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asked was but a small one compared with the great
objects they had in view. He believed it would he
sufficient to accomplish success. The agriculturists
were determined to have a fight ; they had thrown
down the gauntlet, and they must take it up, for the
cause was theirs. If they did not they deserved
to have an excise officer in their cellar, a
custom-house officer in their kitchen, and a soldier
in their parlour to:play with their wires—(Laughter)
—a policeman to see that he took no advantage of
her—(Laughter)—and a poor curate to receive his
alms.—(Laughter.) He wished them joy of such a
party.—(Laughter.) The 10,000/. for which they
asked would be the first heavy blow against corrup-
tion. They wanted 250 men of sterling independence
to enrol themselves members of the Association, as
ready to contest places in order to obtain
good men in Parliament; but he should say to them,
" You must put down 1,0001. a-piece."—(hear, hear,
and laughter.) If necessary, they should ask the
people for 500,0001., by whick a working capital of
1,000,0001. would be obtained.—(Laughter, and
hear, hear.) He was not desirous of going into
Parliament—he would do more good out of it—but
he would be the first to sign a round-robin of this
nature.— (Loud cheers.) The Parliament was the
castle of the people, and he should never rest until
it had been wrested from the hands of a corrupt aris-
tocracy.—(Hear, hear.) He begged to second the
motion.

Mr. MIALL supported the resoultion. The House
of Commons was a gross fraud, and was but an
instrument of the aristocracy. It was a false utter-
ance—the voice was that of Jacob with the hands of
Esau —(Cheers.) The two systems of cur present
Government might be thus classed—one was a reality,
and the other a pretence. The Queen confined her-
self to her station and performed all its duties.—
(Loud cheers). The House of Lords was identified
with the elevation of the interests of its order, and no
one would say that it did not fulfil all its functions
—(Hear, hear)—and the House of Commons, pro-
fessed to represent the voice of the people ; it was a
child of the aristocracy, having but the smallest
tinge of popular blood in its veins.—(Hear, hear.)
A majority, was secured by the aristocracy, and
it was said that the system worked well ;
but it only worked well for the aristocracy.
It was a mere sham, and was but the semblance of
popular representation without the reality.—(hear,
hear.) Thus a wrong feeling went abroad, and gene-
rally the system accomplished an infinitude of mis-
chief. He wanted some reality that would do away
with this semblance. He could repose confidence in
his fellow-countrymen and exclude none, save those
who excluded themselves.—(Hear.) This society
was the best panacea that offered ; it had
adopted the best means to promote its end, and he
should support those means to the best of his ability.
—(Hear, hear.) The freehold land movement would
do something ; but he did not agree with those who
considered that agitation did not always end
well. lie had great faith in it. The Government,
it was said, intended to extend the franchise—
, well, if so, let them take care that they were behind
them to push them on.—(Hear.) The people could
accomplish their emancipation whenever they willed
it. Let them only determine to emancipate them-
selves and the work was done. At all events let them
never cease in their endeavours until they obtained
for themselves fair and full representation.—(Cheers.)
Mr. G. W. M. REYNOLDS then came forward, and
was received with cheers. It was a positive scandal,
he thought, that in this age there should exist any
necessity in England for calling a meeting
to demand from an usurping aristocracy and
a reluctant Ministry those rights and privileges
which by nature belonged to the working classes, but
which tyranny withheld from them.—(Cheers.) The
aristocracy had usurped all power, government, place,
and pensions, and laid violent hands upon the Church
and the army and navy, and then, perhaps, next
session they would tell them that the people
were not intelligent enough to exercise the franchise
properly.—(Laughter.) What had been the results
of their present system ? Why, they had more
paupers than voters.—(Hear, hear.) There were
only 850,000 voters, whilst the numbers of paupers
exceeded one million, and the Times told them on
Christmas-day that 100,000 persons in the city of
London were indebted to eleemosynary charity for
their Christmas dinner.—(Cheers.) They also learnt
from the Morning Chronicle that hundreds of
honest, well-intentioned, and industrious women,
who endeavoured to obtain a living by the aid of their
needle, were driven to destitution and famine, and
were not allowed even to be virtuous.--(Cheers.)
Let the working classes then unite with: the
middle classes in achieving a reform of their repre-
sentation ; let them take a lesson out of the book of
their enemies— the aristocracy for though the
Whigs, Tories, and Protectionists quarrelled like
cat and dog for place and power, he always found that
when the people once raised a cry for reform, they
forgot their differences, :and bound themselves
together for the purpose of putting it down. The
working classes were determined to go oa and make
the Charter the law of the land, but, in the mean-
time, they gave their hearty adhesion to the present
movement.—(Cheers )
The resolution was carried unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN then announced several additional
subscriptions to the former list.
Mr. D. W. Wile E then proposed—

