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    • Co £tf&er_? & Camgooitiftnte
    • THE NEW "HOLT ALLIANCE
    • SnocKise Accident - rtt^a Gux.—On Tuesday,
    • Bbadfokd AinESiECM.—On Tuesday a soiree on a
    • Manchester Corn Makket At our market this
    • irom klai Steam Boat Accidkst.—On Monday the Promc-. % • . __ ,- f i- i__ i ___• ¦_ .* i - - ,. .._;
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      The News Tins Week From Abroad, Both Col...

      Seems to us that he mi ght more aptly be called the Talleyrand of Sovereigns . " On ' the 3 rd the Duke de Montpensier had arrived at Tittoria . According to fee lloniteur and th « Phflippiit journah , the prince is everywhere received with the greatest enthusiasm by the Spanish people ( 1 ) The National , iowever , tells a very different story . Accordingto a letter from Iran , " published in that journal , the journey is a military procession , the carriage of the prince being accompanied by "two pieces of

      artillery , two thonsand infantry , and six hundred cavalrv- " The utmost precautions are taken to prevent the populace approaching the p rince ! The persecution of the Spanish press continues unabated ^ The Morn ing Post states , " on unquestionable authority" that the French government has demanded the surrender ofDon CarlosjLouis , Comie de Hontemolin , oy the English Cabinet , The Fast adds that ( he reply of Lord Palmer-ton was , that England tos a free country , and that any foreigner , no mat ter what might be his political opinions , was

      entitled to an asylum » o long as he respected our laws . Quite right . Tbe Pope is iiclung out the Corruptionists , and preparing the way for a Roman Constitution « ' Time works wonders . " Particulars wiU he found in our seventh page , The intelligence from the United States and Mexico does not call for comment

      October Lfr 1s40. _ The No Iuffery Stak,...

      October lfr 1 S 40 . _ THE NO IUffERy STAK , _ § 1

      Co £Tf&Er_? & Camgooitiftnte

      Co £ tf & er _? & Camgooitiftnte

      Glasgow.—" A Constant Reader' Wishes To ...

      Glasgow . — " A constant reader' wishes to know the address of T . Gordon , Secretary to the Glasgow branch of the Chartist Co-opwative Land Society . W . H . Diott , 24 , Sorth King-street , Dublin , is re-pub-1-shing the letters of Patrick O'Higgins , Esq ., and not having the copies of all , will feel much obliged to those who wish to disseminate political truth in Ireland if tbvj will forward copies of the entire series ; also the p _ per containing the letter to Lord Elliot on the Irish Arms * Dill . las PaoPKiETr of x Chaktist Daily Paper . —To the . Editor of the Northern Star . —Sir , —If your space will p : rmit the insertion of this letter , I would ask Mr . O'Connor what prospect there is for a daily-paper advocating democracy gaining support , and especially

      during the Parliamentary recess % Does he imagine tliat the working classes can afford to purchase a pipsr every day ! Or , rather , must not the keepers of places of public entertainment he looked to as the most likely to furnish orders for a daily paper ? And how many of them does he consider will patronise s u ch a paper ? He has made the experiment already ; and if it answered , why was it abandoned ! I can ass urehim that the Northern SUr is quite expensive enough for the poor . Tor if working men can fiud Money to spend every night of their liv-s in taverns or coffee-houses , from what source are we to glean evidence of their social deterioration ? A solution of this pr-duem will oblige . Tour obedient ssrvant ,

      E . Robestsos . Plymouth , October , 5 th ISIS . *^ - We are ' compelled to defer answers to several correspondents . 3 . Dowsos . Apelford . —The audress of the Oxford Secratary is , Mr . Bridgewater , Paradise-sguare , St . ESibs . J , Os-M , Boulogne . —Yes ; a person who has not paid up his two shares , can alttr to one and a half shares . JIe . J-Elms , Jan ., Xewton Abbot , and Mr . J . Elms , sen ., Totness , D = von , are the appointed agents for the Northern Star , in those towns and their vicinities . TV . flosiitt , Coventry . —Next week . L . C . Clavtos . —So room this week . The Shoekasxks . —We have received an account of a meeting of Manchester shoemakers , at which "the * ' Mutual Assistance Association" was repudiated , and a resolution in favour of joining the "National

      Association of United Trades" was adopted . We ha ve also received an account of a meeting of London shoemakers , connected with the "Mutual Assistance Asjocirtion /' at which certain charges against the Seerctarv were heard , and a vote of confidence in him was ttaanimously adopted . Both these reports came to hand too late for insertion this week—they shall appear in oar next number , We may observe , that the public have had more than enough of the quarrels , charges , and counter-charges , of , and between the several sections of the shoe-making trade . These criminations and xe-criminations axe anything out creditable to the shoemakers , andanythingbutinteMstingto the readers of the Northern Star . For their own sake , as w-11 as ours , we advise our friends of the " gentle craft , " to content themselves with hammering their leather , and gire OTer hammering each othtr .

      The New "Holt Alliance

      THE NEW "HOLT ALLIANCE

      Mr- Henry Vincent Lectured For The Space...

      Mr- Henry Vincent lectured for the space of one ioar and a half to an audience of some three hundred persons , male and female , at the Hal ! of Commerce , Threadueedle-street . on Friday , October the 2 nd , at the very aristocratic hour of one o ' clock , when labour is earning its daily bread , or eating ins hard crust allowed bv the aristocracy of land and mill . lie severely denounced the landed aristocracy and the co rruptions in Church and State ; he said " the party with whom he had the honour to act , did not wish to oppose any party at present in exi s tence , whether moral , political or social ; their desire was to unite all in a peaceful , Christian , and legal struggle . Previous to the holding of this meetini :, a committee had sat in an adjoining room , with "VV- Asburst , Esq .. common councilman , in the ClHir , at which they unanimously resolved to form a ' . National Alliance , ' for the purpose of effecting a tliorou « h reform in the Commons House of

      Parliament . To carry out this , and raise a fund in its support , was their object , and for which he invoked the aid of the inends of the Temperance , Anti-State Church , Universal Peaw , and the working classes generally ; iiievhad already secured the support of influential persons , including Joseph Sturge , Colonel Thompson < fcc . Their proposed mode of operation was , 10 send out peaceful missionaries to every city , town , Tiiiage , and hamlet in the kingdom , armed with tract 3 , < fco ., after the mannerof the late Acti-Corn-Law League ; and if such a course was pursued for seven years , he would pledge l » is honour the great € S * 'i > aor" in the most ducal corner of the empireshould have his mind illuminated with political aud moral truths , ilr . Vincent was frequently applauded , Lis knocks at the landed aristocracy appeared much relished by the representatives of the commercial classes of this " Great Wen . "

      At the conclusion Mr . Bontcnis proposed a vote of thanks to Henry Vincent , Esq ., for hisabl ; lecture , which wa * seconded by a person in the body of the meeting and carried unanimously . Mr . Vincent responded and proposed a vote of thanks to Mr . Ebenezer Clark , of Snaresbroak , who Occupied the chair . An appeal was marie at the close for persons to come forward and enter their names and subscribe their cish in the cause of the " National Alliance , " but not one responded to the call .

