The difficulties of this Ministry have been briefly stated at the close of the last chapter; working with a precarious majority, they had to cope with starvation and revolt in Ireland, chartism in England, and disturbances abroad.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
chartism developed out of a large number of separate local organisations of workingmen, who realised that they had gained no political power from the Reform Act, and demanded a reform of Parliament in a really democratic spirit.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
Much of his life was devoted to the propaganda of chartism.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler