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      AKMAND BABBES . THE DEMOCRATIC AND SOCIAL REPUBLIC . & JULIAN HARNEY has : the pleasure of announcing that he has received from Paris a number of copies of a superb portrait of the incorruptible and suffering patriot Barbes . The engraving beautifull y executed , and the likeness warranted . Price Is . Gd . G . J . H . has also received copies of a series of Uthograpic prints descriptive ot the foundation and progress of the Universal Democrats and Social Republic . Price 2 s . each . The immense superiority of French over English lithography is well known , and these lithographs are perhaps the most beautiful ever published in Paris . To he appreciated they must he seen . Every democrat should possess these magnificent and invaluable compositions . To be had only of G . Julian Harney ; Mr . J . Watson , 8 , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternoster How ; Mr . Truelove , hooksdler John-street , Tottenham Court Road ; and Mr . Packer 58 Great James-street , Lisson-grove . ' '

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      THE FUKD FOR THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OP WILLIAMS & SD SHARP . A TEA MEETING- IN AID OF THE above fund ( and to celehrate the second annirerearj of the memorable 10 th of Aiiril , 1818 ) , wUltake place in the

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      96 , REGEXT STREET , LAMBETH . JAMES CrRASSBY takes this opportunity ' of informing his numerous friends , that he carries on the business of CAKPEXTEB and JOINER , at the above address , in all its branches , and assures those friends -KhomayfeTourhun nith flieir patronage and support , that aU work executed by him , shall beof the best description of workmanship and materials , -which , eonihinett with' the strictest economy in charges , and punctuality in iusiuess , hetrusts will ensure him their favours . Estimates given for all lands of work in the bunding line ; alterations , repairs , shop fronts , fixtures , & c , € xectriedin the best possible style , and at the lowest charge for Cash . K B . —Rent couector , and General House Agent ; observe the address , Jasies Gbassbt , 96 , Regent-street , Zambeib .

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      ^ EMIGRATION TO KORTII AMERICA . fJK TAPSCOTT AND CO ., SHIPPING T TV and Emigration Agents , Liverpool , continue to desjiafehJFirst Class Ships—TgiSEW YORK—evcrv Five Days . T 6 KEW OSLEAyS-everv Ten » ays . TdJBOSTOX and PHIL ABELPHIA—every Fifteen Days . " ¦ '•• ' And occasionally to BALTIMORE , CHARLESTON , SAVANNAH , QUEBEC , and St JOHNS . Drafts for any amount , at sight , on New York , payable in aify part of the United States . Tapseotfs " Emigrant ' s Guide" sent free , on receipt of ¥ onr Postage Stamps . g ^ About twenty-eight thousand perso ailed for the Xew World , in Tapscott'sUne of AtnericauP <* ekets , in 1 S 49 .

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      BROTHER CHARTISTS . B ' JJPTUEES EFFECTUALLY vSECUREB by Professor Gasbeit ' s newly invented , light , sel £ adjcstin =, elastic truss . J . Gausett , Practical Truss Maker , of 38 , Wardour-street , Oiford-street , Loncton ^ is the inventor of a Sew Truss , pronounced by the faculty to . be the most efficient one extant Every variety of trasses and bandages , can be had at the lowest possible prices : —Best plain truss , as . ; Ody ' s expired patent , Ss . ; Coles ' s expired patent , 10 s . ; Eggs , or German truss , las . ; Suspensory bandages—cotton , 2 s . ; silk , 3 s . Gd . J . G ., after twenty years * experience , guarantees to secure every case of rupture of however longstanding , and earnestly solicits a trial from those who have found every other useless . The following are authentic testimonials , the originals of ¦ which may be seen , aud the parties communicated with if required : —

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      HEALTH WHERE 'TIS SOUGUT ! HOLLO WAT'S PILLS . Cwre < f < i Disordered Liver and Stomach , ivhen in a most hopeless state . Extract of a Letter from Mr . Matthew Ilarvcy , of Chapel Hal ! , Airdrie , Scotland , dated the 15 th of January , 1850 . Sie , —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 the brink of the grave . I had consulted several eminent doctors , who , after doing what they could forme , stated that they considered my case as hopaless . I ought to say tliatl 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 , gois a box of yourpills , 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 riglit side , I have by their means alone got Completely CUr ^ d , and to the astonishment of myself and everybody who knows me . —( Signed } Matthew IIaktei . — To Professor Hollowat .

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      • THE CHEAPEST gBmONOTEB f 0 B 1 ISHH ) . :. - Price Is . Cd .,. ., r - - A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate . of the Author , of " .- ' PAIHE'S POLITICAL WOBKS . ; - Now Ready , a NewTMitionof ' . « H . O'GOHHOR'S WORK ON SWAU FAHW Sold by J . Watson , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternosti : ow , London ; A . Heywood , Oldham-street , Mancheste md Love and Co ., 5 , Nelson-street , Glasgow . And by all Booksellers in Towm and Country .

