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      Hkywood.— At A Recent Anniversary Meetin...

      _aneswness . Ton hare been told that I have induced _JtoSnto subscribe nearly £ 70 , 000 for the purchase _KSdi _*& " _* tbe s ht honoaraWe _gcntlemanapon e lastL last occaaoa told us was arbitrary , dangerous , 1 iou _ioproP" - Yoa see sk l hwe a _8 °° d memory 5 lie > dl could remember your whole speeeh from _be-^ g ? _^ to end , delivered here twelve months ago . _loS _^ _os bter and p laudits . ) " This I am bound to „ „ ] XSfi were your words , sir , " This I am bound '' '' jf Mr O'Connor ' s princi ples were carried into i _gctj _. _gctjthe ? vfoidd lead to anarchy and confusion . " '" '" yr 1 . a «» _tutan _tnlti « 1 . _ 4 T t .- __ . ' . - __ _i " _ _il

      isk S _gst y ° _wtetter a _** _" P _^ _a _^ _W lead s oa n _« cby and confusion- ( Tokens of approval . ) I k ton whether I have done any good , when I tell io , W , that of ftat £ 70 ' 000 ° . 0 ° 0 has been ie » _C ( iejiched frombeer-palacesandtbe gin-shop . ( Hear , _ar- ) te _» _r- ) Yesterday , by agency , I purchased 500 _ies iaeS more land- ( Tremendons and long-continued ie ( _3 _yiee riiig . ) I think it is I who am upon my trial ie i ere to-day . It is I who have been denounced bv

      * i ? _eie ? portion of the press . It is I who have been _denied , while I have been doing all tbe good I could . _Jre _^ _Gre at approbation . ) It is my pride to stand before in , fon , and ask yon what Tree Traders bave proposed i i _asto ask yon what tbe Whigs proposed j what the _Dismt _^ enters proposed ; and I will shew to yoa that all at _ihat is good in what they have proposed , I carry into racpractical effect ? ( Repeated cheering . ) Then I onWonld ask you , who is the great Reformer ?

      _^ Whether those parties who proposed and _derated to benefit the working class , who _relariled me , or I , who am carrying the objects of _lilllinto practical effect ? ( Great excitement . ) I _jvidevote twelve hours every day to the service of the _wipoor , and I never travelled a mile or ate a meal at _ifitheir expense , ( hear , hear ;) and yet I am supposed i tta be an individual not fit to be a representative in letheHouse of Commons . Why ?—because I could

      notnot be bought ( Excessive cheering . ) I will tell _youyou now , as tbe honourable gentleman bas told you of tof his declhuug an offer—I will show you how your _momoaey is frittered away . I dare say the right loilonourable gentleman remembers tbat in 1834 I mas rather troublesome to tbe ministers ; and upon on one occasion Mr Lambert was about to propose a cl clause , like tbe appropriation clause , wbich appropi priation clause Mr Ward and others had forgotten as as soon as they got to tbe treasnry ( laughter ); they u never think of their principles , bnt like the

      honoura able gentleman tbey say , "I am always the same . '" ( ( Renewed laughter . ) So itis with all ; men change , 2 aid then charge the people with inconsistency-1 When did the people ever turn f rom a man that did _i sot turn irom tbem ? ( Great applause . ) If the < others change , and the people will not go with them , it shows their stability and tbe others' inconsistency ( laughter ); and I say ofthe people , they are the most _steadfast the most confiding , the most-tobe-admired class iu society . ( Uproarious plaudits . ) But to return to my tale . This motion of Mr

      Lambert was supposed to puzzle the minsters , and Mr Edward Stanley , in the House of Commons , proposed to give me half the patronage of my county if I would support it . " Well , "' said I , I will take the whole ofthe patronage ' of my county . Now , you appoint a good man upon every vacancy , and 1 will support you . " " Of course , then , " said he , you will support us to-night , and oppose Mr Lambert ' s motion ? " « You will see , " said I . Well , what did I do ? Directly he sat down I got up and seconded tbe motion . ( Great burst of applause . )

      That is tbe way I repaid tbem for half the patronage ef the county . ( Laughter . ) We had , sir , Sir Jobn Jams , a great liberal ; we had the great soap-boiler , _vho , I suppose , will nest be proposing that tbe people shall be washed four times a day and shaved three times a day . __ ( Great merriment . ) _Gentlemtn , boast oi your prowess now . Perhaps when Ihe places were not worth your acceptance . ( Hear , hear . ) And think of tbe difference between a man looking for power , and a man abusing power , ( hear , kar , ) ami manv men haw been _\ iotent—no man so

      much so as my right honourable friend , if I may call him so . As I told him before , the first toast I drank after dinner wben I was entitled to half a class of wine , was "Prosperity to Ireland . '' The toast I drank when I bad a whole glass , was " Prospenty to Ireland , and downfall to . tyranny ; ** and to the third toast we added , " Lord Grey , Sir Francs Burdett , and Sir _John'Cam Hobhouse . " ( Great uproar . ) Then , I ask you , ii I have not a rig ht to twit my tutor ? if I have not aright to ask bim , _ftbea he propounded principles that were dear to

      _JM , and then brought vengeance to bear upon me » ien I adopted those principles ; ( shame 1 shame 1 ) I ask i ; that was just ? I won't say anything personal of the ri ght honourable gentleman , for he knows , and you know , I would not hold the _representation ot Nottingham upon the base tenure of a falsehood : if a man said to me , " Say this which is against yonr conscience and I will give you my castbig vote ; " I would rather die than go out from -Votiingham so dishonoured . ( Loud approval . ) I ay of the right honourable gentleman , thathe is I

      too good for bis colleagues . I say that I , an humble _& ciple , bave an interest ia tbe well-being of my master ; and I may try to . lure , to coax , to seduce hn from the bad company hs has been keeping . { Laughter and cheering . ) I have no doubt on my oind , ere long , a few more such exhibitions as _toese—for mind ! I told you tbis was to be an _exhibition of progiess ; and I wonld say , after he has told yon to reject him if ever he has abused Four trust , after he bas . said , " I do not feel I lave abused it "—be is tben

      _deficien t in feeling ; for he thinks he has _^ _assd it , but he does not fed so . ( Laugh . ttr _- ) When yoa have made a few more _exhibitions of this _kiml , the right honourable _stmkffian told , yoa fast time he wonld be _° J ambassador * my plenipotentiary , and he said « would communicate my principles to his _colo gnes . Now . when he communicates the growth * _f Four mind to his colleagues ( hear , hear , ) perhaps % will understand what it means . It is as impossible to resist popular progress as it is to resist the _^ in Ms coarse . ( Loud applause . ) We bave tbrpe _gKat reformers in this coantry , and tbey will carry

