The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-03 00:00:00

ANOTHER CHARTIST MEETING IN
MANCHESTER:

Another Chartist meeting was held in Batty's Circus, on
Saturday evening last. The placard convening it was headed
" Whig persecution," and stated that Mr. F. O'Connor
would attend the meeting, and explain the conspiracy that
had been formed against him. Contrary to the usual prac-
tice, there was no charge for admission. The time fixed for
the meeting to commence was eight o'clock ; but before half-
past seven, the place was filled to suffocation. Before the
candles were lighted, some one in the middle of a ring fired
a pistol, which caused much confusion. Mr. Jas. Wheeler,
printer of Whittle-street, stepped forward to remonstrate
with the party, we believe ; but the noise was so great that
he was quite inaudible. A band of music then struck up a
tune, and soon afterwards Mr. O'Connor made his appear-
ance. Christopher Dean, an operative stonemason, was
called to the chair, and, in his opening address, said they
must not have their leaders taken from them one at once ;
they must not endure it, and they should not endure it ; and
if their leaders were taken he would say, " People, stand for
yourselves at once." He then alluded to a report, which,
he said, had been circulated in the town, that 28 men had
been killed at Glossop, and said he was fully convinced that
the people of this country were of such a nature, that no
partial outbreak would take place ; and, if they were to have
a rising—if they were to assert their rights—it must not be
done by a few, but by the country generally.
Mr. F. O'Connor then came forward, and made a speech
occupying nearly an hour and a half in the delivery, princi-
pally about the " conspiracies " which he said had been
formed against him, and the great exertions which he also
said he had made in the cause of the people. He complained
that the proceedings against him for the alleged libel in the
Star on the guardians of Warminster, were conducted by
government ; that, when he commenced the Star, the'
government harrassed him by refusing to accept his sureties,
and neglecting to supply him with stamps in time ; that the
post-office had thrown his papers into gutters, and delivered
every one's papers before his ; that his paper-maker had re-
fused to furnish him with more paper, because, as the paper-
maker's son said, he and Oastler were going to be hanged ;
and his banker had refused. to , continue his account, though
he had ..vor asked fora farthing in advance. The people's
parliament, the convention, had, he said, sat long enough in
London, and wanted a little fresh air ; and he intended to
move on Monday next, that their sittings be adjourned first
to Birmingham, and then to Manchester. He would not
advise the people with pikes and sticks to attack well-discip-
lined soldiers ; but the very minute the soldiers attacked
them, they would attack property. They were not going to
hazard their cause without arms in their hands. It was a
common saying, " Touch my pocket, touch my life ;" and
that man of property, Mr. John Edward Taylor, the moment
they touched his pocket, that moment they touched his life;
and let them who dare stop the people in their constitutional
privileges ; let them but fire one shot, and he (Mr. O'Con-
nor) would not give two-pence for all the property within
20 miles. (Cheers.) They (the government) were in high
glee when they thought the people were going to march into
a field and stand the musket ball ; they knew perfectly well
that legs, and arms might have been cut off as easily as they
put jackets on, and that that would be a wholesome intimi-
dation ; but it was not a battle they were going to fight ; but
they were determined to have universal suffrage, if they did
run the chance of dying in the attempt. They had set their
minds on that one thing, and he would promise, that, by
three months' perseverance in their present course, they
should have it. They must not condemn the convention,
because it had done so little ; they must recollect it was a
new institution. They had to get rid of some of those who
did not go far enough, and their position was rather a nega-
tive than a positive one. They must glory in the mischief
they had done, rather than deplore over the no good that
had been accomplished. But on the 6th of May they should
present the petition, and no mistake; and, if it were not
presented then, he would denounce the convention through
the country. After that, either Attwood or Fielclen would
move to make the people's charter the law of the land ; after
that they had their Whitsun week, and if those three onsets
did not accomplish the object, he did not know what would.
As soon as the petition was presented, as soon as the peace
of the country was attacked in -Whitsun week, then it was
for the country to say what was the next step. Whenever
the people were attacked by government, so long would he
advise the people to meet force by force. When the govern-
mentinterrupted their course, or any means they took, then
would he advise the people to resist ; but they dare not do it,
and the strength of the people consisted• not more in the
weakness of the government than in their own unity. The
instant they (the people) touched the consols, they made
their (the government) majority of no use ; the moment they
touched their pocket, they made their laws of no avail. They
had now touched their pockets, but they would touch them
more vitally.
The Rev. J. V. Jackson spoke next, principally upon hav-
ing been turned out of his chapel, and that he was deter-
mined to preach in the street within a few yards of the door
of the New Connection Chapel.
Mr. James Wheeler moved a vote of confidence in Mr.
O'Connor, and said he 'hoped they would stand by him man
to man, gun to gun, muzzle to muzzle, and yard-arm to
yard-arm, so long as there was a shot in the locker ; and the
man who-would not die a glorious death, deserved to live a
slave.

