The release of Mr. Roberts, the Chartist solicitor, has excited
much attention. The Globe says he was set at liberty on the certificate of the Surgeon of the Gaol, forwarded by the Visiting Justices, " that any further confinement would endanger his life." If, however, the follow- ing account of his proceedings on the day of his liberation is correct, (and it is given in a published letter signed by Mr. Daniel, Minister of Bradford, Wiltshire,) it would seem that Mr. Roberts retained a good deal of vigour with the inclination to recommence agitation. Mr. Daniel, writing to the Marquis of Normanby, says- " Pray observe this mall's conduct : on the 7th instant, when your discharge of him was sent down by your Secretary, Mr. S. M. Phillipps, he left the Gaol, travelled to Warminster, and, instead of proceeding to see his dear disconso- late wife, he must needs come out of his way very considerably into Trow- bridge, there congregate a mass of Chartists, and thence come to this place, which was beginning to get pacified from the ill effects of last year's Chartism, (about three miles distant from Trowbridge,) with between six and seven hun- dred men, about eleven o'clock at night, to the great and just alarm of many of her Majesty's most loyal subjects in this town ; and, by way of bravado, he and his respectable attendants must needs stop and give three triumphant cheers opposite the house of one of the most respectable Magistrates m this
-- county, who had excited their displeasure by his successful and manly oppesi. tion to their inroads. The ob likewise halted before the house of the Chief Constable, who had been :principal witness against Roberts on his trial."
It is said that Mr. Roberts is a near connexion of Chief Justice Tindal ; to which circumstance, possibly-, as much as to his state of health, he may be indebted for his liberation.
Mr. Feargus O'Connor has written a very long letter to the Times,
asserting that he felons' still treated as a felon, and compelled to perform the most disgustingWork in the prison ; and that his health is rapidly declining under this treatment. Mr. ?;Connor threatens his oppressors with the disclosure of some "secret ; and his letter concludes thus— "And now farewell, world—for seventeen months farewell ; but, by
Heaven, I'll make a storm in you!" According to the Leeds Intelligencer, a letter-carrier of Halifax, ap- pointed through Mr. Charles Wood's influence, has absconded, after purloining money from several letters : and this man's brother has been appointed his successor, on Mr. Protheroe's application.
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