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      ( From our own Correspondent . ) Xteofsa to FKiascs O'Cokhgh , Esq . —The dinner to Fearjsus O'Connor , Esq ., the chief of the people ' s eboiee , will 1 « given in the Theatre , on Wednesday , the 29 th . Colonel Thompson and his eon , Mr . Thompson , juil , late candidate for the representation of the Tower Hamlets , and tie Rev . Wm . flilL Editor of the Northern Star , are invited and expected guests . Ladies' tickets , la . 6 d . ; Gentlemen ' s , 2 s . ; % ij b * had of the following persons : —Mr . Julian Barney , agent for the A OTiAera Star , No . 48 , Nuxeery-street , Wicker , and No , 29 , St . Tnomas-street , Portobello-street ; Mr . Otley , No , 4 , South-street , Sh effield Moor ; Mr . Boxton , news-agent , No . 80 , South-street , Sheffield Moor ; Mr . Lingard , newsagent , Division-street ; Mr . Ludlam , news-agent , Watson Walk ; Mr- Frost , news-agent , No . G-i , Br idge-street ; and Mr . Pashley , Silver-street Head .

      Bboktebse O'Bbtex . —This gentleman has declined ihe invitation to be present at ihe demonstration on the 29 th , but will visit Sheffield on Monday , October 11 th , then to deliver a lecture or course of lectures . Roihebhak . —Mr . Julian Harney visited Rotherhsm on Wednesday , September 3 : h ; placards , of which the following is a copy , announced Mr . Har-Dey s coming : — " A pubiic meeting will be held in ill . Ross ' s Club Room . Quarry Hill , on Wednesday evening , September 8 th , to commence at seven o ' clock , when Mr . G . Julian Harney will address the meeting on the existing evils of society , and their remedy . The attendance of all classes is earnestlv requested . " At seven o ' clock the room was

      crowded , when Mr . John Wilson was called to ihe chair , who opened the business by introducing Mr . Harney . Mr . Harney then commenced by shewing briefly , hnt pointedly , the general distress of the working class , the bankruptcy of the middle class , and the insecurity of the aristocracy , proving there was something rotten in tbe state . " The lecturer next considered what was the remedy ; and , after shewing ihe utter and complete failure of the Reform Biil ( proceeded to comment upon the * ' three great meisures of commercial reform , " lately proposed to the country by the Whigs , shewing up the hypocrisy and rascality of that faction in first rate style . The lecturer next assailed the Tories , and drew down the justly-merited ridicule of hia hearers noon that faction , while exposing their " Church

      Extension" and ** Religious Education" fallacies . Mr . Harney after speaking for an hour and a-half concluded his address by appealing to his hearers to seek knowledge , ro get understanding , that they might know the cause of their wrongs and ascertain for themselves the real remedy . He concluded uniri the enthusiastic plaudits of his hearers . Mr . Jowett moved the thanks of the meeting to Mr . H&raey , given unanimously . There is a strong revival ftf Caartism here ; the renowned Dr . Smiles formed here lately a " Fox and Goose Qub , " of its doings , rumour saith noi , ii' the caekling bodies will only * ' come oat of their Ehell , " we promise them th e Chartisis will shew them fair play , and con-Tince them into the bargains ( if open to conviction ) of the absurdity of their brick-and-mortar humbug .

      Sc . vdat Evesisg Lecttbe . —It was announced in the Star of Saturday last , that Mr . Barker would lecture on Sunday evening , on " the necessity of abolishing the House of Lords . " Mr . Barker should have lectured od the previous Sunday , but failing to attend sent word that he was ill of the toothe-acbe , and cculd not attend , upon which Messrs . Harney , Gill , and Otley , endeavonred to supply his place ; in the course of last week word came to the room that Mr . Barker would lecture as last Sunday , accordingly the sama wasannonnced ( as jnst stated ) in the Star . At seven o ' clock , the hour when the lecture should have commenced , Mr . Barker had not made his appearance , and some time after that the audience bepsning to exhibit signs of impatience , Mr .

      M'K-itriekc-Siredto read Mr . O'Connor ' s speech at the Crown and Anchor , London , white waiting for the lecturer ; this was cordially agreed to . Mr . M'Kettrick then read the speech which was listened to with the most lively interest , and had it not been ihe Sabbath evening , wonld hare been responded to by t ' ne enthusiastic cheers of the assembly . Mr . H&rney wished to know if the lecturer had yet arrived ? Jtapppeared he had not ; Mr . Harney said scch conduct was highly disgraceful and unless Mr . Barker reached the room before the close of the v ening ' s proceedings , he { Mr . H . ) should move a Tote of censure upon him . ( Hear , hear ) A call was now made upon Mr . Gill , when , after a pause , that gentleman came forward and said though he

      had not come there to lecture , still rather than the meeting should be disappointed , he would endeavour to Supply Mr . Barker ' s absence , at the Eametime he buss express his regret that any professing Chartist should be bo far unmindful of bis dnty as to cause such insult by hi 3 absence at a public assembly . Mr . Gill then proceeded to comment upon one of the Manchester propositions lately submitted to ihe South Lancashire lecturers , namely , ** What are the effects produced upon sockty by the law of primogeniture ! " In answer , Mr . G . observed that he was one of those who believed that the earth , the air , and the water belongs equally to the whole human race , yet we have a class living by the public robbery of the whole of the earth , and

      more or less of the water too . Mr . G . then showed that a landed aristocrat , who has inherited from hi 3 brigand fathers some thousands of acres of land , leaving these to his eldest son , to the exclusion of the rest of his children , the effect was to throw these , the unprovided members of the family , upo » the public . Thus were the people doubly robbed ; robbed in the first place , of their right in the land ; and secondly , robbed through the taxe 3 to support those branches of the aristocracy driven by the law of primogeniture to subsist by public plunder . One of the effects of the l * w of primogeniture was the giving to the junior members of the aristocracy , a monopoly of the honours and emoluments of the aroy , the chnrch , and ihe l&w ; with respect to the

      army , he considered it a national curse—( hear ); but npposing it to bs the reverse of this ; suppose he admitted that a standing army was necessary , still look at the monstrous injustice exhibited in it 3 ranks ; a private might serve , he would not say hi 3 country , but his country ' s despotism—( hear , hear)—for ten , or even twenty years , he may have borne the toikoins march , he may have been wounded , he mvr 'midst the battle ' s rage have faced death in the most awful form ? , still shall some boy , some aristocratic sprig , step over the head of the veteran , and take to himself the so-called honour of the profession . Again , look at the church ; it was the younger sons of the aristocracy , reeking from the Sl-hy debaucheries of collegiate life , that acquired

