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Steam Boat Accident.—On Monday the Prometheus steamer from Cork, laden with a large earso of
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The. News This Week From Ahroad, Both Co...
enthusiasm by tbe Spanish people (!) The National , however , tells a very different story . Accordingto a letter fiom Iron , published in that journal , the journey is a military procession , tbe carriage ofthe priice being accompanied by " two pieces of artillery , two thousand infantry , and six hundred cavalry . " The utmost precautions are taken to prevent tbe populace approaching the prince ! The persecution of the Spanish press continues unabated
The Morning Post states , " on unquestionable authority" that the French government has demanded the surrender of Don _Carlos'Louis , Comte de Montemolin , by the English Cabinet , The Post adds that the reply of Lord Palmerston was , that England was a free country , and that any foreigner , no matter what might be bis political opinions , was entitled to an asylum so long ae he respected our laws . Quite right _.
The Pope is kicking out the _Corruptiomsts , and preparing the way for a Soman Constitution ! " Time works Wonders . " Particulars will be found in onr seventh page , The intelligence from the United States and Mexico does not call for comment P . S . _—JfoMHERs StiS Office , Saturday , Oct . 10 . The French telegraph announces the arrival of the Duke de _Montpeasier at Madrid . It seemed to be generally understood at Madrid that all relations between the British and Spanish governments were suspended . The second trial of the responsible
editor ofthe Eco del ffosxrdo took place on the 1 st , and terminated in an acquittal . The responsible editor of the Especmdor has also been tried and acquitted . "Afiaire are rapidly _advanoisg !" exclaims the Eco _-tfci Comercio , "jesterday , whilst they were seizing the Espcctador _, onr ninth _psosecnpon was notiied to us . Oh ! Jupiter , hurl thy lightning and thunder at them ! If this be just , we know not what is . " Intelligence from Lisbon , of the 2 nd isst . represents the affairs of Portugal as very complicated . The law authorising the suspension of cash payments has been again renewed , and extended to the _Slsfr-ef December .
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"W _. H . 35 tott , 24 , _Sorfh King-street , Dublin , is _re-pub-Ifemog the letters of Patrick _O'Siggins _, Esq ., and not having the copies of all , will feel much obliged to those ¦ who wish to disseminate political truth in Ireland if _tEey will forward copies of the entire series ; also the paper contouring the tetter to Lord Elliot on the Irish ; inns'BilL ' < lEss Pbopbiety of a CSArarsT _Sulx _Tapek . —To She ] _Editor ef the KortHra Star . —Sir , —If your space will ' permit the insertion of Ibis letter , I would ask 15 ? . 'O'Connor what prospect there is for a daily paper ad . _locating _democrat gaming support , and especially
unring the PatiiBmentary « recess ! Does be lmagiae that the working classes can afford to purchase a -paper every day * ' Or , rather , mnst not the keepers of places of public entertainment be looked to -as tbe most likely to fcrnish orders for a duly paper ? 'And how many of them does 3 ie consider will patronise such a paper S Se has made the experiment alrsady ; and if it answered , why was it abandoned " : ' 1 can assure Mm that the _-JToritern Star is quite expensive enough for tbe pour . _* Fer if working men < caa find money to speuderery night of their lives in taverns or _coffee-becses _. 'from what source are we to » g ! ean evidence of _tbair-sociol deterioration t A solution-of thi * 1 i .
problem will oblige . Your obedient servant , E . _Robiktson ' . Pljmocffc . October /« th 1 S 46 . _* g-We are Jcompelled'Je defer answers to several _corxeBpozzdects . J . BowsoK _. _-A pelford . —The address of _theOiford Secretary is , _ir .-Bridgewater , Paradise-square , ~ St . Ebbs . J . ObaH , Boulogne . — -Ses ; a person who has sot paid up Ms two-shares , can alter to one and a _half-scares . Ma . J . _EcBe ,-jun ., - 3 « ewton Abbot , _andSfcw , Elm ? , sen ., _Totness , "Devon , are tbe appointed agents" for the Norttem Star , in < those towns and their vicinities . ¦ W . Hoshe , Coventry—2 fext week . Ii . C . Gl * _ttos . —Xo room this week . . » -
The _Shoehakehs . — -We have received _s . n- account of a meeting of Manchester shoemakers , . at which the " Mutual Assistance Association" was repudiated , and a resolution in favour of joining tlie " _^ National Association- of-United Trades" was adopted . We have also leoeired an account of a meeting of London _shoemskers , connectedwiththe "Mutual Assistance Association , " at which certain charges against the Secretary _Tiere heard _. _-aada vote of confidence in him was _ncanimoudyadopted . Both thesereperiscametohand too late for inssnionthis _week—th ey shall appear in oar next number . We may observe , that tbe public have-had more than enough of the quarrels , charges , and counter . charges . of , and _betweear-ihe several sections of the shoe-making trade . These criminations aKd _^ e-criminatioas are anything _but « reditable to the _» * ! ¦
_sbcacakers . _andanythinj _bntinteresrjc _^ to the readers of Ac _Xorthem Star . For their ow _»> sake , as well as ours , we advise our : friends of the " gentle craft , " to content themselves > with hammering their leather , and give over hammering each other . A Ch _« e ! _tist . Commercial Road . —Next week . _^ All persons holding monies on account of the late Crowa and Anchon _^ Demonstration are requested to _pavthem up at the next meeting of the Committee , on ¦ Wednesday _eveninsinext . By order ofthe Committee . _MEraoruxmH Cesium . _Regietbatwn _? and Ekctios _Committee . —After our first edition was printed we received a copy of the above Committee ' s " Address , " of course too late fordasertion this week ; it shall appear _jd onr next number . Mr . _Stallwood has received Is . from if r . fames Harris for _Allenl _^ avenport . s s _» i o s e ,, " r
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Lastnlght _( Priday ) shcrtlyafte * _nine-fi ' _slock , ft fir * of a distressing _character broke out upon the premises in tbe occupation of Mr . John Sharp , a printer and bookseller , Kent-street , .-St . George ' s , _^ Southwark . From _tbe-inquiries made of Mr . Sharp , it appears that he _hss lately been . employed in manufacturing fireworks , _^ nd it is supposed that the _explosion of some of tbe combustible Materials used in that business caused the terrible disaster we are about to narrate . Whilst some of the . neighbours were passing the _bnildici the major part of the shop front was hurled _insc the street withiearful violence . It was then perceived that the shop and its contents were wrapped in one broad sheet of flames . : Several parties " uxroediately rushed forth with , _tbuckets * s J
of water , which they discharged upon _tke-iurniug mass . At 'the same moment intelligence of tlie outbreak was dispatched t « riiie engine ! Btetions . "Whilst , however , the exertions of the parties were directed towards saving the premise ? , Mr . Sharp , who bad left the place barely five minutes , returned home . , when his attention was instantly attracted by _ieaang violent Bcreams proceedingrlrom some portion ef *! _ie house . He _-forced his way as well as he was abje through the dense mass of stnoke -that was issuiugiertb , and in _the-back parlour he found two of hk-children almost allocated . AKer _-considerable trouble he succeeded ia " getting them . ont , but not _beforcsne was terribly . injured . Some considerable time was necessarily lost before thai _vas accomplished , betas soon as the ;& e was so far got under as to esableanyone to enter . Air . Ilender-j son went in , and whilst he was examining _thei
shelves at the rear of the counter , he discovered what he at first thought was a "dummy , " used in setting out the shop , _bei open taking a -light in , it was ascertained to be _thefody of a human being . The game was removed with all care te the back _parlour , and a medical gentleman sent for , who , upon _examlnlfig the party , _procqanced life extinct . The countenance of the poorxreature was dreadfully contorted * and it was _quiteerident that she had died from the effects of an explosion . She was tbe eldest daughter ofthe proprietor , named Ellen Sharp , just turned 19 . It appeared that when her father went ont she was sitting behind the counter attending ia the shop . Before the fire was extinguished the whole « f the stock in trade was consumed , by which means , independent of losing his child , Mr . Sharp has been bereft of all means of _earning a Iirehood , he being nnmsared for a single farthing .
