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      Mr JSiiS . F 2 KM > Sj— I think I hard good news , — grand news—great news-= foi ? jeajihisweek . Asjou know all th&t 13 going on , you are aware iKat a vast swarm of Iccosts , lay and clerical , hare gathered together in this great Metropolis , calling themselves a Con Law Conference , More than oke thousand . ' Joss think of that!—all congregated to devour the proceeds of the Manchester Bazaar show ; "Well , they spent a whole week , holding ticket meetings , dealing in the most outrageous and inflammatory language , and laying their plans for the campaign , which opened this day .

      To-day they resolved npon an attack on the good ¦ people of the Borough of Southwark . Two hundred and twenty-eight inhabitant householders presented a requisition to the excellent High Bailifi ; to convene a meeting , at the Town Hall , Southwark . The two Membeis , and several great guns from the League , were announced as speakers ; and , having pledged icy word to the good men of Chelsea that I would meet the League , npon the Tery first opportunity , I also determined to be present . Wen , at one o ' clock , the hour appointed , the Tovrn Hail was crammed to suffocation ,

      not one-fifth of the applicants being able to procure admission : an adjournment was moved and carried io an immense warehouse , whither we adjourned . The High Bailiff , in Tirine of his office , took the co&ir ; and as , of course , you will see a report of the proceeding ; , I need nos enter more fully into the details than to say , ifcai it "was the first open meeting of the PJagne since they have infested the capital , and that -we heat them twenty to one , the National Ptiition being proposed as an amendment to a humbug petition against Sir Robert Peel ' s humbug measure . Two of the middle class men moTed and seconded their petition ; andtwowoTking men , netting daunted- by the pompons array of

      councilmen in rabes , bearing white wand =, gallantly moved , and ably supported the amendment . Eainsky moved , and Parker seconded the amendment ; and Blackmore and I supported it with all our might and main , and it was carried by a majority of twenty to one , amid the greatest applause I ever heard ; and this in London , too ! where ths Rev . Mr . Spencer says the working men are not io le trusted , because they are so fond of shair . Never in jny life shall I forget the countenances and exultation of the "fustian jackets , " as we marched in procession from the place of meeting . It was the first attempt of tha League in London , and they esperieDced a most wofnl defeat .

      Now , you shall hear of some of iheir prarks since £ hcy arrived in toicn . They have been bellowing liberality like bulls ; but , npon the veritable delegates of the people of Lambeth , appointed at a public meeting , presenting themsslvas , they were told that , according to THEIR rules , no delegate elected at a meeting irhere Chartist resolutions were passed could be acknowledged as a delegate to the Conference . Now , the Lambeth delegates were the only delegates who were fairly or legally

      chosen , and carious to say they were the only ones who were rejected . Ah ! their complexion didn ' t suit the Plague . However , they twaddled away about cheap bread for a whole week , and on Friday last , Mr . Stwge the guaker , invited some friends Io meet him in the befs £ bh 3 ie > t boom of the Crown and Anchor , for the purpose of considering what he calls entire or complete srrFB _ iGK , which is a sprat to catch a mzckexeL Messrs . Lovelt , Hetherirgton , and oiheT 3 were fhera on toub paet , and contended for the NAME of the Charter , and had no doubt that the people ' s friends would consent

      to a revision of the details , if the presen * details were objectionable . A Mr . Taucton , of Coventry , was the only man who spoke out at the conference , and insisted upon the people ' s right to the fullest measure of representation . Brongham , Sinrge , Hume , and some of our London friends of the order of working men who never work , are a * tempting tD try another artful dodge" to gull tb . efl . at 3 , but they will find themselves egre ^ iously mistaken- Now , mark what arranging details mean . The nni Reform

      Parliament met to arrange the details of that measure , and it was the most bloody Parliament of which history makes mention . They arranged the detail ? , by giving Ireland coercion and England starvation I by making you pay £ 20 , 000 , 000 sterling fox the Emancipation of the Negroes I and by destroying the right of petition ! So they commenced , while they ended with a Rural Police , gaols full of irorldng man , political © ff . ndors , -war raging all over the world , and an empty Exchequer .

      What they now propose i 3 to adopt or to promise to adopt Universal Suffrage , and to allow the first Parliament , elected bj Universal Suffrage to arrange the deiexh , a 3 they call the other points . Now , 1 beg of you to bear in mind , that a Parliament so caosen to arrange the details , must consist of members for counties having £ 500 ; and members for towns and boroughs having £ 300 a year property ; and give me leave to ask you if a honse of such representativea would not still be the organ of their class * Then they are to have seven years lease of it , and instead of being paid , to pay themselves ! Chartists , mark our progress .

      Twelve months ago , they tried vs with Hoashold Suffrage . We held ont against the delusion j and now even the deluded would laugh at the mention of so mean a measure . I should look upon a House of Commons retnrned by "Universal Suffrage , without the otter points of the Charter -as a mockery—as worse than nothing—as a bad edition of the worst sort of class legislation . We are approaching to dangerons times , a 3 I predicted the week bsf ore last . Russell ' s speech is -a manifest feeler for a coalition with Peel , rather than the whole hog with the total repealer ? . That we can stand and beat . Bnt , again , the new move , whh an augmentation of force , is in the field . Broughaa , i 5 : urge , and Hume are the strings : the

      old offenders are the puppets . Sturge has been to Scotland to induce the good men of Glafgorr to -g et 5 fw 1 ,-kadebs ; and npon this point I shall be plain—Tery plain . Large sum . 3 of money hare b * n devoted to the purpose of seduction . Sundered , Leicester , Shfcffield , and Birmingham are to be tbe four grand points of attack . We tritf beat titem . And as to getting rid of the old leaders , let ns perfectly understand each o&er . As far as regards myself and my position , if Jon are for any less measure than all contained in the People ' s Charter , say so , and let us part friends . I shall return to my plough and my profession , and ¦ with a clear conscience say , that I have left the P » ple better than I found them . I neveT will

      " ^ aarrel wi-. L you—yon snail not quarrel with me . Tottik God , I owe you nothing but gratitude , which Joawill hare forfeited should yon swerve from the barter . For nine years and upwards I have been taongsi yon : and now I tell you on my oath , that 1 will doj go one inch with yoa for any measure * k « rt of tae whole Charter ; and I tell you more , &ai we can carry it , as easily as carry a repeal of ^ 8 Corn L&-ST 3 , You have many a time and oft s ^ e a struggle for liberty , bnt never such a one as 7 ^ « e now esgaged in . If the repealers are in truth Eincere , let them come forward and

      a , and I stake my existence that in six Weeks we drive the Tories from cf&ce ; and all we "**^» ( as a dissolution mast take place , ) is to Eend thirty oui-andout Chariisls into the House when the detail * are to be arranged . There must be a dissolution before the Charier « an be carried . A junction of the Chartists and Repealera will at once insure & ** dissolution . Both measures would then be ^ arried oat of doors ; and it wonl d depend npon * he honesty , courage , and judgment of the Chartist leaders whether or not tbe impression should be lost upon tbe new Honse .

