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      NOTICE . To the Calico Printers of Lancashire , and elsewhere . WHEREAS JAS . HEALEY , Block Printer , near Cumeredale , near Carlisle , and late of Wigton , Cumberland , bas defrauded and embezzled bis fellow-vroTkmeu out of £ 30 , aud absconded witk the same , the greater part of which be obtained under false pretenctg . It is generally reported that he baa gone to America , but there are strong reasons f > r believing that he is still in England or Scotland .. If anj who may have i-een him , or knows where h « is , will be kind enough to send notice thereof t » James Henderson , Block Printer , at tie p l * C aforesaid , tbey will oblige him and his fellow-workmen . The said James Healey is about 5 Feet 5 Inches high , about 33 Years of Age , and of Light Complexion , rather stout made . It is expected that workmen will be careful into whose hands they entrust tbeir money ; for it bas beea through , tha connivaace ef some who ought to have looked after it , that this individual obtained a great portion of the sum with which he decamped .

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      STATS SECRETS . EJ . RICBARBSON begs to thank the Pnb-• lie for the patronage bestowed upom his ALMANAC of last year , and he begs to announce , in accordance with hi * promise , that he wift publishj on tha First of Octobtr next , the Sheet Almanac for 1810 , price One Penny ; which wiBL contain , beside tbe usual information , The whole of the Pension llat , containing above One Thousand Names of Lords ! , Ladies , Knights , and Esquires , now receiving outdoor Belief from the Taxes , the Date of the Grant , &C . &C . It wilt also contain the Salaries of all the GrWfc Officers of State ; some curious Information relative to the Royal Household ; Abstracts of Parliamentary Documents ; Expense of the Army , Navy , Church . Ordnance Department , Law Courts ; Colonial Expenditure ; Diplomatic Expenses '; Secret Service Expenses ; Extravagance ef Poor Law Commissioners ; Expenses of the Police Syatem ; Estimate of the Current Year ; Humbug of tbe Banking ant Government Paper Systems ; Number and purport of Publio Petitions ; with a Fund of Useful Informaion relative to the management of State Affairs . Also , Price Tferee Pence , The BLACK BOOK , or Annual Tell Tale : Containing all the above Information , with Thirty Twe Pages more of tho . same , kind ; showing how the Taxes earned by th * honest and industrious Artizan were idly rqaandered away in useless Plaees , Pensions , Sinecures , Grants , Emoluments , and Bribes . N . B . As Twelve Thousand Copies only wen printed last year , many of the public were disappointed , it is Mr . E ' s intention to print Twenty Thousand , and no more ; so that every one it requested to give their Order immediately to tto Booksellers . Letters sent to R . J . Richardson , 19 , Chapet Street , must be Post Paid , as he has been obliged to pay , on an average , Five Shillings a-week for Public Letters .

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      BLINDNESS . MB CHILD , Jun ., who , with his Father , ha * been performing each extraordinary cure * is . Hull , Bradford , Halifax , Manchester , aud other Towns in the North of England , begs to anaowu * bis intention of again visiting tbe following Tewa » , viz .: —Leeds , " Griffia ' Ian , West Bar , Maatoy Tuesday , 19 th and 2 'Jth of August ; Bradford , Swam Inn , Wednesday and Thnrsday , 21 st and 32 nd « f August ; Hnddcrefield , Plough Inn - Friday ** d Saturday , 23 rd and 24 th of Augatt , Halifax , Boar ' * Bead , Monday and Tuesday , 26 th and S 7 d » of August ; Rochdale . Boar ' s iWo , "Wednesday ini Thursday , 28 th and 29 th Augast ; Stockport , Arng Inn Friday and Saturday , 30 h and 31 st Asguk ADYICE gratis . Hours of Atteodanoe from Tea to Poor * ,

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      GRAND MEETING OF THE CHARTISTS ON KENNINGTON COMMON . Oa Monday latt , the 13 th instant , a magnificent dcsooastrataon , on the part of the Chartists of London , of moral and physical force , was she's on Keasington . Common . The object—die main objftct—of tkt meeting , « u ooe of the holiest , ai it bad in new tie prevention of the shading of hnmaa blood—of inuoceat blood , eondemn ^ i la be ipilled bj an illegal conviction . The Chartists of London , to their eternal honour , tunk yesterday all cUims —* 11 efforts that conld be deferred : they were intently , and a ! mMt solely , beat in a combined eff-rt Mar it be unccesafal to rescue from the ^ ripe of iha « xecntioner , their fellow-eo « ntrymen , Francis

      Robert * . Joseph Hewrll , and John Josee . At an early hour the Charriataof the four quarters of the metropolis ware is motion ; aecrioas of them left , at eleven o ' clock , their separate localities , acd tVsy all met between oae and two in Lincoln '? lax Field * . From Ihence they proceeded in orderly array to Kenninf ton Common . A w ^ agjjon , with & hasting * erected npon it , was placed in . the middle of the common , and around this principal waggon w » r « several other * , filled with committee-men , and with the wives and children ef the moat active Chirtisu . The holiness of the meeting commenced at about half-past three o ' clock . The meeting was a complete triumph over the Chartist calumniator * . T&ere the rile * landerers of

      honest sen might see teat of thousands of those whom £ bej- catted "daffer ind torch mra , " peaceably awembled without weapons of offeocft or defence , to sue for mercy at the hands of a weak girl —to humbly and respectfully appeal to her that she wonld be graciously pleased to exercise tSe royal prerogative , and extend the royal parcoa to th ^ -ir fellow-workmen fllegaty tried and convicted Nev « r did a more orderly meefiog take place . The London Chartists met , transacted the buaii » eM for which they were assembled , and then dispersed without the slightest breach of the peace haring been committed . The character they displayed on Monday has won over to their side the amid , the wavering , and the ill-informed : and it has overwhelmed with

      shame those bad . men who hare hitherto exdea-Toured to represent the Chartism as men of disorder , rapine , and bloodshed . Honour to the Chartiite of Lcnion , who met on the 12 th ; and may a speedy and favourable answer be returned to their pa ; riotie and humane address to * b * Queen ! The vast multitude naving taken np qeietly the ^ pace in front of the platform , bj a vote ol acclamation , Mr . Tzargvs O'Cokxor took the chair . The ioud cheering having died away , the learned , patriotic and eloquent Gentleman said—Moral and Physical Force of ths Empire , I am delighted to hare thi * opportunity of taking on myself all and any r ^ - iponmsility that uay attach to this meeting . I nave t ^ en often told that I hate frequently attended