      _^ before them . We bave the glorious apostle of _kmpsrance , Father Mathew , who is giving your ° uads to think and your eyes to see ; we have _^ ffland Hill , giving cheap circulation to the _representations of truth ; and we have Sir Robert Peel , ( peat hursts ol plaudits , ) we have tbat man who _«» _3 the daring and the boldness to grapple with _^ th , for knowledge has struck like an electric _^ _ock upon bis mind , and he bas had the manly < 9 > uage ta act up to it And don ' t talk to me about Jour minister we « e , and your minister in posse ; _* to ' t compare ' the incomparable , —don't liken tbe _^ minister to tbe present _minister , tbere is as much _Terence as between a horse-chestnut and a

      chest-Snt horse . ( Boars oflaughter . ) Wait tul Bentinck _^ Peel join , and tben you will see where Lord Mn _RusseU and his Whigs will go to . Then you * i _! I see the raising of the last sheaf , and the _seamin g ofthe rats . ( Much laughter . ) And as Lord J ° l > n asked Sir Robert for a loan of his three _juve-^ Statesmen , perhaps Lord George will return the _^ pliment ; but I h ope be won ' t take the rig ht _fooourable gentleman as one of tbe juvenile _slates-•^ ( Bursts of laughter . ) I am . sure he will not be that

      _^ does . The Times has told you Mr ' Connor would go and indulge himself by making _teh ; hut tbat speech may have more effect baa they think o £ It will be in the hands of milj as ° n Saturday , and if sound it will be adopted ; th Unsou , » d , it will be rejected . Aid here yoa bave _^ »« _es ( pointing to the re _^ rter _' s ij _8 X , ) tliat has _j _? _J o » y , Radical , Whig , and will be Puseyite one _^ dajs . ( Laughter . ) And don't you think _Re done something when I have lived and suc-

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      cessfully opposed tbe most corrupt ' press _fte world ever saw ? ( Cheers . ) It is from the Piess , they say proceeds all these movements toward true liberty Not so . The press selects an individual for opJu brmm and contumel y , and never advances the _causeofliber _^ We you talk of minisS L tue and hberahty , see how much more virtaous pl He opinion makes the French ministry ; how much more mond than your _daSS in this country is . ( Ap-Plause . ) I „ France you have had two peers and an ministe _^ V . - •_ -- - -

      ex- r fined ; you have had one man fined 9 _o , UU 0 francs , and visited with the loss of civil _nghts aud three years' imprisonment ; and three others deprived of their civil ri ghts and fined 10 , 000 francs , for doing what is done hy your government every year . ' Look at the Secret Service List , and you will find it larger after every election . Do not accuse ( he right honourable gentlemen of bribing you . He is not such a fool . ( Much merriment . ) I have bad a great many of his bills shown to me ;

      eight or ten bave come to pledge me to pay these bills of tbe right honourable gentleman . Perhaps tbe ri g ht honourable gentleman would like to have them . ( Excessive mirth . ) I believe be has got ? n tbe wrong boat ; he trusted upon secret service money , and some men bave put it in their own pockets ; ( Renewed laughter . ) I have no doubt we shall have the fly-by-nights going abont again tbis evening ; but the non-electors will watch them , (' ay , ay , we will ! ' ) and if an elector receives _£ 5 , £ 10 , or £ 15 for his vote , if he brings me that note , and will prove before a committee of tbe House when , and from whom , he received it , I will give him a £ 50 note in exchange for it . ( Loud cheer _, ing . ) I assure you they will he well watched this time ; and they have altered the law a little with

      respect to bribery ; I will take advantage of tbat alteration in tbe law . ( Applause . ) What I look for is , the separation of Church and State ; untrammelled _education ; and , although Mr Gisborne tells you that the money for education comes out of your pockets , why ; how much more comes out of your pockets that is applied to a worse purpose , ( hear , hear . ) And wben you are thoroughly educated you will take care that nothing comes out of yonr pockets but what is applied to a right purpose . ( Excessive applause . ) Are we not told that the Irish people ' s destitution proceeds from the want of education ? and yet they would leave the Irish people

      uneducated , and take their money to educate the _protestants of England . If tbe gentlemen of England had to pay eight millions to Ireland yearly , tbey would be glad to find some remedy , and would then not hesitate to pay £ 100 , 000 yearly in education to save tbe ei g ht . millions . ( Great applause . ) Now then , I propose , and shall not only propose it but shall enforce it , not like those gentlemen who come for your votes and you never see them again . ( Laughter . ) If I am returned to Parliament I will resign that trust when tbe non-electors of Notingham call upon me to do so , and when tbe electors of _Nottingham , by a majority of one .

      call upon me to do so . I will never accept of place , pension , or emolument , from any government . I will receive at my house rich and poor with equal courtesy . I will not close my deor against t hose who apply io make their grievances kno » _o ' to me . ( Applause . ) No ! my time shall , be at their service ; and by my . energy , zeal , and perseverance , I will be able to effect more for the town of Nottingham than the minister , or the ex-member for North Derbyshire . ( Cheers . ) And I have no doubt I shall be able to effect very much more ; because I shall have a pride in doing it . And even when the rich man comes to me , he will not say that I am unjust to

      bim , because I aro just to you . ( Great applause . ) I am no leveller ; I am your elevator ( cheers ); and if you think your lives and properties are in danger , tben it is because the lives and properties ofthe poor are insecure .- ( Hear , hear . ) I will vote for the separation ot Cbnrcb and State . I will vote and _agitate Ireland from north to south , and trom east to west , asainst the endowment ofthe Catholic priesthood ; and if the government should attempt to carry that , I will move an amendment upon every night when it is brought forward ; and , if necessary , I will talk for thirty hours a-week against it . ( Tremendous cheers . ) I will vote for Education wbicb is not

      sectarian . _( _HeaTi hear . ) I will vote for a Property Tax ; and I will vote that the salaries ofthe na-Bisters _, judges , placemen , pensioners , and prostitutes , shall be reduced according to the value of manufactured goods and wages of the country . I will vote that gold shall not bear a permanent value ol £ 317 s . Mid . the ounce . I will vote for everything that is in tbat pamphlet ( alluding to one lately _pablisbed by Mr _bright , of Nottingham ) , which eontains what I said years ago . I will vote for every particle of that question a 3 it is expressed there . And when I say 1 will vote , I do est say it like my two opponents ; I do not say if some one else brings

      it forward , I will support it ; bnt I pledge myself to keep hammering at the ministers —( laughter)—till I make them do it . ( Continued laughter . ) Yoa look for the Charter , and S 9 do I . You are opposed to receive alms from the Pcor Laws , and so am I . But mark : there is no question of so large import as the Currency Question to you . But what is the reason yon don't understand it ? It is because tbe _thing is of such a nature that it weaves ita web around you without your seeing it . ( Hear ) But take tbat question as a whole , and yoa will find that keeping up the rate of gold , when manufactures are cheap and labour is cheap , makes yon give three times as much

      labour for tbe money . ( Greatcoramof _^ n . ) What will become cf this measure of M 4 if you have another bad harvest ? Wbattben will become of vour representative medium in the Bank of England ? Why itis not a flea bite compared to the amount of money in circulation . At the last you will be the greater sufferers ; for it is out of the nature of things that if they are obliged to give so much more of manufactured goods to represent an ounce of gold ; tbey can give you so much wages . ( Greatapplause . ) Talk tome about tbe Charter _bringing confusion ! I showed you directly that I opened the market for virtue , vice disappeared . And I will ask the right honourable

      gentleman , whether a man will worship his God with less ardour , and fervency , and delight , it the souls of the I people are not to be saved by the acre , the rood , or j the perch ? I ask you whether any thinking man . in the 19 th century , can suppose that a man can prepare himself by patronage to ta a bishop or minister ofthe gospel ? Clear , hear . ) I would ask you if that ia sueh a qualification as was intended forthe _gilvation of souls ? I am for allowing every man to pay his own _physician aud his own spiritual adviser . ( Greatapprobation . ) These things : will , ere long , i come home to the _gentleman ; for you may depend npon it , tbat a government looking for a renewal of

