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THE NORTflEM STAB SATUBDAY, OCTOBER 5, IS50.
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ATJ EFFECTUAL CURE FOR PILES , FISTULAS , & o . M E jf T . ABERNETHY'S PILE J > i * afflwed hare been peram . £± . What a painful and notions disease is the Piles ! and , compara tively , Z ™ tbe use „ f powerful aperients too nently cured by ordinary appeals to medical still ! This , no doubt , arise' . = . ^^ ^ avoided in all cases ftequently administered by the profession ; indeed , strong internal me diciines snffering ) p iaoed lumself under the of this complaint The proprietor of the above Ointment , after J * £° \ ' , mrtect health , and has enjoyed it ever veattnenl of that eminent surgeon , Mr . Abernethy ; wasby him resrore avv * ^ whidl fime tne same A Derne . since without the slightest return of the disorder , over a perio d of ° *^ * cases , both in and out of the proprietor ' s , thiaaixascripti . on . has been the means oi healing a . vast w ? *** ' „ SftTsome of them for a very considerable time , circle of friends , most of which cases had been imder medical care , niMjy who flad j , een perfecaT healed by its Abernethy ' s Pile Ointment was introduced te the public PT JJ" " J ^ s pread far and wide ; even the medical profession , application , and since its introduction the feme of tni * ° i ° ™ medicine not prepared by themselves , do now freely and « IwaysslowandimwiUmgtx ) acTaiowledgethe vu ^ esMaD }" | ' preparation , but a never failing remedy in every fiantly admit that Abernethy ? s Pfle Ointment is not only a tjuu stage and variety of that appalling malady . . . . ointment a trial . Multitudes of cases of its efficacy might Sufferers from the Piles wiU not repent giynig tne ^ whQ have been cured , lUMvillingto publish their beproauced , if thanature of the complaint did not rena Barnes . fifenf three " 4 s . 6 d . pots in one for Us ., with fnU directions for use , Sold in covered Pots at 4 s . 6 d .. or J ^^^ X st . Paul ' s Church-yard ; Bnlter , 4 Cheapside ; Newbery , St . by Barclay and Sons , Farring don-street ,. f *""^ borrihill ; Sanger , 159 Orford-stieet ; WiUoughby and Co ., 61 Paul ' s ; Sutton , Bow puni ^ j rf ; Jonn ^ mond st ^ t > Burtonj ; rescenl . ^^ GosweU-street ; Prout , 229 Bishopsgate-Street Without ; ^^^ eet ; Frentis , 84 , Edgeware-road ; and retail by all respectable Chemists and MeoWe Vendors in I « ndon . Hy , pn > E 0 TjmiENT . " The Public are requested to be on their guard V Be sure to ask »* "T ^ ia at i Prices , and to observe that none can possibly be genuine , unless the name sgainnno » ons Composmons , ^^^ ^^ ^^ tQ pach ^ M ; wMch ^ ^ lmKt prfce ^ proprietor SSKat , owing to the great expense of the Ingredients .
