Duncombe

Thomas Slings by. an English politician; born in 1796 He was elected member of Parliawent for Hertford in 1824, a isted _ir earrying the Reform Bill, and _ became prominent in the extreme Libera! party. In 1834 he was returned fot Finsbury, which seat he retained in the Parliament which a embled in 1859. In 1842 he presented the Chartist petition, signed by 3,000,00( of the lower cla es, in favor of uni. versal suffrage, vote by ballot, short Parliaments, etc. In 1842 the then home secretary, Sir James Graham having sanctioned the opening of the letters of Mazzini, Duncombe, in the House of Commons, denounced, with scathing invective, the adoption of the post of lice spy system on English soil. He was an earnest advocate of Jewish emancipation; and his motion, 1858 for placing Baron Lionel Rothschild on a committe of the House of Com. mons was soon followed by the conce ion of the right of Jewish mem. bers to sit in the House of Commons He died Nov. 13, 1861.