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      THS G&KFK 5 TEB 5 STBIRI JVT MlXCHESIEB . — A public meeting of the carpenters and joiners of Manchester "sras held in the Carpenters' Hall on Thursday ereniiig , Sot . 23 , 1844 , for the purpose of laying bejbre the general l » dy the present position of the straggle between the men and Messrs . Pauling , Henfrev , and Co . The meeting was called for eight o'clock , at which hour the spacious hall -was crowded to excess in every part . Mr . Levers was unanimously called to the chair , who opened the meeting "by reading correspondence from various plac # s , "which "Bras favourable to the men on strike ; after a few remarks thereon he railed on Mr . Fleetwood to state to the meeting what had transpired since they lastmet together . Mr . F . stated that the report he had to give was very satisfactory . The men of the counties of Nottingham , Warwick , and Derbv . which

      he had visited , had pledged themselves in public meeting assembled , not only to prevent "hands " from coming to supplant the- men on strike , but to support them "with a levy each tveek , so Ions : as the strike continued . He also had letters from" several parties which exposed the means that Messrs . Pauling and Co . resorted to , to endeavour by false statements to trepan the unwary from their homes to -destroy the best interests of the building trades generally . Their corresponding secretary had made arrangements for parties to visit Newark , Lincoln , and Leicester , and spread the . news of PajiKngs' treachery . At all the places where they tad meeting , every man had paid 2 * . 6 d . for the funds of the rwciety . Mr . Bellhouse detailed the proceedings in the Manchester Borough Court on Friday and Saturday , and said that in accordance with the resolution of the airsrre'rate

      meeting , the v > fcule ot the buildim : trades had ceased working for Messrs . Pauling , Heufrey . and Co . He gave an account of an aggregate meeting which took place ai Bury on Tuesday evening . Mr . Maxwell also gave an account of the Bury meeting , which spoke well for the ultimate success of the struErsrle . The secretary read letters in connection with the strike ; _ and we are happy to say the funds are in a flourishing condition . The le-ry for the ^ week was TOted , and the thank * of the meetius b ^ ins siven t « the chairman , the meetin < r separated .

      Condition or the Tailors . ^ -Sir , — Allow me to congratulate you on your first appearance in London . Tour debut , J trust , has been an eminently successful one . May we hope that the laurel ? you have won as a provincial favourite may be neither lost nor tarnished in your future career . Your supplementary title has infused hope into the mind , anu visour and determination into the actions , of all who are engaged in the ceaseless struggle to better their condition . We now see a channel through the medium of which the claims of Labour and Povertv mav be made known to

      the world , and the selfish cupidity and exactions of grasping capitalists be fully exposed . That such a journal was much wanted , all are aware who have had anvthinir to do with Trades' Movements . The destitution and immorality of the working classes are da 2 \ proclaimed by the journalists of ' all parties , while the real and constantly recurrim : cause of both ** . { ., the power to reduce wasres o < 1 inpnitum ) is ntudieush" kept from the public eye . You have come , 2 hope , as a Polab Stab , to throw light , searchingly . and rnrpartiallv , on tvranny and injustice wherever lOUnd . and tO SUlde and assist us . in our endeavours

      to resist the same . I wish at present to call your attention to the miserable and degraded position of even the respectable portion of the " trade to which I belong . There has been brought most prominently before the public very lately a boast of the extraordinary royal and noble connections of a certain tailoring establishment near you , to the effect " that the beamifnl riding habit of " her Majesty—the sable cloak © f the Emperor of Russia , and the splendid habiliments -of the Due de Montpensier , all emanated from the said establishment . " Are the public aware that this very firm , eloquent in their own praise , and boasting of their connexion with royalty , are at th ^ very time endeavouring to reduce the waives of the workmen employed ~ > Are we to infer from this

      that the great personages above named " bargained" ' to a nicety in giving their orders , or is it not an unfair attempt to absorb the workman ' s watre-s along with the tradesman ' s profit ? There is a practice too " resorted to by manv oi" the advertising and swindling tailoring firms , to which 1 wish to draw the attention of the public , as it concerns both j ^ rson and parse . Many a garment , Sir , ordered and regularly measnred for , is procured from the " slop warehouses" of St . Mary Axe and the Minories ; . < o that * he "monster" molochs vou have so often held up to public seorn and indignation have actually the " honour ] ' to clothe with their contaminated and ' tni" -ti > - » - < rubbish a considerable portion of the fashionable "world . At a time when the question of

      contagion and infection is engaging so much attention , it might not be altogether . useless to point ont the danger to which all are exposed who deal not with a respectable and " * indoor employing" tailor . 1 st , by Vermin : The proof of thi- is , that at many of these pest-houses , the miserable wa < : e > of the starved workmen are farther reduced by ftne < for all vermin found fhv "n iusj-rivr ; . < r ih- pvrj-vf j on tho garments when le-ourht home , the lines Wing regulated by the Dumber found .- the li < -- > that f ^ -app irom this * - r % lt of search" beir / j of course for the I- ,,-r . i of the wearer . The sum of 3 d . each was paid bv an

      Irish tailor , who had the honour of having the proem Prime Minister ' s coat through his hands . 1 can furnish you with the address of a Wai £ entleni ; in in the Temple , who was foolL-h enough to patroniz * .- ; i ¦ certain roiaiory -hop in rhat ncigiiljiiurhood , ami who had a suit ~ t > r > i bomr in « uc-h a Tauq ^ ' -iflv lit - ft ; stale , that he had it -vnt ? iack to ornament the plate glass windows of the cheap c ' otLirg quack . 2 ndJy . Infection : This is a subject whacL the public do not se * -m to regard a .- ? they ou ^ ht . During the-tiiue that the asiatic cholera wa > prevalent , a master tailor , near Temple Bar . requeued a journeyman in hU employ to ITO to another man ' s r € -sici »» nff toassist him it *

      tinishmg a coat ; the rea . son of sneh a&sktam-f he ' ms needed wa ? , thai the man had ihr chd ) era in hi * bwise , and a chilil l ymg d « ad through it . The journeyman went , or rather attempted to go ; bat before h > - had ascended half the liight ol stairs leading to the wretched hole , the stench wa ^ so overpowering that he was glad to make a precipitate retreat . He wont back to the master and tyld him that were be onvred £ 20 he would not enter the room , much le » sit down to finish the ^ Ei . Here , Sir . were the clothes of a gentleman , lj i g in a -small hole ten feel square , hi the hottest B ? 2- of the summer , in the midst of tilth apd corrupti 3 C ; _ the heat too increased by having no other place is » hich to heat the irons necessary ior the work . — 2 in , Sir , your obedient servant , " Jorx Smitu , T , » f . ' : ies-street , Kenninston .

