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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 

CHARTIST MOVEMENTS

... THE MANCHESTER PRISONERS. On Wednesday, September 25, some of the Radicals of this town had a tea party in the Carpentcrs'-hall, Garrot- road, at which Dr. Fletcher, of Bury, presided. The prin- cipal business of the evening being to takesteps for the defence of the parties to be tried at the next assizes for po- lities. After tea was over the chairman addressed the meet- ing on the duty which ...

Published: Sunday 06 October 1839
Newspaper: The Champion
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1536 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

MR. FROST

... TO THU EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,-It is not my purpose to palliate or to justify the ?? in South Wales, neither shall I enter upon the question as to whether it was or was not ' con- nected with any specific grievance,' was or was not I intended to redress any great wrong ?? but I deem it my duty to inform you, andthrough you, Sir, the public, that it is a grievous and perhaps a dangerous error ...

Published: Sunday 01 December 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 577 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: News 

CHARTIST MEETING AT BRISTOL

... CHARTIST MEETING AT' BRISTOL. A public meeting of Chartists, designed to ascertain their sentiments upon the subject of the Convention's declaration, took place on Monday evening upon Bran- don-hill. It should be stated that the leaders of the body had previously applied to the mayor and magis- trates to allow them to meet in the Guildhall, and that those functionaries had refused to comply ...

Published: Sunday 16 June 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1291 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

TO OUR READERS

... For the real wealth of England-for those who produce-for the mighty MANY-this Paper is started. It is set on foot by men who well know what the wants and privations of their labouring fellow-men are, and it will be con- ducted by men who have inquired perseveringly and reflected most anxiously how to supply those wants, and how to remove those privations. It is a bold and hazardous enterprise, ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1839
Newspaper: The Chartist
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1734 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS

... ALGRZCULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS. SOWING COLESEED WITH BEANS.-At the Hedingham agricultural meeting, Mr. J. Way stated that he had tried the experiment of sowing coleseed with his beans, hoeing it in with the second hoeing, which he seemed to think might be profitably followed. 'TRIPOLI ONIONs.-On Monday last, Mr. William Waine, gardener to Digby Cayley, Esq., of Ripon. took from an onionv bed, ...

Published: Sunday 20 October 1839
Newspaper: The Champion
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1081 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHARTER

... De'ptford, Jan. 29, 1839. SIeR,-THE CHARTERL I consider as the fulcrum by which the Archimedean powers of the people may be brought into play. By its publication you have given them facility of communication and the means of unity of action; for want of these they have hitherto been de- feated; in the attainment of these, their just objects, they have reached the high road to speedy and ...

Published: Sunday 03 February 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 589 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: News 

EGYPT AND ITS IMPROVEMENTS

... 66YPT AND ITS IMPROVEMENTS* The lapse of ages and the revolution of empires have not, amidst the ruins of her :.sancient monuments, and stately works of art, amidst the decay of her once far- famed learning, power, and opuledce;, and even the crumbling of her heaven-kissing pyrazids,'divested Egypt of tihe claims which her geographicabsituation presents to the profound attention of the ...

Published: Sunday 07 April 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1002 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News