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      ieixeb n . Gsxtlexes . —I think that the public mind is jairly made np upon two points , Firstly , that the 9 ^ fona Bill" has proved a failure , and , secondly , ilt&i no Government can represent this conntry in accordance with the pnblio interest which refuses to re 2 nee ex penditure to the capability of the nation to ^ gj it Under these circumstances we are to oonsdet b * w a Government , not acting npon the above nrteopie can hold office .

      Politically speaking , the Whig middle class voters appear to be in a woeful minority ^ as compared with the Tory constituency ; and we must presume that the Whig constituency are not in favour of Tory principles . Yet do the Whig voters remain as a dead weight , exerting their influence no farther than to assist their fallen party now and then with a side shove upon some not-yet-exploded crotibet . You are well aware that though comparatively

      annihilated as a party , yet nevertheless your union with 4 , 000 , 000 of an organised body , would jaake the incorporated force of industry too powerful to be successfully resisted by our oppressors . To your inactivity , therefore , the people are justified in ascribing their every calamity and suffering ; while the same cause justly deprives you ( in your present reduced state ) of sympathy from any party . In short , you have forged your own chains , and wear them with a becoming obsequiesness .

      Now , gentlemen , with an infant war in India , and another in China , both requiring expensive nursing ; with a starving population in England , Ireland , Scotland , and Wales , all requiring force to keep them down ; with a idle aristocracy increasing at a prodigious rate , while all the land in the country still remains in possession of heads of families , and while the off-shoots must be provided for from church or state ; with a state church , demanding and receiving an endimooB fixed stipend for religious purposes , irrespective of its diminished duties occasioned by dissent ; with a military

      establishment augmented considerably in the twenty-seventh year of peace ; with a growing royal progeny , always objects of surpassing interest to those who rote away public money , and the leaders of whom owe their places to royal favour \ with the reenactment of " ie Poor Law Amendment Act , " the whole levies and expences under which must now fill upon von j with a war tax laid upon your incomes in time of peace : with all these and ten thousand other pressures upon you , allow me to ask how

      you ( whose honest energy , joined with that of the honest working classes , would at once and for ever rid yonrselTes and them of the monster , ) can reconcile your apathy and indifference to yourselves ? Are you so much in love with things as they are , that you glory in Eiarving under the law , and perishing constitutionally ? Or are you not aware that your oppressors , while they would court your loyalty , laugh at your degeneracy and your want of selfrespect !

      Now , gentlemen , leaving altogether oub of the question the great , the ungenerous and unconquerable hatred which you bear personally to myself , allow me to ask you if ever folly , childishness , and imbecility , was more forcibly poartrayed than that which your desertion and denunciation of the people ( by whose industry you live ) preseDt ? Sappose that I vras the very worst of men ; would that furnish & justifiable excuse for withholding your support from the very best of principles ? and are you not

      fully aware of the fact that the way to destroy ae , is by sarpassiBg me in honest toU , by exploding my fallacies , and developing the soundness of your own views and principles , by attending all local meetings , ( which cost you nothing , ) and especially those where I am present , and then and iisre , by following me , argukig with me , and reastmiig with me , court public approbation from your snperior knowledge rather than from your superior f- » rce !

      Yon well know the great power which an honest recruit has over a veteran politician . Be assured that the very novelty , added to the boldness of the experiment , would giro to the experimentalist an advantage of more than fifcy per cent . ; and as to clamour , noise , confusion , and riot , it would be the very means of suppressing all and of rivitting attention ; and as to partiality , where in the wide world is there a more splendid spectacle than that attentive British audience which fair discussion ever insures ? Approbation is then expressed without clamour ; deference is paid to honesty , though in error ; and judgment keep 3 firm hold of the rein 3 of prejudice , passion , and personal attachment .

      Gentlemen , the unfathomable question of " Free Trade" has been selected by a new school of " poli tical pedlars" whereon to float your shallow understandings . This free trade means barter with all the worid at a disadvantage to all the nation , save those portions which from their present position could make fortunes during the spirit of novelty and the balancing of demand and supply . Can the mind of man imagine a grosser absurdity than the idea of a nation with three Kings and three Queens , an old nest of Royal Princesses , and Royal Dakes , as state paupers ; with a debt ( called national ) of near a thousand millions sterling ; with an overgrown State Church Establishment ; with four millions per annum ( more than the rental of all Ireland , that

      fertile and lorely land , ) goiDg to pay an army and navy ; with a useless legal and police establishment ; with offices without duties , created for idiots to fill ; with a Civil List of worn-out whore 3 and bastards , and political prostitates , and blood stained heroes ; wish functionaries only rendered necessary to suppress the distemper which misrule h& 3 engendered ; with land held in sterility and barrenness in order that political power may be carved out of its vast allouaents ; with a voluntary tax laid upon the dissenting mind , ia consequence of the disgust created by a persecuting and unchristian Law Church : I ask , can the miHd compa » 3 a wilder absurdity than the supposition that a state so oppressed can trade upon terms of equality with the free nations of tie world ?

      Gentlemen , England has been set mad in the day 3 of her prosperity , when her infant inventions gave her an exclusive command of the markets of the whole globe . England was the first among nations to possess hers-elf of the power 3 of artificial production ; and she had simultaneously the advantage , if advantage it can be called , of throwing the hands of other ca ' -ians from pursuits of industry to the use asd management of arms . Daring our long protracted war , England , under conroy of her navy , became the qvten of smugglers ; while , at the same time , with the people ' s money she paid soldiers abroad for fi ^ fctiDg her battles . Then you commanded lie markets of the world , and , as a matter

      of coarse , the immense profits of the manufacturers and ibe demand for labour enabled them to give hi « h wages . Then England cheated all foreigners , while 8 ae wa 3 robbing her own people by mortgaging them and future generations for the payment ot the war-tax . But when peace was proclaimed , and our foreign soldiere were not longer required in the biule-field , then was the " sword turned into a pk-u ^ h share , " and disbanded armies were devoted to lije pursuits of industry ,- and , as a matter of coarse , other nations Bought xo make tbemselve independent , and betook themselves to manufacturers ; and in process of improvement they discovered that Englaiid had not only been the queen of smugglers , but ihat she kad also been the cheat of cheats .

