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Hf Dsis Fmkkds , —Since I last addressed you , I hate attended meetings at Derby , Belper , and the Potteries . I spoke in the theatre at Derby , and my party say that my speech has done them a great deal of good ; that more than pays me . We had a Ter y glorious prooession at Belper , which paraded the whole town , and had a trinmphant meeting in { jig Market-place at three o ' clock , and again at half . past eight , when in that small Tillage near 6 , 000 persons stood the thunder and the rain , and cheered me on in my course . They are fine fellows in this lovely spot ; a spot intended by Natnre for man ' s peaceful residence , ^ left Belper in an open carriage after three o ' clock in the morning , to ge thirty five miles , np aad down hills , to the Potteries . Bairstow and a friend from Staffordshire accompanied me . I got wet throngh , as it rained very heaTily . I dried myself at Ashbourn , and started again for our destination . We assembled within a mile of Lane End , —the place were the lads beat the cavalry and made ftem retreat . In this town the people are all born marksmen . I learn that a lad of fourteen or fifteen ponld kill a crow flying with a stone . When we arrived at Lane End I thonght that
% ft the world had come there . The town was literally folL Though the rain fell in torrents , every window and house top was crowded . The poor fellows sent s carriage and four for me , and in front was a splendid military band , and in advance the female Chartists , abont 300—God bless them—with their baud , each woman bearing a wand . They intended to have marched me thns about eleTen miles , bnt cut it down to seven in consequence of the rain . We had a glorious gathering of thousands at Hanley , and our Chairman , whose name I am
ashamed to say I forget , opened the business like a Chartist . I spoke at some length , as did Bairstow , and Capper , and Richards j bat the speech was that of Robinson , a working man—he made one of the xnest powerfnl appeals to the people I ever heard . At seven , I addressed them again , in a large yard , and they tell me that they were well pleased , indeed delighted . I was very much knocked np , and started on Sunday morning , at a quarter past four for LoDdon , for three days * rest .
To-morrow , I go to Nottingham , and from my labours there I expect some real fruit , not in Whig cr Tory money , but in Chartist principles . Ah , my friends , what a proud position for the Whig and Tory spy , to whack them both in turn , and then to » sk before the people WHO PAID ME I Now is the XQtE TO DAKS MB , ichile I am thrashing my benefactors !
Had Saturday been a fine day all Staffordshire would have been " a-stir ; " but as the people of many tofrns throngh which the procession was to have passed were disappointed , I have promised to visit them again during their holiday in summer , and I will doit . And I will go to Coalbrook Dale upon their first holiday , as I learn that much good may be expected there . In fact I will work the flesh off my bones but I will have the Charter .
Head all my letters on the land , in the Chartist Circular ^ and then you will leara what i am working for . Hurrah for Sturge and Nottingham , or for the Devil , if he supports tbe Charter I Ever your faithful friend , FSABGCS O'CoNTfOB . London , Wednesday .
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TO THE IRISH UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION . Beloved CorsTBTMEs axd Fetes ds , —That my real motives have at length been snado-wed to your mind ' s-eye , through the mist with which prejudice , hatred , and misrepresentation had so long enveloped them , rejoices , eonseles , and comforts me . Your address tells me that I have not laboured altogether in rain ; while your approval of my past career "will add strength and vigour to my future action * . Yes , my countrymen , a union of the oppressed of both nations isirhat I have unceasingly endeavoured to bring about , being "well assured that disunion is tyranny ' s strength icd the tyrants only hope .
Jflne years * ago , I found that the seed * of bitter hatred and jealousy of Englishmen bad been success fully sown in the breasts of Irishmen , and "while I confess myself to h&ve been then , not altogether free from tto prevailing prejudice , 1 exercised reason in aid of bit judgment , and at length 1 came to the cenclusien , vbicb facts hare since cosfirmed , that if English laws b&i oppressed Ireland , Irish law-makers cad gone far to suppress liberty , and annihilate every vestige of English independence . I pass over all time antecedent to the proaised mUIssinm -which Eeform was to nave produced , and start ¦ with 1 S 32 , when the return of forty-three liberal members gave hope of cmx country ' s regenerati&n . I cast a backward glance at the sacrifices made and
the supposed triumphs gained by the brave electors who were then called upon to exercise their maiden franchise , Their sufferings were painful and many ; yet were they endured with Boman , nay , with Irish fortitude , because in the fulfilment o £ sworn and patriotic pledges they recognised their country ' s resto ration from provincial degradation to national independence . Bui alas I my country Bowed in hope , but have reaped in sorrow ! Not a Bingle promised benefit has been conferred ; while the only aim of those who promised freedom has been to prepare the mind to Year its «> i « fVipa with quiescence and submission . I h&ve seen ssy country set up to auction in the House of Commons , and her freedom bartered for places , pensions , power , and patronage . I have seen those who coerced
her earessed by those who were coerced ! while Irish liberty lay bleeding at the feet of the " base , bloedy and brutal Whigs . " I have been insultingly asked to Bgn a resolution of confidence in one of my oountry's destroyers ; but I alone refused to be a party to the Bnn&tural deed . Since then I have narrowly watched tbe progress of event * , and I have discovered that Irish patrietism has degenerated ; while tbe sole object of her leaders has been to prepare the way for a secure retreat , by tempering down the public mind to that settled state ef hope through resignation , which ever has Veen the temporary shield of those who profess to lore liberty while they fatten upon abuse , and look npon tie dawn of freedom as the warning that
their occupation is drawing to its doss . I have endeavoured to create a kindly feeling between the English and the Irish people . I have laboured hard and incessantly to draw the distinction between the English people and the English oligarchy , who equally oppress the industrious of both countries ; and although mj life has been aimed at , and my blood has been ehed upon the English stage while fighting in my country's cause , yet has reason burst the trammels with which a profligate press and hired demagogues had bo long and so successfully bound the Irish residing in England -, and , at length , I see a kindly feeling growing up between the slaves of England and of Ireland , which premises to end in a union of sentiment which knaves cannot sever or tyrants resist .
Alas ! my countrymen , reflect for a moment upon the Bany powerful interests which have been , and which still are , opposed to naked poverty and unrequited industry . Here they are . Tbe Queen and her royal household . The Lords with their controling power . The Commons with their illimitable influence . The Sbbops witn their political power and their religious inSaence . Tbe Priesthood of all denominations , save a faw good Irish Catholics . The army , the navy , the police , the bench , the bar , the fundlord 3 , the landlords , the magistrates , tbe jury class , the press , the local authorities , placemen , pensioners , and idlers of all denominations . The capitalist and mast , r-class , the shopkeepers , and middling class , the aristocracy of labonr , the authors and publishers of the age , the Poor Law staff , Bteam power , and though last , not least , those who are too prond to work , and too poor to live without labour ; and tbe philosophers who eke out a livelihood by watching and moulding themselves and their wares to suit the market of public opinion .
