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      EXETER HALL . . ,. , *• «¦« of Exter HaH Laving objected to the , « flie " ^ Tnf- the Hall for the purpose of Shnhspere * ifcrtber use Of «?^ nounced mere by Mr . Nicholls ^ fLTMarfin ' sHall , Long Acre . " - ^ dMr-^ gj ^ e given u * ¦»¦ jjjjaarf . I ___ M Exeter HaU is a structute rare , SSSSn tt is spacious , and lofty , and fair : ^ f ^ hearted , cold-visaged men who meet there . J ^ SS 3 £ y-and frowning on all , SIoSoTluading is Exeter HaU . 7 / Uwd men meet there on the woes to debate M Of suffering human kindn-Juse , with * Christian-like , orthodox hate , S ™ v 2 e outcasts whose creeds from then : own _ -ojj ™ old lady ( who ' s drest as they state ,

      i 0 l 7 scarlet ) , -ithfury . blmd . cleaving our own poor in want and in sin , ttEp Sw anthropop hagi kick up a dm , SX" trhere Charity ought to begin , While Want at our doors we find ; Tht Wisdom may reason , or Charity call , SSrv governs atExeter Hall . Concerts are held there ; hut concerts are pure—Music can injure none ; a „ a the eoodmen listen with looks demure , S * ey smfle . ^ P leased » for m * feel sfiCUTPi <* Ion" as they wordly jcys abjure , ^ fenins . andpleasure . andfun ; U-asetniv grumble , and tenors may bawl , f ^ cean t desecrate Exeter Hall . Oh the Bard of Avon was England s pride , " Chief in a mighty age ; »_ j i « marie Den as the poet pued ,

      Store ' s ownsp iritits point would guide , $ 8 ? virtue and truth ever sanctified The genius-inspired page : _ Bat the poet is Exeter Hall denied , He s polluted by the stage ; and the good men hoot , and the good men bawl , fw Shalspere would desecrate Exeter Hall , go the Hall ' s still pure : The gend men still meet Heretics still to curse : Still storm awav with intolerant heat , At the lady who has seven hills for her seat , Still "o concerts by way of a treat ; f hev ' re saved from Shakspere s verse . Bhrots may bellow , and singers may squall , But Shakspere is hooted from Exeter HaU . Fasquin ,

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      J . Catechism of Socialism . By M . Lotus Blanc . London : Weekly Tribune Office ; and by ( x . Tickers , Holy well-street , Strand . Tins is No . IL of a series of " Social Reform 2 racts , " published by , or under the sanction of , the Social Reform League . The " Catechism " is a translation of Louis Blanc ' s contribution to the Almanack du Nouceau Monde for 1850 , and constitutes a most admirable synopsis of the p rinci p les common to Socialists in general , and especially of those taught tj the great champion of the Organisation of Labour . As thetracten & e may be purchased for a penny , -we shall quote but one portion , that relating to " CAPITAL , " " CREDIT , " A 5 » " MONET . "

      Q .: What is capital I—A .: It is the totality of ihe implements of labour . The labourer requires food , clothing , and shelter , and must have tools , materials , kc ., to work with . These , together , form ¦ shit is called capital . Q .: Does itnotfollowfrom this that without capital there can be no labour?—A .: Undoubtedl y . ( J .: Is it not just then , that capital should receive a share of the profits under the name of interest , this being only a fair recompense for the services which it renders ?—A .: Such are the arguments of the advocates of usury , and may be shown to he mere sophistry . It is perfectly true that labour cannot exist without capital but interest is paid 10 the capitalist , not to capital . 2 fow , capital and the capitalists are two perfectly distinct things .

      Tor capital to exist it is not necessary that it should ha exclusively possessed by a few individuals to whom interest must be paid . Suppose an association of labourers , possessing a common capital that is not belonging to any particular individuals , but all the members in common . They would work on their capital without paying interest on it to any one , as in this case there would be no capitalist , although there would be capital . It is not possible to imagine labour without a labourer , but we can easily conceive of capital without a capitalist . "When a labourer dies , his labour ceases , but when a capitalist dies , his capital survives him , So

      similarity , therefore , can be establisred between capital and labour , from which to deduce the justice of any premium termed interest . Q .: What is represented then by the interest of capital ?—A .: It represents the privilege accorded to certain individuals to sit still and see their fortune increase and reproduce itself , or it represents the price which labourers are compelled to pay for the permission to work ; or finally , it represents their subjection to a condition which fevr can successfully struggle against , and none escape . Q .: Dow do you understand gratuitous credit ? —A .: It consists in suppl ying the labourers with necessarv capital without requiring interest from

      Q ,: Would not this be the result of the universal adoption of association ?—A .: Certainly ; for as soon as the labourer can always find admittance to an association possessing a commission capital , of which he is invited to take advantage ^ the problem is solved ; credit gratis is simply association . Q .: What is money ?—It is the representative of capital , and tbe circulating medium of exchange . Q „ : Is a metallic currency necessary in the ¦ operation of exchanges ?—A .: Under the present social system it is , but not that in which the socialist contemplates .

