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    MANCHESTER DEMONSTRATION . Continued from our sixth page . Another large , TreD-finished , full-length , oil-painted portrait of "FesrgriE O'Connor , Esq . the Champion ot the people ' s r ights . " Reverse— " A nation should hare csarage to achieve is liberty , -with power to defend ' it , "Risdom to secure It , and genereiify to com- : mtmicate it . " Band ofi 3 usic Fcrar large tri-ooloured flags , " which had a good effect at this part of tfce precession . Green filk flag , with " Fear ^ usOC'Bnar , the champion of the people ' s rights ; " from Miles Platting . Raverse— " May there henceforth- be bat one law , thai of nature , but one code , that of reuon ; one thrcne , tbst of jnstice : and one altar , that of

    union . " Banner . " A Government that neglects the physical and moral \ esnts of tha people ought not to exist " Portraits of Fearsui O'Connor and Dr . il'Doaall , decoraiad "with rosettes . Oil painting of Mr . Benbow , with appropriate mottcs . Very large green silk bann « r , with white border . " The people—the foundation—the Boarce cf all power . " Reverse— " Remember the fonl deeds of Pcterioo . " Brows-street white 2 = £ . " Liberation of Feargus O'Connar , Esq ., the xmfiinching advocata of the pe pie ' s rights . " Oil painting of Dr . M'DouslI . 3 l 0 tto—M'DOTall is ocr friend . " " . Manchester Poiitisal Union . " Banner . Motto—'' The People ' s Charter ; and Kspeal of the

    ujnon . Obverse— " The producers of weai ; h should ba the first canfiumers . " Green silk flog . " The Saliord Branch Association . " Bannc-r . " Manchester Political Union—Peace , Law , and Order . " The number ef pedtrtrians , who waited four and sis abreast , was beyond calculation , and to these fallowed & long line of veiiicies sited with people cf both seias .

    In this order did the procession move on with its unwieldy quietened mass towards Suvensons Square . On i > assing the Infnnory , the crowd was so great that pecj ' e were carried alcng with the pressure , tae whole length of the street being lined to suffocation . On th eir arrival at the p ^ ace ot destination , the Square was so crammed , that it was with very great difficulty the carriage couid effect an approach to a situation vbere the speakers could be heard . Great inconvenience ¦ was evidently submitted to ; and , to prevent an accident , the vehicle was stopped , when Mr . O'Connor , at half-past six o ' clock , in order to arrest attention , it once CGinTnensed sne ^ kiEC

    Mr . O'Co : <> ob presented himself . The cbeenngwp . immense . He said it would be folly to go through tee formality of appointing a chairman to preside over such a multitude ; therefore , according to his custom , he wcuid go forward at osce . v Hear . i He said , I am particularly ispr > v to be present here today , fcr two reasons ; and let ca man hiss , hoot , or groan , while I am explaining one of these enc-rm : ties which will create s sensation of horror in every breast Firstly , I rrjsice at the overpowering multitude rart in tha celebrated spot , St * pfc . er . son-sqTiaTe ; aud I I ee happy to be present because it proves that ' I am cot to be dismayed even by the threats cf the assassin . Hear and cheers . ) You all rarely reprobate the

    anronyrnous invitation which you saw placarded upon your walls . But what will you say vrhrn 1 irJor . zi yen , thst I received a letter—not an anonym-rus oca—bet one bearing the signature cf a zr . wn . calling himself b . b Irishman and a Repealer ; and in that letter 1 am told that if I dare come to Manchester , that I should be assassinated , though iheusazds of liros vr ^ re lost in the struggle- Here a feres ; of Irish hands w ^ re hcl . i np , ¦ with " the announcement , " We ' re Irish , we ' re Irish ; who wcsld rUre do if ; Mr . O'Connor continued . - >" o ; no Iriihmsn would dare do it . My body guard into Manchester from Eeclfcs , a distance of four miles , consisted almost exclusively of Irishmen . iCbeers . ' ' And I believe I have shaken hands with nobody el ; e to-day . But although you would not sanction it ,

    yet if the » gsa . gr n had succeeded in the threat—and if I was capable of being diizasyed and intimidatedthe same threat would only have to be repeated in crder to prevent my attendance at public meetings . iHesr , hear , and cheers . ) But I am net dismayed : I , am here ; where is the assassin 1 ( Loud cheeis . ; Let him strike . Where are the Seroc-3 who are to pat me down ? ( Cheers End laughter- ') Let not the Irishmen here mistake me ; I would not allow my countrymen \ to wage so unequal a war as a few thousands against ( hundreds of thousands . If they want to assassinate \ me , they have only » o unite with the enemy ; and : come and be killed , unless yen can disprove any and j every charge which asy or every man can bring a ^ inst yen . . Cheers . } They Efeallnot then war . J any opponent ,

    for I will ro in the dead of rr . gLt Egainst them , and , them alone , wheresoever I should be led . Loud cheers . ) I was requested this day at Eccles , by 4 a j Iri 3 hman , who walked four miles to see ce , to give up the recommendation of physical force , and the £ . ;¦ using . of B ^ ei CConntil , and they would all join me in a body . lo that I rare no answer , but 1 now do it puWidy . I have to occasion to giTB np the recom- . men elation of physical force , aa I all along denounced it . ( Lond cheers , and "Ton did . **; But the very men who put the Lord Mayor's chain upon their neck , ; poked themselves into office , and power , and rewards , ¦ by blustering about physical force , even cut of the , cannon ' s mouth ; and because I would not desert , thrust t me in in their stead . ( Hear , hear . ) When I invite you

    to physical force , or to any secret movement , or wb * n : you hear of rae joining in any secret movement , ;' then desert me ; because you may reLr upon it that I : should either be the paid tool of a faction , or stall be I preparing yon for tncdon . ( Loud cheers . ) I nee '' , not , say more of physical force : and now as to if r . Dzr . iel O'Connell ; kt us see who maifcs the opposition ; arid . test , at til events , my desire to eouciiiite my country- nan by the answer which I shall give . I care no * , f r . personal abuse . I have plenty of it . I \ h-v , \ : I am the best abused man in the world . I am abused by both Whigs , Tones , and Repealers . ; Cheers and cries of ; not by Repealers . ) My answer , then is , that I should be ; jastly chargeable with a desire to preserve dissension ' were I ts refuse even a greater request made by ity countrymen . Hear me , then , Ensluhmtn , Iriahmer ,

    and Scotchmen , if it is to take away the prettxi m disunion and to gratify Irishmen , I pledge sayBelf not even to mention the name of ilr . Daciel O'CanseU , so long as he abstains from abusing Chartists and the Charter . I g lrp him curie b ' -mnche to Eiake me h : s whole Etock-iE-ascte . Loud cheers ; I 2 m rot afraid of Irishmen . If io ,: i-o were here to assassinate me , £ S 9 , O .-o wotild be rta-iy to arrest the Essassins' blow . ¦ E ^ re artin , a forest of hands wers LoMen up , aid ii ^ inerse chitrirg followed . ! What , in G ^ d ' s name , said ilr . OTcnncr , e = n there be different in th ? interests cf an Ecglisli working mm , and an Irish waking i-zn ? and how can it be that all Englishmen see the necessity of making the Chaner the basis ° f - ' ^ ii ' -atitn , while Irishmen are taught to look zpon t _ e possession of a Hcuse of Commims based cocn the

    very pnrc :--. e wh :: h we all Ea ^ k to destroy as the only ttlzg wcrUi coct-nding for . The Repeal of the Union without ti ? thir . er ¦ was a mere cuckoo cry . * Hear , hear , tnd chars ) If the Irish wished for a Ptr . ia-Ei =-t in lrt-lasi ! , ssd if the whole magic was in the cams of ParliaiErst . we wculd make them a prc-tat cf our =, ready cut ana dry ; bc-x and dice , and all . Hear . Bcir was the honesty of tee advocates of the rj _ -tice principle ta be tested :- by their prozcises cr thrir z-ezforpssces : ' v . 'hat Le had done was befure them . Wh . t hi rroEis . d to So was to cc-t 4 , 006 . 000 of tlgDV tare =, TThlch would c _ . = : him ^ i COO , demar . I : ; e a reprsl cf the L-gUla' / rTe Union . . Loud and Iccg-Mnniued cneerije . How , sire me leave to ask you , can ycu ! « : down the ^ r . -trny cf the Irish landlords with

