Irbe Cauntrn.

The " working men " of Hull held a meeting on Friday last week, to elect a delegate to the " National Convention." A " pleasure.fair " on the same day took away many persons who would otherwise have at- tended the meeting; but the numbers present nevertheless amounted to

thousands. Mr. Vincent was appointed the delegate' and he, with Colonel Thompson, Mr. Feargus O'Connor, and Mr. William Noble of Hull, were the chief speakers. As the Hall Advertiser of yester- day observes, " no previous assembly of the Universalises can point to

any thing comparable to Colonel Thompson's speech ;" and the follow- ing portions of it will repay a perusal. The Colonel encouraged the people to hope for success by perseverance-

" Look back upon your history, see what there is that has not been carried by reso- lution and perseverauce. I Came not here to flatter you. I came not to buoy you up with false hopes, but to tell you that if you enter seriously and steadily upon the demand of that whirl' justice would give you. you cannot ultimately Mil. Yoe will be disappointed if yeti think to gain much hastily, perhaps by any single 'ideate° you could describe or calculate upon ; but every thing has a beginniug, every march is begun step by step ; your's is the tirst step here, the second will follow ; you will stand one by another-you %ill gain the assistance of the better part of the other classes, and see if the time does hot come when we look back upon this day with gratitude to hint who gives its resolution to persevere unto the end."

Having certain ends in view, and having determined on a certain course, what did they intend to do when that failed' "Perhaps I may be charged nith anticipating, hut you certainly will nut be long before you hind that question force itself upon you. I will tell you what you must do. You must do Its your lathers alial-you must tom politicians at large: you most not say we 14 iii have this thing awl that thing, but you must tight the battle wherever it is to be fought. Who is there here that ever worked la ith a baffling wind into Gibraltar Bay ? You went before the wind ,A hen it was mime-able, and when it is as hit,y oil did the best you could to bold yomit owl); if you could not gain on one tack you tried another, and so went on till by Gal's blessing you got 51.10 port. Just so must you do here- gain all you call, and above all things make is stout resistance to any diminutiou or the privileges you Int‘e already. What hOpe you may Ilat'i• from the present Goverilmeut, it is not in my power to point out. I never nisi, to set class against class ; there will alnays ba. iu a country like this. a variety of shades ot political opinions-we must encourage no bitter meeting against men is he go less lengths it, polities than ourselves. I speak of those chasses--mut the Ministers-who ;,o, by the name of Whigs. The lime vt ill come I hope %% lieu ue shall all mov, together hiaain for the common good. What ale uc all. but Whigs rime, upon-risen a good deal y oil will say ; but .ith them was the begiuning."

