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Just Published * Price Threepence , Handsomely Printed on a Large Royal Sheet , fitted to adorn the Labourer's Cottage , a Faithful and Spirited Representation of the Bloody MANCHESTER MASSACRE ! CONTAINING also a Memoir of that .. Untiring \ J and Unswerving Advocate of the Rights of Labour , Henry Hunt ; with Full Particulars of of the "Deeds of the Murderers" on the Field of Poterloo ; the names of the Bloody Monsters ; the names of the Killed ; and the Trial , Conviction , and Sentence ot Mr . Hunt . It also details the means employed by the Governmental Spies to entrap him ; the famous Spa Fields' Meetings ; the Election of Mr . Hunt as M . P- for Preston ; his conduct ia Parliament ; his just estimate of the humbug Reform Bill ; his communing with the Working People oa that measure ; and his lamented Death . The Sheet also contains a VIEW OF THE MONUMENT erected , to perpetuate his Memory , by the Working Classes . Published , for the Hunt's Monument Committee , ( the Proceeds to go towards the Completion of the Monument , ) by J . Hobson , Northern Star Office . May be had of Cleave , London ; Hey wood and Leach , Manchester ; Hobson , Huddersfield ; andPatonand Love , Glasgow .
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LONDON CHARTIST MONTHLY MAGAZINE ^ On the 1 st of September will be published No . 4 of this periodical , price 6 d . Contents . —On Organization ; Authentic Dialogue between O'Brien an 4 O'Connor ; Cleave and the Victims ; Hill , O'Connor and the late Executive ; Watch Watkins ; What must we do-with the Charter ; On the State ef Chartism in London ; Poor Law Martyrs ,-a Tale , &c , &o . Published by Watson , 5 , Paul ' s Alley , Paternoster Row , London ; Hobson , Leeds ; and may be had of all Booksellers .
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WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE . ADJOURNMENT OF THE MIDSUMMER SESSIONS FOR THE TRIA 1 , OF FELONS , 4 c . NOTI CE IS HEREBY GIVEN , that the Midsummer General Quarter Sessions of the Peace , for the West Riding ef the County of York , will be holden by Adjournment , at WakK « field , on Monday , the Fourth day of September next , at Ten o'clock in the Forenoon , and by further Adjournment from thence will be holden at Sheffield , on Thursday , the Seventh Day of the same Month of Sepxembeb , at Half-past Ten o ' Clook in the Forenoon , for the TRIAL OF FELONS AND PERSONS FNDIGTED FOR MISDEMEANORS , when all Jurors , Suitors , Persons who stand upon Recognizance , and others having business at the said Sessions , are required to attend the Court . Prosecutors and Witnesses in eases of Felony and Misdemeanor from the Wapontakes of Sfcaineliffa and EwcrossXlaro , the Ainsty , Agbrigg and Morley , Skyrack and Barkstonash , must attend tbe Sessions at Wakefield ; and those from the . Wapontakes of Strafforth and Tickhill , Osgoldcross and Stainoross , being the remainder of the West Riding , must attend at the Sessions at Sheffield . A Second Court will be appointed which will proceed with the Trial of Felons , as soon as a sufficient number of indictments heve beeu brought into Court . C . H . ELSLEY , Cleric of the Peace . Clerk of the Peaoe ' s Office , Wakefield , f 7 eh August , 1845 .
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THE PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF IRELAND . ON SATURDAY , 9 th September next , will be published , Price Three-pence , ( to be continued every succeeding Saturday till finished , ) No . I . of a HISTORY OF IRELAND AND THE IRISH PEOPLE , under the Government of England . To be published also in Monthly Parts , Price One Shilling . The whole to be concluded in aboat Twenty-four Numbers . The Work will embrace an account of the means by which Ireland was brought under subjection to tlie English Government , and of the legislative and other cruelties systematically inflicted on the Irish People . It will also include a History of the Civil and Religious Wars of Ireland , the dreadful persecations of the Catholic People , their struggle for Emancipation , and the means by which they ultimately succeeded . The deeply interesting proceedings and transactions connected with the Irish Volunteers , the United Irishmen , the Rebellion of 1798 , tho Union between Ireland and England , and the infamous means by which it was accomplished ; and finally , the Great Repeal Movement will be fully and circumstantially described in The People ' s History of Ireland . In connection with the latter movement , the Life and Career of the Irish Liberator , O'Connell , will be faithfully delineated . The object of the Work is to depict the sufferings of the Irish people from cruel misgovernment—to show what the country has been , what it now is , and what it is capable of becoming under a better system ; with a view of exciting in the mind of the reader an honest and cordial sympathy for the wrongs of the Irish people . The aim of the Author will be to give , in the smallest possiole compass , a concise , yet comprehensive narrative of Irish His * tory , stated with boldness , firmness , and impartiality ; and while he is willing to please all , he trusts that when the conclusion of his labour ha 3 been reached , it will be found that he has sacrificed the cause of truth and justice to no one . London : published by W . Strange , Paternosterrow ; Dubiiu : D . O'Brien , Abbey-street . Sold by Smith , Scotland-place , Liverpool ; Heywood , Manchester ; Mann , Leeds ; and all Booksellers . May be had of the Agents of tai 3 paper .
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A SOUTHERN TOUR . A dud ' s among je tiidn nixes , Ana , Mih , he'll print ii . " JO THS H > ITOB OP THE KOETBEJJJ STAB . Djeab Sis , —I addressed s very jjood open-air jjaeetii , j ; of tbe Ghartists of Dumfries , on Mondsy eTenius , August 14 th . Considerable enthusiasm -was manifested by my auditors , and my return to the ** Qasen of tlie S ^ nffi" at an early perioS , was VHttuJj urged by my kind-hearted and trnly patriotic friends . There are sojneoftbe most ardent and thoroasii-gonig democrats in Dumfries that it has erer been my good fortune to meet ¦ with . A welleondscced Reading-roan , eontinned through the waist c £ times , and under the most disheartening < arcs 3 E fauces , has beortbe bosd of union which has
kept tj » " good men and true" of this locality together . Fer a considerable time past much apathy > ng prevailed ; hat the train -of reaction appears to 1 » laid , and only requires the flame « f English agitation to be reMcdled to set the democratic spirit of Duinthea once more on fire . Eren as it-is , the Chartists are the moral masters of the town ; and faction and mere party eannot breathe in its purified a * Tnos > L « rB . Neither the "freebooters nor any o her -description of state-quacks can exist in it . Public opinion is here guided by men of intellect , courage , and political honesty . Uniting the mind of & » Uand with the energy of England , lew places can © ia-riTal the " Qaeencf the Sonth " .