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COR 5 IS AND BUNIONS . PAUL'S EYERT MAN'S FRIEND , JPatronisedby the Boyal Family , Nobility , Clergy , & e : # . Ts a sure and speedy Cure for those severe annoyances , without causing the least pain or inconvenience . Unlike all ether remedies *<> r Corns , its operation is such as to render the cutting of Coras altogether unnecessary : indeed , we may say , the practice of cutting Corns is at all times highly dangerous , and has been frequently attended with lamentable consequences , besides its liability to increase their growth ; it adheres with the most gentle pressure , produces an instant and delightful relief from torture , and with perseverance in its application , entirely eradicates the most inveterate Corns and Bunions . Testimonials have been received from upwards of one hundred Physicians and Surgeons of the greatest eminence , as weU as from many Officers of both Army and Navy , and nearly one thousand private letters from the gentry in town and country , speaking in high terms of this valuable remedy . -.. ,,.. -.- « .. Prepared by JohnFox , in boxes at Is . lid ., or three small boxes in one for 2 s . 9 d ., and to be had , with full directionsforuse , at all wholesale and retail medicine vendors in town and country . The genuine has the name of John Fox on the stamp . A . 2 s . 3 d . box cures the most obdurate corns . Ask for "Paul ' s Every Man ' s Friend . " Abernethy ' s Pile Ointment , Paul's Corn Plaster , and Abernethy's Pile Powders , are sold by the following respectable Chemists and Dealers in Patent Medicines : — - Barclay and Sons , Farringdon-Btreet ; Edwards , 67 , St , Paul's Church-yard ; Butter , 4 , Cheapside ; Newbery , St . Paul ' s ; Sutton , Bow Church-yard ; Johnson , 68 , CornhiU ; Sanger , 150 , Oxford-street ; Willoughby and Co ., 61 , BishODSgate-Street "Without : Owen , 52 , Marchmond-street ; Burton-crescent ; Bade , 39 , GosweU-street ; Prout , 229 , Strand fnannay and Co ., 63 , Oxford-street ; Prentis , 84 , Edgeware-road ; and retail by all respectable chemists and Medicine vendors in London . - < n -n x
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DU BARRrS HEALTH RESTORING FOOD THE BEVALENTA ABABICA . CAUTION . —The most disgusting and injurious compounds being sold by unscrupulous speculators upon the credulity of the Public , under close imitation of the name of DU BARRT'S RETALENTA AKABICA FOOD , or wtih a pretence of being similar to thatdelicious and invaluable remedy for Indigestion , Constipation , Nervous , Bilious , and Liver Complaints , Messrs . DU BARRY and Co . caution Invalids against these barefaced attempts at imposture . There is nothing in the whole vegetablekingdom that can legitimately be called similar to Du Barry's Bevalenta Arabica , a plant which is cultivated by Du Barry and Co . on their estates alone , and for the preparation and pulverisation of which their own Patent Machinery alone is adapted . Let Corn Chandlers sell their pease , beans , lentil , and other meals trader their proper names , and not trifle with the health of Invalids and Infants , for whom DU BABBY'S BEVALENTA ARABICA alone is adapted .
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this two ten-pound canisters of your ' Revalenta Arabica Food . ' I beg to assure you that its beneficial effects have been duly appreciated by , dear sir , yours most rcspectfullj , Tnos . Kixg , Major-General , Louisa Terrace , Exmouth , August 17 th , 1849 . I now consider myself a stranger to aU cempaints except a hearty old age . I am as well as ever I was , and even quite free from the vexatious and troublesome annoyance of an eruption of the skin , of which I had suffcial or years , and which my medical attendanthad declared incurable at my time of life . About sixty years ago 1 had a fall from my horse , hemiplegia was the consequence , my left arm and leg were paralysed ; also my left eyelid and the eye was displaced . From 1798 these dilapidations have resisted all remedies until now , at the age of eighty-five , by two years use of your delicious breakfast food , my left arm and leg have been rendered as useful to me as the right , and the left eyelid restored te health , the eye so much so , that it requires no spectacles , < £ c . I deem this extraordinary cure of much importance to sufferers at large , and consider it my duty to place the above details at your disposal , in any way you tldnk will promote the welfare of others . Faithfully , Tvx . Hu . vr , Barrister-at-Law , King's College , Cambridge , Oct . lath , 1 S 49 . I have found it to be a simple , though very efficacious and pleasant food , doing good in my own and other functional disorders . ( Rev . ) Chables Keue , AVinslow , Bucks ,
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THE MIlNEES' CONFERENCE AT NB WCASTLE-ON-TrNE . TO THE MISEBS OF GREAT BMTAIN . Fellow Men , —At a Conference , held in May last , at Wigan , in Lancashire , to consider the propriety of reorganising the Miners' Association , it was resolved to convene another Conference at Nowcastlc-on-Tjne , to perfect the arrangements then entered into . This notice is , therefore , to apprise the miners of every district , that the said Conference will be held on Monday , October 14 th , at Mr . T . Graves , Cock Inn , Head of the Side , Newcastle . Business to commence at ten o'clock There will also be held , on Saturday , October 12 th , a general public meeting of the miners of Northumberland and Durham , on tho Town Moor . Chair taken at twelve o ' clock , noon . It is particularly requested that delegates to the conterence will endeavour to be present at the public meeting , held as above noticed . There will be likewise a delegate meeting after the pubhe meeting is over , for Northumberland and Durham , at the usual place of meeting . M . Jode , Sec .
