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      To The Working Classes.

      TO THE WORKING _CLASSES .

      My Dear Children, — It Is Now Ten O'Cloc...

      My Dear Children , — It is now ten o ' clock on Thursday r _^ ght , and I have been in a perfect jelly for a w L _' ole week i so much so , that I feel it " impossible to submit to you my notions upon a free constitution this week . I shall be up till two o'clock in the morning at your business , and in a few hours after that shall start to Minster Lovel , to prepare for the reception of eighty of my children on Monday _morning , and must be back again in the House , on particular business , at four o ' clock en Monday evening . It gladdens

      my heart , however , to ' hear that THE MONSTER is daily increasing ; and now attend to your father , and be obedient . Some , in tlieir _high'inindedness and magnanimity , say that they " ill not sign the "Petition . But mark , and mark well , that the object of the Petition is not to show confidence in the House of Commons , but to inspire confidence in our own ranks , by showing the extent of our confederation ; and , 1 say , every man who refuses to sum , is not onl y a willing- slave , but is the fonier of fetters for others . The carriages are _nmde

      being _-one to be drawn by six horses , Conveying the _Persia s _Representatives ; the other by three horses , bearing Labour ' s Will and I will show you how Labour feeds its steeds . _*< w my children , be prudent , be cautions ,-and he brave ; and , always bearinoin mind that the poor gentlemen who were too idle to work , and too poor to live without labour , deceived us before , elect no man for the -Convention in whom you have not thorough ¦ confidence , and who shall leave his work to re present you , and return to his work when he : h . as _discharged his duties .

      We h ; id three glorious days in Lancashire . The Free Trade Hall as full as an egg on Friday _nLiht , the _Toirn Hall ditto oa Saturday nhrht . and a quarter of a million of people on Oldham-edge on Sunday ; and oh , my children , it was a _ulorious sight when , uncovered , and in presence of their God , they swore with me never to abandon the Charter until all lived under its influence , and partook < > f its blessing .-: . The rascall y Press gives us 15 , 000 for this _nieetiujr , but I * tell vou how 1 estimate the numbers , and I think that I am a better judge than the smooth-faced , unfled ged chickens , that report for the Press-gang . I carry the Free Trade Hall in mv eve : it used

      to hold 8 . C 00 fat economists and stall-fed parsons , sitting . 1 estimate it to hold 10 , 000 of Pharoah ' s lean tribe , standing ; and I estimate that the ground covered by the gathering would sive space , if covered in , for more than -thirty Free Trade Hall ? , I then multi plied 10 , 000 b y thirty and I have 300 , 000 , and I then deduct one sixth of tiie space , or 50 , 000 , for the galleries , and I arrive at a quarter of a million as the result . I will tell you how to arrive at something like a . guess afc the numbers attending a Chartist meeting : take all the numbers stated by all the papers to bave been present , add them together , multi p l y them by four , and then you may make a

      guess . But . my children , the most glorious part of -o * jr _*' three g lorious days in Lancashire was the I Union proclaimed between the English and the rlsh people . " A Union which will bid defiance to the hypocrisy of the sneaking sycophants of Conciliation Hall , who , under their mew showman , would present a new version of Punch and Judy to their gaping hacks . They have irot hold of a poor little lord , and this poor little lord is spouting his poor little nonsense , while the beggars are filling their pockets . But they have arrested Smith O'Brien , Mitchel , and Meagher , and now , that they have got them , I should like to know what thev will do with them .

      Good night , my children . SIGN ! SIGN !! SIGN !!! And do not allow us to be laughed at when we convey your will and p leasure to the door of the Senate House . Your affectionate father , _Feakgus O'Connor .

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      GREAT _MEETING AT _MANCHESTER . rRATERXISATIOX OF CHARTISTS AKD _EEPEALERS . This _rjreat _meeting took place on 5 tPatrick ' _s-day , in the Fr ? e Trade Hall . Great precautions had been taken by tha _madstracy ; but this magnificent meetins , th _* t would hare paralysed opposition , was conducted with the mo 3 t majestic order . Long before six o ' clock , the appointed hour , large crowds bad assembled . A charge was made for admission of Is to the platform : of id . to the gallery , and 2 d . to the body of the hall . Numbers of persons had assembled in front thereof , crowds of whom remained in the

      street , apparently to catch a view of the _speakers , _vho vrere expected io he present . A band was placed in the _gallery , that _ptaved appropriate asd inspiriting airs . Mr Feargus O ' Connor . Mr Meagher , "Mr Doheny , Mr W . P . Roberts , and others , _entered the hall at a Quarter past ssren o ' elock , and _^ ere received with Ions-con'inued snd _alraest deafenin g applause . At this time the hall and the _surrounding space presented a magnificent spectacle , an imposing multitude being congregated in all r _^ art ? . Mr James _Dcss , or Manchester , was called to the chair , and after a few introductory observations , he read the _followins placard : —

      0 zr . iT Repeal _Dikosstbatioh . —The public of Manchester and its vicinity are _respectfully informed , that a pablic meeting will be held in tbs Free Trade Hall , on St Patrick ' s Day , the 17 th of March , to take into _consideration tbe b st means of _aceoajpHshipg a repeal Of the legislative onion between Great Britain and Ireland , upoa _wbicb occasion a de _,-ntation from the Irish _Confideratios will attend , and speak to the resolution ! , and _tasfollowing and other _distingnisbed advocates of _lib'rty -Rillattend and _address tbe meeting : —W . S . O'Brien , Esq . M P . ; F . O'Connor . Esq . U . P .: T . C . Anstty . _lUq . JC . P . ; C . G _Defij , E-q _; John Mitchel , Esq . ; J

      Jlarua , E _. q-. of Lou _» hor _« e ; F . T . _Heagker , "S * _q . - , P . _O'Higeins , Esq ; W . P . Roberts , Esq . ; T P _' Arey _ilzzee , E-q The committee for getting np the public meeting on ihe 17 ch of _ifarcfe , an < _l the t _« a party in the Town Hall on the 18 th , call upon the friends of freedom and tbe lovers of universal justice , who with to see a long-stiff : ring and _down-trodden country restored to its r ;; _btJ , to Tally _reand thesa _. _fiU tbe hall to _overflowing , snd , bj tbeir _usited voices , show that they are not un Eincfal of tfce important events _ubich have taken place in glorious France within the last few _dBys , and are determined tbat Ireland shall be restored to her rank as a

      23 _tion , and that they will pursue their onward march to ] _mdepsisdejiee nntil teey fee eTery _people , now struggling against tyranny and oppression , in full posseision of all the rights of _dozens o' a free state . Irishmen , _Eoglisbzaen , _Pcotc > rmen , evince , bj your co-operatiOB in tbe good C 8 _UEC , to _faulter now would he treason against _liutitj ana suffering millions . Mr George Archdeacon proposed the Srstresolution , which was as follows : — That the r ' ght of Ireland to be governed by a distlnet SEd _independent _legislature is undeniable , and what eTery country should ecjoy , and tbat she was deprived of the came , by fraud , corruption , and treachery . The English people had now come to the same conclusion as the Irish on this subject , in proof of which he called on Mr R _* nkir , in Englishman , to fraternise with him , as Iriihnsan .

