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MB . O'CONNOR IN CARLISLE , —GREAT PUBLIC MEETING . On Sitnrday , the 28 th of October , large placards irere lamed by the Conndl of the Chartist Association , announcing that Mi . O'Connor "would deliver a lecture in the large ball of the Atoenwnn , on Wednesday trreniDg , on general politics . On the day azmoanced tot the meeting ft letter was weeivea from Dumfries stating that Mr . O'Connor had T > een taken seriously IIL and Tronldnot be able to attend at the time appointed , |» t would be in Carlisle on the following day . This Was felt si a . great disappointment , for it -was then impossible to send information to the country districts , so that many reached Carlisle from » considerable distance , only to be disappointed and return home again . A . drum was sent throo&h the ttnrn announcing the postponement « f the lecture . It appeared , however , that Mt OOoanor had somewhat recovered np to one O ' clock on that day , and was determined ihe people
oiCirlisle should not be disappointed , so he accordingly hired a conveyance , though his fare had been previeoaly paid to oome by tha mail , bnt "which had left 3 > nmfrie « early in themsraing . Ms . OCennor arrived in Cvlisle about six o ' clock in the erening , to the great surprise of his friends , who immediately announced his arrival , by sending a band of mciie and a nnmber of banners about the town . In consequence of those untoward circumstances , it was feared that the meeting would be a complete failure ; twit such ~ waa the enthusiasm of the people , on learning of 24 r . p-ConBor- B arrival , that they flocked to the $ l&ee of meeting from all parts f £ the town in hnndreda ; and before the time announced for commencing fiie lectore , the large Hall , which is capable of holding 2 , 500 persons , ~ was most densely crowded in every part , and many hundreds had to retire who could not posahly sain admittance .
On Mr . O'Connor making his appearance oa the platform , he -wasloudly cheered by the audience ; and commenced his address immediately after Mr . James Arthur bad been called to the cbair . Mr . O'Connor spoke for nesily two hours with great ease and fluency . Oa be whole , -we never beard Mr . O'Connor make so able , argumentative , and humourous an address ; and Which , we feel confident , had a good effect on the minds of all who beard him . We are indebted to the Cadis ' e Journal for the following abstract of Mr . O'Connort speech i—
Mr . O CoJfsoB . commenced bis address by stating the pleasure he felt , after an Absence of more than four years , in again meeting the working classes of Carlisla He said he had got on " well for the last three weeks in hu present ten of agftttbn ; but , being in Edinburgh on Saturday nightT he had been requested by » number of his countrymen to address them on the lisped of the Union , and the excitement consequent upon it bad cansfed him severe indisposition . He looked npon a Kepesl of the TJaion to be indispensable , if ihe psasa of the three countries was to be maintained . Ibe question was of as much importance to Englishmen and Scotchmen a * to the Irish themselves , as , if the Repeal were obtained by Ireland , it must communicate an electric feeling all over the "world , which must
advance the cause ef democracy . But there were cerlain principles required to be adopted before the Repeal could benefit the -working classes . He trusted he Would be able to explain to them "what the Charter would do , and how it was to be carried ; and he was Quite ready to answer Questions that might be put to turn , as discussion "was the very main-spring of legislation . Those only denied c&bcushoii , wholivB onthB labour of the working classes , and whose principles were not based | on truth . He should be serry to go about the country telling the people they were - misgoverned , unless he "would clearly point out to them fiie cause of their distress end the remedy for it There were three parties contending for power in this country —the Tories , the Whigs , and the -whole of the people .
He "would analyse their respective principles , and begin by dissecting Toryism . The Tories were loath to acknowledge the grievances of the people , but when compelled to do so by such outbreaks as had occurred in Wales ; ibe only nestram they had to propose "was to build more churches—( laughter ) . The Wbi ^ s were divided into two parties—political and social . They sought for the ascendancy of manufacturers over the other interests cf the nation ; they now clamonred for a repeal of the Com Laws ; and they told the people if they "were not satisfied with their legislation , they must emigrate to other countries . To this last proposal , be ( Hz . O'Connor ) would give the answer of the landlady to the sailor , who , on complaining of his bed being infested by bugs , was requested by her to leave
i »; "bnthe said "" 2 * p , he would shake them oft remake his bed , and enjoy repose . '' There were the bugs wholivea in idleness on the produce of the working classes ; and , in God ' s name , if a necessity existed for emigration , let them go out of the eoontry . There was s great difference between legitimate Toryism and legitimate Whiggery , Up to the passing of the Reform Sill , Whiggery meant the principles of the revolution of 16 S 3 , to prevent the prerogatives of the Crown infringing oa the xigfeis of the people ; but -since that time the question of cheap production , and the other dogmas of political economy , had ) become the principles * of Whiggery . The Reform Bill had not even answered the expectations of its promoters . The first thing the working classes must do , should be to settle on a principle which would satisfy all classes of
the community j and be { Mr . O'Connor ) could discover it only is the principles of tha People ' s Charter—( cheers ) . It souefcfc to take from no man ; but was bounded « ntbe Christian precept of "do unto others as yen would they should unto you ; " and he questioned whether those were practical Christians -who refused ShB people ihe franchise which they ought to enjoy . Ibe law in the hands of the Tories was like a dog in a leash , reaiy to bs let loose upon all who dissented from Iheir political principles . The Tories "would not prosecute a Tory ; the Whigs would not prosecute a Whig , * or the expression of Ms opinions ; whils both united heart snd soul to prosecute a Chartist , who sought only to establish , right principles . The Chartists were" called Impracficablss . who -would come to bo compromise , and
bad refused to join in the agitation for the principles of Tree Trade . 2 fow they had no objections to the principles of Free Trade : they were the only Free Traders ; ¦ Jra * they were too good workmen to start work without proper tools . They wanted free trade in legislation before everything else . The Free Trade agitators were , like Paganini , playing all on one string—Free Trade , Free Trade . It was nothing but the crotchet of capital to make ihe working classes the slaves of the capitalists . They would never be able to carry this measure without admitting the people to a share of the Constitution . They ( the Chartists } bad been called lory CharSicts ; but let the working classes have twenty men in the House of Commons , and they would Join in destroying Toryism for ever . If any man in the
• world ought to seek satisfaction and revenge of the 3 ory party , he ( Hz . O'Connor ) was that man i and if ihere was one individual on the earth who despised Ihe Tory party in name and nature , and would join tomorrow in destroying them , be was that man . WBy ^ e Isted the Whigs was , that they did not destroy the lories . And bow let them look at Chartism . In all aginations there Trere three great stages necessarythe first to create public opinion ; the second to orga-Biza it ; and the third to direct that organization to a successful issue . While creating public opinion , it was necessary to use excising language ; to depict wrongs in the most forcible manner ; to call minder , murder ; and a spade , a spade : end whether it took place in a prison , on a gallows , or in a cold Basffie , it was equally