      Q .: Why is a metallic currency the necessary medium of exchange in the present system of society * —A : Because having an intrinsic valne it becomes a security as well as a token , as it can he melted down into ingots , and be employed in works of art ; it not only represents exchangeable commodities , hut is actuall y of equal value to them . It , therefore , becomes a security to those who receive it , and it is the same as if they received the very object of which it is the token or representative . Sow , nothing less than such a security would be satisfactory under a system of dissimilar and oppqsinf interests , where fraud necessarily begets distrust .

      Q .: Why will a metallic currency he unnecessary in the new order of things?—A .: Because all the snembers of an assocation would know one another , and nothing would be ieft to chance or accident . Q .: What sort of money then will be employed in tlienew state of society?—A .: Paper money . Gold is the money of distrust and individualism ; paper is the currency of mutual trust and association . Q .: Supposing Socialism realised , why would a paper currency be preferable to a metallic one ?—A : Because the former , being . without real value , would be exactl y what a currency ought to be , a simple medium of exchange , while the latter , having an intrinsic value , becomes an object of merchandise , and thus renders the rich complete masters of exchange operations , which are the life and son ! of trade and industry .

      Q .: Is there no danger in the use of a paper currency I—A .: There is certainl y , under the present order of things , because the facility of creating it , would induce governments to extend the Issue beyond all bounds , which would lower its value and disturb commercial transactions ; but there would he none in a state where the government really consisted of the best and ablest , and social intercourse was regulated on a systematic basis , in harmony with the laws of nature , as would he the case in the fraternal associations contemplated by the Socialists , for in that case any arbitary issue of paper money would be effectuall y prevented by regulating it according to the amount of goods in the ¦ warehouses !

      "We very heartil y recommend this tract to our readers , trusting it may circulate to the extent of hundreds of thousands of copies . On the subject it treats of , it is the most admirable work ever written .

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      7 he Frame-Work Knitters' Advocate . Nottingham : I ? . Sutton , Bridlesmith-gate . 2 * b . n . of this useful Utile publication containsreports of meetings , and other matters connected with the trade . "We extract the fclioving notice of a Nottinghamshire poet : — HENRY EIRK WHITE . Le was born on the 21 st of August , I / S 5 . Henry w a rhymtr and a student from his earliest years ,

      and daring the second seven years of boyhood assis-TvHf *' s " ™ iils ungentle calling of his craft , iats Dunne * , it appears , was not in consonance with h'S feelings , as we find , that in his fourteenth year 5 * ^ as apprenticed to a stocking weaver , and disused the idea , as he said , " of spending seven years » tne shining and folding of stockings , he wanted SflineiW to ocenpy his brain , and he felt W s i » ou ! d be wretched if he continued j ^ Scr at this trade , or indeed in any thing except one « the learned professions . ** This idea triumphed

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      overall obstacles , ' for he was removed from his disagreeable ^ calling to one in an attorney * a office , where he applied his leisure hours to the study of languages , and in the course of a few months was not only able to read Horace with tolerable facility , but had made considerable progress in Greek . His habits of study and application were unremitting . A London magazine , called the Monthly Preceptor , having proposed prize themes , for youth of both sexes , Henry became a candidate , and while onlyin hia fifteenth year obtained a silver medal , for a translation of Horace : and in the following year , a pair of twelve inch globes , for an imaginary tour from London to Edinburgh . Having made an acquaintance with Mr . Hill , the proprietor of the Monthl y Mirror , his encouragement induced him to prepare a volume of Poems for the press , which appeared in 1803 . In his preface to

      the volume , Henry had stated that the poems were the production of a youth of seventeen , published ior the purpose of facilitating his future studies and enabling him " to pursue those inclinations which might one day place him in an honourable station in the scale of society . " This volume was severely criticised , which caused much pain and annoyance to the youthful author ; but , fortunately , the volume fell into the hands of Mr . Sonthey , who encouraged him , and with the aid of other friends enabled Henry to gain admission to the University of Cambridge . This was his ambition and his desire . The Rev . Mr . Simeon , of Cambridge , procured for hima sizarshi p at St . John ' s College . This benevolent clergyman further promised , with the aid of a friend , to supply him with £ 30 annually , and his own family and friends were to furnish the remainder , to enable him to go through the college .

      Poetry was abandoned for severer studies . He competed for one ofthe University scholarships , and at the end of the term was pronounced the first man of his year . Twire be distinguished himself in the following year , being again pronounced first at the great college examination , and also one of the three best theme writers , between whom the examiners could not decide . The college offered him , at their own expense , a private tntor in mathematics , during the long vacation ; and Mr . Catton ( his tutor ) , by procuring for him exhibitions to the amount of £ 66

      per annum , enabled him to give up the pecuniary assistance which he had received from Mr . Simeon and other friends . This distinction was purchased at the sacrifice of health and life . " Were I , " he said , "to paint fame crowning an undergraduate , after the senate-house examination , I would represent him as concealing a death ' s head under the mask of beauty . " He went to London to recruit his shattered nerves and spirits , but on his return to college he was so completely ill that no power of medicine could save him : he died 19 th Oct ., 1806 .

