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    • MEETING OF THE STONEMASONS AND OTHER TRADES IN LONDON.
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      y ^ fi ^ fr *!!?!*^^ - ^ Fr »» our mw » Ckrrrt * f ?* ie * t . J ~ DOOfXB TO FKiBGUS O * COKJrOBi E * £ > --TfcV < &iner ta Fbtfga * O'Connor , Esq ., tne chief of ihe . people ' s Solo * wm 1 » f Tffl rathe Th « rtr *'« r WWi »* nr , ? hi 29 ik Colonel Thompson aad his bob , Mr . Thosiwoa , jon-i l * te candidate for die repreaentxUoB r f ^ T « wer . Hjanlet 8 » and the fier . Wnu Hill , mdiier of the Northern Ster , aw htrfteid and expected ineste . Ladies' tickets , 13 . 6 d , ; Gentlemen ' s , 2 s . } Savit had of the following persons : —Mr . Jnli * n f&rnev , « en . tforthe Northern . Aar . No , 48 , Nor-^» ^^

      Krt-sfreet , Wwfcer , sad No . 29 , St . Tnomas-street , fortobello-street ; ilr . Odey * fco . 4 , Sooth-street , SiefSdd Moor ; Mir . Boston , news-agent , No , 80 , Soaik-Htreet j Sheffield Moor ; Mr . Lingard , seWs-• eeat , Divisioa-street r Mr . Ludlam , news-agent , ^ teon ?^; tfr . Frost , news-agent ,- No . 64 , Brides-strew * J , a ^ d " Mr . Pashley , Silver-street Hm wL . ' . . Ba * 5 X 2 M * CBbies . —This gentleman , h&s d « - Uned the invitation to be present at ihs demoBSfcrariro on the 29 th , but will visit Sheffield oa Monday , Osiober llthj then , to deliver a lecture or course of

      lectures . jtoTHKSHXH . —Mr . Jalian Hamay visited Bother-Wqi on Wednesday , September 8 * h ; placards , of irhicb the following is a crfpy , announced Mr . Eargey ' g coming : — " A public meeting will be held in jjj , Ross ' s Club Room , Quarry Hill , on . Wednesday eTenii ! g , September 8 th , to commence at seven o ' clock , when Mr . G . Julian . Harney mil address the meeting on the KriBtrng evils of society , and ^ eir remedy . The attendance of all classes is eaxjjesth requested , " At seven o ' clock the room was cro"WJ * d , when Mr . John Wilson was called to the chair , who opened the bnsiness by introducing Mr . Hiruej . Mr . Harney then commenced by shewing briefly , bat pointedly , the jjenetal distress of the working class , the bankruptcy of the middle class

      jud the insecurity of the aristocracy , proving tkere y rts " something rotten in the sta ;© . The lecturer Bext eonadared what was the remedy ; and , after shewing the utter and complete failure of the Reform Biil ,-proceeded" to comment upon ihe ttkree great Bedsores of oommerciAl refora , " liiely ^ p ^ posedthe eoaatry by the Whigs , shemng up the hypocrisy and rascality of that faction in first rite style . The Jeetarer next assailed the Tories , and drew 4 « vru the justly-merited , ridicule of his ^ hearers upon that faction , while exposing thew Church Extension"' and " Religious Education" fallacies . Mr . Harney after speaking for an honr and a-nalf , to his hearers to

      coucliKied bis address bj appealing ssek , knowledge , to get understanding , ihas they Bight know the cause of their wrongs and ascertain for jfcbemaelves the real remedy . He concluded amid &e enthusiastic plaudits of his hearers . Mr . Jowett moved the thanks of the meeting to Mr . H&raey , given unanimously . There is a strong revival « f Ckartism here ; the * renowned Dr . Souks formed here lately 3 F $ * and Goose Club , " of its doices , ramonr saith not , if the cackling bodies will enJy come out of their shell / ' tve promise them the Chartists will shew them fair play , and con-¦ riuce them into the bargains ( if opea to conviction * of the absurdity of their brick-aad-iaortix

      fami ng . SnrDAT Etsmss Lxctcbe . —Ii was announced in &b Star of Saturday last , that Mr . Barker would \ ecfc * e on Sunday evening , on " the necessity of abolishing the House of Lords . " Mr . Bvrkar should kaTeleetured on the previous Sunday , but failing to jrtead sent word that he was ill of the tootbe-ache , ind ccald not attend , upon which Messrs . Harney , Gill , and Otley , endeavoured to snpply hi 3 place ; in the ocurse of last week word came to the room that Mr . . Barker would lecture as last Sunday , accordingly the sam « 5 wasannounced ( as just stated ) in the Star . At seven o'clock , the hour when the lecture Stolid have commenced , Mr . B&rktr hvi not made kis appearance , and soms time after that the audience

      bepiaing to exhibit signs of impatience , Mr . M'Kettriek effsred to read Mr . O'Connor ' s speech at ; he Crown and Anchor , London , whiie waiting for ihe lecturer ; this was cordially agreed to . Mr . M'Kettrick then read the speech which was listened to with the most lively interest , and bad it not been the Sabbaih evening , would have been responded to ij tie enthusiastic cheers of the assembly . Mr . Hintey wished to know if the lecturer had yet wived ! Itapppeared he had not ; Mr . Harney Baid sach conduct was highly disgraceful and unless Mr . Barker reached the room before the close of the fTening ' s proceedings , he ( Mr . H . ) should move a vote of censure upon him . ( Hear , hear . ) A call m sow made upon Mr . Gill , when . after a pause

      that gentleman came forward and said though he hid art eome there to lecture , still rather than the Beeting should be disappointed , he would endeavour to snpply Mr . Barker ' s absence , at the tame time he Bust express hj 3 regret that any professing Chartist should be so far unmindful of hi 3 duty as to cause such insult by hi 3 absence at a public assembly . Mr . Gill then proceeded to comment upon one of the Manchester propositions lately sub-Bitted to the South Lancashire lecturers , namely * Wbat are the effects produced upon society by tne law of primogeniture ] " In answer , Mr . G . observed tkat he was one of these who believed that the earth , the air , and the water belongs equally to the whole human race , yet we have a class living

      bj the public robbery of the whole of tic earth , and aore or less of the water too . Mr . G . then showed that a landed aristocrat , who has inherited from h : s brigand fathers some thousands of acres of land , laving these to kis eldest sob , to the exclusion of the rest of his ¦ children , the effect was to throw these , the unprovided members of : he family , npos the public Thus were the people doubly robbed ; robbed in the first place , of their right in the land ; and secondly , robbed through the taxe 3 to support those branches of the aristocracy driven by the law of primogeniture to subsist by public plunder . One of the effects of the law of primogeniture was the giving to the junior members of the aristocracy , a monopoly of the honours and emoluments of the

      irmy , the church , and the law ; with respect to the army , he considered h a national curse—( hear ); bat reppesmg it to be the reverse of this ; suppose ie admitted that a standing army was nee » ssary , still look at the monstroB 3 injustice exhibited in its rmka ; a private might serve , be would not say his ttcatry , be : hi « country ' s despotism—( bear , hear)—for ten , or even twenty years , he may have borne tie toilsome march , he may have been woanded , be e » j 'midst the batt ! e ' 3 rage have faced death in the most awful forms , still shall some boy , some aristocratic sprig , step over the head of the veteran , and take to himself the so-called honours of the profession . Again , look at the church ; it was the yonnger son ? of the aristocracy , reeking from the

