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My Dear Friends,—As Your Safety, My Safe...
¦"¦' -. { Continued from the _lintPage . ) who ; likethe "Whig government , will fly to the cry of IREE TRADE IS IN DANGER . Besides a duty , I have an interest in writing this letter , because I feel and know that I shall be the greatest sufferer irom popular folly . I point out your proper course and your former errors , but I know _myseif so well , that ! am sure to go witb vou whether rig ht or -wrong , rather than allow the enemy to suppose that the folly of the multitude had driven me from the movement Your errors are not a consequence of folly , they are the result of the evil influence of those who can starve you into submission to their vfj 11 » _n _** en you as COERCED VOLUNTEERS to fig ht their battles
own . . . . Beware of the " Free Trade" trap . Let the landlords fi g ht their own battles . Let every thought be directed to secure twelve Duncombes in the next parliament . I WILL NOT BE ONE . I will remain npon the watch tower , for slander shall never brand my motives with the base brand of self interest . Allow me to manage the wild phrenzy of tmrep ' resented influence ; the wide region of enthusiasm is my natural element ; I will marshallit to aid our chief and his staff in the battle of right against might , of "knowledge against bigotry and
intole rance , of liberty against oppression and misrule . Keep your eye then upon the next election — compel your trustees , as they call themselves , to execute their trust faithfully . Get our twelve men in ihe House of Commons , and no power on earth can resist the triumph of your principles . The World toll receive them as the wise adoption ofan improved & ge , and nations will marvel that so great a power _iWuld _tase heen so long concealed by a hireling prostitute , servile , advertising press . Let our motto be " Twelve Chartist representatives to send onr principles to the world's end "—
ONWARD AND WE CONQUER , . BACKWARD AND WE FALL , TEE PEOPLE'S CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER . Then I bind on my armonr to face the rough world , And I ' m going to march with the rest ; A «* ainst Tyrants to fight , for the sake of the right , And if baffled to FALL with the BEST . Tour faithful friend and servant , _Fbahgos O'Cositor .
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KIDDERMINSTER . GLORIOUS AND TRIUMPHANT MEETING
FOR THE CHARTER AND THE LAND . To those who would deny the influence of the Northern Star npon the working classes , er those who are sceptical abont the _strong fraternity tbat now _exists amongst that order , we merely observe , that one line in that journal on Saturday last , announcing the intention of Mr . O'Connor to attend a meeting in forty-eight hours after _. had the effect of crowding the Albion room , in the Falcon Inn , to inconvenience . The body of the HaU , as well as the gallery , the platform , and the passages , was literally crammed , while deputations of the working classes were in attendance from Wolverhampton , Walsall , Dudley , Stourbridge . Brierly Hill , Bilston , Bromsgrove ,
Worcester , and the surrounding ; districts for a distance of thirty miles , many of whom had walked , and all of whom spoke eh eeringly ofthe new resolve , "to bind en their armour once more ; " all admitting , that but for the addition of the Land plan , ChartiBm , as a principle , wonld have lacked much of its present enthusiasm . Mr . George Holloway , and a few devoted friends who have struggled hard and suffered much in the cause , made the most of the short interval that was aUowed for preparation , and although a charge ofa penny was made at the doors , we never witnessed a more enthusiastic , _respectable , patient . or satisfied audience . Precisely at seven o ' clock , that staunch advocate of the principles , who has ae * complished so many benefits for his own trade , the
ehain makers , Mr . Chance , of Stourbridge , was unanimously called to the chair . He said , that he had once more resolved upon joining in the renewed struggle for man s natural rights . ( Cheers . ) He was there to proclaim the fact , that if * the people were " ignorant , Queens and Kings , Peers and Commoners , Parsons and Manufacturers , and all who had an interest in the individual comforts of the working classes , were bound to assist and co-operate in substituting knowledge for that ignorance . ( Cheers . ) Where was the monarch who looked upon the ignorance of his people a 3 a gem in his crown , or as an honor to his throne . Where -was the titled aristocrat that would avow it to be the jewel of his coronet , or where
was the master that would preserve it as the title of his ascendancy . ( Loud cheers . ) Surely all had an interest iu national prosperity , which knowledge would cultivate better than ignorance , but mayhap ignorance wonld lead to a more profitable appropriation ol its products . ( Loud cheers . ) He had as much confidence in Feargus O'Connor as in any man living , bnt he wonld caution them against allowing reliance upon individual exertion lolling them into * individual apathy . ( Loud cheere . ) . If the business was to be done labour must do it fer itself . ( Cheers . ) Capital managed its own affairs , and ] labour mnst do its own work . ( Cheers . ) That meeting was to him a cheering proof that the principles ofthe Charter were still uppermost in their mind , and thatthe
adjunct of the land had rather strengthened than weakened their affection . ( Great applause . ) Apart from his public duty , he had also a private duty to discharge , and he thought it the bounden duty of every honest man to rally around Feargus O'Connor , when the disappointed ambition of would-be leaders was used as a weapon to weaken his usefulness and dislodge him from the affections of the people . ( Cheers and laughter . ) The appearance of the meeting , and the attention ofthe meeting , convinced him that his task as chairman would he one of easy performance , as he must presume , that all came there to learn , and he ( the chairman ) would secure for every
teacher a fair and impartial hearing for their respective doctrines ( Loud cheers . ) They courted discussion , andhe invited itastheirgreateststrength . It would not be decorous in him to take up more of their time , when be was sure that they were all panting with anxiety to hear their tried and distinguished friend . ( Cheers , and go on . ) No , I shall now conclude by introducing Feargus O'Connor , I believe for the first time , to a Kidderminster audience . ( Loud cheers and clapping of hands followed the chairman ' s excellent address , which was delivered in a manly tone , and with great fluency , force , and eloquence . )
Upon Mr . O'Connor presenting himself , he was received with several rounds of applause . When the cheering had subsided , he said , Sir , I quite _agre with yon that yon best testify your loyalty by your endeavour to banish ignorance from the land , to base our institutions upon knowledge , instead of upon caprice , and to set a monarch over them that will be governed by the enlightenment of the age , rather than hy the darkness of byegone times . ( Cheers . ) There was not a word that had fallen from the chairman to which he ( Mr . O'Connor ) could not cheerfully subscribe , but more especially to his injunction to the people to do their work . On that day week he was amongstthe hills of Devonshire , wedding the agricultural labourer to the manufacturing operative ,
and he was happy to find that their new poliey was never again to fight the battles of faction , never again to contend for the spit without the leg of mutton , ( cheersandlaughter . ) or for thc empty shadow which had been labour ' s share of middle class triumph . Cheer .- * . ) If he was asked why he had again entered the field of action , his answer was because he thought ihat it was the season for renewed vigour , labour ' s opportunity for renewed action . In 1831 and 1832 he straggled for the Reform Bill in his own country , but observing that , if not followed by full , free , and fair representation , it would bo an injury rather than a blessing to labour . He was aware that it was the mere contest of faction for its own ascendancy ; but he felt convinced of the impossibility of convincing the popular party of the hollowness and treachery of their leaders . That measure had failed , and he would ask them , as he had as * « w < l their brethren in other p _* irts , whether there was a single man in
