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« ^ t * T « B FBA 5 KLIK'S APPEAL TO THE BY W . U . OUSO BOTJKKE . ( From an American paper . ) it /* where , my long lost one ! are thou ' ' ilid Arctic seas and wintry skies ? « « m . Pol ar night is on me now , ind hope , long wrecked , but mocks my cries . t tfffl lfce thee ! fromfroKnplain t « i the drear zone and sunless air ,
x fv drfe ? , lonely heart complains , And chills in sorrow and despair . « I Tell we , je No rthern winds ! that sweep mvn » from the rayless , dusty dayi -ret ire vc have borne , and where ye keep , Vv well beloved within your sway ; < fl-Jl ' me vrhennertye wildly bear The i ' ct message in yonrbroath , j jVw yDeloreA- Ob , tell me where Ye keep him on the shores of death .
• rdl ine , re Polar se ^! that roll , From ice-bonnd shore to sunny isle-Tell me . wnen noxt yeleavc tne Pole » . TThere ye have chained my lord the while ^ the Weak Northern cliff I wait With tear-pained eyes to see ye come ! WU yenot tell me , ere toolate ? Or will ye mock while I am dumb ? Tell me , oh tell me , mountain waves ! Whence have ye leaped and sprung to day ? Have ve passed o er their sleeping graves That ye rush wildly on your way ? -will vesweep on and bear me too flown to the caves within the deep ? Oh bring some token to my view Tbatye my loved one safe will keep !
Can st thou not tell me , Polar Star ! ¦ vThere in the frozen waste he kneels ? AndontheicyplMnsaf " His love to God and me reveals ? Wilt thou not send one brighter ray To my lone heart and aching eye ? Vffl , thou not turn my night to day , And wakemy spirit erel die ? Tell me , oh dreary North 1 f or now Mv soul is like thine Arctic zone ; geneatn the darkened skies I bow Or ride the stormy sea alone ! ¦ Tell me of my beloved ! for I-
Know not a ray my lord without Ohf tell me , that I may not die A sorrower on the sea of doubt !
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THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW OF BRITISH AM ) FOREIGN POLITICS , HISTORY AND LITERATURE . Edited lj G . Julian Habsey . June , London : J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternoster-row . ^ ms is No . 1 of ihe second volume of the Democratic Review . The articles are fewer hut more elaborate than usual . The editor has devoted ten pages to a review of the " Conspiracy in France against Universal Snffcure , " and the " Tactics and Programme of
the Counter-Revolutionists . " The admirable defenceof "Democracy , " by Helen Macfarlane , in repl y to Thomas Carlyle , is Drought io a conclusion . " Two Years of a Revolution , " continued from the numher for May , is followed by an article on one of Mazzini ' s recent works : " The Pope in the Nineteenth < 7 entnrr . " An address to ihe Democrats of Great Britain and Ireland , " concludes the contents of this number . We give the following extracts , taken from the first , third , and fifth articles .
THE FRESCH JSD THEIE OFPBESSOBS . The French are not necessarily bound to follow their old modeof warfare . Mostsi & ubkbt has proclaimed war againstHhe people , and has avowed that he holds all means of warfare justifiable . As champion ofthe Jesuits he acts up to the doctrine of that confederacy—that ' the end sanctifies the means . " So be it . That doctrine is as good for the peop le as their enemies . If the rich will attempt to subject the poor to slavery by means of fire and sword , it will be the right and duty of the poor to combat the rich with the torch and the o-miard . Months ago I predicted that in the next
great struggle , the people would avoid , as far as possible , alt conflict with the military instruments ef the propertied classes , and would , instead , combat and strike down the directors and employers of those unhappy instruments ; events seem fast hastening to the fulfilment of my prediction . I said at the commencement of this letter , that the French people had to choose between * slavery , and salvation through a sanguinary revolution . If the latter alternative is forced upon them they will accept it , rather than submit to be deprived of all the Suits acquired by themselves and their fathers in the struggles of the last sixty years . Beflecting
on—Ihe blood thathasflowed , andthatyethastofloYi __ It makes the heart ache ; and it makes one s veins tun fire , remembering that this wholesale blood-Bpulin " , und immense amount of human misery , have been the results of the eternal conspiracy of the privileged and propertied classes to keep the millions in political and social slavery . THE "FATHERS OF THE CHUHCH , " DEMOCBATIC
SOCIALISTS . If the "Fathers of the Church" were to rise fi-ora the dead , they would be found in our ranisthev would be Democrats . Demagogues , Socialists , Communists , Jacobins , Enemies of Order , of society and of vou . St . Ambrose says , m express terms , that " property is a usurpation . ^ St . Oregoiy the Great regards landed proprietors OS SO inanv assassins : "Let them know that the earth , fr om which they were created , » the temnan prope r * of aU men ; and that , therefore , the fruits of theearth belong indiscriminately to All . Those who make private property of the gift of Goi pretend in vain to be innocent ! For , in thus retaining the subsistence of the poor , they are the murderers of those who die every day for want of it . What
an incendiary vagabond is this "Tenerable Father !* ' St John , called from his eloquence Chrysostomus , or Goldenmouth , says : /* Beheld the idea we ought to have concerning rich and avaricious men . They are robbers who beset highways , strip travellers , and then board up the property of others , in the houses which are heir dens . " St . Augustine says on the subiect of inheritance : " Beware of making parental affection a pretext for the augmentation of your possessions- ! keep my wealth for my children- ^ vain excuse ! Your father kept it for you , you keen it tor your children , and they will keep it for theirs , and so on . Bat ytte ^ one would observe the law of God ! " St . BudI the Ci » l in his Treatise de Avant . 21 , p . 328 , rails
el , 1 C 39 , asks , " Who is a robber ! . it is ne wno appropriates to himself the things whichi belong to All . Artthou notarobber . thon who tekestforthyself the goods thou hast received from God for the purpose of distributing them to others ? If he who steals a garment be called a robber , ought not the possessor of garments , who refrains from clothing the naked , to be called by the same name ? The bread thou hast stored belongs to him who is hungry ; the garment thou keenest in reserve belongs him who is naked ; the sandals thou hast lying by belongs to him who goes barefoot ; and the money thou hast hoarded-as if buried in the earth-belongs to him who baa none . " Louis Blanc is a wry tame and moderate nerson . I think , compare d Wit &
the Communists I have just quoted . How comesit that vou soi-disant preachers of the gospel of tnrot , never take these or similar extracts from the fathers of the Christian church , " as texts for your homilies ? I have frequently heard you qnote from St Au 2 U 3 tus on predestination and grace , but you preserve a mysterious silence regarding St . Angustine on property . It is beeaasejoa neither teach tbe Christian idea , nor doyou live in it ; because you are a set of pitiable impostors . You do not even make apnUmon of those precepts of Fraternity taught by the Jfazarean , and said by him to contain the true spirit of his relig ion . You wisely keep silence on such points , else—out of your own lying moutns —would you be convicted .