He could not expect any thing from the Whig.; in power-

" But I Call 110Id out no hope to you twin the men they have made their Ministers; ou the cue( rary honesty obliges 151 to deckle, the sooner %.,u succeed in ',moving t hem t lie let ter. ( / heel cheer: ) Never gire in ft that f,h.lect tf pill:cies-the ea. gaging to owort bad yn,n heruut:e there are SOW l.OLC. The business of a small political party nos to Wise .icieu bete een the too great parties, threatening each alter. Irately-and so makin„e activity make up or weakness. Never give in to that lolly, or treaclwrv, %% loch adman-lotted Canada, awl ultimately I r'laud, ter tlw sake of some six wont us' saliey to I lie latter, awl then turns her over Ii, her euemies, after having thrown away the defence at hien was in Ina. reach feline. I have stood here by the side of great meu MI knot, it is not in my desire to speak amiss of them-but I think the time is net far oft n hen they iu tlust and ashes 0 ill repent the course they have fol- lowed unit respect to their on ti rot/ airy. awl rapidly so %Mil reveal to ours. When danger cenies to Ireland, where can she leek for support tee to the Euglish Radicals,- deste Riot as withaut talews, %% nitwit leavers. a it1111111 any thing that makes a political party respect:the% It is not the Itallimais it to have deserted Ireland, or au% body. But fear the Whig. liolicale-dist rust the Whig Hattie:its-the party who, instead of sbowing trout against the illy:eters et liberty. have lent awl bon Ant when they were in a posi- thin where a bold dewuce ought have sa.rsehl their cause. Listen to niy own experience ol them; tor 1 lime a sort ut Man.:allot) to speak to yoa on %%bat has befallen myself since I saw yeti last. Much have I been decried fir certain events which took place in a London roust it eency-‘lary lchose. [tear my account, nod it' you have reason to distrust OW, do so; bet if not. believe me oto iris %UM. It SU happened that before the cum:les:oat of the litat Pernanteut I hat been itavil ea to staud for two several boroughs against a W !rig. I replied, as you, I think. %wild have done in toy place--' The Whigs and at- are acting together ; they promise tun her reform, and we believe them : is it proper tliat it such a Inornent I should 'mike myself a part y to break up that and taring on myself the disrepute and disgrace of having been a treacherous ally ?' lit uncut' those places I should hese been to a certainty returred. hi the other nut. What it as he zousequence? When a general eleetion came. tile Whig-Radicals said to themseltes, • "This man must be a foul ; lie Is Nines', and ee must make a set at him.' Iti %lei y !Anew, %here I am a resident, I trait many months before been knuwu as a condidate ; but uu such nwasure wit meted to me as I had given others. I Nati olulumiuul iil 1mw? They called a meeting by advertisement, professedly to decide ra:alihiate shuuld staud, and inviting nie name. I weut there accom- pauied by frieuths. And then came Onward the great leader or the Whig-Radicals.- 1 griete to sty it, because I loved the man.-he cAnte forward, and gave his word to me in that manner . kWh I would have believed Winn the mouth of every dragoon in my troop,that the meeitug %vas not a public meetiug to deride upon the candidate-that the declaration to thou effect Was the mistake of is district committee -and that it was a private rueetiug ad the other cauilidate's freed,. We went away ; awl then he took the chair, anal declared it to be a meeting to decide between the candidates He hoped that all a 01114 be leant; he wished the a hole parish was here.' (fend cries of • Sha e ) And am. ;tiler sending us away uputt his word passed to 114, he declared the marshy to mug tiust us; and upon that declaration eu obtained, the people of Mary leltone nen• induced to vote agaiust lite. That is a speciro-n of Wig- Radicalism,

given us through their organ. their chief. 1 b■IVi. said it him prilit, and I Ad,/ it again out ol ewe. ' I 'h net match through iv with such /4 party.' (hood Meer, wed

laughter.) 51■ adviee is then, suspect the Whig•Itelicals-they will let you down when I ley :LW able. Such among them as :LW IlUue,t (he there are honest men every- where) .111 :pee you Nem occasion : but.. our businese is to try to set up the Radical interest by itself. It may be small at tbrst , yam may have only two or three men in the House of Cvandions-there will be more at some time."

hod the Whig Ministers done ?

" What was their lirst ,I,C1•11'1101)11 afte any self and others had resolved not to ap- pose them at the eleettotts? They came done by their leader in the House of Com- mons. amt declare, that they estended to have no turther reform. Was uet that a political 1-mid? %vele we uot all deceived, taken in? It may be easy to take iu honest men once. but eel la ice 1 heir leader tiitithell gin elected for Stroud. I know some- thiug uf the strond. they were the men who begged that all commercial mono- polies meit th• re 110Vett, Olt coeditiota that the great monopoly of the Col tglaws was r: roofs' al.mg i'h them. I do not think the leader of the Ilonse of Comm-ins told tne ff.. it nr totem] he ale ays thought the slipreinacy of the landed Interest necessary or stabilit y or our institutions. I think he kept it to himself: and yet ilirectli. .4Oeta ord.• he made that counciation in the House or Commons. My nrivice then is. 1. a for a new Parliatnent ; and on this tiny ground, that the old Parliament was sl ander false pretences. That won!( carry your cause forward by a long tide's- k. At poastied resent they think they have you fast for six years : 011 See a specimen of l.bworking of the Septenuial Act. The Ministers c;nie forward after coil- th intentions ; and when they have you secure for a tune equal to the chance .tt the Hues 01 many of ea theu they laugh at yott and set o& at defiance."

