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    PRUSSIA . UNMASKED . rffe extract the following from one of the series of jiteresting paP 613 n- > w publishing in "Douglas ^ c old ' s Magazine" entitled "TieEnglishman in Prussia . ] When English readers hear of the description of an anthort person being lodgea with the police in order to ^ fccS iis discovery and arrest , as though he hadcomjjjtted a mnroer , when the poor man has oiily committed « a book "— -sucha proceeding must he equal to a volume 0 f comments on the despotism of a government , and { specially on the enslaved condition of its press . A stecfc Iriffhas been issued against Karl Heinzen for the puhlica " rion his book on the Prussian Bureaucracy ; this

    steefctrig being a description of his person , & c , with a view to iis identification and arrest . But mark the consequences 10 a government which of all others most desires secrecy , and is the most tender-skinned astoallinvestigations and exposures , because the most vulnerable and perfidious . H « -J « n being safe beyond its reach , publishes a steefc trief of his own , in reply—t . e ., a description ofthe person of ihe Prussian government , * The portrait is more carious than pleasing , more unsparing than flattering . Itis worded as a sort of parody on the stecltliri ^ f issued against himself .

    " The Prussian policy , accused of having scorned the jaws of morality and of eternal justice oy a shameful breach of promise , and , indirectly , of high treason against the majesty of the people , as well as of conspiracy against lis free spirit of humanity—has withdrawnherself from ifcs scra & iT instituted against her , shielded by public and private instrnctio * i 5 to the censorship , and by secret legal prose-dings . "¦ While publishing here her characteristics , 1 request all honest people to watch her and in case of there befog ao other fit tribunal , to Iring her before me . In doing this ^ I rechon upon truthfulness and conscientiousness ; End I especially espect the communication of facts , as it is not my intention ( nor is it necessary ) to augment the crimes ofthe culprit by untruth and calumny .

    " CHABACIXETSTICS . "Size . —Xoneatall . " Age . —As she uses rouge she is generally believed to he rather young , and is thought to have been horn on the 22 nd of May , ISlu . She is , however , much older , and was in reality bornin the last century . But the foundation of her character was laid in 1815 . This date refers to the publication of the late king ' s solemn promise to give his people a constitution . A promise which he broke , and which the present hing , his ton , having repeated , has never yet fvufiHed .

    native Place . —Some helieve that she was bom in Tier . ua ; others , at Petersburg . She is , however , a g 2 U'jine Berliner ; and it is only her godfather and cousin lliat live in Vienna and Petersburg . "ittlipion . —This is the worst of all—namely , Pro'• xt & nt-Jesuitism . This Jesuitism adds to the principle of Catholic-Jesuitism ( which is , that the means are sanctjne-d by the end ) , this other stroke of art , that the end is sanctified by the means . It does not profess to serve SoC with the help ofthe devil ; hut does in reality serve Ihe devil with the help of God . Being bent upon preserving appearances ( appearances are in fact one-and-all whh her ) sheis capable of catching the blood from beneath the executioner ' s axe , even with thesacrea chalice . "External Appearance . —She generally appears as an nangeliealparson bithe uniform of a soldier . She is in the habit of carrying a corporal ' s cane , which * has some Vinilitude to the knout ; just as the church key which she carries is at the same time the Key of a dungeon "—Ein StfftHfrfcf von Karl Heinzen , pp . SS-SS . "

    After this comes along list of " various distinguishing darks , " all of them of a very complimentary kind . " The Culprit ^ " wr ites he , " promises nothing without a secret reservation- she does nothing without the meanest calculation ; and she gives nothing without a handle to pull it back again . If any one would speak ancourteousJyconcerning her , then one must say—she constantly lies . She prays , and—lies ; she protests , and —lies ; she promises , and—lies ; she boasts , and—lies ; she threatens , and—lies ; she makes a speech , andlissj ihebdisves , and— . lies ; she confides , and—lies-she ' comes forward / and—lies ; she is 'liberal , 'and—lies ; ihe is 'humane / and—lies ; she even weeps , and—lies !

    Only when she displays cowardice , and when she , in an sngcarded moment , betrays her despotic feeling , then she does not lie . When she cannot in any way controvert the truth , she then endeavours to unite truth and falsehood . In short , whenever a person wishes to know if the Culprit be in his presence , let anybody only speak one word of truth , and you will immediately know her by her convulsions . She and her two sisters in Petersburg and Vienna are the only creatures abroad who persecute the truth . They are the three Pares ofthe truth ; and the shears of these fatal Sisters—oh , shame ibr Europe !—govern the Continent .- ' The writer says much more even than this ; but we have given our rcaiexaenouKufor the present .

    it is now time , by way of some corroboration of what has already been adduced , to introduce an equally curious and courageous book which has just appeared . 3 i is entitled , "TJasenthiillte Preussen" or . Prussia Diif * wfced , t This extraordinary and truly fittrman production ( for in no other country would any one ever dream of a poli-• ticalVorkin such afonn ) commences with a ballad , called "The life of Poor 3 fichael ; a German Heroic Epic , in six Lamentations /* It should be understood that" Poor Michael" stands in the same relation to the German nation as "John BuH to the English . This biography is said to he " newly set to verse and rhymes , and placed as a patriotic sacrifice upon the alter of the fatherland . " A sufficient Idea may be formed of it by our readers when they are told that it Is the wholehistory of Germany from the earliest period , given in a clever comic doggrelhio jraphy of Poor Michael .

    After this biography comes a series of letters . The first of them is a Philosophical Introduction on the Social State of Europe at the present time . The second letter contains very necessary and salutary exhortations to the German nation . It declaims vigorously against the continual waste of the people ' s time and mental energies by a host of talkers aud writers , and specnlatoxB , whose principal object is to alarm the imagination against the advance of liberal principles . The third division of the argument of this Letter is derotia to the subject of national education .

