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    GLORIOUS' PROGRESS OF CHARTISM IN LEEDS.

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    How are fitey to prevent it j or how are they mixed-Bp-mfljii » t » H ! "We will sboTf them . They know , in the first place , that the practice is unlawful ; and therefore they are bound to discountenance it , and to adopt means io pat it ; dorm , if need be : for beingpractised on their Bne , they will be snre to . be mixed np with it in public estimation , and their character , ind possibly the interests of the ihareholders , will suffer .

    3 n ibe second place , they know that this is & systen&tasedsoJBZRT committed by one over whom they have both control and influence ; and it is their duty to nse both control and icflaenee to protect the men from the rapacity of their law-breaking employer . In the third place , he has to depend en their aid and assistance to " carry ont" his nefarioas scheme . He has a van , which he travels on the line from Leeds to Masbro '; and , as we understand , at the

    expense of the Company . This van is employed to transmit the goods to all parts of the line ; each loan ' s being pnt into a numbered bag , and delivered -ooi I © him , instead of wages . Now , the Directors « an say whether this travelling Tommy-Shop Bhall travel on their line or DOS , They can interfere lLBTB » at all events ! They can refuse power" to carry the Bcheme ont . This they can do ; and if they do BOt do it , to say nothing of the other means by which they could interfere , it will be evident to all that they trinb at the practice .

    "We shall keep an eye on this matter . It is rather snore ! case , it is one of the most impudent and shameless cases of Trock that we have heard of . Generally the practice has slunk into corners and almost unheard-of places : herb it is interwoven into a great public undertaking , in the fall blaze of day . Will it be tolerated , or connived at ! We shall see .

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    $ S » Since the above was in type , we have learned of another case of Tmtck , in Leeds , which we deem it necessary to expose , in the hope that either public indignation , or actual prosecution , may force it ont of existence . About a mile ont of Leeds , on the Bradford road , stands a large newly-built Machine-making esta-Hishmenijbelonging to a firm trading , we believe , tinder th& designation of Whitxaii , Brothers . '' A little farther on , on the opposite side of the road , is a Grocery and Provision Store , kept by a person jumed HoBSEJLtK , brother-in-law to the "Whttxams , he having married ihelr sister . It is understood that Hobsexxn has been "helped" into his shop by the "Whittams : he having been In low water , and

    dependant on them , for a long time . Kay , if his own declarations are to be believed , it would appear thai the shop actually belongs to the firm z for he las been heard to say , that he derives bo profit from it 5 bet inside h&s to account every week , taking his books to the Counting- Home of the " Concern" every Monday ; where , among oVher things , it is ascertained whether , or not , each one in their employ has complied with the osders grreD , and "traded" at the TommyrShop for his prog . An instance oetarred very recently , of % man who did not go to the shop for geods : and he was waited on by one of the * Brothers" and given to understand that if he teas employed in their concern , he MUST go . to the shop . "

    la this ease , as in almost all the case 3 of T&VCS . the goods supplied at the Tojoct-Shop are charged far above their market value . The evils of the Tbuck system-would be unendurable , even did the Tbucksiebs supply their " things" at the real price : for still there would be the absence of freedom ; the tying up of a man ' s hands ; the chaining him down to one counter , ^ hat a profit may be made of his earnings , over and above the profit accruing from the application of his labour : bat when , as is almost invariably the ease , and certainly so in this instance , advantage is taken of the necessities and position of a dependant workman ; uxrssbxsr on the Employer for

    " Leave to toll ? when advantage is taken of this , to fores upon him thing 3 at foil 25 or 30 per cent , dbxreb than tie market price , ihe system becomes one of DOWSSIGHI fiOBBERT J and the parties practising it are , to all intents and purposes , Hbabtless Thieves . Let as hope that Justice ' will soon overtake them ! It shall , if we can be at all instrumental in mending her pace .

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    " FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE " JTEA 5 S THAT CONSCIENCE SHOULD BE FREE . BRITISH - " JPAINS AND PEJf AJ / TTES" -Olf THE EXPBESSIOIf OF THOUGHT . Otb readers wiQ have read in last Saturday ' s " Star the report of the trials of Pxtebsox and Robissos before the High Court of Justiciary at ^ Edinburgh , on a charge of u blasphemy . " Jt will b& recolleeled , that these prosecutions were originated in consequence of the publication * of a work by Xobisso : * , entitled ** The Bible an immoral book , dangerous to ihe easily excited Drain ? ' This book we bave never seen . It may ba a piece of profound criticism and well-sustained argument

    or it inay be trash and nonsense . To us , as Tegards the right of free discussion , it matters not which . "We proclaim that men have a , riidit to publish their ibongbte on all Questions of morals , religion , and polities , no matter even though the embodiment of such shoaldlra the vilest trash ever penned If falsehood and folly find an outlet from the press , let truth and reason be brought to their correction . The only safety against fraud is to allow of the unfettered , unlimited exercise of thought , speech and publication .

    The appearance of the bDls announcing the publication of the above work , immediately led to as outrageous a violation of *¦ the liberty of the subject , " aa we have ever ( 3 t any rate of late years ) heard tell of . -Stirred up by the clergy , the harpies of the 13 W entered Robissos ' s shop withont any notice or warning ; seized his person ; and carried off about £ 150 -worth of hl 3 goods . Here , let os askj was this conduct of Protestants in accordance with the principles of " civil and " religious liberty" ! "We are told that it is one of the fundamental principles of Protestantism to read the Bible and judge for themselves . Now , we suppose the author of the book above-named

    had done so ; aad arriving at certain conclusions , boldly stated them to the world . What was there in £ hi 3 inconsistent with the spirit of Protestantism 1 The author in question had as clear a right to arrive at his conclusions , as Johs Knox had to disbelieve in the infallibility of the Pope ; or Dr-Chxlxebs in the right of patronage ; each deriving bi 3 disbelief from the studying of the Scriptures , But these Scotch ProtestantB , while they are ever ready to defend the principles of " cirfl and religion ? Sbertj" for those who go no further than themselves , exhibit , at the same time , a spirit of persecution toward all those who would advance beyond their opinions , " worthy ; of ^ the worst days of priestly tyranny .