.13y the present Parliament two great civil right., which their fathers -a-oiad have defended by a civil war, had been swept away without any

thitig like resistance from the peoplen the first place, ilioy have taken away the right of petitioning. Petition me no f.tuons, to be put info a basket ; pet could do that at home. (Chcrrs ) They have passel a rule that there shall he no speaking upon petitions. They know the danger : it was on petitions that energetic ineu weie in the haluit of nmaing outbreaks favour alul- to the popular cause, and perilous to the do nothing system of the Government. Ion hate taken front yon at one swoop that right. Tint know the other right our lathers contenle.1 for as a last resource—the stopping the so:plies. That too is gone. C.::ied a simple trick, bat it answered only too well. They made the experiment U:le.v1:1; and because some men's names there ended in eatt-ur as', they thought it lk• winded here. They turned out the troops upon the people as the French in the Three If tys bur, unhappily, not with the s me result : and we have no!tio I: i.e. professing to stand as watchmen on your toner, w o say their truly British ',freed them—to take side with the greuediers. If the troops were turned out ..1,o.on .a to I arrow, would not these nom nuke the same side again ? It is perhaps a 4.41o.0 to timid. Heaven for, that we have bought experience cheaply. On my way

I v. as revived an.I strengthened by the speech of Mr. Willoughby. Wood at Sher..

a LAI. and g ullant speech ; butt on one particular point I take the liberty tura .10:f•ully to eorrect him. Ile says the unfortuuate people of Canada " unsheathed the suarnfl. It II t9 been nty trade to watch suet' things—to know who unsheaths the hroopl : it was the tiuvernineut unsheathed the sword there. Their first operation was to put dawn the Its by the action of a mob, the Magistrates and troops standing by sapi.ort. They then seised upon the leaders of the people—• the tall poppic-,. as thee al'ol them. Al 1,0 can soy who may be the tall poppies next ? If your leaders tvef7e seized by nliii,try hare null drageol through the streets with ropes round their ne.•ius, eould you, rot resist if you were able? Befare we can make peace or truce with the p e.t y who has done this, we must have certain inditidu 'Is given up for justice. Stoeu".1i stratele ever arise between the rem to and their enemies, I trust the people a.routul fits their victory as generously as the French in the day of their success—they wheole.1 their concro.wd enemies out of France in a coach awl six. I trust we should Wit be luellind them in generosity to political enemies; but the blood of unarmed pri. :mats has been shed, and for this there most be an eye for an eye and a tooth for a • ..foth, in the shape of personal reprisals on those who have comnutted themselves by atroohies on the unarmed. (Chen) What will foreigners think of us? We de- :dated Spain disgraeed when persons were massacred in cold blood—and they have In Cunnofri imitated the actions of Don Carlos? There was a gallant foreigner—his name :to II lone. !tloreall—his cork a Colonel's; this man they brought out awl murdered in Ii bieod. None of the population. Negroes and all. would do the deed ant so the sheriir—Gml bless him—murdered him himself. W hat was his crime? Ile was cap. I urea as many Englishmen have been, assisting an injured people to resist the illegal

male eat: of their military despot and for this they murdered him. (Sheets of

• S 0 her brave bid unfortuamto noon were captured—one a member or the Assemble, lite other a substantial yeoman; and when their wives pre. sewed themselves to beg their bodies from dissection, they were refused. Could you not join with me, in calling for one long curse upon the men who have thus dis. hotfooted us. (Land cheers) Let the Lords take care of the things of the LOVIS, our bit:Mess shall la with the Commons ! Their leader in the House of Commons has a it i —a fair one, l have heard, and goo I. If she should at some time beg for her husband's Iral , what coold she sty against the justice that refused her? 0 why will menI huts forget the %%cold's mutability, and because they were horn in pampered aris- tocracy. m Ike light of the tears of those beneath them. The,: men have pot blood between 119 ; we will tried anybody else but them. We will take nothitig at their hauls ; there ear be no peace till somebody else is sent out to treat with us."

Colonel Thompson urged the people to demand not only Universal Suffrage, but Short Parliaments, and Equalization of the representa- tion. " On all these points," said Colonel Thompson, "go on"— " There has been much nonsense talked about the difference between moral and Physival force. Moral force means nothing but the acknowledgment of the physical forCe which would hack it, it need were. Let us then have no hair-splitting about the impossibility of acting by moral force and physical force at the same time. Physical force, happily, is not necessary here. I know net any thing that could make nu eessary the employment of physical force, except suet an outbreak as that made upon our countty men and friends in Canada. God forbi I I slueuld be among the men to admit that, in such a case, physical force should not be brought forward to resist. But 4Io not talk of it as the means of increasing yom political power. Iii fact, it is not fair. It should not be for honest men to he charged with violence. Let us reserve in a,cit,i privecy, as see:elm:9 red to be me reionert needlesxlv, that circumstances might be e”;,e, ire.' tojusfify the physleal Arse our ficthers had recourse to. It is not necessary now ; there are other means of obtaining your hottest mid. In these courses then pro- ceed. and Ilea%en prosper your cause." (Loud and long cheering.) The remarks in Colonel Thompson's speech on the executions in Canada, provoked the Globe to attempt a defence of those disgraceful

