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" ' AR CHARTISM AND CHEAP AND 2 : N ^ TH...
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_ Makchesier,—The ' Town-Hall Guard' is the title giren to a portion of the constabulary force
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recently organised zn Manchester. Thia b...
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Arrest tor ^Printing a. Poliiicaii Placard.— On Tuesday week Messrs Harrower and Brown, printers, Glasgow, were arrested and taken into cus-
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MARYLEBONE VESTRY MEETING. »¦ ¦. ..— The...
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THE GAGGING BILL . To the Honourable the...
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ADDRESS OP THE BRADFORD TEETOTAL CHAR. T...
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Manufacture of Pikes at Bradford. —Some ...
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THE LONDON REPEALERS. The admirable cond...
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Prater for Public Peach ahd Tranquility,...
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THE PROSTITUTE PRESS. The following are ...
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Celebrated Throughout Teb Globe
CELEBRATED THROUGHOUT TEB GLOBE
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HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT . CURE 0 ? FISTUI 0 US " S 0 RB 8 AND ' PLEURISY . Extractor a Letter from Mr Robert Calwr . Chemut , Stekesley , dated , September 3 rd , 1847 . T % Jr-i ? i " £ 7 ; £ rational Schoolmaster of this ftSS' ae 5 « s metoEend yon the particulars of his son Sad been bad for three years andahalf , arthure-^ redihe greatest benefit by the use af your pills and ointment . He is of a scrofulous constitution ; a pleurisy of matter in the chestand
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SCURTY AND I MPURE BLOOD . iKOTHEE 3 I 0 ST EXTSlOEDlIfABI CGBE BI HEANS OF HALSE'S SCORBUTIC DROPS . —The following case has excited so much interest , that the Guardians of the parish of Brent , Devon , hare considered it their duty to siea their names to the accompanying important declaration . It is well worthy the notice of the public ;—« We the undersigned , solemnly declare , that , before Thomas Robins ( one of our parishioners ) , commenced taking Halse ' s Scorbutic Drops , he was literally covered with large runnin ; wounds ( some of them so large that a person might have laid his fist in them ) , that before he tad finished the first bottle he noticed an improvement , and that by continuing them for some time he gotcompletelv restored to health after everything else had failed .
_ Makchesier,—The ' Town-Hall Guard' Is The Title Giren To A Portion Of The Constabulary Force
_ Makchesier , —The ' Town-Hall Guard' is the title giren to a portion of the constabulary force
Recently Organised Zn Manchester. Thia B...
recently organised zn Manchester . Thia bod y i » regularly drilled , and is said to be already very expert in various military evolutions . It is intended ^ iP ^ fneseconstables into ' a permanent volunteer ei ^ t r , ^ !? ' !? of tw 0 com panies , each of forty . Sran ^ a n n < i % » four captains , and eight lieute-Xchwill tbn eni 0 r ? ptain 8 wil 1 command the force , ^ nS ? hahn n 8 h ? alIa ^{ al of 122 . Anothn s ^ oSsSMd ? " ^ under the fcitle
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ABERNETHY'S PILL for the KERYES and MUSCLBS . —The Proprietor of these Pills is a medical man . T he brother of a patiest of his applied to Mr Absrnethyforadvice . Ifegavohima preseription , and & ase pills are prepared accurately frarathatprescriptloii . The p * tient ' s ceraplaint was a aervoua one , and it was tterly impossible for any one to bo in a worse # endition fiian he was ; muscular power was also lost in somsparte , and his leg * fairly tottered under him . Ho had a box sf flie pills prepared , and the offsets wer * all but Kiracafaas ; for not only did the nervousness leave bim , but muscular power returned to all parts dufloient of it . ¦ phe proprietor has since tried then on hundreds of his that taeir
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ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE THAT PREYS ON THE HEALTH AND SHORTENS THE DURATION © P HUMAN LIFE . Illustbated with kdmerous CotoniED EwanAvmas . Just Published" ) in a Sealed EnTe j 9 p 6 i prjce 2 s , ed ,, or free by post , 3 s . 6 d . CONTROSL OF T HE PASSIONS ; a Popular Essay on the Duties and Obligations of Married Life , the unhappiness resulting from physleal impediments and defects , with directions for their treatment ; the asuse of tie passions , tho premature decline of health , and mental and bodily vigour ; indulgence in solitary and delusive habits , precocious exertions or infectioa , inducing a long train of disordors affecting tbe principal organs Qf ( bebody , causing ccasimptiess , mental and nervous debility and indigo .-tion , with remarks on gonorrhea , gleet , stricture , and syphilis . ' Illustrated with Coloured Bagravines and Cases .