      all the high scats of the temple . After commenting upon the abuses of the law , Mr . G . Bhowed that the calamities borne by the colonists of this country were caused by aristocratic rule ; in proof thereof , he cited the blood-stained history of India . Mr . G . then took np the subject of the National Debt , showing that the debt was contracted for the purpose of having a fund ont of which the otherwise unprovided-foi members of the aristocracy might live ; the Chartists were charged with beicg spoliators ; he repudiated the charge ; he would no : take the land from the aristocracy , but to JtiieTe the people he wonld wi « h to see them compelled to pay the debt which they had contracted for their ( the aristoctraey ' s ) own benefit . ( Hear ,

      hear . ) Mr . G . then offered some observations upon the subjec . of competition , aad concluded a lengthy and truth-telling discourse by appealing to the meeting to labour with heart snd soul for the obtainment of that political power which would enable them to break down the law of primogeniture , snd with it every other abuse of the present aristocratic system . Mr . Harney said , Mr . Barker not having reached the room , and not having thought proper to send e ? en an excuse for his absence , and this being the second time he had disappointed & public andience Hseveral voices , " this is the third time ;")—well if it was the third time so much the worse . ( Hear . J H = should now move the resolution of which he had given notice —( hear)—but would first move that Mr .

      Ciarktontake the chair ; this being seconded , was agreed to . The chairman said this was the third time Mr . Barker had deceived a meeting called in that room . On the first occasion , he ( the chairman ) had seen Mr . Barker at twelve o ' clock of the daj on the evening of whieh he should have leciured . He then promised ]?> a ( the chairman ) that be would not fail to attend ; but he never came . Last Sunday he sent word he wasunweil ; but at a time when it was impossible to make any proper arrangements for a person to fill his place ; this time he had not deigned to send any word why he was . absent . Mr , Harney moved his resolution , "That Mr . Barker having for the th : rd time deceived a public assembly , to whom he had engaged to lecture , without , upon the

      present occasion , vven ? howing the courtesy to statf why he has absented himself ; this meeting consider ! the conduct of that person highly censurable , ant do hereby express their marked disapprobation o his usgecileoanly behaviour . " Mr . Joseph Oxlej seconded the resolution ; a gentleman , who stated hi worked with Mr . Barker said he believed Mr Barker had gone on a pleasure trip into Derby Ehire ! He wished the resolution to be withdrawn Mr . M'Kettrick considered they were not to be in ' suited with impunity by Mr . Barker , or any on < ^^ ! he e ave hia he&rtT snnnnrt ti » trie resolution

      iwo other gentlemen supported the rtsolation an < strongly censured Mr . Barker . The Chairman pu tee resolution , -which was carried with only on dissentient . Thanks having been voted to Mr . Gil for his able address . The meeting then dissolved . Assocutios Mxktisg . —K public meeting of th members and friends of the association was held oi Monday , in the room , Fig-tree Lane , Mr . Clarksoi id the chair ; Mr . M'Kettrick brought under th notice of the meeting the propriety of holding ! delegate meeting in Sheffield , for the purpose 0 considering the best meani of extending the organi » ti » n of the association to the disiricU aroum

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      Sheffield , and for the better uniting the towns of Barnsley , Doncaster , Rotherbam , and Chesterfield with the town of Sheffield , making of the latter the centre in the agitation for the future to be carried on in this part of the country ; he wished the delegate meeting to be held for another reason , namely , that-they might secure the co-operation of the towns he had just named in the forthcoming demonstration , ia honour of FeargU 3 O'Connor . ( Hear , hear . ) After some other pointed remarks , Mr . M'Kettrick concluded by moving " That a delegate meeting be held in this room ( Fig-tree Lane ) on Sunday next , September the 19 th , at the hour of one o ' clock , for the purpose he had Wore named , and that the following ? ^ . act 5 be requested to send delegates , namely , t Rotherh hesterfield

      Barnsley , Doncaser , am , C and Brampton , Attercliffe , Darnall , Ecdesfield , Handsworth , Grimesthorpe , Stannington , Wortley , Dronfield , Crookes , Heeley , Oughbridge , Wadsl ey , Eckington , Woodhouse , Beighton , Hackenthorpe , and Ecclesall . " Mr . OwnsSaw seconded the motion , —agreed to unanimously . ( It is requested that the delegates will bring word of the number of tickets wanted in their respective localities for the dinner to be given to Feargus O'Connor , Esq .. on the 29 th . ) Mr . Hamey said , with great pleasure he had voted for Mr . M'Kettrick's motion , but he was anxious that if possible something should be done in the way of holding village meetings in the neighbourhood of Sheffield this week , without waiting for the delegate meeting . On Sunday , on Tuesday , and Wednesday , Dr . M'Douall would be

      lecturing in the Town Hall ; on Thursday evening he ( Mr . H . ) wonld have to attend the meeting of the committee for obtaining the liberation of the political prisoners ; but on Friday and Saturday evenings he would be at liberty , and would be happy to attend any meetings called fox those eveningB . ( Hear , hear . ) A conversation ensued , in which MeBsrs . M'Kettrick , Otley , Green and others took part ; it was ultimately resolved " That parties wishing Mr . Harney ' s assis " - tance should communicate and make arrangements with Mr . H . for the holding of meetings . " Mr . Otley read a letter from Mr . Peter Shorrocks , of Manchester , enclosing four pounds , a sovereign each to be . given to the four victims of Whiggery lately liberated from Northallertongaol , Messrs . Penthorpe ,

      Benison , Thomas Booker , and William Booker . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Harney said , the men of Sheffield were about to give a public dinner to Feargus O'Connor , in testimony of the sense entertained by them of his distinguished services in freedom ' s cause ; tnat was good , but while all honour was paid to the chief of the cause , he thought that others who had struggled and suffered in that cause should not ; be forgotten . ( Hear , hear . ) He regarded the humblest of those who had been struck down by tyranny ' s shafts , to be as worthy of the people ' s honour as O'Connor himself . ( Hear . ) True , it -was not ' possible to get up public dinners every day , otherwise he would have said let Penthorpe , aBd Benison , and the Bookers have a dinner , as well as O'Connor . ( Cheers . ) This could not be ; but

      tickets to the dinner on the 29 th might be presented to each of the victims , and this would be paying them some respect , God knew not more than their sufferings entitled them to—( cheers)—and sure he was that the presence of the liberated patriots , and the presence of the wives of those yet suffering in the doneeoBs of despotism would be the most acceptable and highly priied boffour they could pay to Mr . O'Connor . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Harney concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that Mrs . Clayton , Mrs . Holberry , Mrs . Marshall , Mrs . Foden , the patriots who bad been liberated from prison , and ( where married ) their wives be gratuitously presented with tickets to the dinner . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Farn seconded the motion . Mr . Otley gave to the

      motion his most hearty support ; it was a glorious feature ; of the present agitation that the working , men could respect the good deeds of their own i order ; they required not that a man should be a , Lord , " or a Squire , to do him honour ; no , it was 1 enough that he was a patriot . ( Cheers . ) This I feeling of self-respect and self-reliance on the I part of the labouring many was a sure and certain 1 guarantee of their ultimate triumph—that the day j would compel the other classes of society to respect them , too . ( Cheers . ) The motion was unanimously ; carried . Mr . M'Ketterick moved the following re-: solution : — " That the New Poor Law framed in | violation of tha British constitution , and carried out l in the zoost inhuman and unchristian spirit , has al-! ways been regarded with detestation and abhorrence by the working classes of Sheffield , the appointing