As " s matter of course" being in Dumfries I paid , my dc \ irtiens to the shade of immortal Bbrks . 3 lad Ticked his tomb in January 1840 , at which trrop I baJ lie honour of napping roth Robert , the eldest 5 ^ a , £ > f thepoes . I now , for the second time paid s visk to ihe grave vf freedom's bard- Having do iEDTsicdge of arcitecmre , I am incompetent to describe the Mausoleum . The nearest thing I can liken it to in outward form Is a Turkish mosque , on . » smsli i ^ rale . It is nearly circular , and crowned ¦ mth a seri of dome , supported ( if 1 remember right ) iy loaiCTr-lnnraa . But ofthis 1 did not take particular
notice , within , and against the back cf the bnildmg , sre JL nres in alto rdbevo of "Burns at the plongh and t £ 33 i . ase throwing her mantle over Mm . " He stands -mth hi 3 bonnet" in one hand , and with ihe other holding on by the old Scotch , plough . The attitude is extremely graeefnL Ihe countenance i 3 said to he excellent ; but 1 am told that , phrenologicallj , the head is not tvell formed . On this subject I can ay nothing : for I am no humpologift . " The inscription 1 much admired : it is smply—BTJB 2 JS . Here is ' more said , than ihe most l&boured panegyric could hare expressed : the TO 3 BB of the man around whose brow lame
hath—• ' Entwined a garland which shall neva fade Till Scotia ' s realm is low in rain laid ; Jf or even then 1 an breeze and billow curl'd Biszisjneis co-eternal nisli the ~ worl ( L " In Ihe siieb tomb reposes the wife of the poet , the famed yes unhappy Jean Armour . Reflecting for a momen ; on the domestic life of this favoured son of genius , and recalling with feelings of anything but EaSsferiJon the record that has "been lefi U 3 of his errors szd fafliegs , T"g trials and cares , t ^ s find in iis * Bird ' s Epitaph" ihe most correct picture of lis ows character drawn by his own hand : — ** il s there a man , whose judgment dear , ¦ Csn others teach tke course to steer , Yc-t msB himself life ' s mad career , Wad asthe wsre ? Es 3 pause—and , ihrongh tie starting tear , Survey this grave .
The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know , And keenly felt the friendly glow , And softs flame ; Bat ihenghtless follies laid him low . And Elsin'd > v . a nams !** But i- » other subjects . Tne virtues , rather than ihe errors ; ihe genius , rather than the failings , of "fiie gloribiia Burns , are themes most suited to my taste ; Ssr " ! Ehe K ^ it that led astray Was light from heaven . "
The applauding roar of millions of misguided men xn&v foS ^ s ? to his TesSng-pl&ce the remains of that arch traitor to the rights of man and wholesale murderer of Ids fellow-creatures , Napoleon but , lei me kneel here ! This man of men , be he my hero , sin * and sage . Be was ihe soldier of freedom , thst battled for the right . He was the devotee -of trsSi , whose -creed -sras "lore thy brother 83 thyself . : He was tha teacher who , it may be , was enable always to . so * upon his own teaching ; but "who has , nevertheless , left to us and those who shall follow a lesson of unalloyed wisdom , based on manly independence and the honest pride of worth . ** Yet , " as one humble bard has sung : —
11 Tei sUu a nsrroTr-inincied few , A feeble , ranting , creeping crew , Conspire to blast his honest fame , An& ^ heztp ^ rsjHoadies on ^ 3 * ssxzie ^ ^ Because , alas I the bard has shown lEar finFT fefirngs jh' ^ 'n tbebown . He was na just a saint like Southey , "Whs BSTEt anned , nor yet was drowthy ; 3 ct ^^ fT TT ^ Ti Jje liisd & - * fn ^ p yiamg ^ _ And though he lo ' ed a bonxde l ass , He ne'er 4 lhgracBd Ms -sTtll-strnnz lyre , By chacnting balderdash for hire . Nor rot-sed he ony courtly elf , Or bonTi lie lenee Sot -warld ' s pdt
^ Die chnrch-yard , or racier kirk-yard , in which the as-hts of Bnrns repose , is a most wonderful place ; containiag a greater number of monuments , —^ some of Shec of a very superior order ^— than I have seen in other pail of Britain- It is a sort of city of the dead ; " a Palyrma in miniature ; andj independent © f Bank ' s tomb , 13 well -worth a Tisit . The " Martyr ' s gloss , " a monument erected to the memory of soxnB of the murdered covenanters is an object of parti calsr interest .
Tuesday , Aagnst loib , — -Xieft Dumfries by a certain conveyance , which sbaB be nameless . The fjTesterzpoit of the road to S&nquhar winds along the ~ ba sks of that romantic stream , the Kfth , celeiirated & several of the pieces of the national bard . © n ~ nrj road , I passed the mansion ( one of the mansions ) of the Dnke of Buecleagh . On inquiry , 1 learned that the ** young lords" were expected home lhat day ; and thai "his Grace" was expected on ihe following Saturday , I believe the Duke has the
Tepntauoii of being a very fair landlord ; I am glad that I can say thus much for him . Still it is monstrous tiat one man shonld , independent of his virtues or bis vices , has wisdom 01 his folly , usurp to lus own possession that soil which the plain prineiplea of common $ ense teach us belongs , of right , to MB irhslft , -without distinction of -person ; -while thousands , most of them hiB equals , and not a few Ifis superiors , shonld 1 > b altogether dispossessed of their natural right , and denied . even the possession of one foot of ground in their fatherland .