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The extensive practice ef Messrs R . and L . P ERRY and Co ., the continued demand for
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himself , but also on the offspring . Advice for the treatment of all these diseases and their consequences is tendered in this section , which , if duly followed up , cannot tail in effacting a cure . This part is illustrated by seventeen coloured engravings . Part tha Fourth Treats of the Prevention of Disease by a simple application , by which the danger of infection is obviated . Its action is simple , but sure . It acts with the vims chemically , and destroys its power on the system . This important part of tho Work should be read by every Young Man entering into lifs . Part the Fifth
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PERFECT PREEDOM FROM COUGH IN TEN MINUTES AFTER USE , And a rapid Cure of Asthma and Consumption , and a Disorders of tbe Breast and Lungs , is insured by DR LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS . CURES IN NEWCASTLE . Read tbe following Testimonials from Mr Mawson , 13 , Mosley-street , Newcastle : — Gentlemen , —I find an extraordinary demand for Dr Locock ' e Wafers , which is the best proof of their real utility . I ean speak of th » m with confidence , as I have recommended them in many cases with astonishing success . To asthmatic and , consumptive patients , who ara generally nauseated with medicine , they are invaluable , not only on account of the relief they afford , but from the pleasantness ot their taste , Yours , & c . ' , ( Signed ) J . il . Mawson . —Dec . 5 , 1 S 44 .
Arrest Tor ^Printing A. Poliiicaii Placard.— On Tuesday Week Messrs Harrower And Brown, Printers, Glasgow, Were Arrested And Taken Into Cus-
Arrest tor ^ Printing a . Poliiicaii Placard . — On Tuesday week Messrs Harrower and Brown , printers , Glasgow , were arrested and taken into cus-
Tody By The Authorities Tor The Printing...
tody by the authorities tor the printing of a placard headed Threatened Revolution in London / whieb was extensively posted throughout tbe city in the course of the day previous , and which the police , by orders of the magistrates , were busily engaged in tearing down from tbe walls on Monday . We ( Glasgow Courier ) are not aware of the precise nature cf the charge against Messrs Harrower and Brown , but we believe they both hold Chartist princi ples , and that they do the most of the printing work for tbe Chartists of Glasgow . They underwent a lengthened examination in the fiscal ' s cffioe after being apprehended , and were then liberated en bail bonds of £ 50 each , for which Messrs Moir and Ross , Chartist orators , at once proffered themselves , and were accepted as securities .
Kirkcaldy ; Wbavebs . —An out-door meeting of the' hand-loom weavers of Kirkcald y and vicinity was-held on Saturday , the 1 st of April , to consider what means to adopt to ' prevent a reduction of wages , on an average nine and half per cent ., paid only by Mr John JeSery , when itwas unanimousl y agreed to send a deputation to see if he would pay as high as other employers . He treated the de putation with contempt , stating he must have a certain percentage , come from where it might . A declaration was got up on Monday , the 3 rd , by all the other manufacturers , stating there was no cause whatever for Mr Jeffery's reduction , and would do all in their power to prevent it . Another out-door meeting was held tbe same day , which was attended by at least three thousand persons , when it was agreed to proceed in a body to the unfeeling despot , to request him to sign the ^ declaration of the other manufacturer * , but which he refused to do , declaring he would do as he
pleased . The procession then moved to their former place of meeting , " . when it was unanimously agreed to take no work from him . The authorities getting alarmed at tha meetings scarcely left a shopkeeper who was not sworn in as a special constable ; but honour to the weavers of Kirkcaldy , the breomsticka of the ' specials' were not required ^ The Proves * , on interceding with the tyrant , got him to withdraw one half of the reduction . On that the Weavers ' executive called a public meeting in the Union Chapel , when it was agreed that as Mr J » fiery has been a peat of a paymaster for years past , they would carry out their first resolution . Sensbtcb Commoted . —The sentence of derfch passed by Mr Baton Rolfe , at the late assizes , upon Calvert and Meller , the two men who were convicted of the murder of Mr Wood , of Faweather , has been commmutedby the Secretary of State to transportation fcr life ,
