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      .Just Published , Price 14 (Uniform Mui The Liverpool Traets.)

      . JUST PUBLISHED , PRICE 14 ( Uniform mUi the Liverpool Traets . )

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      IMPORTANT N O TICE TO TRADE SOCIETIES . \ CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES , A to he appointed by the Metropolitan Trades' Societies , wUl be held at the Craves Head , Dbuby . Lase , os Wbdsesdas Evencg , November 7 th , 1849 , to consider upon the best means to be adopted to ameliorate the Social and Political Condition of the People . Also for the purpose of considering on the most profitable way of giving productive employment to the unemployed of our population , and to receive a proposition upon that subject . Chair to be taken at half-past Seven o ' clock precisely . No person will be admitted without credentials duly certified by the officers of his Society . . , , , Bv order of the Committee of the National Association " for the Organisation of Trades . Alfbed A . Wae-kw , President AcGCsrcs E . Delafobce , Secretary . 10 , North-square , Portman-place , Globe-road , Mile End , Committee Room , Craven Head , Drury-lane . Aug . 39 th , I 8 i 9 . N . B . —All expenses will be paid by the Association convening this Conference .

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      CHOLERA-KEW TREATMENT . THE MEDICAL ADVISER , author of the celebrated essays on Scrofula , Consumption , Syphilis , diseases of the Skin , and editor of the "Medical and Family Monitor , " begs to acquaint his friends , that having returned from a scientific journey , and collected many data for a more successful treatment of cholera , he may be consulted as before . Address , " Medical Adviser , " Mr .-Bastick , chemist , Brook-street , Bond-street .

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      Mr. Kara, Churchill.—The Charge Is 4jd. ...

      Mr . Kara , Churchill . —The charge is 4 Jd . if less than four copies under one cover . Mr . . Westmorland , Penrith . —If the London bookseller , who supplies your agent , would call at Mr . Farcy ' s , Holy wellstreet , Strand , he would procure them . Mr . ITahrop , Stalybridge Your payment is made by Mr . Harney up to the 22 nd iust . We could send the portraits to Mr . Heywood , Manchester , in Ids next parcel . Say if that will do . Mr . HrATT , Bristol , acknowledges the following sums for Victim Fund , sent herewith , viz .: —Charles Clark , Is 2 d

      J . Powell , Is 2 d ; W . Burgess , Is 3 d ; John Newman , Gd ; W . Stevens , 2 d ; Mr . Hook , Id ; Job Day , Cd ; Thomas Buggan , 6 d ; Hewry Fink , Od ; W . Hyatt , Is . Mr . I . vcB / tjf , Abergavenny , begs to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums for Macnamava's Action , sent Herewith , viz .: —Abergavenny , Thomas C . Ingram , 2 s ; C . Beams , Is ; Owen Martin , fid ; John Davis , 6 d ; John Gobey , Gd ; Tredager Ironworks , John llaricox , Gd ; W . Jones , Gd ; Ragland , Tiiomas Lewis , Is . Kiokdale Chartist Pbisoxeks . —Thomas Ormeslier , Secretary , begs to acknowledge the following sums : —London Boot and Shoe Makers , per J . M'Yeigh , £ 5 ; for Messrs . Rankin and Croper , £ 1 Is . Gd .

      Mr . Wihttaker begs to acknowledge the following sums for Messrs . Leach and Donovan , London Boot and Shoemakers , per J . M'Ycigh , £ 19 s . Mr . W . IIemm acknowledges the receipt of the following sums : 3 s . Sd ., from Spa-Well , Elland , near Halifax ; 6 s . from Bacup , per James Wilson . J . C . S . Locrwoob . —Write to 22 , Queen ' s-terracc , Bayswater , London . Tire M'Douau . Committee . —By reference to our first page , it will be seen that the money has been sent to Mrs . U'Douall , which renders the publication of the communication received unnecessary . M . A . M'Douall acknowledges the receipt of 10 s . from the Chartists of Thornton , Yorkshire . CairPLEaATE Localitv . —We cannot inscrt " Forthcoming Meetings , " unless paid for as advertisements .

