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    • ADDRESS OF THE LOYAL DROGHEDA TRADES' ASSOCIATION TO THE WORKING CLASSES
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    • 0 THE LOY AL DROGHEDA TRADES ASSOCIATION.
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      Lotal Gim . ww . -Had not the organ of your Ldr efcallensed me to reply , I should have allowed Sf ^ er of my Chartist friends of Drogheda to Smdaa a compete refutation of your several fnTUiions . However awaro tbzl my silence would w * b riven a short-lived triumph to slander , I should Si have availed myself of the opportunity which ! £ r address affords of exposing the snpreme , igno-UZx of any body of Irishmen professing Repeal jjriaeiples , had I not been forced to it by the Drog-Loral Gentlemen , how can you be bo foolish , so err foolish , as thus to enable me to swell the catitMme of triumpfes ever my enemies i Did you write jnWuoranee ! Ordid you vainly hope that falsehood truth ! did natter

      voSd pass for or you yourselves gut those who saw the indictment would not also ¦ ee the defence ! Loyal Gentlemen , in your several aJlegations _ there is &ot a single sentence of truth from the beginning erea nnto the end—not one ; and , what is still warae , rou know it I J imagine that your address , which professes to be the address of the working classes , is the concoction of some one to whom falsehood is oftentimes more serricable than truth . Bu ^ Merelful Providenoe ! how proud should I be in my prison-house , after years of unceasing agitation , and jn the sixteenth month of solitary confinement , to receive a copy of each an indictment , accompanied with such a ost of charges .

      Alas 2 Loyal Gentlemen , and is this the most that tre « bery can do I and have all my treasons , crimes , and offences merged into this narrow compass 1 Suppose I pleaded guilty to the principal count in roar indictment , what then ! What would be your sentence 1 Bat , firstly , let as see what that count is . It charges me with giving you a Tory House of Commons , and with the publication of an address , in which was the following passage : — " The Charter cannot be obHined without the people of Ireland ; but as long is they are under the influence d O'ConneH and the Com Exchange , we cannot expect ttieir co-operation : then what is to be done ? Why O'Connell and the Irish Liberals are supporting the bloody Whigs ; and bo long . as they continue in office , « never can expect to have the people of Ireland . Hxen oat with the bloody TThigs . and give Ireland mother Tory squefM ; let loose the National bloodhound * , the Orange faction , and the shooting churchoactioned by a Tory government , and then yon will have the Irish running into your arms . "

      Sow , Gentlemen , will yon condemn me for that If you say " Aye , " panse and read the first sentence of your vldress , in which you declare your sole object to oe " the advancement of that great national qnesjjoa , tne Repeal of the Legislative Union P Well , you have read it ; now then , read the following document , published no later than last ¦ week ; sad , above all , read the magie name thereunto afized , and then condemn me , if jon dare , and » : quit Daniel p'ConnelL Loyal Gentlemen , above tM read the third paragraph from the bottom , and then ssy whether or not my forebodings of Tory persecuuon could have exceeded those therein predicted by ice " Liberator ! " And yet does he , as I do . anticipate the most beneficial results from the B Torv squeeze . "

      " The Re ' onners of England and Scotland can hare j » cause to complain of our conduct ; they are scattered , uncombined , isolated—no common bond of union—no CjnannnityGfexertioaEubsistsainongsttheiiu TbeLeed g Associstion is but a came . The Birmingham Council is pst d past history . The Chartists hare alarmed and ffamst&d so miy that they have proved the best patrons wi protectors of Toryism . " Bat if Reform shall again raise it * head in England —if the R-fonners shall again congregate in peaceful * ad constitutional sfeength , they can reckon upon the coanteEanee and snpport of the independent Repealers of Ireland .

      " The ad-rest of Toryism to jwwer must o ! necessity fend to augment and strengthen the cause of Repeal , tsi the number of Repealers . The insolent oppression of the Orange Tories in Ireland will serve to animate lie timid , whilst it trill disgust the indifferent as irell as tbe torpid , though honest Irishmen . The Ipeces cf magistrates trhem they will appoint—the party Sheriffs whom they will same—the Orange Juris -shorn they will pack—the -violent partisans with ¦ whom thry -will crowd tie bench of justice—all these , sad more , ire have to apprehend from the Tories , shouM they come into power . But all these re-act in favour of Repeal .

      " Again , if the Tories come into power , the virulent hatred of Lord Stanley to the people of Ireland will have foil room to display itself . The number of voters in Ireland is miserably small—is totally , inadequately gmalL In most of our counties there is scarcely one ¦ voter for every three hnndred of the population . The popular sentiment is checked and controlled ; but < J" » t- sentiment will be -wholly extinguished , and fee franchises -worse than annlbiMed , by Stanley's Scorpion Bill The insnltiag inadequacy of the Corporate ReformBfll win become every day more and more manifest " All these causes -will operate to augment the numbers and increase tbe strength of the Repealers . Then . oa the other hand , the certainty that all the grievances of Ireland will be redressed by her own Parliament vd operate as an additional stimulant to the repeal

      ease . ' 1 Every -nnyn -who feels -with us that no iniquity can be greater than the appropriation of the ecclesiastical lire rtventiM of the nation to the clergy of a small sect—every such man must admit that it is only from as Irish Parliament we can obtain the extinction of the tie-rent charge , and the application of the other r evenues , now enjoyed hy the state church , to purposes of education and charity , for the use of all persuasions " There cannot be a more important or more valuable , or , at the same time , more certain result of the restoration cf the Irish Parliament , than that one of its first acts must be to extinguish the remaining tithe-rent eiirge , sod to direct the appropriation of the other ttatc church revenues to purposes of general utility and eiaritr .

      " 2 Every human being in Ireland must be quite » Tare ihst no extension of the Irish franchise , however obvious ] - jsat and necessary , can be obtained from the British Parliament ,- en tie contrary , we are about to eidnre from Lord Stanley the Tirtukl annihilation of the elective fraidise altogether . " Z . Every Lamarj being in Ireland must fee that the Corporate Keforai Bill we have obtained is a vexatious EsocksrT—a mockery the more vexatious because of its contrast ¦ with the Eaglish and Scotch Corporate Reform Arts . In fact , it does not deserve the name of reform at * IL Yet there is net the least prospect cf redress from the British Parliament .

      u Fer these , and multitudinous other reasons , it is qmte dear thst nothing can tend so much to segment the number of Repeilers and the force of the Repeal movement is the tdvent to power of Peel and Stanley . Their ministry severs for ever that lint of deceptive b « pe of justice from an Eng ' . ish Parliament , which prevented some , and served as an ercuse for Others , for not sooner taking part in the Repeal agitation . " Tour committee conclude with one caution : It Is desz that the Tories win institute as many prosecutions as they -possibly esn—they trill prosecute erery ebullition of pcpclar feeling that can afiurd an excuse , however futile , for a prosecution . The reign of ' justice ' ( u Siurin used to call his reign of terror ! will be restored . The Tories -will feel themselves secure of their sheriff } , their juries , and the partisan judges whom they -will select .