      ? X 5 CWESTER CiKPEVTrRs' AXD JoiXEKs' STRIKE . — A general meeting of the building trades was holden in the flail of Science , Campfield , on the evening of Tuesday last , Dec . 3 rd , 1844 , to take into consideration certain proposals made by Messrs . Pauling , Henfrey , and Co .. to the Trades on strike . The meeting "Was the most numerously attended of any that have taken place since the commencement of the struggle . In iact , it was the largest in-door meeting we ever ¦ witnessed in this splendid halLwith one exception , that on the evening previous to the fifty-eight Chartists going to Lancaster to the " monster " trial . On that occasion the seats were removed out of the body of the hall , irhich was filled ; and , as the seats were in on Tuesdav night , the former would neeessarilv be the

      larger in numbers . Bat we confidently assert that Tuesday night's was the largest meeting ever held in Manchester upon any Tradea' question : and the feelins tlisplayed by iie thousands present is a proof , if " proof were wanted , that the workmen connected with building consider the firm of Pauling and Co . deadly enemies to the rights of Labour . ALout eight o ' clor-k Mr . Maiiard -sras HnanimoDs ) y called to preside . He opened the meeting by calling on those present to give every one who might address them an impartial hearing . There was Imsiness of great importance to be laid before them , on which they would have to decide ; and he trusted that their decision would be such as would l > e generally beneficial to the building trade , and-tentl to produce

      that consolidation amongst them whk-b was so much needed in order to enable them t « protect their labour jfrom the encroachments which capital was ever ¦ making upon it . Mr . BeUho-iise read a correspondence which had taken place betwixt the committee and Messrs . Gihnore and Kelly , and those gentlemen and Messrs . Pauling , Henfrey , and Company ; which correspondence ended with Messrs . Pauling stating that they xcould alndi by tfe ruf « of trnil : ymrliici bv £ ki other matter builders <¦/ jJa ^ p-hw ' t-T ; but that they could not treat with any other party but their own men . Mr . Bellhonse al > o gave an account of an interview which he and two other delegates , who had

      been deputed with him , had had with- Mr . Henfrey , in which that gentleman stated that the firm were willing to go by " the rules which other masters worked by ; but as the correspondence had been commenced through the mediation of Messrs . Kelly and Gilmore , it would be best to leave it in their hands . They had also asked Mr . Henfrey 5 f they would withdraw the men at present working , if their old " hands" came back . This Mr . Henfrey refused to do . The subject "was now before them . He would not offer an opinion on the subject , but leave it in the hand ? of the assembly to deafwitb . as they thought proper ; and he hoped that their decision would be one of iustice and of

      honour ; one that would tend to build up the best interests of the whole of the building "trades . Mr . BeUhouse resumed his seat amid much cheering —ilr . Whittaker , before they entered farther into the business , begged to say that the committee elected for conducting ths strike had taken no part in bringing about the correspondence which had jnst been read . He thought ,-as one of that committee , that this explanation was necessary , in order to prevent any mistakes on the subject . The delegate from the Bricklayers moved— " That we , the Building Trades of Manchester , in general meeting assembled , do consider the correspondence betwixt ' Messrs . Kelly and Gflmore satisfactory , inasmuch as they \ Tbfi resolution was seconded by tie delegate from the Painters . After a little discussion on the resolution , the delegate from ths Sawyers moved the following

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      amendment— " That in the opinion of thia meeting , none of the Building Trades ought to return to work for Messrs . Pauling , Henfrey , and Co ., until thev discharge the men now working in opposition to the respective trades now on strike . " The amendment was , seconded by Mr . Maxwell , delegate from the Joiners . A very animated and protracted discussion took place on the relative merit * of the motion and amendment , after which the chairman took the opinion of the meeting , when the amendment was carried with only one dissentient . On the motion of Mr . Whittaker , Mr . Manardvacatedthechair , andMr . Bellhouse assumed it . Mr . Whittaker moved : " That the best thanks of this , meeting are due , and are hereby given to Mr . Manard for his impartial conduct in the chair this evening . " The resolution was seconded bv acclamation , and carried unaniinouslv . Mr .

      Bellhouse then called on Mr . Dixon to address the meeting for a short time . Mr . D ., on coming forward , was loudly cheered . He addressed the assembled thousands on the necessity of the Trades effecting , if possible , a national organization , as the only means of securing that protection for tho labourer which his condition imperatively demanded . On the motion of one of the joiners the following resolution was earned amidst several rounds of hearty cheers : — ' * That the best thanks of this meeting are eminently due , and are hereby triven , to Mr , Wm . Dixon . for the correct repor t * of Trades' meetings whivh have appeared in the Sortium Star newspaper , and likewise for his willinirm'ss at all times to address the Trade * on the important question of I ' lnon . " Mr . Dixo » briefly acknowJedijed the compliment , .-md the meeting lirr-ke up at eleven o ' clix-k .

      Tux Manchester Tka 1 > £ > . — On Kriday last we wen' obliged to leave the Borough Court l > efore Mr . Rfil » erts had concluded the whole of the business he was then engaged in . There \ va > another case to come on , which Mr . lluVrts was engaged to . defend . Messrs . Pauling and Co . had taken out summonses against two sawyers for what they called breach of contract . Mr . Kolxrts seeing Mr . Monk preparing to leave the Court , informed the magistrates that this case had yet to come on . Mr . Maude inibrmed Mi . Monk of this , - who sajA that Mr . ltutter had mentioned no case to him but the one which had just been heard . Mr . Roberts insisted that the case should now l > e proceeded with . Mr . Maude said that Mr . Pauline had better get his

      witnesses and proceed with the case . Pauling then ordered one of his men who was in court , to take a coach and brinsr the witnesses as quick a . s possible . But , both Pauling and Monk were evidently tired of being exposed to the public , and not wishing to be present at another defeat , they ran away , so that when their witnesses arrived there was no one to appear for the prosecution . Mr . Maude asked what was to be done in the matter . Mr . Roberts said he was there , and ready to go into the ease , and if the other side had thought proper to run away and leave the case , it was no fault of his . He therefore hoped that the court

      would proceed in the resrular order of business . Mr . Mauue said the prosecutor ought to liavp attended , or made some arrangements a » to when the ea .-e should come on . Mr . Roberts said now was the time . He could not think of putting his clients to the enormous and unnecessary expense of attending again . The magistrates then said that they had no alternative but to dismiss the ca . - ^ . and leave the prosecutors to follow their own course . Thus concluded the labours of the day , which has established Mr . Roberta ' s reputation as a lawyer in Manchester , upon a foundation that , so long as he continues honest , can never be shaken .

      Brai > : fori > Shoemakers . — On Sunday evening a special meeting of the Shoemakers' Society was held at the Boy and Barrel Inn , Westgatc , Mr . Quinn in the chair . " The chairman said they were now in the eighth week of a strike , which had net been equalled since 1 S 22 . At that period a short struggle divided the victory in favour of the soils of toil , but each subsequent panic had reduced their wages , until in many shops in Bradford the wages did not amount to more than one-half of the amount paid in the year 1 ^ " 22 . It was these reductions that eaused the present strike ; and should they not succeed , there would be no end to the masters * tvrannv over the men . Reports were

      circulated by the employer * ' spies and lickspittles that eight weeks would terminate the strike , according to the Union laws . He was happy to contradict such statement by reading a letter received from the committee of management , authorising the strike to be continued . The secretary here read over the income and expenditure of the trade . whi < -h jrave « ri » nei-al satisfaction . Messrs . Quinn .-un ! Snnth were elected delegates to attend the wool com hers' delegate meeting , and lay before that ImhIv the proposal- for a inn sohdated union of the trades i > n tin- > ystein <> f co-( ' {• eration . The meeting then >< "parnted . fully determined to hold out nga ' mst the iijicallcd-fiir inmul on their means of subsistence .