. THEB 0 DBGE 0 IS-1 IBKRA 13 . In what a ridiculous position have the hourgeome of this country lately placed themselves ! la that tmmperv « ConferencV' held last month by the leaders " of the middle class reformers , the selfish sectarian nature of themiddle class movementcame « nt in alaring colours . These " free trade and lug loaf" fentry have been shamefully beaten on every measure thev have introduced into the Hospital of Incurables , " this session-yet they will doanything rather than coalesce with the proletananstfaey hare grierooslv wronged the working men of 2 n « land , tfierefore they fear Universal Suffrage . JUy proletarian brothers , we have had too severe les sons fa
as to the hypocritical nature of bourgeois MjJJjB -viz ., the Reform Bill , and the League . Let us ten these middle class monkeys , "if you want « " ••** ehesnuts , use yonr own paws to take them out oi the fire . We refuse to be made catspaws of any longer for your advantage . " "Without the proletarians to back him , how can Mr . Cobdea get up the " storm of agitation" he promised us ? " Superior Pjrotechny this evening !"—only , the fireworks are not forthcoming !! Let us stand aloof , and leave the middle class leaders to their own resources jet awhile , I have heard that" Manchester men ' Are famous hands at a bargain . Messrs . Cobden and Bright will need all their commercial ability » hea they are ohlieeoVas they will be at no distant
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-... ; . - POPEPiuaix . Incited by his feelings to ^ seek the applause and affection ofthe masses ; . but forced by the all-powerful logic of the principle be represents towards , an absolute dictatorshi p ; seduced by the intellectual movement of . his time , the example ot other countries , tbe spirit of the age ; listening to the holy words—" . Progress , " the « ' People , " " Fraternity , " " Freedom ;"—but incapable of interpreting these words himself , uncertain a * to what might follow , and fearing that tho people , after having become cognisant of their rights , would nest question the Papal authority—Pius IX . turned from the path which had been opened for hitn . ne spoke words of emancipation—he promised the independence of Italy , which he could not , and would not realisewhich his ministers , in concert with Austria ,
betrayed the next day ; and then , panic-stricken , he fled from the presence of that people who called aloud to him— ' « Take courage I" lie placed himself under tho protection of a bloodthirsty monarch whom he despised , and adopted the maxims of that despot . To he revenged for the tranquillity which , despite all the provocations to a civil war , prevailed under the new government of Borne , he begged help from foreigners ; and the Pope , who had once been so averse to bloodshed , th \ t he tried to recall the Roman troops from the Lombard camps , invoked the bayonets of French , Austrian , Neapolitan , and Spanish soldiers to replace hitn on his throne . ... Louis XVI . ofthe Papacy ! He has destroyed it for ever , and the first cannon fired by his allies against the Vatican was the death signal of the Latin Church .
The dualism of the middle ages is , henceforth , a symbol devoid of life and meaning ; the banners of the Guelfs and Ghibeliues are ensigns placed upon a tomb . Neither Pope nor Kiug—it is God and the people only who can open the way into the promised land .