Well , my countrymen , such are the combined forces sgainst which raked poverty presents her virtuous and iavhiciMe front , and , behold the breaches which her storming elements are' making in the citadel of corruption tlras garrisoned with all the forces of vicious and recognised authority . The duties of a politician struggling for right against such an array of might are manifold ; and instead of marvelling that I have s * many enemies , my only -wonder is that my principles and my uadevisMng adherence to them should have gathered MOBnd me , and my brother leaders , a force sufficiently strong to bid defiance te the invaders of our rights , and to lead te a fair presumption that energy , perseverance , courage , and judgment will ultimately triumph over the combined forces of oppression and misrule .
2 dy countrymen , there are three ttsges through which » great movement must pass : —Firstly , the creation of public opinien ; secondly , the organization of public opinion ; and thirdly , the direction of public opinion . In order to insure the success of these required uniertakingB I h&ve established a free press in this country , for in the midst of political confusion I look t » the press as the means by which order is to be produced from duos . By its means I have been enabled to lay the prevailing opinion of tbe people once in every week before the people . I have thus united parties who were formerly unknown to each other , and have given to each locality not only the strength of its own poaition , but have add&d to it the strength of those at a distance struggling for the same object . &k ££ ow is now a political portion of Manchester , and Sheffield adds strength to Kcwcsitle , while the young growth of Chartism , in Ireland adds conf dence to the English band of patriots , atd gives ji . y to my heart to think that in the battle for freedom Ireland will not remain neutral .
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Within four years and a half , I have had to defend myself against five expensive government pro secutions , and to endure sixteen months of solitary confinement in a condemned , cell , my only crime being that of having established a press , in which Tice was made to Bee its hideousness , and virtus and honour were shewn to exist among the children of industry . But I have not suffered in vain ! for now I behold the despised star of Chartism shining in the ascendant , and gradually , but successfully , dispelling the mista with which ignorance aud prejudice had clouded the political hemisphere . Yes , Chartism is in the ascendant , and why shonld we rejoice at its triumph ? . Because to its influence we look not for the destruction of life and property , but for the preservation
of-both . Not for liberty which would degenerate into licentiousness—but for freedom tempered with reason and discretion . Not as a license to man to give reins to his lust—but as a means to curb his licentiousness . Not as the triumph of the grosser passions over tbe intellectual qualities of our nature—but as a means of subjugating passions and evil propensities to the controul of reason . Not because it would vitiate public opinion , —but because it would purify it as the fitting ordeal to become arbiter between conflicting opinions , and from whose decisions , and from whose alone , a fair verdict of approval or disapproval , of guilt or of innocence , can be expected to emanate . Not because it would-increase immorality—bat because it would make dissipation hide its head for very shame . Not because
it would increase drunkenness , —but because it would make intemperance a crime . Not because it wmkl ar—ti rwroiution sad domestic strife , —but because it would insure a kindly feeling among all classes of society , and give to each an interest in the prosperity of all , and to all an interest in tbe prosperity of each . Not because it would pull down the rights of capital , —but because it would establish the rights of labour as the only Eure foundation upen which the temple of capital can be safely erected . Chartism would in a tenfold degree increase the productions of both countries by developing their natural and influential
resources ; whiie it would cause a more equitable distribution of the increased wealth , instead of presenting \ he sad anamoly which Britain now presents , namely , more money than ever was before in the hands of the few and more poverty than ever was before known afflicting tbe many who create all the wealth . The people in their wisdom ask upon whose side is the wealth ? and the answer is , upon the side of the represented ; and upon whose side is the poverty ? and the answer is , upon the side of the unrepresented . For these reasons , my countrymen , do I love Chartism , with all the faults and crimes which malice has heaped upon it
We are called destructives , yet have we Bhed no blood ; we aTe called destroyers , yet have millions of starving and industrious men , women and children , borne two winters and as many summers of heartrending distress and unparalleled deprivation , without the destruction of a penny-worth of property ; nor in that time have the Chartists beeu charged with a single political offence , even against laws which by legal ingenuity may be conjured from the statute book to mean anything , and thrown before a jury ready to give any construction to them . We have been called torch and dagger men , and physical force men , by wretches who have b 7 th « ir admonitions caused streams of irish blood to flow , and then shrunk from tbe const quences ! while I am ready to face the storm and expose the murderers , I did not advise the brave fellows at Kathconnac to face a military force in order that the odium of the infernal tithe system should be stronglv
shown . No ; but when they did so , I defended them -, and instead of their English brethren load'ng them with foul epithets and reproach , they ministered to tiieir wants , and from their " scanty means alleviated their distress . " Then they were not torch and dagger men . When Walstown , Churchlown , and Carrickshaugh resounded with the moans of the wounded , Englishmen did not then revile . When for seven days and jBeven nights , I faced the bayonet and the sabre , to return Mr . John OConnell , for Youg&aU , then my courage was made subject of national approval ; but when the bloody Whigs conspired to rid their Russell of the opposition ef our noble Frost , and when perjury had swarded to him an untimely end , then were all the crimes that malice could invent saddled upon the innocent back of Chartism ) and then were the Chartists held up as the impeders of all progressive Reform ! Thus , my countrymen , has vice deformed the face of virtue to make a mask for its own delinquencies . Bnt , go on ; go on , I beseech you . Ireland owes to England some reparation for tbe injuries she has inflicted upon her ; but if Ireland had a Wellington , a CaatlereaCB . and a SVcynolilB—Uiaiii Qod she hoe bad an Emmett , 3 Fitzgerald , and has an O'Higgins . Yes , she has had her patriots , who were prematurely consigned to the cold grave ; and she has in the living an embodiment of tbe principles for which they suffered . Must it not delight every honest man to see one
Irishmas against whose fair fame all the missiles of z&ahce and of slander have been aimed , yet bold enough and strong enough in virtue to raise his voice against him , btfore whose influence a Boyle has withered , a Lawless has died , an O'Gorman has been destroyed , and a Shiel has been silenced f Yes , 0 'Higgins , you have boldly stood in the breach ! while the adored and venerated Father Mathew , the real liberate * of his country , is surrounding you with the genius of judgment emancipated from the trammels of intoxicated and besotted prejudice .