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MARYLEBONE VESTRY MEETING . »¦ ¦ . .. — The Chartist Demonstration . —Addhbss to the Qcteen . —Saturday , at a very fully attended meeting of the vestry of St Marylebone , tho Rev . Dr Spry in the chair . After a vote of thanks to the magistrates for their conduct on the 10 th , Mr Stanford thought the time had now arrived when some notice should be taken of the very excellent andeffergetic measures taken to : provide for tho peace of the metropolis by her Majesty ' s governmeat . [ A cry of ' No , no , ' burst from every part ef the vestry . ] He ( Mr Stanford ) was perfectly
astonished to hear such a response from a body , which he believed to be the advocates of loyalty and order . ( Oh , oh . ) At all events , he had prepared a resolution , and if he stood alone he would bring it before the vestry . ( Oh , oh , and confusion . ) He begged to move the following : — 'That thia vcatry cannot but express their warm approval of the wise and energetio means taken by her Majesty ' s government for the preservation of order en Monday last , and bag to congratulate ber Majesty ' s government on the happy result of their very judicious , and at the same time temperate arrangements . ' ( Loud expressions of dissent . )
The motion , not finding a seconder , fell to the ground . Mr John Whliams , M . P ., said , had Mr Stanford ' s motion been confined to an address to the sovereign , he would have supported it . He would move : — ' That a dutiful address be presented to her Majesty the Queen , assuring her Majesty that tbe loyal determination displayed by the metropolis on Monday last will ever be exhibited by every class of the inhabitants of this parish , on all occasions where the dignity of her Majesty's crown or the tranquillity of tho country way be assailed . ' Mr J . ~ Beli seconded the resolution . Mr Sod & n thought that if the vestry passed such a resolution , it would stamp the proceedings of last Monday as an attempt to dethrono tbe Queen , and to subvert _ all the institutions of tbe countryan assumption which he utterly repudiated and denied .
Mr Stevens must express his astonishment at the declarations of MrSoden . He feared he could not have read in the newspapers the speeshes of Mr Washerwoman Cuffay —( laughter )—and the ether anarchists , who declared that they were even prepared to go the length of committing murder . After some discussion , during which more abuse wasgiven to the Chartists by Sir W . Stirling , Mr J . Williams , M . P ., with great warmth , said ; I rise to order . I beg to call the hon . baronet to
order . I will not sit down quietly and hear tho Chartists as a body , and the working men of England , of which that body is composed ; held up to scorn as thieves , rogues , and assassins . I belong myself to the working classes , and I have the pleasure of being known to , and to know myself , thousands of Chartists , who , I will undertake to say , are as loyal to the sovereign as the hon . baronet . I agree with some of tbe points of the Charter myself , and I will defy him to say that I am not aa loyal as he is .
Sir J . Hamilton—I beg to suggest to my hon . friend Sir Walter Stirling , that he should withdraw the expressions he has made use of t iwatds any body of men . ( Loud cries of hear . ) Sir W . Stirling could do no such thing , as his conviction was that the Chartists who caused the excited state of the metropolis on Monday last were accessories before the fact to assassination , murder , and robbery . ( Oh , oh ; order , order ; and great confusion . ) He believed they had no legitimate object in view , no real grievances to redress ; bat it was a plan to upset government and all peace and order , that they might have no government at all , and that they might make tbe consternation their proceedings created the opportunity for robbery , plunder , and excesses of the very worst description . ( The confusion here became so general that no more of Sir Walter Stirling ' s observations could be heard .
Mr J . Williams , M . P ., in reply said , as one of tbe working classes , he was well aware that neither he nor the class to which he belonged , had or ebuld expect to have any sympathy from the aristocracy . If he wanted any proof , he need only refer to the Gagging Bill of the government , upon which ho bad di . vided against the government on every division during tha previous night . He again repelled tho unjust attack which had been made by Sir Walter Stirling on the Chartists as a body , and he could assure him and tbe vestry , that there were thousands of Chartists who were actuated by the strongest feelings of loyalty . He hoped the question would pass unanimously .
The Rev . Chairman here put the motion , and although there were several members who did not bold up their hands in its favour , none voted against it , and it was declared to be carried unanimously .
The Gagging Bill . To The Honourable The...