    the preset fianchije ? -Ch ^ trs- ^ How can vq-j contecu agiirst the oppr-: i ? i-n of the Law Church , with i-s enormous rcpres ^ t-. tiTe powers , and the standing zpnj to htti i : ? Hear , hear , and loud cheering . ' , iiow , I &s ± , can you do these things without a ' . Urine t-s rnrci ' . e cf repressr . tsJi-a , vhich has led to tha agrres £ : cna of boih ? ( Hear , heat , . Aye , cy feeloved countrr ^ en , j ? z hzre anscjed r : e much , and annoyed ac : or . r . Hear , ttar , -rd chars . But I have more t _ an c ; ee * Z- ' A roi that I was not to b ^ irrigated L- = m E ^ N ^* " ^ ' - turned frc -- -7 c- ^ se bT <* --r ^ - - ' ~ -- ^ -, and thrtats of L 5 sassinat . on . > Hear , w , and i 0 B 3 £ - , ers ¦ Wiat Eow . s it ^ jjp i ^ ^ jtji VV " - - ^* - - ¦* * - ~ one cf my ccantrymen , that I re-% r » Vr . tI t ' I : is to watch me and to watch

    r , * ' u ^ - ^ -i , ard to jz-lzc for themselvts . Not to fr 5 tt - £ - ' £ sted partisan ts ; = d ^ e for them , but w JMge f ; r theasclTrs , whether " he or I take the Z ? Z " ? ^ ; tLe C 1 - - > s * inteUigih-le . . or the most practical t « Sv ^ - v * ^^^ S griferances , tsrcmotiBg union , and 7 ot ~' i ^ t - ^ - ^ Loud cheers ) MigHty Provi-£ ~^ \ w ? ° . "_ Li £ h tir 2 etb 3 t self-interest and expe--jcy ^ - ' - ' - ' 2 g . , ¦;• vrs . x to humanity and principle , and . eaca , ^ Tsf . x ' - . zg himself in the general want which Prsvau , Eho-ld now -, at his shoulders to the wheel

    , * - <* " j and shove onwwda the onlv remeSy for generally i ^ e v ^^ g distress ? . LoUd cbter s . ) When we look I " rf 4 £ te ^ e tmtenanted houses , the cottages i f ^ i up , and the c-Jbrs teem ~ g with the unhealthy ' . * , on ° ' t ^' -buried ghosts , who are sugaring living i £ " ? £ ^ ^ - ^^ ds , stalking abroad in c ^ kedness , and ; a- * £ = niiast cf warehouses flUtd with the produce of ' ^ -=-r ttdustry—wUre , I ask , can bb the Leart of the i ~~ a wfeo Wca i dj by ^ Jne 2 v £ hhfcr ^ - ^ jjj j u ^ oldmg the syrtem that has led to such > Xr ^ ly ' Of ^ Ss . or withhold his assistant © 1 j f' ^ .-r l ^ ol ^ tmentof a system which is to destroy I £ t ' , d ci 6 £ rs . Why am I hated by the aristocracy ' had the the

    ^ - ^ a ? Because I todies of murdered ^ -faea , when they came wrongfully br their death , at p ^^ watB hsM over them ; because I atrended vi ' ^ - ^^ aac , and there sought satlsfacticn for the " v . - ? ; ny Catholic countrjniso , hfctd b ? ihs n-ranti bv + v l " - ? % rnEaris cT the law-cLurcb , tacked ^ t _ e state power which the present ' sjsttm of rtpre- wu ^ - ^ si gi , ^ to thacorporate -snd infide : Christjaaa . lT ; ^^ loag continued cheering . ) Well , does man , * - « ve aU thiagb . doffl vx irietHian change bis . nature , > o T . " 16 iand ^ ^ birth when in * foitign clime ? ab ^ n'T ' ^ Elll » 14 Ilfc » loTe Ireland cow , thocsh ¦"«* ai .. -rombershores ttaawhenlwiB onher grtenlandB

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    1 nnci heard her moan * , all causad by the want of that Ccart ^ r which I ] ook for as a heali / Jg balm for all her ¦ vrc > ucd 8 . And ¦ where , now , at © thc . 89 Tinuous ones vrho ¦ so copiously abused me ? Where now are all those who ' called me Tory , beoausa I directed my fira upon the ! enemy immediately before me and in power—where I ' ssk are they t Where is their great cotrra ^ e In-giving ! to that Hea-Tenbxxrn-minister the opposition * ritb which ¦ he soafbt t » M met upon the very thrssbtfedof effloe . ! ! Load eheers . ) I bave been a month at large , and during thst tinra , show me the man of any-class who has i opposed and registered hia determination to opoosa my ; friends the Torks as I have done ? Not thas I think

    1 them nmeh worse thsn the Whigs—not I that I " think they would resort to more base ! or tyrannical insans for represing tny principles , or for killing me , than the Whigs have ; but because ! th ? y are in immediate possession of power wh ' ch I I co ^ oidtr unconstitutior : ^! . ( Caeeri ) On my route I here to-day , a Sue bold-looking working man said to I nie , ? ' Well , Fearfos , the TVhigs havn-t killed you ; f but : by G—d , Bobby wilL" ( Scouts of laughter , and i >> * ay , b . e weiut-i Xa , I balieva yon ; at least if he dot-s it will be a dear purchase . \ Leud and long ] cheering , and waring of hats , which lasted for some I time . ) And I'll tell yvu why , becausa I am deter-[ wiined that if a aeco :: d attack is made upon me , it ! shall ke up-n form and not upon law , as the last ' was ; and 1 am resolved neither to break the lavr

    nsy * tIf , nor to allow you to break the law ; and therefore 1 believe tiisre is Eufficient honest intention , moral courage , and stern determination in the people never ' to resist an iliefal attack aeiinst a political enemy . i 'Loud cheers . ) Suppose , as the working man siid , i tha * . Bobby iii-1 kill me , how fanny all the Teries at 1 Mam-hctter would look when the news arrived . ( Hear . ) I Mr . O Cuiinor then entered into a review of the Chartist ' a . use for tho last two years , an > l in * pe .-king of the ; Corn Law said , wiii ycu just thiuk of a parcel of fellows ; who think all tho houses , l ^ rge and saiall , too littlt ; ! for themiselvfes , ana yet talk of giving you a large j leaf . ( Cheer 3 and laughter i Well , then , am 1 to ( join ttem ? iXo , no . ) Xo ! and are you to join ' tktza ? >" o , ctriaii ^ y not ; acd I'll teil you why .