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      STRAND THEATRE . A dramatic version of the Yicar of Wakefield was produced hero on Monday evening with complete success . The work of adaptation has been done by Mr . Tom Taylor , who has performed his task with much ability , adhering as closely as possible to the language of Goldsmith , and supplying all that was required to render the story effective as a drama . The piece is in three acts , each act concluding with a well developed " situation" arising out of the incidents in the orig inal story . The action progresses somewhat heavily , owing to a superabundance of dialogue , but this is a defect which may be easily remedied . The simple-hearted vicar is played by Mr . Farren and the character being peculiarly

      , adapted to his genial style of acting , the result is admirable ; indeed the actor realises the true spirit ofthe author , and nothing more laudatory could be said . Mrs . Glover ' s " Mrs . Primrose was also a most life-like performance , and it formed a very effective csntrast to the character of her husband . Olivia was played by Mrs . Stirling with much true pathos , and a delicacy of senthrent which placed the book itself most vividly before us . Mr . W . Farren , jun ., was the Moses , Mr . Leigh Murray , the Mr . Burchell , and each proved himself to be intimately acquainted with the "internal workings" of the character he represented . On the whole , the piece was extremely well played , and was most effectively put upon the stage .

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      ADDRESS OF TUB ASSOCIATIVE TAILORS ( Of 34 , Castle-street East , London , opposite the Pantheon , )

      TO THEIR BROTHER TOILERS OF ALL TRADES . Fellow Workers , —The time has arrived when the working men of England can hel p each other , against the many ills and distresses incident to the lot of those who have nothing but industry and skill to give in exchange for the means of life . Enough , too , it might be thought , seeing that without industry and skill there is no real wealth ; but that is not enoug h is evident from the daily increasing poverty of large misses of the industrious population of this country . We have reasoned long and thought much , sometimes in sorrow , sometimes in anger , on the anomaly involved in a comparison of the resources and condition of labour . Those , exhaustless of real

      good to man—this , wretched , with every day a deeper and a deeper shade of want and suffering . We believe that the cause of this is , that labour bas been under the direction of a competitive princi p le of individual selfishness , which has cheated it of its full reward , and that to secure opposite results it must be organised on a principle of associated effort for the common good . With this view we have united together , under the designation of " The Working Tailors' Association . " We have extensive and healthy workshops , and business accommodation sufficient to enable us to execute with facility the largest orders ; and we now appeal to you , fellow workers , for yoor intelligent sympathy , and your hearty support .

      We have fonnd that there is in what are termed the npper ranks of society , a real feeling for the sufferings of labour , which only wants a healthy direction to work mighty effects , and you will be rejoiced to hear that it is to kind and generous assistance from thence that we are indebted for tbe means of thus associating . AH true-hearted people will be happy to become our customers , because they see that they are helping us on a right principle to the great duty of helping ourselves . Grateful for this sympathy and assistance , and with high resolve to be worthy of it , w ? , nevertheless , feel that our great concern is with you . From you , above all , we expect that steady adherence which results from identity of interest , and conviction of duty . Let us speak

      faithfully to you . Here are we , fellow workers , associated for an end common tons and to you—the means of life , and ultimate freedom from the effects of a murderous competition . It is your battle we are fighting , and yow custom is the weapon which , in our hands , will enable us on an ever-increasing scale to maintain a successful struggle with an enemy as formidable and aggressive to you , in your separate departments of toil , as to vs . Continue this custom to our antagonists , and you will be denying to us personally the means of life , and blast our glad hopes for the elevation of labour . Will you thus arm unconscientious capitalists against its ? Will you furnish the degrading and horrid slop system with life and sinews ? It is but the skeleton of a dreadful iniquity if you hold back—with the profits of yonr custom in its mighty hands , it is a living giant , able to crush everything

      which opposes it . Lettherebeno mistake between ns on this point . In spite of p late-glass shop fronts and royal arms , two-thirds at least of the slop-sellers ' custom lie with the working men . In most cases it cannot be otherwise , as well we know . In the fierce struggle for a maintenance , the working man must deal in the cheapest market . High prices exclude him from the " honourable" tradesman ' s shop . Justice to his brother workmen is a luxury beyond his reach . But if we offer you our goods at slopsellers ' prices , and from selfish indifference , indolence , servility , you still continue to patronise our tyrants and your foes—fellow workers ! will you be guiltless ? Shall yon not have to answer to God and man for the good you have neglected to do- « for the wrong you have done ? Shall it ever be said , The Workin g Tailors' Association failed because the

      working men did not support it ? A calm calculation of the elements which compose the profits of trade will satisfy yon that you can deal with us on better terms than those which you are now permitted to make with the stop-seller . We have all the advantages of being , our own cap italists , and have access to the best narkets . We constitute in ourselves an undivided mastershi p , and Brotherhood is its name ; display and luxury , or bankruptcy which is worse , have no place among our hopes and fears . We are determined that our work shall bear a higher impress than the tasker ' s scrutiny , thcimpressof good faith and common interest between producer and consumer , and by reference to our List

      of Prices , and an estimate of the cost of cheapness , you will find that humane princioles of trade are the best guarantees for a judicious outlav of vour money . We have made allusion to the great aim of associative efforts , and we ask , How long will any trade remain in bondage after tho Working Tailors ' Association has emancipated its principle from the thraldom of individual interests ? The success of our Association will surely be the si gnal for all the oppressed sons of toil to combine for peaceiul and harmonious labour in their respective crafts , and thus a demonstration of the vitality of associative p rinciples in us will be the first step in a great moral revolution of the trade and industry of England . From the moment that associated labour can " deal

      with associated labour , progress will be rapid and easy , because a healthy and powerful stimulus will be g iven to consumption by means of a true , and not of a false , cheapness . For that cheapness aloue is true which results from the taking off one or other of the burthens which heig hten' prices , as in the ease of customs and excise duties : that cheapness is false , which is made up out of the maintenance ofthe workman . The former really extends . the sale of commodities ; the other must in the long run

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      diminish . ^ it ,-by lessening the . power to purchase throughout the most numerous class of the population . The fair maintenance of the labourer is no burthen upon , prices , for it is labour which often gives the article its whole available worth . Nay , if these penny-wise and pound-foolish economists would look into the heart of things , they would find one burthen upon prices , the very result of their senseless competition , and which we claim to remove , —the weight ofthe starvation , ofthe disease , of thevice , ofthe crime , of the operative ! You will not pay living wages ?