My countrymen , the great fault which I have discovered in political leaders is this : many , in their own zeal , have attempted to use public opinion before it was ripe for acl ion ; while others , bj denying to it a triumph that was within its reach , have paralysed it for the time , and rendered it less confident in its own omnipotence ; while we , the leaders of Chartism , have acted upon that principle in moral waif are which enabled Espartero to achieve the freedom of his country —we have encamped our forces under tbe citadel of corruption , and are now actually starving the garrison out Thus has industry the satisfaction to know that if the drones have consumed the honey that belonged to the bees , the drones themselves must starve when the hive ceases to send forth its riches !
My countrymen , be not alarmed at the efforts now being made by artful and designing men , in their endeavour to take our camp by surprise . They cannot enter under false colours , or have hope of gaining possession of our matured movement by a profession of our principles . No , my friends , whatever colours the old ship Corruption may Rail under , we know the crew . LlBEBTT 7 S OVK AIM , CHaETIST IS OUR NAME ; and T > j our aim and name , and by none other , shall 4 , 000 , 000 ct freemen be known throughout the pelitical world . Industry is awake ; her principles are indelibly imprinted upon the heart of every working Trmn in the land ; and , though millions shonld suffer , yet will each leave tke world better than he found it , until gorged tyranny will , after a succession of reverses , be compelled to open the sanctuary of the constitution , within which broad cloth and fustian , the peer and the peasant , shall meet upon perfect equality in the eye of the law .
This , my beloved countrymen , is a state of thirgs worth- living for , and worth dying for . Liberty in every age has had her martyrs . We are for peace , law , and order ; but , if attacked in our peaceful retrenchments fey the brute force of unconstitutional authority , then , as freedom ' s friends , we must prepare for freedom ' s martyrdom . The field , Ibe transport , and the scaffold bave borne their victims ere now . Eoirnett sleeps in peace , but his spirit still livts , and his name bears no reproach ; for the mind cannot contemplate a more gorgeous spectacle than pinioned viitue surrounded by the minions of faction , as hired ministers of
deatbr ¦ marching to execution with firm foot and cheerful countenance- Tbe scaffold , so appalling to conscious and detected , vice , loses its horrors ; while all the sab ; e emblems of death that paralyse the stoutest criminal , are to him as bridal favours , bespeaking his re-union with departed kindred spirits . His mutilated obsequies are honoured relics ; hifl funeral procession a joyous moving festival ; his grave the venerated Banctuary of martyrdom , and his name a never-dying , everlasting spirit—a theme on which memory loves to dwell—a source from whence it draws its sweetest , fondest , latsst recollections .
Go on , then , brave sons of my country , ever foremost in deeds cf love , of philanthropy , and arms . The voice of knowledge shall yet silence the cannon's ^ roar , and the neighing of the war-horse shall be lulled in the busy buzz of industry . Ever , ever , and ever , My brave countrymen , Your faithful and devoted friend and countrymaD , Feabgus 0 'Cokj . ok ..
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STALEY BRIDGE . —On Snnday evening an excellent lecture was delivered in the National Charter Association Room of this town , by Mr . G . Bowe , frem Oidham . BLACKBURN . —The cause progresses well here . Mr . Beesley , late M . C . for North Lancashire addressed the Chartists in the Music Hall , in an impressive speech , the effect of which was seen in the enrollment of fifty-two new members . The Chartist youths of Blackburn have formed themselves into a society for united exertion on bshalf ot the Charter . They have Bent us an address to their youthful fellow townsmen , which we cannot insert for lack of room . We bid thtm God speed .
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OXFORD . —The cause has received an additional stimulus here from the recent visit of Mr . Bairstow to this city . It having been ascertained that he had made arrangements for a lecture at Witney , preparations were immediately made for his reception here , and a requisition , signed by twenty respectable electors , including four members of the Town Council , was presented to the Mayor , requesting the use of the Town Hall Yard , for the parposo of & public meeting . That gentleman , however , refused ; and handbills were immediately issued , announcing that Mr . Bairstow would lecture , on Tuesday evening , in a large yard belonging to Mr . Towle , and kindly offered by him for the purpose . Upwards of a thousand persons attended the meet ' iDg . and the lecturer afforded the most entire
satisfaction . He showed the injustice of a confined constituency , and the evils continually arising from Government by a class , whoae interests were not identified with those of the people at large . He clearly traced our amount of taxation and consequent distress to an absence of a salutary influence of popular control . With a masterly hand aud ovorpouring eloquence he treated the various points of tbe Ptople ' a Chatter , and showed that the absence of any one would destroy the effect of the harmonious wh « le . Throughout his lecture be enlisted and carried with him the feelings of his auditory , and at the conclusion of an excellent address of an hour and a halfs duration , the following resolution was proposed : —" That this meeting considers that the present appalling distress among the
operative classes , and insecurity of property atnoni ? the wealthy classes , are to be diretly traced and are fairly attributable to class legislation ; and deems the principles embodied in the People's Charter to be the the only effectual remedy for the grievances of which people complain , and under which tbe country groans , " The resolution was strongly supported by the mover and seconder , who urged the necessity of organic reform , as the only means by which the rights of the poorer classes can be secured or maintained , and ridiculed the farce of playing any longer at the game of Whig or Tory , recommending the people to look after the management of their own aSairs , iu public as well as private life . The resolution was unanimously carried . A meeting afterwards took place at the Three
Tuns : a most convivial evening was spent , and several members proposed to the Association . So great was tbe satisfaction Mr . Bairstow had given , that a general request was made to him to favour us with another lecture on Thursday eveniBg , to which he cheerfully consented . Handbills were issued accordingly ; and the use of a large space , named Paradise-square , having been obtained , be met a second and an increased Oxford audience , on the joint subjects of the Charter and the state of tbe country . Embracing the various topics of interest contained in them , he again enlisted the sympathy and the feelings of those whom he addressed and did ample justice to the questions on wbiob he treated . At tbe conclusion of a long and spirited lecture , the resolution of the preceding evening was again unanimously carried , and the meeting broke up , as the previous one had done , with the most perfect order ,
and highly delighted after votes of tbaDks to the lecturer , the chairman , and the gentlemen who had obliged their fellow citizens with a place of meeting . An ad joarament took place to the society ' s room , where a most convival evening was spent , during which several excellent speeches were made , in responses to the v : irious toasts given , and where the kindliest feeling was shown among all claeies . We understand that the Tisit of Mr . Bairstow to this city has been of great service in removing Borne of the prejudice hitherto existing against Chartism , and in pa / ing the way for a cordial union among all classes of reformers on fair and equitable terms . He left Oxford on Saturday morning , accompanied by Mr . Philp , highly delighted with a reception very different from what he expected here ; and hoping that a connection so favourably commenced will ere long be renewed .
