London Charter (Newspaper) - April 28, 1839, London, Middlesex 8Etf? NOTHING BUT THEIR OWN JUST HAVE ALWAYS A EIGHT TO WIN AND TO ' SUCH AS DESERVES THE IS THE THE MASS OF THE they have the be the voices never so numerous that oppose Mi I ton not the haughty license of some predominant No. 14. API 1839. Prick 6d. THE THE Upon the of Earl Grey's Government in 183$-~an by some short-sighted and the accidental circumstance of Earl Spencer's Cobbett at once pointed out the red cause of the and dissipated the delusion which the fox their own base and selfish had to create for the breaking up of this said u It is no one thing that has broken them it people wanted a li it might ease them of their intolerable for a reform on that and on that did not want it for measures to pull down for anything about above all did hot want in order that the that is to working might be stripped of their right to and suffered to They never contemplated an overturning of any institution and above all things did not contemplate the creating of bands of commissioners to add to their and to make lying reports to calumniate their They did not ask for reform that twenty millions of money might be to be given to mortgagees of India In they wanted a reform for those things which the reformed Parliament has ft .It was impossible to go on with the Satan system of taxation No man can this that system must be in one my opinion that there must be a reduction of the of the of the and dead weight or that this form of government will be destroyed by a convulsive The nation is cured of all the nonsense about Whig and Whoever are if ease the burdens of the they will if they do they Will come If this was the feeling of a large portion of the public in 1834, it is that of a much larger portion of them in 1839. An additional five perseverance in the same course of profligate grants of public with a still larger expenditure for the in. terest of the public the army and and the dead additional perseverance in this same po added almost incalculably to the evils tp which content and disaffection existing at the time he The people were promised that the Reform should relieve them from their intolerable but they find them to be oppressive than inasmuch as they remain the same in magnitude and while their own strength to sustain them is constantly They have seen no reduction in the civil list of the an reduction in grants to the royal an diminution in the an reduction of the national an reduction of colonial an increase reduction in the salaries of high public extinction of no protection for sympathy for the -in a no improvement in the legislative acts of the or in the administrative acts of the go they find themselves subject to the same to the same to the same evils of every as they were when all they complained of was attributed to the acts and influence of a boroughmongering parliament and a selfish and corrupt and they are universally becoming at the fraud of which they have been made the and are evincing a fixed determination to grapple with and no longer suffer selves to be diverted from their purpose by the peddling projects df House of Commons is not less the representative of an exclusive interest than it was before the reform annihilated the rotten A few large landed proprietors by that deprived of the power of nominating their creaf aires to the seats which the constitution had reserved foir the representatives of the but those seats for the most been filled up by the like ional exercised by others of the same off bjr the corrupting and debasing influence of the class equally indifferent to the comforts and well-being of the people at and equally unscrupulous and reckless as to the means through which they seek promote their own and to by operatio n of the country at Let us not be told of some half dozen acts of this and of the government in conjunction with which it hitherto carried on the affairs of the in refutation of the charges that are brought against them To no one of these acts can we be referred in proof of the sympathy of either of them with or of their disposition to adopt a course of policy which might reduce the amount of those intolerable burthens which the people have so long been compelled to The relief afford by those much vaunted whatever it may have been given to the middle chutes whilst the by whose aid the reform was have been left to struggle with the same amount of difficulties as they iff ere hope of relief being taken 1$iey now feel all and they also discern the course which must be hi order to escape from it. the representative body is proclaimed to be the evil all other evils to put an end to is the object of the present movement amongst the The question now raised is comprised in a single Are the people to have any share in the management of their own or are they to be left to the tender mercies of a neither understand their interests nor 8ympathlU^rith their feelings The suffering classes of now taken their stand this single position it they will for an be Let occupy if they in discussing the individual grievances to which they are and amuse themselves by devising schemes for The working men are no longer to be thus Have they not had proof upon proof of the utter indifference of the the and the to the state of the blindness to the awful crisis which their evil policy is bringing on of their at all to perpetuate that same so