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    ^\ L . have been told that I have induced ti ^ sntecribe nearly £ 70 , 000 for the purchase **" \ which tne " 5 ^ honourable gentleman upon d ^ [ (^ jcarion told as was arbitrary , dangerous , *** -proper . Yoa see » sir « * nave a S °° d memory ; * r co uld remember your whole speech from be-* " * - - io end , delivered here twelve months ago . ^ hter and p laudits . ) "This I am bound to ^ these were your words , sir , " This I am bound *** ' if Mr O'Connor ' s principles were carried into * " *! , ' tbey would lead to anarchy and confusion . " ' ' Vhether a well paid peasantry would lead

    . jchy and contusion . uoKensot approval . ) I tf n whether I have done any good , when I tell that of that £ 70 . 000 , £ 40 , 000 has been glebed from beer-palaces and the gin-shop . ( Hear , r Yesterday , by agency , I purchased 500 \ L more land . ( Tremendous and long-continned jgaisg' ) I think it is I who am upon my trial , 08 to-day . U is I who have been denounced by pjry portion of the press . It is I who have been

    jjnled , while I have been doing all the good I could . 'Great approbation . ) It is my pride to stand before Jon , and ask you what Free Traders have proposed 5 toisk you what the Whigs proposed ; what theDis-• si ters proposed ; and I will shew to yon that all ( jit is good in what they have proposed , I carry into judical effect ? ( Repeated cheering . ) Then I flould ask yon , who is tbe great Reformer ? tfhtther those parties who proposed and

    dejjrjdto benefit the working class , who re . dei me , or I , who am carrying the objects of ill into practical effect ? ( Great excitement . ) I devote twelve hours every day to the service of the P ^ and I never traveled trade or ate a meal at their expense , ( hear , hear ;) and yet I am supposed to be an individual not fit to be a representative in tie House of Commons . Why ?—because I could uot be bought . ( Excessive cheering . ) I will tell too now , as tbe honourable gentleman bas told yon ef his declining an offer—1 will show you bow your

    sosey is frittered away . I dare say the nght jjonourable gentleman remembers that in 1834 I £ is rather troublesome to tbe ministers ; and upon pae occasion Mr Lambert was about to propose a clause , like the appropriation clause , which approp riation clause Mr Ward and others had forgotten B soon as they got to the treasury ( laughter ); they utter think o ! their principles , but like tbe bonourible gentleman they say , "I am always the same . "' { Renewed laughter . ) So it is with all ; men change , Ba then charge the people with inconsistencv .

    \ Hien did tbe people ever turn from a man that did sot turn from them ? ( Great applause . ) If tbe others change , and the people will not go with them , it shows their stability and the others * inconsistency ( laughter ); and I say of tbe people , they are the most steadfast , the most confiding , the most-tobe-admired class in society . ( Uproarious plaudits . ) But to return to my tale . This motion of Mr Lambert was supposed to puzzle tbe minsters , and Mr Edward Stanley , ia the House of Commons proposed to g ive me half tbe patronage of my county

    if I would support it . " Well , - ' said I , " I will take the whole of the patronage of my county . Now , yon appoint a good man upon every vacancy , and 1 will support you . " "Of course , then , " said he , you will support us to-night , and oppose Mr Lam . tert ' s motion ? " « You will see , " said I . Well , what did I do ? Directly he sat down I got up and Kconded the motion . ( Great burst of applause . ) That is the way I repaid them for half the patronage ef the county . ( Laughter . ) We bad , sir , Sir John Jams , a great liberal ; we had the great soap-boiler ,

    who , I suppose , will next be proposing that tbe people shall be washed four times a day and shaved three times a day . ( Great merriment . ) Gentlemen , boast of your prowess now . Perhaps when the places were not worth your acceptance . ( Hear , hear . ) And think of tbe difference between a man looking for power , and a man abusing power , ( hear , hear , ) and many men have been violent—no man so much so as my right honourable friend , if I may call him so . As I told him before , the first toast I drank after dinner when I was entitled to half a

    glass of wine , was " Prosperity to Ireland . * ' The toast I drank when I had a whole glass , was " Prosperity to Ireland , and downfall to tyranny ; " and to the third toast we added , "Lord Grey , Sir Francis Bordett , and Sir John ] Cam Hobhouse . " ( Great uproar . ) Then , I ask you , if I have not a right to twit my tutor ? if I have not a right to ask him , when he propounded principles that were dear to ne , and then brought vengeance to bear upon me when I adopted those principles ; ( shame ! shame 1 ) I ask if that was just ? I won't say anything

    personal of tbe right honourable gentleman , for be knows , and you know , I would not hold the representation of Nottingham upon the base tenure of a falsehood : if a man said to me , " Say this which is against your conscience and I will give you my casting vote ; " I would rather die than go out from Nottingham so dishonoured . ( Loud approval . ) I say of the ri g ht honourable gentleman , that he is too good for his colleagues . I eay that I , an humble disciple , have an interest ia the well-being of my master ; and I may try to lure , to coax , to seduce

    him from the bad company be bas been keeping . ( Laughter aud cheering . ) I have no doubt on my mind , ere long , a few more such exhibitions as these—for mind 11 told you tbis was to be an exhibition of progtess ; and I would say , after be has told you to reject him if ever be bas abused your trust , after he bas said , "I do not feel I have abused it "—be is then deficient in feeling ; for he thinks he has abused it , but he does not feel so . ( Laughter . ) When you have made a few more

    exhibitions of this kind , tbe right honourable gentleman told you last time he would be my ambassador , my plenipotentiary , and he said ae would communicate my principles to his collligues . Now when he communicates tbe growth of your mind to his colleagues ( hear , hear , ) perhaps they will understand what it means . It is as impossible to resist popular progress as it is to resist the sua in his course . ( Loud applause . ) We have three peat reformers in this country , and they will carry all before them . We have the glorious apostle of

    temptrance , Father Mathew ; who is giving your minds to think and your eyes to see ; we have Rowland Hill , giving cheap circulation to the representations of truth ; and we hare Sir Robert Peel , ( great bursts of plaudits , ) we have that man who had tbe daring and the boldness to grapple with truth , for knowledge bas struck like an electric slock upon bis mind , and be bas bad the manly courage to act up to it . And don ' t talk to me about your minister in esse , and your minister inpoue ; ion't compare the incomparable , —don't liken the

    ex-minister to tbe present minuter , there is as much difference at between a horse-chestnut and a chestnut horse . ( Roan of laughter . ) Wait till Bentinck and Peel join , and then yon will see where Lord John Rdssell and big Whigs will go to . Then you * iU see the raising of the last sheaf , and the scampering of the rats . . ( Much laughter . ) And as Lord John asked Sir Robert for a loan of his three juvenile statesmen , perhaps Lord George will return the compliment ; but I hope he won ' t take the right honourable gentleman as . one of the juvenile

    statesmen . ( Bursts of laughter . ) I am sure be will not & tf he does . Tbe Time * bas told ypu that Mr O'Connor would go and indulge himself by making speech ; but that speech may have more effect tfon they think of . " It will be in the hands of miltons on Saturday , and if sound it will be adopted ; Jon sound , it will be rejected . And here yon Lave £ * Taut ( pointing to the reporter ' s box , ) that has J" Tory , Radical , Whig , and will be Puseyite one ™ these days . ( Laughter . ) And don ' t yon think "Me done something when J have lived and suc-

