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( From the Time * . ) _Retfment , now -m _^ _fjf _^ ' _^ Triday evening . Dabiin . where they w & _«* " _"* _Glasgow , were also The 71 rt _HifhbnJ ' _^ _XSJaB _^ i !" expected iu Dablini on _Ftatay nig , _^ _9 _SlSS _^^ S _^ t » _deposited ? n ? rinity _Se 4 rfortheu _« of that _corporation . tolled _themsdvea in a defensive corps . _PROOBESS O _*? THB _HOTEUEKf .
The proceedings in the House- of Comms _^ _- _°° _Thorsday evening , with _Terence to the > nppre » wu ofthe Chartist meeting , followed by tho ominous notice of motion by the llama S ecretary , Jaw tat helped to fan tbe flame of excitement m Dublin , and SfpUbKtO increase the fears of a _PffiHJ crais . Mr John Mitchel , in » familiar _^ V _* - dressed to'His Ex « l < eucythe Earl of Clarendon . Her M . _j « ty « _Detective-General , _% f ° _^ ; toner of S _. _ies . and General Suborner in Ireland « _mm " ruing with a reference to the went revela-& Bs before the police magistrates , proceeds .-
In the first _letter _« klch I did myself th « honour to - dresstoyoaintheTJsiTH _) _Ieishiwk-Jou _remwnberit trtB-I told , on _plaiulf tbat . pies aad infor _* " _* ° _™ ba of no use to you ; _thae wc meant to _afeoll . h _thsir trade—tbat tt _» raoTement , then about to commence , should be , in all parts , open , public , and _aWbowd ; that jou would b « told tbo rery worst of it if not the vena than the worst , _ewry Saturday , regularly , In the papsrs : end that I had no objection to your opening _eU my letters in tke post-oSc , provided they were forwarded _wtthoutlosiog 6 post . _^ ell , y oa did not beluve me ; you did not , unhappy Whig that you are , even _uaderetand mt . ¦ Will yoa 6 _ire ear to Be , then , at length ? I am abeut ta lell you all that Is _goinE on , and all that is in contentplatieD . themselves
First . —The Irish are _proriaiag , just as fsst as their means aad opportunities _eaable them , with weapons cf Tarious kinds , for wbich they haTe cone sired a oortof dirinepsssion ; nobolier , ferfour _slnca the _crasadeg _haspoEssssedanynationofmea—nottsrobhonsss _. asyon , through your reptile spies , give out—not to attack' person or property , ' as your Queen ' s Prime Minister dares to effinn—not to abolish ' social erdf r , ' or _rljhts of property , or _sarings of industry , as yonr _rasool press prints twelve times a-week . No , my Lord ; the young nen of Ireland ana for a nobler enterprise ; they ana to defend person and property _^ ainstbrijands ofthe * Ian ' and harpies of the ' government ;'—they arm to make BOCial order possible , and to secure toindnitry its just reward;—they arm to _scenrge you aod your commissioners , _detectires , aides-de-camp , butchers , and _itranglers , forth from the island of Ireland _rrfthrofli of steel .
Second . —The Irish people are OHsy organising _themeelres in « sections' and ' classes , ' and appointing their _cfictrs , so that each man may know his lift-hand and hit righUund comrade , and the man whQBQ word ha will obsy . Third . The Irish people , or a _eompatent nnfaw or thera , wiU simply continue so to aim , and so to organise , openly , my lord , fearlessly , zealously , with passionate _axdoar , with _feirent prayer , morniag _anderenwg _, forthe blefsed hour when that organisation may find itself ranked in battle array , 8 nd when those arms may wreak tbe wrongs of Ireland iu tho dearest hearts _' _-blood of her enemies .
Poarth . —The Irish people will , by their _mildnsss , their moderation , their loTe of order and respect for property , _sonrince those who lire ra goad homes end wear _goo-i clothes that the armament is not against them—thet your Lordship , and the Prime Minister , and tiie detectives , have foully belied this nation , when you gcra ont that ' social order' was in danger , and that _pillsee and massacre wera intended ;—that , in fint , Uie sole enemy against whom we arm is the government of England in Ireland , and that no Irishman is onr foe , unless he cones ferth to maintain tbat government with armed _bsnds .
Fifth . —The people of Ireland will continue to cultivate friendly relations with tho people of England , who are as deeply sworn to abolish that' empire' of fraud aad blood as we are . And we and they together , by the _destruction and dismemberment of this thrice-accursed 'empire , ' will gire the ' three kingdoms' each to its own people , with all their wealth and resources , material and Bora ! , to hold , enjoy , and govern the same for ever . As for me , my Lord , your Lordship ' s humble correspondent , —yon hare been told that I am mad—a dangerous lunatic , labouring under cacotihes stribendi . Do not believe it ; I am merely possessed with a rebellious spirit ; and think I hare a missien—to bear a band In the final destruction of the bloody old' British empire ;'
the greeoy _, carnivorous eld monster , that has . lain so long , like a load , upon the hear t and _litabs oi England , end drank the blood and sucked the marrow from tbe banes of Irelaud . Agaiust that _Empire of Hell a thousand thousand ghosts of my slaughter ? d _coaatrymen shriek nightly for vengeance ; their blood cries oontinaally from tha ground for vengeance ! vengeance ! ! And Heaven has heard it . That bucaniering flag , that has braved so lor . ? tha battle and the brseza , flies now Irom a ship in distress ; the _Charjbdls of Chartism roars under her l « e—the breakers of R peal are a-head , aad the curses of the world swell the hurricane that rages rouud her , pirate and _bloodstained slaver that she is , £ ll » d with dead men ' s bones , and with all _uocleanneis _. Her timbers are shivering at
last' Qasmvis _Pon'ica plans , 8 yiv 3 filia nobilis;—she will nev « r float in harbour more . On the day ihe goes to pieces all tha ends of the earth will giro three cheers . Ta help this grand work of necessity and mercy is my highest ambition upon earth , md I know ho better way to do it than to make Ireland arm for battle . To me It is a grateful and blessed sound , this cry , ' Ths jeople are arming . ' Thank God they are arming . Young m » B everywhere in Ireland begin _tolovs the dear glancing of the steel , and to cherish their dainty rifles as the very apple of their eyes . Tney walk more proudly—they feel _themselvss more and more of men . Like the Prus . _sifin students ( _ichen this work had to be done for Prussia , ) they take the _brightest weapon to their hearts , and clasp their virgin swords like virgin brides .