      ; of the three irresponsible Somerset House bashaws I to superintend the execution of the law being es-[ pecially odious in their estimation , convinced as this ; meeting is that no such power can be placed in the ! hand 3 of individuals without degenerating into—if I not meant for the purposes of-the vilest tyranny ; i and this meeting regards with surprise the proposed ! amendment of the law of which Mr . Koebuck has I given notice , seeing in that so-called amendment a I grievous addition to the evil complained of , and the ; establishment of a despotism which Englishmen will be justified in resisting by every means in their power . We , therefore , call upon the people of Bath ! to demand of their misrepresentative an account of i his conduct upon this and a former occasion when ; he betrayed the principles of Radicalism to the I Tories . " In support of hi 3 resolution , Mr . M'Ket-> t « rick remarked that it would be known to them all

      that Mr . Roebuck was returned at the late election for Bath as an advocate of the people ' s rights , but most foully had he betrayed his trust . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) His conduct in the House of Commons upon the introduction of Mr . Sharman Crawford ' s motion for an amendment of the address would be fresh in their recollection ; he then betrayed the principles he was sent to the House of Commons to defend , and sold the true friends of the people to the Tories , the avowed foes of popular nghi 3 ; and now he came forward with his motion to amend the New Poor Law , by making it a far worse measure , if that were possible , than it even wa 3 at present . ( Hear . ) He proposed to discharge the thre " e Somerset-house Commissioners and veit

      the power held by them in the Home Secretary of State . This was carrying out the principle of centralization with a vengeance ! The tyranny of ihe Somerset-house Bashaws was bad enough , but here the Radical Member for Bath proposed to erect a despotism , unblushing and unveiled . ( Hear , hear . ) Uoles 3 Mr . Roebuck had indeed taken leave of his senses , he ( Mr . M'Kettrick ) must say that he regarded him as the most sublime of humbugs . — ( Cheers . ) Entertaining theEe views , he had deemed it his duty to bring forward the resolution he had just proposed , and he thought , if the people of Bath did their duty , they would ning their sham Radical member overboard . ( Che * rs )—Mr . Stokes seconded the resolution . —Mr . Harney said he should give to

      the resolution hia support . The resolution denounced the New Poor Law , and in every word of denunciation of that law he most cordially concurred . It was one of the blackest acts of class-le £ islaf : on That law was passed for the three-fold purpose of reducing the wages of labour , bringing the peoplo to live on a coarser sort of food , and thinning tha populations ( Hear , hear . ) The framers of the law calculated that by making the poor-house a terror to the people , they would drive them from seeking relief , and thus place them at the mercy of the employocriGy of the country . A man—an agricultural labourer , say—deprived of employment , and having no resource but the parish , Bohcits relief . This , without the walls of a workhouse , ia denied him ;

      he mast break up his home , he must consent to be confined in a place more like a prison than ought else , there to be separated from his wife and children , otherwise he may perish—he may die . The man shrinks with horror from entering the accursed place , over the gates of whieh he thinks he sees written in letters of blood , what the poet imagined he saw inscribed over the gates of hell . * ' No hope enters here . " He returns to his latu employer , and whereas he before had ten shillings a week , he now offers his labour at nine shilling * the week ; his offer is accepted ; but to make waj Tor him another man working at a high wage is discharged ; but this man has as great a horror oi the . Bistile as the frc 3 h man , and he , rather than become its inmate , will labour for eight shillings

      the week . Thus was it calculated thi 3 hated law would allow the slave-drivers to grind down tkeir serfs . ( Hear . ) It required no speech-making to show them that if their wages were reduced they muet necessarily be brought to a worse diet ; but a word or two upon the assertion he had made that the law was framed to thin the population . A numerous people had always been a cause of dread to tneir oppressors . Now , in the jrood old times they had a capital method of thinning the population ; that was , to set the people to cut each others' throats . ( Hear . ) Not so many years since an Englishman had but to be told that a Frenchman wore wooden shoes , and swallowed frog soup , and was his natural enemy , not forgetting also that one Englishman could thrash five Frenchmen , and forthwith John Bull was ready to march to " murder as enemies men he never saw . "

      This was capital work for the oppressors : it eased them © f their fears , for this wiadpipe-slipping art" is a game at which two must play . Now , French Republicans were not the men to Btand idly by , and allow themselves to be butchered , so they struck blow for blow ; they struck heavy , and they streck hard . ( Cheers . ) They had all heard of ** The Duke of York's March : " he wondered whether they meant the Diike ' B march to Valenciennes , or his

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      double-quick trot back again . ( Laughter arid cheers . ) Two birds , yoa see , were killed with one stone ; French Republicans were butchered , and the surplus population of England was knocked on the head . But that method wouldn ' t do now ; they were bound over in eight hundred millions to keep the peace , and dared not go to war . ( Cheers . ) It might be all rery well to knock down Chinamen ' s forts at Hong Kong—( laughter)—and batter down Mehemet Ali ' s castles , but they were widely different matters to engaging in an European war . Why , they could not carry on a peace , how the devil then were they to carry on a war ? ( Cheera . ) Again , they had not public opinion on their side ; the voice of the people was opposed to war , hence they oould not keep down

      the population by the old means . Well , the Whigs in turning over the pages of the Bible , which they never did but , like their father , the Devil , to extract evil from its pages—( cheera and laughter)—lighted upon the history of one King Pharaoh , who in days of yore ruled a distant land . It appears he was sorely troubled on account of the fast increase of a Go ple he held in bondage ; he therefore decreed a w , ordering the male children of the people he dreaded to be put to death as soon as born . This was the lawgiver for the Whigs ; upon his law thej had modelled their New Poor Law , under the operation of which hundreds had been gruolled to death in the bastiles , and many an unhappy mother had deprived her offspring of existence . Cases

      innumerable might be cited ; it was enough that he mentioned—and but mentioned—the name of Harriet Longley . ( Cries of Hear . ") Well , this waa the law with which Mr . Roebuck was . so much in love ; and not content with it as it at present stood , he must needs seek to increase its deformity by vesting the immense power of carrying out the law in an aristocratical , irresponsible Secretary of State ; precious Radicalism this ; but for his part he was not surprised . Mr . Roebuck was a rank Malthusian ; as such he ( Mr . H . ) had never trusted him ; moreover , he ( Mr .