      ille--g&l me-dug * , peihapa 1 shall be told that the present is an illegal one , but I tell you that ay presence had always legalised the meetings 1 hate attended , and my presence here to-day will reader thi * glorious meeting legal . ( Cheers . ) Why , this is a meeting of the people , of tie mighty , the sovereign people , met to give expression to their will—therefore it it legal , legitimates constitutional , jost , to ae—cot evi » E a Whig Attorney-General can deisy that ( Cheera . ) Wken we are thus met , who or wiiat can frighten us ? Can a Whig Governaseot do it ? Do they suppogs thry can stnke terror into ns because they hsTe their dung-on * filled with the martyr * of liberty , because they haya their scaffolds erected to drink the blood of the innocent ? Vaia

      rappoanon I Punishnient- ^ de&th m the most inhuman , excruciating , and ignominious form has no terror for the true patriot . ( Ckeers . ) What do the Chartists meet tor ? To reconsider , to reform the laws of this country . That ' s not illegal . SeTen years ago , there was imeeong after meeting for an alteration of the laws of the land—many of the members of the present Government were active actor * at tkose meetings—they were considered legal , and they effected their immediate object . Toe Reform Bill—nuw a law of the land— -sprung out of public meeting ;—those who parsed is , x > neidaring that it w » s Jounded on the wishe * of th- * people , tacitly acknowledged , by passing it , that ihe will of the nation ought to become th ? law of

      inland . ( Loud cheers . ) The CLarkst * of the preieit day are only doisg what the political Reocmers of 2832 did—they are endeavouring to make the will < rf the people law—they are endeavounsg to carry into effect a principle that the very fact ol the passing of Use Reform Bill recently and irrevocably established . ( Hear . ) Wo are at this present mom-nt assembled for the holiest of causes—for one that must like a grateful sacrifice ascend to Heaven—we -are met to give libsrty to the persecuted prisoner , to bestow freedom on the illegally convicted captive . { Lond cheering . ) We are assembled in thousands —I look before m * , ani I exuldagly exclaim in tens of thousands—to endeavsnr to save the ires of those who have been ill gaily tried , ill * ga . Uj convicie-i ,

      and sentenced to ceith . Oa , the mitmons pr- cee :-ing of the Wfaig Attorney-General ' ¦ Teose nnbappy prisoners now in Warwick—conld tho ** « Lo - » cre persecuted for right « Dusne # i sike , could the inuo-«* nt , the tnffering , in a holy cau « e be called nnnappy ?—^ were committed for the simple offence ol riot , but they were tried for a capital crima—tried ¦ on an old Act of Parliament , ferreted out by the vdfiumaa ingenuity of a Whig Attorney-General . ( Cheers , and cries of indignation . ) 1 tell you i ' those men suffer—I tell ycra if yon ansffer tkcm to eoffer , I am no longer a Chartist . ( Cheer * . ) If yon - » Uow ftem tflpbe eiecnted , you are cowards—if yon permit them to be murdered , go instantly and burn your Charter , and let its smoke ascend to Heaven ,

      a token of their martyrdom , a symbol of our soccessl * ss sympathy ? ( Hear , hear . ) What I now say will be carried to Government—fiiere are Government reporters here—gentlemen , forsooth !—there are « pie * kere of every sort ; there are present policemen in coloured clothes , but we do not fear them . Oar caBse ia so good , that if we do bo : injare it by mlscondoct of oar own , it c * u Ttc-iiva no bun from the m » ccin « ions and informations of reporters , > pies , &ad policemen . I cannot help here alluding to the « xcsllenl article * that have appeared this -week in favour of oarcau ** , in several ol ' the S-nday papers ; and I beg of yon to look es ^ eciailr to one article that appeared in the Weekly Dispatch of yestercay , is which the Government are told that if the people

      do not receive full and fair representation , Chartism must go on daily gaining ground , ¦ until it cannot be uprooted , bat flourish etern-iDy . 1 : tho * e excellent articles had been constantly written anterior to this lime , we sionid no « r posses UniTr « a ! Suffrage . ( Cheers . ) G ^ od God , what amass of cant and hypocrisy ttere was in the world ! What inferral hypocrife * the Whig * are . ' Tney had libertv on their lips , but tyranny is bursting ( thsir organs are bo crammed with it ) in their hearts . Oh . ' iow they sympathised with the Poles—what deep indign * rioH * tbey breathed against Ru ^ i a : tbey so bombed priTately—^ they voted on annual grant lor the relieJ of die rafferinj PoYi » h refugee * , exilei for doctrines theT wonld not iorsske . Tney aid this ; and yet a :

      the * ery present moment , if one of thoae Pol-s gave out that your cause was a just one , and that he was willing to aid you in accomplichixg it . he was sur r Beniowtki ) whj has been thus created by the Whi ^ s . ( Shamf . ) I can scare ly see any safety for our lives and liberties ; there wuuld be none—, BOt a shadow , if we w » re at the mercy of the Whigs . "They tell us to arm—they proclaim the right Eng-Jiibjnen have to arms ttem- * ehes , and yet they allow "the magistrates and their myrmidons the - power oi ¦ searching at sli hocrs onr houses , atd seizing , not

      ¦ only tao » e ann > , bet oursflves . Why do you &UOW < hii .- —way do the Wtiigs dare treat yon thus ? Simply because you are not as yet properly organised . ( Hear . ) Men of London , I tail yon—it is with deep regret that I tell yon—that yoH are noc organised . You are ignorant of the organisation othe men of the ftort!—you do not know how they hare acted , and how they act ; but let me advise you to make yourselves acquainted with the mode o . organi « ation adopted by ye « r brare brothers of the North , and let me assure you that you may religiously rely on their co-operation and strenuous snp-S ^ rt , Every man in this world nantt eat bis peck ot dirt : every hjdj of men contending for a priisdple hare their ordeals to undergo ; we cannot hope to bf exempt from ihem . Knowing beforehand our trials , let a « be armad with fortitude . I feel that msny

      lives m » y be lost before we complexly succeed : iwtriotiMn ha * ita penalties to pay ; but I do not deepair , for I know that there u an undying « piru abroad—the unexringui * hablespmt of liberty , which cfeeer- me on , as it fi Is you with buoyancy and ho ? e . Be knt united , aad your cause is victorious . Banish from tout thoughts aad hearu ev ? ry feeling of bickeria / r and dissension . S ^ e how our enemies are nnited-how firmly they cleaTe together . In their union is our weakness—i » our dwnmon m tbeir strength . ( Hear . ) The moment oar dutnuon has aisappeared , then will I i *» ae the word of commaod , "March . " ( Hear , hear , and lood enet » riag . ) My friends , I have hitherto been with yon ia ail your straggles—be aoited , be worthy of your-« kes Ld of thl great , good , ani glonoas wow you hiyoczle , and , so help me God , yon will find me with , you-reaainmg amongst yoa to tbe very last .

