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Mt Dsab Fbjekds , —Since I last addressed yon , I bare attended meetings at Derby , Belpor , and the potteries . I spoke in the theatre at Derby , and my party Eay that my speech has done them a great deal of good ; that more than pays me . We had a Tery glorious proeessioa at Belper , which paraded the -whole town , and had a triumphant meeting in fie Market-place at three o ' clock , and again at half , past eight , when in JbaS 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 Nature for man ' B peaceful residence .
I left Belper in an open carriage after three o ' clock in the morning , to ge thirty five mil . es , np Mid down hills , io the Potteries . Bairstow . and a friend from Staffordshire accompanied , me . I got wet through , as it rained very heav ^ y . I dried myself at Ashbourn , and started again , for eui destination . We assembled within , a mi'VeofLane End , —the place were the lads beat the r Av&lry and made them retreat . In thiB town the people are all born marksmen . I learn that a lad 0 / fourteen or fifteen could kill a crow fljing with a itone .
When we arriTed at Lane \ Eud I thought-that all the world had come there .. The town was literally fall . Though the rain fell ' xn torrents , every window and house top was crowd id . The poor fellows sent a carriage and four for t jie , and in front was a splendid military band , t ^ d in advance the -female Chartists , about 300- _ God bless them—with their hand , each woman b earing a . wasd . The ? intended to hare marched r Od ftus about eleven miles ,-but cut it down to sev jn j n consequence of the rain . of
We had a gl ^ rioH 3 gathering thousands at Hanley , and r , xu Chairman , whose name I am ashamed to s » j j forget , opened the business like a Chartist . T x spoke-at some length , as did Bair-Btow , and Capper , and Richards ; but the speech ¦ was tbat of Kobinson , a working man—he made one of the znos £ powerful appeals to the people I ever heard . At seven , I addressed them again , in a large yard , a . r j& they tell me that they were- well pleased , indeed delighted . I was Tery much knocked up , and Etartt d on Sunday morning , at a quarter past four for I jOEdon . for three days * rest .
T o-morrow , I go to Nottingham , and from my lac -ours there I expect some real frnit , not in Whig or Tory money , "but in Chartist principles . Ah , my fr iends , what a proud position for the WJiig and Tory spy , to whack them both in turn , and then to ask before the people WHO PAID ME \ Now is the mis to damn me , ichile J am thrashing my benefactors ! Had Saturday been a fine day all Siaffordshire would have been " a-stir ? ' but as the people of many towns through wbich the procession was to have passed were disappointed , I ha ~ e promised to visit them sgain during their holiday in summer , and I wOl do it . And I will go to Coalbrook Dale upon their £ rst holiday , as I learu that ; much good may be expected there . In fac ; 1 will work the flesh off my bones but I will have the Charter-Read all my letters on the land , in the Chartist Circular , and then jou will lears what i am working for . Hurrah for S-urge and Nottingham , or for the Detil , if he mpports the Charter ! Ever your faithfnl friend , F . EA 2 GUS OXOXSOR . London , Wednesday .
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TO THE IRISH UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION . Beloved CorxiBTMES a > d Friends , —That my real motives have at length been * hadowed to yt > ut mind ' s eye , through the mist -with which prejudice , hatred , and misrepresentation baa so long enveloped titm , rcje-ices , ccnstles , and comforts me . Your address telU me thst I have not laboured altogether in Tain ; while jour approval of my past career will add jtrenzth and- "vigour to my future actions . Yes , my countrymen , a union of the oppressed of both nations is -what I tsve unceasingly tndfcavoured to bring about , being "well asnrred ' that disunion is ijranny ' s strength and the tyrant ' s only hope .
. Nine years' ago , I found that the seeds of bitter hatred said jealousy of Englishmen had been successfully sown , in the breasts of Irishmen , anrt "while I confess myself to have been then , not altogether free from tee prfevailing prejadice , 1 exercised reason in aid of my judgment , and at length 1 came to the cenduaen , ¦ which facts have since confirmed , that if English laws ftgui oppressed Ireland , Irish law-makers had gote far to suppress liberty , aadamahilata every vestige of English independence . I pasa over all time antecedent to the promised milleaium which Reform was to have produced , and start with 1 S 32 , -when the return of forty-three Liberal members gave hope of ocx coantry ^ regeneratitn . I east a bs-tt-sard sl&nce 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 Roman , nay , with Irish fortitude , because in the fulfilment of sworn and patriotic pledges they recognised their country ' s restoration from provincial degradation to national independence . But alas ! my country sowed in hope , "but have leaped in sorrowI Hot a single promised benefit has been conferred ; "while the only aim of these who promised freedom has been to prepare the mind to ¦ wear its shackles "with quiescence and submission . I have seen Hiy country set op to suction in the House of Gommons , and her freedom bartered for places , pensions , power , and patronage . I have seen those who coerced
her caressed by those who were coerced ! "while Irish liberty lay bleeding si the fed of the " base , Mo # dy , and brutal Whigs . " I have been insultingly . asked to lign a resolution of confidence in one of "my country ' s destroyers ; but 1 alone refused to be a party to the ¦ unnatural deed . Since then I have narrowly "watched the progress of events , and I have discovered tbat Irish patrietinn ha 3 degenerated ; while the sole object of her leaders has been to prepare the way for 3 secure retreat , by tempering doirn the public mind to that settled state ef hope through resignation , which evtr has bttn the temporary shield of those who profess to love liberty -while they fatun upon abuse , and look upon tke dawn of freedom as the "warning that
their occup . vlcn is dratring to its clos ; . I have endeavoured to create a kindly feeling between the En ^ liih ^ ad the Irish people . I have laboured haid tsd iicfctsantly to draw tfce distinction between the E-. iliih ptople and the English oligarchy , who cqoa'ly oppress the industrious ef both countries ; and althongirniy Mi has been aimed at , and my blood has been fhed upon the English Btage -while fighting in" my country ' s cause , yet has reason burst the trammels with which a prtfigate pr * ss and hired demagogues had so long acd so successfully bound the Irish residing in England ; ssd , at length , 1 see a kindly feeling growing up ber-xeen the slaves of E ^ gLmdand of Ireland , which promiies to end in a union cf sentiment which knaves cannot sever or tvrants resist .
