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      Just Published , Price Threepence , Handsomely Printed on a Large Royal Sheet , fitted to adorn the Labourer ' s Cottage , a Faithful and Spirited Representation of the Bloody MANCHESTER MASSACRE ! CONTAINING also a Memoir of that Untiring \ J and Unswerving Advocate of the Rights of Labour , Henky Hunt ; with Full Particulars of of the " Deeds of the Murderets" on the Field oE Peterloo ; the names of the Bloody Monsters ; the names of the Killed ; and the Trial , Conviction , and Sentence of Mr . Hunt . It also details the means employed by the Governmental Spies to entrap him ; the famous Spa Fields' Meetings ; the Election of Mr . Hunt ag MJP- for Preston ; his conduct in Parliament ; his just estimate of the humbug Reform Bill ; his communing with the Working £ eople on that measure ; and his lamented Death . The Sheet also contains a VIEW OF THE MONUMENT erected , to perpetuate his Memory , by the Working Classes . Published , for the Hunt * s Monument Committee , ( the Proceeds to go towards the Completion of the Monument , ) by J . Hobson , Northern Star Office . May be had of Cleave , London ; Hey wood and Leach , Manchester ; Hobson , Huddersfield ; and Paton and Love , Glasgow .

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      LONDON CHARTIST MONTHLY MAGAZINE . On the 1 st of September will be published No . 4 of this periodical , price 6 d . Contents . —On Organization ; Authentic Dialogue between O'Brien an 4 O'Connor ; Cleave and tbe Victims ; Hill , O'Connor and the late Executive ; Watch Watkins ; What must we do with the Charter ; On the Stateef Chartism ia London ; Poor Law Martyrs , a Tale , &c &o . Published by Watson , 5 , Paul ' s Alley , Paternoster Row , London ; Hobson , Leeds ; and may be had of all Booksellora . *

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      WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE . ADJOURNMBNT OF THE MIDSUMMER SESSIONS FOB THE TRIAL OF FELONS , &C . NOTICE-TiS HEREBY GIVEN , that the Midsummer General Quarter Sessions of tho Peace , for tho Woat Biding of the County of Yorki will be holden by Adjournment , at Wakkfiei . d , on Monday , the Fourth day of September next , at Ten o'Clook in the Forenoon , and by further Adjournment from thence will be holden at Sheffield , on Thursday , the Seventh Day of the same Month of September , at Half-past Ten o'Clook ia the Forenoon , for tbe TRIAL OF FELONS AND PERSONS INDICTED FOR MISDEMEANORS , when all Jurors , Suitors , Persons who stand upon Recognizance , and others having business at the said Sessions , are required to attend the Court . Prosecutors and Witnesses in cases of Felony and Misdemeanor from the Wapontakes of Staincliffa and Ewcross , Claro , the Ainstyj Agbfigg and Mdiley , Skyrack and Barkstonash , must attend the Sessions at . WAKEFrELD ; and those from the ^ Wapontakegof Strafforth and Tiokhill , Osgoldcross and Staincrosg , being the remainder of the West Riding , must attend at the Sessions at Sheffield . A Second Court will be appointed whioh Will proceed with the Trial of Felons , as soon as a sufBcient number of Indictments neve been brought into Court . C . H . ELSLEY , Clerk of ( he Peace . Clerk of the Peace ' s Office , Wakefield , £ 7 th August . 1843 .

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      THE PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF IRELAND . ON SATURDAY , 9 th September next , Will be published . Price Three-pence , ( to be continued every succeeding Saturday till finished , ) No . I . of a HISTORY OF IRELAND AND THE IRISH PEOPLE , under the Government of England . To be published also in Monthly Parts , Price One Shilling . The whole to be concluded in about Twenty » four Numbers , The Work will embrace an account of the means by which Ireland was brought under subjection to the English Government , and of the legislative and other cruelties , systematically inflicted on the Irish People . It will also include a History of the Civil and Religious Wars of Ireland , the dreadful persecutions of the Catholic People , their struggle for Emancipation , and the means by which they ultimately succeeded . The deeply interesting proceedings and transactions connected with the Irish Volunteers , the United Irishmen , the Rebellion of 1798 , the Union between Ireland and England , and the infamous means by which it wad accomplished ; and finally , the Great Repeal Movement Will be fully and circumstantially described in The People's History of Ireland . In connection with the latter movement , the Life and Career of the Irish Liberator , O'Connell , will be faithfully delineated . The objeet of the Work is to depict the sufferings of the Irish people from oruel misgovernment—to show what the country has been , what it now is , and what it is capable of becoming under a better system ; with a view of exciting in the mind of the reader an honest and cordial sympathy for the wrongs of the Irish people . The aim of the Author will be to give , in the smallest possible compass , a concise , yet comprehensive narrative of Irish History , stated with boldness , firmnes 3 , and impartiality ; and while he is willing to please all , he trusts that when the conclusion of his labour has been reached , it will be found that he has sacrificed the cause of truth and justice to no one . London : published by W . Strange , Paternosterrow ; Dublin : D . O'Brien , Abbey-street . Sold by Smith , Scotland-place , Liverpool ; Heywood , Manchester ; Mann , Leeds ; and all Booksellers . May be had of the Agents of . this paper .

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      A KORTHERE TOUR . ' ¦* A chitTs smon ? ye isMn notes , AnflJf&fib 93 ie > Il print it , * TO THE EDITOB . OP THB NOBTHEJLN STAB . Dixb . Sir , —I addressed a very good open-air meeting of the Chartists of Dumfries , on Monday evening , AngustMih . Considerable enthusiasm was inaiiifeBted "by" jny auditors , and my return to the " Qoeen of lire South" ai an early period , -was waxmly iirged oy my fcind-lBarted and truly pstriotic friends . There are some of the most ardent and thorongh-going democrats in Dumfries ih » i ai has « ver been toy good fortune to meet -with- A welleondncted Reading-room , costumed through the worst of times , and under the most disheartening drcDmstances , has been the hond of onion which has iept the ** good men and trne" -of fbis locality

      iogether . For a considerable time past much apathy has prevailed ; bnt the train of reaction appears to he laid , and only requires the fame of English agii ^ iion to be rekindled to set the democratic spirit of Dumfries once more on foe . Even as it 13 , the Chartists are the moral masters of the town 5 and faction and mere party cannot breathe in its purified atmosphere . Neither Jbe "freebooters * nor any otter description of state-quacks can exist in it . Public opinion is here guided by men of intellect , courage , and political honesty . Uniting the mind of Scotland with the energy of England , few places can onfc-rrralxhe ** Queen cf the South " . As " smarter of course" being in Dumfries I paid jny devotions to the shade cf immokial Brass . I had viated his tomb In Jannary 1840 , at -which time I had the honour of sapping win Robert , the eldest son , of the poet . I now , for the second time