      I > Biin £ a long and expensive war is not the time for minute itady , or deep reflection . Our gold enabled other nations to stand oht commercial imposition ? . Foreign merchants were well paid as parties to the imposition ; but when other nations began to ttanafaciure for themselves , then accounts were baiauxd , and the English manufacturer stood in his true craracier in tae markets of- the world . Now , from that period to the present , all other countries ha . ? e been manufacturing for themselves , some more

      and some less ; but the more being multiplied by tbe le = s , will leave you in the quotient , the wonderful miracle of dihisished fokeicw demand fob bbjtish kasufactukes ; which diminution ( . if other countries are governed wisely ) will keep goirig on cntsl at length our rulers will be compelled to make this country independent of all others , by the cultivation of oar own resources to an extent which will render the whole people independent of the whole world .

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      -Now , believe me , gentlemen , that all tariffs and income-taxes , and " will-o ' -the-wisp speculations" to keep our expenditure by taxation up to its present amount , must and will fail ! and then , instead of the press of the country , the rulers of the country , the leaders of sections , and the political spouters having prepared the public mind for the only change which can save us , they will find society reduced to chaos in consequence of the complete and signal failure of their artificial policy . " " Gentlemen , allow me , in conclusion , to submit a simple proposition for your consideration . I will suppose society to be divided into one hundred different classes , the labourers constituting one of the one hundred .

      Is i 3 admitted by all that " the people are the legitimate source of all power , " while it cannot be for a moment denied that labtrur is the joundation of all wealth- Now , my assertion is , that the ninety-nine classes ( not including the labouring class ) if enfranchised to a man , would not , nay could not , justly represent their unitedly enfranchised community Their interests would be antagonistic ; they would endeavour to gain advantages the one over the other ; while . I contend for it that the labouring clas 3 alone of the one hundred being enfranchised , could not do justice to their own order , without at the sifefflSflj&miniiterihtf toeSatce justice fcoerery eiass of which society is composed . The result ef the enfranchisement of labour would be a vast increase

      of all the resources of the country ; and of these increased resources eyery other class would have its due and righteous share . Enfranchised labour would find it to be its interest to protect capital , inasmuch as those working at artificial labour couldjiot find capital for the employment of their -own labour ; and , believe me , that the whole people have sense enough to know when labour has its fair share of profit , and they have justice and honour enough to award to honest industry and speculation the just reward of r : Ek and exertion . Gentlemen , I think , then , that we may safely conclude that the Reform Bill has failed in its results ; while , if not yet prepared to admit the fact , the first visit of the Commissioner to demand nearly three per cent , upon your income , will convince you of the absolute necessity of reducing our national expenditure to the nation ' s capability to bear it . And , gentlemen , believe me to bo sincere in my honest conviction , when I assert that nothing short of the just representation of the whole people , as defined in the document entitled " THE PEOPLE ' S CHARTER , " ever will , or ever can , produoe an equitable Reform satisfactory to all classes , or reduce the amount of expenditure to the PEOPLE'S

      AND YOUR CAPABILITY TO BEAR IT . Gentlemen , I have the honour to remain , Your obedient humble Servant , Feahgcs O'Conkob

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      TO THE CHARTISTS OF NORTH LANCASHIRE . Mt deab ihocgh staevi * g Fhie ?> "D 3 , —For some weeks past I have watched the proceedings of our body in North Lancashire with intense interest , I was aware that that district , being the former seat of the handloom weavers , must suffer beyond most oihers from the devouring enemy , machinery . I was right ; for machinery in the extreme north would , ss a matter of course , affect the price of manual labour devoted to the same manufacture , even in the extreme south . Nay , more : machinery in America would as much affect your wages , under free trade , as machinery in Manchester would .

      It is true joa are star tie g . I hare watched your proceedings narrowly ; and from those proceedings I learn two great and wholesome lessons . Firstly , that our great union now teaches each locality that it constitutes but a component part of society ^ and ho'ds itself responsible in its every act for the effect which that act may have upon society at large ; and that the strength which it derives from the fellowship of other districts makes it too strong in hope , to be led by the spy , the coward , or the traitor , into any act which would peril tee universal cause . Secondly , it convinces me that an indiscretion upon our part is the las ; remaining hope of faction .

      And now , why \ Because for seven years we have held oar meetings , attended by thousands and rens ot thousands , and many sound , and good and able speeches have been made by handloom" weavers . Nay , I am bold to assert that handloom-weavers have been the originators , the ornaments , the prop and support of the Chartist cause . Their interest was first attacked by machinery ; and when ia th& outset they called for aid , had their feilowmen flown to the rescue , ail would have been well . But no , the first victims were laughed at and derided in their sectional struggle against the monster in its infancy , until tbe assassin that slew them threatened also to slay every succeeding interest , and then self interest rallied round tbe standard which the handloomweavera had raised .

      But that i 3 not so much the point . This is it . In our straggles tbe press have allowed us to pas 3 unnoticed , or has given us a destructive notoriety . But now , we find the Manchester Guardian , heretofore silent upon meetings heJd within its town , nay under its very nose , running to North Lancashire in quest of news to suit the palate of its luscious readers . And the Times , that hellish organ , has'been , moving heaven and earth to dissatisfy

      you with your local leaders , for what the ruffian call 3 their timidity . This is the first step in tyranny . The tyrant causes a split in the ranks by engendering suspicions and dissatisfaction between the leaders and the people . The leaders , if they ara weak minded and thin-skinned , lose all self-control , sacrifice judgment to zeal , and in their attempt to wipe off a brand , which should be considered an honour instead ol a disgrace , they loss their heads , and also the people ' s cause .