      The Ct ) Mj ! ER > . —On Monday a < k-put . -aiou from tn . > u (> emaker > . " Society attended a delegate in « - » -ting » f the \ Yo < jl- < -innbers , held in Tyvrel-strwt , t «> propose : » general union of all i ) ie Trades iii Knglam ] , They were Coinliislly received , and the meet ing pledged themselves to take the niarur intoo » iiM < levation , and obtain the opinion of the whuV l *« h mi the subject , when , if favourable , a public nieciing of tin- Trades will K * hoJdt-n , .-uid a in-nfrai rtninuixx-tv . ii' }»> iiu < - < i to carry the proposition into enWi . I ' mppeb-Plite Printers <> r M « iVHKsrr . n—At a gefjeral mm-ring of t !» e alone ' ««}» -. an unanimous vote of thanks was given to tb > - proj . ietw and c » nducturs of the y-Ttfirr , ! >/¦ r the niaunf-r in wh ' nii that paper lia < Tak » Mi nji t ) feir rnur-e in th . 'ir re < - « -nt > -trn : r = le nu ; iin > t thrwe > V . ?! n > nvHiraf > lc competitors whe were l > riiit'iiiL ruin uj'iv >> the tni'ie : and likewise for tin- noble manner i » which the V . •« ¦? / .--rn Sr . jr defends the Trade * gen-niHv .

      The Sho £ maki-ius of Newark . —Tin cordwainer > of Newark are out on strike , determined in stand out until their terms are acceded to . They luue haA many aiffieultlu- ^ to i-uwiuntA-r , nwliv . ; t « tho misconduct ol their lat « - prt- ^ itlcnl ; bui thf-ethey have . -unuuunted , and have m > in ) hopes of a . speedy tcrjuJJiatiun nf i )> v strike in their favour . "V ? ir , A \ . —Great Meeting or Mixer-. — A large public mtvting was held at Lnniherton ( Jr-etTi . n < -ar Wigan . on Monday last . It luning lxi-n niiuuuncod that Mr . Roberts would attend , he was met at the Wijan Piailway station by a prncessiini of upwards ot two thousand pprsons , < -arr } - ing nuincnnis bannei ^ bearing appropriate inscription ? , and accompanied by several bands of music . Mr . Molten- having been seated in a vehicle provided for the occasion . the

      crowd proceeded to the place ol meeting . They were joined by several other bodies of colliers on the route , ^ o that " by the time they reached the village ihere must have be < -n wpvrards of 8 , IMM 1 persons ¦ J'Tf-sent . Having reached the place of meeting , a miner named George Ramsey , of Marsden , near ( . ' olne , was called on to preside . The chairman having opened the business , observed that they were met together for the purpose of encouraging each other to carry out the great principles for which they were strugglingnamely , an advance of wages equivalent to their merits as workmen . What they required , and they would continue to demand it until it was granted , was a fair day ' s wages for a fair day ' s work , which , w-hen accomplished , ne believed would be as much to the

      interest of the master as to tho interest of the men . Jt was well known that ever since the price of coal was advanced , the masters put the whole of the profit into their own " pockets—and thc-y were now determined to put the " miners down , hut in this attempt they would never succeed . They ( the nierO would , by unity , overcome every difficulty , and by restricting the hours of their labour , keep the supply regulated by the demand . It was this mode of restricting labour that had done so much to put down the truck system ; and by a steady perseverance they would -oon put down that system of low wages which had so long oppressed them , il'heers . ) Mr . Charles Parkinson , from Durham , next addressed tho meeting . The present contest , be said , was a siruirgle between capital

      and labour . Cajiital had long ha reached the throne of Queen Victoria . Their com p laints had been heard , and the ^ ovprnment of Sir Robe rt Peel had sen t

      commissioner ? into the country to inquire iuto their condition , and investigate the catw of so much sacrifice of human life : and he feared not but that in the next session of Parliament some step would be taken to secure better regulations in coal-mines . The speaker concluded by again urging them to stand firm to their cause , and never to forgei that to keep their labour restricted was one of the most important objects to be accomplished . —Mr . Benjamin Emberton , of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , was t \ v ' next > penk < v . He Kvid they must not expect to accomplish every object they sought to obtain in a few weeks , month * , or years ; nor should they bo dismayed l > e < -aus « they had not fully succeeded : on the contrary , every defeat should stimulate to further exertion and determine them to be more energetic for the future . The masters would

      not so easily give up the contest : thev ithe men ) must , therefore , keep up the good and " unanimous feeling which at present existed among them , and once a day repeat their motto , that " Union alone can save us . " " He had been informed since he came to the meeting that some of the masters had been turning their men out of employment . For what purpose was that done ? Why , to throw more idle labour into the market , by which a greater decree of competition would be " created . The only remedy for this was a restriction of the time for those who were employed , and this course he hoped they would adopt . — Air . James Price , one of the secretaries to the delegate meeting , spoke at considerable length in support of the principles of the Union , and the justice of their demands . He complained of the Liverpool Times That journal , \ 1 . had set it forth to the public

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      that the eouiei-s were , in many instance- ! , Jemanumpr that the piasters should take otf six tubs from the score . Nothing could be more unfair than the way in which this matter was put before the . public . It would appear , from the statements made by that paper , that the men wanted fourteen tubs to be called twenty , whereas , the fact was , that at some mines in the neighbourhood twenty-six was only reckoned as twenty . This was the system the colliers wished to do away with , or else that the masters would pay 2 Cs . as one sovereign . This was all they reo ^ iesteu in that respect , and he thought it was only just that they should have it . They did not care if the masters called iliirty a . score , provided they paid 3 V ) s . to ihv £ 1 . —Mr . W . P . Roberts , solicitor , who was received

      with immense applause , was next called upon by the chairman . He said he was there that day to offer his advice and counsel to the men who were engaged in that most mighty movement . He was there -for the purpose of encouraging them to persevere in their gooa cause ; and the fact of so many thousands standing lor so long a period listening to what was said by men of their own class on so cold a day , convinced him that each and all were determined to prosecute , the good work in which they were engaged . ( Hear ) . The speakers who had preceded him had given them much matter for consideration , and lie had no hesitation in urgingthem to weigh well what had been said to thorn . Masters might groan and magistrates might grumble because they had taken that course ; but let them

      say and do as they p leased , the workmen sought only to bring the law ? ot Kngland to bear upon the rights of labour . What were the objects they had in view ? They appeared to him to be these : —the first w ; is to obtain by legal means and by legal assistance the rights to which they were fairly entitled . This they cnuld not have without money , and therefore they wen-legally uniting together for that purpose . Had they not as good a right to unite their monies * together to obtain an advance of their wages as any railway company had to construct a railroad 7 Secondly , when men are out of employment , had not their fellow-men n right to subscribe their monies together

      to relieve , them under the circumstances ? Thirdly , when a , man falls sick , suroly it cannot be denied that those who labour with him have a right to comfort him in distress < Much has been said against the miners for restricting their labour , but lie would advise them to continue to do so , as by that course they would keep superabundant labour out of tho market , and enable those engaged to procure a better remuneration . The proceedings lasted upwards of two hours and a hall , during which the meu stood shivering with cold , but evidently with great patience . At the dose of the business the chairman again urged them to stand linn , after which they separated .