      { From a , Correspondent . ) A "Xew New , New Move . "—Mr . Henry Vincent this afternoon addressed a meeting in a room in the Hall of Commerce—subject , " The present state of Political parties . " Mr . Vincent held forth in a very eloquent and humorous manner—Ms stock in trade Consisted in an attack on the "landed aristocracy '' a-d ** mother church . " In the course of the address , an announcement of a new party . to be named " The National Alliance of all Reformers" came out . Mr . Ebenezer Clark was in the chair , and Geo . Thomson ,

      E-q ., Joseph Sturge , Esq ., Colonel Thompson , John Humphrey Parry , and others , were expected to have l >? en present , but were previously engaged /' The lateness of the hour prevents me writing all I think ; but as for the Gipsey compositor , Henry Vincent , 1 think the fellow to be a political coach dog , who barks for those who pay him best , and will be found at the gig wheel of every new move . I recommend the mendicant to the notice of the Exeter-hall humbugs , his mimicry quite fit him for a nigger inelo-Friday , October 2 nd , 1 S 4 C .

      Snockise Accident - Rtt^A Gux.—On Tuesday,

      SnocKise Accident - rtt ^ a Gux . —On Tuesday ,

      An Accident Of A Very Distressing Charac...

      an accident of a very distressing character occurred t « Mr . George Evans , a linen-draper in Tottenham C jurt-road , whilst returning from a shooting excursion near Rochester . Whilst stepping jinto a boat for the purpose of returning home , the gun , which was imprudently left loaded and cocked , exploded , discharging the ' eontents into his right arm , which was entirely shattered . He was immediately carried ashore , to the nearest surgeon s , but such was the natureof the injury , that it was deemed necessary to remove him to Guy ' s Hospital . The limb is in such a shattered state , that it is feared the arm must be amputated .

      Fire at Newcastle . —A fire was discc-vered at abaut three o ' clock on Sunday morning last , on the extensive premises of Messrs . Richardson and Coxon , Ihien and woollen-drapers , Market-street and Greystreet , Newcastle-upon-Tyne . The premises adjoining , occupied by Messrs . Alder , Dunn , acd Co , known as the Albion-honse , were also on fire , in both cases it was confined to the upper part of the buildin ? . The fire was subdued in a little more than an hour . The upper part of Messrs . Richardson and Coxon's premises was used as a warehouse , and nearly the whole of ihe goods in it have been injured or destroyed , either by the fire or the water from the engines . Thejupper rooms of ihe Albion-housa were occupied as sleeping apartments , and the Sra is supposed to have arisen in one of them , and to have spread to the next building .

      An Accident Of A Very Distressing Charac...

      RECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY . PER MR . O'CONNOR . SECTION No . 1 . HABU . £ s . d . Norwich , por J . Hurry « , „ „ 2 0 0 lineup , per 3 . Jlawson „ „ .. 500 Birmingham , per W . Thorn ,. „ ,. 1 11 6 Kadcliffe , per N . Critchlcy _ , „ .. 260 Sunderland , per If . Haines .. .. .. 0 7-0 Wigton , per T . Bell .. „ .. a 17 6 Carlisle , per J . Gilbertson .. „ ., 2 17 3 Oldham , per W . Hamer .. .. .. 100 Nottingham , per J . Sweet .. .. .. 036 Bradford , per J . Alderson .. .. ., 500

      Teovtll , per J . G . Ahhott 2 16 0 Stockport , per T . Woodhouse .. .. 2 0 0 Huddersnehl . perJ . Stead 2 15 4 ashton-nnder-Lyne , perE . Hohson .. « 0 16 6 Manchester , per J . Murray .. .. .. 180 Liverpool , per J . Arnold .. .. .. 104 Rochdale , per E . Mitchell 13 8 Hamilton , per J . Branagan .. -. 2 J Artichoke Inn . Brighton , per W . Flower .. 0 17 0 Leigh , per Dichenson .. .. .. ] \ ° Alvaer Rohertson .. .. .. ?

      , p ; . „ Hehden Bridge , per J . Smith 2 ^ c Hollimvood , perRaTner .. .. ~ 06 b £ 11 17 3

      SECTION No . 2 . SBABBS . Stockport , per T . Potter \ W Birmingham , per VV . Thorn .. . „ , ? Corhridge , per R . Hawlcy .. -. " ia a Sunderland , per H . Haines .. .. 3 18 8 Carlisle , per J . Gilbertson .. 1 " ' » Oldham , per IF . Hamer .. ,. 100 Nottingham , per J . Sweet •• •• O 19 o Yeovil , per J . G . AUbott .. - .. 040 Banbury , per J . Hone .. .. 1 19 4 Swindon , per D . Morrison .. .. -. 500 Lepton , per L . Lodge .. .. .. - 2 9 0 Staley Bridge , per j . Law ton .. _ , .. 2 7 7 Ayr , per S . Irvine .. .. .. .. 19- * AsIitoM-under-Lj-ne , per E . Hohson .. .. 0 9 C Manchester , per J . Murray .. .. .. 626 Drovlsden , per do . .. M .. .. 296

      Liverpool , per J . Arnold .. 8 8 10 Roehdale , per E . Mitchell .. .. M 3 16 4 Artichoke Inn , Briglitou , per W . Flower .. 0 8 6 Leigh , per Dickenson .. _ . .. „ 1 7 6 Alva , per Rohertson .. 2 16 Hehden Bridge , per J . Smith O 16 0 Stockton , perT . Potter .. .. m 2 10 9 Southampton „ M .. .. .. 1 17 8

      JE 5113 _ 5 PER GENERAL SECRETARY . SECTION No . 1 . SUAKE 9 . S . s . d . £ s . d . Westminster- - 0 9 0 Oxford - - - 01410 J . Smith - - 0 0 6 Glasgow , per Came-Aherdeen - - 0 7 0 ron - - - 1 4 6 Kilmarnock - - 0 13 0 HuU - - - 0 10 0 Boulogne - - 3 4 O Leeds - - -200 Cockcrmoufh - 411 2 Ardesby- - -200 Proscott- - - 1 5 0 Somers Town - 1 16 6 Warwick - . - O 8 0 Kidderminster - 0 13 2 Marvleboue - 0 10 0

      _ £ 20 C 8 SECTION No . 2 . Kensington - - 0 6 4 Prescott- - - 0 19 6 New Mills - - 0 5 0 Warwick - -040 Southampton - 115 0 Tunhridge Wells , Robert James Bur- H . Neal - - 2 13 0 gar - - - O 1 4 George Gordon - o 1 4 Jas . Chaddoch - 1 12 4 Edinburgh - - 3 8 8 Broseley , Shrop . Derhy - - -080 shire - - - 0 5 10 Hammersmith , per J . G . Harnev- - 0 2 0 Stallwood - -15 0 J . Page , Yar- Cupar . Fife - -15 0 mouth- - -014 Oxford - - -071 Westminster- - 1 5 6 Loughhorough - 1 16 0 G . Brooks - - 0 5 0 Aberdeen - - 0 4 11

      Square Buskley - 0 7 0 Leicester , per Chipping Norton - 0 7 6 Astill - - - 0 4 6 Matthew Thomas Lynn , per Bunton- 19 0 ( Westminster ) - 0 2 0 Hull - - - 0 3 6 Kilmarnock - - 0 11 4 Falkirk - - - 1 15 6 Charles Howe - 2 12 4 Sliiney Row - -18 0 Lambeth - - 1 10 0 Iveston - - -331 Leamington - - 2 0 6 Firth - - - 0 15 6 Newport , Isle of Walsall- - -10 0 Wi ght- _ - 3 10 0 Kid'lerminster , per Boulogne - - 0 16 0 Holloway - - 615 6 Colue , No . 1 - - 0 3 0 Northwiek - -200 Merthyr Tidvil . Teignmouth - - 2 19 6 No . 1 - - - 0 2 0 Thomas Mann , Clitheroe - - 315 0 Green Holme Bradford , per Jack- Works - . 10 0 son - - _ 118 0 Somers Town . . 076

