Current:

Northern Star (1837-1852), 18th September 1841, Edition 5 of 5, Page unpag, Untitled Article

Page unpag
Page 1
1 of 8

On this page

  • Departments (2)
    • Cterftt £nt*K%nit*.
    • MEETING OF THE STONEMASONS AND OTHER TRADES IN LONDON.
  • Text (8)
  • Transcript

    • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

      Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

      Untitled Article

      ( From our own Corretpoadent . ) DnofBE to Feabgcs OCoksok , Esq . —The dinner to Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., the chief of the people ' s choice * will be given in the Theatre , on Wednesday , the 29 th . Colonel Thompson &ad his son , Mr . Tnompson , Jan ., late candidate for the representation of the Tower Hamlets , aad the Rer . Wm . Hill , Editor of the Northern Star , are invited and expected guests . Ladies' tickets , Is . 6 cL ; Gentlemen ' s , 2 s . xtay b « had of the following persons : —Mr . Jolian H&rnej , agent for the Northern Siar , No . 48 , Nursery-street , Wicker , and No . 29 , St . Thomas-street , poriobello-B&eet ; Mr . Otley , No . 4 , South-street , Shefflald Moor ,- Mr . BaxKm , news-agent , No . 80 , South-street , Sheffield Moor ; Mr . Lingsrd , newsagent , Division-street ; Mr . Lad lam , news-agent , Watson Walk ; Mr . Frost , news-agent , No . 64 , Bridge-street j and Mr . Pashley , Silver-street Head .

      Beo ^ ebek O Beien . —This gentleman has declined lie invitation to be present at : hj demonstration on tae 29 th , bu : will visit Sneffield on Monday , O : tober llih , then to deliver a lecture or coarse of lectures . B othekhjlM . —Mr . Julian liarsey visited Roiherfcaa on Wednesday , September G . h ; placards , of which the following is a copy , announced Mr . Harcev = coming : — " A public meeting Yfiil be held in Jlr . Ross ' s Club Room . Qaarry Bill , on Wednesday eTenug , September 8 th , to commence at seven o ' clock , when Mr . G . Julian ilaruey will address the meeting on the existing ente of toeicjy , and their remedy . The attendance of all classes is earnestly requested . " At seven o ' clock the room was

      crowded , when Mr . John Wilson was called to the chair , who opened the business by introducing Mr . Barney . Mr . Harney then commenced by shewing brk 2 v , but poiniedly , tbe general distress of the wcrimg e ' . ass , the bankruptcy of the middle cass , and the insecurity of the aristocracy , proving there was "' something rotten in the state . " The lecturer next considered what was the remedy ; and , af ; er shewing ihs niter and complete failure of the Reform Bid , proceeded to comment upr-n ; he ^' three great taeiiures of commercial reform , " la : ely proposed to the country by the Whigs , shewing up ihe hypocrisy w \ & rascality of that faction in first raw style . The lecvuver next assailed the Tories , and diew ds ? Ti ' . ~ e jistly-merited ridicule of his hearers xr&on . that faction , while exposing their " Church

      Extension" and " Religious Education" fallacies . Mr . Harney after speaking for an hour and a-half , cor c ' aded his address by appealing to his hearers to seek knowledge , to get understanding , that they xaifi : krow the cause of their wrongs ? . nd ascertain for ° themselves the real remedy . He concluded uniu : be enibnsiastic plaudits of his hearers . Mr . Jott ? :: moved the thanks of the mpttiug to iir . Barc . ey . given nnanimou ^ v . There is s s : rong revival cf Caartiia here ; inn . renowned Dr . Smiles formed here iatelv a " F \> x and Goose Quo , " o ; its doinc ? . rumour aith not , if the cackling bo . iies wili only " come cm of their shell , " to premise them the ' Char : is : s will shew them fair play , and convince them into the bargains ( if open to convictioc ) of ihe absurdity of their brick-and-mcrtar

      hciong . So ' lay Evem . ng Lxctcbe . —Ii was announced in the Star of Saturday last , that Mr . Bilker would lecture ca S-mgjY evening , on * " Liu ntcessiiy o : abolishing ike House of Lords , " Mr . Barker should have lectured en the previous Sunday , but iaiiing to attend sen ; word that he was ill of the toothe-ache , and cculd not ajtead , upon which Messrs . llarney , Gill , and Otley , endeavoured to supply his place ; in the ccur& 2 of last week word cams to the room that Jlr . Barker would lecture as lait Sunday , accordingly the sam 3 wasannounced ( as just s : ated ) in the Siar . ' At seven o ' clock , the hour wiKn the lecture Ehculd have commenced , Mr . Barker ha 1 not made his appearance , and some ; ime after tba ; the audience

      beginning to exhibit signs of impatience , Mr . M'Xttinck tfi = red to read Mr . O'Connor ' s - speech at tee Crcwu and Anchor , London , while waiting for the lecturer ; this was cordially agreed to . Mr . H'Ketmct then read the speech which was listened to vrhh the most lively interest , ard had it not been the Sabbath evening , would have been responded to i > y tue enthusiastic cheers of the assembly . Mr . Esmey wished to know if the lec : u . * er had ye ; arrived ! It apppeared he had not , Mr . Harney said such conduct was highly disgraceful and unless Mr . Barker reached the room before : he close of the evening ' s proceedings , he ( Mr . H . ) should move a ro ' . e cf censure upon him . ( Hear , heir . ) A call was now made upon Mr . Gill , when . afur a pause ,

      thai geauem&n cams forward and said ihough ht had cot come there to lecture , still rather than the meeting should be disappointed , he would endeavour to supply Mr . Barker ' s absence , at ths iacetimehe Biuilexpress his regret that any professing Chartist should be so far unmindful of his duty as So cause such insult by his absence at a public assembly . Mr . Gill thVn proceeded to comment upon one cf the Manchester propositions lately submitted to the Sonth Lancashire lecturer .-, namely * Wilt are the effects produced upon soci-. ty by the law of primogeniture I" In answer , ilr . G . observed that he was one of those who believed that the tirth , ihe air , and the water belongs equally to ihe whole human race , vet we have a class living

      bj the public robbery of ths whole of lie earch , and snore or less of the water too . Mr . G . then showed that a landed aristocrat , who ha 3 inherited from his brigand fathers some thousands of acres of land , leaving these to his eldest son , to the exclusion of ths rest of his children , the efiVt was to throw the « e , the unprovided members of the family , upoa the public . Thus were the people doubly robbed ; robbed in the Erri place , of their right ia the land ; snd secondly , robbed through the tax ; s _ to support those branches of the aristocracy driven by the Jaw of primogeniture to subsist by public plunder . One of the effects of the law of primogeniture was the giving to the junior members of the aristocracy , a

