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      Bzxistom.—Watching, Praying , And Taking...

      BAZLESROVE _, _TOAB _StOCKPOBT . _—DlSGEACKf _^ L Pitched Batilk . —Fatal Cosseo . uesces , and _jCrnrpLB . —la the Tillage of Hazle _tfrore , ( erst . c » ll « d _Bullocksmithy , bat was christened to suit the pride and elegance of a certain tyrant in _that _imghfcourhood well known to the poor colliers , ) about three miles from Stockport _, s pitched battle has jnst _beea _fought , the particulars of which are _disgraceful to a civilised society . One of the men was killed on the spot , fire of the parties haTe been committed to Chester Castle for trial on a charge of manslaughter , and a _warraat for the apprehms \ oa of a sixth has been issued bj the coroner . It appeared that a silk-wearer , named Samuel Perry , residing at _Hailesrore , and John Hadfield , a collier employed

      at the Poynton pits , owin _? to some public-house _Suarrel , were backed to fight a pitched battle , npand own , for 10 s . & -side , though Perry waa the much better man of the two . A body of colliers had _jnsde up their minds to support this champion at all _nixaids ; and on Wednesday night last , the 29 th , a large party , on both sides , proceeded _towards a sequestered place near Marple Wood , about two miles off . Hadfield was backed by John Bold , a collier , assisted by a banksman at Poynton , named James Trafibrd , who came to Poynton as a policeman during the colliers' struggle against a reduction of wages . Perry had no backer , though he was attended by his brother James . The men stripped ihemselTes naked , with the exception of an apron

      apiece ; and hav ; Dg fought about half an hour , they were disturbed by the constables , and they fied . _Tfce battle , however , was arranged to be fought on the folio wing night ; audit accordingly came off between seven and eight o ' clock , in Ford ' s Field , in Norbury _, it being moonlight . A great crowd of men and women congregated , Bold seconding Hadfield , and John Plait seconding Perry . The colliers and others had provided theinselTes with hedge-stakes . A ring hating been _formsd , both parties stripped themselves naked , with the exception of their shoes sad stockings ; they felt at each other ' s bodies if they were •* Eoaped , " and all things being satisfactory , the battle commenced in the presence of a considerable number of females ! The men quavered , "

      and in the first round Hadfield ran at his adversary with great force , with his head against his stomach , which forced him sideways towards the ground . Af this moment , Hadfield closed upon him from behind , threw his left arm under the other ' s head , and commenced striking him with the right . Perry got npon his knees , and groaned ; and Hadfield tightened his arm round the throat . Perry groaned again ; and some of Hadfield ' s Friends criVd out , " Fd make him as he ¦ would e & t no moT % praties . " George _Clough , one of the _bye-standers , said to James Traffbrd . ** Trafford , _does't hear that mon groan ! " to which Trafford replied , he does sot groan half as hard as he did last night ; thoul ' s hear him groan harder enow . "

      Then , speakicg to Hacfield , he said , " Jsck , can t use nont-else beside throttling—can ' t thou nse thy fists ? '' It was now evident that Perry was disabled or was choking , and Wb . Grundy rushed into the ring to part the combatants , when Perry ' s brother , with uplifted stick , threatened to break his head if ho touched them . The colliers said the same ; and he was obliged to come out . P . H . Perry , the combatant , never breathed after . Burgess , one of the Cheshire Constabulary Police , came up ; and , pulling Hadfield off the other ' s head by force , discovered that Perry was dead , he having been strangulated . He _then _' gaTe _HadBeld into the possession of an assistant , while he conveyed the deceased to a doctor . Hadfield had , at that time , on Ms feet , a pair of

      thick shoes , plated at the toes with iron ; but which some person contrived to exchange , and they have not b » en recovered . Hadfield was taken into custody , and the following day , Platt , the second of the deceased , was apprehended . Bold , the other second , absconded on Friday . On Saturday , an inquest was held on view of the body before Charles Andson , Esq ., coroner , when the above facts were proved . The inquiry lasted from eight in the morning till half-past seven at night . James Trafford and James Perry ( the deceased ' s brother , ) who attended the inquest as witnesses , were given into custody by the direction of the coroner . The constable stated ihaX _Hwifield _, on the way to the lock-ups on Tuesday night , began to cry , and used the following words : — I ' ve hung him , I ' ve hung him ; I knew I was hanging him ; but I durst not

      leave loose ! " The surgeons , Messrs . Low _« and Qnbb , stated that the death of the deceased had been o * _easioned by a blow on the stomach , thereby causing paralysis of the diaphragm ; and by strangulation afterwards . The Jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against John Hatfield , one of the principals ; and against John Platt , John Bold , James Tr * Sbrd , and James Perry , as aiders and abettors . The deceased was twenty-two years of age . Bold is still at large ; Trafford applied to be admitted to bail , but the Coroner told him he had no power of accepting bail ; he must apply to a higher tribunal . On _Tuesday , the prisoners were removed to the County Gaol at Chester . The Coroner has desired that no exertions shall be spared to bring any other parties forward who took any active part in this brutal and disgusting exhibition .

      IiEEDS . —Weekly contributions to the Unem ployed Operatives' Enumeration Fund : — £ « . d . Brought forward ... — ... 14 10 6 Messrs . Hobson and Smiles , per discount on printed circulars ... ... ... 0 1 3 25 contributors at Hargreaves and _Xussey _' s , per James _Chadwick ... ... 0 2 2 23 ditto , at Pritehard's , Busby Mill , per Joseph Thorp ... ... ... 0 1 11 SO ditto , at Taylor and Wordsworth ' s , per Wm . _>* ich . oll » ... ... ... 0 2 6 ditto , at Bipley and Ogle ' s , per Joseph Thompson ... ... ... 0 1 11 39 ditto , at Pearson's , HoIbecS , _ptr Thomas Fielding ... ... ... 0 3 3 Miscellaneous contributions , par Mr . Potter ... ... ... 0 3 " 2

      £ 7 contributors at Brown and Cc ' s , ilarsaall-street , per James Murphy ... 0 2 3 42 ditto , at Fenton , Murray , and Jackson ' s , ( mac . _aine side . ) per Wm . Hkketh ... 0 3 6 & 2 ditto , ditto , ditto , ( old side } per Peter Cameron ... ... ... 0 7 8 26 ditto , ditto , ditto , ( boilermakers , ) per Peter Cameron ... ... 0 2 2 225 ditto , » t Mr . Fairbairn _' s , Wellington Foundry , per _ThoHias _Henkon ... 2 0 6 3 12 ditto , at Mr . _Cawood'B Flax Mill , per Thomas Card ... ... ... 0 1 0 4 i ditto , at Benyon and _Co- ' s _, per William Roberts ... ... ... 0 3 8 23 ditto , at _Dickenson and Barradougi ' s , per Morrall Wild ... ... 0 1 11 21 ditto , at Mr . Cooper ' s Mill ... ... 0 2 7 S 2 ditto , at Marshall ' s , Holbeck , per Wm .