HRE IN HIGH-STREET , BOROUGH . Seareely had the firemen returned to their stations , from the disastrous lire in Kent-street , than they were _callel to another extensive conflagration , which commenced in the premises belonging to Mr . Cowper , a linen-draper and haberdasher , High _, street , Borough . The flames extended with surprising rapidity , communicating with floor after floor , until the large piles presented to the eye one broad sheet of flune . At length , the engines were set to work , but although worked with full vigour , a long time elapsed before any _impnxsion could be made on
the flames , and the inhabitants of tbe contiguous dwellings commenced removing their furniture and other effects to a place of safety . Shortly before twelve o'clock , ( about two hours after the outbreak ) , owing to the great body of water that was copiously _discharged upon the flames , they commenced to cede , and palpably diminished , when it became _appsre _st that no further desiruction of property would _tukeji'kee . How the fire orsinated _, the am « iu : n _of-property destroyed , or whether or not ths sufferer was insured , could _aot be learned during the _ezsftei / _V'iK _which prevailed .
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RECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAUD SOCIETY .
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PER MR . O'CONNOR . SECTION N _» . 1 . ! 1 _BA . _BXI . £ I . d . Norwich , per J . Hurry .. .. w 2 0 0 Bacup , per J . Mawson „ „ „ 5 0 0 ! Birmingham , per W . Thorn .. „ „ 1 11 6 Radcliffe , per N . Critchley m „ .. 2 0 0 ' Sunderland , per H . Haines .. .. .. 0 7 0 i Wigton , per T . Bell a 17 6 j Carlisle , per J . Gilbcrtson 2 17 3 Oldham , per W . Hamer .. ., „ 1 0 0 Nottingham , per J . Sweet .. .. .. 0 3 fi Bradford , per J . _Alderson „ .. .. 500 Teovill , per J . G . Abbott 2 16 0 Stockport , per T . Woodhouse .. .. 2 0 0-Hudder _« neld , perJ . Stead ,. .. .. 215 * _A-sliton-under-kyne , per B . Hobson .. .. 0 16 6 Manchester , per J . Murray .. •• 18 0 Liverpool , per J . Arnold .. .. .. 1 0 4 Rochdale , per E . Mitchell * 5 Hamilton , per J . Branagan .. •• -2 0 Artichoke Inn , Brighton , per W . Flower .. 0 17 0 Leigh , per Dickenson 1 1 5 Alva , per Robertson .. .. .. ,, 422 Hebden Bridge , per J . Smith .. •• 0 13 6 Uolliuwood , per Rayner .. - » ° 6 ™ £ U 17 3 SECTION Ko . 2 . j SHAKES . Stockport , per T . Potter .. .. - 18 5 . Birmingham , per W . Thorn .. « 3 8 4 , Corbridge , per R . Hawley .. •• 0 15 0 ; Sunderland , per . H . Haines .. •• 3 18 8 Carlisle , per J . Gilbertson .. .. .. 1 7 G Oldham , per W . Hamer .. .. .. 1 0 0 _Jfottingham , per J- Sweet .. - .. 0 10 § , Teovil , per J . G . Abbott .. .. .. 0 4 0 Itanbury , per J . Hone .. .. .. 1 19 4 . Swindon , per D . Morrison .. .. .. 5 0 0 j Lepton , per L . Lodge .. _„ .. .. 2 9 o Staley Bridge , per J . Lawton .. ~ . » 2 7 7 j Ayr . per S . Irvine .. .. .. ., 1 9 41 Ashton-under-Lyne , per E . nobson .. » . 0 9 6 , Manchester , per J . Murray „ ¦¦ ,. 626 Droylsden , per do . .. .. .. ,, 296 Liverpool , per J . Arnold .. .. .. 3 8 10 Rochdale , per E . Mitchell .. .. .. 3 16 4 Artichoke Inn , Brighton , per W . Flower .. 0 8 6 Leigh , per Bickcnsou .. .. .. „ 1 7 6 Alva , per Robertson .. ,. .. 210 Hebden Bridge , per J . Smith „ n .. 0 16 o Stockton , pcrT . Potter .. _„ 2 10 S Southampton ., n .. .. .. 1 17 -8 £ 51 13 5 PER GENERAL SECRETARY . SECTION No . 1 . SHAKES . £ s . d . £ s . d . WesK * 8 _sster- - 0 9 O Oxford - - - e 14 19 J . Smith - - 0 0 6 _^ Glasgow , per _Came-Aberdeen - - O 7 8 ron - - _> \ 4 6 Kilmarnock - - 0 13 0 null - - - 0 10 0 Boulogne - - 3 4 _« Leeds - - -- 2 0 0 Oocbermouth - 4 11 2 Ardesby- - _^ 200 Proscott- - - 1 5 XI Somers Town - 1 16 6 Warwick - - 0 S ' 0 Kidderminster - 0 13 2 Marylebone - - 0 10 0 £ 20 6 8 SECTION No . 2 . _Kensington - . 084 Prescott- - - . 0 19 G _^ few Mills - - o 5 0 Warwick . - -040 Southampton » I 15 0 Tunbridge Wells , Robert James Bur- H . Neai - - 2 12 0 gar - - - ' 0 1 4 George _Gordon - 0 1 4 Jas . Chaddoch - 1 12 4 _Edinburgh - - 3 8 _S- _- Broseley , Shrdp- Derby - - - 0 3 C . shire - - _^ 0 5 10 Hammersmith , per J . G . Harney- - - « 2 0 Stallwoed - -IS * J . Page , Tar- Cupar , tFife - - 1 5 0 mouth- - - 0 1 4 Oxford - - - 0 7 1 Westminster- - 1 5 6 _LongMborough - 1 16 0 G . Brooks - - 0 5 0 Aberdeen - - 0 41 'l Square Buskley -. 070 Leicester , per Chipping Norton - 0 7 6 Astill- - - 0 " 4 6 Matthew Thomas Lynn , per Bunton- I "S 0 ( _Westminstarl - 0 2 0 HuE - - - 0 8 6 Kilmarnock- - 011 4 Falkirk- - - 115 6 Charles _Hoiws - 2 12 4 Sbiney Row - - 1 _^ 8 0 Lambeth -- . 1 10 0 IveSton - - - -6 3 1 Leamington-- - 2 0 6 Firth - - - 0 * 5 6 Newport , _Ssle of Walsall- - - _U 0 0 Wight- -- - 3 10 O _Kidderminster , per Boulogne - - 0 10 0 . Holloway - - * 6 ' 15 6 Colne . No . 5- - 0 3 0 Northwick - - _^ 0 0 Merthyr ' Tidvil . _$ cignmouth - - -2 19 6 No . 1- - - 0 2 0 » fhomas Mann , ClitheroE - - 315 0 Green Holme _BradforiVnerJack- Works - - " 1 0 0 son - " - - 1 18 0 > Somers Town- - 0 1 6 _je 59 1 7 - TOTAL VBVD FOND . Mr . _(^ Connor , Section Kc . 1 ... 41 17 3 Mr . Wheeler „ „ ... : 20 6 -6 > £ G 2 _-3-U , Mr . ' © "Conner , Section > Io . 2 ... 51 13 " 5 Mr . _Wheeler , „ „ ... ' 59 1 -7 - _^ _Ei _ioj _^ _-e _^^^^ NATIONAL CHARTER ASS 0 _GMTION . PEE « B . o ' COMSOH . _BiECOTlVE . Y « t ' r 51 « .. .. .. _•* - _•• " 0 - _»* 6 RECEIPTS OP _NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . PEK _GEHCBAL SECEETAK 1 . _Wliitringtom and Earle _, 6 d ; jLocke , Cat - - - 0-6 0 Cd . ; Fitzgerald , Westminster- - 0 6 0 6 d . _v KesselL 6 d ; _Sa . Cards- 0 " = S 0 Goslin , € d .- ; Over , Buftcy Ridley - 0 , ! v : 3 6 d . ; Almond < r < _Joimorville , _SToody , 6 d . I- - - -0112 Is : ; Ross , Is . ; Ro- Lille , France- - Olli 1 herisoH , Is . ; Mr . Steel , War-Daniels , ls . ; Sleat , wick— - -0-10 Is . ; King , Is . ; Mr . Elliot , Clapa _^ emocrat , Is . ; ham— - • 0-4 0 Bernard , Is . ; A Friend , Mile-end , Stoae , 6 d . ; . per Harney - _> 0 " 1 0 Stranger , 6 d . ; FOB _WniiAWS _AN'B-JONES . Southampton - 0 - 9 Benry Wilks _, per _StiUIwood - - 0 ' 1 3 _BVGKTBATION FUND . _Eriseella Toy , HuU - - - 0 1 0 VETERA KS ' , WIDOWS ' , _AJTO OBPHAN ' _S FO . SBS . Mr- X . Brown , T . Salmon - — ¦ •« _•*> 6 _Eeesing _» n- - 0 _J 0 Brow « t - - . 010 Sheffield - - 0 5 0 Leicester , per Astill K ) 4 6 _AutiN _Devonfost . SteveEson - - o ' O 6 Thomas MabtijjWueeleb , Secretary . Various sub-Secretaries . have _nealected to _send-ane an a & countof the number-of their members comprising the separate numbers in each-section . T / _tis mini be'done imwdiaie _' tr . The _Nominationsfor Directors must takaplace prionto Thursday , Oct 3 . 5 th . T . M . _MTheeler , Secretary . _\