      Thi 3 insidiou 3 attempt is not confiaed to the Times and the Guardian . No ; I told you many a time and oft , that when the day of trial came , Whig and Tory middle class that had any thing would shake hands : and so it is . The Manchester Advertiser , a paper which in the days of poor d ^ pmed Condy advocated popular rights , has now , it appeal , s-. epped into the ranks of our enemies . Beeslej writes me that a most cowardly and flagrant misrepresentation is

      given of a speech of bis in that paper ; and what redress has he 1 None whatever . Remember the trials at Liverpool in 1839 . A scamp of a reporter , that kuew nothing of reporting , gos into the witness-box , and read old notes , pat as the Bible There it was ; wr . ttendown ;( Whig Gospel ) who could contradict it ? aud s ^ ral persons were found guiity and suffered . Remember who the Jury class are , who the iciineisrs are : mho the Judges are , and ichose the laves are I ! I

      Sow , I would council you to appoint three discreet persons of your ow& order , to agree to all reports sent to the S / ar ; that course will protect the paper , and furnish the only defence you can have . Believe me , as to class , there is no difference between Whig and Tory ; neither is there in Government . There isyetenonghof wealth in the hands of the middle classestor ruin to rally rouud , and we do notderiVe as much strength from the jjnesion of thefewwho

      join us as maj be supposed . And for this reason ; their uniting is an act ot necessity rather than prinoiple . It has not evea the merit of expediency ; so that when they leavo their old order , they unfortunately leave behind them all that gave them strength , might , and influence , " the Bit of brass ; " so that we receive them a * deserters , without their arms . Now , my friends , just allow me to ask you a plain question or two . Do you suppose that the Tory

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      Timeslthe Whig Guardian , and the Whig-Radical Advertiser would play the same destructive and atti-ChaTtisi game , if it did not exactly . suit the classes for which they respectively write ? Now , just answer that ; ana allow me to remind you of a i ' ew very striking facts . Clayton ia dead ; Hoey is a cripple for life ; Duffy is a dying man ; Holberry dead , and his wife au idiot ; Peddy still lingers in his living tomb ; Frost , Williams , and Jones are banished their native land , while every single soul

      who led the brave into the pitfall , and then abandoned them , are either skulkingat home , living happy abroad , or provided for by the Government they so faithfully served ! Now ; i 3 that to bo denied ? The hero who would have recklessly sacrificed the whole of the West Riding of Yorkshire took sheltsr behind a flour sack , and fled ! while the Editor of the Star , whose advice and prompt exertion saved the lives of thousands , and spared the carnage that ambition would have produced , is still at his post .

      " These ( indeed ) are times to try men ' s souls . No man has wisdom who would say " starve on" to the starving man ; and no man has courage who would be placed in a false position by the jeers and taunts of a revolutionary and middle class press . Had it rot beea for the pending Nottingham election , I should have beea among you loug sinca ; but now I embrace the first , the fitting opportunity . On Monday , I shall be at Halifax at noon ; and at Burnley m the evening . I lay you under no restrictions , none whatever , beyond what your own judgment points out . I am . bound over in a heavy

      recognizance to keep the peace ; and remember that already five criminal prosecutions have , in fourand-a-half years cost me above £ 1 , 200 , and that I was no party to one of them . Remember that I was found guilty , twice at York by Special Juries ; once for publishing four lines from another paper ; and once for publishing two speeches , the one made by Mr . Dean Taylor , and the other by Mr . O'Brien ; and'bear in mind , that I defended the speeches , though I suffered for their publication . Remember , that at York and Liverpool many men were convicted for merely being present at public meetings , where fpeeches said to be likely to

      lead to riot were delivered ; and bear inmiudthat nothing would give your manufacturing magistrates greater pleasure than to be able to hire some ruffian to implicate you and me either by being present at the delivery of an inflammatory speech , or by the employment of some firebrand to cause a disturbance . However , with a knowledge of these things before me , I go , because you demand my presence . I go , because I am resolved , come weal come woo , to stand by the poorest of the poor . I go , bscause I have hope that my council will save you and our cause from those snares which faction is so busy ia setting for you . Let your resolutions be strong , manly , and brave , but strictly legal .

      While the poor Irish are starving , those who have plundered them are comfortable , and absent ; when poverty ra ^ es and threatens destruction , then I choose to be a party to throw a protecting shield over the destitute . Bear in mind , that the magistrates of Staffordshire have renewed the spirit of 1839 . They have commenced the crusade against the Chartists , by apprehending Mason and others , and binding them over to take their trial , when they sought justice at their hands for an outrage offered to Mason by a constable . Recollect that all the Man of Authority will have to prove against Mason will be , firstly , that he is a Chartist , and consequently an outlaw ; secondly , that he , the Authority-man , has no doubt

      on his lojal mind , that the Bpeech of Mason was calculated to lead to a riot . And he was right , for it did lead to a riot , but tho Anthority-man was tho only rioter , while Mason and the Chartists were constable ? , and preserved the peace . It would be folly for me to do more than to remind you that the Government is too strong to require such a godseud as a physical force outbreak just now . And that the parties who look upon such a calamity as a bJeesiDg are the Whigs , who would then say to the middle classes , " Ah ! see how we put the Chartists down , and how the Tories have allowed them to meet and speak . " I tell you that the Corn Law Repeaiers will movo heaven and earth to produce a revolution , from which they would hope to reap the spoils ; but I tell them that they SHALL

      NOT . My beloved Friends , I am now going to make a rigorous and unceasing effort to cement the head and tail of Chartism—the leaders and the people ^ iu one firm union : and aiding as I shall , the efforts of the Executive of your choice , I have only now to implore that henceforth all idea of disunion and strife may be buried anti for ever , and that we may go with the head , heart , and body of one giant man to tbe rescue of our common country .