    The author of "PmssiaTJnmasked 'says , " The people learn to read in their youth ; but they readlitfle afterwards . Would it not then be possible , he asks , to give our youth of thirteen or fourteen years of age , that poU Hcai ' knowledge which would teach them their duties and mak « ihemusefulcitizens ? The people would appreciate such a benefit ; it would save a man in humble life much trsste of time and many needless vexations and troubles , in the way of useless walks , expenses , and the insults ef tyrannical men in office , who take advantage of his want of knowledge to make him feel the " greatless of their place and office . "

    The third letter of " Prussia Unmasked" ( together with toe eight following ) is devoted to explaining why Prussia is so hated by all Germans , and also developes the internal aud external organisation of theMugdom . But the third letter contains matter , of some part of which we must give abrief abstract , translating occasionally the author's own words as literally as possible . He is afraid , he says , that he maj be thought one-sided ana prejudiced inhis " hatred , ashe is always speaking ofPrussia , and expects it will be considered that he ought at least to lay the totst at the door of Austria , ths greatest cf the German State . Austria has undoubtedly put forth fte same decrees , oppressed Germany , and opposed the diffusion of liberalideas . Butafter all , "Austria is only the bear , while Traaa is the tiger" mat couldliberal ideas—what

    . could constitutional spirit , ever expect from Austria , ^ fhat could the cause of freedom expect bom this fixed power { dieser slaW . cn stcts ruckmrtsgeioandten Maclitf ) which is ever looking backwards ? To speak honestly , nothing at all . Bat the case is quite different With Prussil Here we find broken promises , shameless in-Sratitude—with leartless cruelty added , instead of displating some sense of shame . Here we find hypocrisy ? au falsehood in theplace of an Houestfolfilment of noble expectations . Prussia was the first that placed itself at thehead of liberal ideas—that proclaimed ^ e emancipation of mind , and the elevation of the people from mental «» corporealbondage-thattook all possible advantage then disgracefull

    of the enthusiasm thus created—and y helmed the futurehopes ofthe German nation into the ianal of despotism . "Prussia , at ftis « ra moment , mates use of liberal ideas , inorder toride them to dealhin itsdespoSesertise . In one word , Prussia murdered its motter ( popular enthusiasm for liberty ) to fatten and strengthen tyranny with her blood . All the snfferingB of Germany 1 ascriba to Prussian falsehood , though I might say enough of Austrian brutality . " Thus stands the parallel , accordin- to the author of the work before us— " Austria Shis against mankind In general - Prussia against German-. . " This may be strong language , butnot more so than " the statements of unbiassed English authors can Justify , andhave already donemuch to corroborate .

    The skth letter , among other ttings , asserts that fcussiais not properly a State . It is a medley of things , win , a W in uniform , stuck on the top . TheBhine Province is Catholic , with the upper classes much enli ghtened " ; Weatphaua is (^» houc , anahrMnd-hand in Ae march of intelligence ; Brandenbnrg hand OldPrussia We Protestant ; Silesia is Catholic ; Posen is Catholic aad Polish , & c . There is no unity , there are no mutual imaerstanuings , no reciprocities , —all , more or less , at variance . . . The seventh letter contains a list of theprevancations , -alsehoous , rapacit ies , and perfidies of which Prussia nas teen guilty ; hy which shehas governed the country ; aim "J which she has assumed the outward appearance ol a freat power . Th eighth letter continues the Hs ^ and shows that , as he necessary consequence , Prussia cannot rely uponjany over state , wi-htueexceptionof Russia . The weakness from without is thus made manifest . ( To be continued . )

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    REVIVAL OP CHARTISM . RETURN Of THE GOOIJ OLD TIMES . " nS ? TS y nigllt last » ^ - da . y ' snotice , the nail ot Science , Manchester , capable of holding many thousands , was filled in every part , to receive the Chartist Executive , and hear their policy in the Present crisis . In the most excited times we never Knew the feelings of the working classes of Manchester so anxiously alive as they were upon this occasion . The enemies of the Executive flocked to hear what they had to say , while the people , with a staunch reliance upon their officers , flocked to hear

    twioittw had to do . Shortly after eight o ' clock , iMnielDonavan , one of the hardest workers to keen the Chartist cause alive in the worst of times , was called to the chair , when the executive presented themselves upon the platform in a hody , and were received with the moat unmistakeabledemonstrationg of affection and confidence . As soon as the applause had subsided , Mr . O'Connor presented himself and said , Mr . Chairman and Brother Chartists . ( Shouts of applause . ) I come here , at this critical juncture , ten years younger , and ten thousand times stronger , after a week of incessant labour , snch as few men could endure . ( Hear , hear . ) Gentlemen , I come here to propound our policy , to affirm our resolution , that Chartism shall xot me ; and I ask you for your confidence and support to aid us in its preservation ( Cheers ; and "you shall have it . " ) I know it , and that

    emboldens me to propound to you the plan that we have suggested for the attainment of our object . Gentlemen , the message of a president , and the royal speech of a monarch , announcing the routine business to be done upon the opening of a legislative session , produces great excitement ; and yet I unhesitatingly declare that this message which I am about to send to the people of England will carry with it more importance and decidedly more satisfaction than any speech or message delivered by president or monarch . As I need touphusband my strength for the struggle , which , believe me , is at hand , you will permit me to sit while I read . ( Cheers ; and "Yes . " ) Mr . O'Connor then read the following message , as the message of the Chartist Executive , which was frequently interrupted by enthusiastic cheering , and at the close it was most enthusiastically applauded : —

    THE MESSAGE . Gentlemen , If these are the times to try men's souls , they are also the times to try men ' s judgment , and , Gentlemen , as I do not wish to place my judgment in the keeping of the Press , not that I am particular myself about its licence , I have deemed it most prudent , for your protection , to submit what I have to say in writing , which cannot be perverted to the purposes of party . Gentlemen , I could speak more eloquently than I can write , but my rapidity of delivery makes me a prey to those who have an interest in misrepresenting me .

    Gentlemen , it is now three years and a half since the Chartist party had an ¦ opportunity of conferring together as it was wont to do . The truly progressive policy of Sir Robert Peel , together with a prosperoustrade , to a very great extent transformed the working classes from political into social reformers , and , whether erroneously or not , the conclusion forced on my mind by the change was , that you looked for Good Government , regardless as to the source from whence the blessing sprung . Gentlemen , for myself , while I rejoiced in that temporary prosperity which led to political apathy , I was never the less convinced then , as I am now , that permanent prosperity can alone spring from , and be secured by , the possession of political power . Gleams of prosperity are things of chance , its permanency is what yon should endeavour to accomplish .

    Gentlemen , as democracy has had so long a sleep , I do not feel myself justified in propounding a policy now , as I should nave done when the whole democratic mind was in the habit of holding daily , hourly conference , and , therefore , I have decided that my safest course is to call together the very earliest representaton of the present democratic mind , to the end that it may be safely , bravely , and successfully led into action in the present struggle . Gentlemen , to achieve this desirable purpose we have

    directed delegates to be summoned from every town in North and South Lancashire , Yorkshire , Derby Leicester , Nottingham , Norwich , Birmingham , and London , to meet and deliberate upon our course , on Monday next , at Manchester . Gentlemen , there being no funds at the disposal of the association , and the step being indispensable , I have volunteered the expence out of my own resources , resolved , that , while I have a shirt , my principles shall have the first claim to it .