    Because if we t ; o a hair ' s breadth e ' . ihvr to f * e rgut band or to the left , thd strength which our imb-. cility 1 would give to t . ur oppuuents , and tuable them to I throw us backw !» rds , whila the ; ha ^ -1 wholly ann inilated ' tlie . psople ac . i their causs . . Cheera . ) TaaVs my ! pea ; op , my frienus , for givirg anti for counselling tu give , fair oprwshion ia the vay of trgumeat ro every | dai / -trap qcescicii which is pnposed for your auieliora-; tion w ^ ilb i : is accomplished , Wtjuld but tend to < strtngthen the haivls of the eaeray in the resistance to i the gentral principle of universa : jxstice . ( Loud cheers . ) . What ! am I to look arcund and see before ine tbit miking , and almost speakicg portrait of Frobt , Witi liims , and Jones , asking you , in dumb eloquence , to restore them to their famiiies , to their cou-try , and to

    th = if homes . iLoun cheers ) Aye , don't cheer us ; you have no ^ vinpathy for them . 'Ihis night ' s fe » tivai was not n : udr for them ; and we no ?? enjoy i-omethine like liberty , while they are pining in a pen-1 colonyconvicted upon the false oaUi of a Government officer , and upon the snirmition of hired Government spies . ( Great seosation , and cries cf Shame , Ehaoie . ) Well , that was the Whigs . fCt-eera , and "It was . ") I fought hard for the Djrchester Labourer * . ( Cheers , and " You did . '" ) 1 never saw them . I fought hard for the G-iargcw Cotton Spinners , and I had not se ? n ; hcm untU they were arraigned . I have not received liiuch thanks for cither . But that shall Eot interfere with my duxy to Frost . iLout \ cheers , i What should merit cspatriatiou to a penal colony ? Is 1

    • it tfce fact of beir . g tue bis , of Mayors—tho b * st of 1 lBajUtrates—the best of Poor Law Guardians—the best of fathers—the best of husbands—the best cf friends —the best of cit 2 ir . s , and the best of subjects ? If so , Frost was guilty ; Frost should Lave suffered , for in his perssn , and I kn . w him well , were centred all those excel ' tut qualities which constitute the man , the patriot , and the Christian . ( Lour ) and loDg-continned cheers . ) Well , what is the Charter to do for Frost , , Williams , and Jones ? Why , they were expatriated ] in a dingy transport ship , and one of the first ' ¦ acts under a Charter Government wonld be , to charter a Government manof-war ^—ihear }—and bring the convicts home in triumph to their native ' land . Lond and long-continued cheering .. ! Here Mr .

    O'Connor made an allusion to a tall gentleman , who . stood on the platform immediately under a splendid ' foii-iength striking likeness of Frost , Williams aud ' Jores . and who , ilr O'Connor was informed wss the ' son of Mr . Fro ; t lie siid " behold the living son , ' standing under tha father ' s picture , supplicating God ' , to lock them once more iu one fer . d aud affectionate i embrace . " Every eye was directed towards the indivi- ' dual , and was follswed by waving of hats and cheering . ' which b-sted several minutes- At this moment the i Rev . Mr . SchoSeld reached the carriage , from which ilr . O Connor was speaking , when he turned to ' him and said— " Ia the person and in the attendance of the Rev . Gentleman , we have the man who was brave enough to utfy prejudice when tyranny was at

    its height , and to go bail forme , when others wosM feel shame to have done the det-d " \ Laud cheers . ; This gentleman ' s presence , at all events , provss my coniistecer , because ieis the vary man who t- ^ ok tha chair and presided over the first meeting , now six years ago , which I attended at Manchester . 1 trust that he will assure you thai the very principles which I then propounded , and ray determination to agitate for nothing less , ar Mr . O Conner then entered into striking argument why and wherefore the several trades of Mancht .- —cT had so nobly swelled the ranks that day by their numbers and strengthened the cause by their couutenauca He ssid he djdcot think that it vrzs within the po ? -er

    ' £ c f I 1 I < - ¦ t 1 i t and scope of possibility , in the present siate of geuerr . 1 ' distress , to havv presenttd to the astonished spectators ' : such countless thouiinds , with ruch a magni'iceut ; display of splendid fkg ^ . ( Lsu . i chters . ) One word ¦ f ^ r a f ; iecd , and I bave ilone . O'Brien , another Irish .- ; it . stj , my friend and ccllesgue , —icheers . —i 3 another i proof that the English io not hate the Iriih . ( Cheers . > _ He was here to-uay ; Lut the i ^ mtDsity of your j prr-cc&iijn having postponed to a late hour ' cur Lirival on the s-pot , and ; he necessity of his being in Liverpool this evening , has deprived ' him of the pleasure of thatiking ycu in person . I do it for him , and 1 'il tell you more . It is in your power ' to nii . ke him doublv u £ - _ ful to the c-iuse , anvi it is yeur

    - ^ u a Juty io Co so . , ; Cheers , i Be is ah ( . at ti enter into bis natural dement . There is this difference betwefn him ' and n : e ; I am fortunately placed in circumstances to ' rciidvi ma independent of 5 our support He is not Th = advantage is mine , but the fauh not his . ( Cheers . ) You must , then , counteract the fault . He is going to ' establish a newspaper—that cewipaper is tn b * his ' daily tread , and to be anjthtr portiua of your knowledge . The compliment hrtwetn you will be recipro- ' cal . Y"c icust support him—let me shift for £ , ; -sdif . Put hi : n upon his lrgs ; hs has ^ f : n vrell tried—-. chetr .- ; —and do not allow yc-ur avatiiy to eirect that ' which . Whig tyranny bns failed to a-conipiish . CLecrs . ' i Af :-. r s ^ me more obscrvatioiis , Sir . O'Cvnnor sat dovm , ' amid thunders of ar . pku ; e . '

    ilr . Ee . neov . - saici that this day . it would t > e a ^ riit ' . fcd bv i- ' - it enemies , had indeed tetn a clor ; ous day in behilf i'i the Charter . Both fact : uD . < niu .-t s ^ y tV . at thi « has been a most splesdiu dtm ^ ijaiiauon . He w . - . s of or n : on that ha < 1 a £ i : ii ' ar ruani . ' -staticn of opinion Ltd jyi ^ patky been made f .-nrtriy , they vouiu long agohaf . e stopped the mousters fn-mtheir vricked dce .- ! of V . ood—h'i m ^ iiit as far u . s » h-j Carter tva-s conctraed . Hear .. He was afraid that few could Ltar wlnt he then Esid , tncli was the state of pressard from the cro ^ 1 ; fce . hoald , thcrefure , prts-rniiy retire lfcavicg his friei . d , the Kev . Mr . Jachson , to follow him . He , hc ^ vver , rttamed them his sincere thai . ks for tLst m ? irk of thrir sympathy ; but hojtd he wuid i > a a ' . l . iwerl jji * . to till them that at s-. ns iatare day , vrhtn they mkht h-i wtr . teJ , ti . at tht-y \? . r . ' . d cun . e out in the sanit-D :: r ; . tri :: s ar . d socLi ! ir . anner thi-. t 'Ley had

    trial rtuy nrnifcsted towards iir . Fcarsus UCjrin ^ r , hircse ' . f , or . d othsrs . r . nd then most :. SiUrei : iy both Whig anil Tory

    not ox , e month -sroiiid tlapse btfore the Cnirtcr vjuIu becon . j the b ^ of tLe lan < 3 . ( Applause ., IIj ag ^ ii ; thanked th 3 m- , f . fc - for the mark cf their £ >• = ; paU ; v ¦ which haa Ls . tn tLc . t day conveytd to them ; ar . U for the testimony of approbation at ai > y rute , that th ? y bad paid him . > Tea is ready . ) A voice had rcmindc . i him that tea was ready , he would Consequently not trtsspass longpr ui ^ n their time than by ttating that the meeting would t « ach the atrocious Whigs and more atrocious Ton-: s tha ' - the working millions having the pawer in their own hands for their political emancipation , were determined to exercise that power in the causs of Zreedam '* :: & jastiee . ( Much cheering )

    The Rev . W . V . Jackson said , on comiD *; before the people on that occasion , he could not suffix-ienti express his gratitude to Almighty God that ilr . Fcurtus O'Connor , Mr . Ber . bow , himself , and the rest of thci : friec . es , were ouoe mjire found amongst them advocating the g ' orioos , the michty cause of freedom . ( Hear . i The list time they were together for the dissemination of similar principles , and al the time when Mr . Benbow was addressing the pet-pie in favour of those principles , he ( Mr . Jackson 1 and others were being chained hand in hand and conveyed to Kirkdsle House of Correction . ( Shame . ) How Very different on the present occasion—ihear)—and how different the feelings and number of the peot . . e . Tbat oav their friends were

    j ' ! l \ i i ! j i j 1 taten from their beds long before day-light , and conj signed to daik -and' dreary dungeons . iShaine . ) But 1 thank God , they w ^ re assembled together in greater 1 power and strength than - on any previous otcision . 1 iHear , hear . ) We are jet cncoi ; qaered—( great s applaas *)—but the Whcgs are dead never to rise again , i aud though the . Tories arein power , we ¦ will convince ' them ttat the Cturtsr must ultimately becotae the law ! of the Jand . ' ( Cheers ) For hirr . aelf- he " promised i the people 'that although he had been . ^ iamiu ^ ed tin tie dungeon ^ , he was determined - to e ^ ert i hinuelf more than ewrin thsxanse of freedom . < He * r . y j God was on their side , and pub . ic opinion was also en