      " should these threatened evils teirify the Rer ealers from their course ? CEBT >]? LT > ' 0 T . Let that course be mild bat firm—moderate but resolute—free from the teenage of irritation or passion , but dignified by the tone and temper that becomes men who deserve to be free . " ?« o despair—no despondency . Ireland has already tehievfcd one great and bloodless victory—she vri ! l asiutTe another and a greater . Ireland had » Parliament cf her own ; with \ h % blessing of God she -will hare her ParliaiBent again . " Signed by order , " DaMEL 0 'Conset . l , ¦• Chairman of the Committee . Hare yon read it , and what have yon to say in the Liberator's" defence , -who vrroie it 1 Will you Es % tin against him !

      Lots ] Gentlemen , you profess to read the Xorthern Star , and yon appear to be familiar with its contrats ; why then , injustice , did you not include the ibiionlcg passage , which you might have found ten faaes oTer in that paper : — " Let tyranny cot suppose that it has gained a triumph in my persecution , or in the persecution of my fnends ; co , Char : i ? m required sitch x stab to rouse it from its lethargy ; Kid if XT SITFERIXG HAS CONDUCED I > " AST WAT TO ArGMES-r THE MOBSTER ' S 5 TKK 5 GTH . "WELCOME PERsirrtiox is a > -t shape , THOUGH IT WERE DEATH ITSELF !"

      Sow , Loyal Gentlemen , this is not a single in-EtiEce of my belief in the necessity of persecution ; * J& . the absolute necessity , for the a-dTancement of a great cause . No ; for I glory in every pan * 1 feel as the STinpa-Jieuc response to some tyrant ' s torture . Maj" * . P you have had eo many peaceful and bloodless tnumphs in Ireland of late , that you expected a ** & over for the " national stakes . Foolish men were yon not aware thai the ogre ( class legislation ) was but fattiDg you , till your turn for tbe Baerifiee ^ ffmed ! And , after all , where are yonr triumphs ! AJi ! jou may rxjint to your tills , for you are all soopteepers , although you call yourselves the work-E ! £ elapses .

      B « where arc the people ' s triumphs 1 where , I «*! Oa the Bench ; in the police ; in the Four warts ; in the Red Book ; in the Civil List ; in ] £ * Lieutenancies of Counties ; in the appointment ° - She riff *; in the stipendiary corps of police spies U ( ! nia ? i ? trat « i ; in Colonial jobbery ; in Poor Law * &o . other cosuuissions ! Yes , Gentlemen , such have J *^ the triumphs of Ireland ; but , alas , they are tte tnnmphs of the "Lice , " while the exhausted ** M of the " Beetle" may point to the transport , « e dungeon , the empty house , or the law which If ^ v 7 ¦ has compelled him to fly , as his poor share 'oe spoils '

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      Loyal Gentlemen , for uniformity ' s sake , I will now take yoar several counts , seriatim ^ in the order in which they appear in the indictment . The first is a mere clumsy thing of nothing , containing the old story about "the Chartists * league with the Tories ; " and having affirmed it , yon go on to the old catalogs ^ of Tory oppression , which ( shame to ten years of Whig rule , and your unopposed power for the latter six of that period ) is now discerned to be in full force ;—and having leagued the Chartists and the Tories , you allow your readers to infer that Chartism would be as great an enemy to civil and religious liberty as Toryism has been ; while , in your souls , you are aware that the equality and even reign of justice which . Chartism would ensure , is the

      one thing dreaded by every speculator iu unhappy Ireland' s sorrows , sufferings , and woes . In the second count you say , and say truly , " that division among the people was always the main stay of tyranny and oppression . " Loyal Gentlemen , allow me to ask you to point me out ft man in existence who has dose so much to increase and foster that division as Mr . O'Connell ? and who has made it bo much the study of his life , even at the expence of self , as I have , to destroy that division , and cement the whole body of the people in one compact onion , looking for one and only one object . Loyal Gentlemen , the third count is a mere repetition of Tory insolence to the Catholic people of Ireland , which rearms O'Connor , the Northern Star ,

      and the English Chartists , have resented in more manly terms than the Irish or the Irish press ever have done upon their own account . When the sacriligious wretch , the Rev . Mr . Stowell , went to Bath to preach his anti Catholic doctrine , who hooted him , and his blood-stained associates eut of the meeting-house ] The Catholics 1 No such thing . ' emboldened by hid many triumphs over the Catholics of Manchester , in their very strong-hold , it remained for the English -working " Tory-Protestant-Orange-Chartists" of Bath to teach him that , however the Irish Catholics may submit to his insults at home , that they , the Chartists of Bath , would not be parties to such a Protestant triumph over their Inah Catholio brethren ; and , curious to say , none of your Liberal Irish rapers published

      the defeat of the " surpliced ruffian , - * while the Star had a full report , and an article of thanks to the Bath Chartists for their manly and spirited conduct . You know , and Mr . O'Oonneil knos ? s , that 99 in every 100 of the English woTking people love their Irish Catholic brethren as themselves , and the more for the persecution they have suffered from wily friends aad foes ; vrhile they hate the very name of " Orangeman , " as the worst- enemy of the human race . You have no right to libel the English people ; your pres 3 his no ri ^ at to libel the English people ; your " Liberator'' has no right to libel the English people ; but the English people esteem it as a tribute to their judgement , which has tsnghi them how to affix the proper stamp of value to every public man ' s acts and professions . They havefound ilr . O'Connellout , and hence their crime .

      Loyal Gentlemen , in the fourth count you charge me with insincerity , because , / refuse all instalments of reform . Will you have the goodness to point out any-instalment t&at I have refined 1 Yon aake a slight mistake . You should have said , " bcraase he refuses to agitate for instilments of reform . " In faith , I do ! and will to the day of my death . 1 know of no such thing as an instalment " of principle or a morsel of justice , while I have never been put to the pain during che ten years of Whig sway of refusing a farthing in the pound . As you r . - ad tho Star , yoa will find it therein written , that the whole popular force could Dot command the dismissal of one obnoxiou ? policeman , or of one palace menial ; and should vou require recorded proof of popular

      inability to get a frac ' . ion of justice , or au " instalment " of even mercy , from the representatives of the pre&ent electoral body , you will find ample proof in tbe fact that the vote of the only man who should stand neuter in the House of Commons overbalanced 2 , 000 , 000 of signatures of people , who pointed attention to tbe fact , that for fifteen months , amid tbe most galling privations , not a single outrage had taken place ; and yet was their prayer for the liberation of political offenders rejected , while your great leader and champion of civil liberty walked out of the House , and his name appears nowhere in the division . What , bow , do you think of " instalments" of Reform , and Chartist power to enforce them ?

