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      Forthcoming Meetings. Bibmisonim.—Thc Me...

      n-m-OTnoHA _M-AU mee »•¦* h _,-d at . the Salutation .. . « . n the 2 U _lastat _. t , it was unanimously reeed :-ed : — - * - mm ana * , a branch of ihe N-tivraal Charter Association he 11 at tl at the above inn . i w _j ! i w _j ! ve members immediately enrolled their names II pail paid their subscriptions . : ] : mf ' mALFi * - H > s . —Oo Tuesday la ? t Mr Jones lectured « ue tue Royal Oak , _Fleur de-lis-court , Wheeler-street , is , vea vety attentive audience .

      _BBnaBitonxGniii—At a very numerous meeting held tthe the People ' s Hall , on Sunday evening last , Mr _Miodwodwin in the chair , Mr Mantle delivered a most He ate and interesting lecture on the * Land and the _wait-iaiter . * A vote of thanks was given to the lecturer , md tld the meeting broke up . 'TeiTeiosm mn . —At a meetingof the members of this - _* anc _* ancb , on Monday , the lothinstant , avoteof thanks Has uas unanimously passed to Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., ir hir his manly and able refutation of the calumnies ot viK vile and corrnpt press .

      No Nottixoham . — -Mr Dixon Ifctnred on Monday -eekeek in the Guildhall , in this town , toa very crowded iidiadience . Mr D . lectured at Radford on the , _Mowueei *» evening . Th The Deed of _Settlemest was brought to this _tiwniwn and received the signatures of many members no Nb Monday and Tuesday ; at Derby on Wednesday ; tt Lt Loughborough je-jterday - , and will be at Leicester ii da day and _Ut-marvovr . —Nottingham Riview , Friday . P « _Pelycott , the' Rambler * to llerrinsgate . is no wan Qtimnmateof the Nottingham Union-house .

      _Bi _Blacsbdbk—The yearly general meetingof thia Kiranranch was beld at the Old S ' _xe Honse , Chapelttreftreet , on Sunday , the 21 st , Mr Anthony Artnstead iu tlu the chair . After the balance sheet of local ac-( onionnts forthe year had been read , the following _^ officers were appointed : —Anthony Annstead . presill-nl-nt ; _George Norton , treasurer ; JbhnG . Newbeg-! 'injing , secretary for the next twelve months ; and _irn-Thomas Chew , William flail , William Howarth , _IfoSohn Smith , and _Geoigo Smith , committee-men for LLho . bc next , six months . The meeting was a bumper . _!\ VoVe number nearly 800 members , aad have paid meaiearly £ 1 , 300 . npon 2 , 500 shares . It wasnnani * _immwusly agreed that 2-. be the Iocal . Ievy forthe next I twtwelve months , and also earned by acclaraation that

      £ 2 £ 20 . be sent to the directors to assist in defraying ththe expences of prosecuting the proprietors of the M _Mascdebtes . Exauiseb , for ita scandalous attacks onon the character of onr much esteemed champion and _leileader , _Feargns O'Connor , Esq ., M . P . After a V ' Vt ti of thanks to the cbainnar . the meeting- _se » paparated . The secretary haa received a good supply of of new rules , which may be had of him at Norton ' s OCommercial Coffee House , Back-lane , top of King-Ftftivet , on Saturday and Sunday afternoon from fire toto fight o ' clock in the evening . Goroib _Mms- —On Wednesday evening , Novembeber 10 th , a meeting was got up by the members of

      ththe ; Georgie Mills branch , in the Odd Fellows'Hall , _SISlateford , for thc purpose of giving the inhabitants ofofthat place and its surrounding neighbourhood , an _opopportunity of hearing Mr Samuel Kydd deliver a ! e ec'ure upon the Land and its capabilities . Abont _bibalf-past seven o ' clock , Mr Richard Bnrkett was _nrnnanimonslycalled to the chair . Mr Kydd on Hairing was received witb cheers . He delivered a most abble lecture amidst manifestations of approval from tithe meeting . After having awarded thanks to Mr _lEyddaad uie chairman , the meeting dispersed . GissTow * j , sear Dumfries . —At the weekly _meetitin-iof this branch , on Friday , November 12 th , the fdbllo-nng resolution was unanimously passed : —>

      That we eater into a sahscriptioa to assist in defraying _asny expenses that may be incurred by Ur O'Connor , in pprusecnting the libellers of his character . Several members subscribed Cd . each before _leavling the place of meeting . W 00 BLET- —A braneh of the Land Company has 1 been formed at this place , nnder very encouraging 1 circumstances . _SawsBBY . —Mr Donovan delivered an able lecture 1 on the' Land and the Charter ; ' at tbis place , on the ! llth inst . PAMHAU .-On Friday , Nov . 12 th , Dr M'Douall ¦ _delivered a lecture in the Odd Fellows' Hall , on the ' Lind Plan , and the Land and L tbour Bank . ' The "Doctor spoke for nearly two boars , and was loudly applauded .

      Boijos . —We bad a very able and talented lecture _ife " vered here on Sunday week , by a journeyman m _whanie , from Manchester , on the 'Land and Labour Bank . ' The lecturer handled tha question in a masterly and an elegant manner . IJbil . — -The following officers have been elected : — Jfr Leach , secretary ; MrBrankling , treasurer ; Mr Stephens and Mr Laveriek , trustees ofthe auxiliary to the National Land and Labonr Bank . Stockpobt- —In consequence of the depression ef trade in Stockport and the country in general , ithas been xesrived to reduce the sum of membership for tha plnusb , to be balloted for at Mr Woodhouse ' s , on ihe llth of December , to one shilling per member . The numb-r of mersbars will ba forty-two , at one shilling each , instead of twenty-two at two _shiUiags each , as stated in the Star of Saturday last . Persons wishing to avail themselves of this opportunity , most make a speedy _application to Mr Woodhouse . No . _i , Angel-street , Stockport .

      BttSTON . —At a very full meeting at Mr Linney ' s , Walt Shovel , _Bilstan _, Mr Parker in the chair , after the reading of tbe Stab , D . _iddy Richards delivered an able and interestiag lecture oa the 'Why and "wherefore of the hostility- against the Land Plan . ' -The _lecturer gave general _satisfaction . Afr Lianey intends delivering a lecture 0 * 4 Snnday evening nest , on the « Six Points of the Charter , ' and earnestly leg ests the members of the Land Company and Cn . trr . er Association to attend . Petition sheets will , in fntnre , lie at the abovehouse for signatures . Parties in the Bilston district are _requettsd to return the petition sheets which have been entrusted to their care to Mr Linney .

