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Just Published ^ Price Threepence , Handsomely Printed on a Large Royal Sheet , fitted to adorn the Labourer ' s Cottage , a Faithful and Spirited Representation of the Bloody MANCHESTER MASSACRE ! CONTAINING also a Memoir of that Untiring \ J and Unswerving Advocate of the Rights of Labour , Henht Hunt ; with Full Partioalars < tjf of the " Deed 3 of the Murderers" on the Eieid of Peterloo the names of the Bloody Monsters ; the names of the Killed ; and the Trial , Conviction , and . Sentence of Mr . Hunt . It also details th ^ e means employed by the Governmental Spies to entrap him ; the famous Spa Fields' Meetings ; the Election of Mr . Hunt a 3 M . P . for Preston ; his conduct in Parliament ; his just estimate of the humbug Reform Bill ; hiB communing with the Working People on that measure ; and his lamented D . ath . Tbe Sheet also contains a
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LONDON CHARTIST MONTHLY MAGAZINE . On the 1 st of September will be published No . 4 of this periodical , price 6 d . Contents . —On Organization ; Authentic Dialogue between O'Brien and . O'Connor ; Cleave and the Victims ; Hill , O'Connor and the late Executive ; Watch Watkins ; What must we do with the Charter ; On the State © f Chartism in London ; Poor Law Martyra , a Tale , &c . &c . Published by Watson , 5 , Paul ' s Alley , Paternoster Row , London ; Hobson , Leeds ; and may be had of all Booksellers .
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WEST RIDING OF YORKbHIRE . ADJOURNMENT OF THE MIDSUMMER SESSIONS FOR THE TRIAL OP FELONS , Ac . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , that tbe Midsummer General Quarter Sessions of ihe Peace , for the West Riding of the County of York , will be holden by Adjournment , at Wakk * field , on MoKDAr , the Fourth day of September next , at Ten o'clock in the Forenoon , and by further Adjournment from thence will be holden at Sheffield , on Thursday , the Seventh Day of the same Month of September , at Half-past Ten o'clock in the Forenoon , for rhe TRIAL OF FELONS AND
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THE PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF IRELAND . 0 N SATURDAY , 9 th September next , will be published , Price Three-pence , ( to be continued every succeeding Saturday till finished , ) No . I . of a HISTORY OF IRELAND AND THE IRISH PEOPLE , under the Government of England . To be published also in Monthly Parts , Price One Shilling . The whole to be concluded in about Twenty-four Numbers . Tho Work ; will embrace an account of the means by which Ireland was brought under subjection to the English Government , and of the legislative and other cruelties systematically inflicted on the Irish People . It will also include a History of the Civil and Religious Wars of Ireland , the dreadful perse-
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Bradford Markets , Thursday , August 2 i . — Wool . —Thtre still continues a dullness in this department , which may be accounted for by the Spinners having supplied themselves at the various markets and fairs . We do not learn that Wool has decliaed , or are prices any better supported . Yam . —There is nothing new since our last report . Yarns are ready sale , and full prices realised . Piece . —There is an average attendance of buyers to-day , and tha demand continues good , and stocks lew . In prices no altflratinn .
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A NORTHERN TOUR . '' A etaxH ' B sniom je tsMn notes ,. And , faith , he'll print iS , " 70 THE XDITOB OF THE SOKTBXRB 5 TJLR . DriaSiB , —I addres ? ed a very good open-sir 3 nee = -- « : of the Chartists of Dummes , on Monday © Teiiiss . Aligns ! 14 £ lu Considerable enthusiasm r was maii ' -s ' -ed by my auditors , ana my retnrn to the B Q ; i-eo of the Sc-nth" at an early period , W 3 s wan ; . ; j urged by my kind-besrted and trnly patriotic £ rkads . There are some of the most ardent and Ihortcch-going democrats in IramfrieB that it has ever 1 : - -sa . 2 ay \ good fortune to ioesi-frith . A irell-COE u - cd £ eading-r © cm , continued through th ' e urou : vT Sines , and nnder the most disheartening circ i ^ . SEces , has been the bond of union -which has
kep ; i iu- " good men and true" of this locality' together . Per a considerable time past much apathy has prevailed 5 but the train of reaction appears to Ira lii-I , and oulj reqnrreB the flime of English agiiati ? u 'a be rekindled to set ihe democratic spirit of IhnkfVes once mere on fire . Even as it i 3 , the Cher , ^ s are the moral masters of the town ; and faerie ., and mere party cannot breathe in ^ ts purified » * e- ' . ere . "Kehher tie "freebooters" nor any oil ! i " escripfion of state-qnacks can exist in " it . Pnl jc opinion is here guided by men of intellect , conn ; ::, and political honesty . Uniting the mind of S& . lland wi £ h the energy nf . England , iew places can - ^ - -rlval the * Qaeen cf the Sonrh" .
Af " a snstfer cf course" being in Dumfries I paid my C- tions to the Ehade of ihmoxtxl B-buks . I had « . --: ed his tomb in January 1840 . at ¦ which iJTfit- 1 Lad tka honour of supping with ^ Robert , the elde-: =. p , of ihe poet . I now , for £ hs second time paid f T-isis to the grave « f freedom's baxd- Havicg no ti- vrledge- o- ' arcitectare ,- ! am incompetent to descr-. L the Mausoleum . The nearest thing I can liken . o in outward form 13 a Ttukisb . mo ^ qne , on a sn . ^ 31 scale . It is nearly circular , and crowned ¦ Wit h £ -t > rt of dome , supported ( if I remember right ) i > ylc : eolaEi 23 . But cfihis I did not take particular
iiohc < . Within , and agamst the backof the building , :.: figures i&aiio re&evo of "Burns at the plough and : ' .:- mnse throwing her mantle otct him . " He Etanw ^ itb . his bonnet in one hand , and -with the otier i . . ^ ding on by the old Scotch plough . The Situ-- - is extrrme > y graceful . The countenance is Eiid to be excellent ; but 1 am told that , phrenologicailv-. the head is not -well formed . On this snbj'ct I -can say nothing : for I am no bninp-Olog ^ v . * TiJB inscription I much zAzsired : it is Eamp ' j—BUiiI 5 a . Here 13 more said , than the most ..- toured panegyric-conld have expressed : the tiaEi-. ---f ihe man around whose browiame
hath—•• i _ atwiaed a garland -which shall neves lade 3 -J . Scs&s . ' s realm is low in rain laid ; 2 * ~ * eteu then J an breeza and billow cnrl"d H ^ axsje is co-etemal "Killi Tlk » TPorlcL " In th- time tomb reposes the wife of iLe j > osi . the 2 an > t - v «» unhappy Jean Arnionr . Rtflecnng for 3 mom- fi - on she domestic life of thi 3 favoured son -of geai' -. aad recalling -srith feeBngs of anything bnt ELti > fi . c Ion the record that lias been left H 3 of Ms error .- sad idlings , his trials and cares , we find in his *• ; " : rd * ^ Hpiiaph" the most correct picture of Lis ov . character drawn by his own hand : — *• ' . tfeere a man . wisose judgment clear , ,. ¦ =. n -others teach tke conne to ^ teer , Vet tubs bimstll file ' s mad career , "WHd as the-wave ? _ £ ere patse—^ and , Ihrongh tie starting tear , Snrrej thin graYe .