      I have to request that no carriages be provided for me ; that no expense be incurred in the distressed districts , to mock poverty . I can pay my own expences , a 3 I always have done ; and I can preach the gospel truth of Chartism , as 1 have often done before , wherever a few of the faithful shall be gathered together . Brothers , every thing is working for the great end ! Ix God ' s nam £ , then , let us hot aid tyrants in THEIK ENDEAVOURS TO SUBVERT THE WILL OF THAT PROVIDENCE , WHICH DESIG . NS GOOD FOB ALL . Ever your devoted Friend , Feargls O'Connor .

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      MR . MASON , AND THE SEDGLY AUTHORITIES . TO EVERY MAN WHO LOVES JUSTICE , WHETHER HE BE WHIG , T 0 KY , OR CHARTIST . Lovees of Justice , —You will have learned that the authorities of Stafford have resolved upon putting Mason and others upon their trial , for having demanded justice at their hands , for au insult , offered

      to them by a brutal constable . Now bear in mind , that our Cause has gamed more strength from the vigorous manner in wnich , in 1839 , we defended our prisoners , than from any other source ; and also boar in mind that our desertion ot * that iair-play prinoiple noWi would very rationally lead our enemies to a belief in our division , and would hurry them on once more in the same destructive course . We must , therefore , though poor , make a vigorous effoit to procure a twod , nay , the best defence .

      'Ihu trial come 3 on on Monday next , or Tuesday , the 28 ; h . A few pounds will do it—a litde from each . I will give my mite , though the General . Defence Fund iei ' i me between i'oOO and £ 6 vO out of pocket . You had better remit whatever each locality can afford , by post-tffice order , direct to Stafford , as no time shou . d be lobe . You will know some person . of our cause tku re ; send him the money . You had better &end it to the treasurer of the Chartist Association . But pray send it ; and I will thank him to pay tcu fchiliings on my account . Your faithful servant , FjiARGos O'Connor .

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      _ fiTALYBK « 3 GS—Tbe Chartists of this place have resolved not hereafter to permit any person to lecture ia their room unless be produce kis card of membersnip in tbe National Charter Association , and credentials from the locality whence he may come . NOTTINGHAM . —Oa Monday evening last , the members of tee Chartists meeting at the Chapel , Riceplace , hela their weekly meeting , Mr . R . T . 'MoniBon in tbe cbair . Two shillings was ve . ed from the Association Fund , and a subscription entered into for the use of the victims , Hines and Duff / , and agreed to for the same to be open for a week , when the amount will be divided between them .

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      HULL , — Additional nominations to the General Council :- The Kov . William Hill ; IMr . William Cheesman , joiner , Ed . gaTrStretfji Potteries ; Mr ; Samuel Pulford , tailor , No . 2 , Dagger-lane ; Mir , Gaorge Barter , engine fliter ; Jessamine Cottages , English-street . Reading . —A public lecture was delivered here on Tuesday , by Mr . Wheeler , of Xouitea , ¦ oh . the ; •» Superiority ; of the Democratic form ot' G JVernment . " Sir Jamea , at the conclusion of the lecture , addressed the meeting with great ability . London Delegate Council . —Mr . J . Dowlina in

      the chair , Ttye S-cretary reported from the Committee for drkwing up rules and regulations , and also from other parties with whom he was deputed to correspond . Reports wore received from various localities , and a resolution received .. from the Broinpton and ¦ ¦ ¦ Kensington locality ; it was resolved that the . Committee appointed : to investigate the charge against one of its members be dissolved , and that the matter be investigated in open Council on Sunday next . The sum \ b £ 49 . 2 i . was received from the Shoemakers , Foley Place . Credentials were received from Mr . Swation , from Jlammorstnitb .

      Queen ' s Head , Cambridge road . —Mr . DufBeld lectured at , this place on Sunday evening last , to a goodly company , arid gave great satisfac ^ tion ; Mr . Spencer in the chair . A vote of thaoka to the lecturer , chairman , and host , ( Mr . Sourr ) who severally returned thanks ; in the course of \ yhiohf My . Scurr , the landlord , regretted he was in hi a psresen ^ jjnploafant position , and declared he should remain ^ rm tothe garter , however he may be persecuted . The Chartists of this locality , - wili hold their next meet ng on Sunday evening , at the Sugar Loaf , WcUs-streM , Mile-end , Old Tovrii . Great praise is oue to Tucker and Blight , who stood outside in the wet , and invited the people in ^ The license of Mr . Scurr has been stopped and the house is shut up .

      Chaven Head , Drury-Lane . —The provisional committee request that all localities will see their delegates attend on Tuesday evening next , at eight o ' clock , at the above-named place , to give in a final account of money and tickets , appoint auditors , and transact other important business . For the satisfaction of the localities , it was moved " that a deputation of three persons ho appointed to wait on the lessee of the Victoria Theatre , to kuow if

      the report , given in by the sub-Committee , of the receipts be correct . "— : Carrind . tyloved , "That Mc Carthy , Tread well , and Pearce , form the deputation . "—Carried , Moved "That the receipts of the Theatre , and the donations be printed in the Star . " —Carried . Moved "That all persons connected in taki / ig money or checks , or in any way connected with the business of the Theatre on the benefit night , bo , desired through the Star , to attend the committee next Tuesday evening . "—Carried .

      Donations received by Ruffy Itidlpy on account of Provisional Committee Fund . : ¦ '¦ . ¦ \ :. ; - . ' s . d . Mr . Britohart , by Ruffy -Ridley ......... 0 6 Mr . Dobson of Hammersmith Oil Mr . Rogers , Lambeth 5 6 Mr . Lucus ... ; ...... 0 6 7 5

      VICTORIA THEATRE . ¦ FINANCE SHEET . Cash paid at the Doors . £ s . d . 5 Box 0 10 0 34 Half Box ... 1 14 0 202 Pit ... .. 10 2 0 393 Gallery ... 9 1 G 6 Cash , ... 22 2 6 Tickets and cross money ... ... 53 5 6 * £ 75 12 0 Number of persons in the house after half price Boxes , 23 S ; Pit , 729 ; Gallery , 924 .

