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      THE PRESENT STATE OF GREA . T BRITAIN . CHAPTER It . Of the instability if the Britith tyttemofmerctoiiU - conquest . For sourt time the eyes of the world have been attracted towards this political system ; and to decide how far its structure was stable , has employed the talents of the most celebrated orators and writers ; in proportion as her millions are lavished Dy hundreds , her debts increasing without measure .

      and her taxes accumulating beyand all example , the British ministry , and those who find an interest to think with ministers , have been lond in extolling British resources as inexhaustible ; their opponents have been as loud in denouncing the present course of Great Britain as leading to inevitable and speedy destruction ; while the public in general , who are not deeply Tersed in the abstruse science of political economy , wearied with hearing premature predictions ef impending destruction , know not what opinion to form of the inexhaustibility of British

      resources . Hitherto the subject has been treated , as if some mfllians more or less in the sums borrowed , in the produce of tie taxes , or in the imports and exports , decided the . question ; but assuredly to bring the proof home to a conviction , it is necessary to take a mere enlarged view of the subject , not to confine our enquiry to the examination of the state of the resources of Britain , but as she has thought fitta

      erect her system in direct opposition to the interest -of the rest of the commercial world , extend her con--quests 5 a every quarter of the earth , appropriate the produce of the mast favoured and fertile countries in the world , —erect a monopoly , and impose her taxation , on the independent nations of Europe , assuredly the relative state of these nations must enter for such in the discussion , of how far England shall be able to triumph , and hew far the nations of Europe shall be forced to submit .

      It is usual with those who treat of the resources and finances of Great Britain , to take her peace establishment for the basis of their enquiries and calculations ; but from the view we have taken of her system , aad of the principles upon which it is founded , it is obviois , that its nature is essentially a system of war , so truly so , that the peaces she has made since 1688 , cannot be regarded but as so many truces * to enable her to resuscitate her means and her force to recammenee war .

      As the independest nations of Europe have advanced in power and wealth , and as Great Britain has extended her system of mercantile canquest , in an exact proportiea has her ' defence become more -difficult , and her wars more expensive . The history of Great Britain since the revolution of 1688 , is in perfect conformity with these consequences , which £ « naturally flowfromthe principles upon which the system is founded . Since the American revolution , the defence of the British deminions , and the expense that attends them , have been greatly extended , and since the French revolution they have been increased in a still greater proportion .

      In tie eightyseven years whichfollowed the revolution of 1688 , during which period England was engaged in four wars of thirty-seven years' duration the debt she contracted was but 139 millions f and the interest but £ 4 , 400 , 000 , whereas in the remaining twenty-six years to 1801 , though she was engaged bmt in two wars of sixteen years' duration ^ the debt has been increased to 560 millions , and the interest to twenty-five millions ; an augmentation 10 enormous and rapid , that after the largest allow

      ance which can he taken for the increase of her riches , there must remain a vast disproportion be . tweea them and her expenses ; and in the last nine years , tbe late minister has expended 340 millions , and loaded the nation with sixteen millions to pay the interest One naturally asks can any nation support snch an expenditure ? Does it net inflict a mortal wound on her industry ? Must it not prove fetal in its consequences to her future prosperity ? To answer these questions , leads to a serious enqnirv .

      When thelale minister expended 223 millions § of the national capital in tbe short space of nine years , he took this vast portion of the sacred fund which paid the wages of the industrious , who reproduced the whole capital , annually , together with a profit of fifteen per cent ., to expend it in war , not only without reproducing one shilling of profit , but ¦ without leaving a trace of the 223 Bullions behind ; capital and profit equally , irrevocably squaadercd : —when we consider that this national capital is the

      fond which gives bread and employment to all those classes who live by reproductive industry ; that the produce of agriculture , manufactures and commerce , is all in exact proportion to the amount of this fnnd ; and that it is the state of this fund , abundant or scanty , which regulates the happiness or misery , the industry or idleness , and in an essential degree the national morals , we may form some idea of the depth of the > ound Grear Britain has received by the expenditure of 223 millions of her national capital .

      Taking the profits produced by this capital at -fifteen j per cent ., the ordinary rate , while employed productively , before it fell into the hands of the minister , this second eviLforms a loss of more than ttirty-three millions annual profits , to be deducted from tbe income of England . To pay the [ . interest of these 223 millions the minister bas entailed on the national wealth , diminished by these 223 millions , diminished by these thirty-three mSlions of profits , sixteen millions of taxes to pay the interest , making in all 223 millions capital , thirty-three millions profits taken irrevocably from the national capital and from the national profits , and sixteen millions of taxes imposed for ever upon the remaining diminished wealth of Great Britain . '

      As it is the proportion which the national capital bears to the ^ number of the reproductive industrious which regulates the rate of wages ; by the sudden expenditure cf so vast a portion of the capital as 223 millions , it is obvious that the whole of the reproductive tradesmen of Great Britain , that class on whom her wealth and prosperity depend , must experience a serious reduction in the state of their -condition ; several thousands have been thrown out of employment , while those who remain must feel their wages diminish at both . ends ; diminished in the money price , and diminished in the quantity of subsistence that money will produce , f . etn the rise in the price of every article from the diminution of thirty-three millions of produce , and from the impo-- sition of sixteen millions of taxes .

      It is tbe superiority of capital over the rest of the world which gives Great Britain a decided advantage in agriculture , in manufacture and in commerce . By the extent of her capital she has been able to give longer credits , to establish a more complete division of labour , to construct more perfect machinery ; while the low rate of profits , the necessary consequence of great capital , enabled her to undersell all nations where capital was less abundant and profits were higher ; if these be the vast benefits which arise from abundant capital , the expenditure of this -vast portion has struck at the root of them all

      No man versed in political economy will dispute these consequences which I have deduced from the expenditure of these 223 millions , and the loss of these thirtj-three millions of profits ; but it may be imagined , upon ^ a superficial view of the effects resulting from the increased sixteen millions of taxes , that it causes no loss , or , as it has been sometimes erroneously reasoned , that it is an exchange of property from one set of men to another . The taxes paid by the mass of tbe people are the only ones that are considerably productive . It is found in finance , that the rich are too few in number to furnish a great contribution ; it is therefore

      -that tbe taxes on commodities in general use with -the peop le which form the bulk of taxation . Por--ter , beer , sugar , spirits , tobacco , tea , soap , salt , candles , leather , and such like , are the taxes which fall most heavily upoH the lower and middling people ; bit it is neither the lower nor middling classes that are in . a state to make loans to the government . Thus these sixteen millions are torn from the hard hand of the poor and the industrious , to be paid over to the rich annuitants t it is a weight superadded to an already overcharged burden , on the backs of the heaviest loaded people , of which the world has ever had an example . ¦ __?_?_ the minis

      Before this capital fell in-the hands of - ter , ttwasprodu (^ velyemployed , andtheowner ^ were paid their interest from a part of the profits winch pressed upon no one ; but when the minister spent it the 223 millions of capital and the thirry-three millions of profits vanished for ever ; but now the * Read the debates at thelate peace in the House ol Xords , when themembers , who were ministers , declared , that they mads peace for the purpose of husbanding the resources until a favourable opportunity siould offer ol renewing the war . f Toe amountcf the debt and interest at 17 « 5 . ^ k I prefer staling the sum hs really rccarid in ster ling value to the greater sum in which it was funded ol SW millions . . , „ 1 This is the rate at which Mr Pitt has-valued profiti When he is >? si 3 d his inctme tax .