      power , is like a snake in the grass , ( Applause . ) Neither tbis right honourable gentleman , nor the noble lord , now perhaps on tbe hustings ih London , wiii tell what they propose to do . ( Hear . ) Now , I ask you , as proud and honourable men , is . that the way for ministers to come before the . people ? ( Cheers . ) I ask you whether you ought not to have put tbis question to tbe ministers ? He tells you that the time was so short that they had not time to go through air the bills . Well , we shall have the same excuse made next time . ( Outcry . ) Now , when gentlemen are paid for a job , and receive & less amount of salary because they have done a less

      amount of business , then I will believe they have done what they could , and been excessively ardent and diligent . But tbey will receive the stipulated amount of pay , whether they do much or little . The people are called dissi pated and unthrifty . Why , tbe throne is supported by dissipation and dissoluteness . ( Hear , hear . ) Stop the gin palaces tomorrow ; stop _dissipation and prostitution to-morrow , aod your salary will be wasting tho next day . ( Loud plaudits . ) I require a government that will have an incentive to virtue . I require a graduated scale ol Property Tax , and _ao tax upon Industry . And who so much right to pay itaa the men who have

      , had the making of the laws for centuries ? The landlords of this country have had tbe _making of . the laws for centuries—( loud disapprobation . ) They have had a monopol y of everything till now . Then , if the toy is so dear to them , let them pay for the toy ; let them pay t ' ., r tbeir _whittle . ( Fervid applause and laughter . ) Therefore , I am for a graduated scale upon property . f think 1 may now appeal to these men , and ask tbem whether or no I bave not opened up some of the resources of the country . ( Hear , hear . l

      Although 1 waa told I was to be catechised about the Land Plan , I stand now to give an account of every act ; asd I will hot only ask to be catechised npon the Laud Plan , but of every act of my whole life , whether moral , social , or political , and more especially upon that plan which I myself have promulgated , formed , and propounded for the workingclasses . I have , within the last year , built eighty _cottseea , _; hear , bear ) , witb outbuildings , and two sehoo i-houses I have erected on the estate , as a proof to the _vorkug-classes that tbey hare no objection

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      to educate themselves wben tbey are allowed to do 80 . ( Much applausft . ) Do yoa say , throw the people on tbeir own resources ? So say I ; but take the idlers off their resources . ( Cheers . ) Well , gentlemen , I will vote against all poor-laws ; and I will vote that the property tax ofthe count-y comes out ofthe landlord's _Deducts , and not out of t ! 3 tenant ' s ( applause ) , and I wiil vote that tbe seven millions ayear , wh _' ch _rowgcestosuppirt _placoiren and others , shall , o to place _theae peev men upon the land , to make them producers and consume !! of your manufactures . ( Loud approbation . ) Just consider tbis picture . Look at Nottingham now ; a barren waste all round it ; picture Nottingham , surroanded by thirty _thouBandacrea o _? well-cultivated soil , with ten thousand peasants upca it . Think of their wives

      and children coming into the market on _Saturday nights to buy your gcods . Think ofthe extra amount they would earn , aud then think of the fact ihat they , would be consumers a ? well as producers . For observe , that unless you have consumers yon will have no home-market , and itis to that you must look , for all the countries will become _manufacturers . And my objection to Free Trade was , hscause those full and prudent concessions whichoui ; ht to bave preceded it , did not precede it . Lord John was grasping for _pewer . ( Hear . ) He thought of power tir 3 t , and then change afterwards . It was always so with the Whigs . ( Hear , _hsar ) They always pat the wrong leg foremost . ( Laughter . ) It is because I _bslieve that 'Free Trade without those

      _concessions , will be rather an evil than a benefit , that I ask for Free Trade in legislation . ( Loud applause . ) Wou'd any man stand here and oppose us _uoon these six points of the People ' s Charter ? ( Cheering . ) Will any man tell me , that if a man ia sane , and untainted with crime , he is nv . i entitled to a vote ? Tbe right honourable gentleman said once , that ali mechanics , artisans , and working-men were entitled to a vote . I say no more than what my master told me . ( Laughter . ) Wonld not the gentlemen , if they had to appear this day twelve mouths before yon , instead of once in seven years , be more true to the wishes ofthe people ? ( Cheers . ) Mr Gisborne has told you about his Irish constituency . It reminds me of what Bosweil said , when Dr John

      son said _hejhated tbe world ; he answered , the world returned the compliment , and bated bim . ( Laughter . ) That is the reason why the gentleman did not go again te Ireland ; they disliked him as much as he did them . ( Cries of "No , " "No , " trom Mr Gisborne ; and " I deny it . " ) _Besides , 1 believe tbe expenses in Ireland are a little larger than in England , and thc honourable gentleman ( 1 quote his own words , ) said , "he was a d d fool forgoing . " ( Great amusement in tbe crowd . ) He says this is the last time he will appear before a constituency , lam glad of it . ( Repeated laughter . ) He looks better after his gallop ; it has revived him . ( Laughter . ) That was what poor George Edmonds said , after the Birmingham Corporation Bill passed

      —He said he should die ; but he wished to die townderk . 3 br al _& hat . ( Laughter , ) All opposition was withdrawn in order to gratify George ; on Tuesday he was appointed _towu-clerk _, witha salary of £ 500 ayear , and on the Wednesday , instead of being dead _, be was in his office at work . ( Laughter . ) Now I pledge myaeli , if tbe hon . gentleman was elected now , he would come again . He is not going to retire yet , you may rely upon it ; and so long as you have votes to give to bim , Mr Thomas . Gisborne , exmember for North Derbyshire , will always be ycur most bumble _trrvsa . ( Bursts of merriment . ) I have ' told you what . I would vote for ; I have told you what I would vote against . * There is no measure to which I would attach half so much

      importance , as I do to this point I have been explaining to you . I have shown you the value of Annual Parliaments . I am for the Ballot , in the present state of affairs ; because I believe that those who are now subject to the tyranny ol masters , require it to protect them . ( Hear , hear . ) I am for the Payment of members , because 1 think that the labourer is worthy of his hire , and because I feel it is better we should be allowed tonominate the amount , than tbat ministers should . I would divide the country into Equal Electoral Districts , in order that noue may remain unrepresented ; and I am tor the appointing ol the member who is best qualified by talent , and not by money . ( Loud applause . ) Do not you suppose tbat capital would lack its powerand energy

      , its promotion , and zeal its influence , if tbe working classes had the _privileges to which they are entitled . 1 will not join Bentinck and Disraeli . It is just the sting ofthe wasp showing itself in opposition to the man who saved them . Though Sir Robert Peel was pledged to support a folly , yet he abandoned that folly ; because he liked the fools better than the folly ; therefore he preserved the fools , and rejected the folly . ( Applause . ) You will now see that Sir Robert Peel , joined by Bentinck upon the Church qaestion , will beat my right honourable friend , if I may call him my right honourable friend . The Church has always been the bone of contention , and will alwpys be , when there is no good partv cry . You may be sure that Sir Robert Peel ' s ad dress

      and lord George Bentinck ' _s address , are very significant . Sir Robert is setting himself forth as the champion of the Church once more ; Lord John is pledged to a different policy ; and when those two parties unite against him , away goes the little lord ; never more to return , at present , at any rate . { Enthusiastic applause . ) In order to accomplish all these things , I am trying to place you in a better position . ( Cheers . ) I am not for the Poor Laws . I am opposed to all wars except the war of right ; and the war carried on in defence of a country . I seek to establish so large an amount ef militia , such a national guard , as will Hy to the ery of ' My cottage is in danger' with greater alacrity than the hired mercenary will fly to the cry of * Tbe church is in danger . ' And where you have 50 , 000 peasants upon

      tbeir own soil , tben you will have a power to fall back npon ; you will have men that will respect the laws , because by that time tliey will bave some share in the administration of those laws . But now they are in such a state , that they have in the House ef Commons placemen , and _pensioucrs _, and lieutenants , and officers , and clerks , and pay-clerks ; and I should not be at all astonished if I found cook Soyer there , as ca ) leagues of tbe right honourable gentlemau , Mr Gaorge Cornwall Lewis , ( Mr Gisborne : ' Who is he V ) Why , tho man who makes the soup for the poor , but always makes a small sample especially for the aristocracy to taste , that tbey may gay , 'How excellent it is . ' ( Laughter . ) I askyou if you are prepared now to support a

      government ofthis kind ? Whether you are prepared to be insulted now by a minister of ttie Grown not telling _y-m what be has done , nor what he intends to do ? (* No , no , ' and confusion . ) I _askjou , whether yon are so dead to your own interests , that you will go to the poll to-morrow , and say ' Hobhouse _ai . d Gisborne ?' I tell you that no honest man in Nottingham wiil vote tor Sir John Hobhouse ; that iio decent man will vote for Mr Gisborne . ( Laughter and applause . ) Tbat no mother will allow her husband to vote for a man , who tells you he has property in four districts , but has not looked to the fact that their children are obliged to get up in the dead hour of night to work , and instead of being educated , are obliged to toil . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) The Whigs always overlook the

      greater evils , aud direct your attention to tbfc modiearn o f good they profess to do , but have not done , ( Hear , hear . ) Wo find placemen , lawyers , pen * sioners _, officers , in the House ; butitbe time has nofl arrived ; I think , when no nominee of government , no placeman , no pensioner , shall have a vote in the Ileibe of Commons at all . He may sit tbere , but shall not have a right to vote there . ( _Enthusiastii applause . ) ln France , they are satisfied with a toon moderate constituency , because tbey have the land Now , gentlemen , 1 beseech you , give _these . _people tbc land . And let the right honourable gentleman' _carrj this to his colleagues . It is not more than two yean since I established tbat Land Plan , and now mors than 40 . 000 ofthe working people of England havi

      joined it ; and I am now the treasurer of £ 70 , 000 for these people ; nearly two thousand in Notting haui alone . ( Great applause . ) Several of those ar , electors ; but I have not asked those electors to vot for me ; I never shall ; I hare contested more elec tions than any other man and I have never accept _* a fee for my services . I have always conducted th elections for other men of my own principles , with out favour ov reward , and therefore if you _conn t the conclusion today that I am a political adven carer , I hope that what I have asserted , and whicf no man can refute , that I would not hold my sea on tbe base tenure of a falsehood , will _bmish tba false notion from your mind . ( Lond and con tinued cheers . ) I would not hold the trUSl

      from you upon bribery or corruption .. I te ! the right honourable gentleman that he ought to di all be can to secure a colleague for himself , aud ai opponent for me , for tbis reason ; because when I di get iuto the house , he knows I will give the mca _sures be proposes my most determined opposition ( Loud and prolonged vociferation . ) 1 ask _bimti take a colleague with him who will defend the go vernment from my poor wrath . ( Hear , hear . Perhaps the gentleman will say , I shall not do bin much mischief ; perhaps so . But the time is _cominj when the voice of liberty _willbs wafted _uponeaci passing breeze , even now , it is muttered in the cot tage , and whispered in the hall , and if resisted , i will bowl at the mansion , growl at the palace , am thunder at tha senate-house . There never was ai

      instance of a _measure being _cairied by any _repressn tative assembly , that it was not carried by publi < opinion in the first instance . ( Applause . ) Emanci pation , Reform , Relief of Dissenters , Free _Trade ,-all havo been carried out of tbe house before the ; have boen carried in . ( Hear , hear . ) Now , tlieii what I askyou » _, l « t these changes beconcedei from justice , instead _^ being wrung from fears . ( Ap plause . ) America is not prepared lor liberty ; th S _^ n ! l !! ti ! i : _f- Pru 88 ii » _ware _»<*; the trencl are not , nor theltal _jans ; noeountry except Englam s ; and Ireland , backed by England , wiil be _prepaid tor liberty » teo- ( h «» r , hear , hear , ) _-and for tin reason I have assigned , namely , because there _havt been none of these normal schools , teachings , ant discussions , which have been here . . U ere _thl Upli knew tbe charaoter of our public men : formerly < man came before them , and upon what he profrasei for a moment , they looked upon tbat _asaperfeci

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      security lo _*** future . Now , they are able to trace every man acts throughout his whole public life-( hear , hear , ) _-and this is the pillory in which , on every _esction , these poor gentlemen are always placed , looking for a renewal of office . ( Cries of _de-S'ii J ° _$ _« thllt ,, nless Sir John Cam Hobhouse pledges _himEsif to you that he'll vote against ? _£ _™ r men oft e Catholic Church , and that all St _^ f ! S _^ ha , e bcsn P _toposed-fclie Sanitary £ ' 1 A l e rc 3 ~ acd lhat baTC been huddkd up iuto _S « t i ttc _^ ?* lhe end _of _^ _esession-unlc 3 sbe _donT ! that ffl , afc wa _? Proposed , and not _™ . _1- _. _A _^ ° nV are traitors to _youvsslves if youvotetorhim . ( LoudappUuBe . ) He has no right to come here as a minister , and not tell you what he fw _? K . . _f you that I foretold it last October , f lZ _„ ¦ _?""¦* " ? had _{ o meet a great difficulty , and they might turn it to a great _advantage I foretold

      : that Lord J . Russell would be » 4 to the Irish landlords for political Power , rather than grapple with the master evil--the difficulty caused by their dereliction ot duty . ( Hear , Hear . ) Lord John Russell should have made the Irish landlords feed their own poorshould have _compelled them , if they are not able to cultivate their _estates , to give thera up to those who were _starvmsfor want . ( Applause . ) But , like your poor laws in England , he says « No ; 1 will give you a committee of Pubiic works , that will make roads up tha bills , and up the trees , and everywhere else *! ( Laughter . ) Now , sir , I ara just going to tell the right honourable gent _' eman what strikes me at this moment . Punch wrote a poem entitled— " Grateful Paady . ' Now I dare say the right honourable baronet baa never heard our grateful Paddy ' s _reolv to John Bull , but he shall have it .

