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COMMEMORATION OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC The femons 22 nd of September , 1792 , the day from which the establishment of the French Republic dated , was celebrated on Monday last , September 22 nd , by a public supper , holden in the _City Chartist Hall , Turnagain-lane , where some of the leading Democrats of most of the European nations commingled together in featenal union . Two hundred and twenty-four persons sat down to supper , hut this number was greatly increased in the course of the evening , during the greater part of which the Hall was crowded . There can be no doubtthat , hadproper and timelypreparationheen made , -at least a thousand persons would have assembled .
Mr . Thohas Cooph- , the Poet of Chartism , who had been -unanimously and enthusiastically called to the chair , proceeded , after the removal of the cloth , to introduce the first toast . It was , he remarked , the only proper first toast for aU really Democratic assemblies , and ought ever to Tie placed In contrast to the introductory loyal toast of monarch-worshi ppers . Time was , even -within the recollection of many in that company , that a Duke of Norfolk lost his Lord _lieutenancy for proposing this toast at a dinner of the aristocracy and gentry ; out Dukes of Norfolk it seemed , had now ceased to sin in that alarming and horrifying manner . He would say no more than that he was proud and glad of the honour done him , in being selected president of the feast , proud and glad to see so many talented and hrave patriots of other lands around liim , and , above all , proud and glad to lie supported by so many ofthe true-hearted and unswerving among his brethren , who had with him borne the burthen and the heat of the day , in the great and suffering struggle for Chartism .
The _Chaojun then gave , — "The People , the only source of Power .- * Ma . Skelton , who was warmly received , said , I do not think , sir , that any here will be likely to dissent from the toast you have called on ma to respond to . We are all of the people _^ the long cheated and oppressed peoplo ; slaves indeed , slaves in soul would wc be were we to hesitate to acknowledge this toast . ( Cheers . ) I am delighted to see so many persons of various nations assembled to commemorate that " Great Fact , " the French Republic of 1792 . Onr chairman , the author of that splendid poem , " The Purgatory of Suicides , " is a living proof of the greatness of mind to be found in the Tanks of the people . ( Loud cheers . ) Our talented
guest , Mr . "Weitling , a German refugee , celebrated throughout Germany and Switzerland for his chivalrous advocacy of communism , is another proof of the master minds helonging to labour ' s class . _( G reat cheering . ) I trust that the day is coming when Hie people , having the power to make the laws , and form the institutions , _TriU become really sovereign ; and Democracy prepare -the way for that social equality and general happiness -which I have a fervent faith win yet pre vail . ( Cheers ) . The Chaikhan then spontaneously sang the Chartist version of "Rule Britannia , " the whole company most * enthusiastically joining in the chorus" Spread the Charter through the land ! Let brethren brave and true join heart and hand 1 "
The Chaikhan , in introducing the second toast , observed thatit was emphatically the toast ofthe evening—that which ivas ths peculiar exponent of the cause ibr which tbey were met , and while he would be hold to say there was , he believed , but one individual present - who was a more ultra and thorough-going admirer of the celebrated meu to he named in connection with that toast than lumself , he had now the high pleasure of saying that that individual , admired and valued as he knew him to be for his unswerving course , would speak to that toast—the sentiment was : — "The solemn memory of the honest and virtuous Pronch Republicans of 179 * 2 : may that equality whieh they desired , and for which they lived , laboured , and died , have a speedy resurrection in France , and extend its reign throughout Europe . "
Mr . G . _J-juai , _Haenet , who was received with cheers , again and again renewed , said , —There was a time _^ Mr . Chairman , -when the holding of such a celebration as -this would have Bahjected the parties assembled not only to the seorn , the sneers , the abuse , and the persecution of the privileged orders , but also to the violence of the ignorant and misguided people , who were led by their rulers and priests to regard the French Revolution as something terrible and hellish , to he looked hack upon -with horror , and spoken of with execration . ( Hear , bear . ) Most present will remember that not long ago , whenever a demand was made in this country for the repeal of any "bad law , or the enactment of any good one , forthwith the howl of " Jacobinism I" _vras raised hy the opponents of all progress . Whether it was proposed to reform the Parliament , reduce taxation , educate the people , or do
anything elsethatatallsavouredofprogress , the " ± rench Revolution , ' "Reign of Terror , " and aU the rest of the raw-head and bloody-hones phantasmagoria were sure to he brought ont and duly exhibited to frighten the b % babies in breeches , who as yet had not learned to think for themselves . ( Laughter , and cheers . ) That time is past ; still , I question whether we have yet learned to read aright the history of that great revolution . It would 1 ) 8 very tasy for me in responding to this toast to mouth a few clap-trap sentiments about liberty , equality , tlie rights of man , the coalition of the European kings , and the doings of Pitt and Brunswick . 1 might dilate on all these topios , and possibly might win applause for what -would probably pass muster as an exceedingly liberal speech . I might do all this , and yet very conveniently for myself shirk the grand auestion . The grand question ,
it appears to me , the solution of which the French Revolution had for its mission , was the destruction of inequality , and theestablishmentof institutions whichshould guarantee to the French people that happiness which the masses are , and ever haveheenstrangersto . ( Cheers . ) How , tried hy tins test , we liave compaiativcl ? little difficulty in arriving at a fair estimate of the men who figured on the stage of the revolution . Take Lafayette , for instance , as a specimen of the Constitutionalists * , and he , perhaps , is the most favourable specimen of that party I could name . Tew men have enjoyed more popularity _thanlafeyette . Jin his youth we find him leaving his country , and generously embarking in tho American struggle against English tyranny . The great work of American liberation being accomplished , he returned to Trance , and shortly afterwards we find him one of the
foremost men in the revolution which now commenced m lis own country . Again , in his old age , we see him the most popular man in France , called , after the three days , to the veritahle dictatorship , and , like onr "Warwick of old , unmaking and malting kings with his word . Lafayette enjoyed , throughout Europe and America , a greater popularity than perhaps any other man ofhis time ; and that popularity he would have deserved , if his conduct had heen consistent with his first acts in the revolution . But Lafayette was never theMendof equality . ( Hear , hear . ) True , atthe outset , he gave up his feudal pr ivileges , and renounced his title—and thus far he did TvelL Placed at the head of the popular fores , the idol of the middle class , and commanding the affection of even the working class , he was for a time regarded as the champion of the revolution . But he halted when he
should have advanced . The working men soon found oat that aU that the destruction of the bastile and tha abolition of feudal privileges had accomplished , -was the curbing of the power of the king and the aristocracy , and increasing the power of the middle class . But the people ware not content with this—they demanded liberty and rights for themselves ( cheers)—they wanted what we want—a veritable equality . { Loud cheers . ) Wlienlafcyette saw this , he turned Conservative , and was a revolutionist no longer . It was he who proposed the adoption of martial law , to authorise the shooting and sabreing of the peoplo , in the event of any tumult , at a time , too , when thepeopleweresuff « ringnnderabsolate £ amine ; andunder ttis * ff _*? _* _ia ' 1 law , Lafayette himself superintended the _lmtchery of the people when assamhled in the Champ de Mars , on the 17 th of July , 1791 , to petition the assembly
against tiie reinvestiture of the king with supreme power , after his shameful flight to Varennes . Subsequently Lafayette dared to menace Paris with his sword , and proposed to shut np the public clubs by armed violence . After tbe 10 th of August lie strove to excite tbe soldiers under his oomman dto march _againstParis , but they , better patriots than he was , reftised , _andhethgn fled , and renounced the revolution . Yet Lafayette was perhaps the best man of all the constitutionalists , but neither he nor his parry come within the compass of our toast , for * hej- were not even republicans in name . They _profeSSCd to recognise the sovereignty ofthe people , at the same time that they divided the citizens into active and inactive , confining to the payers of direct taxes , whom they called active citizens , the right of the suffrage . In short . Lafayette and the constitutionalists -were mere
