Guildhall, where they proposed to ex-" the dinner, and at length tore down the pend upon themselves about twenty 'fence.There were, we understand, one pounds a-piece; that, in the midst of" or two broken heads. The Duke of this revelry, they might receive the " Wellington also was greeted with no visit of a strong detachment from FAR-" very pleasant sounds in his way back RINGDON market, where the pennies" to London. At Tonbridge there was would not be very long in expending. some dispute between the townsNot seeming to relish such a visit as people and the yeomen, and the doors this, and wishing their guttle to be un- "of the inn in which the latter took disturbed, they have, it seems, changed" refuge, were, it is said, burst open, their plan; and have "ordained" that" but no mischief was done." Passing the pennies which they mean to toss over this circumstance of the yeomanry down to us shall be expended amongst being obliged to take refuge from the the "lower orders," assembled in com- people; passing over the great tax-eaters paratively small groups in their several wisdom in furnishing an occasion for wards, adequately superintended by this contest between the yeomanry and their swarms of beadles, and by their the people, let me remark on the prunew Bourbon-like police. That this dence of our city guzzlers, as illustrated precaution was not wholly unnecessary by this curious incident in Kent. The seems to have been shown by what poople in Kent smelled the repast; and happened the other day in Kent. It by the mere smell, they knew that they seems that the MARQUIS of CAMDEN, were eating taxes within. They knew, who received thirty thousand pounds that they had all helped to pay for the a year for his sinecure for so many repast; therefore they could see no years, who gave a part of it up in the earthly reason why they should not share year 1818, but WHO STILL RE-in it. Our guttlers, who understand CEIVES NEARLY THREE THOU-these matters better than the great taxSAND POUNDS A YEAR FOR THE eater in Kent, would take special care SAME SINECURE; and who will never to hold their festivities upon a continue to receive it to the end of his lawn, and with so slight a proteclife, unless pledges be taken from the tion as a hurdle fence: they get members of the reformed Parliament. within the thick walls of Guildhall, It seems that this great tax-eater, who and there devour our taxes snugly; is lord-lieutenant of the county of Kent, all the avenues being well guarded caused a parcel of the yeomanry ca- by beadles twenty deep; and by valry corps to be assembled last week, their new Bourbon-like police, armed at his seat near Sevenoaks, in Kent; with swords, no doubt, in imitation of and that STRATHFIELDSAYE'S Duke was the great "THING's" police. They brought to the review. These yeomanry set every thing at defiance, short of canconsist of tenants, half-pay officers, re- non. Yet, they do not like to be distired-allowance people, knights and es-turbed by a noise in the midst of their quires, who have sons in the army or festivities. They like all to be quiet navy, or in the taxing offices; dependent while they are alternately swallowing inn-keepers; parsons' sons and the like. our substance and spewing out their It is said that these gave STRATHFIELD-nonsense. They are extremely shy of SAYE three cheers! After the review was over, a booth was erected on the lawn, in the front of the great tax devourer's house, separated by a fence from the rest of the ground. I will now take the rest of the account from the Morning Chronicle of this day (2d July). "Before the festivities of the evening were over, the people insisted upon getting within the fence set apart for

naming the day! I wish they would name the day for their guttling. They have had time to prepare their bodies. I should not be at all surprised if they were, in their next account of the expenditure, to charge us with the medicine which they take before and after the guttling! Verily, if this set be not reformed, the Reform Bill is very little a subject of joy with us poor taxed creatures of the

city, at any rate. It is said, and I hope foretold the state of misery and weakness to truly, that the people of PORTSOKEN- the inan who foresaw exactly the way in which which the debt and taxes would reduce us WARD mean to carry Mr. Alderman that very misery and degradation would at SCALES in triumph, and to demand ad- last force reform upon the legislature; the mittance for him, on the day of the feast man who saw precisely what would be the at Guildhall. If this should be the terrible effects of Peel's Bill, and told, years case, I should not at all wonder to see would fall upon all classes of society, except before it occurred, the stupendous ruin that half-a-dozen regiments of horse and | ing only the tax-eaters ; considering, too, foot introduced into the city. He is the that he cannot be sent to Parliament with the alderman of the ward; he has a right same weight and influence, the same power to be there, and I do hope that what I other place as from Manchester, the centre of of effecting this mighty mass of good from any have heard in this respect will prove commercial activity, of industry, and sound true. knowledge, we propose to you to assist us in returning triumphantly to Parliament that father of reform and friend of the people,

P. S. Since the above was written, I see that the grand guttle is fixed for the 11th of July.

MANCHESTER.