Kidderminster who had derived benefit from it ? ( Cries of " No . " ) The last triumph was the triumph of free trade—a measure which was to have been instantly followed by high wages , cheap bread , and plenty to do ; a measure which was to havo been magical in its instantaneous effect upon the comfo rts of the poorthe Pandora ' s bos , at the top instead of the bottom of which labour ' s charm was packed . ( Loud cheers . ) Well , labour has opened the box , but bas it found the treasure ? ( A manufacturer in the corner , — "It hasn't had time to work . " ) Ah , it has worked wonders , sir , bnt in the wrong direction . ( Cheers . ) It was t » have been tbe charmed operator that was to have worked by magic , and set every fibre of labour to remunerating employment . ( Cheers . ) Lias not had time to work' It has worked down wages , _worked up bread , and worked hundreds out of their houses to starve in the streets , or beg employment , for God ' s sake , at any rate that capital shall condescend to offer . ( Tremendous applause . ) But I w ' til
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test _thepriuciple bythe verdict of those wh _j _must be the best judges ofite effect . _fathe fif : _fcbtr ? reB this vast _assemblagejvho _has ( benefite _dggjtp , _*™ _Swffa _» _fc _^^ . _J _¥ _' _« _J _TLnWeA much , and performed little . Free trade _ESEd aTthat the Un . Bill had Uhd in , and has performed less . 1 allowed the dayof " trial to nassby lest that I may have endangered the cause of Chartism by propounding the old principle in the hour of mixed and hesitating excitement . I allowed tbe mind oflabour to settle down into fair calculation upon the promised boon , and , finding that the country was prepared to give an honest verdict , after calm thonght and matured reflection , I resolved upon once more marshalling the now connected but dissatisfied mind for another struggle for its own rights
and privileges . ( Loud cheers . ) Sir Robert Peel told us that it was necessary that the landlords should surrender something to national requirements , and I told bim that whatever was ' pared from their board would be absorbed by the griping appetite of the capitalist . ( Lond cheers . ) I told him , and I told you , that it was impossible to adjust labour ' s share in the change until labour , like capital , was represented in the House of Commons . ( Cheers . ) Sir Robert Peel told ns that the science of agriculture was but in its infancy—it was the wisest sentence lie ever spoke : but if it is necessary to cherish and encourage the science of agriculture , and if the landlords must yield up and surrender some of their rights to that end for the nation ' s good , itis also right that the
capitalists should surrenders portion of their unjust rights aud privileges . ( Great applause . ) That was his present mission , to prepare them at the nest general election to stand between contending factions —not aiding one in the pillage of labour , or the ether in its whimsical protection of native _ industry . ( Cheers . ) And when their streets were again paraded by the exciting promise of high wages , cheap bread , and plenty to do , surmounted by a large free trade loaf , only requiring a free trade parliament to insure it , let the sons of toil cap the climax by placing the land and the charter over the pinnacle of the free trade tower —( tremendous cheering , , and waving of hats)—the land that produces the loaf , and the charter that defends the land . ( Repeated cheers . )
Ignorant as you are , and mysteriously as free traders would have concealed the fact , you have learned from them , tbat if it is good to have cheap bread , it is better to have cheap land which produces bread . ( Cheers . ) They vainly hoped to confine the struggle to the questionofwheat , to thelandofAmerica _. of Poland , of Prussia , and the world , while they insolently hoped to obscure the benefit that may result from your own land , worked by yonr own industry . ( Cheers . ) They never thought the English artisan , disinherited by machinery , would discover the fact that he could produce bread for himself without being dependent upon tbe foreigner who may be pleased to export it , or npon the master who may condescend to buy his labour for the price that is to purchase it . ( Cheers . * )
Baptist Noel has told us that we have five hundred thousand starving creatures living within the _precinctsof royalty without God and without hope ; while politicians tell us that we have four million paupers depending for a precarious subsistence upon workhonserelief . There is enough , andmore than enough , for all , if the . government of the capitalist was not compelled to mea-ure produce and employment by the standard of class caprice instead of national requirement . ( Loud cheers . ) And in the midst of this degrading poverty , this unnatural want , this unwilling idleness , free traders and Malthusians told them that the creation of so large a number of producers would cause a surplus of food in the country . ( Cheers and _Slaughter . ) Well be it so . better , far
better , is a surplus of pigs , of bread , and milk , after consumption , than a surplus of breeches , hats , and shoes , with a proportionate surplus of bare legs , bare feet , and bare heads . ( Great cheering and waving of hats . ) The man who had a surplus pig would never be without a surplus breeches , while the man wbo was making breeches for others all bis life may scarcely find time to patch his own . ( Cheers and laughter . ) We were told that there were unerring *; laws which we must obey , unerring rules of nature , by which we must be governed . Kings and princes , however , who tell us those things , are not so observant of the laws of man or God when they stand in the way of their own desires , or would act as an obstacle to their own ambition . Hence we
have the anomaly ofthe King of the French , in the teeth of what is called a solemn league and covenant , or religions contract , or compact , entered into by a league of _Ttings for the controul ofthe natural feelings , passions , and desires , of the sons and daughters of royalty yet unborn , enforcing his son s { claim to tbe hand of a child , the sister of the Queen of Spain , in violation of the treaty of tbe ] quadruple alliance ratified at Utrerch for the preservation of royal authorit y , and rather than forego his illegal demand he would set the working classes of the world in arms , to thed each others blood , to gratify his morbid lust for power —( cheers . ) What would not labour suffer in such a struggle for royal grandeur , and what care we
whether the little Queen ' s little sister marries the son ofthe King _o'flFrahce _. _^ or the bloody Narvaez , who has been sept as chambermaid to make his royal mistress ' s wedding 6 ed . But here ' s another hitch —it has been discovered that all the upholsterers in Spain cannot make a royal bedstead in seven weeks , and the peor little Queen is constrained to put up with that in which her royal father had so many startling dreams . Ah , my friends , while this is a royal . hardship , how many thousands of labour ' s sons , upon whose sweat royalty lives , would be glad , but too glad , to be Secured in the bed that their fathers lay upon —( loud cheering . ) But so it ever is with those who work for others , and those who work not at all—the one , after a day of anxious toil , one of