      Let me—aithengh I have frequently mentioned lie facts in speeches—point out to you a few Etriking features in your present position . At no tine in the history of tM 3 country wa 3 there ever Bo much monej—so much money ' s werth in honses , machinery , shipping , railways , miniag companies , tod produce , as there is in England now . if the Americans required ten millions to speculate in Ixilwajs er anything else , English money would be found in abundance . If the infernal devil , the French tyrant , Louis , required ten Bullions to Ehut up Paris , the English unEnjLS -wculd a ' , once make the loan . In fact , start any ? peculation , any where , and naocev isaj be bx-i fxcia England . This , npon tte ore band , f > Mie never was there . so aeuch poverty on the other

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      hand . The few of the represented order h 3 vh . "g all the money , aad the " many of the unrepresented be ' ng starving ! thus when poverty strikes under cL ^ ss legislation it strikes the unrepresented class only . Then turn to America , there tl : e United States treasury has failed , become bankrupt , and who are the first to -suffer ! Why the representatives of the people , who we are informed arein a most wretched and miserable condition for want of their salaries , while the people are not at all affected ! Now

      treasure that up . In England there never was so much money , and bo much poverty ; the unrepresented stirving , and the represented tiring invention to find an . outlay for capital , and a means for its investment Whilo in America the representatives are starving , aad the people are not . Now , is it not plain that if your representatives were your servants , instead of being your masters , and if their salaries depended upon your ability to pay them , that they would look sharply after your comfort and means ?

      New suppose to-aicrrow , that the world required one hundred times the present amount of British manufactures , what wonld be the result ? Ah augmentation of machinery to prod nee two hundred times the required amount , and that machinery made with a due observanca of the self-acfing principle ; the cheapness of the produce rendering it impossi ble for the speculating gambler to employ much aanual labour , as if he did he cr-uld not undersell the foreign slave in his own market .

      Now , again , how coes it happen , that onrlibertymo ' ngers who bawl out so loudly for two million additional quarters of corn , amounting , say , in all , to fcur millions sterling per anaun ;—how happens it , that tnese reformers n ^ ver tell us one word about the charch receiving anui-ally ten m'Uiioi s , which would purchase five million quarters of corn I How happens it that they never tell ns that one lady receives annually as much as would purchase oneeighth parS of all the foreign corn required to reduce ifhzt England grows to tbo abundant standard , that is as mueh ' as would purchase 250 , 000 quarters of

      "wheat ; and of conrso her comninption is taken into Dr . Bowring ' s average of the gereral consumpfion . Now if the Prussian and Eag'ish averages were fairly , struck as to consumption per head , we should first deduct what the idle cormorants consume ; for mark , Russell , Bowring , and Co ., make tbe Qtsen and her tail stand each as an" operative- " How happens it tliat 'fre neYcr hear of pensions , ariny , navy , judges , law appointment , and the funds ? I will tell yon ; because they merely seek a transfer of the patronage and disposal of those things from the hand 3 of theTori ^ s , to the hands of the Whi « s .

      Now , allowing your annual consumption of corn to be fifteen millions of quarters , the cburch , fhs Queen , the army and navy receive among them more than would pay for all ! This is not saying a word about the other expenses ; they are only some of the items . The fondiords receive as much as would pay for all ; and the professions , police , tax-ea ! ers , Poor Law devils and that tribe , receive as much as would pay for all ; while in local taxation , expensive litigation , and abuie 3 of all kinds , the people pay as much , as would pay for double the amonnt ; and all tliiB for want of the one liitle thing called the Charter .

      Now , Tely upon what I tell yon , and it is this . Collect the whole of the agitators for a repeal of the Corn Laws together , to-morrow , and offtr them their measure upon condition that they should grant yours , and they -would rather see a duty of five ponnds imposed upon foreign corn than grant you the Charter , because it snaps tue cord which binds labour to capital . Believe me , that machinery as now regulated is man's great enemy , and that the owners of that property will run you to revolution before they will give you any controlling power over it , if they c an help it . In this state of things it is our dnty , as it ic on ? intorcot , to join -rriih the League ,

      if th& 5 place the Charter and repeal of the Corn Law upon their banners . The Charter as the means andihe Repeal a 3 one of the most immediate results . It will then depend upon the integrity of the Chartist leaders , and upon the watchfnlness and courage of the people themselves , whether or no the terms of the treaty shall be infringed . If they are sincere , they cannot object to those terms , which we have long since offered them . If , upon tho other hind , they are not sincere , wonld we not be wor = o than madmen , to join in an agitation the most beneficial result from which would ba to make the rich richer and the poor poorer .

      The struggle is now between Torjism and Chartism , and I ask you unaffectedly to read my every letter upon this subject , which I wrote from York Castle ; and say , have I not predicted the exact Etate of things which now exists ? Again , I ask you what you have to expect from Lord John Russell , for hurling whom from efnee we were deuaunced , while he and his own former party are now more opposed to each other than Peel and Rnssell are \

      More good has been dose by the glorious meeting at Southwark than has yet been effected , and I will tell yon how . It wi 3 most pompously paraded by the Whig press . All importance was attached to it . It was the first attempt of the Conference at a free meeting . We had scores of reporters . The ptoctedings . were very long , and yet the mouth-piece of the League , the Morning Chronicle , disposes of the whole in a few lines , and every line a rank lie . Now , this has taught all the workiDg

      men who read of the great Corn Law demonstrations in the Chronicle coming from the provinces , to look upon the stuff as mere fabrication . The Chronicle report ^ aya that my stentorian voice was sometimes beard through the din— "while I was not once interrupted . The" Chronicle's report says that their reporter could neither see or hear the High Bailiff , but understands that he declared the amendment carried ; while every man in the room heard Ihe announcement , and if tbe reporter had eyes he must have seen that the amendment was carried

      by a majority of at least twenty to one . The other partizon papers say by a bmall majority ; but if t-. ey had Euch a one it wonld have been almost unanimous . The Chronicle says that three cheers were called for me , and thas three groaiis were called for for me by the Lesgae , but that the cheers had it . This , is sheer fabrication , not a mouth uttered the word groan . The fact is , the League had other resolutions to propose , together with an address to the Queen , to dismiss her present Ministers ; bnt npon the announcement of the truly honourable High Bailiff , who has ever stood the undaunted friend of the people , and always acted as an upright and honest Chairman , the faction bundled up their traps , and scuttled off , * preceded by a lot of office-bearers and their members .

