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To The Members Of The Land I
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE LAND i
Company. Mv Fkiends,—It Was My Intention...
COMPANY . Mv Fkiends , —It was my intention to have addressed you at some length upon the resolutions passed at Glasgow , Lancaster , Manchester , and Birmingham , relative to the opening of anew Land Company but my apology for postponing that address until nest week , must be found in the fact that during tha whole of this week I hare scarcely had time to eat my _Bieals ; next week , however , you shall have Ely notions upon the subject .
In answer to several correspondents , who have written to me upon the subject of the _Tea Party , to te held at the National Hall , « fl Wednesday night , I beg to say , that I shall have great pleasure in attending there . And to all who are anxious te understand the position of the present Land Plan , and the prospect of the members being located , I beg to refer them to tbe forthcoming number of the " Labourer , " for the fullest explanation upon those subjects . Your faithful friend , Feargus O'Connor .
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. RESURRECTION OF BIRMINGHAM . _GLORIOUS MEETING IN THE TOWN-HALL Not since the celebrated times of Birming ham ' s most palmy days of agitation , has such a scene been witnessed in that tows as was presented on Tuesday night last .
THE DEAD CHARTISTS , entombed by _; Scotch pedlar in 1839 , have _jO £ & . $ _s $ ! Qx taken the field in the Reform-movement . _TThe _-Commissiouesa very kindly ( seeing the ineifi-¦ eacy of FreeTt _^ d _^) granted the Free-Labour League tbe free us _^ _of tlieir own buildingthe Town-Hall—to hear nn address from Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., and to welcome-. him with a sight of their revival . - _^ " . X The working men , now capable' of -distinguishing" between their friends and _^ ffreir
enemies , selected Mr _Town-CtuncillosrvJSaJd-• _pjn—who did not wait for the days of _ifi | ii _strenath to assist them in their _struggle—M ; o ; take ihe chair . The vast building was crowded in every part to suffocation , although the seats _were all removed , and many who could not procure standing room climbed the posts , and remained in that -awkward situation during the whole proceedings . It was a most _magnificeiit sight ; enough to make the heart of every persecuted Chartist jump with joy .
The Chairman , in introducing Mr O'Connor , congratulated his townsmen upon the splendid display they had exhibited in honour of their principles . " He said , that , like himself , every other man of his class , and of all classes , should take advantage of . that and every other opportunity ' afforded for discovering any means , no matter by whom propounded , for improving t & eco _odrtien of tiie people- ( Cheers . ) " For Iiimself , he was not astonished that the great inducements promised from _increasing'trade had seduced many farmers , and others of the _agricultural class , to abandon the pursuits of "their ancestors , and try their fortunes in
more fascinating and promising speculations . There was one thing clear , however , and that was that no man could now shut his eyes to the two-fold necessity of securing a sufficiency of human food , and remunerating- those who produced it . ( Loud cheers . ) He had every confidence ia the wisdom and discretion of his townsmen , and , therefore , he rested satisfied that his duty would be one of easy performance , because , like himself , all others constituting that meeting had come there to hear the value of a new principle propounded , and he had , much pleasure in introducing Mr Feargus O'Connor to their notice .
Mr O'Coxxor , on rising * , was received _, _jrith the most enthusiastic feelings of welcome and joy , which were repeated again and again H & said—Men of Birmingham , this night affords me a great and a g lorious triumph . There wa 3 a time when it was dangerous for me to stand upon this platform—in the days of your Free-Trade madness . ( Hear , hear . ) And , as I find you are penitent , and as you ewe _jrreat atonement to the labouring people of _Ensland , upon their behalf I am ready to _forgive _yoti , and give you absolution for the past , provided you will never again swell the
triump h of the tyrant . (( Cheer , * . ) Provided that you will never again disgrace the cause of Freedom and of Labour , by following the Free-Trade loaf—of which you could not procure even a slice—with gaping mouth and delusive cheer- There is no town in England that has Inflicted a greater wound upon the cause of Freedom and Labour , than the town of Birmingham . Ever ready to transfer its power from quack to quack , from deluderto deceiver , until , at length , the force that carried the Refoim Bill , became the jest of the oppressor , ( _Cheera ) I thought the day would arrive
when I would have lived down prejudice , and when the solid princip les that I advocated , _strengthened by persecution and oppression , -would establish a safe standing place for themselves upon this platform . ( Cheers . ) And now , I would ask , where is the other principle from which so much was expected , and from which so much was promised , , that could secure such a _leathering as this ? ( Cheers and ' * None . "] Yes ; but there was a time when you witnessed seven ruffians lying upon my _chest , and threatening to murder me upon this platform j there was a time _wlii-n I was
_obliged to march the National Guard of Bilston und Wolverhampton fifteen miles , under a broiling ssn , into the town of Birmingham , to _save it from its own madness . ( Cheers . ) There was a time when the Edmondses , the Sa ! t ~ . and the Douglases , denounced me as an Irishman and an alien , nnd dared me to stand _befura the people of llirrningham . I accepted tha threat , however . I came , _stranjrer and alien as I was . I stood upon this platform , in the midst of 10 , 600 people ; and , stranger and alien as I was , I dissolved the union of fraud —( loud cheer . _s)—and exposed the
treachery of my accusers . Now , that was _something in dangerous times , when you were blindly following those who had no earthly object in view but tbeir own interests ; and as soon as the Reform postman left their tickets for st'upat their doors , thev deserted you , and , like the Radicals of old _. they said— "Wh y do you grumble ? What do you want ? Have WE E _** t got Reform i ( Loud cheers and laughter . ) Are we not town clerks , and town councillors _, and recipients and distributors of patronage f And v . litre , now , was the flaming George _Edmonds—the physical force Kerry Douglas *—
when he . the destructive , the deluder , was able to . stand before tbeir townsmen ? ( Loud cheers . ) The threat of a hundred thousand Birmingham men-at-arms marching to London _, affrighted the isle from its propriety , the Iron Duke out of his wits , and the Opposition out of the Reform Bill . ( Cheers . ) But he ( Mr O'Connor ) w » u . hl much rather see a hundred _thousand men-at-arms marching in quest of their own sentry-box and their own labourfield , than on a crusade to gain power for others . ( Loud cheers . ) He understood that the Peace Preservation Society had been
_disappointed in their intention to hold a meeting in that Hall , and , no doubt , they would have edified their hearers with long _oiations against the barbarity and injustice of war ; but he assorted that they never would relinquish that p _. ; w"er which they possessed of making Labour tri !>" .: t ; _: r y to their jurisdiction . ( Cheers . ) He ( Mr O'Connor ) was rnoie really and sin-< < . _- re _! y opposed to all war , to all cruelty , barbarity , and bloodshed , than any member _tX that society , but he considered death from starvation the worst description of death , i _» r , d , therefore , he had propounded a ' great _ttaiioual principle , around whose standard so