. se poor lnhstatsst ctlow TT » s qplck to learn and ^ tsb to incw , Aad keenly felt tee friendly glow , And softer name ; 3 at thsnghSess foliies laid him low , ^^ d starnM bis name f " Btt : o other snbjects . The -rrrtnes , rather tian iiev-r ^ rs ; ihe genius , rather than the failings , of the £ - ¦ -nous Bnms , are themes mG 3 t suited to my taste : for " 3 ie light t&at led astray Was light from heaven . "
The applaading tost of millions of misguided men may fRl « sr fc > his resting-place fhe remains of that arch iraitor to fee lishts of man and wholesale XmiTilirer of Ijls fellow-crestirres , Njlpoieos ; i » njj let -jb ^ : kneel herel This man of men , bs he rcy hero , s * ini and sage , fie -was the soldier of freedom , i * iai bstOed for &e right . He was the derotee of truth , whos ©; creed was "lore thy brother as ihy ^ eli . " He -wsa the teacher yrho , it may be , was unable always to ac » upon "his own teaching ; but "Who his . DeTertbeiess , left to n 3 and those who shall follow a lesson of unalloyed wisdom , based on manly indep . ^ dence ^ Bid ihe honest pride of worth- ** Yet , " as oitr iumbie bard has song : —
Xet inn a narrow-minded few , A feeblfi , csaSng , creeping crew , Conspire to bias ; his honest fans , Andisap reproaches on his same ; Brcause , alas ! the bard haa shown ~ T ? xr finer xcelia ^ B % > iwn thai own . He "was vz . joEt a taint like Santhey , Wha n = ver amsed , nor yet was dronHij ; U ^ t th ^ Ti ^ h he liked a social glass , Acdlkuuili bs lo ' ed a boniie las , He n = '_ r di ^ Ti ced his ¦ srell-strnaEiyre , Sy ctiTitiiu § fcaliieiflaiih for hire . 2 * " 3 r xoc-asd he ony coartly-elf , Or bon'd tie ksee for 'srarld ' e ptlf . "'
^ Tm church-yard , or rather kirk-yard , in which ihe s -es of Bvrzs repose , is a inoss tronderful place ; coat— -a ^ a fjsztsi number of momiments ,-T-scme ; of ib - i o ? a Tfiry superior order , —than 1 ha ?* seen i in ol .-. - r ^ irt - -of Brilairu It is a sort of ** city-of ths dead . " " a Palyiana in miniature ; and , independent ' of Bt . Bi ' s iottb , is well worth a Tisit . The " Mar-1 Jgrr ' s b-ace , 'a dODmasBt erected to the memory of ; Borne &f iha Ernrdered coTtnanters is an . object oft jarricaiorialersL Tue ^ ay , Aiignst 15 i- —^ Left Dumfries by a cer- ! lain - » 5 Tsyanee , which shall be nameless . The ! grea *? r pari of the read to Sanquhar winds along j the h ~ nks of that romantic stream , the Nith , ctle-j Iratt-i in seTeral of the pieces of the national bard . !
On B 3 J road , 1 passed the mansion ( one of ihe man- j ^ o rte ) of the Bake of BnccleBgh . On inquiry , I learird thai the ** yonng lords" were expected home ' that , sj ; and that ** Ms Grace" was expected on ; ihe fuhawmg Saturday , I belieTe the Dake has the ¦ Tepnisiion of being a Tery fair landlord ; I am glad ! that I can s 3 y tbas much for him . Still it is monstroni- Lhat one man should , independent of bis-nrtnes vr his Tieea , hi 3 wisdom or his folly , nsnrp to lis ov . - a possession that aoil which the * plain prin * ciplcs of common Eense teach ps belongs , cf right , to the "whole , without distinction of person ; while tbon-iiids , znost of them iis equals , and not a few Hs hfeperiors , Ehoold be altogether dispossessed of Iheir nsinxal ligat , and-denial even the poastsaon of on- foot of gronad ia their fatherland .