THE GAGGING BILL . To the Honourable the House of Commons of Great Britain and Ireland , in Parliament assembled , the petition of a public meeting held at Farrlngden Hall , in the city of London , on the 11 th of April , 1818 , HDMBtT SHEWBTH , That , although your petitioners have long since lost ail faith in the t . fficacy of petitioning , as a means of inducing your honourable house to restore to them and the people generally , their social' and political rights , now usurped by the landed and moaied aristocracies , and which usurpation your honourable house , forgetting your duties as representatives of the common people of these countries , has flagrantly upheld , jour petitioners , nevertheless , deem it their duty to protest , in determined language , against the attempt now being made fey your honourable house to augment tho wrongs under which the people suffer , curse , and groan . Your petitioners particularly allude to that monstrous and libcrticidal bill introduced by Sir G . Grey .
That bill your petitioners regard with alsrm , indlgaa . tion , and contempt . With alarm , because of its uncon . stitutional and oppressive character ; with indignation , because of its tyrannical tendency to suppress public opinion , and to destroy the right of public meetings ; and with contempt becauseyourbonourable house vainly contemplates thereb y to perpetuate the evils of mlagovernment . Your honourable house has been told that the Mil referred to ia intended for tho bettor protection of the Grown and government ; your petitioners respectfully suggest that its tendency will bo to destroy both , and they humbly remind the ministers and your honourable house of a fact which seems to have been forgotten , that on the continent the most despotic governments have been overthrown , sot for attempting- , like your honourable house , to curtail the liberties ef the people , but for the suicidal polley of refusing to extend those liberties .
That It la the opinion of your petitioners that the conduct of the ministers in introducing this liberticidal and suicidal bill , merits the severest psnisbment sanctioned by tho constitution and custom of the country ; your petitioners , therefore , request jour ho . nourable house to reject this infamous bill , and to take such measures as are required for the impeachment of the ministers , and your petitioners , as in duty bound , will ever pray .
Address Op The Bradford Teetotal Char. T...
ADDRESS OP THE BRADFORD TEETOTAL CHAR . TIST LOCALITY TO THE TEETOTALERS OP THE UNITED KINGDOM " . Bbethben , —Fellow Labourers in tbe cnuse of human progress . For what have no laboured but tho extinction of slavery in all its aspects , We see all good men arc desiring an extension of tho elective power . Have not we had something to do in bringing about that desire ? Wo have taught that sobriety is liberty . It is , therefore , our duty to assist in obtaining the People ' s Charter , Heaven forbid that we should be found last lu the struggle for emancipation ! Let us be foremost in the ranks of those who are determined to be free , and let our united cry for justice to all be loudest , and our demand for perfect freedom the most firm . Wo are a numerous body—we are millions . If intelligence , instead of wealth , were made tbe standard of the franchise we should not be unrepresented—yet many of us are . Oar duty and our interests urge us to demand from the hands of our
rulers tbe same privileges that tho upper and middle classes possess , The labour of our country ought above all to be protested , which it nerer will be until the labourer is represented in a real House of Commons ; and when age overtakes or disease enfeebles the honest toiler he should be protected and nourished as a brother , not treated aa an outcast or a dead weight upon society , a « at present . Let us unit ? , then , with those who seek to lift up the industry of our country—who wish to see It honoured . We shall thus procure a glorieus triumph ef right , and our moralising principles shall spread themselves over our free fatherland ; for temperano can only flourish in a land of freemen . Then up , brethren , and beslir yourselves in the glerious cause of Equality and Fraternity . ( Signed ) CB . Ellisoh , On bthali of the above Localit y ,
Manufacture Of Pikes At Bradford. —Some ...
Manufacture of Pikes at Bradford . —Some daya ago a person , named Thomas Breariev was brought before the magistrates at the Court-house Bradford , and fined for having assaultedZ 2 ! He thought hMan injured wLlSSSJ & the . town were covered with placards , headed 'Brutality of the police , ' which contained the tale of his grievance . The week which had been allowed him to pay the fine having expired , and m JSmS Swi field Th * he r ° ^ ^ SSSS to Wa & eheld . Ihe police on enter ng his house for the purpose of executing the warrant found Bmrly ^ 8 lly , em , l ° yed n > the manufacture of DikeLand several iBese
or formidable weapons wen seized to them , and conveyed to the police office . J i » i . OTfei ? ae ? - a ? n 3 r coatia aIetter of introduction ™ j ££ l ° than aDy 8 atin ^ oveimpoaltioS The women of Paris have voted aa address to the Proviscnal government , demanding to be allowed to vote in the elections .
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THE LONDON REPEALERS . The admirable conduct of Mr F . O'Connor , with respect to tho late demonstration oa lienmnBtqn Common , is the theme of universal admiration of hia Countrymen in thia metropolis , and on whom he can rely . The dastardly conduct of Mr J " , O'Connell in the house of misrepresentation— ' that there was bo union between the Repealers and the Chartists , will be ably and effectively refuted by the meetings that are to be held in London , when the lie direct will be jfwen to him , and he will be compelled to eat the leek .