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      PORTRAIT OP PHILIP M'GRATH . This day is published , price One Penny , Ko . XXIII . of REYNOLDS'S POLITICAL INSTItPCTOB . Edited ur G . W . M . HEYNGLDS , Author of the First and Second Series of « The MrsriaiiEg of Loxdos , ' ' The Mtstebies of the Coubtof London , ' The Days of Hogarth , ' ' Robebt Macaibe , ' < Sjc , 3 x .,. 1 cc This number of the Instructor contains a portrait of

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      Now ready , with the Magazines for April , No . XI . of THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW Of BRITISH and FOREIGN POLITICS , HISTORY and LITERATURE . I Edited by G . JULIAN HARNEY . contents : 1 . The Stamp Tax on Newspapers . 2 . March of tlie lied Republic , ' - ¦' -, 3 . Revelations oftho Building Trades . PartIL 4 . A Glance at History . Part III . 5 . The History of Socialism . By Louis Blanc . Lecture II . G . Democracy defended in reply to the'Latter-Day ' ravings of Thomas Carlyle . 7 . Two Years of a Revolution . 1848—1819 . S . The Fraternal Democrats . . ' .- ¦•' . 9 . Poetry : ' The Red Flag , ' & c & c , 10 . Letter from France . 11 . Letter from America . 13 . Political Postscript ,

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      TO THE EMBARRASSED . THERE are thousands of persons -who have long struggled against the force of misfortune , but few are aware that , by very recent Acts , all small traders owing debts not exceeding JE 300 , farmers , private and professional gentlemen , and all others , owing to any amount ( the latter without any publicity ) , can . be entirely raised from their difficulties at small expense , and without imprisonment or bankruptcy . - All such Mr . Weston begs will apply to him at 6 , Essex-street , Strand , by letter , or personally . ; Office hours from 10 till 2 , and 6 till 8 .. N . B . —The above Acts stay all Palace Court , County Court , and other proceedings . Clergymen need not submit to sequestrations .

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      RUPTURES PERMANENTLY AND EFFECTUALLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS !! DR . HENRY GTJTHRET'S extraordinary success in the ' treatment of all varieties , of Single and Double Ruptures , is without a parallel in the history ot medicine : In every case , however bad or long standing , ^ aire is guaranteed . The remedy is quite easy and perfectly painless in application , causing no inconvemenee or confinement whatever , is free from danger and applicable to male and female of any age . Sent ( post-free ) to any , part of the world , with full instructions , rendering failure impossible , on receipt of six shillings by post-office-order , or cash , by Dr , HENRY GUTHHEV , G , Ampton-street , Gray's-inn-road , London . Hundreds of testimonials and trusses hare been left behind by persons cured , as troplues of the success of this remedy , which Dr . Gcthbet will willingly give to those who require to wear them after a trial Of it . POSt-OfflcC orders must be made payable at the Gray ' s-inn-road Office . Letters of inquiry should contain two postage-stamps for the reply . In every case a cure is guaranteed . At home for consultation daily from two till four . ( The Sabbath excepted . ) Address , HENRY GUTIIREY , M . D ., M . R . C . S ., G , Ampton-street , Gray ' s-inn-road , London .

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      POISOXS AS MEDICINE . Memorial of the Names of the 19 , 950 petitioners , to the House of Commons , against the Deadly Poisons , used as Medicine by the Doctors . London ; British College of Ileal th , Hamilton-place New-road . " Howmany thousands of lives are there , 'my father would say , ' that come every year to be castaway ( in all civilised countries at least , ) and considered as nothing-but common air , in completion efan lypothesis ? ' 'Inmy plain sense of tilings , ' my uncle Toby would answer , ' every such instance is MURDEK DOWNRIGHT , let who will commit it . ' ' There lies your mistake , ' my father would reply , 'for , in the Court of Science there is no such thing as Murder , 'tis only Death , In-other , "—Frulram S ? tandy . The medical hypothesis , uncle Toby , in 'his plain sense of things , ' here anathematises , is that horrid and pestiferous hypothesis , that'Medicine is poison , and poison is medicine . ' This mercenary , heartless , ruthful hypothesis , by which' human life is cast away as nothing but common

      air , ' is as savage in spirit as it was barbarous in origin ; and it is , at this very day carried into deadliest practice , hy the doctors , by advertising quacks , and by druggists , with all the ardour and vehemence that can be excited by insatiable cupidity , and by a most ravenous appetite for gain and guineas . But the hellish hypothesis , that' Medicine and Poison arc identical' must he maintained and supported against all ' competition '—it must he carried into a wide-spread , fatal practice , although it may sweep and desolate the earth as with the besom of destruction !' , And why ? Because upon , its maintenance and support , and practical application , depend the very existence of a highly respectable and profoundly scientific fraternity—an odious and abominable fraternity , whose consciences are educated and formed upon the infernal maxims of 'The Court of Science' —a court which is ruled solely by a favoured and fatal hypothesis that brooks no ' competition' andno demur—a court

      in which ' there is such thing as murder— 'fw only . DEATH , brother !!!' John Hunter said of poisons , that' they take their place in the body , as if that place were allotted for them , ' Yes , Ihorrid' mercury taKes its allotted place in the glands , and in the bones—in the glands it excites scrophu ' . ous tumours , and the teeth it quickly reduces to caries . Prusic acid takes its allotted place in the heart , and there radically cures all palpitation hy effectually stopping all pulsation . Alcohol takes its allotted place in the brain , and by its action upon that organ induces mania , and all 'the ills that flesh is heir to . ' Strychuinc , and brucine takes their allotted places in the muscles , in which tissues they frequently produce speedy and fatal spasms . The late Mistress Marie Manninghad something more than a faint and glimmering insight into this Hunterian principle—yea , with high professional skill she carried it into full practical effect She knew that , by a particular mode of administration , n bullet would find its allotted place in the brains of