      monopoly cf me honours and emoluments of the army , the church , and the law ; with respect to the army , he considered it a national curse—( hear ); but supposing it to b-3 the reverse of this ; suppose he admitted that a standing army wa 3 necessary , still look at tie monstroa 3 injustice exhibited in its ranks ; a private might serve , he wonld not say bis country , bu ; his country ' s despotism— ( neir , hear)—for ten , or even twenty-year ? , he m 3 y have borne the toilsome march , he ' may nave been ' vroanded , he may : c : ij ; : the batt ! e 3 rage have faced death in the " cost awfal form ? , sail shall some boy , sose aristocratic sprig , step over the ncad of the veteran , and take to him ? elf the so-called honours of the

      pror ^ isisa . Again , look as the church ; it was the yon- ^ er sons of the aristocracy , reeking from the fikhy debaucheries of collegiate life , that acquired all the high sscts cf the temple . After commenting npon : bo abns ? s of the law , Mr . G . showed tbas the calamities borne by the colonists of this country wer- caused by aristocratic rnl ;; in proof thereof , he cited ihe b ! ooa-sta : ned history of India . Mr . G . then took up the = ubject of the National Debt , EhowiEg that : hs debt wa 3 contracted for : he pur-P <> 5 e of having a fond out of which the otherwise uuprovided-for members of the aristocracy might live ; the Chartists were charged with bfijg spoliators ; he repudiated the chsrgs ; he weed no : take th-land from the arisio . T 3 . cv but to

      rej ? e ^ e t se people would vr . j ' z to sec-th ^ m com-Prijed to par ; he debt wh : "h rh ? v hid contracted for » h *! r (> hf > aristoctracy ' sj owu benefit . ( Hear . hea . r . ) iir . G . then offered som ^ observations upon , the rabjec : of competition , ani concluded a lengthy » cd trnth-leliirg discourse bj sppeajirij to the meeting to labour wiih hear : and sou : fur the obrainment w" iha : p ^ i ' . rieil p' ^ ver which vroald enable thsni to b * fak dovru the iiw of prmogir . iture , r-nd with it evtry o : h : r abu ? o of the presen : arisiocratic system . Jir . ' Hsrney said , Mr . Barker not having reached the room , and not hirsr-i ; ih ^ uzht proper 10 seed « Te n an excuse for his a ; - ' .-e : ice , and this being the stcozd time he had disapi / ofmed a public audience - I , _ , . _! _^_?^__ U ± \— \ ** 1 ** + \* A ^ a-w-J * - » .. p * r * ' \ ¦¦> . 111 ^( scTeral voice ? this is t ' thrd t ' )— weil

      , " v . : : mer i ( U -V 23 ths third time so much the wor ? e . ( HeaiO Ee ! - ] : ould now meve the resolution of which lie had S } T en noijce —( hear)—be :- woe id 5 r .= t mere teat Mr . Cjarkron take the chair : this beirg seco ; : dcu , was ag : ec-i to . The chaircian said this was the third time Mr . Barker had deceived a meeting called in that room . On tho first occasion , he ( the chairman ) had seen Mr . Barker at twelve o ' clock ri' the day o-a tb 5 cveni-ng of which he shculd have } eo : ured . He then premised :-nni _ ( : he chairman ) that he vrouU not fa- 'I to a-. ^ nc ; but he :: ev er C 3 ne . La =: Sunday he stn : word he v . us nmrcii ; but at a tiui 3 when it was impossible to make any proper arrangements for a person to Sll his place " ; this time he had not oeigned to semi anv word why he ^ as absent . Mr . Harney moTcd hi ; , resoiu-ion , " That Mr . Barker having for ; :: ? t-rd t : ma deceived apubhc assembly tffc

      o -.-a he had cr . gaged to lecture , without , upon the present occasion ,. -v ? n showing the courtesy to state wny he has aL-: er . ted himself ; this meeting ' considers the c-. nduet of that person highly censurable , and do hereby express their marked disapprobation ol his urgeatleminl y fc-hayiocr . " Mr . Joseph Oxiej seconded the reioLatioa ; t . j ; eatleiuan , who stated he wcrsed with Mr . Barker ' sard he believed Mr . narker had gone on a pleas-are trip into DerbyviV ' -t- ** . " ^ ei the resolution to be withdrawn . «• M K . ettrick cocsidered they were not to be ins ^ : s < l with impunity by Mr . Barker , or any one fJse ; he gave his hearty support to the resolution , iwo ether gentlemen supported the r < solution and strongly censured Mr . Barker . The Chairman put tne les& ' iition , which was carried with only one QiJseptiPDt . Thanks having been Toted to Mr . Gill tor fcu able address . The meeting then dissolved .

      • associATios Mxetisg . —A public meeting of the member ? and friends of the association was held on Monday , in the room , Fig-tree Lane , Mr . Ciarkson in the ehair ; Mr . M'Ketsrick brought under the notice of ths n ? eeting the propriety of holding a aeie ^ ate ^ meeting in Sheffield , for the purpose of considering the best m ^ ans of extending the organ ! - ¦ atitn ot' the association to the difitrieti aroand

      Untitled Article

      Sheffield , and for the better uniting the towns of Barnsley , Doncaster , Rotherham , and Chesterfield with the town of Sheffield , making of the latter the centre in the agitation for the future to be carried on in . this part of the country ; he wished the delegate meeting to be held for another reason , namely , that they might secure the co operation of the towns he had just named in the forthcoming demonstration , in honour of Feargns O'Connor . ( Hear , hear . ) After some other pointed remarks , Mr . M'Kettriek conc luded by moving " Th » t a delegate meeting be held in this room ( Fig-tree Lane ) on Sunday next , September the 19 th , at the hour of one o'clock , for the purpose he had before named , and that the following places be reqnested to send delegatesnamely .

      , Barnsley , Doncaster , Rotherham , Chesterfield and Brampton , Attercliffe , Darnall , Ecclesfield , Handsworth , Grimesthorpe , Stannington , J ortley , Dronfield , Crookes , Heeley , Ougbbridge , Wadsley , Eckington , Woodhouse , Baighton , H » ckenthorpe , and Ecolesall . " Mr . Ownshaw seconded the motion , —agreed to nnanimously . ( It is requested , that the delegates will bring word of the number of tickets wanted in their respective localities for the dinner to be given to Feargus O'Connor , Esq .. on the 29 th . ) Mr . Harney said , with great pleasure he had voted for Mr . M'Kettrick's motion , but he was anxious that if possible something should be done in the way of holding village meetings in the neighbourhood of Sheffield this week , without

      waiting " for the delegate meeting . On Sunday , on Tuesday , and Wednesday , Dr . M'Douall would be lecturing in the Town Hall ; on Thursday evening he ( Mr . H . ) wonld have to attend the meeting of the committee for obtaining the liberation of the political T > ri ? onerg ; but on Friday and Saturday evening 3 he would be at liberty , and would be happy to attend any meetings called for those evenings . ( Hear , hear . ) A conversation ensued , in which Messrs . M'Kettrick , Otley , Green and others took part ; it was ultimately resolved " That parties wishing Mr . Harney ' a assis " - tance should communicate and make arrangements with Mr . H . for the holding of meetings . " Sir . Otley jead a letter from Mr . Peter Shorrocks , of Manchester , enclosing four pounds , a sovereign each to