Cobban Club . -. On Sunday evening last a crowded meeting of thia truly democratic club was held at the * Green Man , ' Berwick-street , Mr Edward Glass ( an English gentleman ) in the chair . The speech of Mr W . S . O'Brien against the Whig Gagging Bill was read from the Norihbbh Star , and the full and able report of that gentleman ' s speech in that journal gave universal satisfaction . There was scarcely a person present who had not a Star iu hia hand to lig ht him to freedom ' s shores . —The Chairman , on opening the business of the evening , said that it was the bounden duty of all Irishmen to rally round those patriots who were waiting to be tried .- They had opened a subscription list in that room for the purpose of assisting those gentlemen
in their defence against the prosecution of the A . 1-gerine Whiga , ( Oheera . ) The gagging bill would have no terrors . He hoped the time was not far distant when the sovereignty of the people would triumph all over the world . ( Cheers . )—Mr J . Ringrose ( an old veteran ia the cause of Ireland ' s nationality , and over whose brow nearly eighty summers have passed ) next addressed the meeting , and read an extract from the Tablet , showing tbe patriotism that existed in Italy , and said tae same feeling animated his countrymen . They would send over to-morrow five pounds to the defence fund . They must show the dastardly Whigs that they , the Irish people , were not to be daunted by Iheirapti-English prosecutions .
Mr R . Hossey then rose / and moved the following resolution : — 'That We , the members of the' Carran ' Confederate Club , of the Irish Confederation in London , view with indignation and dfrguet , the treacherous and hostile conduct of T . C . Anstcy , Esq ., M . P ., for Youghall , asexhibited by certain language reported to have been employed by him in respect to the Whig Gagging Bill , and to the exterminating quarter acre clause . We , therefore , consider him unworthy the confidence of any party of Irishmenespecially the , members of the Confederation—and we call on the council of that body to expel him from the Association , and dismiss him from the position of Inspector of Confederates in England . ' —Mr T . Reynolds said , he seconded the resolution
with great pleasure ; there was a feeling among the higher classes , that they alone oould rule , and among them Mr Anstey was to be found . Their ery was that the working classes were ignorant — whoh at' the' same time they did everything to perpetuate if possible that ignorance . Hewaseorry to say that the bnlk of the Irish members were traitors to their country . — Mr Anstey had promised the electors of Youghal , that if returned , his sole object would be to benefit Ireland , but his votes in the Parliament were in complete contradiction of what he had stated on the hustings . Such men as Mr Attfltey must ba taught that they must not play with the liberties of tho people . —Mr Scott supported the resolution .
—The resolution was earned unanimously . — Mr Moore said , they must organise London , and forma penny subscription , From the Irish in the Metropolis at one penny per head—they would have £ 108 per week towards the Defence-fund . Mr Moore then passed a high eulogium on the conduct of the Confederates at the meeting on Kenningtou Com * mon- —Mr John Sturgeon ( Down ) addressed the meeting at seme length as regarded tho growing feeling in favour of Repeal in the North of Ireland . —A report of the late Repeal meeting at Belfast was read amid loud cheers . —The meeting was then adjournrd . The Hohebt Jack . Lawless Club . — A large meeting of the members of this club was held on Monday
evening last , in the Working Man's Temperance Hall , Carteret-street , Westminster . Mr Martin Bailey in the chair . The speeches of Mr W . S . O'Brien and Mr F . O'Cennop , against tha Whig Gagging Bill , were read from the Northern Star , as also tho letter qf Mr J . Mitohel to Lord John Russell , from the United Irishman . The Chairman said he was still determined to speak and to agitate , not only for hia rights as an Irishman , but for the nationality of his fatherland . —Mr Henry Tilt ( an English gentleman ) said he did not think it necessary to arm in England , but he entertained a different view of the matter with respect _ to Ireland . He then gave a clear and distinct review of the difference between the past , present , and future state
of Ireland , and sat down much applauded . —Mr T . R , Reading then addressed the meeting at great length , and moved a resolution condemnatory of the parliamentary conduct of T . C . Anatey , Esq ,, M . P ., for which see report ef the Carran Club . —Mr Myles M'Sweeney seconded the resolution and said , he could not account for the extraordinary conduct of Mr Anstey , who bad turned so suddenly round in favour of the government which he had , such a short time back , opposed with such virulence . —Mr Rich . Hussey , in speaking to the resolution , reviewed the conduct of the Irish representatives in parliament , and said that the government would fail in putting down Chartism in England and Repeal in Ireland . He then alluded to the conduct of Lord Clarendon and Col . Brown , on sending spies among the people
to buy pikes . The press of England had done everything to hound on the government and the middle classes against , the Chartists and Ireland . The Northern Star is the only honest paper in London , for it was on the side of justice and the people . There should now ba no distinction between Irishmen , let them unite and watch their would-be leaders . What could they think of the man who could offer his hand to hail Mr Smith O'Brien , and afterwards pursue a line of conduct in Parliament to destroy him ? The resolution was carried unanimously . Several other peraonahaving addressed the meeting , and several others paid in their subscriptions , the meeting was then adjourned . Crowded meetings were held at the Davis Club on Wednesday and Friday , the 12 tb and 14 th mat ,, and also on Monday last .