      Wildredge ... ... ... 0 6 10 13 ditto , i \ Boyle , Gill , and Ca _' s , per John Jackson „ . ... ... Oil S 2 ditto , at Lord and Brook ' s , per William Robinson ... ... ... 0 2 S Is ditto , at William Robinson and Co . s , per James R * ttr » y ... ... © 1 6 12 ditto , at Boger and Hartley ' s , per Wm . Cliff ... 010 _4 S divto , a : Title ? , _Tatham , and Walker _^ , per John Rigby ... ... ... 0 4 0 45 ditto , ditto , ditto , per John

      Kdghley ... ... ... « 4 0 15 _oitto , ditto , ditto , per David Pryce , _itiro weeks ) ... ... ... 0 2 6 24 ditto , at Ripley and Ogle ' s , per Edward iletcalf ... ... ... 0 2 0 69 ditto , _& t James Binns _asd Sous , per _HesryBom ... ... ... 0 5 S 12 ditto , Burlen , at James Binns and Co . 's 0 16 € 0 ditto , at Messrs . Brcnrnridge ' s , per Wm . _CiippeDdale ... ... ... 056 24 ditte _, at Sherwood and Booth ' s , per Wm . GlifcS ... _ _ r , a _a _vr-iBS ••¦ 0

      ••• ••• ... *> 0 bl ditto , at _iir . Eoldforth ' s , per Jtcob Wood ... ... ... ... 043 33 ditto , at H _& _iilej _' s _, Hope-street Mill , per H . Bloonifield ... ... ... 0 3 3 54 ditto , ditto , Low Close , per John Kay "' 0 16 15 ditto , m William Grant " * , per Isaac _Sonderiaiid ... ... 0 13 _£ l ditto , at William Kirk ' s , Lirgefield MiB , per Edward Sheldon ... 0 5 8 45 ditto , a : Sheepshank ' s _>~ ew Mill , per Joseph _Seville 0 4 16 -2 Qitto , at Sherwood and Booth ' B , per _. „ . George Mellor 0 1 10 12 ditto , at Mr . Porter ' s , _trhitesmitaa , per Joseph Rose ... ... ... 010 23 ditto , at Mr . Evens _' s , per Jonathan _Ctarlsfiworth ... ... ... 0 2 11

      1205 contributors ... ... ... £ 22 0 3 _^ _, LEEDS .-Si . Litre ' s Chcbch _.-Cti Monday _- _*« , _& :. Luke ' s Church , on the _Sheepscar-road , was consecrated , in the usual form , by the Lord f"f _? ° P of Kipon . The consecration sermon was _Preuhsa by the Rev . Dr . Hook , vicar . _Stzauxg Hat . —On Saturday last , throe men aamed James Myers , Robert Myers , and George ¦ cack le , were committed formal at the next _Bessions , _charged wiih havin « stolen a cart load of hay , the Property tf Mr . George Dixon . *

      _AmrrcB _Gxkdzxs . —On Monday last , a splendid _toow of Dahlias , & C _n held at the _houae of Mrs . _* t * Rley , the Waggon and Horses Inn , Holbeck j _^ wI the membe rs of the _Beee to n , Holbeek , _Su Y _" _^ ' Horticultural and Floral Societies , _ae « l their last show for the season . The judges on sa « _ocasion were Messrs . Chadwiek and Jackson . _I _fKDs . —The Caamere Printers held their second _waiTersary , on Wednesday last , at the house of _« . Charles Wainwright , the Aire and Colder Inn , _ai tins _toxn , when npwards of Beventy members sat _aowa to in excellent dinner , which did honour to * _ue worthy host and hostess , who spared no pains * au expence in catering to the tastes of the com-P * By . The evening was spent in the utmost harmony and good fellowship , being n' ivened by a number of excellent songs , glees , an' . toastB , and we company retired highly gratified .

      Bzxistom.—Watching, Praying , And Taking...

      KOBBEB . Y OP THE Odd FELLOWS , ' _FuNERAL BRIEF . —On the eight of Tuesday last , it was discovered that the box kept at the house of Mr . Joseph Bywater _, the Black Lion Inn , Mill Hill , Leeds , _beioEgrag to the Odd Fellows' ( . Leeds United Order ) _Fnnerai Brief Fund , had been broken into , and robbed of nearly £ 80 in cash , belonging to the Brief Fund . It seems that the box is kept in a large room where a Lodge of Odd Fellows and other Friendly Societies , or convivial parties , are in the habit of meeting , and that it had not been _optoed for sis or seven weeks pa-t , in consequence of no death having occurred during that period among the members of the Funeral Brief . When it was last opened , a sum of money , amounting to

      about £ 100 , was deposited therein , _principally in gold and silver , only a small portion being in provincial note ? . The box contains a secret drawer in which _rae money was pat , and it was secured by five locks , the keys of which were keptf by different _officers . When the box was opened on Tuesday night , in consequence of the death of a member , it was discovered that the bulk of tho money which had been deposited had been stolen , and on instituting a search it was found that the end of the box , exactly in the place where the secret drawer was situate , had been perforated in two or thiee places by a gimlet , or some such

      instrument , so as to admit a small saw or chisel , by which a hole had been made sufficiently large to enable the pat : y to abstract £ 78 7 s 6 d . From the peculiar circumstances attending the robbery , there is strong reason for believing that it has been perpetrated by some member of the Order who is familiar with the construction of xhe box , but nothing has yet transpired to detect the guilty individual . It is not known at what time _tha robbery was committed , but ilr . Bywater ' s servants Temember having observed a quantity of sawdust near the box , when they were _cleaning the room about a week or ten days before the loss was discovered .

      Leger Supper . —Ou Wednesday evening , the subscribers to a Leger Club and their friends , to the number of fifty , sat down to an excellent supper , at the house of Mr . Armitage , the Queen ' s Head Inn , Mill Hill . Mr . Jesse Hargreaves occupied the chair , and Mr . Armitage the vice-chair . The supper and the arrangements called forth the _bighes ; encomiums on Mr . and Mrs . Armitage , and an evening replete with hilarity was spent—toast , song ; and sentiment rapidly succeeding each other . Robbing Lodglngs —On Tuesday , Sarah _Blrchall , a woman who has lodged fox some time at the Currier ' s Arms , in Harper-street , was charged with having stolen a quantity of bed linen , blankets , and wearing _sppareJ , the property of the landlord of the

      the house , and also some property of other lodgers Several thing 3 were produced which she had sold , and which were identified ; the woman pleaded distress , and said she had intended to redeem the articles she had sold as soon as she could do bo , but it did not appear that she had made any promise , in disposing of the property , that any part of it was to be returned—the sale being perfectly _bonajide . She had carried her _deprivations to some extent , and was fully committed to take her trial at the Sessions . _SriBBt . NG . —On Tuesday last , Edward Moody , a journeyman skinner , with a pair of beautifnl black eyes ,-waa charged before Messrs . Nell and Clapham , at the Court House , with haviug inflicted various cuts and stabs , with a knife , on the face of Samuel Mellis , also a journeyman skinner . It _appeared from the evidence , that on Monday night the

      skinners in the employ of Mr . Stocks , at _Buslingthorpe , had what they called a " lighting up" supper , at the Templar ' s Inn , North-street , and the prisoner , who was on tramp , was invited by the prosecutor to partake of a pint of ale . He went into a room in the house in which was sat a female , who had gone to fetch her husband home ; being the worse for liquor , be imagined some cause of offence against her , and made use of such abusive language as led to the interference of the prosecutor on her behalf , and a struggle ensued—Mellis having struck the prisoner —in which Moody drew a knife and cut the prosecutor in two or three places . A watchman was called in by some parties who were there , and Moody was taken into custody . On healing the evidence , the magistrates decided on sending the case to a jury , and he was committed to the sessions ; the rpcorder , however , will doubtless transfer the case to York .

