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    • MEETING OF THE STONEMASONS AND OTHER TRADES 1> T LONDON.
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      ( From e * r own Correspondent . ) Bonos , tcx Fbabchts OICjwkob ,. Esq . —The dinner u f « nrgus O'Connor * Esq ,., t&e chief of the peopled Stioe , will *» # ?<«*» & » Theatre , on Wednesday , aT 29 & « Cwoad Thompson and Iris son , Mr . *> hflmp 30 B , jafl . » I » te candidate forth © representation gtht Tower Hamlete , and the Rer . Wo . HtfL vA ji / x of the Northern Sfar , are invited and expected j ^ Jj , Ladies' tickets , 13 . 6 d \; Gentlemen ' s , 23 . bsj b « nad of the following persons : —Mr . JaBan Hii aej , agent for the Northern Star , No . 48 , Nur erj-rtn et , Wicker , and No . 29 , St . Thomas-street Portobello-street ; Mr . Otley , No . 4 , Sooth-Btreoi Sheffi eld Moor ; Mr . Boston , ne ^ s-agent , No . 80 , South-streen Sheffield Moor ; Mr . IiDg&rd , cewstrent , Division-street ; Mr . Ladlam , netrs-agentj Watson Walk ; Mr . Frost , news-agent , No . 64 , Bridge-street ; and Mr . PasbJey , Silyer-stree

      Bboxtkeee 0 Beiks . —Thi 3 gentleman has dedined ; be invitation to be present at ; ha demonstration on 'he 29 & i ^ ^ will rait Sheffield on Jlonday , D : K «> er 11 th , then to deliver a lectors or course of lectures . Roxhkhhah . —Mr . Julian Haraey visited Rother-Ism Wednesday , September 8 : h ; placards , of which the following is a copy , announced Mr . Haruey ' s coming : — " A pnblic meeting -will be held in jjr . Koss ' s Club Room , Quarry Kill , on Wednesday evening , September 8 th , to commence at stven c ' elwk , when Mr . G . Julian Haruey vr . tt address the reeling on the existing evils of society , and their remedy . The attendance of all classes is earaestl * requested . " At seven o ' clock the room was

      crowded , when Mr . John Wilson was called to the chair , who opened the business by introducing Mr . B arney . Mr . Harney then commenced by shewing briefij , hut pointedly , ths general distress of the working class , the bankruptcy of the middle class , and tbe insecurity of the aristocracy , proving there was something rotten in the state . " The lecturer Beit considered what was the remedy ; and , after shewing the utter and complete failure of the Reform Bill , proceeded to comment upon the * ' three great taeistires of commercial reform , " lately proposed to the country by the Whigs , shewing up the hypocrisy and rascality of that faction m first raw stjle . The lecturer next assailed the Tories , and drew down the justly-merited ridicule of his hearers upon that faction , while exposing their " Church

      Extension" and " Religious Education" fallacies Mr . Harney after speaking for an hour and a-kalf , eorcluded his address by appealing to his hearers to serk knowledge , to get understanding , that they Eight know the cause of their wrongs and ascertain for themselves the real remedy . He conclnded tnid the enthusiastic plaudits of his hearers . Mr . Jo-srett morcd ihe thanks of the meeting to iir . Barney , given unanimously . There is a s : rong revival « CairtLsm here ; the renowned Dr . Smiles formed here iste-y a Foi and Goose t-inb , " of its doia ^ f , rumour saith not , if the cackling bo-J . e 3 will oif ; y " coaiG out of their shell , " we promise them tie Chartists will shew them fair play , and convince them into the bargains ( if open to conviction ) of the absurdity of their brick-and-mortar humbug .

      Si ^ thy Evs . M . ^ G Lecttse . —15 was announced in the Star of Saturday last , that Mr . Birker would lecture on Sand&y evening , on " the necessity of abolishing the House of Lords . " Mr . Bvker should lave lectured on the previous Sunday , but failing to irtend sent word that he was ill of " the toothe-acbe , » Ed cculd not attend , upon which Messrs . Harney , 6 ili , and Otley , endeavoured to supply his place ; in the ecmrse of last week word came to tbe room that Mr . Barker wonld lecture as last Suctiay . accordingly the sam ^ was announced Xas j « st stated ) in the glar . At seven o ' clock , the hour when the lecture gxmld have commenced , Mr . Barker La-i not msde is appearance , and some rime after tha : tbe audience beginning to exhibit signs of impatience , Mr . tfKtttrick offered to read Mr . O'Connor ' s speech at tke Crown and Anchor , London , whiie waiting for the lecturer ; this was cordially agreed to . Mr .

      Ji'Kettrick then read the speech which was listened to with the most Iive 3 y interest , and had it not been the Sabbath evening , " would have been responded to fer the enthusiastic cheers of the assembly . Mr . ikpev wished to know if the leciurer had yet arrived ! Itapppeared he had not ; Mr . Harney said such conduct was highly disgraceful and unless Mr . Barker reached the room before -he dose of the evening ' s proceedings , he ( Mr . H . ) should move a ¦ me of censure upon him . ( Hear , bear ) A call itis now made upon Mr . Gill , when , afier a pause . that gentleman came forw&Td . and said though he hid cot come ihere to lecture , still jatr . er than the Beeuag should be disappointed , be would endeavour to supply Mr . Barkers absence , at the tame time he mast express his regret that any professing Chartist should be so far unmindful of his duty as te cause such insult by his absence at a public assembly . Mr . Gill then proceeded to comment upon one of the Manchester propositioas lately

      snbnhted to the South Lancasiiira leciarers , namely , 6 What are the effects prod-aeeu upon society by the law of primogeniture ? " In answer , Mr . G . observed that he was one of those who bdieveu that the earth , the air , and the water belong ? equally to tbe whole human race , yet we have a c . irf living by the public robbery cf : ha whoie of : Le earth , and Eore or less of the war-er too . Mr . G . th = u showed that a landed aristocrat , who has inherited from his brigand fathers some thousands of acr- ^ s of lai d , leaving these to his eldest son , to the exclusion c-i th . ' res : of his children , the eif ^ et was to throw these , the uaproviJed members of the fszii'y , upon the public Thus wera the people doubly robbid ; Kbbed in the firs : P-ace , cf their right in " the land ;

      tzi secondly , robbed through the taxes ; o support those branches cf the axistocracA- driren by the ] aw of primogecirnre to snbsisi by public plunder . One of the effects of the law of primogeii :::: re was the giving t-o the junior members of tho arisiocrscy , a monopoly cf me honours and emoluments of the incy , the church , and the law ; with respect : o the aray , he co ^ idered it z national curso— ( . hear ); but Kpposin ? i : to bs tbe reverse of this ; suppose h-j admitted that a standing army was necessary , still look at the monstrous injustice exhibited in its rinks ; a private might serre , he would not say his ccuruy , bur his country ' s despotism— Cheir , hear)—for ten , or even twenty years , he may have borne the tailscEe march , he insy have been wounded , he