    After the prose cation of Bgbiksos , the man Patrrsos" went down from London , and opened a shop in Edinburgh ; where &T publicly announced the sale of the works , for the vending of which Bobibsoh was under the baxm * f the law . The consequence was , thai Paiersoh was seized- likewise in the meantime Robihsqn had been brought np for trial ; when it was found ihat the indictment against him was wretchedly defective ; that it eould not be sustained . The consequence was that the trial -was then abandoned , Hoblssos hs&u ? hound over on another learranl lo meei another trial ! Oa the 8 ; h of November the trial came off ,. when -Patkrsos was sentenced to imprisonment for fifteen calendar months , and Robccsou to twelve months .

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    On the trial , the witnesses who appeared against Patebson consisted of policemen , Sheriff ' s officers , and "informers who formerly belonged to the police . " These wretched tools admitted that they had purchased the books because they were instructed to do so by the Sheriff : i . e ^ the Sheriff , by his tools and "secret serviee" money , encouraged the circulation of blasphemy" ! One of the witnesses against Patkrsojt , calling himself George R . D . H .

    Mackenzie , Esq ., admitted , in the course of his cross-examination by Patebsoh , that Tub motive for purchasing the books waste get him imprisoned , for he thought he deserved three years . " " In acting as yon have done , " Baid" Patebsojt , did you consider you were doing your duty ! " . *• Yes , " said this pnny « ral , asa citizen and as a Christian . " Patebsok , of course , thanked him for this candid admission .

    Patesson also asked this witness how he reconciled his oath-swallowing with the injunction in the New Testament , " Swear not at all 1 " but was interrnpted by the Court telling him they could not allow such a question to be put : " They sat there to ad ' minister law . Most consistent defenders of the " gospel ! " If to " briDg the . BiWe into contempt " be " blasphemy , " let us ask whether the Lord-Justice CiEEK ., and Lords Medwth and Cockbttrh , ( " the Court ") were not guilty of that offence when they bo shamefully spit upon the wjuscxiox of their 11 Lord and Master ; " giving PATEBSosto understand that they cared noi a straw for the u gospel ; they sat there enly to administer law" ! I

    We gave of Patebsok ' s defence , which oeenp 5 e < J nearly eight hours , all that the reports in the Edinburgh papers enabled us to give . "We are informed by a correspondent that it was a highly finished piece of composition , breathing the purest spirit of hnmanity and philosophy ; containing many profound and valuable thoughts on the folly and wickedness of prosecuting for opinion ' s Bake . " Y « t the " Liberal" papers of Edinburgh have sneeringly remarked ;—** That it was Ohi ' racterised by a pompous display of learning and gross mispronunciation . " So much for the liberality of euch papers as the Edinburgh Chronicle

    the organ of the Stcbgitb ' b , and advocate of " religious liberty . " We have not seen the Witness , tbe organ of the Non IntrusioniBts ; but we are informed that a more foal and brutal spirit was never exhibited by any apologist of priestcraft . See the consistency of this party , who whine about the persecution they suffer at the flaDd 3 of the Scottish aristocracy ! But all secte are the same . No matter how fiercely they may denounce persecution when they are the sufferers , they immediately turn persecutors of others the moment they have tho power , or discover that there are any who differ from them is opinion .

    We now come to that pracious piece of composition , " the Lobs Jcsticb Clebx ' s address in sentencing Patbbsox , in which the speaker stated that it was " a satisfaction to the Court indeed to find that the panel in his defence had shown not the least trace of talent" 1 Whether this be a fair character of Patebsos ' s defence or not , It will show that there is nothing his " Lordship" dreads more than that men of Paterson's stamp should be possessed of talent . It shows that the high and mighty are as much as ever in love with ignorance as an engine of perpetu&tine slavery— loving

    darkness rather than light , because their deeds are evil . " Hi 3 Lordship not content with inflicting immediate punishment , threatened Patkbson that if he resumed his " trade" on the expiration of his imimprisonment either in £ 3 otlaud or any ether part of Great Britain" " there teas no extent of punish ment by imprisonment and fine , which it would not be the duty of ihe Court to award- " Now we beg to remind Joh . > Hops that be is not Lobs Jestjcb Clkek on this side of the Tweed ; and God forbid that sueh a personification of cant and cruelty ever should be . Jt is going a little too far to threaten us in

    England with the terrors of his puritan inquisition Thank God , they are but ** empty words , " or we should be tempted to raise the cry of "Repeal , " not alone with Ireland , but with Scotland . Let Johm Hops u keep his breath to cool his porridge , " and not presume to meddle with us os this Bide of the border * If be does he will only be laughed at for his pains . His " Lordship" stated that he considered it "a most proper and fit prosecution ? ' and be had no doubt of the effect that would result . Nor have we * The effect will be to more widely diffuse the principles and opinions for which Patkbaoh is now suffering . In many a Scottish village where , ia the local papers , the villagers will read tbe account of these prosecutions , for the first time ,

    will the young and enquiring ask : What is this blasphemy 1 " " What are those books for which Paibbsos is condemned to a felqn ' s fate —» felon's fare , for fifteen months V It bas often been remarked that ofcupAesny-prosecutionB , instead of putting a stop to the demand for the interdicted work 3 , have invariably increased that demand . Public curiosity is stimulated ; an anxiety is felt to clutch tbe -forbidden frnit , which is eagerly devoured . Experience proves that the best method of giving publicity to a book is for tbe clergy to denounce it ; the best plan to procure for it a good sale is to prosecute its author or publisher . That thi 3 has ever been the ca . e , the writings of Thomas Pains are a signal example .

    We now come to the cream of the Lobd Justice Clibk ' s address , when , after sentencing Patbbtson to fifteen month ' s imprisonment , he proceeded : " Whatever yon may think of -what I now say—I say ts yea , that in the prospect of the -solemn and serious < 1 uty of pronouncing juSjpnBnt on a fellow-creatnre , I jrrryHf ft ) the Almighty God in whom I bdievt , that in his inHniit compassion . He would yet vouchsafe to you the comfort , and ihe peace , and the hope , and ihe joy of believing in thai adorable Redeemer , whose mercy you hare hitherto so contemptuously rejected " There , " gentle reader , " what tbiak yon of that ? Now look on this picture .