" That this meeting regards with feelings of great
satisfaction the proposition of holding a National Con-
ference in London during the month of March next, and
calls upon the friends of the movement in all parts of
the country by selecting earnest Reformers to represent
them at that important meeting."
The gentleman who had preceded him had talked
about classes. He hated the word. He knew nothing
of classes. What he understood best was the
" people," and they were going to appeal to the people,
and the appeal would be responded to. There would
insisted,e the
be no extension of the franchise until they reformed
the House of Commons. But it might be said that
they could not reform Parliament until they extended
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selection of men, and the struggle with
tyranny would be over.--(Cheers.) The taxation
of the country was based Upon an unfair principle.
The man with_ 1001. a year paid Os. Bd. in the pound,
while the man with 100,0001. a year paid only a penny
in the pound ; but if they succeeded in this contest
there would not only be a reduction, but an equaliza-
tion of the taxes.—(Cheers.)
Mr. R. TAYLOR seconded the motion, and said he
agreed with Mr. Miall, that the House of Commons
was a sham.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. KYDD, having at a former period of the meet-
ing been called for at this point of the proceedings
addressed the meeting. He believed that on the
full and free representation of every class
of the community depended the real strength
of the Government, and that a Govern-
ment built on any other foundation could not
be safe or of long duration. The intelligence of the
country must be reflected in the Legislature. The
working men were intelligent and as moral as any
other class ; then why deny them the full possession
of the suffrage ? for it could not be denied
that the working classes had all along
looked upon the suffrage as the main ques-
tion with a view to their emancipation. For
himself he belonged to the ultra. Chartists, and he
should never cease to agitate for the Charter until it
became the law of the land, and if it were long
withheld from them the people would be justified in
setting the law at nought.—(loud cheers.)
Mr. JONES, secretary to a Socialist association, next
addressed the meeting, and whilst he firmly enter-
tained the opinions now engaging the attention of the
continent, and differed with the opinions of many
there, yet he gave in his full adhesion to this league.
The CHAIRMAN announced that the subscriptions
and donations received at the meeting, together with
some previously received, amounted to a total of
I,sool.—(Loud cheers.)
The Rev. Mr. SPENCER, of the Established Church,
said he believed with the Queen Dowager,T that " all
men were equal in the sight of God, and, therefore,
thought that all freemen of 21 years of age were
entitled to the elective franchise.—(Cheers.) He
concluded by moving a vote of thanks to the chair-
man, which was carried by acclamation.
The CHAIRMAN returned thanks, and the meeting
separated at half.past four o'clock.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, JAN. 5.
STOCK EXCITANOE.—The market to-day was much the
same as yesterday. no only alteration in prices was—
Great Western, New Shares, 7% dis.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 5.
STOCK ExcJalicus.—But little business was done in our
share market to-day, and prices bad a downward tendency.
The transactions were as follow:—Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire, 16 dis,—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consol.,
Halves, 22 c. dis.—Ditto Halves (Huddersfield and Sheffield),
28—London and North-Western, 110 —Ditto, New Quarters,
p. —Ditto, Fifths, :14 p.—Ditto, Quarters (C), p.—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Preference, 73/4
Midland, 4.3—Ditto, Halves 23% dis.
MANCHESTER, JAN. 5.
STOCK ExenalicE. —The market was flat to,clay, but
prices are about the same as yesterday. The following are
the transactions:— Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters
(C ), 114 c. p. South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4),
Scrip,
.6%.

shares to-day. BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 5.
STOCK EXCIIANQE._.There Wag nothing done in railway
few people are inclined to speculate until the approaching
dividends are made known.
Quotations remain nearly stationary, and
YORK, JAN. 4.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as
follow:—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 53 North British,
Halves, 4%—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Preference, 10
—York, Newcastle, mid Berwick, 1678—York and North
Midland, 1.7%.