the Queen ' s neighbours , one of Baptist Noel ' s free trade army without God and without hope , lays his weary bones upon some stranger ' s cold flag , and is unconscious that he is a trespasser , until roused by the truncheon ofhis nightly guardian ; while royalty reclines on down , culled gently from beneath the cherub ' s wing —( tremendouscheering . ) And , yet England , and the world , may be embroiled in war by this kingly disregard of an inter-national treaty ; and yet , while Kings thus controul the laws , and violate the treaties of their order , we are told to obey all the musty parchments left by our musty ancestors , as the token of their musty age —( cheers)—but I tell them , that it is foliy to sit before the swelling waters of knowledge and say to the flood-tide of
mind , thua far shalt thou go , and no farther —( great cheers . ) 1 tell thou that genius knows no bounds , but will knock down and level all the landmarks within which ignorance , prejudice , and tyranny , had vainly hoped to hem it , and sweep away every vestige of controul . Mind is the preceptor that subtilizes the soul ; the key that attunes the human heart to softness ; the battery that nerves the arm to action ; itis man ' scentinci , and the . nation ' s body guard , which no combination of Kings , or kingly edicts , can disband . It is the parent of conception ; the child of nature ; the tonic of resolution ; it is the gift of God to man , which hnman fetters cannot shackle , or human tyranny controul ; it is here , it is there , it is everywhere ; its magic influence thrills
through every passing breeze ; it boldly rides the whirlwind , and proudly sits upon the storm —( tremendous cheering and waving of hats . ) In vain then is the combination of cabinets against tbe combination of mines —( repeated cheers . ) I see that yon do not recognize yonr triumph in any change that has yet taken place , not even in the property or income tax —( laughter . ) You were told that direct taxation was a measure ofjustice to the poor , as it threw the national burthen upon the rich ; but I will show you now that direct taxation , without direct representation , is indirect plunder—j ( cheers . ) The landlord is taxed three per cent , and increases his rents five per cent . ; the manufacturer is taxed three ner cent , and reduces your wages twenty per
cent . ; the parson Is taxed three per cent , and increases the idle reserve poor rates five per cent ., by reductions in his household , and parings from his servants' wages ; the shopkeeper whose profits exceed £ 150 a year , is taxed three per cent ., and he visits it to the amount of fire per cent , upon the wages and comforts ofhis shop b . ys , while all' those classes are doubly benefitted by reductions made in all the articles of your produce , and consequently in your wages . And thus they are burning both ends of the candle , so that in fact taxation , whether direct or indirect , without representation , is precisely similar to a duty—that is , if I am a manufacturer , and produce a yard of goods from five untaxed materials , and charge five shillings a yard for it , if there
is a duty of one shilling put upon tbe five articles , instead of then charging them six shillings I charge seven shillings and sixpence a yard , making one shilling and sixpence , or a hundred and fifty per cent _, profit upon every transaction — ( loud cheers . ) Now , then , the property and income tax , although called direct , are nothing more than a duty imposed upon the wealthy , of which they may make profit from the poor . I am for taxing every man to support the state , but then I am at tlie same time for giving every man a voice in the propriety and apportionment of tbe tax . ( Cheers . ) Let us now , my friends , consider whether or not we have sacrificed any principle in looking for the land . America , after being three quarters ofa century in possession of political rights , is only now _.
after her many struggles for class ascendancy , beginning to awaken to the value of the land . ( Cheers . ) France , with her population of nearly forty millions , is better _satisfied with a constituency of two hundred _tnowand than England with a population of thirteen millions is with a constituency of a million . Now , why is that ? It is because in France the people possess the land , and , however the artificial labourers may be driven to revolution to procure bread , the small landed proprietors are never threatened with famine . When I first visited my uncle , Arthur O'Connor , who next year will have suffered half a century of banishment—( Cries of shame)— -I _thought the whole commune or parish in which his chateau is situated belonged to him ; but in my first walk I saw peasants with their baskets and spades passing here and digging there , and I asked what it meant i
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He told me that four-fifths of the . domain belonged to the peasants , and that no man would sell an acre of it though , you offered hira ten times the value . ( Loud cheers- ) Many have told you that I exaggerated the capabilities of the land , while Free Traders have endeavoured to persuade you that population pressed too hardly upon the means of subsistence ; but it is not population that presses hardly upon the means of subsistence , it is bad cultivation , it is the political power that the land confers upon each owner , it is the Jaw of settlement , the restrictive conditions contained in contracts , and Us enormous appropriation to pride and useless sporting purposes . However , my friends , 1 am now in a situation to call reverend authority in aid of my assertion . There
was a meeting in Dorsetshire last week , fer the purpose of course of improving the condition of the labouring classes . It was under the patronage of a noble lord—it was to introduce the allotmentsystem , which means nothing more . or less than a gilded chain of slavery to bind the slave to the interest of bis employer . ( Loud cheers . ) But still it proves how much man levea the soil , and it proves that his tyrants know it . Of course there was an abundant crop bf parsons —( Laughter)—they would see the report in last Saturday ' s Morning Post , the paper was in his portmanteau , ne regretted thathe had not brought it . The Hon . and Rev . Mr . Ward was one of the speakers , and he told the meeting that in bis recent tour he had visited a plain near Naples , fbur miles
long and two miles wide , being eight square miles of land / and upon which thirty five thousand persons received a good day ' s mages for a good day ' s work . ( TremendoHs cheering . ) Now eight square miles of land is considerably less than five thousand acres . So tbat here we have the testimony of a clergyman , that every acre is capable of giving seven persons a good day ' s wages for a good day ' s work . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Now where was the man . who would vmture to say , that a man and his family could not exist upon two , or even upon four , acres of land . ( Cheers . ) You imagine that because acabbag * is a vegetable , that it is nothing more ; but I tell you vegetables are beef , mutton , veal , pork , milk , butter , cheeseand iwhen manufactured will exchange for
, hats , coats , breeches , _Bhoes , bedsteads , watches , and every thing in the world- ( Cheers . ) Is is not natural , then , that man should prefer producing for himself that , that wiujexchange for every produceable thing rather than depend upon the caprice of others for the scanty wages that must buy all . ( Loud cheers . ) The land is man ' s great bank from which he can coin every thing that he requires , and its present raw state is to the state to which it may be brought , precisely what the raw flax is to the finest cambric or lace that can be manufactured from it ; what the rough marble is to the speaking statue after it has acquired labour ' s polish . ( _Tremendous cheering . ) Now , my friends , travel with me abroad . In other countries , man s first darling object is to secure