long as the destinies of the coun * shall remain in their keeping We told the manufac and shopkeepers that their appeal to the justice o the for a repeal of the corn would be futile and in We told them that nor nor cared one straw the mischief which those laws were the country and that it was a mere waste of time to pray for a repeal of those were right and the good confiding people who of justice and over * THE dei been awakened had been We now call upon them to join people in their assault upon the vicious principle of which all this principle of class representation of exclusive interests in the House of The only security for equitable legislation and good government is to be found in the existence of a House of Commons that shall represent To this one thing let us now apply For the attainment of this one thing let us concentrate all It is for the interest of why should not all unite for its consummation Let none be scared by the outcry of the stupid or the we want to give a preponderating influence to the lower in the of We seek to give no undue influence to The House of Commons according to the theory; of the PEOPLE'S to hold it in the House of Peers arid the Crown have their several powers and We demand only our constitutional when we demand that all shall be represented in their own The Radicals seek nothing unjust or prejudicial to They ask only for a recognition in their own persons of the sound old legal that which all should be assented by They demand to in common with all other men of mature of sound and untainted with indelible a voice in the creation of that legislature which claims their which taxes their their their necessaries of every their enjoyments they have everything they or require for their existence they ask for no undue no exclusive they ask only to be placed upon a footing of equality with the rest of their fellow and to attain this just and righteous object they will act with and If they are to achieve their object without the aid of those who already enjoy the political rights from which are the struggle may be but its success will not be the less Their aim is to promote the common they would prefer to achieve it by the common but should or separate the now privileged classes from let the blame of ensue be laid upon the right Monday at five the inhabitants of Little were alarmed in consequence of flames bursting out from the tannery of Messrs. T. and J. residing in that Fortunately several engines from the Fire Brigade establishment station houses were speedily at the when the fire was got under in a short A great quantity of bark was The fire is supposed to have originated by a spark falling upon the bark from an joining Another fire broke out about one yesterday morning in the Mr. Great Several engines when the flames were but slight injury being In both great credit was due to the exertions of the last a brief account was given of this tragical in which a man named long resident in accused Richard Hopkins of the murder of a labouring residing at as stated in our was examined before magistrates on Thursday and ded until Thursday when he was further re -id until the 25th, when the sister of the and a man on the evening of the deceased not far from the spot spoken of by the 9 will be The is a copy evidence already Vaile exam a I am thirty-one years of I in Cheltenham more than eight I came from in the parish of I had lived there about eleven 1 the James for twenty he during that lived at 1 her a man named Richard he was a About thirteen years 1 saw Richard on a winter's between the of nine on the opposite he and candle with I knew him by the wore and the hump on his He had short white I saw him go up to the I then got nearer to when he was in the Blue Orchard I was within a hundred yards of I see him plainly by the lighted candle he He a into a field called I followed I was fifty yards behind I saw a man come u under an oak tree in the he walked behind thard and struck him with a stick or bludgeon right shoulder and the top of the The man who struck him was the the I his arm the I can't say I heard the but JPowell fall to the I ran to the Blue I called to my brother he w but I went back My brother did not at He died eight years the 3rd I found every thing quiet when I went 1 went to the place where I saw Powell but I found nothing I afterwards saw Mary Hawkes in the She said she had heard a dreadful and asked me whether there were any cows in the field I made her no I did not tell her what I I remained in the field an hour or saw no one but Mary Hawkes in the I then went and retired to I saw on the follow morning a man named William he asked me whether Richard Powell had stopped at the Blue night I told him I did not He went t| to and told me when he returned that Powell had not crossed the I never from that hour to this saw any thing of Richard I heard of his body being found in the Severn about a month I understood that it was picked up by a barge I heard that an inquest held at and a verdict of 4* Found I never told the relations of deceased what I had I have mentioned the in company within the last I Powell and the prisoner quarrel j I did not I did know exactly of any ill will between Powell told me he had seen the prisoner tying a sheep's legs together in Moor's belonging to Mr. Thomas I have met the prisoner several times but I never mentioned any thing to him on the The