      0 _'Bsii . Vs Pees 5 Fu . M ) . —The Committee met on Wednesday night , when they proceeded to elect a Secretary in the place of Mr . Ogden , who is leaving the country . Mr . Brook was unanimously elected as Secretary , to whom all communications must be addressed . It was al 3 O resolved that the committees in different parts of the country should be called on to forward what monies they have in hand to the Secretary , in order to be handed over to the General Treasurer . The committees will see

      this is accessary , as Mr . O Brien \ s expected in Leeds on the 14 th or loth of this month , and will naturally desire to know how the work is proceeding . It was Eta ted that the Council had come to the determination of Jiaving a small tea party of Mr . O'Brien ' s friends on Friday evening . The tickets will be limit « d—the number , it was thought , to be one hundred , so that those who intend to be present to welcome O'Brien in a social tea party hBd better secure their tickets in time . The Secretary's address—Wm . Brook , 79 . West-street , Leeds .

      _Bcbglart . —During Thursday night last , the house of Mr . Joseph _Bogers , the Horse and Jockey Inn , Commercial-street , was robbed of » very large bundle of wearing apparel and other article ? . It is supposed the thieves have been secreted in the house when the family retired to rest , as there was no outward violence , and the tap-room door was found open at six o ' clock yesterday morning . How did the robbers pass the police with a bundle , which must have _beeu of no ordinary size ? _HraciPiL _Revision . —The Mayor and Assessors have sat since the first instant , and the revision this year is likely to be completed by Monday or Tuesday . Yesterday afternoon the North-Wesi was being goue through ; when it was finished there would remain only the Soath and West to revise .

      _Sacrilege . —During Tuesday night last , the church at Rotbwell , near this town , was broken into , and two dozen of communion wine , several glasses , and two hymn _booka were stolen . Four young men , named Joseph Laycock , James Wigglesworth , John Burdett , and Robert Hughe ? , have been apprehended by the Leeds Police , and committed to York Castle for trial . _Impbovj-ment Costmissioxers . — The usual _moat . hly meeting of this body was held on Wednesday last , Mr . John Heaps iu the chair . The commissioners present besides were . Mr . Thos . Hebden , Mr . Geo . Goodman , Mr . D . W . Nell . Mr . John Whitehead ,

      Mr . Edward King , Mr . Wm . Sellers , Mr . Joseph R & per , Mr . Arthur Lupton , Mr . Robert Bewlay , Mr . H . Gresham , Mr . _Joseph Woodhead , Mr . Wm . Binns , and Mr . Charles Cummins . _Ii will be recollected that at the previous monthly meeting it was agreed to apply to the Old Gas Company , on tkc subject of lighting the clock at the top of _Briggate the New Company having signified that they had gratuitously lighted i _: for three years . The law clerk commnnicated with the Gas Light Company , and the following letter , in rep } y , was read at the meeting on Wednesday : — Leeds Gm Worts , Sept 26 , 1841 .

      Sis , —I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your favour of the 1 st instant , with a resolution of the Leeds Improvement Commissioners , which has been laid _before the Committee of the Leeds Gas Light Company , by whom I am instructed to hand yon an extract fro « the minutes of Committee , passed January 22 , 1832 , nearly three years before the Clock was first lighted with Gas ; also , a resolution cf the Committee passed at their meeting this day : — Ejlrad from Minnies of Committee , January 2 , 1832 . "It having being represented that it -wonld be a great public advantage to have the Clock at the top of Briggate illuminated , " Resolved—That thia Company will supply , gratis , a sufficient quantity of Gas for that purpose , on condition that the Commissioners for tie Improvement of the Town will pot cp 3 proper Glass DM , with the necessary apparatus ; and that Mr . Banks be requested to communicate with the Commisaionera on the

      subject . " Copy of resolution passed ihisday , Sept . 6 , 1841 . Resolved , " That the Leeds Gas Light Company , being influenced by a sincere desire to serve the town , aad _toDKdeting they shall most effectually carry out that disposition by affording additional light to the public , are _ready to supply Gas gratuitously to illuminate one or TWO dials of the Parish Church clock , on condition that the necessary apparatus be provided for thai purpose . They therefore teg to decline for the present acceding to the suggestions of the Leeds Improvement Commissioners to light the public clock at the Corn Exchanga " By submitting the two resolutions as above to the next _mating of the Improvement _CommiBsionera , you will greauy oblige . I am , Sir , Your most obedient servant ,

      W . C . Raper , Manager . It was agreed that application should be made to the New Company requesting them , under these circumstances , to continue lighting tbe Corn Exchange clock . "We trust the liberality of the Leeds Gas Light Company will be duly appreciated ; more docks than one are wanted for a town of this importance ; and though the Parish Church may not be considered the best situation for an illuminated dial , U should be recollected that it is a densely populated district , and would be ot essential importance and benefit to the working classes . The suggestion will doubtless bt carried into effect . The dials proposed to ba illuminated are the _eatt and west—one looking up Kirkgate , and the other up Marah-iane . Several matters of course , and the passing of accounts occupied the attention of the Commissioners for some time , and the meeting adjourned .

      Moblet . —A public meeting will be held on Fri-& y evening next , to take into consideration the proriety of petitioning Parliament for the abolition of _i & silent system . Mr . Smith , from Leeds , will adress the meeting .

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      Unemployed Operatives' Enumeration Commi...

      UNEMPLOYED OPERATIVES' ENUMERATION COMMITTEE .

      The Public Meeting Originally Fixed To J...

      THE PUBLIC MEETING originally fixed to JL take place on Saturday , the 9 th , is POSTPONED until Saturday , the 16 th instant , in order to afford Messrs . Beckett and _Aldam , ( from whom the Sub-Committee have received Communications since the General Meeting of Delegates on Thursday Evening , ) aa opportunity of attending . The plane and hour of meeting will be announced by Placard . JOHN SPEED , Chaibman .

      22, Mount-Street, Grosvenor-Squarei Octo...

      22 , Mount-street , _Grosvenor-squarei October 5 , 1841 .