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man dressed in a straw hat , straw coat , 'waistcoat , and pantaloons , as a puff to his shop .
Fire And Life Assurance, And Annui-
FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE , AND ANNUI-
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TIES FOR THE INDUSTRIAL CLASSES . ENGLISH AND CAMBRIAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY : FOR FIRE , LIFE , ANNUITIES , AND ENDOWMENTS , & c . Capital £ 150 , 000 with power of increase to One Million . ( Incorporated by Act of Parliament . ) CHIEF OFFICES : —No . 9 , New Bridge-street , Blackfriars , London . District Offices . No . 65 , Sun-slreet , Bishopsgate-street , City ; No . 67 , Charlotte-street , Fitzroy-square ; No . 6 , Trinity-street , Trinity-square , Borough ; No . 12 a , Cannon . row , Bridge , street , Westminster . Medieol Officer . Daniel Wane , Esq ., M . D ., 67 , Charlotte-street , Fitzroysquare ( on Monday ) , and 6 , Trinity-street ( on Thursday ) , from 10 to 3 . LIFE ASSURANCES INDISPUTABLE . Trustees . ¦¦•¦¦¦ - d . M . Master , Esqi Stephen Oldihg , Jan ., Esq ., William Whitelock , Esq . Direetors . Geoboe Astle , Esq ., Johk Botd , Esq ., James Fesjkings , Esq ., Isaac Halse , Esq ., G . M . Murray , Esq ., Charles Siewabt , Esq ., Daniel W " , Esq ., M . D „ William White lock , Esq . Bankers . Messrs . Rogers , Olmng , Sharpe , & Co , Clement ' sJane , Lombard-street . ' Auditors . William Ord , Esq ., M . D ., G . H . Hodge . ' , Esq ., HENRY Brooks , Esq . I n fe Department . J . H . James , Esq ., Actuary , Fire Department . , George Womlext Esq ., Manager . Secretary . Geoege Angus , Esq .
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HOOPER'S JOURNAL ; V / OR , UNFETTERED THINKER , AND PLAIN SPEAKER FOE TKUTJJ , FREEDOM , AND PROQRESS , ( A . Weekly Periodical . Price One Pennt . Issued also ' . ' . " . in Monthly Parts . ) : ' I beg to inform the readers of the above-named Periodical that the re-issue will commence with Saturday , the 5 th of October next . The Trade can be supplied on Tuesday , tho 1 st of October . I have no promises to make of ' great improvements . The intelligent friends who kindly assisted me with their contributions before , have intimated their ; intention to continue their favours . The ' Critical Exegesis , ' and other articles , so far as space will allow ; shall bo duly furnished by myself . Thomas Coopeb . 5 , Park-row , Knightsbridge , Sept . 3 rd , 1850 .
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CAPTAIN COBLE It ; OR , THE LINCOLNSHIEE REBELLION . ( An Historical Romance of the lleign of Henry VIII . ) By THOMAS Coopee , author of the ' Purgatory of Suicides . ' Tho re-issue of this Romance will also commence on Saturday , the 5 th of October . The Trade can be supplied on Tuesday , the 1 st of October . Eighteen "Penny Numbers ( or three Sixpenny Parts ) are already published . No . 19 will , of course , be the number issued at the beginning of October . —T . C . Published by James Watson , 3 . Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row .
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NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Office , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand . 11 HE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE . hereby announce the following meetings ;—On Sunday afternoon , October the 6 th , the Democratic Conference will assemble in the Coffee Room ol the Johnstreet Institution . Chair to be taken at three o ' clock . On Sunday evening ( same date ) a lecture will be delivered at the King and Queen , Foley-treet , Portland-place . To commence at half-past eight o'clock . On Monday evening , October 7 th , a public meeting will beheld at the City Hall , 2 G , Golden-lane , Barbican . Mr . William Daviea , and a deputation from the Democratic Propagandists , will attend an 1 address the meeting . Chair to he taken at eight o'clock . On the same evening , Mr J . Bronterre O'Brien will lee ture at the South London Hall , on the propositions of the National Reform League . To commence at eight o ' clock . Admission One Penny , to defray expenses . On Tuesday evening , October 8 th , a public meeting will he held in the Temperance Hall , Broadway , Westminster , for the purpose of exposing the horrid and cruel treatment the Char , tist victims have been subjected to during their imprisonment . Messrs . G . Julian Harney , Bronterre O'Brien , John Shaw , John Fussell , John J . Bezer , James M . Bryson , and George Shell , will attend and address the meeting . Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock precisely . Admission ( to defray expenses ) Boxes twopence ; Fit and Gallery one penny . Signed , on behalf of the Committee , John Abnott , General Secretary .