« li ' a haxaiy in a body's power To ieep , at times , frae being soar , "To see how thii ^ s ars atared j How best o ' chieOs ara -whylea in - want , Whils coofs CHuamntless thon ^ nds rant , An * ken nse how to wairt . " Iseser mind 1 as Robert Kicol says , we mus . jnst trj— " Te msV the -waria better yet . " 3 reached Sar-qhnar in * the course of the n > orniag , and vras speedily surrounded by a numerous body of « : i friends ; Chartism here is bodily defunct ; bnt spirihidlh / exists "widely . There is so association ; Irai i .-c Bsanber of adherents to the principles is supposed -: o be zaneS greater than two or three yeare snee . Trheaaa association did exist . I breakfasted
with an old friend , named McKnight , a -veteran in , ihe GtmocratifrwtfEiiJ ^ rwhom ana his family I was j icost cordially received . The # ooa lads were dear » us -fljat Tshonld hare staid otet that day and j leld a meeting , I would ha ^ re li k ed to bars done : SO Tr ; j well ; but , I was already some days beyond the tiiaethas I should have reached Manchline ; and was rcinctantlj ecmpelled te refuse . A number of j Jnj good fjMsada proceeded wiib me some miles on ] * £ h ' r iva ** throu sb Kirkcounelllbadthe ! % , Jt ^ l 1316 ' ° ne of the Non-Intrusion ' TfTi ^ , u ^ ed for fidd-preacbinc ance the defection of
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Bomsa ^ es one groan . nonsense of Pun ^ T ^ at least hsantes . . and we leave his compan ?" whh 21 Loiter , asdxertamlj not a worse hean 7 b ? t the inmsieaE-threaxemngs ; the secvaxian "bisolrv - Sp appeals io the worst feelir-gs of man , by the Priesu is Calculated—and rarsly resnks oiherwTBe--to sendm « W fioa lis gorgon-Ske presence , wnh our hearte turned to stone , and all tiie better feelings of our jutnra changed into self-conceit at our own fanciea * HpErior sacetiry , and onr minds filled with bitter--» sss and haired towards our brethren . The object © rPnseh and the Priest ia alike i the " iaic&a *" iChera is this difference—Punch la eonteat with " a lew eoppef * . and does not rile your pocket * by eonpnMon . Tie Priest Is not content with , the * baser IKtals "; he iooksfar ponndsinot penniea ; and whether yon are SAtlsS&d with his performances are jmt , is cries ** stand and deliter' ; and enforces his demand either bythe sword of the state in this world
er ** tcefearo hell , the hangman ' s whip" in ano iher . Gentle reader which of the mountebanks di you prefer h-I Tote for Punch J Having parted wiih my Sanqnhar friends , ; made tho best-of toy way over the horrid road sepa *» JBg the ** Land of Burns ' from Sanqhuar ; and lawi aboiBinshleioadltis . Ardred at Kew Cum
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nock , 1 found myself in Ayrshire . Fmally , afier a walk of eighteen miles , I reached Old Cumnock and put up at the Black Bull Inn . I saw several old friends in the course of the evening . Chartism is for the present down in Cumnock . Wednesday , August 16 th . Anniversary of the Manchester Massacre . May that day of blood never be forgotten until its stains , by ample justice , we i faced from the pago of British history !! Left Cmncock by the coach at eight o ' clock , and , passing through Katrine , was speedily at Mauchline . Here I was met by my friends , and received with all that warmth of affection so characteristic of the people of this beautiful portion of Scotland . : Passing over all domestic matters , which could be of no interest to the Chartist public , I come now to my visit to the birth- ptece of JJurns .
Friday , August 18 tb . Accompanied by a brotherin-law , I started for Ayr , which we reached after a walk of eleven miles . We breakfasted at an excel lent Scotch hostelry ; and after calling on a friend or two , proceeded on our mission , accompanied by two friends from Ayr . Alloway Kirk , so renowned as the scene of ihe exploitB of the famed Tarn o Shanter , is situated about threa miles from Ayr , on the road to May bole . The cottage in which the poet was born ifl near the Kirk , and on the Ayr side of it . It is a low-built , old fashioned thatched house , having only a ground flwor . It has long been used as & pnblic-house ; and , as such , is iiow kept
by the widow of the late John , better known as Miller Goudie . Before crossing the threshold , the attention of the viator isarresied by two boards , one on each sice of Ike door . The inscription on the one rnns thns : — " Bnras' Cottage . Robert Burns , the Ayrshire Poet , was born under this roof , on the 25 ^ h of January , A . D . 1759 . Died 21 st of July , A . D . 1796 , aged 37 £ years . " The inscription on the other is simply— " Mrs . Goudie , lioensed to retail ale and spirits . ' "Within the house , in the usual drinking room , is a large portrait of Bnms , with the inscription of the date of bss birth . The most interesting articles in the room are three tables , cut and hacked with thousands of names and
initials , of the pilgrims who , from time to time , have visited ihB birth-place of the bard . The windows are scratched , and the chairs and comer cupboard are carved after the same fashion . In the kitchen we were shewn the bed , or rather bed-place , where the poet was born . In the parlour attached to the kitchen are several excellent plates , including a representation of the " Jolly Beggars , " the " Cotters ' Saturday Night , " and a portrait of Burns when young . Old Mrs . Gaiidie 13 a fine
" cracky" body ; and rhymes away her tales about Burns in a manner pleasing enough . ¦ We staid bnt a short time j and having entered our names in the book kept for that purpose , departed . The nest spot of interest waa tiie Auld E . urk , dismjmtled of its roof , and nothing left but bare walls . I looked through the key-hole , bat neither Auld Nick , witches , or " Cutty Sark" were to be seen . The " haly table" was gone , and with it its contents and the attr-ndant " ghaists . " AJ 1 was desolation . Bnt the " Auld hark" will still
" Live in the verse that immortally saves , " when every stone of which it is composed shall haTe mixed wiih the dnst where its immortalizer reposes . In the Kirk-yard is the grave of "William Burns , the father , and Agnes Brown , the mother of the poet . A plain bnt substantial stone marks the spot with the following inscription : — " Sacred to the memory of William Burns , farmer in Locblie , who died on the 13 ih of February , 1784 , in the 63 rd year of his age , and of Agnes Brown , bis spouse , who died on the 14 th of January , 1820 , in the 88 : b y * -ar of her age . She was interred in Bt > ltoa Church-yard , Easi Lothian . " On tie reverse side , the well-known lines" O ye waosa cheefe the tear of pity stains . ' Djsw near with pious reverence , and attend : Here lie the loviBg husband ' s dear remains , "The tender father , and th 6 generous friend .
The pitying hrart that felt for human woe ; The dauntless heart that feared no human pride ; The friend of man ; to vice alone a foe ; For even hi * lailiiig ' B lean'd to virtaets side . '" From the "Auld Kirk" we proceeded to the *• Monument " . For reasons already assigned , I mast decline attempting a description . Enough that it is a splendid structure ; and one that no man or woman of tasie will fail to visit . To it may be most appropriately applied the lines -written by the poet " For an Altar h > Independence "—•* Thou of an independent mind , With soul resolved , with soul resigned ; Prepared power ' s proudest frown to brave ; Who will not be , nor have a slave ; Yirtne alone \ r tio 3 oet revere ; Thy own reproach alone dost fear J Approach this shrine , and worship here . "
But while the * ' Monument" is worthy of all admiration ; not bo the conduct of that class who patronised its erection . "Se » en cities contend for Homer dead ! Through which the living Homer begged his bread , " says some one ; and , though literally this was not ihe case with Burns , it was nearly so ! Who that jcmember * his dying appeal to his EdisbnTgh bookseller—** For God ' s sake to send him Five Pounds " , to save him from a pnson , out will join with me in regarding this cold stone pile as a monument of the meanness , as well as pride , of the Scottish
Aristocracy . Within the " Monnment , " and enclosed in S glass cast , are the two Bibles of Burn 3 and his Highland Marr , recovered by some enthusiastic Scot in Canada The etory has bui very recently gone the round of the press ; aad I have not space to repeat it here . A portion of Mary ' s hair is in one of the Bibles , and shews her to have been of fair complexion . The next object which excited our curiosity was the faultless figures of ** Tarn o * Shanter and Souter Johnny , " the work of the celebrated Mr . Thorn .