    Gentlemen , it is now nearly eleven years since I opened my commission at Stockport , empowering me to create a new democratic mind , and it is within the recollection of all who heard me then ( for I repeated it everywhere ) , that I foretold the coming of the present times , and that I also prophecied that the two very men who are now bidding for popular favour and support , would be guided in their respec tive offers by that condition in which I , as auctioneer , could offer it for sale on the day of auction . Gentlemen , I contend that that day has now come ; I contend that Peel and Russell are both , in the market ; and I contend that each will bid for public opinion precisely what public opinion considers itself worth . Yon have to name the price ; ihet will be ready to outbid each other to secure the purchase .

    Gentlemen , there is nothing more creditable to a political party than to be able te recur to their former policy and speeches in altered times . Gentlemen , what was onr charge , our bitter charge , against tbe Whig party ? "Was it not for having violated all the conditions of the Reform Bill ? Have we not declared , over and over again , when charged with being Tory-Chartists and Tory tools , that our objection and hostility to Whiggery was based upon the fact ,

    that , whereas the Reform Bill promised the total annihilation of Toryism , it had , by the treachery of its leaders , tended to strengthen the Tory party , and given it a larger Tory majority than that faction could procure even under the old boroughmongering system ; and yet we , whose just complaint was the resuscitation of Toryism after popular exertion had given it the death blow , have been whimsically termed Tort-Chartists .

    Gentlemen , the Whigs have had nearly five years ' experience in adversity ' s school , and , perhaps , they may have discovered that their long sojourn at the bleak side of Downing-street was a consequence of having relied upon Tory toleration in preference to popular support . But now , gentlemen , comes the question , the great question , the vital question , namely , upon what terms they are now to receive that popular support , and , not less in importance , how the necessity and value of that support is to be pourtrayed and presented to them . Gentlemen , I pray you not to deceive yourselves by supposing that this struggle , once begun , is going to terminate with a single battle . If you do , you deceive yourselves .

    Gentlemen , I now come to the real question , upon icnot terms any government , without reference to its political designation , is to receive popular support . The terms that I propose are , reliance upon the peoplerather than upon the toleration of an opposition ; and now , Gentlemen , for the not less important question , namely , as to how the value of that support is to be made manifest . Gentlemen , to meet this object I suggest the proprietyjof remaining as a distinct party , withholding opposition from all other parties who are ready to join in resisting that reign of terror which any false or capricious step upon our part may hasten .

    Gentlemen , the whole complexion of the political countenance is changed by the ejectment of Sir Robert Peel from office . Toryism , under Wellington Buckingham , Richmond , Stanley , Wharncliffe , and * Ripon , would not be the sameas Toryism under Peel ; and , believe me , that we shall have to encounter Toryism with the rosy complexion of blood , ifsucha calamity as the temporary return of that party to power should take place . Their rule will be seen in the soldier ' s musket , the policeman ' s blud geon , and the law's oppression . Gentlemen I have not a shadow of doubt upon my mind , that , if that party should again take office , they wiU do so under that the Chartists

    the anticipation , the presumption will constitute the right wing of the oligarchical army . Gentlemen , I will not be a druumbr in such sekvice . Thus , you see , I look beyond the mere question of a , repeal of the Corn Laws , the ostensible cause of Lord John Russell ' s return to power . I look to the unnatural alliance between Wellington and the people . I look to the unnatural fostering by the people of those who have used the land of this country for the achievement of political power , as well as to almost justify the presumption that it is not capable of y ielding sustenance for those whom God created as its natural inheritors . Gentlemen , it is an nndeniable fact that 3 , 000 , 000 may bo an over-population iu | a country whose

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    power of production is limited by the caprice of those who have usurped its soil to their own kindly uses , while it is alsp a fact , that , ; under wise laws and equitable distribution , the same country may be made to produce food for 30 , 000 , 000 . Gentlemen , such has ever been my language to the landlord class , and if I have , at any time , appeared to stand between those monopolists and that punishment which their follies merited , it was that I mightpostponetherepastuntil all , as well as the League , should partake of " a dish fit for the gods . "

    Gentlemen , again I say to the most sanguine , neither suppose that the Corn Laws is tbe only question involved in the great struggle now commenced , or that the landed aristocracy will quietly surrender their privileges without a lleody contest . Gentlemen , it is that you and I should not appear to the world as abettors of the Wellington Tory policy that I am anxious , and , therefore , I again implore you to keep in mind the new phase that the whole

    question has assumed , by the resignation of Sir Robert Peel as leader of progressive Toryism . " Bear in mind , that Wellington received such a hint from the landed aristocracy as compelled him to retract his pledge to Peel ; and , Gentlemen , when the contest assumes its proper shape and form , I should not wish for the existence of such a firm as Wellington , Stanley , O'Connor and Co . Then , indeed , might English men justify their hatred of Irish demagogues .

    Gentlemen , Russellisbutthemere- 'Locumtenens " for Peel , and Peel will be guided in his progress by the tone the country shall take ; but we should , if possible , avoid such an infliction as one day ' s return to power of Wellington , the nursemaid of the Peers , who holds a majority of their consciences in his keeping . Now , Gentlemen , I come to a branch of my subject for which you are all looking : I mean our policy as far as tho League is concerned . Gentlemen , at one period of our movement , obstruction was our legitimate , our only policy , whereas I believe that now , if I have properly calculated , you have the power to advance . Gentlemen , I will not consent to merge

    popular strength and the democratic party into a mere army of reserve to fight the single battle of Free Trade upon the one hand , while I will not divide the popular ranks by compelling either to give countenance to the common foe on the other hand . With my consent the people shall never lose their distinctive quality of the movement party , and that movement shall not stop with the accomplishment of one measure . Gentlemen , an enemy much harder to boat than the League is already in the field ; we must take up a position ; we cannot remain neuter . If we fight against a repeal of the Corn Laws we must kow —and mark the word now—fight , not for progressive Toryism , but for musket and bludgeon Toryism ; and vet I contend for the necessity and justice of keeping

    thearmies distinct and separate . The Chartist army the noble army of martyrs , marching to their own music , and under their own banners and mottoes ^—" more pigs , and less parsons ; " " a fair day ' s wage for a fair day ' s work ; " " onward and we conquer , backward and we fall ; " "the People ' s Charter , and no surrender "—while , Gentlemen , if the junction of the forces should be deemed necessary by your own chosen representatives to assemble at Manchester on this day week , to meet , to battle , and to beat the common enemy , I will be a captain , a drummer , or a volunteer . But , Gentlemen , no man on earth , nor all the men on earth , shall ever induce me to consent to disband the national force when danger

    threatens . Gentlemen , you will clearly observe that my object is to maintain in splendour and entirety a temple which has cost us so much blood , and treasure , and martyrdom to erect . I will ktep my forces together for all hoROurable warfare , as I stated on the 18 th September , 1835 , when I established the first association at Mavylelwne . Our force is to give strength to him who will try to do good , and to be a terror to the evil doer .