      paid a "risii to the grave of freedom& bard- Having 310 knowledge * f srcitecture , I am incompetent to describe the Mausoleum . The nearest thing I can liken it to in outward form is a Turkish mosque , on & small scale . It is nearly circular * and crowned with a sort of dome , supported { if I remember right ) l > y Ionic eolniaiis . Bntof ibis 1 did iiot take particular notice . Within , . and against the back of the building , are figures in alto rffxevo of "Burns at the plough ami the muse throwing her mantle over him . Be stands with his bonnet in one hand , and with the o&er holding en by the old Scotch plough . The attitude is extremely ^ racefnL The countenance is said to be excellent ; but I am told that , -phrenologically , the head is not well formed . On this subject I can * ay nothing : for I am no ** bnmpclogist . " The inscription I much admired : it is simply— -BURNS . Here i 8 more said , than the most laboured panegyric could have expressed : the name of the man around whose brow fame

      hath" ISntWined a garlana -which shall never fade Till Scotia ' s realm is io- » in -nan . Jala ; 2 for eventceni on breeze and billcrwcmTd Tfin name is co-etemal -with the -world /' In fhe same tomb reposes the wife of the poet , the Jamed yet . Tanhappy Jean-Armour , Reflecting * for a moment on the demesne life i } f this fsToared son of genius , and recalling wili feelings of anything but satMsciion the record that has been left us of his errors and failings , his trials and cares , we find in liis "JJaidV Epitaph" the most correct picture of his own character drawn by Ids own hand : — " Is tfeere a man , whose judgment clear , Cznvthsrs teach tie course to steer , Tet rims himself life ' s mad career , Wild&sthe-waxs ? Here pause—anfl , through tfee starting tear , Surrey Qua grave .

      ! Hbe poor inhabitant below Was qicck to learn : and wise to know , Aria keenly felt the friendly glb-sr , And softer flame ; Bat thBUgaQess follies laid him low , A-nfl atain'd his name !" But to other subjects .. The virtnes , laiher than Hie errors ; the gemvs , rather than the failings , of the glorious Burns , are themes most suited to my taste ; for " 33 ie light that led astray Was light from heaven . "

      The Applauding roar of millions of misguided men znay follow to his resting-place the remains of that arch traitor to ihe rights of man and wholesale murderer of his fellow-creatnres , K-apoieos ; . bnt , let me kneel herel This man of men , be he my hero , isaint and sage . He w » 3 the soldier of freedom , that battled for the right . He was the devotee <> f truth , whose creed was "lore thy brother as thyself . " He -Eras ^ the teacher who , it may be , was unable always 3 © act span Us own teaching ; but Trho has , neTeriheless , left tons and those who shall follow a lesson of unalloyed wisdom , based on manly independence and the honest pride of worth , "Yet , " 33 oflg TmTnWofoq . T / T'haa crfpg-

      "Tet sffil a B&rroTr-mina&a few , A feeble , canting , creeping crew , Conspire t © Mast lus honest fame , AM heap reproaches « n his name ; S * cacse , sOaa ! the bard lias shown Par finer feelings than thtir own . He -was ua just a saint like Sonthey " , "Wha-never sinned , nor yet "was drowfhy Sot £ boii § b he liied a social glass , . And though Its lo'ecla"bocnie bis , He us ' tr disgraced ha veU- £ tmns lyre , By cfatnnting balderdasn { or luxe . 2 i < ae roosed 2 ie ony ^ joittfly elf . Or boWd tfee tnee for warM ' s pelf

      The chnrch-yard , or rather kirk- ^ ard , in which £ he ashes of Bnrns repose , i 3 a xdosi wonderful place ; containing a greater number of monuments , —some of them of _ a Tery superior-order , —than I hayt seen in other part of-Britain . It is a sort-of city of the tleadf a Palynaa in mioiature ; and 3 independent of Burns's . tomb , is well worth a Tisil . The ** Martyr's gtone /^ a monument erected to the memory of some of lie murdered coTenanters is an object of Tarsi cnlar

      interest-Tuesday , Angnst lodi . — -Left Dumfries by a certain conveyance , which shall be nameless . The greater pan of ihe road io Sanquhar winds along the banks of that romantic stream , the Sith , « el 6-iraied in seTeral of the pieces of the national bard . On my road , I pased the mansion < doe of the mansons ) of the I ) ake of Bnecleagb . On inquiry ^ I learned that the " yonng lords" were expected home that < Jay ; and that "his Grace" was expected on the following Saturday . I believe the Duke has the

      Tepntabon of being a - ? ery fair , landlord ; I am glad that I can say thus much for him . Still it is monstrous that one man should , independent of his virtues or his vices , his wisdom < a his folly , usurp to his own possession that soil which the plain principles of common sense teach us belongs , of right , to the whole , without distinction of person ; while thousands , most of them his equals , and not a few his £ apenors , should be altogether dispossessed of iheir natural right , and denied eren the possession of one foot of ground in their fatherland .

      "Irt hardly in abody * s power To keep , at times , frae being boot , To see how things are shared ; How -best o ' cMsls are vhyles in -want , ¦ While coo fa on countless thousands rant , An * ken naa now to "Han't " Never mind ! as Robert Kicol says , we musi

      jnstfcry—** To ma !? ib . B waria better yet " I reached Saisqhnar in ihe course of the rjjorniag , and was speedily fnrrounded by a numerous body cf old Mends ; jGhaxtism iher © is bodily defnnct ; bnt spiritualty exists widely . There is no association ; bat the nnmber of adherents to the principles is supposed to be much greater than two or three years ance , when an association did Bxist . I breakfasted with an old friend , named McKnight , a Teteran in ihe democratic ranks , by whom and hi ? family I was most cordially received . The good lads were desir * us that 1 should have staid over that day sad

      held a meeting . I would have liked to have done so sexy ^ rell 5 fcut , I was already some days beyond £ he timethaa I Ehonld have reached Mauchline ; and ^ ^^^ J impelled torefnse . A nnmber of «? ^^^^ Proceeded with me some miles on 2 rf ? « r ' - * irS ?* ti ^ ongh ErkconneHIbadfhe ^ liSedfoff ^ 5 ° tone of AeNoD-Intrnsion 4 ?^ Jo «^ ° r fiad ^ eaebin 3 sines AedefecSon of £ ^ S JXS 5 X B * ' \ ^ ^ like a booth «? pPv ° & inat ibe tent in qnes&onis

