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      Hazlzebovb, Jffcir Stockport.—Disgeacirx...

      _HAZLZeBOVB , _JffciR Stockport . _—Disgeacirxsi Pitched Bath , * . —Fatal _Coxsevjksces , and * -utPLB # _ In the Tillage of Hasle Grove , ( erst . SSed _BulioekBmiAy , bat ns christened to suit the pride and elegance of a certain tyrant in that neighbourhood well knows to the poor colliers , ) about three sales from Sfcockport , a pitched battle has just been fought , the particulars of which are disgraceful to a civilised society . One of the men was killed ea spot , fire of the parties have been committed to Chester Castle for trial on a charge of _manslaughter , and a warraat for the apprehension of a sixth has been issued by the coroner . It appeared that a silk-wearer , named Samuel Perry , reading at _Hazleerove , and John Hadfield , a collier employed

      _* t the Poynton pits , owing to some public-house quarrel , were backed to fight a pitched battle , up and 2 owh , for 10 s . a-side , _ihough Perry was the much better man of the two , A body of colliers had Bade up their minds to support this champion at all hazards ; and on Wednesday night last , the 29 th , a large party , on both sides , proceeded towards a sequestered place near _Marple Wood , about two _nulea off . Hadfield was backed by John Bold , a collier , assisted by a banksman at Poynton , named James Tr & ffbrd , who came to Poynton as a policeman during the colliers' struggle against a reduction of wages . Perry had no backer , though he was attended by his brother James , The men stripped themselves naked , wftli the exception of an apron

      apiece ; and having fought about half an hour , they were disturbed by the constables , and they fled . The battle , however , was arranged to be fought on the following night ; and it accordingly came off between » _even and eight o ' clock , in Ford ' s Field , in Norbury , it being moonlight . A great crowd of men and women congregated , Bold seconding Hadfield , and John Plait seconding Perry . The colliers and others _tad provided themselves with hedge-stakes . A ring having been formed , both parties stripped themselves naked , with the exception of their shoes and stockings ; they felt at each other ' s bodies if they were " soaped , " and all things being satisfactory , the battle commenced in the presence of a considerable number ol females J The men " quavered ,- '

      and in the first round Hadfield ran at his adversary with great force , with his head against bis stomach , which forced him sideways towards the ground . At this moment , _HadfiaW dosed upon him from behind , threw bis left arm under the other ' s head , and commenced striking him with the right . _Peiry got upon bis knees , and groaned ; and Hadfield tightened his ana round \ the throat . Perry groaned _& gain ; and some of Hadfield's mend 3 cried out , M I'd make him as - he would eat no more praties . " George _Clough , one of the bye-standers , said to James Trafford . " Trafford _, doest hear that mon groan ! " to which Trafford replied ; _rt he does Hot groan half as hard as he did last night ; thoul ' t hear nim groan harder enow . " _Thenspeaking to Hadfield , he said , •» Jack , can ' t

      , use nout-ebe beside throttling—can ' t _thou use thy fists V It was now evident that Perry was disabled or was choking , and Wm . Grundy rushed into the ring to part the combatants , when Perry ' s brother , with uplifted stick , threatened to breik bis head if he touched them . The colliers said the same ; and he was obliged to come out . P . H . Perry , the combatant , never breathed after . Burgess , one of the Cheshire Constabulary Police , came up ; and , pulling Hadfield off the other ' s head by force , discovered that Perry was dead , be having been strangulated . He then gave Hadfield into the possession of an assistant , while he conveyed the deceased to a doctor . Hadfield had , at that time , on his feet , a pair of thick shoes , plated at the toes with iron ; but

      which Eeme person contrived to exchange , and they have not t > een recovered . _Hadfield was taken into custody , and the following day , Platt , the second of the deceased , was apprehended . Bold , the other second , absconded on Friday . On Saturday , an inquest was held on view of the body before Charles _Aridson , Esq ., coroner , when the above facts were proved . The inquiry lasted from eight in the morning till half-past seven at night . Jame 3 Trafford and James Perry ( the deceased ' s brother , ) who attended the inquest as witnesses , were given into custody by the direction of the coroDer . The constable stated that Hadfield , on the way to the Iock-up 3 on Tuesday night , began to cry , and used the following words : — " I've hung him , I ' ve hung him ; I knew I was hanging him ; but I durst not leave loose '" The surgeons , Messrs . Low _« and

      Q nbb , stated thai the death of the deceased had been _occasioned by a blow on the stomach , thereby causing paralysis of the diaphragm ; and by strangulation afterwards . The Jury returned a verdict of man = ] aogbter against John Halfield , one of the principals ; and against John Platt _, John Bold , James Trafford , and James Peiry , as aiders and abettors . The deceased was twenty-two years of age . _Boldisftiil at large ; Traffbrd applied to be admitted to bail , but the Coroner tola him he had no power of ¦ accepting bail ; he mnst apply to a higher tribunal . On _Tuesday , the prisoners were remoTed to the County Gaol at Chester . The Coroner has desired that no exertions shall be spared to bring any other parties forward who took any active part in this brutal and disgusting exhibition . LEEDS . —Weekly contributions to the _Unemployed Operatives' Enumeration _Tund ¦ . —

      £ a . d . Brought forward ... — ... 14 10 6 Messrs . _Hobson and Smiles , per discount on printed _axcalxn ... ... ... 0 1 3 26 contributors at Hargreaves and _Nussej _' s , per James Chadwick ... ... 0 2 2 23 ditto , at Pritcbard's , Busby Mill , per Joseph Thorp ... ... ... 0 1 11 20 ditto , at Taylor sad Wordsworth's , per Wm . _yichollB ... ... ... 0 2 6 ditto , at _Bipley and Ogle ' s , per Joseph Thompson ... ... ... 0 1 11 29 ditto , at _Peaison't , Holbeck , per Thomas Fielding ... ... ... 033 MiseellaneoBs contributions , per Mr . Potter ... ... ... 0 3 2

