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COBBETT'S

POLITICAL REGISTER.

VOLUME LXXVIII.

FROM OCTOBER 6, TO DECEMBER 29, 1832,

INCLUSIVE.

and Jam, 5

March 30, 1833.

LONDON:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR,

11, BOLT COURT, FLEET STREET.

1832.

VOLUME 78.

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0.78-79

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No. 10. Mr. Cobbett's Address to the Electors
of the Western Division of Surrey.-West-
minster Election.-Mr. Place's Letters to
the Electors of Westminster.-Major Cart-
wright's Exposure of Burdett.-The low-
est thing that this world ever heard of.-
Alderman Scales. To the Electors of
Lambeth.

No. 3. Account of Scotland: No. I.-Advice
to the Chopsticks of the South of England.
-Address of the Working Classes of
Edinburgh to Mr. Cobbett.-Mr. Cobbett's
Answer.-To Baron Potter.-Sir John
Sinclair's Letter.-Paper against Gold.

No. 4. Account of Scotland: No. II.-Second

Address to the Chopsticks of the South

Newmilns Address to Mr. Cobbett.GoNo.

verning of Scotland.-Glasgow Election.

-To the Electors of Berkshire Letter 1.

-To Correspondents The Lord Mayor's

Address.-Eye Water!

No. 5. Account of Scotland: No. III.-The

Devil Grinding his Teeth and Cursing.-

News for London.-Dissolution of Par-

liament.-Scotch Representation.-Sir J.

Maxwell's Address to the Electors of

Paisley.-Renfrew Pledges.-Mr. Fairie's

Address to the Electors of Greenock.—

Speech of Mr. Pease.-Paper against Gold.
No. 6. Account of Scotland: No. IV.-Ad-

dress of the Trades of Glasgow to Mr.
Cobbett.-Mr. Cobbett's Answer. -Ad-
dress of Manufacturers of Tolcross.-Glas-
gow Political Union.-Dead-Body Bill.-
To the Potters, Shuttleworth, Baxter, and
their Mountebank.-Desolating System.—
The Toom Meal Pock.-Glasgow Dinner.

No. 7. Account of Scotland: No. V.-Whig-

War.-Account of Scotland.-To the Peo-

ple of Oldham.-South Durham Election.

Speech of Mr. Pease.-Carmarthenshire

Justice of Peace Work.

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11. To the Readers of the Register.-
London Election.-Westminster Election.

Marylebone Election.-Finsbury Elec-

tton.-Tower Hamlets, Southwark, Lam-

beth, and Greenwich Elections.-Manches-
ter Election.

COBBETT'S WEEKLY POLITICAL REGISTER.

VOL.78.-No. 1.] LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6TH; 1832.

131548 Bancroft Library

PROGRESS IN THE NORTH.

North Shields, 25. Sept. 1832.

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there is the Custom-house; and there is the Billingsgate, only with the fish a little fresher, and with fishwomen not quite so drunken nor quite so nasty; and there is the "Fish-street-hill," just as much like "t'other place" as if it had been spit out of its mouth, only that it has not a lying monument as t'other place has. NEWCASTLE is al really solid fine town; just such streets as the city of London; just such shops; andjust such industrious and busy-looking I CAME here this forenoon, and am to people. Nor is it (worse is its luck! lecture at the theatre this evening. This destitute of a corporation, yielding, as place is about eight miles from New-far as I can find, in point of wisdom, castle, down the river TYNE towards justice, honesty, fair dealing with the the sea; and as much like Wapping it people, not one jot to CHARLEY PEARis as any two peas were ever like each soN, FIGGINS the printers' tinker, and other. SOUTH SHIELDS is just opposite, the rest of the THING under which we on the other side of this "LITTLE have the happiness to live in Middlesex. THAMES," called the TYNE; and such To be sure, there is here not such ample places for stir and bustle, on the scope for guttling and guzzling; but sides of the river and on the river, this corporation, too, is allowed to raise never were seen, except at London it- taxes on the river; it has the fingering self; and, really, these places seem to of public property of various descrip surpass even London in this respect. tions; and I am well assured, that the To describe to an inhabitant of London manner of its management, and the apthis famous group of towns, NEWCASTLE, plication and distribution of the funds, NORTH SHIELDS, GATESHEAD, and are such, that CHARLEY PEARSON'S SOUTH SHIELDS, a very few words are Common Council and HUGHES necessary; the Tyne is the Thames HUGHES'S Court of Aldermen have no Newcastle is the city of London reason to blush at hearing the corpora Gateshead is Southwark; the bridge tion of NEWCASTLE called their legiti that connects these is old London- máte offspring. Not to be deficient in bridge; North Shields is Wapping; anything belonging to the parent, the and South Shields is Deptford: and all child has a DEBT, too; a funded debt; these are so precisely like the big thing and, like t'other THING, which, again, in Middlesex and Surrey, that it would resembles the great THING of all at almost make one believe that the WESTMINSTER, it can never pay off! former place had bred, and that this So that in all things this famous town was a young one. As you go over the of Newcastle resembles the city of bridge from GATESHEAD to Newcastle, London; and GATESHEAD and the two there are the ships innumerable, lying SHIELDSES resemble those bustling apbelow the bridge as far as you can see pendages before-mentioned. It is imdown the river; and there are the possible, by the use of any words, to barges and the boats above the bridge; give an adequate idea of the stir and and all the same sort of people at work; bustle upon this river, of which there and all the same sort of work going on. seems to be scarcely any square yard of When you get over the bridge there is water which experiences one half hour the Thames-street turning round the at a time without something or other corner to the right and to the left; and being floating upon it.

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