      Esy -mids : the battle ' s rage have faced death in the most awfal forms , still shall some boy , sone aristocratic sprig , step over the head of the veteran , and take to himself the so-called honours of the professien . Aga " -n , look at the church ; it ' ~ aa the yoozier sons of tae aristocracy , reekius ; from the f .: ; y oebsacherie ? of cr >? l ? 2 ia ; e life , thst acquired all ihe high stats • , ¦ : ' the temple . After cimme ^ ting trc-n the abuses of the law , Mr . G . shotved th ^ t ; he tul 5 E : " :: es borne by the colonists cf this country wer- caused by aristocratic rait ; in proof thereof , he cited the biood-stsnied hisK ^ ry or India . Mr . G . then tcck "ip the f / . r ^ ect of the National Debt , she-Ting ; hs : ; h = debt tvas contracted for the purpose of havj- ;^ a fund ou : of which ihe otherot

      wih 1 enprovi-iea-fc-r nem ^ ers "nsfocracy di ^ h : live ; ihe Char v \ s ' .= TTrte chirked -with De : rg spciiator .- ; he repudiated the charge ; he yroz . d no ; rake th : 3 and fieai the ari ? : o : r-. ey , bat to JeMr ^ e the people he would vrL-h to 5 : .-ir ^ ni compelled to pi v the ikbt whioh they Ini vontracted for their ( : h » zrist-xcrzcj's- ) own benefit . ( Hear , heir . ) Mr . G . then offered souk- j b . ^ rvatio'cs upon tiis Fubject of c ^ epetition , a . ; , concluded a lengthy aid tmth-: uilirg c ' : ? cour ; e by : ; pt .-ealin ^ to the meethjg to lsbo'ir wr . h heart and sou : ior the obtainment of that r . ' -i " : tical power which would enable ili-im to b ^ ak do ' . va the law of pritao ^ nimre , Mid with i' . e ^ rir oiht-r abnsa of ' . he t < e 5 . en ' . ar : ?* ocratic 5 v ; : em

      iir . Harney said , Mr . Birk ^ r not having reached herooic , acd no : har ;? : _; ; hoa . gb : proper 10 send £ Ten an excuse for hi > c---i . ee , asd this being the Eecordtime he had aif-af-pe : r ; ted 3 public auti-ence 7- ( several voices , " this is ' . ' ,.- ; th ; rci i ; me ;">—we ! J if k v > a . 5 rv Vrdrd t n ~ is so cich ihe wor .-e . ( Hear . ) He should noiv move ; he resolution of T , h ; . h he ha . a given iio » : ce —( hear)—bat won d Sr ; t m-: re th 3 t Mr . C : 3 rk * iita ^ e the chair ; this beirg sec-. ' - cifd , was £ g : de-i to . The chairman ? a . d this was ;}¦*¦ third tiice jIi . Barker had dc-ceiv-r ! a meeting calkd in thit room . On \ h = ? Sr ; : oca ? : c--. he ( ir . u rhairman ) bad ssin Mr . Barker at twelve o'clock of the day on tho evi-sirg of which he should have lectured . Ke ; hen promi-r-i k : m ( the chairr .- ^! : ) t hat h- " - w ^ u- - to : r ^; l ; o attf-r . b' : t hr-r- 'ver came . Lisr Snndav

      no s ^ ciword wa .- ur .- ^ dl ; but a tin : e wh ' . n it Was impossiole * o maV . e a ~ v proper arraBgements for apers : nt-: > 51 ! hi ; p ' sce ' ; fh . is * time he had lo ; ce ' - ^ ned to s ? rd asv ivorJ wnv he ^ -35 ao .-c ^ t . ^ . Jr . Harney unrtci his ' risoluti ^ rT . '' That Mr . Barker harirgfor th ; l- .: rd time decriv : d apuohc usscin ' uh , to wncni he had izgigcd to lecture , without , u : > on th = preset ; cc : ui-. o ' :, ; t ; - ; ? how ^ r . 2 -he courtesy to state why he h ^ L ' mnvi-i himselffth : s neetinx ' c-.-nsid-r ^ vie conduct cf ibs : person highly censurable , ; ::: ¦; do hereby express their marked " uisapprobatiori c ; his uigentkmanlv behavioi-r . "' Mr . Joseoli Oxlev

      seconded the resojetion ; a gentkrean , who sta-. w f-e worked with Mr . Barker said ho bslieved Mr . ¦ Backer had gone on a pieasxre trip into JJerbyvr ^ J - ^ wished thi resolatiun to be withdrawn . ¦* lr . M'Kettrick considered they were not to bo insaiiid with impunity by Mr . Barker , or any 0 ^ 3 e > s 5 ; he give bis hearty support to tie resolution . Tvio other gentlemen supported tbe r-solution and EtroEgl y censured Mr . Barker . The Chairman put iije reflation , which ^ 1 , 3 carried with only one tsseiiitent . Thanks having been voted to Mr . Gill Xer L . 3 s . ble address . The meeting then dissolved . of

      AssocuTic . v Meeting . —A public mceiu . ^ ' . ho Bies&ers and frieud 3 cf the associaticn was held on ilcnQiy , in the room , Fig-tree Lane , Mr . Clarkscn in the cha-r ; Mr . M'Kettrick " troughs undtr ihe notice of ths meeting the propriety of holding a ceie ^ ateaeeting in Shifield , for the purpose of coniacejiug the best m « ans of exitndin ^ tne organis »' J 9 n 0 / the &o £ ociation to the districts around

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      Sheffield , and for the better uniting the towns of Barnsley , Doncaster , Rotherham , and Chesterfield with the town of SheSold , making of the latter the centre in the agitation for the future to be carried on in this part of the country ; he wished the delegate meeting to be held for another reason , namely , that they might secure the co-operation of the towns he had just named in the forthcoming demonstration , in honour of Feargns O'Connor . ( Hear , bear . ) After some other pointed remarks , Mr . M'Kettrick concluded by moving " That a delegate meeting be held in this room ( Fig-tree Lane ) on Sunday next , September the 19 th , at the hour of one o ' clock , for the purpose he had before named , and that the following places be requested to send delegates , namely , Barnsley , Doncaster , Rotherham , Chesterfield

      3 nd Brainpton , Attercliffe , Darnall , Ecclesfield , Handsworth , Grimestborpe , Stannington , Wortley , Dronfield , Crookes , Heeley , Oughbridge , Wadsley , Eckington , Woodhouse , Beigliton , Hackenthorpe , and Ecclesall . " Mr . Ownshaw seconded the motion , —agreed to unanimously . ( It is requested that the delegates will bring word of the number of tickets wanted in their respective localities for the dinner to be given to Feargus O'Connor , Esq .. on the -29 ; h . ) Mr . Harney said , with great pleasure he had voted for Mr . M'Kettrick ' B motion , but be was anxious that if possible something should be done in the way of holding village meetings in the neighbourhood of Sbefield this week . wnhont waiting for the delegate meeting . On Sunday , on Tuesday , and Wednesday , Dr . Al'Douall wouid be

      lecturing in the Town Hail ; on Thurscay evening he ( Mr . H . ) would have to attend the meeting oi the committee fcr obtaining tho liberation of the political prisoners ; but on Friday and Saturday evenings he wouid be at liberty , and would be happy to attead any meetings called for those evenings . ( Hear , hear . ) A conversation ensued , in which Messrs . M'Kettrick , Otley , Green and others took part ; it wa 9 ultimately resolved " That parties wishing Mr . Harney ' s assis ' - tance should communicate and make arrangements with Mr . H . for the holding of meetings . " Mr . Otley read a letter from Mr . Peter Shorrock 3 , of Manchester , enclosing four pounds , a sovereign each to be given to the four victims of Whiggery lately liberatedfrom Northallertongaol , Messrs . Penthorpe , Benison , Thomas Booker , and William Booker .