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_preat splendour was given me or the Bradford Mechanic ' s Institution _tocelebrate-the commencement of a new session . _ In the afternoon a sumptuous entertainment was __ given to Lord Morpeth , and in the evening his lordship filled the chair , _surrounded by many of She most iir 3 nentiat and distinguished men of the district . His lordship ' s speech —the speech of the evening—was characterized'by his usual good _feeltBg , poetical taste , and well _kaov . 'a views as to education . His address was received with the greatest enthusiasm . The meeting was also addressed by Dr . _Seorosby , vicar of . Bradford , 3 ) r _Hodgson , m Liverpool ; Dr . _Godwiu , ' of Oxford : ; Edw . Baines , janM iEsg ., of Leeds ; the * Rev . Jas . _Ackworth , president of Ecrton College _; ' William Busfield _, Esq , M . P .. ; Henny Forbes , and ; other gentlemen .
_Factokjt _STemale _Opebatwes . _^ —On ithe following day another . meeting at which Lord Morpeth was present , aud-spoke , was held In ihe _= ibeatre of the Institution , for the purpose ef taking into consideration what measures may be adopted with the laudable view of effecting an improrement , in the moral and social condition of the female factory _operatives . Every part ofthe Mechanics' Institute ' s if heatrc was densely crowded , a vast Humber « f the assemblage . comprising the female members of nearly all the _respectable families resident in the district . Dr . Scoresby , the viear , occupied the ehair . The Rev .
Walter Scott , president of the Aicedaile . College , moved a resolution embracing the plans suggested by the committee for carrying out the objects of the meeting . Tfeey were—1 . The provision of boarding bouses in different parts of the town , -conducted under economical arrangements . 2 . By ihe register of other _lodging-honses kept by private parties , _asd certified as clean and weJl-condueted places of abode . 3 . The establishment of evening schools for instruction in general , 4 . The organisation of a general sick society on sound financial principles , and the encouragement and facilitation of depositing money in _saring banks . ... i
Subsequently a committee was formed to carry out these various objects , consisting of the clergy , dissenting ministers , and the leading gentry of the district . Other resolutions were passed calling upon all _classesin the district to co-operate in tho movement . These resolutions were proposed and seconded by Alfred Harris , Esq ., J . h . tester , Esq ., the Rev . II . Dawson . William Rand , Esq ., the Rev . J . Glvde _. the Rev . R . Ineham , the Rev . Mr . Ryland , William Lythall , Esq ., and Robert Baker , Esq . The last-named gentleman , who is the factoryinspector ofthe district , pourtrayed in feeling terms the apparently uncared for condition of our female factory operatives , and expressed his cordial approval of a movement at once so necessary and philanthropic as that which they had now originated . All the resolutions were passed unanimously , and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks given by acclamation to the Rev . Dr . Scoresby .
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currcd in wheat , at an advance of 4 dto < : dpor 70 lbs . on the rates of this day sc _' nnight With a lively denmud tor flour , prices have advanced fully 3 s per sack , and" . _' s per barrel . Oats must be noted 2 d to 3 d per io _U > 6 cheaper . _Prmui qualities of oatmeal supported their previous value in tlie limited business passing - , but inferior li _' mdsni'Kht have been purchasedeulowcr terms .
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( 1 ] , i - 1 j ' THE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER ! GREAT PUBLIC MEETING IN THE TOWER HAMLETS TO ADOPT THE NATIONAL PETITION . On Tuesday _efeninsf _, October the 6 th , that magnificent building , the Eastern Institution , Commercial Road , all honour to the men of the Towor Hamlets , was crammed to overflowing , to adopt the National Petition to Parliament praying the enactment ofthe People ' s Charter . At half-past seven o ' clock , Mr . Ernest Jones was unanimously called to the chair , and amidst loud applause said , the Parliament had not thought it worth while to attend to the great interest of the suffering people ; no , its members were too anxious to be pursuing other game on the moors of Scotland .
: ' Rumour _hadstated that Parliament was to re-assemble early in November , to concoct a remedy for the evils inflicted by class dominations on unfortunate Ireland , but past experience bid him have no such hope . This meeting was assembled to forward the great cause of reform ; the Charter . ( Loud cheers . ) The necessity for that reform was shown in the existence on the one hand of regal luxury and gaudy palaces , and on the other in the squalid _faees of the starving poor . ( Loud cheers . ) This meeting was called to give its sanction to that reform which had already received the approving voices of millions . That Reform measure was the People ' s Charter . ( Immense applause . ) Many plans had been suggested with a view to the amelioration of the condition of the people , but he knew of none so sure as the Charter . Then let the people employ every honest means to obtain that great measure . Let them not by any little weakness or division mar their strength .