      Sin , —Your letter of the 1 st inst ., with its inclosure , was only delivered here last night , and too late to allow of its being replied to by return of post . lam in some uncertainty about the time of my returning to _Lcsds , and whether I may be able to attend the meeting fixed for next Saturday evening ; but at all events , I hope I shall be favoured with a copy of the report submitted to the meeting by the Committee , because _nothi p g can _possiblv tend to an amelioration of the condition of the people more than a well authenticated statement of their distress . I am . Sir , Your faithful servant , WM . BECKETT .

      Temple, Oct. 4th, 184-1. Sin,—I Have Wat...

      Temple , Oct . 4 th , 184-1 . Sin , —I have watched the proceedings of the Unemployed Operatives' Enumeration Committee for some time with much interest , in the short notices of them in the Newspapers . I think that to ascertain the real extent of the Distress of the Country , is the first step towards providing a remedy for it . I am afraid I shall not be able to attend the Meeting , which I gladly would have done , had I been in Leeds or its neighbourhood ; but I shall be in Leeds next week , and shall have great pleasure in confering with you , or with Messrs . Cliff and Speed , upon your important _undertakisg .

      I am , Sir , Your obdfc . Servant , W . ALDAM To Mr . James Rattray , Leeds .

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      House Of Lords.—Tuesday, Oct. 5. Tbe Ear...

      HOUSE OF LORDS . —Tuesday , Oct . 5 . Tbe Earl of Radnor again got up a discussion of the Corn Laws upon the presentation of a petition upon the subject , and be called npon tbe . Duke of Wellington to say If be was rightly understood on the previous evening to Bay that it was not the Intention of the Government to propose any alteration in the Corn Law . The Duke of Wellington said he would consider well before he gave advice to her Majesty as to any particular course of conduit , but , whatever might be

      his opinion , be would never suffer himself to be intimidated by the Noble Lord , or by bis correspondents . After some explanations from Lord Kinnaird , the Duke of _Richmond , and Lord Clifford , the subject dropped . Lord Brougham then called attention to the subject of tbe Slave Trade , and repeated , at considerable length , the legal bearings of tbe question , to the Bame effect as he had already done a few evenings back . He wished to ask if there was any objection to lay upon the table the report of Dr . Madden on the Slave Trade ?

      The Earl of Ripon regretted that the reports of Dr . Madden could not be produced , for they were of a very con & dential nature , and related to a great variety of subjects , many of them of a very delicate nature . After a few words from Lord Ellenborough , L _; rd Brougham declined to preta for the reports of Dr . Madden . The Bills on tbe Hble haviug been forwarded a stage , the House adjourned .

      House Of Commons, Tuesday , Oct. 5. Sir ...

      HOUSE OF COMMONS , Tuesday , Oct . 5 . Sir C Napier asked the Right Hon . Baronet ( Sir Robert Peel ) what instructions , if any , had been sent out to America , with tbe view of protecting Mr . M'Leod from the populace , if he should be acquitted by the Court before whom he was to be tried . Sir R . Peel said that the Hon . Gentleman would perceive en reflection that it would not be proper for him to communicate any information upon the subject under existing _circumitances . The dropped orders from the previous evening were then disposed of , and the House adjourned .

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      Birmingham.—Freema*-Street, Monday Evkmn...

      BIRMINGHAM . —Freema * -street , Monday Evkmng . —A numerous meeting was held at the Freeman-street room , on Monday evening , which was addressed by Mr . George White . He adverted to the meeting which had been held that day as a proof that the National Charter Association was approved of by the people of Birmingham , and urged on the meeting the necessity of standing firm to the only union calculated to give happiness to them and their families . He then described tbe enormous amount of Buffering which existed in the country , and held out the Charter as tbe enly hope of the working classes . The meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr . Clarke , who said that it was his first attempt at addressing a public meeting He made an excellent speech . It was announced that Mr . Henry Vincent would address the members of tbe Association on the Wednesday evening . Several new members enrolled their names . It is now quite clear that the working classes have made up their minds te rally round the National Charter Association .

      Frost , Williams , and Jones . —The General Committee of Birmingham for the Restoration of Frost , WilliamB , and Jones , held their usual weekly meeting , on Tuesday evening last , at the Charter Association Room , Freeman-street , Mr . Thorp in the chair , when it w .-. s resolved that the memorial as sent to the Marquis of Normanby , be sent to Sir James Graham , with a few necessary alterations , and in the meantime , tbe sub-committee to prepare another and stronger memorial ready in case the present one has no effect Mr . T . Vaughanand Mr . A . Fussell were elected members of this committee ,

      _JVatjo . nai , Charter Association . —This Association increases rapidly in this neighbourhood . The various meetings which have been held in the Freemanstreet Room are numerously attended , and every meeting adds to the number of those who are determined to struggle for the liberty of their country . Mr . Mason delivered one ef his excellent and spirited addresses on Sunday evening last , and was warmly applauded . Mr . Williamson and others also addressed the meeting ; after which , it was announced that Mr . Henry Vincent would address a meeting at the Railway Station , Duddeston Row , en tbe following day . Several persons in the room complained of Mr . Vincent not attending , as he was a member of the Association j and it was determined that be should be questioned on the subject on the following day . The meeting then separated .

      STAPPOHD . —Triumphant Pb . oqb . sss op Democracy . —Dr . _M'Douall and Mr . Mason visited Stafford on Monday last , to address the Inhabitants of this town on the principles of tbe People's Charter . It was the first time we ever received a visit from any of tbe _friends of the toiling millions ; and although it may be singular , yet it is true , we never before heard a lecture on Chartism . The Mayor did everything to interdict the meeting , which was held in the Market Place ; and even when the hustings were erected , he presented himself to prevent the two gentlemen addressing

      the assembled people . The Doctor and Mr . Mason stepped forward , and told him that they would take the responsibility on themselves for holding a meeting , which they knew to be perfectly constitutional and legaL The _Mayor theB retired amid the laughter of the assembled thousands . Both of the gentlemen addressed the meeting at great length , and with much force of reasoning . M tbe conclusion of the meeting , three tremendous cheers rent the air for the lecturers , three for Frost , Wi ' . liams , and Jones , three for O'Connor , and three for the Charter .

      COLLISHALL . —This place was visited , on Sunday , by eight of _ths _mtn of Norwich , where , in tbe midst of heavy rain , two of them addressed a numerous gathering out of doors ; on & third attempting to speak , he was interrupted by a policeman , who ordered him off , and the meeting to disperse ; they did so at once , with a determination to go again in a fortnight , and set Hi . Policeman at defiance .