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TO TAILORS . By approbation of Her Majesty , Queen Victoria , and H . R . H . Prince Albert . NOW READY , THE LONDON and PARIS FASHIONS for AUTUMN and WINTER 1850-1 , the most splendid and superbly-coloured FEINT ever before published by Messrs . Benjamin READ and Co ., 12 Hart-street , Bloomsbury-square , London ; and by G . BERGEB , Holywell-street Strand . This exquisitely engraved Print will be accompanied with Riding , Dress , Froek and Shooting Coat Patterns , all of the newest and most fashionable style , and every part fully illustrated both for Cutting and Making-up . Also the registered Cape and Cloak-Paletot for persons of all nations , the most convenient garment every before introduced , and will admit of great variety in cutting and making-up : every particular explained . Registered according to act of parliament , by Bead and Co ., 28 th August , 1850 . Ail persons purchasing the Fashions are at liberty to make and sell the same ; and all other persons not purchasing the fashions , by sending 3 s . for the Pattern and printed information , for that and all other particulars respecting Style and Fashion for the present season . The beautiful and richly-coloured Print is exhibited in the ltoyal Exchange , London . Price , with all the Patterns and informations complete , 10 s . Sold by Read and Co ., 12 Hart-street , Bloomsbury . square , London ; G Berger , Holywell-street , Strand ; and all booksellers in the United Kingdom
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HEALTH WHERE 'TIS SOUGHT ! HO LL O ' W AY'S PILLS . Cure of a Disordered Liver and Stomach , when in a most hopeless state . ' Extract of a Letter from Mr . Matthew Harvey , of Chapel Hall , Airdrie , Scotland , dated the lath of January , 1850 . Sra , —Your valuable pills have been the means , with God ' s blessing , of restoring me to a state of perfect health , and at a time when I thought I was on tho brink of the grave . I had consulted several eminent doctors , who , after doing what they could for me , stated that they considered my case as hopeless . I ought to say that I had been suffering from a liver and stomach complaint of long standing , which during the last two years got so much worse , that every one considered my condition as hopeless . I , as a last resource , got a box of your pills , which soon gave relief , and by persevering in their use for some weeks , together with rubbing night and morning your Ointment over my chest and stomach , and right side , I have by their means aloue got completely cured , and to the astonishment of myself and everybody who knows me . —( Signed ) Matthew Hasvev . —To Professor Hollowav .
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Among paiuies session was onn " for sh ortening the language used in Acts of Parliament . " It contains eight concisely worded sections , and , according to the provisions , very considerable improvements are expected to * be m c a ° n in . future acts Subsequent acts , it is expected , will not contain a provision to alter or amend They will be divided into sections , without any in ! troductoryworas . It will be sufficient to cUe the year of the reign of a former act ; the word " ex pedient will become obsolete . There will be no need ot interpretation clauses , nor of others respecting repealed provisions , and all future acts are to be deemed public acts , unless expressly declared to the contrary . The act is to commence and to take effect from and immediately after tho commencement of the new session of parliamw
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THE VICTIM ROBERT CROWE'S FaEEWJSLL TO ENGLAND . A MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT , under EL the nuspicegof the APPOLOOTOSOCIETY , who have given the aid of their valuable services , will take place in the Hall of the LlTEBABT AND SorENTIFiO iNSxTTtmoN , JOHN-STBEET , , Fitzbot-Squabe , Ox TUESDAY EVENING Next ,. Octobeb 8 th , For the Benefit of Robert Cbowb , one of the Political Victims recently liberated from Tothiil-fields Prison , who is about to emigrate to the United States . WALTER Cooper will preside . From the great talent engaged , a rich musical treat may be anticipated . Admission . ' —Hall , 3 d . ; Gallery , id . Doors opened at Eight , commence at half-past Eight . Friends of Freedom , Humanity , and Justice attend .