      Yctt ask why the Chartists interrupt meetings for the Corn Laws ! I will tell you ; because , in the commencement of the agitation upon that subject , the people -rrere invited to attend and take part , and when they did take part , they were not only insulted , but they were in many instances assaulted , dragged out of the meeting , rolled in the kennel and covered with mud , cuffed by rpfihn police , and groaned at by idle shop boys ( for which see Meaning Chronicle );' sod . when they moved their amendments , the cla--s-legislaiion Chairman invariably declared tho . e amendments to be lost , although in almost every instance the majority in their favour

      was fifty to one . This practice was pre-eminently calculated to make the Chartists appear a- poor minority of the ¦ working classes , and their principles bnt tbe wild theories of a discontented faction ; and seeing the result likely to be produced , and the injury likely to be inflicted upon the real cause of freedom , I did recommend the people to move their own Chairman—to stand by their ovrn " order" and their Cause—io hear if ( hey vrere heard , and to STRIKE if they vere STRUCK ; and from the moment the people acted upon that advice every paper teemed mth Chartist triumphs , and every tongue was obliged to admit the Chartists' strength .

      You 6 ay , in the same count , that I © ppose every Liberal and Reformer , and give the Tory Monopolists = uch a majority as will enable them not only to crash the Chirtist 3 , but to put down all attempts of the people in seeking a redress of grievances . " To that I answer , I look upon what you call " Liberals and Reformers" as the greatest Monopolists and the greatest curse that ever the country endured ; -while I tell you , in the language of Eramett , that " it shall only be over my lifeless body" the Toriea shall impede the progress of Chartism , and suppre = s the jug . complaints of the people .

      In the same count you say— " It was for the same conduct he was hissed from the stage of Iri ? h politics . " Poor silly creatures ! When was he hissed frcEi the stage of Irish politics ? Was it in 1821 , when he alone of his order , backed by eleven Roman Catholic Clergymen ( all his friends to this day ) stood np agaiBs * special commission ? , martial-law , shootings , burnings , and cruelties of all Borts , and defended the poor White Boys driven to madness by despair , against the united force of Whig and Tory marshalled in military array against the Catholic people ? Was it in 1831 , when he paraliz ^ d the Great Reform Meeting in Cork , by the assurance that all Reforms , except a Repeal of the Union wonld be mere moonshine for Ireland ? Was it in

      183 " 2 , when he refused to plead guilty and receive mercy for taking the lead and the post of danger in anti-tithe meetings \ Or was it in the same year , when , without any help , but that of some good priests and the whole people , he broke down tbe most powerful aristocracy ever known to exist in any county oi country , and in which he dragged your Bhop-keeping order after him much against their inclination-, and gained a victory which for 150 years all combinations strove in vain to achieve 1 Was it in 1833 . when he took the mask from bumbng and forced Mr . O'Cocnell to pledge himself U > bring the Repeal question forward , and when the liberal press was with him ? Was it in 1834 , when in spite of the opposition of Mr . O'Connell ' d friends and

      relatives he again trittmphed over the Protestant aristocracy of the connty of Coik ? Was H in } 835 , when , the Catholic people subscribed six hundred pounds , to defend his scat which was lost by the treachery of some of the Irish liberal members , who , by Mr . O'Connell ' s recommendation , absented themselves from ihe Ballot for his committee ! Was it at the close of that year when , after he was unseated , the Liberator offered him a hnndred guineas , " sat a hckdeed , " to go to Carlow as counsel for Jew Raphael , and which he declined , offering at the same time to go at his own expense for a good man ? Or , was it in 1 CS 9 , when he met a large number of priests , with ¦ whom he had acted since 1821 , and the two liberal members for the county of Cork at a public meeting , -or rather in a town where a public meeting was announced to be held , and to which he went alone ,

      amid shouting , cheering , and welcomes , none asking for the members , and none daring to oppose him , and upon which occasion Mr . E . Roche , the present very excellent M . P . for the county of Cork , said to the Rev . Mr . Dohaney , P . P . of Dunmanway , " Well , let them say what they like , Feargus is the man of the people . " " He is , and ever has been . and ever will be , " was the rev . gentleman ' s reply . Upon that occasion , the Roman Catholic clergyman of his own parish , to whom he was known and with whom he has been intimately acquainted since the year 1816 , a period of twenty-three years , stood by him upon tbe pbtform , and responded to his every sentiment . Kow , just judges , vrhen was he hissed off the Irish stage ! Answer that if you can ! You say " vrere we so disposed we could occupy columns of newspapers , with extracts from his own Northern Star , in Eupport of our assertions , but we deem it sufficient to refer to his address to the Char-

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      tists , published in the Star of 15 th June , 1841 , or of Jan . 8 th , 1841 , or in his address to the Chartists of jSewry , published June 8 ih , 1841 . In those will be found the reasons he gives for speaking one way and acting another . " Yes , I believe you ! Thank you , very mncb , for this count . Loyal Gentlemen , you say " were yon bo disposed , " you could do so and bo . In truth , you bare ehown the disposition , but the proof you lack . You say , " in these will be found the reasons he gives for speaking one way and actiag another . " Yes , I believe you , " in these , " and these alone , that is in your airy imagination alone will these be found , for the records to which you refer , havo no existence any where else . There is no such thins as a Northern

      Star , bearing date , either the 8 th of June , 15 th Jane , or 8 th of January , 1841 . There is no such thing extant , or in existence , as an address from me to the Chartists of Newry . I never wrote a line of an address to the Chartists of Nswry . I den't know to this day , who wrote the famous and powerul reply to the address of the Corn Exchange patriots to the people of Newry . I know it was the act of some Irish Catholic Chartist of Manchester , but I never heard of it till I saw it in print . Now , what do you say ! Even yet , yon shall not slide off upon a quibble , because I give you tho whole file of Stars , and I defy you , under any date , to find a justification for myself , or any one , ** speaking one way and acting another . " It is the very thing which I have ever decried and avoided .