      Tickets taken at the Doors , £ b . d . 98 Box 9 16 0 20 " Pit in Box ... ... ... 1 & 0 73 X to Box ... 3 13 6 413 Pit ' .. ... 20 13 0 Jl Box in Pit ... ... ... 1 2 0 53 Gallery in Pit 16 " 6 66 X to Ht 1 13 0 C : < sli in Pit Box ... 0 4 6 472 Ga ! l « ry ... 11 1 G 0 Z 9 fa in Gallery ... ... 1 19 0

      £ 53 9 6 . J . Lucas , Secretary . Subscriptions receive ^ by Ruffy Ridley , and paid into the hanutj of Mr , Ryall , on account of Mr .. Chas Southwell , late Social missionary : — s d Robert Poulton ... ... 0 6 J . Eliston ... ... ... 0 3 J . Preece ... ... ... 0 6 S . Gifiord ... ... ... 0 4 R . P : ... ... ... 0 4 A Friend ... ... ... 0 6 T . D . 1 0 Mr . Dron ... ... ... 0 6 Ruffy Ridley ... 1 1 Mr . Wheeler ... ... ... 0 6 M . D . 0 6

      6 0 At a Meeting of the Surrey council , on Sunday last , reports of a flatttring nature were received frem the various localities . A report was received from the committee appointed to attend a public meeting , at ( W , Great Guildfoid-street , Borough ; and a locality was Formed to meet at the Coffee Rooms for the future , until further notice . Surrey . —The committee for getting up the tea and concert , at the Montpelier Tavern , are earnestly requested to attend on Sunday next , at three o ' clock precisely .

      Mill Wall . —Mr . Frazer lectured on the principles of the People'a Charter , at the Smith ' s Arms ^ on Monday evening . It is intended that another lecture shall be delivered on Tuesday next , when a new locality will be formed . Nine persons have already taken up their , cards . Queen's Hbad , Cambridge Road . —Tho Chartist 5 ! of this locality are requested , for too future ; to meet at Mr . Palnur's , Sugar Loaf , Church-st ., Mile End , New Town . BIRMINGHAM .--People's Hall of Science—A meeting of influential working men was held at the Public Office on Friday evening last ,

      Mr . Page in the chair . The meeting was convened by circular , tVr the purpose of ascertaining whether the working men of Birmingham would Tend their aid in completing the erection of the People ' s Hall , as the Conioiiute had not sufBoieut funds for that purpose . Mr ., George White , Mr . Corbett , Mr . Hmde , Mr . JtMikinson , Mr . Emes , and others , delivered their sentiments on the subject . An exoellent feeling prevailed , and it was ultimately agreed that a public meeting should be called , when the business should bo brought forward , and an appeal made to those who wished to forward so desirable au object . Thanks were voted to the Chairman , and the meeting separated .

      Meeting at the Hall of Sconce on behalf of Mr . J . G lioi / voAKE—A numerous and enthusiastic meeting was hold at the Hall of Science , Lawrence Street , for the purpose of petiiioniiig Parliament on the irjusiice of the late prosecutions lor blasphemy . Mr . Hulse wua unanimously called , to the chair , after which Mr . John Mason proposed the following resolution . " That in the opinion of this meeting , it is the natural aud iaalknablo right of every human being to express his hohesi and conscientious convictions ou the subject of religion , any law or practice tending to prevent Jh 0 same being in opposition to the befct interes ' . s of society , and calculated only to produce immorality and crime . " Mr . Macintosh seconded tho resolution , aud it \ v * 3 carried unanimously . Mr . Soar then read a memorial and petition embodying the views of the * : meeting on the

      subject of the late prosecutions . Ho moved that they be signed by the chairman , aud forwarded to Lerd Brougham , for presentation to tho House of Lords , G . - . F . M-uiuz , for the Commons , and the memorial to the Secretary of State . Mr . G . White seconded the motion , after which Mr . J . G . Holyoake delivered a long and able address in vindication of his conduct , and was loudly cueered by the meeting . The resolution was then carried unanimously . Mr . Edward Nicholls moved the following resolution , which was seconded by Mr . James Beits , and unanimously agreed to . "Tnat the best thanks of this meeting are due , and are hereby eiven , to the Northern Star . Weekly Dispatch % Sun , Cheltenham Free Press * and the liberal press generally , ior their able and generous advocacy of civil aud religious liberty . " A vote of thanks was then given to the chairman , and the meeting separated .

      AsTOJt-bTREET Meetings . —Mr , White addressed a meeting in the Chartist Room , Aston-street , on Sunday evening last , Mr . Talbofcia the chair .

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      Monday Evening . —The usual weekly meeting was held at the room in A $ ton-8 tret > t , oa Monday evening last , Mr . Charles A&hton in . the chair . The minutes of the council were tJ en read over , from which it appeared that the council had passed a resolution of resigcing their offices . Mr . Bough moved and Mr . Lyuell seconded a motion , to resciud that part of tho minutes , on the grounds of the whole council not being unanimous on the > ubject . Mr . White supported the motion , and affirmed that they liad no right to proceed in that manner ; he moved an addition to the motion , that each member of the couaeil who wished to resign , should tender his resigna'ion . to the meetiiig . After a long discussion in which the retiring members , Messrs . Williamson , Saunders , White ^ aud o thers took part , the motion was carried almost unanimously . Messrs . Lindbn , Fussell , Newhouss , Wel ~ ford , and Stewart , then

      resigned , and . Messrs . White , Talbot , Yardluy , Ryan , Bough , and others , wore nominated in their places . Mr . Whito than gave a report of ih& proceedhif 43 of tho directing council , and afterwards moved ; a vote of confidenco with regard to the political horitsly and integrity of the retiring councillors , which was unanimously agreed to . The case of Messi' 3 . Mason , Chance , aii'l : o . theri , who have to appear at the Stafford aud Worcester Sessi 6 na in a few days , was then brought forward by Mr . White , when a dtfeiic 9 committep consisting of several most active female ? , in addition to the other members , was appointed , and a resolution agreed to , that the other localities in Birmingham be rtquested to act . likewise . '; The committee will meet at Aston Street , at twelve o ' clockca-Simdaynexti-vNotioe was then given , that Mr . Geo : Julian Harney would address a meeting at Aston Street t » n the following Sunday , after which the meeting separated .