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The Freethinker ' s Magazine . No .. I . London : J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s-head Passage , Paternoster-row . We have here the first number of a newmonthly "Beview of Theology , Politics , and Literature . " As regards both quantity and quality , this is an excellent , twopenny-worth . From a well-written " Glance at the present state of Theology , " we give the following extracts : —
THE MAY MEETISQS . This article would bo manifestly incomplete without a short survey of the materials for future campaigns , as developed at the annual meetings of the relig ious bodies during May . As usual , the whole month has been absorbed « ith them , and pretty hard work it must have been for some ofthe parties who seem to be principals at i > U the meetings . On the whole , they do not seem to have had this year the oneness or the concentration formerly to be observed . There seems to have reigned a despondency—an unspoken dread—among the promoters , " of something that might ooze out that would damage the collections . In fact , at two of these meetings—one presided over by Lord Harrowby ,
the other by Fox Maule—amendments were proposed , which it was considered advisable to decline to receive ; the chairmen seemingly having no hesitation to play the tyrant even for the briefspace of a day . The attempt to suppress free speech at a public meeting , owing to the efficiency of the fourth estate ( the press ) , has been bruited far and near , and doubtless heard with much grief by those friends of real religion who , being honest and sincere themselves , fancy their spiritual guides are equally disinterested—and who cannot conceive that there is ought to be blinked in their respective systems . Amiable confidence , it is true , but we
fear misplaced . As regards infidelity , so called , it the statements made at the meetings be true , and the parties ought to know , it is in a very flourishing condition , and seems , by its progress , to be an everlasting satire upon Christian efforts . Did their cause manifest the same steady advance , both as to numbers and intelligence , they would detect at once the hand of God in it . As it is , they detect only the disinclination of their followers to have their bands dipped in their pockets so frequently . But it may be the threat is only used as a sort of theological Frankenstein , by the instrumentality of which their benighted followers seem to cash up freely enough .
That very astute body , the Society for the Conversion ofthe Jews , it appears , have collected this year over £ 28 , 000 ; and ,, like FalstafFs item of bread to a butt or two of sack , the result is twenty foreign converts—being only a cost of £ 1 , 400 each —which is dulv recognised as the work of God . * * * * In fact , cash up is the alp ha and omega of all these meetings . To call them annual discussions is a farce . They are , more properly speaking , annual benefits ; principal performers , Messrs . Plumptre , Peto , and Cowan , who seem to be especially retained to do the starring work at each ofthe meetings—in fact , deduct the three and the meetings would be dumb . It would be a knotty point for Colonel Sibthorp to decide the following query : How much , after printing 10 , 000 bioles , would there be left out of £ 28 , 000 to be shared among the officials of the Society for the Conversion of the Jews ? And those who glory in the economy observed in
the production of this most holy and most necessary book must never lose sig ht of the fact that these religious societies have done more to reduce to the starvation point the wages of printers , bookbinders , folders , and stitchers that all the individual competition of booksellers put together ; in fact , no grinding act ot oppression , intimidation , or chicaneay is too dirty to be by them performed — and all , forsooth , under the name of religion . For who , for the p rivilege of printing or binding Bibles , would mind existing on one meal a day , instead of three ? Or who would mind seeing his _ children perish day by day for want of food and fresh air , so that he could but contribute to the spread of the Gospal at the antipodes , by the production and dissemination of cheap Bibles ? We can readily learn how many Bibles can be produced , but none can calculate how many fireless hearths accrue to the producers , or how many broken hearts they yearly cause .
The meeting of the Church Missionary Society seems to have been — according to the religions thermometer , the receipts—a taking affair . It appears their subscriptions this year have exceeded £ 94 , 000 . But even in this society , which is comparatively a flourishing concern , it could not be dis « niished that there was a palpable falling off in some of the most prolific sources of revenuenamelv , the regular subscriptions ; for the great total arose mainly from legacies , which , from the spirit of intelligence now abroad , is likely to prove in future years not so prolific as at present . One society which , to the friends of peace at least , must appear anomalous , have also had their meetin *? , with a live marquis in the chair . The Naval
and Military Bible Society , if the statistics be correct , bave done their share in pushing the staple article , the Bible , among the . men of war . But reallv when we reflect on the morals ofthe military , they do not evidence that the efforts made are very effectual ; in fact , if the society does not make the soldiers show up their Bibles , as they do their bodies , to an inspector , at stated periods , it would not exercise our imagination over much to fancy they were in the habit of lighting their pipes with the leaves instead of reading them . The total results of all the dip etings , as far as Christianity is concerned , is anything but hopeful . In spite of two millions of Bibles and twenty millions of tracts , there is hardly one association clear ofdebt . _ . _
In the face of such / acts as twenty Jews converted at the expense of £ 28 , 000 , pr , as in the case of the Christian Instruction Society , where J . loO Christian propagandists visited 52 , 105 families with a result which , for fear of mistakes , we give in the words of the report read to the meeting , that "More than thirty individuals were believed to nave become genuine converts to Christ , the greater part of whom had been united to the Christum church . This sentence to men of the world would ^ pea k volumes , but by the dearly beloved in the Lord , wno with open mouth listened to the astounding result of thirty converts , with a staff of 2 , 000 and upwards of preachers , it was received as thankfully as those most interested in the system could wish .
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The Reasoner . Edited by J . G . Holyoake . Vol . IX . Part II . London : 3 , Queen ' s head Passage , Paternoster-rowv — The Northampton Herald of Freedom . No . I . The first of these periodicals contains its nsual order of articles . We ohserve nothing in the part before us calling for comment . The second is a new publication , " Edited by Young Working Men of Northampton , " and appealing to the sympathies ofthe " Teetotal " public .
