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      ^ ¦ — I 1 . . j jadness . Yon hare been told that I have induced flan to subscribe nearly £ 70 , 000 for tbe purchase of land , which the right honourable gentleman npon the last occasion told us was arbitrary , dangerous , wd impoptr . You see , sir , I have a good memory ; and I c ould remember your whole speeeh from becinning to a * * , delivered here twelve months ago . ( Laas hter and plaudits . ) "This I am hound to say ' these were your words , sir , " This I am bound to saj > " ^ r O'C ° nnor ' princi ples were carried into effetf , they would lead to anarchy and confusion . " T ask you whether a well paid peasantry would lead onhaTePeentol a . ... kenrihp tll > 9 rlf i > TA fllln r ... . « i

      to anarchy and confusion . ( Tokens of approval . ) I , & you whether I have done any good , when I tell too , that of that £ 70 . 000 , £ 40 , 000 has been drenched from beer-palaces and the gin-shop . ( Hear , hear . ) Yesterday , by agency , I purchased 500 acres more land . ( Tremendous and l ong-continued cheering . ) I think it is I who am upon my trial here to-day . It is I who have been denounced by every portion of the press . It is I who have been reviled , while I have been doing all the good I could . ( Grea t approbation . ) It is my pride te stand before yon , and ask yon what Free Traders have proposed ; to ask you what the Whigs proposed ; what the

      Dissenters proposed ; and Iwill shew to you that all * hat is good in what they have proposed , I carry imo practical effect ? ( Repeated cheeriug . J Then I would ask yon , who is the great Reformer ? Whether those parties who proposed and desiredto benefit the working class , who reviled me , or I , who am carrying the objects of . allinto practical effect ? ( Great excitement . ) I devote twelve hours every day to the service of the poor , and I never travelled a mile or ate a meal at iheir expense , ( hear , hear ;) and yet I am supposed to be an individual not fit to be a representative in the House of Commons . Whv ?—because I could

      not be bought . ( Excessive cheering . } I will tell you now , as the honourable gentleman has told you of his declining an offer—I will show you how your money is frittered away . I dare say the right honourable gentleman remembers that in 1834 I was rather troublesome to the ministers : and upon one occasion Mr Lambert was about to propose a clause , like the appropriation clause , which appropriation clause Mr Ward and others had forgotten as soon as they got to the treasury ( langhier ); they never think of their principles , but like the

      honourable gentleman they say , "I am always the same . "' ( Renewed laughter . ) So it is with , all ; men change , and then charge the people with inconsistency . When did the people ever turn from a man that did not turn from them ? ( Great applause . ) If the others change , and the people will not go with them , it shows their stability and the others * inconsistency ( lai ^ hter ); and I say of the people , they are the most steadfast , the most confiding , the most-tobe-admired class in society . ( Uproarious plaudits . ) But to return to mv tale . This motion of Mr

      Lambert was supposed to puzzle the minsters , and Mr Edward Stanley , in the House of Commons , proposed to give me half the patronage of my county if I would support it . " Well / ' said I , " I will take the whole of the patronage of my county . Now , you appoint a good man upon every vacancy , and 1 will support you . " "Of course , then , " said he , you will support U 3 to-night , and oppose Mr Lamber t ' s motion r " " You will see , " said I . Well , what did I do ? Directly he sat down I got up and seconded the motion . ( Great burst of applause . )

      That is the way I repaid them for half the patronage of the county . ( Laughter . ) We had , sir , Sir John Jarvis , a great liberal ; we had the great soap-boiler , who , I suppose , will next be proposing that the people shall be washed four times a day and shaved three times a day . ( Great merriment . ) Gentlemen , boast of your prowess now . Perhaps when the places were not worth your acceptance . ( Hear , hear . ) And think of the difference between a man looking tor power , and a man abusing power , ( hear , hear , ) and many men have been violent—no man so

      auch so as my right honourable friend , if I may call him so- As I told him before , the first toast 1 drank after dinner when I was entitled to half a glass of wine , was "Prosperity to Ireland . " The toast I drank when I had a whole glas 3 , was " Prosperity to Ireland , and downfall to tyranny ; " and to the third toast we added , " Lord Grey , Sir Francis Burdett , and Sir John Cam Hobhouse . " - ( Great uproar . ) Then , I ask you , if I have not a ri ght to twit my tutor ? if I have not a right to ask him , when he-propounded principles that were dear to

      Be , and then brought vengeance to bear upon me when I adopted those principles ; ( shame ! shame !) I ask if that was just ? I wont say anything personal of the right honourable gentleman , for he knows , and yen know , I would not hold the representation ot Nottingham upon the base tenure of a falsehood : if a man said to me , " Say this which is against your conscience and I will give you my casting vote ; " I would rather die than go out from Nottingham so dishonoured . ( Loud approval . ) I

      say of the ri g ht honourable gentleman , that he is toa good far his colleagues . I say that I , an humble disciple , hwe an interest in the well-being of my master ; and I may try to lure , to coax , to seduce him from the bad eompaay he has been keeping . { Laughter and cheering . ) I have no doubt on my mind , ere long , a few more such exhibitions as these—for mind ! I told you this was to be an exhibition of progiess ; and I would say , after he has told you to reject him if ever he has abused

      jour trust , after he has said , "I do not feel I have abused it '*—he is then deficient in feeling ; for he thinks he has abused it , but he does not feel so . ( Langh . ter . ) When you have made a few more exlibitions of this kind , the right honourable gentleman told you last time he would be my ambassador , my plenipotentiary , and he said he would communicate my principles to his colleagues . Now when he communicates the growth of your mind to his colleagues ( hear , hear , ) perhaps

      they vriil understand what it means . It is as impossible to resist popular progress as it is to resist the sun in his course . ( Loud applause . ) We have three great reformers in this country , and they will carry all before them . We have the glorious apostle o temperance , Father Mathew , who is giving your mitidi to think and your eyes to see ; we have Rowland Hill , giving cheap circulation to tbe representations of truth ; and we have Sir Robert Peel , ( great hursts of plaudits , ) we have that man who had the daring and the boldness to grapple with

      troth , for knowledge has struck like an electric shock upon his mind , and he lias had the manly courage to act np to it . And don ' t talk to me about your minister in me , and your minister in posse ; don ' t compare the incomparable , —don't liken the ex-minister to the present minuter , there is as much difference as between a horse-chestnut and a chestnut horse . ( Roars oflaughter . ) Wait till Bentinck and Peel join , and then you will see where Lord John Russell and his Whigs will go to . Then you 'mil see the raising of the last sheaf , and the scampering of the rats . ( Much laughter . ) And as Lord John asked Sir Robert for a loan of his three jure .