      _Lasd _Asn Chabtoj M-kiixg at Timro-r _, Friday , 19-h Nov . —Mr W . Rowcliffe in tbe chair . JHes > rs J . West ( Lecturer , of Macclesfield . ) W . J . P . Wilkinson ( ex-mayor of Exeter ) , and P . J . O'Brien ( of Exeter } , atten led at tbe Guildhall to explain the People ' s Charter , but in consequence of the mayor refus ' n _*; to allow the people ' s own ball for the purpose they had dearly at heart , _sfter a few able re-• _EarkafromMr West on the Land , and a refutation by Mr O' Brien ofa doctrine ( extensively broached in this _locality ) that small boldincs in Ireland are the great cause of all the evils entailed an that unfortunate country—it was unanimously resolved that the meeting adjourn to the large room of tbo Half"Monn Inn . The chairman , wbo has identified

      him-Be . f with the people on all occasions , read his worship a pretty lesson , aud concluded by stating , that he doubted not but the people , ere long , would study their own interest , and placemen in office who would not _irifle with their wisheV These sentiments were loudly _api-lauded . The people then proceeded ta the p ' ace appointed . Mr O'Brien _dissected the document called the People's Charter . He entered _minntelj into each point—Universal Suffrage , Annual ParKa _* _ra-aU , Vote—by Ballot , Equal Electoral Districts , Payment of Members , and _No Property Qualification , "M r West on comine forward was received witb lend cheers . H . * said—Yon have just beard what we claim as our rights . We don't want tbem fer the sole _benifi ; of a class ; in a word , onr end and aim is to

      destroy _class-. _' ecislation , whicb we believe to be the source from whence all the evils that afflict this e- - > untry flow . Every class in England 18 at this . crime-it represented except the labonr class , while & minute ' s consideration will convince the most captions , that capital witbout labour is _useless , in fact , that labour makes everything valuable . If Buck be the case , is it to be wondered at , ifthe sonsof labonr take every legal and constitutional means to effect what is deemed of each importance , and what can be of more importance than that which is obtained with the other points of the Charter would enable ns to remove the destitution and misery which pervades the kingdom . The suffrage is our right , and aa such we should demand it He tben ably expounded tbe

      other points of the Charter , to the manifest delight o ? tte a « _s ? eajbly , a 3 their repeated cheers showed . His address occupied over two hours in delivery , and concluded as follows : — ' Men of Tiverton , as yon bave put your hands to the plough of Chartism , look not back , let ' onward' be your watchword , and when the day _anaia arrives for trying yonr strength against Whigs and Tones , I hope to hear of your electiug to represent you , in the Commons _Hon-e of _Par'iameut , the man _^ of yonr own choice , Mr Julian Harney . ' The mention of Mr Harney * ** name was received witb _vehement cheering , that lasted for _several minutes , during which Mr West sat down . W . J . P . Wilkinson , Esq , then came forward , and was received with lond cheers . Ue said , ' Men of

      Tiverton—Yonr struggle is tor political and _religious _liberty . A short time since with Mr Ilarney . I aided in kindling - * - little _fl-me ; right happy am I to sf e it barn iw brightly as I do this night , it shows me that Bead l . _ai beea sown in good ground . _Whi-s and Tories are excited at the name of the Charter . They have been tried and found wanting—oa the hustings they we * e found wanting . I have more satisfaction in mixing _\* ith the men of liver'on , than in any other pla ' ce . _' a _* I find in them a growing principle . With _ttsperttrt- tbe National Land Company , never was the e _suchja scheme introduced since the Children of * kr * d to * k possession of the land of Canaan ; and while r . 11 'list subject , let me observe to you , if you ean but enlist the females in the goad came , all will be _liiht—tiiey will be equal gainers with you . I hope

      they will bear in mind that this majestic scheme wili bi ihe means of rescuing thousands who would bave to _iishniit to the tender mercies of a poor law bastile . Mr W ilkimon theR _re-ated his visits to O ' Connorville and L ? wi » _m _" s . Mr W . referred to tbe existing distress—he be'ieved it would _make parties examine the Land Plan , who otherwise would not Some said the land cannot be bad , but so long as money was _available , 1-nd con'd be procured . Mr W . spoke for _thre- * parts 0 ? an hour , earnestly entreating ef the mm ii- Tiver ' 03 to cling tothe principles ofthe _PcopU ' s Chart cr . Votes of thanks were passed to the t •' nirman , Mean * West , Wilkinson , and O'Brien . MrM NeiJi , in a neat speech , called on his fellow _workins meats rail v round their Association . The neeHn : * then separated .

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      fivclanfe THE IRISH NATKWAl _COOKCIt— ' OtO IBBt & HD ' AND -YOnKOIREtASD * IS THB NORTH—IHE ' _lAST TBIBUMS' — TWELVE ASSASSISATIOKS !— COEECtON AKD REBBW 0 S ! ( From our own Correspondent . ) Dunns , 22 nd Nov . The past week was particularly dull in our metropolis . The Irish National Conncil concluded its deliberations , I regret to add , with very little thanks from the pnblic , and as far as I can learn , with very little satisfaction to themselves , collectively or individually . Creditable things had been expected from them , aud when the tidings ran through the nation

      that the gentlemen of Ireland , of every creed , and of every shade of politics , were to meet together in Dublin , and confer with each other on the best and speediest way of relieving the present miseries of their suffering fellow-couatrymen ; and devising measures for the future welfare of their native land , people ' s hearts beat high with hope , and men said ttat at \ cngibttvefe \\ spirit of bigotry was giving way to patriotism and genuine nationality , and that the nnited efforts of Irishcommons and gentry should succeed in those places where , hitherto , the cry of Irish sufferings bad been shut ont , or heard with indifference and contempt . We fancied that the woful events of those times would make men open their eyes to their own interest , and tbat , at length , the

      high ones of onr land had discovered , that whilst their humbler fellow-Irishmen were fat & ishing and discontented , there could be no permanent security for themselves . But how sadly have we been disappointed . As I said in my last communication , these men travelled to Dublin . They met day after day . They talked and argued , and proposed this and that , and wept over the woes of their common country , and the afflictions of their starving brethren , but they did not aay that those things Bhould " continue no mere . Thev did not swear before heaven " and earth that tbe Irish peasant should not die of bunser , whilst every bonrships of all nations were sailing from her seaports freighted with provisions and luxuries for the people of other lands . They did not

      vow that entire villages should no more be rased to the ground , to make pasturage for sheep and _bnllocks _^ whilst the ex patriated tenantry were flung out to rot on the highways , or jammed by hundreds into filthy _merefcaat ships to die ' on the . trackless ocean , or spin out , with broken hearts , a few . sad years or weeks in a strange and inhospitable clime . They did not say these things . In fact , they bad better have remained at home , than come here to manifest their apathy , or their ignorance , or their incompetence . An Irish Parliament ! and many indeed were foolish enough to look to this assembly as the nucleus of an Irish Parliament . Ob , if our senate , to be in College-green , be formed of Bueh material as ' made np the sum' of onr late Irish National Council , may Heaven defend ns from Irish Parliaments !

      The' Old Ireland , ' or _O'ConBollite party , in Dublin _, are singing _pseans at the defeat which the' Confederates ' experienced last week in the North . From the moment I heard it announced that those gentry were to make their bow before a Belfast audience , I-prognosticated the issue ; and the event proved that I did not err in my anticipations . Never was there a more signal failure . Catholic and Protestant , Orangeman and Repealer , all raised tbeir hands against the luckless ' juveniles' and whilst ' clenchingnails in the coffin' of Young Ireland , secured a decided triumph for John O'Connell ! The scenes enacted in the northern capital on that memorable day , though highly discreditable to the goed taste and feelings of the one party , cannot fail of

      convincing the others tbat they ate not the' mem vot Belfast , ' and that whilst spurned by the old Repealers _, as traitors and' stags . ' the Orangemen and TJnionista of Ulster are not likely to be cajoled by their long-winded yarns , abont nationhood , and embryo-Irish glory , nor frightened out of their own dogged ways by the flash of swords , which are not yet manufactured , or the croaking of war-songs written by the Evas , ' and' Kates , ' and' Marys , ' of the Notion newspaper . As I bave just said , the reception of Smith O'Brien and his colleagues , at the Belfast Ilall , on Monday , proves the futility of any descent on the north by - Yeung Ireland , ' at least for the present ; and the events ef Thursday were still more provokingly unfortunate . From the violent