proceedings. The Whig journalist gave what he wished to pass for a Correct account of the offences of the persons put to death. Colonel Moreau, whom he chose to call Mr. Morrow, pretended to be a loyalist, committed sundry robberies, and set fire to a barn wherein some lancers were sleeping ; Lount and Matthews were murderers, incendiaries, and robbers ; Lount murdered Colonel Moodie, robbed

the mail, and set fire to Dr. Home's house; and Matthews killed an unoffending man named Smith, set fire to a lodge and some houses, and attempted to steal the mail-bags. Such were the charges of the Globe; anti in conclusion, that decent journal made some remarks on Colonel Thompson's parentage, intimating that the Colonel's father had incale cated preceptis which the son had unhappily forgotten. A correspondent, reading these observations in the Globe, and thinking they called for more notice than they were likely to receive, has sent us the followirg reply to them- " The communications from Canada, given in the Ministerial prints, are all we have to go upon in this matter. As these are all hostile representations, any inference drawn from them cannot be too favourable to the Canadian insurgents. Colonel Moreau is stated in the Canadian communications to be of French pa- rents, but born in America. Of Mr. Morrow mention is now made for the first time; and he may therefore be set down for an invention of the Globe. The Canadian Orange papers are decisive as to the real character of Moreau and his expedition ; for they charge Mackenzie with being guilty of his blood, by in- ducing him to enter Canada under such hopeless circumstances. It appears that he entered t'pper Canada with a small armed party, and levied contribm tions for its support. If he gave out that be belonged to the opposite party, it is nothing but what every commander of a partisan detachment has done over and over. Ile also attacked a party of lancers by surprise in their quarters, and wounded one man in the head ;' as Tarleton attacked an American cavalry regiment in the Revolutionary war, but with very different consequences from wounding one man in the head. Front the Globe's own account, it is quite clear that the putting the man to death was a dastardly act of vengeance on a prisoner. "But the Globe has taken care to omit the damning circumstance stated in Colonel Thompson's speech; which is, that no man, black •ir white, could be found to act as executioner, and the Sheriff was obliged to do the act himself. Here is the verdict of a whole country on the nature of the transaction.

" It was supposed that everybody had given up the story of the 'nuttier of

Colonel ;goodie; became it is notorious that tie facts Mae, that he attempted to force a passage through a hotly of Canadians who had occupied a road, and fell by the fire directed on hint in conseqta nee. It is well kreiwn o Lount was; he was the Colonel Lount mentioned in alackenzie's account of the canoes of the failure. Stopping an enemy's despatches is one of the simplest consequences of war; and the man deserves keelhauling who attempts to con- found this with private robbery. He assisted in setting fire to the house of Dr. Horne. Why not hang General Colborne for setting fire to the house of Dr. Neilson? which was probably the act of brutality for which the other was in retaliation. Peter Matthews, too it appears, fired upon somebody and hit hint ; and therefore he was put to death. All these are clearly acts of das- tardly cruelty, of a piece with the meanness which libelled civilized armies in general, by affirming that it was according to the laws of war, that a church, from which troops were fired upon, should be destroyed. " It is strange the Globe said nothing of the murder of Lieutenant Weir ; but nobody believes in the murder of Lieutenant Weir, and the Government in Canada is at this moment sneaking out of the change. Evers body knows that Lieutenant Weir chose to attempt to escape from his guard after he bad been made prisoner, and was killed in the contest which ;ensued. The death of Chartrand the Government dares not inmate into. Chartrand was a spy, as much as ever Major Andra was. Ile was detected, and died the death that Spies in time of war are subject to. But the Judges who hied the prisoners accused of murdering him, stopped the witnesses about to state this fact ; and the Jury, giving the prisoners the benefit of the refusal to hear the defence, righteously acquitted them."

A meeting of tile working classes was held at Huddersfield on Monday, and the National Petition adopted. According to the state- ment in the 111w-ruing Chronicle, the numbers "who appeared before the hustings did not exceed seven or eight thousand."