      » lle statesmen , perhaps Lord George will return the compliment ; but I hope he won ' t take the right honourable gentleman as one of the juvenile stateswen- ( Bursts of laughter . ) lam snre he will not | 6 if he does . The Times has told you that Mr O'Connor would go and indulge himself by making aspeech ; but that speech may have more effsct than they think of . It will be in the hands of millions an Saturday , and if sound it will be adop ted ; if unbound , it will be rejected . And here you havc jk Times ( pointing to the reporter ' s bax , ) that has '' Mu Tory , Radical , Whig , and will be Pusayite one « thes e dats . ( Laughter . ) And don't you think « aTe done something whea I have lived and sue-

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      cessfully opposed the mort corrupt press the world ever saw ? ( Cheers . ) Itis from the Press , they sav proceeds all these movements toward true libertr Not « o . The press sel ects an individual ftr op ^ bnum and . cont umely , and never advances the cause of hber y . While you talk of minimi % ue and hberality , see how much more virtuosi lie op , mon make , the French ministry . how much more moral than yOur class in this ^ k T PW ) In France yoa have had ^ Jd ^ ewster fined ; you have had one man fined 9 o 000 francs , and visited with the loss of civil - " TV P" PreS 8 the WnriH

      nghU and three years' imprisonment ; and three others deprived of their civil ri ghts and fined 10 , 000 francs , for doing what is done by your government every year . Look at the Secret Service List , and yeu will find it larger after every election . Do not accuse the ri ght honourable gentlemen of bribing you . He is not such a fool . ( Much merriment . ) I have had a great many of his bills shown to me ; eight or ten have come to pledge me to p ay these bills of the right honourable gentleman . Perhaps the right honourable gentleman would like to have

      them . ( Excessive mirth . ) I believe be has got in the wrong boat ; he trusted upon secret service money , and some meu have put it in their own pockets . ( Renewed laughter . ) I have no doubt we hall have the fly-by-nights going about again this evening ; but the non-electors will watch them , 0 fty » a 7 . we will ! ' ) and if an elector receives £ 5 , £ 10 , or £ 15 for his vote , if he brings me that note , and will prove before a committee of the House

      when , and from whom , he received it , I ViU gVve him a JG 50 note in exchange for it . ( Loud cheer * ing . ) I assure you they will lie well watched this time ; and they have altered the law a little with respect to bribery ; I will take advantage of that alteration in the law . ( Applause . ) V ? hal I look for is , the separation of Church and State ; untrammelled education ; and , although Mr Gisborne tells you that the money for education comes out of your pockets , why , how much more comes out of your

      pockets that is applied to a worse purpose , ( hear , hear . ) And when you are thoroughly educat 3 d you will take care that nothing enraes out of your pockets but what is applied to a ri g ht purpose . ( Excessive applause ) Are we not told that the Irish people ' s destitution proceeds from the want of education and yet they would leave the Irish people uneducated , and take their money to educate the protestants of England . If the gentlemen of Englaud had to pay eight millions to Ireland yearly , they would be glad to find some remedv , and would then not

      hesitate to pay £ 100 , 000 yearly in education to save the eight millions . ( Great applause . ) Now then , I propose , and shall not onl y propose it but shall enforce it , not like those gentlemen who come for your votes and you never see them again . ( Laughter . ) If I ana returned to Parliament I will resign that trust when the non-electors of Notingham call upon me to do so , and when the electors of Nottingham , by a majority of one ,

      call npon me to do so . I will never accept of place , pension , or emolument , from any government . I will receive at my house rich and poor with equal courtesy . Iwill not close ray d < or againsJ t hose who apply to make their grievances kno-n to me . ( Applause . ) No ! my time sball be at their service ; and by my energy , zeal , and perseverance , I will be able to effect more for the town of Nottingham than the minister , or the ex-member for Nortli

      Derbyshire . ( Cheers . ) And I have no doubt I Rhnll be able to effect very much more ; because I shall have a pride in doing it . And even when the rich man come 3 to me , he will not say that I am unjust to him . because I am just to yon . ( Great applause . ) I am no leveller ; I am your elevator ( cheers ); and if you think vour lives and properties are in danger , then it is because the lives and properties of tl : e poor are insecure . ( Hear , hear . ) I will vote for the separation of Church and State . I wi 1 vote and agitate Ireland from north to south , and from east to west , acainst the endowment of the Cathulie priesthood ; and if the government should attempt to carrv

      that . I will move an amendment upon every night when it is brought forward ; and , it necessary , I will talk for thirty hours a-week against it . ( Tremendous cheers . ) I will vote for Education which is not sectarian . ( Hear , hear . ) I" will vote for a Property Tax ; and I will vote that the salaries of tho ministers , judges . placemen , pensioners , and prostitutes , shall be reduced according to the value of manufactured grsods aid wages of the country . I will vote that gold shall not bear a permanent va ' ue of £ 3 ITa . 19 Jd . the ounce . I wi : l vote for evervthiug that is in that pamphlet ( alludinc to « me latt-ly published by Mr Wright , of Nottingham ) , which

      contains what 1 said years ago . I will vote lor every particle of that question as it is expressed there . And wk-n I say I will vote , I do not say it like my two opponents ; I do not say if some one else brings it forward . I will support it ; but I pledge myself to keep hammering at the ministers— ( laughter )—till I make them do it . ( Continued laughter . ) You look for the Charter , and so do I . Yoa are opposed to receive alms from the Poor Laws and so am I . But mark : there is no question of so large import as the Currency Question to yiu . But what is the reason you don't understand it ? It is because the thing is of such a nature that it weaves its web around you

      without your seeing it . ( near ) But take that question as a whole , and you will find that keeping up the rate of gold , when manufactures are cheap and labour is cheap , makes you give three times as much labour for the money . ( Great commotion . ) What will become of this measure of 'ii if you have another bad harvest I ^ Vhatthen will become of your rtpresentaiire medium in the Bank of England f Why itis riot a flea bite compared to theamount of money in circulation . At the last you will be the greater sufferers ; for it is out of the nature of things that if they arc obliged Ut give so much more of manufactured gooda to represent an ounce of gold , they can give you sn

      much wages . ( Great applause . ) Talk to me about the Charter bringing confusion ! I ghowed you di . rectly that I opened the market for virtue , vice disappeared . And I will ask tho right honourable gentleman , whether a man will worship his God with less ardour , and fervency , and delight , if the souls of this people are not to be saved by the acre , the rood or the perch ? I ask you whether any thinking man , in the 19 th century , can suppose that a man can prepare himself by patronage to he a bishop or minister otthe go « pel ? Clear , hear . ) I would ask you if that is such a qualification as was intended for the 8 tlvation ot souls ? I am lor allowing every man to

      pay his own phjsiciaa and his own spiritual adviser . ( Greatapprobation . ) These tlringa will , ere long , come home to the centleman : for you way depend upon it , that a government looking for a renewal of power , is like a snake in the ^ rass . ( Applause . ) Neither this right honourable gentleman , nor the noble lord , now perhaps on the hustings in London , will tell what they propose to do . ( Hear . ) Now , I ask you . as preud and honourable men , is that the way for ministers to come before the people ? ( Cheers . ) I ask you whether you ought not to hare pit toil question to the ministers ? lie tells you that the time was so short that they had not time to go through all the bilia . Well , we shall have the

      same excuse made next time . ( Outcry . ) Now , when gentlemen are paid for a job , and receive a less amount of salary because they have dons a less amonntof business , then I wilt believe they have done what they could , and been excessively ardent and diligent . But they will receive the stipulated amount of pay , whether they do much or little . The people are called dissipated and unthrifty . Why , the throne is supported by dissipation and dissoluteness . ( Hear , hear . ) Stop tbe gin palaces tomorrow ; gtop dissipation and prostitution to-morrow , and your salary will be wanting tlie next day ( Loud plaudits . ) I require a government that will have an

      incentive to virtue . 1 require a graduated scale of Property Tax , and no tax upon Industry . And who so much , right to pay it , as the men who have had th 3 making of the lawa for centuries ? The landlords of this country have had the making of the lawa for centuries ( loud dtsapprobatwn . ) They have had a monopoly of everything till now . Then , if the toy is so dear tothem , let thempay for the toy ; let them pay f ,. their whistle , ( fervid applause and laughter ) r ^ n !!?/ " ? J ^^^ f P ra P « Verty . I tnink

      I may now appeal to these men ; and ask them whether op no 1 have not opened up some oi the resources of the country . ( Hear , hea' ) Although I was told I was to be catechised about the Land Plan , Island now to give an account of every act ; aad 1 will not only ask to be catechised uroa the Laud Plan , but of every act of my whole life , whether moral , social , or political , and more especiuH . T apon that plan which I myself have promulgated , formed , and propounded for the workingclasses . I have , within the last year , built ei » htv

      cottnsps , ( hear , hear ) , with out-buildings , and two school-bouses I hate erected on the estate , as a proof to tha ff crkbs-classes that they hare no objection