      27 contributor * at Brown and Co . ' s , llar-Bhall-street , per James Murphy ... 0 2 3 42 ditto , at Fenton , Murray , and Jackson ' s , ¦ ' _machine side ; per Wm . _Hisieth ... 0 3 6 82 ditto , ditto , ditto , ( old side ; per Peter Cameron ... ... ... 0 7 S 25 ditto , ditto , ditto , ( beflemaiers , ) ; per Peter Cameron ... ... 0 2 2 i 225 ditto , at Mr . Fairbairn _' _a _, Wellington ] Foundry , per _TboHiaa _Henison ... 2 0 6 _rj i 12 ditto , at Mr . Cawood _' _s Flax Mill , per j Thomas Card ... ... ... 0 1 0 j ii ditto , at _Benyon and Co . ' _s , per William i _Roberts ... ... ... 0 3 - 6 23 ditto , at Dlcienson and Barraclough ' s , i per _Morr & ll Wild ... ... 0 111 SI ditto , at Mr . _Coopers Mill ... ... 0 2 7 ' £ 2 ditto , at _Marshall- _g , Holbeck , per y _? m .

      _Wildredge ... ... ... 0 6 10 13 ditto , it Boyle , Gill , and Ca _' s , per John _Jscison ... ... ... 0 1 1 22 ditto , at Lord and Brook ' s , per William I Robinson ... ... ... 0 2 8 i IS ditto , at William Robinson and Co . _' b , j per James Rattray ... ... 0 1 6 i 12 ditto , _& t Roger and BarUey's _, per Wm . Cliff 0 1 J ) ii ditto , at Titley , Tattam , and Walker "? , j per John Rigby ... ... ... o * 0 i

      _11 ditto , ditto , ditto , per John Keigbley ... ... ... » 4 0 15 ditto , ditto , ditto , per David Ptyce , fwo-weeks ) ... ... ... 0 2 6 24 ditto , st Ripley and Ogle ' s , per Edward _iletcalf ... ... ... 0 2 0 69 ditto , at James Binns and Sens , per HeEryHorn ... ... ... 0 5 9 12 ditto , _Bur _' . ers , at James Binns and Co ' . _' s 0 19 € -0 ditto , at Messrs . _Brownridge's _, per Win . Chippendale ., 056 24 _ditta , & t Sherwood and Booth ' s , per Wm .

      Lr _ _ic 5 . . . r \ a n _u-acs ... ... # i > .. 0 2 0 i ol ditto , at Mr . _Holdforth _* _, per Jacob ' Wood ... ... .,. 0 4 3 ; 33 ditto , at Hauler ' s , Hope-rtreet MilL _wt \ H . JBlooznneld ... ... _„ 0 3 3 i 5 * ditto , ditto , Low Close , per John Kay '" 0 4 6 ' ! _= uitto , at Wiliiain Grant ' s , per Isaac ' <

      ., . _Ssaaeriand ... 0 1 3 « ditto , it William Kirk ' s , Largefield _.. ,. il 21 _> P _« Edward Sheldon .. 0 5 & 4 _o ditto , at Sheepshank ' s >~ ew Hill , per „ _, J « PhSaviile o 4 10 _<< - < _Ufco _, at Sherwood and Booth ' s , per 79 _,. _G _^ _seMellor 0 1 10 iJ atto » at Mr . Porter ' s , -whitesmiths , per „ ,. _JowpaHose 0 10 « _-3 ditto , at Mr . _Erens _' s , per Jonathan _Cfcarlesirorth ... ... ... 0 2 11

      1205 contributors £ 22 o 3 _^ , _J ? f .-ST . Luke ' s _CniracH .-On Monday j _^^ St . Lake ' s Church , on the Sheepscar-road , _^ _consecrated ., in the usual form , by the Lord w _£ r ? of _Rjpon . The consecration sermon was i preachea by the Rev . Dr . Hook , vicar . _^ J _!™^ _S _^ _.-On Saturday last , three men \ Mined Jaaes Myers , Robert Myers , and George T" _*^ _* _"ere committed for trial at the next sessions , I _«* wged with _having stolen a cart load of hay , the Property of Mi . George Dixon . i . _> _? _£ b _Gabdess , —On Monday last , a splendid of

      , mow Dahlias , & c , was held at the house of Mrs . _^ _wley , the Waggon and Horses Inn , Holbeck ™ _£° Vwhen the members of the Beeston _, Holbeck , _^ f _. _^ rtley _, Horticultural and iloral Societies , mmi their last show for the season . The judges on _™ _oosion were Messrs . _Chadwiek and Jackson * Leeds . —The Caamere Printers held their sepond _S _^^ _sary , on Wednesday last , at the house of _*«• _Uiarles Wainwright , the Aire and _Caldex Inn , _™ UUB _toirn , when upwards of _sevsnty members sat _*«*& to an excellent dinner , which did honour lo " 6 worthy host and hostess , who spared no pains _*& a _expeace in catering to the tastes of the _com-*~* 7 > The evening was spent in the utmost hai-« _oay and good fellowship , being n ! ivened by a _loiter of excellent _g _^ _g _^ _gieeS ) an' . ' toasts , and « 9 company retired highly gratified .

      Hazlzebovb, Jffcir Stockport.—Disgeacirx...