      MARKET WEIGHTOW . —A discussion on the _principles of the Charter has been arranged here , to come off on the 4 : h inst ., between Mr . wakening on the part of the Chartists , and Mr . John Wray , a ditciple of the " Plague" school . Mr . Makening and his friends attended on Monday _evening , but Mr . Wray declined the contest _^ on tbe ground that he could not find friends sufficient to attend on his behalf . A report to this effect was drawn up and signed by those present , Mr . Wray agreeing to it . BRIGHTON . —On Monday evening last , Chas . Brooker , Esq ., met the glorious nineteen electors _who supported him at the late election , at a soiree

      at the Cap of Liberty , Portland-street . The catering of the worthy host was amply sufficient for the company ; the tea and coffee was excellent ; the ham and other articles were of the like disposition . Handsome boquets of flowers adorned the tables . The most gratifying proceeding of the evening was a present by Mr . Brooker to each elector of a handsome bronze medal . On one side , giving a description of the contest in which they had been engaged ; on the reverse was a moito emblematical of the principles of the People's Charter . Mr . Brooker addressed the meeting at somo length in most animated terms . Addresses were also given by Messrs . Woodward , Colling , and Page .

      Birmingham.—Freema*-Street, Monday Evkmn...

      WOLVERHAMPTON .-Mr . Mason delivered an _eloqueat address at Mr . Magg ' s Coffee House , on Tuesday last , He depicted tho injustice of the law makers , and urged the necessity of obtaining the Charter , as the means of protecting the rights of the working classes . DERBY . —We have started a Chartist meeting at the Northern Star , top of Bridge-street , Derby , so that the inhabitants at each end of the town may have the chance of meeting , without the inconvenience of going so far out of their way . Twenty new members were enrolled . We conceive that much good may result from having two meetings in a large town like Derby . Oar weekly meetings will be held at the Norther Star , Derby , on each Sunday evening , at eight o _' ciock .

      _HOLiaPIBTH . r-Mr . Charles Connor lectured here on Wednesday , to a large audience ; at the close of this address a resolution of confidence in O'Connor and O'Brien waa passed .

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      PUBL IC MEETIN G A T THE R O Y A L BATH GARDENS , NEW R OA D , CHELSEA .

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      On Wednesday evening , a pnblie meeting waa held in the _spiendid theatre of the above place . Thenweting waa got np in a few hours' notice . The weather was unfavourable , yet at the hour appointed , ( seven o ' clock , ) the Theatre and every avenue to it was crowded to excess . These rooms are the head quarters of the anti-Corn Association , who , with all their expense and exertions , can never half fill them ; yet a single boardman and fifty placards , not posted till the middle of the day , was sufficient to attract not only a host of working men , many of whom were Irishmen , but also a very considerable number of middle class gentlemen .

      Mr . Ridley waa unanimously called to the chair . He said—Brothers and Sisters , we are met here this evening for the purpose bf considering the best means of obtaining justice to England and to Ireland . We are not met here to seek for ourselves what we would deny to others . We are for liberty for all , without distinction of creed , class , or colour . We take our stand on the broad principles of truth and justice . You will also remember that this is no inhabitant , no rate-payers' meeting . Any person willing to come forward either to speak for or against the resolutions which may be proposed shall have a fair , just , and manly hearing ; for it is my opinion that those principles which will not bear discussion are rotten at the core . We court , we invite discussion . We believe that our principles are just—we will place them cordially before you , and leave you to decide . Two gentlemen have been

      invited to attend this meeting—the one is Mr . O'Connor , the Champion of Equal Rights and Laws ; the other is Mr . Sidney Smith , the Champion ofthe Cheap Bread Question . ( Mr . O'Connor here arrived , and was greeted with great enthusiasm . ) Mr . Feargus O'Connor is here to address you , and I have no doubt , from the love that Mr . Smith always professes to bear to the inhabitants of Chelsea , that he will be here also , to prove to you , by calm reasoning and fair argument , that his principles , and the means by which he advocates them , are superior to ours ; and that you will calmly and patiently decide , according to your judgment , which plan will be most likely to ensure benefit to your order of society ; you have placed me at your head to command silence , and I know that you will give to all a fair hearing , that you will be guided by reason and justice , and determine according to the dictates of your conscience .

      A gentleman in the meeting here stated that he had seen Mr . Smith at two o ' clock ; and until informed by himself , Mr . Smith was not aware of the meeting , and therefore could not attend : he had not then received the letter . Mr . Daixibar moved the following resolution : — " That this meeting hail with delight and gratitude their noble champion Feargus O'Connor , and hereb y reiterate their determination never to relax in their exertions until tho People ' s Charter shall become the law , and Frost , Williams , and Jones are returned to their native land . They are also of opinion that justice will never be done to oppressed and insulted Ireland , until the Act of Union between the two countries be repealed , and classlegislation for ever be banished our shores . "

      The first part of this resolution had been entirely verified by the enthusiastic reception they had given to their noble champion , Feargus O'Connor . For what had he bees taken from them \ for what had he been incarcerated {—why for adrocatiug the rights of the people . The Attorney-General and the Whig Government , finding they could not bring a charge of sedition against him ; finding they coull not accuse him of treason , either agaiust the Sovereign , or the Sovereign People , set their invention to tho rack , and accused him of the undefined crime of libel , and convicted him on an act which is a disgrace to our statute book . He trusted they would never relax in their exertions until the Charter became the law of the land . He trusted they would act upon the advice of the Whigs in 1831 , that taxation without representation was tyranny , and ought to be resisted . ( Loud cheering .

      Mr . _Dowling—I rise for the purpose 01 seconding the resolution , with which I most cordially agree . Never did the sun rise upon a man more deserving of your admiration than O'Connor . We have much to thank him for—we have to thank O'Connor for the restoration of the Dorchester labourers—we have to thank him for the liberation of the Glasgow Cotton Spinners—we have to thank O'Connor for the upright , straightforward , and consistent manner in which he has aoted during our present agitation ; an agitation carried on in the most orderly and peaceful manner ; and yet we are accused of being violent men—accused too by the Whigs ! Where is their blush of shame when thoy think of Bristol in flames —of Nottingham in ruins ? But then they tell ua of

      Newport . My friends , John Frost fell a victim to a most foul conspiracy—be was convicted and banished our shores contrary even to law , in the face of the decision of nine of her Majesty ' s Judges . This is what they call justice . Way , if he had been an aristocrat , he would have been tried by his peers , and a verdiot returned of " Not guilty ' pon my honour . " How was it possible he could hare a fair trial , when the very jurors who convicted , were returning public thanks to God for delivering them from his foul treason ! O'Connor had procured tho return of the Dorchester Labourers—of the Glasgow Cotton Spinners , and trusted that he would soon , be able to procure the return of these patriots also . In that part of the resolution , advocating the Repeal of the Union , he also agreed . Would they , the parishioners of Chelsea liko the parishioners of another parish to transact their local business ? Let him refer them to America . There every State of tho Union had

      its local legislature , though all _acknowledged one general head . This is all we claim for Ireland ; and she will never obtain substantial justice until the Union is repealed and the Charter becomes the law of both countries . O ! but some say we go too far—it is too much to ask for a voice in the making of those laws which we aro compelled to support _aed obey . Working men , do you not adopt this plan in 5 our benefit , in your trade and other societies ! why not then in the national society i But they are afraid of our making a bad use of the power ; we are not educatod enough . I say give us the power , we well know how to exercise it ; and if we do not , we will soou learn . You set the apprentice to work to learn his trade ; set us to workaud we will speedily learn . You will excuse any deficiency of language in me , as I am but a hard-working man . Mr . D . sat down amid loud cheering . The _resolution was then put and carried unanimously .