      perched npon fourJeeaf it ^« »«> T « ed in , and StSded ^ y fjf S ^^ . ^ ^^^ lh « I em litex i ^ and ^ vT ?* **** 3 S 35 SS £ ^ "Ks&P » & » « ia 5 SSS " son laa ^ Btme groan- The nonsenKP ^ f ^ v- ^" least harmless , and we lea ^ e ^ L *^* - !^ ^ hter ^ dptainl y Bou ilS ?* inmstone-threatenines ,- the sectarisaW « * & L « alcu 3 ated-and rarely resnlts mWw ^ e-T t ^ S " away fromhis gor ^ B-iaepresen ^ w ^ omS temed to stone , and all fee better ^^ 5 S naturB changed into self-conceit at onr owniaifpiS EHperior sanctity , and our nunds filled -with oitter ^ se ^ . and iwr ^ , towards « nr brethren . TheoS

      mxarnen ana tpvxnest is aiiks : ihe ^ laabea " Ifaere 3 « this diffiweoe—Pnnch ib content with a bwsoppera , and doesndtrjfleyonrpoeketB br oomjmlBOiU ; ThePrie » t is not content wifltihe - b » sei aaetals ^ j he looka for ponndB 13 i 6 Vi ) 6 iaafia jand whe fh ^ yonare ^ atisfied wifli his performances are not . ie . ^ ries- ^ atmd and deBver"j and enforces his demand other by the sword of the state in this world « r the fear ©* heH , ihe hangman ' s whip * in anoiher . : Gentle reader which of the mountebanks do you prefer 1—I fote for Punch i Having parted with my Sanguhar friends , I made the best of my way over the horrid ^ road sepa-Zaangfhe •' Land of Burns" from Sanghaar ; and a siostaboBunable roadltis . Arrived attNewCum

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      nock , 1 found myself in Ayrshire . ] Finally , after a walk of eighteen miles , 2 reached Old Comnock and put np at the Black Bull-Inn . . I saw several old friends in the course of the evening . Chartism is for the pTpsepi down in Gumnock . : Wednesday , August 16 th . Anniversary of the Manchester Massacre . May that ; day of blood never be-forgotten until its stains , by ample justice , are effaced from the page of British history 11 ieft Oomnock by the coach at eight o'clock , and , passing throDgh Katrine , was speedily at Mauchline . Here I was met by my friends , and received with all that warmth of affection so characteristic of the people of this beautiful portion of Scotland . Passing over all domestic matterg , which could be of no interest to ihe Chartist public , I come now to my visit to the birth-place of Burns .

      Friday , August 18 th . Accompanied by a brotherin-law , I started for Ayr , which wo reached after a walk of eleven miles . We breakfasted at an excel lent Scotch hostelry ; and after calling on a friend or two , proceeded on our mission , accompanied by two friends from Ayr . Alloway Kirk , so renowned as the scene of the exploits of the [ famed Tarn o ' Shanter , is situated abont three miles from Ayr , on the road to Maybole . The cottage in which the poet was born is near the Kirk , and on the Ayr side of it . It is a low-bailt , old fashioned thatched house , having only a ground floor . It has long been nsed as a public-house ; and , as such , is now kept by the widow of the late John , better known aa Miller Gondie . Before crossing the threshold ,

      the attention of the visitor is arrested by two boards , one on each sice of the door . The : inscription on the one runs thus : — " Burns * Cottage . Robert Burns , the Ayrshire Poet , was born under this " roof , on ihe 25 th of JaBnary , A . D . 1759 , ' Died 21 st of July , A . D . 17 S 6 , aged 37 i years . '' The inscription on the other ia simply— "Mrs . Goudie , licensed to retail ale and fpints . " Within the ; house , in the usual drinking room , is a large portrait of Burns , -srtth the inscription of the date of his birth . The most interesting articles in the room are three tables , cut and hacked with thousands of names and initials , of the pilgrims who , from time to time , have visited the birth-place of the bard , j The windows are scratched , and the chairs and corner enpboard are carved after the same fashion . In the kitchen

      we were shewn the bed , or rather bed-place , where the poet was born . In thepaxlour attached to the kitchen are several excellenftplateSi including a representation of the " Jolly Beggars /* tho " Cotters ' Saturday Night , " and a portrait of Burns when yonng . Old Mrs . Geudie is a fine a cracky" body j and rhymes away her tales about Burns in a manner pleasing enough . We staid bnt a short time ; and having entered our names in the book kept for that purpose , departed . The next spot of interest was the Auld Kirk , dismantled of its roof , and nothing left but bare walls . I looked throngh the / key-hole , hot neither Auld Nick , witches , or " Cutty S . wk" were to be seen . The " haly table" was gone , and with it its contents and the attendant" ghaisls . " All was desolation . But the " Anld Kirk'" will still

      •• live in the verse that immortally saves , " ¦ when every stone of which it is composed shall have mixed wiih the dost where itsJ immortalizer reposes . In the Kirk yard is the grave of William Barns , the father , and Agnes Brown , the mother of the poet . A plain bnt substantial stone marks the spot with the following inscription : — ** Sacred to the memory of William Boras , farmer in Lochlie , who died on the 13 th of February , 1784 , in the 63 rd year of his age , and of Agn > 3 Brown , his sponse , who died on the Mih of January , 1820 , in the 88 ; h year of her age . She was interred in Bolu > n Church-yard , Eass Lothian . ' On the reverse side , the well-known lines" O ye -whose cheek the tear of pity stains ! Draw oear -with pious reverence , and attend : Here lie the loving huEband ' s dear remains , The tender father , and the generous friend . The pitying heart that felt for human woe ;

      The dauntless heart that feared no human pride ; The friend of man ; to vice alone a foe ; ' For even Mb failing ' s laan'd to virtue's side . '" Prom the "Anld Kirk" we proceeded to the *• Monnment " . For reasons already assigned , I must decline attempting a description . ) Enough that it iB a splendid structure ; and one that so man or woman of taste will fail to visit . To it may be most appropriately applied the lines written by the poet " For an Altar to Independence "—•* Thou of an independent mind , , With soul resolved , - with soul resigned ; Prepared power ' s proudest frown : to brave ; Who -will not b 9 , nor have a slave j Ylrfcue alone who dost revere ; Thy own reproach alone dost feu j Approach this shrine , and worship here . "

      But while the ** Monument" is worthy of all admiration ; sot so the conduct of that class who patronised it 3 erection . " Seven cities contend for Homer dead . ' Through which the liming Homer begged bis bread , " says some one ; and , though literally this was not the case with Burns , it was nearly so ! Who that remembers his dying appeal to his Edinburgh bookseller— for God ' s Bake to Bend him Five Pounds " , to save him from a prison , but will join with me in regarding this cold stone pile as a monnment of the meanness , as well as pride , of the Scottish

      Aristocracy , Within the " Monument , " and enclosed in a glass case , are the two Bibles of Burns and his Highland Mary , recovered by some enthusiastic Scot in Canada . The story has but very recently gone ; the round of the press ; and I have sot space to repeat it here . A portion of Mary ' s hair is in one of tho Bibles , and shews her to haTe been of fair complexion . The next object -which excited onr euriogity was the faultless figures of ** Tarn o' Shanter and Souter Johnny , " thB work of the celebrated Mr . Thorn .