" Is ^ s harfjy a body ' s power To keep , at times , fme being sour , To see iowUuagB are ahared ; ¦ How best o ' chlelsare -whyles in -want , While coofs on countless thousands rant , An * ken naa how to wairt . " Sever mmd 1 as Bobert Kicol says , we must Just try— « To mak" &e -warld belter yet " I reached Sanqhnar in the course of the njorniaor
snd 1 ^ 33 spceouy surrounded by a numerous body of bldiriends ; Chartism here is bodily defunct ; but spiritually exisa widely . There is no association ; 2 rat £ h £ namber of adherents to the principles is supposed , to be much greater than two or three years since , when an association did exist . I breakfasted Vfifch an old friend , named HcKnight , a veteran in ibe democratic Tanks , by whom and his family I was most cordially received . The good lads were desirens that I should have staid over that day and itSd a meeting . I wonld have liked to have done
so very well ; but , I was already some days beyond file time that I should hare reached Mauchline ; and was relcctantly compelled to refhse . A nnmber of ffly good friends proceeded with me some miles on ana »« A . Passing ihrongh Kirkeonnell 1 had the Sght , for the first time , of one of the Kon-iBtrusion Jen ^ osed for field-preacbins since the defecnon of fte 2 *> ns ^ ** from auld mither kirk . " The . Ea l « sh S ^ -r 0 ? 411 ^ fceenwich fair , meant to cover and 1633 6 4 ik
5 SKSe ^ ^^' P «« . e ^» im 3 lg S ^^ = r 5 a ^ s *? ffSSa = « stetea ^ w-S S&aa Sni atsfe ^ EP ^^ ttt ^ SSh Eghter , ana certainly not a v ^ orse C ?^ mstoE
ffn -tnrcateinngs ; the sectarian bigotry * the appea l * to Ae ^ orstrfte& ^ s of man , by Ste Sea il Calcul&ted-and Taifly Tesnlts othS ^ L ^ S " myjrom ^ ^ rgon . lxkepresence . wi&TeaS * ^? % ^ ??* £ * «» hetterfeennga of ow jiaturechangedantoself-conceit at our otrafanciea BB ^ erior sanctity , and our minds filled with bitter awes and latred towardB our irethren . The oKmi ^ Puuch ^ d fe Pnert » . m ^ i the « £ 1325 ? aiere is tbis . JifeieEcc--Pwick : iB © onteK wiA » lew coppers , and does not rile your pockets bv com i wninoa . The Priest is notoontent with the kser Ketals *'; he looks for ppundB , not pennies ;* nd -who-* her jqu are satisSed with his performances are not , it vnf . *!*^**** deBter ^ j and enforces his demand either by the sword of the state in this world ar ^ ibefearo'leU , ihee hangman's whip * ' in another , tends reader which of the mountebanks do you prefer I—I vote for j ' oneh I
Having parted with my Sanqnhar friends , I made tl e best of my way overthB horrid road separating ths * ' Land of Burns" from Sinqhtfar ; and a ttost ftbomuuhie road it is . Arrived a ; , Kew Cum-
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cock , 1 fonnd myself in Ayrshire . Finally , after a walk of eighteen miles , I reached ] Old Cumnock and put up at the Black Bull Inn . j 1 saw several old friends in the eonrse of the eveniDg . Chartism is for the present down in Cumnock . i Wednesday , August 16 th . Anniversary of the Manchester Massacre . May that { day of blood sever be forgotten until its stains , by ample justice , are effaced from the page of British history 1 ! Left Cumnock by the coach at eight o'clock , and , passing through Katrine , was speedily at Mauchline . Here I wasmet by my friends , and received with all that warmth of affection so characteristics of the people of this beautiful portion of Scotland . !
Passing over all domestic matters , which could be of no interest to the Chartist public , I come now to my visit to the birth-place of Bnrns . Friday , August 18 th . Accompanied by a brotherin-law , I started for Ayr , which we reached after a walk of eleven miles . We breakfasted at an excellent Scotch hostelry ; and after calling on a friend or two , proceeded on our mission , accompanied by two friends from Ayr . Alloway Kirk , so renowned as the scene of the exploits of the jfamed Tarn o * Shanier , is sitnated about three miles from Ayr , on the roa 4 to Maybole . The cottage in which the poet was born is near the JHrk , and on the Ayr side of it . It is a low-bnilt , old fashioned thatched honse , having only a ground floor . It has long been
used as a public-house ; and , as such , is now kept by the widow of the late John , better known as Miller Gondie . Before crossing the threshold , the attention of the visitor is arrested ! by two boards , one on each sic e of tke door . The inscription on the one runs thnB : — " Burns * Cottage . Robert Burns , the Ayrshire Poet , was born under this roof , on the 25-A of Jaauary . A . D . 1759 . Died 21 st of July , A . D . 17 S 6 , aged 37 £ years . ' The inscription on the other is simply— " Alra . Gondie , licensed to retail ale and spirits . " Within the house , in the usual drinking room , is a large portrait of Burns , with the inscription of theo * aie of his birth . The most interesting articles in the room are three tables , cut and hacked with thousands of names and initiate , of the ^ pilgrims who , from time to time , have visited the birth-place of the bard , j The windows are scratched , and the chairs and corner cupboard
are carved after the same fashion . In the kitchen we were shewn the bed , or rather bed-place , where the poet was born . In the parlour attached to the kitchen are several excellent plates , including a representation of the " Jolly Beggarsj" the " Cotters ' Saturday Jvight , " and a portrait of Burns when young . Old Mrs . Geudie is a fine " cracky" body ; and rhymes away her tales about Burns in a manner pleasing enough . We staid bnt a short time ; and having entered our names in the book kept for that purpose , departed . The next spot of interest Jwas the Auld Kirk , dismantled of its roof , and nothing left but bare walls . I looked through the : key-hole , but neither Auld Kick , witches , or " Cutty Sark" were to be seen . The ** haly table" was gone , and with it its contents and the attendant ** ghaists . " All was desolation . Bat the " Auld Kirk" will still
" Live in tbe verse that immortally saves , " when every stone of which it is composed shall have mixed with the dust where its immortalizer
reposes . In the Kirk yard is the grave of William Burns , the father , and Agnes Brown , the mother of the poet . A plain bnt substantial stone marks the spot with the following inscription ;—** Sacred to tte memory of William Burns , farmer in Loehlie , who died on the 13 : h of February , 1784 , in the 63 rd year of his age . ^ nd of Agnes Brown , his spon ?* , who died on the 14 ih of January , 1820 , in the 88 i year of her age . She was interred in Bolton Church-yard , East Lothian . " . On the reverse side , the well-known lines" O ye whose cheek the tear of pity stains ! Draw near with pious reverence , and attend : Here lie the loving husband ' s dear remains , The tender father , and the generous friend . The pitying heart that felt for human woe ;
The dauntless heart that feared no human pride ; The friend of man ; to vice alone a foe ; For « ven his failing ' s lean'd to TOtne ' a aide . *" From the "Auld Kirk" we proceeded to the * ' Monument " . For reasons already assigned , I must decline attempting a description . Enough that it is a splendid structure ; and one that no man or woman of taste will fail to visit . To ; it may be most appropriately applied the lines written by the poet " For an Altar to Independence " — ^ " Tbon of an independent mind ,. With soul resolved , with soul resigned ; Prepared power ' s prondest frown to brave ; Who vrill not he , not have a slate > Virtue alone who dost revere ; Thy oirn reproach alone dost fear I Approach this shrine , and worship here . "
But while the *• Monument" is worthy of all admiration ; not eo the condnct of that class who patronised its erection . " Seven cities contend for Homer dead ! Through which the living Homer begged his bread , " says some one ; and , though literally this was not the case with Bnrns , it was nearly bo 1 Who that remembers his d * i = g appeal to his Edinburgh bookseller—** For God ' s sake to send him Five Pounds " , to save him from a prison , but , will join with me in regarding this cold stone pile as a monnment of the mtannc 3 s , as well as pride , of the Scottish
Aristocracy . Within the " Monument , " and enclosed in a glass case , are the two Bibles of Burns and his Highland Mary , recovered by some enthusiastic Scot in Canada . The story has bnt very recently gone the round of the press ; and I have not space to repeat it here . A portion of Mary ' s hair is in one of the Bibles , and shews her to have been of fair complexion . The next object which excited our curiosity was the fanhless fignres of ** Tain o * Shanter and Souter Johnny , " the work of the celebrated Mr . Thorn .