      Roebuck ) was allied with the fox and goose crew of Leeds , men who though they had liberty ever on their tongues , harboured the vilest despotism in their hearts ; he must confess he was surprised that even the Chartists of Bath gave their support to such a person , and he hoped that they would not fail to do their duty , by bringing their very inconsistent representative to a public account of his conduct . ( Cheers . ) The Chairman announced that Mr . Otley would lecture on Sunday next , on the life and character of Washington . Thanks having been voted to the Chairman the meeting then adjourned .

      Dk . M'Douall —This eminent and talented assertor of the people ' s rights , visited Sheffield on Tuesday last ; by some it was feared that the time of the patriot ' s visit was inauspiciously chosen , this being the week of the races at Doncaster , their fears were , however , proved to be ill-founded ; the Town-Hall had been engaged for the doctor , which will hold , we are informed , a thousand persons . By eight o ' clock , the hall was densely crowded , at which hour the popular lecturer made his appearance , and was received with the most tremendous

      cheering . Mr . Gell was called to the chair , and introduced Dr . M'Douall . The lecturer at once entered into an explanation of the principles of the People ' s Charter , as he proceeded , vindicating the rights of the people , in the most eloquent and soul-Btirring language , responded to by the most rapturous cheering . Your correspondent must express hiB regret , that he is unable to send you even an outlino of the doctor ' s excellent lecture , compelled as he is to have his weekly report in the post-office , before ten o ' clock on Tuesday evening .

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      PERHAPS THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY , AKD CERTAIKLT THE MOST IMPORTANT MEETING EVER CONVENED IN LONDON , WAS HELD ON SATURDAY NIGHT LAST , AT THE CRAVEN'S HEAD

      TAVERN , DIIUBY LANE , FOR THE PURPOSE OF HEARING FEAB . GVS O ' COVKOR . W hen Mr . O ' Connor presented himself , he was received with one general burst of applause , and then commenced as loliows : — Mr . Chairman and fellow-tradesmen , for I am a tradesman —( cheers)—it was wrong , very wrong , of me to have ventured here to night ; I cannot make a speech ; I must speak to you . ( Hear , hear . ) I have got a bad sore throat and a violent inflammation of the chest at the present moment ; but had I been worse I could not have resisted thegreat temptation of meeting the stonemasons—the glorious stonemasons—and other trades . ( Cheers . ) This meeting iB the foundation stone of a great and beautiful edifice ,

      in which every member of the human family may find shelter . ( Cheers . ) I have earned a title to the name of workman , as your Chairman tells you that I look twenty years older than I did four years ago . Well ; if I have done twenty years' worth of good , I have no reason to regret the premature old age . ( Cheers . ) Now yoa are many of you masons ; and let us see why and wherefore you should be Chartists—for that , after all , is the question . ( Hear , hear . ) I come to enlist you in the holy army of Chartists ; not to kidnap you as unwilling recruits in the army of martyrs . Well , you are masons : many belonging to London , and many more driven from the country to look for employment . ( Cheers . ) Well ;

      notwithstanding that tbo Sun , and other papers , still contend that steam power has not interfered with the business of tailors , hatters , shoemakers , &c . —( laughter)—it is my business to show you fairly how it can interfere with the builders oi hoases , although no part of the operation ib performed by steam . ( Hear , hear . ) To prove this , then , I will go at once to authenticated statistics . ( Hear , hear . ) And I will not travel beyond the Elysium of Reform , yea : I will take the very ten years of that halcyon age . | Laughter . ) It appears , then , according to the census ol 1831 , that the number of families in Birmingham was greater by between 400 and 500 than the number of inhabited

      houses ; while , by the census of 1841 , it appears that the number of families exceed the number of inhabited houses by between 2 , 000 and 3 , 000 . ( Loud cheers , and hear , hear . ) Very well ; here then we have the admission , supposing house-building and procreation to have progressed according to former rales and standards , that in the last ten years above 2 , 000 families , or 14 , 000 persons , at seven to a family , have been driven from the cottage to the cellar—from the house to the lodging-room . ( Great cheering , and " true . " ) Well , what has this done f Why , it has created a competitive power of 2 , 000 ready-built houses against the masons of Birmingham , —( hear , hear . )—and it has sent them up here to create a competitive power , constituting a

      master s reserve , whereon he may fall back and make a reduction of wages according to the overstock in the market . ( Loud cheers and " true . ") Now , what occors at Birmingham occurs to a greater extent at Manchester , Leeds , and other manufaoturing towns , and hence we find a great number of cottages , formerly occupied eutirely by labouring men , now untenanted , while we see cellars fuU ot live-lumber . ( Great cheeriDg . ) Hence I prove to you that by the unchecked license to gamble in artificial labour , your customers are driven into the ce llars , and your services are not required ; thus that steam injures you —( hear , hear , )—and also that it creates in your trade a surplus number of hands in an overstocked market . ( Cheers . ) Let ms now

      see how the system generally operates prejudicially to the whole mass of society ? ( Hear . ) I will be £ . n with your ill-used customers , my poorest and be&t belovea clients—thefustian-jacketed operatives . Suppose then a master to employ a thousand hauds , aud to reduce the wages from 14 s . to 133 . a week , that would be considered a slight reduction . They havo gone as far as 33 per cent , or one-third reduction . ( Hear , hear . ) Very well that reduction gives the master one thousand shillings , or £ 50 a-week ; independent of any honourablo speculation upon manufacture ? . ( Loud cheers . ) Now , that gives him a property of £ 2 , 600 per annum , and now hrar me , and let this sentence sink deep in your recollection , and be eugraven upon the tablet of every working man ' s memory . To preserve the title to that property is the principle upon which the House of Commons is returned as the great trades union of the monopolists . ( Tremendous

      cheering and clapping of hands)—and to break that union down we are here assembled this night ; and break it down we must and will . ( Loud cheers . ) But I dont stop here ; for my business is to make my principles and objects so clear , that none can misunderstand . ( Hear , hear . ) Well , suppose a community of 10 , 000 families , the masters without reference to trade make by a reduction of one shilling per week , £ 26 , 060 anually by plunder . ( Hear , hear . ) Well , they substitute a cold bastile , which again deprives you ot sustenance . ( Cheers . ) The stepmother's Bcanty bit insolently doled tout to systemmade paupers ; the overseers knout ; the wife torn from herhusband , and the children from both ; snd for what t Because class legislation has robbed the 10 , 000 families of £ 26 , 000 annually , which if shared , woxld have formed a larger fond than the commissioners allow—would have render « d poor laws unnecessary , and education a blessing to be obtained by the poor man ' s own honest ^ resources . ( Load