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Education for the Millions , THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED , l \ o . XIX . of " THE NATIONAL INSTRDCTOS . " PRICE ONE PENNY . The object of the Proprietor , Fbargu 8 O'Connor , Esq ., M . P ., is to place within the reach of the poorest classes that Political and Social Information of which they are at present deprived by the Go ? ernraent" Taxes on Knowledge . SIXTEEN LABGE ~ 0 CTAV 0 PAGES , Price One Penny . CONTENTsTp No . XIX . The Maniac . The British Newspaper Press . Life and Adventures of Feargus O ' Connor . The Secret . Science and History for th « People t Astronomy Gleanings . Now Heady , THE FIFTH MONTHLY PART , Stitched into a Wrapper . Price Fourpence . CONTENTS OP PART V . . ' The French Newspaper Press . "Who'll be a Soldier ? The Secret . ( Continued . ) Life and Adventures of Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., M . P . ( Continued . ) The Revolution in Vienna , and the Death of Eohert Blum . Gleanings . The Heroism of Humble Life . The Bridge of Westminster . Sambles in Schleswig Holstein . A Gossip with Longfellow , the American Poet . The British Newspaper Press . Population and Employment . The Two Wishes . The Lord Mayor ' s Dinner . The True Romance . Science and History for the People : Astronomy .
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SIXTY-FOUR LARGE PAGES , PRICE 4 FENCE . Orders and Advertisements to be sent addressed to the office of the Northern Star , London ; or to A , Heywood , Manchester ; W . Love , and G . Adams , Glasgow ; Robinson and Co ., Edinburgh ; J . Sweet * Nottingham ; J . Guest , Birmingham . The " National Instructor" will be supplied bj all the London Booksellers and News-agents .
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WEEKLY JOURNALJjY ROBERT OWEN . On Saturday , the 2 nd of November , will be published the First Number of ROBE & T OWEN'S WEEKLY JOURNAL , PRICE ONE PENNY . A Periodical intended to instruct all classes in the principles and practical measures by which alone the poverty , injustice , and misery of the existing system can be peaceably superseded by universal wealth , justice , and happiness . To he had of all Booksellers in Town and Country . THE RECENT WORkToF ROBERT OWEN May be had of Effingham Wilson , Royal Exchange Watson , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row ; and Tickers , Holywell-street , London .
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THE P 0 B . TRAIT OF SIR ROBERT PEEL , And the Magnificent Historical Engraving , of the PORTRAITS OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS , Are now ready . If any of our subscribers have not received them , application should be made to the agent who supplies them with the paper . Agents are requested , when ordering Prints , to state by what means they are to be forwarded .
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The Polish Refugees . —G . Julian Harney has received and paid over to Captain J . B . Kola Bartochowski , member of the Polish Committee , the sum of £ 1 10 s . id ., subscribed by the democrats of Kilbarchan , per James Gibson , for the Polish Refugees . Mr . SowERur , Dalston . —Mr . Watson does not send direct to Mr . Fishburn . W . P . Lee , Clerkenwell . —We do not see that any advantage will arrive from the publication of your letter under the circumstances stated by yourself . It is decidedly for the members representing the borough ; and while we sympathise with you under what appears to be a gross persecution for principle ' s sake , we doubt the propriety in the present aspect of the case of making it a subject of newspaper discussion . Poetby . —The "Proletarian ' s Hymn" is respectfully declined . John Moss , Derby Tho "Irishman" newspaper is not now published , Several correspondents have asked us to furnish them with the address of Mr . Bernard Fulham , and we should feel obliged if that gentleman would send it to tbis office .
The Nortflem Stab Satubday, October 5, Is50.
THE NORTflEM STAB SATUBDAY , OCTOBER 5 , IS 50 .