the same . The Cbartists had suffered much from using Bxd&tg language ; bathe { Mr . O'Connor ) declared that if he were next day proceeding to organize a new party , fee weuld endeavour to arouse them to a sense of their degradation , and then show them how the evils they groaned Tinder could bs destroyed . The Reform Bill was carried without these necessary stages of agitation —It was carried by brute force and intimidation , and had failed to benefit the working classes because they bad not given it the requisite consideration , or gained such information of it as they had now done of the Charter . The House of Commons should , as it were , be ihe greii bssrt of tbe nation , from wiucb should flow Streams of vitality snd prosperity , so as to prevent every man from starving who was willing to work ; and
ihe people now sought to cleanse the Augean stable , ihat they might establish principles and pass measures Which would turn the improvements to machinery to the benefit of all , instead of aggrandizing and enriching a class , as at present He was not opposed te machinery— -nny was any one in that room—if it bad been made man ' s holiday , instead of man ' s curse . Though he iT&r . O'Connor ) opposed the Free Traders , it was not because he objected to the principles of Free Trade , but because , while agitating for this crotchet , Jhey would not touch npon the general grievance * of the country—( applause ) . They reminded him of the story of the Highland lad who accompanied a gentleman on bis shooting excursions . The gentleman was pleased with the lad's activity , and would have taken
feim into Ms service , and for that purpose enquired of his father his character . The old man replied his chajacter was well enough , only for an unlncky knack he had ol lying , and Bwearing , and cursing , and thieving—( much laughter ); and bo he far . O'Connor ) said of the Free Traders . They wsre well enough , only they had got an nnlnekly knack of robbing the working man of bis wsres . There wss a true saying that labour was the Bcurce of all-wealth ; and it was tqually true that land was the source of legislation in the House of Commons . Unless labour was protected , all classes between the labourer and aristocrat must be injured . Supposing machinery to do the work of 2000 men , cf what use Would the small traffic consequent oa that machinery be to the shopkeeper , in comparison with that of the labourers foraerly employed . There was a difference
between equal and equitable . The Chartists bad often been charged with seeking an equal distribution of property ; but it was a calumny ; they wanted it only to be equitable . Supposing the master of tbe machinery be had spoken of before , which superseded the wo-k of 2000 men , wanted wine , sugar , or ought else , he did not bay U in tie iieishlxmrli&od , but sent to London for it . It did cot replenish the tills of the shopkeepers ; but if the 2 & 00 men were employed , thej would yield a large profit to tb . s shopkeepers of the neighbourhood . 23 ris showed the necessity , be said , cf the middle tlasses joining for ihe attainment of the Charter . " The 2 ory government protected the interests of the Whig middle classes ; the Whig government protected the interest of the Tories ; but they both refused to grant * & £ privileges the Chartists looked fer , well knowing , if Dm ? did . bo , they wox&& fcaveto disgorge their ill-gotten
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gains . The Charter meant nothing more than an improved system of applying the national resources , and a more equitable distribution of the same . Whenever unjust laws existed , they caused : social discomfort , which was ever the cause of political discontent It was the poverty of the mass which upheld the Chartist and other agitations ; and he ( Mr . O'Connor ) believed , if the working classes were comfortable in their circumstances , they Would tfrfalr very little of the Charter—( hear ) . There were no party in England satisfied , except those who lived upon corruption—both Scotland , Wales , and Ireland were equally dissatisfied . They were in the same state in Ireland as they had been for the last fifty yean—tbe same grievances existed . Every
Government , from the time of Pitt , had acknowledged them , bat declared themselves Incompetent to find a remedy ; but when thus acknowledging their incapacity , why hold the reins of power , and keep out thoce who would remedy their grievances ? If , with a revenue of fifty-four millions a-year , they eonld not govern the cvuBtry , better abandon that Government , and give it into the hands of the peeple , who knew their grievances , their camse , and remedy . In Ireland the Reform Bill had limited , instead of extending , the representation . The Tory landlords saw that as leng as they kept their lands clear of Catholic tenantry , so long would the Church be out of danger ; and thus had the Reform Bill caused a greater emigration to England and Scotland than would otherwise have taken place : and
this increased competition in the labour market , bftrt no doubt tended to reduce wagea ; and thus it was that the English and Scotch , were interested in the Rspeal of the Union , and the establishment of a tight Btate of things—( applause ) . Ireland would sever be benefitted by Repeal , unless the poor Catholics Were enfranchised , as well as tbe Tory landlord ; and , if the Irish gained the Repeal , the Charter would sot be long in following it After dwelling same time on Irish affairs , and , with a compliment to Father Mathew , expressing his conviction , that sober Ireland would carry the Repeal of the Union , Mr . O'Connor said their enemies had asserted that Chartism . "was dead ; but it was not so . Mr . Duacombe , M . P ., who had been with him at several meetings in Scotland , hod
not only declared himself for the Six Points , name aad all , but bad becomes member of the National Charter Association . He < Mr . O'Connor ) had enrolled a great many names during bis present tour ; and , though it was denied that the Chartists had any power , they might point to tbe tomb of Whiggery , and say , behold it therel There was a space left over the dead body of Whiggery to entomb Toryism , when the people were prepared for it . Tbe very policy pursued by the Tory G-avernment in Ireland and Wales would drive Peel and the iron Dake from the head of affairs . It bad been asserted by a nobleman in the House of Commons , that it was Fe&rgus O'Connor who had brought back the Tories to power . This was when be was as a felon iu York Castle ; bnt now surely , that
he had liberty , ha would be able to beat both factions ; and be pledged himself to that meeting , that he would never join in any namby-pamby , shuttlecock movement , to shift power from one party to another . ( Cheers . ) There was no difference between a Whig and Tory government ; put them in a bag and shake them , and you may take the first that comes up . He would lay them down a rule in political economy . Suppose there were ten thouBaud men required to do the whole work in Carlisle ; and to meet the exact demand of the market ; and suppose that two thousand idlers came to town , their presence in the competitive market would in a short time cause the masters to pay leas wages to the twelve thousand men than they had . done to the ten thousand before ; and it would have been better for
tbe ten thousand employed to subscribe to keep in idleness the two thousand , than allow thBm to enter into competition with them . As land was the source of legislation , and of all true power , be { Mr . O'Connor ) wished to aee the people get hold of it Although France bad a population of about forty millions , it had only two hundred thousand voters ; but the people live , with this lack of tbe franchise , as they were comparatively comfortable , and almost every one had a portion of land . Tbe French had destroyed the law of primogeniture and this bad caused the land to be better divided . He ( Mr . O'Connor ) had seen a French peasant in tbe domain of a French proprietor , cutting his vegetables or whatever he required ; on expressing bis surprise to the landlord , lie told him that twenty