      On Tuesday morning a depntalion from Sonthwark waited upon me , to say that the excitement of Monday evening was never equalled in Southwark , and that twenty of the middle class had joined us , now convinced of our honesty and onr power to carry our object . This is Wednesday , and this evening I go to Rotherhithe , about two miles from Southwark , but yet a part of London , to address the people of that locality . On Friday the League pnts out all ita force in Birmingham , and there I go , resolved to stand by my party to the last , and to judge of public opinion for my

      self—Oa Monday , I Bhall be In Nottingham ; on Tuesday , in Derby j and on Wednesday , at Loughborough ; on Thursday , Friday , and Saturday , 1 shall again be in the metropolis ; and now let me tell you that no part of England , notwithstanding the insolent aspersion of Parson Spencer , is better up to the mark-than London . For many years the spirit there was broken and kept down by a parcel of jobbing patriots , and the people would never come out . Now their work w done lor nothing , and with the

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      trades they are in a ** high condition , "at least , I hare the most perfect confidence in them , and feel assured that the " Great National" mil be most numerously signed , . I must say all that I have to say in this letter . I have now before ma some hundreds of letter ^ all asking mo to go to different parts ot tho country . I don ' t want to have any secrets . The fact is this , no property would stand the expense to which compliance with all would subject me . Since I left York I have expended

      more than would have maintained zae comfortably for three years ; and as I never will take one farthing for my poor serrices , those kind friends whose mvhations I cannot accept will , I am sure , receive my excuse as a justifiable reason for my noncompliance . I havo also received more letters in a day than I could answer in a month . I also learn that heaven and earth is being moved , openly and secretly , to get rid of Feabgus ; and to this I answer—give the people their Charter , and never again shall you hear of Feargus ; but , till then , I will beat down all opposition .

      The Convention will shortly meet ; Dr . M'Douali . and I have succeeded in procuring a most admirable place to hold our meetings , and I pledge mjself that those delegates who have visited London before , will not , know it now , so powerful and great nas become the agitation for the Charter . You must read the whole Ibt of names of those assembled in Mr . Sturge ' s refreshment room to arrange the details of the Charter . Read them all , and then say are they to be our new leatU-rs for the Charter . Working men , stand

      by YOUR CHARTER AND YOUR ORDER . ! No flinching ! and the middle men must join you , and then it will be our duly to take care the union shall be one of principle , and not oue of compromise or expediency . They say get us a repeal of the Corn Laws . and then we will talk to you about the Charter j while I say give us the Charter , and we won't have mauy words about removing every restriclion which now trammels trade . Chartists—> 'ow ob never—^ ow and for ever —ONWARD AND WE CONQUER , BACKWARD AND WE fall—NO SURRENDER . See how wo have brought them to ua by standing fast ; budge a hairs-breadth and we are go&e for ever .

      Move the Charter everywhere as an amendment , and pye them no assistance any where , till they place that one word , CHARTER , on their banners , and then FAREWELL TORYISM AND FOR EVER . Ever , your faithful Friend and Servant , Feargcs O'Connor . London , Wednesday . P . S- Tho ? e persons who have written to know what they shall do with the subscriptions raised for Dr . M'Douall may inclose them , under cover , to me , to the care of Mr . John Cleave , 1 , Shoe-lane , Fieets ; reet , London . F . O'C .

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      THE EXECUTIVE AT BATH . On Tuesday afternoon the Chartists of this city were favoured with the presence of the Executive at a social tea meeting , 3 , Galloway Bo-fldings . after which a meeting was held in Salisbury's Room , King ' s Mead-square . The Executive , on presenting themselves to the meeting , were loudly and repeatedly cheered . Mr . Alderman Crisp was unanimously called to the chair . He said that as there were many to speak he should be brief . The people had no proper representation of their interests in the present Hau * e o £ Commons , which treated them as badly as did the Parliament under the old

      boroushmon-^ ering system . ( Hear , hear . ) Parties were dominant iu that house , and it mattered not to the people what , party were in power , for it was clear that neither Whig 3 nor Tories would strive to better the coadit ' ou of the country . If ever a salutary chaDt ; e were effected , it would be but by the unity , by the unauimoua voice of the people themselves . ( Cheers . ) They were now evincing a full determinaliou to enjoy the fruits of their own industry , of which they liad been so unjustly and foully deprived . The people of this country had endured great Bufferings for a long series of years , until at length the cisires 3 had awakened attention in the minds of the middle ci 33 ses , who , in a great measure

      participated in that di-tress . Let the people become uiihtd , and they would soon obtain a repeal of all those laws which deprived them of the reward for their deserving toil . The present Ministry were determined to resort to strong means to keep thems-elves iu power ; but it ivas only for the people to become united , and to ask freely and firmly for what thty desired , and they would ultimately obtain it . The middle men woold be compelled to join the woikiug cl&Esei— ( hear , hear . ) Every town in England w ~ uld soon become a rallying point for the Charter —( cheers ) We were to place ourselves in a waiciiial portion , for circumstances would arise of such a r aturo as to enable us to obtain the

      Charter witn comparative easu—( cheers)—and by moral means . Injustice must fall before the united voice of the people . The worthy Alderman sat down amid great applause . Mr . J . Campbell rose to address the meeting , and wa 3 enthusiastically received . He said he had just read the Daily Sun . by which he learned that tae anti-Corn . Law League , under the auspices of of Mr . S ' . urge , had met to consider the question of the Suffrage ; on % portion of them were going for this sort of Suffrage , and another for that ; but he hoped ti . e Charter wasxhe only Suffrage the working clashes would go for —( cheers . ) The Charter was either just or unjust . If just , why did the L-ague fijhf so ahy about it ! Why did they not

      join the Csarnst ranks at once ! Because wo were too hoiie ^ for them—( hear , hear . ) And because we had be ^ n honest , and had not joined them for the purpose of obtaining that or this paltry measure of Ruiorm . they accused us of auemptin « to injure the cause of Reform . But we had defied them all—( cheers ) Ho was a plain man , and must say that he would unite with the Devil to obtain justice—( chetra , ami cries of " Well done !") He knew how the middle classes lad before deceived us ; he had no confidence in them , for they were not to bo trusted—ac least , such was his opinion . ( Hear , hear . ) They "were coming ovtr to as , aud he would advise the people to-be cautious how they united wuh such men—( loud cries of "hear