      Here , again , I must decline to attempt a description ; a task for which I confess my incompetence . Enongbf that admiration , the most fervent , was the all-absorbing feeling of my mind , while entranced with gazing on this almost matchless production of human skill , whioh only seems to require the Promethean spark to call" Tarn" and his " worthy , trusty , dronthy eroney" into actual breathing , fceliiig existence . All else seems perfect . The cold stone seems ready at a word to burst into joyous , laughing life .

      We next visited " Mango ' s Well f and I took a hearty draught to the memory of Burns from the pure , cold , chrystal stream . Lastly we visited the ** Auld Brig , ' * where Tarn ' s mare Meg " lost her tail ; " and from itfc summit gazed down upon the " banks and braes o' Bonnie Doonf a scene lovely as Eden , and beautiful as Elysiam , I almost wished myself a Scot as I gloated on its charms . [ Bat time pressed . 1 left the hallowed ground . I may never—or years may elapse ere I tread it again ; but the remembrance of its glories shall live green in my memory , while brain throbs , or heart beats within . ; I returned the same evening to Mauohline .

      I am writing this in the very heart and centre of the rt Land of Barns . " Within the village are many spots famed in his writings : " Poosie-JJansieV immortal beggars crib j— Auld Nance Tinnook ' s , " no longer a whiskey-shop , and shorn of all its glories ; Mossgiel , tho farm of the poet , is within a quarter of a mile , where are the fields ? where he cut down the " daisy , " and turned up the nest of the " mouse *— -the exquisite liaes on both these subjects are almost universally known and as widely admired % the " Braes of Bafiocmyle" I are within a short distance of the village ; eo is Barskimming , near which is the spot where Burns conceived his

      " Man was made to mourn . " At Trellford still resides in the asylum ifor the aged poor of the parishes of Mauchline and Tarbolton , James Humphrey , the famous " blethering bitch f in the neighbourhood is the small barn where Barns parted with ** Highland Mary , " each standing on the opposite sides of the stream and exchanging bibles and vows of their eternal affection ; At Coilsfield House Mary resided as a servant ; and in the grounds is shewn the thorn tree , reputed tot have overshadowed the loverafor some hours before their gad and final separation : — " How srreetly bloomed the gay green birk ,

      ^ How rich the hawthorn ' s blossom , As underneath its fragrant shade , I ciasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings Flew o ' er me and my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life , Was my sweet Highland Mary . " Again to * 'Mary in Heaven , " the scene is thus beautifully pictured" That sacred hour can I forget , Can I forget the hallow'd grove , Where , by the winding Ayr we met , To live one day of parting love ! Eternity -will not efiace Those records dear of transports past ; Thy Image at onr last embrace ; . Ah 2 little thought we'twas our last ! " Ayr , gnigUng , kissed his peobled sh ' ore ,

      O ' ermmg -with wild -woods . thickening green ; The fragrant birch , and hawthorn hoar Twin'd amorons round theraptut'd scene ; Tbi flowers » prang wanton to be prest j The birds sang love on every spray ;; ^ rS ^!? * ^ Slowingw « t ; "ooaimd the speed of fringed day . " and ^ tteKf ^! 11 * 63 ; ^ nrnB IPeat some time , written . Should fortaST hbL ? 1 * £ * future day resume the subjf ^ ^ i /^ fig pen than mine may do justice to tbTsoeneTlSS merely named , or but feebly attempt * pfurtS ?

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      This is the dime of beauty and of song . Female loveliness seems to be part and parcel of the natural beauty of the soil . I have travelled not a little in the land of both Saxon and Gael ; but of all spots I visited commend me to the " Land of Burns" for forms to inspire a poet ' s soul . Header ; art thou a sisgle man 1 Hast thou an eye for beauty , ^ and an ear for th e poet's lay ) and dost thou doubt my praises of this Scottish Eden ? Come , worship at the shrine of Burns ! See and judge for thyself ! and thou art made of coid materials indeed , if natural effeots do not follow natural causes . Geobge Jblun Habney . Mauchline , Ayrshire , Aug . 2 l 3 t , 1845 .

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      abused , they intended now to bribe . Ohl what a chance there was of striking their priests ! Formerly , the ! same price was set on the head of a priest as on that of a wolf , . £ 5 ; and although there were in those days gentlemen who were priest-catchers , not one betrayed the priest . The people and the priests were true to each other in former days of suffering ; they would still be faithful to each other ; and be would let their enemies bribe the priests if they could . Their opponents had another trick . They calculated that the people of-Ireland would be tired of looking foniiborty . He would j promise the Minister that they would not tire . Before the expiration of the week he would publish his plan for the restoration of the Irish parliament . They of course , acknowledged Victoria as their Queen , God bless her , and they would maintain all her prerogatives . The IrisbjHouSe of Lords would be acknowledged with

      all tits privileges , and they would insist upon the Irish House of Commons having the number of three hundred members . He would submit to the publio the ' number of counticSj and towns which should have representatives in the Irish Parliament ; . The machinery of his plan for proceeding for the Repeal would be laid before the people , and he had no doubt they would seriously read it . Their success was at hand . He read in the signs of the times and in the aotions of men that the hour was come when Ireland should have heriown Parliament , and when her WirJuous , faithful , and religious people would be free , prosperous , and happy—( loud cheers ) . Mr . Dillon , barrister , proposed a vote of thanks to the Roman Catholic Clergy ; after which the Honourable Mr . Ffrench having been proposed to the chair , thanks were given to the previous chairman , and the meeting dispersed in an orderly manner .