      Tur . Barium ; Fjmiekmf . n . — These mariners have almost all returned to their fishing , smacks , and proceeded to sea , the employers liaviug consented to their returning home every vovaye , instead of stopping Jit Gnivescud to unload their lish , ami then yoitig outto sea again without seeing their wives and familes for six or nine months together . A » regards extra wages , no concession , we understand , has been made , the men finding that their iimst grievous complaint respecting the \ oyages was attended to , having foregone their demand ami returned to their employment .

      Lancashire Coal Miners . —A public meeting , of the ' miners of the Asliton and Oldhaiu districts was held on the afternoon of Monday last , on a plot of ground in front of the Horse-Shoe Inn , Hardoley , between Ashton and Oldham . The meeting was the most numerous ever held in this part . since the commencement of the miner's movement . Mr . Preed , a workinir miner , was unanimously railed to tho chair . The meeting was addressed by Mr . Welsberg , Mr . Hams , and Win . Dixon of Manchester , and the usual resolutions passed . We are happy to say that the Union in this part of Lancashire is in a very prosperous condition , and also that the men are getting some small advance in their wages . We have also much pleasure in statin ? , that a second ^ advance ha- taken place , in the Kocbdale district , of \< h \ . per quarter . The nutters in tin- iKikenfield district have advanced the coals at the pit 4 d . per tub ,, to enable them to give the men « me halfpenny per tub , which the MutifJ , "t- r ( i . xn-U . in makes much noise

      about . Tjie Lan < ¦ * sii : re Miners' I ' nion . —Mr . Kditor , In tin- Mmu-h'SUr Uim- ^/ iiiii el Wednesday there is a long article headed " Kvpected Strike of the Coal Minep-. " In that article , the editor of the tiwirdian giv .-r n circular which has Ix-en sent by the wen to the masters . requ < -ting them to give them a small advance of wages . i > n tli . it circular the editor comments , and evidently wishes to magnify this dimple roijui-st into a threat <>! a strike . If this had been 'l orn * in an h «» ii»—t manner , and in accordance with truth , wo should not have troubled you with this communication : but the object nf * " tin * man" what diM-s "the Hi-irhaa" is evidently to prejudice the public against the coal miners of this county , by

      giving only a j «» rti <» ij of the circular in ^ uc-Mion , coupled with a " little of what brother . lonatlian would call •¦• l ,, y ,,,., ,- - "n-f th .- t > -,, th . " Of course thi ^ is nothinc » '" t < j thow who know nnytliimr of the propensities ,, f ih ,. conducim-snf this " rl /• ' ,, //' Nvh ., se object is ; : 1 all times to resist tlie just demand «> f tin- industrious cl . i .- < e- > , and strengthen the bands « f the fippn s .- ( . r . The editor of the Uuur-Uan says : We believe the avei-agv daily wages of tb'' miners in this district—ar . il we <\ : \\> - this from inforniatinii nbtaiued fruin . - [ beat thirty ditFercnt colliers—h ivlmni four shillings fur eight ' hmirV labour . It would Ih- vr-I ! if t !) c editor 'it ' the t men . would > 'ivi--ilif " whole ti iiii ' iiMead m ' "idv a part . 1 hey

      always « ive the mimis' ' ,, f ¦¦• , » , " but never lei the public know a word aU > ut their " ont-jv . " I he tact K this would nut .- 'H-wer their purpose . The > h ; ir-Ji' j . i -ay- not : i wvr . l .-ilmut < -jiii < 11 « - « ; ni < l powik-r . which U"ill wt . at th ( - )< -. x-t . •"> -.. |» -r neck ; nor «!«« re lie let the public kiiow that the miners have to find their own tools , which im'JI tak «\ on a moderate calculation . Is . more ; ncith' -r dare he call intention to till" robbcrie .- inflicted upni ! tin- miner llintiigh the > v < tem of taking hi * coals ( roiu him . wider the plea of " short measure . '' " not clear , " < £ < -. : which will average from K ( > d . to ' . ' . s i ) d . per fortnight . This latter ¦ "deduc tion " could not be effected , were the miner paid by weight instead of by measure . The editor ol the 'ivtr'ti'iii wishes to impress upon the public thilt

      the miners are in the receipt of £ 1 4 s . per week , but we challenge either hitu or his informants to prove that , alter " paving all that conies against them , " the miners of Lancashire , on the average , receive inure than los . per week , clear money to take home . The advance sought by the men is twopence in the shilling on their present wages , which would make them about 17 s . per week , and this tremendous amount of remuneration for venturing their lives into the bowels of the earth to produce that which the Gmirdian very properlv calls a "necessity of life . " Now the fact is , the men liave sent a request to their masters to give the above advance ; but where the editor of the <*' i > ardi «» gets his information , relative to a general strike as being about to take place , is unknown to the miners of Lancashire ;

      certainly their circular makes no mention thereof . Now ' h > t us hear what the 'Jvnrdian says about this enormous demand , and the robbery likely to be- inilicted on the public if they should succeed . He . says , " when it is generally rccoirnised that the coal miners are in effect saying to tho masters , you are selling your coals too cheap : all we ask is , that you should tax the public , in order to put more profit into your pockets and higher wages into ours . '' We cannot think that the public genenilly will be disposed , by any promise i > f support , to encourage ami facilitate a general strike : the consequences of which must be productive of considerable loss Ixrth to the coal miners and the public , ami so extremely disastrous to the . miners themselves , and all who arc dopendent upon them . " In answer to all this , what does this circular reallv sav < VY'hv this— " it would

      be well if the master * could maintain an uniformity of prices , according to the red value ot the article . " Does the editor ot the < huu- > li > ta think it unjust that the consumer should pay the real vdnt of the article he consumes ? Does hecjill it taxing the public t » demand the value of the article purchased i Why . if this doctrine be correct , the proprietors of the G ' tuirdiau aretaxers of the public ; because they '" fix " what they consider the real value , of their own " vile ro < i . " But now we will let the public * ee what the tux would be which the men at present ask tor . It would not amount to one haH ' -favthins ; per cwt ., or twopencehalfpenny per pan ! This would never be felt by the public , whilst it would give the miner two . shil lings and sixpence j > er week to expend with the

      partics who had paid twopence-halfpenny more for a pan of coal , which would last six or eight weeks , rhus they would not feel the farthing per week paid for the coals ; but the two shillings and sixpence a week would he a real blessing to the miner ' s wife and family . The editor then says , " what anmitery would be made , if the master * were to unite for the purpose of paying the least possible amount of wages . " lie knows full well that such an association is in existence , and has been since 1 ^ 41 ; and that they have held their regular monthly meetings . He also knows that they have established a system of " >/ uittance " papers ; and a man that dares to take an active part in defence of the workman ' s rights is marked out for ' v : » o * or » -r . " Rut enough of this . We have spent

      too much time already on the worthless being who can prostitute those faculties which nature has g iven him in endeavouring to malign and falsify every movement made for the good of the working bees . There is one other remark which we must make an observation or two upon . The editor of the Guardian wishes to impress on the public mind , that "the miners Executive is an irresponsible body . This is not the fact . On the contrary , they are perhaps the most responsible body of the kind in the kingdom . He also says that the funds of the association are at the disposal of one man . It would be well if he would not trouble himself with things he knows nothinff about , and not attempt to write on a subject of which he is as ignorant " as the man in the moon . " However , for the satisfaction of the public , and to prove the baseness of the wretch who could thus

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      parade Ins ignorance before the world for such a purpose , we beg to say that the treasurer of the Minei-s' Association has not the disposal of the funds : in fact , neither he nor any one else is allowed to pay one farthing without the order of the miners , by their representatives , either in conference or delegate meeting assembled . We are , Sir , on behalf ot the Lancashire Miners , W . Dixon , W . Grocett , County Secretaries .