"trags , but little , if anything , better loan tne men who humbugged ns with the * Beform DHL ( Cheers . ) Kext come the Girondists ; and this is the party generally upheld as the "honest and -rirtuous republicans , " but I must differ with those who hold that opinion . It is impossible to refuse them the tribute of our admiration for tucir talents ; the eloquence which distinguished the leaders of-this party , accompanied in some instances hy stern integrity , as in the case of Roland ; by heroic devotion , as in the case of Madame Roland ; and by fiery enthusiasm , as in the case of Barbarous ; these qualities extort our admiration . And we cannot , at least I speak for myself—I cannot read of the shocking and untimely « na of a Madame Roland , or the philosopher Condorcet , without intense emotion . Still the Girondists were not the men to whom the people could look to rescue them from social slavery . That there were good men amongst the Girondists , cannot be doubted—fhat they were honest to their own convictions , may be admitted . Thatmanyof them were ignorant rather than guilty , may be charitably
believed , though to believe this wa must believe it only of those who perished ; for were we to judge of the party by those who survived what is commonly called the " reigu of terror , " we should be forced to the conclusion that a baser gang never existed . These survivors of that party aided in destroying the constitution of ' 93 , established tbe aristocratical constitution of ' 33 , conspired with the other aristocratic factions to exterminate the real Republicans , and finally helped to place Prance nnder the tyranny of the military usurper Napoleon . ( Hear , hear . ) The eloquence of the Girondists has been highly landed ; but -we stern and nncompromising Democrats cannot consent to admire them simply because they were _eloquent . Indeed , if we were to do so , we should award the highest honours to the corrupt and aristocratical Mirabeau . "When the people , rising for liberty , bursting the shackles of fourteen hundred years ' slavery , _abandoned their homes to combat against the domestic conspirator , and tho foreign invader , they required something more than the eloquent speeches and fine woven theor ies ef tte Girondists to sustain them , "Bread ,
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steel , and equality , " was the demand of the people . ( Cheers . ) Bread for their famishing & milies , steel with which toheat back the cohorts of the surrounding despots , and equality as the end of their labours and the reward of their sacrifices . ( Great cheering . ) The Girondists , however , regarded the people , to quote the words of Thomas Carljle , as mere " explosive masses to blow up bastiies with "—to be used as tools and treated as slaves _, ihey hesitated between Royalism and Democracy , vainly hoping to cheat eternal justice by a compromise . Fatal mistake for thein . They fell , and their fall was merited . Them-m . of energy trampled them down—the people swept them away . Of the several sections of the party of the Mountain , I shall only say that 1 find none of them
but Robespierre and his friends worthy of any commendation . ( Great cheering . ) The greater number of the Mountainists were brigands , who , only anxious to obtain for themselves the spoils ofthe Revolution , cared nothing for the people by whose toU , suffering , and courage the revolution had been achieved . These desperadoes , using thelanguage of _thefriendsof equality , and foratime siding withthemagainsttheConstitutionalists and the Girondists , sosoonas they had acquired power _. exhibitedthemselves in their true characters , and henceforth stood the avowed and deadly enemies of equality . By this faction Robespierre , was overthrown and assassinated , and St . Just , Couthon , and all the leading friends of tbat incorruptible legislator , were doomed te death . Not content with
destroying the fiiends of equality , the assassins loaded then names with the most infamous calumnies , hesitating not to charge upon their victims the very crimes which they themselves had committed . I know itis unfashionable as yet to regard Robespierre in any other light thaH as a monster ( hear , hear ) : but I believe the day is coming when a very different view will be taken of the character of that extraordinary mam ( Great cheering . ) I would not deify Robespierre ; I do not hold him up as having been all-perfect ; hut to me he appears to have been one ofthe very few ofthe leading characters of the revolution , who saw what were the means necessary to adopt to extirpate political and social wrong , I have not time to comment on ths characters of the indomitable Marat , and that magnificent embodiment of republican chivalry , St . Just . Nor have I time to speak of the excellent
legislative measures that characterised the energetic rule of Robespierre . I have said that the day will come when justice will be done to his name . ( Cheers . ) There are indications that that day is fast coming . Take , for instance , the work of the member for Canterbury , the "Historic Fancies , " in which , though absolute justice is not done to Robespierre , still there is an approximation thereto . 1 direct your attention particularly to the celebrated poem , " The Jacobin of Paris , " which , it appears tome , paints to the . life the feeling entertained by the working , veritable Democrats towards Robespierre . [ Mr . Harney here repeated a portion ofthe poem , which elicited enthusiastic applause . ) Who that has read the history of the revolution _canJbrget the memorably mournful words uttered by 'Robespierre , wheu overwhelmed by the conspirators in the Convention — " The
republic is lost ! The brigands triumph 1 " Few are thc last words that history records of fallen men so patheticaUy grand as these . In as few words as Caesar employed to relata his victory , is expressed the history of the heaviest misfortune that ever hath befallen the human race . But , to me , the hest proof of thc real character of Robespierre , is to be found iu the universal regret felt for his loss by the honest democrats who survived him—by those too amongst them , who , mistaking his intentions , had been seduced into favouring his destruction , but who , when too late , bitterly ruedj their folly . Babeuf was one of these , tha originator of the famous conspiracy known by his name . That conspiracy had for its object the establishment of a veritable republic , in whicli the selfishness of individualism should he known no more—( cheers ); in wliich ,
private property and money , the foundation and root of all wrong and evil , should cease to be—( cheers ); and in which the happiness of all sh _»* cid be based upon the common labour and equal enjoyments of aU . ( Great cheering . ) Theso glorious men pursued their glorious object to the death . Babeuf and Darthe sealed their belief with their blood , and Buonarotti _, through years of imprisonment , penury , and old age , persevered to the last in his advocacy of the great principles which we thi 3 night dare to vindicate . Nor should I omit mention oftnoseheroicdeputicsRomme , Souhraiiy , Duroy , Duquesnoy and their compatriots , who , condemned to'death by the traitor aristocrats of the Convention , heroically slew themselves in front of , and in contempt oftheir assassins , performing . this self-tragedy with a single blade which they passed from hand to hand . So much fov tho first
part of the sentiment ; Thesecondpartdemandsbut afew WOrdS from me , as it will he hest spoken to hy tho Trench patriots who are present . That tlie principles of equality will have a glorious resurrection , I cannot doubt ; indeed , that resurrection they have already had , not merely in the shape of RepubBcanism _; . but Communism , for Communist societies , I believe , '* cover France at the present day ; hut that I leave to my friend Dr . Fontanie and his fellow-countrymen to speak of . I rejoice much that those worthy patriots are here , They wiU witness to-night proofs ofthe absurdity of the tirades uttered against the English people by the war-press of France . We repudiate these national antipathies . ( Cheers . ) We loathe and
scorn those barbarous clap-traps , " natural enemies , and " national glory . " ( Loud cheers . ) "We denounce all wars , except those into which nations may be forced against _domestio oppressors or hostile invaders . ( Applause . ) More than that , we repudiate the- word " foreigner "—it shall exist not in our Democratic vocabulary . ( Great cheering . ) We may belong to the English , or French , or Italian , or German section ofthe European family , hut Young Europe is our common desi gnation , and under its banner we march against tyranny and inequality . ( Prolonged and enthusiastic ch 0 And now I conclude , calling on you in the words 11 one of Germany ' s noblest posts , Ferdinand Freiligrath _, to do homage to the men of the past : — -
" Charge your glass » s , brimful , tothe hearts that were true , boys , To the cause that tliey lov'd , when the storm _nercest blew , boys ; Who had wrong for their portion , hut won right for you , boys . Drink to them and the right , aud to freedom through right . " ( Enthusiastic applause . ) Mr . Moll , one of the patriotic band of " Young Germany , " sang , in an energetic manner , the celebrated Marseillaise Hymn , in French : the fine bass voice of the vocalist gave great effect to tho _piese . The Chaibman then gave the next toast as follows : — •" "Xoung " Europe . * Repudiating the jealousies and national antipathies of the past ; may the Democrats of aU nations units in a fraternal phalanx forthe destruction of tyranny , and the universal triumph of equality . "