      be given to the four victims of Whiggery lately liberated from Northallertongaol , Messrs . Penthorpe , Benison , Thomas Booker , and William Booker . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Ilaraey said , the men of Sheffield were abon : to give a public dinner to Feargus O'Connor , io testimony of the sense entertained by them of his distinguished serrices in freedom ' s cause ; tha-t was good , but while all honour was paid to the chii-f of the cause , he thought that others who had struggled and suffered in that cause should not be forgotten . ( Hear , hear . ) He regarded the humblest of those who had been struck down by tyranny ' s shafts , to be as worthy of the people's honour as O'Connor himself . ( Hear . ) True , it was not possible to get np public dinners every day ,

      otherwise he would have said let Peuthorpe , asd Benison , and the Bookers have a dinner , as well as O'Connor . ( Cheers . ) This could not be j but tickets to ths dinner on the 29 : h might be presented to each of the victims , and this -would t > e paying them some respect , God knew not more than their sufferings entitled them to—( cheers)—and sure he was that the presence of the liberated patriots , and ihe presence of the wives of thore yet suffering in the dungeoBS of despotism would be the most acceptable and highly pria&d honour they could pay to Mr . O'Connor . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Harney concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that Mrs . Clayton , Mrs . Holberry , Mrs . Marshall , Mrs . Foden , the patriots who had been liberated from prison , and

      ( where married ) their wives be gratuitousl y presented with tickets to the dinner . ( Cheers . ) Sir . Farn seconded the motion . Mr . Otley gave to the motion his most hearty support ; it was a glorious feature " of the preseut agitation that the working men could respect the good deeds of their own order ; they required not that a man should be a Lord , or a Squire , to do him honour ; no , it was enough that he was a patriot . ( Cheers . ) This feslius of self-respect and self-reliance on th _ - part cf the labouring many was a sure and certain guarantee of their ultimate triumph—that the uuy woold compel the othsr classes of society to respect thenvtoo . ( Cheers . ) The motion was unanimously carried . Mr . M'Ketterick moved the following

      resolution : — " That the New Poor Law framed : n violation of ths Brhteh constitution , and carried out in the most inhuman and unchristian spirit , has always been regarded with detestation and abhorrence by the working classes of Sheffield , the appoiLtirs of the three irresponsible Somerset Hcuse bashaws to superintend the execution of the law being especially odiou 3 in their estimation , convinced as this meeting is that no such power can be placed in the hand 3 of individuals without degenerating into—if not meant for the purposes of—the Tiles ; tyranny ; and this meeting regards with surprise the proposed amendment of the law of which Mr . Roebuck has giTen notice , seeing in that so-called amendment a grievous addition to the evil complained of , and the

      establishment of a despotism which Englishmen will be justified in resisting by every means iii their power . We , therefore , call upon ths people of Bath to demand of their misreprcsentative an account of his conduct upon this and a former occasion when he betrayed the principles of B-adic& \ ism to the Tories . " ' in support of his resolution , Mr . M'Kettcr ick remarked that it would be known to them all that Mr . Roebuck was returned at the tate election for B&th as an advocate of the p-ople ' s rights , but most foully had he betrayed his trust . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) His conduct in tho Hcuse of Com mons upon the introduction of Mr . Sharnwn Crawford's motion for an amendment of the address would be fresh in their recollection ; he then

      betrayed the principles hewasseut to tho House of Commons to defend , and sold the true friends of the prople to rhe Tories , the avowed iocs of pooular n ^ lijs ; and now he came forward with his motion to amend the > "ew Poor Law , by making it a far worse msasure , if that were possible , than it even was at present . ( Hear . ) He proposed to discharge the three Somerset-house Commissioners and v ^ i the power held by tbc-m in the Home Secretary of State . This was carrying out the principle of centralization with a vengeance ! The tyranny of the Somerset-house Bashaws was bad enough , but here the Radical Member for "Bath proposed to erect a despotism , unblushing and unveiled . ( Hear , hear . ) Unless Mr . Roebuck had indeed taken leave of his

      senses , he ( Mr . M'Kettrick ) must say that he regarded him as the most sublime ot humbugs . — ( Cheers . ) Entertaining these views , he had Jeeaod it his duty to bring forward the resolntion he had jnst proposed , and he thorght , if the people of Bath " did their duty , they would fling their sham ILidicai member overboard . ( Caef-rs )—Mr . Stokes seconded the resolution . —Mr . Harr . ey Baid he should give to the resolution his support . The resolution denounced the 2 s ' ew Poor Law , and in every word of denunciation of that law he most cordially concurred . It was one of the blackest acts of class-legislation . That Jaw was passed for tho three-fold purpose of reducing the wages of labonr , bringing the people to

      live on a coarser sort of food , and thinning the population ( Hear , hear . ) The framers of the law calculated that by making the puor-house a terror to the people , they would drive them from seeking relief , and thus place them a : the mercy of the employ ocracy of the country . A man—an agricultural labourer , say—deprived of employment , and having no re ? " ; urce bat the parish , solicits relief . This , without the walls of a workhouse , is denied him ; he mu .-t break up his home , he must consent to be eriinneJ in a place more like a prison than ou ^ ht else , there to te separated from his wife and children , otherwise he may perish—he may cie . The man shrinks with horror from entering the accursed place , over the gates of which he thinks

      he tees written in letters of blqod , what the pott imagined he saw inscribed over the gatc 3 of hell . u >" o hope entere here . ' He returns to his la : c employer , and whereas he btibTe had ten shilling .-a week , he now offers hi 3 labour at nine chillies the week ; hi 3 offer is accepted ; but to make way for him another man working at a high v ,-a >> e is dischargJd ; but this man has as great a horror oi the Bistile as the fresh man , and he , rather than become its inmate , will labour for eight shillings the week , Thu 3 was it calculated thi 3 hated law would allow the slave-drivers to grind down their serfs . ( Hear . ) U required no speech-making to b&ow them that if their wages were reduced they must necessarily be brought to a worse diet ; but a word or two upon the assertion he had made that the law was framed to thin the population . A numerous people had always been a cans « of dread to tneir

      oppressors . Now , in the good old times they had a capital method of thinning the population ; that was , to set the people to cnt each others' throats . ( Hear . ) > 'ot so many years since an Englishman had but to ba told that a Frenchman wore wooden shoes , and swallowed frog sonp , and was his natural enemy , not forgetting also that one Englishman could thrash five JrenchmeD , and forthwith John Bull was ready to march-to " mnrder as enemies men he never saw . This was capital work for the oppressors ; it eased them ef their fears , for this ** windpipe-slipping-» rt" is a game at which two must play . Now , French Republicans were not the men to stand idly by , and allow themselves to be butchered , so they struck blow for blow ; they Btruek heavy , and they = treck hard . ( Cheers . ) They had all heard of " The Duke of York ' s Match : " hewradered whether they meant th « Duke ' s march to Valenciennes , or hi

