... RISING OF HEN PRISONS AT LANCAS- I TB CASLE. ,;,n Mondgy, the ; 2 nt ,, an effete Broke out airpse g the Craown prisonra in tmcaster Castle, which, btsttor the spirit andprQpptneS5 with $nch it was met, nmijt have been atteied with ve serious conse- quences, if not with loss of life We',arn that one or tiadesperate characteri* now in the. Castle for log terms of imprisonment, having cast about ...

... MARCHANT, THE. CONVICT. William John Marchait, since his ?? in,, Newgate, has been extremely penitent.- the 4-hier the culprit has resided' in Chelsea up + e years, and ?? always tborne the chrter of a s hlioest, and industrious man. Previous to this he lved in the service of the late Duke of Roxburghe, in Gros' venor-place:' his .,yi was also in his'ael squsead. Young Marchant,, w.en about ...

... FRANCE. The dissolution of the present French Cabinet ap-t pears from the French Ministerial journals of Wednes- t day to be determined upon by the Court. The Budget a is voted, the labours of the Session are ended, and the v Ministers having sufficiently disgraced themselves, by sacrificing their principles and popularity to forward the. King's views, will be dismissed. Louis Philippe has a ...

... THE, NATIONAL RENT. TO THE WORKING CLASSES, AND THE RADI- CAL REFORMERS OF LONDON, GENERALLY. FELLow CITIZENS,-The period appointed for assem- bling of the General Convention is arriving, and what has been done in London towards the collection of the Na. tional Rent? Nothing, absolutely nothing! . You met in Palace-yard-you have met since in various parts of the metropolis-you have pledged ...

... POLITICAL kECONOMY. No,!IX. WAGos or LABOUR.- 2. As a component part of the price of Commodities. Before we consider. wages as one of the component parts of the price of commodities, we will explain what is meant by the component parts of their price. In my first letter was stated the four elements of pro. duction; namely, 1. LABOurR, 2. CAPITAL, 3. PnoPERTY, 4. CONSERVATION; each of which, ...

... a I:R N0 HA M. On Monday, a publc meeting of the working classes Iwas held in the fields at the foot of Holloway-head, for ~the purpose of electing delegates to the General Conven. tion The steps taken to convene the meeting were not the most effective kind, and there were not more than ~7000 or 8000 persons present. Shortly after eleven 'clock, Mr. Donaldson was moved into the chair, and ...

... TRADES' JOURNAL- -r On Sunday morning there was a large meeting of delegates from Trades Societies, held at THE CHARTER Office, to report upon the part likely to be taken by their respective societies on the following day. After the several delegates had given in their reports, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: Resolved, that in consequence of the brief period allowed to ...

... THE Convention assembled on Monday morning, at eleven o'clock, several committees having previously met, and transacted the business referred tq them. Dr. Flet- cher was chosen chairman, and Mr. Lovett re-appointed secretary. The names of the delegates having, as usual, been called over, Mr. FEARGUS O'CONNOR gave notice of a motion to the following~effect :- That if any inem- her of the ...

... SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17,1839. THE PEOPLE AND THEIR REPRESENTA- TIVES. We refer with feelings of no ordinary gratification to the proceedings of the General Convention of the Industrious Classes, during the past week, as re- ported in THE CHARTER of this day. Some of our readers may imagine that this report occupies an undue proportion of our space; but we venture to think, that after having ...

... SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1839. DEMOCRACY OR ARISTOCRACY- WHICH? It is altogether idle to talk any longer of Whigs and Tories, as though those words represented two distinct, seperate, and contrary principles of politi- cal action-as though the parties, or factions, who answer to those names, were striving to accomplish different ends by dissimilar means-as though, in short, they were not one and the ...

... We haeyp received from the' French capital the report of the commuaittee apppinted by the Court of Peers to inquire into the events of the insurrection of the i 2tht and 13th of May, which was presented to the Court onl f Tuesday last, by Me Merilhon, the reporter of the coin- missioners. It is a most voluminous document, in i which the state of society and the alleged causes of revolt E are ...

... CONICTON OF ~FOUR MEO RLLINC. ?? .I - It will be recollected that a short time since Lord John Russell forwarded to the Lords-Lieutenant of counties a letter, intimating that if respectable bodies of men chose to associate for the purpose of protecting life and property, the Government would furnish them with arms. In order to be enabled to use the arms effectually, these bodies of persons ...