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    cessfully opposed the most corrupt press tbe world ever saw ? ( Cheers . ) It is from the Press , they say , proceeds all these movements toward true liberty ! Not so . The press selects an individual for opprobrium and contumely , and never advances the cause of liberty . While you talk of ministerial virtue and liberalit y , see bow much more virtuous public opinion make * tbe French ministry ; bow much more moral than your class in this country i 3 . ( Applause . ) In France yon have had two peers and an ex-minister fined ; you have had one man fined 95 , 000 francs , and visited with tbe loss of civil nghti and three years' imprisonment ; and three others deprived of their civil ri ghts and fined 10 , 000 francs , for doing what is done by your government every year . Look at tbe Secret Service List , and

    you will find it larger after every election . Do not accuse the right honourable gentlemen of bribing yon . He is not such a fool . ( Much merriment . ) I have had a great many of his bills shown to me ; eight or ten have come to pledge me to pay these bills of tbe right honourable gentleman . Perhaps tbe right honourable gentleman would like to bave them . ( Excessive mirth . ) I believe he bas got in the wrong boat : he trusted upon secret service money , and some men have put it in their own pockets . ( Renewed laughter . ) I have no doubt we shall have the fly-by-nights going abont again tbis evening ; but the non-electors will watch them , ( ' ay , ay , we will ! ' ) and if an elector receives £ 5 , £ 10 , or £ 15 for his vote , if he brings me that note , and will prove before a committee of the House

    when , and from whom , he received it , I will give bim a £ 50 note in exchange for it . ( Loud cheering . ) I assure you they will he well watched this time ; and tbey have altered tbe law a little with respect to bribery ; I will take advantage of that alteration iu the law . ( Applause . ) What I look for is , tbe separation of Cbnrcb and State ; untrammelled education ; and , although Mr Gisborne tells yon that the money for education comes out of your pockets , why , bow much more comes out of your pockets that is applied to a worse purpose , ( hear , hear . ) And when you are thoroughly educatad you will take care that nothing comes out of your pockets

    but what is applied to a right purpose . ( Excessive applause . ) Are we not told that the Irish people's destitution proceeds from tbe want of education ? and yet they would leave the Irish people uneducated , and take their money to educate tbe protestants of England . If tbe gentlemen of England bad to pay eight millions to Ireland yearly , they would be glad to find some remedy , and would tben not hesitate to pay £ 100 , 000 yearly in education to save ' the eight millions . ( Great applause . ) Now then , I propose , and shall not only propose it but shall enforce it , not like those gentlemen who come for your votes and you never see them again .

    ( Laughter . ) If I am returned to Parliament I will resign tbat trust when the non-electors of Not . ingbam call upon me to do so , and when the electors of Nottingham , by a majority of one , call upon me to do so . I will never accept of place , pension , or emolument , from any government . I will receive at my boose rich and poor with equal courtesy . I will not close my door against t hose who apply to make their grievances known to me . ( Applause . ) No ! my tune shall be at their service ; and by my energy , zeal , and perseverance , I will be able to effect more for the town of Nottingham than the minister , or the ex-member for North

    Derbyshire . ( Cheers . ) And I bave no doubt I shall be able to effect very much more ; because I shall have a pride in doing it . And even when the rieb man comes to me , he will not say that I am unjust to him , because I am just to you . ( Great applause . ) I am no leveller ; I am jour elevator ( cheers ); and if yon think your lives and properties are in danger , then it is because the Urea and properties of the poor are insecure . ( Hear , bear . ) I will vote for the separation of Church and State . I will vote ~ and agitate Ireland from north to south , and from east to west , against the endowment of the Catholic priesthood ; and if the government should attempt to carry

    that , I will move an amendment upon every night when it is brought forward ; and , if necessary , I will talk for thirty hours a-week against it . ( Tremendous cheers . ) I will vote for Education which is not sectarian . ( Hear , hear . ) I will vote for a Property Tax ; and I will vote tbat the salaries of the ministers , judges , placemen , pensioners , and prostitutes , shall be reduced according to the value of manufactured goods and wages of the country . I will vote that gold shall not bear a permanent value of £ 317 * % l ° } d . the ounce . I will vote for everything that if in that pamphlet ( alluding to one latel y published by Mr Wright , of Nottingham ) , which

    contains what I said years ago . I will vote for every particle of that question as it is expressed there . And when I say 1 will vote , I do not say it like my two opponents ; I do not say if some one else brings it forward , I will support it ; but I pledge myself to keep hammering at the ministers—( laughter )—till I make them do it . ( Continued laughter . ) Yon look for the Charter , and so do I . Yon are opposed to receive alms from the Poor Laws , and so am I . But mark : there is no question of so large import as the Currency Question to yon . Bat what is the reason you don't understand it ? It is because the thing is of sach a nature that it weaves its web aroond von

    without your seeing it . ( Hear . ) Bnt take tbat question as a whole , and you will find tbat keeping up the rate of gold , when manufactures are cheap and labour is cheap , makes yon give three times as much labour for the money . ( Greatcommotion . ) What will become of tbis measure of ' 44 if you bave another bad harvest ? What tben will become of your representative medium in the Bank of England ? Why itis not a flea bite compared to the amount of money in circulation . At tbe last yon will be thegreater sufferers ; foritisont of the nature of things that if they are obliged to give so much more of manufactured goods to represent an ounce of gold , they can give you so

    much wages . ( Great applause . ) Talk to me about the Charter bringing confusion ! I showed you directly that I opened the market for virtue , vice disappeared . And I will ask the right honourable gentleraan . whether a man will worship his God with less ardour , and fervency , and delight , if the souls ef the people are not to be saved by the acre , the rood , or tbe perch ? I ask you whetherany thinking man , in the 19 th century , can suppose that a man can prepare himself by patronage to be a bishop or minister ot the gospel ? Clear , hear . ) I would ask you if that is snch a qualification as was intended for the s-tlvation of gouts ? -1 am ior allowing every man to

    pay his own uhjsician aud his own spiritual adviser . ( Great approbation . ) These things will , ere long , come home to tbe gentleman ; for you may depend upon it , that a government looking for a renewal of power , is like a snake in the grass . ( Applause . ) Neither this right honourable gentleman , nor tbe noble lord , now perhaps on tbe hustings in London , will tell what they propose to do . ( Hear . ) Now , I ask yon , as praudand honourable men , is that the way for ministers to come before the people ? ( Cheers . ) I ask yon whether you ought not to have pat this question to the ministers ? He tells you that the time was so short that thev had not time to