Alas ! my countryman , reflect f _> ra moment upon the Easy powerful interests which have been , and which j still are , opposed to naked poverty axd unrequited in- j fiastry . Hera they are . The Qaeen and her rojul i household . The Lords with th ^ . r controlling power . The Commons with their illimitable influence . The Bishops -witn their political power and their religious , ; irflatnee . The Priesthood of til denominations , save ; a fsw rood Irish Catholics . The army , the navy , the policefthe bench , the bar , the f unuiord 3 , the landlords , the maeutraUs , the jury cl £ « s the press , the local authorities , placemen , pensioners , and idlers of ail denominations . The capitalist and master-class , the shopkeepers , and middling class , the aristocracy of Jabow , the authors and publishers of the age , the Poor ; Law staff , steam power , and though last , not ltast , thoss -who are too prcud to "WOTk , and too poor to live "Without labour ; and the philosophers who eke out a livelihood by watching and moulding themselves and thtir wares to suit the market of pnblic opinion .
" Welt , my countrymen , scch lire the combined forces against which : aked poverty presents fcer vir ' . E 0 U 3 and iavin £ > 3 e front , and betoid the 1 Teaches wh : ch her ztonnicz tkruents are making in the citadel of corruption tfcaa garrisoned with ail the forces of vicious and recognised ^ cthority . The duties cf a politician straggHng for right ngainst such an array cf might are manifold : acdiEetead of marvelling that I have s- « many enemies , mj only wonder is that my principles and my ¦ Bsdevifiticg adherence to them should have gathered aroncd me , nnd my brother leaders , a force sufficiently strong to bid defiance to th « invaders of our rights , and te lead te a fair pitEunaption tbat energy , perseverance courage , and judgment will ultimatJij triumph ever the combined forces of oppression and misrnle .
ily countrymen , there are three stages throngh -which * great movement must pass : —Firstly , the creation of jnblic opinien ; secondly , the organization of public opinion ; and thirdly , the direction of public opinion . la order to insure the success of these required undertakings I have established a free press in this country , far in the midst of political confusion I look to the press «* the means by which order is to be produced from th&os . By its means' I hare been enabled to lay the Prevailing opinion of the people once in every week before the people . I have thus united parties who were fcaTEerly unknown to each other , and have given to each locality not only the strength of its own position , but have added to it the strength of those at a distance struggling for the same oljtet . Glasgow is now a political portion of Manchester , and Sheffield adds strength to Ntwesitle , while the young growth of Chsrtiam in Ireland tods confidence to the English band of patriots , and gives joy Jo my heart to think that in the battle for fceeaoni Ireland will not remain nentaraL
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Within four years and a half , I have had to defend myself against five expensive government prosecutions , and to endure sixteen months of solitary confinement in a condemned cell , my only crime being that of having established a press , in which , "vice . ^ raa made to see its hideousness , and virtue and honour were shewn to exist among the children of industry . But I have not suffered in vain I for now I behold the despised star of Chartism shining in the ascendant , and gradually , but successfully , dispelling the mists with which ignorance and prejudice had clouded the political hemisphere . Yes , Chartism is in the ascendant , and why should we rejoice at its triumph ? Becauae to its influence we look not for the destruction of life and property , but for the preservation
of both . Not for liberty which would degenerata into licentiousness—but for freedom tempered with reason and discretion . Not as a license to man to give reins to his lust—bat as a means to curb his licentiousness . Not as the triumph of the grosser passions over the intellectual qualities of our natnre ^—but as a means of iul jugathig passions and evil propensities to the cout .-oul 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—but because it wotiid make dissipation hido its head for very shame . Not because
it would Increase drunkenness , —but because it would make intemperance a crime . Not because it would create revolution and domestic strife , —but because it wonld InSnre a kindly feeling among a ! l classes of society , and give to each an interest in the prosperity of all , and to all an interest in the 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 sure 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 ; whi : e it would cause a more equitable distribution of the increased wealth , instead of presenting Ihe sad anamoly which Britain now presents , namely , more money than ever was before in the hands of the few and more poverty than evei was before known sfflfcting the many who create all the wealth . The people in their wis-Jom ask upon whose side is the wealth ? and the answer is , npon the side of the represented ; and upon whose side is the poverty ? and the answer is , upon the side of the unrepresented . Por these reasons , my countrymen , do I love Chartism , with ' all the faults and crimes "which malice has heaped upon it .
» s e are called destructives , yet have we shed no blood ; we are called destroyers , yet have millions of starring and industrious men , women and children , borne two "wintets 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 been charged with a single political ofiVnce , even against lavrs which by legal ingenuity may be coojnred from the statute book to mean anything , and vhiown btfore a j"UTy ready to Rive any construction to thtm . We have been called torch and dagger men , and physical force men , by wretches who have by their admonitions cansed streams cf IrUh blood to flow , and then shrunk from the constqu&nccs ! while I am ready to face the storm and expose the murderers . I did not advise the brave fellows at Rithconnac to face 3 military force in order that the odium of the infernal tithe system should be strongly
shown . No ; but when they did so , I defended tfctm ; and instead of their English brethren loading them with foul epithets and reproach , they ministered to tlieir wants , and from their ' scanty meaus alleviated their distress . " Teen they were not torch and dagger men . When Walstown , Churchiown , and Carrickshangh resounded with the moans of the -wounded , Euglishnjen did not then revile . "When for seven days and sfcven nights , I faced the bayonet and the sabre , to . return Mr . John 0 "Connell , for Yongoall , then my courage was made subject of national approval ; but when the bloody Whigs conspired to rid their Russell of Aha opposition tf our noble Frost , and "when perjury had awarded to him an untimely end , then ¦ weBs all the crimes that malice could invent saddled upon the innocent back of Chartism , and then were the Chartist 3 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 . But , go on ; go on , I bessech you . Ireland owes to England some reparation for t ' ae injuries she has ii flitted npon her ; but if Ireland had a Wellington , a Castlereagfi , and a Reynolds—thank God she has had an Emmett , a Fitagerald , and has an O'Higgins . Yes , Eke has had her patriots , who were prematurely consigned to the cold grave ; and she has in the Jiving an embodiment of the principles for which they suffered . Must it not delight every honest man to see one
Irb-h-man against whose fair fame ail the missiles of malice and of slander have been aimed , yet bold enough and strong enough in virtue to raise his voice against him , btfare whess influence a Doyle has withered , a Lawless has died , an O'Gorman has been destroyed , and a Shiel has been silenced ? Yes . O'Higgins , you have boldly stood in the breach ! "while the adored and venerated Father Mathew , the real liberator of hia country , is surrounding yen with the genius of judgment emancipated from the trammels of intoxicated and besotted prejudice .
