the orderl y and praiseworthy manner in which they had conducted themselves , and begged to observe , that in such a meeting as that , where the people were wedged together to suffocation , it was impossible to avoid those unintentional interruptions , which were wholly consequent upon the waving of so dense a mass endeavouring to escape suffocation . He thought that it was due to his townsmen to say , that never , under all the circumstances , had he witnessed a better behaved , or more orderl y or attentive meeting , and which he now declared dissolved . Loud cheers were given for the Chairman and Mr O'Connor , and tbefmeeting separated .

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      AM ) NATIONAL- ^ TRADES * JQ UR 1 AL . VOL- XI . NO 536- LONDON . SATURDAY , JANUAM 29 , 1848 . Pw . i ™ KS = Ewl ¦¦ ¦ . i ¦ — __ . ¦

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      [ A Birmingham correspondent writes us as follows ^— "The Mr Smith who tried to oppose Mr O'Connor - On Tuesday night , in the Town Hall , keeps the New Inn , in Bromsgrove-street , a market house , where the'farmers , from the neighbourhood in which Mr O'Connor recently purchased the Great Dodford Estate , dine on market day : " and the writer assures us that the change expected to be produced in that locality by Mr O'Connor ' s operations has driven the farmers out of their senses , and that they have put the landlord of their house forward as their scarecrow j -Jrat that the men of Birmingham are too wide awake now to be caught in the farmers' market trap . ]

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      Brav . —The members of the Chartist Association are requested to attend a meeting , on Sunday ( tomorrow ) , at half-past one o ' clock , p . m ., in tho usual plafie , Clerk-street .

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      Blackburn . —On Sunday , the 23 rd inst ., Mr t > . Donovan lectured in the Old Size Bouse , on the Land and the Charier . After & vote of thanks to the lecturer swid the chairman , the meeting separated highly satisfied , and we fondly trust he has left an impression on many minds that will never be effaced . Byerb Geebn . —A branch of tha National Charter Association has been opened at the bobbo of Mr John Stainbsnlr , Hare and Hounds Inn , New Field , near Byers-green . A lecture will be given by a friend on Saturday night , the 29 th of January , at seven o ' clock in the evening .

      Bebrtedob . —The Chartists of thio locality are up and doing ; at their weekly meeting , held on Sunday , January 23 rd , Mr Robert Car ? was elected delegate to attend at the delegate meeting at Sunderland , on Sunday , January 30 th . A series ef resolutions were adopted in favour of agitating tha district . Burnley . —On Thuiaday evening Mr Tomlinson addressed a meeting of his fellow townsmen in the Chartist Room , Hammerton-Btreet . His address gave universal satiefactios . Bjlstoh . —On Monday evening the usual weekly meeting was held at Mr Joseph Lume ; % tha Malt Shovel , New Town , Bilaton , tor the purpose of enrolling members of the National Charter . Association . Several new names were entered . Nearly the whole of the iron trades are ont of employ , and consequently the miners , both coal and ironstone , are destitute .

      Carlisle . — Meeting of ran Council of tub Chartist Association . —On Sunday last the council held their weekly meeting at the-Association room , 6 , John-street . The secretary read the appeal from Nottingham on behalf of fhhds ' to enable Mr O'Connor to defend his seat in parliament against the spleen and malice of those who have petitioned against his election . After an animated discussion on the propriety of sending & good Bum in aidof thesame , it was ultimately agreed to , that £ 1 . be sent off immediately and that means be taken to collect the town to increase our donation . The members of the Land

      Company also agreed to send £ 1 . in addition to ears ; this making two ponnds aa the first subscription for Carlisle . I doubt sot but we shall raise the sum of five pounds , even with our present depression of trade ; and if other towns , in proportion to their population , send a similar sum , the required amount , and something more , will be raised ; and who is there that can afford it , will not give his mite , when the honour of the Chartist movement is at stake ; for , if Mr O'Connor , be thrown out , it will be a stigma on the whole body ; therefore , it iathe duty ef every Chartist to do what he can , either as a contributor or a collector .