FROM the silence of the London daily press, one would think that this famous town had recently been destroyed by fire, or swallowed up by an earthquake; for, the at once stupid and malignant fellows that conduct these newspapers, have not for some months suffered the name to find its way into print. Therefore, to remove any apprehensions | which the public might entertain upon the subject, I insert the following address to the electors of that borough, from Mr. CANDELET, of MANCHESTER. It will be a comfort for the country to know, that so far from the people of that town being all dead, some of them are clearly alive, and in a state of considerable activity.

ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF
MANCHESTER.

The day approaches when you will be called upon to exercise that franchise, which the exertions of an united people have wrested from a boroughmongering faction.

Convinced as we are that the sure means of attaining the blessings of cheap and good Government, are those contained in Mr. COBBETT'S FOURTEEN IMMORTAL PROPOSITIONS, viz., to abolish all SINECURES and UNMERITED PENSIONS, HALF-PAY, and DEAD-WEIGHT, to apply the church and other national property to the payment of what is really due to the national creditor, and to abolish the TITHES, CORN-LAWS, and STANDING ARMY, and believing that no man can be so well adapted to carry these propositions into effect as the man whose powerful mind first gave them birth; the maa whose prophetic spirit, twenty years ago,

WILLIAM COBBETT.

Be not deluded by the cry of the necessit of having commercial men to represent a commercial town, for depend upon it, that the interests of commerce will be best protected by a real statesman, a statesman who in vain warned the commercial men that in passi Peel's Bill they were ruining themselves; who possible, until a monstrous weight of taxation in vain ridiculed the idea of free trade being was removed; in vain, for the commercia men passed Peel's Bill, blind to all its conse> quences..

Let your motto be real reform, abolition o ries of life, tithes, and corn-laws, and WILassessed taxes, and all taxes upon the necessaLIAM COBBETT your representative.

Lose no time, canvass your friends an; neighbours, exert yourselves to the utmost RATES previously to the 20th of July, to above all take care, by PAYING UP YOUR secure your right of voting, and report your progress to the committee, who sit every Mouday evening, from 8 to 10, at their Committee-room, White Lion, Hanging Ditch.

P. T. CANDELET, Honorary Secretary. Com mittee-Room, June 26, 1832.

The Courier newspaper (the basest of all the tools of the Whigs, TORRENS'S paper excepted), has called upon the Government" to send down some gentle

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man; or else COBBETT will assuredly be elected." Yes, "send down some gentleman," by all means; but not " gentleman" that likes sinecures; for no sinecure will he find in that job! The Government, in its conduct towards Ireand and Scotland, and in its breach of promise to take up the subject of duration of Parliaments and the ballot, has not only broken the compact, to which I voluntarily became a party, but has rendered the Reform Bill so inefficient in comparison to what it would have been,

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that it is now both just and necessary ought to be fulfilled. The ten-pound voter, for me to contend, whenever the proper called upon the people to help in passing it, who has wished this bill to pass, who has time shall arrive, for a Parliament of e and who now gives his vote to any man not very short duration, for universal suf-pledged to measures of justice to the working frage, and for polling by ballot. What man, is guilty of foul ingratitude and base they have given us in the English Reform treachery. We must hope that no ten-pound Bill, they have taken away, in great is base to this extent; but we must recollect voter of Oldham, who calls himself a reformer, part, in the Irish and Scotch Reform that the ten-pound qualification takes in the Bills: : they agreed, and indeed pledged enemies as well as the friends of reform; we themselves, to enter upon the questions must bear in mind that it takes in the men of the duration of Parliaments and the who would rather be slaves themselves than see their countrymen free;-that it takes in ballot: they have broken the compact; the selfish as well as the patriotic,-the and they are not to expect to hold us to cowardly as well as the brave. We know that our part of that compact. But with re- power, money, and influence, will do all they gard to their sending a gentleman down can to pervert the electors; and we must show those of the electors who are to be guided to MANCHESTER, that is nonsense; and, only by their interests and their fears, that again I tell them, that to keep me out there is some value in the gratitude of the of Parliament, they must pass an act to working men if they be well treated, and some exclude me by name; and, again I proterror in the resentment if they be betrayed. mise them, that if they have but the pluck to do that, they shall never hear upon the subject, petition, or complaint, from WM. COBBETT.