Their miseries and wretchedness were a tower of strength to them , as they appealed powerfully to the sympathies of all in their behalf . Let them then not attempt to hide them , but bare them to the world , and thus shame the legislature into the grantins those rights , alike due te justice and humanity . Much applause . ) He knew that in their course persecution might assail them , as a man the other day was discharged for being a Chartist , but they held the remedy for this in their own hands—let all working men become Chartists , anil the masters would grow tired of discharging their men . ( Great cheering . ) Mr . Jones then spoke of the bad social state ofthe people in America ; but , said the speaker , the American consoles himself , he has his vote and his land . The English _mechanic , however , _during'histirae of sorrow , reflects oa the Charter and its younger brother the land , and says , " Brother Jonathan , 1 shall soon be freer than you . " ( Rapturous applause . )
Mr . _Clakk , who Was received . with applause , said , Mr . Chairman , ladies and gentlemen , it has fallen to my lot to submit the first resolution to your consideration , and I 'do so , in the full hope that you will adopt it , as _ft solicits all to join is the righteous straggle for labour's emancipation . I will read it , in Drder that « 11 may understand it . It runs as follows : — That in the opinion of this meeting , tbe subjection of the liberties and property of one man to the will of ¦ soother , is egregiously unjust ; and -seeing that the present Parliamentary system inflicts this injustice on millions ofthe _community , this meeting hereby pledges itself _, to continuous exertion until this unnatural order of things shall have been rectified , by the Hcrose of Commons being based upon the suffrages of the whole male adult popu- lation of tfce Empire . !
[ t will'be seen , sir , teat tht resolution proclaimsthe injustice of one class of the community making ! laws for'the others without their consent and con- _, _currence , and in _that-setitrment I cordially agree . ! ( Cheers . ) Acoording -to 'the existing constitution , _five-steths of the male _adu-ft population of the country ate excluded from the -exercise of that political power , which is the right of all ; but of which'the working classes alone are deprived . ( Hear . ' ) All other classes and interests have representation , and hence the flourishing condition of all but'the unrepresented and _degraded labourer . ( Ctaers . ) Then as representation had secured protection to itvery other species ot property , we seek tbe enfranchisement of labour as the only means of protecting it . ( Cheers . ) The land _ia represented bythe landlords ,
-commerce , by merchants and manufacturers ; the _trcray and navy , by 'their officers and commanders ; : the church , by ¦ tkcyounger brothers and _the'bench of 'bishops , and we think that with labounenfrtinchised , v we will be able to -dispense with the -service of the aforesaid gentry , 'ia order that they may follow some more worthy an'd useful occupation . ( Cheers . ) It is objected " Ik-it although the franchise is abstractedly tbcright of all , yet tbst it would be inexpedient tojigraut it to working Classes , because of their ignorance . " Now , 1 -say ihat if the working classes are as ignorant as their revilers represent them , then I look upon it as one of the effects of thevrile system , and one of ithe strongest reasons wiry it should be amended . ( Cheers . ) Again , if the people are really so ill-informed , what
have their _'instructors been doing . ? ' ( Hear , hear . ) There are , ii believe , almost Eighteen Thousand parsons belonging to the established -church , and who extract the sum of Ten Millions of pounds sterling annually , from the wealth of the nation for the ostensible purpose of affording the people sound and practical instruction , and if the -charge of _ignorance isat =-all sustainable it proves one-of two things , either that" the parsons , after pocketing the money of the people , are too _ignorant and "" cannot , " or they are richest and ' * will not" instruct them , and ,: in either case to take the money and not perform the labour is a downright robbery , and , if justice ; were done , they would all be banished for receiving ; money under false pretences . ( _Cheersandlaughter . ) Pretty gentlemen these , toeomplainof the _ignorance
of the people . ( Hear , hear . ) But it-is an additional proof of what they are capable of doing in order to perpetuate the horribie system . ( Cheers . ) I deny _, however , ithat the people are ignorant , and I will prove it . I will take the present Prime Minister , Lord John Russell , for -example . His lordship is considereS to be a very erudite and clever man , certainly , he is a patriotic man —( laughter)—but , notwithstanding bis learning _aud ability , I think be would present a most ridiculous and -contemptible appearance walking down l _* arliament-street , barefooted —( laughter )—and yet the man-that has sense and intelligence enough to make his lordship ' s boots is considered too ignorant to exercise the right of voting , and bis lordship , < who can neither _niaks boots , hat , or coat is intelligent-enough to govern millions ,
who spend the whole of their lives in manufacturing these useful articles for others . ( Cheers . ;) Without at all depreciating _> the species of intelligence which the Prime Minister is known to possess , I maintaintfthat the intelligence of the weaver , the hatter , the tailor , the shoemaker , the baker ,-and the cultivator of the soil , are all _indispensable , and without which , society could not exist , -and arc , therefore , more important and useful than . any other , and if intelligence is to be . made the test of fitness , then , not only would Lord John Russell , but his whole . class , be disfranchised in consequence of their ignorance . ( Cheers . ) Lord John Russell has recently-declared , in his ( dace in Parliament , in reply to a question from Mr . iDuncombe . that the " principle" of extending the
Suffrage " right—that the possession of the franchise would lead to the moral , physical , and intellectual elevation of the people ; but , yet , he would opposo the Charter , ii cannot understand the consistency of such logic , _* uid I believe , that M the people were , once in earnest , that Lord John Russell would be compelled to carry into practioe what be has idready ; admitted in theory . ( Cheers . ) We want the Ckarter , ; to enable us to-savor the unnatural And unholy con-, _nexion betwixt 'Church and State , ( cheers . ) T > break down the monopoly of land , which is the ! greatest curse inflicted upon us by class legislation . ; ( Cheers . ) If the whole people were represented - £ 54 / 890 . 000 would aiot be filched from ne , under tho guise of law ; nor would the scaffold ., the cat , and the triangle , be longer used as instruments to uphold , our glorious institutions in Church and State . ( Cheers . ) The change , great and comprehensive as it miglstappear , coukl be effected by the working classes themselves . U'iey have many ways of
accomplishing their freedom . ( Cheers . ) There is no Act of Parliament to force them into the Gin Palace . ( Cheers . ) Or if their appetites or inclinations lead them that way , there is _ao law which says they isha . ll go to the shops of Whigs or Tories , or that they shall spend their earnings with their enemies . ( Cheers . ) Let themagree to deal with friends alone , and they would soon convert enemies to friends . ( Cheers . ) I hope , ere long , to see the people engaged in an earnest struggle for their emancipation , and believing as I do , that bo Government can't long resist the justice of our claims , if we are only true to ourselves , I will implore every working man to assist us in our laudable attempt to secure freedom for the whole human race . ( Cheers . ) We have much to contend against , but with the assistance of the people , we will break every obstacle that may present itself , and ultimately by our union and perseverance guide the agitation to a successful issue . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Clark concluded by moving the resolution , and retired amidst loud . applause .