A Mr. Butterworth seconded the resolution, which was of
course carried; and Mr. O'Connor returnad thanks, and the
meeting then separated.—Manchester Guardian.

CHARTIST RIOTS AT LLANIDLOES.

(From the Salopian Journal.)
It appears that, for some weeks past, the Chartist Revolu-
tionists at Llanidloes and its vicinity have been arming them-
selves in pursuance of the treasonable advice of the villains
who are their leaders ; they had purchLaseUCT-d such tire :.arms as
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factured by their partisans, and parties had gone out into the
country and taken arms from the farmers and others who pos-
sessed them : in consequence, a communication was made to
the Secretary of State, and three of the London Police were
sent to Llanidloes, where they arrived on Monday last.
These men, on their arrival, with the aid of Blinkhorn, the
chief police officer of Newtown, Lewis, also a policeman, and
other local officers, acting •under the direction of the local
Magistrates, apprehended certain parties charged with being
concerned in the outrages that had been committed, and took
them to the Trewythen Arms Inn. This was the signal for a
general rising of the revolutionists of the town and its vicinity,
who immediately, being armed with guns, pistols, pikes, and
bludgeons, proceeded to the Trewythen Arms, the windows
and doors of which they broke, and having forced their way
in, they rescued the parties that had been apprehended,
nearly killed the police officers, (indeed, it is yet doubtful, if
actual murder has not been committed, some of the police
being still missing,) turned the landlord, Mr. Evans, and his
family, out of the house, and completely ransacked the cel-
lars and every other part of the property.
The resident magistrate, T. E. Marsh, Esq. had a pike
run through his hat, while endeavouring, in his official
capacity, to preserve the peace ; and we regret to say that
yesterday, when our information came away, the town of
Llanidloes was in possession of the revolutionists, and it is
impossible to describe the situation of terror in which the
respectable residents of the town and its vicinity were placed,
or to say what may have occurred up to the time of our
writing. Two of the London policemen had been stabbed ;
Blinkhorn, the policeman, was picked up, dreadfully injured,
on the road from Llanidloes, and conveyed to Llandinam ;
and Lewis, with some of the others, as we have already men-
tioned, were missing when our informant left.
Mr. Marsh, with the Clerk of the Peace for Montgomery-
shire (Joseph Jones, Esq.) arrived yesterday evening (ex-
press) and stated the circumstances to the Viscount Clive,
the Lord-lieutenant of Montgomeryshire, who is in Shrews-
bury, as Colonel of the South Salopian regiment of yeomanry
now assembled for permanent duty. His lordship, we need
scarcely add, has taken every requisite step in the emergency ;
and Mr. Marsh and Mr. Jones were again expressed im-
mediately to Montgomeryshire. The Montgomeryshire
yeomanry were under orders to hold themselves in readiness
to act ; and should there be an immediate occasion, we un-
derstand the South Salopian yeomanry will be instantly
marched to Llanidloes and the neighbourhood.

We hear that the Duke of St. Albans is about to he mar-
ried to Miss Gubbins, daughter of the late General Joseph
Gubbins.—Morniny Post.
The Hon Henry Fitzroy, only brother of Lord South-
ampton, is about to form a matrimonial alliance with one of
the beautiful and wealthy daughters of Mr. Rothschild. The
bride will have £140,000.

TOWN COUNCIL. PROCEEDINGS.

The monthly meeting of the Town-council was held on
Wednesday morning, in the Town-hall, at the usual hour.

FINANCE COMMITTEE.
The proceedings of committees first occupied the attention
of the council.

The DEPUTY TOWN-CLERK read the minutes of the Fi-
nance Committee, in which the following, occurred :
At a joint meeting of the Finance Committee and Improve-
ment Committee, convened for the special purpose of
receiving a deputation from the St. George's Hall Land
Committee,

Present,

Of the Finance Committee, William Wallace Currie, Esq.,

chairman, &c. &c.
Of the Improvement Committee, T. B. Barclay, Esq.,
'chairman, &c. &c.