      £ 59 -l 7 TOTAL LAND FCXD . Mr . O'Connor , Section No . I ... 41 1 ? 3 Mr . Wheeler „ „ ... 20 6 S

      ffij ll Mr . O'Connor , Section 2 Jo . 2 ... 51 13 5 Mr . Wheeler , „ „ ... 59 1 1 £ l iq _ 15 _ 0

      NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . P £ E MB . O ' CONNOR . EXECUTIVE . Yeovil .. .. .. .. M .. 0 4 -5 RECEIPTS OF NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . PER GEXEBAL SECBETAKV . Whittington and Earle , 6 d . ; Locke , Cat - - - 0 6 0 6 d . ; Fitzgerald , "Westminster- - 0 6 0 6 d . ; RusselL 6 d ; Do . Cards- 0 3 0 Goslin , 6 d . ; Over , RuffevRidlev - 0 0 2 td . ; Almond O'Counorvilfe , Moodv , fid . J - - - 0 12 Is . ; Ross , Is . ; Ro- Lille , France- - 0 11 1 hertson , Is . ; Mr . Steel , War-Dani e ls , ls .: Sleat , wick - - -010 Is . - , King , " 1 ? . ; Mr . Elliot , Chipa Democrat , is . ; ham - - -040 Bernard , Is . ; A Friend , Mile-end , Stoue , 6 d . ; per Harney -010 Stranger , 6 d . ;

      FOB WIILLAMS AND JONES . Southampton - O O 9 Henry Wilks , per Stallwood - - 0 1 3 Bl'GISI & ATION FCiiD . Priscella Tov , HuU - - - 0 1 0 TETEEASS ' , WIEOWS ' , AND OKPHAX' s FDXD 5 . 3 Ir . L . Brown , T . Salmon - - 0 0 6 Kensiug Ya- - 0 4 0 Browet - - . 010 Sheffield - - 0 5 0 Leicester , per AstiU 0 4 6 Alias Devoxfout . Stevenson - - 0 0 6 Thomas MiBTisiAVnEELEs . Secretary .

      Yarious suD-Secretaries have neslected to send me an account of the number of their members comprising the separate numbers in each section . This must be done immediately . The Nomiuatious for Directors must take place prior to Thursday , Oct . 15 th . T . M . v / heeleb , Secretary .

      Bbadfokd Ainesiecm.—On Tuesday A Soiree On A

      Bbadfokd AinESiECM . —On Tuesday a soiree on a

      Scale Ot Great Splendour Was Given M The...

      scale ot great splendour was given m the theatre ot the Bradford Mechanic ' s Institution to celebrate the commencement of a new session . In the afternoon a sumptuous entertainment was given to Lord Morpeth , and in theevening his lordship filled the chair , surrounded by many of the myst influential and distinguished men of the district . His lordship ' s speech —the speech of the evening—was characterized by his usual good feeling , poetical taste , and well known views as to education . His address was received with the greatest enthusiasm . The meeting was also addressed by Dr . Scoresby , vicar of Bradford , Dr Hoil « son , of Liverpool ; Dr . Godwin , of Oxford ; Edw . Baines , jun ., Esq .. of Leeds ; the Rev . Jas . Ackworth , president of Horton College ; William Busfleld , Esq ., M . P . ; Henry Forbes , and other gentlemen .

      Factory Femalr Operatives . — On the following day another meeting at which Lord Morpeth was present , and spoke , was held in the theatre of the Institution , f « r the purpose of taking into consideration what measures may be adopted with the laudable view of effecting an improvement in the moral and social condition of thefemale factory operatives . Every part of the Mechanics' Institute ' s Theatre was densely crowded , a Tast number of the assemblage comprising the female members of nearly all the respectable families resident in the district . Dr . Scoresby , the vicar , occupied the chair . The Rev .

      Walter Scott , president of the Airedaile College , moved a resolution embracing the plans suggested bv the committee for carrying out the objects of the meeting . They were—1 . The provision of boarding houses in different parts of the town , conducted under economical arrangements . ' 2 . By tho register of other lodging-houses kept by private parties , and certified as clean and well-conducted places of abode . 3 . The establishment of evening schools for instruction in general . 4 . The organisation of a general sicksoeietv on sound financial principles , and the encouragement and facilitation of depositing money in saving banks .

      Subsequently a committee was _ formed to carry out these various objects , consisting of the clergy , dissenting ministers , and the leading gentry of the district . Other resolutions were passed calling upon all classesin the district to co-operate in the movement . These resolutions were proposed and seconded by Alfred Harris , Esq ., J . E . Foster , Esq ., tho Ilev . II-Dawson . William Rand , Esq ., the Rev . J . Glvde , the llev . It . Insham , tbe Rev . Mr . Ryland , " William Lythall , Esq ., and Robert Baker , Esq . The last-named gentleman , who is the factoryinspector of the district , pourtrayed in feeling terms the apparently uncarod for condition of our female factory operatives , and expressed his cordial approval of a movement at ouce so necessary and philanthropic as that which they had now originated . Ail the resolutions were passed unanimously , and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks given by acclamation to the Rev . Dr . Scoresby .

      Manchester Corn Makket At Our Market This

      Manchester Corn Makket At our market this

      Morning Transactions To A Moderately Fai...

      morning transactions to a moderately fair amount occurred in wheat , at an advance of 4 d toCuper 701 bs . on the rates of tins day se'nuisht With a lively demand tor flour , prices have advanced fully 3 s per sack , and . sper barrel- Oats must be noted -d to 3 d per 45 lbs cheaper . Prime qualities of oatmeal supported their previous value in the limited busines s passing ; hut inferior kinds might have becu purchase Ion lower terms .

      Morning Transactions To A Moderately Fai...

      THE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER ! GREAT PUBLIC MEETING IN THE TOWER HAMLETS TO ADOPT THE NATIONAL PETITION . On Tuesday evenins - , October the 6 th , that magnificent building , the Eastern Institution , Commercial Road , all honour to the men of the Tower Hamlets , was crammed to overflowing , to adopt the National Petition to Parliament praying the enactment of the People ' s Charter . At half-past seven o ' clock , Mr ; Ernest Jones was unanimously called to the chair , and amidst loud applause said , the Parliament had not thought it worth while to attend to the great interest of the suffering people ; no , its members were too anxious to be pursuing other gamo on the moors of Scotland . Rumour had stated that Parliament was to

      rc-assemble early in November , to concoct a remedy for the evils inflicted by class dominations on unfortunate Ireland , but past experience bid him have no such hope . This meeting was assembled to forward the great cause of reform , the Charter . ( Loud cheers . ) The necessity for that reform was shown in the existence on the one hand of regal luxury and gaudy palaces , and on the other in the squalid faces of the starving poor . ( Loud cheers . ) This meeting was called to give its sanction to that reform which had already received the approving voices of millions . That Reform measure was the People's Charter . ( Immense applause . ) Many plans had been suggested with a view to the amelioration of the condition ol the people , but he knew of none so sure as the Charter . Then let the people employ every honest means to obtain that great measure . Let them not by any little weakness or division mar their strength .