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      RICHARD HIMSELF AGAIN ! A few days ago Mr . O'C ' omie . ll was . preaching peace and good-will , abjuring all animosities , repenting of his invectives against Saxons , renouncing for ever vituperation , and promising all tho amenities and amiabilities . But alas ! the conciliation fit has passed away as quickly and suddenly a . s the federal fit . At the Limerick meeting there was a relapse to all the old sins , and the speech had all the stale violence of the harangues at the monster meetings . There was the boast of the physical torce , and tho allusions to inflame hatred , and the exhortation not to turn the irresistible powers to the purposes of the hatred so inflamed .

      He had seen many an exJiihitiou of popular stvcnRth and determination , hut never one to equal , and certainly not to exceed , the exhioition of that day . ( Cheer ? . ) II , ' had physical force enough before liii . i to wowplish the iroi \« of pvrjjoses if he Ihulaity such des ' ujn . There was no monarch of Europe had a larger army at his command than the volunteer army by which he had been surrounded that day . ( Great cheering . ) But what was most glorious in tho people of Irehmil was , that with < t powfr fo do mischief ' , they had no other I inclination than that of confining themselves strictly within the laws of order anil propriety—they were resolved to commit no oft ' ence against the ordinances of man—no sin against the law of liod . ( Hear . )

      But who for ever boasts a bad power that he does not intend to use ? A man who wears a sword does not make it an incessant vaunt that he could cut a throat , but that he does not . If the demonstration ot force be intended to be moral , vyhy this constant harping on the evil use which it might have , but is not meant to have ? It is the peculiarity of the two greatest , the rival impostors of the time , Mr . O'Connell and Sir Robert Peel , that they are for ever imagining how they might make the worst use of their powers , and taking credit for the forbearance as a positive virtue . When honest men feel their strength they do not say , we might be robbers or cut-throats , but we won ' t . They don't wrong their characters by the imagination of such a possibility .

      There is the suggestion of mischief in Mr . O'Connell ' s ineessant boast of the powers for it . ' and to make it worse it is always accompanied with some stimulus to hatred . At the Linieriekjneeting ' , for example , this peacemaking , this conciliating allusion followed—He stood then in a sacred spot . He might be laughed at for the repetition of it , but ht would , notwithstanding , again remind them that the spot on which they stood was one that must came burning shame to the English people , and redound for ever to the fflory of Irishmen . There it was that their

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      ancestors- ;—ri < " » t merely the men alone , but the women also ¦— fought and bled , and died : ind conquered ( query , afU ,-they had died J , for their country . ( Hear , hear . ) . . . I entertain not the slightest animosity towards a single individual in private life , but / frttie a political renenge a ) vd hatred dear as the honey cup of life of which I have tasted for many long years ; dear as the sweftest memory of the departed is the unaffected animosity iQhbih I bear totcards Eng . lish injustice and tyranny . If this ! infernal sentiment of the Irish leader be shared in by any considerable " number of his followers , sooner or ; later it must have its vent in ; blood . And this man ! deprecates murder , with a sentiment on his

      lips the most revengeful , the most ruthless , and with an easy change of application tallying with the feeling of every vindictive sanguinary savage . When an unjust sentence was hanging over Mr . O'Connell , and when he came oter to this country , a much-subxlued man , the most generous sympathy awaited Him—and not more , or more warm , was the sympathy than due , for he was an oppressed man . He professed at the time to he much touched at the just and cordial feeling in his favour which he found in England ; and if we remember rightly , he declared that it had corrected some of his prejudices against the Saxon race .

      lie now meditates another visit lor another appeal to the justice of ' the people of England , and see with what reliance on our intelligence he . is coming amongst us : — ' / ha < -e uixrh thought nfSta th < impmetniJiilify of tniCA into i ' iKjljaV' 1 , iinfl I solemnly dtrbin , that it appe >> rz to , n ( a / iftikindofadnmontitu wall sunvunded that fouiUru . i .-ma-. intj it impirrioiis to every cjiproarh of truth . It may arrive on the tVnir wings of heaven , ami with the force of electricity , to ei ' ery human lieinjr plseivherr : but the iact is most a ^ tuymdinjj , that it wwrfnn jfixitraU int'i ti > ml < i »< i . ( Hear , hear . ) Talleyrand * airt that the use of language was to enable man to conceal his thought * , and in the same manner it might be s ; ml that the use of the English press Has . to keep up the ignorant of the peojile . It ¦ supported the delusion under which John Bull is labouring , and t < il < i h . im that the Irish people ha ! to grievances to complain <> f : hut I am deti-i-mined to ; ivr' an opportunity to eVei'V nian . woman . : ind rhild in Cveat Britain to

      understand the contrary . To i > s « r <\ I ¦ " ' i : f » ttt littb' of the flinnci ncfix irhirk fnahlts Paddy l >) ai'rice . so rapidly at facts . It i * to that task I am determined to devote the ensuing month , ami 1 am resolved to persevere until 1 compel England to understand the grievnnues of which we complain . / ftid resolved that they shall do so , an < J jio thanks to them . llow gracious , how kindly is all this . To l > e sure it is not intended for the eye of England , it having been uttered to feed animosity in Ireland , and that which is the best aliment of hatred , contempt .

      Mr . O ( onnell is the very last man who-should complain of a people ' s incapacity for the reception of truth . Tlis allegiance to truth has not been so strict as to entitle him to complain of neglect of its voice . He has had no other rule in his statements and representations than to say that which sewed the purpose , good or bad , of the moraont , and whether the thing was true or untrue , has been no consideration . If an untruth has suited him better than a truth , it has been adopted ; if a truth has been more to the purpose , he has had no antipathy to it , forbidding its use . He takes up the one or the other < us a weapon , without caring what their nature may be , so that theyjstrike and wound . Mr . O'Conuell complains of " the slanderous mummery of the E . mmintr . " We do Inot very clearly understand the nature of the offence so described , but perhaps wo commit it in copying the reports of Mr . < ) 'Connell ' s proceedings .