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large an amount of national force had rallied , that the people of this country would never again endanger the success of that principle by justifying the oppressor in the application of p hysical force . ( Cheers . ) No , the people of this country have grown too wise to arm the oppressor with the deadliest of " all weapons—the presumed justice of using them . ( Cheers . ) But , upon this point , let him not be misunderstood , as , in the worst of times , he bad never coined ideas to suit the taste of the fastidious ; but had advocated principles upon the same grounds , whether threatened
by strength , persecution , and lewdness , or tolerated by weakness and terror . ( Cheers . ) For these reasons he had = never preached the blasphemous and debasing _lioctrines of unconditional passive obedience and non-resistance , or of unconditional loyalty . ( Cheers . ) No , he could not understand the description of loyalty that was due by the millions of his poor countrymen who were starved to death . ( Great sensation and cries of " Shame . ' ') He could not understand the policy which demanded unconditional loyalty from the Irish people , who iwere compelled to starve in the midst of . abundance created by themselves ,
and he . ( _JfcxO ! Connor ) proclaimed * , be & r . & _$ hd £ meeting of _Englishmen , that , as an Irishman , he would not dishonour justice , disgrace : himself , or insult his country ,-by professing unconditional allegiance to the monarch that governed-her or . the laws that persecuted her . ( Tremendous _^ cheering . ) _--Yes , he was proud of being an Irishman ; and he repeated to that monster meeting of Englishmen , that if he could prevent it they never should possess their liberty an _hoir ' ibe & re his countrymen possessed theirs , _^( _Great cheering . ) The Irish were called barbarians by their oppressors to justify their " _own persecution , but _Ireland was a civilised nation centuries-before
England Was-discovered , . and was made barbarous by English--laws * . ( Cheers . ) He would now inforrrt them of his expectations from that / _greatRational Plan , of which he had been the propourider . He found England , tbat is the English industry , paying forty millions of money in little less than a year for the produce of . other couutries , which they might have more beneficially secured from-the -land of their birth —( cheers)—and this "incubus borne b y the industrious porHon _of'the nation , for no other assignable purpose than that- . the speculators in labour may close the free labour
market , create a degrading dependence , and make England tributary to the _foreigner , and a beggar at his door , forthe food _herYsonsh could produce at home , if every rn _8 H _waoxak lowed to live in the sweat of his own brow ,, instead of , aa how , the industrious starving and the idler ' s luxury simultaneously increasing . f Great cheering . ) Their -worth y chairman liad proclaimed a great and irrefutable truth , when he told them that the fascinations of trade ha . d seduced the husbandman from his natural pursuits , and they would soon discover that this system of drying Nature's pap would lead to
the starvation of Nature ' s children . ( Cheers . ) The Earth was our mother , and if our tender nurses or guardians compelled us to depend upon the foreign breast , our strange nurses may wean us—nay , famish us—whenever they pleased . ( Cheers . ) But the worst was not the mere expenditure of forty millions in what we might have produced ourselves more profitably at home , but the "grievance '~ was augmented threefold " , by the fact that the abstraction _oilthst amount . of .. money from productive uses at home led to diminished foreign tradeto diminished domestic consumption—and to the diminution of English wages by more than one hundred millions . ( Loud cheers . ) Now that ' s the enemy , that ' s the hobgoblin , _against
which my system contends . My system proposes to make every man his own producer and his own consumer . My system proposes that every man shall be capable of judging of the value of his own free labour , so that when the capitalist requires to hire it , if the free labourer discovers that he can earn 31 . a week as his own master , he will not work for 15 s . a week for another master . ( Cheers . ) But in this plan , as in our attempt to secure political equality , we have been most frustrated h y those who have measured labour ' s right by the comparative , instead of the positive scale—by those aristocratic tradesmen who , receiving 30 s . and 2 / . a week themselves , scoffed at my battalion of fustian jackets , blistered hands , and unshorn chins , who had but the alternative
of entering the competitive labour market , or the poor law bastile . ( Cheers . ) Now , however , the demands of an increasing idle class upon the exchequer of a diminished labour class , has puzzled the wits of our rulers , and they are unable to make both ends meet . ( Cheers . ) Yes ; these things would never be accomplished by a House of Fools , who were wholly ignorant of all labour questions ; and he would make bold to assert , that he would select from the labour community 058 , who would make fools of the G 5 S philosophers in the House of Commons —( cheers)—I include myself . One
principle of political economy tells us , that when one channel of industry is closed , another , as if by niHiric , is opened ; but now that the necessity of importing a large amount of food has closed all artificial channels against labour , where is the possible outlet , save in the return of man to his _' natural pursuits at agriculture ? ( Cheers . ) But then I am told that he could not be trained to the performance of agricultural work . How silly I when we know that Gt-od created the land , and man to till ; and the devil created machinery , and decreed man to be ground by it . When we know that it
takes seven years to learn to make a coat , and not seven minutes to learn how to stick a cabbage . ( Great laughter and cheers . ) That it takes seven years to learn how to make a pair of shoes , and not seven seconds to learn how to dibble a grain of wheat . ( Cheers . ) But every principle is difficult in its practical details , when its object is the improvement of the industrious ; but the most complicated are simple aud manageable , which declare man to be bnrn in the Custom House , and buried in the Exchequer . ( Cheers . ) No system of taxation which requires the enforcement of means for
idlers to live upon , is complicated or difficult ' but every system is visionary and impracticable , when its object is labour ' s benefit . ( Cheers . ) You have been studiously kept in ignorance of the value of the land , while , from it is produced , by the simplest , most healthy , and remunerative labour , everything you eat—everything you drink—everything you wear—everything you eat off of—everything- you lie upon—everything yon lie under . ( Laughter . ) Now are you Hot ignorant , when ' you appear astonished that your bed and bedclothes _. your'tabie , your chair , every stitch upon y our back _j is all produced from the Land : and that man's labour , applied