The Chaibman said he had much pleasure in calling upon their German friend , who , exiled from both Germany and Switzerland for his principles , had sought and found refuge in this country . He called on Wilheim Weitling to address them . ( Great cheering . ) Mr . _WErrtiKG , owing to his inability to speak English very fluently , read the following address , which it will bo seen was _enthusiasticaUy applauded : — Friends ! This meeting is a testimony of that common feeling which warms every man ' s breast , the feeling of universal brotherhood . Tes ! though we are educated to differ one from the other in the use of sounds as the natural means to express and communicate this inner feeling to each other , though the exchange of this feeling i 6 hindered by the differences of language , though thousands of prejudices aro united and directed by our eommon adversaries
rather to oppose than to promote a better understanding , an universal brotherhood ; yet , notwithstanding all these obstacles , that strong , charitable , and salutary feeling cannot be extinguished . ( Cheers . ) That feeling that attracts the sufferer to his fellow-sufferer , the struggler for a hatter state of things to his fellow-struggler . ( Cheers . ) Those also were our _fellow-strugglsrs whose revolution we this night commemorate ; they also were aaimatedby the same sympathies which bring as together , and which possibly may lead us to a similar , and let m » hope , a more successful struggle . ( Loud cheers . ) In times of movement , when the privileges of our native adversaries run great risk , they cunningly try to lead our prejudices over the frontiers of our national fatherland , representing to us that the people there are opposed to our common interest . What a trick . ' What a fraud . '
But , reflecting coolly on the matter , we knOW Very Well that our nearest enemies are amongst ourselves in the midst of us . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) It is not the exterior enemy we have to fear ; that poor enemy is dealt with like us ; like us he is compelled to work for thousands Of good-for-nothing fellows ; like us , he takes wp arms against any human society _lecause he is forced to do so by hunger , by law , or excited by his passions nourished by ignorance , by tlie mock fighting ofhis cunning master . National rulers represent our brethren as cruel and rapacious ; but who are more rapacious than they who govern us to he instructed in the art of war , who for their own privileges excite and conduct us to war ? ( Cheers . ) Is it really our common interest tbat necessitates war ! Is it the interest of sheep tobe led by wolves to fight against sheep likewise
led by wolves 1 ( Loud cheers . ) They are themselves our most rapacious enemies ; they have taken from us all that is ours , to dissipate it in pleasures and debauchery . ( Applause . ) They take from us what is ours , since all they use is produced hy us and ought to pertain to those who produce it , and to their wives and children , their aged and their sick , ( Loud cheers . ) But see ho w byjtheir cunning manoeuvres all is stolen from us , and accumulated for a crew ofidle consumers . ( Cheers . ) lsitpossiblethento be more robbed by a foreign enemy than by our own home-enemies ? Is it possible then that thepeople can be more murdered by them than by onr cruel money-men , who rob ns by their stock-jobbing , money dealing , and speculating ; by their currency and bankruptcy , by their monopolies , church and land rents , who by all these means rob ns of the necessaries of life ,
and cause the death of millions Of our Working fellow brethren , to whom they leave not even potatoes enough to live upon . ( Great cheering . ) Is it not , therefore , clear enough that those who are all by money and nothing without it , are really the enemies of the working people in all countries , and that there are amongst men no other enemies of the human race than the enemies of the labouring and working people . ( Cheers . ) Is it possible then that we could be more stolen from , and murdered in a time of political war , than we are now , ina so-called state of peace ? National prejudices , bloodshed , and robberies are then encouraged by us only for the sake of military glory V "What has our interest to gain from such stupid glory ? ( Cheers . ) What , in fact , have we to do with it , when our interest and our better feelings are opposed to it ( Cheers . ) Must we not at all times
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pay the costs ! ( Applause . ) Must we not work and bleed for it ! ( Renewed applause . ) What interest can we have in all such bloodshed and land robberies , except profiting by such occasions for turning round against the robbery and murder-breeding aristocracy in all nations ? ( Enthusiastic cheering . ) It is only this aristocracyalways this aristocracy—that systematically robs and murders . The poor people , led by them , are but their forced and ignorant instruments chosen-from amongst every nation—those the most filled with national prejudices , those wishing to see all nations overpowered by their own nation . But bring them here iuto this meeting , and they will understand each other , and shake hands with each other . Even in battle sueh scenes happen fire * quently . Thus it has been told by eye witnesses of dispersed corps of Russians and French , and of Austriansand French , in the battle of Austerlitz , who mixed
disorderly in the stream of the flight with each other , and behaved as good friends , marching , plundering , eating , and drinking together , till the sound of the trumpet again called them on either side to do the work-of death and destruction . If before a battle the advocates of liberty and love were permitted to address the ranks of their brethren , there would be no slaughter ; on the contrary , there would be a friendly meeting like ours . 01 could wo but have in a battle-field such a meeting , wc should have soon done with all these blood and marrow sucking interests who now oppress and plunder us 1 ( Great cheering . ) Such , friends , are the sentiments of that universal feeling whose warmth , concentrated in the focus of universal brotherhood , kindles a fire of enthusiasm which will soon entirely melt away the hindering icemountains of prejudices which have too long kept brethren asunder . [ Mr . Weitling resumed his seat amid longcontinued cheering . ]
Dr . _Bpebitb Fontaine , of Paris , who was received with rapturous applause , said—Citizens 1 My speech must be necessarily brief , as I cannot speak very good English . It gives me pleasure I cannot express to find the English Democrats meeting to commemorate tbe French Republic . I respond most heartily to the noble sentiments of Mr . Julian Harney . I assure you that the French people do not look upon the English people as their enemies . If some of tha French journalists write against the English Government , they do not write against the English people . The governmentof England is hateful throughout Europe , because it is the government of the English aristocracy , and not the English people . ( Cheers . ) The French Democrats , so far from being the enemies of thc English
people , really desire to fraternise with them . ( Loud cheers . ) The Republicans of France did not fight for France only , but for all mankind ; they wished to establish equality , and extend its blessings throughout the world . ( Great applause . ) They regarded all mankind as brethren , and warred only against the aristocracies of other nations . ( Cheers . ) I can assure you , citizens , that the principles of equality have sprang into renewed life . Communism is advancing with giant strides throughout France . Communist associations are extending all over that country , and I hope that we shall soon see a grand confederation of the Citizen Democrats of all natious , tomakeRepublicanCommunismtriumphantthrough the whole length and breadth of Europe . [ Dr . Fontaine resumed his seat amidst long-protracted cheers J
The Chaibman then called for " three cheers for _« Young Europe , '" which was responded to by three "i'oof and rafter-ringing " shouts , with " one cheer more . " The next toast given by the chairman was" The immortal memory of Thomas Paine , tho great teacher of freedom to the American and Fiench R » publicans . " [ This toast was received with enthusiastic and repeated _chears . ] Mr . linn * EiDtBT responded , and said Thomas Paine perfectly understood that so long as kings and priests ruled , there could he nothing like well regulated liberty . ( Cheers . ) He well knew that the priests held the victims
while bloated kings gorged on the spoil . ( Loud cheers . ) Ho ( Mr . Ridley ) gloried in commemorating the fame of such a man . WeU did Paine know that so long as the peoplo were taught by tha jackall priest , that despotism would be triumphant , and that thepeople could be nothing better than a herd of slaves . ( Hear , hear . ) As a disciple of Thomas Paine , h « felt that Until the peoplo possessed the courage to shake off the trammels of priests and kings , they never could be free . ( Cheers . ) The Americans , although th » y had a President to rule over them , were not free ; could any nation be free that sold human flesh and blood for gold ? ( Loudcheers . ) He had much pleasure in responding to the toast .