How _lang will your deteotives , your swearers , your _vOIauous back-stair _psnderers to the _hsngmsn , check this noble passion—this most holy crusade f Thiak of it well . I remain , my Lord , with profoundest contempt , Tear very obedient servant , Jchr Mitchel . P . S . —I had some thought of addressing to you an expostulation about the picking of our j aries next term . I fancied gome _fsallng of _dscaney , or even of justice , Sight induce you U give orders that the ordinary but disgraceful _praetieesf the _Crown-effice should bo reversed . I have changed my mind . He who employs a spy will paek a _jory , and I , for one , scorn to appeal for ¦ anything to a man who lays a plot for massacre . Pack
away , then , if you dare . I expect no justice , no coar . tesy , ao indulgence from you ; and if you get me within your power , I entreat yoa to show ae no mercy , as I , so hap ma God , would show none to you . J . H . Speaking of the answer of M . Lamartine to the _insh deputation , he observes : — Well , we trnst the idea of foreign aid , until after we base begun to do our own business , is at an end . We were sorry to see the Irish Confederates , the other sight , _caught ia a mere elgp . trap . Wa are not going to get 50 , 000 Frenchmen , nor one Frenchman ; and Hr Smith O'Brien , to do him jostles , never said we were . We fear ranch that 'King _Eigmarol'isnotyetdsai , as our post sings . Eat surely , if ever It behoved men to look facts in the face , and neglect words which have n _» facts uader theo , it behoves us now .
A correspondent ef the Fkitkd _Irishuas _eemplains that the movement is too democratic , and that thousands ara thereby deterred from joining b fee fight . Mr Mitchel replies : — Have wa not waited fer the aristocracy loDg enough « Tbey ara still oe England ' s side , and we eaa wait no _fooger , moving dishes of skimmed milk . The revolution must be a democratic oat , merely because yonr gentry , Instead ef taWng s part la It , are resisting , Bud trill be shattered to pieces with the first erash of It . As for the Confederstiem 'leaders , ' they mnst take their e & anee bat we had rather upturn the present order ef things by tha help *? the able-bodied p-mpers _eloao thsa leave it u it stands . Who so _| _desires a share in the sew nation , let him speak , A correspondent of the Natio * asks t—
"Who are the stoutest men la Dublin t The draymen . _TTho are the bravest ! Believe me , the draymen . They fear nothing , and one of them would make a whole Cacfefierate club of yeur young fellows . They live in tho open air , and _thriva on it . Look at their broad _shonldtrs and brawny limbs . Look at their great drays and dray horses . Can yoa possibly have overlooked a power like this in yonr preparations ? I'll go bail for it , a line of their drays will break any other liae yoa drive them _sg & last . Give ma tbe draymen for cavalry , end the coal porters , with Colonel Brown's favonrite pikes 'in good repair , ' as the song says , and I'll show jou s new tactic that will open too _ojes of your _nurtL sets . Let the Students' Club look to this . I consign ay hint to them to work It ont . la tlie Kme paper thera appeare the following
;—• A Clerie * informs us that the hordes of British _soldiers ia eur metropolis have Increased tha open , public immorality , to a frightful degree . And he adds , tbat _Frince George of _Csmoridga and his suite deluged Waeriek with vice daring their residence there . Ay , that is one of the secondary curses of foreign dominion , ef whioh the name ii Legten . A citizen army , which , please Sod , Ireland will soon possess , is the centre of no vicious system of corruption ; and 'A Cleric ' must bear , with whatever patience he can muster , an itsflieti-n which nt hate 50 _. M 3 reasons for believing is near »» Ult day .
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London Repealers. The Meetings Arecrowde...
LONDON REPEALERS . The meetings arecrowded niehtly , and _thegreatest interest prevails , as the time for the trial of Messrs O'Brien , Me _^ her , and Mitchel draws near . Itis in contemplation to hold an _j _^ greeate meeting of the Irishmen of Londea and the frie _* _ids of Ireland , oa Kennington Common , oa an early day—and they will ba able to show their _elasu legislators thnt it they were able to mu » ter , on Monday last , 20 , 000 of Chartist Repealers on the common , in support of the Charter , what can they not do for thoir own ' green tand _! ' .. .. .... of this
Curras Cltjb . —The usual weekly meeting club was held on Sunday evening , st the Green Man , Berwick-street , and the larijeroom was erowdert to _suffi > caUon , and numbers went away that coula not gain _adirissien . Mr Bayly ( En « 15 _shman ) , « rai called to the ehair .-Mr A . W . Hyde dwelt at ( treat length on tho glorious union ofthe English and Irish peaple .-MrT . M . Wheeler ( of the Chartist Executive ) , _add » e ? B 6 d tha meeting , aud wa « loud veneered . —Mr T . Reynolds denenneed the conduct ot the middle class to the working millions . He said , they possessed , tea great extent , a power over the ministers , by _having the franchise , the jury bos , the administration ofthe poor law fund , and they regulated , also , their own paroehtcal taxes—the whole of which Eoil
power they exercised against the sons of . A day of retribution would come . They had _betrayed the trust they had reposed in thera . —Mr R . Crowe said , the Whigs were pursuing the same osrse in Ireland that made the _Beresferds so _nolori-. _u-i—and that Ireland had sufficient power in herself toregaiaher nationality without resorting to foreign aid . Ireland , from her present position , would soon be able to write the epitaph over _Emmett's grave . ( Loud _eheera . ) There was a great _ery in Ireland for republicanism , and the only way to s > top tho onward progress of ultra independence w & b , forthe English government to grant them parliamentary _independence . Lord Byron had truly said , that tho union of the two Parliaments _looked something like "tho shark swallowing its prey . Englishmen eould now see
that while Ireland got nothing by the Uaion , they were losiHg by it . tie was proud to see the union between thepeople of the tw « countries , and let them take care that disunion did not destroy it . But it must be preserved in its entirety . He was a Chartist , knowing that it wohH tend to establish the rights of labaur . He was glad to see that there _vas only one opinion among his countrymen in England—that of fraternisation with his brother Englishmen . They must learn to _underhand one _an-ther better , and then they would find that the prwperityof one was tbe happiness of the other . ( Loud cheering . )—Mr Glass then stated that a subscription list had been opened , to defray the expenses of " the State _prosecutien in Dublin . —Messrs Dunn and _O'Maboney then addressed the meeting , which was _adjourned to
Sunday evening next . The Hoksst Jack _Lawusss Club . —A . meeting of this elub was hold on Monday evening , at the Working Man ' s Temperance Hall , Broadway , Westminster . The Hall was crowded , and considerable anxiety was displayed as to the progress of jthe government Coercion Bill , for the better security and protection of the cro wn . Mr _O'Farrell in thc chair . Several speeches of the Confederates at their late meeting in Dablin having been read , the chairman proceeded to address the meeting . He called their attention to the present state of Ireland , and impressed on them the necessity of renewed exertion . — Mr Geoghegan on beiBg loudly ealled for . came forward ,. and _inaa able and eloquent
speech , dwelt at great length upon the evils that aroie generally from monarchial institutions , and pointed to the state of Ireland , and said , that under a proper form of government , sueh a state of thinp could not exist . Agitation until of late had been of no avail , but if their object was repeal , they must assist their brethren on tbe other side of tbe channel , where it would soon te obtained ; the Irish people were determined to obtain it . He ( Mr Geoghegan ) , adopted the prosecuted opinions of Messrs O'Brien , Meagher , and Mitchel , and he , for one , would not shrink from his duty to his fatherland . It was ridiculous to _suppose that Ireland could regenerate herself by moral force alone . The government were by
this time fully aware that there would be no mistake onthe part of the Irish people . He thought _befare long that Dublin Castle would be too warm to eontain Lord Clarendon . ( Loud cheers . )—Mr Walford said , that Ireland had lost her manufactures through the Union , and instead of Irishmen being engaged profitably at home , they vere _soapslled to come to England to work at a starvation | price . Mr F . O'Connor had said , there _werejfive million acres of uncultivated land in Ireland , which if put into cultivation , would have preserved the lives of all those who had perished the last two years from famine . He hoped the dayiwas not far distant when Ireland would be able to regulate her own affairs , he would read a verse from the Labourer : —
' Then Erin take courage , the day is at hand , When thy ruler ' s oppression shall tremble and fall , Tf hen Erin ' s owu sans shall possess their on u laud ; Aad shall make her own laws , still better than all . Yes , Erin's dark night of oppression shall flee , Like a vapsur ditpellM by the _snn ' * genial- ray , And then , swceUst Isle ofthe ooean _tbm'ltbe First flower of the earth , and first gem of the sea . ' They had been awfully deceived by the new Hedged repealer ? , who obtained seats onthe strength of their five pound qualification , it was time this system wns put an end to . In conclusion , he _weuld beg of thoso present , not to debaee themselves wiih drink , but send the price of their debasement to their own
green land , to assist their relatives . —Mr M'Sweeney then explained the principles of tbe Confederation . — Mr T . fl . Reading _informsd the meeting amidst loud cheers , that Mr W . S . O'Brien was in his place that evening , opposing the measure of the government , with reapwt to the better security of the crown , and thst the _people ' s petition had been presented and received by Lord . Morpeth . Mr Reading then went into a long explanation ef the measure for the better security of the Crown , shewing its deadly _rffects on the liberty of the subject . —Messrs Needham , Campbell , ani Spilier , having addressed the meeting , several persons were enrolled , and the meeting adjourned .