to that source , constitutes it his hank , wherein h < 3 ran coin his sweat into the most valuable produce , that can be exchanged for every article of luxury produ ? ed in other clinics , or manufactured by machinery . ( Cheers . ) That is not the sole value of the Land Plan / _Because it _farther tends to diminish the competitive Mil-plus in the labour m & rket , _aad thus increases _wa-es , by opening up this new channel for the employment of reproductive labour . ( Cheers . ) I '< . r _instance , the dismissal of thousands of J :: i !; ds from railways ; and other works , has thrown a great competitive ; surplus into the labour market , and yet with this power to diminish wages . I bave not reduced the wages of
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my men in any one department , consequent upon tbat _glut , —( loud cheers)—but , on the contrary , if the Plan progresses , as I have every reason to expect , before the summer passes I hope to be able" to employ ten thousand labourers at my remunerativeemployment . ( Tremendous cheering . ) What ministry , or what power of the press—the corrupt , the profligate , the liberty-slaying press—will be enabled to resist labour in such a march as that ? ( Cheers . ) The press may denounce me , and may seek to alarm yoa ; but I tell you that I heed its wrath but as the invective of the scolding cook , the
kitchen-maid , or the do _^ -boy , wbo scold at their master ' s bidding . ( Loud cheers ' . ) It is ten years and more since I told you tbat we lived in new times , and required new minds to govern us , but it is hopeless to talk to a scion of the House of Bedford , of the iniquity of tho tithe system , while bis famil are such large p artakers of the p lunder . It is hopeless to expect any assault upon the worn-out privileges , upon which idlers live in luxury , from those who are the largest recipients from that source ; but , as well may they hope to continue the old rule of aggression oyer tbe improved and
improving mind of this country , as to expect the _^ _Uuctipn of the gas and-gasometer , and the return to ' . the farthing candle—to expect the destruction of steam navigation , and the " return to a reliance upon wind and wave _^ the destruction of tbe printing press , that quick medium of exchange of opinions—the'destruction of the electric telegraph—and of the results . of the manifold discoveries , all / . tending to displace man from his natural position , as to hope that , while all other sciences are rapidly hurrying on to the goal of perfection , the science of legislation is alone to stand still , Or that the mind created
by the improvements in those sciences , will'tolerate the legislation of the farthing , candle minister in these days of gas enlightenment . ( Loud cheers . ) Then , when tbey talk of increased taxation as _necessHryfor tbe increased improvement of our national defences , I say , " Go , level your maritime defences—go , spike your guns—disband your mercenaries—put your idlers upon the peace establishment , and rely upon a cordon of generous hearts forthe protection . of . yo ' ur nation ' s greatness and your national wealth . '' ( Loud cheers . ) ' Let _^ yery soldier be placed in his own sentry box , in the
centre _ofhirbwnlabuur-field _,, and then , England may defy _theioilii _gn invader —( _Cheers)—but-no _^ _thajirh _^^^ oded system , of which she WAa'i _^ lp iopi _^ indJbii the founder , and the upholder / _istbttering into ruins around-her ) she hopes that ' a " recurrence to the paper architecture of the original projector will-still protect her in the midst of universal convulsion . Look , to the Italian states , struggling for _liberty-frlook to Austria seeking to : uphold its despotism—look-to Portugal _living in a revotion-ilp ' ok to Spain , with a population- of fourteen millions , ; and only _,-ninety-iHrieTthousand _electofsr-Iodk to ; France , _jvhere _^ Iegi _^ macy , as it is called ; , depends upon the life of ail ailing old woman—and look to America , where the
temptations of the landless have enabled her rulers to wage a most " savage , barbarous , unjust , and unnatural _warifbr the _augmentation ofa territory which alKthe population _okitifc world could net . cultivate—and then ; , tell me that any _thingp-shorfc [ of an improved _systenVof social and political protection will satisf y the improved mino ! " of the country . ( _Cheersf arid a voice _^^ _Xou _^ _forgot Switzerland . " ) : ' yes , but I haven ' t forgotten Ireland nor England nejther . ( Cheers . ) , , Well , then , is it not some * thing' that" W 8 >> alone should be ready to take advantage of the worst that may occur ? and , is it not something to be able to boast of the pleasure that I derive from my labours on behalf of the industrious ? I have been in
Worcestershire this morning , and bought seven more horses —( loud cheers)—and nearly a score of cattle to make manure for tbe labourer , and ploughs , and harness , and senfflers ; and now , after some experience in the principle and working of co-operation , I am enabled to propose in the next month ' s number of the " Labourer "—the whole of which I have written this week —( loud cheers)—a further
reduction in tbe rent of allotments to four per cent , upon the outlay . ( Tremendous cheering . ) And I have been enabled to recommend the distribution of bonuses , besides the interest paid upon deposits in the Bank , out of a source wholly created by my own industry , perseverance , and economy . ( Renewed cheering . ) Now thi 3 is what practical co-operation has taught me , and if my suggestions are acted upon , I will henceforth be able to locate ten
tor one . ( Cheering ) . I presume you are aware that I have purchased nearly 300 acres of land within twelve short miles of Birmingham —( uproarious applause)—and what a demonstration there will be from Birmingham , to witness that realisation of the Chartist principle on May-day . ( Loud cheers . ) And how the value of that principle will be developed , when the able-bodied man on strike , and unable to procure employment , shall visit his
friend , who is his own master and employer , and , instead of skilly and the workhouse , shall be welcomed to a piece of bacon in the freeman ' s castle . ( Renewed cheering . ) I shall build nearly a hundred sentry boxes there , and will they not be more forcible propounders of the principles of freedom and the value of labour , than their most eloquent expounder ? ( Cheers . ) I should like to see the recruiting sergeant and bis kidnappers beating up for recruits in the Elvsian fields ; I should like to see the
women making chin-stays and ' eap-bows of tbeir military favours . ( Cheers and laughter . ) Ah . ' the place for them to recruit is in the bastile and the market place , amid despondency and despair ; at an Irish funeral , or tbe factory town . But I have no objection to an augmentation of tbe militia to any amount , provided the defenders of privilege are selected from the privileged order , and compelled td meet the foreign invader . ( Great cheering J When I am located near you , I will return the complement of this invitation . ( Loud cheers , ) And then as I progress , you shall witness my operations , while I will instruct you in the value ol
their fuller developement . ( Cheers . ) I now enlist yon once more on behalf of the Charter and the Lund , telling you that you must rely upon my honour , and disregard the vituperation of a prostitute press—that I will remain amongst you as a hostage —( cheers)—that I am bound to you b y tics of affection and feeling , which no power can sever—that I have a pride in your success that no words can express , and that in spite of all the opposition of the world , I will iro on struggling-with you till I lead your wives and little children out of the house of bondage into the land of freedom , and place every man in his own sentry box , in the centre of his own labour field .