      ( Loud cheers . ) My enemies and your * nmww you tliat 1 was a Tory spy ; Uien I was a friend to the Whi g * , and playing their game . I have no fronds either amongii Tories or Whigs . I hare no earthly friends b « t among the working claises . («» - thuaixsdc caepring . ) This head of bw wosUl Iom eiace haTe been hanginl over Temple Bar wen it not for the affection th « working classes bear » e , and 1 shall set at nought the endeatour * of tne Tjry and Whig faction against me # e long ¦ u I know that the working cla *» es are for me . ( Cnei , ¦ tt &ad that wffl be for ever . " ) I acknowledge that tiiere have been faolts committed by some of the

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      members of the Convention . I do not claim my » eli t « b « exempt from those Jaultf—but I trust tnat they are venial and pardonable ones—more the offiprinj ? of tie head than of thd heart Working Men of England , weigh our faults with our virtue * , and thea yon will sse which are the heaviest in tke scale . ( Cheer * . ) I ag-iin repeat that 1 take the responsibility of this meeting on myself , and I hope that the several ipftaksrs who will have to follow me will not giva utteraace to one word that shall not be to the purpose- or if it should be in any w » y foreign to the purpose—for God ' s sake let it not be injurious to ihe c&uae of Roberts , Howell , and Jone *—to th » cause of humanity , of liberty , and of ju-ttice—to the cau « e of all Ea ^ laud . ( Cheers . ) 1

      aavs be ^ a thw morning at Marylrbone police offica before Mr . Rawlin ^ n , to defend three bill-stickers , who were taken up for posting tb / s placards announcing this meeting . These placards were at first pronounced illegnl , but I soon convinced the magistrate that they could no * , be illegal , as they simply announced a meeting that was legal , and the bill-stickers were accordingly discharged . . Cheers . ) 1 beg of yon to bear in mind the chiel object for which you have this day met , viz . to save the liv ^ s of innocent men , unjustly convicted , and who wonld have escaped if tbey had known in time that tbey were to be tried on an indictment for u capital offence . They were taken by surprise by the Attorney-General , and , therefore , were

      unpre-P * r ? d with witnesses for their defence , or with penonM to f-pr ^ ak to taetr previous character . This meeting will have a good eff-ct—ir will enable me to cause the people of England and Scotland to riso mora generally in your cause , and in behalf of tho prisoners at Warwick ; and last , not least , it will bring over to us many of the brate men of Ireland . I nm most happy to announce to yon th * t 1 have seen to-day one of our delegates who has been in Ireland , and he t ^ lla me that in a shore time the majority of my country-men will be decided Chartists . ( Cheers . ) I will now conclude , ana make way for my friend , Mr . Bronterre O'Briea , who , 1 may say , threw tke first stone against the citadel of conuption . ( Cheers . )

      Mr . B . O'Brien rose to move the first resolution , sad w&s receivrd with loud cheering . He said—Men of London , thesa are times when every man should be prepared to carry bis head under his arm , like St . Denis . ( Lnughter and cheers . ) These are times -when , witbont sca-cely a shado * proof , a man might be pat to death by the ingenuity of a hired la » y r . These are times when we must all stick close together . ( Cheers . ) Tne maa that demtis us now is a traiior . We are now living under a government which has abjured its own laws —uudei a government that not long sinco said the people had a right to publicly meet and declare their grievances—uoder a government which now employs the poKce to take into custody poor people who

      assemble to mention their wrongs . I alway » t « ld you to obey thu laws &a long as those who made them obeyed them , but » h--n the very law makers themselves wv > destroying the laws you must trust to your right arm * and defend the laws against the robber * who are breakiBg through them . ( Chear * . ) There is scarcely a count ; in England at this present moment in which your brethren were not seized , and arrested , and dragg > d before the magistrate ? , and by the mustinfamdas evidence committed tried , and convicted . ( Cheer * . ) Among * 22 these wrests hare you heard of Uie arrest of one angle Aristoera . t , or oce of the middle clasjtea ? You have not beard of any such persons being arrested . When quiet agitation took place a few days ago , in

      whacii the upytr aad middl * classes txik a part , were any of them arrested ? They were n ^ t arrested because middle men then agitated to get a middle riass bill pa »* ed iiito a law . It is vain for you to expect independencs orjusiice ia this country until you have a . power over the law , and you cannot have that power whilst the middle mini virtually make the laws . The law maiers represent themi ; dle men . The middle c ! a * -es are interested in making such laws as would oblige you to work for low wage * and enable them to have Jarge profits atyoar expense . Your interest * are eternally opposed to thind of the middle cla *» eis nnd as long as the ruidole cla ** es hava the making of the law * yon can never r-a . < oaabh expect liberty . The only way that

      you can obtain ycur liberties and yonr rights is by one « ima-taaei > u 3 cry for the Charter , lor nothing else short of this will obtain for yu equal jostice and eqsa' right * . We want and claim eur lib Tti-u — ire want tht ,- same roicc in the legislature that the middle clashes ha . vi » , aud it we do cot gt-t ic peaceably let us tell the middle classes that we will takf it from them by force . ( Cheers . ) W © have us d peaceabUme&iis—w « have petitioned . That celebrated petition of oura eijened by two millions of men , had been contomelioasly rejected by the L ^ gu-l&ture . The next course then left for us to pursa-. i is to try and annoy the Government in every way we can . We most try to take all the gold out of their c ffers , and leave them nothing but paper

      miner , which will be the cause of their ruin and of our prosperity . ( Cheers . ) Another plan we must aiopt is an excellent one , viz .: that of exclusive ? dealing , for why jstoald wo deal with our enemies , with t ! io&e who aercaily rob as . We hare BO right to do it , and we wilt not do it—we will deal only with our friends . ( Cb&er . « . ) No enemy to the working c ' asses shall be dealt with , and no farmer iniaicai to our principles , shall , if we can prerem it , have hL crops cut for him . ( Loud cheering . ) Another plan I advise is to arm not for the pB .-po .- 'e of attacking the constitated authorities , or of acting aggressively , but to protect ourselves against the hm-d ajt * a *« in « the upper and middle classes . ( Cheers . ) I have b ^ en told that the upper

      aud middle clauses had a right to have arms because ; hev supposed they i . &d everything tb ^ y wanted ; and " bo long as they have arms they will continue robb ng yon per tecula secuiurum . ( Cheers . ) Jt wag Lord John Rowell ihat tirst gave advice to certain persons of property to have arms for tho defeoc of that property ; and 1 did oot give the people advice la armtatvl Lord Joan bad set me &n exaaiple . In fact , I ijcrnolei to do so until hi * Lordship said that the principal inhabitants of the country had a right to arm . Now , I maintain that the working classes are the principal inhabitants of the cunntry ; for they are the producers of all wealth and power ; and I therefore tell them , that taey mast , with tbeir right arm * , aad their rire-arin . « , protect their