prisoner declined asking the witness any John Butler that he lived in the parish of Awre about eight miles from and was a- H e knew the deceased and remembered the circumstances of his and was very well acquainted with He was a short with a hump on his His place about twelve or thirteen Witness was onthe inquest which was held on the The body was found in a month all but two days after he was Witness saw the and knew it to be that of Richard Witness believed that Mr. of was the After the witness assisted in dressing and washing the There Was a dreadful fracture on the right and the head was very much swollen and there were ap. of heavy there were bruises on several the witness did not observe any bruises behind the he believed the coroner did not examine the witness did not see the mark of any the back of the or Though there general impression on the minds of the jury that the man kas as there was no evidence to that effect; brought in a verdict of Found am a farmer living near in the parish of I was on the inquest that was held on the body of Richard I had known the deceased for above fifty The inquest was held more than ten it might be about twelve I examined the I saw a blow at the back of the which was shown me by a man of the name oi Thomas there was the mark of a and the broken I thought that the man was but as there was no evidence of nature the the coroner recommended us to bring in a verdict Found The prisoner declared that he was and that he could bring of the name of a to prisoner was then for a The number of sheep m Great Britain and is about 32,000,000; The council of the administration des Ponts et has just decided that the basin oi the at shall be put in a fit state for the provisional reception of steamers of large with a 63 feet sluice at the Owing to the heavy rains during the last sowing is remarkably scarcely any barley or oats being as yet iu the The apple hud is said to look except on those trees which suffered very much from the worm during the hist A Colossal Tree whs blown neighbourhood oi a few oe feet in with twenty heads of 151bs Ic is said to have readied in of having been kept watered solution of We regret to hear that Mr. Joseph the coroner for the Cirencester was dead in his at his residence in that Gloucester the letters published in favour of a quack is one in which the after ordering so many bottles or Jf I will repeat the The line of telegraph between St. Petersburg and Warsaw has just been On the 12th inst. the first telegraphic despatch was received in announcing that the empress had been seriously but was The Boston Post recommends this remedy for the all the outer doors in a four-story open the inner then take a long switch and chase a cat and down until shV perspiration is an infallible * I As Mr. butcher j of was slaughtering a bullock on Friday the by some disengaged itself from the rope him making a run at gored him so furiously in the that the horn passed through his side and entered his killing him ' At the man who tied the woman he lived naked by the hair of her head until was nearly was found and fifteen imprisonment and hard labour in the House of A New of Ludlow gave that all little boys found whistling in streets would in future be apprehended by the as practices were a great to the peaceable and well-disposed inhabitants of the town I have already so much affected turnpike that some instances are known in which mortgagees are in the receipt of only 40/. where they used to receive 200/., and in many cases nothing will be ' The present Lord Mayor intends paying the state visit to paid every fourteen The last occasion was during the mayoralty of Alderman Tne committee for the v erection of Sir Walter Scott's monument are short of funds to pay the balance of treasurer's It is therefore hoped that? gentlemen who took an and have not yet will come forward and relieve the committee of their Robert the Nottingham author of the of and other died in that town on the 13th was in distressed and leaves a widow and three the youngest only twelve months Something ought to be done for It is stated in the Sunderland Herald at the benefit of the of that house was so densely that the audience were compelled to laugh there being no possible medium for a lateral Letters from Berlin express once more the hope that a reconciliation will soon be effected between the Prussian Government and the Archbishop of - y Only a The least taste life is deal too one temptation fatal if Married Men Take woman in North Carolina lately shot her husband through the head for kissing another Government has purchased the barracks at Trowbridge for 3500/., and will take possession on the first of Shortly after the peace were sold by the then By this transfer upwards of forty families will have to move to other places of - There been 27,730 committals in the several counties of Ireland for the year 1838, and 11,036 c - According to the last census in the numbers of the Catholic clergy were as the province of 703; 1,258; 1,076; East 1,438; 820; 975; and 702; making a total of 6,981; returns appear for West Flanders or The gross population of the nine provinces returned at 4,246,561. following is an from a letter received at the room Our border war is for the present at an each party having agreed to withdraw the troops from the and to appoint a joint civil force to protect the timber from being carried off the