[ Mr O'Connor resumed his seat amidst the most deafening cheering - bis speech was frequently interrupted by tbe waving of dense columns amid the wedged mass of human beings trying to escape the suffocation , while a beastl y drunken attorney ' s clerk , who stood i " the front of the gallery , after frequent attempts to create a disturbance , was unceremoniously hustled out of the meeting . ] Mr Fi ; ssei . l proposed ? and Mr Fallows seconded , a vote of thanks to Mr O'Connor , for his exposition 0 f his principles , and encouraged him to persevere iu hia good work . Mr Smith rose , in the organ gallery , to propose as an _aaie-i'dment , " That that meet-
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ing \ felt _greatf disappointment in not _hearing a tap _develope-ment of ths ( fa-Sails of the Land Plait , and that the meeting be therefore adjo _**| jied : to _another night . " Ifter _frequeng inquiries bv tt & e- Chairman ; , an individual in _gfte body of the Ball seconded ' the amendment . The Chairman raid that he wbs sure Mr O'Connor would answer any question that was put to him , but that the meeting was not i called for discussion .
Mr'O Connor , however , requested 4 hat Mr Smith might be _allowed to ; proceed , _wRenthat gentleman continued , urn , aid : That be was sure many felt equally disappointed as himseli at not hearing the details of the Land Plan more fully developed . ( Shouts of " No , no ; ' ' and "Read , the rules . " ) It was ferthat reason , and as he wished for more information npon the subject , tbat he proposed to adjourn She meeting to another night . Mr O'Connor again came forward , amid renewed cheers / and said : It is not to my indisposition to' _develope the Land Plan more _fullf , but to the impossibility of doing so at a meeting of- this kind , that Mr Smith _U- to
a _|^ But _^ th ® j . want of that information that he _Eacpcl _& d , hut it is rather hard that _afttfrhaVi ing written thousands of columns upon the subject—after having written a Practical Treatise upon the subject—after having made _inniHner-d ) le _|> speech & s upon the subjectand after _ruled had been printed upon the subject—which Mr Smith might have read—( loud , cheers)—that I should be called upon to enter into voluminous details and figures , as he states when , in the state of unavoidable _Confusion , it would he impossible to pitch the voice in this vast _assemblage so as to
preserve a _heeessary unbroken _^ line of argument . ( Cheers . ) But I am told that Mr Smiths anxiety is based , upon other grounds . I have learned that he himself , is the propounder of a new and a rival plan . ( Cheers and laughter , and a cry of " No ; . " ) Well , 1 regret it , as I wish for all help upon this question . ( Cheers , and a cry from the . same voice of " _His-plan is practicable , and yours is not . " Hisses . ) _U Well , I thank my friend for ! his ratheriflcautious admission that Mr Smith is the _propounder of a plan , while the same
nerson denied ; the assertion when ' _vl made it . ( Great _laughter and cheers . ) _W-ell , but even thatihalgffipt preyent me from rendering all the a _' ssis _^' rice in i , my power to _ftfr ' Smith , or any , otfier ? person 'who will _kindly volunteer to take a portion of . the _burden off ' my shoul-. ders , . npon the same terms Hhat I bestow my labours : _'C ( il _^ ud ; cheers . ) And , in jiresence of this meeting , I iheg to assure Mr _Srnith that the columns of the Northern Star . nnd . my beat assistanee shall be at his . _commandXfree , of charge , for _y . the developement of- Ids plan . ( Great _cheering . ) Butam I to enter into details _. publiflhed in our rfiles , for the information of all who will not take the trouble to read
them ? ( Cheers . ) But if it is any _satisfaction to _hiia _andjjpthers _^ _hoai-se as i ! nbw am , I will state thatM & : principle is , that every man who pays £ 2 . Ji 2 : s .. 4 das entitled to be balloted for two acres ; , '; , ' that . every , man who pays £ 3 . 18 s : _iSd _^ js : entitled to be'balloted for three acres ; . _apeyery _^ nian who _^ _pays _" £ 5 . 4 sy 8 d ., is entitled _;^ he / b _^ if he _wahtSfuHelPanformation _/ aa ; to . sthe ; value of the syste | _rpej- | im | ead _ilfr'Sillet _^ admirable _pracfi _<^ : work ! : upoh ' 4 _$ _o _^
55 ? ffi _|[ iuju thaf ''' _Mr _^ i _^ t : g _^ : £ _^ 6 _l : . foT _, t \ ro _acriesH'hadKjid _^ _wjthoui _upotfiit- _^ _iaiKFitn _^ accept of £ 4 . a-week to leave his two acres of land , and go to any other employment . ( Loud cheers . ) Again , let him read an account of tbe operations of Samuel Bridge , in the " Labourers Friend" Magazine , wherein it is shown that this man paid nn enormous rent for four acres of clay land , and which he cultivated in tbe
rudest way , selling Ins wheat straw—and that that man , even upon the rudest system , was able to purchase his four acres , and to purchase over forty acres more land and erect buildings upon it , and all out of the produce of his own industry expended upon those four acres . ( Loud cheers . ) Let him read my letter upon the profit to be made upon the cultivation of three acres of land , and there he will find it shown , that after paying rents , rates , and taxes , and all outgoings for fuel , clothing , for family , and expense of implements , and after allowing 17 s . 6 d . a week foi
food for the family , that a man , from 157 days ' labour , and after paying- those outgoings , and living well , and educating his family , will have 44 _£ . profit at the end of the year . ( Loud cheers . ) And then let it not be said that this is only my assertion because the " Farmer s Gazette , " which reprints the whole letter , says . in answer to a correspondent , "that very much more may be realised from three acres of land than what is stated by Mr O'Connor . "
( Great cheering . ) Ami then the editor of the " Farmers Gazelle" refers his correspondent to a treatise upo . i the subject , written by Mr Qiiin . But Idonotevenhaithere , forwhen lam your _neighbour , if Mr Smith could insure me a sitting audience ofa thousand or two thousand people who can hear , he shall have as many lectures as he pleases npon the princi ple , the object , and tiie details of the Land Plan . ( Great cheering . ) And with these observations I leave the question with you .
The a mendment and original resolution were then put from the chair , when the original resolution was carried ; and upon the Chairman submitting- for or against the ori ginal resolution , onl y two hands were held up against it . Mr Goodwix proposed , and Mr _O'Coxnok seconded , a vote of thanks to the Commissioners for the free use of the Hall , which was carried unanimously . A vote of thanks was thea -proposed to the Chairman , whicii was seconded by acclamation , and carried amid rapturous applause .