    Patersos wished to know what sort of treatment he was to have in jail ! and the Lord Josticb Clerk replied that the Court had nothing to do with the prison regulations . He said : — "If you wish to make any application on the subject , It must be made to the Directors of the General Prisons in Scotland , of whom lam one ; but "with regard to aay application yon may make for the relaxation of discipline in the prison , or for exemption from th » only instruction \ rhich yon -will be permitted to have , I C « n iell yovihalyxya have net the least cftoncc for GCtiing any relief . " " O tor a forty-parson power To sing thy praise , hypocrisy I "

    His " Lordship" had just been praying to " Almighty G&d y 6 rbi 3 compaision" and " MEF-CY towardB the prisoner at tbe bar . But when that prisoner applied to tbe " praying" Judge for " compassion , " the reply wa ? : — " Yes ! I'm tbe party to whom you must apply for any alleviation of suffering ; * but doa't you wisb . you may get itiH * 111 " prey" for you , but 111 punish jou to the utmost You may " apply" } but u i can teli you that yon have not the least chance of getting any relief" ! O mest Cbxictxau Judge 111 His * Lordship" bad a great deal to say abont vPTiATJTT ia CDnneclicn with religion , in the etmrse

    of his address . Now we ve a question or two to pnt to his " Lordship "; not as "Lobd Justice Cl ^ bk " , but plain Johi » Hops . We want to know whether John Hops believes in that passage in the Scriptures , which telb us that "Fernicators and Adulterers shall have their portion in the lake that burneth for ever and ever" ! W » want to know whether , when he was Dean of Jaeulty v and before maniage ; before he doffed the Batehelor's jacket for the gown of the Benedict ; whether he was not extra-intimately-acquainted with his

    housekeeper ? Whetherjsnch intimacy did not draw down upon him the censure of his family J And whether he was not glad to gloss orer the ** sin" by making of the said housekeeper an honest aman ? We have heard of such things , aud we should be glad to know -whether toeyare true . And wneiaer « Jcun Hope " prayed" as fervently then , as be assured Patebsos be had just done before sentencing mm to fifteen months' imprisonmest * Will John Hops , thejnaicial defender of religion and " moralu } - answer these queries 1 We pause for a iepjy J

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    THE CONDITION- OF ENGLAND . With shame and with Borrow do we call attention tO the BTJBN 1 KQ BECOBD of ENGLAND ' S UTTEB DEGRADATION , contained in another page , under the above head . There the reader , if he be an Englishman , will have enough I Be will seed no more to tell him the condition that his once highly-favoured country has been brought to , by high taxation , Infernal Paper Money , "Resulfs of Machinery , *' " Free Trade . " The details are horribly sickening We are as degraded and cowed in spirit , as we are degraded in condition , or we shoHld not permit , for one single hour , such things to be :

    " And overcome vt like a summer ' a cloud Without our speslal wonder" 1 Time was , when a tithe of what we record to day would have been sufficient to nerve the arm and bare the breast of every Englishman , to reECue his country from the hands of the despoiler of her honour and her fair fame : and had their degenerate offspring but one atom of spunk in the whole mass , they would rather sink tbe whole Island beneath the ocean , than goffer the hideous enormities that now surround us to exist .

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    . Swallow—The parties can have the Star sent direct from the offic 3 , by Bending a quarter ' s payment in advance , and the address of . the putty to whom it is to be sen * The Coventry Murder—A correspondent writes ua that tbe verdict of tbe Zisiccster Jot / , given in our 7 th p&ge bas r-VU&cd great excitement in tbe city of Coventry . Sills were issued by the Guardians calling a " Pnblic Meeting" of their body for Tuesday last , to consider what steps should betaken "in this most painful and melancholy affair ; " when , according to our correspondent , the following resolution was agreed to : — "That this meeting recommend that the directors of the Coventry Workhouse

    do allow the medical men and other officers of the workhouse , an epportunity of rebutting the charges contained in the verdict of tbe Leicester Jury , before the Guardians of the city . " Cumberland Colliers . —We have no room for their address this week . The following sums have been received , deducting £ l 3 s for tho Percy Main men : — King Pit 17 a ; Hebhurn £ 2 4 s 4 d ; T « rpeth 10 s Cd ; Walker £ l 14 s ; Bedlingtou £ l 17 a 8 d ; Spittletongue £ 1 17 a ; WiUington £ 5 3 s 3 d ; Kibbles-¦ worth 18 s 6 jd ; South Hetton £ 2 Is 4 d ; Washington £ 1 ; " Wallbottle £ 1 ; Woodside 18 s 10 j ; Saghill £ 7 J 6 i lOd ; North Elswick , 15 s 9 d ; West Stanley 8 s Id ; WaHsend £ l ; Esst Holy well £ 12 s 2 d ; West Holy well 16 s 3 d ; Seaton Buin £ 2 0 a 9 J .

    John Murdoch , Sheffield —His letter arrived only on Thursday too late for us to make any use of it this-week . Nottingham Framework Ksittebs . —We could sot possibly find room for their address this week we will give it next . Mb . Geokgb Whits . —Received by the committee in Bijiningham , per Mr . W . Ball , from tbe Chartists of Oldbory , 8 s- ; per Mr . George Freeman , from the Chartists of Coventry . 5 t 6 < 1 . MR . JOHN West is unavoidably compelled to post

    pone his visit to South Lancashire until Mz . O'Connor ' s visit to Shtffield ; but he will give due notice to the men of Bury , DakenSeld , Mossley , Oldham , and the other places he intends to visit Any of the lonlitiei wishing to correspond with Mr . West will rddress , 20 , Lambert-street , Sheffield . Jonathan Paiiks , Sutton . —We fear th 3 t he can be Hade to pay . Mant communicatioks we are unable even to acknowledge , at tbe present . Will try what next week will do .

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    OPENING OF THE NEW CHARTIST HALL . The Leeds Chartiata having for a long time pact beiug much incommoded by the want of sufficient room in their late place of meeting , have been on the look out for one more fitted for the increased and growing strength of the democratic party ; and at length happily succeeded in obtaining a place , which , if ought can silence the filthy lies of our local lights of Whiggery and Sham-Radicalism , will surely effect such a consummation , and convince even the Baines ' s and Smiles's that Chartism ia neither " dead" nor sleeping ; though we confess we are somewhat doubtful as to such a result , when we remember the old

    adage" A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still . " Large placards , not quite bo large ( but very near ) as a church door , posted through Leeds , announced that the " Bazaar , " a large building in Briggate , had been taken by the Chartists for the holding of their meetings , snd would be opened on Sunday , Nov . 19 th , by a lecture from Mr . David Ross in the afternoon , and one from Feargus O'Connor , E-: q ., in the evening . This announcement immediately following the Holbeck triumph , created no little sensation ; infusing new life into the hearts of all good patriots , and a corresponding amount of dismay amongst the factions of all names and colours .