      Mr . J . Commincs , of Edinburgh , writes as follows :- In reply to the observation of " L'Ami du Peuple , " I have only time to state that the Chartists are shut out of every hall , church , and chapel in the town , capable of accommodating a public meeting . On the last application for the Music HaU , it was refused , unless a magistrate was in the chair . Out-door meetings arc proclaimed , so that there is no possibility of getting up a demonstration to express the real feelings of the democracy . of Edinburgh . Ciiaeterville Defence Foxd . —Received from Mr . John Cameron , Hutchens Town , Glasgow , Cd . Thanks to the other side of the Border , they have heen the first to answer our appeal . What are the lads of Carlisle about ?—Willi . am Smith . J . Kins , Nottingham , aud Anti-Humbug , Margate-Received .

      PORTRAIT OF KOSSUTH , the mmkim chieftain , London Booksellers and Publishers , who supply Country Agents with tho "Northern Star , " may be supplied with the portrait of Kossuth , and those previously issued , by Mr . J . Payey , Holywcll-strect , Strand , on tho same terms as they could have tlicm at our Office .

      The Hobthem Stae. Sate/Kday, Sel'tmiber 8, 1849.

      THE HOBTHEM STAE . SATE / KDAY , SEl'TmiBER 8 , 1849 .

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      THE HAEVEST AND OUR FUTURE PROSPECTS . An abundant harvest , of first-rate quality , has rewarded the labours of the agriculturist in this country , aud the same agreeable intelligence has been received from those portions of the Continent where the inhabitants have had time and opportunity to practise the arts of peace . Complaints have been made of the re-appearance of the potato blight in a few localities , but we believe that a close examination would show the disease m such

      cases to have arisen from the planting of diseased seed , and not from the causes—atmospheric or otherwise—which so recentl y caused the general failure of tho potato crop . For the next year , at all events , Europe is placed beyond the fear of a scarcity of provisions , and its statesmen are relieved from the difficult task of ruling populations over whom want , or the fear of want , casts its gloomy shadow .

      If society was in a normal condition , such intelligence would give universal satisfaction . As it is , we are prepared to hear the cry of distress resound from what is called the " agricultural interest . " Even under the old Corn Law regime , ^ p lentiful harvest mtis synonimous with low prices and rueful faces . How much more so will this be the case , when our ports are open for the admission of tho untaxed agricultural produce of the world , at a mere nominal register duty ?

      In anticipation of this cry © t agricultural distress , however , it may be useful to point out the difference between the temporary causes which may apparently operate to the disadvantage of the farmer , and those which our recent commercial policy are certain to make permanent . The mere statement of the price of an article gives no correct idea as to the remuneration it returns to the producer , anymore than the money-rate of Wages affords an unvarying standard of tho comforts such wages will purchase . The price at which wheat should sell in this country , to produce a living profit to the grower , has been calculated to be from 50 s .

      to 5 ( js . a quarter . With less than that amount , it is asserted , that it is impossible to pay local and general taxation , tithes , rent , wages , and the other outgoings on a farm ; and the inference drawn from this postulate is , that when wheat sells at from 40 s . or 45 s . a quarter , the farmer loses the difference . Now we do not mean to question the accuracy of the calculation , as respects an average crop ; out Avhen—as is the case this year—the farmer has considerably more than an average crop , it is clear that the greater quantit y he can

      carry to market will make up for the reduction in the money price of the produce . For instance , if in an ordinary year the produce of five acres sown with wheat is fifteen quarters , and the price 50 s ., the money return would be £ 37 10 s . In a plentiful year like the preseut , if the yield should bo one-fourth more , or twenty quarters , and the price 40 s ., the return would be £ iO , leaving a difference of £ 2 10 s . in favour of the farmer at the lower price , and , of course , enabling liitn to bear so much the move easily , the various burdens we have previously adverted to .

      It is not , therefore , in years like the present that the native farmer will hare any real reason for grumbling or complaint . So long as he has abundance of produce to sell , he will occupy the home market more advantageously tt . au the foreigner . Tho natural protection aflorded baa . by tho cost of warehousing freight , and other charges , which importers of foreign grain must pay , will iu mh . ca 8 e 8