    go through all the bills . Well , we shall have the same excuse made next time . ( Outcry . ) Now , when gentlemen are paid for a job , and receive a less amount of salary because they have done a less amount of business , then I will believe they have dons what they could , and been excessively ardent and diligent . Bnt they will receive the stipulated amount of pay , whether they do much or little . The people are called dissipated and unthrifty . Why , the throne is supported by dissipation and dissoluteness . ( Hear , hear . ) Stop the gin palaces tomorrow ; stop dissipation and prostitution to-morrow , and yonr salary will be wanting the next dav . ( Loud

    plaudits . ) I require a government that will bave an incentive to virtue . I require a . graduated scale of Property Tax , and no tax npon Industry . And who so much right to pay it , as the men who have had the making of the laws for centuries ? The landlords of this country have bad the making of the laws for centuries—( loud disapprobation . ) They have had a monopoly of everything till now . Then , if the toy is so dear to them , let them pay for the toy ; let them pay for their whistle . ( Fervid applause and laughter . ) Therefore , I am for a graduated scale opin property . I think I may now appeal to these men . and

    ask them whether or no 1 have not opened up some of the resources of tbe country . ( Hear , hear . ) Although I was told I was to be catechised about the Land Plan , I stand now to give an account of every act ; aad I will not only ask to be catechised upon tho Land Plan , but of every act of my whole life , whether moral , social , or political , and more especially upon tbat plan wbicb I myself bave promulgated , formed , and propounded for the workingclasses . I bave , within the last year , built eighty cottages , ( hear ,-hear ) , with out-buildings , and two school-houses I nave erected on the estate , as a proof to the working-classes that they have no objection

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    to educate themselves when they are allowed to do io . ( Much applause . ) Do yon say , throw the peo . p ie on their own resources t So say I ; but take tbe idlers off their resources . ( Cheers . ) Well , gentlemen , I will vote against all poor-laws ; and I will vote tbat the property tax of the country comes out of the landlord ' s products , and not out of the tenant ' s ( applause ) , and I will vote that the seven millions ayear , wbicb now goes to support placemen and others , shall eo to place these poor men upon the land , to make them producers and consumers of your manufactures . ( Loud approbation . ) Just consider this picture . Look at Nottingham now ; a barren waste all round it ; picture Nottingham , surrounded by thirty thousand acres of well-cultivated soil , with ten

    thousand peasants upon it . Think of their wives and children coming into the market on Saturday nights to buy your goods . Think of the extra amount they would earn , and then think of the fact that they would be consumers as well as producers . For observe , that unless yon have consumers you will have no borne-market , and itis to that you must look , for nil the countries will become manufacturers . And my objection to Free Trade was , because those full and prudent concessions which ought to have preceded it . did not precede it . Lord John was grasping for power . ( Hear . ) lie thought of power first , and then change afterwards . It was always so with tho Whigs . ( Hear , hear . ) They always put tbe wrone lee foremost . ( Laughter . ) It

    is because I believe that Free Trade without those concessions , will be rather an evil than a benefit , that 1 ask for Free Trade in legislation . ( Loud applause . ) Would any man stand here and oppose us upon these six points of the People ' s Charter ? ( Cheering . ) Will any man tell me , that if a man is sane , and untainted with crime , he is not entitled to a vote ? The right honourable gentleman said once , that all mechanics , artisans , and working-men . were entitled to a vote . I say no more than what my master told me . ( Laughter . ) - Would not the gentlemen , if they had to appiar this day twelvemonths before you , instead of once in seven years , be more true to the wishes of the people ? ( Cheers . ) Mr Gisborne bas told yon about bis Irish constituency .

    It reminds me of what Bosweli said , when Dr John son said be { hated the world ; he answered , the world returned the compliment , and hated hi A ( Laughter . ) That is the reason why the gentleman did not go again te Ireland ; they disliked him as much as he did them . ( Cries of "No , " "No , " from Mr Gisborne ; and " I deny it . " ) Besides , I believe the expenses in Ireland are a little larger than in England , and the honourable gentleman ( I quote his own words , ) said , "he was a d d fool for going . " ( Great amusement in the crowd . ) He says this is the last time he will appear before a constituency . I an glad of it . ( Repeated laughter . ) He looks betterafter his gallop ; it has revived him . ( Laughter . ) That was what poor George Edmonds said , after the Birmingham Corporation Bill passed

    —He said be should die ; but he wished to die townclerk . 'for altyhat . ( Laughter . ) All opposition was withdrawn in order to gratify George ; on Tuesday he was appointed town-clerk , witba sa ! ary ; of £ 500 ayear , and on the Wednesday , instead of being dead , he was ia his office at work . ( Laughter . ) Now I pledge myselt , if tbe hon . gentleman was elected now , he would come again . lie is uot going to retire yet , you may rely upon it ; and so long as you have votes to give to him , Mr Thomas Gisborne , exmember for North Derbyshire , will always be yonr most humble sirvaa \ ( Bursts of merriment . ) I have told you what I would vote for ; I have told you what I would vote against . There is no measure to which I would attach half so much

    importance , as I do to this p « iot I have been explaining to you . I have shown you the value of Annual Parliaments . 1 am for the Ballot , in the present state of affairs ; because I believe that those who are now subject to the tyranny of masters , require it to protect them . ( Hear , hear . ) 1 am for the Pay ment of members , because I think tbat the labourer is worthy of his hire , and because 1 feel it is better we should be allowed innominate the amount , than that ministers should . 1 would divide the country into Equal Electoral Districts , in order that none may remain unrepresented ; and I am for the appelating ot the member who is best qualified by talent , and not by money . ( Loud applause . ) Do not you suppose that capital ; would lack its power , and energy

    its promotion , and ceal its influence , if the working elasses had the privileges to which they are "entitled . I will not join Bentinck and Disraeli . It isjust the sting of the wasp showing itself in opposition to the man who saved them . Though Sir Robert Peel was pledged to support a folly , yet he abandoned that folly ; because he liked the fools better than the folly ; therefore be preserved the fools , and rejected the folly . ( Applause . ) You will now see that Sir Robert Peel , joined by Bentinck upon the Church question , will beat my right honourable friend , if 1 may call him my right honourable friend . The Church bas always been the bone of contention , and will always be , when there is no geod party cry . You may be sure that Sir Robert Peel ' s address ,

