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      lEMALE DEMOCRATIC FESTIVAL , AT NEWCASTLE .

      On Tae-s ^ iJ eyemn ? , tbe Temple Political Union jjTe a sorree , in tbe New Music Hall , in honour of 3 [* 3 ? r * . J . B . O'Brien , Peter Bn ^ ej , Dr . Taylor , j ^> :, < e rt Lowry , G . J . Hsmey , Abraa DaBcan , and goot-rt K . noi ; the three former gentlemen were not jresent on -he occasion , bnt their places were , ably J : ?? ii «* tte delegates present . Ttie Rev . Mr . ¦ VTrrcf , v "* o was sl * o iavited , implored a blessing at E > r commencement of the nrpast , and pronouseed pace at it * cocclc-non . The Hall "was crowded to eifjs- ' . The WiDlaton band was ih attendance , tsi aided ro the life and spirit cf the proceeding * . Mr . James Avr occupied the chair .

      The ChaiR" > ia >* commenced the business of the e * r : ; ia « * y giving " The People , xni may they ixti i ' . lj triumph over their oppressors , and obtain ieir ia-i i-zs' rights . " ( Loud and loEg continued ecseris ^ O ' ' ilr . Lowrt thra res * to ghe " The People ' * Cr . ir : er , 2 . 2 i may it speedily become ti « . e la- * - of the U : i . " ( Loud chews . ) It long aid bees the practice to tivc the t-a * t of " Tne Pe « ple" by false ff . rzif , v '~ o intended only to deceive them , and £ ? ¦*¦ ha ^ ir ^ lenr heard that England was toe land g [ frred--: ; . t ' le people htd to ri « e and tJemaxd a Ciirter of their liberties . Thoae who were bound , Li karri :. : o see justice done to them had ap ? s : a-

      trfi ; cz : that apostaey , had done the came go&j , s : : ' . ' * t 2 t ? people tooi : be work into their " own iati-. { Loud eheerg . ) Tie scceess of the people ¦ g-u now errtain , for it wa * enly when apathy ctzii over thrm that the fuses of oppression stole 0 : urB and tooi away their rights . They were r :: row met to cry " Harra for the Qeeec "—they vere net m ? t to pay homage to men who , whea Cry ? 3 t into power , would syurn the ladder that Ti-fr- ihrm . The beer birrels hid no mere influence ; &zi in sp ; -e of the prociamitions of the base s . —ornirs , rhe people came out and ri * ktd their zyis to Tjn ^ cate the .-r freedom . The miliions were c ; . £ sd tn ^ ir fozx were the unia . ( Tremendnts cterrs . ) Those units mu . * c now give the people

      u-i . " riast * , or proclaim the-mseiTes de > pot * , and rule ir . ± the bayonet and bl- > od ; but they were no h-H- i !' = e to rule by force . ( Loud cheering . ) TTc :: i he oe told in the nineteenth century , that lir w .. ii-iz « , 'vrfiO produced * il—who npbeld aiiwi" -vert ready and able to d * -f » nd all —> houlj i i ~ i zo Crurttr of freemen ? ( Hear , hear , hear . ) I 13 .: coverniDtnt which was airaid of its people , ¦ st »> a . rvranuv . He never inew that the human

      tfirt wouij jo worse with kindness than with cocrc . ?_ ; fcu ; he th 3 nktd God it waJ in the nature of ir ' :-: ai : neart to ri ^ e again . *! injoatiee . ( Loud tr . r = r « . ) Tnt people Had . ri * eH against injustice , and : ;? y mas : cow nave their political right » , or he pat d : w ; ay fcree . No man remembered any tbiuij Hi ? — = progre . * s of the . MoTeineat within tbe la < c fix s ^ ms ; it they dH as much for three to come , tttj wou-id iiaie th « T lit . trUtts witiio-ut a blow . He rr ' rr tnoUiit that Commoss orLords vould do them j ;? .- ; - ?; rlj late eTent ? showed that neither Wfcs s ? r Tary -srin-ei to de justice to the people , Loru jlr . b-. 2 rne ! ef : the way for Sir Tvobert Peel , an . i tis « i 3 is weVt he -wa-j fousd in tbe company of

      ; -: n f : ; nce * ana Amnas ? aoors , ealnns : the n- -: rcAi : t ISicholaa a good and humane man ? (> " o . no . ) 2 < o , bat they njight exprct justice from t £ c . r own ei-rtion * . Already the fuad « were t- > tter-:: £ . and the shopkeeper * were quaking . O : tbe ircdrZ ' . r . s -.. . mini 5 e ( M . r . L . ) hid addre'se . i a isrftneerbg at B = clir ? : o 2 , arid they ttere enrolled ferry zw members of tbe Union , chiefly of the sirrirepi ^^ cia * i . ( Loud cheers . ) Let the women tr- " ; nd t : m say that ttr traders who woujd not r >; thr-ir r . cshand ' s right- * , > hail not hare their ii-ii ^ a ' s earning * , and soon would thcT have the

      Eic . tceper crawling at tneir leet . flaa the vises : z ^? zz tnem ev ^ r come forward to controvert the jz'V . x of the people ' * demand * ? . Never ! They cri ' . i no : —the peopie demand only c ; ual ri ^ h ^ . a ; c . f the covernmen : c-. vjld -not"be kept up without Ejiing one cia << of the eoinmunity the slaves of tteorser , why the sooner tne besom of destruction ?**? : orer it the brtr-r . ( Loud cheers ) They ¦ wiiti-i * d rob no man , but no man . ¦• hould be a-.-jwti ; o rob them . Tnirry years ago , the taxes ¦ srere c ~ : r -teieuteea m lii- > n 5 ; now msv * ere HftVfs : r . £ vtrj speech from xhe throve « aid they wtie s-tzeace wj-h th « woria . aud vet tbev Wrfpci , rd

      ;; -: s : psy e'e ^ cn rn : ; : i 5 as a-year to Keep up men ' z : \ zi p-T ^ o > e * of war . Let them d .-viare against piji-gu . a ? . iitwnuji be in ^ a : n that the Qn-t-n , » a :. 2 -er . j her pawn tickers , called Exchequer Diils , n :: j the market , the Jew wouid ^ ay ' Vat the > e , : b- peipicHo : pay dem . " ^ Laud laughter and .-: STi . ) 2 pr i ^ g ilice w juIj hife to Siy to the aiimiri . * 8 idg-i : erix ' i-4 yoa snu .-t go without ynur < alarir « : i - I f . en : ce acmiial * ¦ j . iiii peter :-. ! * v . ( , u ; c * ay , tdu ^ - y ^^ r iy- -- -m may « ro to the devil , we xWl ha' # i : * .-: ig Eiore to do -with you . "' ( liete * ed iauznter t :: t ^ rtr ? . ) Af : er i ! tw other t-uuaily feii ; itoU 5 ^ - "' rrTarin : ;* , Mr . L . sit down amid * : loud and oftrei-wed ciicericg . T ^ rcii » ehnment was—'' The National Cnn-~ r : i : s ai . d a » peedy and triumphant Unuinatinn to :: « : 2 . bo j-s . " Received with everr dtrnan ^ tra .

