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FRIENDLY ASSOCIATION OF LONDON COSTERMONGERS . A meeting of this association was held on Wednesday evening , at the Working-Man ' s Hall , Goldenlane , City—Mr . Baily in the chair . A gentleman attended to explain the unavoidable absence of Mr . Mayhew . The secretary read extracts from a prospectus explanatory of the objects of the association . It appears the London costermongers are 20 , 000 in number , with at least 30 , 000 other persons dependent on them , and are in a condition of much physical and moral degradation and misery .
The secretary said Provident Societies , according to late Government accounts , have contributed throughout Great Britain a sum of £ 4 , 980 , 000 . Despite its obvious utility , the costermongers are one of the few bodies of the poor still without such a society ; and yet no other section of the people stands so much in need of it , their means of livelihood being so precarious . Three or four days' rain will often reduce them to the brink of starvation . When , a costermonger has a good day of earning , he would willingly
lay by his money against a less favourable one , if he had a safe place to put it in . It is encouraging to ¦ witness the honesty of the poorer classes when trustingly dealt with , as exemplified in the instance of Mrs . Chisholm ' s philanthropic efforts . She has advanced over £ 16 , 000 to those classes , and all , with an exception of £ 12 , has been honourably repaid . In the present case , however , care will be taken that there be sufficient security for all loans . Outline of new regulations were read , and , after speeches by Mr . Palmer and others , the meeting adjourned till Monday .
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ELECTIONS BY THE REDEMPTION SOCIETY . The members of the Redemption Society are informed that an election of members for the Welsh community is in contemplation . The society has had in constant employ a number of hired agricultural labourers . It has all along been a matter of regret to the society that proper persons ( members ) could not be found" to fill the posts the society has had at command . That difficulty is now in a fair way of being removed . The Society is about proposing the election of additional members . They must be capable of working on the land , and they will be preferred if they are masons , bricklayers , or blacksmiths . We expect to drain much land in the coming winter ; and the choice has also a reference to the erection of the communal buildings . We give this notice to prepare the members , and enable them to nominate proper persons to fill the situations . An advertisement giving the particulars will shortly appear in the Leader . We are happy to inform the members and friends that all the operations on the farm are highly satisfactory ; zeal and industry are characteristics of our members in the community . A good working nucleus is in the course of formation , which will keep in order future cfForts . Moneys received for the week ending July 29 : — Leeds £ 2 0 1 £ Halifax , M . U Koper 1 10 (> i Do , iickiiowtailgtHl June 17 th 1 S > "i Worcester , W . Weaver 0 1 ' . ' 8 Coventry , C . Sliufllebotliam 1 1 6 I-Iuddcrsflcld , C . Glcclhill » 10 0 £ 7 10 11 . 4 Communal Building Fund : — Halifax * £ 0 IB H Coventry : 0 8 0 £ 1 4 11 David Green .
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Lord Brougham made another ill-natured attack upon the Hyde-park Exhibition , last evening . He understood that the huge operations were begun , and were in course of being carried on to the destruction of the Park and the road leading from Hyde-park corner to Kensington , which hitherto had been an easy and comfortable passage for the inhabitants ; particularly those on the left-hand side , but which was now to be paved- with blocks of granite , heavy , and adapted for a road on which there was heavy and incessant traffic , but wholly unnecessary and inappropriate in such a locality as that . He then adverted to the conduct of the Attorney-General in refusing to sign the information against the commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 , which
he condemned in strong terms , contending that if the Attorney-General was to be the sole judge between the Crown and all other persons , and was to shut the doors of the courts of justice in the manner he had done , this country would be no longer free , and the Attorney-General would be more absolute than any despot in Europe . He could not help , when he reflected on the silence observed in both Houses when this subject was introduced , feeling amazed at the prostration of spirit exhibited when the word " Prince" was pronounced . The Lord Chancellor defended the course pursued by the Attorney-General , which was strictly according to law . Lord Brougham admitted that the Attorney-General was warranted by law in acting as he had done , but what he questioned was his discretion .