    Gentlemen , I have no desire to waste the strength of the popular party , and 1 have as little desire to rub the festered sore of those with whom we may be brought into combined action , You hare this gua * rantee in me that I will not sell myself . I repeat the pledge , so often given , that I will never accept of place , pension , or emolument , until the Charter becomes the law of the land , and 1 never will fill any office under it , lest I should subject my conduct to the charge of self-interest while contending for it . No , if you had it to-morrow , I would return , like Quintus Cincinnatus , to my plough , thanking God , that , during the struggle for it , I had created a new class of husbandmen .

    Gentlemen , I shall not clog this great and mighty question with any of the minutiae of detail ; I shall not even advert to the Ten Hours' Bill and other measures which Lord John Russell is pledged to ; I shall not endeavour to excite your enthusiasm by pointing to the probable restoration of our banished friends , but I will say—that when I forget my blood shed on this Free-trade platform ; when I forgive my sixteen months' suffering in afelon ' s cell ; when I obliterate from my mind all recollection of the slanders , the tauntfl , and the misrepresentations of which for ten years I have been the victim—I evince no alight disposition to effect that union which is

    indispensable to meet the coming struggle ; and , Gentlemen , when I say that I will not accept of fee , favour or reward , from League , Whig , Tory , or the People , I think my policy is entitled to the unprejudiced construction of all . One thing , however , that I shall contend for is , the representation of our principles in the cabinet . I shall , if the people join me , plead , and justly too , for an honourable and dignified appointment for the man who did not wait for the prospect of reward to tender his services , I mean Thomas SlingsbyDuncombe , and then , Gentlemen , let the League make their terms for the representation of their body .

    Gentlemen , I was the first man in the country to proclaim the prospect of a deficient harvest . I stated early in August that the weather would shake the Peel cabinet , but little did I think that KingPraiie would shake all the thrones in Europe , and even the English oligarchy . Now , gentlemen , let me suppose a case—suppose that while monopolists and antimonopolists are fighting that famine should come , and suppose that I , under existing circumstances , had joined Wellington and the Tories , and suppose the support I gave them was very , very feeble indeed , don't you think that the League would be able to

    point out to a starving people what ihe effects of free trade would be , aud don ' t you think , when my condemnation was necessary , that they would then say , however feeble my power might have been , there is the man that starved tou . Aye , Gentlemen , and they would be justified in so saying—but they shan't have the opportunity . Gentlemen , in the present emergency , while all other parties are putting their house in order we could not remain inactive ; some one should take the first step , and who was more fit than the men who have never forfeited your confidence ?

    Gentlemen , in conclusion I shall only observe , that , whatever your representatives may wisely decide upon , I shall honestly endeavour to carry out , and , if danger threatens , I will not shrink . from my share , or , perhaps , more than my share ; but what that policy may be I shall not even hint , but of this I am resolved , that the STRENGTH OF A NATION , that cost us so much PAINS TO ACHIEVE , shall not be wasted upon a single battle ; and while 1 am now , as I ever have been , ready to join in the overthrow of one faction , I will not accept , as the people ' s reward , the supremacy of another . After the reading of the document . Mr . O'Connor

    rose and said : —This is the Chartist Executive message , upon which we have all agreed , to the Chartist people of the empire ; and to carry it out that Executive has callea together a representation of your body to be held this day week at Manchester . ( Cheers . ) My friends , you will see that our object is to marshal our own forces , to keep our own forces together , and to march them into action under our own banners , our own mottoes , and to the merry music of our own songs of liberty . ( Loud cheers for the Charter . ) My friends , the resignation of Sir Robert Peel has

    complete !) altered the phase and complexion of Toryism . Under his administration Toryism was progressive . Under the oligarchy of England , led on by Wellington , it would be destructive . You must treat children as children ; and if they assume manhood before they are out of leading strings , and can walk alone , you must treat them - as refractory children ; and the more especially if their disobedien . ee is calculated , or likelv , to work injury to other parties . Gentlemen , Sir " Robert Peel very properlytreated the aristocracy of this country as spoiled children , as capricious and whimsical pets must be treated , True , he gained their confidence ,

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    as their nursemaid ; but you must gain theconfidence ol children and of rats before you can cure the maladies ot the one , or destroy the other . If a rat-catcher wants to destroy vermin , he inspires them with confidence , by giving -heni palatable food for a time ; ana as soon as he has inspired them with confidence , hethen inspires them with poison . ( Great laughter . ) Gentlemen , if he put the poison in the first dose he a tail ; so precisely with Sir Robert Peel ; in youth he gained the confidence of the aristocracy , in man-? i ? V * if t " - " ' -les , as he grew wisar he found that they had increased to a chronic malady that would loll them if not eradicated in time . ( Cheers . ) io gam their confidence he gave them jam—to cure their malady he gave them physic . ( Cheers . ) By degrees they began like children to discover the different taste in the " goodies "—one made a wry face

    , and said , "I taste something , something like a church , or tithes in my mouth , but it is not as church and tithes used to taste . " ( Roars of laughter . ) Another says , " there ' s Maynooth in thisjam , " andhe spatters ; another , who has beard of the gigantic scheme of godless education , swears that he has got the body , blood , and bones of a papist , and this fellow splutters in style . ( Indescribable laughter . ) And yet these nasty tastes are qualified , in the opinion of many , by the pickings in the army , navy , commissionships , judgeships , and bishopricks , to enable him to get the pat jents to swallow that dose ; and then the physician thought he had prepared them for a course 0 j Jt me < - < cine , but the very moment they tasted—the lands . Game Laws , the nrlvilfitrpu rotes

    and the monopoly , they all set spitting , spluttering , and spewing together , until at last they literally spit thedpctovoutofthesickroom . andcalledinoldDoctor Wellington to give them a little more jam without physic ( It would be impossible to give any thing like a description of what followed Mr . O'Connor ' smimicry of 1 eel inducing thechildren to open their mouths , the faces they made when they tasted thephvsic , and the manner m which they discarded the physician when they found it unpalatable . ) But , said he , vou may rely upon it , that m the end they will find Peel ' s physic better lor xiiBiB disease than Wellington ' s ' " goodies . " * u ™ nor tllea entered into a lucid explanation ofthe Chartists' past policy and future tactics , and sat down amid the most vociferous cheers .