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      cheers . ) Well , that ' s a moderate picture , and now to come home to you stonemasons , tailors , hatters , and all trades . ( Hear , hear . ) Suppose then , that in consequence of an overstock of masons , the masters should reduce wages 5 s . a week , here at once the proprietors of 1 , 000 Blaves make by the reduction the enormous sum of one hundred and thirty thousand pounds per annum . ( Tremendous sensation and cheers . ) Now would ' nt it be a good substitute for the bastile and skilly—( fcear , hear)—and to obviate this , you have tried your trade ' s union 1 Folly folly / ( Cheers . ) The Whigs were more powerfnl than you j and they were a trade ' s union , and yet the Tories being a still more powerful union , they beat the Whigs . Cheers and laughter . ) Now you

      see mat call class legislation what you ¦ will ; paint it as you please ! : the House of Commons is nothing more or less than the rendevous of two trades' unions of masters—the Whigs , the unionists to uphold steam , and the centralisation of squalid misery and wretchedness in the filthy towns , and the Tories , to uphold the convenient appropriation of the land , whereby they may regulate Suffrage and representation , according to the ehuroh , the army , the navy , the law , the plaoeman , and patronage standard . ( Loud cheers . ) The one combination cannot rob the other ; they may-hold possession of the legitimate and transferrable plunder ; but upon any emergcency both factions will join in one union to rob you . ( Loud cheers . ) Now , do you hope for , or expeot any alteration of your grievances from either !

      C ' No , no . ) No of course not ; that ' s right . ( Cheers and laughter . ) Do you conscientiously look to the Charter , as a means of elevating you , without plundering those above you 1 ( Cheers and " aye . '' So do I . ( Cheers . ) Well , now the same rule that applies to masons applies to all other trades . When those in the provinces can't wear coats and breeches , the displaced tailors come to London and reduce wages . ( Hear , hear . ) So with hatters , and so with all ; for believe me that none , not even the greatest , but depend upon your order for their very existence . ( Tremendous cheers . ) Now let mo push the consideration of this important question still further ; a man said that the blacksmiths wonld be the last to suffer and would suffer least ; but I will

      show that they are the first to suffer and the greatest sufferers . ( Cheers , and hear . ) To begin , then , the foundry worked by steam , does most of that work which they used to do —( hear , hear)—but , more , I will take a railroad . * ( Hear , bear . ) Now , how many blacksmiths in the different towns throughout England ? how many harness makers and all other trades has this system of steam travelling reduced to beggary , and sent as a competitive power into the market 1 ( Hear , and cheers . ) But I will push it still further and contrast you with horses . ( Hear , hear . ) Now , then , steam-power by supplanting the manual labour of man , has been to man just what railway travelling has been to horses . When man worked at his loom , he knew his value , and his

      employer knew his value , and they were each joints of the great whole , component parts of society , mutua ll y depending upon each other for life and subsistence , each equally interested in the regulation of demand and supply , then man thought hnnBelfafreeman and he looked not mrrovrly into the ramifications of legislation , considering freedom to consist in house , food and raiment , but when machinery made him a slave and bondsman , he then began to look for the causes aud he found them in class legislation ; he then looked for a remedy and found it in the Charter . Now , then , what steam did for man it has also done for horses . While the postmaster ? and coach contractors found their stock profitable and their renewal expensive , they fed them and

      petted them , bnt when the competitive power was brought into operation , they then took one feed a day away and then another , and , at last , they reduced them to the standard established in the competitive market ; they took the meat out of them , fed them for the remnant of the time for which they were likely to be profitable , and , having thus reduced them to bones , sent them as dog ' s meat to the overstocked market , smoka having rendered their existence like that of man , unprofitable . ( It would be impossible to describe the ' cheering which followed this glowing and novel picture . ) Now , continued Mr . O'Connor , let us consider the remedies proposed for the redress of these national calamities—the repeal of the Corn Laws ! ( Laughter ) You may

      well laugh . Reduction of the timber and sugar duties . ( Renewed laughter . ) Now , as they have reduced the question of the Com Laws to the tangible shape of " cheap bread , '' I may just ask you if you can have any influence over the price of the manufactured article , whatever enactmtmta the Trades' Unionists in St . Stephens may make a& to the raw material ? (** No , no . ") Very well . Now , then , as they admit that cheap bread will make cheap wages , aud as they don ' t say one sentence about cheap Government , or cheap prayers—( laughter and cheers)—cheap fighting , or cheap law—( cheers)—just let me supply the deficiency . ( Hear , hear . ) Suppose , then , that labour is cheapened , and that wages are correspondingly reduced—mind ,

      according to legislative rate of duty upon the raw material , wheat , and not according to the flour factors or bakers' enactments—( oheers)—and suppose that taxes rtmain , and the funds remain , and all regal expences , in short , all—and suppose wages , which alone pays all , to be reduced from £ 1 to 14 s ., and suppose that out of tho pound you now earn , that you pay 10 i . tax , and hayo 10 s . to spend ; well , out of tbo Hs . you would still pay the 10 s . tax , and have 4 s ., the surplus , to deal in the fancy bread and flour market . ( Loud cheering , aud 11 True , true . " ) Now , to complete this picture , I must shew you what power the corndealers , flour-dealers , and bakers have , independently of law . ( Hear , hear . ) Here it is

      then , a night ' s rain or wind , and , as if by magic , we have a calamitous note from Mark-lane , and when you go for your breakfast you get the small loaf . ( Loud cheers . ) So it is , one night's rain gives the power—tho intention is always there— and although it may raise the price of flour from 3 s . to 3 s . 7 d . in a hurry , yet will not twelve days of sunshine reduce it by a farthing . ( Loud oheers . ) Well , then , is it wonderful that we should have 500 , 000 ERSON 3 LIVING WITHOUT GOD AND WITHOUT HOPE Ah no ! and many is the system-made wretch reduced to the diresituation of being au unwilling idler , who , while I am speaking , it spending his last shilling or sixpence ia the gin paJace . Aye , and that poor forloru creature loves his wife and little ones

      well , yet takes the poison to cure an aching heart and drown a flood of sorrow which he cannot overcome . ( Great sensation and cheers . ) Aye , he loves his wife and loves his babes , but sixpenoe for seven or eight to live upon for seven long days is a promoter of strife and destroyer of harmony , and a creator of family quarrels ;—( cheers)—and who is thevillam ! the unwilling victim or tho willing tyrant who makes him so ? ( Loud cheers . ) Well , then , to the Charter 1 look for his conversion , and for his tyrant ' s downfall . ( Cheers . ) I come now to timber , aud let mo show how it would operate against the car pent ; r and mason , and all those engaged iu building houses under a master contractor . ( Hear , hear . ) Firstly , then , if all the duty was taken off .