      hear ")—the Chartists Ehould put them in the political waggon and oblige them to pull , while we pushed them onwards—( cheers . ) Some time ago they would not unite with us at all , though they always called us a very intelligent set of fellows when they required our serxices , but when we asked for the Suffrage , they never failed to represent us as too i ^ noraui to bo entrusted with it . The middle classes * cot the Wnigs to commit bad acts , and becauee the Whig 3 would not serve their base purpose , they ( the mid Ae classes ) sent the Tories into office—( laughter)—to commit worse acts . The people should not delude themselves , —they should bear in mind that "God helps them who help themselves " —( hear ) He hoped that every person before him was

      a member of the National Charter Association . It had not been in existence more than fourteen mouths , and y ^ rit had extended to upwards of 300 towns—( sheers . ) When working men had inquired how it was that the wealth they had produced had been distributed , they would discover the cause of the present wretchedness ; and they would find that millions had been wrung from their industry to pamper the idle aristocracy , vrho were wallowing in luxury , while they ( the working classes ) were starving—( hear , heir . ) Those who had political power took care of their interests , but made no laws to

      protect honest industry . They said we were ignorant , and talked much about the crime and immorality of the people . Who made the people ignorant , if they are igBorant ! The Tories , who rob us—( cheers . ) He contended that it was impossible for men to bo moral under the present state of things —{ hear , hear , hear ) The system mast be changed —( cheers . ) We wanted to obtain justice for all . The Tories had become Conservatives ; and the Whigs Reformers —( hear)—and every Reformer considered himself the beat Reformer . Tho people ' s efforts must not be diverted from the Chartist struggle ; let us stick constantly to tha Charter .

      Mr . LEACHnow cameforward to addrer 3 the meeting ; he was hailed with loud cheerra ' g . He observed that the Chairman had said tha «/ the middleclasses were about to join us , and tha * ., such was hi 3 own belief . He had a » ked one of t '^ at clasa wby

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      they were going to do so ; and the middle-class man 8 ^ d ; it . was beoauseihey cohld not help it J—( cheers . ) 'i'hey had found out that the country was anything but prosperous , that it was reduced to that -state of distress and m \ 3 o * y , that fcV , ey must now feel for their own eakesj and that unless some salutary change was speedily effectadj they woiild be invoived in the ruin that would generally ensue—( hear , hear , hear . ) Thero was » subjeot which he that night would speak on- —it wasthe repealof the Corn Laws . It was said that if we could obtain that measure , we should hare a great deal better times . He really believed bo himself ,- Mb ho greatly questioned much whether the worlsing Classes , under present circumstances , would bo much benefited by such a

      measurs . Ho would now speak in reference to oui mahufactaring industry ; aad he believed that the state in which it was pluoed vr&uld not be semedied but by measures of a more sweeping nature , measures which he knew would not be carried into effect so long as tho working classes were ^ without political power . Why had he obme te such a conclusionJ Because he found that the other classes of society strove to deprive labour of its just reward , and to reduce to misery tho generalitv of those who ought to be better treated ; for it was they who had reared the splendid edificea that adorned the land—( loud cheers . ) He had in his possession a letter addressed to Sir Robert on the subject of machinery ; which letter set forth

      that one niaotiine , on being put into operation , which was done every week , could cast off Iff . OCO pieces . Wow , thev repealers ; through the medium of their press , and at public ' -meetings , said if they could obtain the ropeal of the Corn Laws , they should be able to set to work those whose labour had been thus superseded . The machine that cast off these 16 , 000 pieces , only employed ten men and ten boyp . J hat was a fact that convinced him . that the master manufacturers wanted to restrict labour at home , and to barter with slave labour abroad- ^ - ( hear . ) He next went on to show the cause of machines being brought into such general use , the cause was in the necessity the masters were under to koep ground in the markets . Mr ; Cobd en

      was a great man , and would complete an order now —which once took 300 men twelve months to complete—with only twenty men , in three weeks . One Saturday evening he discharged seventy men ; and yet he was declaring that if the Corn Laws were repealed , he would find employment for those who were wandering tho streets in a state of stai'vation . He talked much about his refined sympathy for the distress of those poor creatures whom the accursed system that upheld him had reduced to this frightful state —( Hear , hear . ) Tho people of Bath did not suffer so much as did those of the North of England , where thero were 5 , 000 men working 5 , 000 spin dies eighty two years ago ; for then one wan worked but one spindle ; the same work could now be done

      by _ twenty hands . The inaChiues did not Want food , and uulesa human beings could produce goods bo cheap as could iron and wood , they must starve ; and thus would it continue until the working classes were iu the possession of political power—( cheera ;) There were 5 , 000 laws in existence that would rob us of the benefits that some suppose would accrue from torn Law repeal . The lottcrhe had alluded to asked Sir Robert Peel whether the distrofsed weavers were to have their wants supplied . What were they to do ! Were they to have that protection extended to them which had beon given to the machines ? Here you aro in England , arid the question arose whether you are to beat the French out of the markets , or whether you are to starve them or they you —( hear , hear . ) Bad laws had given a wrong direction to the industry of the people , Tney were crying out in Africa , in Poland ,

      Sweden and America for our goods ; and wo were starving at homo . Tho whole of our exportations did not exceed ., seventy-two millions a year , and home consumption was restricted by nefarious laws . The people of Ireland were destitute of the necessaries of life ; some of them wandering without shoes or stockings ; yet if thoy h&d political power they would soon fiad better use for our goods than sending those goods out of the country—( hear . ) '¦ -... " Why > do not those who say that if the duty on corn was taken off , they wonld give employment to those who are now starving , by increasing home consumption I Why do they not &ivo as the power of consuming ! We once had the means to consume . A gentleman who had taken the chair- at an anti-Corn Law meeting actually shed tears in sympathy for the / distresses of the poor , when he was one of those who bad done much to cause such distresses . '

      Dr . M'Douall now rose to address the meeting , and was hailed with the tokeaa of enthusiastic regard , as were the preceding speakers . The Doctor made a long and excellent speech , which our limits forbid us to give . Mr . R . K . Philp next addressed the meeting , and was much applauded . He called upon thorn to join the National Charter Association . Mr . C . Clarke proposed , " That this meeting thanks the Executive Council for their services in the cause of Chartism , aud pledges itself to support them so long as they adhere to our sacred priuciplos . "

      Mr . Roberis seconded the motion , and passed an high and deserved eulo"iuia on the Executive , who , he said , appealed to the judgment of their hearers , and not to their passions . The motion was put aud carried unanimously . Three cheers were given for the Executive . Dr . M'Douall returned thanks , and proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman , which motion was seconded by Mr . Campbell who gave the worthy Alderman much praueior the conduct he had always evinced towards the working classes . Three hearty cheers were according ' y given-He returned thanks and said he should ever be found at his post in the hour of trial and danger—( renewed cheering . ) The meeting then separated evidently much delighted .