      THE PINNER took place in a pavilion erected in the old markethouse . About 500 persona sat down . Mr . French , who ! presided at the proceedings of the day , was the chairman . After the cloth was drawn letters of apology were read from the Kev . Dr . M'Hale , Dr . Brown , K . C , BbhW of Galway ; Dr . Cantwell , Bishop of Meath , & 0 ., < fc 0 . ¦ ¦ : ¦ ¦ The usual loyal toasts having been , given , OJhe Chaibmak gave " O'Connell and the Repeal " —( loud cheers ) . Mr . O'ComEth , in responding to the toast , said thatithey had really taken him by surprise by the extent of their arrangements and the magnificence

      of their demonstration that day . The Bcene of today i had struck their enemies with terror , and was to their friends an exhiliarating assurance of success —( cheers ) . He would return to Dublin in triumph , and leave their pitiful litile landlords to devise their dirty little schemes—( cries of "Castle Kelly" ) . Did theyl miss him 1 No ! and by the course of the person alluded to had taken , perhaps he had seen more honest faces around him that day than he was aocustbmed to—( cheers ) . He ( Mr . O'Connell ) intended to propose to them a resolution that day , agreeing to petition for the abrogation of the thing called a Catholic oath . If the meeting had been a smaller one , and his mind had not been so taken ud . he would have done so . bat he promised them

      that ihe would let no other meeting pass without proposing a petition to abolish that oath—( cheers ) . For it was without example , and it was not to be endured that Bcoundrols and hypocrites should insult them , and that they should bo taunted and insulted every other day by Broughams and Beaumonts ( Cheers ) . He never would have consented to any arrangement including that oath , if he did not conceive that they would have put the same construction upon it as they did upon tho coronation oath . Nothing but the most prejudiced malignity could have dared to attach the imputation of perjury to a body ! of Christians who were not emancipated for years , because they would not consent to perjure themselves . ( Hear , hear ) . Than be subject to such

      intuits , they ought rather not take the oath any more , and fliug the Emancipation in their teeth ; for that frvhich ho had wrung from them before , he could get from them a second time . ( Loud cheering ) . As to the wretch Beaumont , they had heard of his conduct to a lady at Florence , and he ( Mr * O'Connell ) felt that he was degrading himself in not treating him jnith contempt and scorn . The other wretch-, Brougham , was the most degraded of human beings . What would he who talked of perjury , not do to procure for himself place aud promotion . ( Hear , hear ) . He was a man of great talent , considerable

      power of rhetoric , but he > degraded it to a civil bill attorney sort of eloquence . His present position reminded one of the cautionary lines of the poet , which ho would adapt to him" If parts allure thee , think how Brougham eblned . The brightest , maddest , meanest of mankind . " ( Cheers ) . The Honourable and Learned Gentleman then called on them to rally round him , to be conciliatory and firm , and Ireland should belong to tke Irish . After several other toasts the company separated . In ; the course of the evening several large sums of money were collected .

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      ^ IMPORTANT MEETING . THE RJEPEAt SQHEME . An adjourned meeting of the Repeal Association took place on Tuesday , at the Cora-Exchange . Dr . Murphy in the chair . Seveial sums of money having been handed in from various parts of the country , Mr . 0 Connell entered the room , and was received by the meeting with loud cheering . He proceeded to empty his pocket of tbe cash and communications with which they wore filled , and was occupied for a considerable time in Btating the names of the

      contributors , and reading their letters . Amongst the latter wag one from a priest in the county of Roscommon , enclosing a subscription of fifty-three ladies of his parish , every one of whom , the rei . writer stated , was " ready to become a Maid of Orleans ! if necessary . " The Hon . and Learned Gentleman then rose , and said that he Would bow come to the more immediate business of the day . He had to lay before them his plan for the mode of the restoration of the Irish Parliament—( oheers ) . He then read the following report : —

      * ' PLAN FOR THE BKNEWKD ACTION OF THB IRISH PARLIAMENT . L . " The Irish people ; recognise , acknowledge , maintain , and will continually preserve and uphold upon jthe throne of Ireland , her Majesty , Queen Victoria ( whom God proteot !) Queen , by undoubted right , and by hereditary descent , of Ireland , and her heirs and successors for ever . The people of Ireland recognise , acknowledge , maintain , and will continually preserve and uphold , all the prerogatives of her Majesty , and of her heirs and successors belonging to , and inherent in , the Imperial Crown of Ireland ; and they will true allegiance bear , pure , undivided , and indivisible to her Majesty , her heirs and successors , for ever .

      2 . "The people of Ireland acknowledge , and wi ll maintain and preserve for ever , the privileges , hereditary and personal , of the Peers of Ireland , together with the legislative and judicial authority of the Irish House of Lords ; and the exercise of the prerogative in augmenting and limiting the peerage , as the same did of right exist before the year 1800 . " 3 . ; The people of Ireland do firmly insist upon the restoration of the Irish House of Commons consisting of 300 representatives of the Irish people ; and claim , in the presence of their Creator , the right of the people ot Ireland to Buch restoration . They

      have submitted to the Union aa being binding as a law ; ! but they declare solemnly that it is not founded on right , or on constitutional principle ; and that ii is not obligatory iupon conscience . They agree with the Tory Attorney-General Sauriu that the only binding power of the Union is the strength of the English domination . They also agree with him that resistance to the Union is in the abstract a duty , and the exhibition of that resistance a mere question of prudence . They will therefore resist the Union by all legal , peaceful , and constitutional means . <

      " 4 . | The plan for the restoration of the Irish Parliament is as follows : —1 . That the county members should ] be increased to 173 in the manner hereinafter specified . 2 . That there should be 127 members returned from cities and towns , in the manner hereinafter ; mentioned . 3 dly . That the county of Carlow , being the only county in Ireland with less than ltiO . OGO inhabitants , should get an increase of 1 member , bo as to have 3 representatives ; that every other ' county having above 100 , 000 inhabitants should 1 getjan increase of 2 members ; that every county ranging above 15 ( f , O 0 O inhabitants should get an increase of 3 members . u That every county ranging above 250 , 000 inhabitants should get an increase of 4 members . " That the county of Tipperary , having more than 400 , 003 inhabitants , but Ie 63 than 500 , 000 should get an increase of eight members .