My countrymen , the great fault wbich I have discovered in political leaders is this : manj , in their own zsal , have attempted to use public opinion before it was ripe for action ; while others , by denying to it a trinmph 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 waifare which enabled Esparfcero to achieve the freedom of his country —we have encamped our forces under the citadel of corruption , and are now actually starving the garrison out . Thus has industry the satisfaction to know tbat if the drones have consumed the honey that belonged to the bees , the drones themselves must starve when the hive ceases to lend forth its riches !
2 vly countrymen , be not alarmed at the efforts now being made by artful and designing men , in thtir endeavour to take our camp by surprise . They cannoi enter under fake 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 sail under , we know the crew . Liberty is oue aiji , Chartist is our name-, and by our aim and name , and t > y none other , shall 4 , 000 , 000 rf freemen be known throughout the political -world . Industry is awake ; her principles are indelibly imprinted upon the heart of every working man in the land ; and , though millions should suffer , yet will each leave the 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 cf the law .
This , my beloved countrymen , is a state of thhgs ¦ worth living for , and worth dying for . Liberty in every age has had her martyrs . We are for peaca , law , and order ; bnt , if attacked in our peactful rtt-enchments by the brute force of unconstitutional authority , then , as freedom ' s friends , we mest prepare for freedom ' s martyrdom . The field , the transport , an * the scaffold have borne their victims ere now . E . nmett sleeps in peace , but his spirit still lives , 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 death , marching to execution with firm foot and cheerful countenance . The scaffold , so appalling to conscious and detected vice , loses its horrors ; while all the sible emblems of death that paralyse the stoutest criminal , are to him as bridal favours , bespeaking his re-union with depaited kindred spirits . His mutilated obsequies are honoured relics ; his funeral procession a joyous moving festival ; his grave the venerated sanctuary of jnartyrdom , and his name a never-dying , everlasting spirit—a theme on which Tnnmory loves to dwell—a source from whence it draws its sweetest , fondest , latest
recollections . - Go on , then , brave sons of my country , ever foremost in deeds cf lave , 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 , Sly brave countrymen , Your faithfnl and devoted friend and countryman , FBARGrS O'COMiOR .
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STALEY BRIDGE . —On Sunday evening an excellent lecture was delivered in the National Charter Association Boom of thin tows , by Mr . Q . Kowe , from Oidham . . BLACKBURK . —The cause progresses "well here . Mr . Beesley , lata 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 . Tie Chartist youths of Blackburn have formed themselves into a society for united exertion on behalf of the Charter . They have sent us &n address to their youthful fellow townsmen , which we cannot insert for lack of room . We bid them God speed .
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OXFOBD . —Tee cause has received an additional Btimulus here from the Tecent visit of Mr . BairBtow 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 membeis of the Town Council , was presented to the Mayor , requesting , the use of the Town Hall Yard , for the purpose of a 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 met ting , and the lecturer afforded the most entire
satisfaction . He showed the injustice of a confined constituency , and tho evils continually arising from Government by a class , "whose interests wete 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 and ov-rpouring eloquence hu treated the various points of the People ' s Charter , and showed tbat the absence of anyone would destroy the effect of the harmonious wh « le . Throughout hi ? lecture he enlisted and carried with him the feelings of his auditory , and at the conclusion of an excellent address of an hour aud a hairs duration , the following resolution was proposed : — " ThaS thin meeting considers that the present appalling distress among the
operative classes , and insecurity of property anionij the wealthy classes , are to be diretly tracod 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 wbich the country groans . " The resolution was strougly supported by the mover and seconder , who urged the necessity of organic reform , aa the only means by which tha lights 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 affairs , in public as well as private life . The resolution was unanimously carried . A meeting afterwards took place at the Three
Tuns : a most convivial uvening was spent , and several members proposed to the Association . So great was the satisfaction Mr . Bairstow had given , that a general request was made to him to favour us -with anotht-r lecture on Thursday evening , to which he cheerfully consented . Handbills wore issued accordingly ; and the use of a large space , named Paradise-fquare , baviug been obtained , he met a second and an increased Oxford audience , on the joint subjects of the Chatter and the state of the counlry . Embracing the various topics of interest contained in them , he again enlisted the sympathy and the feelings of those whom be addressed and did ample justice to the questions on which he treated . At the concision of a long and spirited ltcture , the resolution of the preceding evening was again unanimously carried , and thfnaeeting broke up , as thb previous one had dune , -with the most perfect order !
and highly delighted after votes of thanks to the lecturer , the cbiirm . tn , and the gentlemen who hul oW . ged their felk-w cfz-cs with a place of nieetity . An at ? joumrnent took place to thesocitty ' s room , -wh : re a iiioai convival evening -was spent , during which several excellent spttches were made , in responses to the various toasts given , and where the kindliest feeling was shown among all chsics . We understand that the visit of Mr . Bairatow to this city has betn of great service in removing some of the prejudice hitherto existing against Chartism , and in pa / ing the way for a cordial union among ail classes of reformers on fair and equitable t-. rim . Ho left Oxford on Saturday morning , accompanied by Mr . Poilp , highly delighted ' with 1 reception very different from what he expected here ; and hoping tiwt a connection so favourably cotflmencctl - will ere long be rene-sred .
WITNEY , ( Oxo . v . ;—Mr . Bairstow , accompanied by an Oxford frieud , arrived here on Monday , ami found thtt fear of truth , -which always haunts'the oppressor , bad in'luctd 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 the landlord if the bouse having received an intimation tbat if he allowed it to take place , he must abide tha consfquences , the money was received back , rather him subjtct them to probable ruin . Not satisfied with this , the critr was sent round the town by our opponents , to state fast the meeting wcuJd not take place . After considerably trouble , another room was obtained ; but the crier , on lieing applied to to announce it , refused , as he feared it wculd cost him his situation . N «? nriy cne hundred assembled , notwithstanding ; and , after a little time , it was agreed that an out-door meeting should be call *<\ on Fiiday , and a preliminary lecture given on Monday
evening , which gave the highest satisfaction . Mr B . returned to Oxford on the following niornin *; and on Friday hs again made his appearance in Witney , accompanied by Mr . Pnilp , and five Oxford friends , who was engaged to lecture thst evening at Cheltenham , but was unable to proteed further , owing to \ he horses bting taken from the coach , by wnich ha was to have gone . At the appointed hour , a numerous meeting assembled on Wood Green , whtn Mr . Bairstow afciy explained the principles of the Charter , and elfcittil continued and gentral approbation . Mr . Philp followed , and was t % nally well received , as "weie also the different speakers throughout the 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 Cnarter ruisht soon give them those rights of which vhey have been so long deprived .