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REMAnKAELE DiMisciios or Picrunisii . —In the week ending the 18 th ult ., we have the pleasure of stating , there was a reduction in the daily average number of pauper inmates of the Birmingham workhouse , as compared with the corresponding period of last vear , of 401 ; of children in the asylum a ^ mjnntion of ninety ; and of tramps admitted to Jh ^ knouse ^ reJuction of 306 , making a totel reduction in the number of in-door poor of 707 ; JSt comparison with respect to the outdoor naS S a diminution of 4 , 526 ; so that ffre were actually 5 , 323 fewer paupers receiving relief Eg ? ShTweekia question than at the-same period of last year ,
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ROYAL PbLTTECH ^ ' iNSTITUTIONJ Among the fatest additions to this well known audi big ?*/; appreciated establishment- are a corps oi singers called the Alpine Vocalists , who charm the visitors with their mountain-melodies . The female singer possese-i a most powerful voice , and produces an ; effect and characteri ; . quite enchanting . The airs are among the most popular of the Tyrolean air , arranged with great taste aud beauty , in duets , glees & o . In the gallery of art in this
institu ' . ion , tnercfias lately been deposited some prints of great beauty and excellence ; those of more particular note consist of engravings from E . Landseer and Herring . The first represents a most noble looking dog , the favourite ofthe late Countess of Blessington , a present from the King of Naples . The second consists of three white horses heads , full of life and fire ; they are both engraved by , Mr . Mass , and are beautiful specimens of art , and reflect highly the talent and taste exhibited by this gentleman .
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THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S BILL . The following declaration , respecting the bill recently introduced into the House of Lords , for the reference of cases of alleged heresy and false doctrine to the Bench of Bishops , will show how the Bishop of London ' s bill is regarded by a most influential portion of the clergy of the Established Church : — " The undersigned clergy and laity of the . Church of England having observed with much alarm that a bill has been introduced into the House of Lords , giving the final decision in all cases of controversy as to the nature of the doctrine of the Church of
England on any point of the Christian faith to the Bench of Bishops—knowing also that this feeling is shared by many others in all parts of the kingdomand at the same time being unwilling to cause unnecessary agitation in the church by encouraging the preparation of petitions to the legislature on the subject—thinK it desirable , in a less public way , to call the attention of members of the legislature to the matter , and to express to them what they know to be the feelings ofa large body of the clergy and laity of our church respecting it ; and , among other objections to the proposed bill , they would observe ,
1 . That they are at a loss to discern any sufficient reason tor such a change as that proposed in the mode of deciding such controversies . 2 . That the tribunal contemplated by-the bill is open to the serious objection of being susceptible of misuse for party purposes , and of being made an instrument for affixing private interpretations to the standards of the churcb ; and that its effect would be , that if , at any time , a bare majority of the bench were disposed to maintain their view on any point to be the doctrine required to be held in the Church of England , the minority holding a different view ( however numerous and weighty ) , with the whole body of the clergy agreeing with them , would be placed in a position which would almost necessitate their separation from the church . S . That it is essential to the due administration
of justice in such controversies , —which regard , not the abstract question of what is truth , but what the standards ofthe Church of England require to be maintained , —that ( without excluding episcopal cooperation ) the adjudication of them should be entrusted to a court where there are men conversant with the duties of the office of judge , accustomed to weigh evidence with impartiality , and recognising the necessity of distinguishing between the claims of what -ippears to them , as individuals , to be truth , and the requisitions ofa tolerant church , —qualities which cannot reasonabl y be expected to be the distinguishing characteristics of the clergy .
4 . That the bill in question would introduce the serious evil of making the doctrine of the church entirely dependent upon the variable interpretation which might be given to its standards by a majority ofthe bishops , whose decision upon any point would for the time be equivalent to au additional article of faith , though at any subsequent period reversible by a similar body . Here follow the signatures of 317 clergymen and twenty-five lay members of the church . The list of signatures includes the deans of Manchester , Salisbury , and Bristol .
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THE LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE MINERS . The county meeting of the Miners of these counties was held on Monday last , at the Ram ' s Head , Radcliff-bridge , near Bury ; James Price was unanimously called to the chair . The new code of rules drawn up by the committee appointed to revise the present rnlesat the close of the last Conference were read and agreed to unanimously . The new rules provides that each district shall support its own victims , with the exception of those who may be discharged from their employment for going on a journey or deputation , at the instance of the county board or district meeting . A levy of one penny per week was ordered to be brought to the next county meeting , for the purpose of defraying tbe expenses of the organisation
connected with those counties . Petition Parliament for Government Inspectors of Mines and Collieries , and an Eight Hours Bill for all miners , old and young . After other business of a local nature had been transacted , the meeting was adjourned to Monday , June 10 th , to be held at the Brown Cow , Shevingtdn , hear Wigan . Hisdlkt . —A meeting ofthe Miners of this place was held on Wednesday evening , May 29 th , in the large room at the Lord Nelson Inn ; the room was crowded with attentive hearers . Mr . T . Gregson , one of the Miners' agents , having been called to the chair , the meeting was addressed by D . Swallow at great length , on the advantages to be derived bv
the Miners uniting together in the bonds of brotherly love . The Miners' petition was read and adopted , and tbe chairman was ordered to sign it on behalf ofthe meeting . It was agreed to form three lodges :- one for Strangway ' s men at the Hand and Heart ; tbe other two for Blundell ' s and Aliburton ' a , at the Ambers wood Tavern . This meeting was the best that has been held in Hindley for the last three years ; it was enthusiastic , aud a good feeling pervaded all present . Meetings of Miners have also been held at Blackrod , Rose-bridge , Platt-bridge , and Martinmillbridge . The above meetings were addressed by H . Dennett and James Price . There seems to be every prospect of getting the Miners of the above districts organised again .