a nest , and he cares not what price he gives for it , and although it is an object , it is not indispensable that it should be on the land he cultivates . He next rents a . field for his labour at an enormous rate , or purchases it at an enormous price , in many cases two or three miles from his home , in France they live in villages , and cultivate the land at a distance of three miles ; so in _Belgium , and in _Belgium they will g ive at the rate of £ 260 a " bundle , " which is an acre and a quarter of land , and a whole family will live and thrive , and grow rich and purchase more from the produce . ( Cheers . ) Well , mark the advantage I give you , and mark the real tax upon English wheat capriciously grown . The nation turns up its nose at an 8 s . fixed duty , while
the man who holds a thousand acres of ground , with his house in the centre , cultivates wheat at a tax of over £ 1 6 s . a quarter more than , the man whose cottage is placed in the centre of his four acres . ( Great cheering . ) Yes , , I will put out more manure with a wheelbarrow in a day than a farmer will with , six horses and four men in the same time . ( Cheers . ) But beyond that , there is the question of Home , sweet Home ; the proud consolation that the husbandman sees his castle when he raises his head , that he can fly to the domestic summons ; thathe can stand independently with his arms folded , and listen calmly , but not anxiously , as the beedy employer bids for his labour . He can then measure its value better than in the market place , where he stands as a slave , in the poor
house where he sinks as a pauper , or in tue cellar for which he pays rent , whether he works or plays . In the one case he is a man of the world , for whom the world cares ; in the other , he is an outlaw with whom the world would gladly dispense . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Then the mother , the anxious brokenhearted mother , who wakes her sleeping babe that it may dry her for the day ' s toil , and curses it because ti will not suck to her convenience . ( Great sensation . ) They know that the realization of my plan will compel ten masters to bid for one man ' s labour , instead ot an idle reserve running after one master , aud competing for the mere existence point . ( Cheers . ) I tell you that you are not free to bargain with capital , until you stand with your heel upon your spade , and have ascertained the value of your labour in the free labour market . ( Cheers . )
The following is the extract for Mr . Ward ' s speech to Mr , O'Connor referred : — ' * ' He the Hon . and Rev . Mr . Ward had been away from his benefice for a year for the purpose of recruiting his failing health , and on returning recently visited a spot where many of his parishioners resided . The aspect ofthe place was altered , the old landmarks had been removed , dirty cottages made clean , and incommodious houses rendered capacious . To what was all this to be attributed ? Struck with the marvellous change which hadbeen effected , he natura'ly inquired how such great improvements had been effected , and he found that the reason was , that the landlord had created a vast number of field garden
allotments , all of which were assiduously and efficiently cultivated by the persons to whom they hail been let . As a clergyman , he was glad to bear testimony to their great worth . This brought him to make one or two remarks on the subject of spade husbandry . During his absence from England , he visited a plain near Naples , four miles long , and two miles wide , on which there were 35 , 000 persons . There were no poor laws , no beggars , but every person received a good day ' s wages for a good day ' s work . ( Cheers . ) Not a single horse or cart was employed , but all was done by spades , mules , and men ' s backs . He found that as all was done by these means , the produce was large , and every oue was employed . "
Mr . O'Connor continued , ' But still there were men so sceptical that they would not believe in the capability ot the soil , but , let them understand that his whole plan dep ' _ends upon the principle of co-operation , of buying in the wholesale market , and letting in the retail market at tho wholesale price . ( Cheers . ) A hatter makes retail profit ofhis wholesalehats , a grocer of his sugar , a hosier ofhis stockings , a baker of his flour , and a butcher of his meat . No one man could make a railroad of considerable length , no one man could establish a joint stoek bank or an insurance company , or make a canal , or work an expensive mine ; and yet individuals thus co-operating can drive individual speculators from the market of traffic .
For instance , a man may travel a hundred miles in five hours for 8 s _4 d ., and if he travels by gig with one horse , the property of an individual , he will pay tbat much turnpike at a penny per mile . He will pay three-pence a mile , or three times the amount as the legitimate wages of the driver , and he will pay £ 5 , a shilling a mile , _twelve times as much as his railway fare , for the hire of the horse and gig besides livingaway from home , and the loss ef fifteen hours labour instead of five . ( Great cheering . ) Now , then , that ' s co-operation , that ' s ihe value of the land , but while we have a Minister of allspice and nutmegs , of cloves and cinnamon , of ground ginger and sarsaparilla , of saltpetre and starch , and indigo , and mace , and citron , andcandiedlemon peel ,
and all the rest of the dainties , and thread , and needles , and tape , and bobbing , we have no Minister of agriculture —( loud cheers)—and hence we find at one and the same time , a whole , brave , hospitable , generous , and industrious -people threatened with famine , which , we are told , is a dispensation from God . while the palace is to be improved which . no doubt , is also a dispensation with which the people would willingl y dispense . ( Cheers aud laughter . ) Free traders would disparage the value of the land , while the working classes were ignorant enough to give at thc rate of £ 20 , £ 30 , and even £ 40 per acre for small plots , and whatever was the rent they would make any sacrifice rather than lose it —( cheers ) -Did they ever _rellcct that the labouring man , whether employed for six davs or
four days , or not employed at all , bad to pay seven days rent for his house . ( Cheers . ) Now , my friends , it is to b-eak down and for ever destroy this anomaly that I am contending . ( Cheers . ) The old traffickers will try to mjj ke the next struggle for religious liberty , but " u 7 . ell you it is all moonshine . Political inferiority is quite compatible with wliat all sects call , religious libert y which means nothing more or lesB than their own ascendancv , while civil liberty and political freedom would banish religious dissension and distinction for ever from the land . ( Great cheering . ) It is for tbat that 1 wish you to struggle . Notwithstanding all the attempts of faction to break us up , _natwithstanding the tearful odds against which we have had to contend , wo have still a staff of bold and sturdy hearts , sufficiently
powerful to make an impression on thc dying house . —( Cheers)—and what I ask you _is " _-to use and exercise your right to the fullest , to strengthen ' Buncombe ' s hands , —( tremendous cheering ) — to light labour ' s battle in the House of Commons . Ic is childish and foolish to say that you possess no power , for I tell you . that , you have the same power over your trustees that the law has over thc trustees of the property of others . The law obliges them and coerces them into the faithful discharge of their trust , and then do you oblige and coerce your trustees into a proper execution of tlieir trust —( loud cheers ) our weakness is but a consequence of our folly . Wi have withstood the power of the throne , of the Lords , of the Commons , of the bishops , the parsons , the judges , the juries , the magistrates , the shopkeepers , the army , the navy , and the police , and worse than all , the hired slander or interested silence