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    their side , and the Whigs wdntd yet become Cfiartista and oppose the Tories , la winch rase the Chart ** mtot prevail , and altboagh both WbJgs and Tories eombinei the cause cf Chartism'must prevail . ( Hear . ) HVith these remarks he would close , having also to speak in the eouwa of the evening , in the cause of liberty , freedom , asd universal happiness . ( Applause . ) : The Rev . James Schofield was happy to see them on the ¦ present occasion , and proud to see in their ranks the old banners of freedom , which bad for some months

    back been lowered . They were again unfurled in the glorious cause , and their colours could not be unfurled on a more honourable occasion . ' ( Hear . ) He could not allow that opportunity to pass- away wfthout making one observation on an occasion set apart to welcome the patriots home to their friends and families . ( Hear . y He was , however , sorry to see thsft the very head of their body was somewhat poorly and looked indisposed , and he was really afraid tb&t the people wonld not allow him that rest and repose from his labours which he appeared so much in want of . ( Hear . ) ' -

    Mr . Beesley , of Accrington , in returning his acknowledgments to the men of Manchester , for their noble exertions in the cause of universal liberty , proprsid the following resolution . " That this meeting places the ntmost confidence in Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., and hails with pleasure and dtligb-t inexpressible the reappsarance of that gentleman , together with J . B . O'Brien , Benbow , Jackson , and the other suffering patriots , again amongst n ' s , eonsidering them to b « the undaunted , unflinching , and consistent advocates of the rights and liberties <» f the starving millions , and for their perseverance and late

    suffer ! r .. g on our behalf , place cur unbounded confidence in them , not only for their labours , but for their great sacrifices , and hope and trust they will receive the manifestations of gratitude and esteem tendered this day by us , th-j working men of Manchester , as an indication of tuch . We therefore hope that it will stimulate them forward in their patriotic and glorious career . They and we joined in one firm bond of union until our efforts are crowned with success ; the liberty of the people , and the restoratien to their country and their affectionate families , those suffering exiles , Frost , Williams , and Jones . "

    Mr . M'Cabijit , of Liverpool , seconded the motion in a few words and defecated the opinion , circulated for calumnious purposes , that the English portion of the pjpuUtioa were opposed to k the rights of his native coLiijtry ¦ Ireland . i . Tha resolution on being put , was carried by tremendous applause . Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., briefly replied to the resolution , in the name of his friend Frost Tho conduct of the people was beyond all praise . Tbe " blue bottles" were marshalled in Lever-street ; but the Chartists would sot be swerved nor inthniduted , nor frightened by any such a formidable civilmilitary force .

    The whole of the proceedings were conducted in the best temper , and eacU man exerted his interest to mitigate the excessive annoyance arising from the vast coucourse in the Square being propellsd onwards by those in the rear who could not get in at all . This was an argumentative lesson to the enemies of the Charter . " Leave pomps to those who need ' em , Adorn but man with freedom , And proud he braves The e ; au ; lk > t slaves That crawl where raonarche lead " em . "

    Tae pressure upon the carriage , however , at length become very great , and the density of the crowd was net unattended with danger . To remedy the inconvenieuce , it was thought desirable and prudent that the business should here c . ' ose ; and the proceedings in Stevtnson ' s-square terminated , providentially without a single accident . The postilions were then desired to drive to the Hall of Science , Camp-field , where it was advertised that

    A TEA PARTY - would be held at seven o ' clock , and to which 1 C 50 tickets had teen issned , with the necessity of refusing hundreds of other applicants . The Hall is capable of holding about 2 , 500 persons , including the gallery . The party holding tickets , tho sexes being nearly in equal numbers , were accommodated at three sittings , upwards of 5 'JO taking tea at same time , the others occupying the galleries and dancing room respectively . Considerable , though unavoidable , delay therefore arcs 8 befoie the tables were clear , and it was eleven o'clock before the chair was taken , at which hour the intellectual part of the affair commenced . Great praise is due to the proenrateurs ; and satisfaction , order , and the utmo 3 t good feeling prevailed throughout the immense audience .

    THE SOIREE Was formally opened by the Rsv . James Schofield being called to preside , Mr . Feargus O'Connor , Mr . W . V . Jackeon , Mr . Benbow , Mr . Livesey , and Mr . Barker , with their immediate friends , and the Committee of ? ilanisem ? nt , or Demonstration Committee , occupying the piatfonn . At the lower part of tho room , immediately beneath the gallery , were suspended two full-length representations of ths invincible friend of the people , Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., and another , beariM also full length paintings of Frost , Williams , and Jones . They are well tsecuted and highly finished portraits , and were the Mine bome in the Manchester procession , and excited universal . admiration .

    The Ci » aii : MaN opened the proceedings by stating that he wss in a peculiar situation , in consequence of the appointment they had given him . He hardly knew how to adilress them , whether aa brother and sister Chartists or not , he being one as well as themselves ; however , he wonl'l call them brethren in the cause of Chartism . ( Cbeers . i He felt great pleasure in thus being called upon on that occasion , aud he trusted he Bhould be ab ' e to discharge his duty with satisfaction to those over whom he was called upon to preside . He was a workiug man like themselves , and at times wore fns ' . ian ; and ho considered that the character of a

    labouring man w . is tbe greatest honour be could possess . 'Cheers . After making a fow preliminary remarks , he said he would give the first toast upon the H * t , each speaker being awr . re that their time would be short , aa , after the business was gone through , the ladies would littfi to trip it on the light fantastic toe . He then gave— " The sovereign people , the legitimate source of sH povrer , " and called upon Mr . Doylo to respond to it , who , e . n coming for-. rard , was greeted with loud cheers , ciapping of hands , and other marks of apr ' ause . The band—Marsellaise Hymn .

    Mr . Dovle , a ;" rer iddresiiug the Chairman and the numerctis mdit-ccc , said , that there was not perhaps a toast or a sentence in tbe English language than the one he had bt-cu calud upon to respond to that had been bai . Jkd alv-. ut by paries who , when properly tested , wtru a ^ ai :: ; t extending political power to the workiag c'xsses . It wss :: i ^ : true that the people were the kzitinjp . te j- ^ urce of : ; il power ; yet they were , colleGlively an j nolitica : iy bpei ' . kir . g , slaves , which he could sbu \ v , had ho time , Lut it could net be expected that he c-. u' . d justice to such an iuiporUut toast in the limited \ iinis of fife r . i \ uutc 3 . Huvrevtr , he conceived that every man should be in russeasioa of such power as would prutic ; Lira- , -if and his Uvlx-ur against the capUllbt and his c ; 'T It ^ l ; that every man who has au inti-rcst in sooiily , -tu-1 ^ truste-i the working man

    who pro-. iuivd evtrjibin ; : valuable in soca-ly would be considered to have .. material interest as to its welfare , should be protect-. il . TLo "Whi £ 3 have mado use of the toast , aud tha T riss too , cceasIonalTy . yet both would do all t ' .: jy could tu prevent them , the people , fro-. ii Laving such vower . ( Hear , bear . ) Ho novtr felt i / . ore happy than hu h : il dor . s that day iu v ? itDfeS 3 iug . 'uch agloriiiiid el-iixr . ^ tratiun , and 60 see such a large , cnicriy , aud respectable & . ie ; nbly met to ilo honour to horns ' , anr ! upriyLi ChanLU ; ar . d in doing which they , tbe worker . ;; pac j /; , had i "; i , ne honour to themselves . { Hear , htar . ) Sir Juka Caui ]> bell has stated t ?; at Ciiarti-m -vrr . s ckad ; but ha wished lie had bovu there that night to see its resurrection . After making a few other i . minted rciz ^ ihs , he : ¦ ,. ¦ Lred amid loud cheering . Tho Ciiaiuman r * , 33 , and said the next toast