NORTHAMPTON' . —Mr . Jones , of Liverpool , leclectured here in the Market-square , on Tuesday and Wednesaay evenings , to large and attentive audiences . ON Mosdat night , at the general meeting of the Chartists of this town . Dr . Jl'Douall was nominated one of the Council , and aiso a proper person to be re-elected to serve on the Executive . A resolution of thanks to the Convention , was unanimously passed . HOLLXN G WORTH . —On Saturday evening a
Chartist tea party took place at tbe Now Inn , when 100 aud upwards s , at down to tea , amongst -whom were a large number of well dressed females . After tea , Air R . Wild , of Lower Burn , was callwd to tha cbair . Mr . D . Donivau from Manchester , addressed them utiength , and was lii-tened to with attention , and concluded a vtry good discourse amio . st great applause . The chairman then annouueud that ihs rest of the evening would be spent in dancinir , siiigirg , and recitations , wiiicn continued to be kept up with great spirit and enthusiasm till midnight .
M ? TS- 'lJaROY 3 .-A public meeting trss held in the Primitive Methodist Chapel , at th : s place , on Fiiday week , when a lsrge aud attentive audience were congregate . ! , and were ably addressed by Mr . Duffy , from Shiffieid . Also another meeting was held on ihe-Wednesday night , j-whtn a Conneil for the next six months was elected . HEYWOOD .-Mr . M . Roberts of Bury , delivered a ver > interesting lecture to a numerous aud rrppect-ible audience , on Sunday evening last In the course of his address tLe lecturer ahowtd in a clear and convincing manner , the injustice practised by the Wither ciass upon the working class , through the instruviitijtality of class legislation .
STCCKPORT-On Sunday night the Chartist body of this locality mustered in their nuniht-rs to Lear a lecture from Mr James L&'ieb , of AfancbesUr . Ke entered into his subject in his usual mild , argumentative , and reasoning niTtnner , and produced an effect of the most beneficial nature . A . % tbn conclusion he received a unanimous vote of thanks . Several members ¦ we re enrolled . CHE 3 TERFI 2 XD . —At the weekly meeting ofthe Ghartitts held in their house of meeting , in Befetweilstreet , on Monday evening last , Messrs . James Le ; ieii , Dr . P . M . M'Douall , George White , Birmingham , au . i John C&nipbell , were nominated to servj on thy new Executive . Af ' . er which Mr . O ' Connor ' s letter to the Imperial Chartists was read , which gave great satisfaction .
SUNDEHtAND .-On Sunday afternoon , Mr , Williams lectured on the Town Moor , to a Jar . ee and 111 st attentive audience . The Town Mission preachers were preaching a short distance from the spot wlitre Mr . Williams Btood , but aa Boon as he comnwncbd they abruptly concluded . Mr . W . severely tasked the present teachers of religion for their base smothering cf the vitsl truths of Christianity and their new application of its principles to the present condition of society . He showed that the Christian religion was not a religion of particular precepts , the importance of which raiijht vary as the circumstances to 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 Stbeet Chapbl . —On Monday evenfDg , the usual weekly meeting was held io this place , Mr . Blenkhom in the Cbair . Mr . Jame » Taylor delivered an excellent address upon the importance of a full representation of tha people ; his arguments and illustrations were exceedingly good and at propriate . Jlr . Williams followed by an address on tho Ballot , as the means of securiug a faithful expression of the popular will . Mr . W . clearly proved from the present condition of society , the relation between labour « nd capital ,, the dependent condition of the mass , that without the Ballet , tho Franchise would £ oon become a mockery . of justice . Ee then noticed and satisfactorily repUed to the various leading objections to tue Ballot .
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LEICESTER ,- —Tbe Sbaksperian Association of Leicester Chartists now numbers 1 , 350 . fhe factions have bereffc us of a room to meet in ; but , nothing daunted , we hold our meetings beueath the blue canopy of heaven , alnghvg of the Chartersand O'Connor in the open streets , till the middle classes stare and quake at the noise . Our agitation is kept up in the most vigorous form ; and not only the town but the surround * ing villages are being impregnated with Chartism ; On Wednesday night before last , our beloved chief , O'Connor , "was expected at eight o ' clock at night , to lecture in the Amphitheatre ; but he did not arrive till near tea . His reception was more enthusiastic than ever ; and for more than an hour he held us breathless with attention , while he described the present state of the country in his own peculiarly piquant and fetvid style . Last ; Sunday , Mr . Cooper preached in the Infirmary Square , in the morning , from "Be ye all of ono mind . " ( Peter ) in Russell
Square ; in the afternoon , from " Miserable comforters are ye all , " ( Job ) und in the Market-place at night , from ' * My soul is wearied because of murderers . " ( Jeremiah . ) Mr . Beedham preached at Great Glenn in the morning , at Oadby in tue afternoon , and WigatoWn at night . On Monday afternoon Mr . Cooper lectuied at Great Glenn , and in Hutuberstoms GUte , in ttw to-wn , at .-night .-. Touigbt ( Tuesday ) h © is to lecture in Infirmary Square , at seven , and . to meet the Clmrtist shoemakers at eight ; and lo-morrow he is to lecture in Rus&ell Square at seven , and io meet tbe Chartist woolcoiubera at eight Mr . Beedham lentured at Thurmuston on Monday night | He is to lecture at Belgrade to-night ( Tuesday ) and at Anstey to-movrow-nigbt . It is already determined to erect a building by five shiiliEg shares , ta be tak > n only by Chartists . The subscription list amounts already to £ 115 ; no part of tho money , however , will be paid down till Mr . Cooper receives promisea for £ 250 , but that will soon be .