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Tab SjinnFiBLD Nuisance . — The fate of the Smithfield nuisance may be considered as sealed . The report ofthe commission appointed to inquire into the London markets is decisive on the sub ject ; and albeit the corporation members of that body-Sir J . Duke and Mr . Woods —have dissented and recorded a protest against the conclusion of the majority , that focus of feculance , and cruelty , and crime , must be looked upon as in the course of speedy extirpation . It is not wonderful , however , tbat the corporation of London should ' make a fight for the retention of the market in its present place , though the health and even tho lives of the inhabitants ofthe metropolis are hourly perilled by the droves of infuriate cattle , goaded through the crowded streets of this city , and their sense of
decency and propriety momentarily shocked by scenes of ruffianism and vice there enacted , seeing that the income derived from . it is so large . The " clear gain" to the corporation is £ 5 , 000 a year ; and as corporations have no conscience , it is easily credible tbat the whole of the metropolitan population would be permitted to perish rather than this body should forego its gripe upon that large sum of money . The facts elicited in the report are very curious as well as instructive . The value of live cattlo disposed of in Smithfield market is about nine millions a year ; but it is a singular circumstance that there are fewer of the smaller animals—such as sheep , calves , and pigs—sold there now than there were at two periods
of 120 and 150 years ago . Our forefathers , like their German ancestors , gave the preference to the smaller meat—men of the present , day prefer the larger and full grown animal . For the pound of beef that was eaten at those , periods-according to the returns — there are three pounds eaten at this period . Tbe increase of animals upon the whole , however , has been enormous — say quadruple— in that time ; but yet the size of the market has been very little increased—in fact , it is scarcely double . The suffering , the misery , and the loss consequent upon this want of accommodation can scarcely * le credited by persons unacquainted with the facts as regards Smithfield . —Observer .
School Districts vsdeb the Poor-Laws . — On the 24 th ult . an Act of Parliament ( 13 Vic , cap . 11 ) became operative to make better provision for the contributions of unions and parishes in school districts to the common funds of tho respective districts . By a former statute provision was made for the management of schools for infant poor by the combination . of unions and . parishes into districts , and the expenses were to be paid by such unions in the proportion of the averages last declared , and by the parishes in proportion of the average expenditure . It is now , however , provided that the poor Jaw board shall cause an inquiry to be
made as to tbe average annual expense incurred in the relief of the poor for three years before the formation of a district . And to include all other expenses connected with the relief of the poor . Then the poor law board will declare the averages , and the several unions and parishes to contribute their proportion . The object of the act is to equalise the contributions ofthe unions and parishes in school districts . The Laurkateship . —Mr . Douglas Jerrold suggests that in the event of the determination of the place ofthe Laureate , the salary that would otherwise cease with it should endow the post of keepership of Shakspeare ' s house at Stratford-upon-Avon .
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TRKfMPrl W COJOPmilONr- " ' MAncHUNE , AyBSHiBB .-buring the course of the last fifteemyearsja largenumber of associations have been formed , in Ayrshire , to procure a supply w provisions to the working . classes . oo as economical a scale as possible . , One ; of these . was established here in the year 1839 , with a capital at its commencemen t of only twenty pounds , raised in shares of seven shillings each . For some years after its formation , its benefits were solely confined to its members , but in 1845 . they were . extended to the general public- Although very small profits have all along been taken , it may serve to show the
encourage-T . j i ! ' tms society has received , when it is stated , that when the last , balance , was struck tbe PJ [ P y and stock belonging to it was valued at threeliundred and twenty-twopoundssterling . The members , finding „ that increased accommodation would be required , a , resolution was adopted last summer that a new building should be erected by the society . Mr . Alexander ; of Ballochmyle , on being applied to , very generously granted a few , on reasonable terms , and hv ' a favourable situation , near the centre of the village . The . building operations were accordingly . proceeded with , and a handsome and commodious two storey house ; soon sprang up . which , in its various details ,, reflects great credit on Mr . James Gibson , the architect . On -Wednesday , the 24 th of April , the new bazaar was opened , and on Thursday evening , the 25 th May , a supper was
given in the capacious Hall , forming the upper flat of the new building . Deputations bad been invited from all societies of a similar nature in Ayrshire , with the exceptions of Saltcoats and Baith , the committee not being aware that such existed in any of these localities . Mr . Thomas M'Millan , president ofthe society , occupied the chair ; and Mr . John Wilson ably , officiated as croupier . About one bun dred and thirty sat down to a most substantial repast . After the company had done ample justice to the good things of this life , Mr . Andrew M'Crorie , in tbe absence of the secretary , read letters from the societies of Newmilns , Darvel , and Ayr , congratulatory of the happy circumstances in which this society was placed ; regretting that it was inconvenient to send deputations ; , and Ayr and Darvel gave some account of the state of their . societies '
affairs , which seem to be in a very healthy and prosperous condition . After . the . statistical report of the Mauchline society had -been read , and other preliminaries disposed of , Mr .: M'Lellan , from Prestwick , rose , and in an able , speech , addressed the meeting . He showed the complete dependence of ttnVand every civilised country on labour and the working man ; that too little had-hitherto been done for his social amelioration ; and the advantages to be derived from co-operation in general ; and concluded , amid loud applause , by proposing « Success to the Mauchline Economical Society . 'The Croupier replied , in very , neat and humourous terms , more especially referring , to the necessity there was for proper government , and an efficient manager . He then paid a merited compliment to Mr . Bruce Taylor , the much esteemed salesmanfor
, his indefatigable exertions in furthering the objects of the society , and afterwards proposed , « Success to all similar associations . '—Mr . Petrie , as representing tbe oldest society of the kind in Ayrshireit having been established upwards of half a century ago—responded , and in a chaste and agreeable address , described the rise and progress of ( his ) the Kilwinning Victualling Society . He was followed hythedelegatesfrom Galston , Troun , Stewartson , Kilwinning ( baking ) , Ochiltree , and Auchinleck , who all gave flattering accounts of the state of their various associations . Mr . Bryan , from Preston , proposed ' Civil and Reli gious Liberty . ' Various other toasts were proposed and cordially responded to . Tbe evening was much enlivened by the able services of the Mauchline Glee Band , and a number of volunteer vocalists .