WITNEY , ( Oxon . )—Mr . Bairstow , accompanied by an Oxford friend , arrived here on Monday , and found that fear of truth , which always haunts the oppressor , had induced a paltry attempt to prevent his being heard . The Witney Chartists had hired and paid for a room , and issued band-bills , announcing a meeting for this evening ; but tbe landlord ef the house having received an intimation that if he allowed it to take place , he must abide the consequences , the money was received back , rather him subject them to probable ruin . Not satisfied with this , the ctler was sent round the town by our opponents , to state that tbe meeting would not take place . After considerable trouble , another room was obtained ; but the crier , on being applied to to announce it , refused , aa he feared it would cost him his situation . Nearly one hundred assembled , notwithstanding ; and , after a little time , li was agreed tbat an out-door meeting should be called on Friday , and a preliminary lecture given on Monday
evening , which gave the highest satisfaction . Mr . B . returned to Oxford on the following morning ; and on Friday ha again made his appearance in Witney , accompanied by Mr . Philp , and five Oxford friends , who was engaged to lecture that evening at Cheltenham , bnt was unable to proeeed further , owing to the horses being taken from the coach , by which he was to have gone . At the appointed hour , a numerous meeting assembled on Wood Green , when Mr . Bairstow ably explained the princip ' . es of the Charter , anfl elicited continued and general approbation . Mr . Philp followed , and was ef nally well received , as were also the different speakers throughout tbe evening . A similar resolution to that passed at Oxford was unanimously carried , and the meeting broke up in the most peaceable manner , evidently delighted with the truths which they had heard , and expressing a hope that the Charter might soon give them those rights of which they have been so long deprived .
NORTHAMPTON . —Mr . Jones , of Liverpool , leclectured here in the Market-square , on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings , to large and attentive audiences . On Mokdat night , at the general meeting of the Chartists of this town , Dr . M'Douall was nominated one of the Council , and also a proper person to be re-elected to serve on the Executive . A resolution of thanks to the Convention , was unanimously passed . HOLLINGWORTH . —On Saturday evening a
Chartist tea party took place at the New Inn , when 100 aud upwards sat down to tea , amongst whom were a large number of well dressed females . After tea , Mr R . Wild , of Lower Bim , was called to the chair . Mr . D . Donivan from Manchester , addressed them at length , and was listened to with attention , and concluded a very good discourse amidst great applause . The chairman then announced that the rest of the evening would be spent in dancing , singing , and recitations , which continued to be kept up with great spirit and enthusiasm till midnight .
ItXTTHOUttROYO . —A public meeting was held in the Primitive Methodist Cbapel , at this place , on Friday week , when a large and attentive audience were congregated * and were ably addressed by Mr . Duffy , from Sheffield . Also another meeting was held on the Wednesday night , jwhen a Council for the next she months was elected . BE 7 W 0 OD , —Mr . M . Roberta of Bury , delivered a very interesting lecture to a numerous and respectable audience , on Sunday evening last . In the course of his address the lecturer showed in a clear and convincing manner , the injustice practised by the higher class upon tbe working class , through the instrumentality of class legislation .
STOCKPORT— On Sunday night the Chartist body of this locality mustered in their numbers to hear a Jectare from > Ir James Leaeh , ol A / anchestfr .. He entered into his subject in bis usual mild , argumentative , and reasoning manner , and produced an effect of tbe most beneficial nature . At the conclusion he received a unanimous vote of thanks . Several members were enrolled . CHSSTERFXEXA . —At the weekly meeting ofthe Chartists held in their house of meeting , in Beetwellstreet , on Monday evening last , Messrs ., James Leach , Dr . P . M . M'Douall , George White , Birmingham , and John Campbell , were nominated to Berve ou the new Executive . After which ilr . O ' Connor ' s letter to the Imperial Chartists was read , which gave great satisfaction .
SUNDERIAND . —On Sunday afternoon , Mr , Williams lectured on the Town Moor , to a large and mist attentive audience . The Town Mission preachers were preaching a short distance from the spot where Mr . Williams stood , but as soon as he commenced they abruptly concluded . Mr . W . severely tasked the present teachers of religion for their base Bmothering of the vital truths of Christianity and their new application of its principles to the present condition of society . He showed that the Chriitian religion was not a religion of particular precepts , the importance of which might vary as the circumstances te which they applied varied , but it was a religion of general principles , which were capable of universal application , which were as important now and would be for centuries , as they were the first time they were promulgated .
Bridge Street Chapel . —On Moaday evening , the usual weekly meeting was held in this place , Mr . Blenkhom in the Chair . Mr . James Taylor delivered an excellent address upon the importance of a full representation of the people ; his arguments and illustrations were exceedingly good and appropriate . Mr . Williams followed by an address on the Ballot , as the means of securing a faithful expression of the popular will Mr . W . clearly proved from tire present condition of society , the relation between labour and capital , the dependent condition of the mass , that without tke Ballot , tbe Franchise would soon become a mockery of justice . He then noticed and satisfactorily replied to the various leading objections te tbe Ballot .
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LEICESTER .-. The Shaksperian Association of Leicester Chartists now numbers ! 1 , 350 . Ihe factions have bereft us of a room to meet in ; but , nothing daunted , we hold our meetings beneath the blue canopy of heaven , singing of the Chatter and O'Connor in the open streets , till the middle classes stare aad quake at the noise . Our agitation is kept up in the most vigorous form ; and not only the town but the surrounding villages are being impregnated with Caartism . On Wednesday night before lait , our beloved chief / O'Connor , was expected at eight o ' clock at night , to lecture in the Amphitheatre ; but ho did not arrive till near ten . His reception was more enthusiastic than ever ; and for more than an hour he held us breathless with -attention , ' - while he deseribed . the present state of the country ia his own peculiarly piquant and fervid style . Last Sunday , Mr . Cooper preached in tbe Infirmary Square , in the morning , from " Bo ye all of one inind , " ( Peter ) in Russell
Square ; in the afternoon , from" Miserable comforters ' are ye all , " ( Job ) and in the Market-place at night , from " My soulis wearied because of murderers . " ( Jeremiah . ) Mr . Beedham preached at Great Glenn in the morning , at Oadby in the afternoon , and Wigstown at night On Monday afternoon Mr . Cooper lectured at Great Glenn , and in Hnmberstone Gate , in the town , at night . Tonight ( Tuesday ) he is to lecture in Infirmary Square , at seven , and to meet the Chartist shoemakers at eight ; and to-morrow he is to lecture in Russell Square at seven , and to meet the Chartist woolcombers at eight Mr . Beedham lentured at Thurmaston on Monday night He is to lecture at Belgrave to-night ( Tuesday ) and at Ansfey to-morrow-night It is already determined to erect a building by five shilling shares , to be taken only by Chartists . The BubBcrlption list amounts already to £ 115 5 no part of the money , however , will be paid down till Mr . Cooper receives promises for £ 250 , but that will soon be .