      Untitled Article

      double-quick trot back again . ( Laughter and cheer ? . ) Two birds , yon see , were killed with one atone ; French Republicans were butchered , and the surplus population of England was knocked on the head . But that method wouldn ' t do now ; they were bound over in eight hundred millions to keep the peace , and dared not go to war . ( Cheers . ) It might be all very well to knock down Chinamen ' s forts at Hong Kong—( laughter )—and batter down Mehemet Ali ' e castles , but they were widely different matters to engaging in an European war . Why , they could not carry on a peace , how the devil then were they to carry on a war 1 ( Cheers . ) Again , they had not public opinion ou their side ; the voice of the people was opposed to war , henco they could not keep down

      the population by tho old means . Well , the Whigs in turning over the pages of the Bible , which they never did but , like their father , the Devil , to extract evil from its pages—tehee :- ** and laughter)—lighted upon the history of one King Pharaoh , who in days of yore ruled a distant land . It appears he was sorely troubled oa account of the fast increase of a people he held iu bondage ; he therefoi e decreed a law , ordering the male children of the people ho dreaded to be put to death as soon as born . This was tho lawgiver for tho Whigs ; upon his law they had modelled their New Poor Law , under the operation of which hundreds had been gruelled to death in the bastiles , and many au unhappy mother had deprived her offspring of existence . Cases

      innumerable might bo cited ; it was enough that he mentioned—and but mentioned—the namo of Harriet Longley . ( Cries of " Hear . ") Well , this was the law with which Mr . Roebuck was so much in love ; and not content with it as it at present stood , he must needs seek to increase its deformity by vesting the immense power of carrying out the law in an aristocratical , irresponsible Secretary of State ; precious Radicali .-m this ; but for his part he was not surprised . Mr . Roebuck was a rank Malthusian ; as such he ( Mr . H . ) had never trusted him : moreover , he ( Mr .

      Roebuck ) waa allied with the fox and goose crew of Leeds , men who though they had liberty ever on their tongnes , Laiboured the vilest despotism in their hearts ; he must confess ho was surprised that even the Charti ^ t 3 of Bath gav e their support to such a person , and he hoped that they would not fail to do their duty , by bringing their very inconsistent rerresentanve to a public account of his conduct . ( Cheers . ) The Chairman announced that Mr . Otley would lecture on Sunday next , on the life and character &f Washington . Thanks having been voted to the Chairman , the meeting then adjourned .

      Dr . M'Douali . —This eminent and talented assertor of the people ' s rights , visited Sheffield ou Tuesday la&t ; by some it waa feared that the time of the patriot ' s visit was inauspiciously chosen , this being the week of the rac& « at Doncaster , their fears were , however , proved to be ill-iouuvled ; the Town-Hall had been engaged for tho doctor , which will hold , we aro informed , a thousand persons . By eight o'clock , the hall was densely crowded , at which hour the popular lecturer made his appeariuce , and was received with the most tremendons

      cheering . Mr . GeH was called to the chair , aud introduced Dr . M'Douali . The lecturer at onco entered into an explanation of the principles of tho People ' s Charter , as he proceeded , vindicating the rights of the people , in the most eloquent and soul-Btirring language , responded to b y the most rapturous cheering . Your correspondent must express his regret , that he is unable to send you even an outline of the doctor ' s excellent lecture , compelled as ho is to have his weekly report in the post-office , before ten o'clock on Tuesday evening .

      Untitled Article

      FERlUrS ME MOST EXTBAORDJNaRV , AKD CERT-U . NLT THE MOST IMPORTANT MEETING EVER CO . NTE . NED ] . \ LoSDOX , WAS HELD OS SATl'RDAT NIGHT LAST , AT THE CRAVEN ' S HEAD TAVEES , DRUilT LANE , FOR THE PURPOSE OF HEAEi . VG FKARGLS O ' COXKOBL . When Mr . O'Connor presented himself , he was received with one general burst of applanse , and then commenced ai lollows : — Mr . Chairman and fellow-tradesmeD / Tor I am a tradesman —( cheers )—it was wroDg , very wrong ,- of me to have ventured here to night ; I cannot make a speech ; I must speak to you . ( Hear , hear . ) I have got a bad sore throat and a violent inflammation of the chest at the present moment ; but had I

      been worse I could not have resisted the great temptation of meeting the stonemasons—the glorious stonemasons—and other trades . ( Cheers . ) This meeting is the foundation stone of a great and beautiful edifice , in which every member of the human family may find shelter . ( Cheers . ) I have earned a title to the name of workman , as your Chairman tells you that I look twenty years older than I did four years ago . Well ; if I have done twenty years' worth of good , 1 have no reason to regret the premature old age . ( Cheers . ) Now you are many of you masons ; and 1 st us see why and wherefore you should be Chartists—for that , after all , is the question . ( Hear , hear . ) I come to enlist you in the holy army of Chartista ; not to kidnap yon as unwilling recrwts in the army of martyrs . Well , you are masons : many

      belonging to London , and many more driven from the country to look for employment . ( Cheers . ) Weli ; notwithstanding that tno Sun , and other paperp , still contend that steam power has not interfered with the business of tailors , hatters , shoemakers , 6 cc . —( laughter)—it i 3 r . ; y business to show you fairly how it can interfere with the builders * oi houses , although no part of the operation is performed by steam . ( Hear , hear . ) To prove this , then , I will go at once to authenticated statistics . ( Hear , hear . ) And I will not traval beyond the Elysium of Reform , yea : I will take the very ten years of that halcyon age . i Laughter . ) It appears , then , according to the census of 1831 , that the number of families in Birmitigham was greater by between 400 and 50 U than the number of inhabited

      houses ; while , by the census of 1641 , it appears that the number of families exceed the number of inhabited houses by between 2 , 000 and 3 , 000 . ( Loud cheers , and hear , hear . ) Very well ; here then we have- the admission , suppoamg houso-bmlding and procreation to have progressed recording to former rules and : tandaide , that in the last ten years above 2 , 000 families , or 14 , 000 peno / i ? , at soven to a tamily , have been driven from tue cottage to the cellar—from the house to the louging-room . ( Great cheering , and " true . " ) Weli , what has this done ? Why , u has created a competitive power of 2 . ready-b ' . ii ' . t houses against the masons of Birmingham , —( hear , hear . )—and it has sent them up hero to create a comp-.-tilive power , constituting a

      roaster ' s reserve , whereon he may fall back and make a reduction of wages according to the overstock in the market . ( Loud cheers and " true . ") Now , vi \ . ii occurs at Birmingham occur 3 to a greater extent at Manchester , Leeds , and other manufacturing towns , and hence v ? e find a great number of cottages , formerly occupied entirely by labouring men , now u&t-uanted , while we see cellars full ot live-lumber . ( Great cheering . ) Hence I provo to you that by the unchecked license to gamble in artificial labour , your customers are driven into the cellars , aud your services are not required ; thus tLat steam injures you —( hear , hear . )—and also tfca ' t it creates in your trade a surplus number of hands in an overstocked market . ( Cheers . ) Let ts now