Lord Brougham then moved for an account of the savings of the civil list revenues since the beginning of 1838 . His object was not to open up any indecorous enquiry into the personal expenses of the Sovereign , but merely to ascertain in what quarter certain savings had accrued . " He held in his hand a return which had been presented to Parliament , up to the 5 th of April , 1850 , which showed that a saving of £ 38 , 719 4 s . 2 d . had been effected in the expenditure of the civil list during last year . This surely could not be considered a secret when these savings had been stated in a return furnished by the Treasury . Now all he wanted to know was how much of the
amount had been effected in consumable articles used in the Lord Steward ' s , in the Lord Chamberlain ' s , and in the Master of the Horse ' s departments , and how much had been obtained from pensions and salaries . He wanted to see how much had been saved in each department , and how much from salaries . They had the total amount , and he could not conceive why they should not have details . Previous to voting the civil list for this reign , estimates were laid before the Parliament in 1 S 37 , explaining the principles on which the Government had framed the civil list for the
present reign . Estimates were given under various heads , of so much being required for the Lord Steward ' s , the Lord Chamberlain ' s , and the Master of the Horse's departments , and so much as allowance for salaries and pensions . He , therefore , required an explanation under which head the savings had been effected . It had become known that , in consequence of the death of Sir Thomas Marrable , and the appointment of Mr . Hill to the Board of Green Cloth , there was a saving to the amount of £ 2927 . This , therefore , had been effected out of a vote which had been granted
for a specific purpose . If they voted a certain number of thousands a-year for the support of the dignity of the Crown for each department , they ought to know what the expenditure was in the Lord Steward ' s , the Lord Chamberlain ' s , and the Master of the Horse ' s departments . The Sovereign had no right to abolish offices—or , rather , the advisers of the Crown had no right to take money given for one purpose and apply it to another . He begged to remind the House
that in 1837 or 1838 he had stated two grounds why ho thought it was the duty of Parliament to fix a period to which they should limit the civil list then to be granted . During all the discussions when they were fixing the amount of the expenditure of the three great departments of the Court , and of salaries and pensions paid out of the civil list , he had remarked that they could not be able to see whether in future time the amounts they were about to vote would be too much or too little . If it was too
little , the Parliament would have to give an increase or to pay off debts contracted on the civil list . If it was too much , which was very possible , and he had stated several reasons why he thought this would be the case , it was a strong ground why provision should not be made . He had strongly maintained one reason for thinking so , merely that the prices of articles of consumption would not continue high . He then said he did not believe that the corn laws would be long continued . He had
expressed his assurance that that law must be repealed , and he had asserted that the consequence of such repeal would bo that they could not properly appropriate the amount that would be required in each of these departments with the existing state of facts before them . As he had foreseen , the coin laws hud been repealed , and savings to the amount of £ . '> S , 000 had been effected in . the expenditure of the civil list in one year . He took credit for not having agreed at the time with the sums h ' Ncd for each , for the whole of a reign , for these several
departments . ' Another reason for enquiry was in order to ascertain how the- revenues of the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster were munnged : — " In 1848 , not less than £ 7000 was paid out to defray
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Industrial Reform . —The second public meeting called by the ' Central Board for the Promotion of Working Men ' s Associations , " was held on Wednesday cvcniiiK , the 31 st ult ., at the National Hall , High Holborn , Vansittart Neale , Esq ., in . the chair . The first resolution was worded thus , " Competition is one of the principal causes of the present existing misery , and association is the most efficient remedy ; " and was proposed by Mr . Lloyd Jones . It was of little avail that the ¦ working classes should petition the Legislature to assist them ; our legislators did not know what to do with them . The working classes must aid themselves . Let them associate together—honest , earnest , truthful men , inspired with the will to redeem themselves and their order , ami the means to that end would not be wanting . They had been deceived , and would be deceived again , yet , in spite of these things , let them lenrn to trust each other , they had fur better put their little capital together , and delegate one of themselves to manage it for their mutual bmefit , than submit to the evils of the present system . Gerald Massey said that it was a sublime old truism that " God helps those who help themselves ;" and if the working classes had helped themselves there might have been a happier and a better England . Mere political veform was insufficient—if we needed any proof of that let us turn to France—wo had seen how the people , had fought to change their political institutions , and had lost the fruits of all their hard struggles because not . sufficiently enlightened to make the social change . Hitherto production and consumption had been organized thus : There lias been association in production , and competition in distribution , which means everything to those who have power to take , and nothing for those who
have no power to defend . Mr . Goodfellow here attempted to speak out of order , and was prevented after much noise . An amendment was then moved , in his sense , by Mr . Bates , stating that , " as society was the result ot legislative enactments , no permanent remedy could be applied until a thorough change had been effected mour representative system . " This was negatived , and Mr . Kydd said , as there was no real difference between the Political and Social Reformers , he submitted that , if the mover and seconder of the resolution would allow him to put it thus , " Competition is one of the greatest causes , and association is one of the most efficient remedies of the present existing misery" it would enable all parties
, to give their assent ; and thus amended the resolution was carried . Mr . Walter Cooper , the manager of the Working Tailor ' s Association , moved the second resolution , which set forth that " Capital would not be endangered by the formation of Working Men ' s Associations , and that the most efficient means of support was by providing them with custom , " he showed that associated labour could give better interest and security for capital than the individual trader . He called upon the working classes to come and support associated labour ; to go to the tailors in Castle-street East , the needle-women in Red Lion-squarethe bootmakers in Holborn and
Tot-, tenham-court-road , the bakers in Clipstone-street , and the printers in Gough-square . Let the working men assist them ; they were not working for themselves alone , but for the whole mass of the producing millions . Neither did he advocate association merely for the betterance of their physical condition—not for bread alone ; but he maintained that out of association would spring an identity of interests and the holy bond of brotherhood . The resolution , seconded by Mr . Field , was" carried unanimously ; and , after a vote of thanks to the chairman , the meeting , which was large , quickly separated .