      uji c , ; -. ' « . M :. A& .-lAil DUNCAN" saja , that it irs-t indi > ed-& »»" . nir ^ t wsiica o ^ i ' nt to caU 'orth the be * t " * jr : ji : i . ; s « asa aleerioE < of the people . The ? Jarjciii Convention wi < the iife-fcoat of Ds-mocracy . iirrc were dark « pDt < in the poiiticai horizoc , i-:: car : E ^ a storm arain * : the people of England , sec the pec . pie had formed the life-boat , they had - ' " - " - •^ a i : th rough the br «« . ktr * , and they loaied v ; " : ; : ere ^ t to iw p'o ^ re ^ s , as it buffett < i the con"ez ::: g wr . Te . « . ( Load cberrs ) Every bad man in i : .:. ¦ _ : vrxhed it < dc ^ trucDOQ . Tbe VThijj and t ~ - ~ ? -e- < were _ prophecy '] 2 > i that it would soon > rr .-:. ar-. i tien they fondiy hoptd that they wou ' . d ? r : - £ i " e to cream awav their lives on the wijjt ? nf ?¦ :- -::: > n . He ( Mr . D . ) wa- one of tbe ribs of — : 1- ***;] , ana the n . at-rrial * th 2 t composed it , * -Tz Cr 2 btvond toge : ne * by the firm basds of ¦ ' i-z-z ^ j . True it » v , that some had shrunk - ~ -be contest , frigctectrrt by a ; jbo * t of their o' ^ n <" rir :-D—Houd chrer- )—but this had beea the 5 : r =: - : a iLa tie salvation of 'he Convention . It * i-i : > w free from men whom he had , long since "> err _ ; ^ -Jt , atr * igcatrfd as traitors to tbe people , it £ ¦ * rs . iei on the people aione ; some of these men were «•* - - • -: : re 130 * : eo ; ' » t in their patrior . * m , » btit men c" : T .: e- < referred their b : ^ word till the storm e ^ -rrd , and the sky lowered , and then they aid - ° t -ieak but act . ( Locd cheers ) ThKfe men " -:: cut from uj , do : bein * of u ? . " Tbe ptopie -r 7- ~ witiircw a man from the Convention , and v r ; a rrfectmn took place they premptly sent in ^ -rrr men to fill tbeir piaces . ( Lood cheers . ) Mr . ~ - -rTc exnre *» ed his regret at tbe absence of Mr .

      - s-. rn , whom he eulogised in tbe highest gtrain of ^" --- "jr-. c . There were pirfalb « et for the repre-^ -- -i r * of the people , perhaps they wouid fall ~ - ' - -r .- to a treacherous G-overns > ent , bnt they - " - . c not die wi'b the fool's cap on tbeir head , nor *' ---o -: tne « atrinc-e of l < j , 000 tyrants . ( Loud c "" r-, ' It Ta < 2 r » o 5 to have a good pilot os a dark 1 " —t :. a * p . iotwas JAme ? Bronterre O'Brien , ^ - - ^ ki . e- * if the pecpie placed him in tb . e post of l ^ r ' " " ~ wocid guiae them along tbe shnals and i' uf despoii § m into the harbour of freedom and : 1 ! t : J ' If there were any of tko « e strange animal * ' " ! :: E 5 "cung , called "Whigs and Tories , he wonld •* tr . rn that there were men engaged ia this ^' ' - ~ ' ,, w ' ko were the " ? aH of the ea ^ th , " -whilst

      - "J ^ r- e ! it only to be " « pewed out cf the month . " * - ; v-ijj ' taneous meeting' wiil > how that the Con-¦ ' ^ -t-i ; had the support of the people . ( Hear . ) 1 -- V >' -I g and Tory p&p « rn insinuated that two . -lu'w-rsas the Convention and the House of - i =: s , < could Dot co-exist . If the Convention * *> ' -i 2 tred --upported by the people , that the Con'*~ -- '> z must be destroyed or it would destroy \ ' H-ju » e of Comniois . ( Hear , and cheers . ) ^ ' ' " * . ze believed that * omethingof the kind wouid ^ i . iy take p lace ; he would not say that the ^ - '' rzvr ' j . would deatroy th « Hoiwe of Common ? , ' - uey woula reform it ^ and if they reformed the "* -- *» : 0 : Coma ? on « thev degtrored the H » & . - > € of

      ^ -sor . sj for where wenld those owls and bais *~ -2 At present roosted within it , ¦ where would - ^ 5 n j a roosting place when the Toice of tbe people 5 ~' - ^ iea within iu wall * . ( Loud cb ^ ers . ) Tbe iv •? and Tory hireling press gaii that tbe rimul-^^ i- meennss had been hel d ; the twaddlers had ^' - --sir twaddle , and all was again quiet . Vhy , - '^ sined the fact , the twaddlerg hai had thtir ^ =, a ^ d that twaddle was the death-knell of of

      ^ -7- ( Thunders applause . ) This was not a ^' * nrn : eot up by fashion , it was got up in the ^ f fisnioa—it wa ? not gnt up hj men who had ^~ --i . to their names , which , prop « rlj inter-C . - ^ , might signify the greatest ass in tie world . ^ ster . ) No , bat they saw men assembled , de-¦^ - g ttat they mus t hire their rights , and hare ~^! too , by tbe aid , if necert&ry , of tbeir own ^ r- anns . Thes e were elements in it which might rj- Qiie tyranny tremble . Tbe Vv ' hig and Tory • . ? P ^ phets aid not dire 4 «< rp into tbe book of ^ - ftey ne 7 er eot past the gilded edge , or if they ^ piey inu 3 t now tee that they were not able to £ ^* a t he moTement , and tiev dare lot come ui , to guide it . ( Lccd cnee ' r * . ) He would - taem , however , to come forrard , r . ot for the ° * jasdeej bat ta ? i' ? e tkeir owa caica £ 2 e 3 .

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      The Itsv . Gentleman on his right hand knsw that the only way to guide tlie people was to mix with tbe people ; and , therefore , he eame among the people to learn their vraaa and feeing , whilst many of ni * bmarrfi -were poring overth « towa thatenlightened fte monss 1 , 000 years ago . Thwe Rer . men talked oT qmeteess , bnt there was co quietne *) where th ^ re was no justce , asd he would M \ these men and the ^ hopocrat tradesmen , tha : if they did not joia the Htavemeat from jjrmeiple , tb , e wirald * bt gUd to j ^ H it from expediency . fb = Coarenticm would s » on sga-. n meet to report whst they had seen of the p * opie , and he doubted not that their proceeding . *} wc ; n tbeJ d'i meet , would be such 3 * to secure , and if pQjsibl * increase the confidence of the people . ( Hear , hear , and long-continued cheers . ) The Convention was the creation of . the people ; with a breath they had made , and with a breath they could unmake it ; and though each member might give expression to Ms own opinion , he would carry out no opinion but the opinion of the people . " ( Load cheers . ) What would they do for the Convention ? ('' Support it . ") Yes , but they must do aore , they m « t « ay with Cffisar , I come , I saw , 1 conquered . " "VW-ld they withdraw their e . irnin 23 from the saving * ' bar . ks , « r the shavings' banki , aa a faceaois friend of his very judiciomlT called them . ( " vy ie Trill . " ) Wecld they support their friend * in trade , and let their er . ? roie » shift for themselves ? (¦ " We will . ") "Would they petitiou the Queen for arms to protect their lives and property Irom the bludgeons of the ^ pscial con ^ 'abli ? . who were sworn

      in to keep the peace that w ? j broken by nobody but their . - ' lves . Let th-m tell the Qae&a that there were 300 , 007 stard of spare arm * in the Tower of Lonco-n , and that in the present time ! " the working men were in great need of them . ( Laughter and ehee ?* . ) The Queen must not arm the shopkeepers against the workin ? men , or if she did , he would tell her not that she occupied the throne like an usurper , but that she occupied itlike a fool . ( Loud cheering . ) \\> re they ready to make a -acred month if ir , and take to tht-hillside ? ( Shout * of "We will . " ) If they did they wiald sonu be glad to iive them wh

      it th ? y wanr-d . The Convention was : it the head of three mi ' sion . " of j-nen and a < manv women , ind aii thic they had asi-nst them was a Jraction of the ba ^ toi the community , and if battle tftey ¦ must , he wcii kn « vf on vrhat > , iie tie victory « -o ^ id declare . ( Receded cheer ? . ) The people ha ^ or-iy to exprrs .- thtir wishes and "finality " would ne all at as tnd ; the leaden spectacle * would laal from the eyes of the Queen , hhe would call enlightened a . Ea ho ^ e ^ t men to her councils , ann the Peoplv " s Charter would quickly be the law oi the land . - ( TrtEent ' t'C .-s cheering . ) * Air = ~ " TyroU ? e Song of Lioertv . "

