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      4 THE NORTHERN STAR . . April 1 $ , 1851 ;

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      ftlAD . -UIE MAXWELL , 33 , Great Percy 1 V 1 Street . i \ mtoi ; vSle . Los & w . continues to send free on receipt of thirteen nner . t posiage stamps , plain directions to enable indie * or Gentlemen to win the devoted affections ef as many ofthe opposite sex as their Learts may require . Tiie process is simple , but io captivating and en thralling that all may be iiuirried irrespective of age , appearance , or position ; while tlie most fickle or coldhearted will readily bow to its attraction . Young t « nd old , peer and peeress , as -well as the peasant , are alike subject to its influence ; and last , though not least , it can be arranged with , such ease and delicacy that detection is impossible . N . B . —B . ware of numerous ignorant pretenders .

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      MATKUIOfVir MADE EASY : OB HOW TO WIN A fcOVEB . MISS ELLEN DAWSIKN CONTINUES to send free to any address , on receipt of thirteen postage stamps , and a directed envelope , plain directions to enable ladi-. s or gentlemen to win the affections of as many ofthe opposite sex as their hearts may desire . The proposal is simple , bnt so captivating and euttiraUin ; that all may be married , irrespective of age , appearance or position , youni ; and old , peer and peeress , as well as the peasant , are subject to its influence , and last , it can be arranged with such ease and delicacy thatdetection is impossible . S . B . —Beware of ignorant pretenders . Just Published , Third Edition , ETIQUETTE ON LOVE ,

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      TOOTHACHE PREVENTED . Price Is . per packet ; pest-free , Is . Id . BE ASDE'S ENAMEL , for FILLING DECAY 1 XG TEETH , and UENDERIKG THEM SOUND AND l'AIXLESS , ha-, from its unquestienable excellence , obtained great popularity at home and abroad . Its curative agency is based upon a TRUE THEORY oi the can- < e of Tooth- 'iche , and hence its great success . Dy most other remedies it is sought to kill the nerve and so Stop the pain . I > ut to destroy the turre is itself a very painful operation , and often leads to rery sad cor-sequences , for the tooth then b . comes a dead substance in the living jaw , and produces the same imount of inflammation and vain as -wvuld remit from any other foreign body embodied in a living organ . liltAXDE'S ENAMEL does not destroy the nene , hut by llESTORlNG THE SHELL OF TUB TOOfil , completely protecls the nerve from cold , heat , or chemical or other agency , by which pain is caused . By following the directions , 18-STAST EASEigobtaned , anda LASTING CURE Mows . Full instrucriens accompany every packet

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      Just Published , IN NOS . AT ONE PENNY EACH , THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO THE GOLDEN LAND 0 A L I P 0 R 2 * * A ITS PAST HISTORY ; ITS PRESENT POSITION ; ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS t wrrn a mwote Asn authentic account op THE DISCOVERY OF THE GOLD REGION , Asn THE SUBSE QUENT IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS .

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      No . XV . oftheK « w Series OF THE NATIOM OSTBUCTOS , " Is bow ready . Contents of No . XV . 1 . Second Edition of the Budget for 1851 . 2 . The Student of St . Petersburg . ( Concluded . ) 3 . The Position of Women in Turkish Society . 4 . The English in South Africa . o . An Escape from Slavery in America . 6 . Working Associations of Paris . 7 . 2 Jew Books . —Notes on North America .

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      XATIONAX . CHAUTEH ASSOCIATION . Office , M , Southampton-street , Strand , Tt ' HE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE JL hereby announce the following meetings : — On Sunday afternoon , at three o ' clock , the Metropolitan Delegate Council will meet at the City Hall , 26 , Goldenlane , Barbican . At the same time the Lambeth locality will meet at the sonth London Hall , and Mr . Pattinson . the sub-secretary , will be in attendance to enrol members . On Sunday evening nut at the llock Tavern , Lissongrove—Princess Koyat , Circus ^ treet , Marylebone—Brick , layers' Arms , Tonbridge-street , New-road—Crown and Anchor . Chesmre-stveetj WatevlooTown . On the same evening at the Rising Sun , Calender-yard , Long-alley , Mr . J . Finlen will lecture . Aud the Members are requested to meet for business .