      Suppose that Baltic timber was reduced in price , from £ 7 . to £ 4 . the tou , the poor man's rent would not be reduced by a irictiou , whilo the house owners would take caro to have the advantage of the lowered duty . ( Cheers . ) Suppose , then , that a master contracts for a large amount of work , bis estimate is reduced correspondingly with the reduction on the duty , and he shows the reduced estimate to his workmen , and actually reduces their wages in consequence of the reduotion on duty , having given an advantage to the aristocrat , or house builder . ( Loud cheers . ) As to Sugar , my friends , I should like , provided it met your taste , to see each of you with a sugar stick in his mouth . ( Laughter and cheers . ) But really the juggle is too ridiculous , as

      regards sugar , to occupy a moment of our time with comment . Mr . O'Connor then entered into a powerful defence of every act of the Chartists . He asked why it was that the whole press of England and Ireland repeated every word spoken by the Irish patriots , and never repeated a word he said . Ah , said lie , the answer is plain and simple , because their leader is but playing chuck-stone with tho people , tossing them from hand to band , and they know that I am ia earnest in what I eay , and he is only in fun . ( Laughter and cheers . ) Give me six months reporting as they give Mr . O'CohU ' ell , and I will carry the Charter and Repeal of the Union . ( Loud cheers . )

      Oh , thank God , you cheer at the Repeal of the Union . Aye , 1 would carry both in six months ; but as I cant have that , I must only work the harder , and do it myself . ( Loud , cheers . ) I will do it , hi who likes doubt it . ( Great cheering . ) Mr . O'Connor then exhorted all to join the Charter Association ranks ; to put down every appearance of disunion or strife , and to unite as one man in the people ' s cause , who must not be longer deceived by moonshine . He spoke at considerable length , showing the progress which Chartism had made , and aft « r a high and well-merited eulogium upon the petition carriers , one of whom was in the chair ana many around him , he sat down in a state of great exhaustion , amidst thunders of applause .

      The above is a mere sketch of his brilliant speech , the effect of which is , we understand , a determination to call a general meeting of the trades to hear why they should join in th « agitation for the Charter .

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      ct a ynwypj ^ pi vy | 't'lsg A public meeting waa held © a Tuesday evening , at the City Arms Tavern , to welcome Feargus O'Connor to Hammersmith , his adopted home . Mr . O'Connor having arrived a little before eight o ' clock , loud acclimations arose from every part of the spacious building , which was crowded to excess , as waa tne lawn and every avenue to the Tavern . The cheering having subsided , Mr . Stalvwood -was called to the chair , who opened the evening ' s proceedings in a powerful address

      eulogiaing the firm and patriotic conduct of our noble champion , referring to his valuable assistance in aiding the people to procure the return of the Dorchester labourers aud the Glasgow Cotton Spinners , and the noble manner in which , immediately upon his release from his dungeon , he again stepped into the front ranks—again braved the brunt of the battle . He called upon the meeting to give every person , wh » might address them , a fair and impartial hearing , if they came with prejudices to throw them aside , and listen only to the dictates of reason .

      Mr . Doalino , & fustian jacket , moved the first resolution : — " That this meeting hail with delight , that noble of nature , Feargus O'Connor , on his release from bis unjust incarceration , and hereby welcome him to Hammersmith , his adopted home . They also pledge themselves never to cease in their exertions , until they procure the return of Frost , Williams , and Jones , and the release of all political prisoners . " The enthusiastic manner in which they had received their noble champion fully demonstrated that they cordially agreed in this resolution . Working men , of all others , bad most need to be proud of O'Connor . For

      their cause h « had sacrificed ease , reputation amongst bis own claw , and the honours and luxuries of aristocratic life ; for they must b # ar in mind that he was not struggling for his own rights , but for the rights of the working classes . The Chairman had alluded to his conduct with respect to the Dorchester labourers and the Glasgo wcotton spinners . He ( Mr , D . ) also bore testimony that these men would nerer hare been restored to their homes , had it not been for hia unwearied exertions . Miles after miles had he travelled to procure the release of these men ; and he trusted his exertions in the cause of liberty would meet with speedy and triumphant success .

      Mr . Ridley seconded the resolution with great pleasure . He had come here not to do honour to Feargus O'Connor as a man , for he considered him no more worthy of honour than the working man who bad just sat down ; but he was there to give him his tribute of thanks—his tribute of admiration , for the noble manner in which he had defended their principles—for the gallant manner in which ha had endured his unjust imprisonment , cheering them by his pen , guarding them from danger by his advice , and , lastly , for coming again amoogst them , with a heart firm and undaunted —with a resolution which no tyranny could baffle , no

      danger dispirit The speaker then contrasted the conduct of Feargus O'Connor with that of Mr . O'Connell , shewing that one had taken the rough and thorny road which the working classes were compelled to traverse , whilst the ether had sailed with the gala—had Bounded all the harbours of corruption , but had finally run his vessel against the breakers of Toryism ; and if be did not speedily put to the right about—if he did not speedily desert the cause of the Whigs , and stand by the people , he ( O'Connell ) would sink , with the Whig " finalities , " into oblivious perdition . ( Loud cheering . ) The resolution being put to the meeting , was carried unanimously .

      Mr . Wheeler then rose to move the second resolution" That this meeting is of opinion that tbe people of this empire will never be fully represented until the People ' s Charter becomes the law of the land , and that impartial justice will never be awarded to Ireland until the Legislative Union between the two countries is repealed , and Ireland has a Parliament of her own , elected upon the broad principles contained in the People's Charter . " In the spirit of this resolution he entirely agreed , being well convinced that the people of this country would never be fully and fairly represented until every man had a voice in the making of those laws which every man was called upon to obey ; any measure of Reform

      short of this was a mere mockery—was unworthy of the acceptance of an intelligent and united people . See the misery and distress which existed among the working classes of this country—among those whose industry created all the comforts , necessaries , and luxuries of life—whose exertions created all those ingenious contrivances whiob tend bo greatly to smooth the rough road of human existence . Whence has arisen this anomalous state of society ? Simply , because we neglected the right of Universal Suffrage—of that right which nature , which reason commands us to exert ; simply , because our law-makers are of a different class of society to ourselves , having different and opposing interests in view . But they tell us we Sre too ignorant ;

      we have been ignorant—very ignorant , or we should not have slaved from morning till night , that an aristocratic class might riot in luxury on the wealth we have toiled to earn . In the second part of the resolution be also cordially agreed . As an Englishman , be should feel himself insulted by being told that he could not manage his own business , but mast have an Irishman to transact it ; and was it net equally an inault to Ireland , to be governed by a Viceroy , like a conquered province—to be forced to maintain a State Chureb , whoso doctrines were at variance with the feelings of eight-tenths of the inhabitants ? ( Loud cheers . ) For these evils—for the evil ef absenteeism , the only remedy was to give Ireland a Parliament of her own , elected on the principle * of the People ' s Charter .