      Coventry . —A notice having appeared in the Northern Star , that the executive of the National Charter Association had appointed Mr S . Kydd as lecturer for the Midland Counties , , and having a desire to . avail ourselves of the services of that gentleman , we called a meeting on Monday the 24 th , to establish a branch of the National Charter Association , and to co-operate with the Chartists in those places that Mr Kydd may visit in his route . ! Mr Richard Hartopp having been called to the chair , and having explained the objects of the meeting , Mr William Hosier rose to move the following proposition : — ' That we form ourselves i-nto a branchof the

      National Charter Association ; seconded by Mr Thomas Pickard . Proposed by Mr Thomas Pickard , seconded by Mr William Hosier , * That Mr R . Hartopp be appointed secretary , and Mr John Robinson treasurer of this society . ' Proposed by Mr George Freeman and seconded by Mr Thomas Hall , ' That the following five person be appointed as the fcouncil of the society : —Messrs Alexander Yates , Hill-field ; George Smith , Much-park-street ; Richard Adrian , St John street ; David Haines , Sherbourne-streefc ; Thomas Pickard , Gosforth-street . ' The resolutions were carried unanimously . The society will meet every Monday evening . ' at Mr Pritchard ' s , Temperance Coffee-house , at eight o ' clock , for the enrolment of new members . Any parties having any communication with the Chartists of the above society , will direct to the secretary , Mr Richard Hartopp , Grey-friara-lane , near the Hospital , Coventry .

      Coksleton . —A meeting of the shareholders was held on Monday evening , when the following resolution was adopted : — ' That a coffee party be got up , and the proceeds , after paying the necessary ex * peaces , to be applied as follows : —one-third towards defending Feargus O'Connor , Esq . ' s seat in parliament , one-third for prosecution of the Manchester Examiner , and the other to be ^ given to the Widow of the late William Revy , a member of this branch . ' IIudderspield . —The first meeting this year of the members in this district was held on Saturday evening the 8 th inst ., when the treasurer of the fund for the prosecution of the Manchester Examihbr ,

      and other libellers of Feargus O'Connor , Esq . M . P ., having made his appeal to the members present , it was declared that the sum of £ 2 . 4 ? . W ., being the amount collected on this and preceding evenings , should be forwarded to Feargus O'Connor ,. Esq ., with the hearty wishes of his faithful friends in Huddersfield tor his health , and success in all his undertakings . The regular meeting for the receiving of the contributions and levy will be held this evening , Saturday , January 29 th , and every succeeding second and last Saturday evenings in each month , at lbberaon ' s Temperance-house , Buxton-road ; when the re-election of the officers and committee for the year will be proceeded with .

      Hbbdbh Bridge . —The members of this branch met on Saturday , the 22 nd inst , when it was resolved , ' That a committee of fourteen persons be appointed , with power to add to their number , to canvass this district for signatures to the National Petition . ' A subscription was opened for the defence of Mr O Connor ' s seat . The members of the Charter Association met on Sunday afternoon , when a committee often was appointed to act conjointly with that appointed by the Land members . At six o ' clock the same evening the two committees met , and divided the neighbourhood into districts , and two of the committee were appointed to canvass each district . The meeting adjourned to Sunday next the 30 th inst ., at six o ' clock .

      Halifax . —The Halifax district delegate meeting was held in the Working Man ' s Hall , Bullclose-lane , on Sunday , January 23 , when delegates were pvesent from the following localities : —Midgley , Elland , Lower Warley , Bradshaw Lane , Queenshead , and Halifax . The following resolutions were unanimously passed : — ' That the secretary's account now read be passed . ' ' That 200 heads of bills bo printed for the localities , to announce the lectures of the local lecturers . ' ' That we disapprove of the decision come to by the Executive with respect to sending Mr

      Donovan to agitato the counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire , as Mr Donovan having been recently engaged in this country , and for years in this district , we should have pieferred Mr Kydd , or some other individual to agitate the district . ' ' That the district secretary be empowered to correspond with Mr Jas . Leach , of Manchester , and engage him , if possible , to spend a week in agitating this district . ' ' That the district delegate meetitsg be adjourned to this day three months . ' All communications for the Halifax district to be addressed to Mr John Webber , district secretary , ? , Range bank , Halifax , Yorkshire .