Here , again , I mnst decline to attempt a description ; a task for which I confess my incompetence . Enougbf that admiration , the most fervent , was the all-absorbing feeling of my mind , while entranced with gazing on this almost matchless production of human skill , which only seems to require the Promethean spark to call ** Tam" and his * f worthy , trusty , dronthy croney" into actual breathing , feeling existence . All eke seems perfect . { The cold stone seems readv at a word to burst into jojous , laughing life .
We next visited * Mungo ' a Well ? and I took a hearty draught to the memory of Burns from the pure , cold , chrystal stream . Lastly we visited the ** Auld Brig , ' * where Tarn ' s mare Meg '' lost her tail ; " and from ilfr summit gaz-ti down upon the " banks and braes o' Bonnie Doon ; " a scene lovely as Eden , and beautiful as Elysium , I almost wished , myself a Scot as I gloated on its charms . Bat time pressed . I left the h&Uowed ground . 1 may never—or years may elapse ere I tread it again ; but the remembrance of its glories : shall live green in my memory , while brain throbs , or heart beats within . I returned the same evening to Mauchline .
I am writing this in the very heart and centre of the ** Land of Bumb . " Within the village are many spots famed in his writings : " PooBie-NansieV immortal beggarscrib ;— " Auld Nance Tinnock's , " no longer a ¦ whiskey-shop , and shorn of all its glories ; Mossgiel , the farm of the poet , is within a quarter of a mile , where are the fields -where he cut down the "daisy , " and turned up the nest of the *• mouBe "—the exquisite lines * on both these subjects are almost universally known and as widely admired ; the "Braes of BaUocmyle" are within a short distance of ihe village ; so is Barskimming , near which is the spot where Burns conceived his
• ' Man was made to mourn . " At Trellford still resides in the asyinm for the aged poor of the parishes of Mauchline and Taibolton , James Humphrey , the famous " blethering bitch f in the neighbourhood is the small burn where Burns parttd with ** Highland Mary , " each standing on ihe opposite sides of the stream and exchanging bibles and vows of their eternal affection . At Coilsfield House Mary resided as a servant ; and in the grounds is shewn the thorn tree , reputed to have overshadowed tb . B lovers for somo hours before their sad and final separation : — ; How sweetly bloomed the gay green birk ,
How rich thfl hawthorn ' s blossom , As underneath its fragrant shade , I eJasj > "d her to sjy bosom J The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life , Was my sweet Highland Mary . ' * Again to " Mary in Heaven , " the scene is thus btautifully pictured" That sacred hour can I forget , Can I forget the hallow'd grove , Where , by the winding Ayr we met , To live one < lay of parting love ! Eternity -will not efface ¦ Those records dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; ¦ Ah ! litUe thought we twaa our last I
" Ayr , gurgling , kissed his pebbled shore , O ' trhmng with wild iroodi thickening green ; The fragrant birch , and hawthorn hoar Twin'd amorous round thexaptui'd scene ; The lowea sprsng wanton to be pxest ; Tin bird * tag low on every * pny ; ™* x m , tooaoon , th&glowingWMt - "waafan-d tbe speed of winged aay . - the ^? , 011 m , * ? + 9 ° ** Coilfifield , where and ^ Sfl . 'S w » w *« Burns [ spent some time , h « fa ^ nS £% a ? , **? * thelFreemasons . " ^ favourite ** Bachelors' Club " d ^ EilS ^ ' ? -i ^ rs S- ^ SS SSidSktetSJS r ^ rj . xfj ^ . ^
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This is the clime of beauty and of song . Female loveliness seems to be part and parcel of the natural beauty of the soil . I have travelled not a little in the land of both Saxon and Gael ; but of all spots I visited commend me to the " Land of Burns" for forms to inspire a poet ' s soul . Reader ;] art thou asivgle man 1 Hast thou an eye for beauty , and an ear for the poet ' s lay 1 and dost thou doubt my praiseB of this Scottish Eden ? Come , worship at the shrine of Barns ! See and judge for thyself 2 and thou art made of co . d materials indeed , if natural effects do not follow natural
causes . Ueobob Julian Habnet Mauchline , Ayrshire , Aug . 21 st , 1843 .
KEPEAL MEETING AT ROSCOMMON . Roscommom , Sunday Night . —This " demonstration , " which took place to-day , was distinguished by a sort of tremor which preceded it , occasioned by some of the landed proprietors in the county having issued directions that none of their tenantry or labourers should attend the meetiog . Among these , Mr . Kelly , of Castle Kelly , issued orders which were not tp be mistaken ; to counteract which , tbe people of-the near part of the county of Gal way who proposed to attend , intimatud , it is said , their intention , on passing Castle Kelly , to bring Mr . Kelly's tenantry with them to the meeting ; . Mr . Kelly , we understand ; communicated with Government ou the subject , and obtained the aid of half a troop of tbe 4 th Dragoon Guards , who were quartered at the
Castle , and ] of a company of the 46 th Infantry , and a force of police who were Bvationed at the adjoining viiiage of Ballygar . At seven o ' clock this morning , we were informed , the tenantry were brought withm the wali 8 . of tbe demesne , the avenues to which were guarded by the military and police . The agent of Lord Crofton , at JVIoote Park , we understand , issued similar orderb , but did not take similar measures . A party oft the 4 th Dragoon Guards arrived in the towa of Roscommon yesterday fir Longford , and the police of the surrounding stations were concentrated in the town . This foree was under the direction of Mr . Crosslj , stipendiary magistrate , and Eumund Carr , Esq . of Durham , J . P ., whose father and brother each attended the meeting and proposed resolutions .