    Mr . Dixon then presented himself to move the following resolution : — That we , the inhabitants of Manchester , in public rneeting assembled , do tender our bust thanks to the Chartist Executive for having nominated an earl y day for holding a convention of the working classes for the purpose of deciding upon the course to be adopted by the democratic party in the pending struggle , and that we pledge ourselves to carry out all the lawful recommendations of such convention . He said that he entirely approved of the policy in the message , and that if the Chartists had been half as active in carrying out their own views as thev were m aiding others to carry out theirs , we should , have had the Charter long ago . lie denied , and ho would do so if he stood alone , that this struggle would or could end with a simple repeal of the Corn Laws , whereas if the people took a false position now they might , in preserving those laws , preserve power for

    the devils that would break all laws . ( Cheers ) . lie emphatically asserted that it was not now in the power of the League , the Whigs , or either of the Tory factions , or both unitedly , to progress just as far as they liked , and stop where they wished . ( Cheers ) . The people were the movement party , and according to their resolution in the coming struggle would be theirreward . He thought the conduct of the Executive in thus boldly stepping for ; ward was beyond all praise , and would have the effect of rallying a party whieh , without leaders that they had confidence in , or without arrangements , would be used for party purposes , and would lose their share ofthe triumph , when the spoils of war came to be divided . The present crisis was the most ominous and important that ever this country witnessed , and if every man of his order was of his mind , they would take care and have their snare this time . ( Loud cheers , and "That ' sit . " )

    Air . Radford said , iu seconding the resolution , he was sorry it had not fallen into abler hands . However lie was quite satisfied the time was come when every man should be at his post , and he was determined not to abandon his . He therefore had great pleasure in seconding the resolution , which upon being put was carried unanimously . Mr . Doyle moved ilia following resolntion , and on rising was loudly cheered : — That a public meeting of the inhabitants of Lancashire be held on Kereal-moor , on Thursday , the 1 st of January , for the purpose of announcing to the country at large the resolution of the inhabitans of Lancashire , in the event of the Wellington Tories attempting to form a cabinet , and that Thomes Slingsby Buncombe , Esq .. i M . P ., be invited to take the chair upon that occasion .

    He said , my friends , who says that Chartism is dead now ? upon my word , if it has been dead , this is a glorious resurrection . By the resolution it is proposed to hold a meeting on New Year ' s Day , on Kersal-moor . Ah , my friends , every man in Lancashire knOWS how we paralysed faction before by shewing our strength at Kersal-moor . It laid the foundation for the death of Whiggery . ( Cheers . ) But what would it be now , my friends , with our own , our darling Duncombe iu the cMr , leading oa the improved mind from that period against the ould woman Wellington and the Tory faction . ( Cheers and laughter . ) My friends , I don't care who joins in the glorious work that the Reform Bill promised to do ; the League , or the devil . ( Laughter . ) But I promise you that , as sure as my name is Kit Doyle ,

    I won t be the man to say go about your business , while the work is to be done . My friends , I have seen too much of that already . I have seen the people looking for food while they have been fighting the battles of faction . : ' 'Pon my word , its high time the people fought a bit on their own account . There never waa so great or so strong an enemy as the enemy before us now ; and if they beat us this time , we beat ourselves . ( Cheers . ) I look to this struggle resulting in the achievement of our glorious principles , our beautiful principles , our just and heavenborn prineiples ; and , therefore , I move the resolution as the surest means to that desirable end . ( Loud cheers . ) Mr . James Leach had great pleasure in seconding the resolution , while , at the same time , if the people

    were only true to themselves , the meeting would be unnecessary altogether , as all that the working classes had to do was just to let their enemies know their strength and resolution . He saw a great deal more than was very plain yet to all men . in the present struggle . He saw that both Whigs , Torie . " , and League would use the people for their own purposes , if they could ; while he felt very sure that the policy propounded by the Executive would take the bone out of all their mouths . ( Cheers . ) It was quite dear that the struggling operatives , that toil from morning till night for a mere starvation existence , would not much longer tolerate the monopoly of one class more than another ; and , therefore , he was for knocking monopoly on the head wherever he had an opportunity , and he believed that opportunity

    presented itself now , and that the resolution which he held in his hand was the best way to avail themselves of it . ( Cheers . ) The name of Buncombe had a charm for the English ear , and if the convention should consider the meeting necessary , he believed that there never had been such a meeting in Lancashire , nor in England , as they would have on that day . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Air . Clark , ofthe Executive , had great pleasure in supporting the resolution ; but , while he supported it , he begged the meeting not to be led away as they were in former times of excitement and enthusiasm . They were in the habit of doing their business in a very unsatisfactory way . Men would hold up their hands for anything , and thus deceive their leaders , and send those who relied upon them into prison ;

    but he hoped they would do their work m a more business-like way to-night , and that no hand was held up there that would be absent from Keraal-moor . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) He had no objection to take his fair share of responsibility ; but he had a great objection to the people refusing to take their fair share . ( Cheers . ) It waa all nonsense to suppose , that the struggle once commenced , was going to end in the repeal of one law , or another law . He believed that it would finally end in the making of new laws , and , as the manifestation of the public will was necessary for the achievement of this desirable object , and as the meeting at Keraal-moor , under the man that never flinched from his post , and upon whom the people would rely , would best elicit that will , and manifest the public wish , he most cordially supported the motion . ( Cheers . )

    Mr . G . w . Wheeler rose to move the third resolution , as follows ;—That we , the inhabitants of Manchester , in public meeting assembled , do hereby declare our unqualified and entire confidence in the wisdom , eneigy , integrity and ability of Thomas Slingsby Duncombe , Esq ., and that we respectfully solicit his counsel , countenance and support , in the present critical crisis , and that we pledge ourselves to be guided by his advice , and never to abandon or forsake him so long as he manifests that purity of intention which has hitherto distinguished him as an able senator , and an honest man .