OLDHAM.

THE following address is so full of good sense, and so excellently well written, that, were there no other reason for my inserting it in the Register, that would be reason enough. It is signed, "a working man." Let one of the lounging vagabonds who talk of the lower orders, give us evidence of talent such as is here displayed; and then I will acknowledge that there possibly may be some reason for talking of the superiority of those who have the arrogance to style themselves the higher orders.

TO THE WORKING MEN OF THE
BOROUGH OF OLDHAM.

FRIENDS,

They say the elections will come on this year let us make known what we expect from the men who represent Oldham. The working men are not represented in Parliament-let them demand that the little they have to live on be not taxed by Parliamentslet them demand that their necessaries, their malt, their hops, their tea, their coffee, their sugar, their soap, be freed from taxes!

Whoever may pay the taxes, we, the workmen, earn the money; and if the taxes be

heavy we must suffer. Let us demand that all sinecures be put an end to, and all pensions and all pay out of the taxes not earned by real public service.

Sir James Graham said that the half-pay list was only another pension list. Let us demand that this pension list be cut down, and that none receive half-pay who have not earned it by real service abroad.

get bread: let us demand that the wicked There are enough of us who find it hard to laws for raising the price of bread be repealed; and, to do justice to the farmer, let us demand that tithes be put an end to.

There are many other things that ought to be expected; but those who do these things will do everything that justice to the people demands; and it is enough now to ask for that which ought to be done first. Let us unite THE working men of England have had their then; let us determine that we will give our full sbare of the honour of compelling the support only to those who will pledge themLords to pass the Reform Bill. If they had selves to these points. Let us make known to not exerted themselves the hill would not have the ten-pound voters that we expect from passed, and if they do not exert themselves them this justice to us that they will not the bill will be of no use. We all know that vote for those who will not do these things for it is our right to be represented in Parliament. us: let us resolve that we will enter no publicWe have been contented to join the ten-pound house-that we will deal at no shop, the voters, who taking them as a body, never owner of which shall show himself by his joined us; we have been contented to join vote, at the next election, to be an enemy to them to do so much good as the passing of the working classes. Let them have no exruse this bill and the destruction of the rotten bo- in our silence: let us all tell those electors roughs does. They have promised us that the whom we know, what we expect from them. bill should do good to us as well as them; Let us, on the day of election, go to the poll and the time is coming when that promise-look them in the face-encourage our

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to, and cut up by, the surgeons; if your Lordship knew how many poor people in the country have expended their last farthing, and, in many cases, plunged themselves into debt, in order to bring away from London their poor relations, lest they should die here and be sold and dissected; if your Lordship knew what watchings and what expense the poor labourers submit to, in order to prevent. the graves of their deceased relations from being violated; if your Lordship knew how many hundreds of sick persons, when told that they had the cholera, and that they must be removed to an hospital, or die, have preferred death to a removal to a place which they thought would expose their dead bodies to dissection; if your Lordship knew the extent of the horror of this

FIRST thanking your Lordship for presenting my petition upon this subject, I beg to be permitted to observe, that I know the reporter must have misrepresented you, when he published, under your name, an expression of an opinion, that my petition represented some part of the people as believing, that the cutting up of a human body might have practice, which is rooted in the hearts a tendency to prevent its resurrection. It is impossible that any Christian can entertain such a notion; and I am sure that your Lordship never described my petition as conveying a notion so unworthy of any man, who has ever read the gospels and the epistles.

of all the virtuous part of the working millions, towards whom you have always shown such kindness, and whose well-being has been the first object of your care; if your Lordship considered, that, from these causes, the bill is in reality a bill to shut the door of all hospitals against the poor, for whose benefit they were chiefly if not solely intended; if your Lordship knew these things, as well as I do, you would, I am sure, say with me, that, with so great a practical evil, no imaginary good is for one moment to be placed in compe|tition.