      Tr . e nt-xt . ^ criment wM , "The Female Political Lmon . an-i may the Dauzhrers of the Tyne , rally round its standard aad * mile us on to victory . " iIr- G- J- H ^ tiNEY responded to this * entinient . He cs . me to ? ee whether he could not shame thvriimen oi" ^ ew .-a « tis into rba : position which thwomen of Cumberldcd had a . *« umei . Tnere were mes"in Cumberland living , or rather dyins , on 4-. » r 5 ,- . per week : these men were readv to ^ trv their

      nz 2 ' ^* ' . J * it wrre rcc-tssary , to gain the Cb 3 r-: t " . ' ~ ' ^ iie wai ; ? ' ia' Io *" '" ' ^ - M g ^ od a . < the iBer : or C ; . rr : ^ enari wtre , the wemen were the better men ^ " the two . ( Loud cheer ? . ) Mr . H . alluded to tat- scarf which ne wore ; it had been presented to him by the « -oinen of Cumberland , and he won isi < nonours and < hoo ; d wr-ar tnem . He liked to speak rrath , sfed not ri .-itter ; the women of >* ewcastle .- did not suf ' er the miseries of their feliowwnmen in other part * of Encland , but that formed

      no rea * on way they « hoc ! d no : come forward and a-si * t to relieve those wfeo w-re nicking into the premature-trrave of faraine . 31 r . H . drew a vivid picture of the hnrrrr . i oi tbe factory laws and > e * Poor Law , " whicn 2 e justiy denoucVed as degenerat : Lg Eagushrnen , Lnd corrupring EuglUhwcmeD . It was to get nd of such enormities a * these that he Jesiren tbe People ' s Charter ; let that Charter become Ikw , and those cur-e * would disappear from the jand . ^ - ( Loud cheer .-. } He had recentiv * een a rlitcb of bacon hamring Dp in the hou « e of a " working man in Cucherland . and beside it hung the nn < . ket , a . " ; f for ir * protection ; inc-fd , it was sorntwha ; tirgu ' . ar , since tbe m-j-ir . s becar . to disappear from tbe cottagej of the people , the bacoa di ? appeu . red in Ihesarae proporrion-aj . * oon a * the masket left the ^ iacd the bacon loiiowcd it . ( Loud cheer * . ) He fiad lately bc"n : n corvtre& . uou with one of that

      Q 0 - : - * e fui c . a-s , -he mason * of thi- town , aBd that rnan declared tha : a * aia ^ ons c « uid build up , ? o ii-o . co-j ' : d they pull down , and that if the people vtcre to have Dnp ' t- to dwell in but 'he ceilar ' or the garre :, thsre -hi . , he 20 place left to tbe an * ' - trcracy or the -ho- ^ -rac-y , ar . d they muht betake tnwm * elve to the vrojr > sn . i m .-Jutiius . ( L ' -ud ctec .- * . ) , Th- Cbarr ^ r w . i ; the nv .-ans to an endme ine- _ r . « wa ? t eir po ; i : i-.-al ri . -ht-, and the e ^ d social e . u- ; . ty . D-d he mean that ih-y ^ , 1 -hou ' . a caxe ^ : be : r fjod crts > ec aiite , their ho-Jse . » built in parall e logram * , their coat * b ^ ' ^ e one uni : orm cutr God _ Lies * yo-j . r . n sach thing . " He only meant tnat . ail men -houij have what thev earned , and that the man who dii ~ . oi worx , Pfcither . * ho \ : ld ne eat . " ( Cheers . ) The Whi ^ - , r ,: ij » others sairf that a man toga ; to si : dowr . ac-J c : ilc : ; la . te rff .- > r ^ Kb t <^ t

      ^ = ; o a w-fe . He ( ilr Hars ^ v ) should calcuiat « totbing abt-ct it , bat as --odd a . « he found teat hi * httd vrav safe nn hi .- i houlders be would t 3 ke a wife if he cou . d procure .. ne , and be would te-pber too , ssouid he beg , borrow , or > teal , for her . He beiieTt-d with Puris ' . hut , the women were 'upericr to the men , xs 3 ii the women of the North joined the pen of the North , he wenid have more faith in _ moral force , that be cool ] bo 2 * t hitherto . ( Hear , hear . ) Let them read ihat curtain lecture which every Kan dreaded , let them meet and pa . * . * resoiutios * to ha ^ e bo sweethearts bet food Deroo-, crat « , ana ? oon : bi youiitr men would be most uproaricus Demccrat * . and .-oon the joung vromen wcu ' . d have r-wrrthearts ei . oj ^ h . jLt . H . sat down am ; j loud cheer ? .

      Air— "The La . « « O !" The nest toa > t » a < , "The Patriot . * of Canada , ana may they soon be relta . « ed from Brit ;« h opprc ? sio 2 . " jj jr . Ksox , delegate from Durham , r * .= ponded . He heiicved it -was a German -writer wLo made the Ci'tiECtion between the poetry and tbe prose of JjoliEC * . In England they hud ' still ? oroe of the poet .-y of politics , as was evidenced by the nctne bifcre him ; but in Casada tbe poetry had long since p& ** ed away ; and perhaps toe time ira ? fas comit-g when themseive * miiht not be able to Beet a ? thtv now met , to t- "_ - y a nipbt of tindne . 's and happiness yocn as th > . He knew not whether il

      might be treason , he cared Bot whether it wa 3 or not , but his prayer va ? , that the suffering people of Canada misht socn be reieased from British op . pression . ( Loud cheers . ) He wished it , however , to go fortb that it was not the British people which oppre * std the people of Canada . The sanie tyranu which oppressed the people of Canr . da a !* o opp ' resiec the jKwpl- of Gnrat Britain . ( Loui cheer * . ) Sun he was , that tne day the People ' s Charter becami law , that day weuid ? ee Canada freed from th < hand cf the -poiler . { Load cbeers . ) The effect ! of the Charter would net be confined t © England t was a mighty wave , beginning in England t < spread over Europe ^ nd the world . ( Applause . ) * Air- " A Man ' s a Man for a' that . "

      The next sentiment was , " The Rev . Josepl Hayner Stephens , and all the Ministers of th Gospsl who sapper : tha Cause of Justice ani Liberty . " The Rev . Mr . "Wypeb responded . He said ii regard to Mr . Stephens , it was not ueee * sary to de tain them with any lengthened statement ; his pa triotiim and his labours in the cause of justice wer well known to the company around him . ( Lon cheers . ) Many weeks had * not elapsed since th Northern Political Union had requested him t preach a sermon for the purpose of aiding Mi Stephen ^ to obtain justice ; and sorry was he to sa that in Britais no man could obtain * ] ustice till ths

      justice was bought . ( Hear , hear . ) But if Mr . Stephens eoula only hear the response given to his name in a meeting like this , it would bring to his heart a cuLfiJecee in tie people , and a contempt for his persecutors . ( Lend cheer * . ) That cheer said ten thousand times more for Mr . Stephens than he ( Mr . AT . ) could say in his favour . They were all aware that considerable controversy had arisen out of tbe serBon to which he alluded . Mr . AY . severely " castigated a Tory editor who had charged him with blasphemy on that occasion ; and proceeded to describe the rnettfng at Glasgow , noticed in our last , where the Trades ' " Hall was crowded to excess , though , sixpence was charged as admission .