    was" The Caaiter , the or . iy medium through which prosperity and real happiness can ever be attained by the toiling millions . " Air— " Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled . " iLoud cheeripg , ) which was renewed by the Ccainxiftn ealiing upon Mr . Bailey to respond to it . Mr . Bailey said , it wasanbenoar to have to respond to such a toast , for he "wr . ^ sure if it was fully curried out , it would be a bk-ssir . j ; to us all . The toast to which he had the honour to respond , stated " that the Ch . ' irt ' . T is the only medium thr . : i

    am : prosperity can ever li » sttaine-i by the toiling millions . " ( Hear . ) The state of society in which we now live did not , politically speaking , give us prosperity ; an ' the state in vrhich we ought to live would give ns political equality . Hs hoped , hew-ver , that they vrould be stimulated to every oxertu n , in order to & <• - compli / sh th « possession of their lights and privileges ; nnd he felt assured that peace and plenty would then rei ? n throughout the length and breadth of tbe lond . ' Hear . ) If such principles vefcie worth struggling for . such principles were woitli dying for . ( Cheers . )

    The CiuiRU \ s introduced , m complimentary terms , the names ef tbe guests of the evening . Messrs . Feargus O'Connor , J . B . O'Brien , Wm . Benbow , W . V . Jackson , the unflinching advocates of tbe rights of labour , and the other patriotic guests who have suffered ia the same cause , which was received with the most enthusiastic cheering , followed by volleys of clapr-irg . TLe applause was quite deafering . Air— " Au'd lang syne . " When > . Ir . O'Connor came in front of tbe platform Iho whole company rose simultaneously , and remained waving their handkerchiefs and Late , and cheering for several minutes . When the applause had subsided ,

    Mr . O'Conxob . Eaid , Sir , it is a characteristic of Irishmen , that even after death they areattnehed to the very appearance of the departed , and nothing more consolatory to hid heart , than that the corpse shall present a . giod api / i / irance , and as I may bo truly said * to be one of the parents of Chartism , nnd feeing an Irishman must it » o » bti balui and consolation to me , to see defunot-jCL-ajiism preeenting this . Digit , ao _ correly a cotpse , after , Laving its nose pulled , and being laid-opt in the , most appr «? e 4 order by the Whig undvi'tskexi plain John Cunjiteil . ( Tremendous chears a ad laugfe ter . ) He would have laid it out—he would bave wrap-

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    ped it in the winafng' sbeet—he would have buriedIn Whig- toosld / bat - -wbea he thongW the monster « ru - dead-like Ri ^ Van Wlnltle it was - bat , enteaiiced , ond Hke Rip Van Winkle nponawakiBg frdm its sintabers , bo powerful became it « streogfii , that it- was at ' a'loss to recognise i ( a own identity . ( lKra < l cheers . ) Bab ; Sir . tbe Mter wa » bitten . We hate pTeued tbetarpse of Whiggeryin the grave a u ^ s for ^^ tlsm ; ovei it we wm place the dead body of Toryism , and over both we will erect the temple of Chartism : ¦¦ ¦ <

    "And then they will both bk still if they are visa For they are damned if they rise . * V . ( lisnghter and cheer *} Sir , I have beennow afttr a bard and fati guing day ' s work , a mere spectator of the social happiness which I . haver seen around me for move than five hours , while ^ hiB ^ immense buildidg wai being four times replenished with those who crowded to the banquet , aud in truth I could remain for five houia lunger as a passive partaker of the innocent mirth . This , Sir , under the state of things which we seek to establish , should not be a thing of accident , or of an unfrequent occurenoe , but should be the' pleasure to await every workbg man and his family every day in the . year after a reasonableday ' a work . ( Cheers . ) This very xoom , Sir , and such buildings are auxiliaries , and

    not mean ones ia the cause of Chartism . Bear we taest —here we ( commune toeether—here we interohaige opiniona here , by admiring virtue and decrying vice ; we place bounds to poverty in beautiful contrast with idleness and consummate profligacy . ( Loud cheers . ) This proves your power when you combine ; this is the work of your own hands , and I am told that the same parties are now engaged in the erection of a similar edifice at Stockport Let these be encouraged . They aro seminaries where knowledge can be diffused , before which the mist of ignorance will vary speedily be dissipated . ( Loud cheers . ) Sir , I was in the HouBe of Commons on Friday night last , —( laughter , )—and such a House man or beast was never in before . If a man rose by chance to throw in a word en behalf of the

    suffering millions , the close of the debate was anxiously sought , and the means resorted te for its accomcom ^ lishmutit were most logical , conclusive , and convincing . They began and ended with Bor ! Bor ! Bor ! divide , divide , divide , boo , boo , boo , and such like powerful reasoning . ( Shame , shame . ) I fear , Sir , that my excellent fellow labourer , Christopher Doyle , who spoke so ably to the first sentiment , tha people has made a mistake in his calculation of that bo 1 y . I believe , Sir , in Parliamentary phrase , the Minister of tho day . with his apprentices , and sixteen reporters , in galleries in the House of Commons , are intended , governraentally , to represent the suffering people . ( Cheers . ) Let us , Sir , take a brief review from tho days ef the heaven-born statesman , Billy Pitt down to the

    resuscitation ef the heaven-born Minister , Sir Robert Peel , and let us see from the funding system of the former down to the defence of the present Tory Government , and the refutation of the existence of ths distress deduced fvom the draws from , and deposits in , the savings' batiks for the last four months , as used by the latter , and who , be it observed , says that his Government possesses the entire confldonca of the people . Let us see how the principles of the first union of the anti-popti ! ar party , created by the heaven-born Pitt , has been followed np by all succeeding heaven-born ministers , and how the present henven-born one makes use of the last link of this golden union , in order to prove who the people are , how the people are , and wherefore the people are , friendly to his administration .

    Now " Billy Pitt" bound almost every man , whether possessirg land , connected with trade , expectants from patronage , recipients from public bounties , and all that tribe of beggars to tbe Shite That was the heavy game , and it was left for the pigmies who followed him to try their hands at & •¦ Uttl © go" of chicken hazard . ThiB was effected by the establishment of Savings' Banks and the appropriation of the deposits to what they call national purposes . Tliat was another link which bound another class immediately above the people to the S ^ ato . ( Cheers . ) Thus have our ranks been always thinned , and those state dependants , high and low , are taught , during any exoitement , either to uphold their support , or to join in resistance against U 3 . They are told that

    revolution must follow our agitation , and that their ruin must follow revolution . ( Cheers . ) Hitherto the license of the shopkeeper to gamble in duties , customs , excise , and all indirect taxes , has effectually bound them to the State : but that link the State itself has snapped because the state has drained their customers and left them full bhops . empty tills , protested bills , ugly wives , naked children , broken hearts , and tbe prospect of a cold bastilo as the result of their mis-placed continence in a traffi . 'ing oligarchy and a gambling government . ( Loud and long continued cheering . ) But , Sir , to come more minutely to this question of the Savings' Banks , let us , by this financial measure , tost the financial powers of that heaven-born Minister , who is to perpetuate in brass tho union which his predecessor

    established in gold . ( Loud cheeis and laughter . ) Now , I pray you to follow me through the reasoning of the sophist . In answer to the prevailing distress which ia admitted by every man , woman , and child , save the very parties to whom we are to look for its correctien , — ( cheers)—what does he present as a satisfactory answer to this cry of stalking poverty and nakednees ? Why , he shows us the returv . a for tho last four months from the Savings' Banks , and ingeniously selects from the Tuattufacturing districts hia answer as to their present condition . Now , just mark this , he shows that in June , while tho dissolution of the late bid Cabinet of bad men was douhtful , that the amounts drawn out considerably exceeded the deposits ; he then toes on to show that the elections in July having proved that the trade-wind