      __ Mr _TnoMis Raskin-, in seconding the motion , said the English people had always been in favour nf repeal . 1 he Chartists were there tbat night to show thai thev were fi lends of universal freedom . The great enemy of Ireland was the great enemy of England also . ( Cheers . ) Mr VV _ P . R- bskts supported the motion- He _thought Ire _' aud was entitled to be governed by a distinct legislature , and if it was necessary that _Ireland be annexed to some other country , it would rather be _ar'r . excd to France than to England—to a

      _¦" . itkmoffreemea rather than to a nation of slaves . Revolutions were now becoming fashionable ; and , ss Trench boots , hats , and laces , had heen in vogue . he thought be mi * hi live to see a French revolution become fashionable bere . Ireland ought to be entirely separated fr . nm England . ( Crie 3 of ' Never . ') People _mijiht differ as to the sort of force which " _ffluitbe nsfcu to accomplish this revolution ; but he _li _? z < -d to declare bis faith to be , that so the thing was d . pf , he was not particular . ( Cheers . ) The ** £ ? _i-l « tir , n was carried unanimously . Mr _J . _iMiis Leach moved the second resolution : —

      Tim -. be set of _isoo _, called the Act of Union , has bee _:-.-ne a _signal _failure , and a curse to both ceuntrie _., an _incovation _rrii : iin i !—3 partnership unfortunate , _having ine _: vasiii _England ' s ts _> _x-. 's , and multip lied a thousand-Md -- ' av _.-r . _'; _- _; _yviny . _H ? 5 _* : _id that one of tbe greatest causes of the misery aid il _< - £ fri < iation of this country and Ireland was the Ac : of Uninn . If our rulers coud read the signs of t :: e tim _? - , _thyy would become wise in time , and give t ; -t _ti-.- u ; _leiLat which , ifnotgiven , they must see the I- ' - »; :: e were prepared to take . ( Cheers . ) The rsso-• u _' . _igu was ny milk and water one , ( Hear , heaij

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      cheers , and bughter . ) He hoped every one present would , after tha meeting wss over , retire home peaceably and thus strike a deeper terror to the hearts of the oppressors , and show that tbey who _understood liberty , _kniw how to achieve it , Mr John Joseph _Fiksigait seconded the resolution . He . like Mr Leach , considered erery . man who held np hia hand in favour of the _resolution ss _binding himself to do all he could to carry it iato effcefc . Tie bad been opposed , oa another question , to Mr Leach ; hut that night he would _fraternis 0 with him ( _taking his hand ) , and help bim to tbe utmost to _m-ncare liberty for Ireland , and justice and freedom fir _uniVMsil man . ( _Cheers * _> ilr Feargus 0 'Connob , M . P ., then rose-, and was received with immense applause . He said : —

      Mr Chairman , Englishmen , and Irishmen—If I were to ask you what brought you here to-ni g ht , and if I were to receive a true and consistent answer , that answer should be—tb receive absolution from me . ( Cheers . ) For now thirteen years I have been advocating the very union which you have thus tardily confirmed—and when I proposed that union against adverse circumstances , which would have intimidated one man in every other thousand living , I was told tbe day would never arrive when Englishmen and Irishmen would stand together upon the same platform , advocating the same princi p les . ( Cheers ) I thank God I have lived to see the day . I have spoken before in detail upon this resolution ,

      _forHiave _sdways declared that , whenever the peop le of both countries united , the oppressors of both countries would fall . ( Hear , bear . ) You must have understood , if you have a particle of common sense , that the government of every country is the exact reflection of the mental power , the strength , and resolution of that country . ( Hear , hear . ) And the fact you know—the fact that you are now _governed by a base , brutal , and bloody faction , who not satisfied that the air ot Ireland smokes with tbe incense of the famished , thirsts for the blood of the slain . ( Cheers . ) Not satisfied with the lesson that has been Tead to them , they are still endeavouring to perpetuate this miscalled thing ' the Union . '

      Would you consider yourself in reality united relig iously and morally to your wives , if you were for ever tearing each others hair ? Such 13 the case with England and Ireland . Yet we are sailed sisters , said to be united . The resolution tells you , my friends ,, what that Union is , and what it has been up to this time . The English and Irish people have had sorry days of it . I am astonished , in fact , that it should require such a demonstration as this , after forty-ei g ht years ot suffering which we have had , to dissolve this Union . I speak here precisely as I speak in my place in Parliament , for I should hold myself unworthy of your confidence and affection , if I were capable of using one language to vou and

      another to the legislature . ( Cheers . ) But , if you want an earnest ofthe value of tbese first fruits of fraternisation , I have it here , on my left and on my right . I have it in the preseuce of the press ; and if ever tbe institutions of this country should tumble about the ears of the aristocracy of this country _, that corrupt , that venal , that prostitute , and lying press , which has kept your oppressors in ignorance ofyour will , and your resolutions , and power , will be chargeable with the crime . I have met you in meetings , ten times , twenty times , forty times , and fifty time 3 larger than this , at times when we were not able to speak out so boldl y as we do now , although we were not intimidated . We did speak

      out , and we suffered for it-we were imprisoned for it . Many of us went in part Chartists , and came out confirmed ones . But what was that suffering ? Who would not suffer to take the trammels off man ' s intellect ? Who would not suffer , and who would not contend , to speak those burning truths which must for ever destroy ' oppression and tyranny ? ( Cheers . ) We were speaking these truths ten years ago , nine , eight , seven , years ago—but it fell like a dead weight at the feet of the reporters ( hisses and cheers ) o the newspapers . Now , my friends , we live in other days . I am not of very luxurious nor aristocratic habits . I don't _generally travel with liveried lackeys behind me or before me . However ,

      on leaving London to-day , I discovered I was attended by two government officials- I found at every station I stopped at , these _suspicioua-loohing men , whom I knew , from the extraordinary shape of their hats , the extra cut of their wbiskers , and the smoothness of their faces . I soon discovered what they were , but I told their master last ni ght there was no necessity for sending after rae , for I would save them the ex * pense , and give them a verbatim report of what I said . I have shown you how Irishmen are governed , and they desir _? to govern you Englishmen in tbe same way . Well , my friends , if I am to measure the government b y tbe Irish

      representatives—speaking of tbe whole of the Irish members of the House of Commons—I should say that the government is far more liberal . Now , is it uot necessary , my friends , that you should repeal this union , to p l ? . ee our own representatives under a vi g ilant popular control ? Do you suppose that if I were asked my name or my country , that I should not be ashamed to deny either or both , if I opposed the separation of Ireland from England . England , it is said , conquered Ireland , but I know no statute at present on the statute book to prevent a conquered people from regaining their liberty . ( Cheers . )

      These ar e the precise terms I use in tbe House of Commons , and I believe the time is not far distant , when the Irish people will determine upon subjecting the Irish representatives to that vigilant popular control , which can alone keep them within the hounds of moral obligations . Talk to me about tbe Union , which was only a Union of the aristocracy , and not of the people , a Union effected by bribery and corruption , when nothing hut destruction and bloodshed reigned throughout the land . Call that a Union ! Tell me that you were parties to that Union i ' As well nm the lamb with the tiger UDite ,

