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DUBUN . —The Irfch Traversal Suffrage Anocuiion Jbeta tbeir -usual weekly meeting at their great looms , 27 ol !¦* , North Am ™ Street , al six o ' clock o » Sunday 1 Mb-Mt Henry Clark-jr& » called to the chair . - The taanMAS iegged leave to remark , before the "Tegular Irasintss « f ihe meeftn ? commenced , flat owing to some ixregduit ? a * the post-cffiee , or nnnsna ] delay Of Xh& liverpooi mail , tbe Northern Star , -which shonld iaTebeen deJlTerea to Mr- 3 > jo « tt ei ^ ht o ' clock last flight , did not anira till eleven o ' clock that morning ; and even fijen the letter xsmera did not deliver the parcel , alleging m a reason that It -sras "too heavy . CPerbaps XIx . Soffly , tte Scotch genfleman , 'who acts as secretsiy ~ lierfi « £ * ts diredieris not to oelive * any more uewipspera . However , an application to the Post blaster General can , and no doubt "will be made ; and in tte event of yetting no retires * in that quarter the subject can be brought before Parliament { Hear , hear . )
It-was aa-rernaed in three of the Dablin papers , on Saturday , that the Northern Star would contain the earretpondence between Mi . CHiscins and Lord Edot , 'which TraspnWiahedin the dsilj Freeman ' s JoumaL of Thnreday- the 20 th , bat mppmsed by all the w « kly papers , lesrt the conniry-people should Bee it , and see in it that the Tile calumny circulated and Tepeated over and orera ^ aip , by the pious liberator and Ma followers , was unfounded . They would seB that Mr . 0 , 'Higgins was not &a Orangeman , althotujh this pious old gentleman , who goes to Weatland chapel . every morning , bad giTen currency to the shvnder , and never yet made the least atonement for it There -was an immense crowd about Mr . DyotF * noose at eight o ' clock last night , some of -whom said that sooner than not get tie paper they wonld give a shilling for it . He hoped tfcat their Snglish Chartist brethren , -would send ths paper containing Has admirable correspondence to every part of Ireland . ( Hear , ij « x . )
Mr . jjtotx read the rales and objects of the last day * * proceedings which were confirmed . 3 Jr , O = Hl 6 GI 5 S xald that be cad several letters to zead , whick i . e was sure would be -yery gr&iifying to tte meeting , one of which was from an Irishman who xeaidedTn Bristol , and with whose admirable -and traJj patriotic -writings the leaders of the Northern Star mere long Ta-rnffinT . Tv * fco was it that aid-not read With iftgnmrw and profit the letters in the Star , signed alternately "Teritas" and "W . H . Clifton "—ihear , bear ) . 3 Jie leading of these letters in the Star were a source of great ^ rati £ c 3 iiaa to him , and be deriTed considerable information from them . Six . Clifton is an Irishman , and it -win be grateful to his Irish heart to leara in Ma temporary exile the genuine warmth with which bis name las bees bailed by his countrymen assembled here today . Hi . O'fligpns lead Mr . Clifton * letter , -which ¦ Was loudly cheered , and concluded by moving Ms ad-Tnlwnnn .
Sir . SlMOS TOBrs seconded the motien , and said thai as an Irishman , be was proud of Mr . Clifton . It "was pleasing to see bowmen of talent and integrity allied round the standard of real political liberty in Ireland , Chartism —{ cheers ) . There is no liberty except in tbe Charter—( hear , bear ) . Where does the poor bonest . man find the least hope of redress for bis-manifold wrongs and grievances but in the Charter alone ? Tbe Charter is the poor man ' s mainstay—his last plank —bis only tope , let us but gtt it , and every blessing ¦ will follow—icbeers ) . He was proud of having bad tbe opportunity cf secosding the aimission of Mr . Clifion ^ -ihcar , Jhesr ) .
