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A meeting was held at Manchester on Friday night, to celebrate the "marriage of the two bodies of the English Chartists and the Irish Re- peaters. Mr. Feargus O'Connor, Mr. Meagher, Mr. Doheny, and Mr. W. P. Roberts, were the chief speakers. Mr. O'Connor denounced the Govern- ment as "a base, brutal, and bloody faction "; and characterized the press as " corrupt, venal, prostitute, and lying," for keeping the oppressors of the people in ignorance of their wishes, their resolution, and their power. If England had conquered Ireland, he knew of no statute of limitations to prevent the conquered people from regaining their liberty. He hated the slavish doctrine of unconditional loyalty and passive obedience; and thought that if John Mitchel suffered for attempting to destroy it, he would be the victim of those who first preached it. The Union took 30,000,000/. a year out of the pockets_ of the English labourer: if to- morrow the wind wafted the unwilling Irish residents to their own shores, the English labourers would receive those millions of pounds more in the ensuing year than they received in the last. Mr. Meagher would return to Ireland with assurance, since he had learnt that, as the Government had garrisoned Ireland against the Irish, it had, too, by its oppression of the Irish, planted a garrison in England for them. Ma Doheny said, it was reported that Mitchel was to be arrested; and perhaps he would be executed on a gibbet in Dublin. If one were put up for that purpose, it would remain up long, for one and another who would exultingly follow John Mitchel. An address to the people of France was voted.
A meeting of Lancashire and Cheshire Chartists was held last Sunday, on Oldham Edge. The meeting had been extensively placarded, alid was to have been a formidable display in sequel to the prior one at Manchester on occasion of the " marriage " of the English Chartists to the Irish Re- .pealere. The weather was extremely unfavourable, however, and compa- pitively few persona attended. The speakers were, Pilling of Ashton, the lo- de leader, Mr. Feargus O'Connor, and Mr. Doheny and others, of Dublin. ...ill ended quietly, in resolutions that "perpetual happiness and prosperity" were wed to be had without the passing of the Charter. Some hundreds of 'medial &enrollee had been sworn in, and other measures taken, at Old.
ham, to preset-v the peace, which nobody seemed inclined to break. The a. The Bir2ling 's Gazette reports that most of the iron-works, "where
suspension did not • from pecuniary embarrassments, are now again in partial operation "; tit matters on the whole are not very cheering: the snake of Staffordshire iron has been reduced nearly one half.
The great Dowlais - iron-works in Wales have resumed or are about to resume operations. This is important, as during their suspension thirty thousand people were thrown out of employment.
At Lewes Assizes, on Thursday, John Goldspink, the footman who concealed himself under a bedstead, and when discovered by Mrs. Fetcher, his mistress, a lady living at Brighton, violently assailed her, was 'indicted for an intent to murder or do her grievous bodily harm. The Lord Chief Justice did not think the evidence bore out the charge, and the man was convicted of an assault only. He was sentenced to be imprisoned for twelve months.
A brutal assault has been made on a widow lady, of Cowwan Head Hall, near Kendal. Mrs. Bateman had been on a visit at a neighbouring mansion, about four hundred yards from her own residence: on her return alone, late in the evening, a man stopped her on the road about half-way, threw her down, and de- manded her money; she screamed, the ruffian threatened to shoot her; the lady rose, and attempted to take her purse from her pocket, but not doing this very quickly, the fellow knocked her down again, knelt on her, and uttered the foulest threats. Mrs. Bateman having given up her purse, the man thrust dirt into her mouth, pulled her bonnet over her face, and dragged her into a field. The lady happened to be a powerful woman, and she successfully battled with her assail- ant for nearly. an hour, until at last he made off. Mrs. Bateman managed to reach home, in a dreadful state of suffering. The robber, John Caradine, has been taken, and identified by the lady.
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