      " That the county of Cork , having more than 700 , 000 inhabitants , should ! get an increase of ten members . ' . "S T JWith respect to the towns and cities , it is proposed that the City of Dublin , having more than 200 , 000 inhabitants , should ; have eight representatives ; four for the parts north of the Liffey , and four for the : parts south of the Liffey . " That the University of Dublin should continue on thejbasis of its present constituency to send two members . I "It is proposed thai the city of Cork , having more

      than 1 , 00 , 000 inhabitants , should have fire members . " That the oity of Limerick and town of Belfast , havinglrespeotively more than 600 , 000 inhabitants , should send four members each . : " It is proposed that the town of Galway and the cifciea of Waterford and Kilkenny , having respectively more than 200 , 000 inhabitants , should send each three members to Parliament . " Th ^ t other towns having about 7 , 000 inhabitants should each send two members to Parliament , and that fojrty-nine other towns , next highest in the ratio of population , should send one member each . " A schedule of the different places to return members to the Irish Parliament will show their

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      relative population ; and the number of members to be assigned to each was then set forth , and the report proceeded as follows : — " ' ¦ " The population is takes from the returns of 1831 , whioh having been made for a different purpose , and without any reference whatever to the-Repeal of the Union , furnish a scale of unquestionable impartiality , i " " 6 . It ia proposed that the right of voting should be what is called ' Household Suffrage , ' requiring six months' residence in the counties ; with the addition in the' towns of married men resident

      for twelve months , whether householders or not . " 7 . It is proposed , that the mode of voting for members of Parliament should certainly be by ballot . i " 8 . The Monarch de facto of England at all times hereafter , whoever he may be , shall be monarch de jure in Ireland . | And so in case of a future regency , the Regent de facto in England to be Regent de jure in Ireland . ] " 9 . The connexion between Great Britain and Ireland by means of the power , authority , and prerogatives , of the Crown , to be perpetual , and itcapable of change , or any severance or separation . 1

      " The foregoing plan to be carried into effect according to recognized law , and strict constitutional principle . " Signedj by order , " Daniel O'Connell , " Chairman of the Committee . " Mr . O'Connell continued to say , that he threw this report abroad for the consideration of the Irish people , for therej was no remedy for their wrongs but the carrying of that plan into execution . If there was any dissent from it—if any portion of the country complained of partiality—they would adopt any proper amendment submitted to thVm , but they would not lightly change it . Nothing but an overwhelming conviction would make them swerve from

      it , and he trusted ] it would be unanimously adopted there at their meetings . They had now nothing to do bat to entry ft into effect—( cheers ) . His own opinion was thatj the Royal prerogative was sufficient to restorefto Ireland her Parliament—( load cheers ) . It would be remembered that when King James abdicated' , the Parliament began by appointing Williaml as King , and then proceeded to enact that all they had done when without a king , during the | aodication of James , was legal . All they need do was to adopt a similar course about the Repeal ; if tne Queen took the initiative , and called the Parliament , they could afterward legalise everything—( loud ] cheers . ) He concluded by moving that the report be ) adopted , printed , and circulated , whioh was carried .

      Mr . O'Connell said they would adjourn till tomorrow , to receive the report of the Committee appointed to nominate arbitrators . He believed they had the plan complete by which the people would have courts of their own , and not be obliged to go to the present magistrates . He would also to-morrow move the abolition of the thing called the Catholic oath . They shoul | d get rid of everything which even the meanest and basest of human beings could call equivocation—( cheers ) . The Associationj then adjourned until to-morrow .

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      SHEFFIELD . —The U 9 ual weekly meetings have been held . On Sunday evening , after the reading of the papers ( the Northern Star and Nation ) tbe usual discussion took place . On Monday evening , Mr . Edwin Gill delivered an interesting address on the life of that celebrated patriot , Sir Wm . Wallace . SABDBN . —A . publio meeting was holden ^ here on Wednesday evening , the 16 th inst ., ^» hen Mt ^ . Anderton moved , and Mr . Robert Wilkinson Bscqjraed , Mr . Richard Maraden to represent them in the forthcoming Conference for the re-organization of the Chartist movement Tbe motion : was carried unanimously .

      BIRMINGHAM . —This town seems again to be taking that proud position in Chartism that it formerly bad ; for during the last few weeks the greatest enthusiasm has been manifested by the working men . Since it has been intimated that Mr . T . Attwood waa again to commence another agitation , muah anxiety baa been manifested to learn the principles upon which that gentleman means to ground his exertions ; and meetings , both of the Wddle and working classes , have been almost of nightly occurrence : those of tbe working men declaring ! that they will support him Iot nothing short of top People ' s Charter . An address to Mr . Ax WOOD was passed at a large public meeting , as reported in tbe Siar , but the Birmingham Journal refused to insert it ! Now , working men , who -are your real friends , and who are not ? The old Whig rump of the Birmingham Political . Council have

      holden their meetings in small and obscure rooms : and have bad for their object the Retting np of a requisition calling upon Mr . Attwood to come out , merely to get up an agitation jto " dismiss the present Ministry ; and to reinstate tb « tWhigs again in office . " !! I Whilst the mere tiolB of faction are thus busily engaged , the Chartists are not idle . On Sunday morning las ' ., Mr . Mason held a more numerous meeting at Daddeston Bow than on any former occasion during tbe summer , in spite of the interference of the police on the Sunday previous . He also delivered a most eloquent lecture , on Tuesday evening ^ in the Hall of Science , on " The rise and fall of the Gceolan Empire , " which was received with the greatest satisfaction imaginable . The chairman announced that there would be a public meeting on that night week , to elect delegates to the National Conference : and likewise that the council

      were making preparation for holding a public meeting on the day the Conference assembled , and were arranging for a tea-party j and ball on September 5 th , in honour of T- S . Duncombe , Esq ., M . P ., FtsurguB O Connor , J . T . Leader , M . P ., W . S . Crawford , M . P ., W . Williams , M . P ., and John Fielding , M . P . Aston-Street . —jAt a meeting of the Committee for tbe relief of Mr . George White , on Sunday last , the following resolution wa * unanimously agreed to : — "That this Committee acknowledge , with pleasure and gratitude , the invaluable , assistance rendered to their imprisoned friend by the Chartists of Loir on , and which has enabled him hitherto to avail himself of the

      privileges attending his conflnemeat . and without which assistance they regret to say , Mr . White would have been placed in a more disagreeable position th * n if he bad been confined in the common gaol of tbis county ; tbe district in which he has laboured so assiduously not having Contributed one-third of the means necessary for his support . "j ON Sundat evening last , Mr . Wm . Coil ton delighted his bearers at the Chartist Room , in Aston-atreet , with a lecture on Free Trade . He exposed the anti-Corn Law League and their Free Trade humbag in good style , and exhorted bis he . irers to stick to the Charter ; for that was the only means to remove their conn try

      from rain . After the lecture , letters were read from Mr . White on the Organization , and the forthcoming National Delegate Meeting , which gave great satisfaction to all present , j K . EDDITCH . —On Monday last , Mr . H . Candy delivered a lecture , ! on the Chapel Green , io a numerous audience , ptiia subject was , " The present position of affairs ; and the necessity o ; a change " . For upwards of an hour be exposed the evila arising from class legislation ; and i he fallacy of the Corn Law Repealers : the effect of machinery ; and the necessity of persevering and agitating till the People ' s Charter became the law of the land . Mr . Crndy then announced that , on the following , eveningt he would preach a sermon . Oh Tuespat Evbkijv-g , the sermon was delivered , from Romans i . 16 , snowing the accordance of the principles of Christianity with the demands for the Charter .