      As to your old folly about the torch and the dagger , in the same count , my reply is the same . I give you the whole file of Stars , and I defy you to show that I ever used tbe word dagger" in my life , or that I ever used the word " torch in any other sense than as a substitute for that light which tvrantu had denied their men the use of , by refusing them permission to meet in open day , for the purpose of discussing their grievances . Now , what do yon say ? and what will the 1 , 000 , 000 moralforce-pike-Repealerssay ? Yonr sixth count runs thus : —

      " While tbe English Chartists were going on In A constitutional way , they were becoming a formidable body in tbe eyes of their despotic task-masters , who could not bear tbe sacred name of liberty ; and then it seemed to them tho most effective way to crush the honest Cbartuts , to send among them some of those subtle agents to draw them into the fangs of the law by the commission of crime ; and here we rind Feargrid as the principal actor , with liberty and the Charter on his lips , while in bis actions is to be seen the most diabolical hypocrisy . "

      Loyal Trade's Association , I admit your position here , and I will make the allegation perfect and sustainable by just substituting the name of Daniel O'Conueil , for Feargus O'Connor . We , the Chartists , that is , the Radicals , looking for the six points of the Charter , were all-powerful , until Mr . Daniel O'Connell , and a set of monsters at Birmingham , seeing that nothing but treachery could impede our progress , resolved upon entering our ranks for the purpose of dividing us . The Whigs in 183 S required a diversion of the public mind from the operations of the Poor Law Amendment Act , and Mr .

      O'Connell stood in need of some counter irritant to attract attention from his sale of self and Ireland to Lord Dancannon , and the Whigs . He therefore , in conjunction with fivo other Members of Parliament , inviled a body of working men . theu known by the name of" the London Working Men ' s Association , " to mould all their principles into a condensed form , which they did , incorporating ou .-Radical p ints ; and to that document , pledging the subscribers to its support , Mr . Daniel O'Connell and five other M . P . ' s attached their names , Mr . O'Connell observing upon the completion of the thing , " there , take th ( U , it is your JtST RIGHT , ACCEPT . NOTHING SHORT OF IT . "

      Gentlemen , I have had that document iu my hand ; we had it at Monmoutb : and a person who witnessed Mr . O'Connell Bign it , was in attendance to prove his signature , if required . Now , Loval Gentlemen , who requires an excuse for speaking one way and acting another 1 I told Mr . Lovett , at the True Sun ofllce , when he showed me the document , that O'Connell would sell them ! and from that moment to the present , his every hour has been devoted to the fabrication of means of every sort for tho propagation of dissention among the

      people . When Mr . Lotvery went to Dublin , he did not preach torch and dngger Chartism : no—he went to advance Mr . O'Connell's own principlesthe people ' s " jtsr eights ; " and how did the "Liberator" treat him ! And mark , and mark well , that it was before any outbreak . Why , he is .-ued a general thanskgiving to the Irish wno had nearly strangled poor Lowery while expounding those principles to which the " Liberator" had attached his sacred name .

      While upon this subject , allow me to ask whether even the outbreak at Monmoutb . would have furnished Mr . O'ConncU with an excuse for abandoning Chartism , if Chartism had been to him a paying thing ? and , again , let it be understood that this lover of justice had been for many months previous to the Monnouth outbreak denouncing every Chartist by name , and selecting the fabrications of a hired press as matter worthy the notice of the Attorney-General ; and that every lender who was prosecuted by the Attorney-General was first declared to be guilty of high treason by Mr . Daniel O'Connell , who now ludicrously enough assures his hearers that the Whigs were mild scourgers of Chartism , as compared with what the Tories required at their hands !

      Your seventh count ia all nonsense . Your eighth I pleaded to first . Yonr ninth iB a fabrication . No such thing ever occurred at A 6 hton . It was a labourer ' s strike . The first dissention between the English and the Irish in England wa 3 caused by'Mr . O'Connell in person , when he marshalled the hatred of the Irish Catholics against their Protestant Chartist neighbours , and then , coward-like , fled the field . Then for tbe first time did we hear of " Orange-Chartist-Protestant , " and such like staff : but , thanks be to God , justice and principle are now too strong for buffoonery , clap-trap , and expediency ; and the Irish themselves are beginning to

      open their eyes to the folly of their ways . There never was a cry of ' no popery '' raised by the English People ; never ! never ! never ! not even in olden times . It was raised by the enemies of the English people , the bigoted oligarchy . The only sectarian cry raised during the recent election , was the cry of " Orange-Protestant-English Chartists , " by Mr . O'Connell . But it has had the short-Jived existence which , I trust in God , all the offsprings of ignorance and tyranny are doomed to have in an atmosphere no longer suited to their growth or favourable to their propagation . In the ninth count you also say ;—

      " But above all , and before all , who was it that laid the plot to insult and injure O'Connell , and upset the Reform Meeting at Leeds ?" To a portion of the above I plead guilty , if there be guilt in defeating humbug . It was 1 who concocted the plot of upsetting the "Reform Meeting , " as you call it , at Leeds ; and it was I who recommended the people to watch and restrain every man who attempted lo riot , as our enemies -would be sure to create one if possible . Bnt allow me to ask who it was that said , " The Irish boys would treat Feargus to a swim in the Liffy if he went to Dubliv . " and who told one of his braggart cowards that " he would have done well to have kicked Feargus soundly ? " Why , Daniel O'Connell . Loyal Trades of Dregheda , —Having now replied to your several allegations , allow me to put Mr . O'Connell ' s principles , loyalty , and sincerity , to the test . That he is an avowed Chartist , we have his

      sign manual as evidence—so much for his principle ; but then his loyalty takes alarm at the revolutionary means by which the Chartists , as he says , profess to work out their object ; and therefore he denounces the torch and dagger ChartistB : so much for his loyalty . But now , pray observe how we lose ourselves in all attempts to patch np his sincerity . All these reasons may hold good in a weak mind , te . regards English Chartism : but in the name of common sense how do you account for his denunciation of Irish Chartists in general , and of the Rev . Mr . Ryan , P . P , in particular , the more especially as that body have published their means of advancing Mr . O'Connell ' s principle and the people ' s "just rights , " which means are strictly constitutional , peaceful , and moral ; and when they have further declared their determination not to send delegates to other bodies , or to admit of delegates being sent from other bodies to them ?