SHEFFIELD . —Political Ih ^ titute ;— Friday evening , we were favoured by a visit f ram Mr . K . K . Philp , of Bath Although no previous notice "was given / except by word of mouth , the large room was crowded by the working men of the town . Mr . Richard Otley was called upon to take the chair , who in a brief speech introducid Mr . Philp to the meeting , who was received amid much cheering . He commenced by showing the extravagant expences of the Queen compared with the President of America , proving to the metting that the more they paid to support royalty the more were they oppressed . I shall not attempt to give you even an outline of tae lecture , which gave general satisfaction , but confine myself to the concluding remarks of Mr , Philp , whiah I am sure will have the desired effect
amongst the really intelligent portion of the people of Sueffieid . He had not come there ta explain the six points of tUe People ' s Charter , for ht > belioved thnt there was rot one in that meeting that did not understand the principles as we . l as he did . He cauie there to promote union and good feeling amongst them , for it was owing tu disunion in the Cha . tist ranks tbat made thair enemies look upon them with contempt . He was sorry to say that he had not been in any large towu ( with the exception of Derby ) but there were divisions . He dui not menu by this to dishearten them , but on the contrary to endeavour to unito all parties , and he hoped he should have- the satisfaction of leaving tho good peoplt ) of Sheffield once more united , —( louU cheering )—that he mieht co to the next town and tell
them that the ptople of Sheffield have buried all their former liifiVrenc-iS , and agreed to ag tuta together for the one ami sole object—the People's Charter . ( Ch « jre . l In one town that he had visited , party feeling ra , n so high , even ia public mf . Ltiiifjs , that he could not refrain from shttiUin / j tears to see the people place themselves in direct opposition against each other , but this he hoped wouki . fi - . r ever cease . For his part he had resolved never ' . tu nenounce any . man that was favourable to the People ' s Charter , even if he did not go quite so fsr as ho did , but that he would hold out the right hand of fellowship to al . He bail felt the lash cf denunciation for a ce : tain line of conduct ho had pursued . This he thought was not right . He claimed the same privilege for himself as he would allow to others , to forward the cau 3 e in every possible way . H < i Would now winelude , pledging himself to agitate for the Charter , the whole Charter , and nothing less than the Charter , with
tenfold vigour , lie again hoped that a union would be come to . He then concluded amidst loud cheering . —A uieinber of the Institute then arose . Ho . said , that to crii-ry out the suggestions of Mr . Philp with regard te a union being formed , he would propose tho following resolution , ' * That four members of tho Political Institute be npj-ointed to wait upon four- members of the Fig-trOe-luntj Association . " This resolution -wassoconded l > y a member ef the last mentioned association . Tilt ) Chairman said that he arose with great pleasure to put this resolution ; a * ' au individual he BDould give it his support It was then put to the meeting and carried uuanimously , nnikl loud cheering , not one hand being held up against it . A vote of thanks was proposed to Mr . Pnilp for bis able lecture and carried . In returning thanks fur the honour that they had done him , lie Baiil he hoped the Fig-tree-lane Association would come to the same unanimous conclusion . —Co / 'm > . po , 7 £ toi : Z .
Fig-Tree-Lane . — -Mr , Philv . —Tnis gentleman visifctd Shemeid on Thursday week , and the same evening addressed the members and frieuds of tbe Charier Association in their room , Fig Tree Laue 'Ihe room was densely crowded . Mr . Puilp delivered a lengthy and t xcellent address ; and , atthe conclusion of his discourse , enrolled twfcnty-thiee new members . On Sunday last , Mr . Pfailp preached in the afternoon to a very large audicuce assembled in the Haymarket . Mr . P . preached a . Fecontl sermon in the evening , in the Fig . reo Line room , which was crowded almost to suffocation by a highly respectable audience , -who appeared to be well pleased with Mr . Philp ' B exposition of the prinicples of Chartism . READING—The Chartists of this place had a soiree on the 17 th . Several excellent speeches were made .
BXRMIHGHAM . —State of the Movement . — The Chartists of this important town have determined to exsrfc themselves to extend tLeir organisation for the Charter , und have appointed an Executive Committee , CJinpoFsd of one member from each association . Meetings are held in various parts of tho town on Monday and Tuesday evenings , and it has been determined to hold open air meetings in various patts of the town , to arouse the people to a sense of their degraded bituation . .-. Monday ' s' Meeting . —An open air meeting was held at the Railway Stition , Duddesten-row , on Monday evening , at half-past seven . Mr . G 3 or ^ e White addressed them at great lencth , arid explained the manner in -which the working classes were oppressed and plundered Isy the present system . He showed the utter
hopelesfntss of" looking to the present Parliament for an amelioration of their condition , and dwelt "with peculiar stress on the necessity of the tneiv of Birmingham entering heart and soul into the present struggle for life and liberty . He called on every man present to join the National Charter Association , and uso their is flaenco to induce their fellow workmen and neighbours to follow xiieir example , and concluded by declaring his determination of holding a meeting on that spot evtry Monday evening , arid of walking in procession with those who thought proper ta accompany him to the Association Room , with those who intended to enrol their name . " . A number of men present wished to forma piocesdon taen , but it waa ultimately agreed to defer it whilst next Monday evening , when all those who are tired of slavery ,, and nnxious for freedom , are expected to attend- Dovm with tyranny J
Association Room , Aston Strekt . —The usual weekly meeting of the Ass uiatipa -was held at their Toom , in Aston-slreet , on Monday evening last . An address was delivered l > y Mr . Smith Lindon , and arrangements tnt ; -trt into for taking the ballot for the forthcoming election of the Executive ; at'ter which the meeting separated . Steeliiouse Lane Meeting *—The meeting of this body was hvld at ihe Ship Inn , Steelhouse-laue , on Tuesday evening last , Mr . Taylor , printer , in the chair . Tiie meeting was adtlri-saed by Mr . Mason and others , and a conversation touk paace as te tha : best mode of Btrcngthenhig tte C ' aartist cause in Birmingham ; after which tho-meetirig seMtvUed .
SuoEMAKEKs' Association . —The members of this patriotic faud ^ onuected with the ' . National Charter Association h id their weekly meeting , at tho Britannia Inn , Peck-lace , on Tuesday evening last , Mr . Ht-aley in the chair . The meeting was auuresied by Mr . E . P . Mead , and Mr . George White ; ami , after choosing three meiubeis to their Council , Mr . Henley was chosen a member of the Birmingham > xeoutive , and Air . iMagee , secretary uf the Association . A lecturer will attend every I ' . i ' Sdaygrtmiiig . Black Horse Association—An nddress was delivered to this . ' spirited body on Tuesday evening last , by that talented advocate of the people ' s cause , Mr . Thomas Soar . < : ¦ ' : ""'• -. V
Lie Waste and Stoubbridge .- —Mt . Greoige White addressed a large and ^ enthusiastic meeting in the open air , at C'os s Walk , Lye 1 Waste , on Wednesday last , Mr . Grjodfellow in the chair . This district , which Las been the seat of the late riots , as they were termed , promises to be , ere long , the strong hold of Cbartisn ) . Mr . White lectured on the same evening in Staurbrid ^ e . STOCKPOIIT . —At a public meeting held on Monday night , at tho Mil ? gate hall , resolutions were submitted for the fiinnh-ii of an association . on . .. tha Sturge principle of C-mspitie Suffrage . A majority of the meetinc :, however , tbpugut the already eitablished Chartist orj-juiiz v . ioivpreferable , and an amendnient to tbat effect was accordingly carried .