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      to educate themselves when they arc allowed to do so . ( Much applause . ) Do you say , throw the peo . pie on their own resources ? So say I ; : but take the idlers off their resources . ( Cheera . ) Well , gentlemen , Iwill vote against all poor-laws ; , and I will vote that the property tax of the country cornea out ofthe landlord ' s p roducts , and not out ; of the tenant ' i ( applause ) , and ^ I will vote that the seven . miHinns ayear , which now goes to support placemen and others , shall no t « plaee these poor men upon the land , to mako them producers and consumers of your manur&ctures . ( Loud- approbation . ) Just consider this picture . Look at Nottingham now ; a barren waste all round it ; . picture Nottingham , surrounded by tilirty thousand acres of well-eultivated soih . witu ten to tkAnnata tkamnliui nlim . tk . « >« « ll .. _ .. l »_ J .

      thousand peasants upon it . Think of their wivc 3 and children coming into the market on Saturday nights to buy your goods . Think ( if the extra amount they would earn , and then think of the iaot 'hat ttiey would be consumers as well as producers . For observe , that unless you have consumers you will have no home-market , and itis to that you must look , for all the countries will become manufacturers . And my objection to Free Trade was . be * cause those full and prudent concessions which oiuiht \» have preceded it . did not precede it . Lird John was grasping for power . ( llear . ) He thought 1 power first , and then change aftorwards . It wua always so with tho Whigs . ( Hear , hear ) They always nut the wronff lee fiirnrmmt . ( r . !> m' > iM > iO It

      is because 1 believo that Free Trade without th «« e c-ncessions . will he rather an evil than a benefit , th » t I ask for Free Trade in legislation . ( Luud au-( ilause . ) Would auy man stand here and oppose us upon theie rix points ot the 1 ' eople ' s Caarter ? ( Cheering . ) Will anj man tell me , that if a man is sane and untainted with crime , he it not entitled to » vote ? The right honourable gentleman » aid once , ihat all mechanics , artisans , and working-tnen were entitled to a vote . I say no more than what my master told me . ( Laughter . ) Would not the gentlemen , if they Dad to appear this day twelve mom ha before yi . u , instead of oi . ee in sev « n years , be more true to the wishes of the people ? ( Cheers . ) 31 r Gisborne has t : ld you about his Irish constituency .

      Id reminds me of what Buswall s » ' td , when Dr John son snid negated the world ; he answwed . the world returned tin-compliment , and hated him . ( Laughter . ) That is the reason why the gentleman did not go a > : ain to Ireland ; they disliked him as much as he ii . t them . ( Cries of"N > , " "No , " tram Mr Gia . borne ; and - i « teny it . " ) Besides , 1 believe tho expenses in Ireiard are a iittle larger than in England , and the honourable gentleman fl quota his own words . ) said , " h * was a d tl tool for going . " ( Great amusement in the crowd . ) lie sayathis is the last time hu will appear before a com-ttuency . I am glad of it . ( Repeated laughter . ) lie look * better after his gallop ; it has revived him . ( Laughter . ) That , was what poor George Edmonds sii . i , after the Birmingham Corporation Bill onssed

      —lie juiii he siiould die ; but ue wished to die towncierk , > ralllthat . ( Laughter . ) All opposition was withdrawn in order to gratify George ; on Tuesday lie was appointed town-cleik , wiihasaiary of £ 500 » - > e ar . and on the Wtdne * day , instead of being dead , he wna in his office at work . ( Laughter . ) Notr I pledge mysel f if the hon . gentleman was elected now , he would come again . Ue is not goin <* to retire yr t , you may rely upon it ; and so long as vou hava votes to give to him . Mr Tiioinas Gislmrne , exmemher for North Derbyshire , wid always be your most humble Mivan . ( Bursts of merriment . ) I have told you wha . I would vote tor ; 1 have told \ oa what 1 would vote against . There is no measure tu which I would attach half so much

      importunce , a * I do to this p . mt 1 have been explaining t . you . 1 have siiown you the value of Annual Parliaments . 1 am for the Ballot , in the present state of affairs ; becaase I believe that , those who ave now suliject to th .- tyranny ot masters , require it to protect them . ( Hear , hear . ) 1 am for the Payment of members , bucausa I think that the labourer is worthy of his hire , and boauac I feel it is better we should be allowed tonorainate Mm amount , than that ministers should . 1 ^ ould divide the countr ) into Equal Electoral Districts , in . rder that none may remain unrepresented ; and I am tor the app ;) iul > ing or the member who ia bust , qualified b y talent and not by money . ( Louil applause . ) Do not you sup . usethatcapital ^ wouW lack its power , and energy its promotion , and ml its influence , if the workin « classes had the privileges to which they are entitled

      1 will not join Bentinck and Disraeli . It is just the sting of tne wasp showing itself in opposition to the roan who saved them . Thou-h Sir Robert Pcei was pledged to support a folly , yot he abandoned that lolly ; oecausa he liked the fools better than the folly ; therefore he preserved the fools , and rejected the folly . ( Applause . ) You will now see that Sir Robert Peel , joined by Bentinck up <> n the Church question , will beat my right J-oiiOurabie friend , if 1 may call him my right honourable friend . Tho Church has always been tho bone of contention , and will always be , nhon there is nu geod party cry . Y-u may be sure that Sir Robert Peel ' s ad dress , ami lord George Bentiuck ' s address , are vtrj si » - nificant . Sir Robert is setting himself forth as the champion of the Church once more ; Lord John is pledged to a different policy ; an-l when those two

      parties unite agamat him , away noes the little lord ; never more to return , at pi eseiit , at any rate . ( Enthusiastic applauie . ) In order to accomplish all these things , 1 am trying to place you in a bstter position . ( Cheers . ) I am not far the Poor Laws . I am opncssd u >» l warn except the Mar of right ; and the war carried on in Mence of a country . I seek to establish so large an amount et militia , aucli a national guard , as wiil fly ti the ery of * My cottage is in danger * with greater alacrity than the hired mercenary will fly to the cr > of Tbe church is in dauber . ' And where you h . w . 60 . 000 peasants upon their own soil , then you will have a puwer to fall back upon ; you will have men that will respect the laws , because by that timt they will have some share

      in the administration of those laws . But now they are in sucU a stat-:, that they have in the House ef Commons placemen , and pensioners , and lieuteBatits , and officers , and clerks , and pay-clerks ; and I i « hoiilii not be at all astonished If I found cook Soyer there , as colleagues ot the right honourable gentleman , Mr U- 'oi ^ e Cornwall Lewis , ( Mr Gisboniu : ' Who is he V ) Why , t he man who makes the a « iup for the poor , bu ' , always makes a small sample especially for the aristocracy to taste , that they maysHy , ' U « w excellent it ig . ' ( Laughter . ) I ask you if you are prepared now t- » . support a « overnnient of this kind ? Whether you are prepared to be insulted now hy amiuister of the Crown not telling you what he iuaa donu , nor what , he intends to do »