      Their miseries and wretchedness were a tower of strength to them , as they appealed powerfully to the sympathies of all in their behalf . Let them then not attempt to hide them , but bare them to the world , and thus shame the legislature into the grantins those rights , alike due to justice and humanity . ( Much applau . 'e . ) He knew that in their course persecution might assail them , as a man the other day was discharged for being a Chartist , but they held the remedy for this in their own hands—let all workintr men become Chartists , and the masters would grow tired ofdischargingtheirmen . ( Great cheering . ) Mr . Jones then spoke of the bad social state of the people in America ; but , said the speaker , the American consoles himself , he has his vote and his land . The English mechanic , however , during ^ his time of sorrow , reflects on the Charter and its younger brother the land , and says , " Brother Jonathan , 1 shall soon be freer than you . " ( Rapturous app l ause . )

      Mr . Clark , who was received , with applause , said , Mr . Chairman , ladies and gentlemen , it has fallen to my lot to submit the first resolution to your consideration , and I do so , in the full hope that you will adopt it , as it solicits all to join , in the righteous struggle for labour ' s emancipation . I W'll read it , in order that all may understand it . It runs as follows : — That in the opinion of this meeting , the subjection «» f the liberties and property of one man to the will of another , is egregiously unjust ; and seeing that the present Parliamentary system inflicts this injustice on millions of tbe community , this meeting hereby pledges itself to continuous exertion until this unnatural order of things shall hare been rectified , by the House of Commons being based upon tbe suffrages of the whole male adult population of the Umpire .

      It will be seen , sir , that the resolution proclaims the injustice of one class of the community making laws for tbe others without their consent and concurrence , and in that sentiment I cordially agree . ( Cheers . ) According to the existing constitution , five-sixths of the male adult population of the country arc excluded from the exercise of that political power , which is the right of all ; but of which the working classes alone are deprived . ( Hear . ) AU other classes and interests have representation , and hence the flourishing condition of all but the unrepresented and degraded labourer . ( Cheers . ) Then as representation had secured protection to every other species ot property , we seek the enfranchisement of labour as the only means of protecting it . ( Cheers . ) The land is represented by the landlords ,

      commerce , by merchants and manufacturers ; the army and navy , by their officers and commanders ; the church , by the younger brothers and the bench of bishops , and we think that with labour enfranchised , we will be able to dispense with the service of the aforesaid gentry , in order that they may follow some more worthy and useful occupation . ( Cheers . ) It is objected " that although the franchise is abstractedly the right of all , yet that it would be inexpedient tot grant it to working classes , because of their ignorance . " Now , 1 say that if the working classes are as ignorant as their revilcrs represent them , then 1 look upon it as one of the effects of the vile system , and one of the strongest reasons why it should bo amended . ( Cheers . ) Again , if the people are really so ill-informed , what

      have their instructors been doing ? ( Hoar , hear . ) There are , I believe , almost Eighteen Thousand parsons belonging to the established church , and who extract the sum of . Ten Millions of pounds sterling annually , from the wealth of the natron for the ostensible purpose of affording the people sound and practical instruction , and if the charge of ignorance is at all sustainable it proves one of two things , either that the parsons , after pocketing the money of the people , are too ignorant and "" cannot , " or they are richest and " will not" instruct them , and , in either case to take the money and not perform the labour is a downright robbery , and , if justice were done , they would all be banished for receiving money under false pretences . ( Cheers and laughter . ) Pretty gentlemen these , to complain of the ignorance

      of the people . ( Hear , hear . ) But it is an additional proof of what they are capable of doing in order to perpetuate the horrible system . ( Cheers . ) 1 deny , however , that the people are ignorant , and I will prove it . I will take the present Prime Minister , Lord John Russell , for example . His lordship is considered to be a very erudite and clever man , certainly , he is a patriotic man —( laughter)—but , notwithstanding his learning and ability , I think he would present a most ridiculous and contemptible appearance walking down 1 'arliamcnt-street , barefooted —( laughter )—and yet the man that has sense and intelligence enough to make his lordship ' s boots is considered too ignorant to exercise the riaht of voting , and his lordship , who can neither make boots , hat , or coat is intelligent enough to govern millions , who spend the whole of their lives in manufacturing these useful articles for others . ( Cheers . )

      Without at all depreciating the species of intelligence which the Prime Minister is known to possess . I maintain that the intelligence of the weaver , the hatter , the tailor , the shoemaker , the baker , and the cultivator of the soil , are all indispensable-, and without which , society could not exist , and are , therefore , more important and useful than any other , and if intelligence is to be made the test of fitness , then , not only would Lord John Russell , but his whole J elass , be disfranchised in consequence of their ignorance . ( Cheers . ) Lord John Russell has recently declared , in bis place in Parliament , in reply to a question from Mr . Duncombe , that the " principle " of extending the Suffrage is right—that the possession of the franchise would lead to the moral , physical , and intellectual elevation of the people ; but . yet , he would oppose the Charter . I cannot understand the consistency

      of such logic , and I believe , that if the peoplo were once in earnest , that Lord John Russell would be compelled to carry into practice what he has already admitted in theory . ( Cheers . ) Wc want the Charter , to enable us to sever the unnatural and unholy connexion betwixt Church and State , ( cheers . ) To break down the monopoly of land , which is tho greatest curse inflicted upon us by class legislation . ( Cheers . ) If the whole people were represented £ 54 , 001 ) , 000 would not be filched from us , under the suiseoflaw ; nor would the scaffold , the cat , and the triangle , be longer used as instruments to uphold our glorious institutions in Church and State . ( Chaers . ) The change , great and comprehensive as it might appear , could be effected by the working classes themselves . They have many ways of accomplishing their freedom . ( Cheers . ) There is no Act of Parliament to force them into the Gin Palace .

      ( Cheers . ) Or if their appetites or inclinations lead them that way , there is no law which says they shall go to the shops of Whigs or Tories , or that they shall spend their earnings with their enemies . ( Cheers . ) Let them agree h > deal with friends alone , and they would soon convert enemies to friends . ( Cheers . ) I hope , ere long , to see the people engaged in an earnest struggle for their emancipation , and believing as I do , that no Government can t long resist the justice of our claims , if we are only true to ourselves , I will implore every working man to assist us in our laudable attempt to secure freedom for the whole human race . ( Cheers . ) We have much to contend against , but with tho assistance of the people , we will break every obstacle that may present itself , and ultimately by our union and perseverance guide the agitation to a successful issue . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Clark concluded by moving the-reso lution , and retired amidst loud applause .