      ( Cheers . ) Mr . Harney said , the men of Sheffield were about to giya a public dinner to Feargus O'Connor , in testimony of the sense entertained by them of his distinguished services in freedom ' s cause ; that was good , but while ail honour was paid to ihe chuf cf the caiis-e , he thought that others who had struggled and suffered in that cause should not be forgotten . ( Hear , hear . ) Ho regarded the humbkst of those who had been strnck down by tyranny ' s shafts , to be as worthy of the people ' s honour as O'Connor himself . ( Hear . ) True , it was not possible to get up public dinners every day , othervr . se he would have said let Peuthorpc , asd Benison , and the Bookers have a dinner , as well as O'Connor . ( Cbeers . ) This could not be ; but tickets to the dinner on the 29 ih might be presented

      to each of tho victim ? , and this would be paying them some respect , God knew not more than their sufferings entitled them to—( cheers)—and sure he ¦ was that the presence of the liberated patriots , and the presence of the wives of those yet suffering in the dungeons of despotism would be the most acceptable and highly prized honour they could pay to Mr . O'Connor , ( Cheers . ) Mr . Harney concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that Mrs . Clayton , Mrs . HoJberry , Mrs . Marshall , Mrs . Foden , the patriots who bad been liberated from prison , and ( where maxrkd ) their wive 3 be gratuitously presented with tickets to the dinner . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Farn seconded the motion . Mr . Otley gave to the motion his most hearty support ; it was a glorious feature of tho present agitation that the- working

      men could respect tbe good deed 3 of their own order ; they required not that a man should be a Lord , or a Squire , to do him honour ; no , it wa * enough that he was a patriot . ( Cheers . ) This feeling 01 self-respect and self-reliance on thpar : of the labouring many was a sure and certain guarantee of their ultimate triumph—that the cLy would compel the other classes of society torespect them , too . ( Cbeers . ) The motion was unsnimou .-iy carried . Mr . M'Ketterick moved tho following lesolution : — " That the New Poor Law framed m violation of th « British constttation , and carried out in the most inhuman and unchristian spirit , has always been regarded with detestation and abhorrence by the working classes of Sheffield , the appointing of the tkreo irresponsible Somerset House bashaw ?

      to superintend the execution of the lav ? being especially odions in their estimation , convinced as this meeting is that co ftich power can be placed in tbe hands of individuals without de ^ tneratirg into—if not meant for tbe purposes of—the vilest tyraucy ; and this meetirg regards with surprise the proposed amendment of the law of which Mr . Hncbuek has given notice , seeing in that so-called aLioudtnent a grievous addition to the evil complained of , and the establishment of a despotism which Englishmen will be ju-tified in resisting by every means in their power . We , therefore , call upon the p . ople of Bath to demand of their misrepresenta-tive an aecuuu : of his conduct upon this and a former occasion when he betrayed the principles of Radicalism to the Tories . " In support of his resolution , Mr .

      M'Ketterick remarked that it woaid be knoirn to them all that Mr . Roebuck was returned at the ] ate election for Bath as an advocate of the people ' s rights , but most foully had he betrayed his trust . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) His conduct in the House of Commons upon the introduction of Mr . Sharman Crawford ' s , motion for an amendment of the adJres . 3 would be fresh in their recollection ; ho then betrayed the principles he was ? ect to tho House 01 Commons to defend , and sold the true friends of the people to tbe Tories , the avowed iocs of popular riglits ; and now he came forward with his motion to amend the 2 < ew Poor Law , by making it afar worse measure , if that wer ? . pos tile , than it ever was at present . ( Hear . ) He proposed to discharge the thrc-e Somerset-house Commissioners anJ v ^; i

      the power held by them in tie Home Secretary ot Slate . This was carrying out tho principle of centralization with a ven ~ ear . es ! r i \; e tyranny of the Somerset-house Bashaws was bad eii-:-jgii , but here the Radical Member fjr Brh proposed ro c-rect a despotism , unblushing and unveiled . ( Hsr . r , hear . ) Unless Mr . Roebuck had indeed taken le ^ ve of Lid senses , be ( Mr . M'Kettrick ) mu ; t say that ho regarded him as the most subiirne ci her . " -v s . — ( Cheers . ) Entertaining th * . .- ¦ : vie ^ rs , he hai i-i ^ . z ^ a it his duty to bring forward the resolution lie liU ; i jan proposed , ai . uhe thoi . g ' it , the ptopje of Bath ' did their duty , they w- ulu ii-n ^ tht-. r sham Radical member overboard . ( Cn-.-rs ) —Mr . Stoke ? - -econdcu the resolution . —Mr . Horsey .-jiJ ho shield give to the resolution bn support . The resolution denounced

      the New Poot Law , and in c-n-ry woru of denunciation 01 that iaw he most cordially concurred . It was one of the blackest acts 0 : class-I ^ i ^ ation . That law was pa > scd fcr the three-fold purp-su cf reducing ths wa ^ es of labour , \> z ' ::. ^ : n £ the p ^ -plo to live on a coarser sort of food , a .:: d thiu ^ ing ih-j population . ( Hear , hear . ) Tho frar ^ rs of the l . i w cakuiated tllat by making : bo poor-house a terror to the people , they would drivu tlicm Irom seekiug rdief , ana tbuspbes them at the u ^ rcy of the employocraGy of the country . A ira : i—an agricultural labourer , say—deprived of en : p ! ojrt : ciii , 2 . Bd having

      no resource but the pirish , solicits relief . Tms , witht-ui the walls of a workhouse , is deu ; ed him ; ho mu t brciik ud his home , he musi cor . sent to be "ou 2 u-d ia a p ] acj mure hso a prison than O'Jiht else , thr-re : bs separated fro ^ a ; : is wife and children , c . herwi :-e ho nuy perish—he may iiie . The man --brinks with horror from entering the scciiried place , over the gates of whioh ho thinks ho eec-s written in letters of blood , what the poet imagined he sa "» v inscribed over the gatfs of Jieii , " No rope enters htie . " He returns to his lar : employer , ana whpreas he before had ten shillinga week , he now offers his Jabour at nine shiiliiits

      the- week ; his oStr is accepted ; but to make vr ± y for him anoiiisr man working at a high wage : ? uischarted ; but this m 3 n his as great a hcrror of the . Bistile as the fresh man , and he , rather than become its inmate , will labour for eight shiiii-gs the week . Ti ^ us . was it calculated this hated law would allow ihe slave-drivers to grind down their serfs . ( Heir . ) It required no speech-making to sh- ^ w them that it their wages were reduced they must necessarily be brought to a worse die ;; but a word or two upon the assertion he had made that the

      law wa =: framed to thin the population . A numerous people had always been a cause of dread to tneir oppressors . Now , in the good old time 3 they had a capital metKo-J of thinning the population ; that was , to set the people to cut each others' throats . ( Hear . ) Not so many years siuce an Eugli&hmau had but to be to'J that a Frenchman wore wooden shoes , and swalLwed frog soup , and was his natural enemy , not forgetting also that one Englishman could thrash Sve Frenchmen , and forthwith John Bull was ready to march to " murder as enemies men he never saw . "

      This was capital work for the oppressors : it eased them ef . their fears , for this " wiadpipe-slippingart" is a game at which two must play . Now , French Republicans were not tho irn-n to stand idly by , and allow themselves to be butchered , so they struck blow for blow ; they struck heavy , and ttey ¦• track hard . ( Cheers . ) They had ail heard of " The Dnke of York ' s March : " he wondered whether they meant the Duke ' s march to Valenciennes , or bis