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LONDON . —— Wai . worth . —On Whit-Monday a grand public festival took place at the Monpelitsr Tavern , Walwoith , to assist in defraying the expences incurred by the late demonstration . ; Lambeth . — -The members of this locality are determined to assist by all meansi in their power ui obtaining a better organizitioncf tee nieUopolis , which they con-BiSer the plan of the Executive is calculated to effect , if properly carried out The existence of a District Council in . the Metropolis is a thing long wished for , and at last adopted . Mr . Dron and Mr . Jago were elected by the above locality to attend at the Star Coffee House , Golden-lane , on Sunday , June 5 tb , as delegates to the sbove body . Wandswortu !—The Chartists of this locality met » t the bouse cf . Mr . Fox , Frogmore , on Monday evening , when , after the usual business was transacted , the nomination for the General Council was proceeded with .
DUBLIN , —The Irish Uuivtrsil Suffrage Associa - tion held its usual weekly meeting on Sunday , Mr . W " Connor in the cbair . Mr . H . Clarke , sub Secretary , read the miriutes . Several new members were proposed , and some subscriptions handed in from the country , by Mr . Q'HigRins ; after wLich , Mr . Freebairn , in a most feeling and affecting opae ' eh ' , took a review uf tho present disastrous condition of the working classes in both countries , ground down to the earth , as they w « re by tyranny and oppresaion of every kind . He plainly shewed"that this was all owing to the selfish legislation of the clase-retuxned Members of that assembly called in mockery the People ' s Hwu-se . Saveral ether speakers afterwards addressed the meeting . BRA 1 DFO »» . —LITTLE HORTON . —On Sunday evening last Mr . Smith lectured in the Chartist ' s Association Room , on the Repeal of the Legislative Uriioa 6 f Ireland .
GLASGOW . —The Directors of the Lanarkshire Universal Suffrage Association met in theit Hall ; College Open , on Monday evening last , Mr . Kyle in the chair . The minutes of last meeting : being read , Mr . Lairig moved that the resolution of the public meeting held in St . Aim's Church , on the evening of the 16 th instant , recommending the directera to call a general meeting of the Association to consider the proprietyxi dissolving the Lanarkshire Universal Suffrage Association and resolving themselves into an Association , "to'bu called the Glasgow Charter Association , lie approval of . The resolution was unanimously a » resd 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 .
ASHTON—The Chartists of Ashton held a very large tea party in their room , < m Fiiday , when above 350 sat down . After tea , the - . public' were admitted ax twopence each , and the company amused thamselves by siuging , dancing , and reciting uotii a late hour , OIDHAM .-Mr . Storer , of Ashton , delivered an address in the Chartist R' »!> i , G-rfiaves-street , ou Sun-. Iay last , "wherein he d ? pk v . ed scenes of tho most appalling destitution produced by the present system . , On Tuesday Evening , Mr . John West delivered a most energetic address tu tin attentive audience , aud gave general satisfat-Lion . MANCHESTER . —The ftistivn-cufcters of this town have formed themselves into an association in conjunction with the Jfational Charter Association . Nominations to the General Council , Manchester . —Mr . P . M . MDouull , surgeon ; Kev . W . V . Jackson .
GOAIiSHOOK DALE . —On Monday evening Mr . Mogg Uelivered a leccurs at Watling-street , Wei * Un (? toa , ant ' , afterwards formed an association ; between sixty and seventy names were taken down ; about fiyo hundred persous attended the lecture . On the « a , me evening , T . Halford , of Cnalbrosik Dale , deliver « d a lecture to about four thousand peraone , at Oakon Gates ; from sixty to one hundred names were taken . An association has been recently formed there , hy .- the joint exertions of Messrs . Mog ^ and Halford , whith , in less thtHi one month , has enrolled more than one hundred members . On Tuesday uvtming , Mr . Mogg delivered a lecture to an attentive aiidience , at Broseley , where vre intend to start ail assneiation ; forty-five names were taken . At C » aibrock Dilo , in less tbaa ten week 3 , we have enrolled in ore than two hundred and sixty members in our aasooiation . -
NEWCASTLE .-Tbe Provisional Committee . selected by the delegate meeting in South . shields oit the iGtb . inst ., to c ^ rry th « pla'fi for the better organigation of the Chartists of Noi ; bu : « iherhiud and Durham into effect , met on Sumlay tifi : raoon in' Mr . Biniis ' s . Nun-stre « t , New&ist . le , Mr . S ej > f : en Binns in the cbair on the motion of Mr . K : il Mr Sinclair was elected Provisional S . crttary , -who giiv . i a very satisfactory report of the business conferred upon htm at the laet meeting . Afior aomo discussion upon ' the subject , tho following re . soluiion waa a . i ; rtied to uuaniraousiy s—¦ " That the Secretary be instrurted to correspond with the other diatmta , directing tn »\ i attention to tbe plan as inserted in the fourth ivge of last Saturday ' s Star , and reqaesting to know ttie opini-. m of the Chartists ia each , locality respectively upon tho subject , and
soliciting their co-operation if it should meet their approbation . " Several sums were paid in to th » Missionary Fund , and if tho districts continue to come up as some of thorn have already done , we hope to bo prepared to engage ; v missionary in the course of a week or two j ; ind as it will answer no Sord purpose to 8 aga »; s a lecturer until we have a sutneitney in hand to defray his exper > ce 3 hither , and remunerate him for his first month's labours , we hope all persons desirous of a lecturer being enpiiged , will at-nd a . remittance for that purpose , to Mr . J . Sinclair , No . 3 , Pipewellgate ^ ' Qa ' tes bead , who was elected treasurer for that fund . A firatrrate lecturer will be engaged as Boon as tlie necessary fnr . ds are procured . The meeting adjourned until next Sunday , ivhen it will be resumed in the same place at three o'clock in the afternoon .