      The Chartists of this place intend meeting Mr . Duncombe in Birmingham , and giving him a hearty welcome , with the [ assembled thousands who will gather on that eventful day to do honour to that distinguished gentleman .

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      WooLcoMBEBS at ( Halipax—On Monday the 21 st inBt ., a meeting of the wool combers was holden on IUingworth Moor , when John Evans was called on to preside , aud after making the necessary remarks ho proceeded to read over the amount of receipts and expenditure , after which the following resolutions were passed unanimously . Proposed by John Martin and seconded I by John Rawnaiey : " That this meeting deem jit necessary for the better protection of wages to form the woolcombers into Protective Localities , each l ocality to be divided into districts , and each district to form a fund to be connected with the general fond at Halifax '; to be called the Halifax Woolcombers '

      Protective Sooiety . " j Proposed b y Mr . J . Bawden , and seconded by Mr . T . Robinson r" That in order to carry out the first resolution , each firm shall send one or more delegates according to ihe number employed in such firm to the Committee Room on Wednesday , the 23 rd instant , at seven o ' clock in the evening , to draw up articles for oar government , and also to ) elect the necessary officers for conducting thej afore mentioned Sooiety . " Proposed by James Uttley , and seconded by Levi Mid « ley : ' * That in order io give general satisfaction the delegates from each firm shall be elected every fortnight ; and each firm Bending one or more dele-

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      gates shall meet among themselves , and appoint such person or persons , as they think most proper to mt on the committee . ' * Proposed by Richard'White and seconded by James Hill : "That this meeting is of opinion that a deputation be appointed out of the delegates assembled , to wait upon the different localities to Organize them into Protective Societies ia accordance with the first resolution . " The meeting was well attended , there being about 800 present . The speakers generally" confined themselves to the main point , and George Flinu , from Bradford , delivered , as a winder up , an eloquent and powerful speech , which had a great effect upon the meeting ; he urged the necessity of their being united ia one

      indissoluble bond for the protection of a uniform scale of wages , which was answered by the meeting with loud cheers . ^ -On Monday morning , the firm of Mr . Walker , of Mytholm Royd , was waited on to solicit aa advance , which was refused . The men in the above employ immediately took in their combs , with a determination not to return again without their request being granted . —On Tuesday morning , the firm of Appleyard , of Cause'yfoot , was waited upon and soliciteoVto give an advance , who refused , and discharged the men who solicited him j but seeing they were in earnest , in half an hour he sent for the men again , and complied with their request . —Several other little masters have given the advance required .

      Rebecca in West Auckland . —Daring the lost week this mother of many thousands , with aome of her children , are said to have visited this place , and takes a quantity of potatoes from a field very near the town Five pounds reward is offered ; bat the "lady' 'and her fainily have as yet escaped detection

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      Now on Sale , Price Sixpence , No . III . of a PRACTICAL WORK

      Bradford Markets, Jthck^Day , Adqdst 24.— Wool.—There Still Continues A Dullness In This Depart-

      Bradford Markets , JThck ^ day , Adqdst 24 . — Wool . —There still continues a dullness in this depart-

      ment , which may be accounted for by the Spinners having supplied themselves at the various marketa and fairs . We do not learn that Wool has declined , or are prices any better supported . Tarn . —There ia nothing new since our last report . Yarns are ready sale , and full prices realised . Piece . —there is an average attendance of buyers to-day , and the demand continues good , and stocks lew . In prices no alteration .

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      REPEAL MEETING AT ROSCOMMON . Roscommos , Sundat Night . —This " demonstration , " which took place to-day , was distinguished by a sort of tremor which preceded it , occasioned by some of the landed proprietors in the county having issued directions that none of their tenantry or labourers should attend the meetiog . Among these , Mr . Kelly , of Castle Kelly , issued orders whioh were not to be mistaken ; to counteract whioh , the people of the near part of the county of Galway who proposed to attend , intimatod , it is Baid , their intention , on passing Castle Kelly , to bring Mr . Kelly's tenantry with them to the meeting . Mr . Kelly , we understand , communicated with Government on the subject , and obtained the aid of 'half a troop of the 4 th Dragoon Guards , who were quartered at the

      Castle , and of a company of the 46 lh Infantry , and a force of police who were stationed at the adjoining village of Ballygar . At seven o ' clock this morning , we were informed , the tenantry were brought within the walls of ! the demesne , the avenues to which were guarded by } the military and police . The agent of Lord Crofton , at Moote Park , we understand , issued similar orders , but did not take similar measures . A party of the 4 lh Dragoon Guards arrived in the town of Roscommon yesterday ftr Longford , and the police of the surrounding stations were concentrated in the town . This force was under the direction of Mr . Crossly , stipendiary magistrate , and Edmund Carr , Esq . of Durham , J . P-, whose father and brother eaoh attended tho meeting and proposed resolutions .

      At an early hour in the morning , the surrounding districts presented those scenes incident to these collections of large masses of the people . Parties arrived , most of them with bands , and banners , from Athlone , Longford , Boyle , Strokestown , Castlereagh , Elfin , Carrick , and the adjoining county of Galway . They proceeded to meet Mr . O'Connell in the direction of South Park , the seat of Nicholas Balfe , Esq , M . P ., where he has been staying for the last two days . The meeting was convened on the Furlough , a large field , about , a mile on the opposite side of the town , and within a short distance of the barrack . A number of tents and marquees were erected on the ground , which gave it more the appearance of a fair or race-ground than a spot appointed for a

      political meeting . It was half past three o ' clock before Mr . O'Connell arrived , and the number who accompanied him in the procession and were present on the field ' were fully as great as those at any previous meeting in the province . The Yery ; Reverend Dr . Madden proposed that they should commence their proceedings by giving three cheers for the Queen , which were given ac « cordingly . He then proposed as Chairman a gentleman who not many years ago was the oldest magistrate in the county , but who , in answer to the English Minister fiang his commission to the winds , and stood by Ireland —( cheers ) . That gentleman was Jeoffrey French , Esq ., of Tomona— tenners ) . The motion was agreed to , and Jeoffrey French , Esq ., took the chair .