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      TO TAILORS AND OTHERS . EXHIBITION , 1851 . By Approbation of Uee Majesty Queen Victoria , and 1 I . R . H . Prince Albert .

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      BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS The following testimonial is another proof of the great efficacy of this Medicine : —• ' 127 , New Bond Street , London . October 12 th , 1850 . Sib , —In acquainting you with the great benefit which I have experienced by taking BLAIR'S GOUT AND lUIErj-JtATlC PILLS , I feel that I am but performing a duty to that portion ofthe public who may be similarly afflicted . About twenty years since 1 was first attacked by Rheumatic Gout in my hands and feet , 1 had previously been subjected to every variety of climate , having served in Canada in the 19 th Dragoons , and in Spain , under Sir John Moore , in the 18 th Hussar-. I always procured the best medical aid , but without obtaining any essential relief , and my suiferings can be apprecuted only by those who know something of this disease . It was during one of those

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      l'cter Jjawson anu son , ot Edinburgh , seedsmen to the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland , consisting of a complete collection ofthe vegetable productions of that couatry- ^ oiuprising . all sub-Stances used as'food for man . and the domestic animals , those used in the arts , manufactures , and medicine , and also for house and ship-building—the whole systematically arranged , so as to show their comparative economical values . We have seen a very handsome model by their agent , Mr . Summers , ofthe casts now erected by Fox and

      Hendersonthe scenery by Mr . Owen Jones , - and the glass supplied by the British Plate Glass Company . We understand the catalogue of the same is now being printed at the private press of the same establishment , and will form a volume of the same size as the official catalogue ; which , independent of its Use as a reference to the collection , will prove a moat useful manual to all practical and scientific agriculturists . —' Morning Post . . Letters prou . Damascus , of the 13 th of March , state that some French travellers , and a Baron de Rothschild , had been attacked by a party of nedomns , and compelled to pay aransom of iV , W piastres .

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      PRINTED IN THE CRYSTAL PALACE . THE PARLOUR MAGAZINE OP THE LITERATURE OF * ALL NATIONS .. ' , \¦ . . i . To be continued weekly . Price Tw opence . It will be the largest and the cheapest of the weekly Magazines . The first number will be u double one , at the single price . One half of it will be devoted to an ablywritten article—. "HOW TO ENJOY LONDON DURING THE EXHIBITION . " - ¦¦ ¦ ' / A beautiful STEEL ENGRAVING will be given with the number . Loudon : Printed in the Crystal Palace , and Published by Houlston and Stoneman , and Booksellers everywhere .

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      The Potent asd Hungamak Refugees . —T . Brown ' s list , —i ' e La Rne ' s Workmen £ 112 s 9 d—Sharwood ' s Typefounders , Mr King 4 s fid—Chinnock Is—Smith ' s Workmen 3 s Gd—Pantifes's Engineers , Mr . Munral 8 * Cd—Crocket Friend 6 d—Croughton Is—J . Robertson 2 s 6 d—W . Eke Is—Mr . Olancey ls-Mr . Walking Is—J . J . 6 . Gd—A Friend Gd—Collection at Fenn ' s Engineers , Greenwich , Mr . Jones JE 1 2 s Gd—Mr , Sevil , shoemaker , Fore-street is—A . Friend la—Two Ladies 2 s—CoH ' ns , few friends 3 s—Welchman 6 d—A Few Friends , for rent specially £ 3 2 s Gd—Mr . Brittan Is . —Any mistake in tbe Money List , application to be made to T . Brown . In answer to J . H ., T . Brown paid to Mr . Reynolds the jCI for Convention last week from Greenwich . Look in the List . James Bennt . —Press of matter prevents the publication of your letter this week Paislev . —Tbe parties had better he left to themselves . Publicity would but gain them notoriety .