At an early hour in the morning , tbe surrounding districts preEented those scenes incident to these collections of large masses of the people . Parties arrived , most of them with bands , and banners , from Athlone , Longford , Boyle , Stroke&town , Castlereagh , Elfin , Carrick , and the adjoining county of Gal way . They proceeded to meet Mr . O'Connell in the direction of South Park , tho seat of Nicholas Balfe , Egq , M . P ., where he has been staying for the last two days . The ^ meeting was convened on the Furlough , a large field , about a mile on tho opposite Bide of the town , and within a short distance of tho barrack . A number of tents and marquees were erected on the ground , which gave it more tho appearance of a
fair or race-ground than a spot appointed for a political meeting . It was half past three o ' clock before Mr . O'Connell arrived , and the number who accompanied him in the procession and were present on the field wore fully as great as those at any previous meeting iu the province . The Very IReverend Dr . Madden proposed that they should commence their proceedings by giving three cheera for the Queen , which were given accordingly * He then proposed as Chairman a gentleman who hot many years ago was the oldest magistrate in the county , but who , in answer to the English Minister flung his commission to the winds , and stood by Ireland —( cheers ) . That gentleman was Jeoffrey French , Esq ., of Tumona —( chpers ) .
The motion was agreed to , and Jeoffrey French , Esq ., took the chair . The Chairman said that persons were punished for attending meetings , which they conceived for the bene&t of the country ; but for his part , he cared not what any government would do , he would attend any meeting calculated to promote tbe interests of Ireland —( cheers ) . Dr . Burke , on being nominated secretary , said when he brought the requisition to Mr . O'Connell , he had promised him an assemblage of 500 , 000 per sons iu RoscommoD , and he now asked had he not kept his promise ? Mr . O'Connell—Certainly and a tilley over—( cheer *) .
The Hon . T . Ffrench proposed a resolution , that after forty-three years of experience of Saxon legislation , they had no hope of remedying the grievances . of Ireland hyit by a Repeal of the Union , and they were determined to persist in their efforts until that all-important object was effected . Mr . Henry Carr , of Durham , seconded the resolution , ¦ which" was agreed to . Mr , O'Connell , when the cheering subsided , called on them to rejoice in well-founded hope and confident expectation—to rejoice in the spirit of
patriotism that their country was to become a nation again—to rejoice that , the day-star of liberty was in the horizon , and that the full noon of freedom should beam around their native land : for the day , the hour , was fast coming , believe him , who never told them a lie , their country should be a nation again—( cheers ) . The hour of the restoration of their native Parliament was at hand—( renewed cbiering ) —and that was what he never would cease to work for till he got it—and the oldest among them , and few of them were older than himself—should live to
hear of ihe Parliament in Cohego Green—( cheers ) . That period was approaching : for every Bymptom surrounding them , every appearance , every reality , denoted that the restoration of tbe Irish Parliament was not remote . They had only to look around them , and review by-gone circumstances and passing events , to ; be convinced of the speedy restoration of the Irish Parliament . First they had Father Mathew—( hear , and chfers ) . He put him forth with the glorious teetotallers and the temperance , the finest' effulgence of human virtues—( cheer ?) . Had he any teetotallers there ? ( u Yes , plenty . ") He was glad of it , for he wished to tell thrm that he had made a rule that no man who broke bis pledge should be allowed to be a Repealer . He would
place the teetotallers in the first rank ot tbe Repealers . Napoleon boasted of his body-guardhis Imperial Guard—he boasted of a guard ot Christian teetotallers . He adduced the fact as a precursor to Irish liberty , that they had five millions of pledged teetotallers—for that mighty moral miraole had not emanated from the hands of the Almighty for nothing ( cheers ) . It was it that gave them all the security they had in their present movement . How could he have assembled such masses—how could he have brought a million and a half of people together , if he were not backed by the teetotallers ! They were tbe first preservers of the liberty of Ireland , and it was for that Father Mathew was sent . The truth was that the Irish were
too good to be kept in slavery any longer . They could not be kept in slavery . They were temperate . Men who drank might exhibit courage in the first flash of momentary excitement ; but give him in the front of the conflict the teetotaller ; and were it necessary for him to go to battle , he would go there with the Bteady teetotallers ( cheers ) -r-witb their wiveB and sisters , thanking God for their virtuous abstinence , and praying for their success ; and with the : teetotal bands playing before them—( cheers ) he could tell them that there was not an army in the world to match with his teetotallers—( cheers ) . Temperance was the corner-stone of Irish liberty . It was the first proof that they were sweeping away filthy Saxon domination . The second
great proof of the success of Repeal was to be found in their own conduct . They had placed their enemies in the wrong , and had kept themselves in the right . In the Precnrsor Society every effort was made to obtain justice for Ireland . He defied any man to deny that grievances existed . He had called for the relief of those grievances , and they even had offered toigive up Repeal if they got good government for Ireland . The offer was treated with Bcorn , and he raised the standard of Repeal because the English Parliament would not do justice to Ireland . He made . the experiment . They were refused , and he would make the bargain no more , for from that hour forward there was nothing but the Repeal for Ireland—( cheers ) . Their enemies had resorted to abuse . They vilified the people and the clergy of
Ireland . One of the first of their newspapers called the venerated ciergy of ttw majority of the people of Ireland , " surpliced runiaus , " " a demon priesthood , " and designated the people of Ireland " a filthy and felonious rabble . " He knew the effect of it upon the Irish people . He wished there were as many Eoglishmen before them as there were Irishmen present , and that they dared to use that language . If they did not beg pardon before they went home there was no use in logic at all—( cheers and laughter ) . The result of the abuse was , that it made the Irish people more ready to join him than they wsre before in driving off the Saxon yoke , and givirig Ireland to the Irish —( hear , and cheers ) . He told them that he would keep within the
constition , that , there should be no attack made upon them bat ho defied them to attack the people . He asked if there was one man there would not fight if he were attacktd ( cheers and cries of " there is not" ) There waB music in that shout , and a pretty tune it was . Row that shout was exactly what he told them . He translated it into English for them , and sent it back to Peel and Wellington with his compliments ( cheers and laughter ) . What was the consrqaence They said they had no notion of fightiDg . He laughed , land the people of Ireland could laugh at them tooJ What did they propose to do I Nothing . They hoj > ed , indeed , that tbe efforts of Ireland would lace said
pass away . In the first p they OSGonneH was old ,, and would sooa die ( laughter ) . Heaven help them ! He was you * * . - enough for the best of them yet ( laughter and cheers ) . But heaven forbid that Ireland had not many eons as true as he , and as deserving of her confidence ( no , no)—and if it was bis fate j to be placed beneath the cold stone to-morrow ^ and to be called to his jud ^ emont , oh , Ireland would be free still ( cheers ) 1 Tlie effecting of her liberty did not depcrd on one man , but if it did depend upon one man ' s exertions , here was the mau who would do it— ( loud cheers ) . * Their enemies had another plan . The priests , whom they
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abused , they intended now to bribe . Oh ! what a chance there was of striking their priests ? Formerly , the ! same price was set on the head of a priest as on that of a wolf , £ 5 ; and although there were in those days-gentlemen who were priest-catchers , not one betrayed the priest . The people and the priests were true to each other in former days of suffering ; they would still be faithful to each other ; and he would let their enemies bribe the priests if they could . Their opponents had another trick . They calculated thai the people of Ireland would ba tired of looking forliborly . He would ] promise the Minister that they would not tire . Before the expiration of the Week he would publish- his plan for the restoration of the Irish Parliament . They of course , acknowledged Victoria as their Queen , God . bless her , and they would maintain all her prerogatives . The Irish House of Lords would be acknowledged with
all jits privileges , and they would insist upon tbe Irish House of Commons having the number of three hundred members . _ He would submit to the publio the ' number of counties , and towns which should have representatives in the Irish Parliament . The machinery of his plan for proceeding for the Repeal would be laid before the people , and he had no doubt they would seriously read it . Their Buooess was at hand . He read in the signs of the times and in the actions of men that the hour was come when Ireland should have her own Parliament , and when her ! virtuous , faithful , and religious people would be free , prosperous , and happy —( loud cheers ) . Mr . Dillon , barrister , proposed a vote of thanks to the : Roman Catholic clergy ; after which the Honourable Mr . Ffrench having been proposed to the chair , thanks were given to the previous chairman , and the meeting dispersed in an orderly manner .