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      . i e ii ^ vmrntion . and the simple state-C \ 3 ti , S 2 £$£ * which he P oll S will rg ive au ^ cUfo index of his returns and Sprofits . But in had , or comparatively s ar ? e years , foreign competition must tell SJ upon the British farmer , unless radical and extensive changes be made , both as to the burden ^ baa to hear , and the mod SS ich farms are let in very many districts n England . Under the od Corn Law Ltan « nun c ould only come , into the market at a price which allowed the British farmer to make for a deficient crop by a high money

      up return . Under the new system that compeusating balance has been taken away . Foreign importations from countries m which thebaivesthas been more plentiful , and the influx of the surplus of all countries which will constantly and . inevitably flow into the large and rich Englishmarket , will , as continually and as irresistibly , tend to keep prices down to a low level , and " prevent the native agriculturist from realising sufficient to discharge the heavier local burdens he has to bear . The Free Trade journals foreseeing this

      consequence of their policy , are now urging we farmers to demand leases unincumbered with restrictive covenants , alterations in the Game Laws , and reductions of rent , as necessary comp lements to the legislative changes already made . Foreseeing , also , that large crops are the only permanent means by which the home fanner can maintain himself in the home market , they cry out for a new race of cultivators , who will bring to agriculture the same capital , skill , enterprise , and activity , as has been

      applied to manufactures . Centralisation and machinery in the farm-stead are to perform the same task they have done in tbe mill , the print-work , and thepowerloom shed—namely , economize power and time , and displace manual labour . To that point in agriculture , as in manufactures , the whole policy of our modern system of production constantly tends ; and it is clear that this lop-sided system ^ if fully carried out in relation to the cultivation of the soil , must attack both the landlord and the labourer . The first in his rent—the second

      in his wages ; that is , when he is lucky enough to get work . Bui what , under our large farm system , and the substitution of machinesfor able-bodied peasants , is to become of the displaced Labour ? The experience we have had of our Free Trade policy , so far , is not calculated to make vts very hopeful as to the . extension of markets for our manufactures in other countries . Protection is almost without exception the popular creed , both with rulers and people , aud they look upon our liberal professions as merely a now form of the all-engrossing selfishness which induces us to seek tho monopoly of the markets of the world . In every country the government and

      the people have for many years been engaged in resisting that monopoly in tho most effective manner , namely , by encouraging the developemont of native industry in all departments . The periodical exhibitions of agricultural and manufactured articles , which take place in the United States , powerfully testify to the giant strides which the Transatlantic Republic has taken towards the attainment of her ambition , namely , to be tho first country in the world in all respects . At these exhibitions Protectionist feelings and policy are strongly exhibited and advocated ; and it may be said fairly , that with the exception of the trading and commercial classes , Protectionism isthenationaleconomical faith . Iu France it is the same . Last

      week we visited the Exposition of National Industry , agricultural and manufacturing , now open in the Champs Elysees , at Paris , and which we believe is made every five years . Notwithstanding tho drawbacks which a period of revolutionary excitement must have caused to such an exposition , it was impossible to walk through the long arcades , crowded with every species of production , from the simplest domestic utensil to tho most gorgeous

      productionsof the looms of Lyons—without feeling that with such a climate ,, soil , industrial and artistic skill , France did not need to be dependent on any other country , either for articles of necessity , convenience , or luxury . There , too , Protectionism is in tho ascendant , even to the length of absolutely prohibiting the importation of the Spanish and Portuguese wines , which would interfere with the native wines of the country , and one of its staple products .

      Indeed , in almost every part of the Continent there may be . discerned a strong determination to protect native industry , by a cordon of defensive tariffs , against the injurious , and , iu many cases , ruinous competition of England . They have the common sense to know that the people must labour , if they are to live honestly , and they prefer to let them support themselves rather than to throw them a burden upon society . One of the most probable consequences of the success of the combined forces of Austria and Russia against Hungarian independence , will be the formation of a new continental

      league against England . It is stated that ScuiUZEXBEUG the Austrian minister , and tho Czar have already arranged the programme of such an alliance ; and that a Congress was to meet at Warsaw , including representatives of Austria , Russia , Bavaria in Germany , and all Italy , with the exception of Piedmont and Franco . The rumours of such an intention may be premature , but tho mere fact of such statements finding their way into tho bestinformed journals , both in this and other countries , shows that the idea of the project is at least entertained , and under the preseut aspect of European politics , wo see nothing to prevent its being carried out .

      We do not , therefore , see in what direction sufficientl y large aud profitable markets arc to bo found , to give employment to the continually augmenting mass of unem ployed labour , which must result from the application of the manufacturing system to agriculture . There is , it appears to us , hut one safe , speedy , and permanent outlet and safety-valve , aud that is by tho national adoption of the

      principles upon which the Land Plan is based . These princi ples are susceptible of numerous modifications in their practical application to various localities , and the wants of varied bodies of tho industrial class ; but they constitute—wo honestly and sincerely believe—the only effectual remeuy for the state of things which now exists , and for the worse which is approaching .