    of Toryism had Bet in , produced a large excess of deposits over the amounts drawn out . Tho S 3 rae results , he said , were produced to a greater extent in the month of August , when his party's footing was confirmed . He then brings his returns down to the 11 th of the present month , although lio could b . ivt * had them to the 22 na . ; and the triumph of even the eleven days of that month he offers as proof that his administration commands the confidence of the whole people . ( "Oh ! oh ' ! and laughter . ) Now , Sir , Jet n ; e see if an ignorant Chartist can < 2 o that which the English House of Commons either were ignorant of or afraid to perform . ( . Cheers . ) In the first place let us go to the principle ; and though by no means a friend to tho Whigs , 1 answer his first assertion thus ; that

    upon any sudden change or fluctuation of political power from the hands of one party to another party , the same result will be produced . ( Cheers . ) Confidence is paralysed for the moment , and the Tory-stakeholder , aud the Cliartist-stakeholder , merge their distinctivenes 3 in the interest which they copjointly have in looking to their own properties . That neither Whig , Tory , or Chartist , upon a change of Government , would long hesitate to withdraw their deposits , whatever might be the effect upon their political party . ( Cheers . ) So much for that : and now for the facts . Did'nt this cunning gentleman know , that June was a quarter-dav , and that the demands for rents , met by checks upon thu saving bauk , are at that period , as sure as death . ( Loud cheers . ) He

    also knew that tbe succeeding months were a period "when deposits were ma » le to meet the coming quarter , and vehich is n « w : nnd I pledge myself that if the Kight Hon . Gentleman had waited for the whole quarter's return , of the first quarter ' s reign of Toryism , tb : it lie would bave found the result to- be similar to that in the lest quarter of Whiggery , namely , an excess in demand over deposits . ( Loud cheers , and " true . " ) Why , Sir , does not the very name tell us that it is the stock-purse fo those who mo not of sufficient consequence to risk their stakc 3 aud have oil ' s at the great j : iiut-stock hells . ( Cheers . ) But yet I have not done vrith this financial sophistry , wliich passed current in tbe House of Common / 3 . Now , Sir , I will draw o' -ber deductions from the admitted fact of the

    deposits i-xeesdins : the demands at any period . Is it not , V ' imi , ma ' -itr of notoriety trm but few day labourers make ritposits in the S . vings" Banks . ( Htav , h&ar . ) Is it not a fact that the principal amount is made up by the deposits of the newly created class who uviy be said to have fixed incomes ; I mem domestic servants , and persons having small annuities ? Little tradesmen , small shopkeepers , and a fow of the better employed of tho labouring classes also contribute . ( Loud cheers , and " that ' s it . " ) Well , but I have not done : for now I come to use the Kt . Hon . Baronat'a sword against himself—and what do T pvove ? Why , upon a smati scale , what I have eve . - nssi-rted as an unclaniablo proposition , is this : that the poverty of the people , produced by over production , and a couseqwmt dimuuition in the

    price of their produce , placea all scrvauta with fixad incomes—be they high , or I 0 they great , or be they small—la a better position . Those household servants , aud pursona \ rith small nr . nnites , and those who only spend their monies in the purchase of the working men ' s produce , ure now by the working uien ' a poverty enabled to purchase the same annual amount of clothes aud other manufactured articles for one half their former price ; the other haif , consequently , becomes a depesit in the savings'bank , but ia lodged in the name of the privileged Unionist , instead of being placed to the credit of the plundered operative . ( Loud acd uproarious cheering . ) Aye , and repeal the Corn Laws to-morrow , and machinery will make a drug of

    your produce , which the foreigner may or may not take for the promised food , as he pleases , and those with fixed incomes will have the double advantage of ' getting the " large loaf , " and buying your produce at a cirug price , and making •« deposits" or the surplus to the amount of millions upon millions a-yoar as long as the bubble lasts—and those millions upon millions are ever at the command of the oligarchical unionists to be " consolidated" into blood money , person money , spy monoy , and commission money ; to shoot you , to pray you , to swear you , or in some shape to consign you to death . ( Loud and long continued cheering . ) This is one of yonrgreatest causes of complaint presented by the minister as an answer to our demand for relief . ' ¦ ¦

    [ The remainder of Mr . O'Connor ' s speech , which "was most rapturously cheered , would ocoupy more than five columns of our space . Our readers will therefore sea that , the demand for Liverpool , Leetfs , and Sheffield , nil corning upon us at once , precludes the possibility of doing justice to Mr . O'Connor without doing injustice to othors . ] ¦'• ' - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ :. . t :.. ; . ¦ ., -, Mr . Benbow was next introduced as in , eld , and consistent Kadical , whe rose amid lovii ; vpp ) ause , ; and said that be was onoe more in a position in which . , , he coUia speak to them freely and openly . ; % o be , sure , he had aJvtaje . gpok ^ freely , fear ; eaBlJ , . ? 5 d opeay ; . # * ' he would " suoner be a dog and bay the moon" than stand

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    hi aweof such o thing- as himself . Hewaa put in mind thaVit was near one o ' clock ; . he certainly did intend to have addressed them at some length ; but he would not do then , because he knew they had their domestic affairs to attend . There was one thing which caught his attention , when Mr . O'Connor was addressing the meeting . In soliciting their attention , in order to support their cause , be seemed to forget , that it was very , simple , which was merely that they wanted to be re-, presented in the House of Commons . ' He then shewed the inconsistency of the " League" in agitating fora measure which did not go to the root of the evil , and even if it would , they were not sincereiri their advocacy of Repeal , ¦ whilst the-Chartists m . tW other ' hand wete asking for that which God and nature designed them to

    possess , it was not right . 'feonest or jnst > £ fiat the Chair tists should join them , Vat it-was right that they should join them , the Chartists . ( Cheers . ) The Whigs bad given them the Reform Bill which bad set tho middle class against them ; they had likewise granted that most atrocious of all , the Rural Police Bill , ( Hear . ) Aud society had come to that pitch , that almost ever ; man considers or looks upon nearly every other man ; is an enemy . He was glad , however , that the people by their conduct had refused to he gulled by the atrocious Whigs , or those more atrocious , if possible , the Tories , and bad let them see that a spirit ot liberty was still living in their bosoms . Mr . O'Connor bad told them of a union—but he ( Mr . Benbow ) wished to know what sort of a union ho meant ; he wished him to be distinct and definite . There was such a thing as a black Union—a union of perjury and infamy . He fo ; liis part ., hoped he would always have sufficient

    resolution to resist being united with a traiter—and if they would do that , they would defy any kind pf men in the world from injuring them—if so , they would become respectable—it' so , they having truth and justice ou their side , would soon arrive at the haven of freedom . He would recommend thorn not to follow any man but the cause , and , like the disciples of Jesns Christ , have a single eye . No , no , he would not be deluded , he would keepa single eye fixed upon the man whom he considered to be a traitor . After making several other remarks , he said that he was an old R-jpealer of the Union—he joined Daniel O'Conneil in order to get a Repeal of the Union , because he conceived' it would be a benefit not only to the sonB of the sister Isle , but for the working men ef England also . He hoped however , in conclusion , that they would make justice and equity their polar star . He would not keep them any longer , but wou ' . d give ample time for Mr . R . Jackaon to give them four or five hours if ha thought proper . ( Cheera )

    Mr . Jackson was next introduced , amid vociferous cheering . He said that was the third time that day he had been brought before them , and be' felt highly honoured : if ever he felt proud , or felt willing to make a sacrifice in behalf of the Charter , it was that night-It had been said that he had left the cause of the Charter , and was about to unite with a man who was nut a Chartist Heaven forbid ! It hod no foundation in truth ; for he believed that if ever there was a tune when it was necessary to labour for the Charter , aud a

    greater probability of its becoming the law of the land , it was doubly so then . ( Cheers . ) John Edward Taylor was compelled to acknowledge the influence of the Chaiti » ta , for he said that a great deal of the success of the Tories gaining power was owing to the services rendered by the Chartists ; although at other times he would assert that they were only the rabble . Aftti touching uppn many other subjects in his usual lively and eloquent strain , he sit down , by thanking them for the honour conferred upon him , and retired amidst loud applause .

