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... DUTY OF THE RADICAL ELECTORS. The probabilities of a general election, as a consequence of the chsuge of Ministers, have set Whigs and Tories on the alert, and already may canvassers be seen jogging from door to door, with cap in hand, soliciting the votes of the iadepeadent electors for the liberal Mr. Tomkins, or the Conssrvative Mr. Smith. We see no reason ,hy the Radicals should ...

Published: Sunday 12 May 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1700 | Page: Page 1 | 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 

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 

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 

STATE OF THE COUNTRY

... FORFARL.- The following resolutions were unani- mously agreed to at the weekly meeting of the Political Uniozi of Fbrfidir, on Monday in last week :-'That this lieeting views With Indignation the conduct of the Editor of the True Scotsman, for attempting to make the Chartists of England believe that in any struggle that may take place for the purpose of repelling the attacks of a blood-thirsty ...

Published: Sunday 04 August 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3778 | Page: Page 15 | 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 

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 

CHARTIST MOVEMENTS

... tHARTisT MOVEMiftT&L i -BOLTwN--On Thursday week, a numerous, public meeting., called by the. Working, Men's, Association, was held, on, the New Market-place,., for, the purpose of ap- proving of the Manifesto of the Convention,. and elect- ing a deleeate, or delegates to that body. At eight ,o'clock Mr. Duncan Robertson..was called.to-thexchair, .wio said he hoped that the same order and good ...

Published: Sunday 30 June 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2351 | Page: Page 7 | 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 

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