      Mr . Millwood briefly seconded the resolution , which was carried unanimously . Mr . O'Connor rose amldat tremendous cheering to address tha meeting . The following is only a sketch of an address , that for eloquence and reason has never been surpassed . My friends , I am proud to see myself surrounded by such an assembly ; I am oiso proud to see so many females present—this is cheering to mj heart , it informs me that our principles are gloriously wending their way into the heart of society—that our females who are the founders of the character of our population , are alive to their true invests , are anxious to see domestic and social happiness bused on the firm foundation of political liberty . It is now five years since I bad the honour of addressing yon in this

      room , I was then received with sume little cosiness , some little distrust ; but ere that meeting closed , I bad the pleasure of knowing that a right estimate was found of mj views and feelings . Since then , I havo occupied a prominent position in the political world . I have encountered the wrath of all the factions , but have received in return the love and approbation of the people , for whose tights I have been struggling , whose cause and whose interests have ever been dear to my heart . I am also happy to see a sprinkling of the middle classes present , as I wish to show to them that our principles will benefit not the working classes alone , but all classes of society . Well , my friends , here am I again among you , still truo to my principles , still ready to brave every danger , determined now that we

      have vanquished the Whigs , to battle all the Tories —( cheering )—in the full plenitude of their power , still ready to meet their threat of a strong government backed by the sword and the cannon , tbe gibbet and the prison . They may again send me to York Castle— n » ay again enclose me in their stone coffin—may deprive me of the consolation of intercourse with my friends—and I will cheerfully welcome all , aye , more than all , if I might be assured that toe cause would progress ia a similar manner as It has done since my Incarceration . ( Cheering . ) Living here , almost out ot tbe political world , you may not all know why I was sent to York Castle . It was for the undefined crime of libel , a libol copied from a Wiltshire paper ; not a witness was examined save to ray be ' . sc tbe proprietor of the paper , the

      Northern Star . ( Cheers . ) Yet , on the oath ot twelve middle class jurymen , was I convicted for publishing what I never saw , what I never read or heard of , till it was heard in evidence against me—( shame );—but , thank God , I have gone through the ordeal ; thank God , we have all passed through the fiery trial ; never was an agitation carried on in so firm , so peaceful a manner us ' . be present ; no riots , no destruction of property , though they have attempted to goad us to Yengeance by sending the police amongst us ; we are no destructives , we claim equal rights for all ; we ask not for ourselves what we would not willingly grant to alL Look at our present anomalous position ; we hare a Tory Q jTernment with a majority of ninety-one , and we hove a nation completely anti-Toiy ; there is not an hundred working men in the nation who are Tories . TLe nation detests the Tories . How then have they been elected in opposition to tho wish of the nationbecause

      in opposition to the public mind ? Why , they have been elected by a class ; what theni » the remedy ? ( A voice in the meeting , " the Ballot ) The Ballot , why , that ia the ladle without the soup . Has the pereon who says ' the Ballot * a vote ? Come , my friend , I want to deal fairly with you . ( Aniwer , " no . " ) The Ballot ? what will tbe Ballot do ? Willit gWe him a Tote ? No ; it is the Eeabbard without the sword— -the Ballot without Universal Suffrage would make * trades * union of roter * ; they would then fire npoa us from a masked battery , could make a boast of their liberality , of their independence , and yet vote in direct opposition to our interests . We want the Ballot to protect us from tbe wrong doer , not the wrong doer from us . But , say the Whigs , ire will agitate for the B » llot , 'twill be a mantle to shield us from the people . They boast of their constitutional principle ! $ and yet they would give u » the Ballot , which lithe only unconstitutional one of the Six Point * of tbe Chatter . ( The Learned

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      . < % * J P ^ fP&r " ^ ¦ y ^^ A *~ " vfv > ; vj Geattanaa then at tome length proved that the t £ *( - *^ ^ Five Points were part and parcel of the so-called Coo- j , stitution . ) Bat why do tho middle class want th * '' Jjyf ^ y . Ballot?—Because they find the system at faults ^^ 4 yrt . rS-ilt beeaoM they hare preyed « o long on the working clait ^ that ; they have devoured the whole of their abatenes , they now find the disadvantage of an empty till : tho men who wear hat * , shoes , coats , * c . can no longer pro * cure them , » o they want the BaUot to play the landed monopolists against the steam monopolist * , anxious in the warfare to come in for the lion ' s share . Finding thejr can no longer get taxation sufficient from the working classes of this country , they are trying to eke it out by

      getting it from Poland , from Prussia , or from whereTer it coo be obtained . Peel , too , demands a fair trial . I never got a fair trial . He has been tried and eon * demned long since ; for one hundred and fifty years have we tried the factions , and have at length , on clear evidence , convicted them of gnilt For ten years bara we borne with tha Whlga ; they gave power to tbe middle classes , but neglected you ; they overlooked feat ; for them to ba enriched , you most be placed In the position of purchasers ; but you have been the aw between the two factions ; flwt one heaping you with burdens and ¦ then the other ; they have wrought out their own destruction , and now they complain of the people . We are not Whiga-, we have done with them for ever . We sever were Tories ; we stand on tha

      glorious position of demanding equal rights for all . I have been called a destructive and a torch and dagger agitator . I defy any man te prove I ever uttered tha words torch ot dagger at any public meeting in my life . What I have said is , that , when moral force failed , physical force would come like an electric stock to its aid ; but the man who would attempt to array it—to marahall an unarmed peoplo against the cannons and bayonets of the aristocracy , must be a fool or a mad * man . Attwood and the Birmingham Whigs were the first to talk of physical forco , and tbe first to desert their standard , while I was made their scape-goat , the torn fool , to bear the weight of took misdeeds ; but I bore the whole , conscious the day would come when I should have justice done me .

      That day is now come ; the Tories are weak—weak for want of popular support The Whiga are dead , while we are in triumph . The Whigs now call upon us to help them to beat the Tories . We did help them , at the time of the ' Reform BilL We raised a storm of indignation against the Tories , from North to South . We seated them firmly in effice ; but what dtd they do fox us ? They gave England a Poor Law BUI—thaj gave Inland a Coercion Bill—they appointed commiasionere , well-paid commissioners , to examine into almost every thing . If the Great Mogul bad the tooth ache , they would appoint a commission to see on which side of the jaw the pain lay . If there was distress hi Ireland , there was a commission to see why the potatoa crop bad failed . Look at their tithe commissions , how