The _CuaiUmatn - expressed himself thankful to his townsmen for the orderly and praiseworthy manner in which they had conducted themselves , and begged to observe that in such a _meeting- as that , where the people were wedged together to suffocation , it was impossible to avoid those unintentional interruptions , which were wholly consequent upon the waving of so dense a mass endeavouring to escape suffocation . He thought that it was due to his townsmen to s ' _-iy , that never , under all the circumstances , had he witnessed a better bohaved , or more orderly or attentive meeting , and which he now declared dissolved . Loud cheers were g iven for the Chairman and Mr O'Connor , and the meeting separated .
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[ A Jh ' rmmgliam correspondent _wiitcs us as follows ;— "TIib Mr Smith _\ vh » tried to oppose Mr O'Connor on Tuesday _night , in the Town Hall , keqis the New Inn , ! n IJroinsgrove-strcet _, a market house , where the farmers , Irom the neig hbourhood in which Mr O'Connor _recetiliy purchased the Great Dod ' ord Estate , dine on market day : " tiie writer assures us that the change expected to be produced in that locality by Mr " O'Connor ' s operations has driven the farmers out of their senses , and lhat they have put the landlord of their liuiise forward as their scarecrow ; but that the men of _liirinin-jham are too wide awake now to be caught iii the farmers' market lrap . 1
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_Bcnr . —The members of the Cn : _trtist Association _arj requested to attend a meetins on Smiday ( tom wrow ) , athalf . paat one o ' _clock , v , u ., inthovsuul place , Clerk-street ,
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Biickbonw.—On Sunday, The 23rd Tts«,, Mr...
_BiiCKBonw . —On _Sunday , the 23 rd _tts « ,, Mr Y ) : Donovan lectured in the Old Size _Hotfte > on the _; _Lsnd and tbe Charier , ! After ft _> vote . of _tbsafekj-o the ' lecturerand tha _cbairtnan , the meeting separated ; highly satisfied , afti !'" . we foully trust he lifts left _: an impression on many _mitida thst will im ' _sr b _$ eWaced . ., . 1 . ;/ . v . . _^ v ' , " . .-:. ' _,.:. _•• ' . _., -. Biebs _GaSiiiJ . ' _-rAWwMb of _Sfeo National C _& Srl < _$ _-Asrociation has been _^ _Bsed at tha home of Myj _& Sij _StainbiMik , Hare ahd _flmrada \ timt New Field , " _&& _P _ByejB-grecn . A leotu ' _wi will be given by a _frieJiS $ 81 Saturday night , the 20 th of January , at Seven ©* clee & in the evening . _Bhbsjsbbe . —The _Cbarfcbts of _tbja locality are _Bp > and doinp ; at their weekly seating , held on _Sundays January 25 rd , Mr Robert Can * was elected delegate to attend 1 at the _delegate meatrng at Sunderland , on Sunday , January 30 th . A t & _riea of resolution !) were adopted in favour of sMtating the district .
_Burnley—On _Thuuday evening Mr Tomlinson addressed a _cseeting of bis fellow townsmen in the Charfci & _tRooat , _Hamtaerton-street . His _addressgave universal satisfaction . Bilston . —On Monday evening tba usual Weakly meeting waa hold at Mr Joseph Linnej ' _s , tbe Malt Shovel , New Town , Bilston , for the purpose of enrolling menjbe » ofth . « f National Charter _Asaociattbtt . _Soveral _newuftEaea _wera e & _tcted . Nearly the whola of the _upn 4 rad ' ea _qte _oxttot _ernploy , and _oonaeqitenily _tlra _^*»^ , _Jfe . y _£ _« oaLi _^ d ironatonevare d _* estitutai . * !
CiBu * iB . _—MEEiiNo _^ oy _tbb Coir * 4 « fc "© _y-iitti Chaktist Associahok . —On Sunday last the council held their weekly meeting at the Association room , 6 , _John-atreet . The secretary read the appeal from Nottingham on behalf of funds to enable Mr O'Connor to defend his seat in parliament against the spleen and malice of those who have petitioned against his eleotion . After an animated discussion on the propriety of Bending a _goodsum in aid of tho same , it was ultimately agreed to . that £ 1 . be sent off immediately and that means be taken to collect the town to
increase _, our , donation . ; The . members ' .. of . the Land Company also agreed to send £ 1 . in addition to _eurgthis making two pounds as the -first subscription tor Carlisle . I doubt not bnt we shall raise tbe sum of five _. pounds , oven with our present depression of trade j and if other towns , in proportion to their population , send a similar sum ,. the required amount , and _? 6 methir > 2 more , will be raised ; and who is there that can _sfiot'd it ; will not give his mite , when the honour of the Chartist movement is at stake ; for , if Mr O'Connor be thrown / out , 'it will be a atigma on the whole body * , therefore , it ia the duty of every Chartist to do what he can , either as a contributor or a collector .
_Cirt amd _FiMsBija * LocAUTr . —Good Intent coffee house , Back-hill , Hatton-garden , January 23 rd , Mr Thomas Antill in the chair . —Mesars Allnutt and Fennell gave in their report from the Metropolitan Delegate Committee . Report received . Mr Cater moved— ' That a petition sheet and heading be _giren to each member of this locality , and tbat they be requested to use their best exertions to get them filled and returned . ' Seconded by Mr Elijah Nobbs . Carried . Mr Fennell moved , and Mr _Liyesay seconded , the following _resolution "; :- _^' T hai Jt iis the opinion of this meetine ; that the outcry raised by a portion of the press , of a fear of a French inmum , is brought forward with the object of diverting the atr _tentionof the nation from those reforms which are
so urgently _required , and so long delayed , with tbo hopo of provldine permanent situations orfnll pay for a numerous staff of officers ; and of bavins * a fresh refuge for the destitute younger sons ef the aristocracy ; and to maintain an unnecessary and _unc-mstifntiohsl standing army at home , to suppress tbe struggle . forJibert y _^ if it should trouble the government too mucb . . And further considering the sum af twenty _tmllioiia . _sterllng annually voted , to be amply sufeclent for the defence o £ the country , if properly applied , - we call upon _theChartists of the United Kingdom tofirmly _. nnitedly , and -. ' eterminedly protest against this waste of labour and ; _Eaoiitey ; now _^ in contemplatiop , and t 6 ; mse once more _thVratiyirig cry of * NQ \ _sote ~ _-kd . _muBkefc . ' .: ; Supportealbr ;( Mes 8 r 8 Caterj- Elijah Nobbs / Allnutt , T . Salmon , and'Wro .