      QBA . TEFUL JOHN BCLL . _^ Ogh ! JehnBull my darlint , you ' re nothing but varmint , You ' re playing on Pad iy and running your rigs , You giuntand you growl , bad luck to your sowl , While you ' re aiten our bread stuffs , our _praities , and pigs , Tou big bellied divil , why can't you be civil % We axed you to give ns a bit of our own , And you cock up your snout , like a pi ? in tbe gout , And _instid of the bread stuffs , jou give us a stone . You thrait us wld scorning , while our monees adorning , Your streetsand your parks , and your palaces too , The poor ov thi nation , is dead win starvation , And you exposing fat baists to vou _' ro . owu pauper

      crew . So shout for Lord John , that ' s not very strong , While we buys up the muskets , the powther and shot , And when vio ' ve the mains , you'll _attinfl to Our claim For be prayers and petitions ther'll nothing be got . ( Mr O ' Connor gave the above lines with a brogue , an unction , and a liveliness so characteristic of true Irish droliery , that all parties were literally convulsed with laughter . ) Now , my friends , there is grateful Paddy's answer to John Bull , So you sea they think Paddy ought to be very submissive , while he is receiving a penny in lieu of tho pound he gave . There ' s the history of Ireland—that it all ' goes in rack-rints , and comca back in could flints , ' ; to shoot the producers , and kill allthe poor . ( Hear . ) And I

      will ask , from the day tbat the Saxon first set his polluted foot upon Ireland , what has Ireland had cause to be thankful for ? Is it nothing that while all other nations are progressing , one nation , most gifted by God , under the guidance of England , should be the only nation retrograding ? ( Hear , hear . ) Will any man tell me there is anything in the soil , anything in the climate , anything in the character of thc people , the most moral , and the most industrious and _persevering people on the face of the earth , which causes this anomaly ? Perhaos some one says , * They arc not industrious . ' But when tlie landlord lets them land at £ 1 an acre , and they increase its value by cultivation to 30 _l , then the landlord takes advantage of them , and _charges more ; bow can tliey

      continue to labour on such terms ? ( Hear . ) Gentlemen _>' I am now drawing to a conclusion , and what I have to ask is , that every man , before he gives his vote tomorrow , will weigh well the consequences . ( Hear , hear . ) Remember that upon the one hand , I am only your servant for a stipulated time , and tbat if 1 do not serve your purpose , and faithfully discharge my duty , then those who sent me there may recal me . This is a power whicii I invest in your hands ( applause ) j a power which you all seek for ; a power which you never had before . ( Great applause . ) You always have that power as individuals , why should you not bave it in a corporate sense also ? ( Hear , hear . ) I trust you will look at the great questions now agitating your own and other countries . Look

      at Communism , _theRteatprinciplewhichisagitating France and Germany . There is no mati more opposed to Communism than I am . It is a foe of everything that is sacred and industrious . I am for the meim and tuum ; for the individuality of _possession , and thc co-operation of labour . ( Hear . ) That is the means by which the resources of the country can be best cultivated ; by which the people can be raised to their proper dignity . ( Applause . ) Good God ! When I look before me , and see those haggard faces of men who ought to be the children of the State , but who are working for prostitutes , for butchers , for physical force men , I ask what compensation do you give them for their services ? Look at that old man—see his face , how _haggard he looks ; how wan his eye ;

      how pale hia cheek ! Why make him a pauper ol the State ? Why give him the alternative of slave hire , or of going to tbe tender mercies of the bastile ? ( Great excitement . ) Although Free Trade was got by showing how little thc agricultural labourer got ; go into the country where I pay £ 400 weekly , and see there faces that are red , frames healthy , imbibing oxygen in out-door employment . ' While others are paying 9 s . a week , I am paying 12 s . ( Great applause . ) And yet I am a reviled man . I am paying four hundred pounds a week for labour in poor parishes , and doing all the good I can , I am a frugal man , and am uphusbanding my strength , because 1 know that a great day of trial is coming ; and when that day comes , however your false

      measures may hasten it , I shall ba found at my post . ( Applause . ) I bave prevented towns from being sei on fire , and have been incarcerated in York castle for it . ( Uear , _hear . ) Never have 1 had private communication with mortal man ) upon politics , I never have been a party to secret societies , and never will . _And as soon as I saw a party getting up a secret society I spent my money to caution the people against it . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) There can be no danger in what you see in open day . It is the precursor ol what is to come , and you may rely upon it that the greatest protection of life and property is in using the people according to their deserts . ( Hear , hear , and applause . ) There is nothing so necessary as that the people should thus act . It is , as Junius

      says , the watchman that announces the thief ' s coming , ( Hear . ) It tells you what i 3 expected . It prepares you to concede what ought to be conceded . I ask you whether you are for , stopping tlio system where it is because your colleagues will not allow you to go further ? But I would go further , ( applause , ) and I would ask whether I or you are the proper person for a representative of Nottingham ? ( Great applause ) Tou find you have outraged the whole world by your foreign policy . You have nearly embroiled us in war with France . You have had to ask the Pope to co-operate with you . Xou are obliged ( o interfere with Portugal because France interfered . What an exhibition lor a popular minister ! You do wrong , because others would do wrong if yon did not ,

      ( Applause . ) You have , carried out Kree Trade , — a modicum of it , —but you are afraid to carry it out in full . ( Hear , hear . ) lam for free trade with tbe whole world in everything , and ere long you will _bs obliged to come to that , you have not come to tbat yet , ( Hear . ) ' That was my opposition to Mr Cobden ; aod when I met Mr Cobden and Mr Bright at Northampton , ' Now , Mr O'Connor , ' _sajB he , ' if you put all the people upon the land , where will you find a market V ' Here , sir , ' said Mr O'Connor , laying bis band upon his stomach , 'is the home market , ( applause , ) the best market in the world . ' Well , but , ' says be , 'what will you do with the surplus V Why no man will have a surplus pig without a surplus pair of breeches . ( Laughter . )

      Whereas now a man is making shirts all his life , and has not one to his baok ( bear ); a man is making shoes , and goes barefoot ( hear , bear ); a man is making hats , and has himself a shocking ba >! one ( laughter ) . What I i' _-ant tlie people to do is , to produce that wbich gives sterling value to gold itself . Because everything , —my waistcoat , my trowsers , boots ; everything in this house ; this lamp , these boards , this building , what made them ? Everything is produced from the land . ( Cheers . ) Now let me ask you if it is better that you should be in your own country-house than to be receiving a slave ' s pittance aud purchasing the produce of the land from others ? ( Hear , hear . ) Can any one answer that question ? Everything is produced trom the land , and you have

      to purchase , with your slave-pittance , wbat ; you may grow from the land yourselves . ( Hear , hear . ) I have seen in this , town , yesterday , land let for £ 20 and & 40 an acre . Now the way we let our land ia' bis : we discbarge it of the law of primogeniture . I buy land in the wholesale market , I _lecsa it to you iu the retail market for precisely what it cost wholesale . It you want a quarter of a pound of sugar and give 2 d ., that is 8 d . a pound ; but if you buy a hogshead you would get it tor 2 _$ d . a pound . Now this is what I have endeavoured to inculcate . You have been obliged to buy tbe land at retail price . I charge five per cent , upon what I give ; I build a house for every man , in such a style as _n-akes yea _pioudof it . cot