Davis Club . —A meetine of this club was also held on Monday evenin ? , and we regret that our _rejwrter could not gain admittance from its crowded state . It is most eheering to know that at no _periid wore the Irishmen more keen to their interests than they are at the present time ; nor wiil Englishrcea forget their conduct in fraternising with them iu time of need . Meetings forthe _ensuinsr week : — _StntnAr _Evbnisg . — ' Green Man , ' Berwick-street , Oxford-street : * Druid ' s Arms , ' Greenwich ; Temperance Hall , Wappingj * Vietory ' Newenham « street , _Edjeware-road . _Mokdat Evenikg . —Assembly Rooms , 83 , Deanstreet , Soho ; Working Man ' s Temperance HaU , _Carteret-street , Broadway , Westminster .
WxDHnsnA ? ahd Friday . —Assembly Rooms , 83 , Dean-street , Soho . _Rxpbal o » ths TJkioh . —The adjourned debate on this question will bo resumed on Sunday morning next , at the Working Man ' s Temperance Hall , Carteret street , Broadway , Westminster . More than one hundred persons attended on Sunday last . Repeal . — _Notcashe-upoh-Tyhe . — Oa Friday evening last , a publio meeting was held ia the Ne ' _sonstreet _Lecturs-reoia , to take into _consideration the duties which _davolve upon the working olasses , at the present msst important _crisiB , and to accelerate the triumph of' Liberty , Equality , and Fraternity , ' The meeting we * one of tho most important that has ever taken place in Newcastle . The speeches were
of the mest stirriag character , and were received by the multitude with _applaoes , especially when the wrongs ef Ireland were pointed out ; which was dene in strong , glowing , and forcible language . A memorial to the Queen , demanding _immediate Repeal ofthe Union , was carried _unanimously , thero not beiag a dissentient voice in tho large assembly , to either the resolution or memorial : — « That the present _ftiublfal condition ef Ireland , which in times past has beea tha theatre of aristocratic tyranny , and which is at this _aoaent on the verge ofa BMBtsaBguinary civil war , the inevitable result of a ge _« ple being goaded to madness by the oppression of their rnlera , makes it appareat to the whole world tbat ignorance and crime , misery and degradation , are the necessary consequences ef _ctes * legislation . '
Disgraceful _Cohduot op the Police . —From a Correspondent . —On the return of the people irom the Common over Westminster Bridge , the police _droye the people throagh Bridge-street , down P « - _Hasnent-sW-eet , and they were enly compelled to desist from their brutal conduct by their _saperifra-Several of tkem were tha worse for liquor , especially those of the N . division , and used their st » ves most unmercifally : and the ahopkespera ware compelled to cry out ' shame . ' On several occasions the superiors were compelled to let passengers pass over the bridge on business , and the next moment they were _sloppod ; in fact , there _appeared to be but one opinion—that the _polioe were anything bnt disciplined on this occasion , tbey were more like overgrown boya than men . In Bridge-street , they pulled shopkeepers and special constables from their door * , ud beat them , till thej were compelled to pull out their staves to defend themselves froa the attacks of drunken poheeraen .
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How seldom do we feel , perceive , or think of the small beginnings of disease which surround and _opsrato upon us in our enjoyments and intercourse with the world The young disease , which must subdue at leneth Grows with our growth , and strengthens with our strength . ' ' An improper regimen acting upoa a particular kind of constitution . late hears , both of retiring to rest and _risine in the morning , lay the foundation of intestinal as weU as skin diseases . To all such we would recommend , first , a change of system , and , secondly , as a powerful assistant for the recovery of health , tbat efficacious Family Medl . cine , Frampton ' s Pill of HeaRh , which has _procured tbe approbation nt pet-sens in every station iu _seciet ? .
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PRESENTATION OF THE NATIONAL . PETITION . , GREAT " CHARTIST DEMONSTRATION . We shall commence our account of the _ever-meraorablo proceedings of Monday , April 10 th , by giving from the daily papers a statement ot the PRODIGIOUS PREPARATIONS BY THE GOVERNMENT In addition to the regular troops doinp ; duty in the metropolis , the following on Saturday received uarohing orders and were commanded to proceed to London—viz the Horse Guards Blue , from Windsor ; the 12 rh Lancers , from Honnslow ; the Grenadier Guards , from Chichester ; the Coldstream Guards from Windsor ; the 63 d , from Chatham ; the 02 nd from Winchester ; tbe 17 th from Dover . The yeomanry and militia staff of the surrounding counties
were all underarms nnd in readiness for action at a moment ' s notice . The marines and all the sailors of the royal navy 6 t Sheerness , Chatham , Birkenhead , Spithead , and other naval stations , together with the dockyard men , were kept under arms from an tarly hour ; and the Thames police , la addition to their other duties , were directed to keep close watch over the mercantile marine , lest any of them should bo induced to fraternise with tho Chartists , The heavy gun batteries were ordered to be brought up from Woolwich , and posted at the points where danger was apprehended . The other disposable military lorce , cavalry and infantry , were dispersed throughout tho metropolis , but their stations were kept a secret . On Saturday the marines took up their quarters in the Admiralty , and mounted guard at the gates , two sentries _doia _* z duty .
Similar active measures were pursued in organising the police . The mounted detachments were armed with broadswords and pistols . The various pubiie buildings were * Mit in a state of defence . Somerset-house bad over each of its gates a formidable revolving _ehetnaux-de-frke . The most active exertions were made at the Bank ef England . In addition to those connected with the establishment s x hundred of the pensioners were sent for its protection , as well as a troop of artillery , and a good supply of provisions . A vaBt number of sand bags were deposited on the roof , and the open space befire it was crowded with spectators for the greater part or the day . Similar measures were adopted at the East India House , Guildhall , and the Post-office . Two thousand stand of arms were sent from the Towor nacktd in boxes to the General Post-office ,
for the use of the clerks and officers of that establishment , all of whom were sworn in as special constables , A large quantity of ball cartridges were supplied . At the _Mint and Custom-house every precaution was taken ; over the gates of the latter a _chevaux-de-frise was erected . The entire establishment ofthe Admiralty at _Cbaring-eross , from the first Lord of the Admiral' . y downwards , had been sworn in as spatial constables , provided with _Btavep , and with more destructive weapons for offence or defence . On Saturday there were received there for distribution amoRg the other departments 500 muskets and bayonets , 500 _cutlassea , and eome 2 , 000 rounds of ball cartridges . All the steam-vessels complete at the ports wcre ordered to bo held in _readings for service at a moment ' s notice , te oonf ey troops to any quarter required .
Tw » _Seld batteries left Woolwich on Saturday morning , at eleven o ' clock , fer London . The three _ttospa . including * the rocket service , left the garrison on Monday morning for the met * _opolis , under * he command of Lieutensnt-Colonel Btll , and the other two field _tntteries alio proceeded to Londtn en Monday . The four field batteries had been taken from the grand _depst , and each battery consisted of three nine-pounders snd one twenty-four pounder howitzer , with their entrenching tools to cut down palings or
barrier .- * and level ditches , and were supplied with an ample allowance of every kind of field ammunition . Colonel Cleveland , commandin ; the field batteries , had been ie ailed from leave of absence lo take the command of the batteries . One thousand of the Foot Artillery , were kept in readiHcss to act as infantry with their rifles , incase their services should be required . The 62 nd Regiment of Foot arrived in London on Friday , aod the 63-d Regiment arrived by railway on Sunday afternoon . Two regiments arrived from Chatham on Saturday by f team .
At the Tower on Saturday a large number of workmen were engaged in making preparations and additional arrangements . At the several garrisons round the Tower , the guns were examined and placed ready for instant service , and barrieade 3 and strong timber work were pnt up behind the battlements for tbe purpof c of strengthening the stone-work . The whole of the troops in the Tower were to hold themselves in constant readiness for marchin ? , at a moment ' s notice , with their respective officers .
The eeveral docks—St Katharine ' s , London , East and West India—were closed , all tie labourers haring , for several days past , been Bworn in as constables , The City prisons were guarded by the military , as also the county gsols . The churches were converted into temporary barracks . Tbe _tlcctrie telegraph station in Lothbury , behind the Bank , was delivered over tothe _acle charge of the government . The stations in all parts of England and Scotland were also be under _thesuperintendenoe ef government officials .
The omnibuses and cabs were generally withdrawn fromthestreels . Notthole » stimportantregulation adopted was one for the organisation of special constables . The _c-mmisnoners in that regulation recommended the authorities to have a place for assembling in each pariah , and on the meeting of the committee , a list of names and addresses of the constables to be ealled over , and the parish to be divided into divisions . Difftrtnt members of the committee to take charge each of a division list . The committee were then to appoint one of their own body to take charge of _«* aeh of the several divisions . They were then to divide themselves into partiea of ten or twelve to aet together , one to have the direction of each party , but if sufficiently numerous , there might also be a leader for e » ca party of thirty or fortv , _composed of the smaller parties .
The special constables in the parish of St George ' s , Hanover-square , which , including the out-ward of Pimlico , is , after Marylel one , the largest in London , assembled on Saturday in tho yard attached to the w _irkhouse in Mount-street , _Grosvenor-squsro , for the purpose of making arrangements for the preservation ofthe public peace on Monday . The _special constables of the parish , which amount to about 3 , 000 persons of all rank ? , were then separated into three divisions , the eolonel-in-chief was Field Marshal Lord Strafford . The Earl of Delaware was appointed captain ofthe l * t division ; Admiral Bowles of the 2 nd ; and General Doyle of the 3 rd , or outr » ward division of Pimlioo . It was nest deoided that each of these divisions should be divided into eight sub-divisions , headed by captains . The captains of
the subdivisions of the 1 st and 2 nd divisions were the Duke of Leeds , General Rofeinsi Viscount Cantilupe . Earl ef Harrowby , Mr Stokes , Lord Ashley , Lord Cawdor , Sir E . Oust , General Fox , the Hon . Captain Stopford , Captain Ingle , Colonel Ingle , tho Hon . Captain Rous , Sir W . Burgoyne . and the Hon . Captain Duncombe . These subdivisions were then divided into Beetions of twenty-five men , to have a sorgeant at the head of each . The _arrangements having been completed , Lerd Strafford advanced in front ff the assemblage , and addressed them npon the importance of the occasion which had called them together , expressing the pride he felt at being appointed colonel of the large force of loyal citizens , called from their homes to protect life and property _froea the attacks of wanton disturbers of the pubiie peace . Three most hearty cheers were given for the Queen , the constitution , and their colonel , after whieh the assemblage dispersed .
In the city upwards of 10 , 000 persons were swora special constables . The Lord Mayor proceeded to tbe Home Office , where he had an interview with Sir George Grey ; the result was , that the aldermen of the different wards met at the Mansion House , — the commissioners of police nnd the other civic authorities having been sent far . The result of the deliberations was not allowed to transpire , but it was understood that the most decisive measures were adopted , The royal carnage * and horses , and other va _' oables were removed from tho palace . The whole of the Queen Dowager ' s carriages , _horees , & o , were removed to Bushey .
The military force ( ezelaeive ef the artillery and Chelsea and enrolled out-pensioners ) in and near London waa as follows : —Royal horse guards ; 1 st and 2 nd life gHards ; 12 th lancers ; 7 battalions of foot guards ; 17 th regiment of foot ; 62 nd ditto ; 63 rd ditto—making an available force of nearly , 9000 men .