      Mr . White addressed numerous meetings at Lyewaste aud Stourbridge , on Wednesday , aud at Cradley and Dudley on Thursday . last . The cause progressed rapidly in the mining districts , Dudpleston Row Meeting , — -The usual weekly meeting was held at this place on Monday evening last , on tho open ground , opposite the railvyay station , Duddleston Row . Mr . George White again addressed a numerous assembly , on the necessity of Tallying round the baniipr of freedom , and joining the National Charter Association . He described the hollowness of the professions of the Complete Suffrageites , and warned the men of Birmingham of tbe maunor in which they had beeu deceived b y the middle classes in the Reform BiU , and declared that if ho stood alone he would oppose every attempt that was made to impose oil the working classes . ' After adverting to various other topics he retired to attend an important meeting at the Chartiat Room , in Aston-btreet , which was well attended .

      A meeting was held in the field near the Asylum , Sumni « r-laae , on Sunday last , at eleven o ' clock , which was addressed by Mr . George White . He also addressed a meeting at the same place , on Tuesday evening . The meetings at this place will be continued to be held at the same time , whilst the weather permit ? . Walsall . —The members of this locality held their weekly meeting oa Tuesday evening , when a liberal subscription was ODencd tjdefend MrvMason and the others at the forthcoming sessions at Stafford . The prejudice of the Corn Law ropealers against us is fast giving way , and a strong feeling exists in favour of Chartism . A visit from our noble champion in the cause , Mr . O'Connor , would produce much good .

      Redditch . —On Sunday last , Mr . Peter Rigby delivered two discourses to-attentive audiences . Ho gave very great satisfaction . We strongly recommend him to the notice of the Chartist world as a very talented but distressed man . FOIr ^ SHILL . —We had a splendid meeting on Mouday , to hear Mr . John Starkey preach a political Berrnoh . We expect to have a very flourishing association in the course of a week or two . OfcDHAIVI . —On Sunday last , Mr . Ross lectured to an overflowing audience ia the Chartist Meeting Room , Greaves-street . A great many strangers were present . He made a powerful appeal on the necessity of u-nion for obtaining the Charter , as the only means of destroying class monopolies .

      Weekly Meeting . —At the weekly meeting of tho members Which took place on Monday evening last , the following resolutions were unanimously passed , after a Bpiritod discussion : — - " That this meeting strongly censure Mr . O'Brien and Mr . H . Vincent , for thuir vile and malicious conduct towards Mr . O'Connor , the Northern Star , and the National Charter Association . " "That a vote of thanks be givon to Mr . Cooper , of Leicester , for tho spirited minner in . which he questioned , and the manly reply he made to the flimsy reasons why he ( Mr . O'Brien ) was not a member of the National Charter Association ; and that this resolution be sent to the Northern Star and Cowmomvealthsman for insertion . " . ' "That one shilling be sent to tho Northern Star ^ office , to raise a fund to set up Mr . Duffy in some kind of business , and wo would recommend every town , village , or hamlet , where there are any Chartists , to do the same . "

      DUBLIN . The Irish Universal Suffrage Association hold their usual weekly meeting in the Great Rooms , No . 14 , North Anne-street , oh Suuday , the 19 th , Mr . Patrick Rafter in the chair , Mr . W . H . Dyott , Secretary . The Chairman said , that in accordance with a good old custom , he should call upon their talented , amiable , and excellent Secretary , whom he was glad to see in good health and spirits , to read the rules and objects of the association . It may appear tedious to those who are accustomed to listen to this preliminary to their proceedings every Sunday , nevertheless it is ri ght and proper to read the objects and rules if it were for no other reason than

      that of showing even to a single stranger who favours us with a visit , that we are hot what others represent ik to be ; that we are not Orange men , nor Ribbon-men , that we are not Tories , nor are we WhigS ; that we abhor the base , bloody , and brutal authors of the Irish -Coercion Act and tbe English Poor Law Amendment Act ; that we are neither O'Connorites nor O'Connellites , but we are Cnartists , true lovers : ' of genuine unadulterated liberty ; that our motto is " Peace , law , and order ; " that we are banded together like one man , lawfully and constitutionally , for the purpose of obtaining Universal Suffrage , Vote by Ballot , Annual Parliaments , the division of the Empire into equal electoral districts , each returning to Parliament an

      equal number of representatives , thus doing equal justice to all parties ; the abolition of the Property Qualification , which will do away with perjury in the highest tribunal , or , at least , the next to the highest tribunal in the land ; for the payment of our representatives ; that is , for the right to pay them , if we deem it proper so to do . Now , said the venerable Chairman , we seek for the attainment of those great and glorious objects , by no other means than by petitions to Parliament , —( hear , hear , ) , which we shall continue to pour into tho House of Commons , from time to time , uptiJ every honest man , every lover of the prosperity of the oountry , and the happiness of the people , shall become fully impressed with the justice of