      coontry , their o » n property , and tboir own lives . ( Loud cheering . ) As Lord John Russrll tjld the upper and middle classes to arm , so I tell yon to do the same . I do not tell you to do so in order to protect Lord John Russell's property—that is hi * bosine ** , and nat mine . ( Cheera and faughu-r . ) Yet i know not what his property consists of . It formerly belonged to the- poor of this country ; but it was robbed from tlcm in the reign of Henry VI 11 . TLat is not the sort oi property that 1 wish to have protected . ( Laughter and cheers . ) I do not advise you to attack the lives and properties of the middle cla . ss « , because that would be setting a bad example ; and they , in their turn , woold attack jonrs . 1 hold it to b . 5 essential tha-t every mat who is a wealth producer should have a mcskat han ^ ine over LissaantJpiece ; and that ths answer * hoa ) d be to any man who came to take it—By God , you shall have the eonunts first ! ( Loud cheer * . ) I have been but the

      called a dag ^ r-an . i-torch man ; men « ho called me » j gave the same denomination to Mr . F . O'Connor and Dr . Taylor , &ni 1 am not ashamed of my company . The men whose whole lives were passrti in rend-ring evil for gecxi—who re : " nsod the p ? o ^ le their rights—who enslaved and ( under the form of mock trial ) murJtred them—those were the real dag ^ pr-and- torch m ** n . ( Cheers . ) Those who came and look your arms , and delivered you over to gjualer *; who ordered that Physical Force shonld be applied to all that differed from them in opinionguch men were the true knights of the dagger-andtorch . ( Cheers , ) The resolution I have to propose to yon pWgra that you will never relax your effort * until the C ; arter be th ^ law of the land . 1 told you thot without the Charter you miwt remain jlaven ; and th&t to obtain the Charter you must be united in one band—tLat every working man mast consider his fellow woikm » n as a brotbtr—that he must not

      quarrel with him about matters of gain , or trifling differences of opinion , bat that all must march loTW&rd . in one nnitf d phalanx . _ Those who had a little properly always united with the rich , and therefore wten the battle shall be fought you will find the man of £ 1 , 000 a-year united against yen with the man of £ 60 , 000 a-year . In the same way sboaU yon be pnhed , the man that earns 5 i . a week slioKld DnKe wich the maa that eirru S * ., and the * one pound a . week man should agree with him that earns only 12 s . The law of the land ought to be hr'ld sacred , and the Gjverninent would nev . T have attacked the Ch&rdsss , if the middle cla «?* had not calumniated you by tailing the Government that

      your objects were the destruction of life and properry . You ar » this verv day giving the lie direct to such a calumny . If yon wish ^ by vi > lent means to des'roy life and property would you be here quietly petitioning for your rights ? Property is your own creation , 1 do not think it likely , I do not think you so untatBxal as to « testrcy the child of your own creation . ( Hear , hflar , ) I now propose the following resolution : — " That this meeting hereby pledges itself to the principles of the People ' s Charter , declares that it will never desist from its exertions to establish those principles until the people shall be is a condition to demand bj their united voices the enactment of it &s the law of the land . "

      Dr . Tjitlor next presented himself and said , I regret the state of my health and toice renders it impossible tor me to address yon as long or as loud as f could wish . I hare not anything to state that I am a * h % m » d of , bat that I should not have embraced Chirtum if I did not think it would lead to republicanism . ( Hear , hear . ) Three innocent men nave been condemned to be hanged . I am not much ia the habicof quoting Tories , but a Tory stated to me this morning , th&t if the Chartists all owed those three men to be hanged they ought to bs likewise hsng * d with them . ( Cheers , and cries of <* We ought . " ) I am oometbing of this opinion myself , but being a quint penon , I have no objection to dyiaf quietly . ( Laughter , and cheers . ) I

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      have a petition from Birmingham , in which it is auerted that one of the condemned was not at the Bull Ring at the time of ths baming . This n » a w * s convicted on the role evid ? DCd of a polic 'man namad IIa . ll , who having beea formerly" well kicked by th 3 liberals for his apostacv now wants to hang us . The petition from Birmingham will be presented to day , and I hope that both it ani the auHresn yon are going to agree to , will haver some eif'ct upon the Qan ^ n and make her grant not mercy but justicato the prisoners . If not , I have a peiition frosa the North , that will not be re used . ( Loud Cheers . ) You a ! l know that I was arfMted aad for trying to save the lives of two palicsnun . That was my crime , and you may rely upon it that I shall never be c * ught committing such a critoe

      again . ( Laughter . ) I was accused of another crime , namely , the advising the people to be quiet at the time for I knew that they w /? r ^ not sufficiently organised to kick their enemies then . If ever I am caught protecting the peace again may I be a Dutchman . ( Cbeers and laughter . ) I have pledged myself to the men of Birmingham ; 1 have promised Measra . Lov <; tt aud Collins to get a remission of the sentence on the men who were going to be murdered , and I again pledge myself to do so if the men of the South snow tk-emielves ready to act as the men of tke North will d'J . ( Cheera . ) There axe two ways of applying Physical Force . Stopping tho gnppUe * is One ; tke 6 ther I dare e » y you all Can guess . ( CheerJ and laughter . ) A combined movement may effect the

      first , but a chance spark may bring abont the other . Combustible materials yet remain ; and if my hand can fire them , I shall not be found wanting . ( Loud cheers . ) I caution you not to trust to spies , or to any m * n who tells you that ho i » a spy of Lord John Russell ' s , and then promises that he will be a spy far you ovar his Lordnhip . [ This allusion the Reporter understood to be to a delegate named Hancock . ] 1 thank you for the kindness you have shown to me—1 thank you both on my own behalf and that of the mm of Birmingham ; and I promise the men of Uondon if they will only keep the water het by by their peaceable meetings , 1 will take cars to keep it boiling in the North . Dr . Tatlob thea seconded the resolution , after which

      Mr . 0 'Conson put it from the chair , and it wan unanimously carried , amid lond acclamations . The Learned Gentleman then stated that ho regretted circumstances compelled him to leave the chair , as ha was going t « attend a Delegate Meeting at Glasgow . Mr . O'Connor then retired from the platform amidit the heartiest cheering . Mr . Carpenter was then voted into the chair . Mr . Goldj . vo spoke to the resolution ; but the only thing remarkable in his speech was an attack he made upon a person of the name of Hancock , who , hd alleged , had received money fxc m the Commissioners of Police , t o set as a spy upon the Chartists .

