The great Glasgow demonstration in favour of Universal Suffrage was
held upon the Green on Monday, in accordance with the resolution of the National Convention, to have simultaneous meetings in all the large cities in Scotland and England. From an early hour in the morn- ing, bands of music were perambulating the different quarters of the city ; which had the effect of bringing out large numbers. They con- tinued to do so till the hour of meeting ; when they entered the Green, followed by the several districts to which they had been appointed. A great number of flags were upon the ground ; amongst which were con- spicuous two black ones—one of which was a death's-head-and-cross- bones, with the motto, "Death shall be the tyrant's lot," on the other was a hand grasping an unsheathed dagger, with tire motto, " Will ye force us to this ?" In fact, most of the mottoes were rather of a physi- cal force description, much at variance with the quiet and orderly de- meanour of the meeting. Mr. Moir was called to the chair ; and after some verses of the 94th Psalm had been sung, began the business with a few pointed remarks on the proof which the meeting afforded that the working classes were determined never to cease agitation, till their right to Universal Suffrage was triumphantly asserted. A number of reso- lutions were subsequently proposed, and carried unanimously. The first pledged the meeting to continue their agitation till Universal Suf- frage was the law of the land; the next, to withdraw their money from the savings banks, 8.7,e. when the Convention saw proper to give the or- der; the next, to support the Chartist candidates wherever there was an election for a Member of Parliament ; and there were others on the subject of exclusive dealing with the shopocracy and the clergy. The business went off in the best possible manner, considering the numbers present ; which were variously estimated by those upon the hustings from eighty-to one hundred thousand.—Glasgow Chronicle.
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