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ABUSE OF NATIONAL PROPERTY . The "Whi gs are dangerous friends t © Royalty , and are doing far more to bring it into disrepute than any laboured attack of those who oppose the " Institution'' upon abstract princi ples could possibl y effect . John Bull is eminently a " practical" animal , and little given to theorising , Things must be made tangible to his senses before he fully comprehends them . Thus , the most eloquent and forcible exposition of the moral and political evils inherent in hereditary monarchy will fall upon dull or deaf ears , when a visible
royal encroachment upon any of his accustomed enjoyments or privileges will at once raise a storm of disapprobation and disaffection . During the administration of the late Sir R . Peel , the Sovereign and the people were kept upon excellent personal terms with each other . Acting with the same foresight , knowledge of his countrymen , and true friendship for the Throne , which induced him
to vote for cutting down to 30 , 000 i . the extravagant Whig proposal of 50 , 000 ? . a year to Prince Albert , that astute Statesman never allowed the Sovereign to be placed in an ungracious position towards the Country . 17 e firmly believe that the personal popularity of the present occupant of the Throne is , to a very large degree , owing to his sagacious policy m this respect . Her Majesty ' s present advisers are rapidly destroying that popularity , and as far as in them lies , producing tho same alienation and ill will between the
great bod y of the people and the Monarch , which greedy , grasping covetousness , selfish personal extravagance , and disregard of public opinion gave rise to in the case of some of her immediate predecessors . The pulls made upon the public purse during the reign of the third George , in a variety of mean and stealthy ways by Ministers , who sought to preserve their places through Court favour , rather than popular support
pro-, duced a spirit of sulky , grudging dislike , which was transformed to bitter hatred and execration in the time of George the Fourth If the "Whigs are long the Ministers of tho Crown they will provide as large an amount of obloquy and unpopularit y for the present ETl * tr ' i A f P Wped to tore up for the selfish v oluptuary they were Europe" S '^ VM *™* t *
Indications of this alienation are already Wi £ Sbm ailt' The stables added to Windsor Castle , at a cost of 70 , 000 / . _ when , in the same year , 30 , 000 / . was with difficulty
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granted for educating the people the n front added to Buckingham Palace , ' at an 27 Jay of 150 , 000 / ., and the new stables at Mart borough House , for the boy-heir to the TJiron to be used some eight or nine years hence ^ -ar ' all remembered and enumerated with growb dissatisfaction . People cannot hel p contrast * ing the disgraceful niggardliness which granted first 25 / . a year , and , then , upon strong com pulsion , 15 / . more , to the widow of Lieutenan Waghorn , who had apent . life and fortune in the service of the public , and conferred one of the most valuable boons upon the country with the infamous and preposterous lavishnesa
that gave 12 , 000 Z . a year to the Duke © f Cambridge , because he was the son of a father who had , during his long life , receiv ed hundreds of thousands from the pockets of the over-taxed , struggling , industrious classes , Just at this moment—and while the public were exasperated by that most transparent job—the Woods and Forests seized theopportunity of perpetrating another , which , though less costly , is certain to produce even greater discontent and resistance . The Parks of Loodon are truly styled its " lungs . " Looking at the way in which , year after year , the Ievf .
atnan Metropolis , like some huge monster spreads its feelers in every direction , for many miles , and absorbs into its vast bulk of bricks and mortar the green fields and villages which even a quarter of a century ago , were genuine rural resorts of the town-dried and exhausted Cockney , it is no wonder that they are regarded as precious possessions , andthe slightest encroachments upon them viewed with the greatest jealousy .