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      double-quick trot back again . ( Laughter aud cheers . ) Two birds , yoa see , were killed with one stone ; French Republicans were bntchered , and the surplos population of England was knocked on the head . But that method wouldn ' t do now ; they were bound over in eight hundred millions to keep the peace , and dared not go to war . ( Cheers ) It might be all very well to knock down Chinamen ' s forts at Hong Kong—( laughter)—and batter down Mehemet Ali ' s castles , but they were widely different matters to engaging in an European war . Why , they could not carry on a peace , how the dovil then were they to carry on a war ? ( Choers . ) Again , they had not public opinion on their side ; the voice of tho people was opposed to war , hence they could not keep down

      the population by the old means . Well , tho Whigs in turning over the pages of the Bible , which they never did but , like their father , the Devil , to extract evil from its pages - ( cheers and laughter)—lighted upon the history of one King Pharaoh , who in days of yore ruled a distant Jand . It appears he was sorel y troubled od account of the fast increase of a people he held in bondage ; he therefore decreed a law , ordering the male children of the people he dreaded to be put to death aB soon as born . This was the lawgiver for ; hc Whigs ; upon his law they had modelled their N- ; w Poor Law , under the operation of which hundruis had been gruelled to death in the bastiles , and many an unhappy mother had deprived her offspring of existence . Cases

      innumerable might bo cited ; it was enough that he mentioned—and bat mentioned—the name of Harriet Longley . ( Cries of " Hear . ") Well , this was the law with which Mr . Roebuck was so much in love ; and not content with it as it at present stood , he must needs seek to increase its deformity by vesting the immense power of carrying out the law in an ari 3 tocratical , irresponsible Secretary of State ; precious Radicalism this ; but / or his part he was not surprised . Mr . Roebuck was a rank Malthusian ; as such he ( Mr . H . ) had never trusted him ; moreover , he ( Mr .

      Roebuck ) was allied with the fox and goose crew of Leeiis , men who though they had liberty ever on th ? it tongues , harboured tho vilest despotism in their hearts ; he must confess he was surprised that even the Chartists of Bath gavo their support to such a person , and he hoped that they would not fail to do their duty , by bringing their very inconsistent representative to a publio account of his conduct . ( Cheers . ) Tbe Chairman announced that Mr . Otley wuuld lecture on Sunday next , on the Jife and character of Washington . Thanks having been voted to tho Chairman tho meeting then adjourned .

      Da . M'Douall—This eminent and talentedassertor of the people ' s rghts , visited Sheffield on Tuesday last ; by some it was feared that the time of the patriot's viat wa 3 inauspiciously chosen , this boing the week of ; he races st Doncaster , their fears were , however , proved to be ill-founded ; the Town-Hall had been engaged for the doctor , which will hold , we are informed , a thousand persons . By eight o ' clock , the hall was densely crowded , at which hour the popular lecturer made his appearance , and wa 3 received with tho most tremendous

      cheering . Mr . Gell was called to the chair , aud introduced Dr . M'Douall . The lecturer at onco entered into an explanation of the principles of the People ' s Charter , as he proceeded , vindicating the rights of t ' ue people , in tbe most , eloquent , and soul-stirring luc ^ ua ^ e , responded to by the most rap : uroui chtering . Your correspondent must express his regret , that he is unabio to send you even an outline of the doctor ' ^ excell en t lecture , compelled as he is to have his weekly report in the post-office , before ten o ' clock on Tuesday evening .

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      PERHAPS THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY , AND CEUTAI . NLY IHE MOST 1 MPOETA > T J 1 EETING EVER COM'KNED IS LO ) NDON , WAS HELD ON SATVRDaT . NJUIiT LAST , AT THE CRAVEN ' S HEAD TAVERN , DRl ' RT LANE , FOR THE PURPOSE OF HEARING FEARGUS O ' COKNOR . When Mr . O ' Connor presented himself , he was received with one general burst of applause , and then commenced as Joliows : — Mr . Chairman and fellow-tradesmen , for I am a tradesman —( cheers)—it was wrong , very wrong , of me to have ^ tntured lure to night ; I cannot make a speech ; I ^ must speak to you . ( Hear , hear . ) I have j ; ot a bad eore throa-t and a violent inflammation of the chest at the present moment ; but had I

      b _ en worse I could not have resisted the great temptation of meeting the stonemasons—the glorious stonemasons—and other trades . ( Cheers . ) This meeting is the foundation stone of a great and beautiful edifice , in which every member of the human family may find shelter . ( Cheers . ) I have earned a title to the name of workman , as your Chairman tells you that I Jook twenty years older than I did four years ago . Well ; if I have done twenty years' worth of good , I have no reason to regret the premature old age-( Cheers . ) Now you are many of you masons ; and Jet us see why and wherefore you should be Chartists—for that , after all , is the question . ( Hear , hear . ) I como to enlist you in the holy army cf Cnariists ; not to kidnap you as uiiwilling recruits in the army

      of martyrs . Well , you are masons : many belonging to London , and many more driven from tho country to lock for employment . ( Cheers , ) Wei !; notwithstanding that the Sun , and other papers , still contend that steam power has not interfered with the bu = incf 3 of tuilors , hatters , shoemaker ? , Sec . —( laughter)—it is my business to show you fairly how it can inteifere with tho builders oi houses , although no part of the operation is performed by Ftcam . ( Hear , hear . ) To prove this , then , I will go a : once to authenticated stam ' . ics . ( Hear , hear . ) And I will not travel beyond the Elysium of Reform , yea : I will take the very ten years of that halcyon age . ( Laughter . ) It appears , then , according to the census of 1831 , that tho

      number of families in Birmir . gham was greater by between 400 and 500 than the number of inhabited houses ; while , by the census of UJ-11 , it . appears that the number of families exceed the number of inhabited houses by between 2 , 000 and ; i , 000 . ( Loud cheers , and hear , hear . ) Very well ; here then we have the admission , supposing house-building and procreation to have progressed according to former rules and standards , that in tho last ten years above 2 , 000 families , or 14 . 000 persons , a : s'jven to a family , have Been dr : re ; i from the cottage £ 0 the ceiiar—from the house to the lodgiug-r-jom . ( Great cheerinp , and " true . ' ) Well , what has this done ? Why , it has treated a competitive power of 2 , 000 ready-built houses against the masons of

