Australian Newspaper Reports 1838-1872

Cuffay (and other Chartists: John Frost and William Dowling) in Australia
[TROVE links to 118 online articles collated and corrected by Mark Gregory]

This is a collection of links to Australian newspaper reports for research into Chartism and particularly those that mention William Cuffay

The Sydney Monitor Monday 31 December 1838 p.2
"There is, a new spirit awakened in a portion of the masses ; who are busied in discussing the second Reform Bill–a 'People's Charter' "
From the SPECTATOR of 18th August.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162401

The Sydney Morning Herald 19 January 1839
The Chartist Trials. (From the Times, September 29 and 2 October.)
http://cuffay.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/the-chartist-trials.html

The Sydney Monitor Monday 28 January 1839 p.1
News by the Hashemy. "The speeches should be taken in connexion with " the People's Charter" itself : which we print entire in another place, that the reader may understand clearly"
From the Spectator of September 22
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162691

The Australian Thursday 7 February 1839 p.2
A Chartist meeting took place at Sheffield lately. Mr Ebenezer Elliot, the corn-law poet, was in the chair. The Sheffield Iris says, that about 20,000 persons were present. The resolutions of course were carried.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36860223

Colonial Times Tuesday 19 February 1839 p.4
Reform.--"The Masses." "Meetings at all the large towns, -at Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield, London, -almost in every place, throughout the Kingdom, -and, by the mere use of reason, guided by intelligence, they proceed in sowing the seed, which will, which must, produce much good fruit."
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8749432

Cuffay in England

The Courier Wednesday 9 August 1848 p.3
LATE EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
"National Convention" At the Kennington Common meeting
Spectator-April 15
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2968423

South Australian Tuesday 15 August 1848 p.3
THE CHARTIST CONVENTION

South Australian Tuesday 15 August 1848 p.3
SPECIMENS OF SPEECHIFICATION
AT THE CHARTIST CONVENTION HELD IN
LONDON.

Inquirer Wednesday 16 August 1848 p.3
THE CHARTISTS' MEETING
Great preparations were made to guard against any mischief from the Chartist demonstration...
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65769798

The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 18 August 1848 p. 2-3
THE CHARTIST CONVENTION
Times, April 13
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12911277

Sydney Chronicle Saturday 2 September 1848 p.7
NATIONAL PROSPECTS AND RETROSPECTS.
Lord John Russell speech (From, the Tablet, April 22.)
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31757341

The Cornwall Chronicle [Launceston] Wednesday 20 September 1848
EUROPEAN POLITICS.
A WARNING VOICE. [From the Times, April 27.]
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65979918

The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 20 October 1848 p.3
HOMES FOR THE PEOPLE. ( From the Atlas, June 17. )
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12906807

Launceston Examiner Wednesday 2 May 1849 p.2 [Quoting the Times]
We can assure Lord Brougham that he shall be reported, and that Lord Campbell shall be reported. The Duke of Wellington, Mr. Cuffey, Sir Robert Inglis, Mr. Mitchell, Lord John Russell, and Mr. Feargus O'Connor, no matter what it is any of them may say, so it be of public interest, it shall appear in our columns, all prosecutions to the contrary notwithstanding.

1848 Treason Trial

South Australian Friday 5 January 1849 p.4
The Government have commenced a sweeping prosecution against the English Chartists. True bills have been found against 46 persons in Manchester, 14 at Liverpool, 54 at Ashton under-Lyne, and several had escaped to America. Cuffey, the "Nigger" leader, and husband of the celebrated Chartist washerwoman," was arrested in London upon a charge of conspiracy to depose the Queen.

South Australian Register Saturday 13 January 1849 p.2
On Saturday, September 30th, four of the most deeply implicated Chartists (William Dowling, William Lacey, Thomas Fay, and William Cuffey) were found guilty at the Central Criminal Court, and sentenced to transportation for life.

The Cornwall Chronicle Wednesday 17 January 1849 p.309
Cuffey, the Chartist, and several other Chartists, to be transported for life.

Colonial Times Friday 19 January 1849 p.2
The Chartists sentenced to transportation ...

The Moreton Bay Courier Saturday 20 January 1849 p.3
SUMMARY OF GENERAL NEWS. ( Abridged from the latest papers. )
Cuffy, Ruffy, Looney, Mooney, and Rooney.