      her fand admirer , Patrick O'Connor ; but , in the eyes of the professional , the skilful doctress degraded the science , by unprofossionally blending , with her practice , the functions of a grave digger . By the way , it would act as a very wholesome check upon the poisoning hypothesis , if the Legislature could compel the doctor — despite his professional scruples and repugnance — to excavate the graves of his -victims . Soyer does not possess more skill in catering for tlicsqueamiahnessofa fastidious appetite , than the doctors do in allotting poisons for the specific destruction of any particular organ in the human frame . In a sort of cookery book of poisons , a very learned medical Soyer , who has appended to his name the cabalistic letters , 'M . D . ' ( query , Angliee , ' Murderer Downright V ) In this medical cookery hook there is a receipt for poisoning , so definite and obviously efficacious , as would have dazzled the eyes , and charmed the heart , and feasted , even to surfeit , " the imagination and longings of a Marchioness of Brinvilliers . See how the medical lecturer instructs bis

      pupils to ring the changes on medical poisons : ' What I have confidence in recommending you to do on every similar occasion is this—having obtained all the benefit which arsenic ( . ' ) . or any other remedy has the power to do in any case , change such remedy for some other constitutional power , and change and Change until' you find improve , men t (!) to be the result . « ' * « * In all such cases , then , you must change , combine , and modify your medicines and measures in a tfiousand ways , (' agrand peal of poisons , ver ily , ' ) to produce a sustained result . Arsenic (!) gold (!!) iron (!!!) mercury (!!!!) creosote (!!!!!) iodine

      The sixth edition , ' stereotype , ' of tlie Medical Lectures from which the preceding extract is made , appeared in IHio . It was in the year 1 S 23 , that James Morison , the Hygeist , first raised his voice against the savage and murderous application of poisons as medicines ; so that , great as lias been the progress of Morisonian Hygeian principles amongst the public at large , it wouldappear that at present they have had little influence in this respect at least—upon medical theory and medical practice . . But the public , 'iu their plain sense of things , ' are daily becoming more and more alive to the jeopardy in which they are continually placed , through the deadly chemicals with which the doctors essay to prop their falling trade . It appears by the hook , which has elicited these remarks on ' Poisons in Medicine ; ' that in 1817 , 19 , 150 signatures were appended to a petition presented by Sir B . Hall to the House of Commons against Pharmaceutical Poisons , Considering that these signatures were made almost exclusively in Glascow . Edinburgh , and in isolated parts of Devon , and a few other counties ; and considering that the public generally have since had the most evidence

      horrifting of the baneful effects of medicalpoisons in Asiatic Cholera , we have a confident belief ; that if due tune and proper facilities were now given , in every city , town , village , and hamlet in the kingdom , for a similar expression of public opinion , it would be found that the number of signatures would swell from SOme twenty thousand to several round millions . Still we consider that this hook is a very appropriate and graceful 'Memohui . ' to the 19 , 950 independent petitioners who did not delay their signatures until the movement had become general and popular , and who may he regarded as the pioneers in the humane and holy warfare against medical poisoning . Had the House of Commons , in compliance with the prayer of that petition , appointed a commission in 1817 ; and had cheaaical poisons been at , once discarded from medical practice , how goodly ' . and rich a soil might have since been saved from the grasp of ' the king of terrors , ' and from the graves of the murderedhow many useful and valuable lives might still have been preserved to the community—how many fond and precious relatives might still have cheered and gladdened tn * newdesolate hearth !

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      No . HL , to . DO conuuueu m weemy renny Aumbers tUJ ¦ i ; " - ; ' jcomplete ,- ' ¦ <¦ : ¦' . ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦¦ : ¦ ¦> rpHE REyOIiUTION , ; OF ... 1848 , BT XM . LOUIS BL 4 NC : being the People's History of tliat Great and- Astou ' nding ... Eveiit . —Tills work corrects ' the falsehoods and misrepresentations of Lamartihe ' s History just published iii English by Bonn , fand should' be in the hands of every Democratic and Social Reformer . ¦'¦ : ¦ ..- . <' : i ; ¦ ¦ ' ¦ - ¦ ¦ - '" '• -A lso Jiist Published , : i . : . rpHE CATECHISM OF ' SOCIALISM . X Price One Penny / By LOUIS BLANC . i-This is the best and cheapest exposition of the organisation of Labour Question , ever published . Other standard works of the' same class will speedily follow . -.. Published at the Weekly Tribune Ofnce . 'll A , Wellingtonstreet North , Strand , London . .

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      171 RATERNAL DEMOCRATS . X The Monthly Meeting of the members will be held in the Coffee Room of the Institution , Joiin Stbeet , on FaiDAY EV £ NIS 6 . Ai'BiL 12 th . Chair to be taken at 8 o ' clock .

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      ' Fraternal . '— As it matters hut little whether petitions are received or rejected , you may as well , keep to the words relating to the Press . Mart Grasses , in a very spirited address , writing in the name of the women of Hull to the people of England , urges them to contribute their pence towards the Honesty Fund , and very properly exhorts them to throw off their lethargy , and to manifest that concern in the progress of political and social amelioration which becomes them as wives and mothers ot enslaved and degraded working men . , W . B . Robinson , Manchester ; and J . S ., Dundee . —Deceived . Robert Carr . — I have sent the note to Mr . Warren . The books were sent from this office in a parcel to a locality in your neighbourhood , and that they . have not been received by you is not my fault I will , however , investigate the matter , and see that the subscribers shall get

