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      Ht deab Fbtekds , —No matter who may assert to g ^ iontrary , we have now arrived at a period when fcbonr iMrt and shall , alter a long period of oppression , god op boldly for iia , own rijhta and privileges . It is Beren years since I told yon , that the auction day was rfose at hand , and that yon would be purchased at the talne -which yea had stamped trpon yoraelYes . Skltjespbct a * d self-esteem were the two things to iuch I looked as the means of enhancing your price in gjepoli&al market , and what unbounded joy it conteya to me , when I find that you hare become passing rich in those two eMBtto-8 » w-M »« x akd skis . ¦ ¦

      SSiebm . I think I may say , without being accused of TO dty , tbat no man , in any age or in any country , kaTever Btooi by his political party as 2 haw rfooa by Bine from the beg inning even , to the end . 1 bra been a inark for envy , hatred , malice , and revenge . I hare been pointed at W ^ tog « of scorn , 8 nd . ha . re been select by lewd authority as the one point against which all the rn ^ las of faction jnigEtbe aimed , without danger to my assailant * I £ rTsU > od all for jour sake , and hare gone far m uuiiM you what in truth y « unow are-the dhead of Trnj ^ TS and thessvY axd admiration op

      suakousdisg SAiioxs . The question , then , is , shall we , gfiei baring reached the summit by the craggy ascent , hurl ourselves headlong from the high place , and grace our enemies' triumph , by our fall and prostration ? Teur protestation "to die freenren rather than live glaTcs , " has alarmed the plunderers , the slaTe drivers , and the heartless monsters who have fattened npon your wrpiTig * . The cormorants , who brought you to ruin , and mocked your misery , now profess to feel . augnish far your suffering , and express a desire to enfranchise you with the means of self-defence . Pitiful knaves , sycophantic tools . They would give you a

      Charter coir in lieu of that to which for years you . have attached all hope . Y « s , Biggs , of Leicester , would , with the approbation of the dissenting wolves , give you freedom . Ah l my friends , if I had no other e&ase of objection to a poEticai move than that it tma-Bsud from a clerical junto , 1 would cast it from me Bat why do they offer ns their poisoned bait ? and » hat do they offer ? and when do they offer it ? They offer it because they find that we can do without them . They have offered too much all at once , after having ,

      Whils in power , refused us anything but stones when we asked for bread , and Coercion , Poor Law amendment , and a Rural Police , when we asked for justice . West do they offer ? They offer to give the Iranchise to males of twenty-five years of age—to give us Triennial Parliaments— and they would abolish Property Qualification . Bat see how Biggs , who dares to find fault with y » ur leaders , show * the cloven foot in his reasons for acquiesdug in the abolition of Property Qailifiration . Now wbat does this man say is his reason for not objects ? Why he

      says"Asa MATTER OP CHOICE , we would unquestionably rather that legislators should be men of some JortuEe , as the first of these accidents would secure s . strong personal interest in the secu : iiy of proforty . " Ah , Biggs ! you ally fellow , ycu " let the cat out of tke bog" too soon . Js a mailer OF CHOICE ! Aye , u a matter ef choice—but now that ycu have no choice , what will you and your co-humbugs do ? Ifow , you foolish man , will not every working man , whose sweat you have coined into gold , witness in these few words the horror which you rrjmt experience in offering thus to sacrifice all choice and footing at the shrine of

      expedience ; and will not la ' oour say that if the possession of property is necessary to insure its protection , the liEdawner alone can inrere the protecVon of labour by being its representative Mmsfclf ? In your poor wrath you hftVe ^ iaxed to speak contemptuously of the leaders of the people . Fool , 1 am one cf them . You are oae of their blood-suckers—one of their oppressors . Measure cur vaiue ta their camse by cur respective amounts of profit sod loss , and then you will find out which they are moEt likely to Iotb and trust ; the man who lives upon what is plundered from them , or tte mm ¦ wlto spends

      fcis ev » oy hour and e ^ ery farthing trying make you disgorge come of labour ' s rights . You simpleton ; h » w dare yom assume to yourself the province of public censor ? You say that we *• have alarmed , abused , and vilified those whose assistance was indispeDsible to their success , and withost whose concurrence they tad not a shadow of a chance : we have alienated { Heads , strengthened enemies , obstructed practical measures of relief , and have aided to restore that party to Government from which , we have not the smallest eLance of dislodging it ; and yet with all these mints icd pitformances

      " FoB blown , and fresh as ilsy , " affect now to wonder there can fee no union between us , aad the middle classes , when we ourselves are the guilty authors of the separation . " 1 never read worieEngnsh or greater nonsense . Why , the silly man , what pracfide measure of relief did we obstruct ? Was it the CoErtien Bill ? the Poor Law Bill ? the Bnral Police Bill ? or what bill ? But tee can do nothing uriihovt them ; and ice have ALARMED them . Faith we have ! and will again ! for that ' s the only way to their

      "Working men , Biggs and his bevy of dissenting tticissers < the Lord defend us ) would as socn join the iteTil as jsin yon if they could help it . Bnt why v&ste time upon the foljy of tbis modern Lycurgus ? I Tili annihilate the " weli-bocted" monej-moDger at once . Xov , juit look here . What must be the value of tie " new move ? " Must it not insure the cooperation of the largest number of the

      csnstitagat body to command success , according to the opinions of those who tell ns that through the constitaeai body alone can we hope for success ? Well , do ¦» s Sad this ingredient ( coiteilialionj in the plan of Biggs ? No : the beauty of cur plan is , tkst it disfranchises cone who are sow enfranchised , while Biggs commences bis amdliaiion by disfranchising every man of 21 , 22 , 23 ; 2 i , and up to 25 , of the present constifcsEcy , fraeniea xai all <

      >* oxr , there ' s a pretty law-maker for you ! there ' s an extending of rights for you 2 and then the mm goes on \ a Bsy , that- maturity of judgment is necessary for a legislator , and that he does not arrive at years of 61 sestkra till he has attained his twenty-fifth year ; and &a he make * tik qualification of a ample vctsr equal to the qualification of a leghlator 1 Kofr , -what say you , good Chartists of Leicester and of Sis Midland Coumtiei , to your modern Lycnrgua ? 11 tiis qualification for & voter and a legislator be equal , " * cy Grlegaie power at all ?

      Sow , my friends , I teil ytn the faci , —we have fixed Sa old enemy . They cannot go without us , and they ® 32 eg * ty , \ n ( h ti * rofi their ows PXTHPOSE 5- There is bttoie species of Chartist— AN OUT AND OUTER 1 m cf . thit genes ; and by the bkssing cf God I will Bevtr , -with life , budge from it . I will alarm them ttore acd more ; but jnstice , asd fuli justice , they shall do to your order . Biggs talks of the Charter havirjg k * z before the public for tfcree years . I : fca » been

      ° = itre the people for iortj arid three years , and it has " ** before them , remodelled by me , for nearij seven ?«*» , in Hg present shape and form . We will have * » ^ ole sud entile—no surrender . Twenty-ooe years tt" 2 ttree hoars wont do . This Biggs' move is a branch ^' £ e old " new move . " Cecsh it , as we did its parent ^ xili itmd alone , and we wiil conquer or die in the ^ fcmpi . Pitch them all to the Bavil , and stand by y « r oira order of right , labour , jnstice , and « fckstrr . \\

      Ever your faithful friend , Feabgcs O'Coksob . ^ ^ -S-1 EhaJl be at Leicester on Monday next , the - ^ aid Till be prepared to support the Charter of « tiBBs against the Charter o / the wolves . Our CHuLTEa job avsa astd so sokb . b ?( dbr , —sox A JOT . p . oc .