      ( 'No , no , anicjntusion . ) l ; i > k ; you , whether you are b dead to jour wn interests , that you will go to the poll toraormw , and say lloblionse a ; . d Gisborne V I tell you : hat no hon ^ s : man in Nottingham will vot « tor Sir John M < bhuuse ; that uo decent man will vote for MrGtslwrne . ( La ;(» liler and applause . ) That uo mother wilt allow liev iui'hand to vote for a man , wild tciis y » u lie has' prop . rty in four d istricts but lias not looked to the tact timt their children aro obliged to fjet \ i \> in the dead hour of night to work , and iusUrtid a \ b . ing educated , are obliged to toil ( Ue ; : r , hoar , hear . ) The Whits always overlook the greater evils , ai : < i direct your attention to tho modicunn . ftiomi ih « y ( . Mfcss it ,

      pen-, sioners , officers , in the II-ju ^ . ' ; muahe time has now arrived , 1 think , when no n-nninee of government , no placeman , no pensioner , aliaii have a vo te in tne Ilou ^ e of Commons . it all . He may bit there , but shall not have a ^ right to vele there . ( Enthusiastic applause . ) In Fiamr , tlin- : > ro siuUfied with a more moderate constituency , boc ^ iw they uave the land . Now , ( , 'cnilenien , I beseech yon , siv « these people the land . And let the right , houomable gentleman carry thw to hiscolle- 'auea . It i $ not inure than two years since I established that L : m < l Plan , : > nd now more than 4 . 0 . 000 of Dm working- |)(! o ; iifi of England have joined U ; and 1 am no ; v t : i .. > { rea-wrer of £ 70 , 000 , tor tn « se peupie ; nearly nvo thousand io Nottinykam alone . ( Great , apuhuse . ) Several ot those ure

      electors ; but I haw uot a » k « d th . *; electors to vote for me ; I nuvershall ; 1 hav « cnUcdMl moreclcctions than any othor man and 1 have never accepted a fee for my services . I bstvj aStrays conducted the elections for other nieu ot my own ' principles , without favour or reward , and tuwvlbreif joucometo the conclusion to-day that I am a v < . ) iucal adventurer , 1 hope that what 1 have averted , and which no man can icfute , thatl wmildr . of . hoid my seat on the base tenure of a fai-iKhoud , will btnieh that false notion fr . fiu your mind . ( L > ud and continued cheers . ) 1 would n « t huld the trust , from you upon bribery or corruption . I toll the right honuurnWu j > eutleni ? . n thai he ought to do

      all he can to secure a coHeaniii tor himself , aud an opponent for me , tor this ivason ; because when I do get iuto tbe house , he knows 1 wiil give the measures he proposes my most determined opposition . ( Lou'i and prolonged vociferation . ) I ask him to takeacuileaguc with , him vU will defend the government from my pow with . ( Hear , hear . ) Perhaps the gentleman will say , I shkll not do him n . uch mischief ; perhaps so . But the time is coming when tho voice of liberty wiil h ? w .-iitcd upon each passing breezs , even now , it i > ; u uttered in the cottnee , and whispered in the hall , and ifrcsistcd . it will howl at the mansion , growl at the palace , and thunder at the senate-huu-c . There never was an

      instance ot a measure beins carried by any representative assembly , that it wss i ; ..-t carried by public opinion in the first instance . ( Applause . ) Eniauci * pation , Reform , Reliet of Dissenters , Free Trade , — all havo been carried out <>* tho house before they have been carriod in . ( Hear , hear . ) Now , then , what 1 ask ycu is , let these changes bo coriccde& from justice , instead | of being wrung from fears . ( Applause . ) America is not prepared for liberty ; the Germans are not ; the Prussians arc uot ; the French are not , nor the Italian *; no country except England is ; and Ireland , backed by England , will be prepared tor liberty al 8 o- ( Uear , hear , hear , )~ and for the reason I have assigned , namely , because there have been none of these normal schools , teachings , and ter \ V T been hcro - llc ^ c th « people knew the character of our public meu-, formerly a man came before them , and upon what ho professed for a moment , they looked upon , that asaPOlfeC

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      Mm m the fUtUre - NW « the ? ^ abI ( J to tra » E ^•" ¦ , ««• throughout his whole public life—Lrerv ' & "" this » the pillory in which , on olaced tt pn t , heae P ° w gentlemen are always fin \ to , - ° ? ronewal ef ofiice - ( Cries of d * house Bl . il * mk . that unless Sir John Cam Hobtre endoS , ' i'Telf to you thafho'll vote against £ i ° n 2 L Ji 0 ft ? 8 0 »« 'oMo Church , aud that alt Si udBK , ^ . L been P ™ p ™« -t » e Sanitary one areat n ^ n ^ and that havc ^ en huddled up into KS& f * tnd of tho 'ession-unless he Sow dilR that what wa 8 pr ° p ° sed . aBd not von voteftS ° V , , tMit 0 r 8 t 0 y ° »™ ° lve 5 « to " m ? £ ? ' ( MaPPtawe . ) HeiiM no right has ol v ^ f T « A nd not te » y ° « "ha * he tKttl Lm !^ u 5 llf 5 n 3 told ifc I « Ht October . £ ft . ? ° e . r ?> to •»•?• Wt difficulty , and t lev tniuh * - f .... •/* OT "menu unncuiiy , ana lt

      t \ Ziti » , f ° asreata < lv . afttage ; 1 foretold KassssSat hivMtu ^^ should have c . mpelled them , if they ave not aCto cultivate their estates , to give- tlicm . up to those who were r tnrnne ftr want . ( Applwi ^ V But life ? iour poor I *™ in Inland , he says - No- i will give ? ou the " hilKnd Pabl \ C W ° rks ' tbat "i'l iSup fl nth PVriL - llle i lree * - everywhere else ' nSt JW T " 5 tri 1 " me at this mo . sa / tt tl : sv ^^ ss

      GRATEFUL JOHN Btn , L . Ogh ! J « hn Bull my darlint , yon ' re nothing but varmint Tou ' re plajing oa ftid iy and running your rigb You grunt and you growl , bad luck to your aow ' l While you ' re aittn our bread stuffs , our uiaitles xzA 1 >« R 3 . ' . You liic bellied diril , why can ' t you be civil ! We uxed you to give m abit of our own , And you cock up your snout , like a pig in thu goat , And inatid of the bread stuff * , you pive us a stone . You thrait ui wid scorning while our monees adorning , Your sireetBatid your parkij , and your palaces too , The poor ov tlw nation , is dead wid starvation , And you eiposing fat baista to you ' re own pauper crew . So about for Lord John , that ' s noj very strong , While wi- buys up the muskets , tho powther and shot , And when ffe ' v .- the mains , jou'il attind to our claim For be prayers and petitions ther'll nothing be got .

      ( Mr O'Connor gave the above lines with a brogue , an unction , and a liveliness so characteristic of true Irwh drollery , that all parties were literally convulsed w , th laughter . ) Now , my fronds , there is grateful Paddy s answer to John Bull . So you see they think Pad . ly oupht to be very submissive while hu is teceivins a penny in lieu of the pound he eave There ' s tbe hi « t » ry of Ireland—that it all goes in Mck-rtnts , and come ? back in could flints , " to shorn the producer . " , and kill nil the poor . ( Hear . " ) And I will ask , from the day that the Saxon firat set his polluted foot upon Ireland , what has Ireland had cause to be thankful for ? Is it nothing that while all other

      nations are progressing , one nation , most gifted by God , under the guidapes of England , should be the only nation retrograding ? ( Hear , hear . ) Will any man tell me there is anyihing in the soil . anytliiHa in the climate , anything in the character of the people , the most moral , and the most industrious and jier-8 .: Yoring people onthefaccoftheearth , which causes tliis anomaly ? Perha os some one says ' They are not industrious . ' But when tho landlord lets them ktndatJ 6 lan acre , and i hey increase its value by cultivation to 30 .- ; ., then the landlord takes advantage of them , and charges more ; how can they continue to labour on such terms ? ( lloar . ) Gentlemen : I am now drawing to a conclusion , and what I have to ask is , that every man , beforo he gives his vmo

      tomorrow , will weigh well the consequences . ( Hoar , hear . ) Remember that upon the one hand , I am only your servant for a stipulated time , and that if 1 do not serve your purpose , and faithfull y discharge my duty , then those who sent me there may recal me . This is a power which I invest in your hands ( applause ) ; a power which you all seek lor ; a power which you never had before . ( Great applause . ) You always have that power as individuals , why should you not have it in a corporate sense also ? ( Hear , hear . ) I trust you will look at the great questions now agitating your own and other countries . Look at Communism , the r eat principle which is agitating France and Germany . There is no man more opposed to Communism than I am . It is a foe of everything

      that is sacred and industrious . 1 am for the meum and tuum ; far the individuality of possession , and the co-operation ot labour . ( Hear . ) That is the means by which the resources of tho country can be best cultivated ; by which the people can be raised io their proper dignity . ( Applause . ) Good God ! When I look before me , and see those haggard faces of men who ought to be the children oftheState , but who are working for prostitutes , for butchers , for physical force men , I ask what compensation do you givithem for their services ? Look at that old man—sec his face , how haggard he louks ; how wan hia eye ; how pale his cheek ! Why make him a pauper ol the State ? Why give him Hie alternative of . slave hire , or of going to the tend-r mercies of the bastile ?