" The night drave on wi' songs and clatter , Till some wee short hour ay ont the twal . " When the meeting broke up , all seemingly highly pleased with the evening ' s entertainments . Such results , as those mentioned above , sbou-d rouse some of those towns and villages who have not as yet formed associations for an economical rupply of provisions , as every sound-thinking individual must be aware tbat immense advantages will accrue from the formation and proper management of such societies . [ Circumstances it would be useless tu enumerate , have prevented the earlier publication o ' this report . ]
The Ten Hours Bill. Oldham.—A Numerous A...
THE TEN HOURS BILL . Oldham . —A numerous and respectable delegate meeting of factory workers , was held at the house of Mr . Peter M'Donald , the Coach and Horses , in Oldham , on Sunday , June 2 nd , 1850 , representing upwards of forty of the most respectable firms in the Borough of Oldham . Several able and talented speeches were delivered ; and" the following resolutions were unanimously passed : — ¦"• "That , after a series of years of agitation and petitioning , the parliament passed an efficient Ten
Hours Bill , to tho general satisfaction of tho factory people : that after two years of satisfactory experience of its beneficial effects , where it had been fairly tried , we are disgusted to see some persons endeavouring to have the Bill abrogated , in order that we and our children should again be handed over to the tender mercies of some of the evil disposed factory lords ; to retrogade , under tbe demoralising influence of the long hour system with all its painful trains of immorality to the body as well as the soul . "
' * That this meeting views , with sadness and contempt , the effected equirelant of half an hour on Saturdays for tho surrender o ' f ' half an hour on each of the other five days in the week ; and this meeting protests against that and all other propositions to deduct something from the labourer on Saturday as an excuse for extending the period of labour on other days . That this meeting , and the factory workers generally , are determined never to submit to any infringement of their long sought and earned Charter , John Fielding ' s Ten Hours Act ; and that they pledge themselves to resist , to the last , every proposition that does not preserve untouched , the two limitations of ten hours per day and fifty-eight hoursper week . "
" That , in the event of members of parliament voting adverse to tho people ' s will , we pledge ourselves in future elections to support those who pledge to vote for and support an efficient Ten Hours Bill . " " That it is the opinion of this meeting that it is the duty of the working people of this borough to support , by every means in their power , tbe efforts now making by Lord John Manners , for the protecting and enforcing of John Fielding ' s Ten Hours Act ; and that they be requested to continue their efforts until that humane law be brought into full and complete operation in all parts of tho manufacturing districts in Great Britain and Ireland . "
"That this meeting returns its heartfelt thanks to Lord John Manners , for the very able and spirited manner in which he has come to the rescue of the poor factory workers in the manufacturing districts of Great Britain and Ireland , and pledge themselves to render him every assistance , morally and constitutionally , so long as ho adheres strictly to the principles of John Fielding ' s Ten Hours "That petitions be got up in accordance with the above resolutions , and presented to both houses of parliament . " A vote of thanks was given to the Editor of the Bell ' s Life and all other Editors that have supported our cause . Wiuiam Marslakd , Chairman .
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Litehatube and ihe Pohce Court . —Tho grand daughter of the well-known author of "Elements of Navigation , " John Robertson , Esq ., has applied for relief at the Lambeth Police Court . She is described as " an aged and enteebled female of ladylike manners . " Mr . Robertson was librarian to the Royal Society when he died . His daughter , the mother of the present applicant , married the son of a clergyman , who left her with a young family totally unprovided for . An unsuccessful effort was made to procure a pension from tho Admiralty . Testimonials were received from Admirals Sir E . Cbdrington , Sir C . Malcolm , Sir T . B . Martin , and other distinguished officers , expressive of the deepest sympathy with the distressing situation of tho grand daughters of so distinguished a man , " one who , by his writings , had conferred such benefits on the naval professions . " Mr . Elliott gave her . £ o out of the poor-box . Tho letter from Admiral Beaufort
said that no man in England ever did so much lor tbe improvement of seamen as the celebrated John Robertson . His book was the first work that placed practical navigation on the basis of science ; " it taught the sailor to understand the empirical pror cesses he was employing , and it has remained to this day the text-book from which all succeeding treatises have more or less borrowed their materials , " And all that these distinguished officers could afford to give , was , " the hearty sympathy of , yours very truly , dsc . " ! Abandonment oe the Marquesas Isiasbs ' b'J the French . —In a California paper it is statcd / on the authority of Captain Boyd , of the Wanderer yatch ( from Cowes ) , . who had arrived at San Francisco from the Sandwich Islands , that the French entirely evacuated the Marquesas Islands in the month of December last , leaving behind thorn no force of any kind , nor even an agent ,
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A MhTEB ot Opimom—A . gooi wife the other day , taking , up a Manchester % npJ said ! to E loving hu ^ 'Th ^ is ^ mamagea ara , toitbrfore the births , ; The Guardian always has tho girths first , and Ithink that very awkward . " ¦ The husband gave an opinion in favour of the Guardian , as he thought " people were born liefore they were married . " The wife , however persisted in the correctness of her view of the matter , and preferred the Manchester arrangement , as it was " a very ugly thing to have a birth before marriage . " The deaths , it would appear , were each put in the right place , for thoy always came last . , A Yankee Editor remarked in a polemical article , that though ho would not call his opponent a liar , he must say , that if the gentleman had intended to state what was utterly false , he had been remarkably successfulin his attempt .
