The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-08-05 00:00:00

SQUARE.

The Demonsteittion In Trafalgar-simare was held on Mon-
day eveninf, despite the prohibition of the meeting by the
poib'ahil proved to be one of the largest gatherings ever
kndwn in that chosen Seelie of demonstrations. The astern.
Wage crowded Column, Fountains, and Square, even to the
steps if St. Martin's Church on the out side and the entrance
to the barracks on the other.

The circumstances which preceded this remarkable demon-
stration are of Interest. At a spechd meeting called at
Kirby-street, Hatton-garden, on Monday morning. Mowry.
Inlifer, Bradt:nigh, Osborne, Weston, Minton, and others
there were served with notices, each notice bring in manu-
script, and formally up on several sheets of foolscap
paper, headed with the Queen's Arms. A well-known ili-
spoetor of pone, are ..... onaded IC VOIC VS, 3CIA cal the notices,
which were as follows

"Notice.
" Proposed Meeting in Trafaigar.square.

" Whereas, Information has— been received, Anil it
pair-
holy announced by printed notices, that it is the intention of
certain pereolla to folliellilile in Trafalgar-square on tlonday
evening, the 31st oof July inst. fir the purpose of ad,rpting a
petition to the llonouratde the Commons of the Urdted
ingdom, awl for the purpose of obtal g further expres-
sion of public opinion. .
" And whereas any such nieeting being held within rile
nine of the Holmes 14 Parliament during the sitting ri Par-
liament is unlawful awl contrary to Sr-, I I 1., rap.
19, sec. 53, which enacts that •it shall 11. It he 1111VtIll for
any toenail or persons to isnivelle or call together, or to give
airy notice tor vonvening or Calling together, any ',wet-
ing if vonsiating of ttttt re than r.O Jrorsrrrur. so (-sr :toy
•rot persons exceeding 50 to moot in any street, sonare,
or open space in the city or liberties of Westminster or
county of Middlesex within the distance od one mile from
the gate of Westminster-ball for the plirillirse or 011 the pre.
test if efeeelleltllll Ot or Kit hiring arty lo•titi"n,
remoiritr.ll.,., der larat. ,or either auldres. ti titter It 'nra
of Parliament ri, any day Sr. which either [louse id Pal lia.
merit shall mei t inn Sit ; itild if any meeting or ii,sembly fire
tine laheinrer,, Cr on the pretext atoll:a:till of any person, shall
Ire assembled or holden oh any such day, such meeting or as-
mouldy shall he Iheined and taken as all Milan fill assembly
by it nit ayseliddy shall Ilf/10 been

' • And %I hill,. IT I live /Pray TO prry,lat Ciii Ii n,P,ting and
pro, and I Pit 4.1 e, thCOJAI.' 1,-are ,

is beret.; civ. n. that no 511 Ch lIICPLiIIe7 can be
permitted and all well•dlrlo7rd lee. no are lo roby cau-
tioned Fool re:incited 1., at. Lain h.. joining I.r attending
any inch aria 110t1,1, is further via. II that all Wee.-
sary me, inn a will lw adoptcd to prevent any such ineetiler,
and t 0 fil'Oell'e the loildie pore.
11. 1-1/I.II.IIONDIERP, Assistant Commissioner
of the Pollee ..1 the Nletropllls.
Metropolitan Police•ollice, 4. Whitehall-
place, July-30, la;1."

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When the fool been armed the pollee ollieers left
the room, awl the meeting at "Ile. lii,..osse.l the point he-
llo., the ineetinfr alwaild be held. It nadi decided. not with-
mit dhafentiente, to hold the meeting, and to carry the red
flag h. Trafalgar,amare. The details of calling the meeting
w ere ~00n aettleff op helialf of (hoer convening the meeting,
aod it .4, 4,01,1 thd Ir. 'hale% ItradlafigliNl,Fl
e_e th th it the PP, t
ath.l f••,- the mono of die e- ie.; the Qnaerf. la(
to Farh.lnl,nt a king tar an allow an,:e to trine,
.A rpm,.

Ommb,a,.. .m 1 other 'midi. .mve,raw.e. rradd.,y,.
ard, the altar,. n, le ram', ,men !.r., the dire,.
ton c Utile Arburba Ihe delegates of
the variona I had nrat at Kirhpatreet C ere, on
thoir part, not Idle, and placard,. In an hour or two, were
camel about In carte eallin7 the meetinp. Towardo erentra
croe.da ot wcrkin.; men traxping hme from their lab.-..uf
turned toward., the centre indicated awl long before eight
o'clock for which time the meeting wa., c.dled, the equate and
Its neighbourhood were thronged with Lighly excited CrOWlia.

Meanwhile, however, the Government had altered its inbi.d,
for inspectors had been to the i 11.11,10 in K Irby-street, and
were searching far and wide to inform those who had
been warned only a few bourn h-t.re againsr hotelier the
meeting that the 61.% rnm.it winl,l It int tern .• unit,
(ho public peace alio. 1.1 be broken.- The leading members
of lb,' tEraoustrating party hart, h,rxever, goon else% It

for the police in plain ch The, had crowded upon them In a
manner which they did not consider altogether pleasant.
The renden tats was It house of entertainment near Covent-
garden, anti there assembled, at near eight o'clock, Mr. Mud-
laugh, Mr. Odger, Mr. W. Osborne, and sbouty.twenty ,there.
It was here hastily determined that nc, reset. •olis should be
proposed at the meeting. and :ant the leaders sallied
forth to the merlin..

...„
•it square a hearty cheer greettol them, :mil
after senonlithig on to the granite platform. level 'nail
Lionlmeer's lions, Mr. llradlatigh wAs voted to the position ot
mrsident.
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Mr. Itradlaugh who was received is Ith loud pull long c•qi.
tinned cheers, siad, —.ll Pm here to night limply it-rim- lier
Majesty's Government deckled Ibis Ileitiline that we had no
right to thine bore. teherrad At eleven ,i(b,ck this
sunning the represtmfatir's of the Government were good
enough to Mty huge packet of notices, ear-in idle as
big an this (showing one, unlit( nitich blighter), and to warn
us that ender the (,7(11 of George 111. (loads and yells)
nit meeting can be held within it mile of Westminster
-
hall while Parliament 13 sitther. (laughter.) Daniel
• econnell inert to say. (list there was 110 Act of Parlia-
ment which vital" iv,. Inc driven through with a midi
anti four, se-f. :MS morning we have driven the Assist:lM-
0...W..7-I,liter if Police alai 1111 his following through that
Act of Parliament. (taunt chem ) I will tell you what we
meet here for, and What writ, led Hied here for What We
have a right to do, and what we shall ma do. 1! e have nu
right at this meeting to petition, nollanient. It would be
utterly 118eless to petition fln. :Muse or commons, 1111,1 We
dmit intend to de 1. tcneers), Mot Indy hecallse it would Lie
illegal., but o,..aM+e it would not turn one vote which it has
Iwo %oculist to give lin the subject against whirl' we are
Inlet to pndest. (Hear.) WO have nil right to vote here an
address to the Queen, and we don't intend to do it (hear),
because if she hail la,ti disposed to provide for her children I
she could have done it witl t coming to Parlitunent
for the harthearned money of the p.,ple (rimers), and its I
We shall not change her mind, so we don t intend to address
/ler Majeaty, Mid We wilt keep wlthin the letter if the law
in that respect. (Climes.) Abovo all, w-e don't intend bi
addrtss env ~oniplaint to the Lords' 1101130, Which
may not hod hum enough to consider it. (Cheers)
No ; an appeal to the Queen who could unit Inc iniired
by the increasing pauperism of this country would
be in rain, and ire 111113 t not appeal to Parliament. But
we can meet hide to ithwusa whether Free-traile haa done
Ili imp good, or we earl meet here, as we have done to-night
(cheers), to diSella4 the message which the Queen last week
sent dowilt 0 Patlialitent asking for a provision for her eon
Artimr. ('• Hear" anti interruption). The speaker, turn-
ing to the quarter where the intemuption catne from,
warne,l those who interrupted that if they tampered with
the conduct of the meeting they would be breaking the
peace, and Inc added, "We are too strong for that.' No
further interniption occurred, and the spealt,r went on to
refer to the message which was Insuight down to the
House of Con 11111 l ns Ile parodied the langllage of the
message amid -11 laughter. Ile entered into the
messagen. sent down by the four Georges, and Pahl
from their age Mail the ettitellee itt nor present ••
mica' G,ocroment " the people lind been continually
called upon to make them, grants. Ile asked, amid
cheers, when the landed iiristocracy hail filched vast
iminhers of acres of the ernmuttnuin hurts, when taxation was
overwhelming the people in consequence of the wrongs on
the piddle, whether this was a time for the Queen to ask for
another grant id t 15.000 a year for a younger Soli r
were loud cries of " No !" and he proceeded to say that he
entered his protest against the demand in the name of
the men of Lancashire, Id Yorkshire, and of other comities,
for, he sniff, though he did not represent any consti-
tuency in Parliament, lie represented a vast mass of the
people in is name he protested against any more
grants being made to princely pailliel3. Lend cheers.)
Ile reviewed Mr. Gladstone's statement that the Crown
lands had been given up on it bargain bring made between
the Crown runt the country that such provisions should be
Imole, awl denied that there was any truth in it. In the
first place, the speaker said the Crown lands belong.] to
the people, and In the nest place, the amount paid to the
thorge3 would hay.: pall fin the ethwil Linda over and over
again. With a Warin comment 1113111 the conilliet 01 the
• ill prohibiting the meeting Inc warned tire
Ileinie of Brunswick that if its monism, dhl not pay their
! Own debts mid keep Cleat id demanding grants an end would
come of the English people's patience, lie concluded amid
loud chem.

Mr. iiilger then spoke, and described the Itoyal message as
making a disgraceful Iletikand intent the publie purse, and he
•ed all such grants as inimonil aial as tending to im-
morality in encouraging idleness and the evils which sprang
from it.

Messrs. lialliralth, Mighty, Weston, M'Sweeny. and others
spoke in the saint, stiain : and the lilecting etkile.l with iond
cheers being given for ?.Ir. Ta)lor. Sir illative
Duke. and Itofessor Fawcett, anil votes
.of thanks to the
speakers.

All the approaehei to the Homes it Parliament were,
throngleatt the eveninz, etimely gmardell hy large bottles I,f
police tested ill the neighlrourhood.