[ The toast was honoured by the company rising uncovered . ) The Chaibman next gave— ' ¦ "The memory of-Washington and Franklin ; of William Tell , Hofer , and Kosciusko , and all departed but immortal patriots of other lands . " Mr . Washington Wilkes ( said to be a grandson of the great John Wilkes ) responded-in an energetic speech , which was loudly applauded . The Chaibman then gave" The memory of Wat Tyler , Hampden , and Algernon Sidney ; Pym and Elliott ; Milton , Byron , and Shelley ; Cartwright , Cobbett , and Hunt ; Shell , the hero of Newport , and all other virtuous Englishmen who have fought , wrlttep , or spoken for _libavty , and left us _thtir glorious example . '—may we aspire to follow it . " Mr . C . Bo & well responded in an able and eloquent speech , which was received with much applanso , The CwAijftMAsr next cravo
" The memory of Wallace , _Muir , Palmer , Margarot , Skirving , Gerald , and all other patriotic Scotchmen now with tlie dead ! " - Mr . Cooper , Socialist lecturer , responded by a briol speech , eulogising the memories ofthe Scottish patriots , particularly the men who might be considered as thc founders of present _poUttcal movements in this country , Muiv and h \ 5 compatriots . Those men were enlightened , virtuous , incorruptible , and brave . ( Cheers . ) They showed in their private lives their faith in the principles they avowed . Great had been the advance of knowledge
and mental freedom since the time of Muir and lus friends , aud it only required that they should exhibit charitable feelings towards all the good intentioned , to make the principles of Muir and his brethren universally popular , and successful over all opposition . He was glad to sec the London Badical Reformers holding this meeting . So long as they were exclusively Chartists , he had but little hope of them , hut now that they camo out as Democrats , now that they began to talk about the land and universal brotherhood , he was with them . ( Loud cheers . ) The next toast given from the chair
was"The memory of Robert Emmett , Lord Edward Fitzgerald , Theobald Wolfe Tone , and Grattan , and of all other patriotic Irishmen departed . " Mr . T . M . Wheel-be , who was received with loud cheers , said hehad always from childhood cherished the warmest feelings of esteem for those great men to whom the toast alluded . These men had lit the spark of liberty in that unfortunate country Ireland , and , despite the efforts of interested agitation , the embers would yet be _fauned into an unquenchable flame . ( Applause . ) Yet these great and good lnenhad been declared rebels and traitors ; yes , they were rebels against despotism . This meeting sympathised with such rebels , and hoped the day was not far distant when such traitors and rebels as Emmett and Fitzgerald , would be found in every town , village , and hamlet in Ireland . ( Great cheering . ) The next sentiment was"Health and the speedy return ofour beloved but suffering exiles Frost , -Williams , Jones , and Ellis , and all political exiles . "
Mr . Wm . Rideb , who was warmly received , said it is with minglod feelings 1 rise to respond to the _ssutiment proposed—feelings of pleasure to know that our age and country can boast of having produced a band of nature ' s nobles , whose love of liberty has been proved to he stronger than their love of life . ( Cheers . ) Men , whose _annes and deeds of patriotism will live in the remembrance of their countrymen , and stand prominent ou the page of history , when those of their adversaries will be forgotten , or only remembered to be execrated , and held up as examples to future generations of that state of declension and depravity to which human nature may be reduced , when vitiated by ambition , or invested with arbitrary and irresponsible power . ( Loud cheers . ) But while feeling proud of having had such vaan in _ww _vswafes , there arise feelings of unutterable pain at the thought
of their present condition . These patriots have fallen the victims of tyranny—the fell monster has driren tile iron into their souls , and sits smiling at the torture under which his victims writhe . Those patriots are no longer with us , encouraging us by their example , and directing us by their council . Their eyes no longer behold the scenes of their childhood—their homes are desolate—the oppressor has rent asunder the closest ties of naturetheir wives are bereaved , and their children fatherless ( hear , hear ); and to aggravate the poignancy of their grief , the widows and the fatherless knew that those who once were their partners , their protectors , their comforters , and their supporters live , but live not to themthey are suffering deaths many ina felon ' s land , far ueyond the mountain and the wave . ( Cries of shams , ) To describe the agony which must tear the minds of the exiles , and those they have left behind , is a task I will not attempt to perform—I ask , why were those
patriots expatriated from their fatherland ? What crime had they committed ! None . Th ey had sou-tilt to establish peace on earth and good-will among men . ( Cheers . ) 1 should like to hear the lawn-sleeved gentry say if that ' s blasphemy—if it ' s a desecration ofthe professed religion of the country . If it is , then the sooner we turn infidels the better , in my opinion . ( Loud cheers . ) The exiles told the rulers of the land to undo the heavy burden , and let the oppressed go free . Will tho ermtaed judge say that is a violation of the law of the land . If so , the sooner our courts of justice are converted into slaughterhouses the better , if it has become unjust to speak against injustice . ( Cheers . ) Talk of their crimes , indeed ! why , their failings have ever leaned on virtue's side . The head andfront of their offending was their unceasing and determined opposition to the iniquity unblushingly perpetrated by those who sit in high places , and their unwearied exertions to free the land from that worst of
all curseB—the curse of despotism—which is the most noble and most sacred work in which man can engage , seeing that _Uberty far transcends all othor mundane _blegsings , its intrinsic -worth being such that one day , yea , one hour of its enjoyment is worth a whole eternity of bondage . ( Great cheering . ) Itis well that we should remember the captives oh all occasions , and it is well we should desire their return to . the . land oftheir fathers , to the besom oftheir families , and the society of their friends . But we have a duty to perform towards them of greater moment than merely wishing their welfare and their return to their native soil . That duty is to use every available mean to obtain their deliverance and their restoration to their 1 i »«»** -t e weary the powers
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that be with our frequent importunities until we constrain them to recall the exiles . In this we must be united , and we shall be strong ; and should the Pharaohs' still harden their hearts let them beware of the Bed Sea ( Loud applause . ) - The Chairman then gave—• " Health to O'Connor and Duncombe , and all other incorruptible advocates of the People's Charter , and may it soon become ' the law of the land , ' so that our fatherland may once more become ' Merry England . '" . The intended speaker having been obliged to depart from the lateness of the hour , the meeting , at the suggestion of the chairman , gave three thundering cheers in honour of the toast . The next toast was"Health to John Richards , J . R . Smart , Thomas Sreston , _AUen Davenport , aad all our living ' veteran patriots : ' may we not only tread in their steps , hut gratefully discharge our duty to them . "
Mr . Stallwood responded , paying them a marked compliment for their consistent conduct and unflinching advocacy of the cause of democracy . The next toast was— . "The mothers of England ! may they live to see their _clildren inherit the blessings of the People ' s Charter _, fhe maids of England ! may they soon find it impossible to get husbands who are not Chartists ' . Our wives ! may they he the happy mothers of children tbat shall maintain the Charter when it is won !" This was drank with all the honours and responded to by Mr . J . Shaw in a humorous and appropriate speech , Mr Julian Basnet then proposed , " The health and long life of the chairman ; may he live to witness the consummation Of 0 U 1 ' hopes , and preside at a similar festival to this in celebration ofthe triumph of'Young Europe . '" The sentiment was honoured with tliree tremendous cheers .