      ROBBEBT OF THE ODD _FsLtOWS' FVSZRAL BrIET . —On the night of Tuesday last , it was discovered that the box kept at the house of Mr . Joseph _Bywater , the Black Lien Inn , Mill Hill , Leeds , belonging to the Odd Fellows' ( Leeds United Order ) Funeral Brief Fund , had been broken into , and robbed of nearly £ 80 in cash , belonging to the Brief Fund . It seems that the box is kept in 'a large room where a Lodge of Odd Fellows and other Friendly Societies , or convivial parties , are in the habit of meeting , and that it had not been opened for six or seven weeks past , in consequence of no death having occurred during that period among the members of the Funeral Brief . When it was last opened , a sum of money , amounting to about £ 100 , was deposited therein , principally in gold and silver , only a small portion being in provincial note ? . The box contains a secret drawer

      in which the money was put , and it was secured by _five locks , the keys of which were kept by different _officers . When the box was opened ou Tuesday night , in consequence of the death of a member , it was discovered that the bulk of the money which had been deposited bad been stolen , and on instituting a search it was found that the end of the box , exactly in the place where the secret drawer was situate , had been perforated in two or three places by a gimlet , or some such instrument , so as to admit a small saw or chisel , by which

      a hole had been made sufficiently large to enable the party to abstract £ 78 7 s 6 d . From the peculiar circumstances attending the robbery , there is strong _reason for _belieying that it has been perpetrated by some member of the Order who i 3 familiar with the construction of the box , but nothing has yet transpired to detect the guilty individual . It is not known at what time the robbery was committed , but Mr . By water ' s scr rants remember having observed a quantity of sawdust _noar the box , when they were _cleauing the room about a week or ten days before the loss was discovered .

      _Legeb _Svppsr . —On Wednesday evening , the subscribers to a Leger Club and their friends , to the number of fifty , sat down to an excellent supper , at the house of Mr . Armitage , the Queen ' s Head Inn , Mill Hill . Mr . Jesse _Hargreaves oooupied the chair , and Mr . Armitage the vice-chair The supper and the arrangements called forth the highest encomiums on Mr . and Mrs . Armitage , and an _eveniDg replete with hilarity was spent—toast , song , and sentiment rapidly succeeding each other . Robbi . ng _Lodglvgs . —On Tuesday , Sarah _Birchall , a woman who has lodged for some time at the

      Curmr _s Arms , in Harper-street , was charged with having stolen a quantity of bed lmen , blankets , and wearing apparel , the property of the landlord of the the house , and also some property of other lodgers . Several things were produced which _she had sold , and which ¦ were identified ; the woman pleaded distress , and said she had intended to redeem the articles she had sold as soon as she could do bo , but it did not appear that she had made any promise , in disposing of the property , that any part of it was to be returned—the sale being perfectly bonafide . She had carried her depredations to some extent , and vraa fully committed to take her trial at the Session ? .

      _Stabbisg . —On Tuesday last , Edward Moody , a journeyman skinner , with a piir of beautiful black eyes , was charged before Messrs . Nell and Clapham , at the Court House , with having inflicted various cuts and stabs , with a knife , on the face of Samuel Mellis , a . l 50 a journeyman skinner . It appeared from the evidence , that on Monday night the skinners in the employ of Mr . Stocks , at Busliugthorpe _, had what they called a " lighting up" supper , at the Templar's Inn , North-street , and the prisener , who was on tramp , was invited by the prosecutor to partake of a pint of ale . He went into a room in the house is which was sat a female , who had gone to fetch her husband home ; being the worse for liquor , he _imagined some cause of offence against her , and

      ' made use of such abusive language as led to the interference of the prosecutor on her behalf , and a struggle ensued—Mellis having struck the prisoner —in which Moody drew a knife and cut the _prosecutor in two or three places . A watchman was called in by some parties who were there , and Moody was taken into custody . On hearing the evidence , the magistrates decided on sending the case to a jury , and he was committed to the sessions ; the recorder , however , will doubtless transfer the case to York . _O'Bbiew _' s Press Fukd . —The Committee met on Wednesday night , when they proceeded to elect a Secretary in the place of Mr . Ogden , who is leaving the country . Mr . Brook was unanimously elected as Secretary , to whom all communications must be

      addressed . It was also resolved that the committees in different parts of the country should be called on to forward what monies they have in hand to the Secretary , in order to be handed over to the GeDerai Treasurer . The committees will see this is _accessary , as Mr . O'Brien is expected in Leeds on the 14 th or 15 th of this month , and will naturally desire to know how the work is proceeding . It was stated that the Council had come to the determination of having a small tea party of Mr . O'Brien's friends on Friday evening . The tickets will be limited—the number , it w _» _s thought , to be one hundred , so that those who intend to be present to welcome O'Brien in a social tea party had better Eecuro their tickets in time . The Secretary ' s address—Wm . Brook , 79 , West-street , Leeds . ¦

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

      Sacrilege . —During Tuesday night last , the church at Rothweil , near this town , was broker _, into , and two dozen of communion wine , several glasses , and two hymn books were stolen . Four young men , named Joseph Laycock , James Wigglesworth , John Burdett , and Robert _Hcghes , have been apprehended by the Leeds Police , and committed to York _Castls for trial . Impkot £ mextCommissio . vebs . —The usual monthly meeting of this body was held on Wednesday last , Mr . John Heaps in the chair . The commissioners present besides were , Mr . Thos . Hebden , Mr . Geo .

      Goodman , Mr . D . W . Nell , Mr . John Whitehead , Mr . Edward KiDg _, Mr . Wm . _Ssilers , Mr . Joseph Raper , Mr . Arthur Lupton , Mr . Robert Bewlay , Mr . H . Gresham , Mr . Jt _^ eph Woodhead , Mr . Wm . Binns , and Mr . Charles Cummin 3 . It will be _recollected that at the previous monthly meeting it was agreed to apply to the Old Gas Company , oa ike _sul-ject of lighting the clock at the top of Briggate , the New Company having signified that they had gratuitously lighted it for three years . The law clerk communicated with the Gas Light Company , and the following letter , in reply , was read at the

      meeting on Wednesday : — _Lseds Gas Works , Sept 20 , 1841 . Sin ., —I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your _faVour of the 1 st instant , ¦ with a resolution of the Leeds Improvement Commissioners , which has been laid _before the Committee of the Leeds Gas Light Company , by "whom I am _instiucted to hand you an extract from the minutes of Committee , _passed Janaary 22 , 1832 , nearly three years before the Ciock was first lighted ¦ with Gris ; also , a resolution cf the Committee passed at thtir meeting this day : — Ei ' . _raci from , _Mimtlcs of Committee , January 2 , 1832 , "It having being represented that it would be a great public advantage to have the Clock at _tae top of Briggate illuminated ,