SHEFFIELD . —PotixiCAI . INTTITUTE . —On Friday evening , we were favoured by a visit frern Mr . R . K PhMp , of Bath . Although no previous Kotice was given , except by word of mouth , the large room was crowded by the working men of the town . Mr . Richard Otle ' y was called upon to take the chair , who in a brief speech introduced Mr . Philp to the meeting , who was received amid much cheering . He commenced by showing the extravagant expences of tbe Queen compared with the President of America , proving to the meeting that the more they paid to support royalty the more were they oppressed . I shall not attempt to give you even an outline of the lecture , which gave general satisfaction , but confine myself to the concluding remarks of Mr . Philp , whiah I am Bare will have the desired effect
amongst the really intelligent portion of the people of Sheffield . He had not come there te explain this six points of the People's Charter , for he believed that there was not one in that meeting that did not understand the principles aa well as he did . He came there to promote union and good feeling amongst them , for it was owing to disunion in the Cba tist ranks that made their enemies look upon them with contempt He was sorry to say that he had not been in any large town ( with the exception of Derby ) but there were divisions . He did not mean by this to dishearten them , but on the contrary to endeavour to unite all parties , and he hoped he should have the satisfaction of leaving the good people of Sheffield once more uditedj—( loud cheering)—that he might go to the next town and tell
them that tbo people of Sheffield have burkd all their former differences , and agreed to agitate together for the one and sole object—the People ' s Charter . ( Cheers . ) In one town that he had visited , party feeling ran so high , even in public meetings , that he could not refruin from shedding tears to see the people place themselves in direct opposition againBt each other , but this he hoped would for ever cease . For his part he had resolved never to denounce any man that was favourable to the People ' s Charter , even if he did not go quite ao far as he did , but that he would hold out the right hand of fellowship to all . He had felt the lash of denunciation for a certain line of conduct ho had pursued . This he thought was not right He claimed the same privilege for himself at > he would allow to others , to forward tbe cause in every possible' way . He would now conclude , pledging himself to agitate for the Charter , tbe whole Charter , and nothing ; less than the Charter , with
tenfold vigour . He again hoped that a union would bo come to . He then concluded amidst loud cheering . —A member ot the Institute then arose . He said , that to carry out the suggestions of Mr . Pbilp with regard te a union being formed , he would propose the following resolution , " That four niember 8 of tbe Political Institute be appointed to wait upon four members of the Fig-tree-lane Association . " This resolution was seconded by a member ef the last mentioned association . The Chairman eaifl that he arose with great pleasure to put this resolution ; as an individual he should give it his support It was then put to the meeting and carried unanimously , amid load cheering , not one hand being held up against it A vote of thanks was proposed to Mr . Philp for bis able lecture and carried . In returning thanks for the honour that they had done him , fea aairt he hoped the Fig-tree-lane Association would come to the same unanimous conclusion .- * - < 7 o / rcsiwndeni .
Fig-Tree-Lane . —• Ma . Philiv- —Thia gentleman visited Sheffield on Thursday week , and the same evening addressed the members and frieuds of the Charter Association in their room , Fig Tree Lane . The room was densely crowded , Mr . Pnilp delivered a lengthy and excellent address ; and , at the conclusion of his discourse , enr oiled twenty-three new members . On Sunday last , Mr . Philp preached in the afternoon to a very large audience assembled in the Hay market . Mr P . preached a second sermon in the evening , in the Fig free Lane room , which was crowded almost to suffocation by a highly respectable audience , who appeared to be well pleased with Mr . Philp ' a exposition of the prinicples of Chartism . READING . —The Chartists of this place had a seiree on the 17 th . Several excellent speeches were made . ... ' .. : ' .-.
BIRMIMGEAM . —State of the Movement . — The Chartists of this important town have determined to exsrt themselves to extend their organisation for the Charter , and have appointed an Executive Committee , composed of one member from each association . Meetings are held in various parts of the town on Monday and TueBday evenings , and it has been determined to hold open air meetings in various parts of the town , to arouse the people . to a sense of their degraded situation . Mondays MEETiNG . r ^ An open air meeting was held at the Railway Station , Daddesten-row , on Monday evening , at half-past seven . Mr . George White addressed them at great length , and explained the manner in which the working classes were oppressed and plundered by the present system . He showed the utter
hopelessness of looking to the present Parliament for an amelioration of their condition , and dwelt with peculiar stress on the necessity of the men of Birmingham entering heart and soul into the present struggle for life and liberty . Hecalled on every man present to join the National Charter Association , and use their influence to induce their fellow workmen and neighbours to follow their example , and concluded by declaring his determination of holding a meeting on that spot every Monday evening , and of walking in procession with those who thought proper to accompany him to the Association Room , with those who intended to enrol their names . A number of men present wished to foi m a procession then , but it was ultimately agreed to defer it whilst next Monday evening , when all those who aTe tired of slavery , and anxioua far freedom , are expected to attend . JJown with tyranny r
Association Room , Aston Stheet . —The usual weekly meeting of the Association was held at their room , in Aston-street , on Monday evening last An address was delivered by Mi * . Smith Lindon , and arrangements entered into for taking the ballot far the forthcoming election of the Executive ; after which the meeting separated . Steelhouse Lane Meeting . —The meeting of this body was held at tbe Ship Inn , Steelhousc-lane , on Tuesday evening last , Mr . Taylor , printer , in the chair . Th . e meeting ¦ was addressed by M , r . Mason and others , and a conversation took placu as to the best mode of strengthening the Chartist cause in Birmingham ; after which the meeting separated .
ShoemakersAssociATtON . —The members of this patriotic body connected with the National Charter Association held their weekly meeting , at the Britannia Inn , Peck-lane , on Tuesday evening last , Mr . Healey in the chair . The meeting was addressed by Mr . E . P . Mead , and Mr . Gfadrge White ; and , after choosing three members to their Council * Mr . Henley was chosen a member . of the Birmingham Executive , and Mr . Mngee , secretary of the Association . A lecturer will attend every Tuesday evening .