Similar meetings were also held at Wapping , Marylebone , & o . Meetings hext Wees . —Davis Club , 83 , Dsanstwet , Soho , Monday , Wednesday , and Friday evenings . Sundat . —Green Man , Berwick-street ; Viotory , Newenham-slreet , Edgeware-road Temperance Hall , Wapping ; and Druid ' a Arms , Greenwich . Monday . — Working Man ' s Temperance Hall , Broadway , Westminster . Repeal op the Union . —Working Man ' s
Temperance Hall , Carteret-street , Broadway , Westminster . — 'Repeal of the Union—will it benefit the working classes of England , as well as those of Ireland V The discussion on this important subject was brought to a close on Sunday room i ng last , after having occupied seven Sunday mornings . Several Englishmen took an active part in the debate , and when put to tho vote the original question waa carried unanimous'y , there not being one dissentient in an assembly of nearly 150 pers » ns . The question for discussion on next Sunday , is Whether the Charter or Teetotalism are moat like ' y to benefit the people ?'
The Sheffield Repealers The usual weekly meeting of the United Repealers was held on Sunday evening last , in the large room of the Stag Inn . Mr M Ev 6 y in the chair . The ro & m was crowded to suffocation . The following resolution was moved by Mr C . Leonard , and seconded by Mr John O'Donnel — ' That we , the Repealers of Sheffield , pledge our-Eelyeato aid and support , by all means in our power , our fellow-countrymen now struggling for liberty in the land of our birth and affections , and cheerfully adopt every sentiment and opinion expressed by Messrs O'Brien , Meagher , and Mitohel , and hereby enter into a subscription to support thorn in tho comine trial , or for any purpose they may deem best
calculated to serve the cause . ' Three pounds were then subscribed to the Defence Fund for defraying the expenses incurred in the prosecution of the Irish patriots . Paisley . —Glorious triumph ot Fraternity :. —On Friday evening last a large Chartist and Repeal meeting , consisting ot nearly 1 , 500 persons was held at Paisley , when , among other resolutions it was carried , ' That the right of Ireland to be governed by a distinct and independent legislature is undeniable and what every country should enjoy , and that the act of 1800 , called the Act of Union , has become a signal failure and a source of misery to both countries—a partnership importunate—having increased England ' s taxes and multiplied , a thousand-fold
' Ireland ' s poverty . ' The speaker compared tho Union to the assumption by the Glasgow Town Council of the business of the Paisley Council . The seconder ( an Irishman ) shook hands with the proposer , and , amidst much applause , declared the marriage between Chartism and Repeal now accomplished . Several advocates of the Charter and Repeal addressed tho meeting , which breathed with pure democratic ardour . The chairman announced , amidst the most enthusiastic cheering , that the collection for the evening amounted to £ 3 . 3 s . 2 d . The meeting then broke up , giving threo cheers for F . O'Connor , W . S . O'Brien , Repeal , and the Charter , and three groans for tho Algerine Whigs .