The Chartjsts of Newca » tle held their weekly business nieoting in the Cti'irsif t" Hall , Goat inn , Cloth Market , as usual . The minutes of the former meeting were read acd conflnned , and thanks were voted to Mr . Duncombe , MiP ., for hia speech ia tte House of Commons . BRSSTOt . —Complete Suffkaoe Union ' . —A rneeting of this union was held m Tuesday night , May 25 th . at Mr . Clement ' s , 2 , Lowor Cast ! e-street . About twenty-two persons assembled , who were admitted by ticket ,: and at half-past eight , Mr . dement ' s commenced busiiifesa by reading over a rule of the union to the following t ffect : — " Taut no person be allowed to
address a private meeting of this association , except he be a member . " He then read a few of the objects of the nnion , snd stated that Joseph Stnrge went further than the Charter , that . is , that a persoii convicted of crime should hnve a vete five mw : ths after the con elusion of bis punishment . —( Of course the rule read p revented any contradiction . ) A question was put to Mv . CJement , ho # many members wtra present , or if any ? And the answer was , " there are none . '" No discussion was allowed ; an iEtiaiitiw was given that a public meeting would be held for discussion , which would be opsn to all . We w « rH likewise told that the trades were coming out .
STROT 7 D . —Afc a meeting of Chartists on Monday , the following resolutions were carried unanimously : — " Xhat we , the members of the Stroiid Charter Association , viewing the wars at China and India as unholy , unjust , and antS-Christian on 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 , t '« cripple the resources of war by non-enliiatlng and abotaiiiing from exciseable articles . " — ' That we , the mem hers of the Stroud Charter Association , hail with deii « ht tiie opportunity
afforded the electors ! and non-elec ;; ors of JJottingham to establish the purity of election , aud urge upon them to US 3 every exertion to maintain the power of the peopla in the election of Mr ; Joseph Sturge . 'W > That the Council of the Stroud Churua- ABsociation deem it a duty incumbent upon them to render every assistance in their power to enhance the c . iujo of the people , and destroy tae power t / f the art . v ' ei- ' sary . We , therefore , earnestly , though paiufully , 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 to come to the help of the weak against the mighty . "
MON K WE arm oi ; m —Since the last report from this place , the Ghartiats have been ueprived of the uaa of the room in which they niet ; tte iamllord alleging as a reason for refusing the further use of the room , that he was afraid that he ¦ vrould ba deprived p'f . kis license by the magistrates if he peroiittecl the Chartists to meet in Mb house . This is mere pretence ; he ought to have considered this danger , if danger there was , before he consented to let his robin for tbe purpose . The fact is , he expected i 6 would be the meana of drawing a
good drinking trade to his hoasfe ; in this we are happy to know that he -was difiappointed , as at the close of last meeting , not more than four persons out of 200 or 300 remained to drink . Th ^ Chartists of Sunderland , because they are almost universally teetotallers in practice , cannot gtt a room at a public house ; we are gl * : of this , and wish tbat publicans throughout the country hat ! similar cause to refuse the use of their rooms . This practice of holding our njeetings aV public-housts . we regard as : atteudec ! with many injurious consequences to ourcause . — Correspondent .
Failswouth . —The Rev . W . V . Jackson lectured in the ChartGr Asaociatiou Room , ou Tuesday evening , tea erewded audience .
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HTDE .-A publio meetinf of ihe inhabitants of Hyde , vraVheld in the WofkingMen ' s HaU , on Wednesday ^ vening , to adopt the remonstrance to tha Hous ? of Commons . % . S ^^ ntr ^ oved manias called to tbe chair . Mr . Candlet nioved the remonstrance , which was seconded . ^ -Ji ; said it required a few observations from him , aa it had been recommended by their representativaa in the Convention ; he would therefore »« l "W * " monstranoft . and Ut it sneak for itself . He then
read theremaristranoe , and begged l eayeio move its adoption ; and sat down amid load cheers . \ Mr John Leach seconded the motion , and itj was supported by Mr . Dixon , from Wigan . On the remonstrance being put from the chair it was- carried without a dissentient A vote of thanks was given to T . Duncombe ; Esq ., M . P ., forhts adyocacy of the people ' s cause in the House of Commons , on the motion for the people ' s agents to be heard at the bar of the House . Thanks being voted to the Chairman , the meeting separated . Ssvoral new " members were enrolled . ,
DuKENFiBtD .--:-Oa Monday last * a man whose saino , we understand , is James O ^ aen , lost his life in the following manner ; The deceased was employed as a browman at the new pit at Dukerifield , and oh the day in question had been putting 011 a new rope , and whilst doing something with It at thoiop of the pit , he was precipitated froin the top to the bottom of the shafs , a distance of more than three hundred yards . The deceased has iei ' t a widow and seven children to lament his loss . O £ . B BASFORD . —Mr . W . Dean Taylor has been nominated here as the candidate for the next Executive Council / ' ¦ '¦ ' . '¦ ' x '" '¦ :- . - ; : ¦ ¦ ' ¦¦ ' ' . '' : ¦'" Salford . —Mr . Campbell , the general secretriy of the National Charter Association lectured hei-o . on Sunday night to a respectable audience .
RarcLiFFE Bridge . —Mr . James leach , of Man cheater , lectured in the Chartist Association Room , ia thifl place , on Tuesday evening last , " On the pivsent distress of the working classes , and the cause of that disttesa . " ¦' . , ¦ ¦ ' - . ' ¦ ¦; . .. - ; -, ...- ¦; - . - ' : ,. . - . ¦ ., '¦ ¦ "¦ .. - Cxeckueaton . —On Monday evening last , there was nn tint-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 Cnarter . Several members were enrolled .
Do . vcASTEE—Oa Sunday evening last , Mr . S . P « itkes , of ShEffidd , prteached an excellent sermon in our Association Room ; Chartism is gaining grouna in tmg aristocratic town ; and "we believe that a visit from Mr Feargus O'Connor would be the means of a great ingutiiering to the National Charter Association in this place . ;¦ ' . ¦ .- ¦' - = -. .. '¦ ' "¦ " [ ¦ ' . )¦; ; - ¦/ , ¦¦' . . .. . NfiWARK . —Mr . P . M . Brophy , from Ddblin , deliveredtwo lectures here on M ' oaday and Tuesday evenings , to very attentive audiences .
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( Private Correspondence . ) There have been made , during the past week , very ener £ i ? iic efforts ( coDKia ' ering his advanced ag . ) on the part of Mr . Daiiiel O'Connell , to wake the genius of Repeal a « itation in Ireland ; which , since the astouading fact that all the money , ten thousand excellent , good pounds sterling poured into the coffers of the Corn Exchange , had dwindled unaccountably down to . somo ^ 200 Was published to the world , had bstaken itself to ths 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 hebdorna . cJai farce regularly , their ' associates" were few , their audience miserable , and ^ hcir collections , even swelled now and then by a pecuniary god ^ send from the folks t ' other side of the Atlantic , nothing to boast of .
In this crisis an effort Was tndispensible , and despatches were forwarded to the father of the movement , explaining * to him tho ricketty state of bis bautling—that as much a the dry nurses to Whom he had oommitied it could answer for was its existence till ho arrived . He came , and though it would have been more paternal to let the sinking infant die decently in seclusion and quietude , he insisted on dressing up the eickly brat in tho most showy manner , and again presenting it to the ^ public gaz 3 far admiration and acceptance . A few have been deceived by the momentary hectic which illuminated . the puny creature ' s cheek , but common-sense ( an excellent jadge in these matters ) pronounced everywhere that the original constitution of the babe had been unsound , and that it would be useless to go to further expence to prolong an existonce painful to itself and its friends , and contemptible to ita enemies . Repeal , wa mean Dan O'ConneU' 8 Repeal , is as good as dead .
We have hadjSir , all kinds of ward meeting ? , at which the Liberator pablicly declared that he kuew of no . other society in Ireland than the ^ 'Repeal Association , at the same moment that our petition \ was handed to him , and from which he shrank like the devil from holy water . The fact is , he is rabid with jfealousy and diaappointment ; he , finds the people are beginning to think , despitaVall his repeated oifersto be not only-purse-bearer , but sensecan ier to the Irish nation ; : " , ; ¦ ¦¦ " Ireland , " said he , some time ago , ** has nothing to hope /' roai a Parliament roturned by the present consutueucies . " " In the name of heaveiij then , " said as sensible ex Ropea-Vr to me , "how does he txpict to get the Unioa Repealed Without goine to
woi-x m oarnoit to change those constituencies ? " Bah J Dm does not care a : button kboiit anything whatever beyond getting in the floppors . By the way this rcay be called , in contradistinciion to the former or > ' buttonagitatioh , " the "farthing movement , " no one being to contribute more than one farthitig a week , unless they lik >) . to do eo . Surely this is the last kick . The Lord Mayor told his dupes that he did not immediately say it himself , but some very smart and trn £ t-worthy persons had , that there were 1 , 500 , 000 forged signatures to the Chartist petition , and that though it was a vtry allowable thing to break men ' s heads at an election in Cork for exercisiDg tho franchise as they wished , yet to write another man ' s name even with
his own consent , on a petition sheet , was an offence of heinous turpitude , and what l om Ray had never yet done , aufaU&s he was at caligraphio manufacture . He appealed to the two or three gathered together , ( in Borne oase 3 . their ward meetings numbered at their most thronged period from ten to fifteen ) whether ho had done well for Ireland . He had got soyerai hundred thousand poundB for hirnself and his family , "bui then ho had given up the forty shilling freeholders , and settled the tithe rent charge firmly on the landlords , who would oerer ask io from the proplo , av course . Ho had put Lalor Shiel into ParJiamerit , and made him a commissioner of Greenwich Hospital , since when he had never squeaked for repeal a ; all at all . Wasn't that doing
ftood to tho people ? He had shipped on ? Marcu 3 Costelld and benched Brady ,- wasn't that serving repeal ? He had got his son in-law a place in the Hanaper , since when a change came o ' er the spirit of his dveami and he was not now a repealer . But -why should he tire them with a list of their triumphs , of all those who had sold and given up counties , and abandoned boroughs , for the sweets aud substantialg of . office ? Let him now come to their civic successes . Behold ia him the AVhittington of real life ; Some said his being Lerd Mayor so late in life savoured of a political anti-olimax ; but he was sure they were members of the late corporauon . Look to the right and then to the left . On one side was Fusbos
Arkins , a shear fellow—a greater adept than Lord Stanley himself at thimble-rig— -how did the tag-rag and bob-tail of Mary ' s lane shout in that eventful hour when his tailoi" was made his sword bearer I Some were disposed to call this anomalous , but that was absurd . What matter who was sword-bearer favhini wi o had a vow registered in Heaven never to u ^ e o ne , unless , indeed , it was when iio mustered thei 500 , 000 Tipperary boys , to put down those rascally : Chaftists ,: who refused to starve . magnanimously : On the other side was Pickinninrty J-urnn —he begged his pardon , now Curran . He nmin-( aJued , no matter what was said to the contrary , that he was big enough to carry the mace , even when they got the Greek crosses added to it—for
although tuch crosses were not orthodox , they were better than none , and they should have them . Would not Goohist lift up its head and rejoice now the bt oken little grocer was entrusted with so congenial in ensign of authority ? There should bo a general clatter of coffins , and rattling of breastplates , ia , that death's head and cross bones locality .:. ' : . . ; Lobk next at Marshal Saxe-Reynolds- how gently he has roared—that jwhilom made the welkin ring—since ; he " was made chief seller of distressed chaira , tables , bedsteads , &o . ' Tom' Ray , too , he had helped to put in his terms , and Tom would soon come to terms with any Government thai would give him a better salary than they could —thus they would get rid of part of the
Com-Exchange dead weight , and make room for some one else , As to poor Clements , he did not know well what to do with hirn ; he ; and Councillor Davi > , were two such very clever feUowg , and so indr ; pendent , that despite Lord Ebriagton's antherjaa , they gave up all the business they had ( none at all > and joined that association . Ten shillings a-week was a poor allowance for such promising young men , and even that must be stopped now tha £ IG , COO was expended . Let the generous people , then , for whom so much has been done , and from whom so little has been taken ,, come forth with their farthings- ^ the ininute f 150 , 000 is collected in'
farthings , or that 4 , 000 , 000 male adults sign a j > etjtioi » in Ireland in its . •> favour , that moment Repeal is carried—unless the money slips away , as ' the £ 1 S , OOJ cLicf , as : fast as it comes in . The Liberator ' s appealH were answered by a cheer for buttons . cUU « 'tf'aJ | for farihiogs , and the same ¦ •?¦ pr . refreal . JiS 3 EwESfi ^^ I will report progress , and , if you allowTttiftaRdfc I * ^ adventuro a sketch of some of ourpublicjSaSir «? a »^ X . ' Mthe liberal press of Ireland is \\ bet ^ WmS ^^^ . Insn way—that is , they most impa « SjMa || 81 SJ ^ JS ^ Vv any view ; of tho oase , save their oMmWSmi ^^ VZ « rSrwho that master is , Mr , sg »^^^^ iL Rror . sfer . wV- wss fn . rr »*> d out of ¦*'¦ mMHWnlfe ®^ V *^ AT daring to defend himself , can tell . if ^^ WfW ^ > . ^ S ^ i
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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-ncseproduct600/page/1/
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