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FESTIVALS ON THE 17th OF AUGUST

... CARLISLE. LAND FEsTIVAL.-The members of the Carlisle Branch of the Chartist Co.operative Land Society held a festival at the house of Mr. James Clarkson, Royal Oak Inn, Caldewgewgate, on Monday evening. the I'Tb inot, in commemoration of the first jubilee held at the Chartist Estate-O'Connorville. The number who met to partake of The good things of this life, which were provided with great ...

LABOUR'S JUBILEE

... THE NOR1THERN STAR. SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 13H. The 17th of Augst, 1816, will ever be a day memorable in England. For the first time in the history of the country, or indeed in the history of any country, thousand(is of the working classes wit- nessed what may be mnadle national by a co-opera- tion of their order. The valuable and instructive lesson to be learned from Monday's demonstration is ...

Poetry

... ops ? SONGS FOA THE PEOPLE. NO0. XXVI. A SONG FOR THE ROAD. On the 17th of August, 1848 : by ?? JJe1l:. We're on to the Ohatrtist farm, We're on to the promised landI For labour has a charm, When it fille the labourers hand. Who' that, at the narrow porch.c #,lth the ]Factory'e long helt-torch - 'Tie the puisepropd lord of trade, Who hurls the long crusadea on the poor and weak, that made ...

Foreign Intelligence

... I{i, wt. |2OORESS IN THE PAPAL ST'l?. T' ,reh liberal policy of the new Pope seems to have uneO iversal satisfaction among his new 6sub. P)t ?.sd renderea him extremely popular. The j ,crrespendent of the Times, under date 20th of July, covesP lengthy arid spirited account of the general re ocinlgs Consequent upon the publioation of the c1esty, and of the enthusiastic manner in which the ', i ...

LAUNCH OF A STEAMER

... The PharosiIron steam yacht was launched ORt MondAY from Messre. Fairburn and Sons' iron ship~buhlduing yard, at Mill-wall, Poplar, and is designed as a steam yacht of the comniissionesrs of northern lighthoUses. It masy Inot be generally known that the jurisdiction of the Trinity H~oard does not extend to the lights on the Scottish coast, Lthese being placed under the care of a diatrict Board ...

Summary of the Week's News

... ? &UMIllargOf .4b; Moko ACW04: ?? - ?? ?? ? ?? YWar.-The Time. of this morning has a tremnen- dous warlike article, intended, no doubt, as a side. blow at our anti-warlike declaration of Saturdayl The Times, as is its custom, extols and eulogises peace, while it has the effrontery to declare that the aristocratic antipathies and dislikes of England to vulgar republican institutions and ...

Chartist Intelligence

... . ?f 1: ?? fiddliffmce. CiIAR'IST READING AND ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 83, DEAN-STREET, SOHO. These rooms was crowded on Sunday last, No- vemberlst, to hear Dr. M'Douel lecture on and refute the objections that have from time to time been urged against Chartism. Mr. E. Stallwood was una- nimously called to the chair, and briefly introduced I he lecturer, who, in a long and able discourse, dis- posed o ...

NATIONAL ANTI-POOR-LAW PROVIDENT AND BENEVOLENT UNION

... NATIONAL ANTI-POOR-LAW PRtOVIDENT AND BENEVOLENT UNION. At apulid ' eat ied to ' Ats-t i b- Jects of this inatjt'W0Qii, was held on Thursday after- noon, in the large room, of the London Tavern, Sishopasgate-street, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair. Mr. B. B. CABBELL, M.P., one of the chief foun. ders ot the Institution detailed the proposed plan to whichae f not remove the distress ...

THE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER!

... MESSRS. M'GRATH AND CLARKE'S TOUR. mn GREAT MEETING AT BRISTOL. On Wednesday evening, October 28tb, at the hour appointed foar the meeting to take place, the Mecha- h nics' Institute was crowded,.h On the motion of Mr. Rogers, seconded by Mr. c Cooke-, Robert Harris, Esq., was called to the chair. Silence having been restored, he addressed the C meeting in nearly the following words :- b Mly ...

Correspondence

... ECorreopon'brite. ACCIDENTS IN COAL MINES. g TO THE EDITOR O0 THE 5I5WCASTLC QUANDIA!5. GENTLEMtEsN,-In bet week's Gsuardfisa find an ex- yi tract from a letter by J. Scott, of Hasewell Colliery (and t whichit appears, hasgone theroundofthopress, London el and provincial), in which be states that, a few days f ago, while a boy was brushing the tram plates with hay, In one ofthe diatrictts of ...

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GRAVESEND AND ROCHESTER RAILWAY

... TAT.;L WCOIIENT ON THE RHAVESEND AND ROCHESTBE R&MLWAY. On Fkiday afternoon, between four and five o'clock, an accident, attended with loss of life. occurred on tile Graveciend and Rochester Railway, The facts of the case will appear from the following evidence given at the in- quest on the body, which was held on Saturday after. noon; at two o'clock, before Mr. Lewis, coroner for the eity and ...

THE PRESS IN PRUSSIA

... (From the .orsing Chronicle.) IlAMBURo, Aug. 11, 1846. The Prussian government is acting upon a strange and arbitrary principle, and it is impossible that the present discontent 'in Prussia can last long without some awful demonstration. A short time ago the two important newspapers published in Bremen- papers with very liberal views and well-conducted- were prohibited from circulation in the ...