Salmon . * , _Carriedananimouwy ; MrUovermoved , _and'Mr'E . Nobbs seobnded . the _foUowingreaolntron :- —' ' Thatih _^ _rconda ' ctjof theofficera ' oftbeCo _^ _periafreeti Jnstitutiph in de _^ ; oi _! 4 _^ -tl _& _'tf 8 ttaV _&? ee _£ n _^^ use of the hall belonging to tbat institution , as highly censurable , and deserving the condemnation of every honest and fair dealing man . ' Supported by Mr Cater . Carried unanimously . Mr Gover moved' That the resolution be sent to the secretary of the Cowperstreet Institution . ' Seconded by Mr Eli . Nobbs . Mr Cater moved— ' That the _delegates to the Mefropoliton Delegate Committee , regiiest the committee to adopt the resolution . ' Seconded bv Mr W * . Salmon . Resolution carried . . Meeting adjourned to January 30 , at half-past six in the evening .
Dkan _Stbekt —Mr T . Clark , one of the Chartist Executive , delivered a lecture in the As 3 _embly-rooin , on Sunday evening List , hu subject _being ~ 'The Social and Political Movement of the day . ' Mr A . [ lutst _, ol Oldham , who was present , delivered a short and _excellentaddress , on' The right and utility of the Charter . ' _Covbstrv . —A notice _having appeared in the Noutuehs Star , that the executive of the National Chirter Association had appointed Mr S . Kydd as lecturer for the Midland Counties , and having a desire to avail ourselves of the services of that gentleman , we called a meeting on Monday the 21 th , to establish a branch of the National Charter
Association , and to _co-oijerate with the Chartists in those places that Mr Kydd may visit in his route . " Mr Richard Ilartopp having been called to the chair , and havine explained the _objects of the meeting , Mr William Hosier rose to move the following proposition : — ' That we form ourselves into a branch of the National Charter Association ; seconded by Mr Thomas Pickard . Proposed by Mr Thomas Pickard , seconded hy Mr William Hosier , ' That Mr R , liartopp be appointed secretary , and Mr John Robinson treasurer of this society . ' " Proposed by 3 Ir George Freeman and seconded by Mr Thomas Hall , ' That
the following live person be appointed as the council of the society : —Messrs Alexander Yates , Ilill-hVId ; George Smith , _Much-park-street , * Richard Adrian , St John street ; ' David Haines , _Sherbourne-street ; Thomas Pickard , _Gnsforth-street . ' The resolutions were carried unanimously . The society will meet every Mnnd _.-n- evcning , ' at Mr _Pritcliard ' s , Temperance Coffee-house , at ei _^ ht o ' clock , fdr the enrolment of new members . Any parties having any communication with the Chartists of the above society , will direct to the secretary , Mr Richard Ilartopp , Grey-friars-lane , near the Hospital , Coventry .
_Cokolktox . —• A meeting of the shareholders was held on Monday evening , when the following resolution was adopted : — ' That a coffee party be got up , iind the proceeds , after paying the necessary _expt-ncea , to be applied as t" Hows : —one-third towards defending Feargus O'Connor , Esq . ' . it in parliament , one-third fin-prosecution of the Manchester Examiner , and the other to bo _siveu to the Widow of the late William Revy , a member of this branch . ' Gruknwicii and Deptford . —January 23 rd , Chartist Mcetini * Room , 139 , Butcher-row " Deptford . Mr
Brewerton in tho chair . The minutes of the last meeting bavin" been read and confirmed , the chairman introduced Mr Coldroy , who gave a very _pleasini _* and instructing lecture on Phonography . The gentleman v _. _ffoml his _servic-. _a gratuitously , when a class of nineteen wa _* formed to meet for instruction every _Sund-iy even ' _ms . ' , at six o ' clock . A vote of thanks was given to the lecturer . After whicii Mr Morgan gavo notice that he should on Sunday evenincr next , propose _thnfollowingsnliject for Discussion , [ The _Advautaao of Union nud Co . operation . '
_IliioDEHSFiKLD . —Tho first meeting this year of the members in this district was held on Saturday evening the Sth inst ., when the treasurer of the fund for the prosecution of the Maschbster Examine' ! , and other libellers of Feargus O'Connor , Esq . Al . P ., havine made _hii appeal to the members present , it was declared that the sum of £ 2 . _-1-. Yd ., being the amount collected on this and preceding evenings , should be forwarded tn Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., with the hearty wishes of his faithful friends Id _Hudderslield lor his health , nnd success in all his undertakings . The regular meeting for the receiving of tho contributions and levy will be held this evening , Saturday , January 29 th , and every succeeding second and last Saturday evenings in each month , at _lbberson ' s Temperancc-hnuse , _Buxton-roid ; when the re-election of tbe _nftlccw and committee for the year ¦ will be proceeded with .