      granting us our right ? . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) Before I sit down , said the Chairman , I wisb * at to be du-tiucdy understood that every man , whether he be for or against any proposition , shall have a fair bearing ; and even those who are not members shall be heard in opposition to 3 iiy measure , provided that they keep to the rules , that is , to abide by the ordinary and common rules of legitimate discussion ; but uon « except members can vote upon , any question . Tuere is nothing sectarian in our society . Mr . Henry Clark , rose , pursuant to notice , to propose for admission to the Irish Universal Suffrage Association , Messrs . Puluck , Haalon , Jaines Coyue ( son of Mr . C . Coyne , of C ^ pel-itreot ) , and Mr . jas Armstrong . Mr . Coyne , like , many othershad

      pre-, judiced against the Charti ?! , * , but he . happened to be at the Hall of Science , iu Manchester , the night on whioh t ! io Repe&ler 3 , as they call themselves , made the atcaek upon Mr . O'Connor and the Chartists . He had mentioned to him ( Mr . Clark ) that the gross misconduct , the brutal epnduet of the Manchester Repealers , and tho mild , cool , generous , and conciliating eonduot and sound reasoning of ihe English Chartists , and Mr . O'Connor ia particular , had determined Mr . Coyne to come boldly and mauful ' y forward to join their ranks , in despite of the puny . . threats ' " ; .. of : the would-be Repealew at the Corn Exchange—( hear , hear . ) One of the other gentlemen whom he , Mr . Clark , had the honour of proposing , was ; an eleotor in

      Dublin , and ho was ready to join the other electors in signing the pledge , that he would vote for no candidate for the representation of this city , but one that would give a pledge in writing to support no administration , but one that would give its official advocacy to Universal Suffrage , Vote by Ballot , Annual Parliaments , Equal Representation , Abolition of the ; Property Qualification , and Payment of Membero —( hear , hear ) . Aa for the Repeal Association humbug , every body sees now , that it is not worth a farthing a week—( hear , hear ) . Mr . William Woodword seconded the motion . - " , Mr . O'Higgin . 8 said he had very great pleasure in proposing for admission ia their Association , Mr . John Doyle , of Ballard , County Wioklovs Mr

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      'H 1 / fj ///^ f K . ~ i / - ' . 7 Patrick M'Nulty , of Ready , County Armagh , and // . ; his two respected neighbours , Mr . Smith , of Hafeton- J ^< ' , ^ 2 /^/^ ' / street , and Mr . B . Maguire , of North Anae-Btreet «? ^ ' ^ These two gentlemen took twelve months to study . the Tales and objects of the ^ Association , and its objects and general tendency ; and after the most niature consideration , they ^ aye come forward to j ^ in it , and to give it every aid in their power . Thgie own wordsare that they never knew of any

      Association but this one establishment in . Ireland ; for tho bijneSt oi the whole people , without religions or sec--tarian distinction , and one of the reasons whicH kept them back so long from joining it , was entirely owing to what Mr . O'Connell so of cen said about its lnegality—( hear , hear . ) He pledged hi 3 professional reputation that it was a transportable offence to belong to it ; but finding that that pledge did not deter the people from joining , he then had recourse " to personal abuse , calumny , and vituperation—( hearj hear ) Yet , after all , the Society is prospering : truth and justice will ultimately prevail over prejudice and error . The accession of those gentlemen to our ranks affords one proof at any rafce ^ -that of the power of truth over falsehood and misrepre-¦ '

      sentatioa . ' ¦ ; ¦ . ¦;¦ . ;•;; ., , ¦ ;; ; , - - .. - . ¦ ¦ :- . :-. { :. '¦¦¦) Mr . H . Clark seconded the motion . Mr . Hudson said that he was acquainted with hundreds in his own line of business or trade ( bricklayer ) who were most anxious to join them , but who . were deterred from doing so , lest they would be denounced by Mr . O'Coanell aad his tyraaiiioal satellites ; and thus . force their employers to discharge th « m » lest by keeping them they would lose their business . The day wa 3 when tho people were afraid of Tory tyranny , but there never was such au infamous system of tyranny practised by Whig or Tory , as that which is now unblushingly practised by the Liberal O'Connell ' party . He ( Mr . Hudson ) was told . in this very room by a / i O'Coiiaellite that the house they were in ou , * ht to be barned , and every one in it who did not agree with O'Connell ^ ( flenr , hear . ) Was ever Tory tyranny equal to

      Mr . H . Clarkrose and 6 aid that when he joined tho Irish Universal Suffrage Association he little expected that any circumstance should ever arise which would make him feel so proud as he then felt . He wasnot only proud of the high and distinguished honour which two hundred and forty of his countrymen conferred upon htm by requesting him to proproso them for admissioa into- the ranks sf the association , but he was proud of being a Cpnnaugat mw » the countryman of those brave and manly fellowai who had signed the paper , the long list of two hundred and forty names to be enrolled as members of the Irish Universal Suffrage Association —( tremendous applause ) i Here they are—( great cheering ) . He should read the whole list over , with many of

      the names therein he was intimately acquainted . Some of those whose names he should read , differed with him in religion , and some of whom diffdredi with him a short time since in politics ; but between the reports of the proceedings in that roomj and the liberal and enlightened articles from the pen of the Rev . Mr . Hill , in the Northern Star , those gendemea have all become converts to the genuine and philanthropic doctrines of Chartism ( hear , hear . ) The day was not distant when every lover of right and justice would glory ia the name of Charlist ( hear , hear . ) The primitive Christians were hunted , put to death in many instances , and persecuted for centuries for no other crime than that of adhering to the , tiue faith ia religion . We , the