      £ fe how the system generally operates pr < judicially io ' . he whole mass of society ? ( Hear . ) I will he ^ in with your ill-tia'cd customers , my poorest aud best belovert clients— thefustian-jackcted operatives . Suppose then a master to employ a thousand hands , and : o reduce the wages from 14 : 5 . to 13 s . a week , that would be considered a slight reduction . They have gone as far as -Vo per cent , or one-third reduction . ( Hear , hear . ) Very well that reductionyives the master one thousand shillings , or £ 50 a-week ; independent of any honourable speculation upon manufacture ? . ( Loud cheers . ) Now , that gives him a property of £ -2 , 600 per annum , and now hear me , and let this sentence siuk Ueep in your recollection , and be engraven upon the tabitt of € > " ? try -working man ' s memory . To preserve the title ( o that properly is the principle upon which the Home of Commons is returned as the great trades union of the monopolists , ( Tremeuuous

      cheering and clapping of hands)—aud to break that union down we are here assembled this night ; and break it down we must and will . ( Loud cheers . ) But I dont stop here ; for my business is to make my principles and objects so clear , that none can misunderstand . ( Hear , hear . ) WelJ , suppose a community of 10 , 000 families , the maater 3 without reference to trade make by a reduction of one shilling per week , £ 26 , 000 anually by plunder . ( Hear , hear . ) Well , they substitute a cold bastiie , which again deprives you of sustenance . ( Chesre . ) The stepmother ' s scanty bit insolently doled ; out to systemmade paupers ; the overseer ' s knont ; the wife torn from her husband , and the children from both ; and for what i Because class legislation has robbed the 10 , 000 families of £ 26 , 000 annually , which if shared , woxld have formed a larger fund than the commissioners allow—wonld have rendered poor laws unnecessary , and education a blessing to be obtained by the poor man ' s own honest [ resources . ( Loud

      Untitled Article

      cheers . ) Well , that ' s a moderate picture , and now to come home to you stonemasons , tailors , hattera , and all trades . ( Hear , hear . ) Suppose then , that m consequence of an overstock of maeona , the masters should reduce wages 5 s . a week , here at once the proprietors of 1 , 000 slaves make by the reduction the enormous sum , of one hundred and thirty thousand pounds per annum . ( Tremendous sensation and cheers . ) Jfow would ' nt it be a good substitute for the bastilfl and skilly—( hear , hear)—and to obviate this , you have tried your trade ' s union ! Folly 1 folly t . ( Cheers . ) The Whigs were more powerful than you ; and they were a trade ' s union , and yet the lories being a still more powerful union , they beat the Whigs . Cheers aud laughter . ) Now you

      see mat call class legislation what you will ; paint it as you please !; the House of Commons is nothing more or less than the rendevous of two trades uniocs of masters—the Whigs , the unionists to uphold steam , and the centralisation of squalid misery and wretchedness in the filthy towns , and the Tories , to uphold the convenient appropriation . of the land , whereby they may regulate Suffrage and representation , aooording to tho ehurch , tho army , tho navy , the law , the placeman , and patronage standard . ( Loud oheera . ) Tho one combination cannot rob the other ; they may hold possession of the legitimate and transferable plunder ; but upon any emergcenoy both factions will join in one anion to rob you . ( Loud cheers . ) Now , do you hope for , or

      oxpect aoy alteration of yoHrgrievances from either 1 ( " No * no . ") No of course not ; that ' s right . ( Cheers and laughter . ) Do you conscientiously look to the Charter , as a means of elevating you , without plundering thosa above you ? ( Cheers and " aye . " So do I . ( Cheers . ) Well , now the same rule that applies to masons applies to all other trades . When those in tho provinces can't wear coats and breeches , the displaced tailors come to London and reduce wages . ( Hear , hear . ) So with hatters , and so with all ; for believe me that none , not even the greatest , but d&pend upon your order for their very existence . ( Tremendous cheers . ) Now let mo push the consideration of this important questiou still further ; a man said that the blacksmiths would bo

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

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

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

      repeal of the Corn Laws ! ( Laughter ) You may well laugh . Reduction of the timber and sugar duties . ( Renewed laughter . ) Now , as they have reduced tbo question of the Corn Laws to tee tangible shape of " cheap bread , " I may just ask you if you cau have any influence over the price of the manufactured article , whatever enactments the Trades' Unionists in St . Stephens may make a& to the raw material \ (" iNo , no . " ) Very well . Now , then , as they admit that cheap bread will make cheap wages , aud as they don ' t say one sentence about cheap Government , or cheap prayers—( laughter and cheers)—cheap fighting , or cheap law—( cheers ) -just let me supply the deficiency . ( Hear , hear . ) Suppose , then , that labour is cheapened , and

      that wages are correspondingly reduced—mind , according to legislative rate of duty upon the raw matorial , wheat , and not according to the flour factors or bakers' enactments—( cheers)—and suppose that taxes remain , and the funds remain , and all regal expences , in short , all—and suppose wages , which alone pays all , to bo reduced from £ 1 to 14 s ., and suppose that out of tho pound you now earn , that you pay 10 s . tax , and have 10 s . to spend ; well , out of the 14 s . you would still pay tho 10 s . tax , and have 4 s ., the surplus , to deal iu the fancy bread and Hour market . ( Loud cheering , and " True , true . " ) Now , to complete this picture ,

      I must shew you what power the corndealers , flour-dealers , and bakers have , independently of law . ( hear , hear . ) Here it is then , a night ' s rain or wind , and , as if by magic , we have a calamitous note from Mark-laue , aud when you go for your breakfast you got the small loaf . ( Loud chters . ) So it is , one night ' s rain givc 3 the power—tho intention is always there— and although it -may ; raise the price of flour from 3 s . to is . Id . in a hurry , yet will not twelve days of suushiue reduce it by a farthing . ( Loud cheers . ) Well , then , is it wonderful that we should have 500 , 000 * KHSON 3 LIVING WITHOUT GOD AND WITHOUT HOPE ?