      Look to see your poor-rates increase , and your streets swarm with prostitutes and beggars ! Would you shut up your workhouses ? Count first the cost of police and soldiery , of the gaols and of the hulks ; of a war , perhaps with some distant colony which refuses to receive the overbrimminga of home wickedness . And mind , that all these things have , sooner or later , to come out of prices , so that you do but add to the expense of production on the one hand what you take off on the other . So delusive is the search after cheapness when divorced from justice and humanity !

      But we , on the contrary , maintain that to secure to labour all its just reward , is to increase in the same proportion the ability to purchase , and to lessen the weight of pauperism and crime . The recoil of onr experiment then will move you , and if you rightly estimate its importance , it must be regarded as the pioneer of a new order of things in which all the advantages of skill , industry , and integrity , will redound to the possessors of those qualities , and yet not all to them alone , for there are no real blessings but those which are shared b y all .

      The period , we hope , is not far distant when , by unity of purpose , and eilightened direction , Labour will bid adieu to its foes , and to its ceasless repining , weary life and death straggle of strife * and combinations , and find time to say once more "Glory to God in the highest , and on earth peace and good will towards men . But this is not to be done by dreaming of it . but by working for it heart and soul , day after day , life after life , through never so many checks and struggles , disappointments , and , if need be , failures . Work for us then , as we will work for you . For you we work in every sense ; for our promoters are pledged to devote whatever capital we repay to them to the . formation of other associations on the same principle : SO that by helping its to pay off our debt , you do but

      create a fund which may necessarily benefit many a Working Man s Association in other trades . Work with us , then , as we even now work with you . In addition to your custom , you may greatly conduce to our success by advertising us . Ji _ is hardly to be believed what enormous sums of money are thus spent under the present system of trade , all of which must often come out of the wages of labour . Neither you nor we have any real interest in this expenditure , and you can save it to us first , and to yourselves in the end , by using every opportunity of making known to the world the existence of «• The Working Tailors ' Association , " and the objects it has in view . If , therefore , we do not fill , day after day , the columns of a highly taxed pressnor send monstrous advertising eccentricities

      , to perambulate the streets , be you , every one of you , our walking advertisements . When you meet with friends and companions , tell them what is being done for the emancipation of labour ; use every seasonable opportunity of drawing attention to our operations : we cannot cast bills into every dwelling , but to many thousands have you access ; we cannot haunt the doors of public meetings to thrust the lure of cheapness into men s hands ; but you are the public meetings—give us , then , publicity wherever you go , wherever you are , in every shape , by every means . Tradesmen pay heavy sums for privilege of advertising their business at places of

      resort , Refreshment Rooms—Clubs , « fco ., you meet at Benefit Societies , Coffee Rooms , Heading Rooms —let it be known that you . are interested in our welfare , and a prospectus of " The Working Tailors'Association " will be welcome at all such places . Our patrons in every home , our advocates m everyplace where men meet , nothing will be able to resist such an application as you can make of a cherished principle to the every-day concerns of life ; and we believe , that it is onlv by working for each other thus that the world will be saved from the thousand tyrannies , named and nameless , which now afflict it .

      And now , a word to the high-paid artisan , though we believe that that class is becoming less numerous each day . You may even yet be onl y on the skirmishing ground of this great battle of competition , and in confident security that -you can hold your own against the world , you may imagine that you are not interested in this experiment . Ah 2 this is a great mistake . It is true that the labour market may still afford you the comforts , and , perhaps , some of the luxuries of life , but it is a market , nevertheless . The reason why you obtain hig h wages is , not because you are skilful and industrious , nut that there are fewer of you yet than are wantedthe supply does not exceed the demand . If there were ten of you where there is one , instead of ten

      skilful and industrious artisans , each as rich as that one , the ten , if all employed , would receive each but a tenth of what the one now gains , or if not employed , still less . The supply exceeding the demand your wages would fall lower , and lower still , the difference passing ever more and more into the hands of cap italists and merchants , flung away to the foreign purchaser , or absorbed by a public whose cupidity is constantly appealed to by those who trade upon it , until that turning point which we have endeavoured to point out , at which cheap labour becomes dear labour to the community , and

      grows dearer and dearer from the moment , by all the enhanced cost of workhouses , brothels , hospitals , prisons , penal colonies—and all the harsh surgery , the blundering quackery under which suffering society now groans . We have attained to this knowledge through suffering ; why should you not avail yourselves of our experience , and avoid our suffering 9 Save your order I save , perhaps , your own children , from passing through this dreadful ordeal to the means of cure ! fielp us , then , help us , while yet you can . Oh the part of the Association , Walter Cooper .