    On Sunday afternoon Mr . Ross delivered his lecture , which was , as usual with that gentleman , a sound and excellent discourse . The room , which is estimated to bold comfortably fifteen hundred persons , was crowded ; a large portion belonging to the fair sex . An excellent choir filled the orchestra , and their performances added much to the harmony and eclat of the proceedings . As noticed above , Mr . O'Connor was announced to lecture in tbe evening . Half-past six was tho hour notified ; but long before that time tbe H&U was filled in every part ; and finally when every one had got in that could possibly find standing room , no matter where crammed to , many hundreds had to turn back , wholly unable to gain even a glimpse of the interior . We have been in many crams of tbe

    sort ; but certainly never in one equal to this . The heat wa 9 intense , streams of moi ture covered the walls and ceilidg , and descended in huge drops upon the audience , who appeared as if they were fixed in a vapour bath . We believe we are under the mark when we say that a room three times the size would not have been too large to hayo comfortably held those who could not get admission . Hundreds of the fair sex crowded the orchestra , intermingled with , the vocalists and band , and filled the numerous rows of seats facing the platform ; and when the vocal and instrumental performers struck up their glorious strains of harmony in praise of the " good old cause , " we fait that never had we witnessed so noble a spectacle in connection With tbe Chartist cause before-Mr . Brooke having again taken the chair—11

    Lo we answer , see wo come , Quick at freedom ' 3 holy call " wasEnng m fall chorus by tbe performers in firstrate style . Some impatience being manifested for the appearance of Mr , O'Connor , Mr . Hobson came forward and entreated their patience for about twenty minutes , by which time the train would have arrived . In the meantime be would address them—( appiause ) . Mr . Hobson then at great length tmered into a luminous exposition of the value of labonr , as proved by the facts evidenced" by Mr .

    John Marshall of Leeds , before a commutee or the House of CommoDS . We are compelled to omii Mr . H . 'a speech ; but in another shape out readers may depend npon having Mr . Marshall ' s evidence laid before them . " : While Mr . Hobson was Fpeabing Mr . O'Connor arrived , and with some difficulty procured a passage thronsn his eDSbasJastio and deiighted friencs to 4 be platform . At the conclusion Of Mr , Hobson's address , Mr . O'Connor , who appeared to be almost astounded by the magnificient sight beforn him , came forward and delivered an address o about an hour ' s duration .

    The length at which we have given the proceedings of the Soiree held on the following evening prevents ns giving even an outline of Mr . O'Connor ' s speech , suffice it to say that it was in his usual forcible and eloquent style . The proceedings concluded by the performers giving in full choruB , the

    anthem" Spread the Charter through the Land . " Long in Leeds will the 13 th of November be held in remembrance , as the day when this veritable Temple of Truth was opened for the gathering together of the sons and daughters of freedom .

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    sSSSS ^ ass he SS ^^ ¦**•¦ . aae to which « £ u + k ^ ? ° » ldaU heartily respond- " The tr&-Jfr - ^ l ^ i ^ ate source of all power . " Mr livwS ! ¦^ . fifc-foMttt should call upon ? £ « Lw ^' ^ OOJnpetent to the task wfaiob had been Th ™^ LT > » 81 £ Ply because the people the « - rJlers Tfc ° fhf f ^ 1 ^ L ^ Po rt «> ce to their rulers . At the festivals of the great , it was the fashion to applaud those who had h ^ n ^ Ltn

    « n « ftk ^? ,. «« ty was based . He would ffiSLw riS \ ? etipl ° * he found them in ^ LSr ?* t 0 he < i coUaRe » ffhwa I ** " t <» be found K ? 3 Z ? h V malted virtues than were exhi-SSiSriif * *^ 0 { Princes or the mansions of S ! t 35 a ° ij h ? * P ° ** ot them as the power i % » . r « ade England great iu the field and on tho ocean j where they had fought for what had never & , HiH V " i * - - l ) $ tefo- He would point to the % ZHi * # * & * - <*** and science , and the seats Vhl S uV which the C 0 UI » try abounded , which had all beeu erected by them , but of the use and benefits to bo derived from which they had been deprived . Ia spite of this , however knowled ™

    Zlf ? LT ° ' ¦ * fi-V * M * -toi . been told of their Zvtt i wereno . « convinced that they must have political power without which they We ' as ' a vessel without a helm ; as slaves bound down by ttte mercenary millowners of the country , and trampled upon by a despoiio oligarchy , who were ever etriying to di 3 unite them , in order that they mfcht centime their bondage . He would speak of the people , as the body by whose labour all things were created ; from which all that was ncn and great had emanated : bv whose skill

    and , toil all tniiigs hud ameu . aud who , nevertheless , bad nothing that they could call their own . Their forefathers had been much happier than they ; but he did not wish on that account that they should go backward . No ! " onward" was the motto ; and , by the spread of knowlege they would obtain the victory . In conclusion he hoped the time was not distant when the people of every town would have a temple equal jto the one in which they were then assembled , and in which they might leattt ttieir rights , and knowing , be able to maintain them . Mr . Ross resumed his seat amidst loud cheers . Tha Chairman said the next toast was one in which they would all coincide and . rejoice to hear . It was" The healths of Messrs . Hobson and Jackson , the Chartist councillors recently returned at the Municipal Elections . "