    and Lord George Bentinck ' s address , are very significant . Sir Robert is setting himself forth as the champion of the Church once more ; Lard John is pledged to a different policy . ; and when those two parties unite against bim , away goes the little lord ; never more to return , at present , at any rate . ( Enthusiastic applause . ) In order to accomplish all these things , I am trying to place you in a better position . ( Cheers . ) I am not'for the Poor Laws . I am opposed to all wars except the war of right : and the war carried on in iefence of a country . I seek to establish bo large an amount ef militia , such a national guard , as will fly to the ery of ' My cottage is in danger' with greater alacrity than the hired mercenary will fly to the cry of "f be church is in

    danger . ' And where you bave 60 , 000 peasants upon their own soil , then you will have a power to fall back upon ; you will have men tbat will respect the laws , because by that time , tbey will have some share in the administration of those laws . But now they are in such a state , that they have in the House ef Commons placemen , and pensioners , and lieutenants , and officers , and clerks , and pay-clerks ; and I should not bo at all astonished if I found cook Soyer there , as colleagues of tbe right honourable gentleman , Mr George Cornwall Lewis . ( Mr Gisborne ; 'Who is he ?') Why , the mau who makes the soup for _ the poor , but always makes a small sample especially for the aristocracy to taste , that tbey may say , ' Hew excellent it ii . ' ( Laughter . ) I

    ask jou if you are prepared now to support a government of this kind ? Whether you are prepared to be insulted now by a minister of tbe Crown not telling you what be bas done , nor what be intends to do ? ( ' No , no / and confusion . ) I askjyou , whether you are so dead te your own interests , tbat you will go to the poll to-morrow , and say ' Hubhmise ai . d Gisborne ?' I tell you tbat no honest man in Nottingham will vote lor Sir John Hobhouse ; that no decent man will vote for Mr Gisborne . ( Laughter and applause . ) That no mother will allow her husband to vote for a man , who tells you he has property in four districts , but bas not looked to the fact tbat their children are obliged to get up in the dead hour of night to work , and instead of being educated , are obliged to toil .

    ( Hear , hear , hear . ) The Whigs always overlook the greater evils , and direct your attention to the modicum of good they profess to do , but bave not done . ( Hear , hear . ) We find p lacemen , lawyers , pensioners , officers , in the House ; but ^ tbe time has now arrived , I think , when no nominee of government , no placeman , no pensioner , shall have a vote in the House of Commons at all . He may sit there , but shall not have a right to vote there . ( Enthusiastic applause . ) In France , they are satisfied with a more moderate constituency , because tbey have the land . Now , gentlemen , I beseech you , give these people the laud . And let the right honourable gentleman carry tbis to bis colleagues . It is not more than two years since I established that Land Plan , and now more

    than 40 , 000 of the working people of England have joined it ; and I am now the treasurer of £ 70 , 000 , lor these people ; nearly two thousand in Nottingham alone . ( Great applause . ) Several of those are electors ; bnt I bare not asked those electors to vote for me ; I never shall ; I bave contested more elections than any other man and I have never accepted a fee for my services . I bave always conducted the elections tor other men of my own principles , without favour or reward , and therefore it you come to the conclusion to-day that 1 am a political adventurer , I hope that what 1 bave asserted , and wbicb no man can refute , tbat I would not hold my seat on the base tenure of a falsehood , will binish tbat false notion from your mind . ( Loud and

    continned cheers . ) I would net hold tbe trust , from you upon bribery or corruption , I tell the right honourable gentleman that he ought to do all he can to secure , a colleague for himself , aud an opponent for me , for this reason ; because when I do gee into the bouse , he knows I will give the mea sures he proposes my most determined opposition . ( Loud and prolonged vociferation . ) I ask him to take a colleague with him who will defend the government from my poor wrath . ( Hear , hear . ) Perhaps the gentleman will say , I shall not do him much mischief ; perhaps so . But the time . is coming when the voice of liberty will bo wafted upon each passing brecie , even now , it is muttered in the cottage , and whispered in tbe ball , and ifresisted . it will howl at the mansion , growl at the palace , and thunder at the senate-houoe . There never was an instance of a measure being carried by any

    representative assembly , that it was not carried by public opinion in the first instance . ( Applause . ; Emancipation , Reform , Relief of Dissenters , Free Tradeall bare been carried out of the bouse before they have been carried in . ( Hear , hear . ) Now , then , what I ask you is , let these changes be conceded from justice , insteadjof being wrung from fears . ( Ap Plause . ) America is ' not prepared for liberty ; the Germans are not ; the Prussians are not ; the French are not , nor the Italians ; no country except England is ; and Ireland , backed by England , will be prepared for liberty also- ( hear , hear , hear , ) -and for the reason I have assigned , namely , because there have been none of these normal schools , teachings , and discussions , which have been here . Here the people know the character of our public men ; formerly , a man came before them , and upon what he professed for a moment , they looked upon tbat as a perfect

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    Becurity for the future . Now , they are able to trace nSP T * ^ thr oughout his wholepublic life-( hcar , hear . i-and this is the pillory in which , on every eection , these poor gentlemen are always Er , t j »! J ° r * : eneffarofoffice . ( Cries ofd * . rision . ) I do think , that unless Sir John Cam HoblV ritfi » Jj r . t * 2 y ° u that Mi ™' S ainst the endowment of the Catholic Church , and that all those measure that have beenproposed-the Sanitary Bill and the rest-and that have been huddled up into TZfiFm ^ u ^^ ^ V ^ ^^ e ^ wn-unlesshe pledges himself that what was proposed , and not done , shall be done you are traitors to yourselves if lZaJ «? l ° Jhm- ( Loudapplause . ) Hehasnoright to come here as a minister , and not tell you what he bas to do . I tell you that I foretold it last October , that tne ministers had to meet a errant HiflBmiit . n and

    they might turn it to a great advantage ; I foretold that Lord J . Russell would bend to the Irish landlords for political power , rather than grapple with the master eril-tho difficulty caused by their dereliction ot duty . ( Hear , hear . ) Lord John Russell should have made the Irish landlords feed their own poorshould have compelled them , if they are not able to cultivate their estates , to give them up to those who were starvtne for want . ( Applause . ) But , like your poor laws in England , be says 'Noil will give you a committee of public works , tbat will make roads up the hills , and up the trees , and everywhere else ;' ( Laughter . ) Now , sir , I am just going to tell the right honourable gentleman what strikes me at this moment . Punch wrote a poem entitled— " Grateful Paddy . " Now I dare say the right honourable baronet has never heard our grateful Paddv ' s reolv to John Bull , but he shall have it . « V « W «>

    GRATEFUL JOHN BULL . Ogh ! JehnBull my darlint , you ' re nothing but varmint , Tou ' re playing on FadJy and running your rigi , Tougrunt and jou growl , bad luck toyoursowl , While you ' re aiten our bread stuffs , our praitlee , and pigs , Tou big bellied dWil , why can't you be civil ! We axed you to give us a bit of our own and you cock up your snout , like a pig in the gout , And instld of ths bread stuffi , you pire us a stone . Tou thrait us wid scorning , while our monees adorning , Tour streets and your parks , and your palaces too , The poor ov th « nation , Is dead wld starvation , And you exposing fat heists to you ' re own pauper crew . So shout for Lord John , that ' s not very strong , While we buys up tbe muskets , the powtber aad shot , And wheu we ' re the mains , you'll attind to our claim For be prayers and petitions ther'tl nothing be got .

