THE CHARTIST LEADERS.

Evening Post, Issue 56, 13 April 1865, Page 3

THE CHARTIST LEADERS.

It seems just as if it were yesterday when the names, of the Chartist leaders were familiar in our mouths as household words. Now where are they all ? Many of them are dead, many in foreign lands, pushing their fortunes under happier auspices, and many struggling on still in England, forgotten, if not unknown. O'Connor died in a madhouse; Dr. M'Dowell went to Australia in 1853, and died there ; Dr. John Taylor died in Ireland some years ago Mr. Augustus Beaumont also is dead; Mr. George Julian Harney is in America, editing the Boston Commonwealth, an anti-slavery paper of influence and repute ; Mr. Devyr, the once editor of the Liberator, is in New York, as erratic and vigorous, and I fear as unsuccessful as ever ; Mr. Ayre also went to America, and 1 be^Pe is since dead. Mr. Win. Thompson is or waa recently employed in an iron warehouse at Greenwich; Mr. Mason, I believe, is dead; so is Mr. Lowry. Messrs. Ayre, Mason, Thomason, Devyr, and O'Brien were the speakers at the memorable meeting in Newcastle in July, 1839, for which the prosecution for sedition arose. Mr. Thomas Hepburn, the pitman's delegate, who died the other day in Newcastle, was the chairman of the gathering. Henry Hetherington, who was the chief publisher of the unstamped publications, died of cholera in 1849 ; Mr. Cleave, one of his colleagues, is also dead ; but Mr. James Watson, another, is living in comfortable retirement, enjoying a green old age at Sydenham, near the Crystal Palace. Poor old John Frost, after spending several years in a penal settlement, has got back to England, and is spending the evening of his days amongst the scenes of his youth. Mr,. Samuel Kidd has studied the law, and been called to the bar. Mr. Ernest Jones is following his profession, and getting into a good practice in Manchester. Poor Mr. Binns is long since dead, but his friend and colleague, Mr. Williams, is a respected alderman in Sunderland. Mr. Gammage has recently commenced practice as a medical man in the same borough, with every prospect of success before him. Mr. Vincent is still lecturing on historical and literary topics to general audiences. Mr. Thomas Cooper is preaching and lecturing on theological questions, being now as orthodox, as he once was heterodox. The name of Chartist has dropped out of our current political discussion, and the principles that the men I have mentioned, and hundreds of others, gave time, life, and liberty to promote, seem to be ahondoned or forgotten by the people. — Correspondent of the Newcastle Chronicle.

Nature has strange ways of doing the most beautiful things. Out of the oozy earth, the mud and rain of early spring, come the most delicate flowers, their white leaves bnrn out of the dirt, as unsoiled and pure ns if they had bloomed in Hie garden of Paradise. "Illustrated with cuts," said a young trchin, as he drew his jack-knife across the leaves of his grammar. " Illustrated with cuts I" said the master as he brought his birch to bear upon the shoulders of the witty urchin.