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SPIRIT OF THE PRESS

... TE19 W ORK GOES BRAVELY ON. exhibitedldinburgh the other day, when T e celled in honour of that most honour-want at a tiehlse Queen's present Ministers, a stout and iog cliqae~tl Radical majority thought proper to turn P erfes on the Whig toad-eaters, and to metamorphose the tnd e d dote of confidence into a real resolution of the an rebedisive as well as emphatic and pointed con- ost tha ...

Published: Sunday 07 April 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2507 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

GENERAL CONVENTION

... WEDNESDAY. The delegates assembled at eleven o'clock, when J. P. Sankey, A. M., delegate from Edinburgh, was elected to the chair. A letter was read from Bailie Craig, giving an account of his great success at Paisley, Bankhead, Johns- town, and several other places. The meetings which he described were attended by vast numbers, and among the rest by a great many ladies, who seemed to take a ...

Published: Sunday 07 April 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5140 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL AFFAIRS

... FRANCE. The opposition papers insist that the Soxit Cabinet becomes daily less parliamentary, and more devoted to the court, or, in other words, that Louis Philippe was, in point of fact, Prime Minister. The ministry fears~to have its acts canvassed, and for that reason was anxious to postpone the meeting of the Chambers till as late a period as possible. The Commerce thinks it impossible for ...

Published: Sunday 20 October 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1219 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE MORNING ADVERTISER AND THE WORKING CLASSES

... THE MORNING ADVERTISER AND THE I WORKING CLASSES. The Morning Advertiser is a journal which, of all others, should exhibit a generous sympathy on. behalf of the. working classes. The object for which it was established, not less than the descrip. tion of persons upon whom it is dependent for its existence, might h ave been thought likely to guarantee it, at least against the exercise of any ...

Published: Sunday 20 October 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1027 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: News 

CATASTROPHE AND PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE AT EDMONSTONE COLLIERY

... CATASTWOPHE AND PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE Ar EDMO.V- STONB COLLIERY. ra (From the Caledonian Mercury.) ri, We have this day to record the most miraculous preservation of 13 human beings, after almost every hope of saving their lives had been extinguished. On Friday evening, at about half-past ten o'clock, the sides of the shaft of one of the M coal pits, of which the Messrs. Stenhouse are the ...

Published: Saturday 16 March 1839
Newspaper: The Chartist
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1270 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

FACTS, FANCIES, AND FICTIONS

... FACTS, FANWStwAND4 FlCTIONS. ?? '!.Wits, &. ?? ;b~ 1!,I! i.! i . : ,, TE OrNILY Sq Bca pa' PoW O.-Elier Comm a has a right, from totitme, o ischarge h Pablh e Servants, to alter and Laws and f rm s of Govern meat, with or without precedent; to enact new Laws, or to repeal the old; to remodel the Constitntion for the common benefitlwhenever it shall seem fing* gtotie general perception of right ...

Published: Sunday 24 March 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 675 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

TIPPERARY SPECIAL COMMISSION

... TIPPERARY SPECIAL COMMISSION- The trials of the prisoners having been concluded on Saturday, the sentences were passed on Monday. ' Wil- liam Was he and Cornelius Hickey were first placed at the bar, before Judges Burton and Perrin, and the Clerk of the Crown infornmed them, that they ware indicted for the murder of Austin Cooper, Esq., of which they were found guilty, and asked if they had ...

Published: Sunday 27 January 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 677 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: News 

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS

... THIE MOVEMENT ! Let the enemies of the people, who may now, like the Glo6e slave-hack newspaper, be foolishly exulting in the idea that the Movement is checked, though not driven back, reflect how immensely favourable a position the people have gained, and -now maintain, and will main. tain, as a point of strength for the prosecution of never' ending hostilities. If, a few years ago, it' ...

Published: Sunday 25 August 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1239 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

POLITICAL ON DITS

... - We are enabled to state, that on Monday, the 27th inst., the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn -will certainly be proposed for the office of Speaker, vacant by Mr. Aber.. cromby's resignation of the chair, and that the house will proceed to the election at half-past 3 o'clock exactly.- Times. . We have been furnished with the following queries by a highly intelligent and very cautious correspondent: ...

Published: Sunday 19 May 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 772 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: News 

EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR AT [ill] CASTLE

... - - I -, lj EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR A'r ;,INDSOR CASTLE. . An ' extraordinary affair occurred at V'indsor Castle t on Monday evening:- Shortly after four o'clock, on Moncay afternoon, a post-chaise and four drove up to the castle at a rapid rate, from which alighted a gentlemal, who, from his - dress, and genera! appearance, was sipposed to be a fo- I reigner. He was enveloped in a trprelling ...

Published: Sunday 15 December 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1733 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: News 

CORN-LAW MEETINGS IN LONDON

... CORN-LAW MEBITINGS IN LONDON. Since the Birmingham meeting on the corn-laws, and since we expressed, as above, our anticipations of the good effect of it, *two miost important meetings on the same question have been held in London j ohe in At. Pancras, the other in Finsbury. At each an amend-' ment was moved in favour qf.the charter. At Finshury, it is admitted, the amendment was carried by a ...

Published: Sunday 03 February 1839
Newspaper: The Champion
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 492 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

DELEGATES PRESENT EACH DAY DURING THE PAST WEEK

... DELEGATES PRESENT EACH DAY DURING THE PAST I I - I . WEEK. Wed. Thu. Fri. :URN5, ~ ~. * C. B. C. B C. B.. BuRws, WlLI~am G. . * *_ __ __ _ Bussy, Peter, . . _ _ A COLLS, JohN, >. . T- t 4 1* CLBAVE, John, . . t -Tr t1 t 0 CARPEXTER, Willitm, * - -- -t CA rssO, William, . . * _ - _ CRAIG, Hugh, . . . . t t t + ti. DUNCAN, Abram,a t t t t t t DxrECAV, Jolm, . * *_ __ __ _a DEAN, Christopher, . t ...

Published: Sunday 14 July 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1257 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: News