      Now pray , for the sake of common justice and consistency , answer that , and tell me why the Rev . Mr . Ryan was held np to public reprobation ! O perhaps it might have been unbecoming in a Christian minister to be a member of an association whose objects are Universal Suffrage , Vote by Ballot , and Annual Parliaments ; but quite seemly in the same Rev . Gentleman to be a paying member of an association whose objects are Household Suffrage , Triennial Parliaments , and Vote by Ballot ! Yet the sacred calling of tho " annointed priest" did not save him from the " Liberator ' s " , sarcasm . How very droll all this ! Now , ia it not , Royal Loyal Trades of Drogheda ? Ah ! most Loyal Tradsmen , we have had more tLan enough of this " prick in the loop" patriotism . It 6 hall cease . For never again sbaU the mariners in freedom ' s bark be deceived by the dazzling flicker of the sham lights of the smuggler shining from

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      freedoms bght-honse . No , no : call me what you will , bat do me the Justice io admit that through all-rissioitudes I have adhered to the one great principle which alone cart insure man ' s equality under the law ; $ nd I thank God that my exertions in his behalf , have insured for me a resting place from persecution in tho heart of every poor and oppressed man woman and child ! You most slay the nation before you can erase my name from its records . I sought no strife with Mr . O'Connell . He attacked me most unceremoniously , and refused a reply to my too mild application for even an explanation . What then , was I to see in tkis autocrat to make me bend before Ins presoriptive right to denounce all who differed from him ! W » 8 I to fall down and worship ^ t t ' X ^ va * ^ w ^ 0 ftw ** VBV II MrK W ^ lh ^ A w V 4 VI 4 IV at the Bhnof

      ne this Protean politician ! No ; consistency , honour , self-respect , and love of Justine and of truth forbade it ! for mayhap such blind subserviency would have obliged me to worship as many principles in one short month , and all as various as tho several colours in the varied rainbow . What ! is there to be no mind in this Empire but that of which his pliant conception is the mam spring ? Not satisfied with having denounced me while at large , he , coward-like , took the opportunity of my incarceration to heap slanders upou me . Was this patriotism 1 was this principle ? was this Irish honour I I hurl defiance at him aid you ! I do not suffer imprisonment by deputy . ' fight my battles by proxy I or tote by pair ! where the liberty of my fellow man is at stake .

      He and his well-paid patriots have charged me with being a trafficking politician . What ia the fact ! He has made a fortune , eked out of Ireland's sorrows and her tears , while I have spent one in an attempt " to redress her wrongs ! You charge me with being an enemy to Ireland . I join issue with you : I dare you to the proof . I demand a trial . We have a precodent . John Lawless was tried : I was one of his counsel , Hear my tormB . I require no more than the common law usage of traitors . Serve me with a copy of an iadictmenfc , and a list of witnesses to be produced , ten clear days before the day of trial : and upon the moment of my liberation —aye , I will meet you at the dungeon ' s gate . You shall have tho Northern Star , which , by the time of my liberation , willoontain more than 10 , 000 columns ; you shall use it in evidence . You shall have its free columns

      tiil that time to advertise for every line evar written by me , and for hashing up every word spoken by me in public or in private . I will allow Mr . O'Connell to name his tribunal of any number . I will give you tho whole bar and all the patriots of Ireland ; and , single-handed , I will meet you in Dublin to stand my trial . All that I stipulate for is , that it shall take place in a room capable of hoMing 1 . 000 persons—that admission shall be free —that some Dublin paper shall be agreed upon as the medium of publication of matter which shall be submitted , before being printed , to both parties for their approval . These are my terms ; and if ono of a tribunal of that number , shall say guilty of a line written , an act done , or a word spoken against the best interests of my country , I will agree to abandon that country and the British Empire , for the remainder of my natural life .

      If justice be indeed your object , there is a court open tor you . If intimidation be your design , I hurl defiance at you ! I will not be a floating bladder of wind , buoyed upon the changeable current of your " Liberator ' s" odoriferous breath , with " Hurrah for this , " and " that , " and " the other ;" Anrt " for this , " and " that , " and " . the other , hurrah !" No , I am a professor of simple politics which all can understand . I will neither bo a scholar in the new school of magic politics , nor wili I teach its doctrines . The natural right of man requires not diplomacy or art to convince the veriest dolt of his title to that right ; and the more we mistify it , tho more difficult do we make it of attainment . My creed is simple : The vote for all : A Parliament for Ireland ; and the green fields at their full usurped value as man ' s labour mart—his own labour being his staff and his savings' bank .

      If that is not plain , enough , T cannot make it plainer ; while you eay that the only means of insuring the advancement of the great national question of Repeal , is through the instrumentality and agency of your representatives in Parliament . Loyal Tradesmen , without entering upon the question of Ireland's advance generally in that respect , let me just test the advancement by your own position in Drogheda . " The tro shall be kuown by its fruit : " and if " the tree which bringeth forth bad fruit should be hewn down and cast into the fire , " I fear your town would get a scorch—for verily you have advanced like the rear rank of the Kerry militia !

      But let us just run youi through your facings , and see how you stand inspection . In 1833 , Drogheda returned Carew O'Dwyer , a Repealer , Tithe Abolitionist , and Chartist . In 1834 , you returned the Hon . Randall Plnnket , Orangeman and Anti-Repealer ; and in 1837 and 1841 , Sir Marcus Summerville , mere keep-out-the-Tories , Whig aud Anti-Repealer ; and this is what the Loyal Trades of Drogheda call " advancing their great natwial question through their representatives !" A sergeant of the Kerry militia , in drilling the awkward squad of his company , ordered the rear rank to advanee three paces backwards . Gentlemen , I fear you have been under drill of a Kerry sergeant since the Reform Bill ! for in good truth you have advanced very much like the rear rank . You should call yourselves the Royal' Loyal Crabs of Drogheda .

      Suppose the English people , taking Drogheda as a test , were to say , "Aye , the Irish people have always been the enemies of England ; just see , they returned a Tory Orangeman at Drogheda last election , and now they have returned a Poor Law , anti-Charter , anti-Repeal Whig . " What could you answer to that ? or how dare you talk of advancing your great national question through your representatives , when you yourselves—aye , youcompose the Committee of an anti-Repeal Member ? How very consistent and patriotic !

      There is something disgusting to the plain understanding of men to read of the new juggles presented weekly to the brave Irish people in return for their pence . O , how despicable , to see a great two fisted Irishman , fifteen or sixteen stone weight , traversing the country in the nineteenth century , like a common mountebank , with his tongue in one side of his cheek , a quid of loyalty in the other , and cheap government upon his hps ; while we find his recorded declaration that his pauper constituents instructed him to vote the highest figure for the Queen ' s pauper husband ' s allowance— £ 50 , 000 a year , the amount proposed by the Whigs not being sufficient !