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Prater for Public Peach ahd Tranquility , — Tuesday ' s Gazette contains an edict , dated Osborne House , April 15 th , in which ber Majesty directs public prayers for the preservation ef peace and tran . quillity to be put up in all churches and chapels on Sunday , the 21 st inst . Manchester , Wednesday . —Perfect tranquillity prevails in the town and districts , but trade continues in a low and drooping state . The number of operatives out of employment is daily increasing , and fears are entertained that still further additions VU & be made to the ranks , of unemployed , workpeople
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CHARTISM AND CHEAP AND POPm * GOVERNMENT . UL 4 R 10 XHB EDITOR OP THE NORTHERN Star Sir , —May I avail myself of your columns to t * . my thanks , as one of 'the middle classes ' *„ JJ * Feargus O'Connor particularly , and the meaSL ' the National Convention generally , for the coism ? ^ tempered by discretion , which , on the 10 th of a „ ??• so thoroughly defeated the bloodthirsty anticina * - "• of the 'base , brutal , and bloody' Wbi gSl pffl ?* I have to thank them for the conversion wrouou ?' my own sentiments , by the dignified lan euara nrV * National Petition , and the firm attitude and i ? exemplary forbearance of the countless masses tiT fati
» Q 0 OAmlllA / l AM ^ llA ^^ fllf fn ktPir fliaiKAJl .. * " U & assembled on that day to testify their adherence ' a a to dohonear to the sacred Charter of their frit liberties . I hasten , therefore , to enrol myself a ? cere , and ardent , and , I trust , also , an enerfetf and not wholly useless , partisan of tbe PeoW * Charter . In that character , will you allow me sir to impress upon the Chartists generally , but m 0 » , ! especially npon their recognised leaders , the vital and urgent necessity of removing , with all possibu speed , and by all available means , every obstacle which presents itself to a complete union and amalgamation of the trading and industrious classe ? and to aa absolute fusion of their interests and ex . '
ertions . It appears to mo an essential condition for the achievement of this great object , to disabuse the minds of the trading classes of the unfortunate delusions and misapprehensions , under which they la . hour , as to the correct principles and objects of the Chartists : and as to the means by which they propose to attain their ends . The press , whieh would appear to be the natural organ of the mutual good understanding of these classes , whose interests are in reality one and indivisible , is , I regret to say , tie main instrument of the disunion which has made them and keeps them slaves , and is tbe great fosterer of all the reciprocal doubts , jealousies , and suspicions , by which that unhappy disunion is perpetuated . In fact , the daily press , by which alone tbe trading classes in the metropolis , at least , can bo
thoroughly imbued with a sound knowledge and true appreciation of the principles and views of the Chartists , as identical with their own best interests , is emphatically , and to the very core , corrupt . It is as much the hired servant of the privileged classes , as their footmen or their valets ; and obeys the orders of its masters with a cringing and lickspittle servility , whieh wsuld distinguish above his compeers the biggest-calved and most-befloured « Jenkins * In Belgrave-square . Hence , sir , the coolness , or , worse still , the open hostility , manifested by the raiddle classes in London towards the Chartists . They are to be pitied , rather than blamed ; ' poor souls , they speak but as they are taught / Be onra , then , the task te enlighten them , and teach them to behold in the industrious millions , not merely their warmest friends , but their best customers .
For this purpose , sir , a daily exponent of Chartist opinions , is of instant and indispensable necessity ; and I would respectfully urge on Mr Feargus O'Connor , the increased claim on the gratitude and devotion of his countrymen , which he would derive from the establishment of such an organ . I further venture to submit to you , sir , the sound policy of encouraging the interchange and communion of opinions amongst the now dissevered classes Chartism has everything to gain , and nothing to lose , by such discussions . Truth is great and must prevail ; and the cause of cheap and popular government ! founded on the reck of truth , and appealing equally to the reason , the feelings , and the interests of the
people , must ever gain additional adherents . I propose at once to establish sn association to ba called 'The Westminster Cheap and Popular Government Association ; ' the objects of which shall be , to give reality and vitality to the constitutional fiction of * the Sovereignty of the People ; ' and , as a means to an end , ' to promote , in the first place , a mutual good understanding and close union between the Chartists and all the other aggrieved and oppressed olassesof the community . As there is but littletime to be spared , I beg to say that if half a dozen only ef your metropolitan readers will convey to me , by letter , their adhesion to my proposition , I will convene a meeting ot my correspondents , at which I will explain the details of my views and plans .
Repeating , sir , tbe vowof unqualified fidelity to the Chartist cause , at whatever amount of personal responsibility and peril I may incur in the vindication of _ my faith , I have the honour to be , Your most obedient servant , N . Forester Edwards . i , Francis-place , Westminster , April 18 , 1818 .
The Prostitute Press. The Following Are ...