      ( Hear . ) The poor are now made proud of their - _tages , and believe me there is no protection to the state so great as the pride of an honest peasantry . I see my school-iiousea rearing themselves on tne estate , ( approbation , ) boys go to one side , and eirls to another , for we have no immorality , no beastiality . nothing to shock the parents _nottons _. nor the children ' s eyesight . ( Hear . ) I am baying the land in the wholesale market . and am giving it to you for the same price retail . I am come now from my cold quiet home , I have thrown off my fustian workine iacket , to come here . For six days a week I am in thesituation of bailiff to paupers . . lam trying to raise thera from the situation of slaves , to the dignity of men . ( Enthusiastic plaudits . ) And I thank Goo I have so far outlived prejudice , that every man who new hears me wiil leave this place with a

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      better _lmpvession of me than he _** before . - ( _APplause , and cheers . ) I have frequently prescribed what a _gocd man ' s life and ( featn _sbou'i be , --to live usefully , Rnd die a _piuoer ; because _vvliib there is poverty I defy a man wiil . n tender heart ' . r » kc p atartlnngm his own coffers . _Gl-kIcmen , 1 have done . It is for you to say which nf I lie fear _geutle-P » . _SKf Wl 11 c _t , 8 Ct _« ' mr _representr _.-tives . ( ' We'll have you . ' _Ofth'jothewnlle'utin Walter ) not being liere _. I _cannotsay what hia political professions ara ., Although he was a Tory when he was last before you , these are such turning times that it is impossible to say that he may . mt havo changed ; perkaps he may have _beenmn <_ wi , ;„ i

      believe he is a most estimable charuel > r anil a young man of great promise , but I think _eWnliment to you required his presence _beva . U ! o ; ir , y \ I think it is a bad dog that is no : wonh wbis ' tliiw for . ( Lauahter . ) At all events it will do me < sW it will lesson my expenses by _something This is one of tbo very few _things that is _goiid ' for all 9 i ( k « . ' ( Hear . ) _Insure the ri _^ ht honourable _geiitlemet ! tbat when 1 do get into the house tliey _sl-all lind mc a stern defender of liberty , and the enemy ol on » _n- < .

      sum . ( Applause . ) And the ligh t honourable gentlemen may rest assured tbat somo day or olh < _- > I will be there , for when a man is determine ! upon a thing he always does it ; now I am _detcrroinv-d upon it , and when 1 go there I have made up _ni . v _miixl t » be exactly what I was befere . ( Tumultuous ai _.-plause . ) Now , gentlemen of the Press , and _especialh gentleman oi the Times —a . y , and to-morrow Viiil will see in the Thunderer ( it always tells how " th " people of England were unanimous r . \ this . gnble ' et " ot if tbey were confined toa garret in PrInt ! nu . i ., M «»

      square , ) tlie Times will tell you , thst Sir _Johtt Cam Hobhouse mado an admirable speech ( _laughter , ) iu wllieh he Stated the future policy ofthe minister . * , ( renewed _laughter , ) and that if Mr Walter had not come here Mr Gisborne would have been the mint fit man to accompany Sir John , ( laughter , ) and then that Mr Feargus O'Connor delivered a _vamb'isg oration to please the populace , ( renewed _lausjhter _. ) but our reporter says it was so _rambling and b . ild it was not worth giving . If _Loi d Lincoln was bere , and I underst- od jou were trying to crimp him , ( laughter , ) every word , he said , or muttered , or mumbled , or intended or attempted to _m , would be all in tho Times , and it wnuiii have been a most splendid and statesmanlike speech ; and be wonld have told you nil abont the endowment ofthe Catholic Cburcb ; and Ue would have told you afterwards he was not

      answerable tor-what he had said , because he _wasonly saying what he thought Sir Robert Peel _thought . ( Hear ; hear and laughter . ) Ihave nothine more to say , except that _tsyou I say , my gallant old _guards . the'Oharbists , with you I commenced the battle of _libertyj-and with you , with the blessing of God , 1 will fight it to the end . ( Tramendo « 3 and repeated applause . ) Now then , tbe battle , begins from tbe time you leave this house . You must now distribute yourselves into the boiy guards otChartism , ( cheers . ) You must protect the honest elector in tho night from the prowling fox that will seduce bim from his duty . You must watch the houses ofthe electors , and let

      every , rcan be a policeman for to-night . ( Laughter . ) Bring the electors up to the poll . I do not sleep again till tbe election is over ; and as I have given 23 years for you , the least you _cun do is to watch for one night . ( Cheering . ) And now , as I was told by the Journal , if any one will catechise me ; if the editor of the Journal or any ether elegyman ( laughter in the gallery ) will examine mo upon the Land scheme , I will give any gentleman a respectful and respectable answer . Mr O'Connor sat down amid deafening and thunderous applause , which made thc building ring again ,

      Several questions were here put by Jfr Cartwrigbt to Mr O'Connor , 1 st . Is the land purchased in your name , or in the name of trustees 1 Mr O'Connor , —As the company is provisionally regietered , the property must be purchased in the name of aa Individual ; last week I paid £ 350 for a stamp to complete the registration , and tbe moment this is dose , I will transfer the whole to the _trustees , who will be empowered to receive it , and not till tben . 2 d . Do you give the occupants a lease of their premises at tbe time of possession ?

      Mr O'Connor . —It _willbe out of my power to give them a lease till the registration ; they will then receive it of the trustees , in perpetuity , which makes them voters for the county in which they may live . Have you any more questions ? Mr _Camwricm :. —No , I think not .. Mr O'Connoe . —Let me ask you , if you are a member ofthe Land Company ? Mr _CAKiffKiour . —I am not , Mr _O'Connob , —Opposition always comes from with out .

      Mr Bowls * , addressing the electors , _remarked that Mr O'Connor had alluded to Mr Walter , jun ,, not coming but he would explain how that _huppened , Mr Walter , sen ,, was on a bed of affliction , and perhaps before this contest is oyer , he may bo no more ; therefore , under these circumstances , Mr Walter , jun . could not come , but he had pledged his word to stand till lour _o'chek on the day of election . He bad no desire to oppose Sir John Hobhouse or Mr _Feargus O'Connor , but he was deter _, mined to oi ««{ Mr Gisborne . If Mr Gisborne ' s friends will withdraw bim , we will withdraw Mr Walter to make way for Mr Feargus O'Connor and Sir _Joliu Hobhouse , ( Applause . ) The _. SuiMFF took the show of hands . Por Sir John Hobhouse , aboul forty hands were held up ; for Mr G _inborn e _, one hundred ; for Mr Feargus O'Connor , a forest of bands ; and for Mr Walter , jun ., a like show _.

      The Sheriff declared the show of hands to be in favour of the two latter candidates , and a poll was demanded by Mr W . Hurst , for Sir John Hobhouse , aud by Mr Alderman _Yicliers , for Mr _Gisborns , The clapping of bands , shouts , and stamping witb the feet , became most enthusiastic for a long period of lime . Mr _Feauods O'Connor proposed a vote of thanks to thc Sheriff for the decidedly impartial manner in which he had conducted the business , which on being seconded by Sir John Hobhouse , was carried with loud acclamation _. The poll was then adjourned to Thursday morning at eight o ' clock , where it was proceeded witb in tbe marketplace . The proceedings of the nomination lasted till two o ' clock in the afternoon .