    The Chairmas then gave " The Executive Council of the National Charter Association ; and may their exertions be speedily crowned with success . " Air— " England for ever , and the land we live in . " Mr . Dun \ va . n rose amid loud cheers . He felt favoured to have the pleasure of responding to that toast , because it showed that he , an Irishman from Cork , too , ( smiles from Feargus , } possessed their confidence , and went on to prove that tho working men of England were not hostile to the working men of Ireland ( Cheers . ) However , as to the toast , the country had elected the Executive , and rcposinc great confidence in

    them , appointed them to direct the movement which was then going on , in the achievement of which the interests of Irishmen were involved . Those men he knew personally himself , and he believed them to be sincere , honest , and persevering men in the cause of redemption . After exhorting his hearers to renewed exertions , having brighter prospects before them , as a sure token of which , they had only to witness the demonstration of that d 3 y as unparrelleled by anything ever attempted ia England befoie . ( Cheers . ) He sat down by thanking them for their repeated expressions of applause .

    The next toast given was " the exiled and imprisoned patriots , and may they soon bo restored to their country and their homes . " Air— " Exile of Erin . " Mr . Cahtledge responded to this in his usual touching and affecting manuev , having been called upon several times before on such occasions , he was quite at borne , and shewed plainly his ability and willingness to the cause to do justice to this important toast . Tlie Chairman iuav » iy flattering manner gave "the Chartist press . " Ah?— " Bonny breast knots . "

    Responded to by Mr . Griffin , reporter to theAbrWern Zktr , who returned thanks for the manner in which the Chairman had introduced the toast , likewise his sincere thanks for the merry manner in which the band had p !» yed the air , and for the enthusiastic maftner in which the crowded assembly had received it , because it convinced him that though he was pointed at by the finger of scorn , by those wholivb out of the people ' s labour —by buying cheap and S 6 lljug dear , —( cheers , ;—he at any rato was thought of by them . The working men of Manchester much valued the paper referred to , namely , the Star , tho advocate of the rights of labour . ( Loud cheeriug . ) He would likewise take that opportunity of thanking them for the glorious and triumphant manner , and for their tokens of respect to F . Connor , Esq ., who established the Northern Star , which had done more to bring the people to a general

    understanding with each other , and had done more to spread instruction amongst the ¦ working millions ; than all the other press put together besides . It might appear presumption in him to thus eulogise the Star , but such was the case that it mada the people independent of the proprietor himself . —( Hear , hear , from O'Connor . ) He had weathered tho storm in and out of danger , neither turning to tbe right nor to the left , —( loud cheers , )—advocating the rights , liberties , and immunities of tha millions . In order to be short , having great respect for tbe la'lies , he would there and then pledge himself to , as far as his abilities would permit , both with tengue and pen , defend right agaiost might , the weak agaist ! ho strong , justice agaiust injustice , truth against falsehood , exposing tyranny and corruption , until freedom , happiness , and contentment were the lot of the industrious yet starving millions of the kingdom . ( Loud cheers . )

    The Chairman then gave "The Female Chartists , and the Ladies generally . " It& ' spomied to by Mr . Wheeler , who kept the audience in convulsive laughter . Mr . O'Connor then rose , and when advancing to the platform , waa met by several vociferous rounda of chneriug , waving of . 'Cfiifs , huts , and handkerchiefs , chipping , cheering , rnd stamping , which beggars description . When it abated , ho moved Mr . Schofteld do leave the chair , and that Mr . Wheeler take his place . Here a little familiar sparring took place between Mr . O'Connor and the veteran Wheeler , the latter rising before his time , and the former putting him down again , and pulling each other by the coat tail , which excited roars of laughter .

    Mr . O'Connor then , in a very flattering manner , moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman . K « did it not only because he was an esteemed persou : ii friend of his , but as a public friend t » them , htari ; ig of his good services on behalf of the public . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Jackson rose and seconded the motion , and when put , was carried * itii long , loud , and enthusiastic cheering . Mr . ScnoPiELD responded . Thus euded the oratorical part of the proceedings , it being about two o ' clock . Mr . O'Connor , the Chairman , and a number of tha good and true , left the Hall , highly delighted and elevated by the glorious and orderly display of . the day .

    The band then struck up , the forms -were aided , the dancing masters came to their post , and the females , about five hundred in numbar , took their turns ia the amusement , which lasted till nearly five o ' clock , and even then the mirth was so profitable , that had it not been for having to attsnd to their other employments it would have been too soou . And thus ended one of the most numerous , splendid , and . enthusiastic displays ever held in Manchester , and , in the opinion of many , unequalled—and -which reflects a lastiug cwdit upon the Committee of Management , the females , the blistered hands , unshorn chins , and fustian jackets of this great emporium of commerce . Hurrah , then , for the Charter , O'Connor , and the people .

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    SiIVZBFOOXi . The demonstration in this town , on Monday last , in honour of Mr . O'Brien and Mr . O'Connor , though deficient of a public procession , and confined to a eoiree , was nevertheless of a most soul stirring character . For some time an active committee tad been formed , who have been indefatigable in their exertions to give effect to the arrangements , and by their endeavours , backed by the spirited conduct of the men and women of Liverpool , an entertatanint was got up worthy of the cause , and vorthy of the patriots . Tho soiree was held in the Queen ' s Theatre , Christian-street , the

    interior of which , was adorned and decorated in most beautiful stylo ; the stage was devoted to a cross table for'the chairman , the guests , and the speakers ; the pit was floored over , and throughout its length were placed six tables , at Which were accommodated upwards of Eve hundred persons , of both sexes . In front of the gallery ' was suspended a large and handsome flag , on which Was . inscribed , " The speedy return of the iexiieS patriots bo their homes , aiid ^ to their kindred ;" portraitsi" of ; "the ' patriots , ' parttcjuterly O'Brien tmd 0 "Conndt » ( m ^ <>? tha exiled . Frost , in . handsome frames , we re hu ng aroundthe frontfof the boxes ; and in front of the proscenium was a lengthy banfiW ,

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    inscribed , " National Charter Association . " In addition to the . tickets which were issued for the tea , the public woro admitted as spectators iato the boxes and gallery , on payment of a trifling sum ,.- and every seat ia these places was occupied . The arrangements . were excellent , and iv fleeted credit on ' ' those by whom the entertainment was managed . ; ... ¦¦ ' ,. ' , . » , . ,, The tea e < ra ! paffej » v $ ng , heeri rea ^ oved , OaIthe motion of ; Mr . Ambler , Mr . LtOTD Was . unanimously called to tae chair , ana in opening the . businesa ; of . the meeting , he said ha trusted that by their kindnfi 83 ' he should be enabled to shew to them ho . w ' well ' a ' wbiking man could preside over a meeting composed of working inea md women . JC iie meeting bad been got up to'do hoaour to those

    noble patriots who had been imprisoned for their advocacy of the cause , and" for ' the ' especial purpose of hearing addresses from two cf those—namely , Mr . Bronterre O'Brien and Mr . Feargns O'Connor . As candour in a Chairman was the best under all the circumstances , ha thought it his duty to at once state that on that occasiqn they would ouly have the pleasure of hearing one of" those gentlemen—Mr . O'Brien . ( Hear , hear . ) And lest the ; might think that the' Committee had taken any unfair advantage , he was instructed to say that were any persons present disappointed , and ! wishful to retire , they would have their money returned . He then - explained the circumstances under which Mr . O'Connor had entered , iuto the axrftiigemer . t to attend at Liverpool , and read tho following letter which he Lad just had put into his hands : —

    " Mosley Arms' Hotel , Manchester , Sunday night . " Sir , —I feel assured that you vrill give me credit for the sincere regret which I feel at not having it in my power to attend at your festival' to-morrrow night , intended to honour my excellent and much valued friend O'Brien . It was my intention to havemade one of your party , nor was I aware till after my arrival at Manchester , that their arrangements would debar me of the pleasure . However , your own good sense will point out the impossibility of both O'Brien and mysel ? absenting ourselves from en entertainment got up at much expense . Of all men living , there is not one of Whose public Worth and private virtues I have a greater opinion than James B . O'Brien , and therefore , do I fsel the disappointment more fully . However , he and you , will , I am sure , take the will for the deed , and receive my apology perhaps with less sorrow than 1 experience in making it . " Your faithful friend .