      conduct of the 'Old Irelanders' on Monday , the other party anticipated something more unequivocal tban ' moral force' arguments on Thursday . _Aocordinsly , a Mr Rea , one ofthe leading Confederates of Belfast , appeared before a magistrate to make affidavit that he suspected a breach of the peace was meditated on the part of the O'Connell party , and he therefore claimed the protection ofthe laws for himself and fellow-confederates , at their second meeting , which was to * come off'at the theatre onThuTSday evening , accordingly , a strong posse of constables under command of _chief-unstable Lindsay , was posted at the entrance of the theatre , but lo ! when the confederate phalanx made their appearance they were refnsed admittance into the bonse , for which

      they had paid down the - needful , ' the officer stating that as affidavit had been made that a breach of the peace wa 9 anticipated be had orders from the local magistrates , Messrs Yerner , Fer _^ usson , Thompson , and McNeile , not to suffer any person to enter the theatre on that day I It was in vain that Smith O'Brien and Co . argued and remonstrated , and fumed and threatened law proceedings . The police were inexorable ; no one was permitted to pass the barrier , and the disap . pointed Confederates , mortified and crest-fallen , had to retrace their steps to their hotel , amid the outeriep , and curses , and violence of ah enraged mob of mingled Orangemen and Conciliation Hall Repealers . On Friday , however , another attempt was

      made to exhibit in the same place , and though the performers were fortunate to gain admittance to the stage , their efforts were signally unsuccessful . Roars , curses , vociferations , 'Kentish fire , ' the music of watchmen ' s ' rattles ' accompanied by vollies of ignited gunpowder and filthy missiles , sainted their eyes and ears , and after abandoning all hope of obtaining a ' bearing , 'thediscomfittedheroesmade their conge , and with much difficulty made tbeir way homewards , sainted again by kicks , buffets , _jostlinge , and other parting tokens , from the very ? moral' Old Ire-Isfidera of the Ulster metropolis . So much for ¦ Y oung Irelandism' in the north ! Smith O'Brien , however , avows his determination to * see the last of it , " and persists in his resolution to carry the' Green

      Flag Flying' into all the other important towns of Ulster ; but I rather think now , that they have ' smelt powder * in Belfast , their ardour willcool dowa and they will rest satisfied with tbe hairbreadth ' scapes' they havemade _, until brighter heurs will shine on their already rent and battered banner . _JohnO'Cennell . it seems , is to sit for the city of L < merick ; and Kilkenny , city , for whicb ha was also returned atthe late general election , is to be canvassed by Mr Alexander M'Carthy , a gentlemen of rank and respectability in the county of Cork . He is , I need not add , a staunch adherent ofthe house of O'Connell , and in case be offers himself fer tbe representation of the ' Marble City , ' will be sure of an easy triumph amongst the 'boys of

      Kilkenny , where Old Irelaudism reigns neatly as rampant as ever . There is scarcely any news stirring in Dublin . Alderman Butt , Alderman Egan , and Dr Gray , of the Freeman , have tendered their resignation as members ot our corporation , and we are likely to have hot work at the election of their successors , Mr Gavan Dufiy , of the Nation too , will be likely to be sent from the Town Council , to attend more closely to his affairs atthe council of the Confederation . Tbe collection for the ' O'Connell Testimonial , ' though far short of what it wonld be in 'other days , ' those days wizen the departed chieftain was in ferity , -The man of the people , ' and when the people themselves were more hopeful and happy than at

      presentwas nevertheless more successful tban its most sanguine promoters had anticipated , In Dublin , when all the parishes will have contributed their mite , the stun will amount to at least £ 1 . 500 , and the other cities and to wns have not been less generous . In the country districts too , wherever the collection has been introduced , the wretched neople responded to the call with a devotedness , and heartiness , worthy of a generous and grateful race . Although , as I stated in one of my former letters to the Northern Star , almost everybody disapproved of the project being introduced at the present calamitous period , and inveighed in no very measured terms against these who set it in progress , still poor Paddy could EOt refuse his penny to the'last tribute , 'to him

      who was once his hope , his idol , and his pride . No , with all tbe faults and follies of the Irish peasant , he never is ungrateful , or unmindful of bygone favours . He remembers all tbe labours of Daniel O'Connell , for tbe emancipation of Irish Catholics , and for the exaltation and aggrandisement of the Catholic Cbnrca and Clergy . He recalls with pleasure , the many 'battles' in which Dan was engaged for the support of truth , and right , and justice , in the Senate , at the bar , on the hustings , and in the provincial courts of law . He recollects how often he grappled with , and ' floored , ' the old bigots—the sworn foes of Irish Catholicity , —Saurin , and Sushe , and Norbury , and the Berresfords , and Major Sirr , and a thousand others , whose names I cannot recollect , though they fcre quite familiar with every Irish rustic . He remembers all these things fondly , and

      though he cannot forget the prevarication" * and Whig-dall _yingsof the Liberator in his latter davs , still he is disposed tobe on the merciful side , and would kiss theveiy gutter in which O'Connell had trodden . Hence , the facility witb which those who planned the ' Monument tribute' have effected their purpose , and hence in numberless cases , the small farmer and peasant whose families were hungry at home , or compelled to make their dinner on Indian back . ' as they term it—flung in their last sixpence , or tbeir last penny , to the collectors at the chapel gates . It is very remarkable , too , that many of those men , who during the latter months of O'Cennell ' s political career , were his most bitter and successful assailants , and who , since his death , hare not relaxed in their opposition to the tactics of his successor—Johu O'Connell . —It is remarkable , I say , that in

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      many cases these very inen exerted themselves strenuously to forward the collection on last Sunday , and not merely contributed themselves , but induced others wbo were indisposed to subscribe , to do so , by their example and solicitation . This fact alone speaks volumes for the impassioned feelings of Irishmen , and proves , tbat however erroneous O'Connell ' s policy was in his closing years , the good things he effected in the hey-day of his manhood and reputation _, will never he forgotten by Irish Catholics .

      Before I drop this subject , however , I must say again , as I said en another occasion , and as thousands say , wherever the subject is alluded to—that it W _8 S neither generous , nor wise , nor politic to introduce such a project at such a dreadful crisis as the present , and that the fends thus raised are more needed for other purposes than that of rearing a testimonial to one whose good deeds ate already emblazoned all ever theearth _, and whose tailings , or errors , or tergiversations , cannot be glossed over by any tribute , whioh friends or partisans can render to the memory of the illustrious dead .