      After that mrering had terminated , he met with the editor of one of tbe journal * of that towD , who informed him . that be had been written to by a gentleman in Newcastle , informing him that he ( Mr . Wyper ) had joined the Cbvtuts , and requesting that he ( tbe editor ) should procure all tbe information possible about Mr . Wyper . Now , he ( Mr . W . ) was g lad t » say that Glasgow was tbe best place thi » gentleman could go to for information . He would there find that be ( Mt . "W yper ) belonged to the working classes—that he had educated himself by his own industry—that he had erer been the friend of vrorking men—that when the Commissionert to iL-qiirfc into the Factory System were appointed , he ( Mr . "W . ) bad . " published apaper to shrr the effe « ta

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      of that pernicious sy * t = ia on the ' youjjg mind . Ht weat before the Cummi **; oners—he'bad there given bi » evidence unasked—and he could tell thu gantleman that made the inquiries about him , that whan tbe-people required bis service )! , he was alwajs : it his post . ( Loud cheeri . ) Proud was he to ' snr , that almost the whole body to vrkieh-be beloDg ^ d vrere- Hadical Reformer * . He instanced several ministers of the Goipel who had * i * ned for thv Charter , and this was peculiarly cheering , when fce «» . w reported in tbe newspapers that certain of the Wealeraa body so far forgot their stcred cilice , - ( hear , h * ar ; —a » to pass a ? ote of expulsion against any man io their community wh . i dare to stand

      forward in tb « course of truth , li ' wrty , and justice . ( Loud cheering . ) "What were those men ? Sprung from the people—the sons and tbe brothers of working men—many of th « m not half educated—yer , when tnuy got a black coat on , and their head . * thru't into a pulpit , they turned round to oppress thepe « ple ; aod these men dared to talk of Popery . ( Hear , hear . ) He would recommend them to ' reid over the Saviour ' s Sermon oa the Mount ; and bavin : ; done so , perhapi they would rescind the resolution they had come to . For hinwelf he could say that the

      principles of the Charter were no new principles with him . Since eT » r be bad a political principle , that Uaiver ? al Suffrage , Equal Kights , and Equal Justice to all . ( Loud cheers . ) He was a moral-force man , and he was c-ouvinced that , if they went on with the same spirit , devotion , and determination , which had hitherto mirked their career , many months would not pass till they were uroelahned free men by moral force alone . The Rev . Gentleman resumed hi * seat amidst loud and oit-renfwed chfering . Air— " Nae Luck about the House . "

      The next sentiment was " The Memory of Cartwright , Cobbeit , and all the departed defenders of the rights of mankind . " Mr . Thomas Hepburx responded . He said they were indebted to those individuals for the principles which hrou ^ ht them together that night , aDd the Charter of the present day wag only the ecno of a Charter demanded by Major Cartwright thirty ye \ rs a « o . Cobbett , too , long aince told the Government that the people never would be content till they had a voieein making the laws which they were compelled to obey , whilst Ilont gave his vote against the Reform Bill , knowing it to be only a delusion . ( Loud cheer .-. ) The next subject to which he had

      Jo advert , was one with which they were personally Hi-quanted . Th ) agh the career of the iaintste ' d Beaumont among them had been short , it was extremely active . The working men of Neweaxtls invitedAugustus Harding Beaumont to stand for th « representation of the borough ; he re-ponded to their invitation , and thu * began the connexion between that > zood man and the working men of Newcastle . The principles of Beaumont still lived atnoh £ them , were still ii'semicated among them by a paper founded by himself , and so Ur > . g a ? those prin-! c . ples were cherinhed , the "Whigs might in vain j talk about their £ 10 franchise in the counties .

      Nothing wou'd go down with the working men hut Universal SuQYage . ( Loud cheers . ) In " proposing this extension to * he counties of the £ 10 franchise , the AN hip- landlords bad mrre . in view than the people thought ; they would first ^ reiierhen their own power , and . secondly , they -would enhance the value of property , for men now und * r £ 5 or £ 7 would « trive to pay £ 10 a year , in order to come at the irarjehise . Bit ths trick would not do ; the people bid been too long plundered ; they knew it , and unit .- ? restitution wa .- speedily made , there would be a terrible state of affair * brought upon the country . ( Lead cheers . )

      The next sentiment was " The patriot * of France , Poland , and ail nations t » f the earth , and may they ¦ -pettily crush their tyrants . " Mr . Mason said it wa > tbe object nf all tyrants to * er the people of one nntion to mnn ^ r the people o ; another . But the time had passed away when tyrants could gull the people into a thirst for the biood nf their fellow-men . France and Poland had dor ; e more for liberty than any other cation on the hce of the earth ; and when lbe tyrants of England would look to their fellow-tyrants - > n the continent tur assistance , be knew they would look in vain as far a- France was concern d . Mr . M . maiit a lew additional observauoDS , and was loudly cheered throi ; --h' ) Qt .

      The next sentiment proposed by Mr . Thomason , « -as " The Pt- ^ plc ' s Representatives who had that night favoured them with their prt'sence . " Mr . Lowry and Mr . Hauney briefly replied . The u-Mial vote of thanks having betn given to tbe Chairman , tbe company separated , ( giving three rhetr * lor the Winlaton ba : > J , ) highly and justly urarinVd with the proceedings of tbe evening . — Northern Liberator .

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      Buat L pset . — On Thursday , a shocking oecurrt-tice took place on the river , ntar iJatu-rsea-bridge by wb : ch , we regret io » My , ihrce lives were lost . It appears from inquiry , that on the morning of the day ibove-mentioned John Grahain , a Scotch bairpiper , who has for many years been known in the mt-tropolis , h )> wife , and djugbter , a girl about ten } ears of age , went ! roin Lvoh ' s at Stangate , in a boat , fur the purpose of Living an excursion to BiUtr-ea . On tht-ir arrival at Battersta , they went to tbe White Hart Inn , where they hud refreshment—partaking of mere drink than did them

      aood ; on their return down the river , off Wand ;; - « orth meadows , the boat upset , precipitating Graham , bis wife , daughter , and a ynuisg man named HuiehiDgs . wbo accompanied them in the excur .-ion , into the water . Their cries brought several b-ats from the fchor * to tbeir assistance , but , notwithstanding that every exertion was used , Graham , his wi ; e , ai . d daughter peri-hetl . Hiiicbings vra * picked up in a state of exhaustiou , havjLH clung for ? ime time to tht-leclof the boat . Ihe bodies of G ; ahain and hi- ; wife were picked up off the Hor .-effcrrv . J'he caust of tne accident \*

      not yet ascertained . Singular Reason- for Attempting to CoMiilT Suicide . —Ytstercay , sn \* a cerrecpondent , a party left Poplar on an excursion to Iticbmnr . d aud 1 wii-kenbam in the Richmond steampacket ; when within a . short distance of their destiuation . 1 yOUDg woman of the partv threw herself overboard icto the river , to the great terror of the company . She was with difficulty » aved hy a

      fisherman , ( who fortunately was near at the moment , ) as she struggled to remain in the water . A great many persons on b- > ard threw money to the poor man , bo that he did not gn unrewarded . The cause assigned by the young woman for throwing herself into the wa ' . er wa * , that she expected to meet a friend to join her at London-bridge , and that person having disappointed hvr , and no one joining her , she became so unhappy that she made the rash attempt . —Evening Paper ,

      Lusus . —A cow belocpinp to Mr . Scott , of Blackballwood , calved on ^ Wednesday a calr having two distinct head * , four ears , four eyes , arid two seeks , which united together to the body at tbe shoulder . It had alsn two distinct spines or backbones , -which vrere united at the rump , but the tails branched off and were distinct , 10 or 12 inches in length . It had four legs , which were all perfect ; the belly and entrails were single , with one liver ,

      and single lungs or lights , one gall and kidneys as in a perfect animal ; but what i « singular , it bad twe stomachs and two hearti , proving that it must have had a double circulation . The calf was alive , but Mr . Graharo , who extracted it with great skill , found it necessary to destroy its life to save that of the cow , asd she is doing well . The skin of this singular lusus naturee is being stuffed by Mr . Graham , and the skeleton will also be preserved . — Durham Advertiser .