      satisfaction . —T . CtARK .. Honestv Fund . — Enclosed is a money-order for 18 s 8 d , which with cost of order and postage is the 19 s hereafter enumerated , m .: —A low Mends , Hoy ton , 7 s ; Mr . John Ingham , Crompton , Is . ; I . Woodheud , ditto , Is ; A Friend , ditto , Is ; A Friend , ditto , is ; John Patten , Oldkam , Is ; James Patten , ditto , Is ; C . Biitterworth , ditto , Is ; Wm . Harper , ditto , Is ; J , Marsland , ditto , Is ; J . Mellor , ditto ; Is ; Mr , II . Mullins , ditto , Is ; 11 . Haslam , 6 d ; R . Jones , ( id . —Total 19 s . —J . Cook . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ National Reform League . — We are requested , by the secretary of this association to correct an , error , in the report of a meeting of the League printed in our last . Iu the string of propositions for the improvement of society , that embodying a demand for this People ' s Charter , ' was " inadvertently appended to No . 3 , instead of having its legitimate and proper place at the head of the whole . HoNESTt ; Fond . "—Julian Harney has received , and , paid

      over to Mr . Rider , from- Mottram , per Martin Clayton , 25 s ; from Gorbals , per John Cameron , 12 s Gd . ' . Messrs . Jones and FcssEi . t .- ^ TJulian Harney has received , and paid over to the Committee appointed to collect subscriptions to relieve Messrs . Jones and - Fussell from oakum-picking , from F . Pigou , Esq ., £ 110 s . Chartist Executive . —Julian Harney has received , and paid over to the . Executivc , from J . Cameron and Friends , ¦ Manchester , 2 s . / " , " ' Frjltebsal Democrats . —Received by Julian Harney ; from J . H . Ellis , Devonport , Is . ¦ '¦ ¦ ' ¦ Correction . —The item for 'Honesty Fund , 'from G . Cavill Sheffield , acknowledged in last week ' s ' Notices to Correspondents , ' should hare been ten pence , instead of shillings . , R . Holland , Burnley . — Julian Harney will try to pass a night at Burnley on the occasion of his visit to Padiham . For Dbj M'Douall ' s Family . — Received by A . M'Fee , Liverpool , from Warrington , viz . ; —A Few Friends at Allen ' s Coffee-house , Is 8 d ; Joseph Houghton , 3 d ; John

      Roustage , Is ; Wm . Wright , 2 d ; Thos . Lawless , 3 d ; Issac Blaze , 3 d ; Wm . Allen , Gd ; R . Hall , 3 d ; B . Massoy , 2 d '; JohnBroadman , 3 d ; JolinBroadman , 6 d ; S . M . Grimshaw , Gd ; John Clare , Is ; Thos . Glover , Gd ; It . Lomax , Gd ; Chartist Council , 2 s 3 d . Mr . Temperlev ; , Higbgate . —Received . j . Mr . Triptree , Camden Town . —The Is from yourself , and the Is from Mr . Linnean , was acknowlodtjed in the first and second edition of the 9 th ult . ; a misfortune occurred with the form , in consequence of which the total- received onlv appeared in the third editions . . Mr . Sweet , Nottingham . —The sum for the Yietim Fund , acknowledged last week , ought to have been ls 2 d-instead of Gd ; as see Notices to Correspondents on , the 30 thult . "• • ' J . Robinson , Waterloo , Bljth ; and J . Morlet , Sheldon .-We know nothing of the Canadian Land and Railway Association . - ;; . - ¦ Wives . and Families ; of Chartist Victims . —Julian Harney has received , and paid over to the Victim Committee , from Ban-head , & ci , per J . F ., £ 3 3 s fid .

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      SALE OF THE GREAT DODFORD ESTATE . There aire eighty acres , or . thereabouts , of the Dodford Estate yet unoccupied , which will be put up and sold b y auction in Bromsgrore , and will be duly advertised in tbe local newspapers . The sale will take place on the 15 th of April .

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      THE REVOLUTION OF THE . " MANCHESTER SCHOOL , " Reduction is the order of the day .. The Prime Minister threatens all civil , judk cial , and diplomatic functionaries , with a curtailment of their salaries . Landlords cut down their establishments and put the remainder upon short allowance . t Farmers form associations , avowedly for the purpose of reducing the price of labour hitherto paid to the tradesmen employed by them in all departments , to an amount equivalent to the

      diminished prices they are receiving for agricultural produce , —that is from twenty-five to thirty per cent . Even in the manufacturing districts , of whose prosperity we heard so much at the commencement of the Session , Short time , and "Short commons " are by no means rare . The '' cheap bread and plenty to do" which were , according to the Free Trade prophets , to follow the repeal of tho Corn Laws , and to ensure "high wages , " have , somehowor other , not come together . Listead of opening its arras , and inviting all the unemployed in other parts of tho country to crowd into additional mills , power-loom

      sheds , machine shops , and warehouses , which the new foreign markets opened to us by Free Trade were to produce ,. Manchester is grumbling weelcly about dull markets ; and unremunerative prices . The tempting bait with which it angled for the supremacy , if not the exclusive monopoly , of the markets of the world has not taken . Protectionism is yet the creed of all the leading Governments of the world ; and they answer the confident predictions of the free-hooters in this country by tariffs of increasing stringency . There is no denying the fact ; " The Manchester School" has made a mess of it , Not

      that large capitalists and crafty speculators have not gained by the change—not that the system is altogether incompatible with the benefit of the already over-gorged few- —but , as far as the prosperity ^ comfort , and elevation of the great bulk of the community is concernedj their system has totally failed to produce the predicted results , and the paltry and peddling schemes in which they are how engaged , will onl y have the ultimate effect of aggravating the mischief they have alread y done : •• ¦¦ ¦'¦> ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' - - <• .- ¦ ----- -- ¦ -