THE CITY . At a yery early hour thera presented in the City _evidences of the interest taken in the intended meeting at Kennington Common . Hundreds were observed passing on to the immediate scene of the meeting , and hundreds were likewise to be observed at the different stations appointed to be moBt strictly attended to , attracted , no doubt , by the military arrangements , which to some were matters of curiosity , to others of alarm . The spectators of the Bank fortiHcations were very numerous throHgh the day . A breastwork of sand bags , with loopholes f or muskets and small guns , bad _baeia thrown ap alone the parapet wall of this
establishment . In addition to tbis , at each corner ef the building , mueket- batteries , bullet-proof , were raised , having loop-holes for small carrosades . In the Interior , in addition to the S 00 clerko and servants sworn in as special constables , everyone of wham was provided with a brace of vistols , a musket and a catlasg . there was a strong detachment Of Foot _Gnaids . The Lord Mayor and the _Commissionerof the Ci'tiy Police had an interview on _Sundayat the Home ohW , with Sir George Grey and tho Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police , when final regulations were made as to the course to be adopted and placed in the hands of tbe authorities , and throughout the whole of Saaday eight the principal officers of the City force
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W _^ _eeitfpi edat _tlieBewrt _Bta _^ mpra _^ hoM _^ _e innumerable special constables who assembled at he various _^ wards , under tho Aldermen and the _nnterpMt of whora were provided with staves and SSu _pwards of 2 . 000 of the younger and more 3 ve _speciafo wero selected , by he Aldermen and olaced in _direed communieation with the City police under the Commissioner . This latter body had re-55 _SiH _-Wiona to take up position at the Cross E in Gr aceehurchstreet . the Royal Exchange , and Bridewell Hospital , which were placed atthe complete disposal of Mr Harvey , and as hey _rnusterod at the _sewral paces of _appointeent they were immediately marshalled into bodies _olJ 00 each _nnd a < _mln subdivided mto twenties , and plaoed . under _gT ,
the command of captains and sergeanta « _« _" "• _£ " _thewhole . At eleven , o ' clock the _^ he _^ eeia _] constables marched in large , bodies to the three bridges , and took up their station there in _^ mediate communication with the metropolitan _mutablei , who _aSnded at each in great number ; .. As . fMO _PJ w » J » B communications , it was inferred that the Chartists would proceed with their petition from KenniPg ton Common to the House of Commons over _Blackinars Bridge , that station was the point at which the most formidable resistance was contemplated . It was generally believed in the City that the government had determined , at the latest Council , teoffer no obstacle whatever to tbe assembling of the people at Kennington Common , or to their progress from thence with the petition to whioh ever bridge their movements but tnat
might indicate their intention to pass over , it was resolved that every resistance should _beotiered to any greater number than ten of the petitioning body going over any bridge , such resistance to be left in the first instance to the management ofthe civil force , the military to be called upon in _-the event oftbe inadequacy of that power , fot which purpose most formidable bodies of cavalry and infantry were stationed in the neighbourhood of the bridges , bnt out of the eight of tho people , under the special command of Gen , Brotherton .
STEPNEY-GREEN . Tbe pre-eoucerJed hour of _assemble at this point was eight o ' clock , but np to nearly nine tbe Green was occupied only by numerous groups of workingmen , it having been thought necessary to Bend a deputation to the Convention to inquire whether any change in the arrangements had taken place . Shortly before nine o ' clock , the deputation returned , and a band of _UHiaie , preceded by tbe flag of Tbo Stepney Society of _Cordwainers , ' and attended by a large body of persons , made their appearance , and were there joined by vast numbers of the Chartists of that neighbourhood , bearing other banners with the inscriptions of'The People's Charter and No Surrender , ' * _TheCharti 80 _Lind Company of Whitechapel , & o . The procession then formed and defiled up the lane , from the Green to the _Whitechapel-road , along throuh
which it proceeded to Commercial-street , g Spitalfields , Church-street , Sun-street , and Crownstreet , to _Finsbury-aquare . Every cs ? urt and alley contributed its quota to swell the numbers of the procession as it passed . On reaching Finsturysquaro , the Chartists from _Clerkenwell-green , _Rusaell-square , and the other points , came ap ; and , forming one vast procession , headed by the Stepney band , tho whole returned by _Crown-Btreet to _BishopsgaU-street , and from thenca through Fenohnrch _. street and King William-street , over London Bridge , to the Elephant and Castle . At this point another body joined the procession , and the whole thon proceeded to Kennington Common . The ban . ners of the Irish party were the newest -asd hand soraest . A flag in another part of the proeesBion ex hibited the following : —' Gaizot _laaghed immoderately . '
The persons forming this procession seemed anxious to behave themselves in a most orderly manner ; no weapons of offence and not more than two or three walking _atieks being perceptible . Not a single policeman or soldier waB tobe seen throughout the whole ofthe route from _Sfcepnoy-green to Finsburysquare , and from thence to Kennington Common . A number of women , wearing tke tricolour , walked in the _procession .
_FINSBURY-SQUARE . This was the rallying point for the _district of Finsbury . Nine o ' clock in the morning was the time fixed by the Convention forthe gathering together of the Chartists of this locality . The Sappers and Miners , at the Tower , were busily employed during ibe day ia throwing sand bags upon that part of tbe fortress near the western entrance , and along the whole of the lower ramparts facing the river . The gates were kept closed throughout the day , and no person was allowed te enter except _thoiie who had business to transact within the fortress . Double sentries were also placed throughout the entire building .
At ten , sounds of muBio were found to proceed from a small band which marched into the squire , followed by many thousands walking four abreast , tbe majority of whom were journeymen shoemakers . They bore no weapons of offence ar defence . Seat _, tered throughout the procession were men bearing small banners , on which wero inscribed various devices and mottoes ; amongst the latter were , * Tho Charier and No Surrender , ' 'The National Land Association , ' & e . There were also caps of liberty , fastened to the ends of bundles of twigB . Tbe procession moved in the most regular and orderly manner from the square through Crowr-strect _, Sunstreet , Bishoppgate-street , _Gracechureh-street , to London Bridge , where , contrary to tho fears and expectations of many , not the _sliehtest resistance was offered to their passage over the bridge . Indeed there was neither there , nor in any other part ofthe whole routo from _Finsbury-Bquare to
Kenningtcncommon , the appearance of a soldier or policemanla _Bishopsfjate-slreet there certainly was a small knot of special constables lodged in front of a large building , but as _Bion as the Chartists observed thera through the railings which intervened between the constabltB and the street , they raised a cheer , and continued to proceed rapidly on their way to the meeting . The shopkeepers on this side of the water appeared to have great faith in the peaceable and orderly conduct of the procession , for , with the exception of two or three in Gr _* _acechurch-8 _treet , not a shop window was closed during the wholo of their progress from _Finsbury-square to London Bridge By the time the procession reached _Newinston Causeway , the number of those who accompanied it on each side was as great as the procession itself . At twelve o _' olock the procession reached the common , and mingled with the gatherings from the other districts of the metropolis .
THE WESTERN DISTRICTS , & c . The whole of these districts , from the earliest hour of the morning of Monday , exhibited considerable excitement ; owing not only to the passing of numerous groups of those who were gathering together for the purpose of proceeding to the meeting , but also to the assembling ofthe masses of policemen and special constables , the latter of whom had begun to take duty in relief of the former even on the preceding night , and were m the morning universally substituted for them .
The _Knightsbridfje Barracks , were kept cloned _, but , on the occasional opening of the . gates , it was perceived that they were crowded with troops , the regiments usually stationed at _Hounslow and Windsor having been _brou-fiht up . On reaching Hyde Park Corner it was found that the gates were shut on both sides of the road , and at the triumphal arch , under the Duke's statue , was stationed a guard of Grenadiers . From that place to Trafalgar-square , the passing to and fro ofthe special constables and
the absence of police displayed the precautions whioh were taken and the apprehensions which induced them . In Trafalgar-square it was that the police first appeared , and thence down to Palace-yard the body ofthe force were chiefly concentrated , Along the Strand , also , there were strong bodies of them with horse patrols ; and , as they kept constantly moving , and compelling the erewd to move , the streets wera kept clear , and there was nothing that coald be called a mob anywhere , although an immense number of persons were scattered abnit .