      Arrest of another Mbhber op the Convention . Last night week , about ten o ' cloek , "William Carrier , the delegate from Trowbridge , Wilts , was arrested at his lodgings , by Shakell , the Bow-street officer , and one of the Trowbridge police , upon a warrant charging him with attending an illegal meeting a . t Bradford . Melancholy Accident . — On "Wednesday forenoon , Stewart Shields , about twenty-three years of age , a native of Ayr , but residing at Dnnure , lost his life by the upsetting of a boat off tbe month of the Doon , under circumstances whicb invest tbe accident with a painful interest . The deceased , who bad corae from Dunure in a nabbie or lug sail boat , with a companion , James M'Creatb , also a native of Ajt , but living at Dunure , set out from Ayr on "Wednesday morning , on thtir return to

      Dnnure , accompanied by' vfilliam Mayfleld , who had arrived by tbe steamer from Glasgow the previous night , and was on his way home to Tarnberry . M'Creatb and Mayfieid were picked up and taken on board a pilot-boat that put off to tbeir reseue , bat in a most exhausted state , having been in tbe water upwards of half an boor . They were « o vre&k and overcome & * to be scarcely able to give asy satisfactory account of how the accident occurred j but wb believe the boat was nps « t from struggling , consequent « n a dispute which bad arisen ; and that while MayfieM and M'Creath had managed to ketp themselves afloat , Shields sunk to rise no more . Tk-e unforwnate youDg bub , who kas thus met an early and very unexpected fate , wa « , we learn , engaged to a young woman , ta whom he was to have bees vredde * d in a few dnyn .

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      LUAKTI 8 T AODUKSB TO THE <^ UBKN . —A meeting oi the Chartiets was held last evenitiij oh tbe Hoe , PWMouth , for She pnrpese of a&mting an addre ** to . ;* rr Majesty ; . . A large- number ofpwjww assembled-,, tbe chair beiag taken by Mir . Pfecrie The . address wa * proposed'b y Mr . Short , an&carried unanimously . The meeting waa then suldressed- by Mr . RiohiiroVon , a member . " of the Convention w l * o declared himself a " Tory Radical , " » dvocaW » reform of all abuses in Cbwuh and State , bofr not the destrustion of tho . se wstHutions . He winh ^

      to return to < the coistitution- ' as it existed at the revolution of i& 8 , and preferred tbe church to the establishments of dissenters , sw-tb » luttsr were supported by pew r < mts and sufc « eription « , and were excluaive , whilst the church was op ? n to all . H ° severely denounced the "Whigs , noticed the illegality of commissions , and spoke at great length in condemnation of the poor-laws . —Bzvonuort Independent . r

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      SEBMON BY THE REV . J . IJ . STEPHENS AT STALYBRIDGE , JUNE 9 th . ' On Sunday morning last , ttw Rev . J , n . Stej > heks preached ttio following sermon , ia his Chapel , Stalybridge . The congregatiou , as usual , was very large , and manifested gr ^ at atutntion . After the introductory services were finished Mr . STEPHENS » aid : —The Manchester newspaper * have this week informed the country tl . at the Gov « nim » nt has taken the Dukinfield new factory , aud fitted it ap aa a barracks , capable of coat ; uuins GOO foot soldiers , aud one squadron of horse . One portion of that military force has nlruady arrived , namely , two companies of the 10 th foot . God bles * them . ( Amea from several voices . )

      They * re welcome ; welcome to me ; welcome to you ; welcome to thsir brother Irish « Uve * of Stalybridge ; welcome to their Irish mother .-, who leave their milk on the du * ty floors of . Harrison's , and iiuiley ' n , &n < i Lees ' s , and Laechei' factorieswelcome to their Irish sisters , who , from nine yeari of age , by iaw » and from eight aud even seven year * ot age , in fact , ore bringing themselves to an uutimely a * d speedy grnve , to raise Leech , JJaihy , Harrison , Lees , and therastof them , to a pitch of pecuniary greatne . w , and civil power , which enables them at their beck anrt bidding , when you ask / or bread , to present you with a bayonet at yoor breast , and to cast a bullet at your bruin . ( Grt'at omnt . ion . ) In looking over the sraafl Mauchnst-.-r papers 1 find

      , that soiiih two yeirs ago , nnd tvea less , very much less than that , tho country and the Government were told that tiie people in the Ash ton district was an orderly , a peuo-yable , a quiet , nnd ! i liyal pouulntion ; that Stephens was the only fool , the only niadmau , thooniyincendiary-, tbeoal ytrniiorintVi ^ distnct ever aud nboife the haudful of rabble , the rift-raft ' that folio wed at hi » heels ; bnt that neither Stephens nor the deluded followers cf Stephens were anything more than a drop in the backet when compared with tbe entire population , which wa < orderly and pracenbW , and well deposed , and most loyally affected towards the Quaea and the Constitution . If the Manchester papers told the tru . h two vears ago , they must be telling av ? fnl if not most wilful

      lies just now . Both tales cannot be true . If it were iroe two years ago that Stephens was pretty nearly tha only madman and incendiary in the country , it could not be true , —in the nature of things ic could Hot bo true upon any principle on which delusion , f&ha . tici > in , or moral niadnes . has « ver yet spread hi contagious iulluence , that this lately so peaceable , and well affected district can now be oc the verge of insurrection , so near the brink as to require Dukinfield to bo made a fortitied garrison for a considerable part of her Majesty ' s army , an « i further , to require the enrolment of so many hundreds , if not thousands of special constables , and the cailiujc out and the orgauising o . entire band * of the pensioners , who receive the national bounty , for their services in defence of their country iu foreign lundi . We uow set ;—the country

      now sees—that the A-hmchuster pre ^ is not worthy of any credit —( hear , hear )—ought not to be trusted even to the extvut of a sinjjl . ; word on anythiug they report as to the actual condition and circumstances of this very important district . It is q » ite clear that if her Maje « ty '* Government bo at present , and have been in times past wishful to loam the truth they have applied to parties interested in sub .-tiiutin ^ ta Whood lor truth , nnd have depended » pon sources ot information which you well know aud which all the inhabitants of this district well know , have lroc » time immemorial sent out tha most mconvcr , the most libellous , the most abominable and atrociously wicked representations as to the character and conduct of the population at large in this district . When I speak of the Manchester press on this question I wish to be understood , to

      a certain extern , an meaning and implying th « whole of that press . I npe « k advisedly ; ' therx is not at present in Manchester a press that dare or that cau ailorJ w sp « ak truth . 1 he most constitutional and the most independent ; the most anti-Malthujianof that press is as much hampered aud tied , and bound and lettered us any of you in this chapel , aud cannot afforo , and dare not speak out . ileucf it is , that upon a certain question , more especially of late—not to go any further back to other questions—hence it is that upon the question of the right of evjry man in England , to be like to what bis neighbour is like , and evenly with all his fellow countryman—tbe right of every son of the soil , every child of the land to bo a * much armed