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      The supporters of Mr O'Connor held another meeting in tho market-place , on Wednesday evening . Mr O'Con . uor and the Rev . Vf . Linwood , of Mansfield , addressed the congregated thousands , and met with a most cordial reception . Mr O'Connor and his friends attracted tbe reflections upon tbe Review , expressed tbe former evening , and the meeting separated in good order . At the closo , Mr O'Connor proposed a vote of thanks to Mr Sweet , saying , " though a little one , he was a good one . It ' s not always the greatest calf that makes tho best veal . "—( Loud laughter and tremendous cheering . )

      TUP POLL . _Hobbouse _' a Committee . Hobh . Gnsb . Walt . O'Con . 10 a . m . 103 _ll 5 CO 43 _11 220 216 289 172 1 505 554 0 S 9 403 2 550 576 m i 51 3 ¦ 63 ? 693 1 . 000 6 » 6 4 [ No return . ] Walter ' s Committee . " J Hobh . _OOsb , . Walt . O'Con . 9 Ja . m . l 00 J HI H , 0 145 1 « 5 157 JS « Z 198 195 10 * 172 i »» ""

      n ,,, _547 m 6 0 5 451 1 595 _« 5 903 630 2 6 C 4 739 109 » 689 3 684 739 1099 080 4 p . m . 075 ' 1081 1836 1349 The moment tbe cloeb struck four , a _sbout rose up from every part of the Market-place , bats were tbrown up , hands waved and clapped , and every demonstration of joy was made . In an hour , the bells of St Peter ' s Church were ringing merrily , and a band of music perambulated the towa . _Mcanwhiio , Feargus O'Connor , Esq . had gone into the Exchange , and standing at the large ' window whioh _overlooks the _market-plaoe , bri fly

      addressed a crowd wbich for density and compactness has seldom been equalled in Nottingham . The sbout with whioh he was received was tremendous ; and every pause in his harangue was _snai ked by similar manifestations of delight- He said he might call the c ! cctorslree and Independent now , and tbey were wor _' . by ot their freedom , for from the hour that Nottingham was first enfranchised to this day , this bad been the only pure election ever won . They did not require any new prefession of faith from him , What ho was _yesterday , be wns to day , and wouldbo while he continued their xc . presentatWe . Ills aim had always been to try to make the constitution bale and healthy , by wrr ; . . _agitofwtat

      would _injwe It , aud not to destroy it . He was not the destructive be bad been represented to be . He was for peace , for law , for order ; but it must bo peace , law , and order for both sides . Many bad h : en astonished at his passing over from his own ranks to advocate the cause of the people ; but he always said ho bad been promoted from the rants of tbe aristocracy , to a commission in the democracy , He never would forget the fustlan _jaokets , tbe blistered bands , and _uqsberu chins wbicb bad returned bim , He asked , _tauntingly , _wbero Sir John Hobhouse and Mr Gisborne were ? and promised to come every Saturday to Nottingham and stop Snnday over , to see hia constituents , ne was confident

      when he came next time , those who opposed him now would take him by the hand ; promised to oppose tbe ' currency quackeiy' of ' 19 and ' 4 i ; aud concluded by giving three cheers for the People ' s Chatter ; three for T . S . Duneombe , Esq ., and three for Frost , Williams , and Jones . Turning round into the room , he saw Mr Sweet , and putting his arms around bim , gave him a regular hug , and then introduced him tothe peoplo outside as his' Uttle general , ' My Linwood followed Mr Sweet in a brief address , and tbe assembly then dispersed , It waB a singular characteristic of this election that scarcely afiag or favour . of any kind was to be seen . In fact , the people seemed pu ' zxted id know what colours _expressed their _sentlmeats

      The Supporters Of Mr O'Connor Held Anoth...

      ( From the Nottingham Review . ) The majesty of the people bas triumphed . The sons oflnbourwlll shout for joy . The whole country will be surprised to hear that Mr J . Walter , son of the late 3 . tt' : ilicr ,. Esq . proprietor of tho Times newspaper , has _tn-cn relumed for Nottingham , at tbo head _tf tbo poll , ilmugti he hao not been in tho town , orissued au address to ihe _people ! aod that surprise w > _' ! >•<; _i-ec ' oub ' _cd _whfn they _lenrn tbat Pear / jus O'Connor , Esq ., proprietor of the Northern Star , has been _lvturnrd as Ms ' colleague . ' Wlmt ii blow to the Ministry ! Sir John dm Hobhouse , _iMrfcn years Member for Notlins tipra , and one of her _Majpstj _' s Ministers , 'ms boen unseated , and in fact « tundsat the foot o' the poll !

      If any rurthcr proof had brcn wanting that the _trcu of Nottingham aro tired of do-nothing , kid . gtovo rc i ' wiv-T * , _sutVi proof was afforded last . Wednesday , when the lute members _appeared fo give nn account ci ' their stewardship , and their opponent stood forward to vindicate hU _clfiims . An outspoken , earnest mei ting was _ihat—fuil of fire nnd enthusiastic feeling ; aud on the wiolo as ofierly as cuuld well be _eirpecUd , t _jlrin ? all ihings Vxo tbe account . There was a plain ,-b : unt cundour about it , which it was impossible to help _adniirinjr . _« en _thouah wc did not always fvM in with the sentiments _npplnudcd . It demonstrated Cat tho _d _.-iys of _ui- ; re glib-spoken Wl . _fcgiBm Bi'o r : ip ! i !] y passing i . / . _u-i- ;—that the sous of labour aro resolved on moving

      mil- _speiilfiug on their onn bebnlf , and that none , save men _, f well defined aims and thoroughly matured wishes nnd opinions , can henceforth succeed in winning tfteir sympathy or in securing their = npport . There was something in that sea of careworn , _speaking faces , so full of feeling and earnestness , which to our minds was striving and impressive , Wtreart there mpny a tale ol long , endured woe , of ? ni 5 tl _<* s jtni _' . ' _gle , and disappointed hepc . The throng before ns wore the _asp'ct of a band of devotees , _assembli d to do honour to the man wbo w _.-. s clothed with their nffi'Ctb' . _ns . aud gave _txpressien t > tbeir fondest aspirations . . Mr O'Connor was tbe hero , and the excited multitude his _worshirpers _. _iu that , to all senses , remarkii tie scent ' . Tbe position occupied by Sir Jobn was

      _certainly _about as painful as could well be imagined . Surrounded hy the friends and partizjns of _o' . ' . ier days , then so cool , bo changed , so unconscious of the enthusinsir of _fotmerdays— nay , in some instances so resolute in their antagonism , be presented the miserable aspect of a politician' used up , ' enjoying a reputation whicii was purely _TRAumosASY , ord compelled at length to fall back on mere ' good _intentions , ' us his * credentials as a candidate for the suffrages of the people . ' The people are tired of unfulfilled promises . Tbey want doers , and not mere imruicrs . They regard pure _Whiggism simply as a worn out thing of the past . ' Such was tbe sum and substance of tbe declaration of the assembly , which the President cf the Board of Control

      and his brethren in office may well lay to heart , for such indei d are the sentiments , not only of Nottingham , but of the great majority of the constituencies throughout , thc empire . The time h :: ? . gone by when old associations and old parties could d _' . ctzte to and _cajole wiih impunity , the English _marses , who have _ic rown wise enough to perceive that fine worr _' s are niter all mr _> re worthkss things , without _« 3 fine deeds to substantiate them ; und mistaken indeed are our modern Whigs if they _imn'dno tbat Ihey c :. n much _longer save themselves from uttvr annihilation by the ' reckless utterance of ptoKriscs , or by pleading tbe multitude of their " good intentions , ' a . _i an _apology f .. r the scantiness and puerili- character of th < .:. » achievements ; MrGisborne _' _s speech was rather an autobioobaphical

      defence of ins own polities ! character thau an announcement of his contemplated policy , _though we gatbtred sufficient to confirm the _opiniou which wo have before expr . - £ 5 _& l , with ri spect to tbis gentleman's adherence to the principles of the friends of Complete Suffrage and the Anti State Church _Association . Bat the sp ecb o ? the day was Mr O'Connor ' s , and it told with _considerable power on all sections ofthe _assembly . Wo are not going too far , when we assert that , though wo saw _reason to dissent here and there from Ibe speaker ' s sentiments ' , and to question the entire justice of his reasoning and charges , bis address was a masterly piece of oratory , _teaming with sentiments thc truest and noblest , and well calculated to aid tho glorious causa ef Couservative , though Radical reform . The point on which we saw tbe most reason to differ with Mr O'Connor was tbe un .