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of acorrupt , a prostitute , an infidel ; . a venal press . ( Great cheering . ) Yes , our fraternity and exchange of opinion is as complete as that of the Jesuits ! Our principles fl y from tongue to tongue , are caught by every ear , aud impressed upon every heart . ( Cheers . ) Our cause lives by oral tradition , let us then seek through the House of Commons another channel to spread it throughout the world , and to all corners of the earth . ( Cheers . ) Send twelve members to aid Duncombe and the work is done . We have the ascendancy of numbers , tho ascendancy of mind , and theascendancy of principles , but the inferiority , of action . If I had the power of making one law to-morrow , and that that law was not to be the CharterI would take from the press
, the power ot advertising and throw it upon the ascendancy of mind for its livelihood , and I promise you , that the Times would go to bed a Whig and rise a Chartist to insure the largest circulation . ( Cheers and laughter . ) The man must have a heart of adamant and a mind impervious to all the best feelings of nature who can tamely look on and witness the oppression of the poor . I was once a man of the gay world myself , I kept my hounds , my hunters , andmyrace horses , Iloved thechace , the race ground , and the ball-room , but now my mind ' s improved , and directed to more profitable gratification * to the benefit ef my fellow-men . I would now rather be on the scaffold with the bricklayers in the field of industry with the husbandman , in the wood with
the forester , or on the hearth with the labourer ' s child and one of the happy ¦ circle living by their own industry , contented , prosperous and happy , and blessing God that they were in their natural sphere , and that they were able to earn their own bread bythe sweat of their own brow . And I have gained immeasurably by the change—it is what _monarchs look for , but few enjoy—a peaceful mind , a healthful constitution , a good apetite , and frugal fare wherewith to satisfy it . ( Longand continued cheering . ) My friends , I am getting excited , but I trust thai my over zeal will not injure your cause , or my over caution postpone Us consummation . There is a time to build up . and a time to pull down , a time for wild enthusiasm and sober
thought . I have played my part in both , but I have not deserted either . ( Loud cheers . ) I have called murder murder , before you were able to distinguish between sudden deatli and lingering torture . There was a time when I feared that the long training to which I had been subjected , would have numbed my speed , would have cooled my courage , unnerved my mind , and damned my ardour . The trainers tell you that too much galloping damps the courage , and numbs the speed of the racehorse , but I have had no gentle exercise , I have taken my physio kindly , my sweats copiously , and my gallops freely . I may be under the influence of overlong training , but still I feel as sound in wind , as hale in constitution , as light of limb and resolved of purpose , aa anv
colt that is entered for the Chartist stakes , and when the word '' Away" is given , he will be swift as thought that beats mc by a nose . ( Tremendous cheering and waving of hats . ) Yes , my friends , I have tried myself , and I think I shall be equal to any emergency that the age , any necessity that the people , or any expediency thatthe Whigs , may impose upon me . ( Renewed cheering . ) I have lived down prejudice . I possess the undivided confidence ef your order . ( Loud cheers . ) I have been the first to open a market for those who never dared to hope that they could traffic in the world of speculation , and of all men living , the teetotallers should love me , when I tell them that of the £ 15 , 000 subscribed te our fund , £ 5 , 000 or more has been snatohed from the gin-palace and the beer shop . ( Cheering . ) I have shewn
man tbe road from the house of bondage , to the land of freedom . . I have furnished him with the opportunity of . making himself independent of the frowns of the wealthy , the terror ofthe law , and the temptation of committing crime to live . ( Tremendous cheering . ) lhave done all tbis without being a tax upon their poverty , and when I shall have added a National Benefit Society to the Land Plan , and when I shall have founded an Agricultural College , in which a _thousandJpeasaRts ' sons shall receive a generous education , self-sustaining , and at their departure each taking _his'full share of surplus after consumption , then , my friends , I shall have done one man ' s snare * , but in the language of the chairman . I tell you that I must fail unless sustained by your co-operation and confidence . I shall now conclude with the inspiring words of Mr . Jones , the inspired Chartist
poet-Then I bound on my armour to face tbe rough world , And I am going to march with the rest Against tyrants to fight , for tbe sake of the right , And if baffled , to FALL wilh the rest . Mr . Holloway then proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman , which Mr . O'Connor seconded in a speech highly complimentary to that gentleman ' s consistency and talent , but previous to taking a show of hands he first begged to make proclamation for any person who had any opposing doctrine to advance , when he ( Mr . O'Connor ) would insure him , under the chairman ' s guidance , as full , fair , and impartial a hearing as he had had , but if the invitation was declined , he trusted that the opponents would for ever hold their peace . No attempt at discussion being offered , Mr . O'Connor put the resolution of thanks to the meeting which was carried by acclamation , and amid great cheering , and after Mr . Chance had returned thanks ,
Mr . O'Connor said that he was so highly gratified with the evening ' s proceedings , that , although fatigued from standing , that with their permission he would take a sitting shot at them . He then sat down and delivered a most pleasing and highly instructive address upon the capabilities of the soil , and the practice of agriculture , which was listened to for nearly an hour with breathless silence , and at the close was responded to by several rounds of applause and waving of hats . Lusty cheers were then given for the Charter and the Land , Duncombe , Frost , Williams and Jones , O'Connor , and the Chairman ; after wliich the Secretary disposed of a number ofthe rules , and Mr O'Connor retired , with thirty or forty of the leading spirits , who remained together till a late hour , in profitable , instructive , and entertaining conversation .
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TOM STEELE . Verbatim report of the celebrated speech delivered by the Head Pacificator of Ireland , at the Conciliation Hall , on the occasion ofhis illustrious Liberator ' 3 visit to the Saxon Viceroy in his aldermanic robes . { From our own Reporter—exclusive . ) " My countrymen , —If the pulsations of my exuberant soul were smothered and held in subjection b y the august and overawing presence of our illustrious leader and chief , our immortal Liberator , there is no superhuman reason in the all-seeing eye of God or man why I should restrain the exasperations of an overflowing generous Irish heart in his absence . ( Loud cheers . ) Who , I say , but a renegade refugee of a reprobate rapscalion degenerate ' Young Irelander '—( great cheers)—could behold his majestic
charmed form , robed in the magnificent garments , wove , as it were , out of Ireland ' s exalted affections , and spun by Ireland ' s patriotic love of liberty . ( Tremendous cheering . ) A feeling ofan ecstatic pulsation , and internal sympathetic joy seizing the inmost recesses ot every interstice of the mo ? t debased and sluggish heart . ( Vehement cheering . ) My friends , when we east an evolutionary , perspective , scientific glance at the stupendous and pregnant past , how can we do otherwise than , exulting , pronounce our heart-bounding adulation of the glorious , pious , and immortal ( sensation ) leader who encompassed the rational and peaciful mind of his own cherished , loved land , into one vast and overwhelming category of indefinite ethereal expanse , ( loud cheers , ) and