      Halifax . —At the usual weekly meeting held here last Sunday , Mr Fielding'in the chair , he commenced by reading the address from Nottingham on behalf of Mr O'Connor ' s seat . He then introduced to the meeting Mr Tomlinson , who spoke for an . hoar , and wound up an address of unusual eloquence , by a pathetio ^ appeal on behalf of Frost and his co-patriets , The followin g was submitted to the meeting and carried by acclamation : — That it is the opinion of this meeting , that Ministers having declared that the restoration of Frost and his co-patriots is at the option of tha Crown , it Is high time another bold and vigorous effort be made on their be . half ; and that we are of opinion that tho best method would be to purchase state dresses for tbe widens , that they may be enabled to present themselves at the foot of the throne , and there supplicate for pardon on behalf of their husbands .

      Usbdes Brims . — On Monday , Mr Ambrose Tom . linson lectured in the Democratic Chapel , Hebden Bridge , to a numerous audience . A vote of thanks was given to Mr Tomlinson , for his able and instructive lecture . Kbiohust . —On Sunday last , young Tomlinson , of Halifax , was announced by large placards , to lecture in the Working Man ' s Hall . The gallery was filled as well as the body of the Hall by men and women , some having come from as far as Bingley , and other

      places for miles round , iu the afternoon he attended the adults in our Sunday school . At six o ' clock in the evening he commenced his lecture ; by condemning the drinking usages of the country . He then made a powerful appeal to the women to use their influence to strengthen tbe mighty movement for the sublime principles of democracy . He then in a clear and argumentative manner , gave an explanation of the Six Points of the Charier , and concluded his address with an eloquent appeal to the Land members , to become members of the National Charter

      Association . Loughborough . —This place ia shaking off its lethargy . A few friends meeting every Sunday eveningat theWheatsheaf , Ward ' s end , have re-organised the Charter Association . On Sunday last , Mr Sweet , of Nottingham , delivered an address . Mr Sweet waa loudly cheered by tbe meetingi which

      Blackburn.—On Sunday, The 23rd Inst., Mr...

      was composed of some of the old Chartists of y . iecpaai head , Hathern , Norraanton , snd Mountaorrel , aas well as Loughborough . From the feeling displayedJ it was evident that Chartism was nut dead iu thbis district . , ,, „ _ ' Lynn . —At a Chartist meeting held at Mr Jataess Dickeraon ' s , Queen-atreet , it was unanimously cawried—* That five shillings be forwarded to the Exe * cutive of the Chartist Association . ' It was also re * solved— 'That a deputation be appointed tawait oaa the bricklayers' branch of the National Association of United Trades ' , to elicit them to join the ChartisiM ! Association . ' Meetings are held every Tuesday night , * at seven o ' eloek , at Mr Jamea Dickeraon ' s , Q , ueen »» skreet . rvKa n / mn / mil nfcAtr . B n ( fho nTd fihatflints of Nlicnnajj

      MfliRopoLiiAN Dblsoatb Couhcu ., Jan . 27 th .- » - Proposed by Mr Lucas , seconded by Mr Turner : — > ' That each delegate be requested to report progress : from each of their localities at the delegate meeting . ' Carried , All arrangements were concluded ? ¦ respecting the soiree . Camber well and Walworth , 2 s 6 d . Adjourned to Wednesday next . W . Taj ? Secretary , National Victim Committjeb . —The secretary ( Me John Simpson ) acknowledges the receipt of S $ . Si . from Richard Wheatley for the' Mrs Jones' Fund i and 6 d . from William Dean . and 6 d . from Joseph Retd , for the general fond . Receipts op the Cbhtbal Registration ahb > Elbciiok CoMMiiTEB . —BriatoI , £ 1 . Oa . Od . . Jambs GRASSBr , Secretary .