      Birmingham , — ( hear , hear )—and it has sent them up here to create - competitive power , constituting m master ' s rct-trvo , whtrcon he may fall back an > i make a reduction of wages according to tho overstock in ths market . ( Loud cheers and " true . ") Now , what occurs at Birnmiyhain occurs to a greater extent at Manchester , Leeds , and other inamracmiing town ? , aiid hence we find a great number oi co-. tages , form-.-rly occupied entirely by labouring men , now uutenautcd , while we see cellars full o 1 live-lumber . ( Great entering . ) Hence I prove to ; ou that by the unchecked license to gamble in artificial labour , your customers are driveu into the celiars , and your services are not required ; thus that steam injures you —( hear , hear . )—and also that

      ii creates in your trade a surplus number of hands in a ; i overstocked market . ( Cheers . ) Let » s now s ^ j how the pystem generally operates pr > judicially to the who ! -: mass of society ? ( Hear . ; I will bi o in v , i > h your iJl-u ^ cd customers , my poorest and best belovci clients—the fustian-jacketed operatives . Suppose then a master to employ a thousand haniis , anu u reduce the wages from 14 s . to 13 s . a week , that would be considered a Blight reduction . They have gene as far as ' 63 per cent , or one-third reduction . ( Hear , hear . ) Very weJ 3 tbaJ reduction gives tiu master one thousand shillings , or £ 50 a-week ; independent of any honourable speculation upon manufacture ? . ( Loud cheers . ) Now , that gives him a property of £ 2 . 600 per annum , and now

      hear me , and lei this sentence sink deep 111 yuiir recollection , and be engraven upon the tablet of every working man ' s memory . To preserve the title to that property is the principle upon which the House of Commons is returned as the great trades itnion of the monopolists . ( Tremendous cheering and clapping of hands)—ami to break that union down we are here assembled this night ; and break it down we must and will . ( Loud cheer ? . ) But I dont stop here ; for my business is lo make my principles and objects so clear , that none can misunderstand . ( Hear , hear . ) Well , suppose a community

      of 10 , 000 familir :, the masters without reference to trade make by a reduction of one shilling per week , ' £ 26 , 080 annally by plunder . ( Hear , hear . ) Wclf , they substitute a cold bastile , which again i deprives you of sustenance . ( Cheers . ) The Btep-¦ mother ' s scanty bit iusolently doled ; out to systemmade paupers ; tho overseer's knout ; the wife tore 1 from her husband , and the children from both ; and j for what ! Because class legislation has robbed tbe 10 , 000 families of £ 26 , 000 annually , which if shared , j wold have formed a larger fund than the commis-! sioners allow—would have rendered poor laws un-I necessary , and education a blessing to be obtained jby the poor man ' s own honest ^ resources . ( Loud

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      cheers . ) Well , that's a moderate picture , and now to come home to you stonemasons , tailors , hatters , and all trade * . ( Hear , hear . ) Supposo then , that in conaequenoe of an overstock of masons , tho masters should reduce wages 5 g . a week , here at once tbe proprietors of 1 , 000 slaves make by the reduction the enormous sum of one hundred and thirty thousand pounds per annum . ( Tremendous sensation and cheers . ) Now would ' nt it be a good substitute for the bastile and skilly—( hear , hear)—and to obviate this , you have tried your trade ' s union ! Folly ! folly / ( Cheers . ) The Whigs were more powerful thaji you ; and they were a trade'a union , and yet the Tories being a still more powerful union , they beat the Whigs . ( Cheers and laughter . ) Now vou

      see that call class legislation what you will ; paiat it as you please !; the House of Commons is nothing more or less than the rendevous of two trades' unions of masters—the Whigs , the unionists to uphold steam , and the centralisation of squalid misery and wretchedness in the filthy towns , and the Tories , to uphold the convenient appropriation of tho land , whereby they may regulate Suffrage and representation , according to the ehuroli , the army , the navy , tho law , tho placeman , and patronage standard . ( Load cheers . ) The one combination cannot rob the other j they may hold possession of the legttunata and transferable p lunder ; but upon any tSmeffccenoy both factions will join in one anion to rob you . ( Loud cheers . ) Now , do you hoDefor . or

      expeot any alteration of yoargrievances from either . (?* No , no / ' ) No ofjdourse not ; that ' a right . ( Cheers and Janghter . ) Do you conscientiously look to the Charter , as a means of elevating you , without plundering those above you ! ( Cheers and *• aye . " So do I . ( Cheers . ) Well , now the same rule that applies to masons applies to all other trades . When those in the provinces can't wear coats and breeches , tho displaced tailors come to London and reduce wages . ( Hear , hear . ) So with hatters , and so with all ; for believe me that none , not even the greatest , but depend upon your order for their very existence . ( Tremendous cheers . ) Now let me push the consideration of this important questioa still further : a man said that the blacksmiths would bo

      the last to suffer and would suffer least ; but I will show that they are tho first to suffer and the greatest sufferers . ( Cheers , and hear . ) To begin , than , the foundry worked by steam , does most of that work which they usod to do—( hear , hear)—but , more , 1 will take a railroad . ( Hear , hear . ) Now , how many blacksmiths in the different towns tbroaghout England ] how many harness makers and all other trades has this system of steam travelling reduced to beggary , and seat as a competitive power into the market ? ( Hear , and cheers . ) But I will push it still further and contrast you with horses . ( Hoar , hear . ) Now , then , steam-power by supplanting the manual labour of man , has been to mart just what railway travelling has been to horses . When man

      worked at his loom , he knew his value , and his employer knew his value , and they wero each joints of the great whole , component parts of society , mutually depending upon each other for life and subsistence , each equally interested in the regulation of demand and supply , then mau thought himself afreeuan and he looked not narrowly into the ramifications of legislation , considering freedom to consist in houso , food and raiment , but when machinery made him a slave and bondsman , he then began to look for the causes aud ho found them in cla 8 s legislation ; he then looked for a remedy and found it in the Charter . Now , then , what steam did for man it has also donofor horses . While the postmasters and coach contractors found their stock profirabJo

      and their renewal expensive , they fed them and petted them , but when the competitive power was brought into operation , they then took one feed a day away and then another , and , at last , they reduced them to the standard established in the competitive market ; they took the m « at out of them , fed them for the remnant of the time for which they were likely to be profitable , and , having thus reduced them to bonea , sent them as dog's meat to the overstocked market , smoke having rendered their existence like that of man , unprofitable , ( li would be impossible to describe the cheorjug which followed this glowiug and novel picture . ) Now , continued Mr . O'Connor , let us consider the remedies proposed for the redress of these national calamities—the

      repeal of the Corn Laws ! ( Laughter ) You may well laugh . Reduction , of the timber and sugar duties . ( Renewed laughter . ) Now , as they hare reduced tho question of the Corn Laws to the tangible shape of " cheap bread , " I may just atk you if you can have any influence over tbe price of the manufactured article , whatever enactments the Trades' Unionists in St . Stephens may make as to the raw material ? ( " No , no . ") Very well . Now , then , a 3 they admit that oheap bread will make cheap wages , and as they don ' c say one sentence about cheap Government , or cheap prayers —( laughter and cheers)—cheap fighting , or cheap law—( cheers ) -just let me fupply the deficiency . ( Hear , hear . ) Suppose , then , that labour is cheapened , and

      that wages are correspondingly reduced—mind , according to legislatire rate of duty upon the raw material , wheat , and not according to the Hour factors or bakers' enactments—( cheers)—and suppose that taxes remain , aud the funds remain , and all regal expences , in short , all—and suppose wage ? , which alone pays all , to be reduced from £ 1 to 14 s ., and suppose that out of tho pound you now earn , that you pay 103 . tax , and have 19 a . to spend ; well , out of tho Us . you would still pay tho 10 s . tax , and have 4 s ., the surplus , to deal in tho fancy bread and flour market . ( Loud choeriug , aua " True , true . ") Now , to ' complete this picture , I must shew you what power the corndealers , flour-dealers , and bakers have ,

      independently of law . ( Hear , hear . ) Here it is then , a night ' s rain or wind , and , as if by manic , we have a calamitous note from Mark-lane , and when you go for your breakfast you get the small loaf . ( Loud cheers . ) So it ie , one night's raia gives the power—the intention is always there—and although it may raise the price of Hour from 3 s . to ' 6 i . 7 d . in a hurry , yet will not twelve days of suhshiuo reduce it by a farthing . ( Loud cheers . ) Well , then , is it wonderful that we should have 500 , 000 PERSONS LIVING WITHOUT GOD AND WITHOUT HQl'til Ah no 1 and mav . y is ttio system-made wretch roil need to the dire situation of being au unwilling idler , who , while I am speaking , is spending his last { . billing or sixpence in the gin palace . Aye , and that