THE PROSTITUTE PRESS . The following are a few specimens of the latest lies and calumnies directed against the Chartists by the infamous press : —
( From thei & anHner . ) The Chartist assemblage was short of the crowd always to be collected to see a boxing-mateh or a cock-fight . If Mr Feargus O'Connor had given out that on the lOfch of April he would , at one o ' clock in the afternoon , jump into a quart bottle , he would have collected ten times the number of people to witness in due course the postponement of the exploit The largest calculation gives 20 , 000 to the meeting of Monday , and boys made a large portion of that number . As anether considerable portioa must have been the marauders of London , it is clear that the bulk ef the London Chartists have no disposition to commit themselves to the chances of involvement in outrage . Those who complain of the military and other
preparations held in reserve , may be assured that suoh preparations will always ba provided to meet illegal violence , and crush it in its onset , but that there is also in the minds of the classes resolved to eupport the laws of the settled resolution , in the event of extreme necessity , not to trifle with the exigency , and to exercise such vigour in repression of tumult as to bring it moat shortly to an end . True policy and true humanity council thia course , and if the guardians of the peace find themselves compelled to resort to the last means of defence against armed aggression , they will take eare to do so effectually , and so that the stress of the chastisement shall fall on the foremost in the wickedness .
( From the Morning Chronicle of Monday . ) We observe by the Sunday papers that the congregation of demented persons calling themselves ' The National Convention , ' have not yet ' quit tha metropolis , ' and that they assembled again yesterday in their usual place of meeting , the Literary Institution , John-street , Fifzroy . gq . uare . This is accounted for , not by any error of the Vagrant Act , but by the fact that each of the delegates ia paid seven shillings per diem out of the Chartist fund during the sittings of the Convention—one of the advantages to be derived by the community from the fourth point of the Charter when it becomes the law of the land—namely , the « Payment of Members . '
Poor Tom Hood , in prefiguring a House of Commons under the Charter , describes the honourable member for Battersea rising in his place , after a long debate . on the culture of mangel wurzel , telling the Speaker that they had sat long enough for that day , and calling on him to give them their wages . The concluding proceedings are thus described by the witty reporter ;—The Speaker te the Treasurer for funds at once applied , And at tbe sight ef money there arose on every side One universal clamour of 'divide , ' ' dividt , ' . ' divide . ' It is more than suspected that the deafness of toe Convention Speaker on this' point' has led to these prolonged sittings of the 'dolly gates , ' as Mr Adams calls them . There t * a committee , called the Fi nance Committee , belonging to the body , that had not yet reported , although its report has . been frequently inquired about , and now ill-natured people
are beginning to observe that this committee is the Mrs Harris of the Convention . If this be true , we no longer wonder at their beipg ' loth to depart / and still less are we surprised that they should en « deavour to fill up their tima by the very plausible pretext of abasing the London newspapers . The Chartist delegates have now discovered that the defeat of their designs on Monday last , whatever those designs were , is entirely owing to the London press . Thus it is , that a drunken , disorderly harlot , in the dock , when sentenced to the treadmill , hurls her dirty shoe at the head of the magistrate , or a circumvented burglar en his way to tho station-house plunges his 'jemmy'into the skull of the policeman 'It is the nature of wasps . ' says seme great authority , to retain their buzz after they have lost their ating ; ' and it is natural enough that the geese of tbe Convention should continue to gabble after they had left tht Common .
{ From tha Sunday Times . ) We have said that Monday last was a day of which England has every reason to feel proud . It has proved that the mighty fabrio of our political and our social system reposes upon foundations toostrong , too firm , too solid , too deeply imbedded in the hearts and affections of the people of this country—again we say the people as contra-distinguished from the mgs —to be even shaken for a moment by those insurrectionary storms that have sufficed to sweep away the lighter and more card-work structures of our continental neighbours ; * * It ia time that the executive should at once , here aa well as iu Ireland , exercise the power vested in it for the suppression of
these seditious demonstrations ; they have the sym-Eathies , and they may rely with confidence upon aving the assistance of toe great bulk of the loyal people of both countries . It is not te be endured that the peaceable , orderly , and well-disposed subjects of tho realm should be kept in hot water by & turbulent section of anarchists , whose revolutionary designs are but thinly concealed nnder the convenient masks cf the Charter and Repeal . * * Those monster meetings bring together hordes of thieves and pickpockets , and afford to them opportunities too tempting to be resisted of enriching themselves at the expense of their neighbours , and go ^ vmrnent ought to put a stop « o them .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 22, 1848, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_22041848/page/2/
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