      'Nodoubt , ^ reduction of taxation is a very desirable thing , if it be a bona fide reduction . But it is quite possible to make apparent diminutions of the national expenditure ,, which shall , in'reality , be extremel y injurious to those who have , in the long run , to pay taxation of every kind . According . to those two extreme Economists , Messrs . Hume and Cobden , it is practicable to effect a further reduction of from six to seven millions , in order to bring things to the ! standard of 1835 and make a total saving of ten millions a year upon the expenditure of 1849-50 . The saving : per head , which this would give , has been

      calculated at about eight shillings per annum or forty shillings for an average family of five persons . But is it ^ quite certain that the benefit of the remission would reach tho labouring classes \ Heretofore wo know that in most instances it has been intercepted in its progress downwards , by the privileged classes , and fructified for their benefit only . In the great majority of cases the remission of customs and excise duties would be absorbed by merchants , traders , dealers , and profitmongei'S , of all grades ; and the proportion coming to the working man would be of tbe most minute and imperceptible character .

      Indeed , as long as Ministers are exclusivel y selected from a particular class of the community , and the Legislature is avowedly constituted of men of PROPERTY versus the men of LABOUR , the remission of taxation will not only indirectly tend to benefit the propertied and trading classes , in the way we have indicated , but it will be' directly , made for that purpose . "Witness the ; Budget for the present

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      Session . > Sir Charles Wood , so fai' w ! concealing his intention to benefit the landlord claa £ iiiadp that tlie great ' - ' merit , of Ids scheme . It'is true-that ^ as usual ,. he has blundered . in carrying : his ; intentions into effect ; but that has nothing to do with the animus of the Budget ; - ;•; ' . ;' ' //; ' . / . ' .. AH financial , reductions' in ' the national ' expenditure , under the present system of Government and Legislation , are fallacious , so far as the working classes are concerned , in another way . The aristocracy and wealthy classes take care to keep up , unimpaired , those

      departments in which the pay is large , and the duties light— -or nil , as the case may be— -in order that they may always have a good pasture for the younger scions of these classes . When the demand for Economy and Retrenchment grows too loud to be resisted successfully , it is not the superfluous admirals , captains , lieutenants , generals , and colonels—the high paid sinecurists , and well-salaried do-nothing officials—who are thrown overboard . They have " vested rights , " which are sacredly respected . The plebeians—who have no powerful " interest "—are first sacrificed , and their

      duties thrown upon tho shoulders of some equally uninfluontial and hard-worked drudge . Private soldiers ^ and able seamen—engine makers , mechanics , shipwrights , blacksmiths , and the tradesmen usually employed about our dockyards and arsenals , are discharged . The expensive and ornamental portions of these establishments are left untouched . What is the result ? The labouring classes are exposed to additional competition in . the labour-market , and are compelled to submit to reductions of wages in consequence—more than ten-fold the amount of any saving , they can possibly secure from such delusive reductions .

      The farmers in Hertforshire have just commenced a ' movement , which shows , 'in a very striking- manner , the destructive ' and deteriorating ' tendencies of this free-bootirig and cheapening system , as respects the operative class in every department of industry . They have formed an Association expressly for the purpose of reducing pricesl'Nor do we see very clearly upon What reasonable , grounus their right to do this , under our present competitive and antagonistic . free-action arrangements , can be ' questioned . * They state that ,

      as the value of agricultural produce is greatly lessened by the free importation of Foreign Corn , farmers in general must adopt a system of wise and vigilant economy , extending to every branch pf expenditure unavoidably incurred ; that as those employed in trade are reaping considerable advantage from the cheapness ; of . food , they ' think the tradesman should be able , without injury to himself , : to make a considerable reduction in his charges ; and that the tradesman , artizan , and labourer dependent upon , agriculture , should thus be made sensible r that free trade is a labour

      question . They follow up these declaratory statements with an elaborate tariff of the reduced prices proposed to the' tradesmen of the county , which vary from' fifteen to thirty per cent . ; wheelwrights are to be reduced twenty per cent . ; carpenters to three shillings a day ; bricklayers to the same sum ; ' and bricklayers ' labourers to one shilling and eight pence . Now , the average wages of these two trades

      are from four shillings to'four and sixpence a day , in provincial towns ; and if we take it at the lowest sum , we shall have a direct reduction of six shillings a week , or 157 . 12 s . a year , to place against any benefits that Free Trade may confer upon , the carpenter or the bricklayer ; and the forty shillings a year , which the Cobden budget may perhaps—sometime or other—cut down his contributions to the

      national Exchequer ., But the case does not end here . Whatever may be said of the relative proportions of the population dependent upon agriculture ,. and upon manufactures , no one can doubt that a very large portion of the inhabitants of this country , are indirectly , and directly , indebted to agricultural industry for their subsistence ; they constitute the home in contradistinction to , thei foreign market , for tbe productions of the purely manufacturing districts . Any diminution of their purchasing power must

      inevitably , therefore , react upon the manufac turing districts themselves , and by diminishing the consumption , diminish at the same time employment and wages in these districts . Whether the foreign markets , which are sought after with such an insane infatuation by the ' . ' Manchester School , " are ample enough , and profitable enough , to compensate for the almost incalculable injury inflicted upon all classes of the community by this suicidal policy , is a question we may safely leave the reader himself to determine .

      We can perceive only one ultimate result of this reckless , ruinous , and desperate system ; a narrowed , and narrowing field of domestic industry—a consequent fiercer contest between trades for markets , and labourers for work , ¦ wi th of course diminished profits and reduced wages , ' The power of money will become more terrible than ever , commercial feudalism will prove itself more merciless and crushing than territorial feudalism in its most palmy days , until the reaction , which leads to revolution , shall at last , in the words of Bvnotf .