Under pretence of improving St . James ' s Park , and making a few slight alterations required by the addition to Buckingham Pa lace , the Government smuggled through the House , at a late period of the Session , a vote of 11 , 000 ? . for these alterations , which , though not very clearly defined , were understood to be simply for the completion of the Palace front . The Government were pointedly asked by Mi' . Osbobne , if they intended to carry out a plan prepared by Mr . Nesfield , that was to cost 28 , 000 / ., and cut off from the public park a slice of ground for the private
use of the Palace ? Sir Charles Wood answered evasively , but still in such a way as to give an impression that the plan was given up . No sooner , however , were the members fairly out of town , and ever ybody of any iufluence away for their accustomed recreation during the recess , than the Woods and Porests broke ground on a large scale , and committed the most merciless havoc on the grounds which belong to the people . Having paid 150 , 000 / . to build a new front to what was from the first a miserable abortion , it seems we are now to pay 28 . 000 / . more to
enable Lord Seymour and his colleagues to rob us of a large portion of the upper end of the public park , and appropriate it to the exclusive use of the royal nursery maids . The act , odious in itself , has been rendered still more disgusting , by the deceit , trickery , and falsehood , which has characterised the whole proceedings . Such conduct is certain to produce a lasting distrust between the people and their rulers . If good reason can be shown for any alterations , let them be made by all means . If the proposed arrangement are even not generally satisfactory , let us at least have the good old English maxim ; " all fair ahove board" carried out . In
an open and manly struggle , the people , howeverreluctantly compelled to resign , would still have the satisfaction of having endeavoured to protect their interests , but when they are filched from them by stealth in a swindling underhanded style , worthy rather of the " swell mob , " than the rulers of a great empire , it is not wonderful that indignation should be mingled with disgust . In truth this department of the Woods and
Forests seems hopelessl y incurable , and irredeemably bad . The exposures of its malversations , its extravagance , its carelessness , its permission of , or connivance , with the robberies of the National Property , upon a large scale , by Lord Duncan ' s Committee , have not led , as was hoped , to any radical improvement . The new commission is as oblivious of the interests of those for whom they are nominal trustees , as their predecessors . Instead of protecting they plunder . The national
domam appears to be considered as a safe sporting ground for aristocratic and royal poachers . The public estates have been most scandalously jobbed . At one time for the pleasure of a monarch , at another for the convenience of private individuals , portions of land have been alienated , and large revenues resigned . A few days ago we walked through that beautiml , rich , and picturesque stretch of country , the Forest
New . Mansions , villas , farmsteads , villages , rich pasture and arable lands , and magnificent sylvan scenery , gladden the eye of the traveller on all sides . What revenue did the nation derive from that magnificent estate of 66 , 000 acres , according to the last returns ? Positively worse than nothing ! We had to pay 5 , 000 * . more than it produced , for managing it J
Another robbery of the public by this department has just been announced . For many years Parliament has voted an annual grant for the erection of suitable buildings for the National Museum . They are now completed , and it was expected that when the old wall of Montague House , which shut out the public from the view of the Ionic facade of the Museum , was removed , it would be thrown open , and the space in front left as a promenade , something after the fashion of the Royal Exchange , or Trafalgar Square . That is a mistake . The old Wall is to lift fiiinnpedpd lw n ™ . r wall is to be succeeded b
, y a new one twelve feet high , in order to give certain officers of the Museum tho same privacy and seclusion which the Commissioners want for their Royal Mistress at Buckingham Palace . It is wonderful-in what contempt and disgust those who live upon the people ' s money hold their paymaster . How they turn up their noses , when there is the sli ghtest chance of their coming * ' between the wind and their nobility . " Insolent exclusion is the order of tho day , and even such " small deer" as the principal librarian , keepers , and secretary of the British Museum , must ape royalty in their hankerings after what they consider a dignified seclusion .
On the Continent , the Palaces , Museums , Galleries , and Public Institutions are generally freely and fully thrown open to all classes , without any such ridiculous and offensive assumption . The opening of Kew Gardens and of Hampton Court , was a move iu the right direction , calculated to inspire the hope that in time the public would be allowed to have the use and the enjoyment of its own property . It appears , that under the rule of the " liberal '' Whigs a retrogade movement has commenced , in order to curry favour at Court , they W ready to pander to any whim or prejudice . Conscious of having lost the confidence and
support of the people , they seek to compensate font by the acquisition of that back-stairs in « iiuence which , in 1835 , forced Lord Melbourne back into power , and gave them a re « uewed lease of office for five years . When Sir Robert Peel , upon that occasion , manfully maintained his own position against Court wishes , he may have neglected fine ° P * portunities to cultivate " camarilla" influence ; hut , besides guarding the nation ' s interest , & a also served the Royal interest in the best way , by keeping the Sovereign right with the People . The Queen may be pleased » t present that she has a more subservient Minister ,
but the accommodation may cost her dear . These outrages on public opinion , these repeated mean and stealthy robberies of the public property , accompanied by equivocations and falsehoods which add to their enormity , cannot fail , if persisted in t to lay the founda *
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Citation
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 5, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_05101850/page/4/
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