      For instance , at the meeting of the Repeal Association on ; the 28 th ulc , we find that Mr . O'Connell" Invested himself with a new crotcn-shxtped W of green velvet , ricllly decorated with gulden wreaths of s hamrocks " i That this i » mummery there can be no doubt , and if the report be false , it may be what Mr . O'Ooiinell styles " scandalous mummery , " hut the fault is not ours . : We have been informed that when Mr 0 < onnell puts on that very fine cap , he receives" persons with an air and ceremony of regal state . Mr . O'Connell , decked in ! the alderman ' s robes , and with- the crownshapud cap on his hqad , playing such antics , must indeed convey the idea of " < i slanderous mummery " i > f n » vakv i

      1 he report states that when ue put on the cap tbr assembly cheered loudly . When such tonifoolciy in action caii be applauded , can we wonder at the similar acceptation ol things not less absurd in speech ' . The . duutbrshow part is worthy ot the oratorical , and the oratorical of the dumb-show . The-speech at l ) ubli » was not so virulent and violent as that at | Limerick , but there was , nevertheless , an abundance ; of ill-temper in it . The mo * t remarkable passage in it is the declaration that Mr . O'Connell " will not accept a . repeal » t

      the Iriion at the h . 'ftids of France . " That great admiral , the Prince de Joinville , is then no longer to be counted on . Hut how is it that Mr . O'Connell is so nice a « to the bauds from which so blessed a thing as repeal i ^ i to be taken ' . Arc there so many and such easy way * , of obtaining repeal that he can afford to ho tiwtidious \ l . ouis liuliype is a bad character , but it bad character is to be an objection to the offer of repeal , where is the trreat man who is to eojifef it : Is Mr . OVoiiuell himself quite good emmeU , and lankless enoiii'll ' .

      1 here are many points ot resemblance between him and Louis Philippe , whom lie so abuses , and not without trrounds . Both profess a great love of peace , while they cherish the propensities to . war . lioth maintain a state of peace on the verge oi' war . Moth act a . s dains to passions , which will burst oi : t and devastate whenever the temporary checks which have nivcn them depth while restrsunmcthem are removed . Both will bequeath large legacies of troubles to their respective j countries . Both arc iutont on their }> er-M > ua . l lite interests , anil hi'cdlosu of what is to follow iheni wliei ) tho wild hopes encouraged : in < l the- * passion inrianjed bv them will be no longer under their controlling influence . Of each it may he said , a-s it w ; Muf a jriyat ruler of antic-iuty , that he should never have livcd . or should never die , so much . evil have they fomented which they only can control . Me ? i who so raise up and use the most dangerous powers for the little-purposes of their day ought to be immortal . — Koiiuimr .

      Jfissi . K t <> Mr . CurisK , of Dahdistown and Pahistmwn , r '\ Wkstmkath . —This » enticma ; i was entertained at a public dinner in the town of Clonmellou , in jWesuneath , on Wednesday evenimr , 'JTth ultimo , to niark their sense of his conduct as n trood and humane landlord . The tenantry of Mr . Cruise , it will be recollected , were ejected from their holdings at 1 > ardist ( iwn and at Paristown . some time since—a circumstance which created considerable public attention at the time ; and no sooner did Mr . Cruise see , by the proceedings of the Repeal Association , what had been done , than he hastened to Ireland from America , where he then resided , tor the purpose of reinstating ; them . Upwards of 150 gentlemen sat down to dinner , but if accommodation could

      have been j procured , three or four hundred would have been present ; so great wa . s the anxiety to compliment this excellent gentleman , and to vindicate the principle of the Fixity of Tenure . The chairman , the Rev . Mr . Howling , P . P . of Clonmellon , in proposing the health of their guest , said : "That within t « n years , ending in 1 S 4 O , there was a falling off in the population of the county of , ' 3 . 00 , 000 souls . Some few ( thousands of these had emigrated : but what becartve of the great mass < They were crushed by _ extermination . ( Cheers . ) Was such a state of things even witnessed before ' . A whole people was nearly decimated without the aid of famine , pestilence , or the sword , within the space , « f ten short yeats . It was hardly possible for a ton

      years war ; to pvwlucc such terrible results . The health of ( P . R . Cruise , Esq ., having been drunk amid great cheering , Mr . Cruise rose with no ordinary feelings to return them thanks for the distinguished honour they had conferred on hfm — an honour to iwliich he was not entitled . In coming from America he felt he did uo more than was necessary to perform a duty which every honest Man owed his -tenantry ; and ho regretted , for their sakes , that his arrival > vas not sooner . ^ Cheers ) . He came over , however , as soon as he was able to wind up the affairs of his family ; and on his arrival in this country found a most vindictive feeling existed against him on the part ; of some individuals . He had not been at home twelve hours when he was asked to siarn the death-warrant of his ousted tenantry ; or , in other words , to execute the leases of the present holders . On his arrival in Liverpool he found

      the leases iictually on board the packet to be sent out to him . The man who had acted for him in his absence had acted without authority . What heart not niade . of adamant could read the ' recitals in the Dublin journals of the misery caused by the ejectments on his estates without being moved ? And for his own part he felt pained at the extraordinary procedure of his agent . The first intimation given to him was , that his land was let to a Mr . Dyas , a man whom he never saw ; and as he felt that his own interests , as well as those of his tenantry , were sacrificed , he did not deserve the compliment which was paid him that evening . God " tempered the wind to the . shorn lamb ; " and he had no doubt that before many days elapsed all par ties would have their ovrn . ( Cheers ) . It is to be hoped that the landlord class will take a lesson from Mr . Cruise . By so doing , they will be ; instrumental in removing the agrarian outrages that at present are so prevalent in Ireland .

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      Farringdox Ward . — On Sunday evening last * large meeting was held at the Union Arms , Unioncourt , Holborn-hilJ , Mr . P . Lucy in the chair . Aftet ' the transaction of the usual preliminary business such as delivering cards to those who hao previousl y enrolled themselves , the chairman briefly and appropriately expressed his views on the question of a Repeal of the Legislative Union now existing between Ireland and England . He said Ireland wanted her own legislature , composed of her own sons , sitting in College-green . She wanted protection to her industry , her genius , and her resources . The present state of affairs could not endure . The Irish people ¦ were justly dissatisfied with it . ( Cheers . ) Mr . D «

      Coeoran then read the speech of the Liberator at the Conciliation Hall of the 26 th ult ., which was received with loud cheers . Mr . J . Lindsay , R . W . and V ., on being called on , dwelt at great length on the benefits that would arise from a Repeal of the Union ; and said if Ireland had a Parliament , there would not he £ 6 , 000 , 000 of absentee rents , and £ 6 , 000 , 000 paid annually for English manufactures ; for Ireland would be able to supply them herself . Previous to the Union , Ireland , with a population of only 4 , 200 , 000 , consumed the chief of her produce . The population had nearly doubled since the Union and they exported to England in pork , eggs , &c . &c . * to the amount of £ 8 , 000 , 000 annually , while the surl

      plus revenue and Irish crown rents , which were . £ l , 5 f * 0 , 00 f > more , made the annual drain on that unfortunate country of £ 21 , 500 , 000 . In speaking of the flourishing condition of Ireland from 1782 " to 1 ^ 00 , he said that the jealousy of the English manufacturers was so great again .-t Inland in 1787 th . it the father of the present Premier said to'Pitt * that if something was not done by him to stop the progress then making in Ireland , he would break up his establishment in England and remove to Ireland . If Ireland had a parliament , wonld there be 2 , 400 , 000 destitute creatures in Ireland ? Would 7 , 000 persona annually fall under the iron grasp of the grinding landlord system ? Would Ireland he saddled with