      " Resolved—That this Company will supply , gratis , a _sufficient quantity of Gas for that purpose , on condition - that the Commissioners for the Improvement of the Town will put up a proper Glass Bial , with the necessary apparatus ; and that Mr . Bants be requested to communicate with the Commissioners on the subject . " Copy of resolution passed this day , Sept 6 , 1841 . Resolved , " That the Leeds Gas Light Company , bein _? _influenced by a sincere desire to serve the town , and considering they shall most effectually carry out that disposition by affording additional light to the public , are rea _^ y to supply Gas gratuitously to illuminate one or two dials of the Parish Church clock , on condition that the necessary apparatus be provided for that purpose . They therefore beg to decline for the present acceding to the suggestions of the Leeds Improvement Commissioners to light the public clock at the Corn Exchange . "

      By submitting the two resolutions as above to the ext meeting of tie Improvement Commissioners , yon rill greatly oblige . I am , Sir , Your most obedient servant , W . C R * peb , Manager . t was agreed that application should be made to ie New Company requesting them , under _tbess oirumstances , to continue lighting the Coin Exchange lock . We trust the liberality of the Leeds Gas , i ght Company will bo duly appreciated ; more locks than one are wanted for a town ot this imortance ; and though the Parish Church may not be _jnsidered the best situation for an illuminated

      ial _, it should be recollected that it is a densely updated district , and would be of essential _unpormce and benefit to the working classes . The iggestion will doubtless be carried into effect . The Lais proposed to be _illumiaated are the ea & t and est—one looking up Kirkgate , and the other up [ _azsh-lane . Several matters of course , and the _ifsing of accounts occupied the attention of the ommissioners for some time , and the meeting adurn ed . Moslet . —A public meeting will be held on _Friiy evening next , to take into consideration the proiety of petitioning Parliament for the abolition of e silent system . Mr . Smith , from Leeds , will & i-¦ ess the meeting .

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      UNEMPLOYED OPERATIVES' ENUMERATION COMMITTEE . _rpiIE PUBLIC MEETING originally fixed to 1 take place on Saturday , the 9 th , is POSTPONED until Saturday , the 16 th instant , in order to afford Messrs . Beckett and Aldim , ( from whom the Sub-Committee have received CommumcatiouB since the General Meeting of Delegates on Thursday Evening , ) an opportunity of attending . The place and hour of meeting will be announced by Placard . JOHN SPEED , Chairman . 22 , Monnt-street , Grosvenor-sqnare , October 5 , 1841 . Sib , —Your letter of the 1 st inst ., with its inclosure , was only delivered here last night , and too late to allow of its being replied to by return of post . 1 am in BOme uncertainty about the time of my returning to Leeds , and whether I may be able to attend the meeting fixed for next Saturday evening ; but at all events , I hope I shall be favoured with a copy of the report submitted to the meeting by the Committee , because nothing can possibly tend to an amelioration of the condition of the people more than a well authenticated statement of their distress . I am . Sir , Your faithful servant , WM . BECKETT . Temple , Oct . 4 th , 1841 . Sib , —I hare watched She proceedings of the Unemployed Operatives' Enumeration Committee for some time with much interest , iu the Bborfc notices of them in the Newspapers . I think that to ascertain the real extent of the Distress of the Country , is the first step towards providing a remedy for it . I am afraid I shall not be able to attend the Meeting , which I gladly would have done , had I been in Leeds or its neighbourhood ; but I Bhall be in Leeds next week , and Bhall have great pleasure in confering with jou , or with _Meesrs . Cliff and Speed , upon your important undertakiEg . I am . Sir , Yourobdt . Servant , W . ALDAM To Mr . James Rattray , Leeds .

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      House Of Lords.—Tuesdat, Oct. 5. The Eib...

      HOUSE OF LORDS . —Tuesdat _, Oct . 5 . The EiBL of Radnor again got up a discussion of the Corn Laws upon the presentation of a petition upon the subject , and he called upon the Duke of Wellington to say if be was rightly understood oa the previous evening to say that it was not the Intention of the Government to propose any alteration in the Cora Law . The Duke of _Wblliwotok said he would consider well before he gava advice to her Majesty as to any particular course of conduct , but , whatever might be his opinion , he _woold never suffer himself to be intimidated by the Noble Lord , or by his correspondents .

      After some explanations from Lord Kinnaird , the Duke of Richmond , and Lord Clifford , the subject dropped . Lord Brougham , then _call « d attention to the subject of the Slave Trade , and repeated , at considerable length , the legal bearings of the question , to the same effect as he had already done a few evenings back . He wished to ask if there was any objection to lay upon the table the report of Dr . Madd « n on the Slave Trade ? The Earl of Ripoh regretted that the reports of Dr . Madden could not be produced , for they were of a very confidential nature , and related to a great variety of subjects , many of them of a very delicate nature . After a few words from Lord Ellenbo & ougu , L ? rd Brouguam declined to press ( ox the reports of Dr . Madden . The Bills on the table having been forwarded a stage , the House adjourned .

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

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

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      Birmingham.—Freeman-Street, Monday Eveni...

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

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

      _National Charter Association This Association increases rapidly in this neighbourhood . The various meetings which have been held in the Freemanstreet Room are numeronsly attended , and every meeting adds to the number ot those who are determined to straggle for the liberty of their country . Mr . Mason delivered one ef his excellent and spirited addresses on Sun 4 ay evening last , and was warmly applauded . Mr , Williamson and others also addressed the meeting ; after -which , it was announced that Mr . _Hsnry Vincent ¦ would aiitiress a meeting at the Railway Station , Duddeston Row , en the following day . Several persons In the room complained of Mr . Vincent not attending , as he was a member of the Association ; and it was determined that he should be questioned on the subject on the following day . The meeting then separated .