    " FEAKUns O'CONNOR . " Untier these cirenmstancea , he trusted the CoHimittee would he exonerated from all blame , and thst at some future and not distant day they wonld be gratified by having Mr . O'Connor amongst them at a free meeting . (( Jreat cheering . ) The Chairman then proposed , as the first sentiment of the evening— "The people , the only legitimate source of all power . " ( Three times three . ) Mr . A iiBLER responded to the toast . He was sura that nothing could give him more pleasure than speaking to such a toast , on such a convivial occasion , and in the presence of one who had suffered in the cause o £ the people . ( Hear . ) There was such a war of words between p arties at the present day , that it was a

    difficulty to discover who were the people ; but he thought it might be discovered by referring to ths utility of the parties . ( Hear , hear . ) He repudiated any ill-feeling against the lady who now held the sceptre of these lands , but in his opinion there was no necessity for such a personage . ( Cheers . ) It was necessary , certainly to have a presiding head over all assmblies ; but while he admitted that , he considered that a perssn holding such office . should be selected for his fitness , and fer his talent ; but under tho present system , a child or a fool might fill the office . ( Hear and cheera ) But who are the people ? Tho producers of all wealth—the working classes . ( Hear . ; And there was another question , " Why do you toist the people ? to which he replied that cncij - * tre indeed the legitimate source cf all

    power . The working classes "were admitted to have manifested cueir power in various ways ; they uad manifested their power , and that very lately too , by taking , as they had been advised to do , the power into their own hands of managing their own affairs They bad manifested their power , also , in the recent electioneering struggles , when they had stepped in amongst the candidates and offered themselves to fee the representatives « E their own body ; and in doing so they had acted most manfully , and had given utterance to sentiments which , though unpalatable , were nevertheless true , and were expressed in language not to be misunderstood- ( Cheers . ) He toasted the people because they now proclaimed that

    war should be no more , and because they had determined that the institutions of the country should be of a new kind , and should be of a nature far superior to any that had ever been offered to them . ( Hear , bear . ) He toasted them because of their knowledge , as manifested in their inventions , which were of such a nature as to be capable of making the people such a people as they had never been before . ( Cheers . ) He toasted , tha people because of a long-aeglecleA and downtrodden portion of that people , the brawny and industrious sons of old Ireland . ( Cheers . ) Some other observations occupied the remainder of the speaker ' s time ; and , after congratulating them on their taste fo > meeting together for mutual improvement , he sat down amidst great cheering .

    The Chairman then gave the next toast— "The People ' s Charter , and may it speedily become the law of tha British Erapke . " The toast was drank amidst the most enthusiastic cheering .-. Mr . William Jones responded to the toast . He said , in coining forward to speak on th . it occasion , he had to regret that a want of experience might render his development of the principles of the People ' s Charter somewhat deficient ; but he trusted , in the few observations he should make , he should not trespass upon tlitir patience , while he would leave to ths gentleman who had to follow him to supply that definition which be should ' bo incapable of . ( Cheers . ) He looked upon Universal Suffrage as the chief point of the

    Charter , and without which it would be a dead letter , and not worth tbe attention of any : real Reformer . ( Hear , and cheers . ) He did net recognise the accidental circutustaac-3 which gave to one man a vote , while it reduced another to the level of the brute . ( Hear . ) So long as the working classes could boast of having produced from- their ranks a Paine , a Franklin , a Burns , and a Bloomfield , so long would they fce capable of exercising the rights of freemen , and claimed for him that distinction which raised him above the fool and the bmte . ( Hear , and cheers . ) True , it was that a frightful mass of vice and depravity existed , but it was also true that a va 3 t mass of misery and want were abroad , created by class legislation . ( Hear . ) Tha

    Government depended in a great measure for Us support on the viee 3 and immorality of tho age , and so long as this existed—so long as the younger branches of the ftristocraty wero dependent for their existence on the professions , and the elder branches had . the privilege of tlie entail , so long would the present anomalous state of things exist . ( Cheera ) Mr . Jones went on at very great length , and with much eloquence , to expose the fallacy of the present system of class legislation , to which source he clearly traced the evils under whieli the nation-groaned , and for which the Charter alone would provide an efficient remedy . Hia sptsch occupied above a ' . i hour in the delivery , and was frequently interrupted by the hearty cheers of the

    company . The chairman said the next toast is , or was intended to havo been , " The Guests ; " but , as only one of these gentlemen was present , it placed him in a difficult position . Ha thought , liovyever , there would be no impropriety in giving " Tho health of Jome 3 Bror . tevre O'Brien , " aud in associating with him the natiie of O'Connor , with best wisUes i \> s their future weifiire ami pr ? sperity , lir ; went in . o a detail of tJie services renuami by tiie two patriots , dwelling upon the merits hi both in a highly eulogistic style , and said that as they were so much iiittabted to them , 2 i 3 should call upon the meeting to repay part t ; j f tlie debt by giving " threj t \ m $ a three , for each . Tha cheers were given wilb gctat enthusiasm . : ( Ucntinued in our Eighth page .

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    On Sunday morning week , a womaa named Musson , living-at Carlson , near Nottingham , Baaing her husband in bed with auofc&or woman , fired at him : "with a gun , and 8 hot away a large portion of his right choeii aati jaws . Iviusson . was conveyed to tho General Hospitt , ! , near Nottingham . A coasta ' ule apprehended the woman 011 the spot . On his arrival at ; the hospital , it became necs 3 sary to perform an operation , and Mr . William Wright , surgeon , Pelham-sfcreet , took away a portion of the upper and lower jaws , which had beeubrokon by the shot on tha right aide . Hn is still alive , and may recover if lock jaw does not corns on ; at present he is not out of danger .

    Destructive Fire ?? ea . r Woolwich . —Oa Thursday inoniing , between one and two , a lire broko out in a cottage oa i'lunistead-common , occupied by Air . Carnugtoa , albuilder . It is nofc kaomi liow tlie fire originated , but it is supposed the chimney must have been ignited and coaununicatod to some of the wood work , of which the building wa 3 principally constructed . Mr . Carrington and his family , who had a short time previously retired to resr , escapod in their night clothes .. Within a short period after the alarm was given the Royal Artillery engines and parties of men arrived , but could Jiot 00 iaia a sufficient supply of water ; the cntiro building was burnt to the ground * and almost . all the funutuxe aud monev , in cash and notes , were consuraea .

    MUP . DEHOUS ATTACK ON THE POLICE .--Friday , about one o ' clock , a policeman named Berry , while Eoi 2 ing a fellow who was climbing over a garden wall at the back part of Upper-Wharton-street , Bagri igge-rrsad , was most brutally attacked , beatan , and stabbeti in several parts of the body by the ruffian and two of his- « ompanions- Tho ruffiaus left him apparently dead on the ground , ^ ind mado their escape ? cro-s 3 , th 8 fields , Snbsequeufiy , Sergeant Scotehmeryfvud Colton . on passing by tha spot , foVmd Barry lying dow in' a-Btate oi" insensibility , ami they immediately procured a'etretohor a&d conveyed nisi to the fetation-house .. A sorgooa teas seat for , overv assistance was afforded , him , gadLhewas restored tV his senses , and carried to his residence in Wynyat ^ raefc , Clefckenwell , where he ianow lying in 4 * ' dangerous Kate , i « v -xl : > iuiv . - 1 ^ .. ? ,. :: . ; . »/ .

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• Citation
  • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 2, 1841, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct399/page/7/