    ( Mr O'Connor gave tbe above lines with a brogue , an unction , and a liveliness so characteristic of true Irish drollery , that all parties were literally convulsed with laughter . ) Now , my friends , there is grateful Paddy ' s answer to John Bull . So you see they think Paddy ought to be very submissive , while he is receiving a penny in lieu of the pound he gave . There ' s the history of Ireland—that Hall ' goes in rack-rints , and comes back in could flints /; to shont the producers , and kill all the poor . ( Hear . ) And I will ask , from the day tbat the Saxon first set his polluted foot upon Ireland , what has Ireland had cause to be thankful for ? Is it nothing that while all other nations are progressing , one nation , most gifted by God . under the guidance of England , should be the

    only nation retrograding ? ( Hear , hear . ) Will any man tell me there is anything in the soil , any thine in the climate , anything in the character of the people , the most moral , and tbe most industrious and persevering people on the face of the earth , which causes this anomaly ? Perhaps some one says , ' They are not industrious . ' But when the landlord lets thera land at JSI an acre , and they increase its value by cultivation to 30 i ., then the landlord takes advantage of them , and charges more ; how can they continue to labour on such terms ? ( Hear . ) Gentlemen : I am now drawing to a conclusion , and what I have to ask is , that every man , before be gives bis rote tomorrow , will weigh well the consequences . ( Hear , hear . ) Remember that upon the one band , I am

    only your servant for a stipulated time , and that if I do not serve your purpose , and faithfully discharge my duty , then those who sent me there may recal me . This is a power whieh I invest in your bands ( applause ) ; a power wbicb you all seek for ; a power wbicb you never had before . ( Great applause . ) Tou always have that power as individuals , why should you not have it in a corporate sense also ? ( Hear , hear . ) I trust you will look at the great questions now agitating your own and other countries . Look at Communism , the great principle which is agitating France and Germany . There is no man more opposed to Communism than I am . It is a foe of everything tbat is sacred and industrious . I am for the meum and tuun ; fer the individuality of possession ^ and the

    co-operation of labour . ( Hear . ) That is the means by which the resources of the country can be best cultivated ; by which the people can be raised to their proper dignity . ( Applau se . ^ , Good God ! When I look before me , and see those haggard faces of men who ought to be tbe children of tbe State , but who are working for prostitutes , for butchers , for physical force men ; ' I ask what compensation do you give them for their services ? Look at that old man—see his face , how haggard he looks ; how wan his eye ; how pate his cheek ! Why make him a pauper of the State t Why give bim the alternative of slave hire , or of going to tbe tender meroies of the bastile ? ( Great excitement . ) Although Free Trade was got by showing how little the agricultural labourer got ; go

    into the country , where lpay £ 400 weekly , and see there faces tbat are red , frames healthy , imbibing oxygen in out-doer employment ! While others are paying fe . a week , I am paying 12 s . ( Great applause . ) And yet I am a reviled man . 1 am paying four hundred pounds a week for labour in poor parishes , and doing all the good I can , I am a frugal man , and am up husbanding my strength , hecause I know that a groat day of trial is coming ; and when that day comes , however your false measures may hasten it , I shall be found at my post ( Applause . ) I have prevented towns from being set on fire , and bave been incarcerated in York castle for it . ( Hear , hear . ) Never have I had private communication with mortal man ! upon politics . I never

    have been a party to secret societies , and never will . And as soon as I saw a party getting up a secret society I spent my money to caution the people against it . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) There can be no danger in what you see in open day . It is the pre . cursor ot what is to come , and you may rely upon it tbat the greatest protection of life and property is in using tbe people according to their deserts , ( Hear , hear , and applause , ) There is nothing so necessary as that the people should thus act . It is , as Junius says , the watchman that announces the thief's coming . ( Hear . ) . It tells you what is expected . It prepares you to concede what ought to be conceded . I ask you whether you are for stopping the system where it is because your colleagues will not allow you

    to go further ? But I would go further , ( applause , ) and I would ask whether I or you are the proper person for a representative of Nottingham f ( Great applanse ) You find you have outraged tbe whole world by your foreign policy . You have nearly embroiled us in war with France . You have had to ask tbe Pope to co-operate with yeu . Y ou are obliged i o interfere with Portugal because France interfered . What an exhibition for a popular minister ! You do wrong , because others would do wrong if you did not . ( Applause . ) You have carried out Free Trade , — a modicum of it , —but you are afraid to carry it out in full . ( Hear , hear . ) lam for free trade with the whole world in everything , and ere long you will be obliced to come to that , you have not come te that

    yet . ( Hear . ) Thatwas my opposition to Mr Cobden ; and when I met Mr Cobden and Mr Bright at Northampton ,, Now , Mr O'Connor , ' says he , ' if you put ail tho people upon die land , where will you find a market ? ' ' Here , sir , ' said Mr O'Connor , laying his band upon his stomach , ' is the home market , ( applause , ) the best . market in the world . ' 'Well , but , ' says he , 'what will yon do with tbe surplus * ' Why no man will have a surplus pig without a surplus pair of breeches . ( Laughter . ) Whereas now a man is making shirts all his life , and has not one to his back ( hear ); a man is making shoes , and goes barefoot ( hear , hear ); a man ia making hats , and has himself a shocking bad one ( lauehter ) . What I « ant the people to do is , to

    produce that which gives sterling value to gold itself . Because everything ,-my waistcoat , my trowsers , boots ; everything in this house ; this lamp , these boards , this building , what made them ? Everything is produced from the land . ( Cheers . ) Now let me ask you if it is better that you should be in your own country-house than t » be receiving a slave ' s pittance and purchasing the produce of the land from others ? ( Hear , hear . ) Can any one answer that question ? Everything is produced from the land , and you have to purchase , with your slare-pittanse , whaiyou may grow from tho land yourselves . ( Hear , hear . ) I bave seen in this . town , yesterday , land let for £ 20 and £ 40 an acre . Now the way we let our land is this : we discharge it of the law of primogeniture . I buy land

    in the wholesale market , I lease it to you in the retail market for precisely what it coat wholesale . If you want a quarter of a pound of sugar and give 2 d ., that is 8 d . a pound ; but if you buy a hogshead you would get it for 2 Jd . a pound . Now this is what I have endeavoured to inculcate . You have been obliged to buy the land at retail price . I charge five per cent , upon what I give ; I build a house for every man , ia such a style as makes you proud of it . ( Hear . ) The poor are now made proud of their catt » ges , and believe me there is no protection to the state so great as the pride of an honest peasantry .