      £ ; hy debaucheries of collegiate life , that acquired aD lie high seats of the temple . After cositnenting upon the abuses of the law , Mr . G . showed that tbe calamities borne by the colonists of this country wert caused by aristocratic rnle ; in proof thereof , h cited the blood-stained history of India . Mr . G . then took np the subject of the National Debt , eo-raig that ihe debt was contracted for the purpose of having a fund out of which tie other-* ise unprovided-for members of the aristocracy fcisbt five ; the Cbariist 3 were charged with fcK-g spoliators ; he repudiated the charge ; he ^ idno ; lake Iceland from the aristocracy , bus to Jeiieve the people he would wi ? h to sec tuem compsil&d to pay the debt which tiiey had comracted fo r ; beir (; he aristociracy ' s ) own bcuefii . ( Hear , ^ sa r . ) Mr . G . then offered some observations upon fie ssbjsc ; of cuspcthion , and concluded a lengihy cd irnth-teliiug discourse bv appealing to the

      meetag to labour vdia heart and soui fur tbe oblainment of ifcat political power "which would enable them to c ' tikdowu ; he iaw of primogeniture , snd with ii emj other abuse of the preseni aristocratic Ejstem . fc . Raraev said , Mr . Bai ' ser not having reacned tie room , and not havir-g thought proper to send tren aa excuse for his abseuce , and this being the * cead time ke had disappointed a public audience T-teferal voices , " this is * iuc third time ; ' '}—well if :: Tras tbe third time so much the worse . ( Hear . ) Eo should now move the resolution of whicc ne had pven no :: ce —( hear}—but would first move that Mr . Cirksan a . ke the ci&ir j this beu ; g seconded , was Agreed to . The chairman said : his was the third tme ^ Mr . Barker had deceived a meeting called in [ cat room . On the first occasion , he ( the chairman ) tad seen iir . Barker at twelve o ' clock of the day on las evening of which he should have iecturea . He then promised &ua ( the chairman ) that he would Sit ia : ! to attend : but he sever came . Last Sunday

      ienj word he was unwell ; but at a time whe : i ii 'ras impossible to make asv proper arrangements w a person to £ 11 his place " ; ih : 3 time he had not ci : gaed to seed anv nord frby he was abeeut . ilr . ^ niey iao- £ d rJ :-* reJolntioD , "That Mr . Barker having for the third time deceived apubbc assembly , xo Wfloci he had engaged to lecture , withour , upon the present occarior :, tvsn showing the cocrteiy ro state why he has absented hiinseif ; this meeting considers tne condtc : of that person JughJy censurable , auci Co atreby tigress their marked " disapprobation oi ffisusgentlEmanly Lehavionr . " Mr . Joseuh Uxiey ReoEded

      ihs reioiatioa ; a ^ entleican , who state a he worked m ± Mr . Earker said he believed . Mr cirfcer had gone ou a pleasure trip into Derbyhi . ' ! T He wished the resolution to be withdrawn ^ M Kettrick considered thev were not to be insiuted with impunity by Mr . " Barker , or any one « se ; he gave hi 3 hearty support to the resolution . awo other gentlemen supported the ri solution and ~«> Dgiy censured Mr . Barker . Tbe Cuainninput « e resolution , which was earned with vnly one « a *? : uDt . Thanks having been voted to Mr . Gill wr t : s able address . The meeting then dissolved .

      Assocunos Mxetlvg . —A public meeting of the nancers acd friends of the associatjo ;; vris held on ilonday , in the room , Rg-tree Lane , ? lr . Clarkson a the chair ; Mr . M'Kettrick brought ender the EOOee of the meeting the propriety ' of holdir . g a * f « # iie meeting in ShcSleld , for th

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      Sheffield , and for the better uniting the towns of Barasley , Doaeaater , Rotberham , and QiesterSeld with ihe town of Sbefileld , making of the latter the centre in the agitation for the future to be carried on in this part of the country ; he wished the delegate meeting to be held for another reason , nam » ly , thatlhaymigat secure the eo-operatioa of the towns he had just named in the forthcoming demoastratioo , in honour of Feargus O'Connor . ( Hsar . he * r . ) - After some other pointed remarks , Mr . M : Kettrick ceneluded by moving " That a delegate meeting be held ia this room ( Fig-tree Laae ) oh Sunday nert , September the 19 th , at the hour of one o ' clock , for the purpose he had before named , and that the following places be requested to send delegates , namely ,

      Barnsley , Doncaster , Rotberham , Chesterfield and Brampton , Attereliffe , Darnall , Ecoles-Beld , Handswortb , Gruaestborpe , Stannington , Wordey , Dronfield , Crookea , Heeley . Oughbridge , Wadaiey , Eckington , Woodhouse , Beighton , Hackenthorpe , and EcelesalL" Mr . Ownshaw seconded the motion , —agreed to unanimously . ( It is requested that the delegates will bring word of the number of tickets wanted in their respective localities for tbe dinner to be giren to Feargas O'Connor , Esq .. on the 29 th . ) Mr . Harney said , with great pleasure be had voted for Mr . M Kettriok ' s motion , but he was anxious that if possible something should be done in the way of holding village meetings m the neighbourhood of Sheffield this week , without

      waiting for the delegate meetiDg . On Sunday , on Tuesday aad Wednesday , Pr . M'Donall would be lecturing ia the Town Hall ;' bri TOBWtityWflaHuffm ( Mr . H . ) would hare to atwnd the meeting of the committee for obtaining the liberation of tbe political prisoners ; but on Friday and Saturday evening he would be at liberty , and would be happy to attend any meetings called for those evenings . ( Hear , hear . ) A conversation ensued , in which Messrs . M'Keitrick , Otley , Green and others took part ; it was ultimately resolved " That parties wishing Mr . Harney ' s assistance should communicate and make arrangements with Mr . H . for the holding of meetings . " Mr . Otley read a letter from Mr . Peter Shorrocks , of Manchester , enclosing four pounds , a BOTereign each to

      be given to . the four victims of Whiggery lately liberated from Northallertongaol , Messrs . Penthorpc , Benison , Thomas Booker , and William Booker . ( Cheers . ) . Mr . Harney Baid , the men of Sheffield were about to give a public dinner to Feargas O'Connor , in testimony of the sense entertained by them of his distinguished services in freedom ' s cause ; that W 23 good , but while ail honour was paid to the chief of the cause , he thought that others who had struggled and suffered in that cause should not oe forgotten . ( Hear , hear . ) He regarded the humblest of those who had been struck down by tyranny ' s shafts , to be as worthy of the people ^ honour as O'Connor himself . ( Hear . ) True , it was not possible to get up publio dinners every day ,

      otherwise . he would have said let Peuthorpe , and Benison , and the Bookers have a dinner , as well as O'Connor . ( Cheers . ) This could not be ; but tickets to the dinner on the 2 Jhh might be presented to eaeh of the victims , and this would be paying them some respect , God knew not more than their sufferings entitled them to—( fcheers)—and sare he was that the presence of the liberated patriots , and the presence ' of the wives of those yet suffering in the dungeons of despotism would be the most acceptable ana highly prized honour they could pay to Mr . O'Connor , ( Cheers . ) Mr . Harney concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that Mrs . Clayton , Mrs . Holberry , Mrs . Marshall , Mrs . Foden , the patriots who bad been liberated from prison , and

      ( where married ) their wives be gratuitously presented with tickets to the dinner . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Farn seconded the motion . Mr . Otley gave to the motion his most hearty support ; it was a glorious feature of tbe present agitation that the working men could respect the good deeds of their owa order ; they required not that a man should bo a Lord , or a Squire , to do him honour ; no , it was enough that he was a patriot . ( Cheera . ) This feeling of self-respect and self-reliance on the part of the labouring many was a sore and certain guarantee of their ultimate triumph—that the day would compel the other classes of society to respect them , too . ( Cheers . ) The motion was unanimously carried . Mr . M'Ketterick moved the following

      resolution : — That the ISew Poor Law framed in violation of th « British couBtitatioo , and carried out in the most inhuman and unchristian spirit , has always been regarded with detestation and abhorrence by the working classes of Sheffield , the appointing of the three irresponsible Somerset House bashaws to superintend the execution of the law being especially odious in their estimation , convinced as this meeting i 3 that no such power can be placed in the hands of individuals without degenerating into—if not meant for the purposes of—tie vilest tyranny ; and tbi 3 meeting regardt with surprise the proposed amendment of the law of which Mr . Roebuck has given notice , seeing in that so-called amendment a grievous addition to the evil complained of , and the lishmen

      establishment of a despotism which Eng will be justified in resisting by every means in their power . We , therefore , call upon the people of Bath to demand of their misrepresentative an account of his conduct upon this and a former occasion when he betrayed the principles of Radicalism to the Tories . " In support of his resolution , lir . M'Ketterick remarked that it would be known to them all that Mr . Roebuck was returned at the late election for Bath as an advocate of the people ' s rights , but moss foully had he betrayed his trust . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) His conduct in the House of Commons upon the introduction of Mr . Sharman Crawford's motion for an amendment of the address would be fresh in their recollection ; he then

      betrayed the principles he was sent to the House of Commons to defend , and sold the true friends of tbe people to . the Tories , the avowed fees of popular nghis ; and now he eame forward with hi 3 motion to amend the > 'ew Poor Law , by making it a far worse measure , if that vrere possible , than it even ¦ was at present . ( Hear . ) He proposed to discharge the three Somerset-house Commissioners and vest the power held by them in the Home Secretary of State . This , was carrying out the principle of centralization with a vengeance ' . The tyranny of the Somerset-hoHse Bashaws was bad enough , but here the Radical Member for Bath proposed 10 erect a despotism , unblushing and unveiled . ( Hear , hear . ) Unless Mr . Roebuck had indeed taken leave of his

      senses , he Oh . M'Kettrick ) inust say mat he regarded him as the most sublime of humbugs . — ( Cheers . ) Entertaining thes .- views , he had Jeemed ir his duty tftbrlrg forward the resolution hr hap jurt proposed , and he thought , if : he people of Bath " did their duty , they weuiil Sing their sham Radical member overboard . ( Chem )—Mr . Siokc * seconded the resolution . — Mr . Harney ^ a : d h ~ should give to the rosolution his support . The riaOiunon denounced the >* ew Poor Law , and in t > vry vrord of denunciation of that law he most cordially concurred . Ic was one cf the blackest acts of class-lecialation . That law vras passed for the three-fold purpose oi reducing the -wages of labour , brirging the people to live on a coarser sort of food , and thinning the

      population . ( Hear , hear . ) The Jramor ; of the law calculated that by making tLc puor-house a terror to the people , they would drive them irom seeking relief , and thus place them at tbe msrey of the employocracy of the country . A man—an agricultural labourer , say—deprived of employment , and having no resource but the parish , solicits relief . This , withc . it the walls of a workhouse , is denied him ; be Qii-i break up his home , he must consent to be cmfined in 3 place more like a pn = on than ougfa else , ihcre to be separated iiian his wife and children-, o : herwi ; e he may periah—he may die . Th ? nan shrieks with horror from entering the acenrsed place , over tbe ^ a tes of which he thinks he sees written in letters of blood , whit the poet

      imagined he saw inserted over the gates of hell . " . No hope . enters heie . ' " He returns to his laic employer , ana whereas he beicre had ten shiili : i ^> a week , he bott offers hh labour at nine shillings the Tr-eck ; his offer is accepted ; but to make way for him another man working at a high wage is discharged ; but thu man has as great a horror of the Bistile as the fresh man , and lie , rather than become its inmate , will labour for eight shiliizgs the -week . Thus was it calculated this hated law would allow the slave-drivers to grind down their serfs . ( Hear . ) It required no speech-making to show ; hem that if their wages were reduced they must Eeccssarity be brought to a worse diet ; but a word c ' r two upon the assertion he had made that the law was framed to thin tbe population . A numerous people had alwavs been a cause of cread to weir had

      oppressors . Is ' ow , in the good old times th « y a capital method of thinning the population ; that was , to set the people to cut each others ' throats . ( Hear . ) >" ot so many years since an Erglishman had but to be told that a Frenchman wore wooden shoes , and swallowed frog soup , and was his natural enemy , cot forgetting also that one Englishman could thrash five Frenchmen , and forthwith John Bull was ready to march to " murder as enemies men he never saw . This was capital work for the oppressors : it &ased them ef their fears , for this " wiadpipe-slippingart" is a game at which two must play . Kow , French Republicans were not the men to stand idly by , and allow themselves to be butchered , so they struck blow for blow ; they struck heavy , and they struck hard . ( Cheers . ) They had ail L < wrd of " The Duke of York ' 3 March : " hewtvidered whether they meant iue -Duke ' s mareli to Yaleacieimes , or hi

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      double- ^ aick irot back again . ( Langhter and cheers . ) Two birds , yoa see , " were killed with one stone ; French Republicans were butchered , and ihe surplus population of England was knocked oo the head Bat that method wouldn ' t do now ; they were bound over is eight hundred millions , to keep tbe peace , and dared not go to war . ( Cheers . ) It might be all very w . « U to knock Aiwn Chinamen's forts at Hong Kong— ( laaghter ) -T * ud . batter down Mehemet Ali ' a castles , but they were widely different matters to engaging in an European war . Why , they eo » Id not carry on a peace , how the devil then w « re they to carry on a war ! ( Chedrs . ) Ajgawj , they bad not public opinion on their Bide ; the voice of the people was opposed to war , heaee they eouW not keep down

      the population by the old means . - Well , the Whigs in turning orer the pages-of tHa Bible , which they never did but , like their f ttthcr , the Devil , to tettraot evil from its pages—( cbeertt and laughter)— -lighted upon the history of one King Pharaoh , who iu-daya of yore ruled a distant land . It appears he vha sorely troubled oo account of the fast increase of a people he held in bondage ; he therefore decreed a law , ordering ihe male children of the people be dreaded to be put to death as soon as born . This was the lawgiver fox tbo Wuigs ; upon his law they had modelled their ISV . v Poor Law , under the opera-• tion of which hundreds had been gruelled to death ia the bastiles , aud many an unhappy mother had deprived her offspring of existence . Cases

      iana-« erable might bo cited ; it was enough that be jBenticuned—aud bufuientioned—the name of Harriet L « ml « j \ , . iCfiea > i " H « ur . >^ Well , thig . was tbe law with which Mr , KoebUKc . was so . muojh ia love ; and not content with it as it at present stood , he must , needs seek to increase its deformity by vesting the immense power of carrying out the law in an aristocratical , irresponsible Secretary of State ; precious Radicalism this ; but for his part he was not surprised . Mr . Roebuck was a rank Malthusian ; as sueh he ( Mr . H . ) had never trusted him : moreover , he ( Mr .

      Roebuck ) was allied with the fox and goose crew of Leeds , men who though they had liberty ever on their tongue ? , harboured the vile 3 t despotism in their hearts ; he must confess he was surprised ttat even the Chartists of Bath gave their support to such a person and _ he hoped that they would not fail to do their duty , by bringing their very inconsistent representative to a publio account of his conduct . ( Cheers . ; The Chairman announced that III . Otley would lecture on Sunday next , on the life and character of Washington . Thanks having been voted to the Chairman the meeting then adjourned .

      Da . M'Douall . —This eminent and talented assertor of the people ' s rights , visited Sheffield on Tuesday last ; by gome it was feared that the time of the patriot ' s vieit was in&uspiciously chosen , this being the week of the races « t Donca 3 ter , their fears were , however , proved to be ill-founded ; the Town-Hall had been engaged for the doctor , which will hold , we are informed , a thousand persons . By eight o ' clock , the hall was densely crowded , at which hour the popular lecturer made his appearance , and was received with the most tremendous

      cheering . Mr . Gell was called to the chair , aud introduced Dr . M'DonalL The lecturer at once entered into mi explanation of the principles of the People ' s Charter , as he proceeded , vindicutisg the rights of the people , in the most eloquent and soul-Btirring language , responded to by the most rapturous cheering . Your correspondent must express his regret , that he is unablo to send you even an but-Wuf of the doctor's excellent lecture , compelled as he is to have his weekly report in the post-office , before ten o ' clock on Tuesday evening .

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      PERHAPS THE HOST EXTRAORDINARY , AND CEBTAIM . T IHE MOST lMPOBTA . N ? MESTINQ SVER COKVEKED IS LONDON , WAS HELD ON SATURDAY N 1 GUT LAST , AT THE CRAVEN'S I 1 BAD TAVERN , DRUBT LANE , FOR THE PURPOSE OF HEARING FEASGCS O'COMXOS . When Mr . O'Conkob . presented himself , ho _ was received with one general burst of applause " , ' and then commenced as follows : — - Mr . Chairman and fellow-tradesmen , f or Jfrtm a tradesman —( cheers)—it was wrong , very wrong , of me to have ventured here to night ; I cannot make a speech ; I must speak to you . ( Hear , hear . ) I have got a bad sore throat and a violent inflammation of the chest at the present moment ; but had I

      been worse I could not have resisted the great temptation of meeting the stonemasons—the gloriou 3 stonemasons—and other trades . ( Cheers . ) This meeting is the foundation stone of a great and beautiful edifice , in which every member of the human family may find shelter . ( Cheers . ) I have earned a title to tbe name of workman , as your Chairman tells you that I look twenty years older than I did four years ago . Well ; if I have done twenty years' worth of good , I have no reason to regret the premature old age . ( Cheers . ) Now you are many of you masons ; and let us see why and wherefore you should be Chartists—for that , after all , is the question . ( Hear , hear . ) I come to enlist you in the holy army of Chartists ; not to kidnap you as unwilling recruits in the army of martyrs . Well , you are masons : many belonging to London , ana many more driven from the

      country to look for employment . ( Cheers . ) Welt ; notwithstanding- that the Sun , and other papers , still contend that steam powtr has not interfered with the business of tailors , hatters , shoemakers , &c . —( laughter)—it is my business to show yon fairly how it can intotfore with , the builders oi ' hoHses , although no part of the operation is performed by steam . ( Hear , hear . ) To prove this , then , I will go at once to authenticated statistics . ( Hear , hear . ) And I will not travel beyond the Elysium of Reform , yea : I will take the very ten years of that halcyon ago . ( Laughter . ) It appears , then , according to the census of 1831 , that the number of families in Birmingham was greater by between 400 and 500 than the number of inhabited houses ; while , by the census of 1841 , it appears that the number of families exceed tho number of

      inhabited houses by betwefu 2 , 000 and 3 , 000 . ( Loud cheers , and hear , hear . ) Very well ; here then we havo tb . 3 admission , supposing house-building and procreation to have progressed according to former ruJes r . nd standards , that in the last ten years above 2 , 000 families , or UfiOO persons , ai seven to a family , have beea driven frcin tiie cottage to the ceiiar—from the house to the lodging-room . ( Great cheering , and " true . " ) Weli , what ha 3 this done ] Why , ic hus created a competitive power of 2 , 000 ready-built houses against Use masons of Birmingham , — ( hear , hcar : )—and it has sent them up here to create a corcpttitive power , constituting a master ' s roserve , whereon he may fall back and make a reduction of wages according to the overstock hi the market . ( Loud cheers and " true . ") i