    He said , that at that late hour , and after the able speeches they had heard , and from the conviction that tnerewere gentlemen to _ follow him who would do more justice to the resolution than himself , he should be as brief as possible . There were few in that meeting , he believed few in England , who were not prepared to acknowledge Mr . Buncombe's unquestionable claim to the confidence of the working classes , and , therefore , as he believed the sure way to induce others to follow his example was by proving ourselves grateful to those who had so worthily set it , he had great pleasure in moving the resolution . Mr . M'Grath presented himself to second the re . solution , and was most enthusiastically received . He said : Now , respected friends , I'D tell you a few of my reasons for seconding this resolution . In the first place , I assert that Mr . Duncombe Is the only man in the House of Commons that has the entire confidence of the whole people . ( Cheers . ) True , our indomitable champion , Mr , O'Connor , who is always at his post , possesses the unqualified confidence o every

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    working-man in England ; but , th » n , we mt . st confine our observations to our representati ve ^ in Parliament . Now , where was the man but the noble-hearted Buncombe—the lion-hearted Buncombe—to resist Miles's infernal fabrication of a Master and Servants' Bill—that bill , friends , which would hare plunged you into the lowest'depth of degradation and poverty—that bill , friends , which would have put the stamp of slavery , of abject slavery , upon the forehead of every working man throughout the land—that bill which would have taken from you the poor privilege of appealing against the tyranny ot your taskmasters—that bill which constituted every man a judge in his own case—it was Buncombe that strangled that hellish monster in its conception . ( Loud and continued

    cheering . ) Friends , that ' s not all that Duncombe has done . In the last session of Parliament , who brought the disgraced Secretary of State , that held the seals of office , that lie might break the seals of letters , to justice ? Aye , it was Duncombe . Who has damaged the Tory portion of Peel ' s Cabinet more than any other man ? It was Duncombe , ( Loud cheers . ) Ah , but I don't stop here , friends ; those are but mere questions of detail ; but I ask those who think that there are other honest members in the House of Commons—I ask those gentlemen , however honest they may be to themselves , are they honest to us ? And , friends , now to take the question out of doubt or hypothesis , I ask , where is the other man in the House of Commons that is an enrolled member of the Chartist Association except the brave , the incorruptible Duncombe ? ( Tremendous cheering and waving of hats . ) Ah , friends ,

    but thavs not all . Men sometimes do things through personal motives . Duncombe did not wait for the days of our triumph ; he joined us in the hour of our weakness . ( Renewed cheers . ) His name has a charm , his honesty carries confidence , his ability carries security . ( Cheers . ) Oh , my friends , what an inducement , what an encouragement for those who toil , and can scarcely exist , to see the man who can live without labour coming forward and joining them in their struggle . Shall we not , then , do all honour to the man who has done honour to our principles ? and shall it not echo through the length and breadth of the land , that the great pressure from without shall be represented within , and that Duncombo , our own Duncombe , our loved Buncombe , is the most perfect embodiment of that representation ? ( Loud and long-contiuued cheering and waving of hats . ) Friends , I have great pleasure in seconding the resolution .

    As soon as the resolutions were carried , Mr . O'Connor presented himself , and said , that as he was no monopolist , he wished to allow that mooting to participate in all the honour , and all the triumph , that would result from the policy declared in the message . It _ would go to the world with increased force if sanctioned by a tremendous , respectable , and attentive audience like the present . If it was adopted , he pledged himself that before that day fortnight Dixon , Bairstow , Mason , Jones , Porman , honest John West , M'Grath , Clark , Doyle , and himself ; would send the " Will-o ' -thc-Wisp" of Chartism through the csuntry once more , with more feathers

    m _ its wings than it had even iu 1839 . Another thing that he would tell them , that if they were true to themselves , others would be true to them , for lie would tell them that tfio very moment that Mr . Roberts heard that the sound spirit of Chartism was going to be rallied once more , he said , " Well , I will give my £ 5 with all my heart and soul , " and he would have made one of us to-night , but he is detained upon colliers' business in a distant part of the country . ( Loud cheers for Roberts . ) Our message requires no mere speechyfying—1 have read it distinctly—you all understand it—I trust , therefore , that some one will move and second its adoption .

    Young Ramsay , in Chartism a man , in years a youth , then moved the resolution , and Dixon seconded it , ' when it was carried amid thunders of applause , every hand in the meeting being held up for it . A vote of thanks was then given to the Executive for their honesty in office and promptitude in action ; after which Mr . O'Connor proposed a vote of thanks to the chairman , which was seconded by acclamation . He then proposed nine-times-nine cheers for the Charter , and no surrender , which made the building ring . The meeting dispersed more than satisfied .

    Great Chartist Meeting At Manchester. On...

    GREAT CHARTIST MEETING AT MANCHESTER . On Sunday night last tho people of Manchester assembled in Carpenters' Hall to hear an address from Mr . Shaw , the delegate to the conference , from Leeds , and if we are to judge from the applause which followed almost every sentence that fell from the speaker , and the cheers which followed upon the close of the address , which lasted over two hours , we must do him the justice to say , that his first appearancei Upon the Manchester boards has been more than triumphant , and as Manchester possesses the most critical audience , having heard all the ablest lecturers in the movement , Mr . Shaw has no small cause for self-gratulation . His voice is

    powerful , his reasoning simple , eloquent , and convincing , his language good and his manner prepossessing . We heard many of the Manchester critics emphatically declare , that " yon chap was a trump . " Ills lecture embraced all the principles of the Charter , the rights of the people and the usurpation of their opponents , and gave the greatest possible satisfaction . Mr . O'Connor addressed the meeting at considerable length after Mr . Shaw had concluded , upon the satisfaction and pleasure that he felt at every acj done by the Land Conference , and then announced that the Executive , who had kept Chartism alive through the land plan , had now given the lie to thelr

    revilers , who said that they had ab mdoned the Charter . They are , says he , the first ia the field when danger threatens , and when their principles are in danger , and we have called a convention—a CiiAnnsi Convention—to sit in Manchester , on Monday , the 22 nd of this month , in which every town in North and South Lancashire , the West-Riding of Yorkshire , Nottingham , Derby , Leicester , Norwich , Birmingham , and London , will be represented . " ( Tremendous cheering and waving of hats ) . Now , that ' s the way we have abandoned the Charter , said Mr . O'Connor . A unanimous vote of thanks was then given to Mr . Shaw and Mr . O'Connor , and as hearty a one to the chairman ,

    when—Mr . O'Connor again came forward and said—My friends , we areas quick to design and as rapid to execute as the duke himself , as I just learn from some gentlemen whohavereturnedfrom Stockport , that the good lads there not only approve of the plan , but have actually subscribed their share of the funds to carry it out .

    Great Chartist Meeting At Ashton, On Fri...