      Julias llAKNBY . whoon coming forward wjiswarmlv applauded , said , Sister and Brother Ch ? , rUsts , with pleasure I second this resolution . I believe that the total number of registered doctors under the present system of representation , is soiocthjnir like one million . The adult male popul ation ot the country amounts to nearly seven mill ' . or . s five hundred thousand persons , so that there .. . re nearly six millions five ' . hundred thousand ar " , , ^ i unrepresented in that house , vhich prr . i Cmis to be the Commons House of Parliament . J ( Hear , hear . ) In 1 S 31 Lord Jehu Russell , advocati- ng the Rcfom Bill , remarked of the then borough-ir ngcring parliament , that" No man of common sen ? e COui , i preteBd that that assembly represented the .- COmmonalitv or people of England * " 1 ask his / , ttle Lordship * !! ' he will now assert that the present LiQXXae ef Commons represents the commonality of England ? That house does not even fairly represeu ' , th . e one mUIiou of registered electors ,

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      £ ted bv a mt * r , J ority of «** - " & tthe : nSi ? . " £ " W ? ' ^» tered electors , owing w . ch I ve to * W $ ion of th 0 constituencies manv S apnf ^ - ' 8 erab e P lace liko n """ ' - * , » " earV CndlrS I s tl , e Tower IIara 1 ^ - ( "ear , o overv seven of A sy 8 tera ' ^^^ « t least six out udSfX ™ tei m 6 noi th !« great empire are thlSrlT ' . u 0 ,, ei 7 - > We »™ constantly told t ihl I ? D ? lb u rcat he in the free 3 ir « f England ; PWlSd l- " u VV slavo touches the free soil of iten * i J ' , 8 hack ! es fa » f >™ his limbs , and he stands erect a free man : that

      ' Thu Hag ^ that has braved for a thousand years The battle and the breeze , " proclaims in every clime , and every sea , our existence as a great and free people . A . lmirablc claptrap ! ( Cheers . ) Magnificent humbug ! ( Great cheering . ) Behold six millions of men , to say nothing of their wives and little ones , the slaves of a system which affords them no voice in the making the laws they arc to obey , no part in levying the taxes they have to pay . ( lireat applause . ) A people who have laws imposed upon them , without , or against , their consent . A people the fruits of whose labour is pillaged from them m the shape of rents , profits , taxes , tithes , tolls , rates and other means of CXtortion-wllO may bo punished il they sell the produce of their labour without a license—who may be punished as vagabonds ( by privileged vagabonds ) if tlrnv nannot find

      iabour—who after labouring too much for too little fmu themselves in old age or sickness "driven like wrecks down the rough tide of fortune , " may be punished m a bastile—a peopie who are liable to be stolon troni their families bv a press-gani > , a crime which may not be perpetrated upon negroes whom even these -. nglish pressed slaves are employed to protect—a people who for pouring out thoir heart ' s best blood , not for their country , but their country ' s oppressors , are rewarded in return by being flogged like Cuban slaves or Russian serfs , the " cat" rivaling in blood and horror the southern whip and the northern knout—a people whose lives and liberties are at the mercy of jurors selected from any class but the people ' s class—whose voice , even when assembled to petition their rulers for jus-tico , may be

      stifled by a truncheon and sabre-backed riot act—a i ; e pie who , lastly , are denied even that poor priviledge accorded to the many in the most despotic countries , direct appeal to " the chief magistratesuch a people , though yon may call them " free-born iiritons" are slaves ' . ( Immense applause . ) It niakufi little difference whether the people are crushed by one tyrant as in Russia , where the merciless miscreant Nicholas is stile lord , or whether the people are ground to the dust by a hordo of despots like the two hundred thousand electors of France , or by a privileged order like the electoral one million of England ;— ' disguije thyself how thou wilt , slavery , thou are still a bitter draught . " ( Cheers ^) If this be true , and if it be true that' * One day , oue ' hour of virtuous liberty .

      1 b worth a whole et- rnity of bondage . " Shame to us , that we six millions bear tha slavo brand on our brow-. ( Great cheering . ) I trust , however , that the people arc about to make an effort for themselves , which will compel their rulers to at least modestly listen to their claims . This splendid meetin ? following the great gathering at the Crown and Anchor proves that the national mind is waking . London , too , does not afford the only evidence of this . Norwich , Gloucester and Devonshire have " pronounced" for the Charter . Iu tho n rth , too , our Scottish brethren are stirring , our friend Doyle is rousing the countrymen of Wallace , and Muir and Hardy , and permit me to add that the fiory cross could not be intrusted to worthier or mure efficient hands . ( Cheers . ) This is well , but we are not a

      moment too soon in the field , indeed we shall have to work hard to keep pace with the crisis , daily proving more tremendous . Not only in Ireland , but in France , Belgium , Germany , and throughout Europe , misery is goading the people to revolt , and the chances are a hundred to one that a faminecreated revolution will this winter shake Europe from centre to circumference —( Cheers)—and if that earthquake does come , 1 pray that it may shake down Europe ' s blood cemented thrones . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Already we may see in thu distance the realization of Thomas Carlyle ' s dread picture , — " Fancy Europe ' s full-grown millions starting up , and demanding as in forest roarings , of their washed upper classes , after long time . 'lowed centuries , virtually this question : How have you treated us ; how

      have ye taught us , fed us , and led us , while we toiled for you ? This is the feeding and leachiug we have had of vou : emptiness—of pocket , of stomach , of head , and of heart . Dehold theie is nothing iu us ; nothing but what nature gives her wild children of the desert ; ferocity and appetite ; strength grounded on hunger . Did you mark that among the rights of man , man was not to die of starvation while there is bread raised by him ? Iti-j among tho mights of man ! " ( Cheers . ) A people in this state of mind may be omnipotent to punish and destroy , but alas for them—if they know not the principles the establishment of which alone can save them . To the millions at home and . the millions abioad , wc cft ' nr our banner inscribed in sunbeam characters which all may read— "The Charter , and the Land . " (

      Applause . ) Let the millions rally round that banner , which will be to them a cloud by . day and a pillar of lire by niijht loading them—I trust without passing thraugh a lied Sect—from the mannaless wilderness and tho house of bondage , to tha paradise of plenty and the temple of liberty . ( Enthusiastic cheering . ) A word as to the famine . 'We are told the present scarcity is . i divine visitation , if so it should fall on ail alike —( hear , hear )—but I ask is there any scarcity at Victoria ' s table . ( Hear , hear . ) When a ship at sea runs short of provisions , I understand that the whole crew are put upon short allowance , and that the captain has no more than the foremast-man . ( Hear , hear . ) Well , let Victoria , Lord John Russell , the Duke of Wellington , the Archbishop of Canterbury , the Governor of tho Bank of England , and Marshall of Leeds consent to half an allowance and

      we will consent too . ( Hear , hear . ) If not , then 1 say let the peoplo remember the Yorkshire philosopher ' s doctrine that * ' all the stuff in the world is made for all the folk in the world , " and that they who produce the food have a right to bs first supplied . ( Cheers . ) Perhaps you don ' t know the cuise of the potato blight , that cause is discovered . But I'll bet any man in this meeting a leg of mutton and trimmings —( laughter )—that unless he has seen the Morning Post he will not gucs . i that cause between now and next Christmas . I will tell it to you . An anonymous correspondent of the Post , who is evidently one of thu parson tribe , in rummaging through his Bible—wo are told even the devil can quote scripturo—has read that God sent a pestilence upon the Jews because David numbered tho

      people ; now says this worthy , in 1 SI 1 the census was taken , the people of the United Kingdom were numbered , and , therefore , the potato-blight and the famine has oomo . ( Il ;> ap 3 of laughter . ) But this is not all , lie finds out that David ' s chief olfcncc was not so much the numbering of the people , as neg lecting the carrying out of a command which ordained that when the people wore numbered every male of twenty years of age and upwards should pay half-a-shekcl to the sanctuary of the Lord . This half-shekel , is about thirteen-pcncc-halfpenny English money—the price of a box of Old l ' arr ' s pills —( laughter)—and there is no question with me which is the " { rcatcst quackery of the two , pi ! lmongcring or paroon-mougering —( cheers)—if , therefore , every male above twenty years of age had paid

      histliirtecn-penee-halfpewny to the established church when the census was taken , there would have been no potato blight . ( Ironical cheering . ) Of course you can gueaa this worthy's suggested reme'iy , namely to tip up the thirteen-pcncc-halfpcnnics now -rbctter late tnen never—these contributions to be employed in building more churches , and providing for more par .-ons . My remedy is a simpler ono , I suggest more pigs and less parsons , a vast d « al mqro beef and rio bishops . ( Shouts of laughter and cheering . ) So much for one set of priests , I must now have a word with another set . At the Crown and Anchor meeting Mr . O'Connor well and deservedly lashed the gentry who now wished to distract your attention from the Charter , by getting up au Anti-State Church agitation . I yesterday saw

      iuone of the newspapers , a copy of a circular from this party , in which they say now that the Freetrade agitation is atanond , and as Englishmen can attend to one thing only at a time , they now hope that th « next one thing to be demanded by the people will be the separation of Church and State . 1 say that these dhsuutiii" gentry are humbugs , and design to humbug you unless you are on your guard . "Was not the same language used " b ? the Free-traders , did they not say " one thing at a time , Corn-ljiw Repeal first , and then the Charter , " but h ow many of them will now help you to get the Charter ? ( Hoar , hear . ) You have had a seven years agitation for Free Trade , on the onething at a time principle . You might have another seven years agitation for a separation of Church and