    I see my school-houses rearing . themselves on tne estate , ( approbation , ) boys go to one side , and girls to another , for we have no immorality , no beastiality . nothing to shock the parents notions , nor the children ' s eyesight . ( Hear . ) I am buying the land in the wholesale market , and am giving it to you for the same price retail . I am come now from my cold quiet home , I have thrown off my fustian working jacket , to come here . For six days a week 1 am in the situation of bailiff to paupers . I am trying to raise them from the situation ol slaves , te the dignity of men . ( Enthusiastic plaudits . ) And I thank God , I have so far outlived prejudice , that every man who now hears me will leave this place with a

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    better impression of me than he bad before . ( Applause , and cheers : ) I hive frequently prescribed what a good man ' s life and death should be ; -to live usefully and die a pauper ; because while there ITJ 2 ] , ? # a man w l th ! l ten ( le » ' hwrt to keep a farthing in h-s own coifers . Gentlemen , I have done . It is for you to say which of the four gentle-« Z be ? . w nM |^ W , ll 8 fx . 88 y ° ur representatives . ( ' We 11 have you . ' ) Oftheothergentleman I can know nothing . That young gentleman ( Mr Walter ) not being here . I cannotsay what his political professions are . Although he was a Tory when he waslnsc before you , these are such turning times that it is impossible to say that he may not have changed : perhaps he may have become a Whiz T

    believe he is a most estimable character , and a young roan of great promise , but I think compliment to yeu required his presence here . ( Hear , hear ) I think itis abad dog that is not worth whistling for . ( Lau » hter . ) At all events it will do me good , it will lesson my expenses by something . This is one of tbe very few things tbat is good for all sides . ( Hear . ) I assure the right honourable gentlemen that when I do get into the house they shall find me a stern defender of liberty , and tho enemy of oppression . ( Applause . ) And the right honourable gentlemen may rest assured that some day or Other I will be there , for when a man is determined upon a thing he always does it ; now I am determined upon it , and when I go there I have made up mv mind to

    be exactly what I was before . ( Tumultuous applause . ) Now , gentlemen ol the Press , and especially gentleman of the Times — ay , and to-morrow you will see in the Thunderer ( it always tells how " the people of England were unanimous on this subject , " as if they were confined to a garret in Printins-liOHse Square , ) the Timet will tell you , that Sir John Cam Hobhouse made an admirable speech , ( laughter . ) in whieh ha stated the future policy of the ministers , ( renewed laughter , ) and that if Mr Walter had not come here Mr Gisborne would have been the most fit man to accompany Sir John , ( laughter , ) and then thatMr Feargus O'Connor delivered a rambling oration to please the populace , ( renewed laughter , ) but our reporter says it was so rambling and bald it

    was not . worth giving . If Lord Lincoln was here , and I understood you were trving to crimp him , ( laughter , ) every word he iaid , or muttered , or mumbled , or intended er attempted to say , would be all in tho Kmes , and it would have been a most splendid and statesman , like speech ; and he wonld have told you all about the endowment of the Catholic Church ; and he would have told you afterwards he was not answerable for what he had said , because be was only saying . what he thought Sir Robert Peel thought . ( Hear , hear and laughter . ) I have nothing more to say , except that teybu I say , my gallant old guards , the Chartists , with you 1 commenced tho battle of liberty , and with you , with the blessing of God , 1 will tight it to the end . ( Tremendous and repeated applause . ) Now then , the battle begins from tbe

    time you leave this house . You must now distribute yourselves into the body guardsofChartism , ( cheers . ) Jou must protect the honeU elector in the night from the prowling fox tbat will seduce bim from his duty . You must watch the houses of the electors , and let every rtan be a policeman for ta-nigat . ( Laughter . ) Bring the electors up to tho poll . I do not sleep again till the election is over ; and as I have given 23 years for you . the least , you csn do is to watch for one night . ( Cheering . ) And now , as I was told by the Journal , if any one will catechise me ; if the editor of the Journal or any other clergyman ( laughter in the gallery ) will examine me upon the Land scheme , I will give any gentleman a respectful and respectable answer . Mr O'Connor sat down amid deafening and thunderous applause , which made the building ring

    again . Several questions were hero put hy Mr Cartwright to Mr O'Connor . 1 st . Is the land purchased in your name , or in the name of trustees ! Mr O'Cohnob . —As the company is provisionally rtgistered , the property must be purchased m the name of an individual ; last week I paid £ 350 fora stamp to complete tbe registration , and tbe moment this it « on < s , I will transfer the whole to t . e trustees , who will be empowered to receive it , and not till then . 2 d . Do you give the occupants a lease of their premises at tbe time of possession f Mr O'Oonhob . —It will be out of my power to give them a lease till the registration ; they will then receive it of the trustees , in perpetuity , which makes them voters for the county la which tbey may lire . Have yon any more qusstions t Mr Cabtweioht , —No , I think not .

    Mr O Connor . —Lot me ask you , if you are a number of the Land Company 1 Mr CmwBiSHT . — -I am not . Mr O'Comuob . —Opposition always comes from wltb out . Mr BoWLar , addressing tbe electors , remarked that Mr O'Connor had alluded to Mr Waltvr , Jan ., not coming but he would explain how that happened . Mr Walter , sen ., was on a bed of affliction , and perhup * before this contest is over , be may be no more ; therefore , under t & eie circumstances , Hr Walter , jun . coul'i not come , but he had pledgad hi * word to stand till four o ' clock on tbe day of election . He had no desire to oppose Sir John Hobhouse or Mr Feargus O'Connor , hut be was determined to ouit Mr Gisborne . If Mr Qliborne ' n friends will withdraw him , we will withdraw Mr Walter to malt * way for Mr Feargus O'Connor and Sir John Hobhouse . ( Applanse . )

    The Sniaili took the show of hands . For Sir John Hobhouse , aboal forty bands were held up ; for Mr Gisborne , one hundred ; for Mr Feargus O'Connor , a forest of hands ; and for Mr Walter , jun „ a like show . Tbe Sbebiw declared tho show of hands to be in favour of the two latter candidates , and a poll was demanded by Mr W . Hurst , for Sir John Hobhouse , and by Mr Alderman Ticker * , for Mr Gisborne . The clapping of hands , shouts , and stamping with the feet , became most enthusiastic for a long period of time , Mr Feabgos O'Cohnob proposed a vote of thanks to the Sheriff for tbe decidedly impartial manner in which be had conducted tbe business , which on being * eeooded by Sir John Hobhouse , was carried with loud acclamation . The poll was then adjourned to Thursday morning at eight o ' clock , where It was proceeded wltb in the marketplace ,