Here , again , I must decline to attempt a description j a tack for which I oonfess my incompetence Enoughf that admiration , the most fervent , was the all-absorbing feeling of my mind , while entranced with gazing on this almost matchless production of human skilly which only seems to require the Promethean spark to call *• Tarn" and hiB ** worthy , trusty , dronthy croney" into actual breathing , feeling existence . All else seems perfect . The cold stone seems ready at a word to burst into joyou 3 , laughing lire .
W « next visited Mungo ' s W * D j" and I took * hearty draught to the memory of Burns from the pure , coid , chrystal stream . Lastly we visited the " Auld Brig , " where Tarn's mare Meg " lost her tatl f and from its summit g 3 Z 2 d down upon the * banks and braes o' Bonnie Doon ; " a scene lovely as Eden , and "beaotifnl as THyBram , I almost wished myself a Scot as 1 gloated on its charms . . Bat time pressed . I left the hallowed ground . I may never—or years may elapse ere I tread it again ; but the remembrance of its glories shall live green in my memory , while brain throbs , or heart beats within . I returned the same « vening to Manchline .
I 1 am writing this in the very heart and centre of the * ' Land of BnrnB . " Within the village are many i spots famed in his writings : * ' PooBie-NansieV im-! mortal beggars crib ;—** Auld Nance Tinnock ' s , " no 1 longer a whiskey-shop , and Bborn of all its glories ; 1 Mossgiel , the farm of the poet , is within a quarter ] of a mile , where are the fields where he i cut down the " daisy , " and turned up the neBfc of I- the ** mouse "—the exquisite lines on both , these ' , subjects are almost universally known and a 3 widely admired ; the Braes of Bafiocmyle" are within a : short distance of the village ; so is BaKkimming , near which is the spot where Burns conceived his
" Man was made to monrn . " At Trellford still resides in the asylum for the aged poor of the parishes of Mauchline and Tarboiton , James Humphrey , the famous " blethering bitch f in the neighbourhood is the small burn where Burns parkd with Highland Marv , " each standing on the opposite sides of the stream and exchanging bibles and vowsof theircternal affection . AtCoilsfield Hou 3 eMary resided as a servant ; and in the grounds is shewn the thorn tree , reputed to have overshadowed the lovers for some hours before their sad and final separation : — " How sweetly bloomed the gay green birk ,
How rich the hawthorn's blossom . As underneath its flagrant shade , I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden honrs on acgel wings Flew o ' er me and my dearie ; T 01 dear to me as light and life , Was my sweet Highland Mary . " Again to * ' Mary in Heavea , " the scene ifl thus btaniifaily pictured" That sasredhonr can I forget , Cm 1 forget the halloWd grove , Where , by the -winding Ayr we met , To lisa oaa < Ja . j © i paiViDg love ! Eternity -will not efface Taose records dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; Ah ! little thought we'twas our last 1
Ayr , gurgling , kissed his pebbled shore , CVtrbBng -with wild -woods thickening green ; Tbs fragrant birch , and hawthorn hoar Twin'd amorouB round the nptai'd scene ; Th ** 3 ™ eu » PIan * -wanton to be prast 1 The ima aamg love on « very spray ; 1 * °°% *» * x > n , the glowing west Proclaims tee speed of winged day . " ttJ ^^ fftfJ ^? ^ J ** Coasfield , where £ dwSihB ^ L ^ ! mber , * **« sometime , affiS ^ S aSiSft&S- FreemaBons . ^^• w ^ iijrittrs-g written , bhould fortune smile 1 ™« tt ««! £ future day resume the subjS ; or ha 3 , ^ $£ pen ttan mme may do justice to the Se ^ l hive merely named , or but feebly attempted ^ pourtra ,
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This is the clime of beauty and of song . Female loveliness seems to be part and parcel of the natural beauty of the soil . I have travelled not a little in the land of both Saxon and Gael ; bat of all spots I visited commend me to the " Land of Burns" for forms to inspire a poet ' s soul . Header ; art thon a sisgle man ! Hast thoa an eye for beauty , and an ear for the poet ' s lay ! and doat thou doubt my praises of this Scottish Edeni Come ., worship , at the shrine of Burns ! See and judge for thyself ! and thou art made of co . d materials indeed , if natural effects do not follow natural causes . George Jumab Hab . net . Hauchline , Ayrshire , Aug . 21 at , 1843 .
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REPEAL MEETING AT ROSC 0 MM 0 N . Roscommow , Sunday Night . —This w demonstration , " which toot place to-day , was distinguished by a sort of tremor which preoeded it , occasioned by some of the landed proprietors in the county having issued directions that none of their tenantry or labourers should attend the meetiog . Among these , Mr . Kelly , of Castle Kelly , issued orders which were not to be mistaken ; to counteract whioh , the people of the near part of the county of Gal way who proposed to attend , intimated , it is said , their intention , on passing Castle Kelly , to bring Mr . Kelly ' s tenantry with them to ihe moating . Mr . Kelly , we understand , communicated with Government on the subject , and obtained the aid of half a troop of the
4 th Dragoon Guards , who were quartered at the Castle , and of a company of the 46 ; h Infantry , and aforce of police who were stationed at the adjoining village of Ballygar . A * t seven o ' olook this morning , we were informed , the tenantry were brought within the walls of the demesne , the avenues to which were guarded by the military and police . The agent of Lord CroftOD , at Moote Park , we understand , issued similar orders , bat did not take similar measures . A party of the 4 th Dragoon Guards arrived in the tows of Roscommon yesterday fir Longford , and the police of the surrounding stations were concentrated m the town . Tais force was under the direction of Mr . Crossly , stipendiary magistrate , and Edmund Carr , Esq . of Durham , J , p . , whose father and brother each attended the meeting and proposed resolutions .