thousand acres belonged to him , while thirty thousand acres belonged to . the peasantry ; and he could not purchase it , as they would not sell one particle of it Those who had land were always the most independent ; and one great reason why Ireland could stand out more tor her rights than this country was that almost every man had at least five or six months provision on hand . The walking classes of England live from hand to month . Their ancestors never would have wrested Magna Charts from King John if they had not lived an agricultural life , bad they not had their pig on the crook , their meal in the chest , and their granaries well stored . The Chatter meant the voluntary system of religion—it meant full liberty of conscience , and that every one should enter the sanctuary of Ms God , and pay what he liked for the benefit he received . £ Mr . O'Connor here dwelt on tbe distress of the eonntry , and pointed out in a clear and forcible manner the various causes
which lead to itj He continued : —The Malthusians told tbe working classes that over-population was the causa of their distress , and to be entirely provident they should not woo or marry till they were ninety or ninety-five years of age . If Lord John married at twenty , there were no remarks made , but what a sweet and amiable domestic creature he was ; and this man wa 3 allowed to bring a family into the world , to be saddled upon the country . They weuld be all paupers ; for the aristocracy knew that their children would be supported by the- labour of others . Although 5 s . 6 d . a-week was enough for a handloom-weaver , £ 500 , 068 was too little for an aristocrat Harry Brougham had said ef the working classes— " throw them on their own xesonrces . " So said he ( Mr . O'Connor ) . He was a
Malthusian—he held the principles of Malthas ; but drew fair deductions and conclusions from them ; and it was not fair in Brougham to cry out thus with one side of his mouth , while with the other he said , give me £ 5 , 000 instead of £ 4 , 000 a-year as ex-chancellor . He ( Mr . O'Connor ) would have no poor in the land ; tbo ' an unwilling pauper bad every right to support . Throw the bishops , parsons , civil-list gentry , and such as these on their own lesources , and there would then be plenty for the people . ( Cheers ) It was said the country was over-populated ; be admitted it ; but five millions would bean over population in a misgoverned country . It was said it was the intention of God there should be poor in tbe land ; tbe parsons told the people this was but a probationary state- » a living purgatory to prepare
for a happier hereafter . God bad said tbe husbandman should be first partaker of the fruits of the soil ; but supposing that Buffering was necessary , he thought in all conscience , the labourers had had their share , and he weuld say to those bishops , parsons , and idlers : — You must , of course , strain every nerve to get into heaven—throw away your lawn aleeves , and labour with yonr hands ; live on porridge , go to tbe prisons and tbe cold bastOes , or labour at the spinning jenny , and tbe weaver ' s loom ; " but they would soon cry ont , they had quite enough to prepare them for heaven ; and they would get to heaven if they went on that way , sooner than they expected—( load laughter ) . They would be like tbe chaplain of the vessel in a storm , who asked the mate if it had in any degree subsided .
Tbe mate said it had not , and if it continued half an hour longer they would all be in heaven . " God forbid I" exclaimed the chaplain —( lond laughter ) . It had been said that God sent mouths to one house snd meat to another ; that he gave as land but the devil gave us landlords—God gave meat , but the devil sent us cooks . The upper classes had absorbed all themselves , and then thrown tbe people on their own resources . In the olden time tbe whole taxes of the Government were drawn from the Crown lands , and tbe poor were snpported from tbe lands held by the abbeys and menasteries , and there were also schools for the gratuitous education of the poor , while every Bishop was bound to keep a pack of bounds for the use of the people in hunting . But Henry VIII . wanted
to become an adulterer , wished to divoice his wife , and marry a common prostitute : the Pope would not allow him , and bo be thought be wonld have a Reformation ; he robbed the monasteries , and destroyed the abbeys ; and what was done next ? A few years after , in the reign of his daughter , such was the increase of poverty and crime , that it became necessary to pass the Poor Law , known as the 43 rd of Elizabeth . Every source of innocent recreation was now taken from the people , and they were called rude and uncivilised : they were reduced to wretchedness , and were then told they were ignorant ; bnt ( Mr . OConnor said ) if they would give him the Charter , in two years they would be the besteducated people in the world . Crime was on the increase ; but he was astonished there was not more
crime : if the aristocracy had to bear the sufferings borne by the poor , he was sure the increase would be frightful . Talking of loyalty , he did not see how the working classes could be loyal to any of our present institutions ; but give every man an inheritance in the soil—let him ait under the same tree as bis father bad done before him , and where the inatrona of the family oft milked the cows—let him be within ths sound of the bells of that church where his father and mother were married , and where he himself received the baptismal rites ; let him see his own cews in the pasture , and hiB crops growing * ound him , and be would fly with more alacrity to defend it , than an hireling army would now do to the cry that ths Irish Church was in danger— ( applinse ) . Take away the " outward and viBible signs" in the Baape of the enormous salaries of our clergy , and the "
inward and spiritual grace , " wonld vanish soon after ; take away frcm the Judge his £ 8 , 000 a-year , acd , inateaS of gravely prosecuting his friend Arthur for saying nothing , he would be vexed at him for not cryiDg ont lond enough . Let every man who wished for temperance join for the Charter—every man who wished for character , as character would be valuable Tinder the charter—( hear , bear)—every Wend of education , as edncation wonM be promoted from tfee comfortable cirenmstaaces in which the Charter would place the population—every lover of peace , and if they wanted the people to be religious , give them the Charter . He took credit to himself for creating and organising the Chartist movement He had spent more money in agitating , than any man who had sone before him , or any that might come after him . a'he free-trade agitators spent the money of the poor , whilst he Bpeut only his own , He bad frequently acted .
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as treasurer ; and in 1839 they had left him in debt to the amount of £ 282 ; he had suffered nine criminal prosecutions in seven years ; yet bis exertions bad been unwearied in the cause . He mimicked to the great amusement of his auditors , a Dissenting Clergyman whom be-said he knew , who , although a bad moral character , had spoken at a Free Trade meeting , affecting great sympathy for the distress of the poor . Ha trusted he had given them the worth of their pennies ( the price of admission ) , and condu-led by calling upon them to take out cards of the National Charter Association , which he had brought with him , and which were twopence each . Mr . ; O'Connor ' s speech , of which tbe foregoing is little more than an abstract , occupied nearly two hours in the delivery . An address to Mr . O'Connor was read amidst the rapturous cheers of the meeting , and after beingadopted was presented to that gentleman .
Mr . O'Connor returned thanks , and proposed a vote of thanks te the Chairman . The meeting then quietly dispersed .