      Mr . Cardo , in moving the second resolution , said —Mr . Chairman , and brother working men , —I appear before you , not as an humble nuppliaut to the Qaeen , but to move an Address to ber Majesty calling on her to dismiss her present Ministers from her Councils , and ibr other purposes . Mr . Cardo here perceiving that he had the wrong resolution , said—No ; the resolution I have to move related to the prisoners at Warwick , who are going to be offered up at the shrine of tke base aad imbecile Whig Government . When 1 saw those three prisoners arraigned in the dock , knowing their innocence , I thought that they should depend upon that innocence for their safety ; but when I see so many thousands of persons round me , let the Qaeen t > Government execute them if they dare ; however ,

      let us not peril their lives by any act ol ours ; bat Jet us approach the throne for mercy , and I hope that we shall be enabled to call it a throne of mercy . The Jury were led by the sophistry of the Attorney-General to condemn thosa men , becRUso they wera uld by him that their lives and property would be in danger if those men did aot perish . ( Hear , hear . ) It will be a matter of satisfaction for those men to know , that if they ahould die , that they will perish with v our sympathies , aud with a knowledge that you consider them innoceat , and deem them murdered men . ( Cheer . * . ) If wo fail to-day in saving their lives , let it be remelnbered th&t they are not the only p * rtits that shall die . Tat once declared that I wouid never petition the Legislature , Dor addr ^ sa the Crown ., but as that ia cow the only

      constitutional war to sa . ve those men ' s livos , I do so ; and if the Throno is founded oa incrcy , | mercy will be administered to those men ; but if the Ttroae is not founded on mercy , then parish the Throne iind all that surroends it . ( Loud cheers . ) The perple al > o have a right to demand it . The sovereign peop ' e of Englnni condescend to sue for mercy . From whom ? From a creature of their own powerfrom a Government which , if the peopla of England were united , they would have the power to annihilate ia one moment . ( Hear , hear . j In connexion with the men of Birmingham , I ask her Majesty to spare their live . * , because , by God , tho *} TU&U are as IQUOCCIit a * you are free . ( Hear , hear . ) OUT lives hang on the conduct of the police , and it is yet a qatsilon whether the houses at Birmingham were

      mt on tire by the people , or by the police . ( Cheers . ) Public opinion will decide to-day ii these men are to be executed or not , and if tMy are executed , I foretel that they will not be the only parti- 8 who will iceet a similar fate . Before I sit down , I beg to raentioc , that on the back of the indictment were seveateen names of witnesses of whom the prisoner ; 1 bad no knowledge , and who ^ e evidence , therefore , they could not contradict . On Buch an indictment they were convicted and sentenced to death ; and if mercy was rofused to them , we shall meet again in after times to do justice to thosa men , and to offer to their memories the tribute which their lives so justly deserved . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Cardo concluded by moving the following addrr&j : — " We , your Majecty ' s loyal subjects , had reason to hop j toat the mild sp-lrit of the age h& 4 Tendered obsolete all those sanyuinary laws whicb , in other reiges , had sobjected offenders to ignominioM death for comparatively trivial offences . We regret to

      learn that three of yourMajestj ' s subjects have been recently convicted under an old Act of Parliament , which appears to have escaped the eye of the Legislature in its revision and repeal of barbarous enactments ; we cannot avoid believing that had those ciimes been found upon the calendar of a general assiz * , and not treated ag politic *) offences , that they wonJd have been more mildly construed , and the punishments , even after conviction , wonld not have amounted to a sacrifice of Ufa . Under taesecircumstances , we humbly and respectfully appeal to your Majrsty , that jou wiJl be graciously pleased to exercise your Rayal prerogative , by extending tho Royal pardon to Francis Roberts , Joseph Howell , and John Jones , lately convicted and sentenced to death at the assizes ol Warwick . We beg most respect / nlly to direct your Majesty ' s attention to the unfavourable circcmitajaces nnder which tho prisoners wera tried , beiDg committed for a mere riot , and s-fterwards bting capitally indicted . "

      Mr . Haktwell seconded the resolution—saying Mr . Chairman and men of London , I rise with mingled feelings of pleasure and of pain—with a feeling of regret that in the 19 th century , men should assemble to sue for pardon for an offence committed against the life of no man , but against property only—with a feeling ol pleasure bacao ^ e thatmeetinj was a proof of the strong sympathy felt in those ynbappy men . All of you know the renalt of the trials at Warwick , but if yon had seen the way in which th » y werb conducted , yoa would have risen up and cseid that no jastice was to be

      expected from the constituted authorities of the state—you would have said that if justice and mercy were wanted yon lausl obtain them by yourielre « . II yon saw the Judge and every authority down from him to the common polic « man—ii you saw th * Attorney-G neral—if you saw how they were all pressing for a c nviction , you woild have burst with indignation , and many persons in the Courf , not Chartctce but simple spectators , so loudly expregsed their indignant feelings , that the officers ol the Coart were obliged to repress them . The evidence by which one of those men was convicted was

      that of a fellow named Hall , formerly a notorious prize fighter , who hid fought with Sampson and beat him , and who was in conseqaence ol his bulljing and thievish propensities , thought by the magistrates a tit person lo ba made a police officer . The evidence of this scoundrel was the only one that was adduced against Francis Roberts , all h » said was that he saw Roberta in the erowd . He saw him throw a stone—he did not Birest him then , but he saw him on the following morning looking at some rain * in the 3 uU Ring . ( Shame . ) This man bad a most excellent character , was an excellent workman , had never been taken before a magistrate , aad there were many respectable neighbour of his who were ready to swear that they saw him at borne at the due the policeman swore he saw him ia th « Bull Ring . They did not appear as witness ? s

      in his Tavour at Warwick , because they understood that he was to be tried for riot only , and had they been aware that he was to have been tried for a capital oS . ncf , they would have attended and given sach evidence that no Judge or Jury conld have convicted him . There was only one witness against Jone ? , aud all that that witness swore was , that he saw Jones waving a stick over bit heai at the rime of the conflagration of the houses in the Ball Ring . Jones had also an excellent character from his master , which woald have been sworn to before the Judge , if Joues ' s master knew the full extent and nature uf the trial . He hoped that these facts , for they really were facts woold induce her Majesty to spare the liven of both these men . ( Cheers . ) If those men were executed , he hoped that their blood would fall upon ths h'ad * of tho * e who bad coademned them nBJnstly . ( Load cheers . )

      Major BzKioirsjcr , a Polish refugee , spoke to the resolution , and said that it was rather peculiar that a foreigner should advise them to address th « Qaeen , bat he conld not help doing so , and telling them that they would not be worthy of the name of Chartists , and th&t the blood of tioee men would be upon their