At an early hour in the morning , tfce surrounding districts presented those scenes incident to these collections of large masses of the people . Parties arrived , most of them with bands , and banners , from Ath 2 one , Longfatd ^ Boyle , Scrokestown , Castlereagh , Elfin , Carrick , and the adjoining couaty ot Galway . They proceeded io meet Mr . 0 'Connell in the direction of South Park , the seat of Nicholas Balfe , Etq , M . P ., where he has been stayiug for the last two days . The meeting was convened on the Furlough , a large field , about a mile ou the opposiio side of the town , and within a short distance of the barrack . A number of tents and marquees were erected on the ground , which gave it more the appearauce of a
fair or race-ground than a spot appointed for a political meeting . It was half past three o ' clock before Mr . O'Counell arrived , and tho number who accompanied him in the procession and were present on the field were fnlly as great as those at any previous meeting in the province . The Very Reverend Dr . Madden proposed that they should comauDce their proceedings by giving three cheers for the Queen , which were given accordingly * He then proposed as Chairman a gentleman who not many years ago was the oldest magistrate in the county :, but who , in answer to the English Minister flung : his commission to tho winds , and stood by Ireland —{ cheers ) . That gentleman was Jeofirey French , Etq ., of Tomona—( cheers ) .
The motion was agreed to , and Jeoffrey French , Esq ., took the chair . The Chairman said that persons were punished for auending meetings , which they conceived for the benefit *> f the country ; but for his part , be cared not what any govomment would do , he would attend any meeting calculated to promote the interests of Ireland—( cheers ) . Dr . Burke , on being nominated secretary , said when he brought the requisition to Mr . O'Cbnneil , he had promised him an assemblage of 500 , 000 per sons in Roscommon , and he now abked had he not kept his promise ? Mr . O'Connell—Certainly and a tilley over—( cbeer . - ) .
The Hon . T . Ffrench proposed a resolution , that after forty-three years of experience of Saxon legislation , they had no hope of remedying the grievances of Ireland but by a Repeal of the "Union , and they were determined to persist in their efforts until that ail-important object was effected . Mr . Henry Cany of Durham , seconded the resolution , which was agreed to . Mr . O'Connell , when the cheering subsided , called on them to rejoice in well-founded hope and confident expectation—to rejoice in tho spirit of patriotism that their country was to become a nation again—to rejoice that the day-star of liberty was in the horizon , and that the full noon of freedom should beam around their native land : for the day , the
hour , was fast coming , believe him , who m ver told them a lie , ; heir country should be a nation again—( cheers ) . The hour of tho restoration of their native Parliament was at fcacd— ( renewed cheering ) —and that was what he never would cease to work for till he got it—and the oldest among them , and few of them were older than himself—should live 10 hear of ihe Parliament in Coliego Green —( cheer *)• That period waa approaching : for every symptom surrounding them , every appearance , every reality , denoted that the restoration of the Irish Parliament was not remote . They bad only to look around them , and review by-gone circumstances and passing ereuts , to bs convinced of the speedy restoration of the Irish Parliament . First they bad Father
Mathew—( hear , and cheers ) . He put him forth with the glorious teetotallers and the temperance , the finest effulgence of human virtues—( cheers ) . Had he any teetotallers there ? ( " Yea , plenty . ") He was glad of it , for he wished to tell them that he had made a rule that no man who broke his pledge should be allowed to be a Repealer . He would place the teetotallers in the first rank of the Repealers . Napoleon boasted of his body-guardhJ 8 Imperial Guard—he boasted of a guard of Christian teetotallers . He adduced the fact as a precursor to Irish liberty , that they bad five millions of pledged teetotallers—for that mighty moral miraole had not emanated from the hands of the Almighty for nothing ( cheers ) . It was it that gave them all
the security they had in their present movement . How could he have assembled such masses—how could he have brought a million and a half of people together , if he were not backed by the teetotallers 1 They were the first preservers of the liberty of Ireland , and it was for that Father Mathew was sent . The truth was that the Irish were too good to be kept in slavery any longer . Tney could not be kept in slavery . They were temperate . Men who drank might exhibit courage in the first flash of momentary excitement ; but give him in the front of the conflict the teetotaller ; and were it necessary for him to go to battle , be would go there with the steady teetotallers ( cheers)—witb their wiveB and sisters , thanking God for their
virtuous abstinence , and praying for their success ; and with the teetotal bands playing before them—( cheers ) he could tell them that there was not an army in the world to match with his teetotallers—( cheers ) . Temperance was the corner-stone of Irish liberty . It was tho first proof that they were sweeping away filthy Saxon domination . The second great proof of the success of Repeal was to be found in their own conduce . They had placed their enemies in the wrong , and had kept themselves in the right . In the Precursor Society every effort wa 3 made to obtain justice for Ireland . He defied any man to deny that grievances existed . He bad called for the relief of those grievances , and they even bad offered to give up Repeal if they got good
government for Ireland . The offer was treated with scorn , and he raised the standard of Repeal because the English Parliament would not do justice to Ireland . He made the experiment . They were refused , and he would make the bargain no more , for from that hour forward there : v » as nothing but the Repeal for Ireland—( cheers ) . Their enemies had resorted to abuse . They vilified the people and the clergy of Ireland . One of the > fir * t of their newbpapere called the venerated clergy of th « majoriiy of the people of Ireland . " surplictd ruffians , " " ademon priesthood , " and designated the people of Ireland " a filthy and felonious rabble . " He knew the tffect of it upon the Irish people . He wished there were as many Englishmen before them a ^ there were Irishmen present ,
and that they dared to use that language . If tb * y did not b > jg pardoa before they 'went , home there was no use in logic at all—( cheers and lau « htt-r ) . The result of the abuse was , that it made the Irish people more ready to join him tb : > n they were before in driving oft' the Saxon yoke , and giving Ireland to the Irish —( hear , and cheert ) . He told tnem that he would keep wnhin the consiition , that there should be no attack made upon them ; but he defied them to attack the people . Be asked if there was one man there -would not fight if he were attacked ( cheers and cries or " there is not" )! There was music in that shout , and a pretty tune it was . Now that shout was exactly what he told them . He translated it into English for them , and sent it back to Peel and Wellington with his compliments ( cheers and laughter ) . What was tbe consi qaence ?