      Ah no J and many is the system-made wretch reduced to the dire situation of beiDg an unwilling idler , who , while I am speaking , it spending his last shilling or sixpenco iu the gin palace . Aye , and that poor forlorn creature loves his wife and little cues well , yet take ? the poison to cure an aching heart and drown a hood of sorrow which he cannot overcome . ( Great sensation and cheers . ) Aye , he loves his wife and loves his babes , but sixpenco for seven or eight to live upon for seven long days is a promoter of strife and dostroyer of harmony , and a creator of family quarrels ;—( cheers )—and who is the villain ? the unwilling victim or the willing tyrant who makes him so ? ( Loud cheers . ) Well , thon , to the Charter 1 look for his conversion , aud for his

      tyrant ' n downfall . ( Cheers . ) I come now to timber , aud let me sboiv how it would operate against the carpenti r and mason , and all those engaged iu building I ; ouse 3 untler a master contractor . ( Hear , htar . ) Firstly , then , if all the duty was taken off . Suppose that Baltic timber was reduced in price , from £ 7- to £ i . the ton , the poor man ' s rent would not be reduced by a fraction , whilo the house owners would lake care to have the advantage of t ) ie lowered duty . ( Cheers . ) Suppose , then , that a master contracts for a largo amount of work , his estimate is reduced correspondingly with tho reduction on tho duty , aud he shows tho reduced estimate to his workmen , and actually reduces their wagoa in consequence of the reduction on duty , having given

      an advantage to the aristocrat , or house builder . ( Loud cheers . ) As to Sugar , my friends , I should like , provided it met your taste , to see each of you with a sugar stick in his mouth . ( Laughter and cheers . ) But really the juggle is too ridiculous , as regards sugar , to occupy a moment of our time with comment . Air . O'Connor then entered into a powerful defence of every act of the Chartists . He asked why it was that the whole press of England aad Ireland repeated every word spoken by tho Irish patriots , and never repeated a word he said . Ah , said he , the answer is plain and simple , because- their leader is but playing chuck-etone with the people , tossing them from hand to hand , and they know that 1 am in earnest in what I say , and he is only in fun . ( Laughter and cheers . ) Give me six months

      reporting as they give Mr . O'Conuell , and I will carry the Charter and Repeal of the Union . ( Loud cheers . ) Oh , thank God , you cheer at the Repeal of the Union . Aye , 1 would carry both in six months ; but as I cant have that , I must on ' y work the harder , and do it myself . ( Loud cheers . ) I will do it , let who likes doubt it . ( Great cheering . ) Mr . O'Connor then exhorted all to join the Charter Association ranks ; to put down every appearance of disunion os-strife , and to unite as one man in the people ' s cause , who must not be longer deceived by moonshine . He spoke at considerable length , showing the progress which Chartism had made , and after a high and well-merited euloeium upon the petition carriers , one of whom was in the chair and many around him , he eat down in ft state of great exhaustion , amidst thunders of applause *

      The above is a mere sketch of his brilliant speech , the effect of which is , we nnderstasd , a- determination to call a general meeting of tho trades to hear why they should join in th « agitation for the Charter .

      Untitled Article

      HAMMEBSIKEITH . A public meeting was held ou Tuesday evening , at the City Arms Tavern , to welcome Feargus O'Coanor to Hauim&rsiaitn , his adopted home . Mr . O'Connor having arrived a little before ei ^ ht o ' clock , loud acclimations arose from ievwy part of the spacious building , which was crowded to excess , as was the lawn and every avenue to the Tuvern . The cheering having subsided , Mr . StALVW © OD was called to the chair , who opened the evening ' s proceedings in a powerful address

      eulogising the firm and patriotic conduct of oar noble champion , referring to hi 3 valuable assistance in aiding the people to procure the return of tho Dorchester labourers and the Glasgow Cotton Spinners , and the noble uiaiiner in-which , iumietiiaUJy upon hie release from his dungeon , he again stepped into the front ranks—again braved the brunt of the battle . He called upon the meeting to give every person , vrh » might address them , a fair and impartial hearing , if they came with prejudices to throw them aside , and listen only to the dictates of reason .

      Mr DoaliNg , a fustian jacket , moved the first resolution : — " That this meeting hail with delight , that noble of nature , Feargus O'Coanor , oa his release from his unjust incarceration , and hereby welcome him to Hammer-Binith , his adopted home . They also pledge themselves never to cease in their exertions , until they procure the return of Frost , Williams , and Jones , and the release of all political prisoners . " The enthusiastic manner in which they had received their noble champion fully demonstrated that they cordially agreed in this resolution . Working men , ot all others , had most need to be proud of O'Connor . For

      their cause ha had sacrificed ease , reputation amongst his own class , and the honours and luxuries of aristo cratic life ; for they must bear in mind that be was not struggling for his own right * , but for the rights of the working classes . The Chairman bad alluded to bis conduct with respect to the Dorchester labourers aad the Glasgo wcotton spinners . He ( Mr . D . ) also bore testimony that these men would never have been restored to their homes , had it not been for his unwearied exertions . Miles after miles had he travelled to procure the release of thesa men ; and he trusted his exertions in the cause of liberty would meet with speedy and triumphant success .

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

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

      Mr . Wheeler , then rose to move the second reso lution" That this meeting is of opinion that the people of this empire will never be fully represented until the People's Charter becomes the law of the land , and that Impartial justice will never be awarded to Ireland until the Legislative Union betweeu the two countries ia repealed , and Ireland has a Parliament of her own , elected upon the broad principles contained iu the People ' s Charter . " In tho spirit ot this resolution he entirely agreed , being

      well convinced that the people of this country would never bo fully and fairly represented until every man had a voice in the making of those laws which every man was called upon to obey j any measure of Reform short of this was a mere mockery—was unworthy of the acceptance of an intelligent and united people . See the misery and distress which existed among the working classes of this country—among those whose industry created all the comforts , necessaries , and luxuries of life—whoee exertions created all those ingenious contrivances which tend so greatly to smooth the rough road of human existence . Whence has arisen this

      anomalous state of society ? Simply , because we negkcted the right of Universal Suffrage—of that right which nature , which reason commands us to exert ; simply , because our law-makers are of a different class of society to ourselves , having different and opposing interests in view . But they tell us we are too ignorant ; we have been ignorant—very ignorant , or we should not have slaved from morning till night , that an aristocratic class might riot in luxury on the wealth we have toiled to earn . In tha second part of the resolution he also

      cordially agreed . As an Englishman , he should feel himself insulted by being told that be could not manage his own business , but must have an Irishman to transact it ; and was it n « t equally an insult to Ireland , to be governed by a Viceroy , like a conquered province—to be forced to maintain a State Church , whose doctrines were at variance with the feelings of eight-tenths of the inhabitants ? ( Loud cheers . ) For these evils—for the evil of absenteeism , the only remedy was to fzive Ireland a Parliament of her own , elected on the principles of the People ' s Charter .