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      RD THEKGZiEN —Mr . Duncan Robertson arrived here on the afternoon of Wednesday week j and a public meeting for a lecture to bo delivered by him , " On the rights and wrongs of the woiking classes , " in Fulton ' s Hall , at halt-past seven o'clock that evening , was announced by the town drummer . Mr . Robertson , in a very able and impressive manner , exposed the base doings of the factions who fatten on the produce of the working man , and lashed the humanity-mongers— the big-loaf men , according to their deserts .

      BAUfOCHENV , NEAR Airdrie . —A pubhc meeting , in favour of the People ' s Charter , was held here , in a barn belonging to Mr . Hodge , farmer , on Monday evening week . Mr . Dalargy wras called on to preside , who , having stated the object of the meeting , introduced Mr . Duncan Robertson , who addressed the meeting at considerable length , and was followed by Messrs . Brodie and Paterson , of Airdrie . A great majority of the audience , which was composed of between 200 and 300 ironstone miners , were Irishmen . At the close , throe cheers were given for the Charter , and three for a repeal of the Union , when the meeting dispersed .

      HOLLY TOWfJi—A publici meeting , called , by the miners of this place , for the purpose of hearing a lecture from Mr . DuHean Robertson , was held on Tuesday evening week , in a large room of Mr . Park's , spirit dealer . Mr . Robertson , in ayery clear and convincing manner , traced all the miseries of the working classes to their true origin , that foul , polluting source of national misery—class legislation , and proved , to the satisfaction of his audience , that no measure short of the People ' s Charter was calculated to remove and to prevent a recurrence of those evils under which theproducing classes are suffering soseverely ; ' ' . ¦ . " .- . - ¦ . ' . "'"¦ ¦; ¦ . ' ., ' . ' -. - .. ¦ ¦ Y- ¦¦' ' ' . / : ;

      BABNBliEY .--The Chartists field their usual weekly meeting on Monday , when Mr . Frank Mirfield delivered » lecture on the subject of Sir Robert Peel ' s speech . The meeting was also addressed by Messrs . Collins , Hiley r Shaw * Noble , SeigraYei Hoey and others . X < XV £ IlPOOXi . On Wednesday evening , the 9 th inst ., a public meeting was convened by placard , to adopt a memorial to her Majesty for the return of Frost , Williams , and Jones . The large room , Preston-street , was crowded to excess . The memorial was spoken to by Messrs . Loyd , Ambler and M'Cartney , and adopted . Several new members having been enrolled , the meeting dispersed . ASHTON . —On Sunday , Mr . Thomas Clark , of Stookport , delivered » powerful and instructive lecture to a numerous audience .

      LEEDS . —On Sunday afternoon a friendly discussioa was held in the Ciartist Room , FiBh-market , Shambles , which went off well . So . ndat Evicnino . —^ Oh Snndfty evening Mr . Weatlake preached on excellent Bermpn in the above room , to a crowded audiwry , 8 ubjept the "democracy of Christianity / ' "¦ : - : - ' r ' ¦ . ¦' Mektinq . —Monday Etenino . ——Tho members he : d their weekly meeting in their room , asd elected a fresh council . After some : further business of an impor ! att uature had beeu tiaiiSattjUj tho meeting soperated .- ; . > . ¦ . . ; ¦ . ' .--: ' , ¦ ¦•;' -:-:-: ' .. --

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      MosstET . —A tea party on behalf of the Esesntive vris held here on Saturday . Nf arly three hundred took tea , and many went away taafc could cot getin . .. ; - . ¦ :. ;¦ . '¦ ¦;¦ - : ' - .: ' ¦ ' . . - . . ' ¦ ' ¦ - '¦ - . " : ' / ¦¦ ¦ '' .- ^;(¦ : '¦' - ' ' . ' Y Upper WonTLEy . —Mr . Charles Connbr lectured on i ' ridayiv the IHh instant , on the fights of labour , in the ChaiterAssociaion Room , Wortleyinoor , to a crowded audience . His discourse gave general satisfaction . ¦ HjfcKEWooD ' . —Qn Monday eveuingi Mr . Lund , from Lancaster , leciared here . Better thaa one hundred membsra enrbllsd tbgir hames . .: LEA 33 XGTpN . — -0 n Monday evening , the Chartists of this town met in their newy Association Rooja to the esteut of fifty meiaiMrs . Mr . Robii ^ bn lestnred ou the principles of the Charter . ¦ - .. ,

      StAFFOH » i--Mr . James Duffey visited this , placs on Mouday last , and lectured to » good uadience . "' _ . ¦ Hey wood .- —The friends here have sent £ h Is . to the Convention fund . Tliey had a capital ball on Saturday evening , at their rooms in Hartley-street . BiRjnjjG iiAin—Fbost CbvnsiticBE . ~ On Tuesday eyening , Messrs . Wca . Daniels , Wuir Hay , aad John Wyllie , were added to the committee as honorary membera . It was resolved to read a daily paper in the committee roams after business / Tha ; proceeds of such reading to-ba iadded to the funds of the

      eomraittee . Tensnilhagsvvero received from Bingley for Mesdame 3 Williams ; and Jones , The petition now in possession of the Coi 6 mittee , ; sigBed by 15 , 000 persons was ordered .. to * be presented to Parliaaieat by the borough mcmberF . The $ ecretaiies were directed to correspond with the Home Secretary on subject of the addresses to : the Queen , lately presented by a deputationi of this couamittee . Messrs . Thorn , Greenj end Tliorpj with the two Secretariea were appointed to audit the balance gheet , and report on next meeting night .

      Haxhehn . —A del egate meetijig was held here on Monday , to arrange for , the reception of Mr . O'Connor on . his visit to' Loughborpugh . The resolutions l ; a , ve been sent us , but they are allot" a local character . ; '¦ - .. ' ' ' ¦ ; ' . ' / - ¦ ¦ ¦ ; . '¦'¦ . " BoLTON . —The friendg here were addressed on Siinuay evening last , by Messrs . Rigby and Parkinson . - . ...- - ,. :..- : ¦ : . - " / . '• • ; . " - ,-- ' - ¦¦ -. BiLSTON ^ Mr . Roome lectured here en Snnday last , and gave great satisfaction . City of London . —55 , OLD-BAiLEy . —The friends hero have cpmuitfneed a voluntary subscription for the Convention Fund ., Three Guowss , Richsionp street . —Mr- Stallwbod lecturaci hero on SunJay ia , st .