      sparing attack which he made upon Mr Gisborne . Grant _, ing , fo . ' the sake of argument , that Mr G . may have erred on some points , surely tbe mc : i who acts as he thinks for tbe best , cannot _righteously bo condemned for his _itivoluutary error ; and really , when we remember how many havo erred , if error it be , in common with the genc / eman in question , we are net disposed to be over censorious at his expense , even should reflection cohvince . us that he has been in the wrong . Judging from Mr O'Connor ' s _statumeut , bis Land Plan sppears to have a _^ umud an imposing aspect . A self-help society which _fc / _tfsts of a paid-up capital of seventy thousand pounds , is verily no pigmy , and we do sincerely trust that the glowing expectations of the masses , who with hopeful hearts hava subscribed their pence towards their own social elevation , may be not only realised bur surpassed .

      Tiie nomination was full of firo and enthusiastic feel . _, ing , —but the _electtavt waa < M _1 , tame , and lifeless ; . lb the first hour there were very few voters , and a . t-ten o ' clock uot 200 had passed through the polling-booths . How different to the election in August 1842 , when at ten o'clock , no less than 1 , 467 voters had polled . Tbo cabs stood in the Market-place , unemployed . It seemed as if no efforts were made to get up voters . At _tivclvo o ' clock , not 800 voters had pulled , but Walter wan slightly at the ' : ead , Tho steam now began to get up , _Thec'Jmb _' . _'roftho people in the Market-place rapidly _iticrenaed : a » d as voters afrivod in chaises and cabs they were m « ivwl with loud vociferations . It was _lialf-past _tiirct _bi-foto Mr O'Connor was second on the poll , and then the elec . tion was decided .

      In these hurried remurks we have cndeavoiued as fur ns possible to be just to all parties . Woregardthe pre . scut election as all important to the interests of the k » bouring classes . Long , too long , bave they remained in . a position of political dependence—without power , with out standing , without citizenship ; and it aow become alike their duty and their interest to achieve , by thought ful , enlightened , and , virtuous combination , their oatire and peaceful _Mifrancbisemeiit ,

      Leicester. We Have Concluded Our Exhilar...

      LEICESTER . We have concluded our exhilarating business ; an _& tbe circumstances which bave led to this result deservo to be _recorded , there bas been , for a _considerable period , a growing spirit of progression snaking _progress amongst our most influential members q { th « cv * vpoTat & body , as well as the mist respectable of the trades io tbi » place , which has not only been fostered and encouraged by the conviction of tbe absolute necessity of further reforms being carried out , but from the conduct of our laU _defunes members for the borough , and so far had it pro . ceeded , that what tbey called Complete Suffrage numbered among ;* its supporters to thc tune of 800 , _whick left the mere Whig party nothing but a miserablf rump . There had bei'n for some years an election _conr _.-mittee chosen from the different wards , whose bushiest it was to look out for fit ai . _'d proper persons to rcprcsecfl

      I the borough , and nianag * c" preliminaries ; and these , chosen by a Whig majority , in course , were Whigs of tha old school , The progressives began by tbe election of _\ new committee more in accordance with tbe spirit ol the age , mid th first act of the new committee was ts give a polito notice to the late members that their ser . vices would not be any longer required at _Lobrater This was a fair beginning , aud V . \ n Whig clique fu ; . t very much discomfort on the occasion , and ;; _avirj an _orgat ot expression at their command , in _theshapi c'a _ffecklj newspaper , no puddle in a storm could rage more terrifi . cally , no boiling saucepan hiss ai _> d bui _;>> le moref miously . . The committee , however , not _seriously alarmed , proceeded with their duties , and soon brought forward Sit Joshua _Walmsley ns a candidate , and , _subsequently , Mr Richard Gardner . Thc old Tories kept quiet for a time and said but little , believing their chance small , till the government plan of _. _edoceiiou , amongst its other evil effects , occasioned a breach amongst thc progressiva party themselves ; tbe Tories tc ok courage at this , and

      determined to take advantage of it , and at once brought out a bluo cock , in t ! -e person of a Mv Parker , a Chan * eery barrister . While this was going on the members ofthe Chartist and Land Compa y , nearly ono thousand strong , thought it wouldbo a good time to try to collect and uulte their strength , end _tatVavour once more to collect the scattered particle . a o' which it consisted ; ah election committee was appointed ; a registration list procured with thc other necessary documents ; an address te the electors issued ; aud our young and arder . t friends sped about in every direction collecting tlie names ofour supporters , nnd ferreting out thoso wbo were dubious , till at the conclusion , by the best calculation we could make , that though not strong enough to return a Chartist , we were powerful enough to turn : ' . ie sc _^ lo ei ther way wc chose . We iL'cn quiet ' y rested upon ear oar 3 till !' . ! c time for action came . The candidates anived ; the usual public meetings were held , and the usual political _eatfichlsuis said . We attended ihese _mccUtigs , and attentively listened , and were agreeably surprised to hear bow far they had proceeded in tho traiob o"

      democracj . But _gcnevattltea wbnld not satisfy tbe Chartists of Leicester ; a deputation from our commit " .: ? waited upon them , and required distinct pledges » o our questions . To Are of tho six points of the Charter _Hiey unhesitatingly agreed ; their demur was to the duration of Parliaments , leaning to tbe triennial , but promising _, not to abandon a bl'l with the annual on that account . They stand _picked to the abolition ofthe laws of primogeniture and entail ; to tlio support ofthe _scpatat . on ot Church and State ; lo advocate a purc'y secular education by tho state ; to a system of direet t « _rt » _ii MA tba abolition of Customs and _Bu-t _«« j to the abolition of all monopolies ; to a reform _^ \ _^ . _^ » _J _™ \ toadvocate the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones ; und generally all measures to amend the condition ofthe operatives Our course was decided ; a meeting had

      . been called to hoar tbo result ; we . attended that meet _, i . _iir tbe vast amp hitheatre was crowded to suffocation by the ' operatives ; Messrs Smart , Buckby , and Black , addressed them , rapturous acclamations were the response , and the next morning a Chartist and Land handbill fell like a thunderbolt upon the natives of all _elassss and shades af opinion ; election commenced wc took the lead and kept it end . _TheJTories fought gallantly and persevering ( _Csntimiid to the fiwtft page . )

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 7, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_07081847/page/3/