      . C 2 , } 0 n , i . ion tithe rent charge ? Would there have been a contemplated massacre ; the frustration of the tria l bv jury ; a chief justice of the Irish Court of Queen ' s Bench proclaiming himself on "one side ; " a recorder suppressing the jury lists , and dancing off to Sir Robert Peel ' s in Staffordshire , in the midst of his well-paid labours by the public , whose paid and hired sen-ant he was ? Mr Lindsay then dwelt at great length on the industrial resources of Ireland , her capability of becoming a great and prosperous nation , and resumed his seat amidst loud cheering Mr . Melton ( an Englishman ) next addressed the meeting , and said that the Repeal of the Act of Union would benefit the working classes of England . The Irish

      were compelled to seek employment in England which was the means of reducing the price of labour It was the duty of the working classes of England to join in the cry for Repeal . The English middle classes were opposed to the Repeal from fear of losing some of their profits ; but at the same time they used the Irishmen that came over . to this country—not for the love they bore them—but for the purpose of reducing wages , and making the honest and upright Englishmen to work for less . The union was the cause of the Irishmen coming over here ; let the Englishmen . assist their Irish brethren to repeal that Act , which had reduced one of the finest countries in Europe irom the position of a nation to that of a province and thus

      give plenty of employment for Irishmen at home , and Englishmen would have no reason to complain , fie then drew the attention of the meeting to the leading article ? in that day ' s Dispatch andHot / d ' s Xew > pop .-r / , in which Repeal was made the object of their abuse . He hailed the appearance of the North er » Star in the metropolis ; a journal devoted to the interest of the People and the rights of Labour , and which regularly reported their proceedings * ( Cheers . ) Here a person endeavoured to create a schism on account of Mr . O'Connor ' s opinion on the Rechabite < iuestion . but the good feeling of the meeting would not tolerate it . Mr . P . Lee , R . W ., said , whatever difference existed between Mr . O'Connor and Mr . < Vf onnell was not the business they had met for . There had been already too much ot what " one old woman should say , what another old woman told her "

      , mul so on . He believed that something of the kind existed between Mr . O'Connell and Mr . O'Connor . For one , he was thankful to the proprietor of the Star for the publicity he gave to their proceedings in London . Mr . P . Twohey , R . W ., followed in " the same -train , and highly condemned the conduct of the person who had endeavoured to create an ill feeling apinsf an individual that had done them no wrong The difference that existed between the Liberator and the proprietor of the Northern Star was no business of theirs . They were quite able to settle it themselves . He was glad to find the good feeling that existed amongst them . They had by their conduct proved themselves worthy the name of Irishmen . Messrs . Collins and Foley aW addressed the meeting and eighteen persons enrolled themselves as

      associates . Lincoln VrN-FreiJis Ward . —On Sunday a numerous and respectable meeting was held at the Temperance juid Repeal Hall , St . Clemenfs-lane , Strand ; Mr . John O'Connor in the chair . The meeting Was eloquently addressed by Messrs . Cavsmacft , Dunne , Lennard , and Calanan " Twenty-four were enrolled as associates . ( JriEENwicu Ward . —A large meeting of this Ward u- . is held on Sunday the 24 th ult ., at the Ship and Last . Straitsmouth , Deptford . Mr . Calanan in the

      • • hair . Several extracts were read from the Irish journals . The Chairman addressed the , meeting in an impressive manner on the beneficial results that would flow from Repeal . Mr . Brady followed , and at irreat length showed the evils that Ireland laboured under by the Imperial Parliament not being able to trive thai attention to Irish affairs tiufc an Irish Parliament would . Mr . Crowly also addressed the meeting nt gr >> at length , and said that it was owing to the rreedy avarice of the mill owners and merchants of Kiisliiiul that the nationality of hvUnd was sacriti''e (! to l > enetit them . Several were enrolled .

      UurnFDurniE Nkw Warp . —On Sunday evening <}¦ i . 'ith tilt ., a meeting of this Ward took pfcwe at the Rose and Rummer , Paradise-street , Rotherhitlie . Mr . P . (' arnady presided on the occasion . Several of the association reports were read , and the meeting wa . s addressed at great length by Mi-. Freeman , on the present glorious aspect of Repeal . Several other able speeches were delivered . The Liberator ' s speeches at Limerick were also read , and several persons enrolled themselves .

      <; aksfiem > Ward met at the Duke of Susaex , ( iransre-walk , Rermondsey , on Sunday evening last : Mr . E . Twomey in the chair , who made a speech of great taot and ability . After alluding to the disastrous effect of the Union , he said , the army has been in most countries a conquering weapon , while in Ireland it has been the sanguinary agent of ruthless cruelty , savage license , and unchecked barbarity ; yet has Ireland recruited its ranks most liberally . Irishmen have assisted to gain itsf triumph—Irishmen were among the bravest who fell ut Waterloo , and the first who mounted the breach of Badajoz ; the plains of Medea , the heights of Barossa , and the burning sands of Egypt , are constant proofs of the undaunted valour of Irishmen . 1 $ would be an awkward thing for England if Irishinen grew " disloyal" enough to stay at home , and decline

      " To swell the tide of British glory , Aiding despots in their need , Who ' ve changed our green so oft to gory . * Hut far be it from us even to discuss this matter . We must rally under the banner of Repeal , as the only way to preserve the Constitution . ( Cheers . ) Mr . M . Geary ; R . W ., followed ; and twenty-three persons enrolled themselves as associate * . ILuir Tempeiu \ ck Ward , Rbpe . u . Readim-ROOMS , ^ 40 , KING-STREET , BOROUGH . —The meeting M this Ward , formerly held on Mondays , are now held on Sunday evenings . At the last meeting , Mr . BMaguire presided . The meeting was addressed DT Messrs . Ifo ^ an , Murray , and Ryan ; the progress of temperance in Ireland * was the principal topic touched on , showing that Temperance was the handmaid of Repeal . Thirty-four were enrolled M associates .

      Mvaf . Ward , Red Lion Maze , Toolev-stbbet . - On Sunday evening last a highly respectable meeting of this ward was held , Mr . O'Gorman presiding . The . report of the last meeting at the Conciliation Hall was read , and the meeting was ahly and eloquently addressed by Mr . W . Dunne , It . W ., Lam-!> eth Ward . Thirty-eight persons enrolled themselves as associates . ' This is one of the wards that assisted to unfurl the banner of Repeal in this metropolis when Repeal was at a discount . Gray ' s Inn Ward . —Albert , Grav ' s I . vx Lase . —O 11 Sunday evening last Mr . Lawlor presided . Tie meeting was addresed by Mr . White ( Smith O'Brien Ward ) , on the depression of trade and manufactures in Ireland since the Union , and the valour evinced by the Irish in America , during the American Revolution . Twentv were enrolled .