They said they had no notion of fighting . He laughed , and tbe people of Ireland could langh at them too . What did they propose to do ! Nothing . They hoped , indeed , that the efforts of Ireland would pass away . In the first place they Baid O'Connell was old , and vronld soon di « ( laughter ) . Heaven help them ! He was . yi > u .: g enough for the best of them jet Gaughter and clu-ers ) . But heaven forbid that Ireland had not many sons as true as he , and as deserving of her confidence ( no , no)—and if it was his fate to be placed beneath the cold stone to-morrow , and to be caiied to his judgement , oh , Ireland would be free still ( cheers ) ! Tne effecting of her liberty dia not dep- ; ud 011 one man , but if it did depend upon one maa ' . * exertions , here was the man who would do it—( ioud cheers ) . Their enemies had another plan . The priests , whom they
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abuse * , they intended now to br [ be . Ob ! what a cbanos there was of striking their priests ? Formerly , the same price was set on the head of a priest as en that of a ; wolf , £ 5 ; and although there wore in those days gentlemen who were priest-catohere , not one betrayed the priest . The people and the priests were true to each other in former days of suffering ; they would still be faithful to each other ; and he would let their enemies bribe thepriests if they could . Their opponents had another trick . They calculated that the people of Ireland would be tired of looking forlfhorty . Ho would promise the Minister that they would not tire . Before the expiration of the week he would publish his plan for the restoration of the Irish Parliament . They of course , acknowledged Victoria as their Queen , God bless her , and they Would maintain all her prerogatives . The Irish House of Lords would be acknowledged with
all its privileges , and they would insist upon the Irish House of Commons having the number of three hundred imembers . Ha would submit to the public thenumberof counties , and towns which should have representatives in the Irish Parliament . The machinery of his plan for proceeding for the Repeal would be laid before the people , and he had no doubt they would seriously read it . Their success was at hand . He read in the signs of the times and in the actions of men that the hour was come when Ireland should have her own Parliament , and when her virfuous , faithful , and religious people would be free , prosperous , and happy—( loud cheers ) . Mr . Dillon , barrister , proposed a vote of thanks to the Roman Catholic clergy ; after which the Honourable Mr . Ffrench having been proposed to tho chair , thanks were given to the previous chairman , and the meeting dispersed in an orderly manner .
, THE DINNER took place in a pavilion erected in the old markethouse . About 50 . 0 persons sat down . Mr . French , who presided at the proceedings of the day 5 was the chairman . ; After the cloth was drawn letters of apology were read from the Rev . Dr . M'Hale , Dr . Brown , It . C , Bishop of Gal way ; Dr . Caniwell , Bishop of ' Meath , & . 0 , & . O . The usual loyal toasts having been given , The Chairman gave " O'Connell and the Repeal " —( loud cheers ) . Mr . O'Connell , in responding to the toast , said that they Had really taken him by surprise by the extent of their arrangenv uts and the magnificence
of their demonstration that day . The scene of today bad struck their enemies with terror , and was to their friends an ' exhiliarating assurance of success —( cheers ) , He would return to Dublin in triumph , and leave their pitiful little landlords to devise their uirty little schemes— ( cries of 'VCastle Kelly" ) . Djd they miss him 1 No ! and by the course of the person alluded to had taken , perhaps he had seen more honest faces around him that day than he waa accustomed : to—( cheerb ) . He ( Mr . O'Connell ) intended to propose to then ) a resolution that day , agreeing to petition for the abrogation of the thing called a Catholic oath . If the meetitig had been a smaller one , and his mind had not been so taken up , he would have done so , but he promised them
that he would let 110 other meeting pass wituout proposing a petition to abolish that oath—( cheers ) . For it was without example , and it was not to be endured that scoundrels and hypocrites should insult them , and that they should be taunted and insulted every other day by Broughams and Beaumont ; --( Cheers ) . He never would have consented to any arrangement including that oath , if he did not conceiye that they would have put the same construction upon it as they did upon tho coronation oath . Nothing but tho most prejudiced malignity could have dared to attach the imputation of perjury to a body of Christians who were hot emancipated for years , because they would not consent to perjure themselves . ( Hear , hear ) . Than bo subject to such
iiuuits , they ought rather not take the oath any more , and flii . g the Emancipation in their teeth ; for that which he had wrung from them before , he could get from them a second time . ( Loud cheering ) . As to the wretch Beaumont , they had heard of Ins conduct to a lady at Florence , and he ( Mr . O'Counell ) felt that he was degrading himself in not treating him with contempt and scorn . , The other wretch , Brougham ,: was the most degraded of human beings . What would he who talked of perjury , not do to procure for himself place and promotion . ( Hear , hear ) . ** He was a man of great talent , considerable
power of rho ' . oric , but he degraded it to a civil bill attorney sort of eloquence . His present position reminded one of the cautionary lines of the poet , which he would adapt to him" If puts allure thee , think bow Brougham shiaed , The brightest , maddest , ' meanest of mankind . " ( Cheers ) . The Honourable and Learned Gentleman then called on them to rally round him , to be conciliatory and firm , and Ireland should belong to tke Irish . Alter several other toasts the company separated . In the course of the evening several large sums of money i ^ se collected .
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IMPORTANT MEETING . THE REPEAL SCHEME . An adjourned meeting of the Repeal Association took place on Tuesday , at the Ccfrn-Exchango . Dr . Murphy in the chair . Ssveial sums of money having been handed in from various parts of tbe country , Mr . O Coiinell entered the room , and was received by the meeting with lv > uU cheering ! He proceeded to empty his pocket of the cash and communications with which they were filled , and was occupied for a considerable time in stating the names of the
contributors , aiid reading their letters . Amongst the latter was one from a priest in the county of Roscommon , enclosing a subscription of fifty-three ladies of his parish , every one of whom , the rev . writer stated , was " ready to beoomo a Maid of Orleans , if necessary . " The Hon . and Learned Geatleman then rose , and said that he would now come to the more immediate business of the day . He had to lay before them his plan for the mode of the restoration of the Irish Parliament—( cheers ) . He then read the following report : —
11 PLAN iFOn THE RENEWED ACTION OF TUB IRISH PARLIAMENT . 1 . "The Irish people recognise , acknowledge , maintain , and will continually preserve and uphold upon the throne of Ireland , her Majesty , Queen Victoria ( whom God protect !) Queen , by undoubted ri&ht , and by hereditary descent , of Ireland , and her heira and successors for ever . The people of Ireland recognise , acknowledge ,, maintain , and will continually preserve and uphold , all the prerogatives of her Majesty , and of her heirs and successors belonging to , and inherent in , the Imperial Crown of Ireland ; and they will true allegiance bear , pure , undivided , and indivisible to her Majesty , her heirs and successors , for ever . ; .