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DUMFRIES . VISIT OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR , ESQ . TUZSDAV , OCT . 31 . So soon as it became certain that Mr . O'Connor would visit Dumfries , tbe greatest enthusiasm was apparent ; and a public meeting was summoned immediately to make arrangemenw for his reception . A deputation was appointed to receive him on bis arrival , and a committee named to secure a room for a public meeting and arrange an entertainment in the evening . The Old Assembly Rooms are at preacnt occupied by a aon-intrusionist congregation , and being the largest public room in town , appeared to be tbe best Accordingly the Committee put themselves in communication with tbo managers of tbe church to obtain it At a meeting of the managers called for tbe
special purpose , the use of tbe room was granted ; and two ef the Committee signed a paper , binding them to pay the usual fees , and guarantee that no damage should be done to the building . Things had gone this far , when tbe shepherd , returning from the Free Church Assembly , where he had been protesting against tbe refusal of sites for churches by the Duke of Sutherland and others , heard that in his absence the principal sheep had let the fold for a Chartist meeting . Acordingly , the little Dutch-built waspish man of God called a prayer meeting . This , of course , was attended almost solely by the female part of his congregation—the ewes of the flock . After hurrying through the devotional part of the business , " and the doors being shut , for fear of the Jews , " the prayer meeting , by the magic wand of tbe Bev . John Robertson Mackensie , was con verted there and then into a congregational one . By all accounts tbe affair was a rich one . The managers attempted to reason ; to show that tbe place had been
legally let , and that as honest men they must implement a bargain fairly made ; besides that , there would , in the event of a refusal , lie an action for damages . Bat ail would not do . The parson , with a keen perception , like the most of bis cloth , of thesort of arguments most likely to tell upon the ladies , declared that be cared not for the civil power—his master was God , whose law alone he would obey ! M After a stron ? discussion , in which the ewes speke loudest , and at the end of which they ont-voted the rongber eex , the parson was empowered to keep the key , and do with it as tbe Lord might direct However , as no intimation of these new arrangements had been made to the Cnurtist Committee , no notice was taken of tbe circumstance , tbe majority looking on the affair as a piece of bravado on the part of the parson . In this they were mistaken ; for on tbe Tuesday the creature took the key from tbe beadle , and positively refused to deliver it up ; and matters continued in that state until four o ' clock .
At half-past four Mr . O'Connor arrived , and was trelcomed enthusiastically by the people , who crowded tbe High-street , many of whom had been anxiously waiting more than an hour and a-half . On being informed of the circumstances , and that the people were ready , by authority of the managers , to take forcible possession of the building , Mr . O'Connor positively refused to speak in such a case . All was therefore gloom and despondeney . Groups were collected , or moving about the streets , muttering curses loud and deep on those who had caused their disappointment , and matters Were rapidly assumiog a threatening aspect , when the Messrs . Beck , extensive coach builders , kindly granted the use of their large show room . Altheugh balf-an-bour after the advertised hour of meeting , the town drummer paraded the streets , and , beating with a will , soon collected a numerous audience .
Mr . Wakdbof was called to the chair ; and , after stating the circumstances which had led to the change in tbe place of meeting , and Mackenzie ' s reasons for refusing the church , administered , in his own caustic manner , a sound flaggellation to the "v > eo Hiel&ndman , " and introduced Mr . O'Connor , whose rising was the signal for bursts of applause , loud aud prolonged . After the cheering had subsided , Mr . O'Connor commenced his address , which occupied about an hour and a half in the delivery , and waa received with the most soul-inspiring enthusiasm on the part of tha audience , among whom were not a few of our civic noWcsse .
The meet ing then , after three hearty cheers for O'Connor aud the Charter , and three for the Messrs . Beck , for their hospitality , broke up—those who wished to join tbe National Association alone remaining . A brisk trade , then commenced in cards , aDd a great many enrolled themselves . Some one , on tbe recommendation of Mr . O'Connor , took out a card far his reverence , Mackenzie , to whom tbe { audience owed the valuable address they bad just listened to ; and it was filled up , acd duly forwarded next day . At tbe close of the meeting Mr . O'Connor was entertained at Eupper in the great room of the George Temperance Hotel , from the oaken walls of which hung banners bearing patriotic mottoes , interspersed with the portraits of Cobbett , Hunt , and ethers of that patriot band , who , thank God , have never been utterly extinct in the land .
Mr . George Lewis did the honour of the chair , supported on the right by the guest of the evening ; aud Mr . Wabdrop discharged tbe duties of croupier in a way which did him credit The cloth removed , the Chairman rose , and instead of tbe preliminary toasts , termed "loyal and constitutional , " proposed in a homely but pleasing manner , "ThePeople , theBOurceof all political power . " Mr . Waedkop , as a representation of the people , having been carried at the hustings last election , replied in a clever speech . TheCHAiB then gave— " The People ' s Charter—may it aoou become the law of the land . " ( Drunk standing with three times three , and one cheer more . ) Mr . JSEEHIAH Knight , a veteran Chartist , and one of tbe founders of the Dumfries Working Men ' s Association , responded .
The Chair—The toast which I have now to propose needs no preface to commend it to the hearts of ail" Ourrespectedgue 8 fc , FeargusO'Connor , Esq . " ( Drunk standing , with vociferous cheering . ) Mr . O'Connor returned thanks in an able speech , in which he expressed his belief that the time was not far distant when democracy wonld triumph , and reiterated bis determination to persevere in the cause in which he bad embarked . At its conclusion , Mr . Peter Hobnel , a fine looking old man , who had grown grey in the good cause , and to whom Mr . O'Conner bad alluded in bis speech , rose and gave'an account of the manner in which be had been persecuted while struggling against the iniquities of the Scottish Poor Law system .
Mr . Wh . M'Dowall , in a very neat speech , gave " Thomas Duncombe , the man of the people . " ( Drunk with all the honours ) . Mr . Wardbop gave— " Tbe Exiles . " Mr . Thomas Tat LOB , and others , in the course of the evening , enlivened the company with many excellent Bongs , lilting as though " their throats with fiddlestrings were lined . " Tbus the evening passed away" Care mad to see puir men sae happy , E ' en drowned bersel amang tbe coffee !" But the advent of the " wee short hour ayont the twal " warned all that he , in honour of whom all had assembled was weary and travel-worn in their aervice ; and accordingly , with three cheers for " O Connor , " three far " the Strangers , " and a vote of thanks to the Chairman , the harmonious assembly reluctantly broke np - , . ^_
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because it was not deemed prudent to have a man upen the Committee of the Irish Volunteers , who , It waa apprehended from the case he had made out against you , sympathised with O'G /> rman Mahon , who was got rid of by a mosi dexterous trick a few days before , 2 adly . BacauBe by a rule of tbe Association , which made it imperative upon every member to sate anything he knew derogatory to the character of another , on pain of being expelled himself , and by ft resolution of the committee , calling ] npon me to state the charges forthwith , I was forced to proceed with them against your friend , which , when found to be true , were declared to be false and calumnious , in order to screen your friend , a sycophant like yourself , from tbe consequences of them . ;
You and the other parties knew fall well , and yon now know , that the charges wbicb you pronounced to be " falae and calumnious , " did not depend for their troth or falsehood upon any testimony ef mine , but depended entirely and exclusively npon the written testimony of the following respectable gentlemen : — Mr . Robert Cully , Accountant-General of the Bank of Ireland ; Mr . Michael Roach , Secretary to the Hibernian Banking Company ; Messrs . Obadiah WilJans and Sons , Lower Bridge-street ; Robert Byrne and Co ., Lower Bridge-street ; Armstrong and Byrne , Merchant ' s Qiay ; Blood , Not . and ] Co ., Trinity-street ; William Lock , Linen Hall ; Greenough and Robinson , Manchester ; William Bolton and Cj , Manchester ; Long worth and Co ., Manchester ; and the oral testimony of Messrs ^ John Robineou , of Delgany ; William Russell , of Lower Bridge-street ; John Hudson , of Meckiinburgh-atreet ; and Alexander Reynolds , ! of Lower Bridge-street
Now , you cowardly , runaway slauderer—you strolling , houseless vagabond—you and the rest of the gang must prove that all these names are forged to the documents in my possession { before you can prove that I brought false charges against any maa . I now , in conclusion , hurl defiance , and court the hatred of you and the other cowardly calumniators who , in the teeth of the foregoing testimony , signed a public document against ( me , pronouncing the charges false aud calumnious . i I Patrick O'Higgins . No . 14 , North Anne-street , Oct . 3 , 1813 .