      Conciliation' Ward , Brighton . — At a late meeting of this ward , Mr . Maher , the chairman , dwelt at great length on the late conviction of Miv O'ConneU ) shewing that the reversal of the verdict had forwarded the Repeal cause considerably . Mr . Bowman ( an Englishman ) said he had travelled in Ireland , ana found her sons intelligent , hospitable , and industrious . He could not see why Ireland should not lie prosperous and happy . He had , during his stay in that country , seen quite sufficient to convince him of the n ^*^ : ' of the Repeal agitation , which he was determined w atl 0

      take an active part in , until Ireland was" a « ' *' Mr . Guinness followed , and expatiated upon tne wrongs of Ireland ; and Mr . Butler , in an impres 3 ' * manner , called on all present to join the ranKs o Repeal , for they would bv so doing serve Eng land a » well as Ireland . Several enrolled themselves . On Sunday Evening next , Mr . O'Neal will pre ^ J at the Harp Temperance Ward , 48 , Ku *™ £ 3 Borough . Mr . Murphy will preside at the Saranem-Ward , Duke of Sussex , Grange-walk , Bermon ^ l Mr . T . Healey will preside at the Farringdon Wg Union Anns , Holborn-hiU ; Mr . Collins will pwjjf at the Gray's-Inn Ward , Albert , Gray ' s Inn-iaB * The whole of the other warda will also be opened i

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      REPEAL ASSOCIATION . —Monday . The usual weekly meeting of the Repeal Association was held at the Conciliation Hall . The attendance was extremely numerous , every part of the building being crowded to inconvenience . AIr . O'Connkll said : —He had made a pause to try if the Federalists would join them , but he had been totally disappointed . They had , he might add without alluding to any person in particular , betrayed them , and he was bound to say that he now expected nothing from them . The Federalists were Irishmen , but they had a preference for somebody else ; they did not think that Irishmen ought to govern for themselves . They were good-natured people ; but the love of fatherland did not burn brightly in their

      bosoms , and he could not endure any'irishman who did not prefer Ireland to every country in the world . He had m > national antipathies , but he had a national preference , and that was in favour of Ireland and the Irish . Some of those Federalista would from time to time fall in to the association , but they were at present kept away by Whig predilections . " The Federalists should not deceive themselves , and if they hereafter make any- ' motion , he could tell them—unless they came forward at ouce—that they would speak too late .. As for Mr . Shanuan Crawford ' s plan of Federalism , all he would say of it \ v ; is that he respected the ltoldness and manliness with which its author had come forward , but that it did not contain a single sentence or proposition that he could adopt .

      ( Hear , hear . ) It was a sober , dull piece of plodding , having neither right nor left , neither beginning nor end , and they would leave it , like an unlicked cub , never to be formed into any shape whatever . They had then done with Federalism ; and he wished in the next place to take notice of a portion of the British press . Ho alluded to a London newspaper , the Examiner , in the last number "of which there was an article , of course abusing him , and headed with the words " Richard is himself again . " That was a kind of walking falsehood of the Examiner , for it distinctly admitted that he made no proposition for Federalism that was not looking for repeal , and something more than simple repeal . ( Hear , hear . ) [ He then read the extract from the Examiner , in which

      his allusion at the" Limerick dinner to Im political revenge being "dear a . s the honey cup of lite , " was stigmatized as an internal sentiment . ) He denied that it was eitluir unchristian or infernal . He had distinctly stated that he had no personal or individual animosity , but that he hated injustice and oppression ; but < os it was English injustice , the Exnminer thought they had a right to leave it . There was a Whig writer for them ! Some pei-sons were surprised that they should draw the Whigs into the category of their contempt , but those people but little know how totally the Whigs had lost the confidence of the- Irish people through the scurrility of their writers . The Examiner man also quarrelled with his cap . lie was obliged , when speaking in the open air or in large

      assemblies , to wear a covering on his head , and if his cap happened to be a beautifully ornamented one he might thank a dear little daughter of his then present , who thought fit to make it «<> ; and this he could add , that if the Cap did not fit him ho would not wear it . ( Laughter and cheers . ) [ Mr . O'Connell then read tho subsequent passages from the article in the Examiner , in which it was stated that if an untruth would have served-his ( Mr . O'Conneil's ) purpose , he would adopt it as readilvas a truth ] . He would tell the miscreant that he lied , lie would quietly pronounce the entire of that paragraph as gross a falsehood ; is ever vet an English brute assorted with respect to an Irishman . That man might complain of the harshness of his language , but how dared he print such a slander

      against any man ? His entire public life was before the world , and if the Examim r could prove its assertion , the opportunity was open t « it to do so , but if it could not—and he defied it to do so—then he was justified in pronouncing the charare a jrr »« s and lyiiiu calumny . He would then leave the scoundrel where ho found him , and proceed to consider the different resolutions which he had mentioned at the last day of meeting . [ In justice to the Examiner , we reprint below the article which has called forth this attack . ) The advocates of the union had stated that Ireland wa . s in a more prosperous condition now than at the period i > f the union . He denied the fact in tutu . The honourable gentleman then went into some statistical facts , for the purpose of ' showinjr that Ireland was not in as

      nourishing a . condition now as at tiie time to which he alluded , and quoted Kohl to prove that there was more wretchedness in this country than in any other in Europe . The l ' oor-I . aw commissioners and Captain l . areorn had also g iven the most frightful picture of the sufferings of the people . It , was to the infernal union that all these misfortunes were to be attributed , lie would show that Ireland was not properly represented . Taking her revenue and population into consideration , she was entitled to IT ^ members . I'laced as the executive virtually is in the House ot Commons , it was of the utmost importance that Ircliuul should l ) u proper !) rejuvsonted . Uv . would put it to the common sense of the KniHish people , was it fair that Wales should send "_'(< members to

      Parliament , whilst the county 'C ork I which he had the honour of representing ) , with an equal number of inhabitant * , should return hut two representatives t W as it not folly t <> call that a union which was on one side all tyranny and par tiality ( heart ' . The same principle was carried out in the corporal ions . The Irish Municipal Act was materially defVctivo : tlu > ( Vanchise tv ; ts rated so hisfli as to exclude from the burgess lint alwut three-fourths of those who would in Kuglaud lie burgesses . ( Hear , hear , hear . I lie would assert that there never was a greater injustice perpetrated by one country on another , than in the ease of the Irish Municipal Act . ( Cheers . ) There was another monster irrievancc inflicted upon the people ol this country—a irrievance which would

      not be tolerated for one moment in any other country in the world ' . It was the church infliction . | flcar , hear ) . The people of Ireland were constrained to support two churches—the one , the church of' the smaller , and , at the same time , the wealthy class of society—the other , the church of the many , and of the poor . . ( Hear , hear . ) Was that just , was that fair , anil was it . rational ' . This anomaly should be removed—( cheers)—the people of Ireland would never be satisfied till it was abolished . ( Hear , hear . ) At the same time , he wished it to he understood that a due regard should be paid to existing

      rights . A greater misfortune he would assert could not happen to any country than an union between church and state , ( Hear , hear . ) The honourable gentleman then proceeded to take a review of the fiscal injustice winch the union had inflicted on Ireland , and detailed the disastrous effects of absenteeism , urging the absolute necessity that existed for an absentee tax , which he said a , domestic legislature would not hesitate to impose , and then alluded to the evils consequent on a distant and remote legislature . After some further business had been disposed of , Mr . I )* found ] announced the rent for the week to be Hi'Xl . , H . ( id . ( Cheers . )

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      REPEAL IX LONDON . Thursday Morning , Dec . 5 , 1844 . —The Wards continue to jbe well attended ; and to show the enthusiasm that exists amongst the brave exiles , and their love of fatherland , I find by the returns of the association in Dublin , that the Repealers of London transmitted ! to the Repeal Exchequer , for the week ending Nov . ! 16 th , the sum of £ 34 14 s . 4 d . ; while the Dublin Wariis contributed only £ 8 10 g . 9 d ., which sum was exceeded by the Repealers of Liverpool , who transmitted for that week the sum of £ 10 . The sum transmitted from London this year will greatly exceed that of last year .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 7, 1844, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct516/page/6/