34 r- Q"Higgi 5 S bad Ihe pleasure of proposing Mr . Christopher £ > yrne , a rnbtantial and -wealthy farmer , for admission . He bad some dealings -with , Mr . Byrne a few , 3 aja since , when bB expressed a wish to be informed a little upon Chartism . He bad bssrd so much said against it that he was -very anxious to know the mwmtng of it . Borne people told him that the Chartists were a set of unprincipled men who bad combined together for the purpose of ilepriTing other people of their property , overthrowing religion entirely , and annihilating tbe Catholic religion—( hear , bear ) . He { Mr . O'fl . ; explained the real principles and objects Of Chartism , to which Mr . Byrne replied , "Well then upon my eonacienee , I nave keen a Chartist all my life , though I sever knew it before—Ihe&r , bear ) . Propose me at your next meeting , and tend me my card by post . 1 will shew it at the chapel next Sunday , and maybe you wont hare Chsxtt&tB enough from the county of ~ WicHotr ± a » abort time . " Htsre iaa conText for JOB . 2 ierer mind •»» shall bsrs j > ltuty of-fitem . Troth will proraaat last
Mr . EnarcHJ ) Bopbkb jeoonded the motion . He took that opportunity of stating that some time ago "When ha inquired for these rooms be . was told by a man of tbe name rf Rielly , a butter factor , nst to come in here ; tbat you wer » aB Orangemen—Iheai )—that this was an Or&sge lodge . There is also a man of tbe same of Keary , a porter in the Xicen Hall , who has often told persons coming here to take care and not enter this place , as you were all Orangemen ; and that 3 dr . O ConneH said that you were to get so much a bead for all yon could ' betray —( bear , hear } . Now it is WBry ^ probable that Ibis 'Koxry is in tbe pay of Uie Coat JExdaDEe , or else -what interest wonld be have ia thus ieQinslies ? There is also * sort -of hadge-aehoahnaster in the » eigbl > oirthood , - » rb . o » e name , 1 think , is Ssramgh , and who also turns people away from this place ! qr telling liea about you . There "were some Eil-Oase men bere a few days azo , and while waiting in
the streei toget in with tbtir cars , some three or four fellows came out of King ' s , tbe shoemakers , and told thoe poor men to tBiecue of tbemselTes , as they -were going Into ihe house of one of the bloodiest Qzangemen in Dublin —( shame , zhame ) . Ik is true ¦ vkat I aay—[ hear , bear ) . The Ecg ' s axe religions men ; aaa I therefore hope that they are * not enilty of the Trqrstof cbxdw , bell ern ^ , backbiting and Tilifjing their ¦ Beighboura . As for Kelly , and bis son , and Kfiary , the linen Hall porter a and Sa-ranagb , the schoohnaster , they are too Ignorant , too selSsb , and too stupid to be lield responsible for anything they say ; yet they do a great deal of barm . They go about to barbers shops to circulate their calumnies -, but God is jost , and he ¦ will proteei the innseent ; their poisoned shafts will all Tecoa upon tiieEuelTea . Indeed tbej are not so xooch to Kam © as those who employ Qtem . Mr . Bjrne ^ tsi Adoutted *
Mr . O'Higgiss moved and Mr . Rafteb seconded the admission of Mr . John Edward Bounds . Mr . ^ Eoiibds rose and said that he felt -very proud andTery thankful for the kwd -pippnpr with which he was admivted a member of the Assodatien . He had been an atteairre obserrer of their proceedings during ihe last twelTe months , and it was not till after tbe meet mature consideration that be bad made np his mind to join their ranks . lake m&sy others he was lead io belieTe that tie Association was nnbrefnl ; tut ieknew by experience that this was false . When the Whigs were in power-erery effort was made to crash them ; they were called Tories , and now , when the Tories are in power and tortnnsgjheir ingenuity to put them down , they are stall called Tories . Mr . O'Gonnell l » a stated TeptstedJy that Suswass secret scdety ^ that ¦ yaa 'were konnfl together by unlatrfol oaths . Now , be ( Mr . BonndB ) wasa Protestant , and Daniel O'Connellis a Catholic ; and had he { Mr . Ttonndt ) said of any other