IlEnPKN Jmiidge . —Tho members of this branch met on Saturday , the 22 nd in _.-t ., when it was resolved , ' That a committee of fourteen _persot . s , he appointed , with power to add to their number , to _canvass this district for sicnature 3 to the National Petition . ' A _subscription was opened for the defence of Mr O'Connor ' s seat . The members of tbe _Charter Association met on Sunday af tevnoan , when a cmnmittrc often was appointed to ace conjointly with that appointed by the Land members . At six o'clock the sumo evening the two committees met , and divided the _neighbourhood into district * , and two of the committee were appointed to canvas _> - eaeh district . The _nieetir-. g adji .-urr . ad U _Sunday next tho oOtb . inst .. at six o ' clock ,
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' Halifax . —The Ilalifax district delegate raee _^ _ng ' _W 88 _fteld iatbe Worlung Jtfan'allaH , _Biilluhise-lane ,, on Sunday , January 23 , when delegates wore present * from the following localitiesI : —Midgley , Elland , Lower Warley , Bradshaw Lane , Qoee ; : _shead , and ; Ilalifss . The following _resolutions were unanimously passed : —• 'That theaccreiary ' _saccounijtiow read be pSajia . ' " « That 200 heid 8 . o £ : biljs .. _baifttiuted fur tha if _9 _QaJitfea , to _. 8 andanc £ i «&*> _Ijofares _#$ «• Val lee _$ ereii ? ' * _ihafewad _| 8 ij » _ppi _« ve . of « _sedeo »« en come to \ %$ _^ _fywft *<* _Mtti ' ti _^ _l-to _^ _to » t { Mr l ) _vnorSaajtatfgltat _* tis counties of Yorkshire a > . d L nea _« _latiire , _naMrDoasvaa having been recently engaged ; . tt _TL _. ft-HA .- J _!„ _t . _l- < . J „ t l _^ t
fin this country , and for years in thia district , w ahould have pieferrcd Mr Kydd , or some other individual to agitate the district / 'Tbat the district ! . ' _¦ eoreiary be _empswered to correspond with . Mr _Jaa _< Deaeb , of Manchester , and engage him , if possible , ta ' ¦¦¦ 8 j . ?» d a week in agitating this district . ' ' Tbat tbe _distfiet delegate meeting be adjourned to this day three _nwntbs / . All communications fortbs Halifax _district to he addressed to Mr John Webber , _distriefct-v _seeretajy _^ _IJJSBg & _bjnjJiy Halifax , Yorkshire . HAur _^ Si- _^& i f _^ fS _^ f _weekly meet ing _neldfrere \\ last Sun' _^ _, _- _;| _5 _ftJr'iefe || _5 f So the chair , he coriiiMneed by' _* r _^ _9 i _^*^ _C _9 _^ _r _^> . _^*^ y ' _Jfoiiibxbsra on _bshalf '
ttl _^ _iifm _, ' 1 _^^^ it _0 i _^ _$ jiafe _^ 9 f _^ "" o r , and ! W 0 CDd , _upari _^ _Miffof _rmsstra ) eloqne ' nco , by _apatte * . mip _^ Mif _^ f $ 0 W _^ t _^ M » i _^^ _tiim ; . _Thef Mlo ' _wMg _^^ _MMi _^ _Msr ; ; _& M | _o _§* and carried ? _htMmmm _^ m _^ _mr-ir-. _^ : % . _Tliacf f _» « : « _fi . _e ' _[* P 3 _fei _^^ S _^; _ffe _^ i * * 5 ? _S _^» . _^^* _i"ni »« ers ' _^ _atlpg _dc _^ an _^ th _^^^^^!^ _ca : of , V _^ t and bis t « . pai *! otB !» _d # : _^^ . _4 _^ _fld _^ _jbJri : _»^' jS _^&»^« -Te _Cai _b _<« b time Mother boll' _»^ i 8 | ' _^ _iroi | i ' _^ _[^^ _|^ _^ ii ! S » . on tbeir _becalf ; and thBt' « 8 _* flraof . oj _^ n _^ _nf _^^ iai best method # i « ildBei CO _{ WeiiM « - _iUt ( r , _a _^»^^ V _; tT 3 ' e wid _^ _wii , that _s & _sy may bs _csublerit _loyritt _^ ih _& _nmhes ac tbo f » ot of t « o lhroije , an _5 ! thor & _-3 up ? Uo 8 « jfor _ya _? donoB _bohalfof _tSfofo _haabanda .
_^ _£ JX 3 tfB » _Bbwbb . —Oh MbndBy PKr Ambrose _Tom-HnotSii lecSared in- the _Demoeratio _Qbapei _, IIsMeB BrliJ _^ eV . tft ' i _^ a ' saerwis _aadienetf . A vote of thanka _was « 3 ivet » : _^| ir _TlomliB «) h , fo 9 hiB _) 8 lilaand instrue- ' , tive lscttt " _rS ; : r ; _MiraJWroiJliH _,-IfeiffiOATB-: Sousei _^ Jan-.- 27 eh- > - _~ Fwj > eas < l / tjy Mr L « ca 3 , _seconded : by Mr Turner : — . Tiiatfc' e _^ _tdeiesate be requested ti _» _report prbgt _» sss from e _& _cfcnf _therr-iocalitasa at the dete _^ aT _^ ' _rrirei-. ; _^^^^ p | ic _^ i _^ n _^ i < i _^ t _# ; i _reapeefcfogthe soiree . " Camber welt and . Walworth 2 s Gd . Adjourned to Wednesday next . W . Tapp Secretary * rVATiu & ii Victim _CoamrrKu . _—Tto . secrftary ( Mr John _SimpsonX-aeknovvledgea the receipt of 3 * . 8 d . " from Richard yVheatley forthe 'Mrs Jones' Fund . ;' and Od . from William _jJearijand 6 'd . from Joseph Reid , j for the general fund .
_RecEim of ; ihb _Gbntoal _Rsojsirat _^ w _akb " . ;¦ _fitnonoM _Committee . —? Bristol , £ _T . 0 s . Od . / Jambs .. ; _J _pKAsanr , S & sretary . '' _-... ' . ' . _'U .. ' ' _% , ' . '¦' : ; SoMEna . TowM . _ri- _^ n " _Suodtiy _evening last _£ me , e ' t . ing ... _; was held at t ' be '' .- ! B ' r ii _( klayera' ' 'Ai ' rins ,-- ' _^ Toiibriag _^ ' . Utreet , New-road ; _. Mr . _^ _Tplliara Orurhshank _vrts - ' palled to the chair , an _' a briefly _introduced Mr " ' MfGrath . who . delivered a most splendid 'i _^ _cturej * ' ' on the' _Injustice and impolioy _ci _Capiial-Euaia ' i- ; raen'tS ;? .- _;^ - _'; ' _- . . 'X- ' . ' - ;; . _"" : ' .,:- " ' ;' :. :. ¦'• r " : ' . \ 'SiiottBWTda _.-rrPia Sunday _evonitia last , Mr . Dixott - '• _leetured / _aV- ' the _^ GifeenGate , _liaektiey-roadJ _Tfis- f leoture gave gwat _¥ _adsfaetip _> ;>; M . e 8 _ir 8 ' Drake ] _titA ¦ _' _ i Kewspm . also . addressed _/ tfce ' _- > rnee _$ b ' gV _<^ ' _thahkB was _giveajta the lecture ? - and chairtaal , XX -.