precipitated it , like a mighty avalanche , with a terrific , but peaceful and ponderous grandeur ( great applause ) Upon ihe benighted mind , and * worse than heathen Euyptian darkness of the Saxon oppressor . ( Cheers . ) His harlequin magic hangs like a benehcient and gorgeous mantle over all the regions of the globe , from the Punjab to the Giant ' s Causeway—from Hong Kong to the Land ' s End . ( Great cheering , ) —enlightening and illuminating the morbid and benighted understanding of the native tribes of barbarians yet unborn , ( cheers , ) and spreading and _inspiring a salubrious mystification , encompassing the whole civilized and uncivilized world . ( Loud cheers . ) Must we . not exclaim with the immaculate and ever-adorable Si . Paul , mother
of Moses , and the most inspired prophet of ancient times , when heathen mythology and Egyptian darkness enveloped all the regions of the habitable globe —( tremendous cheering )—must we not exclaim with liim , I say , Proceed , O mystic prophet with thy mission and thy wondrous works . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Is tiiere , I ask , one peripatetic conception , impulse or pulsation , lurking in the glowing heart ofan Irishman thatdoesnot redound with transcendant , effulgent and incipient gratulation as he paints to his eyes' fancy the majesty of his divine and adorable chief , going to receive the courteous exchanges of civilized urbanity and royal etiquette from the illustrious representative of our ever loved and adorable QueenViotoria . I call for nine eheers for that ani mated imprint , that infinitive corporeality of generous and unsullied royalty . ( Loud and tremendouschecring and waving of bats . ) Did ' nfc I know tho soul-stirring
ennobling theme that would make every Irish heart reverberate and echo thc pure sentiments of unsophisticated _loyality for the first English Queen that ever possessed thc feminine delicacy and amiable tenderness of lovel y woman —( great cheering )—and oh ! who but the veriest , foulest traitor , with a poisoned heart ol a venomous viper or stinging hornet , couid think of excoriating hor royal diadem , or causing a palpitating pulsation in her royal bosom . ( Great cheering , and Pikes . ) Pikes is it ; is it pikes you say ; eternal emasculation to your coward soiu , you undulating varmint , _IVom . the stinking purlieus and foetid cesspool of the traitorous , regicide , patricide , fratricide , suicidal NATION . ( Groans . ) When did 1 ever mention pikes but as the emblem ; of Irish love and adoration of my illustrious and ¦ divine chief , and as the angelic and mystic type of Irish loysiit and tb peaceful aHDirflUona of Irian
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hearts palpitating for the regeneration of their own loved land ! . ( Great cheering . ) Yes , my countrymen , take into your glowing conception and proud retrospective-imagination , the exalted position that Ireland has achieved under the peaceful guardianship of the apostolic liberator . ( Cheers ,: and Potatoes . ) Potatoes is it ; where is the spuriouB Irishman , or where is thereal unmitigated and unalloyed descendant of St . Patrick —( Loud cheers)—whose _sordid mind would stray from the ethics of supernatural metaphysics , and the study of the natural history and geological position of his loved Ireland , into the foul and murky mazes and unexplored regions of the potato field . ( Loud cheering . ) I was drawing your minds to the contemplation of a more
magnificent aud holy speotacle , the emission of your loved chief to testify Ireland ' s loyalty , gratitude and love of moral force , at the feet of the representative of royality , whose arms hold half the civilized world in subjection to her royal will—( loud cheers)— -and who , in the midst of such * gorgeous aspirations , can allow his animal thoughts to . stray from the ethereal world of vast , and mighty , and boundless conception to the dark and unexplored reigions of vegetable science . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Oh that you could all feel as I do , or that imagination could furnish inspired words to convey the effect upon Ireland ' s mind of his super-eminent , super-excellent , superabundant pulchretude . ( Great cheering , ) Yes , my beloved countrymen , it has so totally ignified my
masseratedmicrocosom _. and reduced my corporeality to an infinity of sensuality and materialism , that it transcends all the herculean power of the metaphysician , to give verbose utterance to my moribund conceptions upon so glorious , ao inspiring , so ominous , so portentous an occasion for Ireland . ( Great cheering . ) To what shall I compare his magic influence ? Is it not like the supernatural power of the moon upon the mighty expanse of boundless ocean ? Yes , does not the electrifying spark of love of Ireland , in his glowing generous heart attract every fibre of latent affection from the breast ot Irishmen , as the , moon attracts the swelling bosom of ocean . Thus incorporating the refreshing waters of the mind into a vast and incomprehensible deluge , rushing and
overwhelming Saxon prejudice , as the ocean , by the moon s influence breaks her legitimate landmarks . ( Three cheers for the moon . ) And is not the allegory complete ? Is not the metaphor strictly applicable , for is not the ocean the inspired messenger between our expatriated brothers in transatlantic regions , and their loved kindred , from whom Saxon oppression has severed them . ( Cheers . ) And do they not send joyous and cheering messages of exulting and transporting joy upon the boundless wave , that comes from the coast of Labrador , unbroken until it is scattered into spray at the foot of the Liberator ' s native hills . ( Three cheers for Labrador . ) The Head Pacificator retired amid a hurricane of applause .
Thk Frateriutt Of Nations. — The Fraternal Democrats Will Celebrate Their First Annual Festival, *» * , Ft I I A* 1 *• •
Thk Frateriutt of Nations . — The Fraternal Democrats will celebrate their first annual festival , _*» * , ft I I A * 1 *•
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on Monday next , aeptemoer _zisc , tne anniversary of the proclamation of the French Republio , 1792 , by holding a public supper at White Conduit House , Islington . The following members and friends will take part in the proceedings;—Dr . Berrier Fontaine ( chairman ) , T . Clark of the Chartist Executive ( vice-chairman ) , Colonel O'Borski , Julian Harney , Ernest Jones , Carl Schapper . J . A . Michelot , P . M'Grath , S . Kydd , T . M . Wheeler , Dr . M'Douall and David Ross . Democrats of all nations are invited to take part in this Festival . Supper on table at eight o ' clock , precisely . Tickets may be had of G . J . Harney , Northern Star Office ; T . Clark asd T . M . Wheeler , 83 , Dean-street , Soho ; S . Ford ,
Knightsbridge ; E . Stallwood , Hammersmith ; J . Moy , 4 , Paget-place , Waterloo-road ; C . Keen , 7 , Poplar-place , New Kent-road ; J . Overton , 14 , Tabernacle-row , City-road ; J . Shaw , 24 , Gloucesterstreet , Commercial-road , East ; Mr . Arnott , 8 , Middlesex-place , Somers Town ; Mr . Dron , Dyer , Oakleystreet , Lambeth ; Mr . Gathard , 5 , Grange-walk , Bermondsey New-road ; Mr . Parks , 22 , Little Windmill-street ; Mr . Pakes , Hereford-street , Lisson-grove : Messrs . Randall and Mills , Tower Hamlets ; Mr . Brewerton , Greenwich ; Messrs . _Skelton aad Souter , and at all the Chartist localities . _% 3 _~ Admission after supper ( at nine o clock ) Three Pence .
* # » A committee meeting to perfect the arrangements will be held at White Conduit House , on Sunday evening at ten o ' clock . Persons holdings tickets will please fo make a return at that time and place ; or , before eight o ' clook the same evening to Mr . Wheeler .