The Maitland Mercury Saturday 20 January 1849 p.2
LATER ENGLISH NEWS.
Lacey, Fay, Cuffey, and Dowling

The Maitland Mercury Saturday 20 January 1849 p.4
THE CHARTIST TRIALS

The Sydney Morning Herald Tuesday 23 January 1849 p.3
THE CHARTISTS' SENTENCES

Colonial Times Tuesday 6 February 1849 p.3
The Chartist Prisoners
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8764370

The Maitland Mercury Wednesday 7 February 1849 p.3
British Extracts.
THE UNIVERSAL PEACE-MAKERS. (From the Atlas, September 30)

Inquirer Wednesday 14 February 1849 p.3
Dowling, an obscure and unknown soi-disant artist; Cuffey, a mulatto Journeyman tailor, born, bred, and fed in one of her Majesty's dockyards, which makes the ingratitude of his treason the greater ; Fay, a journeyman shoemaker ; Lacey, another disciple of Crispin; and Richie, a bricklayer — were sentenced by Baron Platt to transportation for the term of their natural lives.

NEW The Perth Gazette Saturday 3 March 1849 p.3
ENGLISH EXTRACTS. SENTENCES ON THE CHARTISTS
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3170504

The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 4 May 1849 p.3
A FRENCHMAN'S VIEWS OF THE STATE OF ENGLAND.
( From the Standard.) "Mr. Cuffee, a decrepit hag, bowed down in slavery, and covered with the accumulated dirt of years, to be washed away only by foreign cosmetics -an unhappy creature "eating bread embittered by injustice." "
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12908676

The Moreton Bay Courier Saturday 12 May 1849 p.4
COLD COMFORT FOR CHARTISTS.―Now that
Ernest Jones has been incarcerated for two years,
and Cuffey, the auditor of the accounts of the
hopeful land job, transported ...
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3708635

The Argus Tuesday 15 May 1849 p.2
The Argus Prosecution.
[Quoting from the Times]
"There is no more certain principle in journalism than this—that on all occasions, and at all times, the most accurate report possible, of whatever of importance is passing in any quarter of the globe, should unhesitatingly be laid before the public. There must  be no doctored reports, no speeches, with the stings taken out for fear a rose-leaf or so in Downing street should be ruffled. It will not do to suppress a fact here, and soften down a phrase there. The rolling Alexandrines of Dr McHale, the stereotyped forms of invective adapted to the use of Conciliation-hall, the flatulent denunciations of Mr. Earnest Jones, must all be given perfect and entire. We can assure Lord Brougham that he shall be reported, and that Lord Campbell shall be reported. The Duke of Wellington, Mr Cuffey, Sir Robert Inglis, Mr. Mitchell, Lord John Russell, and Mr Feargus O'Connor, no matter what it is that any of them may say, so it be of public interest, it shall appear in our columns, all prosecutions to the contrary notwithstanding . This is the only sound policy, and any attempt of lawyers to interfere
with the press in the discharge of their legitimate functions would only recoil upon the country.—
Despite of Lord Brougham's warning, we shall, therefore, take the liberty to pursue our usual course."

Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer Saturday 23 June 1849 p.3
Gold Digging; OR A SONG TO AN OLD TUNE.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/59769059

The Argus Wednesday 10 October 1849 p.4
ALARMING PROSPECTS. To Mr. Punch.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4768563

The Moreton Bay Courier Saturday 10 November 1849 p4.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN EXTRACTS.
THE QUEEN'S VISIT.–THE POLITICAL PRISONERS
... Poor Cuffy might have served well enough as a scapegoat when some victim was
needed to bear the " sins of the multitude" ; but as to his having it in his power to harm anyone in this world, no sane man for a single moment ever credited the idea.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3711657

Cuffay arrival in Van Diemen's Land

The Courier Saturday 1 December 1849 p.2 LOCAL.
"Cuffey, the Chartist ringleader, under the medical charge of Dr. Le Grand."
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2964259

Maitland Mercury Saturday 8 December 1849 p.3
TRANSPORTATION OT THE CHARTIST PRISONERS.
"The Chartist prisoners, Cuffy, Lacy, and the others"
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article698078

The Sydney Morning Herald Tuesday 11 December 1849 p.2
"Cuffey and ten other Chartists were to be landed in Van Diemen's Land"
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12909640

The Maitland Mercury Saturday 15 December 1849 p.2
"Cuffey and ten other Chartists were to be landed in Van Diemen's Land,"
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article697883

The Argus Monday 17 December 1849 p.2
"Cuffey, the famous Chartist"
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4774481