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English Houses . —flbe Graud Dake Michel is buying up a number of the best English herses for exportation to Russia . Rent . —William FletcW , Esq ., baa given an abatement ( through bis agenti William P . Fletcher , Esq ., Foster-place , ) of twenty r flve per cent , on the last 11 three half year ' s rent" ! to hia tenants on hla estate at Clane , county Kildare . Mr . Fletcher is son of the late Judge Fletcher . : Awfdl !—There are now living in Axminster sbctytwo unmarried ladies , anfl . awful to relate , only seventeen gentlemen to be divided amengst them . Salamanders . —The tlevue de O'luesl says : — " Several person were wltReasos a few days ago of an extraordinary circumstance . { The road froia Niort to St . Lignaire was covered with thousands of little salamanders ; it presented one black mass , and it was impossible to move a step without treading upon several of these reptiles . " >
Degrading Sdperstition—On Friday last a young woman named Winefleldj who had been on a visit to Derby , returned home to iRedborae , taking a little dog with her in a string ;] and on arriving there , she informed her friends tb at she had seen a gipsy woman on the road , who told h ? r that if she led the dog by the string into the ho ose | she would be a corpse within twelve hours . Sinp ular j to relate , the young womaa died on the follo'tring morning I It iff supposed she died from tbe efivjts of imagination , aided by a debilitated constitutio'j . !
Atrocious " aiouder . —An atrocious enme has just filled with dis ' may tbe town of Braine-le-Chateau . Oa . Thursday lar , t a small farming man , named Godeau , seventy yeavs of age , and almost blind , was left at home while the * ,-eBt of Uib persons of the house were in the fields getting in their potatoes . When these people , returned home in the evening a frightful spectacle presentee ) , itself to their view , the unfortunate old man lyinj ^ on the floor horribly murdered , bis head cut , or rather eawn off . Three ( boxes had beeu broken open , aod the murderers—for more than one must have been
concerned in the foul deed—had carried off tbe whoieof the contents , consisting of money , articles of soaring apparel , and , otb . er fiopextv .
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TRIAL BY JURY . Oa Monday evening the friends of Parliamentary Batorm dined together at Ridley's Hotel , Bridge-street , Blackfriars . to celebrate the 49 th anniversary of the acquittal of Thoaias Hardy , John Home Tooke . and Thps . Thai wall , from the charge of high treason . W . J . Fox , Esq . in the chair . About 150 gentlemen sat down to dinner . Among those around the chair weTe Richard Taylor , Alexander Galloway , Colonel Pemmefc Thompson , P . A . Taylor , J . Coppock , J . P . Barnard , W . Pritchard , W . Hodgson , W . Patten , Dr . Simpson , D . luce , J . Guraey , A . B . Garey , C . Horsley , Esqrg .. &c &c . When the cloth was rennved .
The Chairman rose to propose the first toast He said they were met there for the forty-ninth time to commemorate the very remarkable circumstance that parties who asserted sound and jaat principles with s view to their practical application were not banged ; and he rejoiced to find aronnd him not a few of those who he felt confident would have acted just the same , even had the result which they now met to commemorate been different The principles which brong&t the natneB of twelve acquitted felons , as they were decently termed iu the House of Commons , into jeopardy , and in which those who now beard him no doubt agreed , were tbe principles which formed the foundation of social existence—wbicb distinguished a nation from S mob—which characterised a people as distinct Crosi a herd of slaves—the sovereignty of the people— - ( tremendous cheers ) . The sovereignty of the people ha
understood to be tfao exercise of real power -by the people , what had been called virtual representation , which was pretty much what bad been humorously described as the condition of the deer in Sherwood foreBt , which were looked upon as made for Robin Hood to feast upon . tCheers . ) Rapresentation , to be real , must be co-extensive with the community—( hear )—in other words , he meant ; what was expressed by the plain terms Universal Suffrage —( hear , hear )—the principles of tbe " Corresponding Society "—( cheers )—the sound and intelligent principles of all political freedom . If sovereignty were not in the people he shonld like to know were it was . Was it in the aristocracy ? Could they reckon on higher genealogy than that of the people ? No ; not in their genealogies could tb 8 y claim a higher origin . They might quote as their text the epitaph which had been written for himself by the
poet" Noble and gentle , by yonr leave , Here lie the bones of Matthew Prior ; A son of Adam and of Eve—Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher ?" After some farther observations , the Chairman gave the " Sovereignty of the People . "—Received with tbre 8 times three . Tfee Chairman then proceeded to spoil what he had josh said by some nonsensical talk about the " illustrious individual who now occupied the throne , " ending with the usual bit of humbug . The Chairman next gave— " Trial by Jury , and tha three Juries which acquitted Thomas Hardy , John Home Toofce , and John Thelwnll . " The toast was received with enthusiastic applause .
The Chairman , after speaking at some length on ths principles of the Corresponding Society , proceeded to its persecuted members : What were the men who were thus persecuted ? They could not know a man of higher principles , of simpler mind , and of more straightforward character—rwhose private life was more pure , or whose public life was more honest , than that of John Hardy—( cheers ) . In the ranks of literary men , who bad endeavoured to develops the truth , to trace the various appearances of physical phenomena , and to study the literary institutions of byegone ages , with an acuter mind than John Home Tooke ? or Who so clearly bad displayed the beauty , the variety , aud the real Utility of the English language , and had led so many to sound aud lucid thoughts , who would otherwise have
been lost in the interminable desert of verbiage ? Among those who delighted the imagination and painted truth in those vivid colours which seized tha attention of the reader , and whose works still produced iu the dramatic scene still rivalled his contemporaries , who was more eminent at the time , and who had left more endurisg claims upon na , than Thomas Holcroft . the author ef the Road to Ruin ?—( cheers ) . There waa amongst them Thelwall , whom many had listened to as the expounder of ancient and modem history , and who was the teacher of oratory and locution , and was afterwards employed to teach the clergy to read with impressiveness that burial service , which would too willingly have been denied to him . Jeremy Joyce escaped the gallows , to . carry his conquests into the French Institute . If the lawyer and the Minister of that day had been triumphant , history would have backed tbe remarkable fact , that at a time when the power of France eonght to
overwhelm Europe , Jeremiah Joyce was teaching the students of the Polytechnic School under the direction of Napoleon , training thought there , and winning a nobler triumph than his students afterwards acquired in arms—( loud cheers ) . Those men were chosen by William Pitt as the first sacrifices , because th « y advocated the principles from which he had apostatised—( loud cheers ) . A jury decided between them ; posterity will decide between them ; nature and fact have decided between them ; for those objects of his persecution have led peaceful , and some of them long lives . Ihey saw the opinions they advocated advancing in public opinion ; some remained to witness the success of some of their opinions , and to feel the joyful and certain presage of the advancing victory . It had been usual to drink this toast in solemn silence ; be would not so propose it , for whatever mourning might have been over a grave which had recently closed , he would say with Byron in his " Hebrew Melodies , " when celebrating the hero
Maccabeua" Their name our charging hosts along Shall be our battle word , We will not do their memories wrong , They shall not be deplored" —( cheers ) . Their memory was not to be deplored—they rather rejoiced that they had lived . The Chairman concluded by proposing— "The Members of the Corresponding Society . " Mr . Galloway said they bad present that evening , he was proud to say , an individual who was ninetyseven years old ( Mr . W . Hodgson ) , who had been ever the steady friend of liberty , and who , fifty-one years ago , had been confined in Newgate for sedition—( hear , bear ) . He had now tbe same spirit aud courage in the cause of freedom that be bad fifty-one years ago .
