The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-01-30 00:00:00

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parliaments, payment of the members, the abolitiontf expenses incurred by Mr. Jessel, Q.C., Liberal (returned)
were £1,28, is. Id , and J. Abraham, Liberal Aninceeleful).
the property qual fication, and equal electoraldistricts.
To this day the only point which has been conceded is £
1293 13, iti The expenses of the Liberal candidates for
vlfietta en, Messrs. Harvey and Bead, were 1.'2.418 Ils. 3d. ;
the abolitiiin of the property qualitication for members K t, Mr. Angerstein mal Sir John Lubbock ,LiberaiC,
of the House of Commons, and this was adopted in R 4,239.
till saute session which wituva,sal the admission of At Great Marlow, Mr. WeLl.ererl's total expenses were
Jews to parliament, that of 1858, when the con. £996 12s. 18. Captain Verney's expenses were £l9B 9s. 31.
servatives were in power. Seven years before Mr. sal', the principal Item being LA Is. for plating and raver-
Jones took a purininent part in the agitation, the Char-
tists had ass.-1111 ded in great force in virtue parts of obtained r
'restlM.Pn.fosnr, itMtrieW.el.x"Plreir''agfr".rre!
the kmgdorn, armed with guns. pikes, aml other gate expenditure was only £390, Or 11180 each. At the
weapons, and carrying torches. They conducted • south Essex coutested election la years since Mr. Baker ex-
themselves so turnultaously that on the 12th Deeetuber ; pooh ii inure this xlo,ooo, aiel even then failed to obtain
, 1838, the :Melbourne ministry found it expedient to 0"i"..
issue a proclamation against them. At that time their t...isisr.olfiewitik 23tir. fort Mallon, seckrd his
frettr,n for
headquarters was the borough of Birminsham and tUrnery, and. adve;tiwsgiel,len'A'Stillls f9oPortliPciairchtrgeteas:
the late Mr. Thomas Attwood was one of the moat Mr. Sandford, the unsuccessful Conservative candidate, ex-
active leaders. In August, 1838, a monster pe. pended 4598, and has beetles one bill of £94 still in dispute.
tition was agreed to at Birmingham, a so- Agency cost Mr. Sandford £156.
called " National Convention, " and a few months f The expenses of the several candidates at the late eleetion
afterwards it wars 'Torrential to parliament by Mr. Att- Sire tl.4rifXrifri'rg RiPrlgnbur'ylk la 13e.peondfieffli:loiefdfre
wood. On the 15th July in this year they committed unsuccessful candidate, Mr. Lainport, slightly exceeded
great outrages in the hardware capital, but the most those of his Conservative opponents, amounting in the
extraordinary part of their proceedings up to this time aggregate to £1,359 Is. 31., of whieh sum agents and call-
aas reserved for the brimugh of Newport, in M._ 1 vs.. cost £612 44. 7d.; couveyauce of voters, £203 45 ad.;
mouthshire. The Chartists, on the 4th of November, Ilvertisements end ',rioting, Biro ; clerks, messengers,
collected from the mines and collieries in the neighbour. ,;.,u1 a; 1,,,,,,dut10he
csh are
oful *se eturiffLexpirfsse.4
hood to the number of 10,000, armed with guns. pikes, ~,,,d moor Parker, who fought the battle jointly, and expenses
and clubs. They divived themselves into two bodies, of the contest are returned at £1,310 Bs. ffid each, the total
one being under the command of Mr. John Frost, an ex- of 4:23530 17s. Id. being equally divided between them, of
magistrate, while the other was under the leader. ffds sum agency charges form by tar the heaviest item,
sliipof hisson. They met infront of theWestgate Hide', amounting to no less than 1.1,209 Is. ed. Horse-hire is also
a.devr;eftly article, the charge being pn 4s. yd. Printing,
where the magistrates were assembled with about thiri y
soldiers of the .151. h Itegiuient, and a few special con- f,,,fff,!,,fsi‘rfegit-efiffarf, ee t•etoor
li :Tel 1ti,t,31, T4Zl,,,;r'theaddlh:fift.;
stables. The rioters comuienced breaking the windows two members.
of the house, and fired on LII, inmates, wounding the In the hole borough of Eye, Viscount Barrington had an
mayor and several others. The soldiers retimied The animPosed return, led even this ripprars to be a somewhat
fire, dispersed the mob, which, with its leaders, fled expensive proceeding, the total cost being ,Plss 15s. lid. 01
film the town, leaving tWenty dead, and many ahem tyke, f
issiz tl; ef
inhav,:enstw.T,gi:
ft:a at ii.nd :If t he,.
ill: afr..l. old "
le
dangerously wounded. For his share in this fatal rentainin't fwo items be'ing, age.ncy, £36 :ill., and returning
affray. Frost and others of the leaders were sentenced officer's expenses, £5l tie. 7d.
to death, but the pun shunent was commuted to trans The expenses of Messrs. Massey and Rathbone, the
portation for life. They received a pardon on the Liberal candidates for Liverpool, one of whom only, Mr.
conclust ,n id peace with Russia in 1850. Eatlibone, obtained a seat, are returned as follows :--Can-
aurens ; c,
In 1845 he joined the Chartist agitation. Before 4car.ine,si
t,
tclee!rkos,,,
,:t.,,,c, :£ll3alai
IT. poll
0:4 lerks
plrii,s;til,dw. ;
long he unauccessfully attempted mto enter Parliament,, tilidatesill:'Ll:'Ll cat,tains' exp es. AS, 4,
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and the alarm ',minced by his liarimcine led to his tolvertising, £O., £1,084 17s. 'ti. ; cabs and messengers:
apprehension at Manchester, in IBM. His health £lO7 lit. 11,1. ; Town-hall ma:mint, 4:495 9s. Od. : stamps,
suffered severely during the first nineteen months £721 Its. lid. ; refreshments at lassWiss, &e, £.190 Ills ; fur-
mmittee-room, taxes, six , Lstel las. sd.—total,
of his imprisonment, and his own published account of lashing co
the needless severity of his treatment provoked a good I's'42' 135' 314'
deal of indignation. It is well known that about this
time Mr. Jones ref useslanoffer trimn a fitfully connexion
that he shod i retire from political life, in consider-
ation of becoming the inheritor of a large property.
On the cons racy, he devoted all the means he possessed
to the advocaci of his political convictions, which he
retained unmodified to the last. Those who had op-
portunities of hearinv him talk of the delight he ex-
perienced in the prosecution of what he deemed to be
the rights of the mass of his countrymen would find
it hard to resist the impression of his sincerity, devo-
tion, arid self-sacrifice in the cause.
His early life gave hitn a large acquaintance with
German and Banish politics, as he proved by some
speeches during the last Danish war.