      Tho mouse with the cat , or the lark with the kite . ' ( Tremendous cheering . ) I have told you , precisely as the resolution tells you , thatthe Union was a benefit to tbe aristocracies , but an injustice to the democracy of both countries . The dissolution of the Union to-morrow would be an advantage to both countries . The Union causes a competition of Irish labour in the English market—it takes over thirtj millions a year out of the pockets of the English labourer , without giving anything to the pockets of the Irish- I would to God I were the pilot of a vessel , if to-morrow ( because there are not 100 I Irishmen willing residents in England )—you have I been exiled by persecution , and prosecutions and

      _faaine , —( cheers . )—if to-raorrow I could see a fleet wafting its way across the channel , to take us back to Father-land , _thehome that we love—( cheers ) —English people would find by that that they would receive tbirty millions more wages , which you , the Irish , take from them . ( Hear , hear . ) The middle classes of this country like to see poverty amongst the people . The English manufacturers know it is only by tbat poverty that the competition can be kept up wbich enables them to reduce wages down to their own point of profit , and your point of degradation , famine , pestilence , and want . ( Hear , hear . ) I blush to think Ireland should be ' obliged to appeal to England

      for a Repeal of the Union between the two countries . When the withering blast called the Union was wafted from tbe sister country to the shores of Ireland , she was yet in mourning for her slaughtered sons ; her green fields were d yed with the crimson blood of her children , sacrificed at the shrine of English cupidity and Irish perfidy . I ask yuu , was it at such a time such a change should have " been forced upon an enlightened people , when the guardians of their glory were prematurely consigned to a ccld grave , or banished to some foreign land , to si g h over the departed liberties of their country ? ( Cficers . ) My friends , I mi bt be more temperate

      with my language . I mean to be temperate to-nig \ iV ; though , God knows , I have never been very _choice in my words , If I bave sought the lion ' s share c . f popularity I have been satisfied with the lion's share of oppression . I am now older than I w _^ s _, ( Hear , bear . ) I bave attended more public _"Votings than afiy man that ever lived before m ' _^ or , l believe , than any man will bave to do that j _^ y COme after me ; because I have been tbe '' _^ oneer , and cleared the way for them . ( Cheers . ) "Well , mv friends , I see my-way before me now . t ee an amount of power at my back which r _\ efies the power of shorthand writers and detec ; lYes , ( Loud laughter and

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      applause . ) Now , my friend ? , those wbo have comi _; here to-ni ght from Ireland , snd those who Have , for the first time , fraternised _wfib the English , should know and understand—a / _tlSoigh you have been kept in ignorance of the _facJ—that , in 1842 , the English people ,- to the amount of 3 , 378 , 000 , signed a petition f » r the Repeal sf the Union . ( Cheers ) Where , now , Is your _bosterl love of fatherland ?—you of Ireland , when you- cannot boast of one-tenth part of the moral' rbrce to

      rescue yourselves frora _alarery , and yet _you'aTe told to look upon the Saxon as yonr enemy 1 ( Cbeen . ) Itis not the people , but the unjust laws of whioh yon , as Englishmen , have to complain—but look at another side of the picture . We hear it with sorrow , with grief , and remorse , if ten , fifteen or _tw-sniy thousand people , are cut of * by war , or in battlemowed down by artillery , or cot to pieces with ) the sword ; we listen with horror to tales of men cut down in tbe front of an enemy ; but so debased is the mind of Ireland—so untutored is the mind of

      England , that more than a _mil ' tort of brave , virtcous Irishmen , women , and children , _ha- _? e died of pestilence and famine in one year alone , and we bave made no attempt to save thero , or prevent the recurrence of such things . ( Hear , hear . ) Talk to me of Union with England—talk to me of living under English dominion , when more fall by mis * # i _& than have fallen by the sword irs . the most bloody times . ( Cheers . ) Are we , then , to be so modest as to petition parliament , in the hope of this grievance being redressed ? ( Cries of ' No _t' ) What , do I ask you to petition parliament for ? Is it in the hope of having any _effect on the legislature ? No ! ( Cheers . ) Is it in the confidence that five millions

      of men will be strong in the knowledge that they have fraternised and united together to show you their strength , and not to show the government your strength , that I ask for a monster petition , which I shall have the honour to present before the house on the 10 th of nest month . When we see a ty _« rant-robher , a plundering king , hurled from his throne , and his despotic ministers sent the same road after him , we find an English prime minister telling us that it is not his intention to repeal the rate-paying clauses in the Reform Bill . ( Laughter . ) I am now going to g ive you an instance of Irish depravity—of the manner in which the Union was effected . You saw the revolution in Fiance marked

      and distinguished by excessive clemency , and mind me , my friends , never mistake me in the heat of argument and great bustle of politics—I am always , and shall always declare myself , against the shedding of one drop of blood ; but mark the lesson read to us in the fate of tyranny in France ! ( Hear _, hear . ) Observe that man who , a few _^ days ago . was one of the greatest monarchs in Europe ; we see him one of the greatest kings of his time on Monday , and running away , sans culoite , on Thursday , without a second suit of clothes and with little money in his pockets . ( Laughter and ch > ers . ) We see his fortifications falling or inoperative _liefore a united people ; we have seen the

      people insulted for ei g hteen years—destroyed b y victory , despoiled b y the revolution of 1830 ; we see * _, after ei g hteen years daring oppression on the part of this money-grubbing king , that not a single drop of blood has heen shed in revenge by them . Mark , then , the great difference between this revolution and that of 1793 , and mark what produced that difference . In 1793 , England was a maiden country . In 1793 , the English people were not united with Ireland . That impolitic minister—the most corrupt minister that ever this country saw—who with your money , and English money , in 1793 sent his mercenaries to France to satisf y bis blood-thirstiness and savageness , —it was Pitt ; Pitt it was who created

      all the horrors of the French Revolution ; it was the people who raised the standard of revolt ; it wa « the people declared tbe rights of the people , and the minister of England that destroyed the prospect of those rights . What is the reason they do not attempt it now ? It is because our staff is too powerful . ( Cheers . ) The people will no longer be duped * gulled , or deluded . If government were to send their mercenaries abroad to fight the battles of the foreign tyrant , they well know that ' while the eat is away the mice will play . ' ( Cheers . ) Well , my friends , I have seen in my time a great many political revolutions that promised great social reforms during the last quarter of a century , from