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      Qiraera receive their interest from taxes on the remaining produce of the national industry \ hj which additional faxes ine price of all sorts o ? manufactures are raised , producing the same effect as the inclemency in the seasons -or the sterility of the soil . ¦ •¦" , " ' It may be asked , if these are the inevitable effects of these evils , why have not the consequences been more rapidly fatal ? I answer , the day of tbe wound is not the day when it stiffens . A great part of these industrious productive bands ^ thrown out of empleyment have enlisted in the army and navy , in the dock yards , fortifications , or some of those

      several unproductive employments , to which war gives occasion . For the rest , if we would know the mis . erable condition to which this destruction of so much of the national capital has reduced them , we must not only read the volume which contains the long list of British taxation , to which the imaginationefman cannot conceive an addition , but we must follow the tax-gatherer into the heart of their dwellings ; we must accompany these myrmidons in their maraudings ; we must see them snatch the moiselfrom the hand of the mother ; we must see the looks which pass in a family where famine has taken its place at the hoard .

      To those who , adding insult to injury , talk of tbe prosperity of Great Britain , and of her inexbanstible resources , I answer , go like me and visit these scenes of distress ; like me witness every thread that links tbe hearts of families torn to agony ; like me draw the source of your knowledge from these tax-gatherers ; see these men , yes , even these men , whose hearts have been steeled with calosity , shed iron tears in rtcomting the horrors to which their employment gives rise to every hour . With these melancholy proofs indelibly fixed on my heart , to those advocates of the ruin and misery their conduct has brought on their country , I answer , there is more real distress and misery in England , than in any other nation in Emore . I knewher when her people enjoyed more of the

      comforts of life than had ever fallen to tbe share of any other people that evsr existed ; and it is that which redoubles the poignancy of her sufferings now the comparison of what she is , with that which she was ; that comparison , which is the true measure of human adversity , sinks deep - in the heart . Alas ! the proofs are too many , and the voice is too loud that attests it : witness the fund for the poor rates , now at the enormous amount of . £ 6 , 000 , 000 * , which is wholly insufficient to maintain the distressed of this once happy people , in even the humiliating condition of paupers ; witness those numberless private subscriptions ; iritness the descriptions given in the public papers by those benevolent men who have attempted to stop the torrent of suffering and misety that has overwhelmed this

      once prosperous nation . Let ministers attempt to disguise how they may ; let them try to drown the cries of an afflicted people by the mercenary shouts of mock exultation ; the man who in nine years squanders 228 millions of that sacred fund which cherishes industry , thirtythree millions of profits , and imposes sixteen millions of taxes , inflicts a wound ia his country , no art can heal in the rankling of these times . The sombre and melancholy effects of dissipation may for a moment be brightened by the meteor

      blaze of the enormous expenditure which the war has occasioned ; but it is on the return of peace , when the glare from the expenditure of these millions shall be extinguished for ever ; whea the half million of soldiers , sailors , etc . who are now employed by the war , shall have returned | to demand employment ; -when they shall find the wages fund squandered ; when they shall find the Whole nation converted into an alms-house , and the industrious into beggars ; while the price of every Hecessarf of life shall have been doubled ; it is then they will see the horrors of their situation .

      Hence it has been found , that the return of peace after those vast expenditures of the national capital , far inferior to the present , has been attended with the most poignant distress . But there are circumstances peculiar to this war , which I shall notice hereafter , that must make the return of peace distressing to the people beyond all example , and more than difficult for the government ; circumstances which will perhaps account for the renewal of the war more satisfactorily than all ministers have published .

      If , however , not a single one of these fatal consequences had flowed from such an unexampled expenditure of the national capital , in such a Bhort space of time , there are others which more than sufficiently disprove the indecent vauntings of the inexhaustibility of British resources ; among the foremost of which must rank the failure of the Bank ofFnglaad to pay its notes in cash when presented ; which , generalised as it has been by Act of Parv-ament , is now to all intents a national bankruptcy .

      This has been a delicate subject for all those who have taken the side of inexhaustibility : a subject which , it is clear from f . what bas fallen from tbe the late minister , he did not understand . Such a capital omission may suit those who think that to skin over a wound is to heal it ; but to tkose who think that to judge how far it is mortal , it should be probed to tbe bottom , a more serious investigation must appear indispensible . Sir Morten Eden estimated the ameunt of the poor rates at £ 6 , 000 , 000 in 1798 . I have taken it at that sum , ( hough it is well known that it has bees considerably augmented since that period . f When Mr Pitt ia hU speech on the 27 th November , 1801 , stated that Exchequer bills bearing a premium were a proof that the paper currency was not at a de < preciation , what can we think of hit knowledge on thii subject ?

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      THE IRISH CONFEDERATION . the Irish Confederates of London held their tuuaweekly meeting at the Green Man , Berwlck-street , Oxl ford-street , on Smnday evening last . The large room wii crowded long before the appointed hour of meeting , ( eight 'dock ) . Mr Richard Huisey in the chair . Among the papers on the tablaB was the Nobthws Stab , which w » s eagerly perused by several persons fluring the evening . After the reading of several articles from the Irish papers , and the report of the first meeting of the Desmond Confederate dab , Cork . It was announced that Confederate dabs would ghortlj he opened in Wapping , Chelsea , the City , and Westminster , and that several other localities throughout London were only waiting for Instructions to commence proceedings .

      The chairman then informed the meeting that tbe committee had taken the rooms lately occupied by the Rational Land Company , 88 , Dean-strent , Sobo , for the purpose of holding their meetings and to transact business , and that it was the intention of the committee to change their night of meeting from the Sunday to the Monday evening , and that oa Wednesday and Friday evenings they intended to open a reading room , and to give tecares , and that their first public meeting would be held on Monday evening , September 20 . E . Kennedy , Esq ., Barrister-at-Lsw , then addressed the meetiag . He de > nied that they had met , as had been stated , for the purpose of abusing the late Mr O'Connell , they had

      something else and better to do . He ( Mr Kennedy ) extremely regretted that persons who professed an attachment to tbe principles of Conciliation Hall should come to their meetings for the avowed purpose of creating a disturbance . They , the Confederates , held ont the hand ot friendship to all . Mr Kennedy then drew the attention of the meeting to the evil effects likely to result to Ireland , if they far oiie moment supported the place-hunting pelicy of Conciliation Hall . He deprecated , ia strong terms , the unholy alliance that had taken place between the Old Ireland party and the Whigs , and said , that there was no word in the English lanjnage too hud to be applied to the conduct of the Whigs ,

      Daring the time of this gentleman ' s address a party of Old Irelanders entued , and endeavoured to create confusion , but the good sense displayed by the Young Irelanders convinced them of their error and they departed in peace . Mr McCarthy ( Golden-lane ) , In an able speech , reviewed the extraordinary and v » elU * tIng conduct of Mr John O ' Conaell from 1843 to 1816 . Several persons baring enrolled themselves , the meeting then separated .