      and u * Weil armed , to be as ranch and a » well disciplined to the use of arms as any other of his conntrrmen—that right has either been tacitly allowed , 6 y other portions oJ the press , to be challenged , to be disputed , to be denied , or to be over-ridden by that journal to which I allude , in Manchester , without a bold , a uiahly , a dignified , 11 constitutional , a patriotic , and a Christian vindication , & ** trrioj * , and maintenance of that holj and indefeasible right ot ours . No man has more deeply regretted this timid—not to say time-serving policy pnrsned by the Editor of the Manchester find Salfora Advertiser than 1 have—a man whose knowledge of the constitution—a man whose power to put forth and to maintain in tbe « y » of an enlightened country all the ht to

      riggranted ns . by the constitution—a mas whose ability in every way to do justice to that argument , is , perhaps , second to none in tbe whole kingdom . And yet such is tha effect of the torpedo touch ; such is the consequence of the contamination , the mental , aafl moral , and political contamination of wealth in this district j or such is the otherwise iucoiaprehfEsible causes that operate upon the minds of men , that my highly esteemed friend , Mr . Condy , when speaking in the ' last article , go far U& I recollect it from memory , of physical force , as it is most absnrdly termed , so far from takiug any occasion to 8 iart or to argue tho constitutional qne . 'ti oi ) , as rayself and Onstler have put it—contents himself , exonerates himself , exculpates hia own pen—so lar as that quill has had anything to

      do with the controversy— by saying that every body knows that certain leaders of the movement are no bettar than mad fools , if indeed , they are not actually spies in the pay of the Government , like the Castles aud Olivers , and all the rest of them . ( Sham-. ) Alas ! alas ! bnt not for you . Your cause is with God . ( Hear , hear . ) Not for you : your cause is in hearts that never quail , and in nrins that never shake , save with , the tremulous , restless , nervous desire sometimes commnnicated from the soul to carry out the good work which the heart , and the God that made that heart , lias inspired . Alas ! alas ! not for you , fatherless child and . widow , poor and needy , bondsman and bondswoman , bonddchild , thralls and drudges * every one of you : yon have no

      power as yet save the power— and it is a mighty power—tbe power that lies in that heaving ot the saddened and the bnrdened heart—the power that flows out and ruus down in that silent tear—the power that is felt in that throb—the power that is heard in that sigh , which the winds of heaven take , up and waft to the ear of God . Your power is not of " the earth , earthy : " it is the power of God , which has said of yon rich , great , high , and mighty of the earth , that will afflict any widow , even one—the poorest , th « weakest , and the most lonesome and forlorn—it" you will afflict any widow or fatherless child , though it be but a little piecer— if you will afflict the widow and the fatherless , and thej cry at all unto me—mind you , God is not particular as

      to the mode aad maauer of their calling —( hear , hear )—God does not expect of . the widow and the fatherless that tkey should proceed so very constitutionally , so puactiliousl y legally in their mode of application—God does not expect from the widow anti the fatherless all the formalities of requisitions to the Major , Boroughreere , and constables "—all the puactihousnflgg of formality in the convening and arrangements of meetings—all the roundabout of petition- » het ? ts so worded as that the speaker of the House of Commons shall declare that there is nothing offensive in the wording of it . No , no ; God Almighty , he that sitteth in the heavens ahall laugh at the formalist and confound him : he that ritteth in the heavens ahall hold him in derision , in contempt , io scorn , inAbhorrence , and witn implacable hatred and vengeance . The men seated in the seats of power , armed with , the

      weapons or power , having ia their hand * the direction and the inquiry of power ; God shall hold these men in derision , when th « y mock , and gibe , and jeer , and spit upon the fatherless children , tha widow , and the poor , and not on account of the want , the absence of all the rites and ceremonies , the formalities and punctilios of lent and constitutional that , and correct the other , in their heartbursting efforts to be set free . Ala ? , then , not for you ; for you I ka » e do foar : for you and your CAUSO I entertain ne apprehension . God will judge you ; God will bring forth youi righteousness- ^ the righteousnttts of your cause , and make it shine as th * Mir &t noon-day . But , alas ! for the Manchester millowiiers ; alas , for the Ashton , Stajybridge , Dnkinfield , and Hyde millowners . Alas ! for Manchester merchants ; alas , for Manchester tradesmen , bankers , shopkeepers j ak . * , for the weudthy oi

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      all grades and couauiuns , in i « e Couuty 01 l , &hcaster , in-the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , » hen they actin * upon a Parliament which ttet * repraaenf their # elfish and exclusiro interests , to&e prejudice of the interest * of the- labouring and starving portion' of th « population *—actiag- thronsh that Parliasaeatyagaia upon the Goramnent whichi « the org&m and the index of-that-- feeling , those principles which- pervade the mocred portion of society , and the- powerful portion » f aodwty , to the prejudice of every other portion of society which is not wealth y ^ and which has no power ; J say , alas , for those shopkeepers , tradesmen bankersmerchants , miilbwners , and others , whej < by taking , shelter in this roftige of lies , are netting the ? T

      trust in the foot-men , in the horses , aod in the hariota of war . B- have long been told that , unless I could succeed in putting the case for the people in such a light before th « eye of an enlightened and independent countryyas to lesd my fellows-country , mon , of all orders and degrees , to concede-the just demands of the people , to grant the reasonable orayers , and comply with the moderate wishes of the people—that unless I succeed in thus morally , displacing error and prejudice , and introducing conviction of the truth , weight , inportauce , and ' social ueee-igity of my argunieota tha ^ it was in yeia . or rae- to hope to accomplbhit physically . Very- weii . Jvrnt walk that argument , round ; tell that argument to perform the right-aboat-face manoeuvre , as

      we are to learn all those terms just aow ; let the argument go to the right-abosit-face , aud tell the millowners here , and the Parliament and the Government yonder , that if they have no power to disuel the-ignorance , and dislodge thft prejudices and aisarnxthe pa-aions which 1 , his said , have communicated to the population of these districts , and of the- country at large , morally—if they caar . ot succeed by statements , by reasons , by argument * to ¦ lisana the people , neither can they do it physically r £° * n ? i . 'l ' *«»'« do it , neither will bulled . If th « Bible caa't accomplish it , neither can bayonets . If speech-makers » nd lecturers Sydney Smith , to wit —( hear , hear , )—if neither . * peech-makers nor lecturers canmake the people of Ashton believe that inners

      sp -are getting £ 3 a-week and that therefore they ought to be content ! neither , I am sur * con the old fogies that are brashing up their behaviour , and shouldering chfir crutch , aud showing you how fields were in the Peninsula and iu Eiryyt , » " >! in Centinential EnglaRd . It ' the magistracy on the beach . by doing justice —( Oh what a sight that would be—aye , what good news that would be ' . —how hearts would be gUddened ! how eyes would brighten up and b * am with wonder and with hope for time to come J' Oh . how the pulso of society in thu district , would beat , ho us to betoken all the ftgility , firmness , and strength ot perfect health atut soundness could wo but hear tell of the magistracy * doing justice)—ayeif