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      DISTRESS CONDITION OF JOURNEY MEN TAILORS .

      On Mni . lay a general meeting of the master tailors residen t * . a the metropolis was held at the Freemason Tavern , to adopt measures for the alleviation oi the distress under which so large a number of jouneymen are at present suffering . Most of the principal firms were represented . Mr . Cartwright prft « j . fed , and Mr . Sprague moved the first resolution . which expressed the deep regret the meeting fel ifor the great "distress and degradation of the journeymen , which it attributed to the practice which prevailed in many establishments of giving outdoor work . In speaking to this resolution the mover stated , that both men and women who were employed in the trade were ill paid , and were reduced to the lowest depth of moral and social degradation . He was not one of those who maintained that women

      ought not to be al ' owed to work in the tailoring business . There were at present a great number of women employed , at wages which kept them just above starvation point . A woman who worked for a slop shop stated , that sometimes she only got 4 d . for making a waistcoat , sometimes she got as much as 6 d ., 8 d ., or IOd . She could not commonly earn more than 2 s . 6 d . a week , sometimes by extra work she got from 3 s . 6 d . to 4 s . But as a sample , she stated that from September 13 to October 31 , a period of seven weeks , her total receipts were 13 s ., being about Is . 101 d . a week . Turning to the men employed , he found that one poor fellow , whose name was in his possession , was engaged in making coats , one which was g iven to him last week had to be stitched and braided—it cost him three days and a half close labour , and he was to have received 8 s . for it , but it was returned upon his hands because it was not stitched with silk . He bad made shooting coats and

      other garments on still lower terms , arid if they were not delivered to the employers at the exact time agreed upon he was fined 3 d . for the first , and Gd . for each succeeding hour . If he worked eig hteen hours a day he could not make more than 12 s . a week , and out of that he bad to pay Is . for trimmings , 6 a \ for candles , and 6 d . for coals . Such a sum was insufficient for the support of a respectable man and his family . Another man was making for an employer a coat , which occupied him twenty-six hours , for the paltry sum of 2 s .-not a Id . an hour . Mr \ - Adeney —a gentleman with whom the trade were well acquainted— had visited that man , who had a wifeand three children to support . He said he had another coat in hand , which would occupy him two whole davstomake , for which he was to receive the ^ ura of 3 s . ' Gd . Another man was to make a Chest . erhela coat , which would employ him three days of eighteen hours each . lie was to receive 6 s . for it , but out of thatsumhehad topay fid . for trimmings , 3 d . for * . fln , HP 8 . nnd fld . coals . After reciting several equally

      fragrant cases , Mr . S prague proceeded to speak of the sanitary condition of the , men so employed . Last wtek ' an industrious man and his daughter nvule five coats , for which they obtained 13 s 9 d ., 0 Htofwhichsum hebadp . aid 4 s . reel , Is . for candles , and 2 s . Id . for trimmings , leaving just 6 s . 8 d . for the support of the two . The daughter was twenty years of age . The room in which they worked ami slept was about nine feet by eleven ; but , besides the father and daughter , the room had to accommodate two youngmen and one voung woman ; and all these persons workrd , and ate , and slept in this small apartment . Master tailors and heads of families were deeply interested in the question . In such confined apartments fever and Other diseases wereliKely to be generated ; and these mig ht be communicated through the work to . the persons who received lt » The resolution , having been seconded by Mr . Swayne , was asrreed to : as also was another , moved by Mr .

      Stowasser , and seconded by Mr . Adeney , affirming that it was highly important , as a means for the improvement of the moral , social ,- and physical . conation of the journeymen tailors , that " all 'workmen

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      hould be employe * on the ' premises ofthe master . The master taiforapeggenti individually and collectively , pledged themselves to carry out the remedial measures suggested r ami the meeting separated , af ter a vote of thanks to the chairman .

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      PARLIAMENTARY REFORM . i ? Monday evening , a public meeting was hold at the feehool . Room , Cowper-street , City-road . 0 . LusniNoiojf , Esq . ., M . P ., took the chair at seven ocock , to consider the subject of Parliamentary and Financial Reform . « . w i ? 1 " 1 , ^ having explained the objects of the National Reform Association , proceeded to congratulate the friends of the movement on tho increase of their supporters in parliament , as proved by the division which had taken p lace in the House ot Ummons a few evenings ago . However , their minorities in that house would be of little service as long as the people were unrepresented in it . ( Hear , hear . ) None but the aristocracy were

      represented there full y , and ho was not wrong when ho stated that out ofthe number in that house there were doc composed of military and naval officers , and their immediate friends . They had besides marquises and eavlg usque ad nauseam . He did not object to lords sitting in the house , but he objected to their not being the choice of the people , but merely the nominees of the aristocracy . ( Cheers . ) Lord John Russell said that the people of England had not . sufficientl y indicated their desire to have tfetorm ; but be would ask whether such meetings as those which had taken place at Nottingham , « b ' 5 arniouth i and other places , were not a sufficient proof of what was the desire ofthe masses of the people of England . They had discovered how useless it was to nresenfc netitions to tho House