      THE OrEHISa OS THE CtCB . On Monday evening the first meeting of the Clab was held at their rooms , 83 , Deau . street , wbieh were crowded to suffocation ; among those present wen several mem . ben of the National Land Company . Mr T . O'Mahony in the chair , Mr T Daly , In a brief speech , stated the object of the club , which was to bs of a purely educational nature , and that Mr C . Anstey , H , ? ., was to be the inspector-general , bnt upon quite a different footing to the late one appointed by the party on the other side of the channel—he was not to be paid . No person was to he excluded on the score of politics or religion ; the freedom of opinion would be observed , and . no favouritism would be allowed , —all men would be looked upon

      alike . For he was sorry to say that it was on account ef the tyrannical conduct exercised by the committee in Dublin that had lad to the breaking up of tbe old movement in this metropolis . Mr Daly then alluded to the duties of the club , which would give those who visited it something more than a superficial knowledge , not only of Irish but European history generally . Mr E . Keaacdy in an eloquent speech , which we are obliged to omu ' throBgu want of room , drew the attention of his crowded auditory to the foreign and domestic policy of En lind , and its probable results as regards Ireland . HeVccomnieudcd that they should adopt the following names for their clubs , as they were formed , —the Bareau , FlooJ , Moljaeos , and Theobald , Wolfe Tone ,

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      Several other persona addressed the meeting , during the evening . Several hooks were gratuitously presented to ine club for tne use ' m t £ ? utfary " . ¦ ¦' About *« ty per . sons having enrolled themselves , the meeting then separated . On Sunday evening next , September 56 th , a meeting will bs held at the Charter Coffee House , Struttonground , Westminster , for the purpose « f establishing a Touag Ireland dab in that district .

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      Ths confederates again assembled at Cartwrlght ' s on Sunday evening . The vice-president in the chair , Ths secretary read some communications he had received from different parts of the country , cheering them on in the good work . Amongst the rest tbe following letter was read , which elicited much applause . * * At the conclusion of which the writer was unanimously elected an honorary member , and the letter ordered to ba inserted on the minutes , Mr Bezer brought up the following resolutions recommended by ths committee , which were unanimously adopted : — ' ¦' ' That we recommend our friends throughout the pro * vinces to establish branches of the Irish Democratic Con . federation , whenever practicable , aa being the best meant of attaining an efficient and effectual organisation . '

      ' That we recommend to all who are entered to aid in the formation of such an organisation , to elect , in the fir , t instance , local officers of patriotic and persevering habits to form and organise each district branch . ' ' That the names of such local officers } with their pro . per addresses , be forwarded to the geqiral secretary , with ai little delay as possible . ' 'That each local branch whsnjproperly organised should take advantage of our president ' * tour through England , Scotland and Wales , by inviting him to a public meeting of each district branch . ' ' That this meeting respectfully requests its president , F . O'Connor , M . P ., to advise , aid , and assist all district officers in carrying out the objects of tbe Irish Democratic Confederation , and that he be empowered to enrol members . For which purpose this meeting directs that a form of declaration be forthwith prepared , and transmitted to the branch secretaries of the Irish Democratic Confederation . '

      The meeting was subsequently addressed by Mr Broom , who was much applauded . Megssrs Martin , Sullivan ; Tucker , &e ,, also addressed the meeting . Thanks were voted to the contributors to the voluntary press far Ireland . Mesm Clancy and Cartwright were appointed by the vice-president to post a batch of papers , which were read during the week . The meeting then broke up . -

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      Tub Latb Derby Election . —On Thursday September 16 th , the Whigs had their , belly gorge given them by Strutt and Gower , or rather part of them , for this was to have been the women ' s' blow out , ' of tea , sugar , and buna , including so nuch fer each of the family , above seven years of age . The stuff was taken round to their houses . There was an attempt made to kick up a stir , but it wa 3 ' no go . ' People don't mind eating the' grub' because it comes cheap , but depend upon it there is not much feeling in favour ot Strutt or Gower . At night balls were held in the different large rooms in the town , for which all the Whit voters and families had free tickets , Jwhere

      there was more ' grub' and ' drinkables' free of expense . The thieves thought it ought to be their ' wakes' as well , se they made very free with bonnets , shawls , tippets and hats , and then wasn't there some long faces ! I suppose the men are yet to have a 'dinnering , ' and those that don't like to go , 5 s . a piece instead ! That's the way they are bribing the electors for the next election . * Well , never mind , U is our turn next , and we mean to have a splendid tea part ?; to do honour to Philip M'Grath for contetting this rotten borough . ; yes , and we shall have it when O'Connor and Jones come , and I'll warrant we have aucha stir in Derby , as ia out of the power of either Whigs or Tories to raise .

      West London Central Ahh-Ehclosubb Association . —At the last weekly meeting of this association , at the PrinceBa Rojal , ^ Circua-street , New " Road , September 27 tK ,, Mr Pattetiden in the chair , a warm debate took place as to whether the library of this association should . be . conducted on a principle which would admit of persons joining without reference to enclosures , which , . ended , in a committee of eight being appointed to frame such rules as will be calculated to meet with the approval of all parties ; More books were presented , and one person , ( Mr Packer , ) promised that if the new rules for the library , met with his approval , he weuld place in the library one

      hundred volumes . A great deal of business was transacted , and amongst the rest the enclosure of Holland Park was not forgotten . The meeting was adjourned till Monday , Ootober 4 th , at six for ' seven , p . m . The Melancholy Domestic Affaib in Cashel . — On Saturday , Mr Francis O'Ryan , ' sen ., who had been lodged in Bridewell for some weeks , was admitted to bail on a charge of firing at and wounding his son , Mr Francis O'Ryan , jun ., in the head , the particulars of which have appeared in this paper . Mr Franois O'Ryan , jun ., we understand , has been pronounced out of danger , and his physioians entertain sanguine hopes of his speedy recovery .

      The government of the canton of Friburg has < lecreed that all soldiers , either belonging to troops on active service , or to the landwehr , are to have their arms blessed by the priests , and are to pay seven batz for each firearm , and five bati for every other weapon . The produce of this tax is to be divided between thegovernment and clergy , in the proportion of seven-twelfths to the former , and five . twelfths . to the latter . Accident to ViscovsxMobpeth The noble First Commissioner of Woods and Forests mot vtith a serious accident last week by a fall trom his horse , which has mni CQuSued him to W& room , at Castle Howard . ' \ — - ^ . - — .