Black HonsE AssociATioN .--An address was delivered to this spirited body on Tuesday evening last , by that talented advocate of the people ' s canae , Mr . Thomas Soar . Lte Waste and Stoorbridqe . — -Mk George White addressed a large and enthusiastic meeting in the open air , at Crosa Walk , Lye Waste , on Wednesday last , Mr . Ooodfellow in the chair . This district , which has been the seat of the late riote , a » they were termed , promises to be , ere long , the strong hold of Chartism . Mr . White lectured on the same evening in Stourbridge .
STOCKPORT . —At a public meeting held on Monday night , at the Mil ] gate hall , resolutions were submitted for tbe forming of an association on the Sturge principle of Complete Suffrage . A majority of thft meeting , however , thought the already : established Chartist organization preferable , and an amendment to that fcffeo ' i was accordingly carried .
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tONDDN . ——Waiworth . —On Whit-Monday a grand public festival took place at the Monpelier Tavern , Walworth , to assist in defraying the expences incurred by the late demonstration . : \ Lajjbeth . —Themembera of this locality are determined to assist by all means in their power in obtaining a better organization of the raetropolisj which they con-Bider the plan of the Executive is calculated to effect , if properly carried out The existence of a pistrict Council in the Metropolis is a thing long wished for , and at last adopted . Mr . Dron and Mr . Jago were ejected by the above locality to attend at the Star Coffee House , Golden-lane , on Sunday , June 5 th , as delegates to the above body * WANDSwoRTHi—The Chartists of this locality met at the bouse of Mr . Fox , Frogniore , on Mondsy evening , when , after the usual business was transacted , the nomination for the General Council waa proceeded with .
DUBLIN . —The Irish Universal Suffrage Associa - tion held its usual weekly meeting on Sunday , Mr . W " Connor in the chair . Mr . H . Clarke , sub-Secretary , read the minutes . Several new members were proposed , and : some subscriptions handed in from the country , by Mr . O'HigRins ; after which , Mr . Freebairn , in a most feeling and affecting speech , took a review of the present disastrous condition of the working classes in both countries , ground down to the earth as they were by tyranny and oppression of every kind ; He plainly shewed that this was all owing to the selfish legislation of the class-returned Members of that assembly called in mockery the People's Heuse . Several other speakers afterwards addressed the meeting . BRADFORD . —Little Hqrton ;— -On Sunday evening last Mr . Smith lectured in the Chartisfs Association Room , on the Repeal of the Legislative Union ef Ireland .
© tASGOYv " .-r-The Directors of the Lanarkshire Universal Suffrage Association met in their Hall , College Open , on Monday evening last , Mr . Kyle in the chair . The minutes of last meeting being read , Mr . Laing moved that the resolution of the public meeting held in St . Ann's Church , on tho evening of the I 6 ch instant , recommending the directors to call a general meeting of the Association ' - '¦ to consider the propriety of dissolving the Lanarkshire Universal Suffrage Association and resolving themselves into an Asseciation , to be called the Glasgow Charter Association , be approved of . The resolution was unanimously agreed to . A Committee was then appointed to call a meeting in terms of the above resolution , and to prepare rules and regulations for the new Association .
ASpTQN . —The Chartists of Ashton held a very large tea party in their room , on Friday , when above 350 sat down . After tea , the public were admitted at twopence each , and the company amused themselves by siuging , dancing , and reciting until a late hour , OLDHAIYl . —Mr . Storer , of Ashton , delivered an address in the Chartist Room , Greaves-street , -on Sunday last , wherein he depicted scenes of the most appalling destitution produced by the present system . On Tuesday Evening , Mr . John West delivered a most energetic address to an attentive audience , and gave general satisfaction ; MANCHESTER . —The f astian-cutters of this tewn have formed themselves into an associationin conjunction with the National Charter Association . Nominations to the General Council , Manchester . —Mr . P . M . M'Douall , surgeon ; Rev . W . V . Jackson .
COALBROOK DALE . —On Monday evening Mr . Mogg delivered a lecture at Watling-street , We ! lington , and afterwards formed an association ; between sixty and seventy nauies were taken down ; aboyit five hundred persons attended the lecture . On the same evening , T . Halford , ef Coalbroek Dale , delivered a lecture to about four thousr . net persons , at Oaken Gates ; from sixty to one hundred names were taken . An association has been recently formed there , by the joint exertions of Messrs . Mogg and Halford , which , ia less than one month , has enrolled more than one hundred members . Oa Tuesday evening , Mr . Mogg delivered a lecture to an attentive audience , at Broseley , where we intend to start an association ; forty-five names were taken . At Coalbroek Dale , in less than ten weeks , we have enrolled more than two hundred and sixty members in our association .
NEWCASTLE . —The Provisional Committee , selected by the delegate meeting in South Shields on the 16 th inst , to carry the plan for the better organisation of the Chartists of Northumberland and Durham into effect , met on Sunday afternoon in Mr . Binns's , Nnn-8 tie « t , Newcu&tle . Mr . Stephen Binns in the chair on the motion of Mr ... flail .- Air . Sinclair was elected Provisional Secretary , who gave a very satisfactory report of the business conferred upon him at the last meeting . After some discussion upon the subject , the following resolution was agreed to unanimously : — "That the Secretary be instructed to correspond with the other districts , directing their attention to the plan as inserted in the fourth page of last Saturday ' s Star , and requesting to know the opinion of the Chartists in each locality respectively upon the Bubject , and
soliciting their co-operation if it should meet their approbation . " Several sums were paid in to the Missionary Fund , and if the districts continue to come up as some of them have alraady done , we hope to be prepared to engage a missionary in the course of a week or two ; and as it will answer no . good purpose to engage a lecturer until we have a sufficiency in hand to defray his expences hither , and remunerate bim for his first month ' s labours , we hope all persons desirous of a lecturer being engaged , will send a remittance for that purpose , to Mr . J . Sinclair , No . 3 , Pipaweligate , Gateshead , who was elected treasurer for that fund . A first-rate lecturer -will be engaged as soon as the necessary funds are procured . The meeting adjourned until next Sunday , when it will be resumed ia the same place at three o ' clock in the afternoon .
The Chartists of Newcastle held their weekly business meeting in the Cuortist Hall , Goat Inn , Cloth Market , as usual . The minutes of the former meeting were rend and confirmed , and thanks were voted to Mr . Duncombe , M . P ., for his speech in the House of Commons . BRISTOL . —Complete Suffrage . Union .- —A meeting of this union was held on Tuesday night , May 25 th , at Mr . Clement's , 2 , Lower Castlerstreet . About twenty-two persons assembled ,, who were admitted by ticket , and at half-past eight , Mr . Clement ' s commenced business by reading over a rule of the union to the following effect : — " That no person be allowed to
address a private meeting of this association , except he be a member . " He then read a few of the : object ' s , of the onion , and stated that Joseph Sturge went further than the Charter , that is , that a person convicted of crime should have a vote five months after the conclusion of his punishment . —( Of course the rule read prevented any contradiction . ) A question was put to Mr Clement , bow many members were present , or if any ? And the answer was , " there are none . " No discussion was allowed ; an intimation was given that a public meeting would be held for discussion , which would be open to aU . We were likewise told that the trades were coming out .