Mr . Hodgson , who , though be stooped , appeared remarkably hale and strong for a man of ninety-seven years , said that he held the same opinions now that be did fifty-one years ago . Laws ought to be made for the benefit of the many ; but , at the present day , they were made 60 complicated that they could nob be understood . The venerable fcpeaker next adverted , to the necessity of the people who contributed to tha expense of tbe Government having a voioe in its management Tbe aged speaker sat down amidst enthusiastic applause . - Several other toasts were given , and the company separated at an early hour .
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"Young Dutch Sam , " the well-known pugilist , died a few days since at his residence , the Drury Tavern Bridges-street , Covent Garden . Mobsters . —Anthony Grimes and Patt Kllroy are committed to Castlebar gaol , on a charge of having broken into the house of Honor Gitroy , in the barony of Erria , by night , forciby taken her daughter away a distance of twelve miles , aud violated her person . Calamitous Occurrence . —The Public Works at Banagher under the Shannon Commissioners are nearly suspended in consequence of the dams being swept away by a high Qood , and three hundred men are thrown out of employ . Their Fortunes Told . —At Longford Quarter Sessions , a gang of itinerant fortune tellers was sentenced to tram portation for seven years . While predicting fortnnea it appeared they were realizing fortunes at tbe expence of their credulous dupas .
Assault , &a—Seven countrymen were tried at Band « n Quarter Sessions for riot and assault upon the Rev . Charles H . Seymour , when returning from Divine Service at Ardgroon Church on the Sabbath j and he only escaped death by tbe fleetness of bis horse . Oa convietfon of the outrage , four were sentenced , by assistant-Barrister Moody , to two years imprisonment each , and the others , to nine months . " I'M KfLT . "—In the attack on the fort of Goyatn , by General Nott , during the last campaign ef the Afg han war , an Irish sergeant of her Majesty ' s 4 Qtb > bad his head grszad by a spent ball . It confased him for the moment , and he exclaimed , " OchJ somebody take my piece ? I ' m kilt—I ' m kilt—I ' m kilt" As they were leading him off , he looked over his shoulder , and cried out , "Faltb , boys , ana I dont think I ' m kilfe entirely yet ! " His second thought Killed forth shouts , of laughter—Aden ' s Diary ,
Physiglogy . —It is an admitted axiom among pby « Biologists , that to the peculiar formation of the cerebral org&us , the mental faculties owe their charaoi * r . Nor is it less confidently asserted , that the influence of these peculiarities is in a striking degree hereditary , as shown in the descendants of such as have exhibited any peculiar property in connection with these highly important functions . These truias are in a far more obvious character , manifest in vhe physical stracture of the human race , and exhibit themselves to the world daily ; for , as in vegetable , so in animal life , the shoot invariably partakes of the vigour or delicacy of the parent stem . T » sustain or re-invigorate the nhvsioal powers : bf the body , by
enabling the natural streams of vitality to flow _ oa their course without obstaole , mnst be an object m great importance , a 9 it is [ obvious that any lnterlerence therewith , must to such an extent divert tneim from their legitimate purpose , and so deprive the system of a portioa Of its natural support , * flus enfeebling if not prostrating its energies , and s » rendering it uaable to fulfil its wonted ^ duties . abaft both physical and mental vigour may be maintained for an extraordinary duration of tune , we bare many evidences on record , and that the means . «*•««» £ plishing this object are now within our reach , an Sanvahigalar proofs of the power of the prescription , asmade up by Old Thomas Parr , is a gaaj ^ wl ? uoh value al should , not be lost sight of W&Ottt mature xefleotiwii
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TO THE EDITOR OP THE FREEMAN . Loyal National Repeal Association , Corn Exchange Booms , Sept . 30 , 1843 . My dear Sir , —A letter appeared in the Freeman ' s Journal of ; this morning , Bigned " Patrick O'HigginB , " containing an infamous and highly characteristic lie . He says that when he was some years ago expelled in these rooms by a vote of your committee , and his money ordered to be retained to him , it was given to me by our then secretary , my lamented friend , the late Edward Dwyer , and that I did not return it . We expelled Patrick O'Higgins for infamous lying aud calumny ; and therefore his invention of this lie and of the series of lies and calumnies he is in the habit of publishing in the Northern Star , is of course in him quite natural . to
If Mr . D ^ yer had proposed make me the medium of bis official communication with that branded scoundrel , I would have deemed it a personal insult , which I would' have indignantly resented ; but Mr . Dwyer respected me too highly to try to make me tbe medium of a communication with such a wretch . Tha opinion expressed this morning to me by my friend Mr . Frank Dwyer , the son of our late secretary , and , who knows &U the transactions , is " that ho has tbe same contempt for Patrick O'Higgins that he has for * * I have the honour te be , my dear Sir , Most truly yours , , Thomas Stebie . PS—I , of coarse will not condescend to notice anything further from this degraded person .
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TO THOMAS STEELE , ESfQ ., HEAD PACIFICATOR OF IRELAND . Sir , —You shall not escape from me so easily as yon imagine . You struck ! a cowardly biow behind my back , aud you run away when you find that tha- > blow can be returned with interest . Your letter in this day's Freeman proves you to be one of tha basest scoundrels that ever disgraced society . Your attempt to intimidate , bully , corrupt , and cajole the respectable gentlemen whose names are signed to the documents in my possession , surpasses by far the most iniquitous act of even tbe worst off Shakespeare ' s bloodiest and most cowardly villains . But you have one consolation ; you are a fair sample of the gang who in the teeth ot those documents , pronounced tbe charges , which were sustained by their testimony , to be false and calumnious . To be sure your j friend , whose name I have forborne to mention out of a feeling of delicacy which neither Tom nor he can appreciate , is juat a fit and proper companion for yourself and your associates in calumny , lying , and delusion .