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      , Assembly . -Rooms , 88 , Dban-Stbbbt , ; Son > : ~ On Sunday -evening next , Ootober ; 3 rd , --at - half-past ^ ven precisely , Mr Edmund . Slallwood will deliver . i . v . ' -oture ; subjeot :- 'Progression , Registra-« £ . «? % ... * . the National Land Company ; and & * ?? 0 hL & •* considered ;' -Atseven ster branch of the Land Comply , and the locally of the National Charter Association 'W « J « J «» the dispatch of business . —On Monday e >?« u g"W Irish Confederates bold their weekly Meeting . ^ On Tuesday evening the National Registratienand

      Central Election Committee will meet at eight o ' clock precisely . —The National Viotim Committee will also asBemble at the same hour . All localities not represented by delegates are requested to appoint some forthwith . ' BERM 0 N » 3 BT .-At a quarterly meeting of this branch , the -following officers were appointed : — Messrs Irwich and Benjamin Kemplay , auditors ; Mr Chapman , scrutineer ; Mr Milward , treasurer ; and Frederick Jefferies , eecretary . Mr Bird was elected treasurer of the Bermqhdsey branch of the National Charter Association , in the room of Mr

      Dyke , resigned . , . , . Birmingham . —A pnbhc meeting was held at the People's Hall , on Tuesday evening last , for the purpose of enrolling members in the National Charter Association , when a considerable number enrolled their names , and deoided upon taking the above place to hold their weekly meetings in , which will take place ever ; Tuesday evening . A supper , to commemorate the establishment of the National Land Cempany . and the return of Feargus O'Connor , Esq .. as MP . for Nottingham , will takeplace in the llall on Monday , October 11 th , at five o'clock . Tickets to be had of any of the Land secretaries in Birmingham .

      Carlisle . —Chartism here assumes a better aspect . The recent election has taught the people the necessity ef being adnitted within the pale of citizenship . The time was when Chartism was looked upon as a thing odious ; when a great many professed it , not through principle , but through fear , ana Ihose wh » were not intimidated were-our most inveterate entmies . But , thanks to the ' spirit of progression , tbaUime " PMti Our former friends a « now enthusiastic . Ihosa who were our foes not only admit tBejastice but the necessity of our claims , and others who still hold out are parting with their prejudices slowly , gradually , but surely . This , to say the least of it , augurs well . Our association is bsginningto recruitits number is

      — increasing . Since 1842 we have been very apathetic , but we have always managed to keep our heids above water . Come wnatmight , we were determined , if possible , to keen the association in existence . We knew that it was necessary to have a rallying point-to have a centre . And knowing this the few who still clung to the « old hulk were determined not to leave her . The pro . jected tour of Mesaw . O'Connor and Jo es hag caused no little talk in the neighbourhood . The beneficial result that would accrue from a visit of those two luminaries ii almost incalculable . There is no time when their presence would have a better effect than the present , therefore , on no aocount must they fail to visit Carlisle .

      Cixr anu Ijinsbubt Locality— The members of the above locality met at the Good Intent Coffee-house , Back-hill , Hatton-garden , on Sunday evening last , when the following persons were elected general councillors for the ensuing quarter : Messrs T . Coleman , W . Allnett , E . Nobhs , J . Lineaay , and W . Salmon ; after which Mr T . Clark delivered an excellent lecture' On thelnfiuence of the Press . ' In the course of his lecture he alluded to the intended Democrat paper , wishing the members to form clubs for the purpose of giving it all possible support . The lee- * turer gave great satisfaction . At the conclusion , a subscription was made for the widow of poor Dodson . Debut . —At a general meeting of the members of the Land and Chartist society , on Tneiiday eveninu . September 2 lst , at Mr Belfield ' s , Temperance house , 5 , Green-street , called for the purpose of considering tbo propiety of establishing a reading room , library and discussion class .

      it was resolved : — That this meeting is of opinion that it is essential to the progress of ChartUt principles in this town , that wb establish a reading room , library , and discussion class . That a committee of nine be chosen to draw up ruhi and regulation ! for carrying the above resolution into effect . That the following persons form thi Committee : — Messrs 8 aarpe , Briggs , Bentote , Buxton , Hensom , J . Gorse , H . Gorse , Breokes , Chandler . - That a report of this meeting ba sent to the Star .

      Now , friends in Derby , favourable t « our principles , come forward and assist in all ways you can , to carry out this laudable object . Do not let it fall through for wa ^ nt of properexertion . Come forward and show to the vile slanderers of us and our principles , that you are a reading and thinking portion of the public . Let every member of this branch of the Land Company , who osn afford it , consider himself bound to give at least one book towards the raising of a library . Let every member of the Chartist Society endeavour to bring another to add to our muster roll , and thus gs on increasing our foroes , and be prepared for a hard-fight and a glorious victory at the next general election , by returning . P . M ' Gratb , as member for Derby .. ' - .

      N . B—Any persons who may feel desirous of giving a book ot two to the library , can send their fa . vours to Mr Crabtree , Rotten Row , Derby , or te Mr Belfield , 5 , Green-street , where any book they may send will be thankfully received . Greenock . —The friends of democracy and literature in this town , viewing with admiration the ser . vices of their townsman , Robert Burrell , in the cause of freedom and social improvement , services which enriching others , have impoverished himself , deem it their duty to make an effort to place him in a position ef greater comfort than ht * at present

      nos-? esae 8 . _ With this view a committee has been formed to obtain assistance for carrying the above object . All monies to be forwarded to Danc » n M'Arthur , Mechanics' Library , East Black Hall-street , Greeuock , or to JohuNeilson , nail maker , No . 27 , Tobago-street . P . S . —The committee consider that placing Mr Burrell in a bookseller ' s shop weuld be the situation beat adapted to his inclinations and kis abilities . Hanley . —The Election Commitee of theHanley and Skelron branoh are requested to celled all monies that have beenpromiaed for the late elections , and attend , with the same , on Monday evening October 11 th , at seven o'clock , at Mr YateB * , Miles ' - bank , Skelton .

      Hackney . —At a meeting of the members of the National Charter Association , at the Green-gate , Hackney-road , on Sunday , September 2 G , it was resolved—That an enmaut meeting be called of the Chartists of the Tower Hamlets , for the purpose of aupportiug the forthcoming Convention . Halifax . —A district delegate meeting was held at Lower Warley , on Sunday , September 26 th . Delegates present :-Samuel Widoge , John Lawson , Lower Warley ; David Tempest , Georce Webber .

      uautax : John Walker , Midgley : James Parson , James Atkinson , Sowerby ; Mr John Lawson in the chajr . A number of resolutions in favour of organiaing the district , were unanimously carried . The meeting was adjrurned to Sunday , October 10 th , to beheld at the Working Man ' s Hall , Bullclose-lane , Halifax , at two o ' clock in the afternoon . Livbbpool . —At the quarterly meeting of the members of the Chartist Association , held at Mr Farrall ' a , 4 , Cazneau-street , on Sunday evening , Sept . 26 , Mr Johnson in the chair , th * e following resolutions were

      passed—Tbat Mr Smith be tao secretory , Mr Farrall the treasurer , and the following persons be the council—Mr John * son , Mr Costlne , Mr Whltfleld , Mr Gelling , Mr Royle . That the present system of collecting be abandoned . That all business connected with the Chartist Association be dono at our weekly meeting , every Wednesday at eight o ' clock , when members' subscriptions will be received by the secretary , LonoHBOROuon . —On Monday week , the Land members celebrated the return of F . O'Connor , Esq . as M . P . for Nottingham . A band was engaged , whith with a number of flags , &c , perambulated the town at different times . There was a very large attendance in the evening . The meeting was addressed by Messrs Buckby ( of Leicester ) and Skevingten . Patriotic songs and sentiments enlivened the meeting till a late hour .