Julian Harsby , whoon coming forward was warmly applauded , said , Sister and Brother Chartists , with plciisure I second this resolution . I believe that the total number of registered electors under the preBent system of representation , is something like one million . The addt male population of the country amounts to nearly seven millions five hundred thousand persons , so that there are nearly six millions five ; hundred thousand adult males unrepresented in that house , which pretends to be the Commons House of Parliament . ( Hear , hear . ) In 1831 Lord John Russell , advocating the Refo rm Bill , remarked of the then borough-mongering parliament , that" No man of common sense could pretend that that assembly represented the commonality or people of England ' " I ask his little Lordship if he will now assert that the present House _« f Commons represents the commonality of England ? That house does not even fairly represent the one million of registered electors .
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iTJld hv ° « ° ? ,, a - that a ma J ° « % of that house is _tottJJ _. ? 5 _* of the MBWtoad electors , owing whfeh El ab 3 lir _^ diYi 8 ion of _««• con stituencies _minv _rS _A . mi 8 erable P lace _^ _Ihtmch , as _^ Tf' _^ w as th _° _^ ower Hamlets . ( Hear . « _f t _™™ th , , 8 ystem ' therefore , at least six out _nnSl r 0 ftl ) e raend thI * P _« t _ehipire •" ? £ S y 8 , aTes ' ( 0 heer 8 _- ) We a _« constantl y told that slavery cannot breathe in the freeair of England ; that tn , e moment the slave touches tho free soil of bngland , his shackles fall from his limbs , and he stands erect a free mat : that
Tha flag _^ that has _bravwl for a thousand years The battle and the breeze , " proclaims in every clime , and every sea , our existence as a great and free people . Admirable claptrap ! ( Cheers . ) Magnificent humbug ! ( Great cheering . ) Behold six millions of men , to say nothing of their wives and little ones , the slaves of a system which affords them no voice in the making the laws they are to obey no part in levying the taxes they have to pay . ( _txi-eat applause . ) A people who have laws imposed upon them without , or against , their consenta people , the fruits of whose labour is pillaged from them in the shape of rents , profits , taxes , tithes , tolls , rates and other means of extortion—who may be punished it they sell the _pwduce of their labour
without a license—who may be punished as _vagabond ( by privileged vagabonds ) if they cannot find _labour—who after labouring too much for too little find themselves in old age or sickness "driven like wrecks down the rough * tide of fortune , " may be punished in a bastile—a people who are liable to be stolen from their families by a press-gang , a crime which may not be perpetrated upon negroes whom even these English pressed slaves are employed to protect—a people who for pouring out their heart ' s best blood , not for their country , but their country ' s oppressors , are rewarded in return by being flogged like Cuban slaves or Russian serfs , the " cat" rivaling in blood and horror the southern whip and the northern knout—a people whose lives and liberties are at the mercy of jurors selected from any class
but the people ' s class—whose voice , even when assembled to petition their rulers for justice , may be stifled by a truncheon and sabre-backed riot act—a _people who , lastly , are denied even that poor privi . ledge accorded to the many in the most despotic countries , direct appeal to the chief magistratesuch a people , though you may call them " free-born Britons" are slaves ! ( Immense applause . ) It makes little difference whether the people are crushed by one tyrant as in Russia , where the merciless miscreant Nicholas is sole lord , or whether the people are ground to the dust by a horde of despots like the two hundred thousand electors of France , or by a privileged order like the electoral one million of England ;— * disguise thyself how then wilt , slavery , thou are still _abitter draught . " ( Cheers _^) If this be true , and if it be true
that"One day , _onejjhour of virtuous liberty , Is worth a whole eternity of bondage , " shame to us , that we six millions bear the slave brand on our brows ( Great cheering . ) I trust , however-, that the people are about to make an effort for themselves , which will compel their rulers to at least modestly listen to their claims . This splendid meetine following the great gathering at the Crown and Anchor proves that the national mind is waking . _Londdn , too , does not afford the only evidence of this . Norwich , Gloucester and Devonshire nave _* 'pronounced" for the Charter . In the _flntbli , too , onr "Scottish brethren are stirring , our friend " Doyle is rousing the countrymen -of Wallace , and _JiMr and Hardy , and permit me 'to add that _tkfl fievy cross
could not be entrusted . to worthier or more efficient hands . ( Cheers . ) ! l ? hts is well , but we " are net a moment too soon in _( ihe field , indeed wo shall have to work hard to keep pace with the Owisis _, daily proving more tremendous . Not only in Ireland , but in Franee _, Belgium , Germany , ano throughout Europe . misei'y is-goading the _pcople'to revolt , and the chances are a hundred to one that a famine * created revolution will this winter shake Europe from centre to circumference—( Cheers )—and if that ' earthquake does come , 1 pray 'that it may _shalte ' down K « rope ' s blood cemented thrones . ( _Trc-f mendous cheering . ) Already _we'may see in the dis-S tancc the realization of Thomas'Carlyle ' s dread pic- ? ture , —'" Fancy Europe ' s full-grown millions starting
up , and -demanding as in forest roarings , of their washed'uppor classes , after 3 ong _unreviewed centuries , _virtually tbis _^ uestion : How hav e you treated us ; how have ye taught us , fed us , snd'le'dtas , while we toiletffor you ? iThisns the feeding _andUeachiug we htfre _' hnd of you : emptiness—of _poriket _. 'of stomach , of head , and of 'heart . Behoid there is nothing in 'us ; nothing'but what natureigives her wild _children of _thedesert- ; ferocity and appefrte ; strength : gr 0 unded on'hunger . Did you _mark'that among the rights of man _. man was not to _die-oT starvation whilo'there is bread-raised by him ? Mas among the'mights of man ! " ' ( Cheers . ) A people in this state of mind may beomnipotent to punish and destroy , but alas forthem—if they know-not the principles'bhe
establishment of which alone can save them . To the millions at home and 'the'nnllions abioad , > ve offer cur'banner inscribed in suribcam _charaotersyfhich all may-read—'" The'Charter and the Larfd ' . "'' ( Applause . ) Let the millions rally round that banner , which will be to them -a 'dloud by day -and a pillar of fire by night leadiug them—I trust without passing through a Red Sea—from the _mannaless _Avilderness _and'thc house ot'bondage , to the paradise of _plonty and the temple of liberty . ( _Enthusissticcheeri ng . ) A > word as to the -famine . We are told the prei lent scarcity is a divine-visitation , if so it -should fall on all alike —( hear , liear)—but I ask is there any s carcifcy at Victoria's table . ' ( Hear , hear . *) When a ship at sea runs short of provisions , I understand that the whole crew are put upon short allowance , and _|
that the captain has no more than the foremast- man ; ( Hear , hear . ) Well , let Victoria , Lord-Colin Rn Bsell ; the Duke of Wellington , the Archbishop of _Ca aitcrf bury , the Governor of ihe Bank of'England ,, arad Marshall of Leeds consent to half an allowance and we will consent too . >( Hear , hear . ) flf not , then ! I -say let the people remember the _Yorkshire p _hilosopher's doctrine that " all the stuff-in 4 lie w orldits made for all the folk in the world / ' end th at they who produce the food have a right to be iii -st supplied . ( Cheers . i ) Perhaps you don't know tie cause of the potato blight , that cause _is disc _covered . But I'll bet any man in this meeting alleg of . mutton and trimmings —( laughter)—that unless he las seen the Morning ' Post he will not guess-that