      Swimdok—At a meeting of the Swindon branch o £ the National Charter Association , held on Monday evening , January 24 , at the Golden Lion Inn , it was resolved— ' That tha council of the Swindon branch of the National Charter Association be appointed collector of monies for the defence of Mr O'Connor ' s seat in Parliament . ' ' That a committee of three draw up an address to the public on the subject , to fea printed for the use of tbe said council . ' The council are requested to attend at the Golden Lion Inn , on Monday evening next , to receive their collecting books . < fec . Subject for discussion on Monday evening , January 31 ; ' Tha propriety of the establishment of another Land Company . '

      SHOBHDnoH . —On Sunday evening last , Mr Dixon lectured at the Green Gate , Hackney-road . The lecture gave great Batisfsctioni Messrs- Drake and t fevtsom also addressed the meeting . A vote of thanks was given to the lecturer and chairman . Sauord —A lecture was delivered in the Chartist room . Bank-street , Great George-street , on Sunday last , by Mr W . P . Roberts , the Miners' Attorney General , to a numerous meeting . A vote of thanks was unanimously given to Mr Roberts for his excellent lecture .

      Stockport . —On Sunday evening Mr Ambrose Tomlinson lectured here to a crowded audience . Ho spoke for upwards of two heura in a strain of thrilling eloquence . His address was a masterpiece of oratory from beginning to end , and has not been surpassed in Stockport . He is in fact a second John West . A vote of thanks was given to the lecturer for his able and eloquent address . The chairman in puttiag the vote to the meeting , wished to know if there was a father or mother in that meeting that would not be proud of having such a son .

      Stockport . —The committee that conducted the late general election in Mr J . "West ' s favour , return their sincere thanks to tbe public for thair kind 1 support during that election , and also inform thosa persons who were favourable to Mr West , that they are determined to have their man in the field naxt general election . Subscriptions will be thankfully received towards defraying the expenses for tho next general election . Collectors are appointed ts sit at MrT , Woodhous &' s , every Saturday evening , from six to eight , and at the Lyceum , Sunday evenings , from six to eight , The money will be lodged In the Land and Labour Bank , by order of the committee .

      Thb Tivbrtoh Chartists desire to return their sincere thanks to Mr Watson , for his kind present of eight valuable works to their Library . Wakbtiei , d . —Progress of Chartism . —The Chartists of this town have taken the large room together with the ante-room adjoining , situate in the Post Office-yard , where it is in contemplation shortly to hold a tea-party . The next West Riding Delegate meeting will be held in this room , this therefore will instruct delegates coming to tbe said meeting where to apply to .

      Forthcoming Meetings. Bath.—The Disciple...

      FORTHCOMING MEETINGS . Bath . —The disciples and admirers of Thomas Paine , are informed that his birth-day will be commemorated by a public dinner at the large room , at the King William , Thomas-street , Walcot , on Jan , 31 st . —The committee of management are requested to attend at Mr Cottle ' s No . 1 , Margaret ' s Hill , WaU cnt Parade , on Sunday evening next , at seven o ' clock . Heiwood . —Mr Thomas Tattersall , of Burnley , will lecture in the Chartist Association-room , Hartley-street , Heywood , on Sunday next , the 30 th . inst ; - First lecture to commence at two o ' clock iu the afternoon , Subject : ' What ean the Legislature do for the people ? What can the people do for themselves V Second lecture to commence at six o ' clock in the evening . Subject : ' The characteristics of the present age . ' Oldburt . —Tho district delegate meeting will take place at Oldbury , on Sunday , 29 th inst .