      Now , whit occurs at Birmingham occurs to a greater , extent at Manchester , Leeds , aud other manufacturing towns , and hence we find a great number of cottages , formerly occupied entirely by labouring men , now untenanted , while we see cellars full of . live-himber . ( Great cheering . ) Hence I provo to I you that by the unchecked license to gamble in artificial latour , your customers are drivtn into the cellars , and your services are not required ; thus that sream injures you —( hear , hear , )—and also that it creates in your trade a surplus number of hands i in an overstocked market . ( Cheers . ) Let as now see how the system generally operates prHadicially to tho whole mass of society ? ( Hear . ) i will j be ^ ia with your ill-used customers , my poorest and

      best beloved clients—ihefustian-jacketcd operatives . Suppose then a master to employ a thousand i : a . uua , and to reduce tbe wages from 14 s . to 13 s . a v . vek , that would be considered a slight reduction . They have gone as fur as 33 per cent , or one-third reduction . ( Hear , hear . ) Very well that reduction « ives the master one thousand shillings , or £ 50 a-week ; independent of any honourable speculation upon manufactures . ( Loud cheers . ) Now , that gives him a property oi £ 2 , 600 per annum , and now hear me , and let this sentence sink deep in your recollection , and be engraven upon the tablet of every working man ' s memory . To preserve ihe tide lo that property is the principle upon which the J / ausc of Commons is returned as the great trades union of the monopolists . ( Tremendous cheering and clapping of hands )—and to break that union down we are here assembled this night : and break

      it down we must and will . ( Loud cheers . ) But I dont stop here ; for my business is to make my principles and objects so clear , that none can misunderstand . ( Hear , hear . ) Well , suppose a community of 10 , 000 families , the masters without reference to trade make by a reduction of one shilling per week , £ 26 , 060 anually by plunder . ( Hear , hear . ) Well , they substitute a cold bastile , which again deprives yon of sustenance . ( Cheers . ) The stepmother ' s scanty bit insolently doled , oat to Bjrstemmade paupers ; the overseer ' s knout ; the wife torn from her husband , and the children from both ; and for what ? Because class legislation has robbed tbe 10 , 000 families of £ 26 , 0 C 0 annually , which if shared , wo ' ild have formed a larger fund than the commissioners allow—would have rendered poor laws unnecessary , .-nd education a blessing to be obtained by the poor man's orrn honest ^ resources . ( Loud

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      cheers . ) Well , that ' s a moderate picture , and now to come home to you Btonemasons , tailors , hatters , and all trades . ( Hear , hear . ) Suppose then , that ia consequence of &q overstock 6 f masons , the master * should reduce wages Ss ; a week , here at oace the proprietors of 1 , 000 alayeB make by the reduction the enormous sum of one hundred mid thirty thousandpeundi per annum . ( Tremendous sensatfdn and cheers . ) Now would ' nt it be a good substitute for the baetile aoiakilly-- ( hear , heary-and to obviate tfaifl , - fottJbaTe tried your trade ' s union ! Folly I folly / ( Cheers . ) The Whigs were more powerfnl than yo « find they were a trade's union , and yet the Toriea being a still more powerful union , they beat the Whigs . Cheers and - laughter . ) Now yon

      see tnat cau class legislation what yoa will ; paifit it « 6 you please '; the House of Commons is nothing more or less than the rendezvous of two trades' ojuocs of masters—tbe WhigB , the unionists to ; uphold Bteam , and the centralisation of squalid misery « a . o wretchedness in the filthy towns , and the Tarieejto uphold the convenient appropriation of the land , whereby they may regulate Suffrage and representation , according to the eburob , the army , the . navy , - 'thelaw , the placeman , ' and patronage standard . ( liond- cheers . ) The one combination cannot rob the other ; they may hold possession of the legitimate and transferable plunder ; bat upon any emergcency both factions will join in one anioa to rob yoB . < Lirad cheers . ) Now , do you hope for , or

      expect any alteration of your grievances from either ? <** I ^ o . no /* k No of course hot ; that ' s right . ( Cheers and } aTfc > ii ^ l ? 6 yon conaqJeTJtioasry Joftt to the rfgiarUr , as a means of elevating 70 U , without ptendering those above you ! ( Cheers and ** aye . " So do I , ( Cheers . ) Well , now the same rule that applies to masons applies to all other trades . When those in the provinces can't wear coats and breeches , the displaced tailors come to London and reduce wages . ( Hear , hear . ) So with hatters , and so with all ; for believe me that none , not even the greatest , but depend upoa your order for their very existence . ( Tremendous cheers . ) Now let me push the consideration of this important question still further ; a man said that the blacksmiths would be

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

      worked at his loots , he knew his value , and his employer knew his value , and they were each joints of tbe great whole , component parts of society mutually depending upon each other for life and snosistenoe , each equally interested in the regulation of demand and supply , then man thought himself afreeman and he looked not narrowly into the ramifications of legislation , considering freedom to consist in house , food aud raiment , Sat when machinery made him a slave an < l bondsman , ho then began to look for the causes and he found them in class legislation ; he then looked for a remedy aud found it in the Charter . TSovr , then , what steam did for man it has also done for horses . Whilo the postmasters and coach contractors found their stock profitable

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

      repeal of tho Corn Laws ! ( Laughter ) You may well laugh . Reduction of the timber and sugar duties . ( Renewed laughter . ) Now , as they have reduced the question « f the Corn Lawa to the tangible ftbape of" cheap bread / ' !•¦«*> jUst ask you if yon can have any influence over the price of the manufactured article , whatever enactments the Trades' Unionists ia St . Stephens may make aa to the raw material ? ( " No , no . ") Very well . Now , then , 39 they admit that cheap bread will make cheap wages , and as they don ' t say one sentence about cheap Government , or cheap prayers —( laughter and cheers)—cheap fighting , or cheap law—( cheers)—jast let me Fupply the deficiency . ( Hear , hear . ) Suppose , then , that labour \ b cheapened , and

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

      independently of law . ( Hear , hear . ) Here it is then , a night ' s rain or wind , and , as if by magic , we have a calamitous note from Mark-lane , and when you go for your breakfast you get the small loaf . ( Loud cheers . ) So it is , one night ' s rain gives the power—the intention is always there— and although it may raise the price of flour from 3 s . to 3 s . 7 d . in a hurry , yet will not twelve days of sunshine reduce it by a farthing . ( Loud cheers . ) WeJJ , then , is it wonderful that we should have 500 , 000 PERSON 3 L 1 VI . NO WITHOUT GOP AND WITHOUT HOPE ? Ah no ! and many is the system-made wretch , reduced to the diresituation of being an unwilling idler , who , while I am speaking , is spending his last shilling or sixpence in the gin . palace . Aye , and that

      poor forlorn creature loves his wife and little ones well , yet takes the poison to cure an aching heart and drown a flood of sorrow which ho cannot overcome . ( Great seusatiou and cheers . ) Aye , he loves hU wife and loves his babes , but sixpence for seven or eight to live upon for seveu long days is a promoter of strife and destroyer of harmony , and a creator of family quarrels {—( cheers )—and who is the villain ! the unwilling victim or the willing tyrant who makes hm so ? ( Loud cheers . ) Well , then , to iho Charter 1 look for his conversion , and for his tyrant ' s downfall . ( Cheers . ) I come now to timber , aud let mo show how it would operate against the carpentt r and mason , and all those engaged in bujldin" houses under a master contractor . ( Hear , if all tho taken off