THE DINNER took place in a pavilion ' erected in the old marketbouse . About 500 persons sat down . Mr . French , who presided at the proceedings of the day , was the chairman . After the cloth was drawn letters of apology were read from the Rev . Dr . M'Hale , Dr . Brown , It . C , Bishop of Galway ; Dr . Cam well , Bishop of Meath , Aci , A . O . The usual loyal toasts having been given , The Chairman gave " O'Connell and the Repeal " —( loud cheers ) . Mr . O'Connell , in responding to the toast , said that they had really taken him by surpri&e by the extent of their arrangements a-iid the magnificence
of their demonstration that day . The Bcene of today had struck their enemies with terror , and was to their friends an exhiliarating assurance of success —( cheers ) . He would return to Dublin in triumph , and leave their pitiful little landlords to devise their dirty little schemes—( cries of " Castle Kelly ") . Did they miss him ? No ! and by the course of the person alluded to had taken , perhaps he had seen more honest faces around him that day than he was accustomed to—( cheers )/ He ( Mr . O'Connell ) intended to propose to them a resolution that day , agreeing to petition for the abrogation of the thing called a Catholic oath . ] If the meeting had been a smaller one , and his mind had not been so taken up , he would have done so , but he promised them
that he would let no other meeting pass without proposing a petition to abolish that oath—( cheers ) . For it was without example , and it was not to be endured that sooundrole and hypocrites should insult them , and that they should bo taunted and insulted every other day by Broughams and Beaumonts ( Cheers ) . He never would have consented to any arrangement including that oath , if be did not conceive that they would have put the same construction upon it as they did upon the coronation oath . Nothing but tho most . ' prejudiced malignity could have dared to attach the imputation of perjury to a body of Christiana who were not emancipated for years , because they would not consent to pivrjure thembelvos . ( Hear , bear ) . Than be subject to such
intuits , they ought rather not take the oath any more , and fling the Emancipation iu their teeth ; for that which ho had wrung from them beiore , he could get from them a second timo . ( Loud cheering ) . Aslto tho wretch Beaumont , they had heard of his conduct 10 a lady at Florence , and he ( Mr . O'Connell ) felt that he was degrading himself in not treating him viith contempt and scorn . The other wretch , Brougham , was the most degraded of human beings . What would he who talked of perjury , not do to procure for himself place and promotion . ( Hear , hear ) . He was a man of great talent , considerable
power of rho ; oric , but he degraded it to a civil bill attorney , sort of eloquence . His present position reminded one of the cautionary lines of the poet , which he would adapt to him" If parts allure thee , think how Brougham shined , The brightest , maddest , ine&nsst of mankind . " ( Cheers ) . The Honourable and Learned Gentleman then called on them to rally round him , to b « conciliatory and firm , and Ireland should belong to tke Irish . After Beveral other toasts the company separated . In the course of the evening several large sums of money were collected . . __ - - ^
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relative population ; and the number of members to be assigned to each was then set forth , and tbe report proceeded as follows : — " The population ia taken from the returns of 1831 , which having been made for a different purpose , and without any ] reference whatever to the Repeal of the Union , furnish a scale of unquestionable impartiality , j " 6 . It is proposed that the right of voting should be what ia called ' Household Suffrage , ' requiring six months' residence in the counties ; with the addition in the ] towns of married men resident for twelve months , whether householders or not . " 7 . It is proposed , that the mode of voting for members of Parliament should certainly be by ballot . I
" 8 . The Monarch de facto of England at all times hereafter , whoever he may be , shall be monarch dc jure in Ireland . [ And so in case of a future regency , the Regent de facto ia England to be Regent dejure in Ireland . j " 9 . The connexion between Great Britain and Ireland by means of the power , authority , and prerogatives , of the Crown , to be perpetual , and ir . oapable of change , or any severance or separation , j " The foregoing plan to be carried into effect according to recognized law , and strict constitutional principle . [ " Signed by order , 11 Dawiel O'Connell , " Chairman of the Committee . "
Mr . O'Connell continued to say , that he threw this report abroad for the consideration of the Irish people , for there was no remedy for their wrongs but the carrying of that plan into execution . If there was any dissent from it—if any portion of the country complained of partiality—they would adopt any proper amendment submitted to th > m , but they would not lightly change it . Nothing but an overwhelming conviction would make them swerve from it , and he trusted it would be unanimously adopted there at their m ' eetjngs . They had now nothing to do but to carryjit into effect—( cheers ) . His own opinion was that tho Royal prerogative was sufficient to restore to Ireland her Parliament—( loud
cheers ) . It would be remembered that when King James abdicated , the Parliament began by appointing William as King , and then proceeded to enact that all ( they had done when without a king , during the abdication of James , was legal . All they need dojwas to adopt a similar courso-about tho Repeal ; if the Queen took the initiative , and called the Parliament , they could afterward legalise everything—( loud cheera . ) He concluded by moving that the report be adopted , printed , and circulated , which wan carried .