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      THE HORTHEBH STAB S VTUUDAY , APRIL 1 * , 1851 ,

      The Chartist Convention Of 1851. The Con...

      THE CHARTIST CONVENTION OF 1851 . The Convention which has just closed its sittings , has , upon the whole , shown , a satisfactory advance of public opinion . ' Dealing with so many important and fundamental questions , as it did , it is not to be expected that its decisions should , in all cases , meet with the approval even of the Democracy of this country ; but all must admire and commend the spirit and tone which characterised the debates , as well as the evident sincerity bv

      which theDelegates were animated throughout . It is , indeed , a striking feature of the age , to find a representative body , elected by the industrious classes , and responsible to them only , occupying itself with such grave topicswith questions that lie at the very foundations of society—with principles the most important in themselves , and world-wide in their application . It shows that , were the people really represented in oar Legislative bodies , the miserable and petty questions which waste the time of Parliament , would be replaced by measures of sterling value , and direct bearing :

      on the welfare of the masses . The wide difference between the debates in tbe Parliament of the Factions sitting in St . Stephen ' s , and the Parliament of the People sitting in the Partheninm , offers a correct index of the total and entire separation in principle , opinion , and sympathy , ofthe represented from the unrepresented classes . They have scarcely a feeling , or an idea , in common . The antagonistic- and incoherent structure of society esstrauges them from each other , gives them diverse interests , and forces them to look at societarian questions from totally opposite

      points of view . While the one are content to prop up , as they best may , existing institutions , the others are continuall y occupied with the thought how these institutions may be most speedily and effectuall y remodelled , with the great object of securing tho prior right of the producer of wealth to the enjoyment of that wealth . The principle , that " the Labourer shall Jinrf be partaker of the fruits , " underlies all these discussions , however varied the shape they take . They are a continued protest against the injustice which makes the poor many toil for the benefit of the few , who are

      rich and idle . The Convention of 1851 , if it has done nothing else , has demonstrated the extent to which these subjects have possession of the industrial mind of the country , the eagerness with which they are studied , and the consequent steady growth of a powerful opinion adverse to the present state of society . Tho factions who alternately rule the country , and play into each others hands for the common benefit of the oligarchy , may be too ignorant or too contemptuous to notice these signs of the times . The monied and trading interests may be too fully occupied with theiriron safes and their shop-tills , to know

      anything of the nature of the opinions which are fermenting in the minds ofthe productive , enslaved , and unenfranchised classes . It would be highly beneficial to both , if they were to turn for a short period from the selfish occupations by which they are engrossed , and seriously study the meaning and tendency of such an Assembly as that which has just closed its deliberations . It is pregnant with future consequences of the most solemn des scription . Wisely and calmly dealt with , and directed , the new opinion may be made the creator of a new and highly beneficial state of society , without immediate or remote injury to any class or individual . Opposed , neglected , or sneered at , it may assume a less

      pacific and constructive aspect . It depends entirely on the ruling classes which of these shall be the ultimate result . ' Tho movement must go on . Armies , prosecutions , proscriptions , exile , and death , are powerless in the war against opinion . The unjust arrangements which make ignorance , toil , degradation , and suffering , the lot of the millions , send forth fresh recruits to fill up every vacancy of the army of discontent . Government ought to-be wise in time , and prevent the formation of such armies b y just , equitable , and beneficial , political , and social institutions . That has now become their pressing and pa <* - taonntduty . Weil will it be for them to betake themselves to its discharge in all earnestness and good , faith .

      Another effect of this difference of opinion between the productive and the . trading and wealthy classes , is to be traced in the resolution come to by the Convention , with respect to the middle-class Parliamentary movement . As we understand that decision ; it is , that any movement for any measure short of the Charter ought to receive no . countenance or support whatever from the Chartist body ; but at the same time no active or direct opposition is to be given by them . Practicall y this amounts to much the same policy as we have repeatedl y advised in the Northern Star .