The Morton Bay Courier Saturday 5 January 1850 p.2
"Cuffey and the other Chartist prisoners"
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3712484

Geelong Advertiser Tuesday 24 September 1850 p. 3.
THE BRITISH LION AN ULTRA CHARTIST ! (From Punch.)
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91915626

Cuffay meetings and pardon etc

Colonial Times Tuesday 5 November 1850 p.2
HOBART TOWN: "Protective Association."
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8768183

Colonial Times Friday 28 February 1851 p.2
PUBLIC MEETING OF THE FREE TRADES UNION.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8768823

Freeman's Journal [Sydney] Thursday 3 April 1851 p. 6.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115767528
"We do not think that the Government should proceed to burn Sir Peter, or to whip Sir Peter, or to hang Sir Peter ; but we have no doubt that they would take as effective measures for making Sir Peter hold his tongue as they have taken for quieting the unfortunate Smith O'Brien, and for putting an end to the demonstrations of the belligerent Cuffey."

Goulburn Herald Saturday 21 February 1852 p.2
Irish Democratic Alliance - Meeting at Bradford
"Nor should they, living in the land of the stranger, forget the English exiles of '48,—the honest Cuffey, the bold Lacey, the upright Fay, the manly Dowling:—men whose only and and object was Equality, Fraternity, and Liberty."

Launceston Examiner Saturday 27 November 1852 p.3
"Yellow jackets to the point"
Convicts take over meeting at the Mechanics Institute
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/36264470

The Courier Wednesday 19 July 1854 p.2
THE IRISH CONFEDERACY.
To the Editor of the Daily Courier. LAUNCESTON, July 18, 1854. http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2238387

The Courier Thursday 31 August 1854 p.3
THE NEW MASTERS, SERVANTS, AND APPRENTICES' ACT.
To the Editor, of the Daily Courier. A FRIEND OF THE LABOURER. August 29th. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2243017

The Courier Thursday 31 August 1854 p.3
MASTERS AND SERVANTS' LAW.
To the Editor of the Daily Courier.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2243019

The Courier Wednesday 27 September 1854 p. 3.
MASTERS AND SERVANTS' ACT.
Letter to the Editor
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2243259

The Courier Monday 26 March 1855 p.3
WORKING CLASSES MEETING
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2481404
The Tasmanian Daily News Thursday 30 August 1855 p.3

The Tasmanian Daily News Thursday 30 August 1855 p.3
... Space will not permit us to give the humorous contributors to the general harmony. The comic songs of Mr Cappy must not, however, be forgotten; their rich and exquisite drollery being such as would create a laugh under the ribs of death.

Maidstone Gazette Thursday 4 December 1855 [UK]
From the Tasmanian Daily News Thursday 30 August 1855
Cuffey the Chartist in Tasmania
... Space will not permit us to give the humorous contributors to the general harmony. The comic songs of Mr William Cuffey must not, however, be forgotten; their rich and exquisite drollery being such as would create a laugh under the ribs of death.

[MG – There is a remarkable relationship between the reports above. Since there are no other reports of a Mr Cappy in Tasmanian newspapers it is more than likely that his name was misspelt in the Tasmanian Daily News and that whoever forwarded the page or clipping to the Maidstone Gazette in England alerted the editor there to the mistaken spelling in the original report. Cuff who often sang glee songs at Chartist celebrations in England was also known amongst his many friends and associates in Tasmania for his humour and singing prowess.]

The Courier Thursday 12 February 1857 p.2
Parliament of Tasmania. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL-YESTERDAY
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2457909

Colonial Times Saturday 14 February 1857 p.3
Parliament of Tasmania. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8783462

The Courier Tuesday 17 February 1857 p.3
The Queen has signified her pleasure that a full and free pardon should be granted, under the Great Seal of Great Britain and of Ireland respectively, to all persons suffering under the consequences of conviction for political offences.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2457961

The Tasmanian Daily News 17 Feb 1857 p. 3.
To the Editor of the Tasmanian Daily News
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/202988600

SIR, I was glad to observe this morning that the case of William Cuffey has been mentioned in both Houses: It is a great shame that whilst Frost, the Monmouthshire maurais sugie, the mischief creator, and others,  have received their free pardons--not to say one word about others ten thousand times more culpable, on whom Her Majesty has been pleased to bestow her clemency,--poor Cuffey should be forgotten. I am a friend to equal justice, and therefore make these remarks, in the hope they may be  useful to the man whose name I mention, believing him to be one deserving kind consideration, and at any rate fair play in the game of life.
J. M.