    The toast was drunk with three chaera and one cheer more , and great applause Mr . Councillor Hobson was received with tremendous applause , and when tho cheers had subsided he addressed the meeting as follows : —Mr . Chairman—It is usual for individuals occspyJDg the position in which I now find myself , to say , ' this is ihe proudest moment of ray lite . ' I shall not cemmenca with , any such hackuuyed phrase ; but I shall say that the return of . the Chartist candidates at the last election was a triumph of which wo mayiwell be proud ; and on that account I do most sincerely rejoice ; not certainly on account of the men who were returned , but ou account of those who returned them . ( Hear , hear . ) To tho worthy

    working men of Holbeck , and to the worthy working men of the West Ward , are our thanks in tbe first instance due ; and to them let the honour bo gi \ en ; ( Cheers . ) Who , I should like to know , would huvo aaid only some three years ago , looking at all the oiroumstanoes of the case ; who would have said then , that the working men of Leeds would so soon send two men of their own into the Council Chamber ? Who would have beeu bold enough , three years ago , looking &t the state of the Wnig and Tory parties in the borough at the time , to have predicted that even now the working men would have bad to meet ia celebration of their triumph ( Hear , hear . ) But what had been done , was only an earnest of what they would do in future . ( Loud

    oheers . ) They had only got in the small point—the thin end of tha wedge ; but so sure as that thin end had been got in , so sure would the wedge be driven home . Yes ; the point is in ; and through it must go . ( Cheers . ) It is not only in the Town Council that we must be represented , but in another council , the great council of the nation as it is called , to which we will yet send a member for this boroijigh . ( Hear , hoar . ) And how long will it be before we shall meet to celebrate that triumph t—How long shall wejhave to wait before we celebrate tbe return of a Chartist candidate to Parliament {—( hear , hear ) . Will it be three years before we havo to do that I- ( cries of "No , no . ") Will any one venture to predict , that

    ifinconse-, quence of a dissolution of Parliament , or from any other cause by which a vacancy may occur , an election should take place ; will any one say that in each case we should not have to meet in this room , or in a larger placCj for this would Bcatcoly then , hold us—to celebrate : the triumphant return of a Chartist Member for this Borough ?—( hear ^ hear , and chee rs ) . Hut I , will again revert to the present triumph , the triumph of the working men , who have succeeded , in spiie of all the opposition which has been arrayed against them ; in spite of all those means and appliances which our enemies knew so well how to use , and have so much at command ; in spite of all these things , they havesucceeded , to the great chagrin

    of the whole body of Whigs and sham-Radicals—( loud cheers ) . The chagrin and disappointment of these parties has manifested themselves in numerous instances , both at the election and since ; and none more so than in the Council Chamber , at our first meeting . Previous to that meeting , at which there was much and vtry important business to transact , the Whigs and sham-Radicals met in secret , in a small back room in the Commercial Buildings , and there they determined that " the Councillor ibr Holbeck" should find his leveldaughter . )—that he should not sit on . any of the committees under the Municipal Act ; but only on those under the Improvement Act , where it was well known there was a great deai of work , and no power : and after thus agreeing ; after thus appointing the members , and constituting all the committees , they came and sat as demurely in the Council chamber , as if the business was then

    being done!—( Hear and laughter . )—But this nice little plot was rather spoiled ; they were not permitted to bave every thing tneir own way . My friend , Mr . Jackson , was present at that private meeting ; and after having got an understanding of what they were abouty he told them plainly that ho would be no party to any such method of dojng business , but would lay the whole matter before the man they had maligned . Mr . Jackson did so—( cries of "That was honourable , " and loud cheers ) . It was honourable . Nay more , it was a * proof of great ttoral courage , of one in Mr . Jackson ' rf position , and we ought greatly to respect him for it —( cheer ?) . Mr . Jackson had acted thus ; and that was the key to my conduct in the Council chamber—( hear , hear ) . A great deal has been said in many places , and in tho newspapers about my conduct on that occasion ; and therefore , as this is the first occasion on which I have since bad the

    pleasure of addressing yon , I will take the opportunity of setting myself right . Much has been said in tho newspapers , and especially in the Leeds Mercury , about my "feeling "; about my "manners " : ; about my "inodeaty "; and about my "taste , " i ' or having exercised my right as a Councillor , and a&kiug , in a case where I had been given to understand that a legal disqualification existed , whether t-uch was the fact , or no . It is true that in doing so I had to refer to a bankruptcy or some years standing ; but in ooing so , I only did my duty : for having an impression that the proposed election would bo null and void from legal reasons , I had a right , as one who was to elect ' , to satisfy my own mind before I ex * rcised my power . I did so . I put the question

    to our legal adviser j and with his answer I was satisfied , aud expressed myself so . Bat I am told . 1 ought not to have raked up this bankrnp'cy of twenty years' date ; aud my coing ^ so is represented as a proof of my " good taste , ' " manners , " aud " feeling . " Sir , I am not the only one that has faked up old bankruptcies , 1 am old enough to remember the late William Cobbeit being returned to Parliament . I remewb ^ r that Mr . Baiaes put into his paper , the Leeds Mercury , tliaii Mr . Cobbett could not take hia seat bicauae ho was " an uncertificated bankrupt " of Boma twenty years' standing . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Buiues , tiierotore , has been the model tor my " manners" ; and he , oi all men in the world , should be the

    iaat to question my "tasie , " or to quarrel with my "ieeiing . " Had I not had good and sufficient reason for what I did in tlie question itself , ! had the Mercury ' s example to rake up a " bankruptcy ol twenty years' standing" to " insult" a political oppo-, ntnt . " but in doing what I did , I did not copy the i Mercury s example ; I did not 1 st the election pass ¦; over , and then raise the objection to Mr . Stansfeld , ( Hear , hear . ) 1 did it before the election . I Bpoko as one of tho parties iu whom the right of the election was rested , and on behalf of those who had J deputed me . ( Cheers . ) Much has been said about Mr . Hamer Stansfeld . We have had his " honour , '' his " intesritv ^ " his " consistency of character ,

    his " mercantile knowledge ,- ' all paraded before us . But his friends had better sing small " on those subjects . I happen to know rather more than they imagine . I am in possession , of a rather remarkable " correspofluence ; consisting of a circular letter from Mr . Hamer Stansfeld himself , and one also from his brother Thomas ; both in relation to this very bankruptcy . I will net say . more at present than this : that Mr . Hamer Stanafeld s brother , Thomas , gives rather a cumsus aceouat of his ( Fjamer ' n )" honour , "" integrity , " and " mercantile knowledge "; and that account I am ready to give ; Mr . Stansield himself , if he wishes . I say again that his friends will do well to say little about this Bamo " honour" and "integrity" j tor Mr . Hamer Slausield will know where I am : and it