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CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY . SHARES , £ 2 10 s . Meetings fbr enrolling members are held as follows : — SUNDAT EVENING . South London Chartist Hall , 115 , Blackfriars-road : at half-past six o ' clock . —City Chartist Hall , 1 , Turnagain-lane : at six o ' clock . — Westminster : at the Parthenium Club Rooms , 72 , St . Martin ' s-lane- at half-past seven . —Somers Town : at Mr . Duddrege ' s Bricklayers' Arms , Tonbridge-street , New-road , at half-past seven . —Tower Hamlets : atthe Whittington and Cat , Church-row , Bethnal-green , at six o ' clock precisely . —Emmett ' s Brigade : at the Rock Tavern , Lisson-grove . at eight o ' clock precisely . —Marylebone : at the Coach Painters' Arms , Circus-stieet , at halfpast seven . Gray ' s Inn Road , Mason ' s Arms , Britannia-street . — Hammersmith : at No . 2 , Little Valeplace , at ten in the forenoon . —Newcastle-upon-Tyne : at the house of Martin Jude , Sun Inn , Side , from seven till nine . —Leicester : at 87 , Church-gate , at six . — Bradford : Woolcombers' Arms Inn , Hopestreet , at five .
_MONOAT EVENING . Rochester : at the Victory Inn , at _halt-past seven . —Camberwell : at the Montpelier Tavern , Walworth at eight o ' clock precisely . — Kensington : at eight o ' clock , at the Duke of Sussex . —Limehouse : at the Brunswick Hall , Ropemaker ' s Fields , at 8 o ' clock , Leicester : at No . 17 , Archdeden-lane , at seven o ' clock . — Chepstow : at the Temperance Hotel , Bank Avenue , at eight o ' clock . —Armley : at the house of Mr . William Oates , boot and shoemaker ,
Armley Town-gate , at eight o ' clock . —Liverpool : at eight o ' clock , at Mr . Parrell _' s Temperance Hotel , 4 , _Cazneau-street . — Belper : at the house of George Wigley , the Dusty Miller , Field-head , from seven till nine . —Bristol : at No . 16 , Horse-fair , at eight o ' clock in the even ing . —Darlington : at John Moss ' s , No . 24 , Union-street , at half-past seven . —Chorley Wood Common : at Mr . Barbor ' s at seven o clock . Rickmansworth : at the Cart and Horses , at seven o ' clock . —Mle End : at the Golden Cross , at seven o ' clock .
TUESDAY EVESINQ . Greenwich : at Mr . Paris ' s , Cold Bath , at eight o ' clock . _—vhelsea : Cheshire Cheese , Grosvenor-row , at eight o clock . Whitechapel : Brass Founders ' Arms , Tuesday evening at eight o ' clock . WEDNESDAY EVENING . Aberdeen : the office-bearers meet at half-past seven , at No . 1 , Flour Mill-lane Hall . —Brighton : No . 2 , at No . 3 , Charles-street , at eight o ' clock .
THURSOAY EVENING . Shoreditch at Chapman ' s Coffee Ilouse , Churchstreet , at eight o ' clock . Old Kent . Road , at the Bee-Hive Tavern , Cobourg Road , at eight . Marylebone . —Working Man ' s Hall . —An adjourned meeting of sharholders , ofthe above Hall , wiU take place on Tuesday next , September 26 th , at the Coach Painter ' s Arms , Cir _.-us-street , New-road , at 8 o clock in the evening , when it is to be hoped , every shareholder will attend , as business of importance will be brought forward . The Eastern Philanthropic Emergency Society . —An adjourned meeting will bo held on Sunday evening next , at Mr . Drake ' s , Standard of Liberty , Brick-lane , Spitalfields ; chair to be taken at eignt o ' clock .
Tower Hamlets—A general meeting of the members and friends of the Whittington and Cat locality National Charter Association , will be held on Sunday evening , at eight o clock . South London Chartist Hall . —Dr . M'Douall will lecture in this hall on Sunday ( to-morrow ) evening , at eight o ' clock . Metropolitan Committee . —The next meeting will be held at the office of tbe Chartist Co-operative Land Society , 83 , Dean-street , Soho , on Sunday afternoon next , September 20 , at three o eloek precisely . South London _Chastist Hall , 115 , Blackfriarsroad , on Sunday evening next , September 20 , Dr . M'Douall will lecture—subject , " The Game Laws , " to commeneo at sewn precisely .
Mr ; P . M'Grath will lecture at the Finsbury Li- ] terary and Mechanics' Institution , 6 , Frederickplace , Goswell-road _, at half-past seven o ' clock . Tub Land ! _-sau Lani > t—A public meeting will be held at the Flora Tavern , Barnsbury Park , _Islington , on Tuesday afternoon , September 22 , at three o ' clock precisely , to take into _consideration the advantages of the Small Farm System as propounded by thc Chartist Co-operative Land Society . Messrs . M'Grath , 1 Clark , and other advocates will attend and address the meeting .
Westminster-A meeting will be held at the Parthenium , 72 , St . Martin ' s-lano , on Sunday evcnin «; next , September 20 , chair to be taken at half- " past seven precisely , to consider the proprietv of removing the usual weekly meeting of this _Imlvty of 1 n _" , nal Charte « " Association , and this district ot the Lhartist Co-operative Land Sooiety , to the Assembly Rooms , 83 , Dean _^ treet , Soho . all members are requested to be present _.
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNITED TRADES FOR THE PROTECTION OF INDUSTRY . The Central Committee met at their office , 30 , Hyde-street , Bloomsbury , oa Monday , September 14 , T . S . Duncombe , M . P . in the chair . A mass of letters were read by the secretary , including the following from Leicester , containing the adhesion ofthe sock frame-work knitters , numbering _seventy-two ; from Clithero , containing the adhesion © f the powerloom _, weavers , numbering three hundred and fifty ; from the Potteries , containing the adhesion of the China figure makers , _numberinKahundred and _thirtythree from Manchester , containing the adhesion of the Tamworth small wave weavers and winders ,
numbering eighty . five ; also the MeaBham small ware weavers and winders , numbering one hundred ; from Mr . Jacobs , Scotch missionary , giving a favourable account ofhis tour amongst the trades bodies in that country , and their eager manifestations in favour of general union , co-operation of strength , . mutual support and self-employment ; from Mr . Gimblett , detailing his mission to the nail makers of Lye , who have now commenced manufacturing on their owu account , under the auspices of the United Trades , reporting also his interview with the nail makers ot Belper , and the silk glove makers of Duffreed ; from Mr . William Robson , reporting the result of his mission to the shoe-makers of Holywell ; he had interviews with both employers and employed , and a successful termination of the strike was the result . The following resolution was unanimously adopted : —
" That in all cases wnere a diatTict committee shall be established , the secretary be hereby authorised to supply such committee ( carriage free ) with a sufficient number of copies of rules , at one penny each copy , as shall meet the demand of such district .