Mr . O'Oonnel lf said they would adjoarn till tomorrow , to receive the report of the Committee appointed to nominate arbitrators . He believed they had the plan complete by which the people would have oourts of thjeir own , and not be obliged to go to the present magistrates . He would also to-morrow move the abolition of the thing called tho Catholic oath . They should get rid of everything which even the meanest and basest of human beings could call equivocation —( cheers ) . The Association then aojourned until to-morrow .
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I SHEFFIELD . —The usual weekly meetings have been held . On Sunday evening , after the reading of the papers ( the isforthern Star and Nation ) the usual discussion took [ p lace . Oa Monday evening , Mr . Edwin Gill delivered an interesting address on the life of that celebrated patriot , Sir Wm . Wallace . SABDEN . —A public meeting was holden here on Wednesday evening , the 16 th inst ., when Mr . J . Anrterton moved , and Mr . Robert Wilkinson seconded , Mr . Richard Marsden to represent them in the forthcoming Conference for the re-organisation ot ihe Chartist movement . The motion was carried unanimously . ;
BIRMINGHAM . —This town seems again to bs taking that proati position in Chartism that it formerly had ; for during [ the last few weeks the greatest enthusiasm has been manifested by the working men . Since it has been intimated that Mr . T . Attwood was again to commence another agitation , mash anxiety has been manifested to learn tbe principles upon which that gentleman means to ground his exertions ; and meetings , both of ttio middle and -working classes , havu been almost of nightly occurrence : those of the working men declaring that they will support him for nothing short of ] the People ' s Charter . An address to Mr . AT WOOD was passed at a large public meeting , as reported in the ] Star , but the Birmingham Journal refused to insert it ! NdW , working men , who are
year real friends , and who are not ? The old Whig rump of the Birmingham Political Council have bolden their meetings in small and obscure rooms ; and have had fur their object the getting up of a requisition calling upon Mr . Attwood to come out , merely to get up an agitation to " dismiss the present Ministry ; and to reinstate ihe Whigs again in office . " I !! Whilst the mere ti ols of fiction are thus busily engaged , the Chartists are not idle . On Sunday morning last , Mr . Mason held a more numerous meeting at Duddcston Raw than on any former occasion during the summer , in Bpite of the interference of the police on tbe Sunday
previous . He also delivered a most eloquent lectnre . on Tuesday evening , in tbe Hall of Science , on " The rise and fall of 1 the Grecian Empire , " which was received with the greatest satisfaction imaginable . Tbe chairman announced that there would be a public meeting on that night week , to elect delegates to tbe National Conference ; and likewise that the . council were making preparations for holding a public meeting on the day the Conference assembled ^ and were arranging for a tea-party and ball on September 5 th , in honour of T . S . buncombe , Esq ., M . P ., Feargus O Connor J . T . Leader , M . P ., W . S . Crawford , M . P ., VV . Williams , M . P ., land John Fielding , M . P .
Aston-Stueet . —At a meeting of the Committee for tbe relief of Mr . jJGeorgs White , on Sunday last , the following resolution was unanimously agreed to : — "That this Committee jackuowledge , with pleasure and gratitude , the invaluable assistance rendered to their imprisoned friend by the Chartists of London , nnd which has enabled bimj hitherto to avail himself of the privileges attending his confinement , and without which assistance they regret to say , Mr . White would have been placed in a ' more disagreeable position than if he had been confined in the common gaol of this county ; the district in which he has laboured so assiduously not having contributed one-third of the means necessary for his sapp ' ort . " On Sunday evening last , Mr . Wm . Chilton delighted his hearers at the Chartist Room , in Aston-atreet , with a lecture on Free Trade . He exposed the anti-Coin Liw League and their Free Trade humbug in good style , and exhorted his hearers to stick to the Charter ; for that was the only means to remove their country
from ruin . After the lecture , letters were read from Mr . White on the Organization , and Ihe forthcoming National D legate Meeting , which gave great satisfaction to all present . REDDITCH . —On Monday last , Mr . H . Candy delivered a lecture , on the Chapel Green , to a numerous audieope , Mis subject was , " The present position of affairs ; and the necessity of a change " . For upwards of an hour he exposed the evils arising from class legislation ; and ihe fallacy of the Corn Law Repealers : the effect * of machinery ; and the necessity of persevering and agitating till the People ' s Charter became the law of the land . Mr . 'Crndy then announced that , ou the following , evening , he would preaoh a sermon . On Tuesday Evening , the sermon was delivered , from Romans i 16 , showing the accordance of the principles of ChribUanity with the demands for the Charter . J
The Chartists of this place intend meeting Mr . Duncombe ia Birmingham , and giving him a hearty welcome , with ] tho assembled thousands who will gather on that eventful da ; to do honour to that distinguished geatlemau . Woolcombers at Halifax—On Monday the 21 st inst ., a meeting of the woohsombers was holden on Ilbngvvoith Moor , when John Evans was called on to preside , and after making the necessary remarks he proceeded to ] read over the amount of receipts and expenditure , after which the following resolutions were passed unanimously . Proposed by John Martin and seconded by John Rawnaley : " That this meeting deem it necessary for the better
protection of ( wages to form the vfoolcombers into Protective Localities , each locality to be divided into districts , and each district to form a fund to be eeaueeted with the general fund at Halifax !; to be called the Halifax Woolwmbera ' Protective Soeiety . " Proposed by Mr . J . Bawden , and seconded by Mr . T . RobiuHon : " That in order to carry out the first resolution , each firm shall send one or more delegates according to the number employed in such firm to the Committee Room on Wednesday , the 2 Srd instant , at seven o clock in the evening , to draw up articles for our governmeat , and also to elect the necessary officers for conducting the afore mentioned Society . " Proposed by James Uttley , and seconded by Levi Midsjley : " Th& , t in order to give general satisfaction the delegates from each firm shall be elected every fortnight ; and Q& $ h £ rm sending one or more dele-
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gates shall meet among themselves , and appoint such person or persons , as they think most proper to sit on the committee . " Proposed by Richard Whit © and seconded by James Hill : "That this meeting is of opinion that a deputation be appointed out of the delegates assembled , to wait' upon the different localities to Organize them into Protective Societies in accordance with the first resolution . " The meeting was well attended j therebeing about 800 present . The speakers generally confined themselves to tha main point , and George Fiinn , from Bradford , delivered , as a winder up , an eloquent and powerful speech , which had a great effect upon the meeting ; he urged the necessity of ' their being united in one
indissoluble bond for the protection of a nniform scale of wages , which was answered by the meeting with loud cheers . —On Monday morniugi the firm of Mr . Walker , of Mythojm Royd , was waited on to solicit an advance , which was refused . The men in the above employ immediately took in their oombs , with a determination not to return again without their request being granted . —On Tuesday morning , the firm of Appleyard , of Gaose ' yfoot , was waited upon and solicited to give an advance , who refused , and discharged the men who solicited him ; but seeing they were in earnest , in half an hour he sent for the men again , and complied with their request . —Several other little masters have given the advance required .