      , the mujpstracy , by doing justice , ( 1 will say uothing of loving mercy—1 will not so far degrade them as by supposing them at all possible for ngps to come of walkiag humbly before God )—but if the magistrates alone by doing justice cannot succeed in pulling Stephens down , and Oastler down , and O'Connor down , and the Convention down , and the Charter down , and the cause of mankind generally down—if they cannot put us and that cause down by doing justice , they cannot poll it down by building barracks . ( No , no , no . ) The coming of these brave men to Dukinfield will do more good than I could do by talking every day for the next three years . Tbe Asbtoa district under military despotism —under martial law—the moment any London

      nonet-men , as at Jtfury the other day choose to pull out a pistol aud shoot one of your factory men through the leg , and you in revenge , or iu self-defence , pro- ceed to take thut revenge which ought to be taken in such case—the moment any thiogof that kind should by chance happen ( God forbid thac it shonld )—but the moment anything of that kind should happen , or the moment thit Lord John Russoll , thinking himself strong in the centre of the lOthfoot , and in the midst of a squadron of horse and the Rocket Brigade , should give orders to carry the New Poor Law into execution , and you should be found attempting to resist the introduction of that law , —as you would be justified in doing , by lorce of arms unto the death , —if nothing short of that could

      prevent the introduction oiit—then I say the Ashtou district would immediately be placed under military despotism , and under martial law . I am glad thev are come . First it gives the lie to all the . lies of the Manchester press—the lies of the Advertiser— -lisa because the whole traU * was not told—lies , because that portion of the truth that was told was not communicated in the way in which it ought to have been put forward to the country . It gives the He told by nil the Manchester press from the Advertiser downwards to the Guardian . The country will now see that there is a something at work , a something going on , a something that the Government itself acknowledges cannot be stopped and stayed in it « progress unless 600 footaud a

      , squadron of horse can stop in the neighbourhood of Staly Bridge . Well then , ray friends , we have not laboured in vain ; we Lave not spent our strength furnought . Whenever you walk past yonder barracks , whenever you pass ona of the brave men of the 10 th , let that tell yow that Stephens has not laboured in vain , nor spent his strength for naught ( Hear , hear . ) Rabble , riff-raiF , scum , filth , ott - scouring , tattered elfs , rag-tag-and-bob-tailmob , as I think even the Advertiser once called you , or something very like it—mob , your strength , your power is so great that nothing in the opinion of Lord John Russell can prevent your progress but making A 3 ht « n a military station . Then we have done something ; it Las not been all talk ; it has not been

      all wind ; it is not all moonshine ; we have aot made a tempest in a waah-baud-bann ; it is a gradily storm : it i « an actual hurricane and no mistake . Thank God our enemies themselves are at length obliged to confess our power , and God will vary soon compel th ^ m to bite the dust at our feet . ( Hear , hear . ) I am glad they are come . I told you before they came that they would be Irish soldiers : and so they are . God bleu them ; and if you wane to know wuat Ireland is ; if you wantto know what kind of men Ireland has to spare to send here , go and look at these brave boys . There they are ; and perhaps such a set of undersized , lean , poor , worn , half-starved men you never in y » ur lives beheld . ( Hear , and " Its true . " ) Poor boys , ( hat have lat-lv

      leit their mothers to die in old Ireland , because the mother would not leave it . Poor boys ! who have had to run lrom under a falling house , on some of Lord Stanley ' s property , who told us the other day in the House ot Commons , that he should be favourable to the administration of relirtf to the poor of Ireland , in such a way as Just , just to keep them just above stttrviuiou ; just just above starvation ; just a "hairsbreadth beyond ; just jiut above starvation ; that kind of treatment would please him . And then he said if they would only do tnat ; if they would « Bly make relief to the poor one degree bb ;> VB starvation , and give him gold out of the public purse to send those half-starved , those all but starved wretches to Australia , then he said he would pull their houses about their ears ; then he would burn

      their cabins down ; then he would take the besom of destruction and desolation , and put it into the hands of bayonotted policemen , and sweep his tenantry from off his estate ; he would clear hiland , and would send them to rot or die ia th * swamps , or boss , and marshes , and snows of Australia or of Canada . (" Shame . " ) These poor boys of the tenth are boys of that kind ; poor lads that have had to run for it ; the roof of their house b « ujf taken off ; the walls of their house being jammed xn ; _ thu torch being put to the heather and the furs to tire tlieia all , about , to blaze all around , and burn ^ them all up if ttey would aot ran . The ] had nothing but the fix& in their own village around them on the one hand , and the water of tke English

      Channel before them on thu other . ; , and they- chose rather to plunge into the wa ^ er and awim to Liverpool , like the pigs coining over , only-worse—they chose that rather than burning amid the ruins of the cottage in which their father ^ , aud tf » w iorefatbera lived for hundreds of years before them . These afe the boys of the lOth they have sent here . They look as if they had never had a fall meal ' s meat scarcely in their live *—nothing but potatoes and salt , and buttermilk —( hear , hear , hear , )—and very often neither salt nor buttermilk , nor a potato , but a nasty devil ' s root they call a ^ lumper , " and the sea-weed that if thrown upon their shores , and which they take uct and boil ju » t to tiU up the hollow in their belly . They have sent them

      here . They thought , because they were Catholic ? , and that Stephens was a Protestant ,, all was right . Soitis ; it is all right . Stephens it a Protestant—Stephens protests against human beings being fed upoa lumpers and sea . weed . ( Hear . ) Stephens protests against Lord Stanley having power to burn people ' s houses down , ana sweep nundreds and thousands of poorboyri off his estates with the 10 th Regiment , or any other regiment , or into Australia or into Canada . Stephens protests against landlords in Ireland having legal authority to dispossess their tenantry of their little holdings , and drive them over into this conntry , first , to sink our wages down to the stmation point , and then to nnk both your wages and their own below the starvation point , making- the whole empire as bad a * the worst portions of Ireland . Stephens protests , and will

      protest , against the employment either of tr » opn of the line , or of police , or of pensioners , or of special constables , or of special anything . Stephens protests against the smployment either of physical force , or of moral force , or any kind of force , for the purpose of maintaining the damnable tyrannies of the Leeches , the Harrisons , the Baileys , and the Lees , giving them power—aye , power bylaw , to work women who stand till the child drops ontsf themnpon the factory floor . Stephens proteaU against power btinp ' gvren to these men , by law , to work children of nine—aye , or of nineteen , or at any number of years , « o as to hurt their health , and not give them one-fourth part of what they earn in exchange for it Stephens protests—be is a Protestant , and he glories ia being a Protestant—Stephens protests against the taking away of the poor man ' s right— " the right of ttwpoor , " u tha Scripture hath it . The

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      puur lunn XUMTiguuj ao Wtfil , » . -. uit : ri-. ii uxj . u . (**¦» poor man has rights before tbe rich man , and after the rich raaas— tha poor man has rights higher than the rich man greater than the rich mau , more holy than the rich Mao ; and therefore Stephens protest * against the taking a waythe right of the poor as has now beea doue in England for many years * , and more especially since the passing of that damnable and « ver-to-be -damned ,, and ever-and-every-way to be jwithsteod ] % v that divorce . " , because you are poorthat degrades because you are poor—that disgraces because you are po » T—to break backs already broken—to crush those already sunken—to render impotent and helpless forever those who have Ion * been bowed to the earths ( Hear , hear . ) Stephen * protests against the abrogationof the laws of nature : protest * against the repeal by statute of ths Bibla anaoi is