      1822 to the present time . I opened ray mouth to declare the rights of the people when no other man dared . I was obliged to fl y my country for thirteen months . I have assisted to overturn the principle of the middle-class system in Ireland . Emancipation was gained by influence out of doors _, the representatives , of themselves , _having no power to produce any social benefit from them . The next was the Reform Bill , which was carried by political influence , tbat produced no social improvement , Then came the cheap bread cry —( cheers)—hi g h wages was to have been the result of this change , bnt I think you have seen the reverse . Well , now I am not one of those who seek to aggrandise

      mvself b y any change that takes p lace , socially or politicall y , never having travelled a mile at your expense—never having expected from you one _pesny by way of gratuity or reward . I am not in the situation of other demagogues . I am determined out of the next change social benefit shall spring . ( Cheers . ) Political economists tell us that when one channel is closed against labour , nature intends opening another ; but 1 have great veneration ; having a greater faith in my God than in the free traders ; and God tells you and me that man is to live by the sweat of his own brow— - ( hear , hear . )—but he does not tell you that idleness shall live upon the sweat of the industrious . ( Cheers , and cries of

      ' No , no 1 ' ) God tells us he created man , and he created tke earth to sustain man with the fruits by man s _labeur . ( Hear , hear . ) But an artificial system having sprung up to benefit capital , by which the working man has no longer an exclusive property in his labour , I consider the only change tbat will benefit him is to locate him upon his own land for his own benefit . ( Cheers , ) When men talk to you about politics , ask thera what they mean ? If they say ' a change , ' ask them what that change is to be ? if the millowner will give higher wages ? If they say ' Yes ! ' I say * Pooh ! ' ( Cheers . ) Ask them , if you are all to become shopkeepers and sell your own goods ? And if tbey say ' Yes , ' I say

      ' Nonsense ! ' ( Cheers . ) Ask them , if you are to become that class which does not work . V And if they say ' Yes , ' I say , ' Ignorance ! ' My plan is to make every man work upon his own land for his own living , and thereby make idleness a crime . Now , friends , this is the problem tbat is to save the Irish people now starving in Ireland ; the land will not yield its fruits for four or five months to come ; tbey are a great people and an industrious people ! It is your duty to belie the charge of their being idle . Let us understand each other before we go for another political change , let us know what that change is to be ; for , bear in mind the old adage ,

      that' The bird in hand is better far Than two that in the bushes are . ' ( Laughter . ) Do not exchange misery for greater misery . Do not struggle again for any political change , except a social fesult is propounded to you . Now , what is my social result for Ireland ? The Church property in Ireland , at a moderate rate , is worth fifty millions _to-morrrow . And the land , if the landlord was released from the payment of tithes , is worth thirty' years purchase . Well then , my friends , I deny that the Church property in Ireland belongs to the parsons in Ireland . 1 deny that it is theirs by their mission , unless they can show where their right commenced . I deny that all the sheepoi th'i fold should starve , while the shepherd is l ' reisg

      S _' _jmptuously upon what does not belong to him . ( Cheers . ) Did ever a parson die of want in Ireland ? Did ever the parsons fraternise with you ? Not a single one , and why ? Because they live sumptuously upon that which belongs to you . ( Cheers . ) Th ' en what I say is , sell the Church property . I say let God ' s religion be free and open ; let every man worship his God as he thinks fit , Sell the Church properly , and give me the fifty millions of money produced by thc sale—not of tbe parson ' s property , hut of yours—and I will locate half a million of men on the land , each man having his own free castle , aud own labour field . ( Tremendous cheering . ) I will allow five to a family , and that will be two millions and a half . We " should then require no

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      poor laws , fco _eleemosynary aid , because of all men living , the IiMman is the moit thoughtful of his own family and' wife . ( Cheers . ) Mr O'Connor" then proceeded at considerable length to e . \ patiaie * Upoii _ilit" princi ples and value of the People ' s Charw .- He addressed the Irish in their pwii language , which he translated into English , aad resumed hfa seat am Mist the most deafening app ? _anse . _wt _oh _Shus _^ _" mWed the Dest resoIntion '

      That we recommend to tire repealers of Ireland and _tngland onr brethren in tbe-came of _jusMce . the obll . vion of their religious feuds an # * ther party differences , as a noce _ssarj-preliminary to _Kiion , the _forerMnHer and fosterer of national independence . To show that there was a fraternisation _between _JinBliBhmen an * Irishmen , he shook hands wivh Mill . JNuttalJ , tbe seconder of the _-flotitn He said Chat that was the da he had long wished for , when the ; _English and Irish people united to overthrow th . * * ; oDpresor , and _maSe ( he waa going ; to say ) thrones _ifall ; hut be witharew that . At an ? rata , they _nhould inot regret much when thev saw thrones fall . If _Ire-Jlarid would not repeai the Union , _Eneliahmen would i ; do it for them , for they wero heartily iked Of it . _ififUheers . ) j

      Mr F . T . MxAonK _** , who waa called * _6 Si to support _thjfcrfsolution , was _received with mostf enthusiastic _^ prause . He i » a ymin ? roan of _aboaStwenty-sir years of age . He commenced by _statriag that he had been tracked from'Dublin by a deteotwo officer . _He-delivered a most fervent speech in _favour of repeal . Referring to tha _sreat meeting which bad been announced for thai ? day in Dublin , he said thnt it bad beeen postponed until Monday next , when it would assuredly take place , whether there was a proclamation against it or not . The only _chauce oi putting it down was fay 3 massacre , and he should not he surprised if thit wm resolved on . ( i & voice -. '

      Let them not dare it , ' ) He should go bacfe to Ireland to-morrow , prepared _fs ? _whateTermisht liapppn _—knOTriag that , as the English government had p lanted a garrison in Ireland , it had , by ita oporession here , planted a _garrison in England . (< Lnud cheers . ) He would _ro back in thia confidence ,. that if a foul act was done on that day—if a hand was stretched out to strike them , there would be bands _strctchr-d out to revenge _theai . ( Vehement cheering . ) The appeal would not now be to the Houae of Lords . The time had now gone by for appealing to inferior _trifmnals ; for everything upon thiB earth the sovereign people had assumed their sovereignty . _tChesrs >

      Mr VYhimakeb proposed the following resolution : — That the . _Ireschery snd ba « e c & nduct of many ofthe Irish members fluriug tha past and present geaeion _caa _^ not in any degree wtaksn tbe right of Ireland to _legislate independenee ; the crime or error of tbe _repveseDtntived cahoot destroy the sanctity of the cause , Mr Bacox seconded the motion . Mr _jDouest ( one of the deputation ) supported the motion . He said that they should go back tc-mo » - row to _danger in Ireland , and , with tbe support of -hs _English people , they should go back to meet it cxultingly . ( Loud cheers . ) The terms of union which thev offered were these—Ireland for the Irish .

      and England for the English . Should they have a Union en those terms ? ( Yoa . ) It was said that Mitchel would be arrested , and perhaps executed on a gibbet in Dublin . If Mitchel was injured _, the gibbet must remain for one after another of them . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Nay , more , before thev hunghim ( Mitchel ) thrymu 8 t execute the whole of them in the streets . { Great applause . ) Whatever blood he had was at the service of liberty , and he should glory to shed it in the constitutional fight . ( Cheers ) Mr Johh Murray , one of the heroes of ' 98 , followed and said , that though 71 years of age , he had abated none of hie vigour and energy . Mr Matthew Treanob _rn » ved the adoption of the following address to the people of France : — Address of the Irish and English Repealers of Manchester to the Sovereign People of France ,