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      20 tTOK , —The cuue continues to progress in this sttitti : sew membera enrol themielves sreeklj , and Hisaturss « re being obtBinei to tfee petition in such papers as giTe « gfloeeal » tfcJaction to the friends of ^ wom in Bdton , taking into consiieration our jwuniajj Tngt feri . SAIJBBimT . —Th& tow * hu been divided into Tracts , and ttsr » e « ouncilmen appointed for each ^ tect , to distribute the printed petifem sheets , and ¦*«»» agnatnrei % o the National Petitdoa . Several fr * sheets have been already filled by our country £ «? pJi at Hwdeott , Winterbom , and Wishfcrd , near S ^ iry . Greet pniae ii due to Mf . Shergold , of "ttciordj he having get one sheet fiDed with signa-!**«» wholly by Mnuelf , is that pgnsh , and Newton . " * Council b « g to ooktv * . that the assistance of auy « , u » m-mber * will be aankfully received to aid in « nu praiasworthy « adertaking .

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      SHEFFIELD . ( From our own Correspondent . } Public Meeting . —The usual weekly meeting of the Chartist body was held in the National Charter Association Room , Fig Tree-lane , on Monday evening last , Mr . George . Carrill , in the chair , when the rejection of the National Petition by the Scottish Convention was taken into eonaederatioa . Mr . Barney said , he had intended to have addressed himself that evening to bis fair friends , many of whom he was glad to see present , upon the . propriety of forming themselves into an association to aid . and help their brothers in the righleous '^ ause in defence of which they were battling , hut the Star of Saturday having madt known the rejection of the National Petition by the Scottish Convention , it

      was resolved by the Council that consideration of that untoward event should tike precedence of any ether business . ( Hear . ) It appeared that the Natiosal Peti . tion had been thrown out by the Scottish Delegates on the casting vote of their chairman , and this had been done upen grounds frivoloua in the extreme ; what wtre the objections advanced . by the opponents of the Petition ? Why , that the petition itself contained extraneous matter ; and , secondly , that the people of Scotland had no . been consulted before its fiial adoption . What was the extraneous matter complained of ? The two brief paragraphs where the New Poor Law and the Legislative Union of England and Ireland are denounced as grievances . Now , he held that in s * ch a memorial it was necessary to as

      fully as possible set forth the grievances of the people ; it was necessary net only to shew what were the rights , but also what were the wrongs of man—not only to demand that , a just system of legislation should be established , bat ^ o shew what were tbe abominable effects of tbe present system , based on injustice and fraud . ( Hear , hear . ) fie thought the frauiers of the petition had done wisely and well in including in the list of grievances that monster curse , the New Poor Law . If fee thought they had erred at all , it was in not going a step further , and denouncing the Scottish system of Poor Laws , a system , in some respects , even more disgraceful than the English system—a system under which tbe Scottish labourer , when he had fallen " into the stie and yellow leaf , " and was no longer able to create wealth for idle drones to consume , deemed himself furtunate if fee could get tbe wretched pittance of balta-crown or three shillings a ^ weefc to subsist upon ; and this wis by no means the lowest rate of

      relief ;—included in the princely domains of iis pluadcr-ship the Dtxke of Smheriand , was one puish where the re . ief of those receiving the highest amount was rather less than G& . per week , whilst those who received the lowest relief had rather less than three-halfpence per ¦ wetk ; bnt horrible as this wa 3 it was not the worst ; in the ^ djoiuing parish the highest amount of relief giveu to tfee recipients was three shillings a year , and the lowest oae ehiliicg a year , ¦ which , reduced to a weekly allowance , gives to the moie fertunate something less than three farthings a week , and to the worst paid something less than one farthing per week . Now he thought , that instead cf finding fault with tbe introduction of the English P ^ er Law iut > the petition , the Scottish delegates would have acted far more wiisely had they introduced their own system of Poor Laws , as a crying grievance—one of the ¥ pasfruits of elass-iegislition . With respect to the repeal of the U&ioa , he considered its introduction into the National Petiticn to be one of the wisest acts of

      tbe Trainers of that valuable document . Already its good tffects had been sten , in conciliating to a considerable extent onr Irish brethren , heretofore prejudiced against -us , because , led to believe by crafty knaves , that the English ptople were opposed to the liberty and happiurss of the people of Ireland ; but now that they saw we sytn pathised with them in t ^ eir sufferings , and were , anxious to co opert-ta with thtru ia their straggle . for a domestic legislature , they were fast coming over to onr ranks , and tbe day was not distan » whtn Ireland would fee anited with ns to a man

      ( Cheers . ) As regarded the object on that tbe people ol Scotland had not been consulted in the adoption of the Petition , it was a paltry and contemptible objection . They were as much consulted as the people of EugLuid The English Executive had drawn up the petitionsom = party must have drawn it up , and why not the English Executive ?—men who represented a far greater number of the democratic party than any other constituted body in C-eat Britain . When drawn np , the petition was published , and that was the time to have raised objections , if any could have been fiirly raised . The petition was adopted without dissent by the Chartists o' England , Wales , and Ireland . Tea , and he would a < 2 d , by the great majority of the Chirtists of Scotiaud , yet had tha Scottish Convention

      thrown it ont , but did the majority who threw out the petition reaDy represent tbs majority of the Scotch Chartisis ? No ; they were a faction elected , and therefore a faction ' s majority , a metley band , Brewsterites , Cora Law Repealers , &a , agreeing with tach other on two points o& ! y—love of Whiggery , and hatred of O Connor . { Hear . ) But such are cot the men who rvfresent the gallant sons ef Auld Scotia , he knew tie brave men cf that country , he had traversed thftir land from end to ecd , be knew tbe feeliags and sentiments of the people cf Scotland , and he knew that the great , the overwhelming majority were be * rt and soul with the peop e of England ; sure he was that their Scotch brethren had but to be shown the evils of disunion , had but to be shown how necessary it was for

      themselves and they would reap the chains that b - nd them to be united with the people of England , Mid they would forthwith rever » e tiie decision of their Convention . Mr . Barney concluded a leDgihy addrtss by proposing for adoption the folloiririg resolution : — " That this meevmg considering the unkn with the people of Engiand and Scotland to be . indispensible for the political salvation of both countries , views with extreme regret the rtjecticn of the National Petition by the Scottish Convention . " Mr . Tteex etcciidcQ the resolution , which was carried ananimousJy . Tie two following resolntiotB were also HnanimouiJy s , doDt * d : —Moved by Mr . Prior , seconded by Mr .