DausC'between now and next Christmas . I will tell lit toyou . An anonymous , correspondent ot the Post _, who'is evidently one of the parson tribe , ; in rummaging through his Bible—we are _^ told even'the d ! evil can quote scri pture—has read that God-sent a pestilence upon theUews because David ' numbered the people ; now says this worthy , in _ilSll the census was taken , the people of the _^ _UnitediKlngdom were numbered , and , 'therefore , the potato-Wight and tlie famine has come . -. ( Roars of laughter . ) But this is not all , he finds out _thatlDavid ' s chief offence was not so much tlie ¦ numbering of ithe , people , as neglecting the carrying out of a-command which or- ; dained that when -the people -were -numbered every mate of twenty . _yeaes of ago and upwards should '
paylialf-a-shekel -to-the sanctuary 0 'f the Lord . ) This half-shekel is about tbirteon . pence-haltpenn . _K English money—the ( price of a 'box of ( Old Parr ' s pills —( _laughter)—and there is no . question with me which is the greatest . quackery of ihe itwo , pillmongcring or parhon . mongcring —{ cheers)—if , therefore , every male above 'twenty yearsof _ageihad paid histhirlceu-pence-halfpeKny to the established church whettthc census wasitaken , there would , have been no potato blight . i (; Iroijical cheering . ;) ; Of course you can guess this _worthy ' s suggested 'remedy , namely .-to tip up thethirteen-pence-balfpennies now —bettor-late tnen _never—tthese contributions to be _employed in building more churches , and . providing for more _pareons . My . pemedy is & simpler one ,
1 suggest . more pigs and _losa parsons , & -vast deal -more beef _, 8-nd no bishops . (( -Shouts of laughter and cheering ., ) So much for one .-set of priests , I , nsust now have a word with another set . At fcheiCrown and Anchor meeting Mr . -0 _'iConnor well and . de-* ewedly ; lashed the gentey who now wish to -distract your attention from the _^ barter , by getting up an _Aati-State ( _Ohurch agitation . I yesterday saw in one of theinewspapers , a copy of a circular from this party , in . wfcich they say how that tho Freetrade agitatiou i » at an end , and as Englishmen can attend to ono _thiag only at a time ., they now hope that tha next one thing to be demanded by the people will be the separation of Church and State . 1 say that these disseating gentry are liumbuas . and
design to humbug you unless you are on your guard . Was not ifehe same language used by the Free-traders , did they not say " one thing at a time , Corn-Law Repeal first , and then the Charter , " but how many of them will now help you to get the Charter ? ( Hear , hear . ) You have had a seven _yeara agitation for Free Trade , on the onething at a time principle . You might have another seven years agitation for a separation of Church and State , and at the end of which time if that separation was effected , some other schemers would start up with some new dodge , begging you to look for " one thing at a time , " but it would never be the time for the Charter . ( Cheers . ) lam for separation oi Church and State , and for many other much more important and necessary reforms , but I am for the Charter as the great means of accomplishing those reforms . ( Cheers . ) A book has been recently
published which I wish was m the hands of every one in this meeting , entitled The Aristocracy of England , written bva person who calls himself , John _iJampden , junior , whoso pen by the by , is likely to do more mischief to the Aristocracy , than even thesword of John Hampden , senior . That writer is a Freetrader , and an Anti-State-Churchnian , hut he concludes his book with these words , addressed to the people of England " Till you obtain the Franchise you obtain nothing , when you obtain that , you obtain everything . Every petition , every demand that asks for less than the Universal \ Franchise is the perpetration of an absurdity , and the greatest ot all absurdities . " ( Loud cheers . ) Re-echoing his words , I say , therefore , wc must agitate for and demand the Charter , the whole Charter , and nothing less than the Chartor . ( Enthusiastic and prolonged cheering . ) r
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Mr . _PniLir _M'Gbath _roie amidst the most enthu _slastic applause to move the second resolution , as follows JThat this meeting , _considaring the bill called the People ' s Charter to contain the principles and details essential to the creation of _atrue representation of the whole people , do resolve to present to the House of Coramon » a National Petition , praying that body to render the bill aforesaid , a statute of this realm , Mr . M'Grath had scarce read the resolution , when Mr . Feargus O'Connor entered the Hall , and his appearance was greeted with the most vociferous and prolonged cheering , which having subsided , Mr . M'Grath proceeded , and said the resolution he had the honour to move , related to that much reviled
document , the People ' s Charter . ( Loud cheers . ) The rottenness of the thing called our Constitution , was now pretty generally admitted ; although there were some who thought it " The very perfection of human wisdom . " Edmund Burke had said , that the House of Commons should be a representative of the people ; but was it so ? No ; for a small minority of the registered electors chose the members of that house ; and satisfied he was , that in the whole kingdom , there was not more than 200 , 000 electors that exercised the elective franchise conscientiously : and he farther believed that in this borough ofthe Tower Hamlets , out of the 12 , 000 electors , that not 2 , 000 could be found , who recorded their votes conscientiously , such was the effect ef intimidation , interest ,
<& c . In fine , the people of England were as much slaves , as were the poor Poles who were under the iron heel of the Russian despot . ( Cheers . ) And he believed it never would be otherwise , until the Charter was the law of the land . ( Great cheering . ) The Charter contained six points or principles , one great one and five subordinate ones . He believed that all the miseries of the people could be traced to class misrule . The state of Ireland at the present time , was a black and damning spot on the escutcheon of class domination . ( Loud cheers , ) Go to Austria , South America , and in those despotic and arid regions , you will not hear of the people dying of starvation . Yet Ireland , that christian country , exhibited the frightful anomaly of great wealth on the
one hand , and one fourth of her people dying of gaunt famine on the ether , and we are told that this is a dispensation ef divine providence ; and the Archbishop of Canterbury had been instructed to draw up a form of prayer in consequence . __ But he could not believe such a state of things was in accordance with the dispensation of divine will . No , he traced it to the door of Ireland ' s oppressors , her legislators—( loud cheers ) - _^ and he believed it never would be otherwise , until such times as Ireland had a Parliament of her own , hedged round with the People ' s Charter . ( Tremendous cheering . ) The last ; time he was in thhi hall , It , It . Moore and others , were telling the audience they wanted but one thing , Free Trade , to make them happy ; they had obtained comparative Free Trade , but where was the _promised result .. ( Great cheering . ) There were several
political parties ifi existence , it was for the people to say which they were prepared to go with . There were the Whigs , and finality , were they prepared to go with them ? ( Loud shouts of No , no . ) They had the stand still conservatives , were they prepared to go with them ? ( No , no . ) There were the Young Englanders , were they prepared crab-like to go backwards with them ? ( Loud shouts of Ne , no . ) Well , to -sum up , they had the 'humane , but retrograding Young Englanders : ; Toryism , which meant ( murder and _spoliations Whiggery , which meant « ant , fraud , and hypocrisy ; and , Chartism , which "meant liberty , fraternity , equality ; could they for a moment hesitate to join the great Chartist 'party ? ( Tremendous and long continued cheering . ) Then , let them adopt the resolution , and attach their signatures to the National Petition .