      Individuals connected with the Chartist body who may be of opinion that b y assisting a concurrent , though less extensive movement , they are promoting at the same time , their own more radical objects , will continue to give such assistance ; while the National Charter Association will vindicate its own consistency and attachment to its principles , without offering any obstruction to parties who may not see so f ar , or be willing at once to go so far as it proposes . As we have frequeutlv said , there is room enough in the world for both parties , and if they cannot agree to co-operate

      , there is no reason at . all wh y thev " should quarrel . We should undoubtedl y have .. preferred the amendment of Mr . Duxcanson , which , in our opinion , embodied the best policy . Events will show that it is by the junction of the most honest of the electoral with the unrepresented classesj that . Parliamentary Eeform can be most surely and peaceably attained . But , at the same time , we perceive all the advantages to be derived

      from the existence of an association which takes its stand upon fixed principles , and refutes to make any compromise or any sacrifice at the altar of expediency . Such an attitude must at least comman d attention , if it is maintained with a dignified sense of ' self-respect , as well as of the respect due to others ; and . it . ' must also , in connexion with vigorous measures for the organisation of the unrepresented millions , powerfull y accelerate the progress of political reform . Some time since an attempt was made to

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      amalg amate the existing bodies of Political and Social / Reformers , ^ which had our best wislies . If apparently failed at the time ,. for though the Conferences were protracted , no tangible unison resulted . These meetings , however , and similar discussions throughout the country , have not been unproductive . Their fruits are to be seen in what may be called the Socialistic tone of the late

      Convention . To a larger extent than upon any former occasion , the delegates occupied themselves with Social questions ; and the Programme , as ultimately adopted , includes most of the fundamental principles advocated by Social Reformers . In this direction the Chartist movement has undoubtedly extended itself , and if properly directed , may look for a large , accession of numbers and influence . ^

      We trust that the Executive will receive prompt and zealous support fom the Chartists throug hout the whole country , in their endeavours to discharge the duties confided to them by the Convention ; and that the members of that body will carry with them to their respective localities , a determination to labour earnestly and unremittingly in the organisation of local associations , capable of placing at the disposal of the Executive both mind and money . Above all , we trust that the Convention has buried for ever all tho

      dissensionwhich have , so unfortunately torn and diss tracted the Chartist body for so long a period , and that the moderation and good spirit which pervaded its deliberations on matters involving personal questions , will be imitated throug hout the whole country . We accept the decisions of the Convention as the definite future policy ofthe Chartists of Great Britain and Ireland ; and we call upon all who wish to see Labour emancipated from political and social bondage , to rally around the standard thus raised . ONWARD ! FOR FREE

      INSTITUTIONS AND FREE HOMES

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      DWELLINGS OF THE INDUSTRIOUS POOR . Prisons for tbierea and rogues are scientifically constructed buildings , The architect has calculated the amount of pure air requisite to health , and made arrangements for its constant supply . Light and heat , and their influence on the animal economy , have been all duly estimated and provided for , and the space needful for individual comfort and "well-being measured off and allotted . Wonderful , indeed , is our care , forethought , and delicacy , in the treatment of rogues , thieves , burglars , and pickpockets . -

      The case is entirely altered when we come to the dwellings of the industrious poor , whose labours produce , the wealth which build and maintainthesepalace-likeprisons . Ventilation , light , aud space , are luxuries too good for honest industry . Their abodes are constructed , not in accordance with , but in direct opposition to , all the laws of sanitary science ; and into these structurally defective buildings , men , women , and children are huddled together in masses , to breed fever and pestilence , and die annually by thousands greater in number than all who were ' slain on the bloody field of Waterloo .