      " Cleanse earth from heU ' s poUution . " And all the train of monstrous evils which follow : on tho physical , mental , and moral debasements of a whole people , and the unnatural elevation of the few , based npon mere money power , the " Manchester School " are the true revolutionists in this country . Their , revolution is in active _ progress . It is rapidly subverting all existing institutions , and hurrying on our statesmen in spite of themselves , in a course of cheapening and spoliation , which can only terminate—if continued—in general impoverishment and discontent . The Red Republicans and Socialists of France—whatever may be thought ofthem in other respects—have , at least , the merit of

      having something like a substitute for the system of societ y to which they are opposed ; but the Manchester economists destroy what exists , without replacing it by anything else . They drive us downward to a social chaos , iu which there shall be " no King in Israel , " and-everyman being apparently left free to "do what is right in his own eyes " without either Legislative or Moral Control ; the rich will crush tho poor , the strong oppress the weak , the cunning take advantage of the ignorant , and all society will be employed in Ithe game of " beggar my neighbour / ' under ! the solemn sanction of that most elevated and sublime doctrine— "Buy in the cheapest , and sell in the dearest market . "

      We know of , only one justification , or at least , feasible palliation , for such a destructive and most wretched course of conduct on the part of a groat nation—namely , the absence of means to employ and to maintain its population . If we were either absolutely or relativel y stricken with help less and irremediable poverty , then we should not wonder at the selfishness of our common nature , bursting through all conventional restraints , and loading every man to grasp his neighbour's throat in the deadly struggle , to clutch a portion of the inadequate and scanty national store .

      But this is not the case . We are rich in all the means , powers , and facilities , for producing superabundant wealth . The primary elements of all national greatness , prosperity , and strength , are land , labour , skill , and capital . Of all these elements we possess a more ample command ; than ever fell to the lot of any nation , ancient or modern . It is the false and injurious direction now given to these elements , and of which , the magnitude and threatening nature of our social evils arises . They ought to be the cause of abundance and leisure to all j they are perverted into instruments by which all classes , are set by the ears , aM the "lower orders . " crushed

      The Revolution Of The . "Manchester Scho...

      to the earth ,, and overwhelmed by ' pauperisrii , poverty , iandxrime .: !; ' : ^' ' ^ : ' < - ; '¦¦¦/ ¦ ' ^ :--: ^ . '¦¦' : ' , Has it never struck any of our Solons , that with ^ ucH means it would be more" rational , and a \ great ' ; deal more easy and- agreeable , to set everybody ' at . ' work profitably ,, aid ; by an equitable system : of distribution , make , theni happy and contended participators in the products of their own'industry I' -

      The Truck System. We Have Frequently Had...

      THE TRUCK SYSTEM . We have frequently had occasion to repeat , that "Laws are . like cobwebs , they catch the small flies—large , ones break through them . " The conspiracy of a part of the millowners in Lancashire to evade the law in connexion with the refusal of their accomplices on the magisterial bench , to impose its penalties , is an illustration of ' thefact to which we have recently adverted . Another has just occurred in the Staffordshire mining districts . Every one knows that there is a statute

      prohibiting the payment of wages in goods—or , as it is commonly called—the truck systemi Perhaps not a more heartless or nefarious mode of plunder was ever invented than that thus denominated ; and the law—as far as words go—is sufficiently stringent and explicit in its prohibition and its penalties . But , though there is no loop-hole to creep through—as it is pretended there is in the Factory . Act—it has not prevented the ironmasters , in the district mentioned , from carrying on an illegal traffic , by which they have robbed their workpeople of thirty per cent , above the market

      price , of all the goods they have forced them to purchase . The poor victims who were thus plundered , were , in fact , without redress . If they , did hot consent to . take orders , on the '' tommy shops , '' instead [ of money wages , they were discharged ; and they knew enough of the difliculty of getting employment elsewhere , to induce them to submit to the extortion , rataer . than . risk starvation or the workhouse . In many instances ,, the ironmasters openly keep hucksters' and haberdashers '

      shops ; but , generally , in order to avoid the open scandal of keeping these shops themselves , they are farmed' out ; and that they must be , extremely profitable to their owners , may be inferred from a fact stated at a public meeting in Dudley , on Monday night last . The Mayor presided at that meeting , on the requisition of nearly two hundred of the most respectable persons in the parish , and there were present deputations from Bilston , and other towns . O ne of the speakers said : —

      : They had heard a great deal lately ahout the distress of the ' farmers , hut this ' tommy' farming must he a good thing , for he heard the other day that a * tommy : shop . Keeper' to ao ironmaster offered another ironmaster a hotter annual income , if he would send his people to he trucked : at his shop , than the profits which . the best 500 acres of land in this country would produce , supposing wheat to ' fce at 8 s . a bushel . ' ( Cries of' Shame . ) : He added , most truly : — Of all the instruments of cruelty that was ever thrown up from the bottomless pit to enable one man to oppress

      another , this was the masterpiece . ( Hear . ) It . wasanengine , the grinding qualities ol which must ever be regulated by the humanity or the cupidity of the man who employed it . The system made the working-man ' s condition wretched ; it ruined the retail trader . ; if persisted in it avouM compel tho money-paying master either to pay i . i truck or to discontinue his business ; it increased both crime and poverty , by the distress which it engendered oh t lie one hand and hy tlie profligacy which the riches it c veated caused on another . ( Cheers . ) '• ¦ - .