-Mr . M'Grath resumed his seat amid the most rapturous _applause , Upon Mr . _O'CoXNOR _' -prcsenting himself to second the » _-esolution , he wasTeceived with the most enthusiastic applause , which lasted for a considerable time . _^ When silence was restored , he said : — Mr . Chairman and my friends , —The -eloquent speeches which you have heard to-night , delivered by those t & fented -and enthusiastic young men upon the platform , should go far to convinceour enemies of the utter hopelessness of longer resistance to our principles _•";• _and what I have heard , and the scenes that are passing > now in my own country—the desolation , famine , and woe , of those amongst whom I was born , _and'reared , and have lived— _$ 11 convince me of the'imprudence of confining'my observations to a political 'harangue . I , for one , -cannot reflect upon 'the-state of Ireland ; _Icanndt- _^ uell my _feelings'of'horroj ; , or that sacred _shuuder which
_paralyses'those'feelings , at the reflection , that the innocent blood Of starving men has 'been shed in the _struts of Dungarvan , for bo higher dffence than that of « sking for the paltry pittance'of sixpence a day wh » reon to preserve a wretched existence for another j seasonof misery —( great sensation and cheering )—mi-i _seryto-avert which the Queerihas 1 impiously directedi her-Archbishop to pray _to-Alrnighty'God—to that God who created man and gave him- the land for his sustenaiiee- _^ to ) that God who , if ' in his wisdom pro . claimed his wrath through _so _^ heavy a dispensation _« _s famine ; would have stricken _adish from the Royal -table _before he would haveswept the poor man ' s board . Tremcridous cheering . ) _Wears taught to believe , and T-do-believe , that the poor are tho especial objects of God ' s -solicitude and tenderness ; and we are told , that it as as difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven as for a > camel to , pass through the eye 'Of _» meddle ; and , knowing these things and _believing them , we find it difficult—nay , impious , to charee
_OURiGOD WITH _MAWS'TRANSGRESSIONS . ( Loud "Cheers . ) They .-have proclaimed national peace and prosperity through several nostrums , ' but all have failed . Reform has _^ 'failed , and Free Trade has failed ; and wisdom and her concentrated power _noW'teWa us , that we must try-come form of _goysrnment- * liich will not have ; for its result tho mere triumph of party , and the substitution of one section of ;( politicians for another . You must no longer denounce Peel and Toryism , i Russell and Whiggery , Free 'firade and tbe I . eagne , tbankers , merchants , manufacturers , monopolists _sndi landlords ; you must no longer waste your -ammunition in firing at the _sentryJboxes of faction : you must gather up the national ' mind in one volition , so strong that
the pigmy resistanoe of faction will be futile , and tboown so round .-at the -centre of the citadel 6 f system , that all - must fall , and leave not a-vestige whereby its ruins may be traced . ( Tremendous cheering ., ) That triumph is worse than useless which destroys an individual , or even a sec . tion . "{ She landlords , who would preserve their own monopoly , destroyed Peel , and-they have got Russell in his place ; and if Russell-darod to make such alte-¦ rations as would trench . _uponttho rightful trade of speculation , the free traders _-would consign him to a similar fate . ( Cheers ., ) The professed object of all governments , whether Whig or Tory , ig to _iincreaec the national productions , but the Charter alone . _is the instrument by which > not only this object ¦ can . be aehieved , but by which their equitable
distribution can be effected . ( Cheers . ;) Neither Peel or iRussell would dare however to increase the national productions of this country beyond the grasp of capital . Production is ever limited , fnot by the capabilities of _the-eoil , the industry of ithe people , or the multiplicity -of resource , but 'by the necessities of speculation , and _kenco I aver that those who controul and govern both Pool and _Ruesell , would prefer the limitation . of our national wealth to ; four hundred millions a year , with three hundred . millions for their share , than to . see the national produce realising a thousand . millions per annum , with their share limited to two _hundred millions . ( Loud cheers . ) And yet they . tell us , notwithstanding these cramps and fetters upon industry , that tho country is
overpopulated , and that population presses hardly upon the meaes of ' _-subsisteMce _, while they propound the damnable doctrine of emigration , in order that our own population at home , may constitute a colony of foreign consumers for their produce . Here then is a conundrum , those who cannot live in the richest country upon earth , are told that they can , not only live in foreign climes , but that after living they can have a surplus to banter with the domestic speculator . ( Cheers . ) Now I would ask one of the popuktors of foreign regions whioh is the best customer , th « domestic consumer who takes the goods from the counter without the cost of risk , freight , and insurance , or the foreign slave who has to pay those taxes . ( Cheers . ) My friends , itis not you who press hardly is tho
upon the means of sub 3 istencc- _^ _-it unnatural conditions annexed to leases , it is the trammels by which the knd is held in the wholesale market , and the fetters by which labour is bound in the artificial market . ( Loud cheers . ) No man who constitutes one of a gang of slaves working for his represented master , recognizes his own industry , or his own value in the medium of traffic that he creates—it is not the labour stamp that the foreign merchant finds upon his produce , but the nation ' s greatness is represented by the fictitious brand of the merchant ' s _specnlation . And yet we are told that the aristocracy of land , the aristocracy of money , the aristocracy of intellect , and the church , are the barriers to democratic progression . I tell you that I heed them not , that they are so many flea bites if simultaneously assailed bv
the aristocracy of common sense and genius , and that it is the aristocracy of labour , that labour has moBfc to dread . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Aye , the slave who receives his £ 2 a-weck , is satisfied with comparative justice , and measures bis comfort by the positive degradation of his follow labourer , who can earn but 7 s . a-weck —( loud cheers )—whereas if both were equally represented , the positive value of each would bo £ -1 a-wecU ; but it is thus that cunning faction ever accomplishes its interested purposes . Scribblers write about tho land , and babblers talk about the land , and mock philautrophists sympathise with those who are pining for want of the land ' s produce . Hence some hired scribe who writes for the Times , would ascribe all the sufferings of tho Irish people to Catholicism , idleness , and hatred of the Jaws , but I have
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been ja Catholic countries where the peop'e are inr _dustriods and love tho laws , because no reformed religion has forced them into reluctant support of an adverse religion , and because the _lawB are equally protective ofthe rights ofthe rich and the p ' or . But l tell you that the Times knows no more of Ireland , the Irish , their religion , their habits and their customs , than an Irish pig knows of geometry . ( Loud cheera and laughter . ) ABain , the Irishman rises from his loathsome bed of straw , able and willing to work , with his wife and children that are dear to him crying for want , _whilehis native soil is crying for the applicationof his labour to insure him sustenance , government has undertaken to administer hia affairs , and government has a right to protect him from famine , but the organ of the government , and
the organ of the free-trade philanthropists , ( tho Horning Chronicle ) steps in and would limit government relief by the harsh and stringent rules of political economy . That scribe tells us that it is unjust in government to offer cheap food to the starving Irish in competition with the speculators store pur . chased upon the humanity principle of turning famine into mercantile speculation . ( Great cheering . ) You have been told what you are assembled here tonight for , that it is to aid in swelling another national demand for national rights , and topledgeyourselves to accompany that demand with quick step , swelling voice , and cheerful heart to the door of the senate house , signed as it will be by five millions , ( tremendous cheering , ) knocking lustily and demanding stoutly , a participation in the making of
those laws by which your lives , your liberties and your properties are to be protected . ( Cheers . ) That petition will carry consolation to the hearts of the starving Irish , and in passsng let me draw a p icture of a scene that recently occurred in that distracted country . The howl of famine was raging through the land , relief was promised and anticipation was high , when behold , a sail was seen to near the coast , the hungry mouth was open to receive the anticipated supply , it was proclaimed to be a cargo of food for the famishing , when lot the right wing of the 57 th regiment disembarked from the Duke of Cambridge steamer to quiet the hungry howl with a meal of bayonets and bullets . ( Great sensation and cries of shame . ) Think you if we had twelve men in tbe House of Commons aiding our Duncomhe . ( loud