      State , and at the end of which time if that separation was effected , some other schemers would start up with some new dodge , begging vouto l ( , u ' , m ' " one thins ; at a time , " but it " would never be the time for the Charter . ( Cheers . ) lam for separation ol Church and State , and for many other much more important and necessary reforms , but 1 am for the Charter as the great means of accomplishing those reforms . ( Cheers . ) A book has been recently published which I wish was in the hands of every one in the meeting , entitled The Aristocracy of England , written bva person who calls himself , John i . ' ssrr den , junior , Trho ^ e pen by tho by , is likely to do

      more mischief to the Aristocracy , than even thu sword of John Hampden , senior , that writer is a Freetrader , and au Anti-State Churchman , but he conc ' udeshis book with these words , addressed to the people of England "Till you obtain the Franchise you obtain nothing , when you obtain that , you obtain everything . Every petition , every demand that asks for hiss than the Universal \ Franchise is tho perpetration of an absurdity , and the treated ol all absurdities . " ( Loud cheers . ) Rt > cehi > iiig his words , I say , therefore , we must agitate" far and demand the Charter , the whole Charter , and nothing less than the Charter . ( Enthusiastic and prolonged cheering . )

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      Mr . Puiup M'Grato 1056 amidst the mostenthu ol & stic applause to move the second resolution , aa folhws : — That this meeting , considsring the hill called the People ' s Charter to contain the princip les and details essential to the creation of a true representation of the whole people , do resolvo to present to the House of Commons a National Petition , praying that body to render the bill aforesaid , a statute of this realm . Mr . M'Grath had scaree read the resolution , when Mr . Feargus O'Connor entered the Hull , and his appearance was greeted with the most vociferous and prolonged cheering , which having subsided , Mr . M & rath proceeded , and said the resolution he had the honour to move , related to that much reviled

      document , the People ' s Charter . ( Loud cheers . ) Ihe rottenness of the thing called our Constitution , was now pretty generally admitted ; although there were some who thought it " The very perfection of human wisdom . " Edmund Burke bad said , that the House of Onimona should be a representative of tli « people ; but was it so ? No ; for & small minority of the legistered electors chose the members of that house ; and satisfied he was , that in the whole kingdom , there was not more than 200 , 000 electors that esereiscd the elective franchise conscientiously : and he farther believed that in this borough of tlie ' Tower Hamlets , out of the 12 , 000 electors , that not 2 , 000 could bo found , who recorded their votes conscientiously , such was tbe effect ef intimidation , interest ,

      « fcc . In fine , the psople of England were as much slaves , as were the poor Pules who were under the iron heel of the Russian despot . ( Cheers . ) And he believed it never would be otherwise , until the Charter was the law of the land . ( Great cheering . ) The Charter contained six points or principles , one great one and five Aubordinateones . lie believed th . it all the miseries of the people could be traced to class misrule . The state of Ireland at the present time , was a black and damning spot on the escutcheon of clasH domination . ( Loud eheirs . ) Go to Austria , South America , a » d in those despotic and arid regions , you will not hoar of the people dying of starvation . Yet Ireland , that christian country , exhibited the frig ' . iiful anomnlv of ureat wealth oil the

      one hand , and one fourth of her people dying of gaunt famine on the other , and weaietold that this is a dispensation of divine providence ; and the Archbishop of Canterbury had been instructed to draw up a form of prayer in consequence . But he could not believe such a state of things was in accordance with the dispensation of divino will . No , he traced it to the door of Ireland ' s oppressors , her legislators—( loud cheers)—and he believed it never would be otherwise , until such times as Ireland had a Parliament of her own , hedged round with the Pernio ' * Charter . ( Tremendous cheering . ) The last time he was in this hall , R . R . Moore and others , were telling tho audience they wanted but . one thing . Free Trade , to- make them happy ; they had obtained comparative Free Trade , but where was the promised result . ( Great cheering . ) There were several

      political p arties in existence , it was for the people to say which they were prepared to go with . There were the Whigs , and finality , were they prepared to go with-them ? ( uud shouts of'No . no . ) They had the stand still conservatives , were they prepared to go with them ? ( No , no . ) There were the Young Englanders , were they prepared crab-like to go backwards with thorn ? ( Loud shouts of No , no . ) Well , to sum up , they had tbe humane , but retrograding Young Englanders ; Toryism , wliiuh meant murder and spoliation ; Whiggery , which meant cant , fraud , and hypocrisy ; and , Chartism , which meant liberty , fraternity , equality ; could they for a moment hesitate to join the great Chartist party ? ( Tremendous and long continued cheering . ) Then , let them adopt tho resolution , and attach their signatures to the National Petition .

      Mr . M'Gratu resumed his seat amid the most rapturous applause , Upon Mr . O'Connor presenting himself to second the resolution , he was received nith the most enthusiastic applause , which lasted for a considerable time . When silence was restored , he said : — Mr . Chairman and my friends , — The eloquent speeches which you have heard to-night , delivered by those talented and enthusiastic young men upon the platform , should go far to convince our enemies

      of the utter hopelessness of longer resistance to our principles ; and what I have heard , and the sesnos that are passing now in my own country—the desolation , "famine , and woe , of those amongst whom 1 was born , and reared , and have lived—all convince mo of the imprudence of confining my observations to a political harangue . I , for one , cannot reflect upon the state of Ireland ; I cannot quell my feelings of horror , or that sacred shudder which paralyses those feelings , at the reflection , that the innocent blood of starving men has been shed in the

      streets of Dungarvan , tor no higher offence than that of asking for the paltry pittance of sixpence a day whereon to preserve a wretched existence for another season of misery —( ar ? at sensation and chcerim ;)—misery to avert which the Queen has impiously directed her Archbishop to pray to Almighty God—to that God who created man and gave him the land for his sustenance—to that God who , if in his wisdom proclaimed his wrath through so heavy a dispensation as ( amine , would have stricken a dish from the Unynl table before he would have swept the poor man ' s board . ( Tremendous cheering . ) We are taught to believe , anil I do believe , that the poor are the especial olyects ol God ' s solieitudo and tenderness ; and ive are told , that it is as difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heav-. n as for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle ; and . knowing these things and believing them , wc find it difficult—nay , impious , to charge