      poor forlorn creature loves his wife aud little cuts well , yet takes tlie poison to euro an aching heart and drov . n a Hood of sorrow which he cannot overcome . ( Great , sensation and cheers . ) Aye , he loves bis wife and loves his babes , but sixpenoo for seven or ei ^ hc to live upon for seven long days is a promoter of strife and destroyer of harmony , and a creator of family quarrels ;—( cheers)—and who i ^ the villain ! the unwilling victim or tho willing tyrant who makes him so ? ( Loud cheers . ) Well , then , to the Charter 1 look for his conversion , aud for his tyrant ' s downfall . ( Cheers . ) I couit ) low to timber , and let r . ie show how it would opera to ajtainst tho earpt'iitir and mason , and all those engaged iu building houses under a master contractor . ( Hear ,

      hear . ) Firstly , then , if ail tho duty was tak « n off . Suppose that Baltic timbor was reduced in price , from £ 7 . to £ 4 . the ton , the poor man's rein would not bo reduced by a fraction , while the house owners would take care to have tbe ndvantage of the lowered duty . ( Cheers . ) Suppose , then , that a master contracts for a large amount of work , Ins estimate is reduced correspondingly with the reduction on the duty , aud he shows the reduced estimate to his workmen , and actually reduces their wages in consequence of the reduction en duty , having given an advantage to the aristocrat , or house builder . ( Loud cheers . ) As to Sugar , ray friends , I should like , provided it met your taste , to see each of you with a sugar stick in hia mouth . ( Laughter and

      cheers . ) Uut really the juggle is too ridiculous , as regards sugar , to occupy a moment of our time with comment . Mr . O'Connor then entered into a powerful defence of every act of the Chartists . He abked why it was that the whole pns 3 of England and Ireland repeated every word spoken by tho Irish patriots , aad never repeated a word he said . Ah , said he , the answer is plain aud simple , because their leader is but playing chuck-stoue with tho people , to 9 sing them from hand to hand , and they know that 1 am iu earnest iu what I say , and he is only in iun . ( Laughter and cheers . ) Give me six mouths reporting as they give Mr . O'Conuell , and I will carry the Charter and Repeal of the Union . ( Loud cheors . )

      Oh , thank God , you cheer at the Repeal of the Union . Aye , L would carry both in six months ; but as I cant have that , I must only work the harder , and do it myself . ( . Loud cheers . ) I will < io it , let who likes doubt it . ( Great cheering . ) Mr . O'Connor then exhorted all to join the Charter Association ranks ; to pnt down every appearance of disunion or striie , and to unite as one man in the people ' s cause , who must not be longer deceived by moonshine . He spoke at considerable length , showing the progress which Chartism had made , and aftvr a high and well-merited eulogium upon the petition carriers , one of whom was in the ohair and many around him , he sat down in a state of great exhaustion , amidst thunders of applause .

      The above is a mere sketch of his brilliant epeech , the effect of which is , we nnderstaad , a determination to call a general meeting of the trades to hear why they should join in the agitation for . the Charter .

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      HABUHEBSMZTH . A public meeting waa beld oa Tuesday evening , at tbe City Arms Tavern , to welcome Feargus O'Connor to Hammersmith , bis adopted henie . Mr . O'Connor having arrived a little before eight o ' clock , loud acclamations arose from every part of the spacious building , which was crowded to excess , as was tbe lawn and every avenue to the Tavern . Tae cheering having subsided , . . Mr . SxALtwooD was called to the chair , who opened tbe evening ' s proceedings in a powerful address

      eulogising the firm and patriotic conduct of our noble champion , referring to hia valuable assistance in aiding the people to procure tbe return of the Dorchester labourers and the Glasgow Cotton Spinners , and the noble manner in which , immediately npon hia release from hia dungeon , bo again stepped into the front ranks—again braved the brunt of the battle . He called upon the meeting to give every person , wha might address them , a fair and impartial bearing , if they came with pre judices to throw them aside , and listen only to the dictates of reason .

      Mr . DOALlNG , a fustian jacket , moved tbe first resolution : — " That this meeting hail with delight , that noble of nature , Feargus O'Connor , on his release from hi 3 unjaat incarceration , and hereby welcome him to Hammersmith , bis adopted home . They also pledge themselves never to cease in their exertions , until they procure the return of Frost , Williams , and Jones , and the release of all politioat prisoners . " The enthusiastic manner id which they had received their noble champion fully demonstrated that they cordially agreed in this resolution . Working men , of all others , had most need to be proud of O'Connor . For

      their cause bo had sacrificed ease , reputation amongst his own class , and the honours and luxuries of aristocratic life ; for they must bear in mind that he was not struggling for hia own rights , but for the rights of the working classes . The Chairman had alluded to his conduct with respect to the Dorchester labourers asd the Glasgo wcotton spinners . He ( Mr . D . ) also bore testimony that these men would never have been restored to their homes , had it sot been for his unwearied exertions . Miles after miles bad he travelled to procure the release of these men ; and he trusted his exertions in the cause of liberty would meet with speedy and triumphant success .

      Mr . Ridley seconded the resolution with great pleasure . He had come here not to do honour to Feargus O'Connor as a man , for be considered him no more worthy of honour than the working man who bad just sat down ; but he was there to give him hia tribute of thanka—his tribute of admiration , for the noble manner in which he had defended their principles— for the gallant manner in which ho had endured his nnjust imprisonment , cheering them by bis pen , guarding them from danger by bis advice , aud , lastly , for coming again amongst them , with a heart firm and undaunted —with a resolution which no tyranny could baffle , no

      danger dispirit . The speaker then contrasted the conduct of Feargus O'Connor -with that of Mr . O'Connell , shewing that ono bad taken the rough and thorny road which the working classes were compelled to traverse , whilst the » ther Jiad sailed with the gale—bad sounded all the harbours of corruption , but bad finally run his vessel against tbe breakers of Toryism ; and if he did not speedily put to the right about—if he did not speedily deseit the cause of the Whiga , and stand by the people , he ( O'Conuell ) would sink , with the Whig " finalities , " into oblivious perdition . ( Loud chearing . ) The resolution being put to tbe meeting , was carried unanimously .

      Mr . Wueeleb then rose to move the second resolution" That this meeting is of opinion that the people of this empire will never be fully represented until the People ' s Charter becomes the law of the land , and that impartial justice will never be awarded to Ireland until the Legislative Union between the two countries is repealed , and Ireland has a Parliament of her own , elected upon tho broad principles contained in tbe People ' s Charter . " In tbe spirit of this resolution be entirely agreed , being well convinced that the people of this country would never be fully and fairly represented until every man had a voice in the making of those laws which every man was called upon to obey ; any measure of Reform

      short of this was a mere mockery—was unworthy of the acceptance of on intelligent and united people . See the misery and distress which existed among the working classes of this country—among those whose industry created » ll the comforta , ueceaearies , and luxuries of life—whose exertions created all those ingenious contrivances which tend so greatly to smooth the roush road of human existence . Whence has arisen this anomalous state of society ? Simply , because wo neglected the right of Universal Suffrage— of that right which nature , which reason commands us to exert ; simply , because our law-makers are of a different ciass of society to ourselves , having different and opposing interests in view . But they tell us we are too ignorant :

      we have been ignorant—very ignorant , or we should not have slaveil from morning till night , that au ariatccritic class might riot in luxury on the wealth we have toiled to earn . In the second part of tho resolution ho also cordially agreed . As an Englishman , he should feel himself insulted by being told that he could not manage bis own business , but must have an Irishman to transact it ; and was it not equally an insult to Irelnnd , to be governed by a Viceroy , like a conquered province—to be forced to maintain a State Cbuicb , who * e doctrines were at variance with the feelings of eight-truths cf the inhabitants ? ( Loud cheers . ) For these evils—for the evil of absenteeism , tho only remedy was tu uive Ireland a Parliament of her owd , elected on tho principles of the People ' s Charter .