      of Commons , and they now adopted a more wise plan of intimating their wishes . It was said that the labouring classes were not qualified by their knowled ge to hold the suffrage , but that he most emphaticall y contradicted , and he asserted that those classes , had lately shown how well fitted they were to hold a voice in the management of their own affairs . He was glad to find that those who went further m their claims than the National Reformers had for the time given up their extreme views for the purpose of assisting the association in carrying out an object which was undeniably desirable . Ho himself had voted in the House of Commons in favour of the Chartists , not because he agreed with them in all their views , but because he was impressed with the belief that they had a right

      to have their opinions fully discussed in the Houses of Parliament . He thought that by the course they adopted they had acted in the wisest possible way to secure a general advantage , for they had withdrawn that opposition which they had held to the more moderate opinions of their truo friends . ( Cheers . ) He had hopes that when they should have made some progress in reforming the House of Commons , other concessions would be looked for and granted , and the Chartists may not , therefore , despair of having their views ultimately carried out ; . ( Cheers . ) To return to the question ofthe qualification ofthe labouring classes to hold a vote , he would remark that Mr . Fox , the other night , in his admirable speech on secular education , had clearly proved that at present they were full y competent

      to exercise the right of voting for a member of parliament . No man shonld be taxed without having a voice in the representation ; ' and he hoped that they would continue to contend for that privilege . It was said by one of the wisest and brightest judges ofthe land that the taxation of any persons without their consent was nothing more than robbery , and he ( the chairman ) considered that the people were robbed , inasmuch as they were not fully represented . The chairman concluded , by observing that they were completely in tho dark as to what were the reductions which were to he made in the taxation of the people by thei Chancellor of the Exchequer , who proposed to make his financial statement on the 16 th of this month , but he ,. was perfectly sure that nothing would be done in that direction until

      the- taxation was taken off knowledge , for it was that alone which would teach the people to perform their duty , and moderately to assert their rights . Mr . Tindal Atkinson moved the first resolution , to the effect , that this meeting convinced ofthe necessity of a general agitation ofthe United Kingdom on the question of Parliamentary Reform , with a yiew to an early and universalexpression of public opinion on that subisefc , would record its . cordial and emphatic approval of the ' plan proposedhy ' the council of the NationalAssociationfor that . ' purposc , and pledge itself to render immediate and efficient co-operation . He in eloquent terms advised the people to throw off the trammels of toryisin and whi ggism , and to fig ht their cause until they succeeded in sending to parliament men who would vote for the best interests of the community , ;\

      Mr . Shillibebr seconded the resolution , which was carried unanimously . ^ * . Sir J . Walmslkt here presented himself to the meeting , and was received with loud cheers . He stated that he had just come from tho House of Commons , where he had been engaged in voting for a Reform Bill for Ireland—( cheers )—and then proceeded to proposs the second resolution—namely , that the meeting earnestly recommends to the friends of Parliamentary Reform throug hout Great Britain and tho colonies to furnish prompt and efficient assistance to the council of tho National Association , by the holding of meetings , the passing of resolutions , the formation of committees , the employment of local agents , and the contributing of funds . He

      then alluded to the verdict which was given against them in the House of Commons , and said that it was the duty of the people to satisfy that house that they were determined on having their great measure of reform passed . It had already been his good fortune to witness various meetings in all parts of the country , and they were aH unanimous on this important question , ( Hear , hear , ) He pointed out f o them now they should work so as to enable them to compel the House of Commons to listen to their demands , nnd promised them that he would not cease night or day to agitate the question until National and Parliamentary Reform was granted , and expressed a hope that three years would riot have elapsed before their grand object would be attained .

      Mr . Weir seconded the resolution , which was carried . Mr . A . Walkeh proposed the third resolution to the , effect that this meeting regards with feelings of heartfelt satisfaction the proposition of holding a national conference in London during the month of Aprilriext , and calls on the friends of the movement in all parts of the country to assist the council by selecting earnest reformers to represent them at that important meeting . This having been also carried , and the usual vote . of thanks to the chairman having been responded to , the meeting , which was very numerously attended , separated . .

      British College Of Health, Nkw-Road, Lon...

      BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH , Nkw-Road , London .

      TO THE FINANCIAL & SOCIAL REFORMERS n THROUGHOUT GREAT BRITAIN . 2 Fellow-Countrymen , —Prove , as most easily you f can , how doctors have for ages cheated the p ' eople ^ on the question of their health , and all tho reforms d that you demand must follow , and that , too , in quick o succession . ' ' t The dishonesty ofthe medical body pan be most T easily established . . ¦ v We are Fellow Countrymen , t Yours , in the cause of Salutary Reforms , t The Memoirs . or tub British College op t March 6 th , 1850 . Health . s 2

      Lion. Hunting. ; In " Algeria^ —M. Jules...