      ( Greatexcitemunt . ) Although Free Trade was Rot by showing how little the agricultural labourer cot ; go into the country where I pay £ 400 weekly , and sec there faces that , are red , frames healthy , imbibing oxygen in out-door employment ! While others are paying 93 . a week , I * am paying 13 j . ( Great applause . ) And yet I am a reviled man . 1 am paying four hundred pounds a week for labour in poor parishes , and doing all the good I can . I am a frugal man , and am uphusbanding my strength , because I know that a great day of trial is cominu ; and when that day comes , however your false measures may hasten it , I shall bo found at my post ( Applause . ) I havo prevented towns from being set on fire , and have been incarcerated in York castle

      for it . ( liear , hear . ) Never have I had private ccraniunication with mortal man ] upon politics . I never have been a party to secret societies , and never will . And as soon as 1 saw a party getting up a secret society I spent ray money to caution the people against fr ( llear , haar , hear . ) There can be no danger in what ycu aee inopenday . It is the precursor ot what is ttfi . ome , and you may rely npon it that the greatest protection of life and property is in using the people according to their deaorta . ( Hear , hear , and applause . ) There is nothing so necessary as that the people should thus act . It is , as Junius says , the watchman that announces tho thief ' s coining . ( Hear . ) It tells you what is expected . It prepares you to concede what ought to be conceded

      I ask you wnewier you are for stopping the system where it is because your colleagues will not allow you to go further ? But I would go further , ( applause , ) and I would ask whether I or you are the proper person for a representative of Nottingham ? ( Great applause ) You find you havc outraged the whole world by your fureign policy . You Uave nearly embroiled us in war with France . You have had to ask the Pope to co . operate with yeu . You are obliged so interfere with Portugal because France interfered . What an exhibition for a popular minister ! You do wront ? , because otherB would do wrong if you did not . ( Applause . ) You have carried out Freo Trade , — a modicum of it , —but you are afraid to carry it out in full . ( Hear , hear . ) lam for free trade with tlio

      whole world in everything , and ere lung you will bo obliged to come to that , you have not cume te that yet . ( Hear . ) That was my opposition to Mr Cobden ; and when I met Mr Comkn and Mr Bright at Northampton , ' Now , Mr O'Connor , ' says he , ' if you put all tho people upon . he land , where will you find a market V 4 Here , sir , ' said Mr O'Connor , laying his hand upon his stomach , ¦ is the home market , ( applause , ) the best market in the world . ' Well , but , ' says he , ' what will you do with tke surplus ?* Why no man will havc a surplus pig without a surplus pair of breeches . ( Laughter . ) Whereas now a mau is making shirts all his life , and has Hot one to his back ( hear ); a man is making shoes , and goes barefoot ( hear , hear ); a man in

      making hats , und has himself a shocking bad one ( laughter ) . What I ¦ ¦ -, ant the people tu du is , to produce that which gives sterling value to gold itself . Because everything , —my waistcoat , my trowsers , boots ; everything in this honso ; this lamp , these boards , tbis building , what made them ? Everything is produced from the land . ( Cheers . ) Now let me ask you if it i 3 better that you aliould be in your own , country-house than to be receiving a slave ' s pittance and purchasing the produce of tho land from othe ! ia ? ( Hear , hear . ) Can any one answer that question ? Everything is produced irora the land , and youhave to purchase , with your slave-pittanoe , what ; you , may grow from the land yourselves . ( Hear , hear . ) I have seen in tbisltown , yo 9 torday , land let for £ " 2 & and

      £ 40 an acre . Now the way we let our land is this : we discharge it of the law of primogeniture . Jjbuy land in the wholesale market , I lease it to you m the retail market for precisel y what it cost wholesale . II you want n quarter of a pound of sugar aad give 2 d ., that isSd . a pound ; but if you buy a uog 9 head yeu « oa ! il get it for g * d . a pound . Now tbia is whnt I have endeavoured to inculcat * . You have been obliged to buy the land at retail price . I charge five per cent , upon what I give ; 1 build a house for evcuy man , in suck a style as makes you proud of it , ( lleav . ) Ths poor are now madeywud ofthcivcaU tiges , and believe me there is so protection to the atatcso great as tho pride of an honest peasantry .

      I see my sohool-housca rearing themselves , on the estate , ( approbation , ) boys go to one side , and girls to another , for we nave no immorality , no bcastialUy . nothing to shook the parents' notions , nor the children ' s eyesight . ( Hear . ) I am buying the land in the wlicksala market . and am giving it to yon for the same prico rotail . I am como now from my cold quiet homo , I uave tbrowu oiFray fustian work " - ing jacket , to come here . For six days a week 1 am in the situation of bailiff to paupers . I am trying to raiaa tkeia from the situation of slaves , to the dignity of men . ( Enthusiastic plaudits . ) And I thank God , I have so fav outlived prejudice , that every man vfUo now hears me will leave tbia place with a

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      better impression of me than he had before . ( Apt pwise , and oheers . ) I have frequently preacribed i 7 »» f . 5 ° ? r Iina !!' 8 lif 8 and ( leatQ should be ; -t 0 is DoverS l' /? d die a P ™ Per ; bemuse while there a CKf ? ' I ? m 8 n with atenJer heart t 0 kei'P Son ? if ! . ° f " ovvn C 0 ffei ' - Gentlemen , I have men befori vm !; ° ^ . ? wnidh of thefou ^ gentle-Sm << wn i ? uwi 11 8 eIeet » yo « r represent * - ft £ * nJ £ IhSr «? ' ? ' theothergentleman Ser ) SbeW ; T hat vou "g gentleman ( Mr Sfes ons are g ! Uh ca « not > 8 ay * hat his political fei ^ SSHH taopdperhaps he 1

      :- may , ^ become ^ Whta l believe he is a most ertimableTXracter and n young man of great promise , te fclfflSKmolSeiit toyou . required hs presence hare ( IW ^ x fw .. Laushter . ) At all events * will do me good 11 rS k SS 0 " 7 , . ense 8 b ? something This is one of the very lew things that is-good for all ridel fi' i ^ me ri ht honourable gentlemen that when lido get into the houae they shall find me a stem defender of liberty , andthe enemy if OoorS » on .. ( . Applause . ) And the ri shfc hnnourabff Kon Uemenmay-mt assured that some day or othfr I w . H be there , for when a man is determine * upon » h , ng he always does it ; now I anvdetermine 1 ujon it and whcnl Ko there I have made up my mind to be : e * aa y what I was before . ( Tumultuous an uiiwniw