      Mr . Millwood britflyseconded the resolution , which was earned unanimously . Mr . C'CONNOR rose amidst tremendous cheering to address tho meeting . The following is only a sketch of au address , that for eloquence and rtasun lius never been surpassed . My friends , I am proud to sse my 3 elf surrounded by such an assembly ; I am aso proud to see so many females present—this id cheering to my heavt , it informs me that our principles me gloriously wending their way into the heart 01 society—that our females who are the fuundera of tht character of our population , are alive to their true ir . 1- - rests , are auxiuun to see domestic and social happing bu ^ ed on the firm foundation of political liberty . It ia now five ywrs since I had the honour of addressing you in this

      room , I was then received with tome little coolnesa , some little distrust ; but ere that J :: eeting closed , 1 Lad the pleasure of knowing that a ri fc ' ut estimate was found of mj views and feelings . Since then , I have occupied a prominent position in the ' political world . I have encountered the wrath of all * he factions , but have received in return the love and approbation of the people , for whose rights I havo been struggling , whose cause and whote interests have ever been dear to my heart . I am aiso happy to sen a sprinkling of the middle classes present , as I wish to show to them that our principles will benefit not the working closes alone , but ail classfc-s of society . Well , my friends , hero am I again among you , still Uue to my principles , still

      ready to brave every flai . rer , determined now lhat we have vanquished the WM ^ s , to battle all the Tories —( cheering )—in the ful ! plenitude of their power , still ready to meet their tli-eat of a strong government backed by the sword and the cdnnoa , tho gibbet actl tho prison . They may again sen-1 me to York Castle—may again enclose me in their stone coffin—may deprive me of the consolation of intercourse with my friends—and I will cheerfully weicomo all , aye , more ihaa all , if I might be assured that the causa would progress in a similar manner as it has done since ray incarceration . ( Cheering . ) Living here , almost out of tho political world , you may not all know why I was sent to York Castle . It was for the undefined crime cf lib-el , a libel

      copied , from a Wiltshire paper ; not a witness was examined suve to my being tho proprietor of tha paper , tbe Northern Star . ( Cbeers . ) Yet , on the oath of twelve middle c ' . a-. s jurymen , was I convicted for publishing what I r . evLi- saw , what I never read or heard of , till it was heard in uvideiica against me— ( ahame );—but , thank G' > il , I bavo gone through the ordeal ; thank G ) d , we iiiivu all passed through U 19 fiery trial ; never was fin agitation carried on iu so firm , so peaceful a manner :. y tho present ; no riots , no destruction of property , iliuugh they havo attempted to goad us to vengeance by sending the police amongs ! us ; we aro no destructives , we claiiti equal rights for all ; we ask noi for ourselves what wo v . 'ould not willingly grant to all . look at our present anomalous poaiiion ; we have a Tory Government with a majority of ninety-one , and v . j Lave a nation completely anti-Tory ; there is not an hundred working man in tho nation who are Tories . The nation dettsta the Tcrke . How then have they

      been elected in opposition to tha wish of the nationin opposition to tho public mini ! ? Why , because they have been elected by a class ; what then is the remedy ? ( A . voice in the meating , " tho Ballot ) The Ballot , why that ia tho ladle without the soup . Has the person who say 3 the Ballot" a vote ? Come , my friend , 1 want to deal fairly with you . ( Answer , no . " ; The Ballot ! what will the Ballot do ? Will it give him a vote ? No ; it is the scabbard without the sword—the Ballot without Universal Suffrage wonld make a trades ' union of voters ; they -would then fire upon us from a masked battery , could make a boast of their liberality , of their independence , and yet vote in direct opposition to our interests . We want the Ballot to protect us from the wrong doer , not the 'wrong doer from us . But , say tbe Whigs , we will agitate for tho Ballot , 'twill be a mantle to shield us from the people . They boast of their constitutional principles j and yet they would give na the Ballot , which is tbe only unconstitutional one of tbe Six Points of th » Chapter . ( The Learned

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      ¦ ^¦ ¦¦ 7 j ? # ^* Gentleman then at some length proved thaVShe ot * . Five Points were part and parcel of tha so-called Constitution . ) Bat why do the middle class want tb « Ballot ?—Because they find toe system at fault ; beeaa : « they have " preyed so long oa the working cImb , that they Jhive deyoored the whole of their Buhstenee , they now find tb » disadvantage of an empty till : the men who wear hats , shoes , coats , 4 c . can no longer pro * cue themso they want the Ballot to play the lauded

      , monopolists against the steam monopolists / aaxjons ig the warfare to come ia for tbe lion ' s share . Finding tbej can no longer get taxation sufficient from Use working classes of this conntrv , they are trying to eke it out by getting Itfrom Poland , from Prussia , Or from whereTe * it can bo obtained . Feel , too , demands a fait trI&L I never got a fair trial He has been tried and condemned long since ; for one hundred and fifty years have we tried the factions , and have at length , on clear evidence , convicted them of guilt For ten years have we borne with the Whigs ; they gave power to the middle classes , but . neglected you ; they overlooked tbat ; for diem to ba enricneil , you must be placed ia tbe position of purchasers ; but you have been tbe ass

      between the two factions ; first one heaping you with burdens and then tbe other ; they have wrought oat their own destruction , and now they complain of the people . We are not Whigs ; We have done with them for ever . "We never were Tories ; we stand oa tbe glorious position of demanding equal rights for all . I have been called a destructive and a torch and dagger agitator . I defy any man te grove 1 ever uttered the words torch or dagger at any public meeting in my life . What I have said is , that , when moral force failed , physical force would come like an electric skock to its aid ; but the man who would attempt to array it—to marshall an unarmed people against the cannons and ayonets of the aristocracy , must bo a fool or a

      madman . Attwood and the Birmingham Whigs were the first to talk of physical force , and the first to desert their standard , while I was made their scape-goat , the torn fool , to bear the -weight of their misdeeds ,- but I bore -the whole , conscious the day would come when I should have justice done me . That day is now come ; the Tories are weak—weak for want of popnlar support The Whigs ate dead , while we are in triumph . Tae Whigs now call npon us to help them to beat tbe Tories . We did help tham , at . the time of the Reform BilL We raised a atorm of indignation against the Tories , from North to South . We seated them Oraily in GiBcs ; but what did they do for us ? They gave England a Poor Law Bill—they

      gave Ireland a Coercion BUI—they appointed commissioners , well-paid commissioners , to examine into almost every thing . If the Great Mogul bad the tooth ache , they would appoint a commission to see on which side of the jaw the pain lay . If there was distress is Ireland , there was a commission to see why the potatoe crop bad failed . Look at their tithe commissions , bow I struggled against them . Look at their 8 , 000 policemen , equal to 24 , £ 0 u soldiers , as they receive three times as much pay , and then say they give justice to Ireland ; but Irelaui scall have justice ; we will fly to her rescue . Repeal shall be our watchword ; it shall go hand in banu with the Charter . I will strip it of its hobgoblinism . I will Remonstrate tbat it is for tbe

      interest of both nations ; it shall no longer be made a bugaboo of . [ The Learned Gentleman here went into an accurate detail of tho Irish question . ] You are the bees—your oppressors are the drones of society . If yoa were to remain idle for one month—your oppressors would starve . They could not eat their plate , nor their jewels , they could not devour their furniture nor their houses , but yen would not starve . Tbe land is your inheritance . You would consume as much as you wanted , and no more . ( Mr . O'Connor here went into the question vi Baptist Noel ' s tract , during which he was greeted with great applause . ) Look at the present condition , look ni yonder sweet child clinging to its mother ' s bre . stt tviih all the fondness of infantine love