      LIMEHOD 3 E . —A numerous assemblage attended at the Brunswick Hall , RopsmakerVfields , on Monday , Sept . the 27 th , to hear Mr William Dison deliver a public lecture , on the subject of ' Progression . ' Mr JMxon on his arrival was greeted with an enthusiastic welcome . Mr Barnard was unanimously called to the eh< . Mr Dixon delivered an admirable adsress wb » h was enthusiastically applauded . Mr Stallwood followed , and his remarks were also loudly applauded * The usual votes of thanka were awarded to the spaakers and the chairman .

      National Victim Committee . —Ad the meeting on . Tuesday evening , September 28 th , All . 5 s . 3 d ., was received per Mr Clark , being a portion of the Bilaton tea tray ballot ; and from G . ¥ ., 6 d . Nbwcastle-uponiTyne . —A district delegate n&o t ing of the National Charter Association , ia the oounties of Northumberland and Durham , washeld in tho house of Martin Jude , Cock-inn , Head-ofthe-Side , Newcastls-upon-Tyne , on Sunday afternoon , September S 6 , and tbe following resolutions were passed . Moved by Mr Janua Watson , seco&dedbiMr John Pratt : — ' w That the counties ef Northumberland aad Durham b » formed isvto a district of tha National Charter Assooia . tion , to be guided by rules hereafter specified . > That each locality in the two countias , where there It a branch of tbe National Charter Association , do pay sum of one penny per man par month , to beat the es ' penses of the district , and such sums to be SOnt to the district treasurer ( Mr Judo ) monthly .

      That a committea be formed , with full power to add to their number , and such committee to have power to print and circulate au appeal to thefrleadi ^ f Chartism in tbese counti « s , to rouse ft , wrkjn $ cl oses to a tease of Mx

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      duty , ia regard to signing tbe National Petition for . tho Commons House of Parliament , for the People's Charter . That the following peraons form mob . committee , to '' meet in the house of ' Mt ;* Robert JBrdwJrj Scarborough ! f Arms , yVest Holborn , South SbWdi , on Sunday , Ocfc !»» 11 , at two o ' clock p . m .: Mr Peter Nicholson and-Mr Joseph Mitchell , Yarrow ; Mr James Watson and Mr Stephen Blnns , Newcastle ; Mr Wm . Oilnllan and Mr Thomas Mitchell , South Shields ; Mr John Rawllngs and Mr John Pratt , North Shields ; Mr ^ Mattln Jade , treasurer ; Mr James Nisbett , dlllriot lecretary . ' That Mr F . O'Connor and fouMt Jones be requested by this meeting to visit Newcastle , . North and South Sbieldi , Sunderland , and the other branch * in these oSUdtles during their intended four . ¦

      That the next district delegate meeting b » held in the heuseofMr JohB Pratt , Magnesia Bank , Union Street , North Shields ' , on Sunday afternoon , October 25 th , at tiro o ' clock ; and it is earnestly requested by this meeting , tbat those branches in the ' two counties that have neg . lected to send delegates to * this meeting , do send dele * gates to the meeting to be held on October 25-The district 8 « cretaryis very sorry to inform the several branches tbat have applied to him for tbe services of Mr . Thomas Dickenson of Sunderland , that that gentlemen is at present labouring under a severe indisposition , and is not able at tbe present time to deliver lectures in any locality , bnt as soon as he is convalescent , he will do so with great pleasure . Timely notice will be given .

      Pldham— On Sunday last , a very crowded meetin ? took place in the school-room of the Working Man ' s Hall , to hear an address from an operative mechanic . The speaker commenced by stating that it was the second time he had appeared on a platfom to advocate Chartist principles , [ but he did so from a conviction that something must be politically wroDg , when so many thousands of the labouring classes were suffering from tbe want ef employment , Tho speaker expressed bis approval of the National Land Company , which he said was tbe best plan in his opinion that had been offered for raising the labouring classes from their present degraded condition . He next expatiated on the Land and Labour Bank , which'he showed in a very argumentative manner , to be the most secure investment , and offered a better rate of interest than any other bank . The lecturer was listened to throughout with great attention , and the meeting concluded by parsing votes of thanks to the lecturer and chairman .

      Pbbston . —A meeting was held on Sunday week , at the house of William Liddle , 10 , Russell-street , for the purpose of establishing a Chartist Association , when a few sterling friends to the cause of liberty asstmbled and enrolled their names . A large room , No . 1 , High-street , has been taken , where meetings will be held every Sunday evening , at six o'clock , for the purpose of reading and discussing any question that may be beneficial to the association , and alsa to enrol members ; and as we have got a room capable of holding upwards of 1 . 000 people , we nope that the friends of democracy , will not be backward to rally round the Chartist standard once more .

      Rooudaus . —On Sunday evening , Mr Chadwick from Manchester gave a soul-stirring Ucture < n the Chartist room , Yorkshire-street , to a respectable audience on the . Charter and the Land : He descanted on the principles of the People ' s | Chart « r in a manner that electrified his hearers with pleasure and astonishment . He ably explained the land scheme , and spoke at great length en the evils of intemperance and the blessings of sobriety . Mr Chadwick is a promising young man , and we hope our friends in Lancashire will embrace the opportunity

      of securing his services . The members ef the Charter and Land associations have started 'a library in their room , Yorkshire-street , whioh is opes on Sunday and Wednesday evenings . Although only in existence a fortnight , a number of volumes have been presented by numerous friends . The committee feel confident that the friends of liberty and educatun in Radioal Rochdale , will lend their kindly assistance to the gotd work by presenting them with useful books or rendering them pecuniary assistance . It is to be hoped that tho good work will prosper , as it solely emanated from the working men .

      Receipts of the Bioisibation and Election Commutes from 23 rd September . —Tredegar , perBerfield , la ; Nottingham , perJ . Sweet , £ 8 ; Girvsn , per John Eadie , 12 s 3 d ; few friends at Crawford , 7 s ; W . E . Thpraii , Ghepstow , Is ; H . Jehna Worcester , per Barnesley , 4 s ; Longton Potteries , per Amison , lOd j Derby , per Crabtree , £ 5 ; Edward Blaekware , Is ; Mr Hall , Is ; total £ 1117 s 3 d . James Gbasbbt , Secretary . South Lambeth . —A public meetisg will be held on Tuesday evening . October 5 , at the Jolly Sailor , Donet-street , Clapbam-rcad , for tbe purpose of exp ' aining the principles of the Feple ' s Charter and the National Land Company , when the followiug gentlemen will address the meeting : Philip M'Grath , C . Doyle , and W . Dix , of Manchester . Mr Sewell will take the chair at eight o'clock .