      Chartists , have been hunted , persecuted , vilififcd and traduced , for no crime under heaven but that of abiding by the true faith in politics ( hear , hear . ) But the day of triumph is at hand ; the people are beginning to open their eyes—to think for themselves , to'be no longer led by the nose for a farthing a-week to support drunken profligates whose debts t © publicans and tavern keepers , have been heretoforo more than once paid by penny subscriptions , and to help to make a councillor of ToJn Ray . Tom Reynolds and Tom Arkias being now provided for , it is quite natural that the people would withdraw from a society that obtained £ 10 , 000 from them under the false pretence of Repealing the Uaion , but for the real purpose of applying it to their own uses ihear , hear . ) What

      has become of the money ! What was done with it ? Oil I the people see clearly enough that it is money that is wanted , and not RepcalJ Why not bring the que&tion forward in the House of Commons , and let the world judge of its merits by the arguments there . Oh no , that would not do , " it must be an opon questioa for the Irish people to agitate for . " Waa there ever such barefaced delusion as this ! But thank God , my countrymen , the brave Connaught men are beginning to see through it , and the result of their enlightenment is the two hundred and forty men whom I now propose to be admitted members ( great cheeriDg . ) Mr . 0 'Higgins , having been loudly called upon , rose and in a clear and luminous speech , which would not discredit any man , seconded the motion for the admission of the two hundred and forty Conuaught men . : -

      Mr . Dyott rose to bring forward the address of which , he had given notice . He should not trouble them vfith many observations , as the address in itself was lengthy , and would explain its own objects ,. The people of Ireland were however slowly lapsing back into common sense . They saw that repeal as at present agitated , was a mera nratAst feextracting the penoe of the poor . Men were getting " sick" and " tired , " he qnoted thoir own words , of being hambugged—( hear , bear , hear)—and at once allowed that the obtaining of the Suffirage was the only thing worth contending- for—( hear . ) The Corn Exchange Association was dying of political atrophy its members were shrunk up , and its money exhausted . America was offended and would send no more , as the provident Bank man had been called "Mongul Mooney "—( a laugh )—which was certainly a bad return for the dollars he

      had with such dexterity extracted from the pockets of the slave-holding ; liberty- talking Yankees . In the address he had now to propose , they would find an absence of nicknames or yituperation . It was rendered necessary , lest Englishmen should sappose all Irishmen Were slavish enough to subscribe to the vile arid foolish threat made by the Sylla of his country against the liberties of the working classes of the sister kingdom —( hear , hear)—and likewise to deprecate the ill feeling with which their unfortunate countrymen might be otherwise naturally received on the neighbouring sboree , whither biting distress and rack-renting tyranny drove them to earn , by underwqrkibg the inhabitant peasantry , the means of holding the miserable patch of ground from which they derived a mere existence —( cheers . Mr . Dyott then read the address .

      Mr . H . Clark seconded the address . He was an Irishman , a Catholic , and long an ardent admirer of Mr . O'Conuell , through all his devious turnings and wild' inconsistencies . But experience had shown him that though the people were made abundant use of by the so-called Liberator , their rights and their wrongs were set aside and disregarded , while the . privileges of the wealthier and middle classes were fiercely contended for , and in some measure achieved . ( Hear . ) Mr . O'Connell had sever distinguished himself as the defender of labour ; on the contrary , he had made war on the tradesmen of Dublin , and had he not been vigorously confronted by them , would have still further curtailed their power of self-defence . ( Hear , and cheers . ) And he had now come out—the aristocratic cloven foot had again appeared —( laughter)—with a threat to extirpate the starving artizans of England , if

      they laid hands on the bread for lack of which they were famiBhing . ( Hear . ) This address was indispensable . It was not to be supposed that Mr . O'Connell's 500 , 000 fighting men . were to march en masse . No ; they would % o in divisions , and the English labourers might rationally suppose , on the arrival of the Tipperarry men that they formed part of the first brigade . ( Hear . ) Imagination might readily convert their reaping hooks into falchions , and their shillelahs into musquets . ( Hear , hear , and laughter . ) And a collision might take place fatal to their fellow countrymen , and favourable to those who wished to trade on the respective prejudices of the people by prolonging their divisions . I Hear . ) He had ne doubt but the recommendation in the address would be acted upon by the English Chartists , and that with British money Chartist princ . plea would be brought baok to this country . ( Hear . ) ; .. :: ¦ ¦¦ - - ¦ ¦> . . . ¦ - . ; - , . :. -: : ; : . -. - ¦ ¦

      . Mr . O Connell said he had no notion of defending his namesake , whose expressions and conduct were indeed , he regretted to say , in too many instances , indefensible : but he suggested the policy of softening some passagesin the address . Mr . Dyott said he always was delighted to tear the speeches aud suggestions of Mr . O'Connell , who was a credit to the working classes , for the soundness of "his views , and the extent of his information ; but he regretted that be could not , on the present occasion , agree with him . They had too long temporised with truth for the sake of expediency , and w _ hat had been their reward ? abase of the coarsest kind , and vituperation the vilest and most unmeasui'edl Were they still to " bend low With 'bated breath and whispering humbleness 1 " No , but in the g ' -nuiue attitude of men determined to be free , they should reply , with the voice of independence , to every threat and slander with which malignity

      and falsehood assailed them . ( Cheers . ) They had done so already as regarded themselves . They had silenced the fire of the Corn Exchange , and procured . tacittoleration at all courts . Were they to permit their friends , the Chartists of England , to be used worse than themselves ! ( Hear . ) Against the un-Irish and ungenerous sentiment , were he to stand alone , he would contend . ( Cheers . ) They should defend the absent with doable the energy that they would use in their own behalf , and not content with murmuring their indignation , they should openly and manfully denonnce and repel the narrow ; intolerant , unworthy threat of Mr . Daniel O'Connell , whom they would only support when advocating -the generous and commendable principles of universal liberty , ( Cheers . ) The address was then carried without a dissen tient voice , and Mr . O'Connell being called to the chair , the usual vote of thanks was passed to Mr . Rafter , and the meeting separated .

      Ct)5rttsit Ttnuiticcence.

      Ct ) 5 rttsit ttnuiticcence .

      To The Industrious Portion Of The Middling Classes.

      TO THE INDUSTRIOUS PORTION OF THE MIDDLING CLASSES .

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      AND LEEDS GENEMI , Ai ^ i ^ TISiE .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 25, 1842, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct604/page/1/