      Alas ! that I must write it—more blood bas been spitted in _IteAand , and not only the south , has heen again the scene of revolting murders , but the hitherto moral and peaceful North has heard ihe death-cry of the victims of wild justice . ' Not less than ten murders were perpettated in this unfortunate island in the course ef the past week , and whilst I write , 'tis likely that others have been added to the black catalogue . Good God . ' " when will these terrifiodoings terminate ? Wheu will our wretched land be no longer stained with human gore ? When will the Irish peasant , —once , bo gay , so generous , so kindly-heartedwash the blood-stains from his iron hand , and vow no more to do the sin of Cain ? and when , I say , will those heartless men who goad , and oppress , and

      madden these starving wretches—when will they open their eyes to the frightful state to which they have reduced an entire people , and resolve to relax their gripe , and allow their _justly-enraged fellow-creatures , at least , to starve in peace ? When will extermination cease ? When will the accursed , the body and soul-destroying ' clearance' system be put an end to for ever ? But we ask . those questions in vain . Whilst this country is left misgoverned and negglected _. as she has been for ' centuries _past _^ so long will crime exist , and themurdererply his trade withont remorse . I said , in my last . letter , thatoutrage and disorder would increase in Ireland as the winter advanced , and I now reiterate my assertion . The peasantry are becoming more and more reckless of

      consequences . They set the terrors of the gallows at defiance , and they begin to disregard the teachings and remonstrances of the priests of their church . They are all supplied with fire-arms : they are mad from misery and desperate from despair , and they will no more endure quietlv the injuries under which tbey have so long writhed * They are ripe for rebel * lion ; they thirst to annihilate those whom they cannot help regarding as enemies ; but having no _organi-8 ation , ' no leader , no prospec _' _iof a general insurrectionary movement , they must continue to wreak their revenge in isolated murders and covert assassinations , which I fearlessly assert , will every day increase in numbers and in daring , until the whole island become one vast scene of Wood , and anarchy , and desolation . _Thuek O'CLOCK .

      Heavens I ] as I anticipated , this morning ' s post brings intelligence of two more dreadful murders in the south of Ireland—making twelve within a week ! One of these _bloed-freczing assassinations was perpetrated on Friday , the 19 th instant , near Limerick , on the person of a wealthy farmer , and , aa he is further described ) ' money-lender , ' named Daniel Dillon , whose brains were literally dashed out on the highway , as he was proceeding quietly about his businesB on that morning . The other occurred on the same day , near Clonmel , in the county of Tipperary —the victim being a man named _O'Donnell , a subagent ofthe Marquis of Ormond . He was about to distrain for rent , when he was overtaken on the road and shot dead ! He never breathed . They are threatening Coercion ! Bah ! They mightas well try to stem the torrent of thc wind-swept Shannon as coerce the

      peasantry of MunBter so long as they are left in their present afflicting situation . Coerce ! Tame the tiger ! Ceerce the starving peasantry of Tipperary ! They will not , and they cannot be coerced . by other means than acts ofjustice , and kindness , and fair play . I said so more than once before now , Time will show that I am . net mistaken in my views of the present state of society in Ireland . I ventured to predict in my last that the rumour about Dr IVhatefey ' s translation to the Archbishop _, tie ef York was ill-founded . It appears , by the nomination of Dr Musgrave _, Bishop of Hereford , to the ancientseeof , Tork , that I was right . The 'talk ' about the Earl of Clarendon ' s retirement from the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland , was equally disentitled to attention . His Excellency has come to no such determination . He is giving general satisfaction to almost every class in this country .

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      DREADFUL MURDERS . The Limerick _Clironicle of Thursday narrates two dreadful murders , committed at Rathnrd Castle , within two miles of _thiB city . The victims of assassination were Mr Ralph Hill , sub-agent to David Fitzgerald , Esq ., George ' _s-street , and a land bailiff , named Madden . It appears that Mr Hill had made a distress on corn belonging to John Quain , tenant to Benjamin Frend , Esq , who was indebted to his landlord to a large amount . After the seizure , keepers were placed on the premises , and Mr Hill returned to Limerick , This morning , accompanied by Thos . Fiannery , he again visited Quain ' _s house , for the purpose of removing the corn from the haggards , where tbey were met by _Quain ' s son , with

      whom Mr Hill was talking , when four shots were fired at him and his bailiffs , from behind the haggard , melancholy to relate , with fatal effect . Mr Hill was killed on the spot , and the bailiff ( Madden ) also fell a victim to assassination . One of the keepers James M Mabon , was wounded on the head , the skull having been laid bare by slugs , and Fiannery received the gunshot in the back of the hand , Two men have been arrested , one of whom is identified as a principal in the murder . _DoBLiN , Nov . 20 . —This day intelligence has been received of several more murders * _, one in the county of Tipperary , the victim being an agent of the Marquis of Ormonde , who was shot yesterday at Kilcash , two in the northern county of Tyrone , one in Mayo , and another in Lituerick ,

      Pomeroy , flov . 16—About ten o ' clock this morning a bailiff named John Qeazelton , went out to execute a session decree on the person of Felix Linn , at the suit of Peter M'Gone , of this town . The debt was for two guns which M'Gone sold to Linn last winter . Linn bad secreted himself in the house of aman of the name of Mooney , who keeps an apothecary ' s shop in this town . Out of this house he sallied at the above hour , accompanied by four of bis brothers , all armed with bayonet " , pitchforks , and pistols . The party had not proceeded more than thirty perches out of the village when the bailiff arrested Linn . A dreadful affray now took place , in which the unfortunate Heazelton waB stabbed in the side with a bayonet by Linn , of which wound he died in the course of the day .

      Another Muhdbh ih Limerick . —The Limerick Chronicle reports another murder near Limerick . The victim is a Mr Daniel Dillon , a rich farmer and money lender . He was waylaid within a furlong of his residence , at Gappamore , on Friday evening , and brutally murdered . His assailants literally stoned their victim to death , and cleft bis head with a hatchet . The deceased had decreed several persons indebted to him at the late Quarter Sessions , and hence it is supposed the fatal vengeance . Dillon has left a young wife and several children . On Friday the agent o f Arthur Evans , Esq ., collecting rents , near Limerick , was hunted off the lands by a mob , who swore they would destroy him if he did not desist .

      The result of the murder of Major Mahon may be witnessed in the emigration of the gentry . Several families have already left , and others are preparing to take their departure . The sale of fire-arms has considerably increased in Limerick within the last month , and at every entrance to the city the peasantry are daily tobe seen returning home with guns and pistols in their hands . In some instances the parties in wbose possession the fire-arms are observed have neither shoes nor stockings , and many of them with scarce a coat on their backs . Thomas Callaghan , the steward of Charles Mahon , Esq ., of Cragbrien , Clare , was severely beaten by a party of men , who waylaid him on his way home on Friday evening . He left Ennis at about four o ' clock , and had passed Newhall when he was attacked . Three men bave been arrested for the murder of Patrick Frawley , committed lately near _Ennis .

      A Cbzbbiuko Cauucnjr. —An Inquest Was He...

      A _Cbzbbiuko CauucnjR . —An inquest was held before Mr Payne , at the Indian Arms Tavern , Fenchurch-street , on tbe body of Louis Celeste Lecesne , aged 50 . The deceased was the individual who , some years back , was deported by the Duke of Manchester , for an alleged conspiracy to get the slaves their liberty . He was an intimate friend of the celebrated Wilberforce , and an associate of Thos . Clarkson , Sir Thos . Fowell Buxton , Sir Geo . Stephens , and other advocates of the anti-slavery canse . Owing to the interference of Lord Brougham and Dr Lushington , the deceased ' s case was brought before the British parliament , and the result was , that he and his partners , Messrs Sc & ffrey and Garafaille , obtained for

      compensation a sum of £ 20 , 000 . After that he speculated largely as a West Indian and African merchant . By so doing he experienced great losses , and of late he had been in rather straightened circumstances . On Sunday last he appeared to be seriousl y indisposed , and Mr Brown , surgeon , of St Mary Axe , was sent for , who bled him , which appeared to afford hira great relief . Shortly afterwards he called to a female who had been waiting on him , and said , - Yon must help me up , for I find I am very ill . ' She did _asherequested , when he said , ' Look at mv eyes ' and instantly expired . Mr Brown said there was nothing to lead him to conclude that his death was not perfectly natural-Verdict , ' Natural death . '

      Irish "Democratic Confederation. The Usu...