      Clayton ,- " That this meeticg , regarding the said re-jtction of the petition as being the art of those representing an inconsiderable minority of the people of Great Britain , hereby respectfully but urgently cail upen their brethren , the . CfcartLrta of Scotland , to reverse the decision of tbeir' delegates , and to give their support » o the National Petitioa . " Moved by Mr . Smith , seccBded by Mr . Melliih , " Th 3 t the thanks of this meeting are given t j tnosa dele-gates who supported the National Petition , ts also to the men cf Irvine , for thtir noble resolution pnblisfc < . d in lbs Star of Saturday last—a resolution -which we trust will be acted upon throughout broad Scotiacd . " Thanks having been voted to tbe Grainnan , the meeticg dissolved .

      Feu ale CiiAivrisT Meeting . —The Female Char tista afttrwards held a mtfcting , and unai-iHiotia ' j y resol ved to join the National Cirarter Association .

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      OP-EKSHAW . —On Sunday evening iast , Mr . J . Cartledge , of Manchester , celivered a lecture oil the productive potrersof the Eoil , which gave the greatest sad ^ aetion . WEDNESBURV . —On Tuesday , Mr . Mason dehvered a lecture on the rights of ; be working miiiion ? , the utility , of the People ' s Charter , ' and the meatis of procurJsg it . TOBMOEDBN . —Mr . Daffy lectured to a numerous audien&a on Wednesday "week , in Mr . Greenwood ' s Large Room , LumbuUV . —On Friday night , Mr . Candy , from Wolverhampion , d . iivered an acdrtss Mjxrn manarchical ana republican princ pies ; fce comrasied one vritb lie ether m a very ek-quent style , and showed what a debasing , enslaving , and immofalisia ^ effect monarchy had upen society . " -

      BXILL-Mr . Jones , the lecturer for the East and North Hieing , addressed the inhabitants of Hull , on Monday , in the iar ^ e hall of tbe l " reenia » oa ' s Lod ^ e , half-pvst seven . The cause is lookiiig np in lina town and neighbourhood . At the conclusion of the meeting not ltss than 150 signatures were attached to tbe great National . WA"RRIHGTON . - On Monday evening last Mr . B&ireii > w celiveied » lecture , m the Reform Hall , to an ittenuve meeting . He was cheered throughout most rapturously . Several newmeabers were enrolled . JjJGCIiES . —Mr . Bairztow lectured here in the Association Room , to & crowded meeting of the industrious &nissns , and did ample justice to the subject if the People's Charter .

      HEBDSW BBH » GE .-SIr . Knowles , from Keignley , lectured here ou Monday last , to a crowded auaience , and at the conclusion wa * nominated for a member of the Convention . On Tuesday night , he lectured in Calding , » bout two miles from Habden Bridge . At the clo » e of the lecture » : Association was formed , and twelve pereoas enrolled their names . BXHGLET . —At the usual weekly meeting of the Chartists , on Tuesday evening last , it was anaairaoHsly carried— " That this meeting is of opinion that the Etrajglitforwstrd , upright , and patriotic manner in which the Executive have dono ' lheir duty , is such as t » entitle them to our esteem and entire confidence ; and that we do recommend all Associations in tae United Kingdom , who approve of their ? ondact , to express the same . "

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      BIRMINGHAM—Awti-Cobjv Law Delegate Meeting—A large placard w& 3 posted on the walls of Birmingham , calling on the operatives of each factory , to send delegates to meet the Anti-Corn Law Committee on important business , and informing th-m that tickets of admission would be supplied to the delegates at the Journal office . The meeting was advertised to take place at the Public-office , at halfpast sereB o ' clock on Teusday eveniag ; and at the time appointed , the large table , in front of the magistrates' bench , was surrounded by members of the Anti-Corn Law Committee and their friends , whilst the petit and grand jury boxes were tenanted by friends and members of the same body . The factory delegates were , of conrse , obliged either to stand in

      front of the prisoners' bar , or retire beyond hearing of the chairman . Mr . Giles was oalied to the chair , and after a vast deal of conversation pro and con , as to the business for which the meeting had been called , tae Chairman stated that they merely wished to know the numbers employed in each faotory , and how many of them were willing to join the Anti-Corn Law Association , also the amount of wages they then earned , compared with what they got formerly . He concluded by stating that no other business or discussion was anticipated . Several members of the committee then addressed the meeting on the misery that existed in the country , and said that the Corn Laws were the sole cause of it . They declared their determination not to

      submit to a sliding scale , but to have a total and unconditional repeal . After the members of the committee had spouted . forth what they thought necessary , a loag conversation took place as ^ to whether the operative delegates were to be allowed to deliver their sentiments , and thoBe of their constituents on the subject of the existing Corn Laws . Several of the committee thought that the working-men ought merely to deliver iu statements of the number of persor s in their various factories who were willingto join the Association , and supply them with the other information , mentioned by the Chairman , at their office on a future day . A working man in the Grand Jury box said , that he bad derived more real information from the few speeches

      which had been previously made than from any ether buiine . 'B which had beenjrausacted during the evening , and hoped that every delegate present , would be aliowed to state hia sentiments on that subject . Mr . Smith Lindon , delegate from a large fender manufactory , then addressed the meeting . He said he had been deputed by his sbopinates to attend that meeting in order to lay their opinions before that meeting , and he thought he should not be doing bis duty if he neglected to state their views of the bubject . They admitted that the Corn Laws were unjustj but they alio knew that the imposts upon tea , coffee , and other articles of consumption were equally ucjast . They also regretted the amount of' distress that existed in the country , and had good cause to do so , as the working classes were the main sufferers . They were of opinion that the democratic axe must be laid to ihe root of the tree of : monopoly before any good results could accrue to

      the sons of industry , for if the peoplo had the power of voting they could soon get rid of the Corn Laws and all other bad laws . The fact of calling the working mea together was a proof that they admitted their competency U judge in the matter . Why then did they not asssist them iu gettiag their rights , and then there would be no further occasion to agitate for therepesl of asinglelaw , as they would have the power of sending men to Parliament who would repeal all bad laws , and enact others in their place calculated to secure the happiness of the whole people . ( Hissc 3 from the committee . ) They might hiss him as tfeey thought proper , perhap 3 _ they had an idea that because be wore a fustian jacket that he had no business i _ o speak his mind , but he would do so in defiance of any man . Ho was determined to prove their sincerity an the present occasion . If they really wished the workiDg men to assist them they would help them to get the People ' s Charter . He denied thtt the Corn Laws were the sole cause

      of the miseries that existed in the country ; ltmainly arose from the cupidity and competition of the maBters themselves . He then cited several instances of masters underselling each other , and making the wages of the workmen suffer for their avarico . But cid they imagine that foreigners would give up th ? ir manufactories to grow coru for the people of England ; for it was well kaown that they had avast amount of machinery in operation , which was increasing yearly ; he then shewed the ratio in which machinery had increased in America of late years , and adverted to the reduction which had taken place in the wages of the operatives of Lancashire , within the last thirty years , although the consumption of raw cotton bad increased twelvefold , thus showing