      Have you the vanity , or the folly , to suppos « that " Our religion is in danger " and 'Keep the Tories out , " and " Cumberland is coming" will much longer prevent the starving IriBh from seeing these things in their true light ! Read the " Liberator ' s " opinion of the Whigs , now that they are out and that the fat has gone , and say have I ever given them a worse character ! Read his new creed , which he never broached till he had no power to enforce it ; and tben tell me that he is sincere in his advocacy of the cause of liberty . You array your whole

      associated strength against a single prisoner , but although I have not stood upright for ten whole days , and although I am at this moment experiencing the mo 9 t excruciating torture , not being able to bend my knees , and although the doctor has but just left me , with a hint that I have got a rheumatic fever , yet on my back , if you set your bull-dog at me , I will fight to the last ! Don't imagine that he shall filch away my character by deputy , or fight me by Loyal Assooi&tiooB , while he h&tioos them on and would take advantage of any turn in their favour .

      While you talk of my inconsistency , pray what do you think of a teetotal brewer , and an advocate for metallic currency paper banker , and now a director of the new land investment company , which he tells us he accepts not because the office is a lucrative one . Bah J I tell you whoever is " in wailing" the " Liberator" will be " Gold stick . " Even now , in his " new birth unto righteousness , " what is his announcement ? Why , that no government shall again command his support who will refuse place or pension to Repealers , and who will not leave Repeal au open question ; not an open question in the cabinet ; no , no ; he dos ' ent either want , wish for , or ask for that , but an open question with the people . Did you ever hear such humbug . ' has it not already been made so open that a blind

      man can Bee through it ? Now ,-what iB the " political trafficker ' s" opinion ? Why , that I would not to-morrow accept of the Governor-Generalship of India , or of the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland , beoause my doing so would weaken my cause and injure my party . Loyal Tradesmen , now to conolude . You say that your principal object is to advance the cause of Repeal through petitions : well then I pledge myself on behalf of the English , Scotch , and Welsh people to have , for presentation dnring the very next session of Parliament , that i 8 , in 1842 , a petition signed by 4 , 000 , 000 , ( without the two shillings a man though ) and all at my ownexpence : and then ( mark my words !) the "Liberator" will tell you that he wont have Repeal now , as the English people ^ the enemies of Ireland , have assisted !

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      What I was in 1832 , when I gave my pledges upon the hustings , that eame I am now ; and I boldly assert that there is not in this wide world one man—no , not one , who would make equal personal eacrifices to carry a Repeal of the Legislative Union , or one who so mortslly hates Tories and their principles . Neither the fate of Lawless , O Gorman Mahon , Purcell O'Gorman , Lambert , or young Ruthven , shall drive me from my course . I am neither to be bought , seduced , or intimidated ; and as to your power to root me from the hearts of the British and Irish slave-class , I defy you I I stand like a rock in the midst of ocean , against which

      the angry Burf of your wrath may dash , but must part in foam . The value of my politics consists in their plainness : my sincerity has yet to be proved , although my consistency , in the eyes of expediencymongers , is considered my greatest crime . - Loyal Gentlemen , when you are engaged in the advancement of those principles which the people of Ireland agree upon , your " enemies , " the English people , will not volunteer to the number of 500 , 000 , nor yet a single one , to put yoa down ! and if they do , I will be found fighting in your ranks against them . Never shall England , or Scotland , if I can help it , have their freedom ten minutes before Ireland has hers ; the same aot which insures liberty to the one , shall give freedom to all .

      I have the honour to remain , Loyal Tradesmen , An Irishman , A Repealer , A Chartist , And a Prisoner , Feahqus O'Cohnob 18 th of 16 th Month of Solitary Confinement in York Castle .

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      OF IRELAND . Fellow-countrymen , — 1 , As a body , constituted chiefly of the working classes , for the advancement of that great national question , the Repeal of tbe Legislative Union , and although we look upon that as tho only balm calculated to heal the galling wounds that have been inflicted on this country by that unnatural and unholy act , yet , -we deem it our duty , on all occasion * , to co-operate with any body of British subjects who may be seeking for any species of Reform calculated to be of any real or tenting benefit to the great bulk of the people , provided they go in a legal and constitutional manner to look for it ; but on no other terms will we ever join any class of men , no matter how plausible tbeir pretensions may be ; knowing , as we do , that evil should not be done that

      good might come out of it : therefore , as a body of Reformers who are enemies to every species of monopoly and c ! ass legislation , not caring whether that system be carried on bj Whig or Tory , we here call on every man in this kingdom who is a lover of civil liberty , justice , and fairplay , and above all , who values thepeacaand good order of society , not to let themselves be led astray by those wolves in sheep ' s clothing , who are prowling about under tbe same of Chartists , but who in reality are in league with tho Tories , who have ever been the avowed enemies of all Reform of Ireland and Irishmen . The Tories , it was , that to accomplish the ruin and destruction of your country Bet man against his fellow-roan , on the score of religion , and thereby banished from men ' s minds every feeling of Christianity , and replaced it with that rancorous hate and religious bigotry so calculated to destroy that divine maxim of " love your neighbour as yourself . "

      2 . Fellotr-Countrymen , we ask yon whether thia was done for the pure love of religion , or to weaken tbe combined strength of the peopl 6 in order to facilitate the wicked designs of your merciless oppressors ? for , mark , that division among the people was always the mainstay of t > ranny and oppression . 3 . The Tories it was who have called you " AHens In religion , in country , and in blood ; " they it was that rasailed your venerated clergy as a " demon priesthood" and " surpliced ruffians , " and after wasting all

      tbe calumny that their inveterate bigotry could suggest , they then sent into parliament a bill virtually to repeal tbe Catholic Emancipation Act , and to leave the reform bill a dead letter . And on what grounds was that bill brought forward ? Why , that the Irish were villainous perjurers , that the Bpirit of perjury was instilled into them by the Catholic religion , and encouraged by the Catholic priesthood . Merciful Heavens ! are these the legislators with whom the English Tory Chartists would blesa the Irish nation , and then look for our co-operation and support

      4 . We look upon their leader , O'Connor , as insincere in bis boasted desire for liberty , inasmuch as he refuses all instalments of reform , and condemns all those who do not go with him , no matter how extravagant his projects may bo ; he effects his design by upsetting meetings for any purposes of reform , or retrenchment of ( oration , ( no . ' . ' . s : ter how necessary or practicable , ) unless they be for the entire Charter . The people are lung and loudly calling for cheap bread , and why do the Chartists interrupt meetings for the repeal of the Corn Laws ? The greatest curse of the country , while they stand neutral when the Tory monopolists hold their meetings , as was the case in Lincoln , where they carried their resolutions without any opposition , and in the teeth of all justice and common sense . F .