      Mr . O'Connok rose to address them amidst the acclamations of the whole assembly . —Mr . Chairman and Chartists of Chelsea , it is with feelings of no slight pleasure and gratitude that I have witnessed your enthusiastic reception of me on this my first visit to Chelsea ; it convinces me that you are actuated by the same feelings as myself-ra determination to struggle for equal rights . Although Chelsea is an isolated spot , almost out of the metropolis , yet in common with other localities , I have had my eye upon you ; and as many fractions make up a whele , so I have been proud to see that , during my absence while in England , Scotland , and Ireland , have been rousing their myriads into action , you in Chelsea have not been asleep . You have been active

      in disseminating your principles ; proceed in this manly course ; proceed as your Chairman has told you , by fair argument aud open discussion to meet your opponents , and you may rely upon it that though you have been maligned , and slandered , and villifa _' ed , wheu your principles come to be known the tongue of the slanderer will bo silenced , and those who have _maligwed and villified you be put to rout . You have invited Sydney Smith to attend here , not as an opponent , but for the purpose of discovering truth ; we would receive him not as an enemy , but as the staple commodity of discussion ; and you would have passed your t pinion as to whether his principles or toy principles were most in accordance with truth and justice . Mr . Smith

      complains of the short notice , and of not being properly invited ; he received nearly as early invitation as myself ; if the letter of _invitation has not reached him , still tho gentleman who waited upon him informs you that he was not ignorant of the meeting . Inhabitants of Chelsea , -Mr . Smith wonld have appeared before y ou with advantages superior to myself ; he is well known to most of you ; bis principles he has laid many times beforeyou ; while you are now listening to me for the first time . True , thanks to the exertions of the working men , my principles are not utterly unknown to you . The

      stonemason who _hiia addressed you stated that you were resolved to act on the advice of the premier , and take jour affairs into your own hands . You only needed my assistance to collect-this assembly together , and I felt it a duty and a pleasure to attend and address yon . Throwing over the first part of the resolution , relative to myself , I will come to the next part , your determination to attain the Charter . Men of Chelsea , you have tried all forms of government ; you have been ruled first by on a party and then by the other party ; and what has been the result ? why poverty has increased , distress , ruin , and national bankruptcy aro staring-us in the face .

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      What conclusion can we come to but that these systems of government are based 011 wrong principles , and thai we must return to the old plan when taxation and representation were co-extensive—when England was happy and flourishing . Do we ask too much ? We ask not for what belongs to others , we ask only for our own ; we only ask them to give us what they have found so beneficial for themselves . We find that those who have not got the vote are involved in distress , while those who havo got the vote are generally strangers to distress . But they say they are afraid to trust you ; that you would build up your principles in the destruction of others ; that you would produce anarchy and confusion . How was their Reform Bill based but on human

      bloodbuilt on the ruins of cities , cemented by discord and eoufa 8 ion ! Whilst , with one solitary exception , during the whole of our agitation no blood has been shed , no lives have been sacrificed ; no law has been violated , except it be a violation of the law for the blistered hands who have suffered from beiog ruled wrongfully in their endeavour to obtain the power to rule themselves . ( Hear , hear . ) I appear before you , not aa an inhabitant of Chelsea , but as a citizen of the world . For three years I represented in Parliament the largest constituency in the empire ; and the result of my experience was , that nothing but Universal . Suffrage would ensure peace , justice , and prosperity to all classes of society . Yes , middle class , it is your interest to obtain Universal Suffrage ; yet you would

      rather cling to the present system which is fast bringing you to ruin—which involved the wreck of your own so « ial rights—which causes Saturday night to come with an empty till ; still you would ' rather cling to this , and allow the oligarchy of the country to drive you to ruin , than join the people in their legal and peaceful agitation for equal rights for yourselves and for . them , which would produce prosperity and plenty—which would ensure your social and political rights , and remove the evil of an empty till—which would removo the pressure of the _manufacturer from your shoulders , for tbe manufacturing interest is fast swamping that of the shopkeepers , like the great pike in the _fishpond , and they will speedily swallow up all the

      smaller fry . It is to obviate this fatal result that wo are endeavouring to obtain the People ' s Charter . We have beeu accused of turning out the Whigs . I am a barrister , acknowledged to be in good practice ; but I have to learn one good law that the Whigs have passed : I look through their ten years of Reformed Government , and , first , I see coercion for Ireland ; in the _middio I see starvation for England ; and at the end I see them funding _Exohequer Bills to aggravate the debt in which they nave involved us . The only remedy for this h tho Charter . I have spent £ 10 , 000 of my own money in forwarding tbe cause . I am no _peddling politician ; I have never travelled a singlo mile at the expenco of the people ; I have never had a singlo

      meal at their expence . I do not travel with a bundle of politics on my baok , ready to pull out any sample of principle which may best suit my customers . < A _printad bill was here received from Sidney Smith , shewing that he was engaged to lecture that evening . ) Cheap bread and _high wages — " a large loaf and plenty to do . " Mr . Smith promises you . We have _' no objection to the large loaf , but can dispense with the " plenty to do , " as we already have too much to do ; we work too much , for others to enjoy the profit . Men of Chelsea , did you ever hear talk of a dear ox and cheap beef—of the fabrics which you produce being almost given away , and yet you to get high wages ! ( Hear , hear . ) Surely , Mr .

      Smith and tho Corn Law Repealers must have discovered the philosopher ' s stone ; but they let out the secret too early ; they informed yon they wanted cheap bread to enable them to compete with the foreign manufacturer ; they want yon to work for nothing , to be their slaves , that they may be able to undersell and starve the slaves on the continent . Our Chairman truly said that we were cosmopolites ; we do not want to ruin tho foreign artizau ; we do not want you to be slaves for the whole world that a class of aristocrats may live in idleness . But how has this cry of cheap bread originated ! Did they care about you paying dear for your bread till the shoe pinched them ! No i Then , let them fight like the two Kilkenny cats , until there is'only the

      tail of one of them left . Yes , the landed and the manufacturing interest is fast swallowing up all other interests , and yet the middle classes assist them . Is this not extraordinary ! What is the House of Commons but the representatives of the _shopocraey \ and when they asked for a Poor Law to grind the working classes to starvation point , what said the shopkeepers 1 Oh yeB ! and we will give you a rural police too . to keep them down if they murmur ; but a change is coming . When I was in Sheffield a few days ago at oar demonstration in the Theatre Royal , pit , stage , and boxes were crowded with middle-class men and manufacturers ; in the box I sat in , I bad a manufacturer on each side of me . I have been so used to tbe company of the blistered