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    might be inconvenient to be forced to "tell all one knows "—( laughter | and cheers ) . But there was another objection I then urged . I told him that he had attended two j meetings of a Board , of which I was a member . He was also a member . He was an Improvement Commssioaer , ex officio , by virtue of his officeas a magistrate . He ought to have attended all the meetings ; he only attended two ; and then it was for the purpose of illegally voting away tho people's money—( hear , hear ) . The Whiga did not like being reminded of this . It was to them as bitto ? a pill to swallow as even " Holbecb" was ; and amongst all the spe 3 hes which they made upon the Bubjeot . not one of them at alii attempted an answer to this charge —( hear , hear ) . 1 did not hesitate to tell them

    that that money was voted for an illegal purpose : At the time I opposed its application ; and that I was right j was proved to be trae ; fot before the CoinnwBsioneTSi went out of office , they tookec / e to pay back that money , because they knew that it * payment could have been compelled out of their own pockets , had any one taken their accounts into the Queen ' s Bench . Not the slightest explanation has been given' of this part of Mr . Stansfeld's public conduct ; and my conviction is , that any man , be he who He may , who would lend himself to an act of this kind , is unworthy to fill any offioe , even that of Mayor—Oaughterjtnd cheers ) . Bat there were other matters which o % me before the Council on that day upon which I nmst beg to be

    allowed to make a few remarks . My friends wished me to have been placed upon the Watch Committee , because there they ) thought I might have been of some tervio . The members of that committee have a great deal of power . They have the uare of the police ; and you know how that force requires keeping iii check . They ha ^ e the power to spend £ 8000 a year . They give ihe polico their orders . They suspend , dismiss , and appoint them . To them complaints against tho police ate preferred . My friends thought I could bo very useful there ; they thought I shpuld listen to tho complaints of the poor men , and ] be as ready to believe them , as I should the statements of the police—( hear , hear , hear ) . I thought myself I nrght have been

    useful on that committee ; and for these reasons many wished to seelme placed there . But not so . The secret conclave determin d that I should not bo on it ; and consequently the motion that I should be appointed was not ; even seconded . Now mind ; all tho moiflberB who thua met in private were not alike . Mr . Hornbv did hia duty there ; for he moved that I should be on the committee ; Mr . Jackson also did his ; but when he found th ? determination of tbe major portion of the Whigs and Shams , he left the room , aud gave mo the information—( hear , hear , and cheerd ) . And now I will give you one of the reasons adduced for not putting me on that committee . You know Mr . Yewdall . Ho is a great Economist . He has , it seems , been sent

    into the council to play tha Economical fjddle ; and he 6 aid , " It will ! never do to have Hobson on that commit ! ee . You know we have occasionally periods of great excitement , euch , for instance , as occurred in August Iaat year ; Hobson is a very dangerous perse n ; aud in such periods of excitement it will not do to have men like him on the Watch Committee , to have the ordering of the Police . " This was ; the reasoning of Mr . Yewdall ; tlie Economist . ( Hear , hear . ) I am too dangerous £ man to bo on the Watch Committee , because there may be another period of excitement . Just attend to me here . I will relate to you something that came under my oWn knowledge , which will show you what kind of men have been oa the Watch

    Committee . You all remember tho Strike of last year , when " the plugs were drawn" ; when wo had soldiers parading the town in all directions ; special constables sworn in ; and policemen armed with cutlasses on duty night and day , under the control of the magistrates . Y < . u will also remember that an Hun . Member of the House of Commons offered to prove , if a committee were granted to him , that that Strike originated wifb the Anti-Corn Law League . He stated that he had in his possession abundant proofs of this ; and when he had called for such committee , a respectable tradesman of this town , a master machine-maker

    wrote to the Hon . Member in London ; and in bis letter he staled that he was ready to make oath at the bar of the House , that an Alderman ef Leeds , a member of a ; late Watch . Committee , and also a member of the Anti-Corn Law League , knew of the Strike ; a fortnight before it took place . The writer of that ] letter state i ho was sent for to his counting-house by the Alderman , who then told him that the Strike ; was contemplated : and told him also that when it took place , he wa 3 to turn out the men in hia employ , as they would be exceedingly useful , because they knew where the plugs were situated , and would know how to draw them . Nay , he said moro ; hejsaid , if it was kecessahy , the

    MEN WOULD EVEN KHOW HOW TO BM > W THE BOILERS up . When the Hon . Member received that letter , not knowing the writer , aod conceiving it possible that the letter had been sent by some one of the League , to get him into a mess , by making use of unauthorised statements , be Bent it to me to inquire into the credibility ] of the writer , and into the truth of his statements . J When I read tho letter I was amazed . I did not personally know the writer ; SO I inouired of another master machine-maker , whom I do know well , if he knew anything of him , ; and I received for answer , " that there was not a' more honourable or truth-telling man in the whole town of Leeds "—( hear , and cheers ) . I then sent for the gentleman himself ; I put the letter into his hand ,

    and inquired if ho ; was the writer of it . He said he was . i then inquired if the statements it contained were trao . " True ! aye , " said ho , " every word of them ; and I have ! more revelations t « make still "—( hear , hear ) . And yet I am objected to because I am " adangerous man "—( laughter ) . Just contrast my conduct with the alleged conduct of this Alderman and Watch-Committee-man . While he was procuring men to be turned out , in order that they might draw plugs , and if necessary blow up boilers , I was persuading the working men all I could against the Strike , as many hero present couid testify , if lie 3 d be . Wbjeh of us was the most dangerous man of the ; two ?—( hear ) . I have related this fact here for the first time . I had intended to

    have done so at the ) council meeting , before the Aldermen ' s face . I was prepared to have done this ; for I expected I should have had an opportunity of doing it . I expected when my name was proposed as a member of the ; Watch Committee , in the council Chamber , that Mr . 'Councillor Yewdall would have urged his objection ' s to me there , as he had done in private and behind my back ; and then this would have come out— ( cheers ) . But though I had not that opportunity given to me , for he held his tongue * I hope the press will take notice of it , and that through that medijim it will como under the Alderman ' s notice As these " liberty loving" gentlemen have determined that they will not have me on the Watch Committee , 1 hope every working man , who

    may receive any injury or insult at the hands of the police , will take o ; are to pen down an authentic statement of the facts , with the number of the officers , and make me acquainted with them . I know there are brutes ia that force , who deserve to be flogged out of the town . An instance has come to my knowledge , in which Child , —not very child-like in his nature , —but in which Child , Jemmy Child , I believe—( cries of" Yes ; we know him" )—met with two little lads in I Kirkgate ; and because one of them , quite by accident , touched some part of the great man ' s coat , he struck them both most unmercifully with the hdavy stick which ho generally carries with him ; and to such an extent was his violence towards them carried , that their