      Irish " democratic confederation . The usual weekly mee " tiHg ofthis body-was _ hqlden on Sunday evening , at _Cartwright ' s Coffee Rooms , » _nJ 1 attended by a arger number of . Irishmen than we hate _n ualTy noticld . "¦ ¦ Mr Dwain occupied _SobS . Thechairman insisted on the reading of { he report of last meeting in the Star which w & s _Uceded . on condition that no discussion should take place there until the usual _bflemess ol _^ e _^ _* g then said there

      had been disposed of . The secretary were two notices of resolutions on the books , one by himself , and the otber _byjMr Dwain ; and as his motion was somewhat different from that of Mr Dwain ' s , for the sake of unanimity , he would forego bis rightbf precedence , reserving thengbt of moving his incase of Mr Dwain's motion being negatived b y the meeting , nor would he offer the slightest opposition to that motion . —Mr J : Joyce was then called to the chair , and Mr Dwain read the following resolution . Resolved : —

      , That no person but a member be eligible to vote or -peak on any question relative to the internal government of _eufyssociation 5 and that all persons attending our meetings , shall be eligible to speak and rote upon any question of a public nature that may be brought forward at oar meeting . Mr D . then said , it was not his intention to say a word about the resolution , but the individual tbat would attempt to assassinate a man ' s character by falsifying , and slandering him inthe public press , was a man that ought to be despised by all parties . MrD . continued in this strain forsome time , and concluded by proposing the above _resolution , whioh having been seconded , by Mr M'Carthy , was put from the chair , when the tellers declared the

      numbers equal . The chairman gave the casting vote ib favour of the resolution—The secretary tben withdrew his resolution , which-if . carried would have gone partly to negative the resolution adopted ; this course seemed to give general satisfaction . — -Mr Dwain then resumed the chair , and called upon Mr O'Leary to read the report of their meeting . in last week ' s Star . —Mr Bezer said , as there was no motion beiore the chair , he would move that the subject be dropped . —The chairman declared Mr Bezer out of order , and oalled upon Mr . O'Leary to proceed . The report was then read over a second time , and commented on by Mr O'Leary , with a gravity and seriousness that would have done honour to a Queen ' s Benoh practitioner pleading the cause ofhis injured

      client , who had ; lost his frail better half , but would be content with reasonable damages . He appealed to the good sense of the meeting , if ever he made use of the Billingsgate attributed to bim . —Here some one suggested to Mr O'Leary the propriety of searching Johnson ' s Dictionary' in order to discover how muoh Billingsgate was attributed inthe word'Invective . ' The shade of poor Johnson was then brought forward aud consulted by the learned Thebans , wben lo ! the oracle declared that the spirit of Invective was not to be found in the locality of Billingsgate ! —Mr Reiily thought personal invective was personal abuse , and if Mr , O'Leary did not personally abuse Mr Broome , it was a dreadful thing to put him in the publie papers , as _MrO'Learv _' _s character was

      as valuable as the reporter ' s character . —Mr Sullivan had heard that they bad burned the Dispatch , he supposed that they had burned it because they saw something bad in it ; now he conld not see if tbere was something bad in the Northern Star or in any other paper , why they should not burn it too . —Mr M'Carthy thought Mr O'Leary had no occasion to complain of the report ; he thought it a very , fair report , and with regard to the phrase of' personal invective , ' he thought the whole tenor of his speech in reply to Mr Broome , would bear tbat construction . There was as much in the manner as in the words . He was sure tbe meeting would think with him , that there was a sort of sarcastio leer in the manner in which the words * young gentleman' was

      twittered forth ; he thought this was all the ' reporter meant to imply ; surely Mr O'Leary was not so very thin-skinned . —Mr Risdale explained several passages of Mr O'Leary ' s speech , in which he thought the reporter was perfectly justified in using tbe expression . —Mr Johnson also cited several passages _, whieh could not beat any otber construction , he thought the reporter was fair and impartial . —Mr George Kennedy , Ex-Repeal Warden , thought it was not fair to blame the reporter , so long as they did not have a committee to review the reports before they were sent to press . —Mr Tucker considered it the most impartial report he had ever seen . He only wondered the reporter had treated Mr O'Leary so mercifully . ( Hear , hear . )—Mr Daniel

      M'Carthy , ex-Repeal Warden , thought there was not mueh to complain of . He was not one of these that came there for amusement , as bad been mentioned , he came there for instruction ; and if Ged had given him any abilities to impart instruction to others , he saw nothing in the Irish Democratic Confederation , that would prevent him from joining them . —Mr Braceland , Mr Ryan , * Mr Manly , and Mr Reardon , severally addressed the meeting , to nearly all of whom Mr O'Leary was permitted successively' to reply ! The question ' that thesubject be dropped , ' was then put from the chair , and adopted nearly unanimously . So far matters had gone on pretty smoothly . —The chairman then claimed the right to reply , when suddenly bis blood seemed to boil in his

      veins , and losing all guide of bis tongue , he poured forth a torrent of recrimination upen all parties , bnt particularly upon the reporter , for his ' slanderous , vilifying , and lying report . He said he would feel himself degraded by having any connexion with a lot of men that would not vindicate aman when thus wantonly slandered , and from that night he would never disgrace himself by sitting in that chair—from which he jumped into the centre of the room , apostrophising the shade of his great and illustrious countryman , and thanking God that he had , in that room , raised his voice against the blood-stained assassins , who had raised their arms against the Jesuits of Switzerland . —The reporter said , he trusted late as the hour was , the meeting had common tense and

      discretion enough to right itself from this disgraceful exhibition . He greatly mistook the component parts of that meeting , if they would either submit to a dictation or separate from that room nntil even-handed justice was dealt out to all parties . He would move that Mr Charles M'Carthy do take the chair . —The motion was seconded by Mr Btzer , and adopted . —Tbe reporter then addressed tbe meeting in nearly the following words : —Sir , I trust the spirit of proud , of honourable , upright democracy , is not to be trodden dowa by any roan in this room , however great his talents , or high the position to which we have raised him may be . I trust , sir , under any _eiroumstances , we shall uphold our glorious principles , by being just to all , if we do not , sir , then are our

      professions for liberty a cheat , a delusion , anda snare . The spirit of democracy , sir , has taught me to act justly to all mankind . I am charged to night with wilfully and maliciously belying and slandering my fellow-men—and am I to be told that this meeting will separate _to-aigbt , without marking me with its utter contempt and scorn ; or tbink that I could sleep upon my pillow this night in peace , with suoh a charge hanging over me ; and not take the most certain means to right myself ? What fellowship could you longer hold witb such a man if I am the assassin ef character I am represented to be ? Out upon my advocacy of democracy , if I cannot meet such a charge as this . The link that binds us must be honour . This is too serious

      a oharge to be trifled witb . I now call upon Mr O'Leary to give notice of a motion on this subject for next night of meeting . —Mr Dwain : Mr O'Leary is not a member . —The Reporter : Then , sir , you are a member , and I call upon yon , in tbe spirit of fair play , to give notice of a vote of _censura on me for the next night of meeting " . —Mr Dwain : I will not do se . —The reporter then referred to the statements of O'Leary and Co . I court no man ' s favour ( said the speaker ) nor in my puny , humble efforts to serve my country , shall I dread any man ' s frown . This is the fourth night we have been annoyed with this interruption—we have borne with much , in the hope that matters would end amicably , but it appears those gentlemen , calculating on oue mercy , or out timidity ,

      tbink they can use us as puppets in their bands . Mr O'Leary knows well that not one tithe of the castigation he received onthi 8 night week has appeared in the Star . The speaker , then referred to Mr Sullivan ' s observations on Mr Harney and the Northern Star . Mr Sullivan had asked who was Mr Harney ? He could tell him , he was a gentleman who had thrashed Lord Palmerston , and that was more than he would ever do . They had burned the Dispatch , but Mr Sullivan wondered they had not burned the Star . The reason was , because the Dispatch had foully and beastly attacked the people of Ireland , while the _JNbrtfcej-n Star had always nobly defended tliem . Another reason was , the attacks in the Dispatch came from its Editors , while , if Mr Sullivan