      Even now , when the papers are unanimous in assuring us that trade is in a very health y state in the manufacturing districts—when a plentiful harvest has given that fillip to manufactures which it invariably does— -we find that every walk of life is overcrowded . For every vacant situation there are a dozen candidates ; and this " redundancy" of population is not confined to our commercial cities and manufacturing marts , but extends to the country town and rural hamlet . The want of the nation is

      PROFITABLE REPRODUCTIVE EMPLOYMENT , accompanied by such measures as will give those employed a direct and equitable participation in thoproducts oftheirlabour Wo know of no plan which would so immediately effect that great desideratum as that of enabling the " surplus population" to cultivate more assiduously lands now very much undercultivated , or tho forests and extensive tracts

      of reclaimed land which are now ] y iu » waste Every day of such labour would add to the substantial wealth and power of the nation while the labourers themselves would sco in their smiling homesteads and fertile fields not only a rich reward for their toil , but ' tho assurance that their daily bread would not depend upon tho precarious aud fluctuating demand for manufactured goods , in s 0 mo market thousands of miles over the sea

      Agood harvest , then , would bo a national blessing without any drawback , because the sower won d reap and enjoy the product of his labours . Production and consumption would equalise and re-act upon each other , with a

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      stimulating and healthful energy , which would permeate every ramification ol society . At present the suicidal process pursued is , to increase production by means which diminish the power of the peop le to consume in an inverse ratio . The result is , that a short ana feverish period of the so-called prosperity is succeeded by a protracted « glut , " and " stagnation of trade ; " and the operatives starve upon half wages or parish allowance , during the time their former emp loyers are endeavouring to get rid of the accumulated goods upon their shelves . . . ,. i i j

      We are happy to see that the perception of these truths is becoming more general than it was a few years since . Many of the journals which repsated the ignorant and foolish assertion , that England was cultivated up to its hig hest capabilities—that it could not raise more food than it did—and that the only mode of continuing national existence vas to become exclusively manufacturing , and live upon

      Foreign Corn— have now discovered the practical folly of such doctrines . Neither manufactures nor emigration offer a sufficiently large nor available channel for the ever-deepening stream of unemployed industry which flows from the present system . Let it , then , be turned on to the hills and valleys of our native land , and from its healthful irrigation , fertility and abundance , conjoined with prosperity and contentment , will arise to bless the

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      nation .

      THE CHOLERA . The second visit of the Cholera to the Metropolis has already proved much more deadly than the first did in 1832 . The number of deaths from Cholera during the pestilence of 1832 , was about 1 , 300 , while the number of deaths in the present year has already considerably exceeded 8 , 000 . In one day—Monday last—tho fatal cases amounted to 2 G 2 . _ Judging from the previous course of the pestilence , it the maximum

      may be presumed , however , that mortality of the visitation has been attained ; and that althoug h the number of cases may , for some time , be as numerically great as before , the proportion of recoveries will be very much larger . The probability is , that it will continue to transfer its ravages into new districts , of that immense conglomeration of houses , called London ; and , in these fresh districts exhibit the same destructive force it has already done in those it has visited ; so that for some time to come we shall hear of its

      deadly career . Notwithstanding this very largo excess of deaths over those of 1832 , we still adhere to our advice , given a week or two ago , to repress any feeling of undue alarm and excitement . "We cannot help thinking that the practice of publishing column upon column of individual cases , with all their nauseating details , in the newspapers , has done very much to propagate

      the disease , and diffuse that general alarm which all experience shows to be tho most facile medium for tho spread of epidemics . Such reports may be required for the information and guidance of the parochial authorities , the medical officers of municipal districts , and the General Board of Health ; but their presentation in the columns of a newspaper , can have no other effect than to excite that fear which is too often the forerunner of a fatal tvttafck .

      One melancholy feature of the visitation must strike the most casual observer—namely , the entire ignorance of the medical profession as to the nature of the disease . Scarcely two of them hold the same opinion on the subject . At the meetings of the members of the Medical School—which have been hold for the purpose of discussing the subject—such a variety of contradictory opinions have been put forward , that it almost seems as if the speakers had resolved , in the midst of a pestilence , to destroy all confidence in medical skill or knowledge .