The Mercury Wednesday 18 February 1857 p.3
PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.-YESTERDAY. THE CHARTIST, W CUFFEY.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3242942

The Courier Monday 23 February 1857 p.3
JOHN FROST'S "GREAT STAKE."
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2458064

The Daily Courier Tuesday 24 February 1857 p.3
THE POLITICAL AMNESTY.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2458083

The Sydney Morning Herald Wednesday 4 March 1857 p.3
Free Pardons
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12992801

The Courier Saturday 21 March 1857 p.2
RE-OPENING OF THE ALBERT THEATRE.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2458484

The Courier Tuesday 24 March 1857 p.3
Consideration the political demerits of certain Tasmanian journals
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2458513

The Tasmanian Daily News Tuesday 24 March 1857
Cuffay speaks about the influence of Chartism on the new constitution.
He "then denounced the Master and Servant Act as most atrocious" ... reducing
"the working people to the condition of serfs."

Colonial Times Thursday 26 March 1857 p.2
THE PRESS AND THE PEOPLE.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8785433

Launceston Examiner Thursday 26 March 1857 p.2
A NEW ESTATE
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/36300918

The Cornwall Chronicle Saturday 28 March 1857 p.5
THE COLONIAL PRESS.
Public Meeting at the Albert Theatre, Hobart Town.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/65721521

The Courier Saturday 28 March 1857 p.2
THE ASSEMBLY YESTERDAY SCENES !
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2458586

The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 3 April 1857 p.8
TASMANIA.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12993725

The Hobart Town Courier Thursday 2 April 1857 p.2
LETTER XVIII.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2458660

The Courier Wednesday 29 April 1857 p.2
LETTER XXII.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2459077

The Tasmanian Daily News Wednesday 29 July 1857 p. 3.
A VOICE FROM THE DUSTHOLE.—The People's Paper publishes a letter from Mr. Cuffey, dated Hobart Town, 1st February. He says :—" I daresay my Chartist friends think it strange I have never written to them, but that I will not do while in bondage. Mr. Frost will tell you why. My best respects to him when you see him. Yes, still in bondage, so many months after we see accounts of Smith O'Brien, Frost, and others, being safe at home. Perhaps our old friend Mr. Duncombe will put a question in the ' House' to Mr. Labouchere on that subject ? Tell my Chartist brethren who do not 'faint by the way' to struggle on, for here, in the very dusthole of the empire, as it is sometimes called,
we have a ten-pound franchise, the ballot, no property qualification, and equal electoral districts. Huzzah ! My friend can tell you how admirably it works."—Morning Star.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article201340967

The Cornwall Chronicle Saturday 5 September 1857 p.5
SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65721736

The Mercury Wednesday 21 October 1857 p.4
THE MASTER AND SERVANT ACT.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3245385

The Mercury Wednesday 18 November 1857 p3.
MASTERS' AND SERVANTS' ACT.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3245638

The Mercury Monday 14 December 1857 p.2
MASTERS' AND SERVANTS' ACT.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3245851

The Mercury Wednesday 23 December 1857 p3
MASTER AND SERVANT'S ACT. (Masters petition)
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3245923

The Hobart Town Daily Mercury Tuesday 12 January 1858 p.2
BRIGHTON. (Masters petition)

The Hobart Town Daily Mercury Friday 16 July 1858 p.3
CLEGHORN (Alderman Election, City of Hobart)
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3249408

The Courier Friday 3 September 1858 p.3
MR. CUFFEY.-Fellow citizens and brother working slaves (laughter)
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2463897

The Cornwall Chronicle Wednesday 8 September 1858 p.3
Mr. Cuffey addressed the meeting as fellow working slaves.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65732318

The Courier Thursday 9 September 1858 p.2
PERSONALITIES IN PARLIAMENT
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2463984

The Courier Saturday 25 September 1858 p.2
THE OPPOSITION ESTIMATES.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2464264

The Courier Friday 3 September 1858 p.2
The great public meeting
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2463891

The Courier Monday 17 January 1859 p.2
MR. MAXWELL MILLER'S RESIGNATION.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2466297

The Mercury Thursday 16 May 1861 p.3
PROTECTION. PUBLIC MEETING.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8798333

The Mercury Wednesday 5 June 1861 p.2
MR. MAXWELL MILLER.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8798756

South Australian Register Monday 19 August 1861 p.3
MR. TOWNSEND AND MR. CLARK.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE REGISTER.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50085631

Melbourne Punch 16 May 1861  Page 4.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/174526484 

One day last week, according to the daily papers, George Carnaby was summoned by his wife for having assaulted her. Defendant belonged to that handicraft, eighteen members of which are said to have been accosted by Queen Elizabeth with a gracious "Good morning, gentlemen both !" In other words, he was a tailor ; and he had announced to his wife his determination to "swim in her blood."