    screams oallad -forth the expostulations of those who happened to be passing along * the street—( cries of shame , shame ) . I have another instance of the same iDamdual ' s child-like propensities . A poor I little girl was one day standing in Britrgate with la few boxes of iucifer malcb . es for sale . She had her wares in a baaket suspended from her neck , and when Child saw her , he ewore at tier , struck the basket fiercely with hia stiek , by which all the lucifers were driven into the street , and the poor child , ! frightened out of her wits , dare not stay to gather ! them up , but was glad to run off , leaving the only source of her livelihood mixed with the dirt— ( renewed cries of shame ) . Were I on the Watob Committee , I would tako care of such

    cases as this—( hear , hear ); and although I am not on the Committee , il will tako care they shall not get rid of such cases . I hope when you , any of you , witness them , you will let me have them , and then they shall hear of them in the Council Chamber itself , and wo will see if ] we cannot compel the Watch Committee to take cognisance of them—( hear , hear ) . Another reason adduced at the private meeting why I should not be admitted on any of the Municipal Committees was , that I am iuot respectable enough . And here 1 must remaik on the queer notions that some folks have about " good manners . " It is all fair and right to insult me ; it is allowable even to insult my constituents , by telling them that they are a disgrace to the Borough ; it is even right tor a

    portion of men sent to tke Council like myBelf , —no more there , nor no less , —to meet ia private , aud sit in judgment on my character and coaduct ia my absence ; nay even to canvass aud assail my " respectability " : all this is fair , and right , and proper . But when I ask a question to satisfy my mind onja legal point ; when I pursue the course that duty points out , before I exercise the trust reposed in me ; when I do this , lam assailed on all bands , and ! a loud yell is raised about my "taste" , and " feeling " , and * manners' * . I am represented as having insulted an " honourable trades

    man "; and that too by soma who had been objectors to he , because of my want of •' respectabUity- 't Had I acted on their grounds ; had 1 been prompted by motives as low , as their own , I Bhould certainly have been justified in repelling the insult given to me and to mv constituents in the canvas 3 of my " respectability " , by taunting ; the ** &-spsctabW men par excellence , witb . their owa " respectability" in . choosing from their own raaka , a man to preside as Mayor who had not pan twenty shillings [ in the pound , and who had creditor * sitting under him as Councillors , who had not received their full dividends . Had I possessed the taste" and " feeling" of eww people ,

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    —as exhibited towards me , —I should have done this . But I did not do so . I did that which it was my duty to do : a , nd whieh , if it wsre to do again . I would repeat . Let me ask , if I had not paid twenty shillings m the pound , whether " taste" or " fseling ' would have prevented the canvassers of my ^ re- " sppctability" from telling me r » f i * . ^ eti th « nipVi * .. bad been of twenty years standing ? And vth ( tt speaking of tho conduct ; of Mr . Barnes , with rfafeienca to the raking np of Mr . Cobbett ' a bankruptcy , aad pl'jinly ' calling'him an " uncertificated bankrupt , " I ought to have told you that he would not contradict it , until Mr . Cobbett entered an action at law against him to compel him . Ther * ' vra . i ' " taste " and "feeling" for yon ! His " taste" was also exhibited on another occasion . Mr . Bainea

    " insulted" another good friend of the poor man , by taunting him with his misfortune iii business ; and in ( hat case it was a pure taunt ; and as cruel as it was ungrateful . Hs so taunted Mr . Richard Oastler ; and the cheeks of Mr , Baines ought to have burned with very shame , when he so taunted thai gentleman : for it is to his father , Mr . Robert Oastler that Mr . Baines is mainly indebted for hi 3 success in life—( loud cheers ) . Leaving this portion of his subject , and referring '' again to the real triumph gained at the election . Mr . Hobson concluded by proposing the healths of the 570 electors of Holbeck , and tbe 445 electors of tho West Ward , who bad by their free and nnpurchased votes returned himself and Mr , Jackson to the Council , and resumed hia seat amidst thunders of applause .

    Mr . Councillor Jackson then rose , and Was received with deafening shouts of applause . He said he felt highly flittered by the enthusiastic manner in which he had been received , and thanked them most sincerely for the compliment , He was not accustomed to public speaking , and should be very sorry to allow his farthing rushlight to twinkle iu the presence of the bright luminaries by whom he was surrounded . He could not forbear saying , however , that he had been taunted by the Whigs that he had neither a right , nor any pretensions to represent the large Wost ward , for which he had had the honour of being returned . Ho - would remind these carpers that he did not send himself into the Council

    Chamber—( hear , hear > . He bad been strongly urged to allow himself to ba put in nomination % and by tho honesu votes of the electors he had been placed in the position which it was his pride to occupy . Since he had been in the Council , ho had seen a vote of that body introduce Mr . Baiues into the chamber on two occasions . [ Mr . Hobson— " I'll try it on with a working man next time /'—laughter and cheors . J The Whigs had told him that he was a very useful man on committees ; but when he got up to speak , he found out that they did not like him . They found fault with his election this time , because they said he was a joint of Jo 3 ' s tail ; he was the first joint ; and they said Dr . Craven was the second —( laughter ) . They tell me ( said Mr . Jackson )

    that if I had not got ia this time , Mr . Hobson would have had nobody to second him . All tnat I can say ia , that I will always second him in anything that he may bring forward for the benefit of tho public ; but if he brings questions forward of a purely factious nature , I sjiall desert him . ( Vlr . Hobson— "I hope you will . ") I did differ with Mr . Hobson , with regard to his proposing Mr . Marshall , as Mayor ; and I should not have done , I think , as he did , with respect to Mr . Stansfeld * I admit Mr . Hobson ' s right to ask the question for his own satisfaction , if he had a doubt that the election would be illegal ; but having been unfortunate in business myseif , I should hesitate long ere I reminded others . But I can assure you that all Mr . Hobson ' s other measures wera most

    businesslike ; aad I have been told by others that they were of that opinion . Mr . Jackson referred at some length to ihe manner in which business had been transacted by the Streets' Committee ; and after stating they had been served with notice from the Aire and Calder Company , to restore a dam in Sheepscar Beck to its original state , which had cost about £ 80 in removing , he inquired if it Was possible that either himself or Mr . Hobson could make worse Councillors than those who had constituted that Committee , at the head of whom was Dr . Baker . Id fact , the whole machinery of the Improvement Act , which had cost the borough between seven and eight thousand pounds * was declarod now to be not worth so many

    shillings : in fact the Town Clerk said it would not hold water ; and Alderman Pease said it would be absolutely necessary to get another act of Parliament passed to amend it . Mr . Jackson then avowed himself in favour of all tbe six points of the Charter , but confessed that he was obliged to differ with them on their conduct respecting the anti-Corn-Law League ; but so fara 3 the whole Charter went , ha went , and he would go with them for its enactment . The wickedness of our present rulers have made the goodness of God of . non-effect . In conclusion , ha again thanked the meeting for the patieno with which he ha 6 ? been heard , and for the hanour which had been conferred upon him , aud sat down loudly applauded . The Chai&mjlN said the next toast was " tbe