      Heroic CitiBens , —We , " the _Repsalers of Manchester and the surrounding neighbourhood , natives © f Ireland and England , assembled together on St Patrick ' s day , — for the purpose of devising meaua to accomplish the liberty of enslaved Ireland , by annulling the nefarious act fe _^ - _& sfc _**' as' _^ _gtelallv _^ tiio _^^ BrrHrtn and Ireland , through wbich the latter has been lowered from her position as a nation lo tbat of a drspised and degraded provincp , with feelings of _exultation and pleasure seise this opportunity of congratulating you , our brethren in the holy cau-e of freedom , -upon the happy issue ef your late noble struggle—a _Btrujjle of oppressed humanity against tjranny of tbe blackest dye a straggle of tha betrayed a ? ain 9 t the betrayer , armed with wealth , _potrtr , an immense mercenary

      force , y et fallen to _duit before the mighty breath of an incemed and injured people . Tba truculent tyrant , who , by black treachery and perjury of the foulest hue , succeeded in depriving you for a time of your just rights , fe * s bven flung , like a thing of insignificance , _yrlth _disi-ust , frora amongst you , The all powerful will of the millions was not to bo withstood in tho land of tboir fathers , an 4 Franee now _standB erect in her giant might , to prove to despots tbat thoy are _, ' unable to extinguish liberty—that the illustrious example of _destroying class legislation , and giring to her toiling sons the just reward of their labour and patriotism , will be followed up by country after country , until the whole world shall acknowledge the _unmeasurnble benefit conferred

      oa mankind by your glorious _Republic . The foul wrongs of Ireland are too well knoivn to you , . noble ci _tizsns . to require recapitulation . We know you sympathise , have evtr _sympathised , with the people of that country . The men of England , too , hove wrong * , — - deep-seated wrongs . All must be redressed . As Franco has secured for herself ber beloved Republic , so Ireland shall bave her parliament restored , and England her idolised Cbarrer . Tbis , we , arid tbe millions of this country and of Ireland , have willed . _TVe who have been too long divided by a base and grinding aristocracy , now declare and _prsmlse , before God , to accomplish thoso darling objects , —a pledge , we believe , citi . zsns , you will receive from us as tbe best proef tbat we are with you heart snd 60 ul in your onward march .

      Your elections approach , and we know that every ef . fort which the base agents of kings and their creatures can effect , will bo put in practice to mar your _spltndia designs for the welfare of mankind . But we havo complete confidence in your wisdom to detect snd hurl to the earth each wolf in sheep ' s clothing ; and we look to tbe result as tho consummation of that triumph you have obtained . May God inspire you so to act . Such , citizens , i » * be vt ' nh that proceeds from the soul of the people bere , who desire you to believe that no kingly crRft , no tyrant force , shall ever induce us te fight against the banner of Freedom , wherever reared by tbe people against tho oppressors . * Yivela Republique . ' Mr John O'Hka seconded the motion , which amid thunders of applause was carried unanimously by acclamation . A vote of thanks to the chairman was passed , and after rapturous cheers for Mr O'Connor , the Charter , and Repeal the meeting terminated a few . minutes after eleven o ' clock , in the utmost order .

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      ATO ) NATIONAL TRADES' JOURNAL . - — - * _^^^^^^ _* ' _^**^* _MMMi _^ _M _^^^ _ti _^ _MMM' _^ _MaB _> t _«*« i _^ _WW _* _WWi _« ' _^ _WM _« _BWW _^^ ' _, ;¦ ' ¦¦ _——^— _—rr- mum ii _uim ** _' _**» _a—mm _^ _mam _^ , _^ _ma _»* imim _uillA _3 _y » E _& _V * mmi VUI _^ XI _. NO 544 . _" _IxmiONrSATUBDArMASCH 25 , 1848 ~ _^ _2 _gJSg _^„ I _¦• _»—^«»»^ - _^ . — _...., . _ . .. - — - ¦ - ¦ ¦¦¦ ¦ " - ' " •"'¦ _tV _""*" " _. _' - '"— _-x--- ... ¦ :- ¦ _f — ¦ — nhniiiM ' i ' ""' ' " " * ** _"' *

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      TOE GREAT SOIREE IN THE TOWN HALL , MANCHESTER : THE CHARTER AND REPEAL . On Saturday evening last , thia great demonstration took place as announced . When the party had assembled for tea , an inspiriting sight , one _sucbiasis seldom seen , was witnessed . The moat appropriate decorations enlivened the scene , and _aurabers of the fair sex graced it with their presence . About seven o ' clock , Feargus _O'Conno _? , Esq ., M . P ., Mr Doheny , one- of the ambassadors frora Dublin , ( Mr Meagher having returned thither ) , Mr W . P- Kobens , the people ' s attorney-general , Mr Dunn , the chairman olithe meeting of tha Free-trade Hall bathe previous evening _. with Mr Peter Feeney , Mr Trainor of Stal ybridge , Mr Murray ,, and others , app _» ared upon the _piatform , and wero received with deafening _applause . A short-hand writer on the part of the _government attended tba _m-aeting . Thc Manchester _^ _Foresters' band played several wellknown aire in the course of the _evening .

      Mr Dun . v , or , the motion of Mr Archdeacon , _seconded by Mr Rankin , was . again called to _tl & s chair . He said , thoy were r . ssemhled for the _purpose of showing to the deputation who had been 3 * 01 forth by tba Irish Confederation , that the _DenMamk in this part of England , at least , were in favoB _** - vf fl _lispeal of the legislative union . ( Hear , _hssa . ) , He was no public speaker _^ neither was he onf _^ Vao had taken much of a prominent rart in _pub'jftlife . But the time had como when is behoved _ovGry man to

      exert hiinstlt in favour of ihe liberty . 'i _^ d freedom ol his country . _ lie thought it was the Maty of the Repeal association to lay tbe _questio-a _, i > i' Repeal in ' its true light before the people of _England , as he had no doubt or _£ ear that the DemQczucy , 'he people of England , would at once go with _Ishem in their efforts to obtain it , and strike tor _tfea independence of Ireland , his ( tbe chairman ' s ) _active land . ( Applause . ) This was the first time , ho believed , that the Repeal question hud been brought before the English Democracy by a deput . _aiion from a body of men n . _sse'snbled in Ireland . w \ io were fairly deteniineii tii carry