Eaeh of the bridged was ( strongly defended by aa immense mass of police and special constables , and at Westminster ( down to which there was one uninterrupted array of police ) , there were upwards ot 600 . with a regiment of cavalry , and mx p i eces of ordnance ; added to whioh , there we > e , of course , the royal regiments , ' in barrackn close at hand . RUSSELL-SQUARE . Russell square , the centre of the north-western district , was named aa the most convenient place of rendezvous for the advocates of the Charter , resident in thnt neighbourhood . In the progr-irame of the day ' s proceedings issued by the delegates in Convention assembled , it waa announced that the
cordwainers , bricklayers , and others favourable to the movement would assemble in the square at nine o ' cloek , there to join the ' Irish Confederates . ' and having formed in procession , move en masse to the place of meeting . At nine o ' clock punctually th 0 cordwainers were observed marohing down Keppelatreet , carrying banners and _wearing tosetteB , The body _filtd into the square in excellent order , and took up a position close to the rails , extending from _KeppeNstreet to Mentague . pla . ee . Shortly after wards they were followed by the men of the Westminster district , many of them tailors and artisans " The spectators who now poured in from the _Newi road , Holborn , _'lottenham-court road , and Grav ' a . _innlanealmost filled the west side
_- , of thefequare , and rendered it a matter of some difficulty to _paas through . Athalf . _past nweo ' olooklond _cheeraannounced that the Irish Confederates had _arrived They _marked down Mont Wla * e , _carryfng oranKe and green banners , and many of them displaying teraperanoe medals , The word having been given tofallm , the hody waa numhalle * rank and hie , and the people proceeded arm in arm , eight deep . . The _cordwainers took the lead , carninl a blue auk banner inBoribod with the words « _Libert Equality , and _Fraternitf . The Charter and No Surrender . ' Next came a' _flag-staff , surmounted with the oap of liberty , made tf crimson cloth . m \ h
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the motto ' Divided we fall . ' The _ Emmett Bri pfle _T"dfi ' praye _^ green , with the inscription , 'What ia Life without Liberty ! ' The banner oi the Confederates was formed of green silk , fringed , with erange . An ancient Irish harp was _emblswned in gold , and underneath the words , * Let every man have his _owa country . ' This section of the procession was * loudly cheered as it emerged into Holborn . Banners and streamers with various inscriptions suitable to the occasion were borne by the crowd . That which attracted the most attention , and _elicited a cheer , _t , --, _, f „ n . Ti m Tnnrnrirr Ttri
every now and than from the more enthusiastic portion ofthe spectators , _# _as a square banner with the following inscription in black , on a white ground , ' Every man is born free , and God has given men equal rights and liberties . May it please God to give man knowledge to assert those rights , and let no tyrannical faction withhold tbem from the people . ' The line of rente taken was Southamptonrow , the north side of _BloomBbury-tquare _, Southampton-street , Holborn , Farringdon-street , Blackfriars-bridge , Blackfriars-road , and thence on by the . Elephant and Castle to Kennington Common .
KENNINGTON COMMON . The polioe and special constables , the former amounting to 6 , 000 , and the latter to 8 , 000 , were so distributed and located , that while ample and speedy protection could at any timo be afforded where it was required , none of those forces were seen at the place of meeting . We were given to understand that the Horns Tavern , Kennington Church , Surrey Gardens , and the gardens ofthe Philanthropic Institution were severally occupied by military , and that upwards of twenty omnibuses laden with policemen from Greenwich and other neighbeuring towns deposited their contents at Kennington Cross . At nine o ' elock the crowd began to collect in tbe precincts of the common , and about an hour afterwards the surrounding thoroughfares were densely crowded .
Shortly after , the different Chartist associations began to assemble , accompanied by bands , flags , and banners . They were loudly cheered as they entered on the common , Among the flags wo observed the American and a great number and variety of tricolours . The procession was divided into thirty sections , each directed and controlled by leaders who ranged them six men deep round the greater part of the common , _thna protecting those inside from any sudden incursion on tho part of the police , if such should be attempted . ( From our own Correspondent . )
At twenty minutes to e ! evea o'cloek _wefonnd Trafalgar-square entirely filled with police , the people from the steps of St Martin ' s Church , _Nation *! Gal lery , & c , being quiet spectators ; vast numbers ol _sne ' _cial constables were patrolling Ceefcstur strett , Charing-cross . & sc , with white bands round their arms and staff in hand . At a quarter to eleven we found the approaches to Westminster-bridge , Surrey side , guarded by a strong detachment of polieie , the bridge being placarded with papers bearing tbe inscription , 'No proeession will be allowed to accompany the petition to the bouse , ' and every stable-yard or other commodious place en route tothe oommofl , appeared to be filled with either specials , police , military , or artillery .
APPEARANCE OF THE COMMON , On our arrival here , we found every height , whence it was _possible to obtain the most remote view _, crowded to excess ; the windows of every house overlooking the _comnwn were crowded with elegantly dressed females , who appeared to be anxious spectators ofthe scene . Eleven o ' clock had now arrived , and the processions from tbe various parts of town began to arrive . The first we observf d was that of the Tower Hamlets , a magnificent cortege , comprising some 30 . 000 persons , and such waB their eonduet , _peaceable demeanour and firmness , that a police inspector oomplimented them thereon . Next came
the great western body , which started from Russellsquare , a most _magsificpnt body , amongst whom marched the body of shoemakers , the West End Men ' s Men alone exceeding 800 persons ; they were preceded by a banner , purchased by the _apprentice lads in the trade , made ef Bilk , inscribed , 'Cordwainer _^ , Liberty , Equality , Fraternity . * The glorious bands of Irish Confederates and Repealers , who had turned out to exhibit their fraternisation with the English Chartists , had a splendid banner , a rich green silk one , with an orange border , surmounted with the harp of Erin , and inscribed , ' Ireland forthe Irish . *
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION . At nine o ' clock Mr _Reynolds was voted to the chair , the usual chairman , Mr M'Grath being engaged on business relative to the petition . On the name of Mr Bronterre O'Brien bein » ealled , Mr _M'CiRTHT said thathe understood Mr O'Brien had resigned , and he wished to know when he attended last . The Secretary . ( Mr Doylb ) said that they had no notice of his resignation officially , and he _ha-1 not attended _iinca tho day before the proclamation was issued from the government .