The Chairman returned thanks , and proposed three cheers for the People's paper aud Democratic organ , the Northern Star , Three echoing shouts testified the unanimity of the assembly , The greater part of the assembly then retired , but singing was kept up by tliose who remained , for some time-longer . "Young Europe" wa 9 not unfairl y represented at this festival , there being present English , Scotch , Irish , French , German , Swiss , Spanish , Polish , and Italian Democrats . Besides these , we know at least of two others being present , the one a native of Hungary , the _othar of Turkey . The last of these , Mr . _Simmonee ( the Turkish Democrat ) sang several patriotic songs in different languages . A number of Italian patriots also sung in concert their national bymn ( answering to the Marseillaise ) , and altogether the fraternal harmony o £ the meeting was admirably sustained throughout the evening .
Mr . Mazzini , thc Italian patriot , would have attended , had he not been prevented by unavoidable absence from London .
Important Strike At Derwent Iron Works, ...
IMPORTANT STRIKE AT DERWENT IRON WORKS , DURHAM . The gross and unblushing avarice of the proprietors of the Derwent Iron Works has induced them to reduce thc wages of the iron stone miners in their employment , from time to time , until they have at length brought them down to within a few points of actual starvation . About a fortnight ago , whilst the men were contemplating an advance of wages , one of the owners was scheming a further reduction , by disallowing the men any payment whatever for the most laborious part oftheir labour— the getting ot _muggies , or balls of iron-stone of an inferior quality . The strike thus created between capital and labourbetween those who drink wine and those who drink
water—between those who are idle and live sumptuously every day , and those who toil almost incessantly , and barely exist on the meanest and scantiest fare—has produced its natural consequences , a cessation from that labour , the fruits of which are insufficient to keep up thc strength of the toiler on one day to resume nis dreary task on the succeeding one . The indolent occupier of the mansion has placed himself in array against those who are the support of him and of it , and has done this in such a reckless and painful manner , that , to use his own language , we think " is not creditable to his judgment . " He ought , if he had judged rightly , to have known from experience that labour is the source of all wealth * . and that the labourer is worthy of his hire , If this
pampered son of fortune has failed to learn these simple maxims , the " positive" step he has how taken may in its results produce a " creditable" reformation in liis " judgment . " _Freouent meetings of the men have been held during the strike—sometimes three public meetings in one day—for the purpose of considering their position , and determining upon the best mode of united operation for their mutual advantage . On Wednesday last the men assembled in great numbers , consequent upon the expitement raised by the owner , Mr , Cargill , in his own proper person , accompanied by Mr . Whitfield , his viewer , and assisted by a powerful body of the Durham rural police , having commenced turning the iron stone miners , their families
and effects , out of tlieir houses . A meeting was immediately held at the stone quarry , Black Hill , at _rt'hicli Mr . Jones presided . Addresses were delivered by Messrs . Hardy , Swallow , and Kelk , each of which was responded to by the unanimous and hearty cheers both of the housed and houseless sons of toil . Cheers indeed they were , and alike imparted confidence and determination to the multitude assembled ; and consternation and awe to the civilized tribe of ejectors —master , viewer , police , & c . & c . —who paused for some time , and inquired in amazement of each other , " What next ? " Various resolutions were also passed unanimously , all of which were calculated to put down tyranny , exalt the working man to his proper rank in soeiety , and to sustain the miners in their
present struggle . In order that there should be no misunderstanding about the _^ consequences of the illegal acts of Mr . Cargill , his unauthorised and summary ejectment of tlm people , and stoppage of their wages , notice of action for trespass in each case , was sent and delivered into Mr . _Cargo ' s hands . That some effect was thus produced , is evident . The process of ejecting was suspended about two hours ; a partial recommencement ensued ; and , after a short interval , it was discontinued altogether . The workmen are in high spirits , and are nobly supported by other operatives . The masons , carpenters , smiths , potters , colliers , and others , have come forward voluntarily to the support of the iron stone miners . They have become convinced that it is not one trade only , but all who live their labourwho t niti
by , musue n one firm and truly irresistible bond , ' ere labour can receive its due reward , or those who labour the just consideration due to tlieir utility . Two men have been charged and committed to Durham Gaol , for—some say—Riotino , but were subsequently bailed . The charge , however , cannot be sustained . About sixty others have been summoned to answer various charges . We have no doubt but the magistrates of Lancaster will maintain the high character they deservedly obtained during the colliers ' strike of last year , for siwcr _iMPAKTiALiir , and will see the intense provocations to a breach of the peace , practiced by Mr . Cargill and his forces , upon those who , but for the excessiveexactionson their industry , would have been contented and happy . The men continue their meetings daily . The masters wish them to believe they are softening down . They hare given the men to understand that they are not bound to the strict terms of Mr . Can - rill's
letter of the 12 th inst . They have proposed to the men that they shall go to the pits , and resume their work for a fortnight ; at the end of which , they say , they will give satisfaction to each and every man , or he shall be at iiberty toleave their employ : but the men see plainly through this flimsy covering to their interested design , and say to each other , " it is only a scheme for the purposes of keeping the furnaces in action until they procure other men to supplant us : they know the immense loss that will ensue if the furnaces" go out ; " and it is this certain , great , and positive loss , they are scheming to avert . " We understand that W . P . Roberts , Esq ., is retained to protect and defend ihe monr . In better hands the men could not commit that most important trust . His manly and praiseworthy exertions on behalf of the industrious millions are without a parallel in . the legal profession . Long may he live to persevere in his patriotic course , with that eminent success which has ever attended him . Our latest accounts state that another immense meeting was held on Wednesday , at which the men displayed the same cool and determined vigour whieh has hitherto characterized this struggle for the means of living by the due remuneration for their labour .
The South Stafforoshire Miners' Delegate...