      -. Chartist Skoemakeiis , Red Lion , Portlandstreet . —Mr , jsiailwood lectured here on Sunday evening , a ^ : U enrolled eight members . DoNCASTER .-- ^ The Charti 9 ts of Doncasier had a splendid tea party and soiree , on Shrove Tuesday ^ RccHDAtE . ——Mr . Brophy lectured here , on Tuesday evening , to a numerous and attentive audience . Lees . —We had a lecture delivered to us on Tuesday eveumg last , by Mr . Cuvidfcopher Doyle , of Manchestci-. Five new Members were enrolled . Blackburn . —Mr . H . H . Swinglehurst , of Preston , lectured here to an overflowing audience . Mr Dcwhirst , from BTadford , took the chair / Both chairman and lecturer gave great satisfaction .

      Heckmondwike . —United Drueiw . —Lodge No . 115 held : ' its- anuiversary at the Royal Oak Inn , on Shrove Tuesday . Fifty members sat down to an excellent dinner . The following evening , the wives and sweethearts of the members , with their iriends , partook of an excellent tea . On both ocoasioua the evening was spent in agreesblo harmony .

      SHEFFIELD . ( From our own Correspondent . ) Toby Mercy . —In reply to a memorial addressed to the Queen , ia behalf of Samuel Holberry , James Marshall , Peter Foden , and llobert Peddie , the following anawer has been received l—¦ " Wbitehall , Feb . » th , 1842 . M Secretwy Sir James Graham ; haying carefully coasiiiorecL your application oq behalf of Robert Peddie and others , I am directed to express to you hia regret that there is no epnloient ground to justify him , consistently with fai 3 public duty , in advising her Majesty to comply with the prayer thereof .- '

      STANNiNGTON .--Mr . Barney visited this village on Wednesday evenibg week , and addressed a meeting on the principles of Chartism .. Two hundred and sixty-seven Bignatures have beea gotten here for the National Petition . The London Stone Masons , —A delegate meeting of the trades of Sheffield was held at the London Apprentice ; West Bar X 5 reen , on Tfiursdfiy evening , tlie 10 th inst ., ia support of the >' strike ' of the above body . Delegates from tho following trades were present : —Stonemasons , bricklayers , file-makers , file grinders , scissor grinders , britannia-metal saiitHs , saw makers , table-knifehatters , saw grinders , file grinders ,

      edge-toolforgers , and tailors ; The Chairman having read the last report of the London Committee , the delegate from the table-koife-hafters stated that the trade had resolved to oier a loan of £ 5 to the stonemasons , and had further resolved to make a subscription ihrough all the worfo in the town for their support—( cheer 3 . ) --The delegate from the Bpring-knitc-hafters stated the trado fait anxious to render every assistance to the stonemasons , but such ; was the . difficulties the trade was involved 'in at the present time ^ that he feared they could render but little pecuniary help ; however a meeting would be held en Tuesday next , when the case of the stonemasbhs would bo

      takeninto serious consideration - ^ 'i'he delegate from the white-metal smiths , etatsd that the trade he represented tvould continue the support they had already given , and if measures , were proposed call w ing upon them for increased support , they would be willing to render it- ( cheers;)—ho would recommend the - ' appointment-of ' - ; a ' -- committee from the trades generally of Sheffield , to watch over Use strike , and enlist the support of the public in a cause so just and holy as this was- ^ -Cclieera . )—The Delegate- i rom the file-trade , stated tho trade would continue their sup ^ port , and , if possible , make a loan to the masons — The Delegate from the bricklayers , stated t !» at if a general levy was made , the bricklayers would be

      their share . . Grissell and Peto hugged themselves with the idea that wait but a little and the masons would succumb ; he thought they had but little ground for such a hope , when in the course of twenty weeks , but five had turned traitors out of 400 imen . The Delegate from the saw-grindersstated that heir trade had ubanixtDusly resolved to support the masons ; the working clasfes had been insulted in the laying of the first stone of the Houses of Parliament ; and unless they supported the masons , and also by union established their right 8 as men , they need expect nothing but insult from , that House in all t imo to come—¦( cheers . ) r-The delegate from the eoissors-grinders stated tho committee bad received

      the circular too late to bring tho matter properly before the trade ^ but the subjeot would be taken into consideration on Monday next . Recommended a subscription throngh the trades . It was then resolved , 1 st ; " That a . committee should be appointed from the delegates present to sit weekly to receive all monies gathered from the trades of Sheffield in support -of the strike / ' 2 nd . ^ That the delegatea at their rising do adjonrn their aaeeeting to Thursday , Feb . 17 tb ; V—One of Hie delegates from the tablekuife-haftcrs delivered an excellent address , showing how each class of the community above the

      working man was combined to protect their respeotive intorests . —Mr . Barker , from the bricklayers , delivered a brief but eloquent and encouraging address . — -Mr . Harney als © addressed the delegates . ThankBhaying been voted to tbeChairman , the meeting adjourned . T- ^ - —Mr . Harney also addressed a '' stealing of the saw-grinders on Tuesday lastj in behalf pf the London stonemasons . Mr . H . was listened to with tbe most courteous attention aa he dilated upon the wrongs of tha above bod y of men , and the wrongs of the people at large , which he traced to their source , namely , the monBter curse of class- legislation . . '¦ ¦¦' ¦ : ; ' ' ' ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ' - ¦• ; '¦ . " .. . - ' / .-v .- ' . / , ; ¦ - . - ¦

      Lecturb ^ Mt . William Jones , of Liverpool , the talented North Riding lecturer , visited Sheffield on Monday last , and that evening addressed the friends in Fig Tree-lane . The room was dfusely crowded by an enthusiastio audience who by their repealed cheers » anifested their appreciation of the lecturer ' s eloqueat discourse . : V ' ¦ ' . ] :. V Mr . Jones delivered a second lecture on Tuesday QTenipg ; our limits Trill not perooit us to give even an outline of his very excellent and eloquent addrefiseB which were received with repeated bursts of applause . A large number of members were enrolled . The room was packed in every part , and so great was the pressure , that numbers could , net gain admisaioD . \ :: ; - '¦ :- '¦ ;¦ - , . .- / . " - ¦ ¦ . ; '¦ . ¦¦ - . y ' ';¦ . ...: > ,-: ; . -:

      AN « ltEB 8 AttT : 6 FTHE ; SHE ? FIEL © BRANCH OP THE Northehn TyK ORAPHicAL UNioNir-The anniversary of the above society was held tn Tntsday last , at the house of Mr . P « ul Ashley , Waterloo TaVern , Mr . Jamea Heiffor in the chair . The dinner wa-s a Bumptnous one , and reflect « d great credit on tho worthy has * .