      STAFFORD . —TRIUMPHANT PROGRESS OF DEMOCRACY . —Dr . M'Donall and Mr . Mason visited Stafford on Monday last , to address the inhabitants of this town on the principles of the People ' s Charter . It was the first time we ever received a visit from any of the _fri 6 nfis of the toiling millions ; and although it may be singular , yet it is true , we never before heard a leetUTe on Chartism . The Mayor did everything to interdict the meeting , ¦ which was held in the Market Place ; and even when the hustings were erected , he presented himself to prevent the two gentlemen addressing

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

      COUaSHALti . —This place was visited , on Sunday , by eight of the men of Norwich , where , In tke midst of heavy rain , two of them addressed a numerous gathering out of doors ; on a third attempting to speak , he _wks interrupted by a policeman , who ordered him off , & ud the meeting to disperse ; they did ao at once , with a determination to go again in a fortnight , and set 2 blr . Policeman at defiance .

      MARKET _WEIGHTOH . —A discussion on the principles of the Charter ha 3 been arranged here , to come off on the Aih inst ., between Mr . Makening on the part of the Chartists , and Mr . John Wray , a disciple of the " Plague" Bchool . Mr . _Makening and Mb friends attended on Monday evening , but Mr . Wray declined the contest , on the ground that he could not find friends sufficient to attend on his behalf . A report to this effect was drawn up and Bigned by those present , Mr . Wray agreeing to it . BRIGHTON . —On Monday evening last , Chas . Brooker , Esq ., met the glorious nineteen electors who supported him at the late election , at a soiree at the Cap of Liberty , Portland-street . The

      caterig of the worthy host was amply sufficient for the ompany ; tbe tea and coffee was excellent ; the ham nd other articles were of the like disposition _, landsome boquets of flowers adorned the tables _, lie most gratifying proceeding of the evening was present by Mr . Brooker to each elector of a andsome bronze medaL On one side , giving a _ascription of the contest in which they had been _igaged ; on the reverse was a motto emblematical : the principles of the People ' s Charter . Mr . rooker addressed the meeting at some length in ost animated terms . Addresses were also given by [ essrs . Woodward , Colling , and Page .

      Wolverhampton.-Mr. Mason Delivered An El...

      WOLVERHAMPTON .-Mr . Mason delivered an eloquent address at Mr . Magg ' _s Coffee House , on Tuesday last , He depicted the injustice of the law makers , and urged the necessity of obtaining the Charter , aa the means of protecting the rights of the _working classes . JDEHBT . —We have started a Chartist meeting at the Northern Star , top of _Bridge-Btreet , Derby , so ihat the inhabitants at each end of the town may have the chance of meeting , without the inconvenience of going so far out of their way . Twenty new members were enrolled . We conceive that much good may result from having two meetings in a large town like Derby . Our weekly meetings will be held at the Norther Star , Derby , ou each Sunday evening , at eight o'oiock .

      HOI . MFIRTH . —Mr . Charles Connor lectured here on Wednesday , to a large audience ; at the close of his address a . resolution of confidence in O'Connor and O'Brien was passed .

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      PUBLIC MEETING AT THE ROYAL BATH GARDENS , NEW ROADCHELSEA .

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

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

      invite discussion . We believe that oar principles are just—we will place them cordially before you , and leave yon to decide . Two gentlemen have been invited to attend this meeting—the one is Mr . O'Connor , the Champion of Equal Rights and Laws ; the other is Mr . Sidney Smith , the Champion of the Cheap Bread Question . ( Mr . O'Connor here arrived , and was greeted with great enthusiasm . ) Mr . Feargus O'Connor is here to address you , and 1 have no doubt , from the love that Mr . Smith always professes to bear to the inhabitants of Chelsea , that he will be here also , to prove to you , by calm reasoninc and fair argument , that his principles , and the

      means by which he advocates them , are superior to ours ; and that you will calmly and patiently decide , according to your judgment , which plan will be most likely to ensure benefit to your order of society ; you have placed me at your head to command silence , and I know that you will give to all a fair hearing , that you will be guided by reason and justice , and determine according to the dictates of your conscience . A gentlemaa in the meeting here stated that he had seen Mr . Smith at two o ' clock ; and until informed by himself , Mr . Smith was not aware of the meeting , and therefore could not attend t he had not then received the letter .

      Mr . Dallibae moved the following resolution : — " That this meeting hail with delight and gratitude their noble champion Feargus O'Connor , and hereby reiterate their determination never to relax in their exertions until the People's Charter shall become the law , and Frost , Williams , and Jones are returned to their native land . They are also of opinion tbat justice will never be done to oppressed and insulted Ireland , until the Act of Union between the two countries be repealed , and classlegislation for ever be banished our shores . "

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

      Mr . DowtiNG—I rise for the purpose ol seconding the resolution , with which I most cordially agree . Never did the sun rise upon a man more deserving of your admiration than O'Connor . We have much to thank him for—we have to thank O'Connor for the restoration of the Dorchester labourers—we have to thank him for the liberation of the Glasgow Cotton Spinners—we have to thank O'Connor for the upright , straightforward , and consistent manner in which ho has acted during our present agitation ; an _agitation carried on in the most orderly and peaceful wanner ; and yet we are accused of being violen men—accused too by the Whigs 2 Where is their _blush of _shame when they think of Bristol in name 3 —of Nottingham in ruins ? But then they tell us of Newport . My friends , John Frost fell a victim to a

      most foul conspiracy—he was convinted and banished our shores contrary even to law , in the face of the decision of nine of her Majesty ' s Judges . This is what they call justice . Why , if he had been an aristocrat , he would have been tried by his peers , and a verdict returned of " Not guilty ' pon my honour . " How was it possible he oould have a fair trial , when the very jurors who convicted , were returning public thanks toGodfor delivering them from his foul treason ! O'Connor had procured the return of tke Dorchester Labourers—of the Glasgow Cotton Spinners , and trusted that he would Boon be able to procure the return of these patriots also . In that part of the resolution , advocating the Repeal of the Union , he also agreed . Would they , the parishioners of Chelsea jjke the parishioners of another parish to transact their local business ? Let him refer them