      that increase of trade was no guarantee to the working menot an increase of wages , but the contrary ; he next alluded to the boast so often made by the Anti Corn Law repealers , of the high wages and cheap food of the artisans of America ; but , said he , they forgot to inform the working men of'England that the working men of America had vote 3 , and that their whole government cose less than the amount required for the expences and salary of the Lord Lieut , of Ireland . Mr . Lindon concluded a very able address by proposing—" That although the Corn Laws were an admitted grievance , yet tbe working classc s were not justified in agitating for anything short of tha Peopib ' s Charter . " The Committee refused to accept the resolution to be

      proposed at the meeting , knowing well it would be carried . Mr . Richard Thomson , delegate from a factory in Rea-street , handed in bis credtntials , and stated that his shopmates had instructed him to state that they considered that the Corn Laws were not the sole cause of the nation ' s distress , but that the whole resulted from class legislation . They were therefore resolved to agitate for the People ' s Charter , and nothing lees ; and as hia friend Lindon had entered so fully into the subject , he could not do better than state his perfect concurrence in his views , and would coroially second his proposition . Several other delegates handed in their credentials , every

      one of whom avowed themselves Chartists , and said ihey looked forward to the Charter as the only real remedy for the grievances of the people . Mr . Ashmore , button manufacturer , member of the anti-Corn Law Committee , said that he also was a Chartist , and had been a member of the Political Council when the National Petition was agreed to . He had not the same hopes of success iu the anti-Corn Law movement as some of his brother committee-men , for he must confess he expected nothing from Sir Robert Peel ; at any rate , his refusal to accede to the wishes of the anti-Corn Law repealers would strengthen the people ' s hands in their demands for an extensicn of ike franchise . Several other

      members of the Committee declared themselves frieucs of the Charter , after which the Chairman made some remarks oh the speeches of the working men , and said if they did not wish to assist the Association to repeal " the Corn Laws , they perhaps would have no objection to give them the necessary information required . Mr . Gtorge White then addressed the meeting in vindication of the policy of the Chartist body , and wished to meet the Corn Law repealers in fair discussion . This was declined , and , after a resolution , calling on the operatives to supply the necessary information as to the state of tht ir trade and wages , and a vote ut thanks to the Chairman , the mteiitg separated .

      Freeman-STREKr Meeting . —Sunday Evening — The usual meeting took pJace at the Chartist Room , Freeman-street , on Sunday evening last , Mr . Fred . Corbett , in the chair . The Chairman introduced Mr . Juhu Mason , Chartist Lecturer , to address the meeting . The Lecturer proceeded in his usual clear and spirited manner , to point out the excellence of Cfaarust principles . He showed the mtsinty of their ultimate success , and asserted that events would overthrow the present system of misgovernment . He wa 3 warmlj applauded . . Monday Evening . —The weekly meeting of the National Charter Association was held at their

      Rwm , Freeman-etreet , on Moudaj evening . Mr . J . A . Fussell was unanimously called to the chair , and called on Mr . George White to address the meeting . Mr . White proceeded to analyze the various parties that existed in the state , and was followed by several other members . The Secretary , Mr . Spiuks , then read the minutes of the first meeting of the new Council , at which Mr . Ashton was appointed Treasurer , and Mr . Spinks , Secretary . Mr . Thorpe was also appointed assistant to the Secretary . The minutes were passed unanimously , and the meeting separated . All commnnicatiocs must in future be directed to Mr . E . Spinks , locksmith , Lancaster-street .

      White ' s Defence Fund . —All persons having any communications for the Committee to the above fand , are requested to direct them to Mr . J ., A . Fussed , 79 , Bordealey-sireet , Birmingham . Delegate Meeiing . —Notice is hereby given , that the next delegate meeting for the counties of Warwick and Leicester , will be held at the Ship Inn , SteelhonBe-lane , on Sunday , Februray 6 tb , at half-past two o'clock in the afternoon , when a delegate wiil be expected from each town , and also from those places connected with the lecturer's fund .

      Bibmi >« ham PtTiTioH Committee . —The members of Jhis Committee hold their meetings « very Wednesday evening , at the Chartist Room , Freemanstreet . Every friend of tbe People ' s . Charter is requested to attend and co-operate .

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      WJpUNGBOROUGH —Dr . M'DouaU has been lecturing here with good effect ' NORTHAMPTON—Mr . M'Farlane has resigned bis office as councillor , because he could not attend at the time fixed by the rest of the council , and Mr . Henry Male , ahoemaker , was nominated in his stead . SRADFORD-The General Baptists have resolved to join the Charter Association in a body . New Leeds . —Mr . Smith lectured here on Sunday evening . ' ¦ ' -.: ¦ . / ' ; "¦ ,,. ¦ .-: SiANNijfGtEY . —Mr . Brook lectured here on Sunday evening .. - - : . - . ; .: " .. ;¦ : ' , . ¦ : •¦ ¦ . ¦¦ '¦ , '¦ ' : ; . ; : ¦ ; :. : ' ; . . . : ¦ , HYDE . —Mr . Wm . Griffin delivered a lecture in the Working Men's Institution , in Hyde , on Monday , the 17 th inBt , to a very attentive audience . BURY . — -Mr . Charles Connor , of Manchester , lectured here on Monday evening .

      STAI . YBRIDGB . —Mr . J . Batrstow , of Leicester , delivered a lecture ia the People ' a School , on Saturday evening , Jan . 15 th , to a numerous and respectable audience , when six persons enrolled their nanies as members .--: : : : ' ' , . "' . ;; ..- ¦ ¦ --, v ' ' . ¦ ' . ¦ . ¦ ¦ . ¦ ; : Mr . John Leach , of Hyde , delivered a lecture on Sunday evening , Jan . 16 th , Mg ^ be Association Boom , when our persons enrolled thlfr nainea as members . CONGLETON . — -On Thursday week , by permission of the Mayor , a public meeting was held in the Town Hall , on the distressed state of tbe country—its causes and remedy . Powerful speeches were made by Messrs . West and Diyls ia support of the . Charter as the only efficient remedy . A Socialist named Campbell moved an amendment , for which , when put to the vote , ten hands were bolden up .

      LONDON . —The Eastern Division of Boot and Shoemaktrs met on Sunday evening last , Th's body of ChartiBts meet in the large room of the Star Coffee House , Golden Lane . Two new membera were enrolled . ' •; . ' ¦ ¦ : ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦'¦ : '" S ¦ ¦'¦ . ;• '¦ : '¦ f ' '¦¦ . ' - ¦ ' : ' ¦ - -: ' i-.. Shoreditch . —The meeting nights for this locality are Sunday and Monday , at St . Martin ' s Coffee House , 3 , Church-street ; time , eight o ' clock . Mr . KnJght lectured on Sunday to a full house . ; Westminster . —Charter Coffee Hocse . Stret ton GiioUA'D . —The members of this locality haye prepared a large room for public meetings and other purposes connected with tbe Association . They hope now to go about the business in right earnest .