      O'Connor opposes every Liberal and Reformer , and gives to these Tory monopolists such a sweeping majority as will not only enable them to crush the Cbartists who have befriended them , but , they will be able also , to put down all attempts of the people ( almost ) in seeking for a redress of grievances . Can we , then , believe tbe man siiicere who thus acts in perfect harmony with the enemies of the people ? It was for similar conduct , he was hissed from the stage of Irish politics , and he has ever since been unceasing in his efforts to injure , if not to destroy , the influence of tko Liberator of Ireland , and the other leaders of the

      Repeal Association . Were we ao disposed , we could occupy columns of newspapers with extracts from his own Northern Star in support of our assertions , but we deem it sufficient to refer to his address to the Chartists , published in tbe Star of the 15 tb of June , 1841 , or of January the 8 th , 1811 , or in his address to the Chartists of Newry , published June 8 th , 1841 , in these will be found the reasons he gives for speaking one way and acting another . But , let not wily Feargus think that the Irish people are to be caught by his Tory hypocritical canting , for we are now too well trained in the school of legal agitation to give our enemies a chance by his torch and dagger doctrine .

      5 Tbe well-meaning Reformers of England -who were writhing under the galling yoke of despotic tyranny , and thirsting for liberty , conceived that the People ' s Charter wa » the only means by which they could shake off completely their serf-like manacles , and stand before the world as freemen . In thte they had tho sympathy of every lover of liberty in Europe , particularly the Irish , who look upon themselves as tbe moat degraded , oppressed , and insulted people on tho face of the earth . It was but natural that the Irish would sympathise with their brother slaves in England and Scotland when looking for their rights , so long as they Kept within the bounds of the law ; for , bad as these laws are , we know there is nothing to be had outside of them .

      6 . While the English Chartists were going on in a constitutional way , they wore becoming a formidable body in the eyes of their despotic task-masters , who could not bear tbe sacred name of liberty , and then it seemed to them the most effective way to crush the honest Chartists , to send among them some of those subtle agents to draw them into the fangs of the law by the commission of crime , and here we find Feargus as tbe principal actor with liberty and the Charter on his lips , while in his actions is to be seen the most diabolical hypocrisy . We look for a redress of grievances through our representatives and by the sacred tight of petition as the only means by which such redress should be sought , while tho Fergusites throw those rights overboard and seek it by revolution . We know of no other means by which they can obtain what they pretend to look for . They set aside the influence of their representatives and the right of petition .

      7 . Let us be clearly understood . We do not put all Chartists under the head of " Tory Chartists , " on the contrary , we firmly believe there are honest men who look upon the Charter as the only fulcrum bg which they can be raised to the level of freemen ; and let it be also understood , that we do not place implicit confidence in th * Whigs , or that we look upon them as our particular friends , we only look upon them as the leisser evil of two bad factions ; we would not support them one hour if we thought we could get a better government Yet , we must confess , we have received more evenhanded justice from them for the last four years , than during tbe previous half century from any other govern

      ment . They have at least shewn & disposition tor progressive reform . Did the Tories ever show any inclination of that sort?—on the contrary , we believe it to be their Intention to undo all the good the Whigs have done . Lot us tell the Chartists , that experience has taught us sufficiently neither to be led nor driven by them again . We know how they served us when we fought shoulder by shoulder with them for parliamen tary aad municipal reform , which they would not now enjoy were it not for Irish majorities , and bow did they serve us when they got their own ends Accomplished ? Why , they left ua to the mercy mt the church aristocracy , and instead of getting reforms , we got insult ; for tbe measures we got , were nothing short of it . S . The English never yet asked the sympathy of the Irieb , unless when they bad some great end to accom

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      ¦ //^ IW ^ , . ^ plisb , and that done , they flung as from tfefiti&s M many contemptible creatures , only fit for coercion : a * a proof , wo request your particular attention to the following extract from an address of Feargus O'Connor ** to the Chaitista of England , Jane 15 th , 1841 : " The Charter cannot be oblai : ed without the people of Ireland , but as long as they are under the injlvenceot O'Connell and tbe Corn Exchange , we cannot expect their co-operation , and what la to be done ? Why O'Connell and the Irisb Liberals are supporting the ' bloody Whig * , and ao long » a they continue in office , we never con expect to have the people of Ireland . Then out with tho bloody Whigs , and give Ireland another Tory squeeze ; let loo » the National Moodhounds , the Orange faction , and the shooting churchsanctioned by a Tory government , and then yon wiH have the Irish running into your arms . " '

      9 . This language will , in pait , account for the feeling manifested in England towards Ireland . Let any tbink » : ing man look to the conduct of the CfaartkU ft few tt&ys ago in Ashton , when they were parading the street- in thousands , armed with gons , pistols , pikes , dagg&rs , &c , &e ., and offering from £ 5 to £ 20 for the head of aa Irishman . Look to the no popery cry that has teen raised of late in England to facilitate the return of i ' oa Tory candidates ; but , above aJU , and before all , wiio was it that laid the plot to insult and injure O'CoaneU , and upstt the Reform meeting at Leeds ?—Who , bus the Tory Chartists , goaded on by Feargus ! And Ibis is the man that would call upon the people of ireUnd ¦

      to join him , and commit self-murder , by putting down © "Connell . Such , fellow-countrymen , are the doctrine * of the Tory Chartists , who call on you to join them , to put .-down ,- to abandon , or to assassinate , if you will—O'Connell , and the liberal lender * of Ireland , wbUe tley are giving their utmost support to your Inveterate ena » . miea , M ^ n of Ireland , mark well the design of these hypocrites who call on you to throw off the Influence of O'Connell , the Liberator of his country—the Moses of Ireland—the man who has spent a long life in ceeking , obtaining , and defending any scanty liberties you now enjoy . He who has stood like a wall of brass between you and your blood-stained oppressors , the enemies of your country and yonr creed .

      10 . Such , fellow-countrymen , are tbe acts , and such the doctrines of the Tory Chartists . And where then , ¦ we ask , is the man carrying an Irish heart within LIB bosom , who will be found weak or base enough , with those facts before his eyes , not to look with abhorrence and disgust on the man who would breathe to him tna principles of a Tory Chartist > Signed on behalf of the Society , : John M'Alinden , Secretary . , July *? th , 1841 .