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Destructive Fire In Southwark.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN SOUTHWARK .
A Most Destructive Lire Broke Out Last E...
A most destructive lire broke out last evening , at about 20 minutes before 10 o ' clock , on the extensive premises occupied by Messrs . Sadler , Furth , and Ross , in Great Guildford-street , Southwark . The premises in question are of a three-fold character , embracing mustard , oil-cake , and _saw . mills . Together , they cover a space of ground considerably exceeding an acre . The three erections form one continuous building , and the machinery of each department is _^ worked . by one _ _colossal engine , in shaft in connexion with which is a prominent object on the Surrey side of the river .
The fire was first di scovered at the time above stated . It was confined to the mustard mills , but upon that portion of the premises it had already obtained a stong hold , even before it was observed . Messengers were instantly dispatched for the fireengines , and the best means at hand were adopted to keep down the flames , but before the arrival of any assistance beyond that which the immediate locality afforded , the whole range of the premises were involved in one mass of fire . . A great scarcity of water prevailed for some time , and when tbe engines armed , Mr , Braidwwd _, at once seeing that it would be impossible to save any portion of the mills , directed his efforts to the salvage of the surrounding property . In this he was eminently successful , and before eleven o ' clock the fire was entirely subdued .
Nothing is at present known as to the origin of the fire beyond the locality in which it occurred .
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Ireland . —Relief Meetino 3 . —The baronial meetings for the _employment of the people under the Labour Rate Act have commenced . The first was held on Monday last at Toomevara , for the barony of Upper Ormond and county of Tipperary . Upwards of £ 7 _, 000 were voted for public works . It appears , however , thatthe Act contains no compulsory clause to enforce the making of a rate , and a deputation having waited on the Lord Lieutenant to direct his attention to the defeat , has since come to this country to represent the necessity of amending it to the heads of thc Government , and of calling a meeting of Parliament in November for that purpose _^
A Meeting of the O Connellites in Belfast , waa held on Monday , for the purpose of voting unlimited confidence in _, the "Liberator . " The Young Ireland party however mustered so strongly , that the resolution was not carried . It was an awfully uproarious meeting , and anything but an illustration of " moral force . " The Evening Mail in an article entitled " Who is the Chief Governor of Ireland ? " charges Mr . O'Connell with preventing Mr . Smith O'Brien ' s restoration to the Commission of the peace . All the other Repeal magistrates have been restored , and Mr . O'Brien ' s continued expulsion can only be
attributed to the O'Connell influence at the Castle . The journals of this morning ( Saturday ) contains lengthy accounts of riots in various parts of Ireland by the impoverished labourers , who are assembling in immense numbers with a view of intimidating the magistrates into the granting of publio works . These riots have been general wherever presentment sessions have been held . Others have been caused by attacks on flour mills , and endeavours to prevent the food , for want of which the people are starving , from being sent out of the country . The military and police are , of course , very busy .
On the 15 th inst ., the Duke of Athol expired at his residence , St . John ' s-wood . The late Duke never was married , and is succeeded inthe title and extensive family estates by the soconn Baron Glenlyon . The Earl of Yarborough died suddenly on the 10 th , at Vigo , while cruising in his j acht , the Kestrel . His death creates a vacancy in the representation of Lincolnshire , as his son _^ Lord _Worsley , one ot the present membors , succeeds him in the peerage , Peckham Fair . —This ancient fair is about to be revived after a discontinuance of nearly twenty-five years . The fair will be opened on Monday next , at twelve o clock , and continue for three days . The scene of festivity will be situated on the eastern side of the Surrey Canal , near the bridge , Peckham . A Boileh Explosion- took place on Tuesday at the factory of Messrs . Thompson , Treforest , by which one man was killed and two others much scalded , but hopes areentertained of their recovery .
The late Forgery . —Yesterday a final examination , before the Lord Mayor , took p lace as to the charge of forgery against Captain Richardson , late Chairman of the Worcester , Lenbury , and Ludlow Railway . The prisoner was fully committed , and will be tried at the next criminal sessions , which commence on Monday next . ' Caution to the Chartists generally , and all persons who hold premises where the Chartists meetings are held . We , the Chartists of Brighton , deem it our imperative duty to caution our brethren against a person of the name of James Osborne , b y trade a Currier , ( we believe now residing in Museum-street , Bloomsbury , London , ) whohas been in this town within these few days ; and in consequence of re presenting himself as one ofthe Chartist bod y , aiid stating that he expected to receive the sum of £ 1 from Mr . John Good , a member of this locality , and
inquiring for tbe northern Star which he was supplied with ; the landlord of the " Artichoke" ( the house where we meet , ) was induced to give him credit to the amount often shillings , until he attempted to persuade Mr , Akehurst , our worthy host , not to belong to the Land Society any longer ; which led Mr . Akehurst to doubt Mr . Osborne ' s sincerity , and ou inquiring of the members on their next meeting night , he found Osborne ' s statements to be quite false ; and moreover that he had behaved very dishonourably to the Brighton Chartists on former occasions . He has decamped without paying Mr . Akehurst and others , therefore we do hope the Chartists will discard him wherever he may intrude himself among them , as he is most decidedly an enemy to our cause . " William Flower , George Giles , Ilenry Mitchell , James Williams . Henry Bourne , William Lashford , _George Page , Members of the General Council of the National Charter Association .
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Royal Polytechnic Institution . —There is now exhibiting at this establishment an invention of great importance for the purpose of ventilating mines . As a description of it might be interesting to our readers , we give it in as few words aa possible . It consists of a spacious pair of chambers , iuserted iuto large tanks filled with water—a water-fount , somewhat after the manner in which gasometers are constructed . These chambers are suspended in sueh a way that a reciprocating motion may be given to them , on receiving whioh , a series of inlet ami
outlet valves are brought into operation , and are so arranged , that as soon as the inlet chamber begins to descend , the outlet valves open , and the air is ejected , and so on , alternately , a continuous circulation is being kept up ; tbe down-east shaft _supplying the necessary quantity of fresh air to thc mine , during the extraction of the vitiated atmosphere by the upcast shaft . The inventor states , that a chamber of sixteen feet in diameter ,, with an opening of fifty feet area would everv minute remove 40 , 200 cubic leet of l ' oul air j and _' this , he-states , can be- accompl ished at a trifling expenditure of power .
very Theatre Royal , _Mahylebone . _—Notwithstanding the continuance of the tine summer weather , and the creat out-of-door _attractions for ihe " play-goers at Vauxhall , Cremorne , and the Surrey Zoologica l w ardens , the lessee ' s good fortune continues iu the ascendant , as _evidenced by tho _highly crowded state of thc bouse , attracted by the excellent acting of 4 s * rs . Cowle , Rayner , and Mrs . Campbell and the mirth moving comic humour of those , favourite children of Monius .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 19, 1846, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_19091846/page/8/
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