      The O'Connell . . " Rint" in tiie Borough of Southwa » k . —A correspondent says— " 11 is a fact that net one farthing has been subscribed for Dan's Rint by the enrolled Repealers of Southwark , although a Mr . Chatter told the Repealers of this locality that Mr . O'Connell was j £ 30 , 000 in debt "' Tailors , Three Doveb , Berwick ! street , Soho . —After the usual business of the Association , on Wednesday evening last , it was resolved , •'• That an harmonic meeting be held at the above rooms , to aid tbe Masons' Strike Fund . " Mr . Bibb , the Secretary to the Tailors' Trade Association , has kindly consented to take the chair on the opening night , which will be on Wednesday evening next , and continue evary week during the strike , and a book ¦ will be kept for weekly payment .

      Three Crowns , Richmond-street . —The tailors of this locality held their usual meeting on Sunday last , when Mr . Ruffy Ridley delivered a lecture upon the appropriation of the soil , shewing the evils arising from the present distribution of the land , its injurious effects , and the great benefit which would result if the land was distributed in small farms , as recommended by Mr . O'Connor . V Mr . Ruffy Ridley delivered ; ¦ , an argumentative lecture , on Tuesday evening , at the Black Bull Inn , Hammersmith-road , showing that all proporty originated in land and labour ; pointed out the proper appropriation of the soil ; and proved to demonstration , that the people never will possess anything unless they first achieved the Charter .

      LIVERPOOL . —Mr . Bairstow lectured here on Tuesday evening last , to a numerous and attentive audience . Special Meeting . —A special meeting was held on Sunday evening last , at Mr / Benbow ' s Temperance Hotel , Gerard-street . When the Secretary had read the report , tke following persons were nominated to the General Council : —ilr . Wm . Morton , Mr . Samuel Cowan , Mr . Charles G . Williama , Mr . Edmund Jones , Mr . James M'Kenna , Mr . Wmi Earle , Mr . John Cowan , sub-Treaiurer , Mr . Evan Davies , sub-Secretary . The weekly public meetings are in future to be held every Wednesday evening ; to commence on the 9 th of February ntxt . :

      MAN C HESTER . —The members of the Manchester Operatives' Mutual Improvemsnt Society hold their weekly meetings in the National Charter Association Room , R ; dfearn-street , Miller-street , ¦ where all quesr tions of popular interest are subjected to the test ' of dis « cuasioD . All parties are invited , and allowed to ¦¦ give expression to their opinions . The end of tho Society is the moral and intellectual improvement of the working class ; the means , a discussion class , and a constantly Increasing library . The weekly contribution is one penny . Watjsrhead Mills . —Mr . Griffin , of Manchester , lectured here on Sunday atternoen , to a very attentive audience .

      The Redfern-street room was crammed on Sonciay evening to hear a lecture by Mr . John Crowder , from Lees . On tbe same evening , Mr . Thomas Clarke , of Stockport , lectured at Brovrn-gtreet ' . Lectures were likbwisedelivered in three other rooms . ; The cause is doingwelL A Friend in Manchester has signified his intention of presenting to ihe members of the Executive five splendid tri-colouied » Uk . waVfs , as a proof of the rega-d be has for that body for the straightforward manner they have advocated ihe cause of the people ; the scarfs will be a sample of a number he intends having manufactured to be worn by the Chartists . MOSSLE Y . —Mr . Josh . Linney . of Manchester , lectured here oh Sunday e 7 ening to an oytrflowing audience . ;

      A 5 HBUR . TON . — ( Devon . )—A lecture was delivered at the Zion Cbapel , in this town , on Monday last , by Mr . E . P . Mead , of Birmingham , who kindly favoured the Asbburton Chartists with a lecture on his return from Cornwall . Ousebuhn—The Chartists of this place met , as usual , in their reading room , near Bjker Bar , on Sunday morning last , Mr . Kidd , in the chair . A subscription -was commenced to defray the delegates' expencss t « the forthcoming Convention , when a good round sum was subscribed . It was then zneved and carried , " That Chartist meetings be held at OuBeburn and Byker Hill , on the day that the Prince-of Wales is christened—provided it be a general holiday ^ The Secretaty Tvas empowered to correspond with Mr . George Binns , to attend the meetings as he is a great favourite here .

      ABERDEEN . —On Friday evening week , at a public meeting , -held' in the Temperance Hall , George ^ street , called for the purpose of receiving an account of the mission of Mr . James M'Pherson ; repreeentative tor the inhabitants of Aberdeen hi the Scottish Convention , the following resolutions were , after much discussion , carried by great majorities : —After Mr . M'Pherson had given an account of the proceedings at Glasgow , Mr . Nicolson moved , " That this meeting highly approves of the conduct of Mr . James M'Pherson as representative for the inhabitants of Aberdeen in the Scottish Convention , held in Glasijow . " Seconded

      by Mr . Pullar . Mr . M 'Donald moved , " That this meeting views , with the strongest disapprobation , tho surreptitious means used by Mr . John Mitchell to obtain a seat in the Convention ; and further , that they express their utter detestation of his conduct in obstructing aud misrepres « ntingthe wishes and senKme&ts of the inbabi'ants of Aberdeen in the aforesaid Convention . " Seconded by Mr . Breminur . A protest against his sitting and voting in the Convention was carried at a public meeting held on the 6 th of January , but not in time for the Convention . After a vote of thanki to the Chairman , the meeting broke np at twelve o ' clock . ' . '¦ ¦ . : .. ' ¦ _ ' ' ¦¦' .. - . '¦ ¦¦ - : ¦ •• . : . - . -: ''¦¦ ; ¦"¦ ¦ :

      On Moxday night , the weekly meeting of the Charter Union was held , Mr . James M'Pherson in the chair Mr . M'Donald addressed them « n the doctrine of majorities . Dr . M'pouall ' s letter was read amidst applause . It was agreed towritetoMr . RoBS . Treaiurer to the Central Committee , in order to ascert ^ n Uie amount of money received by him from Aberdeen .- ^ - Several other imporUnt matters were transacted , and the meeting up . v

      SACRISTON . —Mr . Mewbray , of pdrham , visited this place on Monday last , apd expounded the princi . pies of the Charter to eome ef the good menandtfae He Bhowed in a clear and lucid manner tha advantage * which would accrue to the working clawu by being pnt in possession of political power , and urged » pon them tbe necessity of union for the attainment # f « o great a measure of justice . The National Petition wm adopted , and a committee of three appointed to obtain eignaturea in this district . ^ v ;

      YOHK . —The Tork Demonstration Committee intend to dispose of their splendid " Triumphal Car" by lottery , In shares of sixpence esch . The lottery to fee drawn on the 1 st day of March , 1842 . Any friends wishing to take a chance for the same can do ao by forwarding the amount , per post , to the Secretary , Mr . W . Cordaas , at 26 > Mkklegate , Ypxk .