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      STOCKPORT . —A Sunday school has been commenced in the Association-room at this place . All who wish , to have their children " trained up in the way they should go , " so that " when they are old , they vrill not depart from it , " will do well to send them to the C&artist Sunday school , OLDHAOT . —The Chartists of Oidham at their weekly meeting on Monday last , unanimously agreed to the following resolution : — " That ten shillings be voLed and sent to the Northern Star Office , to be appropriated to the carrying out a petition to the Commons' House of Parliament respecting the contested seats ; and wa further agree to enter into a subscription which will be forthcoming if the object is carried out : and we earnestly request and recommend to the associations generally to take the subject up with spirit . "

      TODMOHDEN —The weekly meeting of the Chartist Association took place as usual on Monday , when the propriety of opening another Room , in Millweod , was taken into consideration , but eventually postponed until the public dinner to Dr . M'Douall was over . — Mr . CharleB Connor visited Todmorden on Saturday , and gave a very effective address to the lads . At the close of his address there was a collection made . XiSESS . —O'Connor , and O'Brien ' s Demonsthation . —The committee met on Tuesday night , when it was discussed whether there should be a dinner or a , soiree ; those who were for the soiree argued that

      working men , with their families , could not get to the dinner , on account of its greater expence ; but thut if it were a soiree , at about fcaJf the piice of a dinner , two or three of a family would go , which would cause the numbers to be Very much increased . After a long discussion , it we « j -earned that a soiree should take place , and a public procession be got up to escort the two patriots into the town . A committee was appointed to superintend the getting up of flags and banners for the occasion . Tbe meeting for nest week is to be held in the teetotal school-room , Hunslet , on Saturday night , the 28 th instant , to commence at eight o'clock .

      OCOWNOR AND O"BBIEN'S DEMONSTRATION . —A meeting was held on Wednesday night In the Lodge Room of the Swan with Two Necks , Woodheuse , ia furtherance of this object , Mr . Brook was called to the chair , when he severally introduced Mr . Gardner , Mr . Illingworth , and Mr . T . B . Smith , to the meeting . Mr . Smith ' s speech gave great satisfaction : at its conclusion a collection was made for the Demonstration Fund . Leeds—On Monday night many more persons were enrolled as members . Tho Household Suffrage Association must be at a very low ebb , for thd last three weeks most of the- persons who have entered the National Association were members of toe " Fox and . Goose Club . " Mr . Westlake gave an address which displayed considerable ability . At its conclusion , Mr . Brook gave a report of the delegate meeting at Hebden Bridge ; the decisions gave great satisfaction . Tbe members are determined to have a grand demonstration on the 12 th November , when Leeds 'will once mow see the noble O'Connor .

      MANCHESTSR . —On Tuesday evening a pubho meeting was held in Tib-street Chartist Boom , when vote of thanks was tendered to Mr . Joseph Linney and Mr . C . Doyle , for their conduct at Peterloo , on Monday evening ; alter which Mr . Thomason and Mr . Duncan addressed the meeting , showing the progress of Chartism in Scotland . Mr . O'Connor and the Rev . Baptist Noel . — At a meeting of the South Lancashire lecturers , held this week , the following resolution was unanimously earned : —Resolved , " That it is tbe opinion of this meeting that the thanks of tbe people are due to Feargus O'Connor , for his able defence of the toiling millions , as contained in bis irrefutable exposure ef the flimsy and impious sophisms of the Hon . and Rev . Baptist Noel ; and the thanks of this meeting are given to him for the above valuable service . "

      STALYBRIDGE— Mr . James Cattledge , of Manchester , delivered a lecture to a numerous and attentive audience , in the National Charter Association-room , oa Sunday last At the close of tbe lecture several persons enrolled their names as members . A larger room is taken , capable of holding upwards of 300 persons .

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      Ashton . —Mr . Storor , of Ashton , will lecture m the Charter Association Room , Catharine-street , oa Sunday , to-morrow , at six o ' clock in the evening . Hunslet . —Mr . Hick will preach on the Siockhill , Hunslet , on Sunday evening , weather permitting ; if not , in the Room , Fleece-yard . Service to commence at half-past six . Keighley . —On Sunday next , August 22 ud , tha Rev . W . V . Jackson , of Manchester , will preach two sermons in the Working Men's Hall , Sunstreet , Keighley , towards raising a fund for the ereotion of his new preaching place . Services will be in the forenoon and afternoon . The announcement made in the Star of last week was a mistakenext Sunday , the 22 ud , being the day intended .

      Chartist Delegate Meeting . —A delegate meeting will be held in Stoekport on Sunday , the 5 th of September , at ten o ' clock in tbe forenoon , to which the Chartists in the following places are requested to sand delegates : Macclesfield , Congleton , Sandwich , Nantwioh , Middlewich , Northwioh , Mottram , Tintwistle , Wimslovr , Cheadle , Haslegrove , Bredbury , and Chester . By order of the Council , Joseph Carter , sub-Secretary . Wands worth . —The Counoil meet on Sunday next , at the School Room , near Creek Bridge , in Deptford ; the chair to be taken at four o ' clock . Lambeth *—Mr . Watkins will lecture at the new room of the National Charter Association , Lancashire Coffee-house , 1 , China Walk , Lambeth Walk , on Tuesday evening next , on the present condition of the Chartist movement .

      Mr . Leach will be ia Todmorden , on Monday night ; in Hebden Bridge on Tuesday ; Halifax OH Wednesday ; and Keighley on Thursday . A Chartist Festival will be held at the Sail Court . Bilstou , on Tuesday , August 31 st . Tioketa to be had of Mr . Storer , grocer , Green-oourt ; Mr . Rogers , Walsall-street ; and Mr . Davis , Ball-courtj Stafford-street . Ebratdm . —In the notice which appeared in our last , in reference to the public meeting at Barnsley the name of Mr . Webster was printed for that of Mr . T . B . Smith . Bibstal . —A public meeting will be held here this evening , to consider the propriety of adopting the petition to Porliament on the treatment of political prisoners . Mr . T . B . Smith will attend . On Sunday , also , two sermons will be preached at the same place .

      Leicester . —Mr . Harrison , of Nottingham , will preach here , in the Market-place , next Sunday evening ( Mr . Cooper having to be present at the campmeeting on Nottingham Forest ) . Smart follows the next evening ( Monday ) , with his second lecture oa the principles of the People's Charter . Newcastle . —There will be a public meeting at St . Peter ' s Quay on Monday evening next , at seven o ' clock , when Mr . Mason and other friends will deliver addresses . ' . Gloucester . —There will be a public meeting and tea party in the Assembly Rooms , Worcester-street , on Monday evening next , at whiob Mr . Henry Via * eent will be present . ' ,

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 21, 1841, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct563/page/1/