      Rochdaie . —Mr Ambrose Tomlinson will lecture in the Chartist-room , on Sunday night , at six o ' clock in the evening . Nottingham . —A meeting of the District Council will be held at the Salutation , on Sunday afternoon , January 30 th , at three o ' clock . —A meeting of the committee appointed to receive subscriptions for tho purpose of defending Mr O'Connor ' s seat in Parliament , will be held at the Seven Star ? , Barker-gate , on Monday evening next , atseven o ' clock . Oidham . —On Sunday , February 6 , a lecture will

      bo delivered in the large room of the Working Man's Hall , by Ernest Jones , Barristcr-al-law . Chair io be taken at six in the evening . On Monday , a public meeting will be held in the same hall , for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of petitioning parliament to pass into law , the document known as the People's Charter . Ernest Jones , Esq ., Barrister-at-Law , will be present ; and Wm . P , Roberts , Esq ., and Mr James Leach , have been invited , and are expected to attend . Chair to be taken at half-past seven o ' clock in the evening precisely . .

      Midgley . —Messrs Rushton and Hooson will address the Chartists of this place on Sunday , Jan . 30 , at six o clock in the evening . Middlbton . —On Saturday evening , February 5 , at six o ' clock , Mr Ernest Jones will lecture in the Temperance Hall , Thb SeoiH Lancashire Observation Committbe has drawn up the following route for Mr Daniel Donovan for the ensuing week : —Sunday , January 30 th , jBolton ; Monday , 31 st , Leith ; Tuesday , Feb . 1 st , Warrington ; Wednesday , 2 nd , St Helens ; Thursday , 3 rd , Prescott ; Sunday , 6 tb , Liverpool . All localities desiring the lecturer's services , are requested to send to the Observation Committee , through Mr J , O'Hea , secretary , 78 , Heyrod-street , Manchester , when they will also be furnished with the printed plans of the local lecturing department of South Lancashire .

      Sheffield . —Next Sunday a meeting of the central and all the local committees , will bo held at Mr Caville's , Queen-street , at seven o'block in the evening , when business of great importance will be brought before them . On Monday , nsoiree will be held lathe Mall of Science , to commemorate the birthday of tho great champien of Democracy , the immortal Thomas Paine . Tea oa the table at five o ' clock . Hull The Chartists will meet at the Ship Inn Church-lane , on Sunday evening next , at eix o ' clock . Sauord . —A lecture will be delivered m the National Charter Aasoeiation-rooro , Bank-street , Great George-street , Satford , by Mr William Bell o Heywood , on Sunday evening next , the 30 th inst . Subject : — ' Our Commercial and Manufacturing Crisis / Chair to be taken at half-past six . Mr Thomas Cla « k will address the men of Cambridge on Monday evening next .

      Mr Kvdc ' s Rouse . —Northampton , on Monday night ; Leicester , onTuesday night ' , Derby , on Wed . nesday night - , and Nottingham , on Thursday night . Tiverton . —The quarterly meeting of the Chartist Association will take place in the lar ge room at the Half Moon Inn , on Friday , the 4 th of February next . The chair to be taken at seven o ' clock .

      The Dublin Confederates And Mr O'Connor....

      THE DUBLIN CONFEDERATES AND MR O'CONNOR . TO THE EDITOR OF THB NORTHERN STAR . Deab Sir , —Having seen in Mr O'Connor ' s Isst address to the ' Irish People , ' allusion made to the Grattan Club of this city , thanking its members for their favourable notice of his recent conduct in parliament , I think it right to inform you , that a vote of thanks was also passed to him by the club io Which I belong . And is this any wonder ? Gracious God ! is it any wonder , that the extraoidinery efforts of this extraordinary and consistent man , m the cause of human fre edom , should be appreciated by his own countrymen , when for those effort ! I ft * lishmen ? Cer

      is almost adored by millions of Eng , tainlv not . The Irish are not an ungrateful people They , too , can appreciate sterling patnojsm and reverence ' the man who spent a fortune : aiid flubtrt y ears of his life b felling to tta monster , class H ^ : ^ been blinded by prejudice , a false teachings of the men whose SSTtaSer state of thin * before us and that which tyranny 2 e y a union of the people II «¦•„ hastening to comp letion I ^ S ^ w ^ 'p England , millions . b ¦ Iam , Sir , yours' Patrick DuFF Vice-President , Dr Doyle Dnblin , Jan . 19 th , 1848 .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 29, 1848, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_29011848/page/1/