MANCHESTER MEETING. [By the Electric Telegraph.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 313, 29 July 1848, Page 3

MANCHESTER MEETING. [By the Electric Telegraph.]

The meeting announced, not by placard but by chalk on the walls, took place at ten tbis morning, at New Cross (the part of Manchester which corresponds with St. Giles's in its position and character). Not more than 1009 were then assembled. Soon after that hour, a young Irishman, named Murphy, proposed

an immediate adjournment of the meeting to St. Georges-fields, a large open spafie on the north-east of the city, where, he said, neither their tyrant masters, nor their " myrmi ions of the politfe," could interfere with them. This having been agreed to, they instantly formed in irregular order, marched down Old-hara-road ; and on their way, they broke the windows of several small shopkeepers. Their numbers increased considerably on their way ; and when they arrived, the same young mau continued his speech, which consisted principally of exhortations to his hearers to imitate " the Scottish Patriots" in their conduct, and in attributing the evils of the country to the existence of an aristocracy. The " Scottish Patriots," he said, had nobly vindicated their claim to the title of freemen. He then proposed that they should march round to all the various mills and workshops in the city, to claim the sympathies of the body of the working people ; and he exhorted them, further, not to destroy any property on their way. The proceedings are still going on.