      Lion . Hunting . ; in " Algeria ^ —M . Jules Gerard ; the sub-lieutenant in the Spahis , who 'has gained such great celebrity as a lion-killer in Africa , writes from Constantino , that he ' went to the hills of Serazer , in the district of Segnia , where he had been told that lions might be found . Having discovered that the lions were in a clump of trees surrounded by rocks , be placed himself on an adjacent rock , and presentl y saw two lions among the trees . The animals appeared greatly irritated at having been disturbed , and one of them frequently issued from the trees as if to reconnoitre . At length M . Gerard serit ' away all the Arabs who had accompanied him except one ; and loaded his rifles . ; Presently the two lions canio forth , one about fifty steps

      m advance . On seeing M ; Gerard the first lion rushed towards him , and leaped on the lower patt of the rock , looking at . him fixedly . Tho animal having turned towards his companion , M . Gerard fired and hit him on the shoulder . Tho lion fell with a fierce howl , liors de combat . The other lion then rushed to the attack with tail extended , and roaring furiousl y . Gerard shot him in the shoulder . The lion gave a tremendous spring , and aligned on the very rock on which Gerard was . The bravo man calmly took a second rifle from the Arab by his side , aimed at the animal ' s temple , and killed him on tho spot . A coup de grace was given to tho other lion , and , as Gerard saidj" the job was done . " Including these two , Gerard has killed altogether seventeen M 6 i ) B . —Gah ' gnani's Messenger .

      Sunday Labour in Post-offices . —The West India mail , which arrived at Southampton on Saturday at midni ght , was received at tho General Post-office on Sunday morning , ; and , owing to the present arrangements for expediting . letters , through London the mail was sorted and the letters delivered iu the North of England on , Monday morning at tho same time that the West India letters were delivered in London . Thus tho London merchants had no undue advantage over the i provincial ones . Tho arrangements .-for - sorting Jotters in railway carriages on Saturday nights and after midnights . on Sundays arc fast completing , by-which the-Sunday labour iri the General Post-office will be dispensed with—¦ J ? aift fA etM . ::-- , ¦ - •¦; ¦

      : DuaiNo 1840 , deposits of OalifOi'hiftn gold to the extent of . 6 , 000 , 000 dollars ( about £ 1 , 930 , 000 storling ) were placed in tbo mint of Philadelphia ,

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      Tot Worki^Etaesba^-The Great Politrcshan...

      Tot WoRKi ^ etaesBa ^ -The great politrcsHandl social problem of tho time-is furnished b y the-oondition and attitude ofthoworking classes . Hereia the hidden rock whfoffr calls- & r the most consTHn < - mate pilotage . The i ' mmenseaind constantl y increasing numer i cal force . of'thos * classes—tho general ! abjectness of their pbysioal ! and mental conditionthe intelligence and . talent ; displayed by what may bo termed . theiraristocracy—the growing sense oi their degradation , and the-growing willingness to . ascribe that degradation to social and political causes , hot to the eteroalordinfttion of nature ; allpoint to danger present , andi dosger for tho future , if prompt and efficient remedies- be not found for whatever of evil may lurk inthese gloomy portents . —The Revolution of France . We mat set it down as an asuMny . tb . ftt young ladies cannot know everybody ' s names ,, when it is utterly impossible for them to know- what their own may be a twelvemonth hence I

      The tobacco grown in New South Wales has hitherto been considered of inferior quality ; but the colonial manufacturers have lately improved the method of preparing the leaves , and , now hope to exclude American tobacco- from colonial use , and even to export Australian tobacco-to England . A Treasury warrant has appeared in the Gazette , which orders that in future a uniform rate of fourpence shall be charged on all letters-not exceeding half an ounce in weight , and posted in this country for Belgium , or on such letters sent from Belirium to this country , or to any of the British colonies . The Fife Herald celebrates the connubial constancy and courage of St . Andrew ' s hen . Her liege lord quarrelled on the streets with a rival cockand

      , , as with other biped bodies , a duel must repair their wrongs . At it they went , and furiously they fought , until the lady , fearing that widowhood would bo her fate , flow upon tho antagonist of her spouso , beat him bravely off , and strutted away with her mate , chuckling over her victory . A description of theft has of late been practised in Glasgow , and which entails heavy pecuniary loss upon the proprietors of cabs , omnibuses , & c . It consists of stealing the cushions of these vehicles for the sake of the hair with which they aro stuffed . To show tho extent to which this offence is perpetrated , it may be mentioned that it was stated in court by one of the cab proprietors in a recent prosecution that his loss on this account , during the last nine months , had not been less than . - £ 000 .

      The Difference between a Tradesman in tuk Year 1760 axo 1850 : —

      1750 . Man , busy in his shop ; Wife , brewing malt and hop ; Girl , scorning not tho mop ; Boy , active , not a fop ; Bills paid , and fortune made . , 1850 . Man , at his country seat ; Wife , plum'd andjewell'd en suite ; Miss , aping the elite ; Boy , on his hunter fleet ; Claims unmet , and tho Qaxette .

      Hxnrt the Fourth of Fbasce . —When Henry was entreated to take more care of his person than he had done , and not to go so often alone or illattended , he answered , ' * Fear ought never to find admission into a royal breast . The man who dreads death will make no attempt upon me : the man who despises life will always be master of mine , though I were encompassed with a host of guards . I recommend myself to God when I rise , and when I lie down ; I am in his hands ; and , after all , the terror of my life is such , as to leave me no just cause for distrust ; it belongs only to tyrants to live in perpetual terror . " True friendship is a delicate union of like minds , that exalts the human nature .