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      HAIiIPAX—pn Saturday evening Ust , Mr . Duffy lectured here here to an attentive audience . SCARBRO ' . —Mr . Jones lectured on Wednesday and Thursday evenings . A memorial for the Welsh victims was adopted . ¦ ¦ 1 WERTHYR TY » VXi , —At a full jneetingi Mr . Miles in the chair , after soniegood and sensiblespetehfts were delivered by Messrs . D ; Bees and Henry Thomas , and others . Mr . John . jun . was called on fco read the able letter of Mr . M'DouaU , which appeared in the Star

      of . last week . He afterwards moved the following resolution , which was seconded and well supported by Mr . pavid ThOBfias , and passed unanimously : — " That we highly approve of Mr . M'Douali ' fl letter , which appeared in the Star of Saturday last , and are of opinion that the conduct of the Scotch Delegates in regard to tie National Petition is highly injurious and inconsistent , and this Association sincerely trusts the Scottish working people will unanimoiwiycb-operale : with their working brethren of England , W ales , and Ireland , in signing the National Pttition for 1842 , as it stands .

      HONtY . —Meeting o ? Delegates . —Names of the Delegates : Huddersfield—John Leech ; Honly— - Charles Bobtbrbyd ; Holmflrth—William Cunninghara ; Lepton— -Matthew Whittle ; Shelly— -Hugh Green ; Stocksmoor— James Stephenson ; Borry Brow—George Hargraves ; Paddock—Samuel Gaukroger . Names of Conncilmen : John Chapman , John . Heaton , George Armitage , Edward Clayton , Reuben Megson , Josiah Thomas , Jaines Shaw , and Geurge Hirst-r-The first business which occupied : the attention of the Dogates was the reading of a letter from Mr ; Gandyi proposing to come and lecture for one month , on cendition that he

      BhouUi be allowed to conia on the same principles as others hod done before . 1 . It was agreed that a single man should have twenty-five shillings per week allowed —if married , thirty'shillings per week . 2 . That a Delegate meeting be held at Honly once a month , and that two Councilmen attend with-them ; also that the books be brought with them , that all moneys may be entered as receivad from the various Delegates attending . It was then moved and seconded , " That a vote of thanks be given to the Leeds Chartists for the noble part they displayed in carrying the Charter , at the Music Hall , in epposition to the Anti-Slavery party . "

      HALSHAW raOOK . —This little village has already obtained about 3 , 000 signatures to the petition . To the last one they only got about as many hundreds . So much , however , for the spread of Chartism in this quarter . SAX . FORD—The youths of Salford held their first meeting on Wednesday evening last , when the meeting was addressed by Messrs . Hargreaves , Nuttili , and otbers , members of the Youths' Chartist Association of Manchester . The speakers urged on the meeting the necessity of . the youths cf this country enrolling themselves members of the National Charter Association and called on them to render all the assistance they possibly could in the great work of political redemption . On Sunday Evening , the Chartists of Salford held their weekly meeting , when Mr . Story , of Ashton , delivered an able lecture .

      On Monday Evening , an adjonroeddJscnssion took place on the principles of Socialism , as advocated by Mr . Owen , and the behtfits likely to arise from the adoption of the People ' s Charter contrasted . The question was ably advocated on both sides . Anadjournuient took place untit next Monday evening . SHEFFIELD . —On Monday night , a public meeting was held for the purpose of laying before the publio that precious document called the Midland Counties Charter . '• ¦ Ifc . ' wa ' s read and ably commented on by Mr . Otley , who showed the meeting the uttar absurdity andinjuatice of the scheme , when the following

      resolution was moved by Mr . M'Kyttrick , and . seconded by Mr Buxton , and carried : «? That the working men of Sheffltfld have heard with attention and cars the doeument called the Midland Countiea Charter , published by a private individual for the adoption of the public , that we , the aforesaid working men do not find in the document before mentioned a full recognition of the juat rights and privileges of tbe working classes , and therefore see iio reason why wo should abandon the assertion of oar just and uualienable rights , as demanded by the People ' s Charter . " Mr . William Gill and Mr . Richard Otley were each nominated as fit and proper persons to be members of the forthcoming Convention .

      TYXiSSXtEY . — -The National Petition has been numerously Bigmed here . A number of the middle classes have signed it , but the majority , of them : have ineolently refused . Never was distress so general in this village as at present . Hundreds of the working classes are sunk . into the doepest misery , in a many instances to a complete state of destitution , yet , the most influential pottion of the shopocrata have not only refused to sign the petition , but haye actually used the meanest liingu&ge to these persons who waited upon them for their signatures . If the working classes will only adopt a system of exclusive dealing , the day is near when they will not only sign their petition , but like

      Sir Robert Peel , with tae Tea Hours * deputation , ask them for their advice . There ia one thing worthy of notice , a great master—an extension of commerce man —warned bis hands not to sign the National Petition under penalty of losing their employment , in other words , tlieir bread ; , but the anti-monopolist was a day too late , for about 560 of bis hands , or those dependant on . hira , had Bigned ; and this man who is an advocate of free trade—this . man who is so anxious to better the condition of the working classes , not a fortnight ago , reduced from Is . 6 d to la . 41 . work , that forty . years ago the Wtuiver received 163 . for .. His dressers likewise are undergoing a heavy reduction , some of them at the rate of forty per cent , and this is one of the Plague .

      KIRKHEATON . —At a meeting bolden on Monday last , at the new School of Science , Shop-lane , Mr . J . Marahlsnd in the chair , it was resolved : —1 st , ** That it is the opinion of this metting , thtt a \ l the distress and destitution of the lafcouring classes of this country , is to be attributed to cla £ 3 legislation , and that this meeting is perfectly convinced that the upper and : middle classes of society will continue to oppress the labouring classes of this country , so long as they bave tbe exclusive power of law-making . " 2 nd— " That this meeting will neither join nor countenance any other agitation

      than the political enfranchisement of the whole male adult population , as laid down in the document entitled the People ' s Charter , beiieting as we do , that no measure is so calculated to secure to the whole people tbeir ymt rights . " 3 rd— - " That in order to seeure a free and full representation of this country , we , the inhabitants of Kirkheaton . at present assembled , do resolve to join the Natiemal Charter Association of Great Britain , which has for its ol'jsct the attaininent of the People ' s Charter . The members meet every Men Jay night at eight o ' clock . ¦ ¦ . ¦¦¦ ¦'¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ . . - i ;¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦¦ - :.

      STOCKTONVON-TEES . —The Chartists met on Monday evening , at seven o ' clock . Mr . Umpleby was called to the chair . He opened the business by saying they were called together for the purpoee of better organizing the Chartist body , aud al 3 O to impress upon the members the necessity of U 3 in # all the power they can in getting the whole of the Chartist inhabitants united into one body . He then informed the meeting . that the Committee appointed for the purpose of engaging tha large room belon / jina ; to the Working Men ' s Mutual Instruction

      Society had engaged it for Wednesday evenings ; and in futui « the Chartists will hold their weekly meeting vob Wednesday evenings , at half-past seven o ' clock , instead of Sunday , as before . After a good deal of distu 8 sion , Mr . Plumpton proposedv and Mr . Robinson iieoonded , "That this meeting view with feelings of sorrow and regret the divided state of tha liberal portion of the inhabitants of this place , and at tke same time , with a view to the reconciliation of divid « d parties , this meeting adopts the following address " : — '

      The ChartisU of Stockton and its Vicmtfy to the Inhabitants of Stockton . FjaiiHM-itVr suoh we will call you—we only wish jou to uko your own cause into your ovvn nants , that we * t tkis time call on you once more to come forward with your wpnted vigour , and by being uaited in Ono consolidated body , we can , with greater e « 69 and more effectually , agitate this part , of the eouniry ; and , by our united tfforta , we may , with greater facility , cauae the spread of Chartism . For , friends , we ajea long way off the mark at preseat ; and ^ we would have you take it into your serious consideration the great obligation that is laid en yo « , seeing that society ia ia this most deplorable condition , and : you standing aloof ^ rom this gre » t » ad glorious agitation . But now that we

      haye g « i a large room to meet in , we do hope that you will tee the propriety of ooming fprwaxd to assist bs imueUinfe the various good and true advocates rf » nr principles to eome to Stockton—as you know , w « , the small number that are at pre-8 eHt ipiiiidi tanuot get ail the speakers that we would wiik . We will conclude by requesting all that baveamj pretensions to Chartism to eome to the next toneral meeting , which will be held on Wednesday Tening , the 26 th of January , at our room m AlWitu-streefcj when the present Con » mittee will lay Ixrfore the taeetiugthe plans that they have drawn up ; . and at the same time there will be a fresh Coauaittee choseo , such an one as will suit all parties . ¦ - ¦ . V '\ .: v- '¦ ; : . ¦ '"¦ " - " : " ' ¦' .. ¦ ' ¦ ; : : ' : ¦ ' . ¦ ¦' ¦; Signed , on behalf cf the meeting , Joseph Umplbby , Cbairmaa . Jan . 9 flUi , lM 2 .

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      : - : ' . ¦ ¦ - y /^ m £ T ^ r ' ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦' - ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ " ¥ - ' ; "¦ ¦ . <¦ : ^ % *^ t <^^ M ^» ¦ y ^^ ec ^ ty V ^ - . ¦ ,:: ;} ~ .:-. /^ :- ^^ ^ : : && ^ DUUHAM . —4 . t ' * meet ng of the Durham Chutists ^ held at Mr . Craig ' s , on Sunday last ,: Mr . Mowbrajp moved the adoption of the National Petition , which was seconded by Mr . Dreghorn , and carried uuaniruously , ¦ after ^ ^ which theniestiBg soparated . OLDHAM .-Mr . Grifflh lectured here on Sondajr evening . The room was crammed , and hundreds anxious to gain admittance had to go back again , onabl * to getin . - ' - ; ' . ' - ' ¦¦ : '¦ ¦" . :. ' : / ' ; . ' . ' ' . : : ¦ ; : ; - . - ¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦ . ' ¦ : *' S . WBRBY ^ -Oa Friday week , Mr . James Dufey delivered a very intaresting address to the Chartists of this pl , ce . _ -On Sunday , Mr . Candy , from Wolverhamptorj , lectured in the afternoon . Tiie room was crowded nearly to suffocation . v ;

      NOTTXNGHAM- — -DELEGATS MEETIJJtt—A * this meeting which stood adjourned from the 2 ad inst till Sunday morniDg , the 16 th iast , and was holdeo st the Demociratic Chapel . Mr . W . D . Taylor , was ? eappbinted for three months , as lecturer for Nottinghamshire , from the 1 st . of February next . A resolntkHi having been carried at the previous meeting , "That an exchange take place for one month between the JfH ^ tiugham county lecturer , and the regularly employ *^ lecturer . of any other district , if practicable , " this was again passed without a dissentient Mr . Plant thought that much good would , result from holding » county council meeting , monthly at Nottingham . Mr . Russell said he cordfially agreed with the last speaker in opinion , but considered that circumstances would

      prevent this being put in practice , immediately . " A , motion was l ; heh made and carried unanimously , flat the Nottingham Council call the firet montivy meeting as soon as pwt' ( able . The Convention was the next busines brought under notice by Mr ; Russcli . Mr-Anthony and Mr , Wilson thought the best mode of raiBicg means for the support of the Convention , would beto make an estimate of the sum which each locali ^ r would > e capable of raising . Mr . Bostock said rnaay would support the Convention who did not Tecnlfurly contribute to the association . Mr . Eveley thought that £ 25 was the sum required to be raised in tho diay . tiot . Mr . Russell explained that £ 36 was afterwards ' stipulated as the sum for a district returning two persons ta the Convention , and according to this statement ,

      Nottingham and Gainsborough , £ 15 ; Leicestershire ; £ 13 j Derbyshire , £ 8 . After some further conversation , it was resolved that all monies for the support of the Convention fee paid into tr ^ e hands of Mi . James Sweet , Ooosegate , Nottingham , General Treasurer of the District , on or before the 12 th-of . February . 1842 . Ant further that the sub-Secretaries of each locality immediately forward to the district siib-SecretaTy , Mr . Wm . Busseli , a faithful return of the members of their various localities duly qualifi ed to votel Sub-secretaries failing to do this will totally disquaUfy such locality frnrn voting . The candidate ^ for Nottingham , Leicester , Darby Lincoln and Rutland , are Messrs . T . Jl . * Smui-t . v * . Harrison . J . Skevington , W . 30 . Taylor ; arid J . B . Bair 810 * . Out of these , two . are . to beretureed to sit in tha Convention , met ting is London , in February next . Let

      each member : of the National Charter AssodaUoa , write the names ef two of the above upon a klip at paper , being their choice ; place the same in the handV of the local sub-Secretary , who shall carefully ficrntfnise the numbers by comparing them with his book * AfteT doing which , lie shall make his return to the district Eub-Secretary , who will send the-nuniber voting for each candidate to the General Secretary . Mr . Hankin proposed , and Mr . West seconded , tbe continuance of the Sunday local lecturer ' s plan , which was carried unanimously . A delegate then askedf what progress waa being made in procuring signatures to tha National Petition . The Secretary . Eaid that 16 , 000 signatures were now obtained , and m 3 ny more sheets out A votes of . thnnks was gives to the Chairman and the meeting ssnaatated . -. . ¦ , : ¦ ¦' ¦ : ' - ., '¦¦ : ¦ - ¦ ¦¦