      One thing is quite clear , that tho treatment adopted by the vast majority of them must , under such circumstances , be purely empirical . In the absence of a sound and consistent theory as to the nature and causes of a disease , the medical practitioner must act upon mere guesses ; and even in tho course of these experimental conjectures upon his patients , if ho hits upon something which proves efficacious in one particular case , ho is not able to decidehow far it may bo owing to the medicine and treatment itself , or to the operation of extraneous

      agencies , Unfortunately , to add to this confusion of ideas , and want of confidence in medical art , the columns of many of tho papers—the " Times " especially—haveteemedwithallkiuds of ridiculously-contradictory nostrums and speculations , until the public , wearied of such foolish jabber and jargon , have taken refuge in the apathy of despair , and practically act upon the Mahometan creed of Fatalism . Another point in connexion with this subject cannot be passed over without severe reprehension—namely , the want of anything like comprehensive and vigorous measures on the part of the public bodies to whose care the sewage , and other matters relating to public health , are committed . As is too often the

      case in this country , they have debated when they should have been acting . The approach of Cholera to our shores was steady aud gradual . It has been noted , during the last two years , and the time of its arrival in this island might , by a careful watcher of its progress , have been predicted with tolerable exactitude . We had warning enough to set our houses in order , but tho time was wasted in talk that should have been devoted to work ; and at length , when the disease made its appearance among us , we were as much unprepared as in 1832—seventeen years ago . AU the elements which aid the march , and add to the virulence of a pestilence , were as rife as ever , in a nation which boasts of its intelligence , scientific knowledge and advanced civilisation .

      We are glad , however , to see that the monster nuisance to which we formerly directed attention , is now receiving that share of public notice and reprehension which it demands . Iu the list of morbific agencies , no one occupies so prominent a position , or is more deadly in its operation , than town grave-yards . Tho burial of tho dead amongst the living is a piece of unnatural and pestilential barbarism , which is almost exclusively the property of Christian aud civilised Europe , and especially of Christian and civilised England . The ancient pagan world was well aware of tho

      imperative necessity for burying the dead outside their cities ; and it is saddening to reflect-that , iu the course of ages , so far from improving , we have actually retrograded in this respect . It does not matter whether interments take place iu the church yard or the church vault , so . far as the noxious and deadlv eflects of the practice arc concerned . In the latter case , it is supposed that the poisonous gases , winch arc generated by decomposition , be confined

      can by encasing the bodies in leaden coihns . . This is a delusion . If tho coffin bo very strong it may resist the pressure lor a time , but at length the explosive force of tho gases either bursts the case , or opens , a iissuYo winch permits flio gradual escape of tho gas as it is generated . Tho persons who attend the church , below which such burials take place , breathe it concentrated miasma of an intensel y poisonous nature . Tho

      consequence is frequent faintmgs—the sensation of nausae headache and languor . Putrid fevers , caught no one knows how , reward tho devout attendant upon public worshi p , The death-dust rises from the matting of the aisles and the cushions of the pews ; all around is impregnated with the seeds of death , because » i order to bring money to the parsons , church * and chapels arc converted into charnol-housos .

      lhe most disgusting disclosures have boon made tis to tho practice of " tapping" those leaden coffins , in order to let tho morbific poison escape ; but the scenes that occur in the

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      church-yards are still more brutal and horrify , ing . The church vault can only be obtained by tho rich man as his last resting-place . The churchyard is tho receptacle of the poor , and . even in the grave the same feeling that they are " surplus , " and had no right to be bora at all , is manifested towards them . There was no room for them while in life ; and it appears that , in the crowded town church-yard , ther « is as little when they die . Take an example or two . Mr . 'Chables Scott , oiieofthe Cuy police , in a letter to the Commissioner , gives the following picture of the doings in tho churchyard of St . Anne s , Blackfriars : — -i u ,. Q ^^ c ; , . still more brutal hmrift .