The incident suggests to Mr. Punch the inquiry, Why are tailors so bloody-minded ? There was Cuffey, the Chartist, late of Kennington Common, and now of Tasmania ;—who can forget his sanguinary language and deportment, or cease to remember how all England quivered with fear as it listened to his gory rhetoric. ? There was the immortal triad of Tooley street, the third portion of a human unit,—we may be perfectly sure that that triplet was perfectly prepared to shed the blood of ever so many millions in order to substantiate their (the tailors') title to be considered " the people of England."

In the Tempest, Shakspere makes mention of a tailor who was likely " to scratch," or wound (as with a dagger or stiletto), a young lady named Kate ; and no doubt this abrasive propensity was attributable to the bloodthirstiness of the tailor's calling. Then again, there were the irate members of the craft who behaved so riotously when the travestie of "The Tailors" was first produced in London,—what terrible fellows they were ! Is there any tiling in the diet of these useful handicraftsmen
which renders them so sanguinary Do they habitually feed upon black puddings and drink hot blood ? Are they nursed upon tepid gore, and brought up in the neighbourhood of slaughter houses ? Do they accustom themselves to blood baths, and look at the world through crimson spectacles ? Do they affect murderous melodramas when they visit the theatre, and do they establish a reign of Terror in their respective households ? Punch remits the questions to the consideration of the Royal Society.

The Mercury Wednesday 28 May 1862 p.3
CITY ELECTION. MR. MAXWELL MILLER.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8807280

The Mercury (Hobart, Tuesday 27 May 1862 p.2
MR. MAXWELL MILLER'S MEETINGS.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8807267

The Mercury Thursday 6 November 1862 p.4
CITY ELECTIONS.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8812358

The Mercury Saturday 17 January 1863 p.2
PUBLIC MEETING.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8814516

Launceston Examiner Saturday 24 January 1863 p.4
RE-ELECTION OF MINISTERS.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41458564

The Mercury Friday 3 July 1863 p.3
PUBLIC MEETING. ... proposed New Tariff.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8818933

Tasmanian Morning Herald Saturday 29 December 1866 p.3.
CITY ELECTION. MR PRATT’S MEETING AT THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article161081527

The Mercury Wednesday 10 March 1869 p.1
W. R. GIBLIN, ESQ. Nomination
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8857667

The Mercury Saturday 13 March 1869 p.1
W. R. GIBLIN, ESQ. Nomination
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/8857738

The Mercury Tuesday 22 June 1869 p.3
CITY ELECTION. MR. COOK AT THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8859713

Cuffay Obituaries

The Mercury Thursday 4 August 1870 p.3
DEATH OF A CELEBRITY
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8869203

The Cornwall Chronicle Saturday 6 August 1870 p. 6.
DEATH OF A CELEBRITY

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67274238

The Empire Monday 8 August 1870 p.2
DEATH OF A CHARTIST CELEBRITY
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63109970

The Maitland Mercury Tuesday 9 August 1870 p.4
DEATH OF A CHARTIST CELEBRITY
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18747301

The Mercury Thursday 11 August 1870 p.3
DEATH OF A CELEBRITY
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8875606

The Gippsland Times 27 August 1870 p.3
DEATH OF A CELEBRITY (republished from Hobart Mercury) http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/61346058

Portland Guardian and Normanby General Advertiser Monday 29 August 1870 p.4
DEATH OF A CELEBRITY (republished from Hobart Mercury) http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/65422881

Illustrated Australian News for Home Readers Saturday 10 September 1870
Cuffey, the tailor, well known as one of the Chartist leaders, has died in one of the benevolent asylums in Hobart Town, at the age of eighty-five.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/5733420


Evening News (Sydney) Saturday 15 June 1872 p. 6.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article114733898
MR. DISRAELI AT MANCHESTER
Mr. Disraeli told his hearers that he remembered a day when no woman could leave her house in London, and cannon was placed on Westminster Bridge. Many of us are quite old enough to remember that day, and also to remember that an old Tory alarmist filled the streets with soldiers; that the 10th of April became a joke; that women and children went in and out without fear ; and that nearly the only martyr was poor old Cuffey.