    The proceedings of the nomination lasted till two o'clock in the afternoon . The supporters of Mr O'Connor held another meeting in the market-place , on Wednesday evening . Mr O'Connor and tbe Rev , W , Lin wood , of Mansfield , addressed the congregated thousands , and met with a most cordial reception . Mr O'Connor and his friends attracted the reflections upon tbe Renew , expressed the former evening , and the meeting separated in good order . At tbe close , Mr O'Connor proposed a vote of thanks to Mr Sweet , saying , " though a little one , he was a good one . It ' s not always tbe greatest calf that makes tho best veal . "— ( Loud laughter and tremendous cheering . )

    THF POLL . Hobbousc ' s Committee , Hobh . Griib . Walt . O'Con , 10 a . m . 103 115 60 48 11 220 216 389 173 1 60 S 564 S »» 408 2 550 576 780 457 3 689 « 9 . 8 WW eSS 4 [ No return . ] Walter ' s Committee . Hobh . Grlsb . Walt . O'Con . 9 } a . m . l 00 115 107 75 10 145 165 157 65 ! 1 m 189 185 104 12 g 47 699 W 5 454 ! fi 95 645 903 580 3 e 6 t 789 10 » 689 3 684 789 1099 686 4 p . m . 975 1083 1886 1349

    The moment the clock struck four , a shout rose up from every part of the Mark « t-pt » ee , hats were thrown up . hands waved and clapped , and tviry demonstration of joy was made . In an hour , the bells of St Peter ' s Church were ringing merrily , and a band of munic perambulated the towa . Meanwhile , Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., bad gone into tbe Exchange , and standing at the large window which overlooks tbe market-plaoe , briefly addressed a crowd which for density and compactness has seldom bees equalled in Nottingham . The shout with which he w « s received was tremendous j and every pause in bis harangue was maikcd by similar manifestations of delight . He said he might call the electorsfree and independent now , and tbey were worthy of their freedom for from the hour that Nottingham was first

    enfranchised to tbis day , tbis had been tbe only pure election ever won . They did not require any new profession of faith from him . What he was ycsUrdoy , he was to day , and would be while he continued their re . presentative . His aim had always been to try to make the constitution hate and healthy , by weeding It ef what would injure it , and not to destroy it . He was not ths destructive he had been represented to be . He was for peace for law , for order ; but it must be peace , law , and order for both sides . Many bad been astonished at his passing over from hli own ranks to advocate the auee of the people ; hut he always said he had baen promoted from tbe ranks of the aristocracy , to a eomroij . slon in the democracy . He never would forget the fus .

    tlan jackets , the blistered hands , and unahoru chins which bad returned bim . He asked , tauntingly , where Sir John Hobhouse and Mr flisborne were ! and promiseo to come every SuVwday to Nottingham , and stop Sunday over , to see bis constituents . He was confident when he came next time , those who opposed bim now would take him by the hand ; promised to oppose ths ' currency quackery' of ' ]» aid ' 44 ; and concludsd by giving three cheers for the People ' s Charter ; three for T . S . Dnncombe , Esq ., and three for Frost , Williams , and Jones . Turning round into the room , he saw Mr Sweet , and putting hit arms around him , gave him a regular hug , and thin introduced him to tbe people outside at his'little general . ' '

    Mr Lhiwood followed Mr Sweet in a brief address , and the assembly then dispersed . It was a singular characteristic of this election that scarcely a flag or favour of any kind was to be seen . In fact , tbe people seemed puxaltd to know what coleurs esprused their lentimiatt .

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    ( From the Nottingham Review . J The majesty ot the people has triumphed . Tbe sons of labour will shout for joy . The whole country will be jurprisod to hear that Mr J . Walt » r , son of the Into J , Walter , Esq ., proprietor of the Tims newspaper , baa been returned for Nottingham , at the head of the poU , thoug h ho has not been in the town , » r issued an address to the people ! and that surprise will he redoubled whea thev learn that Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., proprietor ot t iieKorlhcm Star , h » . beeu returned as his collc « ue « What a blow to the Ministry ! Sir John Cam Hobhouse , thirteen years Member for Nottingham , and one .. f her Majesty ' s Ministers , has been unseated , and m fact tnnds nt tbB foot of the polll

    If any further proof had been wanting that the men of Nottingham are tired of do-nothing , kid ^ love re . formrrs , such proof was afforded last Wednesday , when the late members nppsared to give an account of their stewardship , and their opponent stood forward to vindicate his claims .. An outspoken , earnest meeting waj that—full of fire and enthusiastic feeling ; and on the whole as orderly as could well be eipected , takiuff all tilings into the account . There was a plain , blunt candour about it , which it was impossible to help admiring , even though wt did not always fall in with the sentiments applauded . It demonstrated that tho days of mere glib-spoken Whiggtsm are rapidly passing away ;—that the sons of labour are resolved on raovlnj and speakiug on tbeir own behalf , and tbat none , save men of well defined aims and thoroughly n . a ; tired wishes and opinions , can henceforth succeed ia

    winning their sympathy or In securing thmr support , There was something in that tea ti careworn , speakiag faces , so full of feeling aad earnestness , which to our minds was striking * ni impressive . We read there many a tale of long-endored woe , erf fruitless struggle , and disappointed hope . The throng before us wore the » sptct of a hand of devotees , assembled to do henour to the man who was clothed with tliebf affections , and gave expression to their fondest aipi « rations . Mr O'Connor was the htro , and the excite * multitude bis worsbippers , ln that , to all senses , remarkable scene , Tbe position occupied by Sir John wat certainly about as painful as could wall he imagined * Surrounded by the friends and partisans of other days , then so cool , so changed , so unsonscious of the euthu *

    siastr . of former days—nay , in some instances so resolute in their antagonism , he presented the miserable aspect of a politician ' used up , ' enjoying a reputation which was purely TBAomoNiBV , and compelled at length to fall back on mere ' good intertions , ' as his credentials as a candidate for the suffrages of tbe people . ' The people ana tired of unfulfilled promises . They want doirt , and not mere iatruJers . They regard pure Wniggiss simply as a worn out thing of the past . ' Such was the sum and substance of the declaration of tho assembly , which the Fresideat of the Board of Control and his brethren in offiae may well lay to heart , fos tneh indied are tbe sentiments , not only of Nottingham , but of the great majority of the aonstitncnciea

    throughout ths empire . The time bas gone by whea old associations and old parties could dictate to and esjole with impunity , the English masses , who have grown wise eneugh to perceive that fine words bm after all were worthless things , without as fine deed * to substantiate them ; and mistaken indeed are our modern Wblgsif they imagine that they can much longer save themselves from utter annihilation hy tb *) reckless utterance of promises , or by pleading the multitude of tbeir " good intentions , * as an apology for tbe scantiness and puerile character of their achievement *; MrGisborne ' s speech was rather an ACTOiioaBmaJA * defence of his own polities ! character than an announce , ment of his contemplated policy , though wa gathered sufficient to confirm the opinion which we havt before ex .