      . ) , . uentiemen oi the- Press , and especially pieman ot the 2 to , « -ay , and to-morrow ym " » U see-in the Thunderer it always tells how "the peorie of England were nnanimouo on his subject » wSr ^^ ^^^^ arretin Printinji mm bquare ) , the 2 W * « , | tell yoil > thBt Sir Jo , - c £ arsfessitHS KTCT « A » S oration to pleaae tbe populace , ( renewed ChS ) but our reporter says it was so rambling and bald wa , not worth giving . If Lord Lincoln was her " and I underst-od } ou were trying to eri »» him ( lauahter every word he said , or muttered or mumbled , or intended or attemDtfld tn ««

      would bo all in the Times , and it would hav « been a roost splendid and statesman , like speech ; and he wonid have told vou all about the endowment of the Catholic Church - and he would have told you afterwards he was not answerable for what he had said , because he was only saying what he thought Sir Robert Peel thought ( Hear , hear and laughter . ) I have nothins more to say , except that to you I say , my gallant old « uard § the Chartists , with you I commenced the battle of libm-ty , and with you , with the blensinu of God , 1 will hunt it to the end . ( Tremendous and repeated applause . ) Now then , the battle begins frnm tbe time you leave this house . You mutt now distribute yourselves into the boty guavdsotChartism , fcheers . )

      Xou must protect Uie hone « t elector in tho ni « ht from tao prowling fox that will seduce him from his duty . You must watch the houses of the electors and let every r-an be a policeman for Knight . ( Laughter . ) Bring tho electors up to tbe poll I do not sleep at-ain till tho election is over and as I have given 23 years for y < . u . the least you cmi do is to watch tor one night . ( Cheering . ) And now , as I was told by the Journal , if any one will catechise me ; if the editor ot the Journal or any other cle . 'gyman ( lauuhter in the gallery ) will examine me upon the Laud scheme , I will give any gentleman a respectful and respectable answer . Mr O'Connor sat down amid deafening and thunderous applause , which mado the building rin ° again " °

      Several questions were hero put by Mr Cartwrlght to Mr O'Connor . 1 st , Is the land purchased in your name , or in the name of trustees ?

      Mr O'Connob . —As the company is provisionally registercd , the property must be purchased in the name of an indiridual ; last week I puid £ 3 D 0 fora stamp to complete the registration , and the moment this 'is dona , I will transfer the whole to t'e trustees , who will teempowsreu to rtci-ive it , and not till then . 2 il . Do you give the occupants a lease of their premises at the time of possession ? Mr O'Oonnob —It will be out of my power to givo them a lease till the registration ; they will then receive it of tbe trustees , in perpttuity , which makes them TOteis for the county in which they may live . Have you uny more questions ? Mr CAnTWRiGnT . —No , I think not . Mr O'Connob . —Let mo ask you , if you are a member oftheliHnd Comaany ? Mr Catitweigbt . —I am not . Mr O'Connor , - Opposition always comes from with out .

      Mr Bowlei , addressing tho electors , remarked that Mr O'Connor had ullu . lod to Mr Wult-r , jun ., not comiity but he would explain how that happened . Air Waller , sen ., was on a bed of affliction , and perhaps before ibis oantest is over , ho may bo uo more ; therefore , unilur these circumstances , Mr Waiter , jun . cnuM not come , but ho hart pie Iged his word to stand till four o ' clock ou Uik liny ot election . lie hail no desire to oppose Sir John Hobhouse or Mr Feargus O'Connor , but ho was deter , mined to ouit Mr Gisborne . If Mr Gisbome ' it frivuila will withdraw him , we will withdraw Mr Walter to make way for Mr Feargus O'Connor and Sir John Ilobkouse , ( Applause . ) The Sheriff took the show of hands . For Sir John Iiobhouse , abottl forty hands -fere held up ; for M ? Gitborne , one hundred ; for Mr Feargus O'Connor , it forest of hands ; and for Mr Wuher , jun ., a like show .

      Tho Sheiuff declared the snow of hands to he in favour of tbe two latter candidates , and a poll n-aii tlemimrted by Mr W . Hurst , for Sir John Ilubhouse , and by Mr Aldt'iman Vickew , for Mr Gist'orm . Tbe clapping of hands , shouts , and stamping with the feet , became most enthusiastic for a lung poiiod of time . Mi- Feargos O'Connob proposed a voto of thanks to the Sheriff tbr the decidedly impartial manner in which he lia < i conducted the business , whici . on being seconded by Sir John Uobuousc , was carried witU loud acclamation . The poll was then adjourned to Thursday momiug at eight o ' clock , where it was proceeded with in the marketplace . The proceedings of the nomination lasted till two o ' clock in the afternoon .

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      ( From the iVvitmyham Ikvinv . ) The majesty of the people him triumphed , Tbe sons Qf labour will shout for joy . Tho whole country nil ! ba Mirprisod to hear that Mr J . WiUr . t-r , non of tho late 3 , Walter , Esq . proprietor of ihe Times newspaper , has been returned for Nottiai ; ham , at the huud oi tho poll , though ho has not bei-ivin the town , orissue't an nddrus * to « he p ° op le ! and Mint surprise will he redoubled when they learn that F « -nrpu * O'Connor , Esq .. proprietor of tiie-Norlhern Star , has bem returned h * bis eolleugue J What n blow to the Mitiistn ! Sir Jolm Cum Hobhoune , thirteen years Member for Nottingham , anil one of her Majesty ' s Ministers , 1-rns ben unseated , and in fact stantfs ' at the foot of the poll ! Ifnn-y further proof had oi-mi wanting that the men nf Nottingham are tlrt-d ' of rlo-uothing , kid-pluvo reformer * , such proof was afforded last Wedm-iMay , nheu the late members appeared to give an ,-iccount ot tlu-. ir stewardship , and their opp <> ni-ni stood forward to vindicate hta claims An outspi . ken , uarnest mettiiii ? was that—lull of fire and enthusiastic let-iug ; and on the —_

      wliotoas orderly us ci uM will be expected , tnkintr all thing * into the account . There was a plain , blunt oandour-abnut it , ubich it « as impossible to Jn-Ip admiring ; eren though nc d-d not alwi-yg tail in with the sentiments applnurieri .. It demonstrate' ) thnt the days of mere glib-spoken WLuglsm are tiipidly passing away ;—that thu sans-of labour urn r-. soived on moving and 8 p 9 « Mu ( , ' on their o-. \ n behalf , and that none , Rave men of ? well defined aims and th . - . nuslily matured wishes and opinions , enn henceforth succeed in . winning tfteir sympathy or in s-curing tJieir support Thero was lotnething in that svn of car .-worni-Rppaking f » e « g . full of fei lin * hhi ! earticstnesi , which to our minds was striking ami irapivssivo . Wercad there many n tale or h > ng-eti ' uri < l noe . of fruitless struggle , and disappointed hop . . Tit .-

      throngbefore us wore the asp . c . of a bund i . f unvote , s , » SM > m ~ W « d to ( Jo honour tc- the man wiio whs tlmhi-d with V eir aff-ctt . ns , and pave ixpr « Mon M their fon-est aspirations . Mr O'Connor w »» the hcro , ; u ,. . i Uie wcii' -d multitude his worshirp .-rs . in iliat to nil fin-is , r-. miirkn » -le sceiw , The position oucupiod hy Sir John wa « certainly about as painful as could « . jl be iir . ugwd . Stimmniie&by theftien . K- . md partis m $ of nilur days , then so cool , 80 ohntiRfed , so unu < waci » n < i . f ; lie ei . ihusiastr . of former dftys-imy , in som .- in ^ mees w . , so . Iuto in their antuitonism , \ w present-1 ! » he inis ^ rii bl * tsnect ofia-politieittn ' U 6 i-il up , enjoying a r imcatinn which was puitly tkaditionahv ' ami i-oiuntlUd

      tit length to fall bn .-U on un .-re good tut n . tions / as his credentials as » c . t . iiidate for the sunrn ^ s of the people . " [' . ¦ ¦ a > . i .. j . le ave tired of unfulfilled promises . Thi-y « 'r ,, ' i dour * ii « d not mere iatnt lers . They reuard " pun ; W iir- 'ism slniply . as a worn out thing of ti .- « pa >' . ' du-. » n » the aura , tvml Eubr . t « nce of ihe de .-l . irati-. n o : t " e as . sombly , which tho President nf the 13 oo « l of Obntrol and hia brethren in office may well h . y * . a ii . m-t . for » nch indeed are tho sentiments , not inly of Kotiinifhatn , but of the great majority of tbw cfip . Hiltu-uei s throughout the empire . The time Iiks gout : by . when old association * and old purtta couhl A cfnt- ' t . ) and eujole with inumiiity , tho EnisHsh matsus . «)> ., v ^ ve