      Cobbett . — -Without the Border blood and minstrel spirit of Scott , he had much of his soundness , geniality , and broad strength . Morbidity was a word IiGvdid not recognise as English . Mawkish sentimeritalism , in all its shapes , he abhorred ; and cant found in him an inexorable foe . Hence we account for his celebrated criticisms on Shakspeare and Milton . In his heart , perhaps , he appreciated both , but was indignant at the false and wholly conventional admiration paid them by the multitude . Or , even granting that his taste was bad , and that , from native inaptitude , he could not feel the more dolicateand spiritual duties of either poet , was he not better to avow it openly than to wear

      " a foolish face of praise , " and pretend to what he had not ? In his nonsense of abuse there is something infinitely more racy and refreshing than in others ' nonsense of commendation . We prefer him making a foot-ball of the " Paradise Lost , " and kicking it with all his might—impotenfcly indeed , and to tho damage of nothing but hia own toesthan to see it shining in illustrated editions in the libraries of those whose simpering imbecilities of affected enthusiasm convince you that they have neither understood nor really read it . Much as we admire Shakespeare and Milton , we are not disposed to sacrifice ^ Cobbott , as a whole burnt « offering , at their shrine . —Gilfillan .

      Moke Candour than ' Courtesy . — A forma ] fashionable visitor thus addressed a little girl ; " How are you , my dear ?" . " Very well , I thank you , " she replied . The visitor then added , " . Sow , my dear , you should ask me how I am . " The child simply and honestly replied , " I don ' t want to know . " Robert Tannock , who in youth was a bedfellow and companion of Robert Burns , died lately , in the 89 th year of his age . Noble Rkply . —Tohn Locke , the philosopher , was persecuted by the court of Charles II . for opposition to popery and arbitrary power . When James II . offered him pardon , he replied , that "he had no occasion for a pardon , not having been guilty of any crime . "

      In one ofthe angles of Dartmouth church-yard , Devonshire , is a large tomb , on the stone of which is the following strange inscription : — " Thomas Goldsmith , who died in 1714 . He commanded the Snap-dragon , a privateer belonging to this port , in the reign of Queen Anne ; in which vessel he turned pirate , and amassed much riches . " And under the above are tho following lines : — " Men that are virtuous serve the Lord , And the devil ' s by his friends adored ; And as they merit get a place Amidst the hloss'd or hellish race . Pray , then , ye learned clergy show , Where Can this brute , Tom Goldsmith , go , Whose life was one continued evil , Striving to cheat God , man , and devil !" Daniel Lambert died at Stamford on the 21 st of

      June , 1800 , having arrived in that town , on the previous day , from Huntingdon , for the purpose of exhibiting himself to the curious at the races . He was thirty-nine years of age ; his hei ght was 5 feet 11 inches ; 3 yards 4 inches round the body ; lyavd 1 inch round the leg ; his wei ght , a few days before his death , was found to be , by the Caledonian balance , 52 st . 111 b . ( 141 b . to the stone ) . His coffin measured C feet 4 inches long , 4 feet i inches wide , feet 4 inches deep , and contained 112 superficial feet of elm : it was built upon two axletrees and four clog wheels , and upon these his remains were drawn to St . Martin ' s burial ground ( in the church of which is a splendid monument to the memory of the Lord Treasurer Burleigh ) . The grave was dug with a gradual sloping for many yards , and upwards of twenty men were employed in depositing

      tho coffin in its resting place . Lambert was a native of Leicester , and was for some time keeper of tho gaol in that town . A tombstone marks the spot where his remains aro deposited , erected at the expense of some of his . friends in his native town , but a recent visitor to the churchyard says , that if the humble appearance of the grave was seen by some of Lambert ' s townspeople , he thinks they would be induced to raise a fund for a gravestone worthy of the spot which contains the remains of that extraordinary man . Daring his life ho cultivated the esteem of all who knew him ; and to show how he was respected b y the magistracy of Leicester , ori his retiring from the situation of gaoler , thoy voted him an annuity of £ 50 without any solicitation . Ho first exhibited himself for profit in Piccadilly .

      Youth is a g lorious invention . While the ' girls chaso the hours , and you chase thegirls , the months seem to dance away " with down upon their feet . " What a pity summer is so short 1—before you know it , ' lovers become deacons , and romps ,.- grandmothers . The wises of Stuttgard aro noted for their bad acrid quality . There is a proverbial saying there of two of tho sourest of them—to wit , that the one is like a cat going down your throat ; and the other tho same cat being drawn back again by the tail .

      A Gentleman who had gained a handsome fortune by unremitting industry , was once accosted with , " I say , John , why don't you : have a coat of aims on your carriage ? "— "Oh ! " said the gentleman , " I want no coat of arms ; when I first came into L— , I wore a coat without arms . " "Mr . S- , is your customer B— -asnanto be trusted ? V— " I know . of nane more so : ho is to be trusted for oyer . ; henevev pays , " A PuorusTic Pauson . t-A clergyman in Devon > shire , remarkable for . nothing but his wit , and a lifo perfectly inconsistent witli . his vrofesslou , particularly the practise of pugilism , one Sunday , after divine service , had a quarrel with some of his parishioners in a public house , in consequence of which a severe battle ensued , and though ho had several to encounter with , yet the parson gained a BOinplctO Yiotol'V . The next Sunday his antagonists appeared at church with black eyes , and other marks of the parson ' s prowess , who . to minify them the more , preached on those words of Mhetninh , xiii ,, 25 ;— "And I contended with them ,. and cursed them , and smoto cortain of them , and plucked off their hair ,, and made them swear by God . " "

      Ruptures Effectually And Per* Maneimiiy Cured Without A Truss !!

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 9, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_09031850/page/3/