    pmsed , with respect to tbis gentleman ' s adherence to ths principles of tbe friends of Complete Suffrage and tha Anti State Church Association . But the speech ot tb * day was Mr O'Connor ' s , and it told with considerahlt power on all sectiens of ths assembly . We are not going too far , when we assert that , though we saw reason to dissent here and there from the speaker ' s sentiments , and to question the entire justice of his reasoning and charges , his address was a masterly piece of oratory , teeming with sentiments the truest and noblest , and well calculated to aid the glorious cause ef Conservative , though Radical reform . The point on which we saw tbe most reason to differ with Mr O'Connor was the unsparing attack which he roads upon Mr Gisborne . Grant * ing , for the sake of argument , that Mr G . may have erred

    on seme points , surely the man who acts as he thinks for the best , eannot righteously bo condemned for bis involuntary error ; and really , when we remember how many havs erred , if t-vror- it be , in common with tb * gentleman in question , we aro not disposed to be over censorious ut his expense , even should reflection convince us that he has b « en in the wrong , Judging from Mr O'Connor ' s statement , his Land Plan appears to have assumed an imposing aspect . A self-help society which boasts of a paid-up capital of seventy thousand pound * , is vtrily no pigmy , and we do sincerely trust that the glewlng expectations of the masses , who with hopeful hearts have subscribed their pence' towards their own social elevation , may be not only realised bur surpassed .

    ¦ The nomination was full of fire and enthusiastic feel . ing ;—but the lection was dull , tame , andllfeleis . In the first hour there were very few voters , and at tea o ' clock not 310 had passed through the polling-booths . How difftrent to the election in August , 1842 , when at ten o ' clock , no l « ss than 1 , 467 vetors bad polled , Tha eabs stood in the Marketplace , unemployed . It sucmsd as if no efforts were made to get up voters . At twelve o ' clsck , not 840 voters had polled , but Walter was slightly at the Mead , Tbe steam now began to get up . The number of th « people in the Market-place rapidly increased ; and ae voters arrived in chaises and cubs they were received with loud vociferatisns . It was balf-past three bufon Mr O'Connor . was second on the poll , and then the tie * . tion was decided .

    Iu these hurried remarks we have endeavoured as far . as possible to bs just to all parties . We regard the pre . sent election as all important to the in Uresis of the labouring classes . Long , teo long , have they remained ia a position of political dependence—without power , without standing , without citisenthip ; and it now betomea alike their duty aud their interest to achieve , by thoughtful , enlightened , and , virtueus combiuation , their entire and peaceful enfranchisement .

    Leicester . We Have Couclnded Our Exhila...

    LEICESTER . We have couclnded our exhilarating business ; and the circumstances which have led to this result deserve to tie recorded . There bas bun , for a considerable period , a , growiag spirit of progression makiij progrsii amongst our most influential members ef tbe corporals body , as will as th * mostrsspsctabl * of ths trades in toll place , which hat not only been fettered and sneourigsd by tbseoaviction of ths abielutt nscessily of farther rsforms bsing carried oit , but from the conduct of sur lata defunct members for the borough , and so far had it pre . ceeded , that what they tailed Compute Suffrage numbered amongst Its supporters te the tuns of 800 , whieh left the mere Whig party mothlnf but a miserable rump , Thert bad been for some years an election coa » - mittee chosen from the diffursnt wards , whose business

    it wa * to look out for fit aud proper persons to represent the berough , and managu all preliminaries ; and these , chosen by a Whig majority , in course , wers Whigs of the old school . The progressives began by the election of » new committee mora in accordance with the spirit of the age , » ud th # first act of tho new committee was So give a polite notice to the late members that their services would not be any longer rtquired at Leicester . This was a fair beginning , and the Whig clique felt very much discomfort on the occasion , and baviig an organ ot expressioa at their command , in the shape of a weekly newspaper , ne puddls in a storm conld rag * mors terrifically , no boiling saucepan hiss and bubble more furiously . The committee , however , not seriously alarmed , proceeded with their duties , and seon brought forward Sir

    Joshua Walmsley as candidate , aad , subsequently , Mr Rioharsl Gardaer . The old Tories Icept quiet for a time and said but little , believing their chanc * small , till the government plan of education , amongst its other evil effscts , occasioned a breach amoigit the progressive party themselves-, the Tories took courage at this , oad detsrnlnsi to take adv . ntsga » f it , and at enee brought out a blue cock , ia the person of a Mr Parker , a Chaneery barrister . While this was geing on the member * of the Chartist aad Land Company , nearly one thousand strong , thought it would be a good time to try te collect and unite their strength , and endtavoar onct more to collect the scattered particles ef which it consisted ; ah election committee was upscinted . ; a registration list procured with th * ether necessary documents ; an address

    te the electors issued ; and our young and ardent friends sped about in every airsctloa collecting the names of our supporters , and fen-Ming eat those who were dubious , till at the conclusion , by the best calculation wa could make , that though not strong en » ugh te return a Char , tist , we were powerful enough to turn tht scale sithsr way we chose . We then quietly rested npon eur oars till the time f * r attion came . Th * candidates arrived ; the usual public meetings were held , and the usual polltical catechisms said . We attended these meeting * , and attentively listened , and w * re agreeably surprised to hoar how far they had proceeded iu the marsh of democracy . But generalities would nek satisfy the Chartists of LelcisUr ; a deputation from onr coamittte waited upon theas , and r «| nlr * d distinct pltdgM io our question . To flv * of th * six points of the Charter ( key unhesitatingly agr «* d ; their demur n »« to the duration f Parltammts ; learning to th * triemM , but premising

    not to abandon a bill with th * annuo , on that count . Th * y stand pltdgid to the abohtien of the law * of primogeniture and entail ; to the support of th . sop-ration of Church and State ; »• advocate a purely secular education by th . state ; to a system . f * " *"" £ " !' ttnd / \» abolition of Custom . and Ex . i .. ; to he abolition of . 11 monopolies ; te a reform In ° « " ^ 'J , J , tem ' * * vooatith . restora tion ot Fr . st , WilUms , and Jo « s ; and generally a" measure , to am . nd tk , condition of the operatives . Our course w »« d * cW * d ; a m «« tlng had been called to h « r the result ; we attended that meetins the vast amphitheatre was crowded to suffocation the opsratiTM ; »«»•» Smart , Buckby , aid dressed them , rapturous acclamations w * re the « nd the next morning a Chartist aud Land handbill fell like a thunderbolt upon th * natives of all cl . ises aud shades « f opinion ; election commenced we took the lead and kept end . Tbo TorUs fought gallantly and f c # iih > iu «} (« to < am peg * -J

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• Citation
  • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 7, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_07081847/page/3/