The Chartist majority of the Town - Council of Carlisle have decided
that Lord John Russell's message to the Corporation, inviting them to increase the Police force, shall not be complied with ; and that his Lordship should be informed of their decision.—Cemberland Paequet.
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Anthony Angelo has been appointed Chief Commissioner of Police, under the New Police Act, for 13oltou, at a salary of 500/. a year.
The Magistrates of Carlisle have issued a warrant against Dr. Taylor for seditious language, used on the occasion of his addressing the work- ing classes, on the 24th ultimo in the Theatre of that city.—Cumberland Parquet. A letter has been received in Birmingham, written by direction of Lord Normanby, stating that he is prepared to send down Mr. Duudas
to Birmingham, for the purpose of making full inquiry and receiving the proofs the complaining parties may have to produce on the subject of the late riots. A similar communication has also been made to the Mayor.
A Committee of the Birmingham Town-Council is employed in ex- amining witnesses respecting the causes of the riots, and the proceed- ings connected with them. The Council have passed strong resolutions against the Birmingham Police Act.
Ebenezer Elliott has become bail for Peter Foden, a Sheffield Chartist. He announced his consent to bail the man in the following letter to the Magistrates-
" Gentlemen—I am willing to give bail for Peter Foden, provided you will allow me to explain and publish my reasons for so doing, this letter being the explanation. I wish it to be understood that I hold no communication with the Physical Force dupes, whether rogues or fools, who have listened to pre- cisely such advice as was given by Castles and Oliver twenty-three years ago, with the same intention—namely, to prevent reforms essential to the salvation of the state. That those reforms have been prevented, the existence of the food-monopoly proves; for it threatens to stop the steam-engine itself; bring Saturday without wages, workhouses without rate-payers, revolution in its
worst shape—and, finally, deprive its authors of land and life. But if honest men may be hunted on the high-roads by the vilest animals living, the best and
wisest men in the nation will be stamped into your dungeons: if such creatures arc the law of England, no good man is safe, and any man may want bail, though guiltless of all crime. Therefore, I am willing to bail Foden ; but I cannot bail persons who have been reported to have used the very language which the worst enemies of Reform would have dictated to them, and who appear to have been mere dupes of the common enemy ; fighting no battle but that of the self-doomed landowners, and their thtal, suicidal bread-tax. Such men should apply for bail to the landed paupers, or other monopolists, whose Neese alone they have served by their ' physical force ' gabble. Perhaps that champion of those proud paupers, Richard Oastler (one of the originators of the gabble), will give bail for them."
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