      I struggled against them . Look at their 8 , 000 police men , equal to 24 , 000 soldiers , as they receive throe times as much pay , aud then say they give justice to Ireland ; but Ireland shall have justice ; we will fly to her rescue . Bepeal shall be our watchword ; it shall go hand in hand with the Charter . I will strip it of its hobgoblinism . 1 will demonstrate that it is for the interest of both nations ; it shall no longer be made a bugaboo of . [ The Learned Gentleman here went into an accurate detail of the Irish question . ) You are the bees—your oppressors are the drones of society . If yoa were to remain idle for one month—your oppressors would starve . They could not eat their plate , nor their jewels , they could not devour their furniture nor their houses , but you wonld not starve . The land is your

      inheritance . You would consume as much as you wanted , and no more .. ( Sir . O'Connor here went into the question of Baptist Noel ' s tract , during which ha was greeted with great applause . ) Look at tbe present condition , look at yonder sweat child clinging to its mother's breast with all the fondness of infantine love ; see its mother smiling upon it with maternal solicitude ; and then direct . your thoughts to the poor factory children ; see' them carried on their parents ' backs to work at the spinning jennies—the system is too horrible to describe My attention was rivetted to it when I was at Oldham , in the year 1835 . It is a systeia which will destroy us , or we must destroy it , there can be no parleying with this gigantic enemy . I am glad to see the feeling which

      has spread throughout : the country . Britons will bo lenger be content to slave from morning till night for bare food ; they demand more ; thqy demand intellectual , moral , and physical enjoyment ; and , by tbe help of God and our firm energies , we will speedily attain them . I am willing t « forget the past ; I have buried all animosity in the dungson of York Castle ; I am for a union of all against the common enemy ; bat we will no longer be the shuttlecock to be knocked about by either a Whig or a Tory battledore . I may again be arrested , but I am determined to fulfil my work . Look at our position—a whole nation governed by a handful of aristocrats , by a few men who , as compared with yon , would appear to be made by Nature ' s journeymen . Gather together all tbe aristocrats who

      livu within four miles of this place , and an omnibus would bold them . And shall this insignificant body rule such a host of working men ? We will never cease in our exertions till we have put an end to such a system . The Whigs , at the time of the Reform Bill , said that taxation and representation should be ce-extensive , this wonld admit all who paid taxes , whether twenty-one years old or not ; but we have laid down a defined plan , we say at twenty-one yean of age a man shall be entitled to a vote ; we will not move from this , we will ; not alter to twenty-ono years and one day ; we will have it for all , whether light hair , or dark hair , whether English , Irish , ox Scotch . They eay we are ignorant men , we must , therefore , have a plan about which there is no mystery ; one which all can

      understand , such is our Charter . Let all who are in this room , who have votes , hold np their hands . Well , there are three votes . All who have no votes . A forest . Well , these three men are our masters ; they monopolise all the brains ; ye poor brainless souls , go about your business ; what are ye fit for ? ye say ye have intelligence ; 'tis all moonshine ; ye an ignorant ; ye have no votes . These three men are like the aristocrats on the omnibus ; that they are good and true men is evidenced by their being here ; bnt it shows the folly of the system we are contending against Hitherto we have been beat by disunion ; they have played off the Whigs against the Radicals—the Radicals against tha Chartists—and now they want to pit the O'Connoritea against the O'Connellites ; but they shall faiL I will

      traverse the three kingdoms ; my watchword shall be " Union . " By February next we will have a petition signed by four millions for tbe Charter and Repeal The Whigs tell us to lay aside all our little differences ; we have no differences ; we are all united ; 'Us they tbat have the differences . Let them unite with us—we will receive them as brothers—we will bury the past in oblivion , in the North the shopkeepers are fast joining our standard ; they feel the pinch more than the shopkeepers of the South . The steam Lords , with their £ 10 , 000 capital , are ruining the Bhopkeepen with their few , hundreds . But their « rgans say that Lords Howick and Russell are to be our leaders . What

      a pretty pair ef leaders ! Did you ever see them , my friends ; they are , indeed , a pah * of little ponies—I might almost call them donkies—to drag along the chariot of the publics mind . Can we unite with such leaden ! No . Her Majesty bad better transfer them from the preparatory school of the Commons to tha sick hospital of the Lords . Mr . O'Connor continued for upwards of ene hour , in a similar strain , and concluded with a burst of eloquence which touched every heart He also * apologised that his ill health had prevented bis attending , according to appointment , at Brighton and at Marylebone . At the conclusion , Mr . O'Connor was completely exhausted .

      Messrs . Cleave , Culhngham , oi'Fherson , from Ipswich , Mr . Clark , from York , and a person from Cork , addressed the meeting . Mr . Cleave most eloquently entreated the men of London to support the Executive , and the Victims . The meeting separated at a late hour , highly gratified , with their spirits fresh nerved in the good cause .

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      AND LEEDS GENEEAL ADVERTISES

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      , VOL . IT . NO . 201 . SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 18 , 1841 . ""^ TSSy ^^ SS ?** oT

      Meeting Of The Stonemasons And Other Trades In London.

      MEETING OF THE STONEMASONS AND OTHER TRADES IN LONDON .

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      NEWCASTLE . —The Chartists of Newcastle held their weekly meeting for business ou Monday evening , Mr . William Smith iu tho chair . The secretary read tbe minutes of last meeting , whieh were confirmed . Tbe Treasurer . reported the contributions for ihe week , which continue to increase . A good many new members were enrolled . Several deputations were appointed to wait upon certain united bodies of trades , and request their co-operation in the forthcoming demonstration iu honour of Mr . O'Brien and Mr . O'Connor ' s visit to Newcastle . The following resolution was moved by Mr . Fainlough and sucouded by Mr . Sinclair , and carried unanimously : —Resolved— " That the thanks of this meeting be respectfully tendered to Sharman Crawford ^ Esq , the proposer , General Johnson , the se ~ conder , aud the thirty-nine gentlemen who vot for the addition to the address to the Queen . "

      Ousebubn . —The Chartists of this place met Sunday morning last , in the Association-room , new Byker Bar . A discussion took place on what would be the most effectual plan of getting the out-districts organised , when it was agreed that the Secretary correspond with certain places round Newcastle , to ascertain the day most convenient to bold puplio meetings , that they may be furnished with proper speakers . : COAX . SNAUOHTON . —The cause progresses well here . The exertions of Mr , Abram Duncan hav * been attended with great good . His lectures ia this place had to be delivered in the open street , for , although there are two p laces in the village capable of holding the people , the tyrants that Jure the

      controul of them would not permit Mr . Duncan to address the people dn them . He had . in consequence , often to address tbe people in wet clothes , and under many other privations calculated to cool both seal and courage , however fervent . Bat these evils and difficulties are about to pass away . The fruit of these lectures were th « determination to subscribe money to build a Hall , to hold between three and four hundred people . Exactlj at ono o ' clock , on the 30 th of August * the men of Coalsnaughton did themselves the honour to celebrate tho release of Feargus O'Connor from York Castle by decorating the roof of of their Hall with their nags , and firing for an hoar with SO good muskets , by men not accustomed to fear the face of man , or quail at to « tyrant ' s mandate .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 18, 1841, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct721/page/1/