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      out the _indapand _sneo of their country . The day bad arrived whe » the democracy of both England and Ireland knew their own rights _, and knew that they bad only one _eneray to . contend with—the united _arirtocracy of both _csnntftes . ( Cheers . ) His whole heart and soul were set on obtaining for Ireland her legislative independence . ( Continued _cheering . ) He was , perhaps , as loya . ' a subject to her _Majesty ' s crown and dignit _*? as an > ' niarv in the city of Man . Chester , but he stated _distinctly » nd publicly , in tho presence of the gentSeman wbo had been sent down by tho Home OfKce-te report the expressions which fflll from the _speakers at that meeting ,-tbat he had another allegiance superior , in _Jbis mind , 10 hia allegiance to the crown—that was theallcgiance to the independence of his country . _{ £ oucf cheers ) He found men assembled in St Stephen's from the Queen ' s county , the _conndyof Mayo , of iimeriefe , and

      other counties , who wero ignorant of tie wants and the interests of the country * . It was _thae-. _thes , to _uet rid of such legislators—r >! men wbo _wereutterly _icnorant of the feelings and the rights ottheir _constituents , and of the manner in which to'redress the grievances under which , the democracy labour _, ftlear _. hearj _WithoutthcRepealoftheUaibn ,. usleot this country were allowed to govern _itc _^ eli _' m _^ _spee * 4 ive of Ireland , and Ireland allowed to _goTgrmitself-irrespective of _England-. _ha' knew perfectly well that thft democracy ot both countries would be _crnnhed ' by _tWawtoeracy , ut order test _tfceJatterniififct'Ilve upon thei _^ t of the tend , produced frora the _nweat * of the brow ot _thsbeopie _. ( A yo « e : ' They will net 56 so mush longer . ' ) ( Loud cheering . ) lie had a nsmber of _toastato propose to _thenr'jn ihe course of thy evening , tbe first of which _waa _^— ' The people , the only _trne-atid legitimate source of all power . ' ( _Lo-isd ' cheers ) ;

      Mr _Roberts- who waa receivecrwith great cheering , said , the sentiment he was to speak to was one of the most noble—one of tbe most ennobling— one of tho most religious , democratic , and true sentiments that ever emanated from the Dcisy ,. from reason or from humanity—and one to which- _dII good men had responded from almost all ages . Blst , notwithstanding that , like-many other great and _< mighty truths , it had been hi * fate to see that sentiment trampled upon and treated with every pc 3 sibiescorn . ( Hear , hear ) It was now their business—and God grant that tbey might feel the responsibility which had fallen upon them—to raise that _Bentiaaat to ita _levititaatc vitality . The opportunity was then given to them—earth , heaven , and circumstances seemed

      to _combiLe for tbe purpose—let them see tbat it passed not idly away—of raising tbat sentiment to the dignity whioh it ought to _bear—wfajcirreally and truly belonged to if . But how was this 7 ' In war , in legislation , in government , in peace , in tho arts , and in sciences j in wealth and ati that wealth could brinz ; all that heever hsd seen , had ikan forthe advantage of the rieh , and the degradation of thia same people . ( 'Blear . ) Ought this to be ? ; ( 'No . ' ) We witnessed this ia our legislation , in tb & administration of the laws , and in every country-in Europe save one . That country , that one , was- France , ( _Greatcheeriiur , ) _-. _TheFrencb revolution said ,. ( and he , for one , whatever the results might ba to him

      self , did trust that that doctrine would erelong be recrgoised through the length and breadtir of this eartn)—ibat the- poor who were willing-to labour had a right to be fed . ( Hear , hear , and great ap . p _lauso ) It was not charity , not a _bentfitito feed them , thev had a right to be fed . To deprivo them nf food was a michty wrong . ' lie trusted if would go forth to the world , and eventually be recognised-as a great truth , that men who were submi ' _t-tang to a wrong , and were tranquil under that wrong and did not complain of it , were doing a great sin ; ( Great applause . ) The Chaikman then proposed ' Civil and religious liberty all over the world , and may tho enemies- ol either be crushed and overwhelmed ; * to whioh

      Mr _Josum Fissi & _an responded . He entered into a definition ofthe terms Civil and religious liberty and after acknowledging the sympathy he had met with amongst the people of this country while ho was a lecturer for tho league , said tbe only way- in which ho could return that sympathy with gratitude was to assist the English in the achievement of what they considered to tc their rights . ( Applause . ) - From the blood spilled in the last century had sprung many thousand patriots ; and though he had been opposed to Mr Feargus _O'Connerj . he still rould not but arltfiire tbe _disinttrcfted actions which tha _^ uentl eman had performed . When be saw him fighting tho battles of freedom , be saw the _s _'' ro _fightiim them over again in tha son , and he trusted that the timo waa not far distant when'Civil and Religious liberty' would be fully carried nut undtr their distinguished If ader and patriot , Mr Feargus O'Connor . ( Great cheering . )

      The _Cuaiumw ! said there waa another O'Connor ; who had been fifty years exiled frora bis country , which he fought and bled for . He ( the chairman ) trusted that he would yet be received in his native land , that he would vet be buried there , and thatfrom his ashes other IrUhmen and O'Connors would arise , to stand up and defend the rights and liberties of their country . — ' O'Connor , the veteran , survivor of the perils of ninety-eight . ' Mr Feargus O'Connor , M . P . thsn rose , and was received with tumultuous applause . He said , if last night was the wedding , they might took upon that as the honeymoon ' , and he thought the harmony _, which seemed to prevail gave a happy omen of their future union . In the midst of the chaos then going on around them , the mention of his aged and revered , and venerable uncle was a source of great consolation . In times when tbey had no fruitful topics for discussion , it mig ht have been reasonable to suppose

      that one who suffered so grievously and so unjustl y for the rig hts of the people , that his name might sometimes receive honourable mention instead of scorn . It was some consolation to think that , iaithe midst of these troublesome times , men had not forgotten him . He ( Mr F . O'Connor ) had often told them of the struggle his country had made ; taking an example from franee , drawing an example- from America . He bad often wondeied that those- who had struggled for the fieedom of Ireland , should ; have looked with scorn on the names of Fitzgerald and Emmett . ( Hear , hear . ) He well remembered his , uncle telling him , when all appeared to be hopeless _, and forlorn ( speaking of those two ) , not to deplore their fate ,. for , from every drop of blood spilled of _theirB , ten thousand patriots would , arise .. Thosewere names wbich were scoffed at , and trodden underfoot , and no tear was shed to hallow their sacred : memories . "Whether or no it should ba his _uncle- ' _Si

      fate to lay his bones in bis fatherlandj he ( Mr 2 * . O'Connor ) knew not , but he trusted that he saw im what was going on now , tbat instead of-having their stoneless graves pointed to as objects . of scorn , that we should see a _moaament of _eternalihoiiourereatedl to ihem . ( Great cheering . ) No man in Europe looked : with more anxiety 3 > f feeiing to the present _raov « y ment than he did , _- ; and no man felt so great ai nssponsibilit y as he iftd _, seeing the _ahanges _whiaHihad taken place and what terror and _persecutlsni iad done aforetime . He was preparing the raiuli 06 the people onwards , not only to _asi for but to . _denaand tbeir rig hts , ( J 21 ear , bear . ) It was a dim suit ) thing to mould a souad opinion outiof tattered _Ssagsients . The mind of t _& _e people of thi & country _wasdestiroyed

      by the crotchet mongers , so that no man knew scarcely what was the ep inion . of . hia neig hbour , thereby masting despotisrm strong upon fhe- weakness of public opinion . Now ,, however , he hoped they were like a rock of adamant , and it wa & impossible for despotism to resist iheir demands .. He agreed with Ma-Roberts , th <& in the _revolutions which had occurred no change , had taken _placa for tbo benefit of the industrious _irfiass of the _counSry ; but be hail ] showaihem that . "Nature ' s pap was , full of milk , ar . d ; ripe to sustain - _dlli those who camo to her ; he had ; tolri ihem tha * i she despotism and tyranny of mm has !! made the land barren and sterile ; but he had _shawn th _* im how every man _coa >! d apply it to h _'& o . wn Ki 3 tenan . ce , and the support o { his family . _Nalaws 1 _s > £ Go _< l , of Nahive , or of justice , could maintain iht . _vijynt of other men to live upon the proceeds , of the i _' lUlustry of the poor , while the latter were consigned