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

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

      m disseminating your principles ; proceed in this manly course ; proceed as your Chairman has told you , by fair argument and open discussion to meet your opponents , and you may rely upon it that though you have been maligned , aad slandered , and villified , when your principles come to be known the tongue of the slanderer will be silenced , and those who have _maligaed and villified you be put to rout . You have invited Sydney Smith to attend here , not as an opponent , but for the purpose of discovering truth ; we would receive him not as an enemy , but as the Btaple commodity of discussion ; *? y _? _" ? . naYe passed your tpinion as to whether his principles or my principles were most in accordance with truth and justice . Mr . Smith complains of the short notice , and of not being properly invited ; he received _uearly as early _umt & tion as myself ; if the letter of invitation has not reaohed him . still the gentleman who waited _unon

      him informs you that he was not ignorant of the meeting . Inhabitants ! of Chelsea , Mr . Smith would have appeared before you with advantages superior to myself : be is well known to most of you ; his principles he has laidma & y times before you ; while you « e now _liateniig to me for the first time . True , thanks to the exertions of the working men , my principles are not utterly unknown to you . The stonemason who has addressed you stated that you were rewired to act ou the advice of the premier , and take your affairs into your own hands . You only needed my assistance to colleot this assembly together , and I felt it a duty and a pleasure to attend and address you . Throwing over the first part of the resolution , relative to myself , I will come to the next part , your determination to attain the Charter . Men of Chelae * , you have _tried all forms of government ; you have been ruled first by on 9 party and then by the other party ; and what has been the result ! why poverty has increased , distress , ruin , and national bankruptcy are staring us in the face .,

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      What conclusion can we come to bnt that these systems of government are based on wrong principles , and thatm must return to the old plan when taxation and representation were co-extensive—when England was happy and flourishing . Do we ask too much t We ask not for what belongs to ethers , we ask only for onr own ; we only ask them to give as what they have found so beneficial for themselves We find that those who have not got the vote are involved in distress , while those who have got the vote are generally strangers to distress . Bat they say they are afraid to trust you ; that you would build up your principles in the destruction of others ; that you would produce anarcb y and confusion . How was their Reform Bill based but on human bloodbailt on the rains of cities , cemented by discord and

      confusion ! Whilst , with one solitary exception , during the whole of our agitation no blood has been shed , no lives have been sacrificed ; no law has been violated , except it be a violation of the law for the blistered hands _who have suffered from being ruled wrongfully in their endeavour to obtain the power to rule themselves . ( Hear , hear . ) I appear before you , not as an inhabitant of Chelsea , but aa a citizen of the world . For three years I represented in Parliament the largest constituency in the empire ; and the result of my experience was , that nothing but Universal Suffrage would ensure peace , justice , and prosperity to all classes of society . Ye » , middle class , it is your interest to obtain Universal Suffrage ; yet you would rather cling to the present system which is fast

      bringing you to ruin—which involved the wreck of your own _sowial rights—which causes Saturday night to come with an empty till ; still you would rather cling to thiB , and allow the oligarchy of the country to drive you to ruin , than join the people in their legal and peaceful agitation for equal rights for yourselves and for them , which ¦ would produce prosperity and plenty—whioh would ensure your social and political rights , and remove the evil of an empty till—which would remove the pressure of the manufacturer from your shoulders , for the manufacturing interest is fast swamping that of the shopkeepers , like the great pike in the _fishpond , and they will Bpeedily swallow up all the smaller fry . It is to obviate this fatal result that

      we are endeavouring to obtain the Peopla ' s Charter . We have been accused of turning out the Whigs . I am a barrister , acknowledged to be in good practice ; but I have to learn one good law that the Whigs have passed : I look through their ten years of Reformed Government , and , first , I see coercion for Ireland ; in the middle I see starvation for England ; and at the end I _tae them _funding Exchequer Bills to aggravate the debt in which they have involved us . The only remedy for this is the Charter . I have spent £ 10 , 000 of my own money in forwarding the cause . I am no peddling politician ; I have never travelled a singlo mile at the expence of the people ; I have never had a single meal at their expence . I do not travel with a bundle

      of politics oa my back , reedy to pull out any sample of principle which may best suit my customers . ( A printed bill was here received from Sidney Smith , shewing that he was engaged to lecture that evening . ) Cheap bread and high wages — " a large loaf and plenty t » do . " Mr . Smith promises you . We haveno objection to the large loaf , but can dispense with the " plenty to do , " as we already have too much to do ; we work too much , for others to enjoy the profit . Men of Chelsea , did you ever hear talk of a dear ox and cheap beef—of the fabrics which you produce being almo 3 t given away , and yet you to get high wages ! ( Hear , hear ) Surely , Mr . Smith and the Corn Law Repealers must have

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

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

      be some mistake , that I must be m the wrong box ; but it was all right . I asked my neighbours if they were Chartists ! " Oh yes I" 1 inquired how long ? " O ! since our trade has left us . I told them that as prevention was better than care , it was a pity they had not been Chartists before , and then they might have retained their trade . This they acknowledged , bnt said it was bettor late than never , and they must make up for it by being better Chartists ; by working double tidea ; and , my Chelsea friends , this you will find will be the case . ( Loud cheers . ) I never yet knew a man , I care not to what clas 3 he _belougs , that when our principles were placed before him in fair _language , and properly explained , that

      did not become a Chartist to the backbone . Why was I incarcerated ? why were nearly 500 of my fellow Chartists incarcerated , but because the Whigs dreaded the power of our principles—because they feared tbe effects of free discussion . They have attempted to raise a prejudice against us by saying we were physical-force men . Why , if we had ever been so inclined , wo never had the means . Our opponents had the bombs , the muskets , the swords , the army , the police , and all the instruments of warfare . We had to oppose to this the cannons ' roar of a nation ' s voice , demanding Universal Suffrage . And when they found our weapons so ill matched—when they found that they could not shoot a principle , nor stab a proposition , then said they