      Sohebs Town —On Sunday evening last , Mr John Fussell , delivered the secoad of a course of lectures on « Democracy , '' The Charter and the land / at the Bricklayer ' s Arms , Tonbridge-strett , New-road . Thelecturer explicitly stated the Six Points of the People ' s Charter , ably proved its efficacy to remove the monstrous and grievous burdens under which tbe toiling millions not * groan , urged on his hearers the necessity of a renewed united and energetic agitation for it * enactment , and resumed his seat amid the cheers of an atteative audience . The meeting was subssqueatly addressed by a young working man , in rather a lengthy speech , given with great fluency and ability , in which be noticed the leading topics that now agitate the political world ; stated that he was a staunch advocate of tho People ' s

      Charter , being firmly convinced that it was only by the possession of political powers tbat the wot king classes could emancipate themselves from the degraded position in which they were new placed , and secuie those just and equal right * to which they weie now entitled , and concluded by saying , that if they would aoceptofhis humble services , he would deliver a lecture on the Currency question on next Sunday evening . An animated discussion ensued , ia which Messrs Lucas ( the ohairmnn ) , Farris , Arnott , Thurston and others joiaed , and after tho usual vote of thanks , the meeting separated , higblj pleased with what they had heard . Toequai . —At a meeting convened for the purpose a branoh of the National Charter Association was formed , and resolutions passed of our concurrence

      with the suggestion of Mr Fkiod of Barnstaple , as to the necessity of holding a county delegate meeting for the furtherance of the cause of Cbastiem , the'obtaining signatures to the national petitioner making the necessary preparations tor meeting the People ' s Champion , Feargus O'Connor , Esq . » M , P ., in the tour he promises to make to the western counties-We suggest Newtnn Abbot is the most fitted place for a delegate meeting for this county . With respect to our Tivcrton friends , we perfectly agree with them as regards expenses . We also propane that ( . if the editor of the Stat will permit ) the name of all branches willing toco operate with us , be inserted in the nest week ' s Stav , so that we may know our strength in this county .

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      FORTHCOMING MEETINGS . Bbadfob * . —A camp meeting will be held on Sunday , at one •' clook in tbe afternoon , at New Holland , near Wilsden . Several members ot the Land Company from Keighley , Halifax , and Bradford , will address the meeting . The Chartism of Bradford will meet on Sunday , at twa o ' clofik In the afternoon , in the Land office , Buttarworth Buildings . The Confederate Repeal Glub ^ will meet in their room , Temperance Hall , Leeds-road , on Sunday , at tw » o ' clock in tbe afternooi ,. aad seven o ' clock in tae evening . Bristol . —The monthly meeting et the members

      of tho National Charter- Association will be held at 14 , Rosemary-street , oa Tuesday evening next , October- 5 th , when parties holding , petition sheets are requested te bring them in . ¦ " Halifax , —A public . meetiag will be held in the Odd Fellows Hall , on Tuesday evening , October 5 th , to adopt the National Petitiea . Doors open at halfpast seven , a ' clock . The busmen of the meeting to cemmence at eight o ' clock .. Halifax . —On Sunday , ( to-morrow , ) October 3 rd , Mr James Bawden , will lecture in the large roam , BullcloseJane , to commence at half-past six o'clock .

      HuonKHSiiBLD . —A meeting of the Chaitists inthiB district will be held at lbeson ' s Temperance-hotel , Buxton- » oad , on Sunday , the 3 rd of October , in theafternoon , at three o ' clock . LooflkBBOHOBOH . —AAameetingorGnartist friend * held at the Wheat-sheaf , last Sunday evening , it was resotoed tore-organise the Chartist Association in this place , to meet at half-past six on a Sunday evening , at the above Iao , for discussion , reading the Nor . i&em Star , &c ; to commwaee next Sunday erasing , October 3 rd . LiMEuousE . —Brunswick Hall . —The members of iis locality , asft requested to . attend a quwterly Meeting , on Monday , Octokor the 4 th , q £ eight tfelock .

      Livibpooiu —Mr Edrnuni Jones will deliver alec lure on Sunday evening , © ctober 3 rd , afc Mr Farrail ' s , 4 , C&aean-street , &b seven o ' clock , LBAMiseaos . —The friend&of the National Charter Association , held a meetiag Sept . 28 th , a& Mr Stiff ' s Temperwee-hotel , Clefiaent ' s-street , for the purpose of forming a branch of the Association . Several names , were enrolled . The meeting adjournod until Tuesday next . atthftakve place , ai eight o ' clock . _ ljnJBAHDs .-At a meeting of eccupants on the Lowbands estate , kid on Monday evening , Sent . 27 , rtfr' # ' - P ^ t , BearmanrRen-5 w - f' Grah , \ » nn <*» * o ., it was agreed , A « rJ e m loc * U # of *> 8 Nat ^ al Charter hST , ft Me 83 rs Renham > F <* d , S . Olark , Graham , and ianner , were appointed aa Council . Mr seS ? W 8 S eleCled tl > ea 8 urer ' and M » " Pottit . MANcnm * B .-MrG . Stanley , of Manchester ml deliver a leoturein the PeoDle's Institnta . H « ri

      PhS » V . ? £ **• * Z » Swhy , October 3 rd . 2 > n - t 0 b A B take V , half 'P Mt 8 ix o ' clock in the Ohart&A « ^^^ . /^ ing of the National Chartist Association will be held at two o ' clock in tlwiw ^ nnon . iiittaatoepiw , _

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      Si . ocw ' okt .-A meeting of the members of tha National Charter Association will be held en Sua ! day the 3 rd of October , at the Lyceum , ' at eieht o oloek in the evening . Mr Donovan of Manchester will leoture on Sunday , at six o ' clock . Shobbdiioh . —On Sunday next , a diicusiioH will take place at the Green Gate , Hackney-road . Snb . jeot ,- ' Doei the nation energetically strive for an in . corruptible press . ' Chair to be taken at seven o ' cloob . - . , Shbfwbld . - The various Municipal EleeUon Committees are expeoted to send two of their mem * bersto a meeting which will be held in the Demo , cratic Reading room , 33 , Queen-street , on Sunday Ve » in / j next , » t eight o'clock .

      Sohebs Towy . _ On Sunday evening next a lecture wilj be delivered by a working man , on the ' Currency Question , ' at tbo Bricklayers'Anna , Toubridge-itreet , New-roaa . To commence at eight o ' clock precisely . RSoutU Shields . — The friends of Mr Dickenion are re . spectfully informed thata dinner nnd testimonial will be given to that gentleman ; at the bouse of Mr Gilroy , Cross Keys , Went Holborn , . en Wednesday , October 6 , Tickets may bs had at the following places : —Mr Young ' s , Marketplace ; Mr Atkinson ' * , Grocer , Westoe-lane ; Mr Brown ' s , Scarborough Arirs , West Holborn ; and at Mr Gilroy ' s , Cross Keys , W » st Holborn . pinner on the table at seven o ' clock .