      Krown wise enouffh to perceive that fine in : w ! s lira after all mvre worthless things , without av fi ; , f d . ed * to substsintiatB them ; and mistaki-u itufit'rt » ro our modern Whi gs if they imituinc that thi-y cy -. Mu ' ca lottRor savothL-rajolves from utter amrbilaiia . t v the rccUltu uV . CTnnce of promises , or hy plea'Mfiii thi- imuI itudo of their " good iutcnttons , ' a- » an ¦• . p ^ . ' - rj . i .-i . mo scantiness and puerile character of thw « . i-. ; v * . ni-i ! lBi . MrGisbi . tnu s inutch was rnthcr an ACTOBtuos . ir . UUMb defence ot his own polities « h » r :. ctcr th .:. un .. nni . u . cement of his contemplated policy , though w » v < v \\ i-.-tt suttioientto confirm the opinion whii-h we li ; ive hif . M ex . pnssi-d , with respect to tbis ger . tltMmm ' s i ( 1 . i , i « ren ^ -1 , > tin principles of the friend * of Complete Si ; ft '{ a .. ilUd tha Anti Maic Church A'Snciation . U « t t ! u- sp aa \ - <> : tl \» lny wasbir O'Connor ' s , ami it told with oiii ; i . ie ! Hi , i »

      poivsr on nil seetitna oi ' tho atstmblj . Wr art : nor . uoiujj too fur , when we assert that , though we saw K-ii ' -. » i t » dissent hcru and there frotn th < - spenker < seiit ; . ii' : ntF , and to question the entire justice of his re < -ts <> ir ; t ; : » : ia charges , his address was a masterly piece of : ur : it ry , teiraing with sentiments tbe truest and nob"t « t . ; i » it well calcalnted to aid the glorious causr ! « f Consi'rviitii'e , though Rudiunl tcform . The po \» t on wiiit-h w .- > mr the most i- « ason to diff t with MrO'C-. min > r . « : > s t ! = "nu . apwng attack which h « made upon Mr Gu-. r ; n ¦ .. © rmitittg , fo .- tlie sake of argument , timt Mr G . m * j h .. vr trred on tome points , surely tho man wlm acts aV h .- thinks . for the btst , cunnjt rlglitc-. ucly he coml-mnert or his

      tuvoluutary error ; and n-ali y , when » -.-e rviuan ; li : i Low inanyharo erred , if error it l )« , in to-Miio- « it' ih-. i g-c-ntleman in question , we ; ire not dispuscil to ' t- m-.-r censorious at his expense , even slioulri r . flrvti » n convince us that ho has been in the wrong , totem ;; ioia Mr O'Connor ' s statement , his Land ? . | ii » ap . , rl j lu > havo assumed im impoiing aspect . A self lie ; p si . c-eti w u-li boasts of a paid-up capital of seventy tlio . suniliir . iin . K , is verily no pigmy , and we do Mtt'ji-rel . y tni-t r-: n cm glowing expectations of th « masses , wlm with- f . —i'HuL tiearti have subscribed their pence toward * tife-ii own social elwation , maybe not only , reuiiStiil bui ru :-tianned .

      The nomination wna full of fira and .. enlhuBJa . stic f . 1 . in ? ;—but the election w » b null , tntm- , ant ] ilh-eis In the firat hour there wern very . few .-voters , : » u . Ht ten . o ' clock « ut 200 haS passed through thu pnlli-. K-t-twi'is . Hovt di £ ffi-e . nt to t )\ e election in Au S'Hsi IMS ; wli n at tun o ' cluvlc , nn less than 1 . 46 J ; voters had p-. iie . i . Tn » cabs stooii in the Markot-yiace , untmivioyet . H svbiu- 4 os if no offurts weru ma-. le to . gee up vntai's . At tweiv « o ' cleelt , not 809 vofc-rs had . pulli-u , but Waliu-. - was sliuhtly at th « ' .-earl . Tho steam now began to get up . TJ-a-ruimtwot the people in the Market-place rnpifily ineretts ^ i : ; > . nd us voters arrived in chaisi ; 3 ,.: md cabs . they w re ni-t- 'vfil with loud vociferations . It was halt-past tbr-e b-t . jra Mr O'Counor was second on the poll ,. *!! -. ! iheu llie « i ' kction was decided .

      In these hurripd remarks we have HidMvmwei ! as f . p as possible to ba just Jo a : l parties . W . « rc-. ; : i ~ 'l tl"' jir . rsetit election as all important to the int-resrs of th- labouring clauses . Long , too Idii ^ , hav , « ttuy . riMii-iin tl . tn a position of politienl dejiendeuci '— % « ith < . > u ; pt ) - > tr . « vi : uout staml ' uig , without citizenship- ; and iu uow !¦ f-mes alike vKviv duty iviil their iiuercss io uchie * , by tVm-. ghttul , vrdtgluencd , and , virtuous eouibiuatiim , their i : nt > ra and peaceful em ' tuncbisfment .

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      LKICE 3 TE ? ,. We have coacludeil our oshilaiMti'tg busiucs ?; ami tho circumstaaces which havc leil to this result d- serveto Re recorded . There has keen , $ r a cunM ' . criihlc period , a gsowiug tpirit of piv-gressi . y . i mkkius j > .- - ^ reis amongst oar moBt influential memberi of vhe c . vpurate body , as well as the m- ) stretptct « b ! e oftiie tradts in this place , which has not onl y been i ' ostend un ' l encouraged by ihe conviction of the » bsu ! uta tticessiiy of luriher rrforras being carried out , bu . t from the coniJust of ^ ur iuta dc ' unct sncmbei-s for the borough , and so for ! . ml it pro C ( . euKd , thut wliat thej called Coinplctu Suffra ! :. - num . bered amongst its luuporlers to the tun . ! of SOU . nhirli left the mere Whig pirty nothing but a nns _ -iv . blo rump . There had be » . n for some years - ; n eUctio-. com . mitcse chosen from the ditiVrcnt KarJc , nlm . e Iiusinras

      it was to look out for tit and proper person : w rtpre-tnt the borough , anJ mann >;« i \ ll prelimiunrlcs ; imt « t "> r .-. f , ehossn by a Whig majority , in course , ware Wh !(; 8 o , tlio old sehoal . The progressives began by tho elieiiou i f n new cotnraittoe more ia accordance n it ' : i tlio spirit of the ago , rnd ih ¦¦ flr « t act of the nutv cuin . nHice wa < : o give u polite notice to tho late members that their . sirvices would not be any longer required at lo-ictMer . This wus a fair beginning , an . l the Whig ciuiu-j iVk tu-y much discomfort en the occasion , and having an or ^ an or expression « tthoi ; comn » rid , intheshttpe nf a n-ti-iiiy newspaptr , no puddle in a storm conld rags nn . ro lerritically , no bailing ; saucvpan hiss and bubble nio > ufuriint ! ly . The committte , however , not seiioualy alnmseil , pioceeded with their duties , and » oon brouuht forward Sir