      Upon the retirement of some persons who had just witnessed the interment of a Mend , the gravedigger dragged frombchind a tombstone part of a mutilated body ( from the hips downwards ) to thegravt , which had a few minutes pre viuusly received its tenant , and thrust it in with { treat violence without a covering ; he then descended into the grave , which was about twelve feet deep , and dismembe red the limbs with a spade , and placed them beside the co $ n , o « er toftu * he sprinkled a small quantity of earth . This grave lias been left open for upwards of three week ., for the re , j ceptiou of bodies , having on ' . y a slight covering of earth and boards . Another person , speaking of Portugal-street Burying-grouud , says : —

      " I have seen scenes in this place , " says our corrcspon . dent , " that made my Wood curdle—such boriwjs througlt dead bodies , aud throwing up of human bones , and smashing up of coffins , as no Christian man should witness oc cannibal be guilty of . All this has been goingon for many , many years . The stench is at times awful , and the lan « guage of the gravediggers as brutal as the work they do , " Some may not be aware of what is meant oy the " borings" here alluded to . A descri ption of the proceedings at the burying-ground of Christ Church , Blackfriars , will explain it : —

      Usually the business of the day begins about ten o ' clock , when arc to be seen two or three groups of persons in tho churchyard to choose a place to deposit the vemaiusoi their departed friends . . The gmvcdi / igers are there with huge iron instruments , some ten or twelve feet in length , in the shape of an immense auger . A spot is chosen ; this instrument is thrust into the earth to sec if there be room —but it invariably- eomes incmitact with a coffin ; heavy thrusts arc then made , and if by bearing his whole weight upon the instrument the gravedigger can force it through , t £ is considered sufficiently delayed , and the grave is dug ; generally three or four of these borings for the dead have to be made before sufficient space is found . Can anything be more brutal or more horrible

      than such scenes as these , which , ho it remembered , are maintained principally because they bring profit to the clergy ? The Board of Health , under the authority of the Health of Towns Act , has closed the Portugal-street nuisance . Wo believe in that case the clergyare not directly interested , therefore the Board was brave ; but why does it shrink from shutting up the charnel houses and manufactories of deadly mephitic gases , which belong to the Church and the Dissenters ? The answer is not difficult . They shrink from an encounter with an organised " vested interest , " which has hitherto proved too strong for tho Cvovernmcnt itself .

      It is , however , for the people at large to say whether they will submit to be poisoned for the profit of the parsons , or whether upon fair terms , in which the equitable claims of that class shall be duly attended to , arrangements for the interment of the dead in cemeteries outside of towns shall not become the general law of tho land . One thing is certain , that until this be the case , the most . deadly and most noxious of morbific agencies will remain ia tho midst of us untouched .

      To return , however , to the Cholera . Wo conclude by repeating our former advice—keep the mind free from alarm—avoid all impure food and all excesses—live temperately but liberally—be cleanly in person andhouse , andyou will have done all that individuals can do to ward off an attack of that disease .

      Receipts Of The Rational Land Company* F...

      RECEIPTS OF THE RATIONAL LAND COMPANY * Fob the " Week Ending Thursday , September 6 , 18-19 . SHARES . £ 5 . il . £ s . d . Nottingham .. 0 \ - > ( J G . Mowl .. ., 0 . > 0 J . C 0 2 0 K . L ' attisiti .. -5 S £ 1 2 2

      . MONIES EECEIVED FOB THE PURCHASE OF MATHON . W . A ., " Maliwn 24 0 0 W . C , Hanlev .. 37 0 0 S . l \ , Malvern .. 15 0 0 S . 1 \ C ., ElUiud 30 0 0 P . S ., Learning- ton .. .. 31 0 0 i- . ' : j 7 0 0 G . 13 ., Leeds .. 100 0 0 ¦ TOTALS .

      Land Fund ... ... 1 2 ' £ Expense ditto ... ... ... 0 5 0 Mathon 237 0 0 Bonus ditto 0 10 0 Loan ditto ... ... ... 0 10 Rents from Allottees ... ... ... 5 ? 5 0 £ 276 1 2

      IV . Dixo . v , C . Doyle , T . Clark , Cor . Sec . P . M'GiUTir , Fin . Sec . En \ TC > u—In last nnccVl ' s Stay TS'igton shouVI " ue i ' not £ 4 .