      Mr . Millwood briefly seconded the resolution , which was carried unanimously . ? 4 r . O'Connor roBe amidst tremendous cheering to address tho meeting . The following is only a sketch of un address , that for eloquence and rtasoa has never been surpassed . My friends , I am proud to see myself surrounded by such an assembly ; 1 am also proud to see so many females present—this is cheering to my heart , it informs me that our principles iire gloriously wending their way into the heart of society—that cur female * who are the founders of the character of our population , are alive to their true inirresto , are anxious to see domestic and social happiness based on the firm foundation of political liberty . It is now five years sinct ) I had the honour of addressing you in this

      room , I was then received with some little cosiness , some little distrust ; but ere that meeting closed , I bad the pleasure of knowing that a right estimate was found of m j views and feelings . Since then , I have occupied a prominent position in the political world . I have encountered tbe wrath of all the factions , but have received in return the love and approbation of the people , for whesa rights I havo been struggling , whose cause aud vrhose interests have ever been dear to my heart . I am also happy to see a sprinkling of the middle classes present , as I wish to &howto them that our principles'will benefit not the working classes alone , but all classes of society . Well , my friends , here am I again among you , stiil true to my principles , still ready to brave every danger , determined now Jbat we

      have vanquished the Whi ^ B , to battle all the Tories —( cheering )—in the full planitude of their power , still ready to meet their threat of a strong goveminent'backed by the sword » ud the cannon , the gibbet and the prison . They may again send me to York Castle— may again enclose me in their stone coffin—may deprive me of the consolation of intercourse with u > y friends—and I will cheerfully welcome all , sye , more than all , if I might be assured that the cause would progress in a similar manner as it has done since my incarceration . ( Cheering . ) Living here , alraobt out of tbe political world , you may not all know why I was sent to York Castle . Jt was for the undefined crime cf libel , a libel copied from a Wiltshire paper ; not a witness was examined save to my being the proprietor of tho paper , the

      Northern Star . ( Cheers . I Vet , ou the oath of twelve middle cla ?» jurymen , was I convicted for publishing what I never Baw , what I never read or heard of , till it was heard in evidence against me— ( shame );—but , th 3 Dk God , I have gone ttrou ^ h the ordeal ; thank God , we cave all passed through tha fiery trial ; never was an agitation carried on in so firm , so peaceful a manner us . 'he present ; no riots , no destruction of property , though they have attempted to goad us to vengeance by sending the police amongst us ; we are no destructives , we claim . equal rights for all ; we ask not for ourselves what we would not willingly grant to all . Look at ocr present anomalous position ; ve have a Tory Gjvernment with a majority of ninety-one , and we bave a nation completely anti-Tory ; there is not an hundred working men in the nation who are Tories Thfl nation detests the Tories . How then have they been elected in opposition to tb « wish of the nationbecause

      in opposition to the public mind ? Why , they have teen elected by a class ; what then la the remedy > ( A voice in the meeting , " tbe Ballot ) The ; Ballot , why , that is tho ladle without the soup . Has the per-Bon who says ' the Ballot' a vote ? Come , my Mend . I want to deal fairly with you . ( Amr . '" °° - \ , Tlie Ballot ! what will the Ballot do ? Will it give him a vote ? No ; it la the scabbard without the sword—the Ballot without Universal Suffrage would make a trades ' onion of votera ; they would then fire upon ns from a masked battery , could make a boart ot their liberality , of their independence , and yet Tote in direct opposition to our interests . We want tbe Ballot to protect us from the wrong doer , not the wrong doer from n » . But , say the Whigs , we will agitate for the Ballot , 'twill be a mantle to shield us from tbe people . They boast ot their eonstitatfonal principles i and yat they would give u tho Ballot , which te the only unconstitutional one oC the Sis ? oi&U of the Chattel . iTheLearotd

      Untitled Article

      ¦ y- /*>' S 7 TJ-- / nrtr i'ir ** :. . . ^ ^* l 4 ^ i ^ /^ i ^^/ j v . «; Z £ LS jGraatlnnaa then atwma length proved that the oti «; Fife Points wete ' patt as 3 parcel of to * ao-ealled Conatitntioa . ) Bat why do the middle data want th » Ballot - ' —Because they find the system at fault ; because they nave preyed ao long on the working ebw , that they have devoured tha whole of their snhitenoe , they sow find tbe disadvantage of an empty till : tha men who wear hate , shoes , coats , * c can no longeijwo cu » them , so they want tbe Ballot to play the laaded monopolist * against the steam monopolists , sutioai in the wsrfiwe to come to for the lion's share . Finding they can no longer get taxation sufficient from the working

      chutes of this country , they are trying to eke it out by g etting it from Poland , from Pzuari » , or from wherever it can be obtained . Peel , too , demands a faU-triaL I never got a fair trial . H «* has been tried and eon * detuned long sines ; for one hundred , and fifty yeanr have we tried the factions , and bave at length , on dear evidence , convicted them ot guilt For ten years hare we borne with tbe Whigs ; they gave power to the middle classes , but neglected you ; they overlooked that ; for them to be enriched , you must be placed in the position of purchasers ; but you have been the us between the two factions ; first one heaping yon with burdens and then the other ; they have wrought oat their own destruction , and now they complain of the people . We are not Whigs ; we have done with them

      for ever . We never were Tories ; we stand on the glorious position of demanding eqnal rights for all . I have been called a destructive and a torch and dagger agitator . I defy any man t « prove I ever ottered the words t « rch or dagger at any public meeting in my life . What I have said is , that , when moral force failed physical force would come like on electric shock to its aid ; but the man who would attempt to array it—to marshall au unarmed people against the cannons and bayonets of the aristocracy , mast be a fool or a madman . Attwood and the Birmingham Whigs were the first to- talk of physical forcu , and the first to desert their standard , while I waa made their scape-goat , the torn fool , to bear the weight of their misdeeds ; but I bore the whole , conscious the day

      would come when I should have justice done me . That day is now come ; the Tories are weak—weak for want of popular support . The Whigs are dead , while we we in triumph . Tiio Whigs now call npon us to help them to beat the Tories . We did help them , at the time ot the Reform Bill . We raised a storm of indignation against the Tories , from North to Sonth We seated them firmly in tffice ; but what did they do for us ? They gave England a Poor Law Bill—they gave Ireland a Coercion BUI—they appointed commis sioners , well-paid commiE 8 fonurs , to examine into almost every thing . If the Great Mogul had the tooth ache , they would appoint a commission to see on which side of the jaw the pain lay . If there was distress in Ireland , there was a commission to see why the potatoe

      crop bad failed . Look at their tithe commissions , how I struggled against them . Look at their 8 , 000 police men , eqnal to 24 , 000 soldiers , as they receive three times as much pay , and then say they give justice to Ireland ; but Irelauu shall have justice ; we-will fly to her rescue . Reuoul shall be our watchword ; it shall go hand in fcau ' a with the Charter . I will strip it of its hobgoblinism . I will demonstrate that it is for tha interest of both nations ; it shall no longer be made a bugaboo of . [ The Learned Gentleman here went into an accurate detail of the Irish question . ] Yon are the bees—your oppressors are the drones of society . If you were to remain idle for one month—your oppressors would starve ; They could not eat their plate , nor their jewels , they cjuM not devour their furniture nor their