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      : y- h ^ M ^ i -M ^^ ¦ . ... ^ y , ' ..- ¦ _ ¦ ¦ . . . ... . ¦ . ¦ SAXiFORD . —The youthsiheid their weeMjjheei ^ ia& on Wednesday week , whtH Mr . R . Ramsd ^ n delivered a lecture on the national curses of this country , to a ; hameroas audience . ^ An interesting discussiotttook place . ; V- * ¦ BU ^ Y .- ^ The Chartists held iheir Ujsual weeitly meeting . in the Jardin-street Lectiuro ; Room » on Monday last . Mr , Dixon delirered an excellent address . ' - . ' - " " ' ' .- - ' - / ' ' . ' - ; - ; v ' :, ¦ ¦ ::- < ' '¦ ¦ . - : ;¦> : '¦¦'

      T ^ iiK . —On Sunday erenfug ' , Mf ; J oaes delivered an eloquent address , "in the association rboro , Foss-r gate , on the nature ; and objects of CKaitism . Mr Charles Connor also addressed the meeting . S » tEPPZJStn ! .---FbLiTiCAt lN 9 JiTUTB .-- 'Mr , Beat lectured here on Suo ^ ay evening . On Monday , a public jnaeeting was heJd in ihd san » place fofsfto purpos ? f > f taking into cotfejderation tft 9 propositions of her Majesty ' s Ministers -after cdiisiderablo djscussicni by Mr . Oddy and others , a resaluti ' onxtia agreed to , pledging the pcqpfe- never to cease agitating till the Saffrase be cxteh < fed to all male adults . RIPP 5 » 3 > BK .--The Rev , WV 1 T Jackson , of Man-• Qester , leclRred h ^ e on Wedafisday l&st , ' - 'to * tramerous and attentive audience *

      BAI . TON . —Mr . H . Candy lecturtS here ob Tfewrsday week , feOTteen meajbers were- surolled . ' Ste Chaitists of this place meet every iVS ' soday eyenhsg , at ' ei ^ hb' o'clock , at the hosse of Mr .-James RujIjworth .. '; ; ry ' -l- . / y .- ¦ =. ' . ' ; - .. '¦ ¦' :. ¦' ¦¦ '¦ -.- ' .. - ' : ;¦ . ; . . ' \ - ' - ' M < nTHAia ; v--The CbartJsts 0 Met tram - 3 ndl Holliiij ^ worth are re ^ u ^ iedio attend at t& ? ir room , oa Sun < j * y , the ^ Gfct * inatontfwhen the ac ^ onnts for the last three moath / a proceedings will be * read up , and a ganeraL account given of the ince'mB and expenditure . Those vrhe have not yet sigaed the National Petition sr& requested io do so vtithont delay , as ihflsheets csanot- possibly He any ton ^ er Shan the 27 Sh ; instant . ; STOCKSCKIT . —Mr ; Joha West , from Mae « 3 eafiftid . lectured hwe 00 Sunday evening , to a -nur merous audience . Aiifer an unarji ! Qous vote ** of thanks to the lecturer , the mesting diroersed . ;

      53 » BEBSeS 3 * ST 5 B .--- ^ PhB TJnifarian Suno ? j School teachers of this town htejae got up a pet : t > Sa to tse Housa of Gommons , prayiisg them to adob : tab prin « ple 3 of the People ' s Chaste j a 3 the law of tlw landi They liope- others will go and do likewise . , » t 3 © liEy . —^ GiiiiCTST S ^ E 33 ?« ft ^ -The' Chartisf * of thia town aro bestiring themselves , determined ta take their pluco in the movement , A meeting was held at their hall , Bend-street ,. pa Monday evening las ; ^ wltkb . » va 3 attended by Mr : € r- White , of Birmingbaw , and Mri Mason Chartisi lecturer , Mr ^ BrowHiire . was called to the diair ; and delivered a

      short atldvess , and called on Mr .-I |) &wson to move the following resolution : •* - " Tbat it is the opinion of this mseu ' ng that the solo cause of all thesuffering of iha working menvis-alone ' - ' to be- tsaced to class legislaUoa ^ and that until every working man has a vote in el ectvng the inembew who serve in Parliament , there can be 110 hope for the : redemption , of this much suffering nation . " Thd' resolution was seconded by Mr Baker . Mr . ( Ji , Wftite ; , cf Birmingham , and Sfr ; Mason delivered animite ^ addressesr . The Natioual Petitioa was-read by Mr . Bonser , and carried unanimously . Mr . White was elected torepresent Dudley in the forthcominKGonvemion .

      3 > EHSY . — -The opening- of the Association Room as a news-room i $ found to answer well ,- jtr&tnuio . bars of straugera attending , on Sunda-y Eaornings ' : read , and hear , read , the papei-s . Thesfl is no doubt that in a little time it will bo > geiu-pal resort oa Sundiay for very great lumbers of the workihg classes , as at a trifl . ug expeneej . quite volunvary » they havo the opportunity of reading ; several iaaportant newspapers . ;; and as the public steps in . to our support we shall extend the papers . The " Peacs , Law ^ akb Order" Whigs—On Thursday week , there was a deal of es ^^ temen !; here at the result of Peel ' s plan of remidyntK the Cora Laws . The Optrativo Liberal Assodiatior . of this town , composed of peaceable moral-force Whigs , to > a great extent—men who have fotmrf a ereao deal of

      fault with Chartists making- physical-foree displays , made an effigy of , Sir Robert Peelj and hoisting him on the end of two poles , to resemble a galiows , paraded through the principal streets to the Market Place ; where , after one of the anii-Corn Lavr speakers had read his imiiciinenfc charging him with murder , robbery ^ and f > liintier , they sec firo to him . These proceedings so frightened many of the principal inhabitants of the town that the yeomanry waa called up under arttvS i and a troop of soldiers sent for from Nottingham , to- protect the peace of the town . Are these the Whigs who ^^ iast winter bat one , Called out the soldiers / 'to put dovrn the Chartists ! and thiB winter the Tories have to call out the soldiers to put down the ; Whig 3 » It seems rather funny ! - : - ; - ' " : ; -- ; v : v •¦ -V ;\; ¦ . ¦ . : . " ¦ . ' y- '¦ ¦ ' -. ' :: ~ \

      MALTON . —Sir , Jone 3 Pictured oa Friday aud Saturday last , to crowded > audiences > BIUGHTO * ir . ~ A public ineeting . of the Chartists of Brighton , duly convened by printed placard , was held at the Cap ' of Liberty , Portlasid- street , Brighton , on \ V : ediie ? day evening week , for the purpose of electing two fit and proper persons to represent the south-western district in the National Contention , to meei in v London on the 2 Scb of the present month . Mr ; ( Jiles was in ph « chair , vriien , ' . after considerable discussioi > , ifc was resolved nnanimoasly , oh the proposition of Mr . J \ Allen , seconded by Mr . Flower , and gyipported by Mr . John Page— "That this meeting ^ having full confidence io Messrs .