      we must silence these men—we must put them where thoir voice will not be heard—where the people may sigh in vain for the advice of their leaders . They acted on this dastardly principle ; and how have they succeeded ! Why , of 450 who have _endurec imprisonment varying from six months to two years , not one has proved a traitor : all have come out of tiie furnace like pure gold , without alloy or dross ; and we are continually adding to our ranks by _dribblings from the middle classes . But we have now got the quack doctor Peel to remedy all our diseases ; but we are on the alert—we are not to bo deceived . I have intently watched all parties ; I am well acquainted with public affairs ; I have attended more public meetings than any man of the

      age ; I have deeply studied the subject ; and 1 positively declare , that if I was worth ten millions of money , whether it was in land , in funded property , or in hardgold , I would rather rely for its safety on a Commons' House of Parliament elected by the blistered hands , than on one elected by the professions , and the Church , and the State . The Parliament elected by these classes has been tried , and found wanting : it has eaten up every right of the working man ; like the large pike in the fish-pond , all is swallowed down its ponderous jaws . They have passed statutes and acts of limitatioa on every possible plea ; but they have uo power to foreclose the rights of man with us ; there are no statutes of limitation , our rights are for all time . Whenever we have the power we can go into court with clean hands , and demand the restoration of our

      own ; we will defy them to demur at our claims . The Whigs have said to the landlords , we will give you 25 per cent , of the parson's property ; to the parsons , we will quarter your eons upon the Pension List ; and to the pensioners we will give you pickings out of the taxes : and they have all agreed to club together , to live on the people ; but we must let them understand that they are unin vited guests , and that we are not inclined to play the hospitable host . Our ancestors , more wise than we , when the property of the Catholic hierarchy was divided , when the monasteries and the abbeys were dissolved , played their cards well ; they only allowed the aristocracy the US 8 of this property , on the condition of their giving farm house and rights

      of hospitality to all comers . We have a right to go to the Duke of Bedford ' s , at Woburn , for this ; as much . right as the landlord has to come to us for his rent ; for statutes were not made to lose all their force , when applied to the rich , and to be binding only on the poor ; your predecessors had no power to Burrender your rights } you were no parties to the bargain . It would have been equally consistent for a parliament sitting fifty years ago to have forbid you make use of gas , or of the invention of steam , as for them at that day to legislate ¦ away the rights of the present day . ( Mr . O'Connor here , in a nervous and effective manner , entered into the subject of Baptist Noel ' s pamphlet , showing that vice , idleness , and immorality would speedily vanish _tofore the virtuous determination of a united and

      represented people . ) He also appeared before them as the advocate of a repeal of the legislative union with Ireland . If it lay in his power to prevent it , England should never have her rights a day , an hour , before Ireland had her rights . What must he , as an Irishman , feel to see bis country's prosperity blasted—to see the children of tho land le adored wanderers froa the country of their birth , begging in a strange land for the alms of the benevolent I Was it not enough to make the soul shrink and the blood recoil to think that men dearly attaohed to their native soil , should be compelled to desert their birthright , from inability to procure even the barest pittance imaginable 1 There is no man loves his home and his country more than an Irishman . Let his cares be ever so great , his privations ever so numerous , still he clings to bis cabin , still is ie content to labour for a bare subsistence , till

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      hunger stares him in the face , and compels him to leave his much loved Emerald Isle . What is it that draws the Irishman to foreign climes ! Why _. clasi legislation . What would you say if , as our 8 peaker » the 8 toneBVMon , asked you , the _inhafcrtaate of Kensington and Hammersmith were to transact your parish business ? Bnt you may tell me that Ireland has a Parliament of her own , though it aits here in England- True , sho has ; but their voices are controlled by the majority of the English Members ; and if they were even to ait in Ireland , the evil would be but little remedied . Ireland wants a Parliament of her own election on the broad basis of the People ' s Charter ; and then , and not till then , will Ireland get rid of her numerous grievances ; of

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

      monster Church 1 Why , because this Church gave pap to their _younger sons , and they thought that the example might be contagious , and that you Protestants might think you paid too much for your own Reformed Law Church , which is drawing ten millions annually from your hard earnings . Yes , men of Chelsea , your State Church costs you three millions more than even your standing army ; and yet you are heavily burdened with that—yes , a _standings army , to keep you iu vassalage , and enable them to shoot the _inntcans Chinese . ( Hear , hear . ) But , my friendB , yon are told , if you do not like this , you can emigrate . That is much like telling a blind man to see . I toe am for emigration , but I' _roold select

      a proper cargo . I would select one of the largest steam vessels in the kinguom , and I would freight it with a cargo of bishops , parsons , and pensioners , and I would charter it for Australia or Van Dieman ' s Land , or any where from whence they could never return again , and I would give them a good sprinkling of barristers and lawyers to fill up the complement ; and with such a _cargosentout of the country I have no fear that you would find population press upon the means of subsistence . ( Tremendous cheering . ) But no , they love the fat of tho Jand too weU to emigrate ; they have got machinery as a Bubstitute for bur labour ; they have got machinery to make pocket-handkerchiefs , to make their lace veils , to make everything they stand in need of , and what

      they cannot get at home they want free trade to get from abroad . Do not mistake me , I am for free trade ; but ere I embark my ship , 1 _wacfc the Charter pilot on board . I would not even embark _Philpofcts and his crew without having the humanity to give them a good pilot on board ; then , with the Chartist pilot on board , and the fair wind of the Suffrage , we would soon steer our free-trade bark into th 8 haven of prosperity ; but no S they want the free trade in corn , and they want a monopoly of legislation . Look at your local legislation ; why , you blistered hands have to pay for gas that lights the lamp before the nobleman ' s door , while your home is involved in darkness . You can grope your way in darkness , but the aristocrat , poor creature , he wants a lamp to light his steps ; but , then , the rate-collector comes round as sure as death or quarter-day , to you for y _« ur quota of the expence .