¦ odciy or inSmdcals balf what Mr .-OConnell bad said of tins society and some of its members personally he should feel bound to make restitution : but perhaps ~ M >_ O'Connell bss a carle Handle from bis private Chaplain tobeje , Tdlify , and erinroniatn the members < tf tMs AraofiiiHioTi . He ( Mr . Honnds ) admired tbe CalhoHoBeJijaon for one of its practices ; which is that of making restitution ; and this subject was often spoken of amoD ^ it bis Mends with respect and admiration ; but ¦ when they looked upon O"Connell ' s public conduct ; his file calumnies againstall who would not join him Tu b '" Serious political wapderingii , he and Ms friends arrived at the condnskin Jhat iiiis admirable isyaUiui of xestitxition whs only made to apply to the poor ; the . ricli and the ^ reit wtre evldenUy exempt from its wholesome -opszaiion . At all Brents Mr . O'ConoeD is exempt from it Perksps he is so on the principle of British law , ** 1 haV the Sing can do no-wrong . " { Hear , hear , and sheers . )
Mr . O'HIGGISS xote and saidth&t be bad waited till Sxea lor tee pnrpoee of being enSgbteped by two inflneptial membera of the Bspeal ABSodation , who had signified tbfcir intention of coming to the meeting lbat day , and who undertook to prove that Mr . O'Connell was taking tbe wisest , most prudent , and most tffectire means to tSect an immediate repeal of tbe Union ; and that the c ^ lltction of the large sums of mosey , as Repeal ma , and the appropriation of it , afibrd ^ d ample proof , of tbe patnotism , the wisdom , andtbeintejerity d Daniel O'Connell , and those who acted with him . 3 B& QSx . < ymggnn } xegretted the abaence of those wiHghtynprt mtmbea of the Repeal Association . He ffir&redTery widely from aem . Had they come , the dtecassion wouldhaTebeenearriedon good-bumouredly ; heTewould h «? been
« : B no angry feeling , no persona ) ammwty , no abuse or litnperation , but a fair and honourable discussion upon guestiona of public nott » - d&j . ( Hear , beat ) He bad no bad feeling towards Mt O'Connell ; on tbecontrary , be wished binm long life sad « rery happiness that this world can afford . He admitted that 31 ^ OConneU was Qib greatest lawyer of thB age—tbe greatest oator tf the age—xba most « bgueut man of the age : bo powerful was the Influence « f that eloquenoe , that be iMr-O-R . ) wonld not blame any man for being led astray by it . He admitted his great and unparalleled popularity—be admitted that be had at one period , from 1830 to 1834 inclusive , three kingdoms at bis back . He admitted that from 1834 mi 3 . 830 hl » fria' < l 8 the WJdfsb&d commanding mejoritieain ths House ef Commons . Sot with all this legal knowledge ; with all this eloquence ; with all this popularity ; "with Jhis friends in power , to whom he
repeatedly Toted ihB eternal gratitude of the Irish nation , what did be erer dp , or propose to do , in his place & Parliament , for the benefit of bis country ? It may be said that the Tory House of Lords would thwart bis measures ; but surely a man , with three kingdoms at inYbotk , sbonldbxT © bad the moral courage to ba-re proposed something ox other . What did he do ? Kotbisg ? Tben as be did sotbing of what use " was he in Parliament ? He did a great deal He sold the county 3 ) abiin to » non-BcpjesJer fo ? a place for bis son-inlaw , rchristcphET Fitesimon . Ho sold the county Meatbto a non-Bepealer for » place for bia son , Mr . Morgan O'ConneJL He sold the county Kerry to a son-Hepealer for a place for bis son-in-law , J 5 i . Cbaries O'ConnelL JLe sola ttiB county of Carlow to a non-Sepealer , aa& Bapbael a Js-s" , and KnbstqncnUy to another non-Bepealer . He caused Mr . "W . s . Crawfcrd tobetJimfcd out of Daadalk , and got a non-Re-
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pealer in bis place . He sold DucgaiTon for a place for bis son-in-law , French . He got Whig places for tix of his nephews and , at the election of 1837 , signed b placard ^ stating that-the man who sh oul d put any other pledge to tbe candidates than that of supporting the Melbourne Administration must be in the pay of tbe Tories ; tUM the man who should name Repeal must be a Tory or in Tory pay . Xithea -were then to be aajusted , not abolished ; and tee Whig adjustment was a tithe rent charge . Ha supported the Whigs through thick sid thin . He stood before the Trades political Union in the Arena in \ Abbey-street as the Government candidate , threatening with Joss of place every unfortunate clerk in office who should dare to -row against tbe Government : Daniel OtJannell , tbusputtlng of
t ^ e very wont Tory practices , ^ cormptiou-and perjury ) into active operation . The late Major Sirr was ebiiged io go to the hurtin ? 8 upon this occasion , and declare before God and his country ; , that Daniel O'Connell represented his politics and interests in Parliament tetter than his Tory opponent Didany believe that ? no ntt one . Tins was very pleasing to those who . took a shori-Kjjhted view of the subject , bat to me at any rate it was thoroughly disgusting ; so ranch so , that 1 refused to - rote for Mr . OConneU , and expressed , publicly expressed , my difignBt at and abhorrence of bis conduct \ 7 fcy did be support Whigs ? Was it because they passed , tbe English Poor law Amendment Ac ? Wa 3 it because they declared that they would prefer a civil war with all its horrors to a Repe&l ' of the Union ? Was
it because thty passed the bub-Coercion Act T Was it because they passed the Sural Police Act which gives the most despotic power to the Lord Lieutenant for the time being ? Was it because they passed tbe Irish Municipal Beform Bill , and helped po degrade the great leader of the opposition to support tithes and ministers ' money , by enab ing him to sit as Lord Mayor , and actually disfranchise those who followed his advice by rinsing to pay the untoly impost ?! What a picture of political infamy was O'Counell , dressed out in all the gewgaws of civic chief magistrate , striking off the Burgess roll every man who had followed bis advice by refusing to pay minister ' s money ! he who a short tim . before raised his hands to bea . ven-4- " Here noic , in the awful presence of that God who is to judge me , and before ¦
my assembled countrymen , I vow never ie pay one farthing of tithe , or ministers' money . ' Here was a ¦ vow registered in hearen J And after this , the same man swore to disfranchise , and did disfranchise , all bis fellow citiziDE who adhered to their oath . There is a sample of Whiegery for you . Was it because the Whigs passed all these base laws , that Mr . O'Connell gave them his indiscriminate support ? No ; but because be sold himself to them for pelf and spbemeral power , as Caspar sold himself to tbe foul fiend in the Wolfe ' s Glen , and from ¦ whose clnirtes he -would Lave bad no more chance of escaping than the ill fated Caspar , had not tbe Chartists turned out tbe perfidious Whiga and thus saved the " Liberator - * from polUitical damnation—( great cheering ) . It is now a longtime Bineebe ( Mr .