    GREAT CHARTIST MEETING AT ASHTON , On Friday night the spacious Charlcstown Chapel was crowded ia every part wherestanding-room could be obtained , to hear an address from Mr . O'Connor . Shortly after , eight o ' clock that gentleman entered the chapel and was received with thunders of applause . The veteran , James Taylor , delegate to the Land Conference was elected to the chair , and after a few appropriate observations introduced Mr . O ' Connor , who spoke at considerable length upon the several interesting topics of the day . He shewed clearly that no party , noteven the people themselves , understood the rumbling which was now going on in the public mind . It waa not attachment to party , or preference for principles , so much as the determination to hit upon some plan by which the great

    improvements of the age should be applied to national rather than class purposes . A hundred years ago , said he , the lord and the squire were dressed in one kind of fabric , made out of wool , and the tenants were dressed in a fabric of inferior quality ; and in the distinction they were taught to recognize their inferiority and the lords' supremacy . While they were dressed in the fleece their serfs were satisfied with the skin , but now , who , except by the more stately appearance of the farmer , his better complexion from frugal living and more healthy oocupation , than the lord or the squire , who can distinguish between the first peer of the realm and his valet now ? If Brougham travelled with a valet which would be mistaken for the gentleman . ( Laughter . ) These things first levelled distinction and then

    created thoughts of equality . ( Cheers . ) This gas that I see before me , the power of locomotion , travelling by railroad , steam navigation , the printing press , the penny stamps upon newspapers , the penny postage , and hurricane flood of knowledge , are all one and all incipient Chartism . ( Loud cheers . ) Chartism is the embodiment of the principle to subdue those great elements of wealth to man ' s wants . ( Cheers . ) This is amalgamation . This ia the confluence of minds . This is progression , I see it in social more than in political arrangements . Everything is struggling to do away with inferority and to proclaim equality of rights , though not equality of property . Who , a hundred years ago , or fifty years ago , or twenty years ago , or ten years ago , ever witnessed the fashionable intelligence and

    court circular of the working classes . But they now declare your progression . They knock down the ' standard of distinction . Who can read the announcement of a Chartist tea party , Chartist ball , a Chartist dinner , or a Chartist soiree , and see the precision with which aristocratic distinctions are observed , that must not come to the conclusion that the mind has progressed . Your bills and cards which announce the order in which quadrilles , waltzes , gallopades , and the polka are to be danced—the very music that they are to be danced to , the refreshments that are to be had , and the master of the ceremonies who is to conduct the arrangements , and above all the

    creditable and fashionable manner in which they are conducted , who , I say , can fail to believe that this is progression and improvement struggling for permanency through representation . ( Loudcheers . ) The monopoly of the land , by tbe blundering aristocracy of this country , has led to the monopoly of legislation —the monopoly of legislation has made the social comforts that I have referredtothe exception instead of the rule with your order , by representation yon hope to make the rule . Mr . O'Connor then entered into a lucid explanation as tothe causes which led to the resignation of Sir Robert Peel . He contrasted Toryism under him with Toryism under the Wel-

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    lington party / and then called attention to u . c . rogTekve policy ' of Peel as . compared mt ^ uie policy wi" were to expect ' from : the Whi g * Peel , said Mr . O'Connor , would have prepared landlordism for that fall which their own obstinacy haa made inevitable , and if they had' allowed him to perfect his cure for their malady , ' they would harefound themselves with reduced fortunes- but witfc equal means , as compared with the price of everything ; to preserve their relative position in society-But , no , they wiu be * killed '& nd t fobddy akitihelp . them . Hethen took a show of hands bet ween Pee £ ' and Russell , when every hand'in the meeting was held up for Peel and not one for Russell Mr , O'Connor then' drew a most feeling and animated picture between the-life of an agricultural labourer

    living upon his own resources , calling no m * n m & master , and the life of a slave who lias' no choice , of masters but is the slave of all . He contended that the man who worked from twenty to thirty-five yearjy that is , for the best fifteen years of his life ; at artife--cial labour , was as old at that-period as some men actually are at sixty—that then he was entitled not only to forty years' wages for the fifteen years' work , msfc to such a retiring salary as would compensate his * through life for the premature old age that society had brought upon him . ( Loud cheers ) . It is useless ^ said he , to contrast the wages of an agricultural labourer with that of a manufacturing operative—tbe * one was younger at seventy than the other was afc forty . ( Cheers ) . Mr . O'Connor then illustrated th «? principles of the land association , and concluded tits * most eloquent address we ever heard from him , an « Sthey were many , amid deafening applause .

    Richard Pilling , " * ns iwrmm of the mote ment , " then proposed a petition in favour t & Frost , Williams , and Jones , which was eloquentr / supported by Mr . Poole , the delegate to theconterence ? for Devonshire , and Mr . Clark , ofthe Chartist Executive , and , upon the whole , the meeting not only ga ? s > general satisfaction , but has aroused the Chartist feeling from that apathy in which it has so long slumbered into a state of cheering hope and excitements the people declaring their increased and unbounded confidence in their old and well-tried Feargus . Aitesr the meeting broke up Mr . O'Connor started for Manchester , to be ready to take his place ir . the cotsference on the following morning .

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    GREAT MEETING AT "W 1 GAX . When the conference had closed its sitting osi Thursday night Mr . O'Connor proceeded to Wigaia to deliver a public address . The largo room at iaa Clarence Hotel was the place appointed , and wasfilled . Mr . Nicholas Canning was elected as chairman , and after reading the bill , he introduml Mjv O'Connor , who was received with the most rapturous applause . The news ofthe resignation of Sir lloberi i'eel had just arrived , and Mr . O'Connor cnremenc & fi by observing , " I am Piiimi * Minister . vow ' . " ( Great laughter . ) lie then stated , that although the laa & had been selected as the . subject for discussion , thai yet such a meeting , at such a crisis , produced by se very unexpected circumstance , they would not fee . 3

    satisfied if he omitted ail reference to the suhk-efc . II « then took a rapid but clear review of the 1 eireiussstances which led to the resignation of Peel , and ths ; recall of Lord John Russell to office ; and he asked if the meeting of the Chartist party , whose co-opcratiw * was , no doubt , relied upon , was prepared tojoia . Wellington , Buckingham , and the oligarchy of Eng .-Jand , in the restoration of blooui * oli > Tosvisjiizv its very worst phase , and made worse , more crtieS ,. and tyrannical upon thepi-csumptionTiiATTRKPEepL-ffi : had once mors called it into life ? WiU ai . y man , k * asked , tolerate the resuscitation of thin bloody ohost * ( Shouts of "Never , never . " ) No , never , as long s & I live . Shall it be said that the Enalish people g » 7 » strength to tiie Irish duke ? In 1820 Ireland bes * him single handed ; in 18 JS 2 England beat him ; , as *