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, _:-EORTBCQMIKG 'MEEFIN & S _^^; :. \ :,: ; SnoBEDiiCH . r-1 % general . _meetrag _. pf : the _fTational . ; Charter Association . . $ 11 take ; place at the _jGreengate , Hackney-road , at eight o' & _loek .. _^ ' ¦¦ _¦¦; - \ - ¦ Tower Hamists .. —A general meeting of' the ; . members of the _Whittfrigtoh' and Cat agricultural and political library , ' will be , heldbii Su ' _nda _/ after- ' . noon , at half-past five , todecide onrulesandoh ' whafr conditions the _Wks are to be jehti - 'the secretory -. j has on hand Mr O'Connor ' s ' Small Farms ; _' Cob- - ! iett * _s-- ; ' Cottage . Economy ; ' tbe first volume of . the- . 4 Labourer ' s ¦' Magaaine ; ' Silietk & a " Spade llua- ' bandry ;'"' What can be done with three ( teres of , _T laad , ' by F . O'Connor : ' Letters to-Rich and Poor / - " -
by ditto ; . ' Anjaual Black Book . ' thei'People ' s Charter , ' & o .- » -Librariai ! , William _Lawrauce ; treasurer , _Ttioiitas ; Crillett ; secretary , Josep h ¦ Darliaon . —A general meeting of this locality , will be held on Sunday evening , at eight o'clock precisely . Tan _O'CosiroR _Tartas . —A meetingof the Hammersmith district of the Land Company and ; friends , will be held on _Sunday morning next , January ;' o 0 th » at ten o'clock , te-establish a clothes and bat club , with a view of bringing the O'Connor tartan int _* use , and creating mutual employment amongst tbemembirsand their friends , at tho district office , Mr ? Stallwoad . 2 , Little Yale-place ,
Ilammeramithro _* d . : . _>';¦" - '; _Bbrmondbet . — 'No Vote ho _McskbtI '— A' putf _~ Ho meeting of _tWs locality will be held ntthe _TemperanoeHall , _Fair-atreet , Horselydown , Southwatky oh Tuesday evenine _, February 1 st , against the Em- ; bodyini » of the Militia , and for the enactment of the . _people ' s _Charter . Chair to be taken at eight O ' clock . — - _'I'be following Chartists will be invited to attend and address tbo meeting - . —Messrs Julias Harney , Ernest Jones , Thomas Clark , John Skelton William Tapp , and other friends of the working classes . Mr Skelton wil ! lecture at tbe Globe and Friends , _Morgan-street , Commercial-road , on Sunday evening , January 30 th , at half-past sevtn o ' cVk . A general meeting of the members of the Globe and Friends branch of the National Charter Association will be held at _Beven o ' clock , on business of iraporiinoe .
_Clbkkexwbll . —On Monday evening . Jan . 3 ht , a concert and ball will take place at the Cherry Tree , _Bowling Green-lane , Clerkenwell , for the benefit et " Mr R . _Fusassh , an active Chartist in the city and Finsbury locality . A ballot will take place for Hampden's History of _Aristocracy , ' To commence at _cinht o ' clock . The _Fbatkrnai , Democrats will assemble at eight o'clock on Monday _evening next , J . iuu _iry oist , at the German _Dall , Whits-hart , _Drury-hme . Subject for discussion : ' National Defences . ' An Address to the People < d Fiance will be submitted for adoption . Wkstmi . nstbr . —Mr T . Clarke will lecture oa ' Capital and Labour ; their relation to and dependence on each other , ' on Sunday evening next , at 83 , _Dean-Street , Soho . Mr Ernest Joxzs will lecture at the City and Finsbiiry locality . Good Intent Coffee-house , Backhill , Hatton-garden , on Sundav .
Mr Skwell will lecture at tho Sir Walter Scott , Cambridge-road , on Sunday the Cthof February . Mr Thomas Clark will address the men of Cambridge on Monday evening next . Oldbury .- —Toe district delegate meeting will take place at Oldburv _, on Sunday , 20 th inst .
The Dublin Confederates And Mr O'Connor....
THE DUBLIN CONFEDERATES AND MR O'CONNOR . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN ST . VK . Dear Sir , —Having seen in Mr O'Connor ' s last address to the ' Irish People , 'allusion made to the Grattan Club of this city , thanking its members for their favourable notice of his recent conduct in parliament , I think it right to inform you , that a vote of thanks was also passed to him by the club to which 1 belong . And is this any wonder ? Gracious God ! is it any wonder , that Ihe e . _xtraoidinary efforts of this extraordinary and consistent man , in the cause of human freedom , should be appreciated by bis own countrymen , when for those _ttt'jrts he is almost adored by millions of Englishmen ?
Certainly not . The Irish arc not an ungrateful people They , too , can appreciate sterling : patriotism and reverence the man wro spent a fortune and the best years of his life ix felling to the earth that hideous monster , cla _^ s legislation . But , hitherto , thev bave been blinded by prejudice , aud have believed the false teachings of the men whose trade was' pat' / _iotisni . ' A better state of _things , thank God , is opening before us , and that which tyranny so much dreaded , _namely , a union of the peopio ot buth couutries , can be seen hastening to completion . Here , in Ireland , I know there arc many noble spirits thirsting fer it , in England , millions . I am . Sir , vr . urs respectfully ,
I ' _Al'lUCK iJUl'l !' , Vice-President , Dr Doyle _Coafederate Club . Dublin , Jan . 19 th , 18-18 . "
Thi Somkrs Town Siiomiakuks.—On Lion-Lay...
Thi Somkrs Town _Siiomiakuks . —On lion-lay cTenin _^ a _meeting of this ill paid body of men was held -it the _Bricklaicrs' Anils' , _Tonbridije-strtet _, New-road ; John Arnott in the chair . _Messrs Holmes and Daddo appeared as a deputation from the west end and city bodies . After _listening with great attention to the statements of the deputation , MrGnrney moved , and Mr Moody seconded the lollowingresolution * . — 'That this _rcuseting havini ; heard the principles and objects of the _National Association if Trades for tho protection if Industry , do agree to become members of the said _Association . Curried unanimously . The meeting then adjourned , to Mondav evening next . , , , _crowed
Theft caused iu Sta _^ _mios . —A densely - public meetins was held at the Literary and _baentide Institution , on T . ifsdsj- _evenia-.-, to i _edition the _Gueenfor arem _' _sa _' - n sf th eltCC 0 1 " > Or . menUud hard _lalw-. r , passed Wwns . on six railway _^ Smith , J . _BAVvatt , T . Williams , _Mills-U-ho had taken from a h tho value of _threeprnce-h _^ _cravinsrs of bus , ™ , after waliun tha _matrcpslis _wi'hout tasting _rana , _Erq . was called to the _I'coceediDtrs ! n a very eloquent , which was loudly applauacd . addressed the meeting , and petition were unanimously tuV .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 29, 1848, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_29011848/page/1/
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