O'H . ) bad told bis conntrymen that "; Mr . O'Connell was not a Repealer—that he did not' desire the Repeal —that the object of the Repeal Association is the restoration of the Whigs to power . Had they been in pewex we should not have heard one word of the Irish Arms * Bill . It would have passed snugly and quietly as it did when they were in power . O it is a mighty fine tiling to get a man ' s throat cat by a friend . " Take away public libertyjbit by bit , " say the Whigs . " We are your masters , and will remain so as long as we can , " say the Tories .. The difference between Whig and Tory is just this . When tbe devil puts on a smiling face , dresses like a gentleman , bides kis tail in bis breeches pocket , his cloven foot in a treil ma ^ e boot ; tells tbe un wary that be is their real
fnend , lantea them to dinner and cbamp&igne ; gets them into his dutches , and secures them , he is then a Whig : but when he stands up boldly and tells you he has cheated and oppressed you , and will continue to do so as long as he can , and appears before you openly with his cloven foot , cocked horns , red wide mouth , b&rbed tail painted sky blue , and a fork in his dexter paw , than he is a Tory ; i and he who will trust either Whig or Tory will be equally deceived , and deserves u- - deceived . ( Great cheering . ) The Irish people are deceived , duped , and plundered , by both Whig and Tory . The press has joined the two accursed factions to make sport of tbe people for their mutual advantage . The Catholic clergy , formerly the polar stars of the people , their friends and guides
tbxsTLgh srery < iiffieulty , are now misled as well as tbe poorest individual . But their eyes trill eoou be opened . Let them but look at the cfficial report of the Corn Exchange , signed Thomas M . Ray ; and if that does not open their political eyes and let in the light , the Almighty is blinding them for hU own wise purposes . Here is the ofBcial report ; read it ; seebowyourRepeal money has bten appropriated— £ 10 . 000 of it given to the enemies of Repeal . This money—this money , I say , will surely " bedivil your darllnt " : £ 10 , 000 Repeal rent regularly banded over to Wellington and Peel ! Good security ts keep the peace , and help to send over more troops to Ireland 1 Daniel , you are tho " daibnt " : it is yourself that knows how to save your own bacon , and cheat your supporters , priests , bishops .
laymen , and ail , even your friend thB ArchbUhop of Tuam ! Daniel , " a vie , " yon told th > people at Gal way and at Cork , and other places too , that you would crlppla tbe Tory Government , by causing the funds to become almost valueless . It is clear , then , that you know how to do it ; and equally clear that yoa bave vested £ 10 . Repeal rent in the very funds which you intend shall become valueless , in tbe event of that Government , to whom you have given the money , refusing to concede your darling object , the Repeal 1 Tpn may say . by way of excuse , and in order to deceive ] those who do not understand tbe nature of investing nioney in Government securities , that you can get the monuy back ; but this is not tree . Tbe money can sev ' er be got back from tbe enemies of Repeal . They bad a bad stock of old goods on band , £ lO . 00 Os worth of wbieh yon took off
their hands . This bad stock must always remain oat ; some one must take it off your { hands ; bnt not tbe enemies of Repeal , the Tory Government , to whom you have given the money . ; Tbe case stands simply thus : —A has cheated B sut of an estate B collects as much money front his frienas and supporters , Isome of whom are ihe tenants of A ) -as bf considers necessary to insure success in a court of law ; bnt finding that his proceedings have embarrassed his opponent A . he gives him two-thirds of the money up m bis own security which be knows right well . jwill never be paid ; but on tbe contrary will remain as a mortgage upon the shoulders of the very parties who suoscribed the money . " Daniel you are the darlint" Hce is the cfflcial return . Let every Chartist in the empire keep a copy of it Nothing can equal it for barefaced unbloaing vIBany .
