Isaac Jefferson, the "Wat Tyler" of the Bradford Chartists, was
arrested on Wednesday, in a lone public-house, and expressed himself "glad of it"; as he was tired of hiding. He is now in York Gaol, charged with seditious conspiracy.
We have been asked to support an appeal made to the public on behalf of Mr. Charles Butler, formerly well known as a chemist in St. Paul's Churchyard; and we do so on the merits of the case as it is recorded. Mr. Butler was tried on a charge of felony, and pronounced guilty; it after- wards appeared that he had been wrongfully convicted; but, by an absurd and disgraceful imperfection in our law, there is no technical process to annul a conviction of the kind. A "free pardon" is the miserable substi- tute for absolute quittance; and that Mr. Butler received—after he had been for some months in the hulks. Meanwhile he is ruined, and struggles ineffectually to recover his position in society. His friends advance to aid him with a subscription, and their advertisement is printed in another page. Wronged by the public law, Mr. Butler has a fair claim for compensation from the public.
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