      OUR GOD WITH MAN'S TRANSGRESSIONS . ( Loud cheers . ) They have proclaimed national peace and prosperity through several nostrums , but all have failed . Reform has failed , and Free Trade has failed ; and wisdom and her concentrated power now tells us , that we must try-some form of government which will not have for its result the mere triumph of party , and the substitution of one section of politicians for another . You must no longer denounce Peel and Toryism , Russell and Whi . gory , Free Trade and tho l . eagnc , bankers , merchants , manufacturers , monopolists and landlords ; you must no longer waste your ammunition in firing at ( lie sentry-boxes of faction : you must gather up tho national mind in ono volition , so strong that

      the piqmy resistance ot faction will be futile , and thrown so round at the centre of th ? citadel of system , that all must fall , nnd leave not a vestige whereby its ruins may he traced . ( Tremendous cheering . ) That triumph is worse than useless which destroys an individual , or even a sec . tion . The landlords , who would preserve their own monopoly , destroyed Pool , and thoy have got Russell in his place ; and if Russell dared to make such alterations as would trench upon the rightful trade of speculation , the tree traders would consign him to a similar fate . ( Cheers . ) The professed object of all governments , whether Whig or Tory , is to increase ( he national productions , but the Charter alone is the instrument by which not only this object can be achieved , but by which their equitable

      distribution can be effected . ( Cheers . ) Neither Peel or Russell would dare however to increase the national productions of this country beyond the griup of capital . Production is ever limited , not by the capabilities of the soil , the industry of the people , or the multiplicity of resource , but by the necessities of speculation , and hence 1 aver that those who controul and govern both Pcd and Russell , would prefer the limitation of our national wealth to four hundred millions a year , with three hundred millions for their share , than to see the national produce realising a thousand millions per annum , with their share limited to two hundred millions . ( Loud cheers . ) And yet they tell us , notwithstanding these cramps and tetters upon industry , that the country is

      overpopulated , and that population presses iiardly upon the means of subsistence , while they propound the damnable doctrine of emigration , in order th :. t our own population at homo , may constitute tv colony of foreign consumers for their produce . Ilerc then is a conundrum , those who cannot live in the-richest country upon earth , arc told that they can ,, not only live in foreign climes , but that after living they can have a surplus to barter with the domestic speculator . ( Cheers . ) Nuw i would ask ono of the populatnrs of foreign regions which is the best , customer ,, the domestic consumer who takes the goods from the counter without the cost ot" risk , freight , aud insurance or the foreign slave who lias to pay those taxes . ( Cheers . ) My friends , it is not yau-. who pre . « s hardly

      upon tiie means of subsistence—ic is the uuuatuial conditions annexed to lenses , it is the trammels by which the kind ia held in tho wholesale market , ami the fetters by which labour i & hound in tho artificial market . ( Loud cheers . ) Ivo man who constitutes oil ' . ! of a gang of slaves working for his represented muster , recognizes his own industry , or his own value in the medium oftrallio that ha creates—it is not the labour stamp that the foreign merchant finds upon his produce , but the natioa ' s greatness is represented by tho fictitious brand oftho merchant ' s speculation . And yet we are told that the aristocracy of land , the uristoer . icy of money , tho aristocracy tit" intellect , and the church , arc the barriers to democratic progression . I tell you that I _ heed them not , that they are so many Ilea b ' nes if simultaneously assailed bv

      the aristocracy oi common sense and genius , and that it is the aristocracy of labour , that labour has must to dread . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Ave , the slave who receives his £ 2 a-weck , is satisfied with comparative justice , and measures his comfort by the positive degradation of his fellow labourer , who can earn but Ts . a-week —( loud cheers)—whereas if both were equally represented , the positive value of each would be JU a-wcek ; but it is thus that cunning faction ever accomplishes its interested purposes . Scribblers write about the land , and babblers talk about the land , and mock philanfrophists sympathise " with those who are pi ning for want of tha land ' s produce . Hence some hived scribe \ Y '' ir > writes for the Times would ascribe all the ! Sufferings of the Irish people to Catholicism , idleness , aud hatted of the laws , but I have

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      been in Catholic countries where the oeop o arc in * uustrious and love the laws , Weauso no refonr-ed religion has forced them into reluctant support of an adverse religion , »„ d because the laws are equally ttV ' n ° ' * / if ht * ofthe rich and the > or . km ! tui / Tii - ' ? ' ? eS kn 0 WS no » W » f IK- ' intn . tbtn' thelr T r ? gi ° - " ' '; ir M ' ' •»» ' « 'Oi * customs than an Irish pig kUoWS 0 f Momeirr , ( Loud cheers and aughter . ) A . ain , tho irishman rises from h . sloa hsome bed ol straw , able and will . ing to work , with hnw . t 0 ft „ d children that are dear to mm crying lor want , whilohia native soil isnr-viufor the lication of his labour to '

      app insure him su-ti-nance , government has undertaken to administer hi 3 affnirs , and government has a right f 0 protect him from famine , but the or . au of iIhj government , and the organ of tin ? fp- 'e-trailo philanthropist * , ' ( the Morning Chronicle . ) atep * in and woshl limit ^ ovi-rnment relief by the l / srjfi and stringent rules of political economy . That scribe tells us that it is unjust in government to offer sheup food tc tho starving Irish in competition with tho speculators stove pur . chased upon the humanity principle of turning famine into mercantile speculation . ( Great clii . 'cri . ig . ) Yon have btcn told what vou are assembled here

      tonight for , that it is to ah ? in swelling anw her " national demand for national rights , and topledveyourselves to accompany that demand with quickstep , swelling voice , and " cheerful h > art to the n ' oorof the sennte house , signed us it wilt be by live iu 3 'ions , ( tremendous cheering , ) knocking lustily and demanding stoutly , ap ;> i-jici » nti » n in the ' malting of those laws by which your lives-, your liberties and your properties are to be protected . ( Cheers . ) 'Hhat petition will carry consolation to the hearts of tho starving Mih , and in passsntf let ' me draw n picture of a scene . that recently occurred in that distracted country . The howl of famine w .- . u rauing through the land , relief . was promised and antici pation was high , when behold , a sail was seen to xw . it the coast , the hungry month was open to receive the

      anticipalcd supply , it was proclaimed to bo a c » r _ o of lood for the famishing , when Jo ! the ri » ht win- of the 57 th regiment disembarked from the Suke ° i .-f Cambriii KC steamer to quiet the liun » ry howl with a meal of Iv . yonets : > nd bullets . ( Great sens-atfrm and crka of shame . ) Think you if we , j : id twelve men in the House of Commons aiding our JDniicimbe , ( loud cheers , ) our leader and our chief , while I was collecting the ! m ;; ey of pro ^ re- sion from the mountain h : itherandjtlw hiil « i * e , thai any government would bo allowed to starve a people with impunity , or that any monarch would have the presumption to order a starving prayer to he composed to satisfy a famishing peop l e , while the order was followed by the announcement that a r . ijai banquet of surpassing splendour , was to be given in honour of foreign princes and

      foreign nobles . ( CIumts . ) Here ' s a ' picture for you my friends . Baptist Noel has told i : s that thcre ' aro 500 , 000 wretched beings living within the very prceiuts of royalty , living without God . and without hope , wh le the smoking banquet upon thiM-oynl table , an the noble ' s board , isfu : ni-hcd by dissipatior-,. th & provoked and reckless dissipation of those 500 , 000 Hiiteasts whom their Charter would soon restore to their God and hope . ( Tremendous cheering ) Is it not u mockery of religion , ot morality , ' and dcetn- 'y . to see the sleek and fatted , well-capa .-isi . iued , and even cloihed dray-horse , drawing the deadlv iv . d debaMiig drugs of prostitution through streams of famishing paupers , and to think that the grandeur of royalty is * ustainod by the debasement of intellect , the destruction of ' constitution , and the