Report from the official organ of the Com Excbanre : — "Mr . O'Connell begged to make the following report : — Lojal National Repeal Association , Com Exchange rooms . " 3842 . 25 * . b July , 1843 . *• Rfcceired from 5 th April to 4 t& July inclusive 999 9 7 " 1843 . *¦ Received from 4 th April to 3 rd July inclusive .. „ „ „ 15 , 798 11 3 « Increase on the quarter ....,. £ 14 , 793 1 8 *• By order , , " T . M . Rat , Secretary . " On Saturday next £ 10 , 000 of that wcnld be funded . He would band tbe scrip to Mt . R » y for £ 10 , 000 . " Is this tbe way to Repeal tbe Union ? Well , w 11 ; for cool aheer rascality this standa unrivalled . But what has become of tbe remainder of the Repeal rent ? Is this the only account tbe public sbsll have ? Where are the auditors of last year , whom every body knows are whelly innocent of the loast partic ' . e of knowledge of an account current ? Will Lord Brougham be satisfied with this report of tbe quarter ' s Repeal revenue ? According to tbe official weekly annoucements of tbe sums redved at the Corn Exchange from the 11 th of April , 1842 , to the 5 th of April , 1843 , distinguubing each quarter separately tbe sums received stand thus : — 1842 . . £ 8 . d . Quarter ending ' 5 th Jnly ... 999 9 7 Quarter ending 4 th October ... 3 , 763 11 10 £ 1843 . Quarter ending 5 th January ... 13 540 2 3 Quarter enoing 4 th April ... 15 , 167 13 4 j
£ 33 , 870 17 1 The public sbonld be fully satisfied as to how this vast Bum of money has been appropriated . Has Mr . Ray been banded scrip for this £ 33 870 17 s . Id . ? If so , just be so good as to let tbe public know the fact . Box add to this sum of £ 33 , 870 17 a . 16 . tbe balance cf tbe last quariers * revenue not given as yet to Peel and Wellington , £ 5 , 798 lls . 3 d ., and we have a sum totalkept in the back ground amounting , according to their own statements , to £ 39 , 669 8 s . 40 . What have
yon done -with all this money ? Tim have got a great deal of it from poor warm-hearted Catholic curates who perhaps deprived themselves of many a good meal in order to enable them to subscribe their dearly earned mite to the regeneration of their ] country . It is a crying sin to cheat a peor curate . ] Perhaps it is all for their good . But when and how ' is the Union to be repealed ? He ( Mr . O'Higgios ) Wonld just say in conclusion , MbaX be regretted very miich tbe absence of his two ) parried and enlightened 1 Repeal friends—( bear , hear ) t
Mr . Dtott said he regretted it had sob fallen to bit lot to second tbe admisslen of Mr . Clifton , whose letters he had with singular pleasure perused in ths Northern Star . Sncb men as Mr . ] f Clif tan were an honour to Intend , and calculated to raise the character of toBhmaa in the estimation of their Engliab fellow , subjects . The notions of Mr . Clifton regarding liberty were broad , comprebenBiTe , and nnfactious—( hear)—be did not limit the gift of freedom to a particular ^ i on ? r , 5 ree but takiD 8 the wbole world far tbe field of his exertion , be wonld emancipate Man , of whatever colour , clime , or creed—ibear , hear ) . These were theaentuaents congenial to his / Mr . D . ' a ) { actings . He could not see how any clans or Bection of the people should be defrauded of what he considered a MtnKd malienabla right—Ibe light of ChOOfilug thOBB Who sbonld make tbe la-rre « ad regulations to which they , as members of tbe social community , were bound to 8 nbmit- ( hear , bear ; . He tMr . D . ) did not know whether Mr . Clifton went as far as to advocate the
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right of women to the franchise—tbe Chartists as a body did not go for the extension of the Suffrage to the ladies , j He CMr . D . ) thought hlinself , and had no hesitation in avowing aa opinion long held , and not noW for the first time put forward , that whatever show of reason there might be forwitbbol'ling the Voti from the fane «* eri , there was none forbeeping it from fern sole ; but he never would go the length of asserting that females oZoaf should form the electoral privilege . He was no favourer of Gyneocracy , or petticoat government—( hear and'laughter ) . That would be as unjust as the system'that -should shut out the political influence of women altogether . But what would they Bay to the fact , that Mr . O'Connell , who bad so often fallen out with the phrase " Universal Suffrage" which he
scoffed at because he would have it that the words included tbe fair sex , after exhausting the fertility of his prolific ingenuity—after rambling through ' Complete ^ 'jManhood , ' » Household , ' and a dozan other suffrages , bad at last come to the conclusion that none but women should possess the franchise—( Oh oh ) . They might simile and cry "Oh , " bat the fact was substantially so . Mr . O'Connell bod declared that , co-eval with the Repeal of the Union , it would be made constitutional iu Ire . and that all married men should vote—( hear , hear ) . And had further declated that no idle and unwed goroons should havo tbe privilege —( hear . ) Thus it-would be necessary to be bound in the fetters of matrimony before a ruau could nlkke off his political chains , and the entranoe to the Temple of Liberty