      Numerous instances of the mischief , and the demoralisation arising from the practice , were stated by other speakers , and specimens given oftho modes adopted by the . , iron-masters in order to evade the law . The evil seems to have grown to such a height , that the shopkeeping classes in tho district have at length been forced to make common cause with , the workpeople , in order to secure such a portion

      of the trade as will enable them to live . Associations are in the course of formation throughout the district , for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of the law ; but that this will be a difficult task , in consequence of the composition of the magistracy , is evident from the result of the first informations against the offenders , tried at Wolverhampton ,. on Wednesday . .. ' , ¦' . ¦ .. ¦ ¦ ' .

      The . Truck Act expressly prohibits the ironmasters being magistrates , or any other persons being magistrates who are in any way connected with ironmasters , from sitting to adjudicate upon informations laid under the act , This apparent protection against the perpetration of injustice is , however , neutralised in another way . The act requires that informations shall be heard before two

      magistrates | and it appears that thero is but one stipendiary and independent or disinterested magistrate ; in the whole of- that large and populous district . Three parts of the County magistracy are directly disqualified from siting , The remaining fourth is not to be found when Truck cases are to be heard , and the consequence is , that there is a practical denial of justice in the district .

      The poor miners find that after they have mulcted their earnings in order to make up a fund for the purpose of bringing informations before the magistrates , and after having by so doing rendered themselves obnoxious to the law-breaking conspirators , by whom they are plundered , and incurred the risk of being discharged , they have not made one step towards these objects . On the day the Justipes meet , they are told their cases cannot be heard , because two qualified magistrates are not present . The proceedings at the magistrates '

      office , in Wolverhampton , were of such a character as ought to compel the Home Secretary to interfere , and provide for the due impartial , and timely enforcement of the law ; but if the ironmasters are as powerful in Parliament as the . lawbreaking factory masters , there is small chance of that being the case . Sir Gr . Grey can be awfully and sternly just , when he has to crush a poor man , or a weak party , but his courage and his justice ooze out at his finger ends , the moment he is confronted with a party that has votes at its . disposal .

      Two kinds of information were to come before the Court on Wednesday . The first being for the issue of cheques for less than twenty shillings each . One of the methods resorted to for the , purpose of evading the law , the other for a direct infringement of the Truck Act . The stependiary magistrate was present , tho only other being a Mr . BARKim , an ironmaster . The first charge he was qualified to set and adjudicate upon ; but when it was called , he peremptorily told the . Solicitor , who appeared in support of the informations , " the cases must bo put off , Mr . Bolton , who is for

      the defendants , can't be here today . " To all farther subsequent statements his last answers were , ' "Wo can't hear you . " " Its of no use arguing the case . " The Solicitor on the part of the plaintiffs , urged that he had a great number of cases , that the act expressly provides they must be abjudicated upon within twenty days from the time of their being . If they went on adjourning , they would fall to the ground , and his clients would have to pay

      all the expenses , besides enduring a great wrong ; he further averred , that the adjournment was not asked in good faith , seeing that the defendants finding Mr . Bolton had a sub poena to go to Gloucester Assizes , retained him , in order that the cases might not come on that day . Perhaps the confederate conspirator OU the bench was perfectly aware of this " dodge j" but that was no reason why it should he defeated , therefore he closed the affair with the decisive sentence : — " the case

      must stand over , call on something else ;" and thus , because it was convenient to an attorney to be out of the way , the poor men who had clubbed their money together were denied justice , and that protection which the law apparentl y extends to them . In this case , be it remarked , the magistrate had jurisdiction , and he used his power to prevent the administration of justice . In a subsequent case for offences against the Truck Act , in which Mr . Barker could not act—it transpired , that so ! certain were the defendenta of what the com-

      The Truck System. We Have Frequently Had...

      position dr . tne henck . would ' be , thattwT """ written tothe witnesses -for the plantif - forming thenl , - jthat the case would £ V v " called ori'that day ; -There must cert ainly f a marvellous good undb ^ standing betw een fh magistrates and , some of ? the attornev s Staffordshire , -when we find ' , the latter co if * arranging beforehand the business to be t ^ acted by the former ! ¦ - .,.. ¦ . rj ^ * Mr . Edmonds of Birmingham , who had th truck cases in hand , threatened to wife * Sir George Gta , if this occur red aK l . but , for the reasons ; we . have stated doubt if' much ' satisfaction will be « u ^ from that quarter . Yet the r emedy S ! appear to be simple enough . As th requires two independent justices to adiudf & ? upon these cases ; appoint an addition ! I ?

      peiiaiary magistrate ; the district is Iniw ¦ thickl y peopled , and will find work enotXr him , apart from the necessity of looking i the malpractices of wealth y law brealcel ^ sit in high places , and who , by Yn-tn I holding commissions of the peace , denv tnfn . poor man that justice they are sworn tni j minister freely and impartially . * $ This , however , is only one more spepimn , „ the futility of the nominal restraintsi ll ° Z by the law upon the rich in this coZ ? ed

      vv eaun anu station trample upon them \ -ll impunity It is the poor rogue ; and the 2 law breaker only , for whom all the of the Statute-book are reserved . Th British Goddess of Justice , alas , is not blind but wide awake , to the difference between threadbare coat and a good one ; her apnr elation of the logic of a full pocket , can ink be equalled by the sterness of the sentenced whorevdth she punishes an empt y one ,

      English Espionage. Some Years Ago, There...