      _wat > attended at anything in the Star , ho should recollect it was the work of others . The speaker referred to a variety of other matters , and concluded hy expressing his determination to take the sense of this meeting oa his conduct , as they were not justenough to give him a week ' s notice , and he was determined they should not shirk the question . Death before dishonour any day . —Mr Joyce , before tho question was put , addressed the chair in very _Btrong terms of disapprobation at the conduct of Mr O'Leary . They had spent four nights in this manner ; it was most disgraceful to think that their time was thus taken up , with a _pereen , too , who was not a member . Ten times he had spoken to night , while poor Ireland was in such a state of misery—thousands dying for want

      ot a morsel ot bread , yet was their time taken up m a manner calculated to disgust every one . —The Reporter then called upon the Chairman to put the question to the meeting * if they thought the report read from the star , a fair , true , and impartial report . '—Mr Dwain seconded the motion , but irame * diately withdrew his expression—he only meant to say that the reporter made a mistake , as the printer or any person was likely to do . ( Oh!)—MrBercrseconded the motion , which having been put from the chair , the tellers declared tbe motion all _butunani mously adopted , only four hands having been held up against it ! U List of tho minority : Mr D . Dwain , member .-Mr O'Leary , non-member ! Mr Reiily , non-member !! Mr — - ~ , total stranger !!!

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      Thanks were then given to the Chairman , and the meeting , broke up . . . . / , [ In justice to the abused' Reporter , ' we have given the above insertion in our columns . But no more ol it , gentlemen .. If you cannot prevent such noisy mischief-makers as O'Leary turning your meeting to the profitless account of setting your members by the ears , we must find better use for our columns . ! Pray take pattern by the men of Barnsley , talk less and work more , and shut the mouths of mere brawlers . — En . -V . 5 , ] _Bahnsky . —The Irish Democratic Confederates ofthis town met as usual at Mr Utlej ' s large room , on Sunday evening . Mr Patrick Anderson , was called to the chair . The reports of meetings and ; other communications were read from the Northern Star and Nation newspapers , amongst the rest the letter

      of Mr O'Higgins , which was received with thunders of applause . The Chairman delivered an appropriate address on the necessity of the Irish Democrats resident ia tbis country , uniting together for the purpose of establishing their principles in their unfortunate native _countr- / . Mr Keeth was sorry to find to much apathy prevailed amongst the Irish exiles , who had every opportunity of knowing their political rights . Mr Segrave had no doubt upon his mind , but as soon as the present commercial panio subsided , branches of the Democratic Confederation would be formed in every town throughout England nnd Scotland ; Wigan and Stockport had already promised to

      follow the example of London and Barnsley . Mr O'Leary said , we ought to feel grateful to Mr Clancy and tbe Irish Democrats of London , for discountenancing religious discussions at their _' meetings , and denounced the fanaticism of his namesake , whose con * duct was calculated to create disunion in their ranks . He concluded , after alluding to the noble conduct of Mr O'Higgins in sending a pound to Mr O'Connor towards prosecuting his libellere , by moving a vote of thanks to that gentleman , which was seconded by Mr Coyle , and carried unanimously . A vote of thanks was given to the Chairman , and the meeting separated .

      The London Confederalists. The Announcem...

      THE LONDON CONFEDERALISTS . The announcement of an alliance 'Offensive , and Defensive' between the toil-worn sons of Albion , and the -starving and impoverished sons of Erin , which first appeared in the columns of the Notion , and whieh has been ' met with a reciprocal feeling on the part of the Northern Star of the 13 th inst ., is looked upon by the Confederates of tbis metropolis as the barbibger of a happy union between the taxridden people of both . countries _^' Thk Oubban Club . —At the Blue Anchor , Xerkstreet , Westminster ,--At a large _meeting of this club , Mr R .. _Hussey in the chair , Mr T . R . Readinf ! rose , and read in answer to the _' article read from

      the Nation , an article in confirmation of a policy , Offensive and Defensive' between the people of England and Ireland from the Northern Star , and said , he hoped that in carrying out this unioH . tbe people would look to their own interest , and not attend to the personal abase of their leaders , which had been attended with fatal ' _consequences on former occasions . Mr T . Reynolds , said , it was with great pleasure he bad listened , to . the article read from ; the _Aortli ' _ra Star , tbe tenor o ? wWen , was in accordance with his feelings . Mr Of Connor had been a target at which the _O'Connells bad flung their venomous epithets . The O'Connells had prevented the union

      ofthe two people at a time when the greatest pos * I Bible good might have been effected ; he hoped yet to j see Mr O'Connor in his right position with respect to his unfortunate countrymen . And if there was 1 eyer a time that his country required his services , it was now . He ( Mr R . ) felt certain that Mr O'Connor would keep the Irish M . P . V up to , the workin the ensuing parliament . Let the men of England come , forward with their valuable assistance , and tbey wonld be received by the Confederation as fellow men . Messrs _M'Sweeney , Glass , and Scott followed in a similar strain , and several Englishmen who were present promised to give all their support in furthering the alliance and the objects of the Confederation-

      The Land And The Charter. Important Meet...

      THE LAND AND THE CHARTER . IMPORTANT MEETINGS IN EDINBURGH . ( From the Edinburgh Weekly Express ) Oa Monday and Thursday nights , the Democrats of Edinburgh , In connexion with the Land body , bad the _hoBOMot being _addimed , at -. targe meeting held for that purpose , in the New Hall , Adam . _square , by that distinguished and highly gifted orator and reasoner , Mr Samuel Kydd , of London . On the Monday evening Mr Camming * toeing in tte chair—fee spolxe to the subject of the Land and Its capabilities ; and , in the pre . sence of ' a large audience , showed , with a master hand and with all the clearness of reason and the force and eloquence of one of rare talent , . that tbe serial , moral ,

      and political position of the masses in & great me _uure depended npon their _acquisition of the land ; that the manufacture * of this coantry had been its ruin—had centred the whole wealth In the hands of a tew—and placed the operatives and their well-being entirely at the mercy of mill owners , grinding capitalist- ; meney lenders , and speculators ; that tbis was not sound and should never be the case , as it OBly tended to the degradation , enslavement , and inevitable destruction ofthe people ; that to be the _posses-or of a fe ° * acres of land , with a little capital to begin with , leaving Wm to his own resources , _tras the true way to secure tbose comforts and create that independence which was the due that every man was entitled to , and which he saw realising under the enlightening and philanthropic influence of tbe