would be through the porch of Hymen—( hear , bear , and loud laughter ) . Yes , my bachelor friends , a Repeal of the Union will settle your bash —( loud laughter ) for no man ean vote , says tbU Governor of the Catiiolio Emigration Society , unless he has a wife . Now Emigration presupposes a surplus population ; and yet here is [ a bonus held out to induce early and improvident matches , and to stock tbe country with hosts of little existences for whom there is nothing but starvation and misery provided—( bear ] He ( Mr . D . ) would not go into all the bearings of this ridiculous proposition now , because he Intended to bring forward a specific motion on Ihe subject , on Sunday evening . Ho need scarcely advert to the injustice of excluding the bachelor who , if he did not produce consumers , which
unfortunately were too numerous , at least produced provisions and commodities necessary and useful to bis fellow beings ; besides paying his just proportion of the taxation of the country . In fact this poposition was as complete a blunder as tbe " manhood" suffrage out of which they had so completely bautered Dan , that ha now never dared to mention tbe word—( hear ) . This new verbal banUing would like wise fall still-born from his lips ; for it was impossible aay people , however proua to nasiduction , could stand the attempt to transfer all political power to the wives of men , many of whom Bupposed their partners already exercised loo mock dominion . Tbey all recollected the laugbable . ense put by Franklin regarding the jickass , out of which tbe man voted , to wbeui Neddy afforded a forty shilling beneficial interest The doctor asked when Neddy died , and the vote died with him , was it not clear that the vote appertained to the ass and not to tbe man —( hear ' wtd a laugh ) . Welt , how stood the sapient proposition of D iniel tbe
profound ? Why when the wife died , tbe husband lost his vote : freedom was buried iu ber grave . Who tben substantially would possess political power under thU new regulation ? the women and they alone— - '( bear , bear ) Now be ( Mr . D . ) was just gallant enough to share this power with them , but be would not consent to transfer all to them— " be that gives all gives none , " was an old saying—( laughter ) . He therefore gave notice that he . would next Sunday bring forward a resolution , protesting on the part ef that association , against the proposal of Mr . O'Connell , and declaratory of tbe natural and inalienable right of every male aged twenty-, one years , being of sound mind and unconvicted of felonious offences against the laws of his country , to the possession of tbe electoral franchise—( hear ); that was the vrell-considered declaration of the first item in their political creed , and tbey would not part-with it easily , even at the request of Mr . O Coonell himself . Mr . D . sat downamid loud cheers .
Mr . George Marsden was admitted a member , after which Mr . Rafter was called to the chair , and the cordial thanks of the meeting were given by acclamation to Mr . Ciark for bis gentlemanly conduct in tbe chair and bis untiringz ? alin the cause of real political freedom . The meeting separated one and all crying out against Boushold Suffrage , Wife Suffrage . Manhood or any other Suffrage short o ! Universal Suffrage .
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The >• umber of cases decided by the Tribunal of Commerce of Paris , amounts to forty thousand annually . In ibe Sheriffs Court last week , & verdict for the Crown for £ 3 964 Is . 2 d . was obtained against Messrs . . Candy and Dean , silk importers , for duties unpaid . : The affair ia one of tbe Custom-house frauds . An employe of the Parisian post-office , of rather bigb standing , has been suddenly arrested ; tbe charge against him 5 s said to be tbe having aided another individual in seducing a wife from ber home ; and Ihelterine the guilty couple after the eloptment . It issmd that the head of on eminent fancy gooda firm in the City , i&tely exebequered for participation in the Custom-house frauds , has absconded after many futile attempts to obtain a compromise from the government , and for -which be is said to have offered a very considerable sum . Precocious Geniuses—Filial Affection — 1 , how ' s your ma ?"— She ' s fat and strong—bow ' a yours ?"— " Fdeble enough . I ' ve got so that I can lick ber now , and have every thing my own way . You don't see me goin' errands , and doin' chores about home , like you used to ?"
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 5, 1843, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct493/page/2/
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