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CHARTIST MOVEMENTS

... WHITE CONIDUIT HOUSE.-A very numeronu meeting ef the London Working Men's Association was held in the great room at White Conduit House, on Monday last. The room was crowded, and Mr. Hetherington took the chair. He congratulated the Association from which The People's Charter had first emanated, upon the success with which it had hitherto been crowned, and which if they were temperate, ...

Published: Sunday 10 March 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4948 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... Mi. O'CONNEDL-'THE PRECURSOR AGITATION. The following letter has been received by the Secretary of the Precursor Society from Mr. O'Connell, who is to attend another meeting at the Corn Exchange, on Mon- day next. Agitation is the order of the day:- zLondon, March 1. My dear Ray,-The first part of the experiment is made: the rights of the Irish people were opposed by our Liberal Government and ...

Published: Sunday 10 March 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1170 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE [ill] RIGHT OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE TO UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE PROVED FROM OUR HISTORY AND RECORDS

... THE INJ [ERENT RIGHT OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE TO UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE PROVED FROM OUR HISTORY AND RE- CORDS. Having shown, in our last number, that the right of Universal Suffrage is logically deducible from metaphysical principles, viz., from the original gift of volition, or free- will, by the Creator, to every rational being, endowed with a capacity to exercise it, independently of the action of ...

Published: Sunday 10 March 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2818 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE GENERAL CONVENTION

... MONDAY. The delegates assembled this morning at eleven o'clock, when Mr. WHITTLE was elected Chairman, and Mr. ILOVETT, Secretary. After the names of the delegates bad been called over, several letters were read, and various Sums announced, as contributions to the rent. Some pe- titions were also handed in; amongst which was one from Leicester, with a large number of signatures. Amongst the ...

Published: Sunday 10 March 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 8154 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: News 

DO THE CHARTISTS GO TOO FAR, OR TOO FAST?

... DO THE CHARTISTS QO TOO FAR, OR TOO FAST? Some reformers, who represent themselves as very sin- cere friends, of the people, cry out, with great vehemence, that the CHARTISTS are going too far. But they raise this alarm from the same motives which induce the owners of Posting Establishments, on the old roads, to declare that the railroad trains go too fast. Both pretend to have great ...

Published: Sunday 10 March 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1636 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

CITY POLICE BILL

... Clause 1, centralizes the City of London in the Metro- Ilitan Police District. 5 The police are to be paid by the Receiver of the etropolitan Police District, who is to receive the money net more than eightpence in the pound-from the oyor, Comenonalty, and Citizens of London, who, is to e notice in writing to the Chamberlain of the amount the sum required. . When three-fourths of the sum so ...

Published: Sunday 10 March 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1149 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: News 

TO THE BRAVE AND INDEPENDENT SOLDIER AND CHARTIST OF WOOLWICH

... TO THE BRAVE AND iNDEPENDENT SOL- DIER AND CHARTIS Bath, February 28, 1839. My BROTHERS COUNTtYMAN-It was not till the 23rd instant, that your spirited and honest letter in the Charter of the 12th instant, attracted my notice, the contents of which afforded me more than ordinary plea- sure, and in reply to which I now beg to offer the follow- ing remarks. In the first place, the Chartists form ...

Published: Sunday 10 March 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 487 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

FACTS, FANCIES, AND FICTIONS

... THEa SOURCE ON ALL PowER.-Government is ther creature of the people, and that which they have created they surely have a right to examine. The great Author of Nature having placed the right of dominion in no par- ticular hands, hath left every point relating to it to be settled by the consent and approbation of mankind. In spite of the sophistry to conceal the origin of political right, it ...

Published: Sunday 10 March 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1256 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

POSTPONEMENT OF THE TRIAL OF THE REV. Mr. STEPHENS

... POSTPONEMENT OF THE TRIAL OF THE I REV. Mr. STEPHENS. (From a Correspondent of the Times.) The trial of the Rev. Mr. Stephens, who was held to bail to appear at the ensuing spring assizes at Liverpool, for misdemeanours alleged to have been committed by him in opposing the introduction of the New Poor Law Bill to the manufacturing districts, will not take place at these assizes, and probably ...

Published: Sunday 10 March 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 616 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

VARIETIES

... VAR I ETIE S. The petition against the return of Mr. Bruen, for Car- low, has been forwarded to London for presentation. The recent inundations in the interior of Belgium have done a good deal of mischief, but they are now,. for the most part, subsiding. In some places the 'embasiments of the railroads have been injured, and:'thew:ater-has entirely covered the highways aud level groniis -in ...

Published: Sunday 10 March 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 920 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... HOUSE OF LORDS. - MONDAY. Lord Fortescue was introduced in the usual manner, and took the oaths and his seat. Lord NORMANBY laid on the table toe second appendix rt Lrd Durha report on Canada. Lord ABERDEEN asked whether any other paperswere tobe produced? Lord NORMANBY answered in the negative. Lord MINTO took occasion. to mention that he had the authority of Sir P. Durham and other officers ...

Published: Sunday 10 March 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5144 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: News 

PRECURSOR DINNER IN LONDON

... On Tuesday last, Mr. O'Cohnell was entertained by the ?? Precursors, at a public dinner at Highbury Barn. Upwards of 800 persons sat down to dinner. and strange enough, Mr. O'Connell was called upon to preside at the festival in honour of himself. Had we the speech only of !the hon. member before us, we should set him down as a Chartist. No Chartist could speak better than he did against ...

Published: Sunday 10 March 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 929 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News