Mr Dotlb then rose and announced that he had this , morning received an official communication from Scotland-yard , in reply to one which had been forwarded to the Commissioners of the Police on the preceding night , announcing a change in the route of their procession . This communication , after acknow lodging the receipt of the letter alluded to , stated that the eontemplated procession would on no account be allowed to take place . The petition , it was added , might be presented in the usual way , but no procession through the streets would be allowed ,
Mr West said he had expected some communication ofthe kind . He was glad to see that the Commissioners had not endeavoured to put a stop to the meeting . At Kennington Common they would give such instructions to the people as would prevent them coming into collision with the police . Mr Fsaroos _O'CoHNonsaid be was labouring under severe illness , but should consider himself a most improper leader , il he shrunk irom his duty at _suoh a moment , or if he bad said anything which he had occasion te retraot . Had it not been for the felly of some persons out ofthe Convention—and a few in it —there never wonld . have been any opposition to their demonstration , and it would bave been the grandest thine of the kind ever seen in England . Noiv _, he
would wish the Convention to put themselves into the place of the government , and say whether if they had heard that an armed demonstration was to take place , they would Bot have felt it their duty to meet it , and endeavonr to prevent tho peaea being _destroyed ? He had told them all along that he would attend the procession , and he would do so with the intention of endeavouring to preserve order—and it was bis intention , if any attempt at physical force was mado , to stOp the procession by physical force . He would take upon himself to implore the people to take than course , bo as Rot to bring them into collision with the authorities , and he would afterwards impeach the Ministers for _having stopped it . If the government had forbade , the procession , he would ask the psople not to hold it . He would ask them not to sully their eause , by taking one great step in a wrong direction . They eould not expect to get the Charter that day , but he did anticipate that tho Ministers
would be compelled to grant it if they proceeded in a right course . Suppose there was another Convention —simultaneous meetings throughout the countryand he stopped the business in the House of Commons by questions relative to the Charter , such a party would fee raised as ultimately to compel the government to give the Charter . After repeating the diffi _culties he had _gane throueh for the people , Mr O'Connor said he waspreparcd to ask the meeting ir . the name of courage , the name of justice , in the nam ? of God , not to hold the meeting , and thus throw their great cause into the hands of pickpockets and _sooundrela , and give the government an opportunity of attaoking them . He then proceeded to state tbat preparations had been made forsbootingfrorr cortain windows en the leaders of the movement . He wa- - told this by Mr Alderman Humphrey in the House of Commons , and he had also received it from the police and others . He hoped there was firmness and resolution enough among them to act _tomneratelv . and tint
jeopardise their cause—for if they lost his ( Mr O'Connor ' s ) advocacy in the House of Common ? , thej might not easily _obtain another one to take up his _P - _!!^ ' More than that , if they got into collision mto the authorities , it would cause tbe Treason Sin to be passed that evening , without discussion , ara for ever ! ' indefinitfi ilm if The meeting then broke up , and proceeded to form THE PROCESSION OF THE DEL EGATES About five minutes to ten , the Convention _at < _xrt « A from the hai ., the procession m _£ ? wi ! » car drawn by our beautifully caparisoned lSi £ ' tended for tne conveyance of the National PetitioS profusely _^ ecorated with _tri-col durcd flies of red green , nnd white , and the inscri ptions of « The C £ ter / ' Universal Suffrage . ' ' Annuil _Porii _^ _Xw _! > Voteby Ballot , ' _J _& M _eohEftjgft _^ _fe Property _ Qualification , ' ' Payment ! _fuLC
_i- « f _5 _J * _- « T " _"" _^ sn i _^ _naxi our Right ?/ ' Speak To this fo lowed a second car , drawn bv _sixhWsM _ontuniBg the principal _member _ofXc nveS and the reporters o the press , to whom evei , ae ' coamodatien was given by the delegates ; the . _fronwn _^ _VT _^ \ _MeMw _Feargw O'Connor , Doyle * M'Grath . Ernest Jones , Wheeler , and J _« li , n H 8 _r-, ney . 1 his car was _Bimilarly decorated to the _pre-^ ri ? _Jf lfch . _Tl _- edflftg ? 1 ; a _, nd in addition to The Charter , and sis six cardinal _points , which we have above enumerated , were mottoes . _« No Voto ll God , " The Voice of Knowledge would _BiWathe Cannon ' s Roar , ' ' Onward we _conqusr , backward we iaii
, - in © unarter ana jno Surrender , * Libert * il worth hying for , and worth dying for . ' Who would be a Slave that could be . 'free , ' Ac . On the mm moving from the doors of the John _^ treet imti £ _5 _? they were oud y cheered by the people , who _^ _diately fell into procession behind them ci _» ht _S f _* _. 'W _ddUlon 1 ° wh ! _? _^ t number ' s occu pied the foot pavement oa either side . The proccs .
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m ? 9 . r ?«» eeded by _John-streot , _GoodWsW _^^ _^ _^^ _nr _^^^ e _^^^^ jj street , into Holborn , where it stopped _^? _A _< W > -111 _nutesat the effieesof the Nation / Land A _« » f * li to take up the National Petition , Xh _^ C H five large rolls of paper of nine or ten _fcetS" _!^ j _^ 1 _ferenco each . Tho petition being lashed _ > £ "' 1 car , the precession proceeded on its wa » \ p % _^ Holborn , Farringdon-street , and New _BrirL tea eh * ' "M ( in which the firat polioeman was _ueen \ _tTSN , _t _&' _friars-bridge . On crossing the bridge _»«„ i * _H . [ - -V a body of two or three hundred pension er ! _h n _M _^ the _steamboat-pier , who were loudly cheer *] Ik " "a ¦ * ~ people . Aa equal number of police ( not on 6 j _? _h _„« ing his staff ) , were stationed in line , immedi _, _^* x _^ the carriage crossing the bridge into the Blalu _H road . A little further on , a body of fifty _s , _ria' 8- _•* > _" > _polica , with cutlasses by their side , were fomi ? _^ * _*^ ninn _nrnnnnrfnd hr _Tnl i _. nir i _~^! _b ::: _^!* _fc- >
eionea oy the side of the road . Up to the Si _? _- _^ friars-road , we observed that nine-tenths of tL T _^ ' _*^ £ were opened , but from that point they _aasnm _^ _^ _ft different aspect , nearly all being closed . * f j , _^ ' & rM . _cesBien proceeded on its course by the London ? t _'" - _5 * S and Eennington-road , to the Common , the raulii » ° _!^ ' _" _^ being much increased at the Elephant and Cast ! ' u f _$ _^ large bodies of men , who appeared to be waitin « ' ' _$ ¦' _££ its arrival in the various points of which that i _^* _- known hostelry forms a distinguishing oeot _*> S _^ at the time of its arrival at the Common this _nn r - _^ of the meetine eould not have been less than tb * , a ' * ' _^ thousand or fourteeB thousand _strong Oa th _^ _^ turning into the Common , a most _imoosin _!? „;„ w caf ?§ _S
the eyes of its oeoapants , large bodies ofmpn ¦ ' _^* riously estimated at from eighty thousand V * _» _S hundred fi % thousand , were _IhLliSHKJ ? 1 ugabout m all directions , and the colours of thT _. _^ nous trades ' unions floating in the breeze , a _brutt _W sun adding to the coup d' ceil . On the mm „„ Dl * the Common , about / welve o _' clZ , th _^ SS _immediately surrounded by large masses of the _JLnt S who most vociferous y cheered Mr ( YrLZl _/^ _l » _-M petitioB .- ( From the Post ) D °° and the _M ( From the Times . ) 3 At the Elephant and Castle a cheer was given a »» ' A _iLr _^ _fT _^ _M _^ aBpearaneeofa 1