      Joshua Walmsley na a cauiliiinto , ami , subsequently , Mi-Richard Cnrdner . Th .-: oM Tories kept quWt tor a titniand said but little , belierinj their chunve ma !) , liil the goveismtut tilsn of education , amongst its other ' evil effects , ottt'Skstouaii a breach amonRt * . the puigwsiWe party thenuclvcs ; the Toriis took couwge » t tins , nud dcturmlntd to takeaiivantHgeot'it , tiud : > t once br . 'uchi : . tut a blue cock , la the person of a Mr Parker , n Chancery banister . While thia was goiag on the nu-tuhoa of tlio Chartist and Land Company , unriy one thntisiinil strong , thought it would bo a goad li' » t « " " 7 1 » collect and unite their strength , ur . d tadeavo « r once move u > collect the scattered particle s , ol vrirch it cousisttd ; ah eloclion couimittce was iippoiuted . ; a rt-gtsiration list procured with th « oth « r neefwary doeuntents ; < m : itl . ' re * t

      to the clcctori Isiued ; anu our yoimc nn » J ar . !« nt ft ' n r , da sjititl about in evcrj direction collecting the nau . os ¦ f our supporters , and ferroin ); « ut thosn who were dublouf , till at tho conclution , by the best calculation we cov . ' . d mako , that though not strong enfiugh to return a Clpir . tist . we were powerful enough to turn the scitle either way we chose . W « then qulet ' y rested upon our ' oam till the time for action carce , Tho cindUatts nrrtv . i !; the usual pubiie meetings were held , and the usual iiuiivwal tatecMsms isia , -ffo nttendea Uiosu meetings , and attentivel y Usteaed , and . me ngrcwiMy suvpris- A to hoar how fur they had proof eded in tke nVrch of d . m . icrncy . Uat gonerallties - . rould not satisfy the CisrtiBts ofLekestor ; a doputntlon from our committee waited upon them , and rrquirod distinct pledges » o our question . To five of th « six points of the Ghavtti they uuhesitatingl y Bsr « ea ; tlitir demur wss to thu duration of Pavliiunmts ; leRning to tbe triwraSttl . but premising not to ubandon a bill with the annual oa that account .

      They stand bledjed to the abolition of H'o laws oi nrimogenlturo and vntail ; to tho sttrport of the separation of Church and State ; to advocate a purely secular education b / tho stato ; to a system of direct taxation , antl tha iitJOlition ofOustor . 13 and Ktcsse ; totbo abolition of all taouopolw *; to « v * form In our monetary svsteut ; to ail . vocata tlio restoration of 1-Vosl , WUH * ms , ami Jor . ts ; aud gcncnllj all measures so amend the condition of tho operatives . Out- couwe was decided ; a meeting hsrt bten called to hew thoveruU ; wo aUentled that nwet . in" tUo vast amp hiiHcnti-c was crowded to suffocation hy the opevatlvn ; Messrs Smnrt , Butkby , an . ! Black , uddressod them , rapturous acclamations wen- tlie response , * nd the next morning a C-hartitt ami Land Company ' s handbill fell liko a thunderbolt upon tbe astonished natives of all classss and shades of opinion ; when t ! s 9 olcuiion com ' , aencei \ tyc took the lead anil kcp * > »* to tho end . TUcg ' i ' ovies fought gallantly and peracTeringly to ( Contoaod to !¦ '<« Si& \ iW ?« J - ~ .

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      The supporters of Mr O'Connor held another m ^ eling in the market-place , on Wednesday evening . Mr O'Connor and the Hev , W . Linwoo'l , of Munsfield , addressed the congregated thousunds , and met with a most cordial reception . Mr O'Connor and his friends attracts , the retleotions u ^ on the Rsniew , expressed the formr r evening , and the ihociuic seunrated in good order . At the close , Mr O'dmnor proposed a vote ¦ f thM } a to Hr Sweet , saying , " though u little one , he was a % jnd one . It's not always the greatest calf that maker , the best veal , " —( Loud laughter and tremendous cueer ing . )

      T 5 IP POLL . Hobhousii ' 3 Committee , Hobh . Smb . Walt . -O'Con 10 a . m . 103 2 IS 60 13 11 220 ? 10 269 173 1 505 554 699 40 S 2 030 576 780 457 3 GS !> C 93 1 , ( 105 COS 4 [ No return . ] Walter ' s Committee . Holih Gtisb . VJalt . O'Con . 9 } a . m . lOO H 5 107 75 10 H 5 1 « 5 W 7 93 U 172 190 195 IM 12 547 59 i 6 C 5 45 i 1 595 C 43 U 03 S 30 o CM 739 1099 C 8 D ? 3 68 * 739 1099 CSQ : 4 p . m . 9 V > 108 J 1836 18 J 0

      The moment the clock stmk four , a shou . t rose up from evecy part of the ilariitit-pUee , h » ts wi . r , i thrown up , hands waved antl clawed , aud every dot aonstration of joy was made . In an . hour , tbo bells oi ? St Peter ' s Chuvvli were ringing iricmly , a « d a band oi ; IIlU ? ic jierattibalwted the town . Huanwhiie , Fcargi ' is O'Connor Bsq ^ had gone into tiw Exchange , and f . tandmgat tiiu largo window which overlooks the marl' . et plaet * , bri- fl y addressed a crowd which for density > , Mlj . corapacmow has seldom been equalled in Nottingham . The shout with which he wisneceived w » s trem > . » hi ' , Ous ; and every pause in his hara ^ gvie was matked by i milar manifestations of delight . He said he might cf , H the electors free and independent now , and they » - ore worthy of tln-ir freedom , for fuoHt the hour that " fl'ottiughum was fir * t

      enfranchised . S& tbis day , this hat ! been the only pure election eve ? r « iOH . They did not , r equire any new pr- ) - fessionof faith from him . Wha » ' . ti 0 was yestirday , he was to day ,, ood wouWbe whilftlM . continued their representative . HU aim had aUuayr , been to try to mako the constitution hale nndhesM ' y , by wusdingltof what would ifljjare it , and not to 3 # str ov n . He was not the destrujJtWe ho had betm s , eptf . seated to be . He was for peace , for law , for orde . 3 j b . ut it mutt be peace , law , and order for both sides , . Ma / iy had been astonished at his . g ;« sing over from . U& Own ranks to » advocate thu cauaa of the people ; fcuj . Jia always said hu had been pro . mftted from the ranks of * he aristocracy , to a comtnis . » ion in the democracy . y da never would forget the

      fustian jackets , the Wittered hands , and unshorn chins which had returned hi ; j ,. Ho asked , tauntingly where Sir Jolm Hobhouso < and Mr Gishorne were ? and pro miscd to coniooiery " Saturday to Nottingham and stop Sunday over , to see i , U constituents . He was confident when heonw nen time , those Wh 0 opposed him now would take him ty the hand ; promised 1 to oppose tha currency vwfcwry * of ' 19 and « . and concluded by gmng threeol « ew for tho People ' s Charter ; three for r . S . DuncoiD ' oo , Esq ., and Ihreo for Frost , Williams , and Jones . Turning round into tho room , he « av : Mv ssweet , aua putting hi 3 arms around him , gave him n regular ' jug , and then introduced him to tho psoplo outside us hia 'little ircneral . '

      Mr Lin wood followed Mr Sweet in a brief address , and tho astombfy then dispersed . It wag a singular characteristic of this election that scarcely a flag or favour of any kind was to ho seon .- In fact , the people seemed puzxled to know what colours expressed their sentiments .

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      . 1 August X 1847 . -- ' - - - . ... _ " - ' ¦ ' r A r ^ ' ¦ " ¦ ' " r - . . ' . ' THE NORiT HE R * N ST A R , ' ? . .. ' ~^^ _„

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 7, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1430/page/3/