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      nead ^ , it they acted pa ^ siv » ut could alone utve Earope from Mlavdry aad increased bl > ods * ed * ( Hear , hear . ) Dr . Johnson moved the following reaolutioa ' . — ' That the * meeting view * with feslings of indigattion aad alarm the encroachments upon the liberfie * . and rights of the subject * lately mala bj the aofantrjr magistrate * , instigated and directed sslely by the advice of her Majesty ' s miustera . That this meeting considering such conduct on the part of ouch ministers a « unconstitutional , and opposed to all U * , bath common and atatate : aui

      also as bding both inhuman aad mean , has been principally directed against those classes of her Majestj ' s subjects who are the least protected by the Legiulative boiy froia having any influence or voice in « their control or election . That we , h » r Majesty ' * subjects , legally convened in public meeting , humbly su ?<^ t that such despotic aad illegal advic ? ia sufficient ia iwelf to demonstrate the nnfiinws of the present Cabinet to po& < e <; s the confidence of her Majesty , and humbly request that she will consequently dismiss from her council " thoss men who have proved themselves ao opposed to the rights , have shown such so otter want of sympathy with the great mas . sas of the people , and who have so unconstitutionally endeavoured to deprive them of tkose libartits which they have received from their lath r . * , and which they are detarvdned shall be transmitted to their children as perfect and as entire as they havd received them themselves . " ¦

      • Mr . Wiixiamb said , there is a committee now sitticg that will soon organize London , and y ou will soon have , ifyott give your assistance to this committee , the Charter , which w « all so eagerly desire ; but lee me now speak to the most important question of the three unfortunate men who have been committed to death . I deny that I am a torch and dagger man , and I will tell the Aristocracy that my tunas have never beenetaiaed inhuman blood ; and L will tell them tbat I wish to prevent the Aristocracy from staining their hands , as they will if taostt innocent men ere executed , ( Cheers . ) The law has said you shall not commit murder , and if yon do not prevent the execution of those men yea will allow tne Aristocracy to commit marder , and you will therefore be accessories your » elves . ( Cheers . )

      Several of us went last Sunday , with Mack crape on our arras to St . Paal ' s , to shew the Aristocracy and the middle classes how we felt upon this subject , and we afterwards assembled to the number of 3 , 000 in Copenhagen Fields , and declared that these men should cot oe executed . I advise you all to wear black crape around your araw , and to visit the different fashionable churches of the metropolis on Sundays , in order to shew the Aristocracy that if these men are murdered there will be other murders . ( Cheera . ) I advise every maa that can afford it , to have a front room , and to have a black flag hang oat ef bis windows . The Qaeen can save these three men if she likes . She is still popular , but i will tell her that if she do » a not save these men sue will soon lose all her popularity . lam no

      enemy of the y aeen a , and I hope she will consult the feelin g * of tue working daises of this country , whonre her real friends . ( Hear , hear . ) If to prevent this execution , yon do not os- yonr physical powtr you will not be worthy of the name of men . In the conrse of another week we shall hold far greater meetings than this—I feel that it is useless for us to hold out for a three days' holiday ; we are not yet prepared for ir , bat with ' your assistance we shall in a short time be enabled to organize London in such a way that no power can put us down . For svt > ry nine man in our unious there shall be a leader , ao that we shall be enabled to correspond with one another without the necessity of caJJiag great pablic meetings . If the people are united , I promise them before the year ia out , the Charter will Dft the law of

      the land . ( Cheers ) I hope that instead of going into pablic houses on Suadayt ! , you will frequent the churches , and use your efforts to save the livps of these wretched men . I advise yon to keep sober , for a drunken man cau never be a real or a true patriot . Instead of going into tap-rooms , frequent intelligent society , as by that means you will evety day become more useful members of the community . M any honourable men will desert you , and will nover come before you again to address or advUe yoa , because tbey will at once say that you are cowards if yoa suffer these men to be executed . ( Cheers . ) Spies have bi-en pointed oat to you—let us have nothing to do with spies—let us make no attack upon them—but let us pass them bv and spurn them with silent contempt . ( Cheers . ) I hope

      yoa will join me and my friends on Sunday next , aad meet an in Smithneld , in order that we may go to the several churches , and mix among the aristocracy , aad * uow them our det ^ raaioatioa of saving tboce un'ortnnate and innocent num . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Hare , from N-jwcastle-upon-Tyne , 9 aid txat a short time since he wau arrested in the dead of the night on a charge of sedition , and that he was most glad to have that opportunity of delivering his opinions to the people of London . Those men they hai met to save were not unfortunate , but innocent . Tfcey were living under the oppression of »> iniquitous GovernmeHt , and the Chartists and tne people at large would be for ev « r to blame if they allowed the sentence passed at Warwick to be carried into effect . He bad no faith in anvthino thnt-ornnM

      result in application to her M ^ jesty . Mm only Lope wan ia the moral and physical power of the community . ( Cheers . ) He had b £ en arrested a few day * ago , and torn from hi * family by four hired ruffiuis , for having told the people to arm , and he would now , on the very threshold of tyranny , repeat the advice . ( Renewed cheer * . ) The working class , s had nochioj ; to loo ?« , they Were alisady bankrupt * The beginning of each week saw them without a farthing . What 4 il they a « k for ? A large day ' s wagat for a fcood day ' s work , and nothing more . LorJ John Rnssell may commit 10 , 000 of them , aad 10 , 000 of them may be executed , but there was a spirit ia the rising generation , the fruit of agitation and extended education , which could nerer be put down . ( Cheers . ) H « believed that that v * ry day the people of the North had began the National

      Hobday , had ceased from work , and had comm need stopping the supplies . He had heard a great deal said about physical force . Why , it was by physical force the present Government was maintained . He had pawed the Hor . « e Guards that day , and ho saw uothin * but physical force ia the shape of soldiers ia that neighbourhood . ( Laughter aud cheer * . ; He was not for spilling human blood , but he thought that there was uo human action better , no one more acceptable in the eye of heaven , than that by which the blood of a tyrant was shed . ( Tremendous cheering . ) His last advice , for it Was most probable it would be the Ja » t time he should ever aJdress them , was to be united and strong , put crape on their arm * if they thought proper , but by the Lord God they should carry something better in their hands . ( Loud cheers . ) The resolution was then carried .

      Mr . Carpenter . —Allow ma , in the name of myself and my friends on the platform , and in the name of all those who hava witnessed your conduct at * this meeting , to thank you for tha steady and peaceable way m which you have conducted yourselves . It is the waj ia which you always conduct yourselves when allowed to transact your owh bosidms , and it is only when tb » Government interfere « with your useful proceedings that rioting and destruction of property occurs . It is your enemies that &r » the real de » trpyer » of property , and not yoa , ( Cheers . ) 1 am sure 1 need not tab / on to disperse quietly , but when you go away remember that you have your work to begin . We want you to increase your numbers , go that by the united strength of the people , the Charter mast become the law of the land .