The South Stafforoshire Miners' _Delegate Meeting was held at Mr . Henry Mason's , Swan ton . _Wednesfield-heath , on Monday last , September 22 nd ; delegates were in attendance from different parts ofthe district , from whose reports wc learn that a goodly number of members have been added within the past fortnight , and things in general put on a better appearance than the _£ have for some time
previous . A good substantial dinner was provided at the Swan for the members ofthe lodge , with a few other friends , who , after the district business was concluded , walked in procession with a band of music at their head to Wednesfield and back . By this time dinner was ready , when eighty-nine stout and hearty sons of toil sat down , and did ample justice to the good things " Smoking hot . " After which Messrs . Brown and Ramsay addresscia crowded room full , on the necessity and _advantages of general organisation and _^ restrictions ; Mr . Robert Johnson in the chair . This lias been one of the most enthusiastic meetings we have had fora long while , and , we trust , wsL be productive of much good .
Lancashire Mikbbs . —The next general delegate meeting of Lancashire Miners will take place on Monday , the 6 th October , at the house of Mr . James Lomas , Bull ' Head , High Lane / near Hazel-grove , Oheshire . Chair to be taken at eleven o ' clock in the forenooon . A public meeting will also be held on the same day , which will be addressed byW . P . Roberts , Esq ., and other gentlemen . The levy for the fortnight , including general contributions , » Is . 6 d . per member ,
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ITALY . The _Bioony Papal Despotism .-. Mohb Assassinations op _Patiuots . —London , Sabukday Mojwino , Sept . 2 _WDhe following appears in the Chronicle ol this inormng .: — "At the _Univeraitsy of Bologna several arrest * liave taken place of late , for instance of M . Masini ,. brother of the professor cf that name . Tlie order for his apprehension arrived from Rome m the night , and he was instantly conveyed thither by a strong military force . Tho exasperation In the Romagna is the greater , as it has come to light that one of the persons executed in Ravenna was entirely innocent of theoffence for which he was put todeath lhe two Bolognese , Barrinterr Ressan Galetti and Massioli , have been sentenced to the galleys , thc former for life , the latter for twentv years . Even tho clerk of M . Galetti is to be confined for three years .
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Accident . at tab Railwav Teruisvb , Loxdox _Brioce . —On Sunday eight , between ten and eleven o ' cloek , a man named Richard Garvey , aged fortytwo years , was brought to Guy ' s Hospital with liis skull fractured , and in . a state of insensibility , arising from injuries he had received under the following singular circumstances-. —It appears that Garvey is employedat the railway terminus at London-bridge , aa an engine-table turner . Atthe corner of Bermondsey-street _, Bor » Ugll , ClOSClj' adjoining to tile railway , Is a public-house , called the Hat and Feathers , and between which there is a space of about tliree feet in width . In order to accommodate the men atwork on the line , the landlord of the house has hithet-to allowed tliein to enter it hy one of tlie attic windows , the men slipping from thc railway on to tho sill of the window , and thus avoiding the trouble of going down
to thc street and entenngin the usual manner , _notwithstanding thc height of the windows is upwards oi forty feet from the ground , and . the width of the intermediate space , they had tho " temerity constantly to avail themselves ofthis novel mode of entrance , and hitherto fortunately without ' accident . On Sunday night , shortly after ten o'clock , one of the servants of the public-house having occasion to go into the back _, yard , was surprised to hear the groans of some one apparently in great pain , A light was procured , and Garvey was found lying on tlio flag stones quite insensible , and covered with blood '; assistance was procured _, and he . was conveyed to-the hospital . . Not the slightest hope is given of his . recovery . No one knewhow the unfortunate man came in that situation , but it is supposed that he was attemptiug to get into tho house by the window , and had fallen upon the pavemont beneath .
Tjie late _Suicideat Sea , from a Hull Steamer . —The Elizabeth schooner , which arrived on Tuesday ill tlie _l'ivcr , off Horsleydown , from Harwich , reports that the body of a gentleman was washed ashore , on Friday last , near _Walton-on-the-Naze , on the Essex coast , which , from a card found in the clothes , is supposed to lie thc person who threw himself overboard from the William Darley Hull steamer , while on a recent passage to London , the whole particulars concerning which were made known by thc captain ¦ t o the Lord Mayor , and whicli were reported in this journal . His name is believed to be Mr . N . Cole , of j Norwich . A watch and a purse , containing between £ 5 and £ 6 , were found in the pockets . An inquest has been held on the body , and adjourned for the attendance of the relatives .
' . Desperate _Attempts . at Soicide . —On Tuesday evening , about half-past six o ' clock , a waterman , named David William _Millei _* , was standing ou the upper side of the pier head at tho entranee of . the St . Katherine ' s dock , . when a tall portly gentleman passed him in a hurried manner , walked to thc edge of the jetty , and after , striking himself violently on the breast , plunged into the river . Miller immediately raised an alarm , and the gentleman , who twice sunk , was hooked by his clothes and kept afloat until Miller reached him in a ship ' s boat , into which he was dragged , when there fell out of his side a dagger , with which he had stabbed himself before he precipitated _himself into the water . He had no sooner recovered himself than he attempted to seize the dagger , but the waterman defeated his intentions by placing his foot on the weapon . lie was
properly secured , landed , and coir / eyed to the Duke of Marlborough public-house . Ko time was lost in calling in medical assistance , and after his wound had been dressed , lie was conveyed to thc Thames- police station . He then snatched the dagger out of Mv . Evans's pocket , and was about to plunge it into his body , when one of . the police constables knocked it out of his hand , and heldhim fast . He was in such an excited state thatit required three men to hold him , and he was afterwards conveyed to the London Hospital , and he still remains in a very precarious condition . The name of the gentleman is Francois Gavoisier , sixty-two years of age , and a colonel in the French army . He served with distinction during the wars of Napoleon . He has only been three weeks in England .
Thu MunnER at Rock- ** erky _, Liverpool .- —Chester , Wednesday . —This niorning , at eleveu o ' clock , the three men , Lynch , Nowlan , and Tallent , and the informer Burns , who had been , as has been before detailed , taken into custody at the instigation of the latter , on suspicion of the murder of Mr . Peacop , some months back , were brought up to the Courthouse , in order that the charge might undergo a further investigation . Upwards of a dozen witnesses were examined , but not a particle of evidence was elicited which could , in any way serve as a corroboration necessary to prove the truth of the story of Burns . Several witnesses were likewise called _' for the defence , to prove an alibi in the case of Lynch , and that the two weapons found in his possession were such as are used in the situation he held as watchman at the Birkenhead Gas and Water-works . The inquiry was again adjourned .
Destructive Fire in _inE WAXDSWOimi-RoAn . —* On Friday morning , between the hours of four and five o ' clock , a fire of an alarming character broke out upon the premises occupied by Mi * . Wm . Tyler , boot and shoemaker , situate aft No , 2 , Knight ' splace , Wandsworth . An alarm being given , the inmates were aroused ; and although the fire was mounting most fearfully , they succeeded in effecting a safe retreat from the burning building . The stock in trade , furniture , and the house belonging to Mr . Tyler wero destroyed . The shop front of Mr . Hardcastle , corn-merchant , No . 1 , is likewise severely injured , and the premises of Mr . R . Simpson , No . 3 , in the same place , are also damaged .
