The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-29 00:00:00

THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER.

Our space, in fact, the space of any Newspaper, is une-
qual to the report of the numerous meetings of the Chart-
ists daily held throughout the country. We find room to-
day for two speeches, delivered at Brighton on Monday
evening, at a meeting of 300 persons, called to consider the
expediency of adopting the national petition to Parliament
in support of the People's Charter. In our selection of
these two addresses, we have been influenced exclusively by
the briefer exposition of their views than that of some of the
other speakers. It is necessary only further to state that
the report adopted is from the columns of the Brighton
Guardian :

Mr. ALLEN of Brighton said, that in consequence of not
being rep-esented the working men were brought to this
state :-Ist, They had to beg and pray to obtain work ;
2d, They must work like slaves ; 3d, They must work
for starvation wages ; 4th, They had nearly three pits of
their wages to pay in taxes on every article necessary for
detphoirdneepsittai support of life ; and, sth, Infernal Poor-law bastiles were
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and military officers. Had they any feeling for the working
man ? The devil a bit. Besides that, there were 100
Members who were related to the House of Lords. Had
they any feeling for the working man ? To be sure not.
Besides that, there were about 60 men in place. Had they
any sympathy for the working man ? No. Then what
did the rest consist of ? Stock-jobbers, landowners, pen-
sioners, and speculators on the industry of the country.—
(Cheers.) They could not pick half a dozen men out of
the whole House of Commons who really felt any sympathy
for the working classes. That was the disease. What was
the remedy ? The People's Charter. If the principles
that Charter contained were carried into practice, they
would make the Government of this country responsible to
the people ; they would so tie up the people's representa-
tives that they must do what they would be sent to Parlia-
ment to do. Send any man to Parliament under the
present system, and he was elected for seven years ; he did
as he pleased, and cared not a curse whether he pleased his
constituents or not. Then a man under the present system
must be possessed of a property qualification ; be must be
worth 3001. a-year to represent a borough and 600/. to re-
present a county. Consequently a working man was at
once shut out, however intelligent ; but if a man was ever
so big a fool or notorious a rogue, if he was worth 300/. a-
year he could be made a Member of Parliament. The
country was now brought to the verge of revolution.—(The
sooner the better.) What was the state of the middle-class
men ? Take Brighton as a sample. Of the shopkeepers
there was scarcely one out of twenty who would nut be a
bankrupt if called on to pay his debts forthwith. What
was the state of the working men ? Why the tendency of
the hell-invented law, the Poor-Law Act, was to reduce
w.
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letters, men came to ask for work at 4s. a week in har-
vest time—and the poor creatures would work for anything
rather than be shut up in a bastile—if masters could get
men for such low wages they would not give a farthing
more. However, he believed she Poor Law Act would
prove one o
was passed,
overshote
the mark they had done so this time.—(Cheers.)
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Government for the working
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hoped would
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than Universal Suffrage ; the repeal of the
would not benefit the people, it would only
to the monopolizers of corn, the same
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brewers.
Mr. OSBORN, of London, said he hoped they would
expect nothing more from him than the counsel of a
working man, and that advice was, that they should not
only. master the principles of the Charter, but its literal
Some of those who heard him might say,
have we got to do with the progress of the
cottonh e North
factories a n
would eventually sacrifice the men of the South. For
thech
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would tell
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them. the
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annually? '' W h
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their c
cotton lords and the landowners had passed a law
ficed thousands
hldree
no f t
h thees e working
Hell-holes
people
t h
to
prevent the necessity of the latter maintaining the
they would not let the labourers cultivate it unless
the l 1
superabundant population of their estates upon their own
lald;abourers could increase its value to them. Now by
mewls of the New Poor Law the superabundant labourers
of the South were handed over to the tender mercies of
the cotton lords ; and there might be men present whom
sien infernal
aeald
crucibles.—(Cheers.)
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choahfde
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a severe winter might force into a 'misfile, from thence to
slaves
already
been re
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He did
trust(be
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sreeentyvtl acdttt victims
has et those
Tomi factorys'eeon of the South would pull the same
rope at which the men of the North were tugging, in
order that they might pull down their oppressors. When
he said to pull down their oppressors, he did not mean
they were to hurt a hair of the head of the veriest aris-
pseuetchthaespeosmiteioantothgainvehiuspoz
tocrat in the land, because it was more the people's
toheeldx ir lotvewaosf do-
minionun-
; but if the people were so cowardly as never to
raise their voice and deprive these men of the power to
te'aautletrlaile
do them evil, they deserved to remain as they were—the
tame, yielding slaves of a faction which distressed and har-
rassed the country.

By a recent regulation of the Minister of Public
Instruction, as we have already stated, the study of at
least one living language of Europe, besides French, has
been made compulsory in all the Royal Colleges of France ;
and for those in Paris the pupils have had to declare for
either German or English. The following appears to have
been the result of the declarations thus made in the col-
leges of the metropolis and Versailles :
English. German.
College of Louis-le-Grand ... 88 34
- Henri IV. 68 29
- Charlemagne ... 66 27
- Bourbon ... ... ... 93 35
- St. Louis... ... ... 61 25
- Versailles ••• ••• 30 15

406 165
This gives a general proportion of about 70 per cent. in fa-
vour of the English language, and 30 per cent., in favour
of the German.
A young man named Tilley was yesterday remanded
from Guildhall, charged with having embezzled money to
the amount of 300/. or more, the property of bis employer,
Mr. Cooper, warehouseman, of Aldermanbury. The pri-
soner, who is only 21 years of age, did not deny the charge,
but said that he had been brought to his present condition
by gambling.
ORTROGRAPHICAL EXERCISES.—At an old iron
shop in Queen-street, Seven Dials, a paper is exhibited in
the window, on which is written—" 0 hears the shop wof
give toopense for five pound of bones.—N.l3, sags, Fiats,
and Flint alas bort."