    Charter ; and tho health of the persevering aud patriotic Feargus O'Connor , Esq . " Mr . O'Co . nnor immediately rose , and was received with deafening shouts of tumultuous applause . Inane of his most eloquent BDeeches , delivered in his happiest manner , he completely rivetted the atention oi' his audience for upwards of an hour , interrupted ody by repeated bursts of applause . It would be imoossible for ua to furnish even a moderate outline of of hi 3 excellent address , embodying , as it did , every point to which he could extend his comprehensive mind , as connected with the movement . The CHAiBMMflgave the next toast , " The Northern Star and the democratic press . " Mr . Julian Barney , in rising to respond , was received with great cheering , and made an excellent speech , which was throughout well received , and gave much satisfaction . At its conclusion ,

    Mr ; Hobson proposed the following resolution : — " That as the Anti-Corn Law League profess a perfect readiness to discuss the question of a repeal of the Corn Laws , and to maintain that their repeal would be of immediate benefit to all classes of society , but particularly to the working classes ; and as Mr . Feargus O'Connor has now had & challenge to Messrs . Cobden and' Bright , the agents of the Anti-Corn Law League , to discuss this very question , for many months unaccepted ; and as it ia

    of the last importance that all means should be afforded to the people to form correct opinions , more especially upon a question of such confessed import : for these considerations and ihese reaaons this meeting , composed as it is of a great number of the inhabitants of Leeds , REQUIRE of Messrs . Cobden and Bright , that they meet in fair , fhee , and OPEN disensaiou , Mr . Feargus O'Connor , ia Leeds ; in the Cloth Hall Yard , and that this resolution be transmitted to those two gentlemen , by tha Chairman , on behalf ofjthe meeting . "

    This was seconded , abd carried unanimously , amidst applause , The Chairman then gave the concluding toast" The speedy return of Frost , Williams , Jones , and all patriots . " To which Mr . Pitkethley , of Huddersfield , briefly responded ; and it being now half-past eleven o ' clock Mr . O'Connor went to work to enrol uames . and sat for some time longer at this work . Many cards were taken , and it was turned midnight before the work was concluded .

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    Mr . O'Connor will be in Nottingham on Monday next , the Q 7 th inst ., and will address the Chartists at eight o ' clock in the evening . On Monday , the 4 th of December , he will be at Liverpool ; on Tuesday , the 5 th , at Wigan ; on Wednesday , the 6 th , at Hyde , at seven o ' clock in the evening ; aad at nine the same evening " : and on Thursday , at

    Manchester . Route cf Mb . Kydd , of Newcastle , for next week : —Monday , Bradford ; Tuesday , Xeighley ; Wednesday , Bradford , in the Temperance Rooms ; Thursday , Dewsbury ; and Friday , Birstal . Bradford . —On Wednesday evening , a public discussion will take , place between Mr . Kydd , of Newcastle , and Mr . Greenwood , of Bradford , ; m the Temperance Rooms , Cheapside , on the following subject : — "Is drunkenness the greatest pieventativa towards the people getting the Charter ! " Mr . Greenwood , the affirmative ; Mr . Kydd , the negative ; to commence at halt-past seven o'clock in tha evening .

    The Chartists of Little Horton will meet in the Show Room , Park Place , on Sunday morning , at ten o'clock . The members of the grammar class are requested to attend in the afternoon , at two o ' clock . A writing class will be formed , and meet every evening , from eight to ten o ' clock . Thb CHA ^ iiS !» of Bowling Back Lane will meet in their room , on Sunday morning , at ten o ' clflck * and two in the afternoon . Thb CHJCBTJWSof Thompson ' s Houses wiU meet oa Sund&T morning , at nine o ' clock ^ in tfwtt xoqbu L * jjps , —Mr . David Ross will deliver two leotures to-morraw ( Sunday ) afternoon and evening , m the Bazaar , Briggate , to commence at halt-past two ana half-past six o ' eloek .

    I \* kston . -The Chartist Association ei this towft will commence ^ their weekly meetings oa November 2 £ hYa * seven in the evening , acd ewry sabseqaM * Mondav lor the purpose oi rfauing tn « Northern && ™ mfash ™ Jfcww , Cftartfil . Circtttari an ! jffi democraiic publications , lia &eir Room , at Mr . Stocks , Balh-street . Ilkeston . . A sHTON-ONDER-LTNE-M . r . Wo , Bell , , of ^ Heywood will leoiure in the Chartist Association Room , Cavendish-street , ou Susday , 26 th msi , at six * clock in the evening .

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    SOIREE ON MONDAY NIGHT . Tbe Festival in honour of the return of Mr . Councillor Hobson for the Holbeck Ward , and Mr . Councillor Jackson for the West Ward , took p ^ aoe on Monday evening . Tea was on the table at seven o ' clock ; and to an excellent and plentiful provision , set out on three loag tables , capable of seating comfortably many hundred persons , a very large and respectable company of both sexes , sat down . In the orchestra was a table for the Chairman and the

    guests . The good things having been freely partaken of , the tables were speedily cleared away ; and the large room was soon afterwards crowded—numbers being admitted after tea on payment of twopence each . Previous to the tea being partook of , Councillors Hobsom and Jackson , Mr . O'Connor , aad Mr . Pixkeihlv , of Hudaersfield , entered the room together , and were loudly cheered both on their entrance and on taking their seats at the table appropriated for them . In commencing the business of ike evening .

    Mr . Joseph Besx » of Holbeck , was called upon to preBide . Be felt honoured , he Baid , by the distinction which had been conferred upon him . When he saw the array of talent by which he was surrounded , and reflected , upou the anxiety that existed to heat tbe addresses which would be deliveredj he was sure ha should be spared the necessity « f making a

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• Citation
  • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 25, 1843, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1240/page/5/