In The famous victory of tho 12 th of April a little bantam cock perched himself on the poop ol Rodney ' s ship , and , at every broadside that was poured into the Ville de Paris , clapped his wings and crowed , Rodney gave special orders that this cock should be taken care of as long as he lived . — Life of Rodney . Jons Adams , ex-President of the United States , being called upon for a contribution of foreign missions , said— " I bave nothing to give for such a purpose ; but there aro here , in this vicinity , six ministers , neither of whom would preach in the other ' s pulpit : now , 1 will do as much and more
than any one else to Christianise those clergymen . " A Poetical Backwoodsman . —A passing traveller meets with a settler near a house , and inquires—Whoso house ? ... Mogg ' s . 1 The Climate ? . Fogs . Of what built ? ,.. Logs . | Your diet ? ......... Hogs . Any neighbours ? Frogs . I How do you catch What ' s the soil ? Bogs . | them ? ... ..... Dogs . Random Hit . — " I hope you will be able to support me , " said a young lady , whilst walking out one evening with her intended , during a somewhat slippery stateof the side walks . " Why , yes , " said the somewhat hesitating swain , " with some little assistance from your father . " There was some little confusion and a . profound silence .
There is one disease that a miser is pretty sure never to die of—and that is , "enlargement ofthe heart . ' ' A Bit o' ZoMenzEisniRE . —One morn , a many years ago , owld Joo was lukin ' auver the bridge , a watchin the vishes , when a gentleman from Lunnon corned by . I zay , vather , zays the stranger , what d ' caal this out here bruk ? Th' owld bwoy was a little bit dunch , and didn't yearn . very plain . D ' zay ? says he . How d ' ye call this bruk ? zays the strainger agen . Haw—caal un , zays owld Joe : um dwont caal um at ale urn dwont : a alius coomes this woy wi'hout callin . Zo the cockney went off in a girt pet and towld un to gwo and hang ' s self . Ddrino the late sessions at N— , a man was
brought up by a farmer , and accused of stealing some ducks . The farmer said he should know them anywhere , and went on to describe their peculiarity . "Why ;' , ' said-the counsel for the prisoner , "they cant be such a very rear breed—1 have some like them in my yard . " "That ' s very likely , sir , " said the farmer ; "these are not the only ducks ofthe sort I have had stolen lately . " Which is the deepest , the longest , the broadest , and the smallest grave in the Esther church-yard ? •—That in which Miles Button lies buried ; ' for it contains Miles below the sod , Miles in length , and Miles in breadth—and yet it is only a Button-hojc . An actor in a street puppet-show—a Punch and Judy—pointed out to the correspondent of the homing Chronicle the extreme lengths which the
" hintellect . is marching . " Some families where I performs will have it most sentimental—in the original style—them familes is generally sentimental themselves . Others is all for tho comic , and then I has to kick up all the games I can . To the sentimental folk I am obliged to perform werry steady and werry slow , and leave out all comic words ' and business . They won't have no ghost , no coffin , and no devil ; and that ' s what I call spilling the performance entirely . It ' s tho march of hintellect wots a doing all this ere—it is sir . " A poor widow woman was relating to a nei ghbour how fond her husband was of leaving a good fire ; how busy he would make himself infixing it so as it would burn . ' «« Ah , poor dear man , " she continued , "I hope he ' s gone to a place where they keep good fires . "
At Vienna , on the 16 th' instant , General Bern ' s name was nailed to the gallows by the public executioner , and his property declared forfeited to tho state . The sentence pronounced against him in contumaciam was death by hanging . A touno lad y who was rebuked by Her mother for kissing her intended , justified herself by quoting the passage—'' Whatsoever yo would that men should do unto you do ye even so unto them . " . A Norfolk farmer , not accustomed to literary composition or letter writing , having lost a new hat at a county meeting , and inquired into its possible mistaking , addressed the following grammatical note to its supposed possessor : — " Mr . A . presents compliments to Mr . B . I have got a hat which is not his . If be have got a hat which is not yours , no doubt they aro the missing one . " . Bishop ' s . Signatures . — " The prelates of the
Church of England arc sometimes accustomed , when s i gning their names , to use the old Latin appellations or abreviations of them for their sees , instead of the English one . Thus , Ebgr , stands for York ; Canlam ; for Canterbury ; ' Vigorn , for Worcester ; Evon , Exeter . It is said that an eminent bookseller once received an instruction per letter , of an author ' s intention to publish a life of Pitt . It was signed George Winton , and was thrown aside with tho most perfect indifference ; the publishers never thinking that George Winton was George , Bishop of Winchester . When the Princess Charlotte was ill , the Bishop of Salisbury sent frequent written inquiries to her Scotch physician , signing himself John Suruni . The doctor , after the receipt of many similar missives , observed to a friend that he had been much pestured with notes from * ' Aue Jean Saroom , that he kenned notliing-aboot . But , " added he " I tnk nae notice of the fellow !"