The question between us in not as to whether I bad tbe authority of those gentlemen to publish their names now ; but the question is whether the names ' to the documents in ray possession are genuine or forgeries ; and whether you and tho other calumniators , whose names are affixed to the public calumny upon my character , pronounced and signed by you and them in tha teeth of that evidence , has given , to their own act , the brand of infamy and degradation which they sought to fix upon me . There ia no man of common sense who is aware of their atrocious ! conduct upon that occasion could any more trust one of them than be could trust
the basest perjurer that ever disgraced the earth . I tell you now , as I told you and them , ( hen , that in my opinion there is not a man of you who signed that document against me , which yon have so audaciously paraded , who would not , l if it promoted his own interest , if it gained one political step for him , stab to the heart the priest that administered the sacrament to him . I called upon you ( to publish the names , residences , and occupations j of those parties . I called upon yon to pay me the money which you said at first was paid ; second , that it waB ordered to be paid , and now you say that you are sure it was paid by Mr . Dwyer . [
The money was not paid to me by Mr . D vyer or any one else . The sum is not one pound , bat ten pounds . Mr . ' Dwyer , in the first instance , offered me one pound , which I refused to accept witheut tbe other nine . I call upon you now , again , to pay me the money You are the only man that ever said it was paid . Let there be no more shuffling about it . Screw yourself up , for the first time in your life , to one act of moral courage ; acknowledge your error , or mistake , or whatever else you please to eall it , and pay me the money . You have the Repeal funds at your back , and can therefore afford to bribe tha Liberal Press to publish yonr abusive and lying tirades against my character , and reject my answers , unless I pair down and mutilate them to a mere •• dear and good Sir , sure I don't deserve all these blows . Patrick O'Hhjgins . No . 14 , North-Anne-Street , October 5 , 1843 . <
PS . I met Mr . John Hudson , one of those respectable gentlemen whose names I published , and whom Mr . Thomas Steele calls upon to disown their own act ; and he desired me to s > y that his address is No . 54 , York-street When Mr . Steele is on his perambulation amongst these gentlemen ; let him not pass Mr . Hudson by . | Since sending the above rejected letter to the Freeman ' s Journal , I have received a most interesting ac count of Mr . Steele " a conduct towards a fair friend in Ennis . j P- OH . [ This " correspondence" we have had waiting insertion for several weeks ; but the urgent claims upon our space , by tbe exciting ( occurrences in Ireland and Wales , prevented its appearance before the present . ]
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMAN'S JOURNAL . Sir , —I perceive , by your paper of this day , that Mr . Thomas Steele , instead of answering any of the questions in my letter of Saturday last , or handing me . the money which he said on the previous Wednesday was returned to me , but which be now says was ordered to be returned , he has had recourse to his usual low Billinsgata This Head Pacificator says , in reply to my demand upon him for the money : — " 1 st .- That Patrick O'Higgins' letter contains a highly characteristic aud infamous lie . " 2 odly . That we expelled Patrick O'Higgins for infamous lying and calumny . " 3 rdly . That he is in the habit of publishing lies and calumnies In the Northern Star .
" 4 thly . That he ( honest . Tom Steele ) could hold no communication with such a branded scoundrel as Patrick O'Higgins ; that the late Mr . Edward Dwyer would not iuault him , by making him the medium of any communication with such a wretch ; and that Mr . Frank Dwyer , the son of Mr . Edward Dwyer , told him ( Mr . Tom Steele ) that be has as great a contempt for Patrick O'Higginti as he has for a convicted felon . , " 5 thly That the Committee , some years ago , when Patrick O'Higgins was expelled , ordered his money to be returned . "
The " Head Pacificator , " Mr . Thomas Steele , has , through tha columns of the Dublin Evening Post , published the foregoing libel upon my ebaructer , by way of answer to a demand which I made upon him , in . the Freeman ' s Journal of Saturday last , for a eum of money which he said , at a public meeting , on tbe previous Wednesday , was returned to me . No one bnt Tom Steele ever said , or presumed to say , that this money was returned to me . In reply to my demand upon Mr . Tom Steele for the money , he answers that demand by calling me a calumniator , an habitual liar , and a slanderer ; and says that I was expelled for lying—that I am a branded scoundrel and a wretch ; and he gets Mr . Frank Dwyer to confirm all this , by declaring that he has as great a contempt for me as he has for a convicted felon .
This is no unusual mode for Mr . Thomas Steele , the Head Pacificator , to adopt towards those who demand tbeir money of aim—money which he knows more about than the owner of it , but no more than the possessor . 1 was not meddling with Tom Steele when he wantonly snd wickedly dragged ray name forward at the Corn Exchange , on Wednesday last , in a debate with which I had no connection whatever . He said , upon that occasion , that "the subscription should-be returned to Mr . Connor , as they did to that Patrick O'Higgins , when he expelled him and returned him his money , that our funds should not be contaminated by such a villanous subscription . " When this lie about return-Ing the money was flatly and indignantly contradicted , Mr . Thomas Steele bad recourse ; " > the flrt instance , to the columns of tbe Dublin Evening Post to publish a gross libel upon my character Instead of paying me the money .
Now , Mr . Tom Steelo , Ireland ' s Head Pacificator , at a salary of four pounds a week out of tbe Repeal Rent , you said at tbe Carn-Exchange , when you thought it might pass unnoticed by me , " that the money teas returned to me ; " but when you found that I did not allow this falsehood to pass , you then shifted your ground and said that the money was ordered to be returned . Here , on your own showing , you stand a self-convicted liar . Finding that you put your head into a mortar , and gave me a pestle to pound It , you have had recourse to calumny and falsehood in order to wriggle out of it
I called upon you er any one else , in my letter m the Freeman of Saturday last , to state distinctly the charges which yon allege were brought against me at the time of my expulsion from the Volunteer Association in January , 1833 , and to publish the names , occupations , and residences of the parties concerned in that disgraceful transaction—instead of which , or of handing me the money which you said was returned to me , and which you undertook to return notwithstanding your audacious denial , you eay that I was expelled" FOR Ikfamous Lying and Calumny . " Now , you barefaced , cowardly calumniator—you inean , finny , foul-moutfied , fawning sycophant ; you knew , when you were penning the foregoing wordB , tbat there never was a charge Of any nature or kind brought against me , either in the Volunteer Association or in any other Association or Society ; but that I waa Qxpelled—
. . . . 1 st . Because I knew the exact nature and extent of the transactions between you and your friends , Wigly , Dixon , and Co ., and your dupe , O'Gorman Mahon ; and because I had the imprudence to mention some of the . circumstances connected . \? ttfc those tawwtfons s Kid
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Federalism . —Mr . Boss , 2 H . P . for Belfast , has declared himself a Federalist . Lord Morpeth goes into Parliament for the Bo * rough town of Morpeth . —Limerick Chronicle . Rent . —Lord Dunally made an abatement of 15 per coht on the rents of his estate , commencing in May last Reverse op Fortune . —AmoDgst tbe prisoners lately brought to the Bagne of Toulon , is the ex-Bey of Tlemcen , condemned by the Court of Algiers to kard labour for life , for murder . Having surprised one of his wives with an aide-de-major , he took vengeance on the latter , and deprived him of life .