      Land scheme . He then , with equal clearness and satisfaction , entered into the origin , constitution and design of the Labour Bank , showing how it tras the most secure of any bank , and . that it should be patronised by the trades and operatives , as its object was high ond holy , being tbat of assisting to carrj ont more effectually the ends oftbe Land plan , both of which had one common object—the elevation , happiness , and political freedom of the working millions . During the whole of the evenin ; Mr Kydd was listened to with marked and breathless attention , and ever and anon he waxed into perfect gushes of eloquence , which called out during the evening very evident demonstrations of feeling and concurrence , in terrific rounds of applause . At the close of the lecture , many questions were put to Mr Kydd , especially by

      a Mr Anderson , which were answered in a very lucid , satisfactory , and effectual manner by him ; in fact , in the answers and explanations which he made to the questions _andcrosB-questioni , he wat particularly bappy ; aad at times , indeed , the _opposition made him perfectly brilliant . At the dote of the proceedings , Dr Hunter , F . B . C . S . E ., whom _wethserred sitting in a corner of the room , rose and _addressed the meeting ; entirely agreeing ia all the lecturer had said—recommending all to join the Land plan—and concluded by paying both Mr 0 Connor and Mr Kydd high and merited encomiums—considering Mr _O'Cannor the greatest man of the day ( bot _* i in a political and moral point of view ) , as be was the first man'to reduce great moral and philanthropic princi . plea to practice ; and this he had done in the Land

      scheme , which was merely a movement to redeem make happy , and disenthral' tbe people . The meeting then broke np , with three times three for Mr O'Connor , the same forthe leoturer , and thanks to Mr Camming for his conduct Ib the chair . —On Thursday evening v _> e had again the pleasure of hearing Mr Kydd , He W _88 upon the Chatter . Mr Walker beingoalled to the chair , be _introduced the business by saying , as Mr Kydd had proraised to set aside half an hour atthe beginning ofthis evening ' s meeting , to answer all questions relative to last evening ' s lecture he would call upon any gentlemen now to come forward and make their remarks , and that they would have _< a fair stage , and no favour , ' Upon this Mr Anderson , who had spoken at thefirst meeting and offered there _someoblectlous , again put in hit claim for a hearing . This being Immediately granted , Mr Anderson at

      proceeded great length , from written notes which he had brought with him , to state his reasons wby he thought the . Land question , as well as all its arrangements , was false in principle , and certain to be injuriouB In Its operations upon tho » e who were connected with it-in a word , that it was not fitted to realise all those hopes and promises whioh were held out by its promulgators . The accounts and business of the company , besides , he -aid , were not properly attended to and that , from tht « cause large sums of money had dis . appeared , and eould not be accounted for ; ana he tried to prove these allegations fey a reference to _newspapers which he bad fetched with him . Mr Anderson received the greatest civility , and the most perfect order was maintained by the wholo audience , thathe mi ght have justice , and s fair and honourable opportunity of es . plaining and substantiating his opinions and averments "

      When done , Mt Kydd ' mmediattly _iobb in reply and If overman did justice to his subject , certainly it was done by hira on this occasion . He entered Into all the ob _}««««¦ of Ms opponent ; proved them to he erroneouii In themselves , and founded on false or _loaccurate data and after exposing the fact that his opponent had drawn hie information from the Mahcheste * Examine * he then broke off into a lengthened , clear , and _elequent e position of ever , feature ofth e Land Scheme ; £ _* _£ _aueoenffal _waehia effort , and « o thoroughly did he show up the fallacies , _inconslstancle , , and _taSmaaSw , Anderson , that he left him not th _^ _vew Sow r _JavL aS _T- _' _^^ £ d { Ll h _« _2 L 5 S _i s i Bight _' _™ ' toth * _»»> People _?^ ? h _arLr ! B I , _^ _, eip _, ain tbe _»»**» * of the reopie s Charter ; and as this report has grown _already £ _* . _«_ _^ tb " ?"'" A to sa _ySheTa We the of the "

      pri . _oipl _.. _= ix p _^ _nVof _^ e Ch r r _t heir , " _*^ _**«»«*? -J" * « _% _doquentstyle t _' ha " the whole of tie remainder of the _evininir was _iu « tl . repeated round of platoon . _otchwni _^ ZZ He _trealed tbe subject ofthe people , their SS _L- ! .. r ly _r ' andtrMingt _»> e people through aU their , various changes , under _monarehlee _^ _rl _. tocracle . tbeocraces , and republicanism * , and ' showed S people were _everthe power , the strength , and t he riches ofa country , although they were often sold by one be _trayedbyanottur , cajoled and flattered into obedience by a third , or cruelly _t-rannhed over b y a fourth through tho hireling and mercenary ; power of bayonets and guns , or in other words , by physical force , under the control of the autocrat , the _theocratic despotic _blng _, or tbe despotic priest or pope . * That it wa . now

      The Land And The Charter. Important Meet...

      high time that the people shonld aet for th _~^** after the years of suffering and degradat ! 0 a _^^ \ suffered and groaned under ; andtbe only w ? ' hi of was , for the people , who were . the real strength _k _" country , ( If they would but believe it . ) to unit * t »" " associations—to agitata for and demand _baTk " _" their own , their natural , their legitimate ti ghts » * rights were to be found embodied" and set forth _V _" Charter , This secured , the millions might the * to be represented—to live under just - _^ 3 - m _^ " _- * laws—to have plenty of _workjandfor a fair na *' " '" " ' to have a fair day ' s wage , ln short , it woma til" ? the great question of the government—the great iM „ '" _Jonumof their wishes—not the greatest amount of 1 * nue _, but the . greatest happiness for the greatest _anl ' i ! of the people . Mr Kydd then concluded amid the Z deafening and prolosged cheering on all sides ; ana he sat down , he challenged his late opponentVj _* . f * derson _) to ' discuss the question of the Natioual 1 ,,, ' Company and tbe Land andLatour Bank , from the riod of tbeir establishment to the present day , 1 _?' prove them sound in principle andaCt | 0 n , e _- tller l | * o a nubile audience , or ( if he preferred It ) _thron-i , , J

      medium of the columns of any newspaper which xa \ Z be named for that purpoie ; and he there and tbi declared he would meet any man , or Bomber of ta _ . a ll discuss these questions In puhltc , allowing for all « _^ stage and no favour . ' Mr _Kydd'e lectures having gi „„ sueh unqualified satisfaction , It . was suggested b _» D , Hunter , that to g ive the inhabitants of Edinburgh ! chance of hearing « o distinguished and able aneip 0 nn _* : of first principles in politics , that a meeting shoal' -u held at an early date in the large ' "" faterioo Room . j _* Kydd expressed his rril ( ingne « _s to meet the _wishei of ft . of the lecture

      meeting . : At the conclusion , Dr A _(„ " Hunter , F . R . C . S . E ., rose and was received with l 0 a ( j and con tinued cheering . He expressed the great qe , light he had ( a bearing testimony to the reall y -0 Ullj philosophical , aHd eloquent manner in which the _l _^ turer had acquitted himself . He was one of whom th 6 working classes ought to h _« proud ; and ifthe Laud » n _4 Charter agitation had effected bo more than the oat . bringing of . such a true noble of nature , It had _conferre * » " great boon tn the demoeratio cause . He w « g _^ true apostle of first principles ; and , If he continued 1 D his nresent career , he would predict for him the _secmi _* _.

