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LOVETT AND COLLINS

... LoveIL AET COLINS. ,%e feel horror at the tretmnent these excellent m~en receive. The heartless brutality-to which they are sub- jected make us feelanmitigated disgust at the cruelties they suffer. The coarse dietary of the prison is all they, are allowed. They are refused the libeity Of spending even one sixpence daily in. the purchase bf'provisibn. Potatoes and some kind of watery' sops or ...

Published: Sunday 17 November 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 592 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: News 

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS

... O'CONNELL'S ACTING. The remainder of the speech was an omnium of abuse against the Parliament and people of England, with* slight garih of such invectike against the government as was surto do them no ham,. Then he came to the ifvourite topic-the Open,tSesame, which wiles the price of the poor man's pig into the coffers of the orator -the repig of the union. The main passage of the .peech ...

Published: Sunday 08 September 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2544 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

DESPERATE MUTINY AT SEA

... DESPERATE MUTINY AT SEA- _ mmZ [From the Boston Post ] On Saturday, nine seamen were brought before Judge Davis, upon the complaint of E. Smith, jun., Acting District Attorney, charging them with a mutiny at sea, in February last. Their names are Richard Musserder, James T. Armstrong, Charles Stone, William Collins, Robert Brooks, John Tilton, John Winchester, John Johnston, and John Broghton. ...

Published: Sunday 13 October 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1302 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS

... THE BEDCHAMBER MINISTERS. The whimpering complaints of Ministers and Minis- terialists about what they choose to call ' the public attacks on the Sovereign,' are very disgraceful to them. Whose fault is it but their own that they are unpopular ? -that they are hooted and hissed by the public on all occasions, and that their Mistress is no longer the pub- lic favourite that she once was ? Whose ...

Published: Sunday 24 November 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3816 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: News 

LONDON PRECURSOR ASSOCIATION

... [FROMia A cOaRESPONENT.] Notwithstanding the exultation of O'Connell at what he called the downfall of the National Con- vention, under the leadership of the foolish Feargus, which catastrophe was, of course, prog- nosticated by this political oracle, with his usual sagacity, he has not much to vaunt with regard to the success of that nondescript body, called The London Precursor ...

Published: Sunday 10 November 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 325 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

O'CONNELL AND THE CHARTISTS

... I ?? . . , . _- _- I The conduct of O'Connell in his insane and brutal attacks on the Chartists, has long ago ex- cited the indignation of every reflecting man. Not content with sneering at their principles- principles which he pledged himself by his own signature to uphold and support-he has attribnkted to them designs upon life and property, which even the most violent Chartist would ...

Published: Sunday 29 December 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 416 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

THE LUMBER TROOP

... The annual summer festival of the Ancient and Ho- nourable Lumber Troop took place on Wednesday after- noon at the Highbury Barn Tavern, Islington. The dinner and wines were, as is usual at the festivals of this society, of the most rechercheAdescription, and the rompany, which was very numerous, in'cluding several of the leading commercial and political characters of the city of London, ...

Published: Sunday 21 July 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1310 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

WAIFS OF THE WEEK

... -: : :1 -6F-T --W ?? WANT PIIACES-SOME FINE YOUNG MEN. The Times, with a candour which seldom adorns its colusnns, has been pleased to make public the very rea. sonable circumstances urged by sundry of the young and zealous Conservatives, upon their more astute leader, Sir Robert Peel, who is not yet quite ready for office. The nmes says, How then, say some of the younger and more eager ...

Published: Sunday 28 April 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1360 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: News 

GENERAL CONVENTION

... ~~j~RALCONVENTON. .. ?? NIONDAY. , elrg5S assembled at eleven o'clock. when 'Mr. b, delegate from, Birmingham, was called to the r. eirnigINGHAM TREASIVRERS. l read from ME- Muutz, stating, in reply to Sstiatt regarding the detfctiveleass of the Birmingham U11o. that lie wars appointed a trustee of the national utllthat hle never had received any of the contribu- .i uI that be mitust refer the ...

Published: Sunday 28 April 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 16817 | Page: Page 11, 12, 13, 14 | Tags: News 

THE COST OF AN OLIGARCHY

... THE COST OF AN -'OLIGARCHY. [Digested by the Northern Liberator,fron Carpenter's ; Peera efor the People.] . r (Continued from our last.) Belbaven, Baron.-Place, 1,2001; Relations' places, 1,500ol Barony gained for fighting against the Common- wealth. Belmore, Earl of.-Relations' pensions, 1,2251. His lordship, who in his better days opposed the desolat- ing act of the Irish Union, has now ...

Published: Sunday 06 October 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1328 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: News 

PUTNEY REGATTA

... The anticipated excellence of the sport, and the ex. traordinary and, we may add, as far as crack wagers are concerned, unusual beauty of the weather, on Monday, drew together an assemblfge of beauty and fashion but rarely surpassed. It has not been usual for any of the leading watermen to row on this part of the river, but the gentlemen belonging to the great aquatic clubs were determined ...

Published: Sunday 01 September 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1103 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE JIM CROW CABINET

... The SHABBIES have been wheeling 'about during the last six or eight days, if not altogether to their own satisfaction, certainly to the great amusement of the lookers-on. It is beyond mea- sure laughable to witness a set of incapables, who have succeeded, by dint of great perseverane, in exhausting public patience to the very last degree, closing their annual exhibition by ludicrous in- ...

Published: Sunday 01 September 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 634 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: News