Males versus Females , —In tne following counties of England the number of males exceeds that of the females : —Hereford , 78 ; Lincoln , 914 ; Monmouth , 6 , 857 ; Rutland , 140 ; Stafford , 7 , 224 ; and in Wales-Brecon , 545 ; Flint , 697 ; Glamorgan , i , 550 ; Radnor , 296 . The greatest excess of females occurs in the county of Middlesex , where there are 1 , 333 femaleB to « very 1 , 000 males , no doubt arising from the great number of female servants in the metropolis and its 8 aburb 3 . Statistics of Mareiage . —In the county of Bedford , 94 in 100 -women marry underage ; in Huntingdon , 25 j in Cambridge , 28 ; in Essex , 23 j in Northampton , 22 ; in Hirtford , 22 ; in the West Riding of York , 21 ; in the East 14 ding of York , 11 ; Cumberland , 10 ; WeBtmoreland , IS ; Devoa 9 ; Salop , » ; Hereford , 2 .
TJjfFORTO'ATE DEATH OF A VETERAN . — An inquest was held at the King ' s ArmB , Greenwich , on tbe body of James Bradley , agetf . fifty-six , an in-pensioner of Greenwich , Hospital * and one of the gallant veterans of Trafalgar , who waa accidentally drowned on the evening of the annivers 3 \ -y of " Trafalgar-day , " at Trafalgar-stairs , having juBt "] eft the Trafalgar Tavern in all his glory , with his Tr afalgar medal on his breast . Verdict—accideutal detfth .
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EXTBAORDIARY CORRESPONDENCE . CATCHING a TARTAR . O'CONNBLt / S HBAD PACIFICATOR- ^ THE RENOTJNED TOM STBEIE , AND PATRICK O ' HIGGINS . r US w 5 . the toFal Repeal Association of Ireland , on Wednesday , the 27 th September , the case of Mr . Connor wav bronght forward . Mr . O'Connell r ^ jKi ^ f ^ ' CaB * ° ** * taring had the temerity to have given notice of a motion lit the absence £ ^ r ^* *»«* - > That the people of
, ^ Ireland should cease to pay rent , tithe rent charge , poor rates , county eess , &o . y & 0 ., and that no man should act as keeper of any distress for any of those irnposts until the Union ahonld be repealed . " The D-otator said that » if there were nothing else against Mr . Connor thro his bringing forward such an import-^ . " . nffili * < Mr . q-CbrineU ' s ) absence it ought to be a sufficient rowon for expelling him with contempt " Mr . OConnell concluded by moving that Mr . Conner a name be expunged from their boots . " Tfafo motion having been carried .
Mr . Steele said « that Mr . Conner ' s name should not only be expunged from their boobs , but that we ou « ht also , as we did in the case of that Patrick OH . ggins when w « expelled him , to return him his money , that our funds shonld not be contaminated by any such villanous subscriptions . " These observations of Mr ; Steele's gave rise to the following interesting correspondence . _ MR . GHIGGINS ' S LETTER TO TIH 5 EDITOR OF THE FREEMAN ' S JOURNAL . SlB — IJi appears by the report of the proceedings of the Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland , published in this day ' s Freeman , that my name was nnnecessarily and inaidioUBly brought forward by Mr . Thwmas Steel * . *
Mr . Steela said that Mr . Conner's name shonld not only be expunged from their books , but that we ought also , as we did in the x&se of that Patrick O Hl « - gins , when we expelled him , return him his money , that our funds should not be contaminated by any such villanoua subscriptions . ' This is not true . The money was not returned . But , Sir , the money was handed by the late Mr . Edwd . D * yer . the Secretary , to Mr . Thomas Steele , to be by him handed to Mr . O Higgins , which be never did . I have been constrained to mention this circumstance upon a former occasion ; and I have since taken the trouble to examine Mr . Thomas Steele's schedule in the Insolvent Debtors' Court , where I find he has not returned me as a creditor . I hope that be will therefore see the propriety of discharging bis trust by honestly banding me the money ! even now at the end of ten years ,
It is necessary to Btate , in justice to my own character , and for the information of those who know nothing of the circumstance to which Mr . Steele has alluded , that I was expelled from the society of Irish Volunteers in January , 1833 , because I refused to act on the Committee of that body with a friend of Mr . Thomas Staele's , —a man Who was mainly instrumental in swindling me out of a sum of £ 750 , and who acted in the capacity of common informer ; whose informations are filed in tbo Head Office of Police , and dated tbe 5 th of January , 1831 .
I now , in conclusion , utterly deny Ihat a charge of any nature or kind Was ever brought against me either in tbe Volunteer Association , or in any other Association rar Society , while at the same time I admit the expulsion and demand of Mr . Taomas Steele , O'Connell ' a Head Pacificator , to state distinctly and unequivocally the cause of my expulsion—the names , residences , and occupations of the parties concerned in that disgraceful transaction ; tho name of his friend against whom I was forced to proceed With the charges ; the nature of those charges , and the written evidence by which they-were sustained . Patrick O'Higgins . No . 14 . North-Ann-Street , Bapttftnber 28 , 1843 .
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To Robert Cully , Esq ., Accountant-general of tbe Bank of Ireland , Michael Roach , Esq ., Secretary to ! the Hibernian Banking Company , and the other several Gentlemen named in the letter signed patrick o'higgins , published this morning in the free-MAN ' S Journal . ¦
Wednesday , October 4 , 1843 . Gentlemen , —A letter , signed Patrick O'Higgins , having appeared in tbe Fteeman's Journal of this morning , in which he has introduced your names , as if his witnesses in sustainment of his false allegations , as I cannot , of coarse , deign to take notice of that person myself , I address myself to yon . i In the spirit , therefore , and in terms of the most perfect personal respect , I pray your permission to submit to your consideration whether you do not owe it to yonr own characters , as well as to the cause of moral justice , publicly to disavow your having given him your sanction and authority to use your names as his witnesses on this occasion , to substantiate bis false statements . i
Our Committee , of which there was a very full attendance , sat for several days in solemn investigation of charges brought by this ; Patrick O'Higgins against another of our members ,, and those charges , in that solemn investigation , were found te be falsehoods and calumnies so nefarious that ; we unanimously passed a vote for his immediate expulsion , and for returning him his pound subscription . I have no doubt whatever that it was punctually and immediately returned to him by our then Secretary , Mr . Edward ' Dwyer . whose regularity was ever perfect in the performance of bis official duties . I , of course , utterly disclaim all right to require from you a reply to this letter : I only make my appeal to your courtesy and sense of justice as Irish gentlemen . ; I have the honour to be , Gentlemen , With ! great respect , Your most obedient , humble servant , ] Thomas Steele .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 11, 1843, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct676/page/7/
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