      The Trade Societies of London have taken no part in thin meeting , not because they are averse to it , but because the time allowed to them for so doing was not sufficient to enable them to go through ihs nunal routine business on such occasion * . However they have pledged themselves to a demonstration in favour of tb . t > Warwick prisoners , a demonstration of their own , and within a month lrom this time I shall have tbe satisfaction of seeing the Trade Societies joining their voice with yomrs in deprecating the puniehmfnt ef innocent men , and demanding the Charter as an enactment necessary to secure the persons , the property , and the well-being of the community . ( Loud cheers . ) After a most flattering vote of thanks to the Chairman , theimmense assembly peaceably departed to their respective residences .

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      RAUFAX . Natiokal Holiday . — On the evening of Thursday ne ' nnight , the bellman was sent round this tows , by » rder of part of the Committee belonging to the Radical Association , to anaouace to the inhabitants , that a public meeting would be held in the large room lately occupied by th » Socialist ? , nituate iu Jail-lane , to commence at eight o ' ojock , when Mr . Bosgey was expected to be there from Bradford . At the hour appointed , a large number of people , ooBguting chitfly of the working class , were asMmbled together , when having waited a short

      time , aad Mr . Bussey , from « ome cause or other , not having arrived , Mr . Robert "Wilkinson wa » called to the chair , who stated that they had been called together for the purpose of ascertaining , ae ftr M possible , the general opinion respecting the Holiday ; aid wished any who thought proper to come forward and state their opinion on tie subject Robsrt Sctcliffs male a ftw remarks on Universal Suffrage , and called upon those persona who thought themselves deserving of that right to hold np their hand * , when every hand in the room was immediately held np ; he afterwards made som «

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      O 3 aarvatioa « on tne Holiday , jptuietviag » i « it might be a tolemn fast . Ao operative named &ib *» a mrxt addressed ttw meeting , deprecating the Sacred Month as inapplicable to the present state ef the working ciaw £ 3 , bat advised the people to arm , ia order to prjteot themselves aid their property , and also to abstain from the me of all exciieable articles . Mr . B . Rushton , chairman of the Radical Association , next address * d them on the sernusnass of refraining from , work in sin ill Dumber * , as it might be , not for three dv . b «> nU , but for amuob longer period , and advised caution in that re * p * ct . Sitae enquired what they were to do for the three days , for urben they worked one day it was to earn victuals for tne

      next . Ia thi * stage of the business the ohairatn adjourned the meeting till Saturday evening , when Mr . Tetley begged to make a few renmk * which were nearly similar to the advice given ia the Star , the week , previous . Oa Saturday night they again met to discuss the question , when Mr . Thomas Cliffs , read a resolution purposing to oall a pablic meeting on the Moaday following , when Mr . Tetley made a few remarks as to the legality of a meeting ) called , should they adjourn as spoken of to Skirooat Meor . The resolution wa » afterward ! sbandooed , and another adopted , calling on the meeting to show how ma&y » f tkem were favourable to keeping holiday oa Meadiy , when about half the

      number present expressed their willingness to stop working oa Monday , by holding up their fcandu , a few to the contrary , and a great many remaining neutral , as though undecided about the question . The chairmaa then announced , that so many as thought proper to keep a holiday , would meet on Monday morsiog , in that room , at naif-past nine o ' clock , when the meeting breke up . Oa Monday , at the time appointed , froa 300 to 400 persons assembled , and after addresses delivered by Messrs . Cliffe . Satcliffe , Ra « bton , Wilkinson , and Tetley , the address to tbe Queen , as proposed by the Council ef the Convention , was read to the meeting and

      uoasiraouily adopted , and signed on behalf of the meeting by the chairman , to be presented to her Majesty by Earl Stanhope . Grntlkubn , —Please to add to the account of the "Defence Fund" sent you last week the following sums which have been received since . As the article did sot appear , I presume for want of room . We hops to see it ia your next . 1839 . £ . ¦• d . July 30 th , From Ripponden ( received by B . Wilkinson , Halifax .. 3 14 2 £ 6 th , Mixendea Stones , Ovenden , paid in by B . Kuihton , J . Cfaarnock 0 6 0

      Ditto a few Amateurs 0 4 0 ,, a few friends at Iilingwerth Moor-bottom 0 15 8 £ „ a few friends in the Association room 0 6 1 lOthf „ a fetr friends at Warley town 0 3 6 „ a few friends st Highroad Wells 0 5 8 „ atOldandNewPellon , of the Association 0 10 6 £ 6 6 8

      KE 1 GBU 3 Y . Chautist Mebtii ^ g . —On Tuesday evening last , a numerous and spirited meeting of the Char tiatu was held ia the Working Men ' s Hall , for tbe purpose of addressing the Queen , according to the recommendation of the Convention , and oa behalf of the three victims to middle class cruelty , now in Warwick gaol . Mr . Thomas Walton vras appointed te tbe chair , when the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to : —1 . Moved by Mr . Joseph Firth , and seconded by Mr . Thomas Constantine , u That tb ' m meeting has lot g been convinced that nothing can rescue the labouring class of thii country from their present

      horrid state of slavery and oppression but by a speedy and effectual reform in the Common *' House of Parliament , based upon the principles contained ia tbe People ' s Charter . " 2 . Moved by Mr . James Bedford , and second * d by Mr . John Smith , u That the lare attacks of tke present Ga verciment upon the constitutional rights of EDglishmtn , by d epersing them when peaceably assembled , by au armed military , and polioe force , and afterwards by mercilessly punishing them an the greatest and worst of cnmifcal * , ia a fu \\ proof to this meeting tbat the labouring class ia now under a gyi'tem of brute force , diverted even of the appearance of liberty and justice . That it if > ,

      therefore , the doty of every honest man to come forward in the present alarming crisis , and Write in putting a stop to this state of things , which , if Differed te proceed , will ruin the country , and leave the labouring clans , as they now are , tbe greatest slaves in existence . " 3 . Moved by Mr . Charles Suaderland , and seconded by Mr . Joseph VickerH , " That thia meeting sympathises with the brave patriots who are now suffering in the differeat dungeons of the kingdom , for exercising tbeir comtitutionil rights , and we especially consider tbe case of tke three unfortunate men now under sentence of death for the alleged destruction of

      property at Birmingham , ai ene of extreme and cold-blooded cruelty , inasmuch as , if at ail guilty , they were driven to the crime by the outrageous conduct of the Government and the local authorities , who , in our opinion , are the parties really deserving of punishment . " Mr . David W . Weatherhead read the address , which it was agreed upon should be seat off immediately to the Geaer&l C' > nreation , for presentation to the Queen . The different speaker * , in moving and seconding the resolutions , received the repeated applaase of the meeting for their manly and honest « xpjgare of the present middle-class Whig Government ,