      ^ nnsuanity which - part and parcel of the law ot « fae land . Stephens protests against the burnioffof all our earlier statutes for the protection oi the }» oorj protest * against the annulW in foot and in practice of the j . ust and merciful custom * ani institutions of our common law and the habito ° lZ Pe ° ^ * i- ^? T P rote 8 td a « flin 8 t ««> dethronement of Jehovah ,, and the installation of batan m thereat of the Eternal ; Stephens protests against all tbw ; he had protested , and heiv again to-day , along with the Catholics of the 10 th , be records and register * -hia protest . It is much to m » U they don t ^ il-turn Protestan ts too ;—( hear , hear- ) —auditis mutb . to me if we don ' t all turn Catholic * too . I have turaad Catholic long since , in so far , at least , to begin with-1 can ' t tell kow much further u wih . go—but so far at least to be-trin with aa tn

      in « st upoa the poor having th « r rights again in the soil , in the abbey Janda—in the tithes —( heur , hear . ) —in so far at least as being resolved—aye , aa sternly resolved a « any Catholic , never to rest until the poor get than- own again ; I leave the parsons to get their own again . ; they are quite able to do that ; baft 1 ]• i ? ^ P ' 5 * will plead ior the poor ; I will light ler the poor—when talking and pietidm * and praying are at an end and found to be of noneaect , then will I % hi for the poor ; tbe poor shall have their own again . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) 1 am glad they are come . It will give you an opuor-¦ ttmty ot knowing what aoldiers are . Oh , what t joIs , wnat madmen , our enemies are ! Were they wise xa their generation , they would have kept f > ery red-coat a hundred mile « away from Asbton 1 he miliowners have been telling you that the sight of a red-coat would be enougk to disperse the gy-atest meeting that ever assembled in the Marketplace , it might have been true when thev said

      itu cannot be true now , for you have seea the 10 th . you have shaken hand * with ths 10 th , you have drank tea with the 10 th , you have drunk my health and the Queen ' s health with the 10 th , and damnation , eternal damnation , to the accarsed , hend-be gotteu Poor Law JJiil . ( Hear , hear . ) You hav © seen the 10 th , and the 10 th have seen you , and tha 10 th will hear the remainder of this sermon toliight . I am preaching it on purpose for them . I hardly think I should bave preached at ail to-day lad not the 10 th come . But tbe sight of the lOch has made me young again —( hear , hear )—strong again ; for it will never do to keep in one ' s sh » l ] , or to go dowa to the grave when the 10 th have com **

      and therefore , I made up my mmd to preach a sermon for the 10 th , and the whole of the British army to-day . I hope to have power to fulfil that intention . I am glad they have co ; xe ; thtir coming will compel the millowners and magistrates in thi * district to answer some very plaisr questions . I read ia the Manchester papers this week an aceouut ota disturbance that has takes place in Bury It seems that a herd of . p istol and bludgeon banditti , under the command ot the chief bandit , the g-eat brigand that is harrying this land . and woarvi ™ t *~

      poor of it—Lord John Russell—have fouid their way to Bury , k seems tbat on being booted , aud spit at , and pelted with a few stones , they took refuge in their den—their cove ; and that being iu taeir den , snugly sheltered behind brick walls , or stone work , they very bravely pulled out their pistoh * and lrom behind the stone work , and the brick wall gallantly peppered the people . ( Groans . ) Why my boys could have done quite as well as that . ( Hear , hear . ) They are brave men ! and these are the men that are to force the Poor Law down your throats . vVicked men are always cowards ; mark that . There is not a little pwcer of eight years of age that could not over-match any London policeman amongst them if the subjecc of the battle were the Poor Law ; for if he could not do it by -treneth ^ e could doit by cunning . It seemed that those policemen fared upon the people . Now I want to SHOW before this COmes to ham > eu i » A . htnr .

      because it is very likely to comeii thisbs the way of it—I want to k now whether there be any law empowenrifr policemen when thi » y chose to pull out pistols and . lei them ' oiff loaded upon the people ? tirst of all you know , they had no business there . It was unconstitutional . Old English law says that constables are to be made—first every man is a con stable generally , and then , if you want special constables you aro to choose from the neighbo > : rs , the housenolders , the rate-payers of the place as many aa you want . . If one will do it let one be the number ; butii you want a thousand take them . If the principle be once acknowledged of bringing these rnflvans down from London , thr-n the Home Oflico might just a « well have the power to bring German , or Spaniard , or Italiaa banditti at once . I hose men in Bury , or in that <| flice—in that employment are as much foreigners—as much alirnn

      an < i natural enemies of the people , to be met and resisted as the Frenchmen , the Italians , the Spaniards , the Germans , or any other foreign mercenary ( Hear , hear . ) Mark that ; bear that in mindbecause that question may have to be tried . But letting alone tbe unconstitutional employment of these ruffians in Bury , I want to knowletting alone beside the unconstitutional practices of others to carry pistols-letting all that and many other things alone , I \ rant to know whether there is any law empowering those bannitti to pull out a pistol , and to let it off by Hilton , or Shie ] , or btephens , or any body happening to be passing that way . Hava they any power—I always thoogkt ( but one may live and learn ) else I always thought ( and 1

      was Drougat up a Tory)—I always thought that ih the ev « nt of a riot , ii was the duty , on evidence ° not heing produced-1 always thought it was the duty of the civil magistrate to go down with the cml force at his back and do his utmost , mildly and temperatel y , prudently , But firmly do his best to quell the riot and disperse the assembly . ( Hear . ) If he failed in that , * failed ia quelling the row and dispersing the crowd , then I always understood , if that wau insufficient , they were empowered to call m the military , officered by noblemen , they acting under the orders of the magistrates no mercifullyso powerfully—rather by the Aow of force thaxi the employment of it . to get the people to go quietly home . But here we find in Bury , with no evidence beiore the

      . magistrates , without the presence of a single magistrate , without any attempt being made by the constituted authorities of Bury ; here yon have a ruffian herd of fierce , blool-thirsty banditti when they choose and as they choose , neither with your leave nor without your leave , puiliug out firearms , shooting them at the people , and wounding one of the people in the leg . Now , if that be right , iVi" * me 9 r foryon to carry a pistol . ( Hear . ) It that be right , it ia-right for me to pull that pistol out ; it is right for yon to pull your pistols out . If they have a right to shoot me through the leg , I nave a right to shoot them through the headand I will , I will —( bear , hear , )—I won't aim low ; 111 try if 1 caa't take a better aim ; and 1 hope it will come to that . If we find Home Secretaries skulking behind proclamations and Parliamentiu

      wrsuing , sanctioning , and defending thoss ruffian unconstitutional banditti in firing upon the people , without riot acts being read , without the constituted authorities interfering in this brutal bloody way . then I put it to the people of England whether at Bury , or at Ashton , or at any where else , they will ! to a man , avenge the starving and the death of their ellow countrymen , their brothers , and their fathers . ( Hear , hear . ) Keep cool ; keep steady ; all is ruhtj God is yet with you . But my point in alluding to the Bury case is this—I read in some of those papers that several of the inhabitants made an application to have these police removed . The answer made to that application , I think by a Mr . Walker , if I don't - •? ' *¦ & * « " r property in Bury insecure : that this Walker , I think , had twice had his mill set fire to . ine inhabitant * at once replied that if property was insecure .. they would , furnish a body of 20 O

      special constables to protect property , and that tf anything farther were required , they would have no objection to a strong detatchment of the military The reply given to this ,, affair was "we cenldaS have the nuktary . We made application fortbe military , but we could not have the military becaus . ™ ^ S no . Police , and because the military it never , ot ? £ i * T ere * ere " no Police , nor until the polio © ? eXSnvT ^ ffid 6 nt *? quell any riot , otS l « t tw K J ° Btbreak among the people . " Very well , SilStn —^ V * * wunt to know from A ttS fior ? Za ^ J ? magi 3 trate ! * of *» 9 Qt ° * division and district * how often during my 8 even In fl ?« K 8 ^ y * 8 » t you-dnring four or five year * in the hot and ceaseless agitation among yon-how oftea has there been any outbreak ? How man * acts of incendiaram

      ? How many riots ? How many outbreaks , and tumults , and disturbances ? I put it to the greatest enemy I have , whether during any seven years since Ashton became a popnloas manufacturing district , and comparing any Beren yearn before with the seven years I hava hved amongat yon , have mot been the most peaceable , the most orderly , and -the ' most , secure and happy aeven years that Ashton has ever witnessed . (" Aye , aye , " and "It has . " ) Have I not thrown oil npon the waters ? Have 1 not put the bridJe and the curb into the wild horse ' s mouth ? ( Aye ^ Have I aot done dl in . my power to softeo the spirit , and to assuage and sooth down ( Concluded in our Eigkih page .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 15, 1839, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1061/page/7/