      hear . ) Firstly , then , duty was . Suppose that Baltic timber was reduced iu price , from £ 7 . to £ 4 . the ton , the poor man ' s rcat would not bo reduced by a fraction , while the house ownere would take care to have the advantage of tho lowered duty . ( Cheors . ) Suppose , then , that a master contracts for a large amount of work , his estimate is reduced correspondingly with the reduction on the duty , and ho shows tho reduced estimate to his workmen , and actually reduces their wages in consequence of the reduction on duty , having given an advantage to tho aristocrat , or house builder . ( Loud cheers . ) As to Sugar , my friends , I should like , provided it met your taste , to see each of you with a sugar stick in his mouth . ( Laughter and

      cheers . ) But really the jugglo is too ridiculous , as regards sugar , to occupy a moment of our time with comment . Mr . O'Connor then entered into a powerful defence of every act of the Chartists . He asked v . hy it was that tho whole press of England and Ireland repeated every word spoken by the Irish patriots , and never repeated a word lie-said . Ah , said he , the answer is plain and simple , because their leader is but playing chuck-stone with the people , tossing them from baud to hand , and they know that 1 am in earnest in what I say , and he is only ia fuu . ( Laughter aud cheors . ) Give me six months reporting as they give Mr . y'Conuell , and I will carry the Charter and Repeal of the Union . ( Lond cheers . )

      Oh , thank God , you cheer at the Repeal of the Union . Aye , I would carry both in six months ; but as I cant have that , I must on ' y work the harder , and do it myself . ( Loud cheers . ) I will do it , let who likes doubt it . ( Great eheering . ) Mr . O'Connor then exhorted all to join the Charter Association rank 3 ; to put down every appearance of disunion or strife , and to unite , as one man in the people ' s cause , who must not be longer deceived by moonshine . He spoke at considerable length , showing the progress which Chartism bad made , and after a high and well-merited eulogium upon the petition carriers , one of whom was in the chair and many around him , he sat down in a state of great exhaustion , amidst thunders of applause .

      The above is a mere sketch of hi 6 brilliant speech , the effect of which is , we understaad , a determinatiou to call a general meeting of the trades to hear why they should join ia the agitatiou toe the Charter .

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      HAMMEKSKXTH . A pnblk seating was held on Taegday oventng , at the City Anaa Tavern , to welcome Feugoa O'Connor to Hammersmith , bis adopted heme . Mr . O'CONKOB . having wived a little before rigbt o ' clock , load acclimations arose ( torn every part of tho Bjacioos building , which was crowded to excess , as was the lawn and every avenue to the Tavern . The eheering having subsided , Mr . Stall wood was called to the chair , who opened the evening's proceedings in a powerful address

      eulogising the firm and patriotic conduct of oar noble champion , referriegto bis valuable asaiatanoe in aiding the people to procure the return of the Dorchester labourers and the Glasgow Cotton Spinners , and the noble manner in which , immediately upon his release front his dungeon , he again stepped into the front ranks—again braved the brant of tbe battle . He called opon the meeting to give every person , whe might address them , a fait and impartial hearing , if they came with prejudices to throw them aside , and listen only to the dictates of reason .

      Mr . DoALiKQ , a fustian jacket , moved the first resolution :- ~ . " That this meeting hail with delight , that noble of nature , Feargus O'Connor , on bis release from bis cnjost incarceration , and hereby welcome him to Hammersmith , his adopted home . They also pledge themselves never tj > cease in their exertions , until they procure tbe return of Jfrost , rVilliams , and Jones , and the release of all politaaLpriaonera . " . T < ^ iy .-i ¦; _ ^ , The enthasiaMte-mfSriee In which theyTjad & «* Ive 3 their aobte cbmiyton ftttty 4 * etnimrtf » ted that they cordially agreed ia this resolution . Working men , of all others , bad most need to be proud of O'Connor . For their cause he had sacrificed ease , reputation amongst

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

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

      danger dispirit The speaker then contrasted the conduct of Feargas O'Connor with that of Mr . O'Connell , shewing that one had taken the rough and thorny road which the working classes were compelled to traverse , whilst the ther Lad sailed with the gals—had sounded all the harbours of corruption , but had finally run his vessel against the breakers of Toryism ; and if he did not speedily put to the right about—if he did not speedily desert tbe camw of the Whigs , and stand by the people , he ( O'Connoll ) would sink , with the Whig " finalities , " into oblivious perdition . ( Load cheering . ) The resolution being pat to the meeting , was carried unanimously .

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

      short of this was a mere mockery—was unworthy of the acceptance of on intelligent and anit-.-d people . See the misery and distress which existed among the working classes of this country—among those whose industry created all the comforts , necessaries , and luxuries oi life—whosf exertions created all those ingenious contrivances which tend so greatly to smooth ¦ 'the rough road of human existence . Whence has arisen this anomalous state of society ? Simply , because we neglected the tight of Universal Suffrage—of that right which nature , which reason commands us to exert ; steipty , because our law-makers : vre of a different class of society to onrselves , having different and opposing interests in view . But they tell us we are too ignorant ;

      we have been ignorant—very ignorant , or we should not have slaved from morning till night , that an aristocratic class might riot in luxury on the wealth we have toiled to earn . In the second part of the resolution be oieo cordially agreed . As an Englishman , he should feel himself insulted by being tolii that he could not manage his own business , but must have an Irishman to transact it ; and was it not equally an insult to Ireland , to be governed by a Viceroy , like a conquered pry vince—to be forced to maintain a State Church , whose doctrines were at variance with the feelings of eight-te : itha c ? tbe inhabitants ? ( Loud cheera . ) For thsse evils—for the evil of absenteeism , the only remedy was t <> ^ ive Ireland . 1 Parliament of her own , elected on the principles of the People ' s Chatter .

      Mr . Millwood briefly seconded the resolution , which was earried unauiiuoualy . Mr . O'CONNOR rose amidst tremendous cheering to address tho meeting . The fallowing is cr . \ y a stolen of an address , that for eloquence and reason ua 3 never been surpassed . My friends , I am proud to see myself surrounded by such an assembly j I am also pioud to see so many females present—thi 3 is cheering to my heart , it informs me that our principles are gloriously wending their way into the heart of society—that our female * who are the founders of the character of our population , are alive to their true in * 'rests , are anxious to see domestic and social happiness kacod on the firiii foundation of political liberty . It is now five years since I had the honour of addressing you in this

      room , I was then received with some little coolness , some little distrust ; but ero that meeting closed , I haJ the pleasure of knowtog that a rigiit estimate was found of mj views and feelings . Since then , I have occupied a prominent position in the political world . I have encountered the wrath of all tie factions , but have received in return tbe love and approbation of the people , for whose rights I have been struggling , whose cause and whose interests hava ever been dear to my heart I am also happy to see a sprinkling of tbe middle classes present , as I wish to ohow to them that our principles will benefit not *» e working classes alone , but all classes of society . Well , my friends , here am I again among you , still truj to my principles , still ready to brave every danger , determined now Shafe we have vanquished the Whi ^ s , to battlo all the Tories —( cheering )—in the full pienitude of their power , still ready to meet their threat of a strong government backed by the swotd and the cvunon , the gibbet and the prison .