      HULL Hull Election Union . —A meeting of No . 1 district , called together by circular , was held at the Boyal Oak Idd , Biackfriargate , on Friday evening week , for the purpose of taking into consideration tbe best mean ; of « ecuring the return of Colonel Thompson , as representative for this borough , and for other business connected with the unjustifiable conduct of a section calling themselves the Reform party towards Colonel Thompson . Mr . John Peck was called to preside , who read a great deal of correspondence betwixt the Colonel and hi » immediate friends here , which gave general satisfaction ; after which , Mr . Larard gave a detail of an interview with Mr . Clay , the other candidate , on the Reform interest : likewise Mr . Wilde gave an

      account ef his mission to Colonel Thompson in London—all of which were highly approved of . Moved by Mr . Wm . Holdea , chtmitt , seconded by Mr . Colly Bedford— " Tbat thi * mee'ing having heard the statements relative to the transactions ot a clique of persons stiiing themselves the . Reform party , are of opinion that Colonel Thompson was perfectly justifubta in refusing to enter in the plan for purchasing the freedoms of new burgerses iu return for a written engagement to vote as desired at tbe aext election for this borovgh ; and tbat this meetiag having full and entire confidence in the talent , ability , and known integrity of tbe gallant Colonel , do hereby pledge itself to support tbat gentleman at tha next election for this boTougb , and if necessary , gi \ e to him our sole and undivided support .

      Chartist Meeting . —On Saturday last considerable excitement was caused by tbe appearance upon the walls of large green bills announcing that a public meeting vrouli be held on Dock-Green on Monday morning , at eight o ' clock , to address the Queen to diwniw her present ministers , and call to her council « ueh men as would give the people good and cheap Government . The Mayor having refused to call such meetiag apoa the requisition of twelve respectable householder * , tbe r * quisitiouista thought proper to call the meeting themselves . Upou thi . « announcement , the Mayor and Magistrates sent down to the garrison a strong body of police with a cart , and brought back with them a sufficient

      quantity of cutlasses and other physical-force wea > pous a * was suffiui-nt to arm the wkole body of police . These proceedings caused many reports te be in circulation ; one was that a great seizure of Chartist arms bad been made , which turned oat not to be true . Oa Moaday morning . the drendUl 12 th of August arrived , when great numbers ef people wtre seen to b » slowly marching to the Green about the time appointed for holding the meeting . About half-past eight the Committee appeared » n the hnatingu ; when Mr . R . Lundy pre « pojvd Air . John Jackson to take the chair . At tbat noment between seventy ani eighty policemen , marched up ia a body to tbe meeting , which

      for a moment caused a little stagnation . The chairman then addressed the meeting for a short time requesting them to be firm and peaceable , and not to give the enemies of the people any cause to disturb their peaceable assembly . Moved by Mr . Tat ? , seconded by Mr . Pawson , in a long and ten-Rible peeeh , — " That this meeting deeply lament that the conduct of the present ministers of the Crown notwithstanding their professions ot liberal sentiments has been marked ever linpe acoenion to power by a continued series of aggression * on the right * , liberties , and comforts of the people . " Moved by Mr . John Walker , seconded by Mr . Wallis , —" That their tyranny and inselenee is now at ^ length Wtoae unbounded , as rvfeoed by their

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      recent illegal , uaconsututioaal , aBdJ u jj t oatatgeooa attack on the people when pea ^ eaoly assembled . " Moved by Mr . Luuly , seconded by Mr . Bell , — *' . That an humble address be presented to her Majesty , praying her to dimi ** her Ministry , and dissolve the present Parliament , and call only sneb men to her councils a » will give the people cheap and good Govern »« Dt , based upon Universal Snffrage . " After which Mr . Bead spoke at considerable length , wherein he gave Lord John Ruwell and the Whigs a most severe lashing , and highly oonu pi i men ted the Magistrates for their attendance a » the meeting . Moved by Mr . Walker , seconded by Mr . Read , — " That an humble address be

      presented to her Majesty , prayiag her to remit tk » seatenoe of Jeremiah Howell , Francw Robert * , aid John Jones , the individual * who are now lying under sentence of death in Warwick jail , for the late riots iu the town of Birmingham . "Notice was then given that in tea days time * public meetiag would be called to elect a Delegate to the National Caavefitioo in tbe place of Mr . Henry Viacent , who ha » resigned , iu c « iuequeao » of being incarceratei ia prison , for advocating tbe > rights and liberties ef the people . The meeting breke up about 21 o ' clock , wi hoot the least breach of the peace , indeed the whole fear was that tia authorities would be the first to break it .

      Firb on Sunday Last . —Ab » ut mid-day & fire was discovered by one of the police ia tooa extensive premises belonging to Mr . S . Bennett , Wincolmlee , and occupied by him as eil merchant ani seed crusher . Plenty of water being close at handy and nuffieient number of persons being speedily oa tie spot , the fire was soon got under with * ery little damage ; bat if it had happened ia the night a great deal of valuable property woald hare b « e » destroyed .

      Arrest Of Bronteeek.

      ARREST OF BRONTEEEK .

      Mr . James Bronterre O'Brien , the Cbariiit D < jlegate , was brought before Mr . Minshull , bjTho »« Click , a . oonatable of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , HpOH * Bench warrant , signed by Mr . Justice Coltman , xm . which he was charged with having true bills foood against him for seditioa . Tbe defendant was attended by Dr . Taylor , Mr . Carpenter , aud several Delegates ; and after he avowed himaelf to be . thst persou named in the warrant , Mr . MiaBhuli said there was not much use in Iris making any observations , although he was prepared to hear anything he bad to advance . Mr . B . O'Brien said he was aware there was not much use in saying anything on the present o « - ca « iou , and he would reserve his defence for % higher tribunal .

      Mr . Minshull inquired of the constable if he was authorised to accept of bail . The Constable said he was instructed to have baS accepted if the defendant could prooure it . Mr . O'Brien observed that there were fo » r other persons naned in the indictment , for each of whom bail te a moderate amount was taken , and he # as prepared with the same if it met with the Magistrate ' s approbation . Mr . Minshull bad no objection ; and the bail h « should require would be the defendant iu £ 100 , andtwo sureties in £ 50 each , te meet the charge at the Assizes . Mr . Rsgers , of High-street , Bloomsbnry , and Mr . Hartvreil , of the Cornwall-road , LaaAetb , then came forward , and they being considered sufficient securities , the defendant was liberated .

      Mr . O'Brien was to have started by the evening traia for the North , for the purpose of surrendering ; timself , but ia this he has been prestated , and navcd a troublesome and fatiguing journey .

      Transatlantic Packet Office, Jv». 36, (Late 2), Bath Street, North End , Princes Docs, Liverpool.

      TRANSATLANTIC PACKET OFFICE , JV » . 36 , ( late 2 ) , Bath Street , NORTH END , PRINCES DOCS , LIVERPOOL .

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      Ahgust 17 , 1839 . THE NORTHERN STAR . ' 5

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 17, 1839, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct690/page/5/