STROUD . —At a meeting of Chartists on Monday , the folio wing resolutions were carried unanimously : — " That we , the members of the Stroud Charter Association , viewing the wars at Cb . inaand India as unholy ; unjust , and anti-Ciirtstfaa oa the part of the British Government , emphatically denounce any Government , supporting , upholding ,, and continuing such wars in opposition to the people of this realm , and pledge ourselves , as lovers of peace , to cripple the resources of war by non-enliisting and abstaining from exciseable articles . " — " That we , the members of the Stroud Charter Association , hail with- delight the opportunity
afforded the electors and non-electors of Nottingham to establish the purity of election , and urge upon them tb use every exertion to maintain the power of the people in the election of Mr . Joseph Sturge . "— "That the Council of the Stroud Charter Association deetn it a duty incumbent upon them to render every assistance in their power to . enhance the cause of the people , and destroy the power of the adv 6 isary . Wei therefore , earnestly , though painfully , exhort those members who , by non-subscriptions , render us- powerless in the hands of the enemy , and cripple us in the maintenance of public estimation , once again , bo come to the help oi the weak against the mighty . "
MOSKWEARMOUTH . —Siace the last report from this place , the Chartists have been deprived of the use of the room in which they met ; the landlord alleging as a . reason for refusing the Surtheruse of the room , that he was afraid that he / weald be deprived of kiB license by the magistrates if ha permitted the Chartists to meet in bis house . This is . mere pretence ; he ought to hewe considered this danger , if danger there was , befare he consented to left his room for the purpose . Stve fact is , he expected it would be flb&SisaDs of drawtag a
good drinking trade to his house ; , in this we are happy to know that ha was disappointed , as at the close of last meeting , xwt more thani fow persons put at 20 & or 300 remained to drink . The Chartists of Saaderland , because they are almost universally teetotallers in prac tice , cannot gtt a room at a , public house ; wo are glad of this , and wish that pubJioana throughout the country had similar cause to refuse the use of their roovns . Thfe practice of holding our meetings afc public-nooses , yve regard as attended with many injurious cons . equences to our causfc— Correspondent .
Fails worth . —The Rev . W . V . Jackson lectured in the Charter Association Rooxa , on . 'J > . iesday evening , te a , dewded audience .
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/ Ifc / ks a ' ^ cl ^ r HYDE , —A public meeting of the inhabitants of Hyde , was held in the Working Alen ' s Hall , on Wednesday evening , to adopt the remonstrance to the House of Commons . Mr , Stephenson , a working man , was called to the chair . Mr . Candlet moved the remonstrance , which was seconded . Mr . C . said it required a few observationa from him , asifc had boenrewmmended by their representatives in , the Coinvemiou ; he woald therefore read the r ©*
monstrance , and let it speak for itself . He then read the remonstrance , and be / zged leave to move its adoption and sat down amid loud cheers . Mr . John Leach seconded the motion , and it waa supported by Mr . Dixon , from Wigan . Oa the remonstrance being put from the chair it was earned without a dissentient A vote of thanks was given to T , JDnncombe , Esq ., M . P ., forhia advocacy ot the people ' s cause in the House of Commons , on the motion for the people ' s agents to be heard at the oar of thei House . Thanks being voted to the Chairman , the meeting separated . Several new members
were enrolled . ¦ Dukenfjkld . —O n Monday last , a man who 39 name , we understand , is James O ^ den , lost his life in the following manner . The deceased was employed as a b 7 owman at the now pit at Dukenfield , and on the day in question had been patting on a new rope , and wiiilst doing someihing with it at the top of the pit > he was precipitated from the top to the bottom of the shaft , a distance of more thaa three hundred yards . The deceased has left a widow and seven chiidren to lament his loss . OLD BASFORJ * . —Mr . W . Dean Taylor has been nominated here as the candidate for the next Executive Council . '" ' ¦ -. ¦ '¦ ¦¦' : ¦ ' : ,.: ' . - ¦'¦ - ' ¦ . "' ¦ "' : '¦ .. ''' - - ¦
Salpord . —Mr . Campbell , the general secretary of the National Charter Association lectured here on Sunday night to a respectable audience . RaTcuffe Bridge , —Mr . James Leach , of Man Chester ,. lectured in tho Chartist Association Room , in this place , on Tuesday evening last , "On tho present distressof the working classes , and the cause of that distress . " •'¦ . : -- ; ' : ; .. C ¦' ; . ; .-: . ¦¦ ' ;;\ . . . " : Cleckheaton . — -On Monday evening last , tberewaa an out-door meeting held here , to hear a lecture from Mr . North , There was a very good attendance . Mr . North spoke upwards of an hour with great effect on the six points of the Charter . Several members were enrolled . ; ' - ; . ' '¦ ¦ . ¦' . '¦ ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦'" - '¦ '' : ¦ " - '¦ ' ¦¦ ¦ .... " . ¦'¦
DONGASTEa . —On Sunday everjng last , Mr . S . Paries , of ; Sheffield , preached an excellent sermon in our Association Room . Chartism is gaining ground in this aristocratic town ; and we believe that a visit from Mr Feargus O'Connor would be the means of a great ingatbering to the National Charter Association in thia place . . . - ¦ "¦¦¦ ¦ Newark .- —Mr . P . M . Brophy , from Dublin , delivered two lectures here on Monday and Tuesday evenings , to very attentive audiences .
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; ( Private Correspondence . ) There have been made , durirjg the past week , very energetic efforts ( considering his advanced age ) on the part of Mr . Daniel O'Connell , to wako the geniu 3 of Repeal agitation in Ireland ; which , since the astounding fact that all the money , ten thousand excellent good pounds sterling poured into the coffera of the Corn Exchange , had dwindled unaccountably
down to som 8 £ 200 was published to the world , had betaken itself to the deep sleep of apathy and the dark dream of despair . The meetings had become merely nominal ; and though O'Neill , Daunt ; the Rev . Mr . Groves , and Tom Ray went through the hebdomadal farca regularly , their '" associates '' weie few , their audience miserabie , and their collections , even swelled now and then by a pecuniary godsend from the folks t'other side of the Atlantic , nothing-to ^^ boast of .