      ENGLISH ESPIONAGE . Some years ago , there was a so-called Kadi , cal Member of Parliament , called Daniel Whittle Harvey . He was yery glih in the tongue , and used to make clever speeches but , somehow or other , people had got the notion that he was not to be trusted . However he made himself feared by the Whi gs , sufficientl y to induce Lord John Russell to

      contrive , that when he was elected to the post of Police Commissioner for the City of Lon . don , he should thereby be disqualified for seat in the House of Commons . Since that time the ex-Member ' for Colchester , has been studying , and practising the duties of Prefect of Police , seemingly upon a continental model . "We by no means intend to compare him with M . Carlieb—the inimitable Pari * sian Prefect—who combines the two-fold characters of Professor of Political Economy , and Director of Police . The London Commisl

      sioner has not yet issued any lectures to the English Chartists , or Communists , upon the subversive , ignorant , and impracticable nature of their political and social opinions ; but he is evidently preparing to do so . He has takenthefirst step towards the practical imitation of his continental compeer , by introducing a system of organised espionage . The thing has , hitherto , been so hateful to En glishmen , that we are obliged to borrow a word to express it . To what extent this system has been carried out , it is impossible for us to say ; but it may be as well for the public to have an idea of

      the manner m which it works . Not long ago , a charge of assault was made at the Guildhall by one of these police spies , which threw some light upon the subject . A person was proceeding very quietl y and steadily along Wood-street , with a bag containing music , in his hand , when he was stopped by a man in a fustian jacket , who insisted upon searching him . He naturall y , and most properly resisted such interference , which looked more like intended robbery than anything else , and , much to his surprise and discomtbrfc found himself conveyed to a police cell , and charged with having "impeded the police in the execution of their duty . '' The

      ALDERMAN who presided when the so-called assault was tried , strongly condemned the conduct of the constable , and added his decided opinion that such a mode of carrying out the police system was perfectly - unwarrantable , and ought on no account to be tolerated . Considering that the Aldermen are . Mr . Harvey ' s masters , the hint ought to . have been sufficient . Not so , however . That worthy Commissioner has just issued a short report on the state of the City , and the force under his command , in which he stands stoutly up for the spy system . He reprimands Alderman Salomass for being so "very unreasonable , " as to subject the constables to such rebukes as those lie administered to the- fellows who went about

      disguised in a fustian jacket . "I should regret , " says Radical D . W . Harvey , " the relinquishment of the practice of employing constables not wearing the uniform of the force , being satisfied of its great utility . ' ' Here , then , we have the admission that this is "the practice ;" . to what extent we can only , infer from the value the Commissioner puts . upon it . That the ; Espionage extends into ; the concerns of all classes , is also certain , from the variety of the disguises Mr , HaryBY ' S arguses are required to assume . No honest person will object to place in the hands of the administrators of the law , and the protectors oftho lives and property of the public , all

      reasonable and proper facilities for the performance pf their duties ; but , if on pretence of doing this , either the London Commissioner ; or any other police functionary , is to be em * powered to send out the men at his disposal , when ho pleases , dressed as he pleases , and in what numbers he pleases , for what purposes he pleases , uncontrolled , unchecked , and without responsibility for the abuse of such powers , then we say , that the personal liberty of every Englishman is at stake . That his household secrets are no longer his own , that freedom of speech and action are dangerously menaced , and that we have taken the first step that leads towards the worst form of despotism .

      The Gorham Case. A Death Blow To The Chu...

      THE GORHAM CASE . A death blow to the Church of England has lieea struck , not by an enemy from without , but by a friend within . The work of dissolution , which toa united efforts of the enemies of the State Church , and their name is Legion , could hot effect , has been commenced hy one of its stoutest upholders . To the Bishop of Exeter , the most energetic prelate in . the realm , is duo the honour of sotting on foot tlifl agitation of a question , the settlement of which , it needs no prophet ' s eye to discern , cannot he a d < justed and the church of England exist . The foundation stone of a controversy , which will battel tho pillars of the state church to the ground , was laid on that day when the Privy Council gave t heir judgment . The matter of the quarrel lies in a nut " ' shell : —The Bishop of Exeter says" that when a

      , child is baptised , the application of the water washes away its sins ; " Mr . Gorham says , "itis no such thing ; whereupon the Bishop will not let Gorham hold any curacy under him , upon this Mr , G . prosecutes tria bishop ; one tribunal asserts that Henry of Exeter is right ; the case is earned before another , who reverse tho former decision , and without givin * any opinion on the deep > y obscure of baptismal regeneration , tell the J >» r that he is forthwith to induct Gorham to his woe fice . "No ! " shouts valorous Henry of Exeter , " death sooner ! " and so he blows up the Arcn * bishop of Canterbury , who , poor feeble maB , oop » know which way to turn ; abuses the authority OJ Privy Councils , and threatens Rome or Infidelity * onurf

      And so stand the two great parties , the high " and tho low , pitted against each other liko a co « P' ° of English boxers , waiting hut the signal to fall v > t or rather , and more appropriately , like a couple ojl Roman gladiators waiting for the signal to cut caca other ' s throats . That the Church of England m survive tho shock is almost beyond the boup . as o * possibility . Tho hiah church must ascend to tB Church of Rome , and the low church must &««»« to the Dissenters . To the reformers bf Gre »« Britain a ray of hope beams from the dark cloua » that presage tha approaching storm . Amidst ; tn thundering elements , in the shook of tho conn / 6 » the State Church of England will perish . * w » thanks to Harry of Exeter , who has n ot forg ° i nf his father ' s trade , hiit has &•«««<* for the Churott w England ths cohubk foro'V" ; »? ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 6, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_06041850/page/4/