    the devil is in it , if , ia 1845 , England , Ireland , aaaE Scotland—the rose , the shamrock , and the thistlewill not be an over match for him in bis dotage Gentlemen , Ireland is my country , though tiweworld is my republic ; and heaven forbid that I should see the rising spirit of a nation crushed by the vengeance of a ( action . ( Cheers . ) We haveaSS our parts to play in the mighty struggle now s * rhand . Wc shall have to select the foe , and to chosje our coadjutors . It is to the strength , the power , xs & the danger of the foe to which wq must look , asst tothe ability of those who are to confront hini , as- - the soldiers of the movement party . Gentlemen ,. ' ! say it now , and I say it emphatically , that no sacriffos * must be considered too great to save us from such ass infliction . Peel waits not to canvas the strength of fesp

    party , for he knows it . Wellineton hesitates not i »» canvas the resolution of his party , for he , too , know *& it well . Russell waits not to understand the strengib of his party , but all wait to understand the resoi « - tion and the determination of our party—the pkop & x--. ( Cheers . ) .-Gentlemen , we have bravely {' ought thefoe unitedly , and , though defeated , we have r < er « r abandoned our position . By our tactics we hav * - hunted one stag with the most cumbrous antlers froKsa the herd , let us not change from tho scent , and k-i not the ground be foiled b y other game that may pag- * the track , until wo hunt the game down . ( Cheers ^ I believe by wise and discreet management we may now make one party of the wise and the brave saE the three nations , whereas intemperance or folly may give the foo an easy triumph . ( Cheers . ) The thus

    dor is ours , and we will not lie robbed of our shasa * - in the triumph . ( Cheers . ) Mr . O'Connor then drew a feeling picture of his own position . If the peojfe were overtaken by famine , or . subjected i ®> Wellington dominion—if you are hungry , said hs ^ . and have not even the . power to steal the surplus that a repeal of the Corn Laws would produce , aa 2 i if there was not only no surplus there , but sot enough for you , and if you were told that I was tfee man who starved you , what would be your feelings * , what would be my position ? But still further ,. i £ W p lace you in that position I had consented to p !» i « er heartless gaolers over you in the shape of ruleis ,, would not your long cherished affection justly , nax , naturally be turned to gall ? ( Cheers . ) ' Aye , for nowy , mind , that I am arguing not upon a presumption ; bste

    upon a certainty—thecertamtythatwehavethepowe ^ to strengthen Wellington in his devilment , but war would not have the power to prevent its hellish effecil ( Cheers . ) Qentlemen . we were charged before wii & the emissaries of Buckingham being amongst us . 1 believe there were , but not of your class ; but ne-w how proudly I stand before you to meet those wha » charge me with being in the pay of Buckingham ani £ tho Tories . ( Loud laughter . ) Oh , what an opportunity I give my old paymasters of proving the treachery of a deserter from their ranks . ( Checrs . J . * Have I not lived through much persecution , hare * I not lived down much prejudice , and shall I nofc live to live clown the power of oligarchical oppression Mr . O'Connor then entered into a description of-thie state of Ireland , which drew tears from every ey * y

    and literally raised his Irish audience , which was numerous , to a state of madness , and when he ha ^ iwound up his description he asked—And shall I be s party to give strength to those who would pevpetuatae such misery , such cruelty , and such horror . ( Trsi . mendous sensation and cheers ) . Mr . O'Connor thee * adverted to the policy of Sir Robert Peel , and contrasted his progressive Toryism with the Toryisofc that would now struggle for pre-eminence . He thes * took a review of the position and strength of parties ^ - and concluded with a lucid illustration of what haafe been done by the Land Conference , and what was likely to result from the establishment of the society ^ and wound up by shewing that the destruction of th * monopoly , conditions , privileges , arid restrictions ^ under which the landlords kept the land of this country , and not the inability ofthe land to produce foo ^ t enough for all , had led to the demand for free traded and had established what were called principles oi political economy , which were mere consequences oF

    landed monopoly . He also shewed that the monopoly of the land was the basis of their own constitution , and made the audience laugh heartily % stating that he expected to get as much of tfe plunder for the land association for £ 5 , 000 ^ by March next , as he would have got last March for £ 12 , 000 ; and won't I , said he , he ready for the firsfecut at the panic ? He concluded his address amM deafening and long-continued applause ; and after St vote of thanks to Mr . O'Connor and the chairman , the meeting separated in the [ highest spirited Mr . O'Connor invited the members of the Lanj £ Association to his hotel , were they remained in convivial aud instructive conversation till past twelver o ' clock . A large number of the honest , consistent ^ and patriotic Chartists from Lamberhead-green an & the surrounding districts attended , and , after the proceedings , returned home in high spirits ; and thn & ended the most spirited and im ^ ortantgathering ; that we have had at Wigan for many a long year .

    Alabsii.No Fihe Akd Loss Op Life.—On Sat...

    Alabsii . no Fihe akd Loss op Life . —On Saturday afternoon , about four o ' clock , a fire , attended witfe fatal consequences to a female , eighty-five years ' < £ ' age , broke out at No . 4 , Bull ' s Head-court , Middlesex-street , Whitechapel , in the apartment occupied by a Mrs . Jacobs . The fire , it is supposed , was caused in consequence of the occupier having bv someaccident fallen into the grate . The issue of a " densebody of smoke , accompanied by the cries ofthe female , caused some parties to enter the , room , when theyfound the poor old creature completely enveloped in flames , and the flooring , cupboard door , and shelves ' burning most furiously . After considerable trouble on the part of the neighbours and police , the flamed were extinguished , but not before the building was very seriously injured by fire and water , and the

    poor old woman burnt in such a frightful manner that the flesh peeled off her body when touched .. After lingering for the space of a few minutes , deatk terminated her sufferings . " . ' ' HollowavV Ointment and Pixis . —James Littki , a blacksmith , residing at Cuckold ' s Point , in May last , wasgoing to Guy ' s Hospital , to undergo the amputation ofhifl leg , which had been ' bad for sereit years ; there were upwards of twehty ^ ulcera on it , ami mortification had commenced gust under the knee . In this alarming state he waa recommended' to us & Holloway's Pills and Ointment , whi ca ih " a very short time cured the limb , tothe great astonishment ofatti It the two medicines are used together , the laostdahi gerous wounds and ulcere , may , to aifrrtainty . tfe cured by their means . __ . _—— *—*

• Citation
  • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 20, 1845, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_20121845/page/7/