A SHERIFF " DONE BROWN . ' There is a sheriff in Illinois , who was-rayther " taken in" in that region on one occasion , and , " done for , " Ho had made it a prominent part of his duty to ferret out and punish pedlars for travelling through the State without a license ; but one morning he "met his match : " a " ginooino" Yankee pedlar . " What have you got to sell—anything ? " asked the sheriff .
" Yaes , sartain ; what'd ye like to hev ? Got razers , fust-rato ; that ' s an article , squire , that you twwrf , tew , I should say , by the looks o your bair & . Got good blackin ; t'll make them old cowhide boots o' your ' n shine so't you can shave into ' em ; Balm o' Kluraby , tew , only a dollar a bottle ; good for the ha ' r , and' assisting poor human natur , ' as the poet says . " The sheriff bought a bottle ofthe "Balm of Columbia , " and in reply to the question whether ho wanted " anything else ? " that functionary said he did , - he wanted to see tho Yankee ' s license for peddling in Illinois , tbat being his duty , as high sheriff of the State ! The pedlar showed him a
document , " fixed up , good , in black and white , " which the officer pronounced "All correct ; " and handing it back to the pedlar , he added , " I don ' t know , now that I ' ve bought this stuff , that I care anything about it . I reckon I may as well sell it toyouag'in . What'ilyou give for it ?" " Oh ! I don't know as the darn ' d stuff ' s any use to -me , but seein' it ' s jeou , sheriff , I'll give yeou about thirty-seven and a half cents for it , " quiet / y responded tho trader . The sheriff handed over the bottle and received tho change , when tho pedlar said , " I say , yeou guess I ' ve a question to ask yeou now . Hev yeou got a pedlar ' s license about your trowsers ?
"No ; 1 bnv'fcany use for the articles myself , ' said the sheriff . " Haint , eh ? Well , I guess we'll see about that pooty darn'd soon . Ef I understand the law , neow , it ' s a clear case that yeou ' ve been tradin' with me —hawkin' and pciiUn , Balm o' Klumby on the highway—and I shall inform on yeou ; I'll be darn ' d ef I don't !" Reaching tho town , tho Yankee was as good as his word , and tho high sheriff was fined for peddling without a license . Ho was heard afterwards to say , "You might as well try to hold a greased eel as a live Yankee ?"
An American Letter op Recommendation . —A lady in the north , on dispensing with the service of a faithful servant girl , gave her the following letter of recommendation : — 'Madam Suky Day lived with mo won yer an leven months cookin bakin and is a huceful kind of body she is wcry onest and I never know her to bo in lickcv an she has no sweet arts . ' Mankind , savs tho New York Whig , may be divided into three distinct classes—first , superlatively honest men—second , confirmed scoundrels , and—third , no men at all . To which tho IVn 7 « - delphi , Times adds the following witty hit First person—Wo are . Second person—Ye or you aro Third person—Thoy ( tho women ) aro
Controversial Divines . —Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern that catch that which stands next them , the candlestick , or pots ; turn everything into a weapon : ofttimes they fig ht blindfold , and both beat the air . The one milks a be goat , tho other holds under a sieve . 1 henarguments aro as fluxive as liqnor split upon a table , which with your finger you may dram as you mil . Such controversies , or disputations ( carried with more labour than profit ) are odious ; where most times the . truth is lost in the midst , or left untouched , and tho fruit of then * fight is , that they spit ono upon another , and are both defiled . These fencers in relig ion I like not .- —Zfen Johnson .
Curestok The Uncuited' ' Hollo Way's Ointment. An Extraordinary Cure Of Scrofula, Or Kinq's ¦
CURESTOK THE UNCUitED' ' HOLLO WAY'S OINTMENT . An Extraordinary Cure of Scrofula , or Kinq ' s ¦
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AN THE PREVENTION , CURE , AND \ J General character of SYPH 1 LUS , STRICTURES , Affections of the PROSTRATE GLAND , VENEREAL and SCORBUTIC ERUPTIONS ofthe face and body , Mercurial excitement , & c , followed by a mild , successful aud expeditious mode of treatment . Thirty-first edition , V \ Illustrated by Twenty-Six Anatomical Engravings' on Steel . New and improved Edition , enlarged to 138 pages , just published , prict 2 s . ( id ; or by post , direct from the Establishment , 3 s . fid . in postage stamps . , ' " THE SILENT FRIEND , " a Medical Work on Venereal and Syphilitic Diseases , Secondary Somptoms , Gonorrhoea . & c , with a PRESCRIPTION FOR THEIR PREVENTION ; physical exhaustion , and decay ofthe frame , from the eftectg
Murder Of A Chilu Bt Its Fahikr . — On T...
Murder of a Chilu bt its Fahikr . — On the 30 th u ) t . a frightful occurrence took place in the village of Tushingham , near Maluas , 'in Gheshii o . A man named Taylor , who lives in thatplr . ee , killed ono of his children , a boy about seven years of age , by striking him on the head with an axe . It is supposed that the wretched n \ an ia labouring under insanity , '
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 8, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_08061850/page/3/
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