      They may again send mo to York Castle— lfcay again enclose me in their stone coffin—may deprive me of the consolation of intercourse with my friends—and I will cheerfully welcome all , aye , more than all , if I might be assured that the cause would progress in a similar manner as it has done since my incarceration . ( Cheering . ) Living here , almost out of the political world , you may not all know why I was sent to l'oik Castle . It was for tho undefined crime cf libel , a libel copied from a Wiltshire paptr ; not a witness was examined save to my beibg the proprietor of the paper , the Northern Slav . ( Cheers . ) Vet , on the oath of twtlve middle class jurymen , was I convicted for publishing what I rievur eaw , what I ne ' ver read or heurd of , till it was beard in evidence against me— ( slianie );—cut , thank God , I nave gone through the ordeal ; thank God , we have ail passed through the fiery trial ; never waa an agitation carried on in so firm , so peaceful a manner as : he nresent ; no riots , no destruction of

      property , though they have attempted to goad us to vengeance V > y sending the police amongst us ; we are no destructives , we claim equal rights for all ; we ask not for ourselves what we would not williugly graat to all . Look at our present anomalous position ; we have a Tory Government with a mnjority of ninety-one , and -wo * h : ive a nation completely anti-ToTy ; there is not an hurdred working men in tiie nation who are Tories . Tho nation detests the Tories . How then have they been elected in opposition to the wish of the nationin oppasitioa to the public minJ ? Why , because they have bten elected by a ciara ; what then is the remedy 2 ( A voice in the meeting , " the Ballot ) Tae Ballot , why , that ia the ladle without the soap . Has the pervote ? frind

      son who says « the Ballot' a Come , ray « . 1 want to deal fairly with you . ( Answer , " no . " ) The Ballot ! what will the Ballot do ? Willii give him a vote ? No ; it is the scabbard without the sword—the Ballot without Universal Suffrage would make a trades ' union of voters ; they would then fire upon us from a masked battery , conld make a boast of their liberality , of their independence , and yet vote in direct opposition to our interests . We want the Ballot to protect us from tho wrong doer , not the wrong doer from us . But , say the Whigs , we will agitate for tbe Ballot , 'twi . 'l be a mantle to shield us from the people . They boast of their constitutional principles ; and yet they would give as the B « 21 ot , which is the on ) y csconstitational one of the Sis Points of the Chanter . ( The Learned

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      < 4 &L ^ x * Gentleman thea aft mm ** m 0 k jm * ai Hut the oil $ t // y Five Points w ^^« r t | Stf | i « l » so-calltdCoa- J 4 ^ station . ) Ba * <* jr de »• ~ iglJBe dass want tl »>^^ *^ - BaUot ?—Becftue tisey flad Sw « TBtem at fauita b # caaee they fcaw ^ aeroi « ta £ -O «* : the wrrttngniin , - that they havedevooted-the wjiotopf . fteir fabr twm , they now fWt tb * ' 4 J £ i * mi * # ' otsmim&r ** : tfaa men who wear hifaitawi * wtfc *» ant no longer . pro- . earn them , so theT w » nt tlw Ballqt to play the toads * monopolist * against the « t « un monopolists , radons ta . the warfare to come iHf < jrtteiion ' st 6 ar > , Findiagtte 3 r can no longer get taxation « uffldentffomUie working chusea of « Ae «^ tiy , « ieT « r » faying to eleh gat fe getting it from Poland , iroia Pnt 8 jla , or . froni wherever it can be obtained . Peel , too , denaHttU « Mr trW . I ;

      never got a fair trial . ' He has been tried and condemned long since ; for one hundred and fifty yea « haveare tried the factions , and have st length , on elaw evidence , convicted them of guilt . Far ten years hat * we born « with the Whigs ; they gave power to the middle classes , but neglected you ; they overlooked that ; for them to be enriched , yoa mast be placed £ n the position of purchasers ; but you have been the ass between the two factions ; first one heaping you with burdens and then the other ; they have , wrought oat their own destruction , and now they complain of the people . We are not Whfga ; we have done with them for ever . We never vrere Tories ; we stand on toe glorious position of demanding equal rights foroU . I have been called a destructive and a torch and dagger

      agitator . I defy any man to prove I ever uttered the words tetcb . or dagger at any public meeting in my life . What I have said is , that , when moral force failed , physical force Would come like an electric shock to its aid ; but the man who would attempt to . array it—to marsh&ll an unarmed peopla against the cannons and bayonets of the aristocracy , must be a fool or a madman . Attwood and the Birmingham Whigs were the first to talk of physical force , and the first to desert their standard , while I was made their scape-goat , the torn fool , to bear the weight of tnair misdeeds ; bat I bore the whole , conscious tbe day would come when I : should . have justice done me . That day is now come ; the Tories are weak—weak fox want of popular support . The Wbixs are dead , 'while

      we are in triumph . The Whigs now call upon us to help them to beat the Tories . We did help them , at the time of the Reform Bill We raised a storm of indignation against tha Tories , from ,. North to South . We seated them unuly in efficeV ' but what did they do for us f >¦ ¦ They give England a Foot Law BUI—th » y . gave Inland a Coercion Bill—they appointed commissioners , well-paid commissioners , to examine into almost every thing . It the Great Mogut bad the tooth ache , they would appoint a commission to . see on Which side of the jaw the pain lay . If there was distress in Ireland , there waa a commission to see why the potatoe crop had failed . Look at their tithe commissions , how I struggled against them . Look at their 8 , 000 policemen , equal to 24 , 000 soldiers , as they receive three

      times as much pay , and then say they give justice to Ireland ; but Ireland shall have justice ; we will fly to her rescue . Repta ' . shall be our watchword ; it shall go band in band with the Charter . I will strip it of its hobgobliniain . 1 will demonstrate that it is for the interest of both nations ; it shall no longer be nude a bugaboo of . [ Tiie Learned Gentleman here went into an accurate detail of tbe Irish question . ] Yon are the bees—your oppressors are the drottes of society . If yoa ware to remain idle , for one month—your oppressors would starve . Taey could not eat their plate , not their jewels , they could not devour their furnitora nor tatir houses , bat you would not starve . The land is your inheritance . You would consume as much as yoa wanted , and 2 : 0 more . ( Mr . O'Connor , here went into