2 . " The people of Lroland acknowledge , and will maintain and preserve for ever , tho privileges , hereditary and personal , of the Peers of Ireland , together with the legislative and judicial authority of the Irish House of Lords , ana the exercise of the prerogative in augmenting and limiting the peerage , as the same did of right exist before the year 1800 . " 3 . The people of Ireland do firmly insist upon the restoration oJ the Irish House ° f Commons consisting of 300 representatives of the Irish people ; and claim , in the presence of their Creator , the right of the people of Ireland to such restoration . They
have submitted to the Union as being binding as a law ; but they declare solemnly that it is not founded on right , or on constitutional principle ; and that it is not obligatory upon Conscience . They agree with the Tory Attorney-General Saurin that the only binding power of the Union is the strength of the English domination . They also agree wiib him that resistance to the Union is in the abstract a duty , aud the exhibition of that resistance a mere question of prudence . They will therefore resist tfie Union by all legal , peaceful , and constitutional moans .
" 4 . The p ' an for the restoration of the Irish Parliament is as follow- : —1 . That the county members should be increased to 173 in the manner hereinafter specified . 2 . That there should be 127 members returned from cities and towns , in the manner hereinafter mentioned . 3 ily . That the county of Garlow , being the only county in Ireland with less than 100 , 000 inhabitants , should get an increase of 1 member , so as to have 3 representatives ; that every other county having above 100 , 000 inhabitants should gei an increase of 2 members ; that every county ranging above 150 , 000 inhabitants should get an increase 0 ! 3 members . ** Thai every county ranging above 250 , 000 inhabitants should get an increase of 4 members . " That the county of Tipperary , having more than 400 , 00 !) inhabitants , but less than 500 , 000 should get an increase of eight members .
"That the county of Cork , having more than 700 , 000 inhabitants , should get an iucrease of ten members . " 5 . With respect to the towns ami cities , it it proposed thati the City of Dublin , having more than 200 , 006 inhabitants , should have eight representatives ; four for the parts north of the Liffey , and four for the parts south of tho Liffey . " Tbat the University of Dublin should oontinne on the basis of its present constituency to send two members . : " It is proposed that the city of Cork , having more than 100 , 000 inhabitants , should have fire members . " That the city of Limerick and town of Belfast , having respectively more than 500 , 000 inhabitants ) should send four members each .
"it is proposed that the town of Galway and the cities of Waterford and Kilkenny , having respectively more than 200 , 000 inhabitants , should send each three members to Parliament . " That other towns having about 7 , 000 inhabitants should each send two members to Parliament , and that forty-nine other towns , next highest in the ratio of population , should send one member each . " A sonbdulo of the different places to return members to the Irish Parliament will shgw their
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relative population ; and the number of members to be assigned to each jwas then set forth , and the report proceeded as follows : — " The population isjtaken from the returns of 1831 , which having boen made for a different purpose , and without « ny reference whatever to the Repeal of the Union , furnish ; a scale of unquestionable impartial iiy . I " 6 . It is proposed tbat the right of voting should be what is called * Household Suffrage , ' requiring six months' residence in the counties ; with the addition in tiie towns of married men resident for twelve months , whether householders or not . " 7- It is proposed , ] that the mode of voting far members of Parliament should certainly be by ballot . i
" 8 . The Monarch de facto of England at all times hereafter , whoever he : may be , shall be monarch de jure iu Ireland . Andfso in case of a future regency , the Regent de facto in England to be Regent de jure in Ireland . " 9 . The connexion i between Great Britain and Irelctad by means of { the power , authority , aDd prerogatives , of the Grown , to be perpetual , and incapable of change , or any severance or separation , j " The foregoing plan to be carried into effect according to recognized law , and strict constitutional principle . | ' Signed by order , \ " Daniel O'Connell ,
" Chairman of the Committee . " Mr . O'Connell continued to say , that he threw this report abroad for the consideration of the Irish people , for there was no remedy for their wrongs but tbe carrying of that plan into execution . If there was any dissent from it—if any portion of the country complained of partiality—they would adopt auy proper amenJment submitted to th ; m , but they would not lightly change it . Nothing but an overwhelming conviction would mafee them swerve from it , and he trusted it would be unanimously adopted there at their meetings . They had now nothing to do but to carry it into effect—( cheers ) . His own opinion was that the Royal prerogative was sufficient to restore to Ireland her Parliament—( l » ud
cheers ) . It would be remembered that when King James abdicated , the j Parliament began by appointing William as K'ng , and then proceeded to enact that all they had done when without a king , during tho abdication of James , was legal . AH they need do vr&s to j adopt a similar course about tho Repeal ; if the Qupu took the initiative , and called the Parliament , they could afterward legalise tvtrytHing—( loud cheer ' s . ) He concluded by moving that the report be adopted , printed , and circulated , which was carried . \
Mr . O'Connell said they would adjoarn till tomorrow , to receive the report of the Committee appointed to nominate arbitrators . He believed they had the plan complete by which the people would have courts of their own , and not bo obliged to go to the present magistrates . } He would also to-morrow move the abolition of the thing called the Catholic oath . They should get rid of oveiy thing which even tbe meani'Bt and basest of human beings could call equivocation —( cheers ) . | The Association then adjourned until to-morrow .
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Woolcjmbfrs at IIalvfLx—On Monday the 21 st insfc ., a meeting of the w&oJciMnbera was holden on Ilhugworth Moor , when Joihn Evans was called on to preside , and after makiu ^ the necessary remarks he proceeded to read over the amount of receipts aud expenditure , after which the following resolutions were passed unanimously , j Proposed by John Martin and seconded by John Rawnsley : "That this meeting deem it neqessary for the better protection of wages to iform the woolcomberfl into Protective Localities , each looslity to be divided into districts , and each district to form a fund to be connected with the general fund at
Halifax ;; to be called the { Halifax Woolcombers ' Protective Soeiety . " Proposed by Mr . J . Bawden , and seconded by Mr . T , Robinson : " That in order to carry out the first resolution , each firm shall send one or more delegates according to the number employed in Buoh firm to the Committee Room on Wed ' nesday , the 23 rd instant , at seven o ' clock iu the evening , to draw up artioles for our govemmoat , and also to elect j the necessary officers for conducting the afore mentioned Society . " Proposed by James Uttleyj and seconded by Levi Midgley : " That in order to ' give general satisfaction the delegates from each firm shall be elected every fortnight : and each firm sending one ox more dele-
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gates shall meet among themselves , and appoint such , person or persons , as they think most proper to sit on the committee . " Proposed by Richard White and seconded by James Hill : " That this meeting is of opinion that a deputation be appointed out of the delegates assembled , to wait upon the different localities to Organize them into Protective Societies in accordance witb the first resolution . " The * meeting was well attended , there being about 800 preamt . The speakers generally confined themselves to the main , point , and George Flinn , from ; Bradford , delivered , as a winder up , an eloquent and powerful speech , which had a great effect upon the meeting ; he urged the necessity of their being united in one
indissoluble bond for the protection of a uniform scale of wages , which was answered by the meeting with loud cheers . ^ -On Monday morning , the firm of Mr . Walker , of Mytholm Royd , was waited on to solicit an advance , which was refused . The men in the above employ immediately took in their combs , with a determination not to return again without their request being granted . —On Tuesday morning , the firm of Appley » rd , of Cause'yfoot , was waited upon and solicited to give' an advance , who refused , and discharged the men who solicited him ; bat seeing they were in earnest , in half an " hour ha sent for the men again , and complied with their request . —Several other little masters have given the advance required .