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      CORN , &e . Mabk-lamx , Monday Sept . 27 . —Fresh up to-day a fair average quantity of English wheat came to hand coast , wise , from . Essex , Kent , and Cambridgeshire ; yet tho stands were by no means well supplied with samples ' . By land carriagevery little reached as . Owing , hovr ever , to the increased importations of wheat and flour from abroad , the demand for all kinds of wheat of home pro * duce was in a very depressed state ,, at a decline in thequotations obtained on Monday last o * from 4 s to fully 5 sper qr . and at which a . clearance was not effected . The sup . ply of foreign wheat brought forward was very extensive - hence the sales progressed heavily , at a fall in prices of from Ss to 4 s per qr . The transactions for consumption

      were trifling , and scarcely any took place for export . Tfith barley we were again scantily supplied . The malt trade was in a very Inactive state . Thece were fewer oats on offer than for some time past . The flour trade was heavy . Town-made parcels receded to 15 s per 280 Jbs , and American qualities were Is to 2 s per barrel lower . Wednesday , Sept . 20 . —A . decided increase has taken place in the arrivals of English wheat for our market this week , coastwise , as well as by hind carriage . The show of samples this morning was moderately gcod , and the demand for all descriptions was exceedingly heavy , at barely Monday ' s rednred currencies . Nearly 20 , 000 quarters of foreign wheat have come to hand since Satur . day evening . As a large quantity was brought forward to-day , the sales progressed heavily , and , in some in . stances , the quotations were almcst nominal .

      Richmond ( Yorkshire ) Sep . 25 . —Wo . bad'a large supply of wheat in our market to-day , but only a thin supply of other grain . —Wheat sold from 6 s 9 d to Ss ; oats 2 s 9 tfto 4 s ; barley , 4 b 9 d to 5 s ; beans Ss to 6 s 6 d per bushel . Liverpool , Monday , Sept . 27 . —The business since last Tuesday has baen very moderate , which may be ascribed to the interior markets being more freely supnlied by neighbouring farmers ; and oar prices of wheat hav « beoa reduced 3 d to id per bashel on old , and 4 d to 6 d per buslial on new wheat . Floau has declined folly 2 s per barrel , and 2 » 6 d to 3 s per sack . CATTLE , 6 ic . The following arrivals of fbueign stock took , place ia the port of tendon last weefc : — From Whence . Beasts , Bhp . Lbs . Cal . Bigs . Hariingea „ .., 281 l | , 981 — 9 l < — Nieu-Dieppe 22 892 — 25 — Hamburg ^ . _ 22 1 858 — — — Rotterdam 4 X 8 2 , 735 68 I 39 > 10 Ostend -.. — 256 — Antwerp .............. — — — 20 20

      Total ... „ 943 0 , 422 63 2 » 5 30 Authe varieus-outports the arrivals hare consisted ef 9 , 700 head , chiefly from Rotterdam and Hamburg . A . most contagious-disease has been lately intreduoedinto this country by the Merino sheep imported from Ger » ; many . Tho disease has , we- find , been communicated to large numbers-of English « k « ep , and which has-resulte * ' iu very serious losses to the graziers-. : Smithfieldv Monday , Sept . 27 . —To-day wo had . on salenearly 1 . 000 . beasts , 4 , 000 sheep and lambs > . WO calves , | and . 40 pigs , with which the trade was in a very , inactive state , at barely the , late depression in the quotations * ; Prom our own . grazing districts the arrivals of beastswere tx-tensive . vAs the general quality of this

      descrtnition of stock , was very interior , the demand for . the best Scote , &c ,,, was steady , andv in some instances , . the currencies paid , on Monday last were obtained by the sales . ( men ,. tb . ebest beef realising Is 6 d per bibs . Atvthe close nof : business a clearance was noteifected . Tie . numbers 'of sheep were considerably on the increase ; . yet ; as the tweather was somewhat favourable to slaughtering , the mutton trade was-firm partioularyfor the besiald downs , . tho supply , of which was small , at the pricss quoted . ox itlns day se ' onight , The best old downs sold at 5 s 4 d pen , 8103 . The inquiry for . lamlte was heavy . Calves , though . in full average supply , moved off steadilj . at late rates , rrirae small porkers commanded full prices .. In other : qualities of pork comparatively little businesswastvan . ¦ sacted .

      BCTTER .. BACON , &c . LivebpooIi ,. Monday , Sent-,. 27 . —Our imports of : butter are increasing , and wehadalfirm market , with , a . very good demand during the early part of last . week ,. the ni ^ nneSB of tbe s tock causing holders , ta-be . careless of selling , in the latter past , of the week , however ,. there was but a limited demand ,, with but little offiiring . Bacon has had slow sale , and uamg almost unsaleable , while lard continues to advance .

      POTATOES . BoBouan and Spitaleiems , Sept . 27 . —Notwithstanding the supplies of potatoes are somewhat extensive , a very largo business has lieen again transacted in them , and , in some instances ,. the best quaiities ^ haye produced ioiV'V ?); ton more mone f- rriees , no . w > rule from £ 3 as to > £ 5 10 s per ton .. WOOL . intn 0 ? ^ ' u pt 2 , - -T Pa 8 t week ' s , imports , of wool fw ™ n * ., c 0 , ^ er a liberal « ile < -v z . 283 bales Port PMHn \™ ? \ fr 0 m Gil > KHtar , 1 . 4 eO bales from A ? iL «! l ' Hnn , ? ; tr 0 mthe Ca P v ' . ^ O bales from Algoa Bay , 300 balea . from Hamburgh , 2315 . hales from Souh . Au . er . c ., , and 19 bales from Smyrna . Beally fine Sf \ Ot En 8 llskand Colonial -noofs , have moved off steadil y by private contract , at full prices .

      . COTTON . ' LiswBPoot , MoiyJax , Sept . 2 T .-The sales are about 2 , 500 bales , dono In a flat and dull manner ,, at the quotauens of Friday . Nearly everyone seems-out of heart , anfcwe are all doing , as little as may be ; '

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      ( From the Gazette of Tuesday ,, Sept . 28 J ' ~' I Martin Bu § geto , Liverpool ,. victuaUeu : — James Griffiths . ¦ Davies , Manchester , glass dealcrr-Thomas , Halstead ! 0 T w-n- r 8 et > S r . traud ' P > W !«» r-TOm « m Henr } HlSu 'S / ft C J ) nnor > andl **» Enoch llitehcock , . Broadwall ,. Stamford . street , B . lackfciavs-road sawmill SSSKasaurS

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      BIRTHS . At Sirkaldy on Sunday , September * Fergus 0 Coanor lessell , son oMoha widMargareUdissell : Tho lathes is local Land treasures-. Revered at Mn&ip Tydrit , on Sund ^ , b » t , Feargui oysvan Wilson , sen , of Henry and Cajjierine Wilson ^ tajJw , of this toniv . * DIED . . AtClltheroe , oa , Sunday moratag ^ September 26 . H * ¦ i , ? , , J a siDCCte Char « s » , and oneof the fortunate 1 allottees of fouv acres in the CSartisWfcand Company ,. The deceased was a . veey industrious , gersevering , and ! sober man and highly rejected by his . brother shareholders , and by all with , whom he waB a ^ samled , HU death it lamented fev all . His disease xas the brain fewr . Also , tb . osamo morning , Jwa Hervey , a . wember of the Chartist Land Company She had caught a malig , nant fever from a young naaa who had l » uly come fro » 1 Ireland . Un illness waa of three days ' - Quratiou . andsna was interred the same dat on which she died