Suicide by a Respectable Married Woman . — On Friday morning , between tliree and four o ' clock , Mrs . Day , wife of Mr . J . Day , 22 , Princes-atrect , Westminster , baker and pastry-cook , expired at her residence in consequence of having swallowed a portion of " Sheele ' s" preparation of Prussic acid , used in the business in flavouring pastry . The sad act is ascribed to some unhappy differences with her husband . The deceased was about fifty years of age , and has left two grown-up daughters , who were residing with her . Fearful Accident . — On Thursday afternoon a phaeton , drawn _byja fine spirited horse , stopped at the Green Man" Blackheath . Two gentlemen
alighted , and entered the hotel , leaving two ladies iii the carriage , and the horse in charge of a boy who assists the ostler of the establishment . The boy removed the bridle from the horse ' s head , for the purpose of more readily giving him hay and water , when the animal instantly started down the road at a fearful speed , which was yet more accelerated by the steep descent . The ladies were thrown out , and were taken up frightfully lacerated and bruised , but , we are happy to say , without any bones broken or joints dislocated , although tho extent of the injuries cannot yet be ascertained . The horse is ruined by the injuries he receiYeii , and the carriage is broken to pieces .
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" **•—• ' ** --- ¦ -- — - ~~—Rotal Adelaide Gallery . —The New Zealand Chief continues to delight the frequenters ofthis Gallery with his varied descriptions of the manners and customs of the New Zealandcrs , and he is prepared with so much original information concerning this extraordinary and barbarous people , that it is quite miraculous how hecoutd have been allowed to escape to give so much excellent information ; as we must bear in mind the horrible state of _eannabalism in which they were living wlien he was thrown among them . The three Islands forming the group inhabited by these tribes have now become an object of great interest to this country iu a trading point of view , and many enterprising speculators have established colonies on them , as it is not only tho bo _\\ that is so beneficial , but the coast abounds in whales , from which the finest description , of oU is obtained ; and it has been calculated by scientific persons that a flax farm , one hundred acres in extent , would yield a net annual income of £ 3000 .
There are now so many projects for adapting the atmospheric principle to railways , that we strong ly recommend an inspection ofthe Model laid down here , which is Pilbrow _' s patent , that being the plan , as we are given to understand , intended to be applied to many of them _. The Morning lectures on Chemistry , die ., are still given , and _exemplided by many highly interesting experiments . The Fbazek ' s Musical and _Litebauy Evenings . — This talented family are deUE _hti-is thousands in the metropolis by their moral , instructive , and _iibei'ty . inspirmg SOURS . Their performances are given on alternate nights , at the City Lecture Theatre , Milton-street ; the Temper ance Hall , Waterloo-road ; the _AVestmmster Literary and Scientific Institute Great Smith-street ; aud the National
, nail , nigh Holborn . We lately enjoyed an _evemng mth them at the Temperance Hall . The Misses Frnzer sung several Scotch and Irish melodies , in a very pleasing , natural , and feeling manner . The Scottish song of « What ' s a" the Steer Kimmer , " met with a unanimous encore . Mr . Frazer delivered a short lecture on morals , poetry , and music , the delivery of which was greeted with much applause . Colosseum . — The following distinguished persons visited the Colosseum during the past week : —The Earl of Denbigh and family , the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury , Princess Czartichoff and family , Lord Lincoln and family , Bishop of Jamaica and family , Lady Elizabeth Lowther and family , Lord and Lady Montague , Lords Beaumont , Kokeby , "Wilton , Dudley , Stuart , Fielding , Lady Keninare _, the Russian , Brazilian , and Sicilian Ministers , -fee ,
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CHARTIST _CO-OPERATIVE LAND . SOCI _ETY < Meetings for the purpose of enrolling , members' and transacting other business connected therewith a ™ held every week on the following days _a-nd-places ; — _aUNPAt SVBNIKO . ¦ , South London Chartist Hall ; -115 , Blackfnara-roa . ! -, at _half-past six o ' clock . — _City-Chariist-MaU , 1 , lum - again-lane , at six o ' clock . — Westminster : at-me _raiv thenium Club Rooms , 72 , St ; Martin's-lane ,. at halt ** past seven . —Somers Town : at Mr . Duddrege ' _Sj B ™ k- _*« layei _* _s'AriiM / ronbridge-sti'eet ,. New-road > _athat _f _* pa 8 tr seven—Tower-Ddmlets : at the Whittington ami Oat ,., Church-row , Bethnal-green , at six o ' cloek precisely . —Emmett ' s Brigade : at the Rook Tavern , - Lissongrove _, at eight o ' clock _prccisely- _^ _jitffrntfe _& _w-e *' atthe Coach Painters' Arms , Circus-street , , afr half-post seven .
MONDAY EVSNIXOV Camberwell : at the MontpelierTavern , Walworth , at eight o ' clock precisely .
TUESDAY EVJE . VI . TO : Tower Hamlets : at the "Whittington and > Gat , Church Row , Bethnal-green ,, _at-oight 0 ' oloofc—« Greenwich ; atthe George and Dragon ,. _Blackheathhill , at eight o ' clock . ¦ WEDNESDAY E . _YESING . ¦ Marylebone : at tho Painters' Arms , Circus-street , at eight precisely . City _Chartist _Enhh _, 1 ; Turnagain Land—Mr . Cooper ' s eighth lecture to commence at seven precisely , next Sunday night , Sept . 2 Sth ; subject—the English Commonwealth : characters of Hampden , Pynn , Elliott , Cromwell , . Vane , Hutchinson , Ireton , Fleetwood . & c , & c . ; trial and execution of Charles tho First—the Protectorate ; George Fox , the Quaker : Milton and Marvell : Lambert , General Monk i
restoration ofthe Stuarts * . trial and execution of Lord William Russell and Algernon _. Sydney : abdication of James thc Second . The lecturer , once more , respectfully entreats early attendance .. _CfflEEiYiwcir _an'o _Deptpop-d . _Localitt . Was : _Ttlur !—Mr . Cooper , author of " The Purgatory of Suicides , " will deliver a lecture , to the Chartists of the- abovenanicd locality in the large room of the George and Dragon Inn , Blaekheath-hill , on Tues _** day . evening next , September 30 . Chair to bo taken at half-past seven precisely . Subject of the lecture"The true character of the insurrection under Wat Tyler , the blacksmith of Deptford , in the reign of Richard-the Second . One of the lecturer ' s " People Songs" will be sung at the _opaning and _conclusioa Of tho lecture .
_MAnriiEnoa-E . —The members of thc Marylebone locality are requested to attend a meeting of members on Sunday next , at eight o ' clock , at tho Painters ' Arms , Circus-street , New-roail . City Chariist Hall , 1 , Turnagam-lano . —Tha public discussion will be resumed on Sunday morning next , September 2 Sth , at half-past ten precisely-. At three o ' clock in the _aftsenoon the Metropolitan District Council will meet for . the despatch of business . On Monday evening - , Septemper 29 th , ail aggregate meeting of the Chartists of London will ba held . Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock precisely . Hammersmith . —A meeting will be held at the Dun Cow , Brook Green-lane , on . Tuesday evening next , at eight o'clock . Westminster . —A general meeting will be held at the Partkeniuni , St . Martin's-lane , on Sunday _even _« ing next , at half-past seven o ' clock .