      EXECUTIVE FUND . Received by S . Kvdd . —Todmorden , 4 s . 3 d . FOR COSTS OF MACNANIARA ' S ACTION . Received liy W . Rideb .-J . Taylor , Stour 1 ' rovost , If . ; two Friends , Clitl ' ord , jier J . Casson , Is . ; lineup , j > er J . Wilson , 2 s . lid . ; Conrad Suringhull , Norwich , i ' l ; a few Friends , Tinlwisile , Is . Od . : D . Gulloway , Kivlscaldy , 4 s . ; T . Tristam , Oldham , Ss . ; liristol , per W . Hyntr , Is . Sd . ; Abergavenny , Tredegar and llagland , per T . C . Ingram ( see Notice to Correspondents ) , Gs . ( id .

      FOR WIVES AND FAMILIES OF VICTIMS . Received by IV . Hideii —U .-ictip , per J . ll'iisou , 2 s . oU ; Busby , a few Friends , per \ V . Robertson , Us . ad . ; Bristol , per \ f . Hyatt ( see Notice to Correspondents ) , tis . Wd . NIBS . M'DOUALL . Received by IV . Kidku , —Uovton , per J . 15 . IIws & H Wd Coventry , per J . Gilbert , 5 s . ; Edinburgh , per \ V . }) nvies , L'S VICTIM FUND . Received by S . liooxiuM . —G . J ., Is . ; G . IV . lid . ; Mr . Stringer . U . ; Chamber ' s IVarpers , Carlisle , 10 * . ¦ : i Ineiid , Chovley , Id . ; Mr . l'ievcy , Westminster , lid . ; Mr , Rider ' s receipts , for two weeks , £ 2 Us . 7 d . 3 ons Akxott , Somcrs Town , has received from Mr . Thorne , l'oplar , a Builder ' s l ' rice Rook and a Cigar Case , to be disposed of for tlic benefit of the Victims . Notice . —The " is . « d . aelsiiowleilgcd in last week ' s Slur from Wellingborough was for the Victims and not fov Mr * . M'Douult . ^ ft » —

      Notice. The Rules Of The Liuul And Build...

      NOTICE . The Rules of the Liuul and Building Society arc now ready , and will be forwarded by Post . ' All applications to be lmulc to the "Directors , at their Office , Ml , High llolborn . Each application to contain ten Postage-stamps , to cover tho expenses of Utiles and Postage . ' By Order , Thomas Clark , Cor . See .

      The Ame.Vdkd Covxtt Courts Act.—On Satur...

      The Ame . vdkd Covxtt Courts AcT . —On Saturday two provisions in the new County Courts Act ( 12 th and 13 th Vict ., cap . 101 ) , came into operation , repealing the authority given to the judges to commit to county , gaols or houses of correction , and substituting the usual debtors' prison , where in future . debtors are to be sent . By the third section it is provided that where a debtors' prison is situated at an inconvenient distance , or is in a crowded state , tho . Secretary of vSttite nv . w authorise commitments to a house of correction , " and make orders altering the regulations of such house of correction , or gaol , so far as respects the treatment of persons to be committed under this act , in order that such persons may bo treated as nearly as may be in like manner as if they had been

      committed to a gaol in which such debtors as aforesaid may bo confined , notwithstanding tho regulation . * in force in such house of correction or gaol to which such persons may be committed , and every such order may , from time to time bo revolted or " varied by such Secretary of Stateas occasion may require . " 0 . \ E OF TIIK LO . VGKST ANSWERS CVCV loUSJCd in Chancery since the remarkable case of " " Small wHHuAttwood" has just been filed ; the original bill was filed by a leading railway company against a carrier in Blackfriars , who had brought actions against the company to recover for lost parcels and t < ? try ™ L valldity of tll ° charges , amounting to about £ 200 ; and this bill was of great length The answer occupied seventy-three parchment skins of the largest size . *

      A Lira Ggaudshax ( WE of the Hf . koes of Wvimool mo , or R « b « b «» w Houowat ' s O . ntmfIt ^™ l . i \ ein , Coaihain , Yorkshire , was afflicted i „ r many ™ w r II hcuu !« l »» n a » d rheumatic gout . his leg * n ^^^ iT ^ mul disfi S "' ' « l with flours of oteiy hue , tn , ttul to behold . For ten weeks he was wholly unable to walk , the treatment he received from several medical nieiuiot only tailed to do him anv . rood , pu t letthun , in fact , in a considerably worse condition than before he had recourse to them . Holloway ' s fills and Ointment wove at last resorted to , and bv their sole means i > c i-as been . completely cured sud restored to health ao > j strength , *

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 8, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_08091849/page/4/