Railways and the Poor . —The North British Railway is doing what it can to encourage pleasure trips . It has reduced the far from Edinburgh to Portobello , third class , to a penny . That will allow poor people to take an occasional bathe . I cannot say what effect it may have upon the coaches which compete with the rail—but all last summer , notwithstanding the great railway accommodation , these coaches were as full as ever they were before the rail was opened . Thus the amount of travelling must have enormously increased since that time . Numbers of people now never think of taking
lodgings at the sea-side , but go down in the mornings and come up after they have bathed . They find this , on the whole , the cheaper system , and it is certainly the most pleasant , for a Scotch sea-bathing place is a miserable gaol in the evenings . — Correspondent of the Atlas . Exeter Building Society . —Of the Exeter and West of England Permanent Benefit Building Society , we learn , with much gratification , that its transactions during the past year have been extensive , and have enabled many of its members with great advantage to become owners of valuable land and house property .
Detail Imimiovkmext . —A grim Lion obstructs the paths of ardent Benevolence in its desire to lessen the monster evils of society , and constantly roars " Impossible , impossible ! " Well-disposed Affluence surveys the encroaching waves of destitution and crime as they roll onwards , spreading their dark waters over the face of society , and folds its hands in powerless despair—a despair created by a false notion of the inefllcacy of individual or limited action . " Who can stem such a tide ?" it exclaims . " We must have some great comprehensive
system . Without that single efforts are useless . " Upon this untrue and timid premise many a purse is closed , many a generous impulse checked . It is never remembered that all great facts , for evil or for good , are an aggregate of small details , and must be grappled with in detail . Every one who hath and to spare , has it in his power to do some good and to check some evil ; and , if all those to whom the ability is given were to do their part , the great " Comprehensive System" which is so much prayed for would arrange itself . —Dickens ' s House * hold Words , No . 17 .
M . Cabet . — This devoted leader of the Icanans , who occupy Nauvoo , has lost none of the confidence of those for whom he labours , notwithstanding the vilifications of the opponent press . The Icarians at Nauvoo number upwards of 400 ; the largest , and , with the exception of the Redemption Society , the only Communist Association exististing upon a purely secular basis . By a letter just received from M . Cabet at the Icarian Committee-room , 13 , Newman-street , Oxford street , we are informed of the arrival of thirty-eight more Icarians at Nauvoo . The monthly meetings of the Icarians are held on the second Wednesday of the month , at the above address , at eight in the evening . — T . C .
GOVERNMENT PRINTING AT WASHINGTON . —The correspondents of the newspapers at the capital state that Mr . Ritchie has given up his contract for the Government printing , in consequence of the low prices paid for the work . — New York Weekly Herald , No . 378 . TO THE SUBSCRIBERS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE " WEEKLY TRIBUNE . " Mr . Buchanan , late Proprietor and Editor of the Weekly Tribune , is now on a tour through the provinces to explain to the supporters of that Journal the circumstances which have led to its amalgamation with this
newspaper , and to devise inea .-ures for rendering the Lender an efficient organ of communication for the Social Reformers of the United Kingdom . As he intends during his progress to give a public lecture or address in all places where the Iriends can niakesatisfactory arrangements for thn purpose , communications on this matter are immediately invited . His addross for the ensuing week will bo , " care of J . B . Smith , solicitor , Hanley , Staffordshire . " Lancashire and Yorkshire will be first visited : afterwards , Scotland .
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POSTSCRIPT . Saturday , August 3 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 3, 1850, page 442, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1849/page/10/
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