      hands and the unshorn chins , 1 thought there must be some mistake , that I must be in the wrong box ; but it was all right . I asked my neighbours if they were Chartists ? " Oh yes I" I inquired how long ! " O ! since our trade has left us . " I told them that as _prevontion was better than cure , it was a pity they had not been Chattista before , and then they might have retained their trade . This they acknowledged , but said it was better late than never , and they must make up for it by being better Chartists ; by working donble tides ; and , my Chelsea friends , this _jou will find will be the case . ( Loud cheers . ) I never yet knew a man , I care not to what class he belongs , that when our principles were placed before

      him in fair language , and properly explained , that did not become a Chartist to the backbone . Why was I incarcerated ! why were nearly 500 of my fellow Chartists incarcerated , but because the Whigs dreaded the power of our principles—because they feared the effects of free discussion . They have attempted to raise a prejudice against us by saying we were physical-force men . Why , if we had ever been eo inclined , we never hid the means . Our opponents had the bombs , the muskets , tho swords , the army , tho police , and all the instruments of warfare . VVe had to oppose to this the cannons ' roar of a nation ' s voice , demanding Universal Suffrage . And when they found our weapons so ill matched—when they found that they could not uhoot

      a principle , nor stab a proposition , then said they we must bilence these men—we must put them where their voice will not be heard—where the people may sigh in vain for the ad vice of their leaders . They acted on this dastardly principle ; and how have they _succocdod I Why , of 450 who have endured imprisonment varying from six months to two years , not one has proved a traitor : all have come out of the furnace like pure gold , without alloy or dross ; and we are continually adding to our ranks by dribblings from the middle classes . But we have now got the quack doctor Peel to remedy all our diseases ; but we are on the alert—we are not to be deceived . I have intently watched all parties ; I am well acquainted with public affairs ; I havo

      attended more public meetings than any man of the age ; 1 havo deeply studied the _subjeot ; and 1 positively declare , that if I was worth ten millions of money , whether it was in land , in funded property , or in hard gold , I would rather rely for its safety on a Commons' House of Parliament elected by the blistered hands , than on one elected by the professions , and the Churob , and the Siate . The Parliament elected by these classes has been tried , and found wanting : it has eaten up every right of the workiog man ; like the large pike in the fish-pond , all is swallowed down its ponderous jaws . They have passed statutes and acts of limitation on every possible plea ; but they have no power to foreclose the rights of man with us ; there

      arc no statutes of limitation , our rights are for all time . Whenever we havo the power we can go into court with clean hands , and demand the restoration of our own ; we will defy them to demur at our claims . The Whigs have said to the landlords , we will give you 25 per cent , of the parson's property ; to the parsons , we will quarter your eons upon the Pension List ; and to the pensionera we will give you pickings out of the taxes : and they have all agreed to club together , to live on tbe people ; but we must let them understand that they are unin vited guests , and that we are not inclined to play the hospitablo host . Our ancestors , more wise than we , when the property of the Catholic hierarchy was divided , when the monasteries and the abbeys were

      dissolved , played their cards well ; they only allowed the aristocracy the use of this property , on the condition of their giving farm houso and rights of hospitality to all comers . We have a right to go to the Duke of Bedford ' s , at _Woburn , for this ; as much right as the landlord has to come to us for his rent ; for statutes were not made to lose all their force , when applied to the rich , and to bo binding only on the poor ; your predecessors had no power" * to surrender your rights ; you were no parties to the bargain . It would have been equally consistent for a parliament sitting fifty years ago to have forbid you make use of gas , or of the invention of steam , as for them at that day to legislate away the rights of the present day . ( Mr . O'Connor here , in a nervous and effective manner , entered into the subject of Baptist Noel's pamphlet , showing that

      vice , idleness , and immorality would speedily vanish before the virtuous determination of a united and represented people . ) He also appeared before them as the advocate of ft repeal of the legislative union with Ireland . If it lay in his power to prevent it , England should never have her rights a day , an hour , before Ireland had her rights . What must he , as an Irishman , feel to see his country ' s prosperity blasted—to see the children of the land le adored wanderers from the country of their _bknh , begging in a strange land for the alma of the benevolent ? Was it not enough to make the soul shrink and tho blood recoil to think that men dearly attached to their native soil , should be compelled to desert their birthright , from inability to procure even the barest pittance imaginable ? There is no mau loves his home and his country more than an Irishman . Let his cares be ever ao great , his privations ever bo numerous , still he clings to his oabin , still _jb he content to labour for a bare subsistence , till

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      hunger _stareB him in the face , and compels him to leave his much loved Emerald Isle . What i 9 it that draws the Irishman to foreign _climea ! Why , class legislation . What wonld yen say if , aa our speaker , the Btonemason , asked you , the inhabitants ot Kensington and Hammersmith were to transact your parish business f But you may tell me that Ireland has a Parliament of her own , though it sits here m England . True , she has ; but their voices are controlled by the majority of the English Members ; and if they were even to sit in Ireland , the evil would be but little remedied . Ireland wants a Parliament of her own election on the broad basis of the People's Charter ; and then , and not till then , vnll Ireland get rid of her _numeroca grievances ; of

      a State Church at variance with the feelings of most of her inhabitants . ( Hear , hear . ) ( Mr . O Connor here entered into an afiecting detail of the Rathcormae massacre , and that he had seen the widowed and childless Mrs . Collins sucking the blood from out of the bosoms of her sons , two fine young men , one twenty-three , the other twenty-five years old , who bad left home that morning in health and spirits , but who laid lifeless with Christian bullets in their bosoms ., Yet the Whig Parliament gave a million of monoy to this Irish shooting Church . They never attempted to remove this mighty grievance . I would rather see my country a desert than see her energies thus prostrated . . Why would not the Whigs attack this

      monster Church ? Why , because this Church gave pap to their _younger suns , and they thought that the example might be contagious , and that you Protestants might think you paid too much for your own Reformed Law Church , whieh is drawing ten millions annually from your hard earnings . Yes , men cf Chelsea , your State Church costs you three millions more than evon your standing army ; and yet you are heavily burdened with that—yes , a standing army , to keep you iu vassalage , and enable them to shoot the _innocent Chinese . ( Hear , hear . ) But , my friends , you are told " , if yon do not like this , you can emigrate . That is much like telling a blind man to see . I too am for emigration , but I' / ould select

      a proper cargo . I would uelect one of the largest steam vessels in the kingdom , and I would freight it with a cargo of bishops , parsons , and pensioners , and I would charter it for Australia or Van Dieniaa _^ B Land , or any where from whence they could never return again , and I would give them a good sprinkling of barristers and lawyers to fill up the complement ; and with suoh a cargo sent out of the country I have no fear that you would find population press upon the means of subsistence . ( Tremendous cheering . ) But no , they love the fat of the laud too well to emigrate ; they have got _machinery as a substitute for our labour ; they have got machinery to make pocket-handkerchiefs , to make their lace veils , to make everything they stand in need of , and what

      they cannot get at home they want tree trade to get from abroad . Do not mistake me , I am for free trade ; but ere I embark my ship , I want the Charter pilot on board . I would not even embark _Philpotts and his crew without having the humanity to give them a good pilot on board ; then , with the Chartist pilot on board , and the fair wind of the Suffrage , wo would soon steer our free-trade bark into the haven of prosperity ; but no ! they want the free trade in corn , and they want a monopoly of legislation . Look at your local legislation ; why , you blistered hands have to pay for gas that lights the lamp before the nobleman's door , while your home is involved in darkness . You cau grope your wav in darkness , but the aristocrat , poor creature ,

      he wants a lamp to light his stops ; but , then , the rate-collector comes round as sure as death or _quartcr-dayj to you for yeur quota of the expenoe . —The policeman too , he wants a light to enable him to distinguish the difference between fustian and broadcloth ; and if he meets a broad cloth , whe , by some fatality , has mistaken the lamp-post for his bed-post , why he takes him up as tenderly as a basket of eggs . * Poor gentleman ; " bob to his money , Tom , and take him safe home ; call next day for your reward : but if it should happen to be a fustian , knock him down , take him to the station-house , and fine him 5 s . for being drunk . ( Mr . O'Connor here went at great length into the question of machinery as it affected _employment , and

      its effect upon the Corn Laws . ) The cant cry of the day was , throw the poor upon their own resources ; he was for this measure ; he wanted no Poor laws . In a country like this there ought to be no poo ; there ought to be a _provision for the sick , and for those who were unable to work ; but all the rest he would throw on their own resources . But there should none be allowed to quarter themselves on the poor man ' s resources ; he would have ail the lice removed * from off the back of the beetle ; he would throw the bishops , the parsons , the pensioners , the placemen , upon their resources , or if they liked it better , they might emigrato ; he was a friend to emigration ; but he would have the men of London , of Manchester _, of Glasgow , of Dublin , emigrate to Berkshire ,

      to Yorkshire , or any other place whero they could get land . Ho would compel none to go , but those who preferred Mr . Noel ' s artificial to his natural state . He . ( Mr . O'Connor ) was _acknowledged to be a good practical faamer , as good a one as ever took a plough in hand , and he had mado calculations , which none could disprove , that give a man ten acres of laud at a fair rent , say £ 1 an acre , and a man and his wife and five children should have plenty of mutton , pork , bread , vegetables , eggs poultry ,- for his family , without their earning a farthing , and £ 45 clear to spend in the manufacturing market . All are not partial to agricultural labour ; but let ten emigrate to some of our race courses , parks , & c ; let some of our largo farms be

      divided ; and then the manufacturing market would be relieved ; masters would no longer have a reserve to fall back on . Others would see the agricultural success , would see that they lived like princes , that tWy were prosperous and happy , and would be induced to follow their example . ( Hear , hear . ) Sydney Smith might then go to Poland or America if he liked for hi 3 breakfast ; but we could grow good breakfasts at home . We should give to the landlords a good retail market for their land , instead of an unprofitable wholesale one , and they would then be interested in eur welfare . The Time * told them that more churches was the remedy for all our evils ; that we must fast and pray . We had fasted too long : we wanted the land , _aud then we

      could be able to feast ; but because he was opposed to this humbug religion , he wag called an Infidel ; but he would leave his actions to speak whether he did not act more on the true principles of religion than these professors . Ho was a true and sincere Christian . . No man more mixed up the practice of pure religion with the actions of their everyday life than he did ; he longed for tho establishment of the Charter to make the present wretched country a heaven upon earth . Mr . O'Connor then went into the conduct of the Whigs to John Frost , eulogising his conduct as a mayor , a citizen , a husband , and a father , and asking if such a man , with such a public and private character , could be the character he waa

      represented to be ; and stating that a day of reckoning would yet come , when all should have to appear and be judged by their actions ; then would Frosfc stand iu high pre-eminence over his accusers . Mr . O'Connor then , at some length , defended himself from the charge of being a p hysical forco and torch and dagger man , showing that it was Attwood and Muntz , with their rifle clubs and muskets , sold halfprice , had brought that stigma on the Chartist cause . Mr . O'Connor then referred to an article ia last week ' s D ' upatch , headed " Political Bloodhounds , '' showing that they attacked us in a similar manner in 1838 ; that they applauded the people in their agitation , till it got too far for their party purposes ; then they turned round and abused them . He

      also ridiculed the idea of 'Publicola being a Republican , and opposed to Universal Suffrage , showed that when he asked for the Ballot , he was asking for the ladle without the soup ; blamed the working man for allowing those to live upon their resources , who mar _limned and abused them ; asked them when they went for a Dispatch , next Sunday , to aak for sixpenny worth of _political bloodhounds to buy sixpenny worth of abuBe of their own order . He next gave them a glorious acconut of the demonstrations iathe country—how they had buried _Whiggism and left room for Toryism by its side—ridiculed the idea of some of the writers for newspapers dogmatising about the Corn Laws , when they scarce knew a grain

      of corn when they saw it ; advised the people to attend every description of meeting , and in a calm and manly manner move their amendments , and their opponents must speedily bow before the rushing stream of public opinion ; that liko the haughty Dane , the enemy might speak but speak in vainagainst tho will of a nation ; that a 3 soon m ght they stop the suu in his course , as stop our agitation for the Charter ; that the Charier was the mighty magnet that would attract every other shade bf public opinion to its conquering eel f , and that disdaining the frown of the rich man , the ceasare of the interested , the scorning of tho fool , he would , until death , stand firm and consistent to oar glorious principles .

      Mr . O'Connor war tremendously cheered throughout the whole of his address , both by English , Irish , and Corn Law Repealers , and sat down amidst thunders of applause , having spoken nearly two hours . Mr . Ridley addressed the meeting at some length ; and , in the name of Mr . O'Connor , challenged Sidney Smith , or any other Corn-law lecturer . Mr . WHEELEEhavingbtien called for , briefly addressed the meeting . A vote of thanks was gives to the Cbairmaa _, aad cheers for the Star , victim * , die , after whioh th * meeting separated .

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      Death by . Drowning . —On Monday sight , shortly after ten o ' clock , Mr . William Boyall , the master of a trading vessel , laid at the Warehouse Hill , whilst crossing a plank to go ou board his vessel , slipped and fell overboard . The water was very high at the time , and he was unfortunately taken away by the strength of the current , and he was drowned _befitta he could be got out . He was periectlf _« obarfa _^ \ had just left the White Hart Inn , h « _Jwatth > had : "" : _% <• stopped at fifi . een minutes past ten . Ai _^ _iftpiest wa _«; " ; _"/> summoned for Wednesday , when _tTOidiot was _sa- / ' : ' ¦¦ ¦ turned in accordance with the _euroumjSlnTes _^ . J - -.. ; _">• ¦

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 9, 1841, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_09101841/page/5/