cheers , ) our leader and our chief , while I was collecting the honey of progression from the mountain heather andjthe . hill side , that any government would be allowed to starve a people with impunity , or that any monarch would have the presumption to order a starving prayer to be composed to satisfy a famishing peop ' e , while the order was followed by the announcement that a rojal banquet of surpassing splendour , was to ba given in honour of foreign princes and foreign nobles . ( Cheers . ) Here's a picture for you my friends . Baptist Noel has told us that there are 500 , 000 wretched beings , living within the very precints of royalty , living without God . and without hope , while the smoking banquet upon the royal table , and the noble ' s board , is furnished by dissipation , the provoked and reckless dissipation of those 500 , 000
outcasts whom their Charter would soon restore to their God and hope . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Is it not a mockery of religion , of morality , ? and decency , to see the sleek and fatted , well-caparisoned , and even clothed dray-horse , drawing the deadly aial debasing drugs of prostitution through streams of famishing paupers , and to think that the grandeur of royalty is sustained by the debasement of intellect , the destruction of constitution , and the annihilation of thought ? ( Great cheering . ) Ah I if I was monarch for twenty-four hours , I'd level every gin palace with the dust —( tremendous applause ) — and in less than a month I'd produco a wise representation of a sober and thoughtful national mind . ( Great cheering . ) However , Ireland must not despair ; the English people
will not stand tamely by while their famishing brethren are being butchered ; and if our troops are required for that honourable service , I , at least , will not forget my allegiance to the land of my birth ; .. but I will light the torch once more on the mountain top , as the silent monitor to carry reflection to faction ' s eye . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Mr .. O'Connor then entered into an analysis of the constitution of the present constitutional body , showing that 108 , 000 tenants-at-will , the mere slaves of their landlords , constitute the balance of power of county representation , while the deluded and ignorant shopkeepers constituted the majority of the borough representation ; and that , by their clamour for free trade , and their assistance of faction , they had driven many a customerfrom their own
till , and reduced the power of all to spend at their counter . If they were wise , they would have a full share of tho increased produce of the national resources , which the Charter alone could secure ; but if they persevere in their obstinacy , they will produce an artificial famine of industry crying for want , while the storehouses of _speulators are bending beneath its produce , retained for the highest price that necessity will compel the purchaser to yield . He then entered into a most interesting description of the state of Ireland ; showing how Irish poverty pressed upon English industry , and contending that a house of domestic plunderers , sitting in Collegegreen , as representatives of the present franchise , would he an additional tax upon Irish industry , while a representation of the Irish people themselves ,
upon the principles of the People ' s Charter , would make their land a paradise , and would be heard as a joyful summons , calling all who had been banished by the tyranny of the law church , and the grinding ppression of landlords , from their foreign habitf . tions , where tbey were unwelcome guests and unwilling strangers . ( Tremendous cheering ) Yes ; before famine can be stopped , or the danger of periodical starvation stayed , the Irish must have Ireland ; every Irishman must have the key of his own larder—must be his own producer and bis own consumer ; and if he has the dreaded surplus of a fat calf , with his whole family's smiles of fullness , contentment and joy ; and if he cannot find a market , let him bury it ia the dunghill , it will be a better omen of national greatness than a surplus of the lot of
. poverty being the industrious , and a sur . plus of food being the lot of the idle . ( Great cheer ing . ) _Tlra landlords will not bring the land into the retail market , although it would enhance its value from the wholesale to the retail price , because they dread its effects upon tbe retail vote , and they know that by wholesale political power they are enabled to square the deficient rent by an augmentation of political patronage ( Loud cheers . ) The free-traders will not allwv them to bring it into the retail market , because it would constitute the field for free labour , in which the standard of its real value would be ascertained in the artificial market and below which man would not work for a master . ( Cheers . ) Thisshall be the object of my life—this is an undertaking that I never will relax in , until I see the greatness of the nation proclaimed through individual happiness , instead of mercantile speculation , —( great cheering)—and every day ' s experience con « firms me in the hope of success . I have taken stock
for you today . I have made an estimate of what 35 splendid mansions , a splendid sckoolhouse , one hundred and three acres of first quality land , with timber , crops , tenant rights , fixtures , wells and roads , have cost up to this date , and 1 find all is _u-ider £ 6 . 000 . ( Tremendous cheering . ) About £ 5 , 800—and now to prove the value of land in the retail market above what it will fetch in the wholesale market . Estimating that proportv in its present state , and itis all but finished , at the " low estimate of 20 years' purchase , at the socictv ' s rent it would realise £ 7 , 000 , and at 30 years' purchase , the usual price of land , and at which it would sell in less than two years when theefttct of an abundance of labour is developed , ifc would fetch about £ 11 ,-100 , and 1 have no hesitation in pledging my existence , that if let upon tender to strangers , instead of to members , at _i i « ? _fii ety , ' s rent ' tnat ib would realize the sura of £ 16 , 100 that is , at the rental at which strangers would take the small allotments , and at 30 years ' purchase , that a capitalist could realize bv the first
experiment a profit of over £ 9 , 000 upon an _expenditure of £ 6 , 000 —( great choerine)—but then it has the damning brand upon it of throwing labour upon its own resources , and of taking the hand ofthe plunderer out of the pocket ofindustrv . ( Che _. r _* . ) _Noir then , my friends , I have taught you the way to be tree , I have told you that slavery was an act of volition , I have given you something to love , and sometlunc to be loyal to ; the Land is vour inheritance , I seek to restore it to you , the Charter is your birthright , and I struggle to put you in possession of it , not caring what sits upon its throne or what _yoa call it , provided the power behind the throne is greater than the throne itself . Mr . O'Connor sat down amid continued cheering and wa _' ing of hats . The resolution was carried unanimously Mr . T . M . Wiibeleb then moved the adoption of the _ISational Petition , which was seconded in an able and argmentative address by Mr S K dd and carried unanimously . • . »
_Jfc , _?^ _" ' 8 PG < ; com plimentary to the genius , ability , energy , and eloquence of Mrf Ernest Jon es , moved a vote of thanks to that _gentlemaa to the _Zi - m the hai _f . and on his _assisE _Cl , _rV „ _Tn . _, M eral ; , lfc was seconded by Mr . Uark _, and adopted by acclamation , ihe chairman acknowled ged the complimcnt _.-anil declared the meeting dissolved . Three cheers were then given for T . S . Duncombe , M . P . ; three lor the Charter ; three for Frost , Williams , _ai ; d Jones ; three for the Northern Star ¦ and three for Mr . O'Connor , The assembly , which was composed of not less than two thousand persons , then broke up ,
Steam Boat Accident.—On Monday The Prometheus Steamer From Cork, Laden With A Large Earso Of
Steam Boat Accident . —On Monday the Prometheus steamer from Cork , laden with a large earso of
Provisions, And A Great Number Of Passen...
provisions , and a great number of passengers , was carried by the tide against London Bridge , and the funnel and masts oi the steamer wero carried away with a tremendous crash , by coming in contact with the top of tho arch . The masts and funnel went over the vessel ' s side , and several boxes and packages belonging to the passengers were carried overboard . The greatest consternation prevailed , but none of the pas _, _seucerd were injured . -
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 10, 1846, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_10101846/page/5/
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