      —pitiless objects—to the _pr > or law guardiaus _, ( Loud cheers . ) But the improved mind of the country would never again let the people of this country hurrah for political changes in order that one set of despots might tako the p lace of another set of tyrants . What was the position of tbe people of this country compared with that of any other people on the face of this earth ? "Why was it that the provi . i sional government of Franco had not been able , as soon as the people expected , to advance in their intention and future poliny ? It was because tyranny in _France had not allowed people to commune together;—tbey were afraid that they might go from bad to worse . The French people had hewn deprived of the powci of speaking and , exchanging their opinions , but be thought that tiie provisional government , as far as it had gone , had g iven a lesson from nature ' * book which would not soon k _$ ftr _.

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      I gotten . The great danger of changes was , tbat ' those who excite you to deeds of hardihood , of madness , andrevengej assured them , as the Free Traders did , as the Reformers did , and as many other parties had done , tbat from that change great benefits would arise . Thev had seen what benefits those were ; but the moment that labour was represented 111 tbe House of Commons , its _represetita-ives would say , now tbat mechanical power , machinery , and inventions , had closed up erery other channel against in . dustry , that the land was the only one left for thera _. For himself , he would never rest _satisfied till the Charter became tbe law of the land . ( Cheers . ) He toni ' them then , es he had done a thousand times . More—he told them in the presence of the Irish anu _Hssadori that if be could prevent it . the _jgrtfeB , The peat danger changes was that

      _I English sh u . _" " their liberties one day before Ireland had hei- s' wl _» en lhat was accomplished they _jcould mutually a _^ ist each other . We had beea f told to look witb su ' . r , jass _ing leverence on oiirinfstitutions . Could he' _hCM _™ a" institution which ' hsd consigned a _milSbil' of ' J _"' countrymen to their _graves ? Was it for t ?* it that t _. _' . c" neople were to be _I _I aught unconditional loyalty , while men were sent to their graves , and to She' pestbouse , hy famine , starvation , bullets , swo _/^ in and bayonets ? They heard ofa massacre to take-place on Monday . Dispel such a * notion from their _iMrtds-. They dare not do it . ( Great applause . ) The givernmeht might perhaps desire , if they dared , to jesd 1 another lesson tf > England' _ihroo _^ ht the sides of Ireland—for Ireland " had been'made tbeir battle-firftl' before now—but thev dare' not The country ? fiid three hundred \<\ ll \ _i 1 i—

      . _"IKy _MT _« _SVr _JJW _VWUIIV J _jrf- _**** *"' VV _»»« " -w _* _v thousand * _st _^ yeav for publishing _*« _£ ' _rttbbish _spokart in the _Houca of _fiDrnmoJlsi a hundred'tbousauti to a lady , the wirftyw _oJ a deceased king , _5 tty thousand to King _Leopslfltf fi ' ftyibonsaod to the J & _h'g-of Hanover , and fifteen _thonfiCErsl a year to ths Archbishop of Canterbury . Three hundred thousand' a year was paid for _prinftnlg fly *? rubbish spoken is-the Hnuse of Commons- _& nd'JeM _$ , vOO f or educalh ? g- £ he whole nation . ( Hea _) _« -Kei 5 r „ and * Shame /); Let thislink deeply _into'theiifaiinds — Francs Kid had her n * aceable , blcr / _3 _fBSS > - _amd- calm revo )& riu > n , simply not

      _Ifeeeause the Ex _^ tec _^ terrw is as _strong as it was [ 'in- Pitt ' s time . Sfciljr 3 _eil got a constitattoa ; the Sang of _SardiniBthad-b ' _eiSK obliged to g ive ? , •' constitution , - Prussia . _Sifctee _^ ftfed , thcPapal S _* 2 _» sr the same , and _SpairuTJias-ttjansbling . Now , bcwould ask them whether those- _jsiro p le would _aSJcwofa : massacre taking p : 2 ce < ir ! - '< I '>< j & nd ? ' ( ' No , no /} Mr 0 _'Coimor then , _affSf _eluv-sdating the most important subjects of _the _^ _-day . _- _' . aoncluded a _spkin'did speech , amidst the : _aost- " _entfrB « astic eheeiing . The Chairman

      _tben'save—The memory of _thcjen ; lX ) TioB 3 , a ?» irit 8 who _liavestrncfe for freedom , whether -sally _-dtfed _omthe scaffold , _l-. & _streS 0 j 6 thiir _existonesint-rxiieSor- _poiMai , or _glorinu & _ljt _accoavplishrd the _indeperimceof _tiseir country—V * a _, hi 3 | _jtoar Tell , Ho . er _, Koici _3 »! ctt , LW : 1 ' 5 3 dward _l'i-z _^ _erBliJ _^ K 6 btr ; and Thomas _EtraiPte , We * te _Jt . _nts , _Hanjiltor _,, _Iiewon , the _Shiers ( tne victims- err ? the _baso spy Arct _* strong ) , and James Jo 83 ph''M 'DiJ *! feiJ . _MVDmibhy , barrister ; one of' the deputation _frons Dublin , rose to speak t _^ tbe _toass _^ _arul <> n _doint : scv thr _<> s cheere were ;? iven for _Rflpenh . Who feared , _fio said ; , to i < peak ol _ITiw-f _' _- ' Who Sid his head for shama ? Not thoso at _h-a » fc'wb' (> _tff _. re thero _tbafi night . They had been told- by . _MVr O'Connor that

      one cause of Ireland ' s a _avery ¦ _wtio-her own abase _, _rcentv He agreed with him _rcioss- ?» liy . He came to teil them most plainly- ' that ¦ the _^ 'were a t . ' capi-ed as well as an enslaved people .- N & _r < sr was an unfortunate nation so crossly _nusTepresent 3 d as ibey wero in ths present Ilouse of Gomnr * M ; . There waa _nov mistaking the fact thnt tlio reason _vhy ti" >« _vrensia-reu oy tne rsntisti p & _niament'waa because they had nit members in that parliament'properly to represent Irish feelings . One- reasons , for this had not been 3 tated . Formerly , the sovernmant p lundered in Ireland in the name of _fcbs-PI ' pe ; . t ' i « n the _government plundered in the riarae _^ of th _& reformaticn , and latterly they had been told by _^ their-prctended friends .