Your Lordship, with that frankness and sincerity which form part of your exalted character, warned me that you should think it your duty to express your disagreement with me on the subject of this petition. This warning made me do that which I should not have done on account of such disagreement in any other man living; namely, to re- Your Lordship is not one of those vise the whole of the petition; to re- who regard the labouring people as not weigh every word of it with the greatest made of the same flesh and blood as care; and to be prepared for the with- yourself. I will not ask your Lordship drawing of it if I found any part of it to how you should feel in a case such as be untenable. This strict re-examina- that which I am about to suppose; but tion only tended, however, to confirm I can speak for myself, that to consider me in all my opinions relative to it barely possible, that my wife or one the matter. It is with great sorrow of my children, would, when dead, be that I find myself, in this important stretched out upon a board, there to be matter, at variance in opinion with your hacked to pieces, would be ten thouLordship; and, laying aside those parts sand times more painful to me than any of the subject which are at all of an ab- death that could be inflicted upon me; stract nature, I am sure, that, if your and that I would as soon pardon the Lordship know how many hundreds of murderer of one of them as I would afflicted people in the country have pre-pardon the wretch that should purchase, ferred almost certain death at their own sell, or cut up, one of their bodies. houses, rather than come to the hospitals I am sincerely of opinion that this in London, with the risk of being sold butcher-like work tends to cherish ig

norance rather than to promote science; grave, and his viler accomplice who rebut a proof of the contrary would be no ceives the stolen body, will never plun argument with me, until I could be der the graves of the rich. And, my brought to believe that there is nothing Lord, I beseech you to be pleased to bear so valuable as life. The best, and, in- in mind, that injustice consists much deed, the only ground of defence of this more in the partiality of a law, or of bill is this; that, if it be not passed, a judgment, than in the severity of either. some of us will die sooner than we And, in this case, the partiality is so should die if it were passed. I do not manifest, that it is impossible for any believe this; but if I did believe it, I person of plain sense not to perceive it; should have nothing but this imaginary and, being perceived by the millions of good to place against all the real and his Majesty's subjects, it is impossible certain evils which must arise from the that their feelings towards the makers passing of this bill. Granting the truth of the law should not be such as every of the assertion, I am prepared to say, friend to the harmony and happiness of that it is better that some of us should the country must deeply lament. die sooner than we should die if this To the duties belonging to allegiance; bill were passed; and of this opinion to all the duties enjoined by the law are the country people; for they prefer to all these duties, is constantly attached what they deem almost certain death, at the right of protection from the King their own homes, to probable cure, with and from the law. In the name of his a chance of the sale and dissection of allegiance, in the name of the law, the their bodies in London. labouring man is called upon, and wisely I place very little reliance upon the and justly called upon, to come and to report of the speech of your Lordship; venture even his life in defence of his but if you did make the observation country and its laws; but, my Lord, imputed to you, namely, that the bill the labouring man has rights as well as as more for the benefit of the poor than duties; and, next to the right of having that of the rich, I must say that I his live body protected by the law, is think your Lordship has taken a wrong the right of having it, when dead, proview of the matter. Your Lordship's tected against the unfeeling and sacrileview of it is founded on the assumption gious monsters who violate the tomb. that the passing of this bill will make Therefore, my Lord, I contend for that surgical knowledge cheaper. The surgical knowledge derived from this source is, in my opinion, already quite cheap enough. If some few thousands of the youths, called "young doctors," whom the puffed-up pride of the day has drawn from the plough, to lounge about To all the reasons stated in my petiunder the name of gentlemen, were sent tion, may be added this, which in that back again to the plough, or put to the petition I refrained from urging; namemaking of coats or shoes, I am surely, that, to reject the bill, would go very that the community would thereby be far with ninety-nine hundredths of the greatly improved. But, be this as it nation, in producing that reconciliation may, the bill exposes to the odious between the House of Lords and the sale none but the bodies of the poor; and people at large, which reconciliation this the labouring poor very clearly per-present circumstances make it so ceive. They well know that the bodies desirable to produce. 1 need not be of the rich will never be sold; they well more particular in the stating of this know that the rich do not go to poor- opinion. I have thought it my duty houses and hospitals; they well know, thus to address your Lordship upon a that the rich are not unclaimed, when subject, with regard to which I feel so they die in barrack-rooms; they well much anxiety, and with regard to which know that the monster who robs the I thought that your Lordship stood in

species of protection for the poor, which I humbly pray for in the petition which your Lordship was pleased to present in my behalf, and the granting of which prayer was clearly within the competence of your right honourable House.