ABSTRACT
Joseph Hume proposed a Household Suffrage motion which would have gone far to lay the Chartist agitation, but the Government had no welcome to give to any departure from the principles of the Reform Bill. The Government, which declined so persistently to give any welcome to Radicalism’s most moderate and most responsibly urged proposals, had before the end of the Session to take the additional onus of legislating to renew the powers of the detested Poor Law Commissioners. Meanwhile the miserable work of trying arrested Chartists had already begun at the July Assizes in Montgomeryshire, a county sufficiently moved by Chartism to permit its towns of Newtown, Welshpool, and Llanidloes to elect a representative to the convention. One of the unexpected results of the Newport fighting was a sudden revival of Chartist zeal. It was much easier to launch local Chartist organisations than to found a co-ordinated national party.