      of a lasting place in the warm ana fond affections of tt , entire industrial classes . The Doctor , in an elo < m . and impassioned address , . alluded to the slanderous at , tacks made on the charaoter of tile tried , and _trosty ad . vocate of popular rig hts—Feargus O'Connor , EBq ., M . p _. If , said the Doctor , the enemies of human progress '"" . contemplate that the Cbartists of Great Britain wem _!' remain apathetic and listless while tbeir leader bU being attacked with all the _satanic malevolence _whiA corruption and envy could suggest , and while personal danger was threatened , they had sadly mistaken th * genius of the Chartist movement , In attaeking ths

      moral character , and consequently endeavouring to des . troy _thefialted mission of Feargus _O'Connw _. _' they hs * attaokedfOTery Chartist personally . They would therefore rally round tbeir champion , and surround him as with a wall of iron ; and If he was to be immolated at tbe shrine ofa corrupt and venal press , or be threatened to be put down at any time with btute force , they would resolve to take part and lot with bim In any emergency , either to bring him scatheless , la triumph , _« ut of dan . ger , or perish with him . The Doctor then proceeded to _tead thefollowing _ADDBEte TO _WBAVLOOS o ' COKtlOB , X _* Q ., _X . P ., Br TBS

      _CHiailiTS 0 » EDIMBmiGH . We , the democrats of Edinburgh , have seen all tte late attacks upon the character , principles , ana inteo . tions of _Fergus O'Connor , Esq ., M . P _., and every meantaken by venal and mercenary hirelings to blast bis po . _sition la the bosom oi tbe working millions of tt « country ; bat that this has neither caused us astonish _, ment , regret , or pata , is we well know , from all pastn . perJence of this world , that that Is the penalty he mut pay , and these are the crucifixions he muBt endure , 10 that the people may be horn anew , and raised from their present degradation , misery , famine , disease , and serf . dom , to that _positioii-of comfort , independence , aad hap . piness _, which labour , according to the laws of nature ,

      always does secure to her followers , were it not warped from its true direction , sacrilegiously pounced upon b j tbe despot capitalists , and turned to the auti . _gc'like purpose of enriching and aggrandising their own families im the bowels and ruins of a starving and murdered people ; but , on tbe contrary , in the fulness of oar reason , it rather gladdens our hearts , as we see in these attacks and slanders the clearest attestation that Mi principles are high , as his love is unbounded and intense , and his moral being as pure and effulgent as tbe etherial son in bis mid day splendour . We say , then , go on thou more than ordinary man , thounehle and fearless Cham . pion of the fallen and wronged , but not yet destroyed millions ; as we see in the vista of the future a glorious

      but glimmering light , which , under your righteous and moral dictatorship , will glare and burst forth upon our longing and ravished senses , as a mighty , and brilliant , and eternally shining sun , and that sun shall be known by the name of Freedom , Liberty , the emancipation ef the masses . Fear not ! Goon ! You live In the affections and confidence of the people . They will support you , and bear you on a car of triumph through the vena . lity and ' ffhemlny of your little and insignificant lias . _dererg . Your reward is coming : U will be here and hereafter . Tou are now enshrined and niched in ths holy and durable affections of the people ; there your name and acts have been emblazoned , and there the * will live' and germinate till time becomes eternity . '

      The address ( which was written by Dr Hunter ) , was effectively delivered , and was received with loud an " prolonged cheering . Hr Cockburn having seconded ths address ia a few neat and appropriate remarks , the chairman called for a show of hands , when It wal carried amidst loud npplauso . Thanks were then accorded to Mr Walker , for his efficient and impartial conduct ih the chair ; and three cbeers were giren for Mr O'Connor , Mr Kydd , and the Land and Charter movement ; after which the meeting separated . —It ii believed that these meetings will powerfully propel the democratic cause in this city ; and the Chartists of Modern Athens are not a little proud that they can produce so gifted and powerful an advocate as Mr Samuel Kydd , and command the efficient and enthusiastic efforts of their warm and eloquent coadjutor , Dr Alex . Hunter , who has thrown all his native energy and talent into the great and glorious cause .

      Termination Of The Strike At Ashton. Abh...

      TERMINATION OF THE STRIKE AT ASHTON . ABHTO * _S-TTNnBR . LTNIJ , Moifl > AY AlIEBNOON . —Thi " morning , the strike here was brought to a close bj the hands , in all cases where the opportunity _*>^" - > afforded tbem , returning to work on the terms offered by the masters . Mrill be remembered bj Borne of our readers , that at the commencement of the strike , on the 21 st October , the masters , who were associated , bound _themselves to offer no other tortus to their men than those which were then rejected , for a month . That month expired on Friday last , on which day they held a meeting , but the results of their deliberations they had taken care sW . A

      not transpire , except , indeed , so far as they can be judged of from what has followed . During the last week sundry meetings were held , with the view of bringing about an adjustment ef the matters in dispute . One meeting was beld in the _town-hall , and was presided over by Charles Hindley , Esq ., M . P ., for the borough . The resolutions were to the effect , that the meeting regretted the continuance of the dispute , and suggested a mediation for a -satisfactory settlement . Another public meeting , during the week , presided over by Mr Pitts , suggested that the masters should advance small sums weekly on the security of the overlookers , to such hands ss were thrown out of work by the strike of the spinnew- This includes all the other factory hands

      ex-, cepting the spinners , who are at least nine or ten to one . From this latter meeting a committee was appointed to raise subscriptions on behalf ot the destitute unemployed . This was so far successful asto _w-l- £ ? e comra ktce * n _° ne day to raise about _£ 100 . With this money a quantity of flour and meal w » bought , and made into bread , and was given away on Thursday , Friday , and Saturday last , to such as were w real want . It may be mentioned here , as s matter worth y of note , that this committee was presented with a fat cow , to be killed , and mada into soup , by tbe Rev . Joseph R . _Stephens , the _irell-Known _Anti-uew-poor-law agitator , and who is now settled in this

      neighbourhood , as a rather extensive and substantial farmer , but who Still COntlDlies tO preach here and at the neighbouring town of Stale ? - oricfge . Only about seven of the milis have _yetcommenced - _* rk , the others being in a condition to require some days' preparation . It will be Friday or Saturday , and some few may be Monday , before they can start at all . In one or two cases some little arrangements have been made in the way of softening the blow tothe hands , by removing some little matters which hove hitherto been considered obnoxious ; and what is more , I believe that , in most cases the _mastershave promised that when thestate ot the market will afford it . the old rate of wa ges will

      _oe restored . Be this , however , as it may , the bare promise lias tended greatly to mitigate the feelm _? ot hostility which was beginning to manifest _itsell among the hands . In tho whole , there are -or » e * thmg more than forty mills stopped , and only seven , av e 7 _« commenced operations . I hare just learn .- tnat the _piecers , a class of young persons indispef ' sable to _thespinners , and who are usually paid hy ttienii areto meet to-night , to determine _ffbetwr or not they are to bear any part of the reduction , a " it 13 understood that the spinners intend to make a corresponding reduction in the wages of tho p iecers . it is aaid that these youngsters contemplate resist" ? any abatement from their wages whatever . 'I-113 may have the effect of retarding the general resumption of work tor a -short , timo . hut _n-rtainlv cannot

      ne very long , as the class almost entirely consists e , ooys and girls , from about twelve to twenty years 01 age , except tbe females , who are often twenty *** and thirty . At Morlev , the strike has been at a ? _' n l , 8 . _ome tjrae . It should bo mentioned that this morning is the first time when any of the mills hart been opened since the commencement ofthe strike . —Morning Advertiser .

      V\ O Lvebhammos .—The Following Officers...

      v \ o _lvebhammos . —The following officers barbeen chosen - -. committee , Dav . Evans , Jobn Baxter , Henry Fowler , Isaac Williams , George _DudW ; _treasurer , Thomas Adney secretary , John _1 W

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 27, 1847, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_27111847/page/6/