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      stwsot , Uaymarket , » n tho pity of Westminster , at the Office , in the same Street aad Parish , for the 1 ' ri . priotar , FEARGUS O'COiNNOR , Esq ., M . P ., and published by Wiuiam Hewitt , ot K « . 18 , Chavlcs-strcet , Bran don-strect , Walworth . in the parish of St . Mary , Newngton . inthe CiViintyof Survey ! at thoORice , So . 16 , Great Windnval-street , Haymarket , iu the CityofWe . s& minstet . , i ^ u Saturd a y , October 2 nd , 1 ? 17 ^

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      The Irish Democrats held a crowded nndhlghl yreipectable meeting , on Sunday evening , at Cartwrightfe , over which the vice-president , Mr S . Dstais , presided , and explained at great length , the policy which the Demo , cratio Confederates intended to pnnue , and alto the causes which led to their secession from . the seqederi . They would watch closely tbe acts and professions of public men . He did not approve of the conduct of Mr Cbisholm Anstey . On the hustings ho declared he was uot an advocate for an alteration in , the Established Church of Ireland ; consequentl y Mr Anstfy would notlendhig aid to do away with the system tbat robbed tbe poor peasant of his only pig ; tbe poor widow of her only blanket , ( Cheers . ) That was the Inspector General they were to have in England , he wished them Joy of him . ( Laughter . ) One object ot tWs society would be to watch the press of England , and expo ' ieits fallacious statements relative to Ireland . Thoy would be ever ready to assist and forward the causa of human liberty In any part ef the world .

      Mr Clahct next addressed the meeting at great length , In iupport of the position they had taken up , and on the advantages to Democracy , from the spread of a voluntary press la Ireland . He helitved it was thienly means of saving Ireland from the grasp of partias . Why was it that the press of Ireland dared to treat their cause with such contempt ! Became they wall knew that no Democratic press , as a speculation , COtrid llv « against the opposition tbat would be opened against it In that country . He had wasted quires of paper in endeuouring to get « ne particular sentence into the Irish papers , but in vain . Tory , Radical , Whig , and Repealer , all had agreed to the exclusion of this one sentence of simple truth ; namely , that three millions five hun dredthouBtnd of the English people petitioned for the Repeal of the Union ! There was not one out of every five thousand of the Irish people knew this simple fact . The press had duties as well as rights and the people should insist en ths fulfilment of the former , as they would guard and protect the latter . . .

      MrG . MiNTotr next addressed tbe meeting .- Ho had been member of fits Repeal wards in London , he had remained with them till circumstances made it imperative on him to leave . He felt great pleasure in hearing the explanation that had beenjpven to-night ; he believed they were beginning a great era in the history of Democracy . Liberty wa » making progress . Italy ! young , glorious Italy 1 with all the ardour of the old Roman Republic , led oa by her noble Democratic Pepe , Pius IX , whem all men must admire . There was the Grand Duke of Tuscany , too , on the move . Lucca had spoke , ont ; evenNaples ana the people of Sicily , wereriting , and demanding their rights . France , too , was dissatisfied , and but for her Small Farm S ystem she could never have been so long quiet . England bad done its duty at the late eleetiont , and he wai convinced that Itelani would not be far behind . They would have seme neble spirits in the new House of Commons , They had O'Gorman Mahoa and Shaman Crawford , who . with

      8 eorgeand Colenel Thompson , and W . J . Fox he had no doubt would be found following in the footsteps of O'Connor and Duacombe . He believed there was bo hope for Ireland but in a n&tive parliament . For himself , he would at all times be ready to assist either by beoks , kj newspapers , or by money , ai fsr as lsy in his power . MrM sat down amidst much applause . Mr MiftiiN rose to more a vote of thanks : to the proprietor and editors of the Kbrtftern Star . Tbe Northern 8 tar had doae much towards elevating the character of the working classes of England , he hoped it would live long enough to do good service for Ireland , too . The ' voluntary press' would show the people of Ireland that the working daises of this country were tleir best and warmest friends ; he believed if it was vigorously osrrled out , it would effect a speedy tnd effectual moral revolution in that country . He moved the thanks ol the m « etingto tha editors and proprietor of the Northern Star , for their stern advocacy at all times ef the principles of Democracy .

      Mr Bizek would with pleasure second ths mstion , There was no occasion for him to praise tbe Star , it would fla'd its ewn reward , in tha great truth that honesty was the best policy . The resolution was passed unanimousl y . Mr Williams and other speakers followed in approval of the principles of the Democratic Confederates , several joined the society and paid In the subscriptions , and the meetiog broke up . Chair taken every Sunday evening at 8 o ' olock . [ These reports mult bs sent to this offics b&iors Thursday .-Ed . K . S . l

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      Ashtoit-uiideb-Ltnb . —A qtmrlerly meeting of the land membors will be held on Snnday , Oetober 3 rd , at two o ' clock in the afternoon , in the Chartist room Bentinclf-atreet . Birmingham . — A branoh of the National Land Company will commence at the St George ' s Coffee , house , 44 , Little Hampton-street , Birmingham . Mr John Pare and other friends of the scheme will attend to address tbe meeting , —[ Our correspondent does not say when , ] Bacup . —A public meeting of the members and friends of the shnrehelders will be held in the Char * tist room , Rochdale-road , Bacup , on Wednaadaj night next , October Oth , To commence at eight o ' clock when Mr Thomaa Tattersall , frem Burnley , will address the meeting . Subject : ' The Land , and the Proceedings at the late Conference . '

      BoiTPzr . —The monthly meeting of this branch will take place on Sunday evening next , October 3 rd , at six o ' clock . The secretary and scrutineer are in attendance erery Monday and Thursday evening , from seven till ten o ' clock , tor tbe purpose of enrolling members and receiving anbscriptiona . AU members , in arrears for local and general levies , are requested to pay up the same . Any member in arrears on the 18 th of October , will noi be returned to the next ballot . Blackburn . —The members of tbh branch are again reminded that the secretary attends at the

      Temperance Hotel , 13 , Whalley Banks , every Saturday afternoon , from five till eight o ' clock , to receive share meney , and enrol new members for the Land Company ; on Sundays , from two till half-past four o ' clock for the Bank , and from five till eight o'clock for the Land . Members , still in arrears with their lecal and directors' levies , are requested to pay up immediately ; Haiibax , —The members of the Land Company are requested to meet in the large room , Ballclose « lane , in the afterapon at two o'clock , when business of importance will be brought before them .

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      THE NORTHERN STAR . October 2 , 1847 .

      ?.-Inteu By Dougal M'Gowais, Of 16, Great Windmill-

      ? .-inteu by DOUGAL M'GOWAIS , of 16 , Great Windmill-

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 2, 1847, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1438/page/8/