      thutit was betterto trust tbe w > _higa-tban _thehn _^ listt people ,. The _Irisfc believe ' - chat too lontr . lie waa one of ' those who clung to that belief with pa ? _sf _natet ardour , but he was one of these- who _believtd it no lonaer . lie now trampled upon * national _prtjudite . * - Ilc believed with Mr 0 _'C « nnorthat tbere would b _» no massacre in Ireland os Monday . Be believed tha Irish representatives would not ¦ prevent it . He believed further , that to-morrfi ; _rsaoinin § the _government might exile those _repreoentath-ca to places ia the colonies ; for , unfortunately ,. it had been noc only ia- Ireland that places aad' _situistions beyond theseas were just _thetBitiga .-. So the yeiple michn oe buried without coffins in order that 33 > illon Browne

      and 5 S » sjjan John O'Connell ahould bave p _' aees inthe colonies at the § overmEi 8 nti saiary _^ (' No . no . _'X Eu hail heen called the Irish ambassador . He gloried im the title and Aiould go back to his government and testify to the _adoomou of ths British nation . He trusted that after ages would look back on . this-union as the true date of British freedom . LeC them uaite and _sItuueIo for itbeir _emmroon cause . They had _struggled without tha _Sngliah ; with thenr he waa not afraid ef tbe _consequences . ( Cheers . ) He did _^ not think they needed -to _fuhc _^ No governn _» nt woald frighten him . _*^ hen the neople were disunited the tyrant waa strong ; _--fflien they -wrens

      united the tyrant was a _teeble-chiJd . { iilear , bear . *) Tho _sseptre , and the _baubls , - the army and the navy , sank into nothing before thu united _roo & . _Ht-shouid go trom town to town in S « igbmd _. advocating the _rights-ofh ' 8 country , whkhthe Irish , would nit receive as a boon . They would have ' Liberty , Fraternisation , and arms to _deienditbeni . ' ( Great applause . ) Mr Doheny then , spoke of the troubles of ' 9 &; of _erecting a nionumentto- Emmett , of and the present miserable condition , of his ooantry . and expressed his agreement with the wlmla of the points of _tbfc Charter except one ¦• . he .. . would h ;\ vo opea voting . He concluded arnid . _i muuhi _cheering and _hiisrahs for repeal .

      The Chairman then proposed 'Tho- Repeal of tba Legislative Union _between Gteat _fioium md Ireland / Mr _Akchdbcon _reapr-adzd-to _tba-toast . The next was , * The men of Sicily , _Naples , and tha other Italian States who have _bursWhe bonds ofthe Austrian despot . Mr Matthew _Truwosv . jn- an _eaargetic _addressv responded , Ths Chairman said there _vwiddt not be time for more speaking , be should _therefore-pead the remainder o _£ the toasts _intendsd . _'to have-been submitted . They were aB follows : — Ttoe United States of Arcsrica ,.. thc _* _3-hoapcat governed _cour . ftry in the world ; -. tha- i « stitiiSit _< _A » of which , based oatho sovereign will of the people , v _»« cbigbty admire .

      Hie French _Republt ; . ; - ar . d may tbs people of Francs _presarve their glorious position , , tha scourge of _fraudulent crafty , and calloua -tyrants . ; . in example to _mtu iX alli ' andB desiring tob & _frve .. _Sf-oland ; a speedy reatcr * _iioa _ofrbeTplun _^ ered riphts _^ _aodtbebeaith of ht : r . _cxf ! es , wb _& . _aG-uld not crouch 07 hug the degrading caain , of tue _tyrssit of _Kuseia . Tbe meu of Waterford , whq voui for Meagher , and against _plticenu-n and state paups _;^ The ladiea _nhohav . e honour . _sdro » with their presence . Mr O'Connor . _veplipd to _thsyset toast .

      j Avote of thanks ; was then , awarded to the Mayor ; _jSortheuse of tho . room ,, _aD'lianother to the chairiman , who returned , thanks , _ardi ttho meetini ; _toraaijuated about _halt-pastelevea-o _' fclsck , with _rapturous _leheers for theCharter and Bepeal .

      St Iielen.'3.—A General, Meeting Of The....

      St IIelen . ' 3 . —A general , meeting of the . Land members will be held a _,-fa !> i > e house of M . _\ James Woods , publican , _Parr-siraati , St Helens , oa Sunday the 26 th instant , at sis .. 'c & _ek in the evening . _MoTTKAift . — -The _pub-fc'S'iijper _, in _coiREemwatiott ot our Land member _goifig to Minster Lovt ) , < rill take _placs . at the Whi'i _^ liart Inn , _Mottsam , on Saturday , MaTch 25 th . _Supyw on table at . six o ekek . Non * i * f ' 3 HAM — The atxt meeting of-, the Laud members -will bo _hel _^ i an the _Toutey lintel , on _Sunday evening , a _^ _aaten o ' clock . A Frte and . Easy will be held _sa ; Saturday etra 3 ) ng , at seven o ' clock , at the _Leopard * Toll houso Eill . U 7 _srj ?< 30 Ii . —All nwtubera of tkis . branch whr > hare gone out of to ™ and have not sent their _addrsjs _, are requestsd to do so as _sg 3 edy as ptssible to , William Thomas _^ _s-ib-secretary _, % Christian-street . GHELTKNUAM .- _^ _his branch will in futute tiuefe

      ¦ n Wellington-passage , on Moi 4 yy evenings ,, _whera . likewise the _Cbwtist Associatsui will meet on "Wednesday eveningtk _Bermond _;^ . —Theshareh & Mersof tbis branch of . the Land Comsany will mee _^ at their usual place on 1 Tuesday _evrsisg , March _iSJth to elect ollicers for the ensuing _quarter . All shareholders having local expenses in , arrears are _requested to atbnd and pay the same . Pi / _i-Momis , —Tke _menders ol the _pijirr . auth branqh are _requeued to _attend next _Msmiiav . night , March 27 th , iorihe _tlettion f & _fcfticrrs _fia-the next _quarter . _Notissbham . —A _lwuii-: of She _members ot the National Land _Comyaay will ba held at tho foul try Hotel , an Sunday _wnins * _MKh t ' . tlie l ' P _^ _electing officers i ' ov . the New Land Company . .. _its-sra _Swes-tand Wall , the Secretaries . to the 0 d Company having declined to act for the . N ew _Cumpauy _. ma chflir to be _tikon at _^ ' clock

      sevn o . _Ih'DK . —Tha members of this branch will meet at tjie house of Mr T . Wood , Albion , _MaiktS-place , on Sunday _evcnl _' jg next , at iivo o ' clock . Ma . _scu 5 , s * eb . —A special meeting of this branch will bs neld on Sunday _s _^ ming , AlaiCh _SGtll .. Chair to . bo taken at nine o _' _olsck . Hull —Thc members of thia branch _wiilhold tlieir quarterly _meeting en _WVdcesdav svofchig , Mftrcll 29 ; h , for the election of _cftictsrs and olber _imvurta'vfa business " . Tho tea party which was to hino taken p lace on March 27 th , has been _unavoidahiy postponed till the 1 st of May . The _ChartUU will mee ton Sunday _evening next , at tho Ship Inn , Churchlane , at six o ' _cloik . All persons hohtini . ' petition shcct 3 are requc _: ted to _bvirif . ' them in , _R Ot Jatey _ijiaa Wednesday evening , Maveh 20 th ,

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 25, 1848, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_25031848/page/1/