      ON Monday evening last , the Chartists held their weekly public meeting in the Democratic . Chapeli " Mr Smart in tha chair . The usual business was transacted and arrangements made for the public meetiajj ntxu Monday evening , at seveni o'clock , t # vote for two members , to ait in the forthcomiug Convention , afc London . . ¦ . ,: '¦ ' "¦; . " - " . ' ¦ .. ' " v ; •¦ /• : •; ' " :: ' ¦ ' . ' " . •"" . ;' . ; . ' '¦ DDBLIM . —Tho Irish Universal Suffrage Associa tion held their usual weekly meetiD « , on Sunday , tha 16 th inst ., at their great room , 14 , North Ann-street ; Mr . H . Clark in the chair . The Secretaryread the minutes of the last ineeting ; he also read a letter from Mr . James Hebblewaite , of Belfasy , containing tha names of eighteen persons resident in that town , aud requetting that they be admitted members of the Irisb :

      Universal Suffrage Association ; ( Cheers . ) Mr . O'Brien moved that Mr . W . Wood , of Ghorley , be admitted s member . Mr . Dillon rose and said he " felt greet pleasure in seconding the admission of Mr . Wood , who had for the last two years contributed to tits furtherence of the Chatter in Ireland by Bending Stars , tracts , and ctaer valuable informaUon . Mr . Forbes rose , and moved the admission of Mr . Beatty , of wijtak he had given notice at the previous meeting . He ^ ald he Lad lately coma from England , and the Chartiata there were all for extending the liberties of Irishmea , without reference to creed or party . Each man shonld act upon this principle , and the Charter would soon be the law of the land ; it was this , for every man to bring anothw . He had been here but a few weeks , and

      had the honour of introducing four members . He would now conclude by giving notice for the fifth . He then gave notice for the admission cf Mr W . Beatty , Mr . P . O Connor said he concurred ta what had fallen from the last speaker . Tney ought net tonest satisfied with expounding their principles in that room . Ho was aware that iu the Irish Universal Suffrage Association there were at least 300 reglstereA Repealers , and were they to hear Mr . O'Connell charge them with taking illegal oaths , and not go as one man to the Coirn Exchange and demand to be heard in their own defence , and if they were not beard , what would the people € f Ireland say of Mr . Q'Cennell ' s love offals play and even-handed justice ? They had seen that their Sdcretary , Mr . Brophy , had been treated as a common

      ruffian . Their President , Mr . O'Higgius , had been called a midnight assassin , and within the last fortnight , he had been again arraigned by Mr . O'Connell and accused of deluding them and administering illegal oaths . Could anything be niore base or more unfounded than these assertions ? The feelings of the people of Ireland were in favour of the -principles of the Charter He knew well by whom they weredeterred from adopting tho Charter . He" was a Roman Catholio and he would tell any , or all of the Catholic Priests in Ireland that they had no right to interfere in the political opinions of the people . They had a perfect right to discountenance all illegal societies , but many of thorn had declared the Chartists to ba illegal upon the ground that Mr . O'Connell bad said so .

      In his ( Mr . O'Connor ' s opinion ) they ought to enq'iira whether Mr . O'Cocnell was not interested in propagating stich ridiculous falsehoods . Mr . O'Connor concluded by recommendihg that the whole of the registered repealers wh « are Chartists sh » ald meet and go to the repeal neeting and put forth their prineipleav and it they were not heard let them not pay nor countenance Mr . O'Connell longer . Let them remember that it was by the pence and shillings which the working people iu this country subscribsd that Mr . O'Connell was able to play such fantastic schemes as' he did , they had only therefore if refused to be heard in t ^ ieir defence , and E 8 members , to stop the supplies . Mr . O'Connor was much cheered throughout his address ,: of which ve give but m outline . Meaara M'Mahon , Brown , Bjrne .

      Kelly , O'Brien , and a host of repealers all concurred in the opinions of Mr . O'Cowior . The following vote of thanks to the proprietors of the Freeman \' s Journal , Drs . Gray and Atkinson , was carried by acclamation , " That tha thanks of this association are eminently due and ara hereby especially given to Drs . Gray and Atkinson , proprietors of the Freeman ' s JToarnai , fur their minly intrepidity and promptitude in inserting our reply to the groundless and offensive assertions and insinns tiona regarding secret baths contained in tha report of a speech made lately at tha Coru Exchange by the Lord Mayor of DuWiu , and that we considtar that conduct of Drs . Gray and Atkinson enhanced by melancholy contrast with that of the Register , which , with av liberality , we hope peculiar to itself ,: inseited ISx

      OConnell ' s obsarvfttions in a still moreobjectionaMa shape , and yet refused us the arraigned murderer ' s prlvilege—that of being hoArd in our own defence . " Ttw Secretary , Mr . Bropby , rose and said , it was to him a matter of surprise that the subject of which Mr . O'Connor had spoken had not , long Bmoe been acted upon . It bad been spoken of in that room before , bat never witht the same spirit . It was by adopting such a principle that the Chartists in Great Britain were able to upset ail the humbug meetings that had been got np , whether to congratuiate tha Queen 6 i tp -keep in the Wbigst but he vwould advise , ; them to act in a manner different from that ¦ which they had seen acted in that room when Reynolds , Ainger , and the notorious Luke Kelly , the hattSr , and others , forced their way

      w \> that room , ; and with clenched nsts threatened some of the members , and in the passage broke the window Those who intended to go to tbe Corn Exchange , he was > ure would not net in any way but that in whien even Mr . O'Conneli , as Chief M&gisUate of the city , would give them credit for , although he was sue Mr O'Conubll would hear them very reluctantlr ; but they must be determined to vindicate their rights as citizens , and as members of the K « peal Association . Mr Bropby cancluded by exhorting the meeting to remain no longer inactive and 6 upine : tae circumstances of : the time * colled tot their exertions . The reckless indifferenesi

      of Mr . O Connell , and all those by whom he was sairounded , towards the interests and happiness of th * working classes of Ireland—the ignorance and indif ^ ference of many of their own class , through which they had permitted themselves to ^ be made passive tool * in the hands of those who sought neither theirs kot their counirys good—the cheering fact , that tha struggle between darkness and tyranny on the ona hand , aud light and liberty on the other , ia seriously commenced , and calls upon ' - ¦ tjs wiU a Toice , which carmot be mi » unde » tood , and which for our own and oar children ' s sake , we ought not torieglect-i ¦ ¦ : ' ¦ ¦ ¦ . -. ¦ . ;> - . - . ' . :. ' ¦' , ¦¦•¦ . ¦ ¦ ; . - ¦ ¦ . '

      Let via prove to the wpild we were bonx not far ¦ - . ¦ Slaves , ¦' . : ¦ ' ¦ ' : ' : .: ' -: . ... - . - j . ; - - ¦' - . / - ¦• ;¦' . ¦ ¦ . . ' " v ; . ;; ¦ .. ¦ . ;¦ - . - - .. If tyranny conquers it will be o'er our gtaves . The neeting was further addressed by Means . Dafl ^ Lyhck , M'Kenna , and Woodward , Mr . ft O'Coanell was called to the chair , and the thanks of the : meeting given to Mr . Clark for . his impartial conduct tnereio Mr . Clark returned thanks in aneai speech , whea iba jneetingseparated . ¦ .. : ;¦; : :, ; ^' fi- .- •' : - ¦; . , - ¦ - ¦ ¦¦ ^ -: -.-

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 22, 1842, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1145/page/1/