A deputation from the St. George's Hall Land Commtttee,
consisting of John Wright, Esq., Mr. Dixon, and Mr. John
Stewart, attended by the secretaries, Mr. Deane and Mr.
Harvey, and having expressed a desire that the council would
take into consideration the propriety of allotting to the St.
George's Hall Committee a part of the site of the old Infir-
mary, of about four thousand yards in extent, on which to
erect the intended public hall, and having represented that
to purchase land would require a sum so large as seriously to
affect the means at the disposal of the committee for carrying
this desirable object into effect ;
Resolved,—That it be recommended to the council, with
the authority of parliament, to make a grant of the land in
question, subject to conditions to be hereafter agreed upon,
and approved by the council, and to direct the town-clerk to
introduce a clause into the ,proposed improvement bill, ac-
cording to the notice already given, for enabling the council
to carry this recommendation into effect.
Resolved,—That the said recommendation be approved
and adopted, and that the Finance Committee and Improve-
ment Committee be instructed to consider the conditions
upon which the grant should be made, and to make the
necessary inquiries, through the surveyor, as to the particular
piece of land to be granted, and to report to the council
thereon.

At the second quarterly meeting of the council of the
borough of Liverpool, hglden in the council chamber,
within the Town-hall of the said borough, on Wednes-
day, the 22d day of February, 1837, (by adjournment
from Monday, the 16th instant,)
Present,

William Earle, jun., Esq., mayor, &c. &c.
A letter from the secretaries of the committee of St.
George's Hall, conveying the thanks of that committee for
the grant of land voted at the council of the 13th instant, and
stating that the committee await a communication from the
council as to the site to be appropriated to the hall. and the
conditions upon which the grant will be made, having been
read,
Resolved,—That the same be referred to the Finance:and
Improvement Committees.

St. George's Hall.—Town-clerk's minutes of the result of
an interview with the secretaries.

I.—The first head of the Town-clerk's report to be secured
in the deed by language enforcing impartial administration
in favour of the inhabitants in general.
2.—No proprietor to have more than four votes, whatever
number above four shares he may hold ; single 'shares, one
vote ; two shares, two votes ; three shares, three votes ; four
shares, four votes.
3.—Council to appoint six members of the committee.
4.—Subscribers, fifteen members.
s.—One-third of the six and fifteen to go out annually ;
first and second year by ballot, afterwards by seniority ; but
members so going out to be eligible to re-election.
These considerations are on the supposition that £30,000
will be subscribed. £30,000 plus £12,000 (supposed value
of the land,) will give £42,000. If £42,000 have twenty-one
members, £32,000 should have six, and £30,000 should have
fifteen.

If- £30,000 not subscribed, then the subject to be open to
reconsideration.

At a Meeting of the Committee of St. George's Hall Com•
pany, held at Mr. Thomas Harvey's office, 13th April
1839,

Present,
The Rev. Jonathan Brooks, chairman, &c., &c.
Read, the minutes of the Town-clerk communicated to
the Secretaries this day, entitled,
" St. George's Hail :
" Town-clerk's minutes of the result of an interview
with the Secretaries."

Resolved unanimously,—That the terms comprised in the
above minutes be adopted.
(Extracted from the proceedings.)
THos. HARVEY, for self and 1 •
oecretanes.
E. G. DEANE,
April 15th, 1839.
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Mr. COOPER inquired how it was, after the late decision
with respect to the payment of rates by the corporate estate,
that at Runcorn a charge was made' for highway rates, paid
by the corporation. If the decision was that the corporate
estate was not liable, it could be no more liable on that side
of the water than on this. With respect to' the proposal for
the increase of Mr. Falcon's salary, mentioned in the pro-
ceedings, he thought, seeing there was a town-clerk and a
deputy town-clerk, that the sum of £250 per annum for a
clerk's salary was very handsome.
The TOWN-CLERK answered the inquiry of Mr. Cooper by
stating, that the amount of rates payable at Runcorn by the
corporation was so trifling that to have opposed the payment
would have swallowed up the sum in extra expenses. They
had not, for that and other reasons, thought it desirable to
oppose the payment at the time they objected to the rate
levied in Liverpool; but they had intimated that any future
rate sought to be levied would be appealed against.