      Nathaniel Morling . - ' and ; . " : William Woodwart , hereby eledfc them as the delegates to represent this district in the Convention tP meet in London on the 28 ch of this present monthi" A ; resolution : was also passed , appointing a Committee to correspond with tho Chartists of Southampton relative to the - ejection of Mr . Bartlett , which hasbeen declared invalid by the Executive , ^* no nomination , or a regular course of ballotj having taken plaoe . " The Chartists of Brighton were' compelled to elept those whose namesr stood on the nomination 1 st . V The newly elected delegates , Messrs . Morling and ; Wo&dward , briefly returned thanks-for the honour conferred upon them , after which Charles Btooktr , Esq . delivered an address to the meeting ^ urging upoa them to be firm and united in the good cause .. ;

      SHBPPlEliB > . r-On vWedhfsday evening we had a crammed , ¦ ovein&winsr , suffocating meeting , ia Fig Tree-lane reotn , ail was enthnsiagm and determination to have the Charter , wholy and endre , not a hair ' s-breadth less . Messers . Clayton ^ Prior , Gilley , Ward , Clarkfibn , Parkes , aod Black , of Nottingham , made excellent speeches ^ Tiie following resolutions wore passed by . acclamation : — " That this me 6 tiug considers the propositioH of Sir Robert Peel for an alteration of the Corn Liaws to b » an insalfc to the saffeiing people , who have too long bofne patiently

      the grasping tyranny of a rapacious aristocracy , and this meeting entering its solemp protest against such a mockery , resolve to resist its adoption by every means in its . power . ' " That this meeting awaro that the Corn Laws and every other vile law which disgraces the * statute-book of this country , are but the natural fruits of class-legislatieB , hereby declare that they v ? ill be coitttkt with nothing short of a fuirrepreseijtation of the people , as proTided for ill the People ' s Charter , which , is the oaly remedy for national wrong , wb therefore demand the above td bo adopted , ' whole and entire , as the law of tha ¦ lahdi" - ..- - - ¦ - - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ : ' ¦ : ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦^ " / - ¦ ¦ ¦ > ' -V ' . r- ^ - ' - ' - '¦ . - ' ¦ - v ¦ " ¦

      HUXJ 14-Tho Chartists of Hull have appointed Mr . Roger Pinder , blacking manufacturer , to represent them at the delegate meeting ; of the East and xN ' orth Hiding , to be held at Selby on Sunday , th 6-" 20 th 1 instanti * XiEICJBSTUR , —Mr . Coopes pVcached in the Shsk ^ perean roocjj last Sunday night , ; and Mr . LiEneyj of Manchester followed with a shert bufc very forcible a « d « ficctive address . On Monday night , at the close of tho business at the ShakspereaB room , a Chartist hurried inta the Toom and eaid , Cooper , if you » jo to the Towb Hall , you will bft able to get a hearing 1 the ; wont hear the Corn Law repealers . " The meeting immediately resolved to ¦

      go thither m & body . The Town Hall , however , was so densely crammed that Mr . Cooper was desired , on arriviBg . there , ta ^ o rotind to the parlour door Ho did so , —and in tiro , minutea was seized bj a furious and malicious crew , who laid hold , some of his . legs , others of his arms ; and one fiendliko being , gathering Mr . Cooper ' s « loak in his grasp , pulled , with all his mijiht , in s » ob a aaaner that , ( the cloak being fastened by a brass eba > a jround the neck , > 4 h& wearer was nearly thraitled . " Knock him on tbo head ! " " D—n him , do for bim ' " were the enaour-3 gem' nts given by some , to ibis rough bancilinR Finding , his tneaies were really latent on something strious , and feeling hia strength fast futtftg .

      Mr . Cooper at length siouted ont ^ murd er ! ' *—•* they , are killing » e ! " Ike working men present dow understood what waa going on , —rushed to th « resaafi , —and with great exertion brought Mr . € X . upou the table , ¦ where lie clang to the hains < of th& gas-light fer support , the exasperated repealers meanwhiie laying hold of his leg ? , aad others eadeavouring te remove the support froaa beneath bia feet . To the honour of Mr . John Bifl ^ s , the laie Mayor , be it recorded that as soon as he . couid rea ^ Mr . Cooper , from the chair ( which he © ecupied ) , b # put out his hand , and pulled Mr . C ; beside him , into the chair , thus placing him io sifety . The Meeting was one continued scene of damour , until the Corn Law repculcre retired , wh * n Mr . Cooper addressed the still crowded Guiidiall for a abort

      time , and was then conducted to hb house in Chifdk ' Gate , by hundreds of Vworking men flhoutine , ia triumph , through the streete . ; The « rowdwhidi assembled round the house s * on mnakered abont two thousand , and Mr . Cooper was oompolltd « 0 ascend to ihe leads above Wa shop-window , and address them for ashortti » e . Three cksws were given for tbe Charter , three for O' ^ u&fliH ^ hrce for Frost , Williams , and Jones , thinlufjUMQlMter . and so the crowd dispersed . WM ^ HraBtoWle tbat the battle is yet ended : & $ Mjic ! 5 $ fft& ^ t& the Com Laws ,. is , to tako pla «^^ jPpf ife ^ B ywSS ; dnrins the week , and we shalQBrwfiSS 5 sM . « Si- < a-d expose their buml ) ag . B . ^ W ^^^ M ^^ < $ Vv ¦ ¦ -. ' \" ¦ ¦ -: <¦ : ; .. ;; : : W > W 0 $ ^ W ^ & : ¦ . ' ¦ ¦?; : v -r *^ i ^ . ^^

      (Etjartfct Znuuicrence.

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      To The Imperial Chartists.

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      civc auuuugs -i > ~ * ¦ <«»« . •*' ¦ ' M YO 1 . Y . NO . 223 . SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 1 ^ 842 . ^ * ^ "Sff = « -i ^^ ^

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 19, 1842, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1149/page/1/