Rebecca in West ADCKLAND .-r-DariDg the last week this mother of many thousands , with some of her children , are said to have visited this place , and taken a quantity of potatoes from a field very near tbe town . Fivo poanda reward is offered ; but tbe "lady * ' and her family have as yet escaped detection
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SUBSCRIPTIONS ] IIKCEIVEB BY MR . CLEAVE . FOR [ VICTIMS . i . £ . s . d . Wadsworth-row , near Halifax 0 10 0 One of tho middle classes , but an enemy to oppression 1 10 0 x \ lr . Deacon i 0 0 6 Mr . Young i 0 1 0 FOR M ' DOUALL . Mr . M'Pherson , Ipswich 0 5 0 Female Chartists , Rochdale 17 7 Proceeds of a raffla , Rochdale 0 12 . 5 One of tho middle classes , but an enemy to oppression . I 0 10 0 FOR DEBENCF FUND . Cbilwell . Notts { per Mr ! Sweet ) 0 a 0
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SHEFFIELD . —The usual weekly meetings have been held . Oh Sunday evening , after the reading of the papers ( the Northern Star and Nation ) the u-ual discussion took placa . jOn Monday evening , Mr . Edwin Gill delivered an interesting address-on the life of that celebrated patriot , Sir Wm . Wallace . SABDKN . — A . public meeting was holden here on Wednesday evening , the 16 th inst ., when Mr . J . Anderton moved , and Mr . Robert Wilkinson seconded , Mr . Richard Marsden to represent them in the forthcoming Conference for the re-organization of ibe Chartist movement . Tbe motion was carried unanimously .
BIRMINGHAM . —This town seems again to ba taking that proud position in Chartism that it formerly had ; for during the last few Weeks tbe greatest enthusiasm has been manifested by tbe working men . Since it has been intimated that Mr . T . Attwood was again to commence another agitation , mash anxiety has been manifested to learn the ] principles upon which that gentleman means to ground his exertions ; andmeotioga , both of tbe middle aud working classes , have been almost ol nightly occurrence • th < se at tbe working men cleclaring that | they will support him for nothing short of the People ' s Charter . An address to Mr . ATWOOP was passed at a laree public meeting , as reported in the Star , but the Birmingham Journal
refused to insert H ! N ™ , w , working men , who are your real friends , and who are not ? The old Whig ramp of tbe Birmingham Political Council have holden their meetings in small and obscure rooms , and have had for their object ithe getting up of a requisition calling upon Mr . ATTWOOD to come out , merely to get up an agitation to " dismiss the present Ministry ; and to reinstate the Whigs again in office . " !! I Whilst the mere t < ols of fiction are thus busily engaged , the Chartists are not idle . On Sunday morning lasi , Mr . Mason held a more numerous meeting at Durttieston Row than on any former occasion during the summer , in spite of the interferencejof tho police on the Sunday
previous . He also delivered a most eloquent lecture , on Tuesday evening , in the Hall of Science , on The rise and fall of the Grecian Empire , " which was received witb tbe greatest satisfaction imaginable . The chairman announced tbatj there would be a public meeting on that night week , to elect delegates to the National Conference ; and likewise tbat the council were making preparations for holding a public meeting on the day the Conference assembled , and were ai ranging for a tea-party and ball on September 5 th , in honour of T . S . DuncombejEsq ., M . P ., Feargus O Connor , J . T . Lpader , M . P ., W . S . Crawford , M . P ., W . Williams . M . P ., and John Fielding , M . P .
Aston-Street . —At a meeting of the-Committee for tbe relief of Mr . George White , on Sunday last , the following resolution was unanimously agreed to : — "That this Committee acknowledge , with pleasure and grati tude , the invaluable assistance rendered to tbeir imprisoned friend by the Chartists of Lou on , and wbicn has enabled him hitherto to avail himself of the privileges attending his confinement , and without which assistance they regret to 13 ' ay , Mr . White would ha » e been placed in a more disagreeable position than if he had been confined in the common gaol of this county ; has laboured
the district in Which he so nssiduousiy not having contributed one-third of the means utceseary for his support . " I On Sundat evening last , ( Mr . Wm . Chilton del gbted his hearers at the Chartist Room , in A&ton-street , with a lecture on Free Trade . H . e exposed the anti-Corn Liw League and their Free Trades humbug in & 00 U style , and exhorted his bearers to stick to the Charter ; for that waa the only means to remove their country from ruin . After the lecture , letters were read from Mr . White on the Organization , and the forthcoming . National Delegate Meeting , ! which gave great satisfaction to all preseni . j
REDOITCH .-On Monday last , Mr . H . Candy delivered a lecture , on th < 3 Chapel Green , to a numerous audience , Hia subject wag , " The present position of affairs ; and the necessity of a change " . For upwards of an hour be exposed the evils arising from class legislation ; an , ci the fallacy of the Corn Law Repealers : the effjei of machinery ; and the necessity of persevering add agitating till the People ' s Charier became tiie ] &j « v of the laud . Mr . Crudy then announced that , ou the following , evening , he would preach a sermon . ! On Tve 8 Da y EvuNiyG , the sermon was delivered , from Romans i . 16 , showing the accordance of the principles of Christianity with the demands for tho Charter . !
The CnAKTiiTs of this place intend meeting Mr . Duncombe in iiirminj ; haia , i aud yiviuy him a hearty welcome , with the assembled ihou ^ anda who will gather on that evtiitful day ] to do honour io that distinguished eeutk-iaan . ¦
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 26, 1843, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct816/page/8/
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