Somers Town . —Thc members ofthe _Someis Town locality arc requested to attend on Sunday evening _; Sept . 28 th , at Mr . Duddridge ' s , IS , Tonbridgestrcet , at eight o ' clock .. Noitikgiiam . —Tke next meeting of thc Land Soeiety will be held at Mr . Sweet ' s , on Monday evening next , at eight o ' clock . . A Camp Meeting will be held on Sunday next , on Littletown-green ( not Heckniondwike ) , at two o ' clock in the afternoon , at wliich several members ofthe Executive are expected to attend , and several other popular friends , to the good cause . Oldham . —Oa . Saturday ( to-day ) an entertainment will take place in : thc Working Man ' s Hall , Ilorsedgestrcet , consisting of dancing , singing , & c , to
commence at seven _olcloek . The proceeds , after , defraying expenses , to be for the benefit , of Mr . William Dixon . On Sunday , September 28 th , Mr , Thomas Tattersall , of Burnley , will lecture in the ajbove hall —subject , "The necessity of the Trades uniting to allocate their surplus hands upon the Land . "' Qhait to be _talicn _at-six o ' clock in the evening . . _Rochdm-e . —The shareholders of the Working Man ' s Hall aro requested to meet in tlic Chartist Room on Sunday niorning next , athalfTpast . ten . — Mr . David Ross , of Leeds , will deliver , two . lectures on elocution , in the Assembly Room , Toad-lane , on Monday and Tuesday , 29 th and 30 th ; . and on Wednesday , October 1 st , he will lecture hj . tjie . same room on Sanatory Reform ,
_Maschesier . —Mr . D . Ross will - , lecture on Sunday evening , at half-past six , in , the Carpenters ' llall . —On the Sunday evening , following . Mr . " W . Jones , of Liverpool , will lecture . The South Lancashire _Debate Meeting will bfiliftld on Sunday , at ten o ' clock .. _in tbe ' . _Working Man ' s Hall , Oldham . f Mr . Doyle's Route for ihe Ensuihju Week . — « Sunday , September 2 Sth , Leeds ; _Moiioay , 29 th , a village about three miles from Leeds . Mr . Doyle docs not remember the name of the p lace , but it is the village Mr . Clark promised to visit on Sunday last , when in Leeds , Tuesday , 30 th , Rotherham ; Wednesday , October 1 st , Barnsley ; and Thursday , 2 nd , Sheffield . Oldham . —The operative cotton _.- _"piiuicrs , rowers , and self-acting minders of Oldham , intend holding a
tea party and ball in thc Town Hall , on Monday next , Sept . 20 th , in honour „ of , those employers whe have acceded to the operatives' request for an advance of wages . Several master cotton spinners and manufacturers are invited and expected to be present . Bath . —The committee of the Bath branch of the Chartist _Cff-operative Land Society will meet at No . 8 , Chelze-buildings , every Sunday evening , at seven o ' clock , and at Air . _Simpkins ' s , Hoopers ' Arms , Snow-hill , on Mondays , at the same hour . Leebs . —A camp meeting will be held this afternoon ( Saturday ) , September 27 th , on Woodhouse Moor , at two o ' clock . Messrs . Clark and Doyle will address the meeting . A public meeting will be held in the Bazaar , Briggate , in the evening . Messrs . Doyle and Clark will attend . _uAAW _^^ W ( _utfyMVa _^ _ftpH < vv * iVy // _VVVV-M / _l
London. City Localitt.—The Attendance At...
LONDON . City Localitt . —The attendance at Mr . Cooper ' s seventh lecture on Sunday evening last was more than usually numerous , and there is little doubt that had the weather been fine—it was the very reverse of that—thc hall would have been inconveniently crowded . These lectures are growing in favour , ana each succeeding Sunday evening witnessesan increase in the numbers present . Shortly after seven o ' cloek Mr . Julian Harney was called to the chair , and the proceedings commenced by the singing ot one of Mr . Cooper ' s "People ' s Hymns . " The Chairman then made a few remarks on the subject of the lecture" Shakspeare and his Works . " The Chairman concluded by introducing the lecturer . Mr . Cooper prefaced his discourse on Shakspeare by some very
interesting remarks onthe nature _oldramatic composition and the history of the drama , from the earliest ages to the time of Shakspeare . He showed in masterly argument the foolishness of the objections urged against the drama by its puritan opponents . He next briefly sketched the early life of Shakspeare ; and then came to his writings . The female characters of the great dra _«< matist afforded Mr . Cooper a subject for much eloquent and truly beautiful comment . His illustrations of the poet were , however , mostly confined to Hamlet , the entire first act of which Mr . Cooper recited . Considering the total absence of those essential helps , dress , scenery , stage , and the other aids , real and illusive , which are to be found only in the theatre * -- * considering the total absence of all these , and turiher _.
that the lecturer had himselt to personate the whoiji of the characters who figure in the first act—this Ghost Included—it must be confessed that the leoturev had an arduous task to perform . IIow , then , did he acquit himself ? Most ably . We will not attempt to criticise Mr . Cs . Hamlet , it is enough that we record the unanimous enthusiasm ef all who were present . By the time Mr . Cooper had cone through the first act of Hamlet , the hour showed the necessity of concluding the lecture , Mr . Cooper , however , promised that he would at a future time give a course of lectures on S hakspeare , an announcement which was hailed with applause . The singing of one of the ' * People ' s Hymns '' concluded the proceedings . We advise all who would pass a delightful evening to attend Mr . Cooper's lectures .
Bankrupts. I From Tht Gazette Of Friday,...
BANKRUPTS . I FrOm tht Gazette of Friday , September ZG , 1 Edward Jones , sen ., of Budge-row , City , pasteboardmanufacturer— Thomas Cots worth , late of Heading , 13 srkshire , but now of Salisbury , builder—George Couper , of West Boldon and South Shields , Durham , cinder burner _—lleiijamin Hornby , of Hoyluke , Cheshire , innkeeper—Sophia Burton aad John Burton , of Kingston-upon-llull , chemists — William Charity , of Alford _, Lincolnshire , builder .
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ROYAL MARYLEBONE THEATRE . Lessee , Mr . John Doug-ass . FOUR Pieces in One Night . —Third week of MRS , CAUDLE . —Engagement of ilr . and Mrs . R . Honner . On Monday , Thursday , Friday , and Saturday , to com mence with the ITALIAN WIFE . Characters by Messrs . tt . Honner , " Tyrrell , Ray ner , Lewis , _Liclifold _, Marohant , Doughty , io . ; Mesdames 11 . Homier , Ilobberds , Fearce _, Laporte , & c . ; to be followed by Mrs . Caudle ' s Lectures _, ilr . Caudle , Mr . W . Phillips ; Mrs . Caudle , Mr . T . Lee . After which thc WHISTLER . Characters by Messrs . R . Honner , Neville , Doughty , Lewis , Smithers , T . Lee , Lickfold ; Mesdames R . Honner , Robberds , Fearce , Laporte , Doughty , Lickfold , kc . To conclude with tho DEVIL'S IN THE ROOM . Barnaby , Mr . T . Lee ; Mrs . Dearlove , Mrs . Neville ; Stage Manager , Mr . Neville . Oa Wednesday , the entertainments for the benefit of Mr . J . H . Dallimar . On Tuesday , the last night of the Sea Captain , with Mrs , Caudle ' s Lecture 9 , Irish Tutor , and the Devil ' s in the Room . . --
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 27, 1845, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_27091845/page/5/
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