In this crisis an effort was indispensible , and despatches were forwarded to the father of the movement , explaining to him the ricketty state of his bantling—that as much a-the dry nurses to whom he had committed it could answer for was its existence till he arrived . He came , and thoagh it would have been more paternal to let the sinking infant die decently in seclusion and quietude , he insisred on dressing np the sickly brat in the most showy manner , and again
presenting it to the publfc gaze for admiration and acceptance . A few have been deceived by the momentary hectic which illuminated the puny creature ' s cheek , but common-sense ( an excellent judge in these matters ) pronounced everywhere thav the original constitution of the babe had been unsound , and that it would be useless to go to further expence to prolong an existence painful to itself and its friends , and contemptible to its enemies . Repeal , we mean Daa O'Connell's Repeal , is as good as dead .
We have had , Sir , all kindai of ward meeting ^ at which the Liberator pubjicly declared that he knew of no other society in Ireland than the Repeal Association , at the same mornent that our petition was handed to Kim , and from which ho shrunk like the devil from Jioly water . The fact is , he is rabid with jealousy and diaappointment ; he finds tho people arq beginning to think , despite all his repeated offers to bo not only purse-bearer , but 6 ensocartier to the Irish nation ; " Ireland , " said he , some time ago , "has nothing to hope from a Parliament returned by the present conBtnnencies . " "In the name of heaven , then , '' said a s sensibleex Repealer tome , "how does he
expect to get the Union Repealed without going to work in earneit to change those constituencies ! " Bah ! Dan does not care a button about anything whatever beyond getting in the coppers . ' By ths way this may be called , in contradistincuon to the former or "button agitalion , " the " farthing movement , " no one being to contribute more than one farthing a week , unless they lik q to do so . Surely this is the last kick . The Lord Mayor told his dupes that bo did not immediately say it himself , but some very smart and trust-worthy persons had , that there were 1 , 500 , 000 forged signatures to the Chartist petition , and that though it was a very allowable thing to break men ' s heads at an
election in Cork for exercising the franchise as they wished , yet to ^ write another man ' g name even with his own consent , on a petition sheet , was an offence of heinous turpitude , and what Tom Ray had never yet done , aujait as he was at caligraphie manufacture . He . appealed to the two or three gathered together , ( in some cases their ward meeting 3 numbered at their moat thronged period from ten to fifteen ) whether he had done well for Ireland . Ha had got several hundred thousand pounds for himself and his family , but then ho had given up the forty shilling freehblderg , and settled the tithe rent charge firmly on the landlords , who would never ask it from the people , av course . He had put Lalor Shiel into
Parliainent , and made' him a commissioner of Greenwich Hospital , since Tvhen he had never squeaked for repeal as all at ail . Wasn't that doing good to the people ? He had shipped off Marcua Costello and benched Brady , wasn't that serving repeal ? He had got his Bonin-law a place in the Hanaper , since when a change came o ' er the spirit of his dream , and he was -not now a repealer . iJut why should he tire tluni with a list of their triumphs , of all those who had sold and given up ebunties , and abandoned boroughs , for tht : sweets and substantial 3 of office ? Let him aow come to their civic successes . Behold in him tho Whittnvatoft of real Wei Some
said his being Lord Mayor so late in life savoured of a political anticlimax ; but he was sure they were members of the late corporation ^ Look to the right and then to the left . Qa One side was Fusboa Arkins , a , shear ^^ fellow—a ereater adept than Lord Stanley himself at thimble-rig—how did the tag-rag and bob-tail of Mary ' s lane shout in that eventfai hour when his tailor was made his sword bearer Some were disposed to call thin anomalous , but that was absurd . What matter who was sword-bearer to him wlfo had a v&w registered in Heaven never '« 6 use one , unless , iudeed , it was when he mufctertxl the 500 , 000 Tipperary boys , to put down those rascally Chartists , who refused to starve
magnanimously . Oh the other sido was Pickinninny Cnrrin —he begged , his pardon , now Curran . He maintained , no matte ? what . was said to the contrary that he was bift enough to carry the mace , even when they got nhe Greek crosses added to it—for although fcuch crosses were not orthodox , they were better than nor ^ s , and they should have them . Would not Coohist liit up its head and rejoice now the broken little grocer was entrusted with so eongenial an ensign of authority ? There should bo a geueral clatter of coSns , and raitiing of breastplates , jn that death's head and cross bojnes locality . Look next afc Marshal Size-Kieynolds- how gently he has soared—that whilom made the welkin
ring—sinae ' he ^ wits made chief seller of distressed chairs , tables , bedsteadsj &A Tom Ray , too , he had helped to put in hi 3 terms , aiid Tom would soon < 3 ? me to- terms with any Government that w . » uld ; give him a better salary than they could —thus they would get rid of part of the Corn-Excbange dead vseight , and make room for some > one else . As to poor Clements , ba did sot know weU what to do with him ; h »» and Councillor Dwis , were tws » such very clever fellowa , and so independent , thai despite Lord Ebrington ' s antheaa , they gave up akl the business &eyhad ( none at all ) and joined t » at association . Ten shillings a-week was a poor allowance for sach promising young
men , and e-ven that muai be stoppsd now the £ iO , 000 'W . as expended , let the generous people , then , for whbnr so much haa bee * done , and irom whom solittle has been token , come forth withtheit : farthings—tho minute ^ 150 , 080 is colleeted in farthingsi or that 4 , 000 , 060 male adults sign a petition in Ireland in its favour , that moment Repeal is - oairied—unless t \ va money slips away , as tho ^ 13 , 003 did , as fast as it comes inr The laberator'a appeals were answered by a cheer for buttons , ditto for \ farthings , and the same for repeal . Next week I will report progress , and , if you allow me space , adventure a sketch of some of our public men here , as the liberal press of Ireland is liln i il '' flfcljjfljf' II KJL 1 Irish way—that ia , they most impartially exejoaa . U' ' any view of the case , save their own and ^ Hicat " ^ . masters ; who that master is , Mr . Stau ^ ou ^ 9 Cfl | wrv ; ^ ' ^^ Register . wh » ws « tiirnpd out of i nieetM | f'OTCgi ^ -i v _ *^\ yA daring to -defend himself , can tell * W $ ^ g :: , ; ^ M ~\ ' ' v ; - ^' : lifei ^ i - . ¦ . ¦ : ¦ i * Q&& 0
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TOL . Y . NO , 237 . SATURDAY , MAY ~ M , 1843 . ' ^ V ^^^ gS ^^ gg ;?' . ;
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 28, 1842, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct432/page/1/
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