      Bee its mother amiling upon it with maternal solicitude ; and then direct your - thoughts to tbe poor factory children ; see " them carried on their patents ' backs to work at the spinning jennies—the system is too horrible to describe My attention was rivetted ta it when I was at Oldharu , in the year 1835 . It ia a system which will destroy us , or we must dtstwy it , 'there can be no parleying with this gigantic enemy . I am glad to see tbe feeling which has spread throughout tbe country . Britons will no longer be cor . ttnt to slave from morning till night for bare food ; [ hey demand more ; they demand intellectual , in < -r : ii , and physical enjoyment ; and , by the help of Gjd and our firm energies , we will apeedily

      attain iheai . I am willing t « forget the past ; I have buried all animosity in the dungeon of York Castle ; I am for a union of all against the common enemy ; but we will no longer be the shuttlecock to be knocked about by either a Whig or a Tory battledore . I may again be arrested , but I am determined to fulfil my work . Look at cur position—a whole nation governed by a handful of aristocrats , by a few men who , as compared with you , would appear to be made by Nature's journeymen . Gather together all tbe aristocrats who liv . ; within four miles of this place , and an omnibus would hold them . And shall * this insignificant body rule such a host of working men ? We will never oea . 3 e in out exertions till we have put an end to

      Buch a system . Tha Whigs , a' the time of the Reform Bill , said that taxation and representation should be co-extensive , this would admit all who paid taxes , wlitther twenty-one years old or not ; but we have laid down a defined plan , we say at twenty-one years of ag » a man shall be entitled to a vote ; we will not move from this , we will not alter to twtnty-one years and one day ; we will have it for all , whether light hair , or dark hair , whether 'English , Irish , or Scotch . They say we are ignorant men , we must , therefore , have a plan about which there is no mystery ; ono which all can understand , such is our Charter . Let all who are in this room , who have votes , hold up their hands . Wsll 4 there ate three votes . AU who have no votes . Aforest .

      Well , these three men are our masters , they monopolise all the brains ; ye poor brainless souls , go about your business ; what are ye fit for ? yo say ys have intelligence ; 'tis all moonshine ; ye are ignorant ; yo have no votes . These three men are like the aristocrats on the omnibus ; that they are good and true men is evidenced by their being here ; but it show * the folly of the system we are contending Bgainst Hitherto we have been beat by disunion ; they nave played off the Whigs against the Radicals—tbe Radicals against tbe Chartists—and now they want to pit the O'Connoritea against tbe OConnellitea ; but they shall faiL I will traverse the three kingdoms ; my watchword shall be " Union . " By February next we will have a petition

      signed by four millions for tbe Charter and Repeal . The Whigs tell us to lay aside all cur little differences ; we Lave no differences ; we are all united ; ' tis they that have tbe differences . Let them unite with us—we will receive them as brothers—we will bury the past in oblivion . In the North the shopkeepers are fast joining our standard I they feel the pinch more than the shopkeepers of the South . The steam Lords , with their £ 10 , 000 capital , are ruining the shopkeepers with their few hundreds . But their organs say that Lords Howick and . Uussell are to be our leaders . What a pretty pair of leaders ! Did you ever see them , my

      friends ; they are , indeed , a pair of iittle ponies—I might almost call" them donkies—to drag along the chariot of the public mind . Can we unite with such leaders : No . Her Majesty had bette ? transfe * them from the preparatory school of the Commons to tke sick hospital of tbe Lords . Mr . O'Cornor continued for upwards of one" hour , in a siniita attain , and concluded with a burst of eloquence which touched every heart He also apologised tii .-it his ill health had prevented his attending , according to appointment , at Brighton aud at Matylebone . A . % tbe conclusion , Hr . O'Cunuor was completely « xhausted .

      Messrs . Cieave , Culiingiiam , M-Pherson , from Ipswich , Mr . Clark , from -York , and a person from Cork , addressed tho meeting .. Sir . Cleavo most eloquently entreated the men of London to support tlie Executive , and tho Victims . Tbe meeting separated at a late hour , highly gratified , with their spirits fresh nerved iu the good cause .

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      KEWCASTi . 3 . —The Chartists of Newcastle held their weekly meeting for business on Monday evening , Mr . William Smith in the chair . The secretary read the nnr . utcs of last meeting whieh were confirmed . Tho Treasurer reported the contributions for ihe weeic , which continue lo increase . A good many new members wer ^ enrolled . Several deputation were appointed to wait upon certain

      united bodies of trades , and request their co-opevatiou in tho forthcoming demonstration iu honour of Mr . O'Brieu and Mr . O'Connor ' s visit to Newcastle . Tho following rosolutioa was moved by Mr . Fainlough and secluded by Mr . Sinclair , and carried uaauimously : —Resolved— fi That the thanks of this meeting be respectfully tendered to Sharaan Crawford , jEmj , tho proposer , General Johnson , the seconi ' or , and ; ho thirty-nine gentlemen who vof for ibe addition to the address to tho Queen . "

      Ouseburn . —The Chartists of this place met Sunday morning last , ia the Association-room , ntai Bvker Bar . A oiscussion took place on nbat would be tha most cfi ' eciual plan of getting the ous-districts organised , when it was agreed that the Secretary correspond with certain places round Newcastle , to ascertain the day most convenient to hold publio meeting , that they way be furnished with propar tpeakeis . COALSNAUGHTOIJ . —The cause progresses well here . The exertions of Mr . Abrain t ) uncan have been attended with great good . His lectures in this place had to be delivered in the open street , for , although there are two places in the village capable of holding tho people , the tyrants that have the

      controul of them would not permit Mr . Duncan to address the people in them . He had , in consequence , often to address the people in wet clothes , aad under many other privations calculated to cool both zeal and courage , however fervent . But these evils and difficulties are about to pass away . The fruit of these lectures were the determination lo subscribe money to build a Hall , to hold between three and four hundred people , Exactly at ono o ' clock , on the 30 th of August , the men of Coalsnaughton-did ,, themselves the honour to celebrate the releasff * * . rt bPAVEK Feargus O'Connor from York Castle by decoBrfSis ^ -- / - —t «* - « v thereof of of their Hall with their flags , ant f ^^ gg ^ U yCi ^ sWd for an hour with 30 good muskets , by men /« ptjtt >^ r ~"*^' c 2 £ wf cuBtomedto fear the face of man , or V » ftUJttiBf ^ H" ' - ^ j \ A ^ V V | Wil # 3 ^ uvTss ^ nfeaiuuoN

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 18, 1841, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct397/page/1/