Popular agitation in Britain

The Brisbane Courier Wednesday 10 January 1872 p.2
popular agitation in Great Britain is becoming more tolerated as an acknowledged power, and as an admitted right on the part of the people. If we compare the manner in which it was attempted to "stamp out" the Chartist agitation of 1848, with the passive way in which large public gatherings "some of them of open revolutionary tendency" are now permitted in the metropolis of the empire. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1328971

Herald (SA) Saturday 29 November 1902 p.1
CHARTISM AND ITS LEADERS. CHIEFLY FROM PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS. CHAPTER IV. FERGUS O'CONNOR.
...
Press and Senate declared, that the proceedings of the 10th of April had stamped out chartism, and influence had been brought to bear to continue the prosecutions. Men were arrested and classed as convicts, some of whom died in prison of fever and semi-starvation ; others, like Cuffey, Lacey, and May, were sent out of the country and never heard of again. To be connected with the agitation was enough to procure an arrest. No man apparently was safe. What did the Chartists aim at ? Chiefly manhood suffrage. They played a self-sacrificing game, and were defeated. It would have been
strange indeed if the result had been otherwise, when it is considered what a powerful military force had been arrayed against them, and that even the reformed Parliament had no sympathy with the
condition of the working classes.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110201260

 John Frost

The Sydney Herald Friday 12 July 1839 p.4
EXTRACTS. THE NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Letters between John Frost and Lord John Russell
From: Standard, February 14
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12863065

The Courier Friday 3 April 1840 p.4
ENGLISH NEWS. Chartist disturbances in South Wales
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8747431

The Courier Friday 1 May 1840 p.4
Special Commission for Frost and confederates
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8748616

The Courier Friday 7 August 1840 p.3
THIS MORNING'S POST.
The Chartists - Frost, Williams, and Jones ... at Port Arthur
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8747981

The Sydney Herald Thursday 3 June 1841 p.4
CHARTIST MEETING AT BRISTOL.
INTERESTING COMMUNICATION FROM FROST, IN VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. BRISTOL, JAN. 11, 1841.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12869428

The Courier Friday 4 June 1841 p.4
THE CHARTISTS.
At the Chartist meeting ... on Monday in Bristol
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2956212

The Sydney Gazette Tuesday 6 July 1841 p.3
Report from Hobart Town papers. John Frost
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The Sydney Morning Herald Tuesday 27 March 1855 p.2
In the trial of the Eureka Stockade diggers the Attorney General explained "Agitation sometimes directed its efforts against some tax or charge which was obnoxious to many ; but to levy war to obtain the alteration of a law, was high treason. The insurrection by men under the guidance of Frost, against the turnpike imposts on roads was a modern instance of the committal of high treason committed by men under similar circumstances to the present."

Colonial Times Friday 30 November 1855
MR. JOHN FROST;
THE following, says the Cardiff Guardian, are extracts of a letter from Mr. John Frost, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8785728

The Courier Saturday 13 December 1856 p.3
JOHN FROST, THE CHARTIST.
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William Dowling: Portrait Painter in Van Diemen's Land

In 1848 William Dowling shared a cell in Newgate Gaol with his "fellow sufferer" William Cuffay while they awaited transportation. Dowling's sketch of Cuffay was printed as a lithograph: the only known copy of it is in the National Portrait Galley in London.

The Courier Saturday 4 May 1850
MARRIAGE. William P. Dowling
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The Courier Friday 17 December 1852 p.4
REMOVED to MACQUARIE STREET, PORTRAIT PAINTER. W. PAUL DOWLING http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8772561

Colonial Times Saturday 5 February 1853 p.3
Mr. Paul Dowling
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The Mercury Saturday 23 March 1861 p.2
DEATHS. DOWLING.- March 11, at Launceston, Maria Devaux Dowling, fourth daughter of W. Paul Dowling
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The Mercury Friday 9 September 1864 p.1
IMPUDENCE.---CAUTION (Paul Dowling)
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The Mercury Friday 8 November 1872 p.2
The Late Mr. Davies. -The Ancient and Independent Order of Odd Follows ... The portrait is finished in oil by Mr. Wm. Paul Dowling
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