      The Chairman said that persons were punished for attending meetings , which they conceived for the benefit of the country ; but for his part , he cared not what any government would do , he would attend any meeting calculated to promote the interests of Ireland —( cheers ) . Dr . Burke ' , on being nominated secretary , said when he brought the requisition to Mr . O'Connell ^ he had promised him an assemblage of 500 , 000 per sons in Roscommon , and he now asked had ho not kept his promise ? Mr . O'Connell—Certainly and a tilley over—( cheers ) . 1

      The Hon . T . Ffrench proposed a resolution , that after forty -three years of experience of Saxon legislation , they had no hope of remedying the grievances of IrelandIbut " -by a Repeal of the Union , and they were determined to persist in their efforts until that all-important object was effected . Mr . Henry Carr , of Durham , seconded the resolution , which was agreed to . Mr . O'CoEtneli , when the cheering subsided , called on them to rejoice in well-founded hope and confident expectation—to rejoice in the spirit of patriotism that : their country was to become a nation again—to rejoice that the day-star of liberty was in the horizon , and that the full noon of freedom should beam around their native land : for the day . the

      hour , was fast coming , believe him , who never told them a lie , their country should be a nation again—( cheers ) . The hour of the restoration of their native Parliament was at hand—( renewed cheering ) —and that was what he never would cease to work for till he got it—and the oldest among them , and few of them were older than himself—should live to bear of lho Parliament in College Greeu— ( cheer *) . That period -was approaching : for every symptom surrounding them , every appearance , every reality , denoted that the restoration of the Irish Parliament was not remote . They had only to look around them , and review by-gone circumstances and passing events , to be convinced of the speedy restoration of the Irish Parliament . First they had Father

      Mathew— ( hear , and cheers ) . Ho put him forth with the glorious teetotallers and the temperance , the finest eifulgence of human virtues—( oheers ) . Had he any teetotallers there 1 { " Yes , plenty . ") He was glad of it , for he wished to tell thf m that he had made a rule that no man who broke his pledge should be allowed to be a Repealer . He would place the teetotallers in the first rank of the Repealers . Napoleon boasted of his body-guardbis Imperial Guard—he boasted of a guard of Christian teetotallers . He adduced the fact as a precursor to Irish liberty , that they had five millions of pledged teetotallers—for that mighty moral miracle bad not emanated from the hands of the Almighty for nothing ( oheers ) . It was it that gave them aU

      the security they had in their present movement . How could he have assembled such masses—how could he have brought a million and a half of people together , if he were not backed by the teetotallers ! They were the first preservers of the liberty of Ireland , and it was for that Father Mathew was sent . The truth was that the Irish were too good to be kept in slavery any longer . They could ni > t be kept in slavery . They were temperate . Men who drank might exhibit courage in the first flash of momentary excitement ; but give him in the front of the conflict the teetotaller ; and were it necessary for him to goto battle , he Would go ifiere with the steady teetotallers ( oheere)—with their wives and Bisters , thanking God for their

      virtuous abstinence , and praying for their success ; and with the teetotal bands playing before them—( cheers ) he could tell them that there was not an army in the world to match with his teetotallers—( cheers ) . Temperance was the corner-stone of Irish liberty . It wks the first proof that they were sweeping away filthy Saxon domination . The second great proof of the success of Repeal was to be found in their own conduct . They had placed their enemies in the wrong , and had kept themselves in the right . In the Precursor Society every effort was made to obtain justice for Ireland . He defied any man to deny that grievances existed . He had called for the relief of those grievances , and they even had offered to : give up Repeal if they got good

      government for Ireland . The offer was treated with bcoto , and he raised tbe standard of Kepeal because the English Parliament would not do justice to Ireland . He made the ( experiment . They were refused , and he would make the bargain no more , for from that hour forward there was nothing but the Repeal for Ireland—( cheers ) . Their enemies had resorted to abuse . They vilified the people and the clergy of Ireland . One of the first of their newspapers called the venerated clergy of th « majority of the people of Ireland , " snrpliced rufiians , " " a demon priesthood , " and designated tbe people of Ireland " a filthy and felonious rabble . " He knew the effect of it upon the Irish people . He wished there were as many Englishmen before them as there were Irishmen present ,

      and that they dared to use that language . If they did not beg pardon before they went home there was no use In logic at all—( cheers and laughter ) . Tbe result of the abuse was , that it made the Irish people more ready to join him than they were before' in driving off the Saxon yoke , and giving Ireland to the Irish —( hear , arid cheers ) . He told them that he would keep within the constition , that there should be no attack made upon them ; but he defied them to attack the people . He asked if there was jone man there would not fight if he were attacktd- ( cheers aud cries of " there ia not" )! There was music m that Bhout , and a pretty tune it was . Now that shout was exactly what he told them . He translated ; it into English for them , and sent it back to Peel and Wellington with his compliments ( cheers and laughter ) . What was the . consequence 1

      They Baid they h . id no . notion of fighting . He laughed , and the people of Ireland could laugh at them too . What did they propose to do ? Nothing . They hoped , indeed , that the efforts of Ireland would pass away . In the first place they said O'Connell was old , and -would soon die ( laughter ) . Heaven help them ! He ' - % s yonng enough for the best of them yet { laughter and cheers ) . But heaven forbid that Ireland had nut many sons as true as be , and as deserving of ; her confidence * ( ne , no)—and if it was his fate to be placed beneath the cold stone to-morrow , and to be called to his judgement , oh , Ireland would be free still ( cheers ) I The effecting of her liberty did not depend on one man , bnt if it did depend upon one man ' * exertions , here was the man who would do it —( loud cheers ) . Their enemies had another plan . The priests , whom they

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      SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED BY MR . CLEAVE . FOR VICTIMS . £ . B . d . Wadaworth-row , near Halifax 0 10 0 One ofr the middle ! classes , but an enemy io oppression . 1 10 0 Mr . Deacon J . 6 0 6 Mr . Young . i ...... ~ 0 1 0 J FOR M ' DOUALL . Mr . M'Pherson , Ipswich 0 5 0 Female Chartists . iRochdale 17 7 Proceeds of a rafile , Rochdale 0 12 5 One of the middlejolasseB , but an enemy to oppression . 0 10 0 VOB DEFENCF FUND . Chilwell , Notts ( per Mr . Sweet ) 0 3 0

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 26, 1843, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct665/page/8/