      —The policeman too , he wants a light to enable him to distinguish the difference between fustian and broad cloth ; and if he meets a broad cloth , whe , by some fatality , has mistaken the lamp-post for his bed-post , why he takes him up as tenderly as a basket of eggs . ** Poor gentleman ; " see to hie money , Tom , and take him safe home ; call next day for your reward : but if it should happen to be a fustian , knock him down , take him to the station-house , and fine him £ _s . for being drunk . ( Mr . O'Connor here went at great length into the question of machinery as it affected _employment , and its effect upon the Corn Laws . ) The cant cry of tho day was , throw the poor upon their own resources ; he was for this measure ; he wanted no Poor laws . In a country like this there ought to be no pooj ; there ought'to be a provision for the sick , and for those who were unable to woi'k ; but all the rest he would throw on their own resources . But _thereshould

      none be allowed to quarter themselves on the poor man ' s resources ; he would have ail the lice removed from off the back of the beetle ; he wonld throw the bishops , the parsons , the pensioners , the placemen , upon their resources , or if they liked it better , they might emigrate ; he was a friend to emigration ; but he would have the men of London , of Manchester , of Glasgow , of Dublin , emigrate to Berkshire , to Yorkshire , or any other place where they could get land . He would compel none to go , but those who preferred Mr . Noel ' s artificial to his natural state . He ( Mr . O'Connor ) was acknowledged to be a good practical fasmer , as good a one aa ever took a plough in hand , and he had made calculations , which none could disprove , that give a man ten

      acres of laud at a fair rent , say £ 1 an acre , and a man and his wife and five children should have plenty of mutton , pork , bread , vegetables , eggs poultry , for his family , without their earning a farthing , and £ 45 clear to spend in the manufactories market . All are not partial to agricultural labour ; but let ten emigrate to some of our race courses , parks , & c . j let some of our lare ; e farms be divided ; and then the manufacturing market would be relieved ; masters would uo longer have a reserve to fall back on . Others would see the agricultural success , would see that they lived like princes , that they were _prosperous and happy , and would be induced , to follow their example . ( Hear , hear . ) Sydney Smith might then go to Poland or

      America if he liked for his breakfast ; but we could grow good breakfasts at home . We should give to the landlords a good retail market for their land , instead of an unprofitable wholesale one , and they would then be interested in eur welfare . The Times told them that more churches was tbe remedy for all our evils ; that we must fast and pray . We had fasted too long : we wanted the land , and then we could be able to feast ; but because he was opposed to this humbug religion , he was called an Infidel ; but he would leave his actions to speak whether he did not act more on the true principles of religion than these professors . He was a true and sincere Christian . No man more mixed up the practice of pure religion with the actions of their everyday life than he did ; he longed for the

      establishment of the Charter to make the present wretched country a heaven upon earth . Mr . O'Connor theu went into the conduct of the Whigs to John Frost , eulogising his conduct as a mayor , a citizen , a husband , and a father , and asking if such a man , with such a public and private character , could be the character he was represented to be ; and stating that a day of reckoning would yet come , when all should have to appear and be judged by thoir actions ; then would J ? _rost stand in _high pre-eminence over his accusers . Mr . O'Connor then , at some leDgth , defended himself from the charge of being a physical force and torch and dagger man , showing that it was Attwood and Muntz , with their rifie clubs and muskets , sold

      halfprice , had brought tbat stigma oa the Chartist cause . Mr . O'Connor then referred to an article in last week ' s Dispatch , headed " Political Bloodhounds , " showing that they attacked us in a similar manner in 1 & S 8 ; that they applauded the people in their agitation , till it got too far for their party purposes ; then they turned round and abused them . He also ridiculed the idea of' _Publioola' being a Republican , and opposed to Universal Suffrage , showed that when he asked for the Ballot , he was asking for the ladle without the soup ; blamed the working man for allowing those to live upon their resources , who maligned and abused them ; asked them when they wont for a Dispatch , next Sunday , to ask for sixpenny worth of political bloodhounds to buy sixpenny worth of abuse of their own order . He next gave them a glorious account of the demonstrations

      in the country—how they had buried Whiggism and left room for Toryism by its side—ridiculed the idea of some of the writers for newspapers dogmatising about the Corn Laws , when they scarce knew a grain of corn when they saw it ; advised the people to attend every description of meeting , and in a calm and manly manner move their amendments , and their opponents must speedily bow before the rushing stream ofpublic opinion ; that like the haughty Dane , the enemy might speak bat speak in vain against tho will of a nation ; that as soon m ght they stop the sun in his course , as stop our agitation for the Charter ; that the Charter was the mighty magnet that wouldattract every other shade of public opiuion to its conquering self , aud that disdaining the frown of th _» rich man , the censure of tho interested , the scorning of the fool , ho would , until death , stand firm and consistent to our _glorioug

      principles-Mr . O'Connor was tremendoualy cheered throughout the whole of bis address , both by English , Irish , and Corn Law Repealers , and sat down amidst thunders of applause , having spoken nearly two hours . Mr . . Ridley addressed the meeting at some length ; and , in toe name of Mr . O'Connor , challenged Sidney Smith , or aay other Corn-law lecturer . Mr . W _HBBi-EBbaving been called for , briefly addressed the meeting . A vote of thanks was given to the Chairman , and cheers for the Star , victims , dec , after which tbe meeting separated .

      Death By Drowning.—On Monday Night, Shor...

      Death by _Drowning . —On Monday night , shortly after ten o'clock , Mr . William Boyall , the master of a trading vessel , laid at the Warehouse Hill , whilst crossing a plank to go on board his vessel , slipped and fell overboard . The water was very high at the time , and he was unfortunately taken away by the strength of the current , and he was drowned before he' could be got oat . He was perfectly sober , and had just left the White Hart Inn , his watch had stopped at fifteen minuteB past ten . An inquest was summoned for Wednesday , when a verdict was reuroed ia accordance with the oizoumataiioes .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 9, 1841, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_09101841/page/5/