      the question of Huptitt Noel's tract , daring which ha was greeted with great applause . ) Look at the present condition , look as yonder sweet child clinging to its . mother ' s breast with , all the fondness of infantine love ; see its mother smiling upon it with maternal solicitude ; and then direct your thoughts to the poor factory children ; see them carried on their parents * backs to work at the spinning jennies—the system is too horrible to describe My attention was rivetted to it whtn I was at Oidham , in the year 1835 . It ia a system which will destroy us , or we most destroy it , there can be no parleying with this gigantic enwny . I am glad to see the feeling which has spread throughout the country . Britons will no longer be content to slave from morning till night for

      bare food ; they demand more ; they demand intellectual , 1 nor . 1 l , and physical enjoyment ; and , by the help of dud and our firm energies , we will speedily attain them . I am willing t « forget the past ; I have buried all animosity in the dungeon of York Castle ; I am for a union of all against the common enemy ; but we will no longer be the shuttlecock to be knocked about by either a Whig or a Tory battledore . I may again be arrested , but I am determined to fulfil my work . Look at our position—a whole nation governed by a haedfol of aristocrats , by a few men who , as compared with you , wpuld appear to be made by Nature ' s journey men . Gather together all the aristocrats who live within four mites of this place , and an omnibus would hold them . And shall this intrigniflcant bods

      rule &uch a host of working men ? We will sever ctaw in our exertions till we have put an end to such a system . The WhigB , at the time of the Reform . Bill , said that taxation and representation should bti co-extensive , this would admit all who paid taxes , whether twenty-one years old or not ; but we have laid down a defined plan , we say at twenty-one yean of aga a man snail ba entitled to a vote ; we will not move from this , we will « 0 t alter to ^ wenty-one years and one day ; we will have it for all , whether light hair , or dark hair , whether English , Irish , or Scotch . They eay we are ignorant men , we must , therefore , have a plan about which there is no mystery ; one which all can understand , such is our Charter . Let all who are in this room , who have votes , hold op their hands . Well ,

      there are three votes . All who have no votes . A forest . Well , these three men are our masters ; they monopolise all the brains ; ye poor brainless souls , go about you business ; what are ye . fit for ? ye say y © have intelligence ; 'tis all moonshine ; ye are ignorant ; ye have no votes . These three men sre like the aristocrats on tbe omnibus ; that they aro good and true men is evideneed by their being here ; but it shows the folly of the system we are contending against . Hitherto we have been beat by disunion ; they have played off the Whigs against the Radicals —the Radicals against th « Chartists—and now they want to pit the O'Connorites against the O'Connellitea ; but theyehall fail . I will traverae the three kingdoms ; my watchword shall be " Union . " By February next we will have a petition signed by four millions for the Charter and Kepeal . The Whigs tell us to lay asido all our little differences ; we have no differences ; we are all united ; 'tis they tbat have the differences . Let them unite with us—we

      will receive them as brothers—we will bury the paat in oblivion . In tbe North tae shopkeepers are fast joining our standard ; they feel the pinch more than the shopkeepers of the South . The steam Lords , with their £ 10 , 0 tr 0 capital , are ruining the shopkeepers with their few hundreds . But their ergans say that Lords Howick and Russell are to be our leaden . What a pretty pair « f leaders ! Did you ever see them , my friends ; they are , indeed , a pair of little ponies—I might almost call them donkies—to drag along tbe chariot of the public mind . Can we unite with suca leaders ! No . Her Majesty had better transfer them from the preparatory school of the Commons to tke sick hospital of the Lorcis . Mr . O'Cuunor continued for upwards of ane hour , in a similar strain , and con * eluded with a burst of eloquence which touched every heart . He also apologised that his ill health had pr «< vented his attending , according to appointment , at Brighton and at Marylobone . At the conclusion , Hr . O'Connor was completely exhausted .

      Messrs . Cleave , Cnllinguuui , M'PUetson , from Ipswich , Mr . Clark , from York , and a p 3 rson from Cork , addressed the meeting . Mr . Cleave most eloquently entreated the men of London to support the Executive , and the Victims . The meeting separated at a iate hour , highly gratified , with Uieir spirits fresh aerved in tiie good cause .

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      Meeting Of The Stonemasons And Other Trades In London.

      MEETING OF THE STONEMASONS AND OTHER TRADES IN LONDON .

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      SEWCABTiS .-The Chartist 3 of Newcastle held their weekly meeting for business on Monday evening , Mr . William Smith in the chair . The secretary read the muiutes of last meeiirg , wMeh

      were confiruic i . Tho Treasurer reported the contributions for Die week , which continue to increase . A good many new members were enrolled . Several deputations were appointed to wait upon certain united bodies of trades , and request their co-operation in the forthcoming demonstration in honour of Mr . O'Brien ajid AiJr . O'Connor ' s visit to Newcastle . The following resoiutioa wad moved by Air . Fainlou # h and seconded by Mr . Sinclair , and carried uaanimously : —Resolved— " That tho thanks of this meeting bo respectfully te ; Jered to fcliatman Crawford , ! , EV < £ ., the- propoaor , General Johnson , the seconder , and tho thirty-nine gentlemen who vc-i for tiio addition lo the address to the Queen /'

      Ousebbrx . —The Chartists of this piaco met Sunday nivrniug last , iu the Association-room , neai By leer liar . A discussion took place on vi hat would be the most effectual plan cf getting the out-districf s organised , when it was agreed that the Secretary correspond with certain places round Newcastle , to ascertain the day most convenient to hold public meetings , that they , may be furnished with proper speaker » . CCAtSNAtTGKTON . —The cause progresses well here . The exertions of Mr . Abraso Duncan have been attended with great good . Ilia lec ' . ures in this place had to be delivered- in the . open , street , for , although there are two places in the-village capable of holding the people , the tyrants tb 3 t have the

      contronl of them would not permit Mr . Duncan ti > address the peoplo in them . He had , in consequence , ouea to address tbe people in wet eloth # d , and under many other privations calculated to ccol both aeal and courage , however fervent . But these evils and difficulties are about to pass away . The fruit of these lectures wtro the determinaiipr . ts > subscribe money to build a Hall , to hold between three aad four hundred people . Exactly at one o ' clock , on . the 30 th cf August the men of Coalsnaughtoa did themselves ih < 3 honour to celebrate the release of . Feargus O'Connor from York Castle by decorating the roof of of their Hall with their flagg . atij ^ hJMft . , for an hour with 3 d good mu . kets , by mcwBfeMalTiiSi ^ custvmod to fear the face of auto , or quail 1 && 3 M 4 XI tyrant ' s mandate . Z ^ T * -TtS ^ nN

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      ATO LEEDS GENERAL AD ^ EBTBEB .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 18, 1841, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct567/page/1/