      houses , bnt you would not starve . The land iB yonr inheritance . Yon would consume as much as you wanted , and no more . ( Mr . O'Connor here went into the question of Biptist Noel's tract , during which he was greeted with great applause . ) Look at the present condition , look at yonder sweet child clinging to its mother ' s breast with ail the fondness of infantine loret see its mother smiling upon it with maternal solicitude ; and then direct your thoughts to the poor factory children ; see them carried on their parents ' backs to work at the spinning jennies—the system is too horrible to describe My attention was motted to it wbea 1 was at Oldham , in the year 1835 . It is a system which will destroy us , or we must destroy it , there can be no parleying with thia

      gigantic enemy . I am glad to see the feeling which has spread throughout the country . Britons will no lenger be content to slave from morning till night for hare food ; they demand more ; they demand intellectual , moral , and physical enjoyment ; and , by the help of God and our firm energies , we will speedily attain them . £ am willing t » forget the past ; I have buried all animosity in the dungeon of York Castle ; I am for a union of all against the common enemy ; but we will no longer be the shuttlecock to be knocked about by either a Whig or a Tory battledore , I may again he arrested , but I am determined to fulfil my work . Look at our position—a whole nation governed by a handful of aristocrats , by a few men who , as compared with you , would appear to be made by Nature ' s

      journeymen . Gather together all the aristecrats who livu vitbin four miles of this place , and an omnibus would hold them . And shall this insignificant body iule auch a host of working men ? We will never ceu . se in our exertions till we have put an end to such a system . The Whigs , at the time of tbe Reform Bill , said that taxation and representation should be co-extensive , this would admit nil who paid taxes , whether twenty-one years old or not ; but we have laid down a defined plan , we say at twenty-one years of age a man shall be entitled to a vote ; we will not move from this , we will not alter to twenty-one years and one day ; we will have it fer " all , whether light hair , or dark hair , whether English , Irish , or Scotch . They say we are ignorant men . we must , therefore , have a plan about

      which there is no mystery ; one which all can understand , such is our Charter . Let all who are iu thia room , who have votes , hold np their bands . Well , there are three votes . All who have no votes . A forest . Well , these three men are our masters ; they monopolise all the brains ; ye poor brainless souls , go about yonr business ; what are ye fit for ? ye say yo have intelligence ; 'tis all moonshine ; ye are ignorant ; ye have no votes . These three men are like tbe aristocrats on tbe omnibus ; ' that they are good and true men is evidenced by their being here ; but it shows the folly of the system we are contending against Hitherto we bave been beat 'by disunion ; they have played off the Whigs against the Radicals—the Radicals against the Chartists—and now they want to pit the O'Connoiites

      against the O'ConneUites ; but they shall fail . I will traverse the three kingdoms ; rny watchword shall be " Union . " By February next we will have a petition signed by four millions for the Charter and Repeal . The Whigatell us to lay aside all our little differences ; we have no differences ; we are all united ; 'tia they that have the differences . Let them unite with us—we will receive them as brothers—we will bury the past in oblivion . In the North the shopkeepers are fast joining our standard ; they feel the pinch more thau the shopkeepers of the South . The steam Lords , with , their £ 10 , 000 capital , are ruining the shopkeepers with their few hundreds . But their organs say that

      Lords Ho wick and Russell are to be our leaders . What a pretty pair of leaders . ' Did you ever see Jhem , my friends ; they are , indeed , a pair of iittle ponies—I might almost call them donkies—to drag along the chariot cf the public mind . Can we unite with such leaders ! No . Her Majesty had better transfer them from the preparatory school of the Commons to the sick hospital of the Lords . Mr . O'Connor continued for upwards of ene- hoar , in a similar stnln , and concluded with a burst of eloquence which touched every heart He also apologised thut his ill health had prevented his attending , according to appointment , at Brighton and at Marylebone . At the conclusion , Mr . O'Connor was completely exhausted .

      Messrs . Cleave , Cullingham , M'Pherson , « om Ipswich , Mr . Clark , from Yoik , and a person from Cork , addressed the meeting . Mr . Cleave most eloquently entreated the men of London to support the Executive , aud the Victims . The meeting separated at a late hour , highly gratified , with their spirits fresh nerved in the good cause .

      Cterftt £Nt*K%Nit*.

      Cterftt £ nt * K % nit * .

      Meeting Of The Stonemasons And Other Trades In London.

      MEETING OF THE STONEMASONS AND OTHER TRADES IN LONDON .

      Untitled Article

      NEWCASTLE . —The Chartists of Newcastle held their weekly meeting for business on Monday evening , Mr . William Smith in tbo chair . The secretary read tho miuutes of last meeting , which were confirmed . The Treasurer reported the contributions ibr ihe week , which continue to increase . A . good many new members were enrolled . Several deputations were appointed to wait upon certain united bodies of trades , and request their co-operation in the forthcoming demonstration in honour of Mr . O'Btiea and Mr . O'Connor ' s visit to Newcastle The following resolutioa was moved by Mr . Faialough and seconded by Mr . Sinclair , and carried unanimously : —Resolved— " That tho thanks of this meeting bo respectfully tendered to Sharman Crawford ^ Esq , the proposer , General Johnson , the seconder , aud the thirty-nine gentlemen who vot for tiio addition to the address to the Queen . "

      Ouskbdbn . —The Chartists of this place met Sunday morning last , in the Association-room , neai Byker Bar . A discussion took place on what would be the most effectual plan of getting the out-distneta organised , when it was agreed that the Secretary correspond with certain places . round Newcastle , to ascertain the day most convenient to bold public meetings , that they may be furnished with proper speakers . COAlSNAUGHTON . — -The eauso progresses well here . The exertions of Mr . Abram Duncan have been attended with great good . His lectures iu thia place had to be delivered in the open street , for , although there are two places in the village capable of holding the people , the tyrants that have the

      oontroul of them would not permit Mr . Duncan to address the people in them . He had , in consequence , often to address the people ia wet elothes , and under many other privations calculated to cool both zeal and courage , however fervent . But these evils and difficulties are about to pasB away . The fruit of these lectures wore the determination to subscribe money to build a Hal ] , to hold between toree and four hundred people . Exactly at one o ' clock , on the 30 th of August , the men of Coalsnaughtondid themselves the honour to celebrate the release of Feargus O'Connor from York Castle by decorating the roof of of their Hall with their flags , and firing for an boar with SO good muskets , by meu not accustomed to few the fwe of nun , or quail at ( b « tyrant' s tnwwUte ,

      Untitled Article

      * I ^^^^ L ^^^ B I' I ^^ B f ^^ p I ^^ h ^ r w I ^^^ H i ^^ M l ^ H I ^^ B . ' i ^^ E l ^^ p . ^^ B - ' j ^^ m l ^ B w' i ^^ M l ^^ K i ^^ l ^^ J ^^^^^^^^ lHihbJ ^^ B ~^^^ h - ^^_ f ^ H i ^ H ^^ AND LEEDS GENERAL ADYERTISEB ,

      Untitled Article

      YOL . IV . NO . 301 . SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER lft , 1841 . > TO > £ Sg , ? S £ 5 !* "

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 18, 1841, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct862/page/1/