      annihilation of thought ? ( Great cheering . ) Ah I if I was monarch for twenty-four hours , I'd level every gin palace with the dust —( tremendous applause ) — and in less than a month I'd produce a wise reprcsontation of a sober nnd thoughtful national mind . ( Greatchecriwr . ) However , Ireland must not despair ; the Enuli-h people will not stand tamely by while their famishing brethren are being butchered ; and if our troops " are required for that honourable service , I , at least , will not forget my alicgiatieeto the land of my birth ; but I will light the torch oneo more on tlie mountain top , as the silent nunitor to carry reflection to faction ' s eye . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Mr . O'Connor then entered into an analysis of the constitution of the present constitutional body ,

      showing that 108 , 000 tenants at-will , the mere slaves of their landlords , constitute the balance of power of county representation , while , the deluded and ignorant shopkeepers constituted the majority of the borough representation : and that , by their clamour for free trade , and their assistance of . faction , they had driven many a customer from their own till , and reduced the power of all to spend at their counter . If they were wise , they would have a full share of ths increased ' produce of the national resources , which the Charter alone could secure ; but if they persevere in their obstinacy , they will produce an artificial famine of industry cryinjr for want , while the storehouses of s = peuhnov & are bending beneath its produce * , retained for the highest price ' that necessity will compel the purchaser to yield . IJfe

      tnen entered into a most interesting description 6 T the state of Ireland ; showing how Irish poverty pres-ed upon English industry , and contending that a house of domestic plunderers , sitting in Col ! e _ cgreen , as representatives of the present franchise , would he an additional tax upon Irish industry , while a representation of the Irish people themselves , upon tha principles of tho People ' s Charter , would make their land a paradise , and would ho heaul as a joyful summons , tailing all who had been banirhed by the tyranny of the law church , and the "rinding oppression of landlord * , from their foreisn habitations , where they were unwelcome guests and unwilling Grangers . ( Tremendous viierrir . s ) Yt s ; before famine can be stopped , or the danger of periodical starvation stayed , the Irish must have Ireland ; every

      Insnman must have the key of his own Jarder— insist be bis own piodiicei- and his own consumer ; and if he has tho dreaded surplus of a fat calf , with his whole family ' s smiles of fullness contentment and joy ; and if he cannot find a market , let him bury it iu the dunghill , it will be a better omen of national greatness than a surplus of pover ty being the lot of the industrious , and a surplus of food being the lot of the idle . ( Great cheering . ) The landlords will net bring the laud into the retail market , although it would enhance its value from the wholesale to the retail price , because they dread its effects upon the retail vote , and they know that by wholesale political power they are enabled to square the deficient rent by an augmentation of politieal patronage ( Loud cheers . ) " The free-traders

      will not ad ) w them to bring it into the retail market , because it would constitute the field for free labour , in which the standard of its real value would be ascertained in the ai-tih ' cial market and below which man would not work for a master . ( Clu-ers . ) Thisshnl ! be the object of my life—this is an undertaking that I never will relax in , until I see the greatness of the nation proclaimed through individual happiness , instead of mercantile spccuiiiiion , —( great cbceriiijj )— and every day ' s experience com firms me in the hope of success . ' lhave taken stock fir you today I have made an estimate ef what 5 $ splendid mansions , a splendid sehoolhonse , one hundred and three acres of fir . st quality laud , with timber , crops , tenant- rights , fixtures , wells and ro-ids , have cost up to this date , and I find ail is u t-er

      £ 6 000 . ( Tremendous cheering . ) About £ 5 , 800—and now to prove the value of land iu the retail market above what it will fetch in the wholesale market . Estimating that property in it .-s present state , and it is all but finished , at the low estimate of 2 . 1 ) years' purchase , at the society ' s rent it would r-. alize £ 7 000 , and at 50 years' purchase , the usual price of land , and at which it would sell in less thati twu years when the effect of an abundance of labvmr is developed , it would fetch about £ 11 , 400 , and I have no hesitation in p ' edijitig my existence , tha' . if let upon tender to strangers , instead or' to members , at the society ' s rent , that it would renlizy the sum of £ 1 ( 5 , 100 , that is , at the rental at whii-h stnuiuers would take the small allotments , and at- SC-u-ars '

      purchase , that a capitalist could rc . vl zo by t-hc-iirst experiment a profit of over £ 9 . 000 upon an exf-emii . ture-of £ 6 , 000 ' —( -. reatcheering)— but then ivim . « the damning brand upon it of throwing labour upon its own resources , and of taking tho hand of the plunderer out of the pocket » findustry . ( Ciicr ? . ) Nowthen , my friends , I havo taujjht you tho- way to be free ,. 1 have told you that slavery was aa ae £ of volition , 1 have given you something to | ov .-i , ami somethins to be loyal to ; the Lano . is . y ; uir- inhs l-linnce , Isesk to restore it to you , tho Charter-is > our blnltright ^ and 1 : struggle to put you in possession ot it , not earing what sits upon its throu-i * or what you , call it , provided the power behind , the tin Due is greater than the throne itself . M-. n O'Uimiio ^ sat d-siwn amid continued eheeriiii and waging of hats .

      The resolution was carried umHumuosiy . Mr . T . M . Whkelkr then mo ^ -jd the . 'i " di > ption of the National Petition , which - « as seconded in an able and argmonrativo address , by Mr , g , ]{ jj , an-1 carried unanimously . Mr . O'Coxnob , in a speech . * ompUme _ -tarv to the genius , ability , energy , and febqueneo » l'Mr ! En . est Jones , moved a vote of tl > 9 _ iks 10 t ' j at rentU > -: ian for his conduct in the cli ;\_? , nnd o « v his 'Wi- hnce to the cause in general ; Is was sk-ondoii "" ilv " _ vlr . Clark , and adopted by a « iamatioa . The chairman nokiwjyh- vincd ' the c ^ wdini'iit . and declared tho mcctiv-s dissolved . Three CiclS were then given for'IV * . Buncombe , M . !' . ; three for the Charter ; three , for Fivst , ViiiUanis , a :. d Jones ; three for the Northern Star * ami three i ' . ir Mr . O'Connor , The assembly , which , was composed of not less than two thousand persons , then , broke up .

      Irom Klai Steam Boat Accidkst.—On Monday The Promc-. % • . __ ,- F I- I__ I ___• ¦_ .* I - - ,. .._;

      irom klai Steam Boat Accidkst . —On Monday the Promc-. % . __ ,- f i- i __ i ___• ¦_ * i - - , . .. _;

      Mlcus Sieamer _ -O., '.Cu Wan A Iaiijo S...

      MlCUS sieamer _ -o ., ' . cu wan a iaiijo s « : j , - * " - provisions , and a "resit nunibei of passengers , was carried by the tide against London Uridtto , aud the funnel and mast * of the & tc . ' . mer were carried aw .. y witli a tremendous cra * h , by comin _ in etmtsut with the lop ot" tlic aruh . The m .-t & ts : > : u ! tumid went over the vessel ' s sido , and several buxes and packet's belongini ! to the pussciigers were rarrird ovo > . board . The greatest consternation prevailed , but nunc of the pas-EcnscRS were injured * _

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 10, 1846, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_10101846/page/5/