Rebecca in West Auckland . — -paring the last week this mother of many thousands , with some of her children , are . said to have visited this place , and takes a quantity of potatoes from a field very near the town . Vive pounds reward is offered ; bnt tae"lady * " and her family have as yet escaped detection
Bradford Markets, Thursday, August . 24.— Wool.—There Still Continues A Dullness In Thisdepart-
Bradford Markets , Thursday , August . 24 . — Wool . —There still continues a dullness in thisdepart-
ment , which may be accounted for by the spinnem having supplied themselves at the various markets and fairs . We do not learn that Wool has declined , or are prices any better supported . Yarn . —There is nothing new since our last report . Yarns are ready sale , and full prices realised . Piece . —There is an average attendanoe of buyers to-day , and the demand continues good , and stocks lew . In prices no alteration .
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IMPORTANT MEETING .
THE REPEAL SCHEME . An adjourtaed meeting of the Repeal Association took place on Tuesday , at the Corn-Exchange . Dr . Murphy in the chair . Several sums of money having been handed in from various parts of tho country , Mr . O ConneU entered ihe room , and was received by the meeting with loud cheering . He proceeded to ' empty his pocket of the cash and communications with which thoy werofiiledj and was occupied for a
considerable time in stating the named of the contributors , and reading their letters . Amongst the latter was one from a priest in the county of Roscommon , enclosing a subscription of fifty-three ladies of his parish , every one of whom , the rei . writer stated , was " ready to become a Maid of Orleans , if necessary . " The Hon . and Learned Gentleman then rose , and said that he would now come to the more immediate biisiness of the day . Ho had to lay before them his plan for the mode of the restoration of the Irish Parliament—( cheers ) . He then read the following
report : — " plan fob the renewkd action of the irish
; parliament . 1 . "The Irish people recognise , acknowledge , maintain , and will continually preserve and uphold upon the throne of Ireland , her Majesty , Queen Victoria ( whom God protect !) Queen , by undoubted rifthl , and by hereditary descent , of Ireland , and her heirs and successors for ever . The people of Ireland recognise , acknowledge , maintain , and will conti nually preserve and uphold , all the prerogatives of her Majesty , and of her hcira and successors belonging to , and inherent in , the Imperial Grown of Ireland ; and they will true allegiance bear , pure , undivided , and indivisible to her Majesty , her heirs and successors , tor ever .
j 2 . " The people of Ireland acknowledge , and will maintain and preserve for ever , tho privileges , hereditary and personal , of the Peers of Ireland , together with ihe legislative and judicial authority of the Irish House of Lords , and the exercise of the prerogative in augmenting and limiting the peerage , as the same did of right exist before the year 1800 . " 3 . The people of Ireland do firmly insist upon the restoration ot the Irish House of Commons consisting of 300 representatives of the Irish people ; and claim , in the presence of their Creator , the right of the people of Ireland to such restoration . They have submitted to the Union as being binding as a ° lap ; but they declare solemnly that it is not founded on right , or on constitutional principle ; and that it is not obligatory upon conscience . They agree with the Tory Attorney-General Saurin that the only binding power of the Union is the strength of the English domination . They also agree with him that resistance to the Union is in the abstract
a duty , and the exhibition ot that resistance a mere question of prudence . They will therefore resist the Union by all legal , peaceful , and constitutional . means . ¦?* 4 . The p ' an for the restoration of the Irish Parliament is as follows : —1 . That the county niembers should be increased to 173 in the manner hereinatter specified . 2 . That there should be 127 members returned from cities and towns , in the manner herematter mentioned . 3 Jly . That the county of Carlow , being the only county in Ireland with legs than 100 , 000 . inhabitants , should get an increase of 1 member , so as to have 3 representatives ; that every other county having above 100000 inhabitants should get an increasis of 2 members ; that every county ranging above 150 , 000 inhabitants should get an increase of 3 members .
; " That overy county" ranging above 250 , 000 iahabitants should get an increase of 4 members . 1 " That the county of Tipperary , having more than 400 , 00 !) inhabitants , but less than 500 , 000 should get an increase of eight members . * "That the county of Cork , having more than 700 , 000 inhabitants , should get an increase of ten members . I ' 5 . With respect to the towns and cities , it is proposed that the City of Dublin , having more than 200 , 000 inhabitants , should have eight representatives ; four for the parts north of the Liffey , and four for the parts south of the Liffey . i" That the University of Dublin should continue oh the basis of its present constituency to send two members .
" It is proposed that the city of Cork , having more than 100 , 000 inhabitants , should have five members . ] That the city of Limerick and town of Belfast , having respectively more than 500 , 000 inhabitants , should send four members each . ! "It is proposed that the town of Galway and the cities of Waterford and Kilkenny , having respectively more than 200 , 000 inhabitants , should send each three members tor Parliament . I" That other towns having about 7 , 000 inhabitant should each send two members to Parliament , arid that forty-uiue other towns , next highest in the ratio of population , should send one member eaofe . " A schedule of the . diftorent , ; jplace 8 to ' return members to the In = h Parliament will shQT , their
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SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED BY MR . CLEAVE . FOR VICTIMS . £ . b . d . Wadsworthrow near Halifax 0 10 0 One of the middle classes , but an enemy to oppression 1 10 0 Mr . Daacon ... J . 0-0 6 Mr . Young J 0 1 0 FOR Bl ' BOUALL . Mr . M'Pherson , Ipswich 0 5 0 Female Chartists . Rochdale 17 7 Propeeds of a rafale , Rochdale 0 , 12 5 One of the middle classes , but an enemy to oppression . 0 10 0 FOB DEFENCF FUND . Chilwell , Notts Ifper Mr . Sweet ) 0 3 0
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Now on Sale , Price Sixpence , No- HI . of a PRACTICAL WORK
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 26, 1843, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1227/page/8/
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