Z _^ ™> WMof _upwarW 10 , 000 _penon _^ _lTp o . " ¦ _% _ceeJed in silence until the oars arriyed within sllht $ _thieomSrWr _^ _' _^^ _^ " _$ Sa ? eShI ;» S . ° de , e _W tM _?« e now -surrounded % oy an enthusiastic crowd , and received with deaf- ' _* lata ftl _J fi st _« acknowle'lgcd by waving their _« delegates at this point was certainly grand and im . : poems :. Ihe _proeewion of the various _trade _smi ; i
societies whiohhad alread y arrived were drawn ud in _'* military array at the outskirts of tho common , wi h 'I tbeir eeveral flags and banners , and also formed a ¦« line , t / . rough which tbe cars advanced to the phee of meeting . The centre of the common was occupied « by a vast a ssemblage , many of whom were soon seen hurrying m rapid motion to welcome tho Chartist I _leader . As the cars advanced into the centre ef the _^ _oimmon . they wm surrounded by a crowd , whieh * every minute became more dense and who rent tho _^ air with their _aheuta . The Irish Confederates and 1 many of the trades _processUms remained in file where tbey were drawn up , either as if expecting _thecsrsto
proceed to somo other position than that which they took up about ths centre of the common , or despairing in so large an assemblage of hearing the - _^ voices of the speakers . Here a person approached the ear and addressed M * O'Connor with a message from Mr Mayne , one of the Commissioners of Police , requesting to have an interview with him befote " the commencement of the proceedings . Mr O'Connor and Mr M'Grath immediately alighted from tho car and accompanied tho bsarer of the _message to the Horns Tavern , which waa oteupied and exclusively engaged during Monday by the police authorities , military officers , and others
interested in the _proceedings of tho day . The rumour immediately spread like wildfire that Mr O'Connor bad been arrested , and this report spread throughout the metropolis in an incredibly short space of time . We believe that Mr Mayne announced to Mr O'Connor that the autherities would not object to the meeting taking place , but that the procession would not be permitted to pass over the bridges , that the government were prepared with means of _preventing it from taking place , and were fully determined ta use them if necessary . Finally , that if the
procession was persevered in , he ( Mr O'Connor ) must take the responsibility ofthe consequences , whatever they might be . Mr O'Connor at once consented to abandon the procession . Mr O'Connor and Mr M'Grath hereupon returned to the delegates' car which they bad left , amid great cheering and waving of handkerchiefs , and , a considerable concourse ef perB _*> na having assembled around this ear , although forming a small proportion of the entire number u p ™ the oommon _, the proceedings of the day commenced .
Having quoted from the Trass and the Post , we may now state for ourselves tbat the assemblage was a grand and imposing sight , we heard the numbers variously estimated at from two hundred to five hundred thousand _sonls , from our experience of huge assemblies , we should say there could not be less than a quarter of a million persons present , on aad around the common alone , whilst all the streets and avenues leading thereto were one dense mass ol human beings . THE MEETING . On the motion of Mr Clark , seconded by Mc Adam- ,
Mr Dotle was appointed president ofthe meeting * amidst very vociferous cheering . He said , —Men of London , this is one of the most glorious sights that I ever had tbe pleasure of witnessing . ( Cheers . ) This is such a sight as must make the heart of every true democrat beat with joy and exultation—which at once proves to demonstration that the people of this great metropolis are in favour of the common rights of humanity . ( Loudeheers . ) This is a sight such as wan never witnessed in this vast metropolis before , Friendg _, you have eleored me to preside over vou this afternoon aa chairman . I can only say simply as a Chartist , that I thank you for the confidence which yon have reposed in our _oommand ; I am thankful for more reasons than ens ; but , _especially , 1 am thankful that the working _clashes begin to that
see they can do their own work themselves . ( Cheers . ) Friends , I need not ask you to be peaceful in your conduct this day . I need not ask you to conduct yourselves with the greatest propriety ; for , recohecttbat on your good eonduet this day , on your peaceful but firm demeanour , depends the success of one of the most glorious causes ever agitated bv man . ( Cheers . ) Mr O'Connor and the other gentlemen io this magnificent van have come here fer the purpose of doing their duty to the people who have sent them . The men in this van represent the ueople over a great extent of the united kingdom . In . that van before yeu thero liee a petition signed by nearly 6 , 000 , 000 of people , proving beyond the possibility of successful refutation that we represent the Working men at least . The delegates of the people will do their duty , bat they will expect you to do _Tours .
( Loud eheers , and cries of * We will . ') Mr O'Connor will first address you . Ilo will give you not only his own opinion and advice , but the opinion and advice of the gentlemen composing the National Convention , and , without taking up any more of yonr _?™ f _5 lea _* e introduce to your notice your true friend and _champion-the champion of the cheei . ° ) fhUIaaRity ~ Mr Fear S _« O'Conuw . ( Loud Mr F . O'Connor , M . P ., then came forward amid deafening cheers , which were taken up from those immediately around the car and re-echoed by the crowds in the outer circles over the whole common . He bowed repeated acknowledgments , each
courteous gesture being the si gnal for a new effort of uproarious _enthusiasm .-My children ( he said ) , you were industriously told that I would not be amongst you to-day . Well , I am here . ( Great cheering . ) I sat , on my way here , on the front scat of this car , and although my _Ufe was threatened if I ap peared as I now appear , my hand does not tremble . ( Cheers . ) You all know that for a quarter ofa century I have been mixed up with this _democrat agitation ; m Ireland since the year ' 22 , in England since the year ' 33 ; and , as you also knowI have
, never shrank from taking _rayshare ef al , _therespouthe House of Commons on Friday , whether or no I would attend this meeting to-day ? I replied , that as nai always sought the lion ' s portion ol the poputanty , I would not shrink from encountering now the hon _s share of the danger . ( Great applause . ) I have always contended for your rights , in and out of parliament and to frighten me 1 hare received at least 100 letters , telling me not to come heretoday , for that , if I did , my _onn life would be the
M j Mf answer was ttlis - ' r would rather l ) B _s-abbed to the heart than resign my proper place at tlie head of my children . ' ( Shouts of « Bravo ! ' ) Yes . you are my children ; these are your horses , not mine ; tbis car is yours-made of your timber ; _1 am only your father and your bailiff , but your holiest father and your unpaid bailiff . ( Cheers , ) And if ever our cause was prosperous , if it be not injured b y your _indiseretion , it is at this aioment ! Souse _T ™" sob _^ ere a 3 I have beenTthe ilouse of Commons , and , entitled , as I m , ta your confidence , let roe now implore y 2 in the name of that great and good God who has this _SHEi / " ' l T enJ ° in-nay . I "ould go down 2 _LisTl _h beSeedl y ° U-d 0 not now destroy L „«* haY r e S 0 stru 2 _S ' <» ell ' my lite . dS _? . _£ !? / . ? ' heaT' ) I » yonder car _Sg t 0 te vehlc , e _whi _<* carried the Petition ) gojM th you the voices of 5 , 700 . 000 of your country ! men . They , I , and the whole world / look to v 9 B
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 15, 1848, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_15041848/page/6/
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