      Nor is this owing to ignorance or carelessness . It has been " done on purpose . " The direct result of past legislation has been to make the houses of the poor dear and bad . Taxes on building materials—taxes on light and air—modern improvements , by which whole streets were swept away to make room for richer tenants , ' without substituting any accommodation for the poorer ones displaced , —these , aiid other causes , have all gone to produce a state of things disgraceful to the Government and to the Legislature of this country . Lord Ashle y has this week called attention

      to the subject : and his exposure of the physical and moral evils , resulting from the past . injustice and neglect of the ruling classes , is a far heavier indictment against these'classes than was ever preferred by tho most determined Revolutionist . Wo have laws for preventing cruelty to animals , but none to prevent cruelty to the poor . In the rich parish of St , George , Hanover-square , out of one thousand four hundred and sixty-five families of the labouring classes , nine hundred and ninety-nine had only one room ; while , in Bethnal-green , and other districts of the Metropolis , as many as

      three , four , and sometimes even five families , are crowded into one apartment—males and females : all living together , performing the functions of nature , and compelled to act in a way that sets at defiance all notions of decency , The effect of this over-crowding on the health of the persons thus crammed together , is as specific as if they were deliberately poisoned . It reduces their general health , saps and undermines tbeir constitution , and either carries them off at an ; earl y age , by means of typhus or cholera , or throws them , with a ruined constitution , upon the parish with a

      swarmjof children also diseased and enfeebled from having been brought up in the same vitiated and deadly atmosphere . Even when persons are well-fed , well-clothed , wellwarmed , aud cleanly in their habits , this overcrowding has a destructive effect Sleeping in crowded and ill-ventilated apartments is a certain road to the church yard . In a room thirty-three feet , by twenty , and seven feet highj ninety to one hundred men were

      in the habit of sleeping every night . It had not more air and space than is considered sufficient for three patients at the London Hospital . Tho consequence was , that one hundred and fifty persons were seized with fever in that one room . How vermin of the most loathsome description aro generated iu such places we need not say ; in some of the low lodging-houses they are felt by the visitors to drop on the . hat like peas . But the unwholesome arid noxious eftects of

      overcrowding are made infinitely worse , in many cases , by the other attendant circumstances . Houses are built over ash-pits , open middens , and com mon privies , reeking with offensive and baleful gases , vitiate the air . and deal forth death , as surely as if tho inhabitants were inhaling poison . Nor is this the case in large manufacturing-towns alone , or in the metropolis , where large masses are congregated , and where ground for building upon consequentl y becomes extremely valuable . Here is a description , by aa inspector of the , Board of . Health , of a place in the small country town of Morpeth : —

      In Lumsdcii's-lnno , I found lodRinjrs homes dirty ? nd crowded , one of which was over a large ashpit ; the same wliere tho . woman had died of cholera . At- the head of Lumsdun ' s-yard , there are also open middens and privies , the drains from which pas * under the adjoining cottages . This state of thinrs i-urround » tho poor habitants with a surface of vUtbU filth , nnd nlso keeps them in an atmodpht : re of foul gases , where tlie seeds of d sense most

      readi ' y ripen , k ever , according to the medical evidence , is »! - most constant in those places ; and cholera , m j-hown , is first developed in such rooms as that over the privy tmd ashpit situated in Lumsden ' s-lane . This undue crowding is as destructive to tlie property as to the health of tlin poor inhabitants . - The wet and damp retained by tils muldensgenevaterot , and the surface filth is-trodden into the houses , the cleansing of which is . consequently neglected , and the result is rapid decay .

      The evil does not end with physical deterioration ' and disease . . It extends also to the moral condition of the wretched inhabitants of uch f l : hy dens . Mhary , crime , and violence , flourish in rank luxuriance on such a soil , the moral is as depraved as the physical atmosphere . . Children grow up familiar with vice , ignorant of all that might elevate or improve their natures , and ready for the commission of aiiy , act that may gratif y their passions , or supply their passing wants .,

      To remedy ; to some extent , tho appalling evils arising from this source Lord Ashley proposes a Billto encourage the construction of superior Dwellings for the working classes . Already some of these improved houses hare been erected , and found to secure the health and well-being of their inmates , in conjunction with a good return for the money expended on their construction . That money bas hitherto

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      ho » 'e > Deen ^ * m « ch , in consequence of Goverfli < - neu obstructions to their erection . In the first p ^ ce tlie disgraceful state of the law of Partners ^? compelled those who first erected Model i > ging Houses to pay £ 1 , 200 for a Charter of In ^ owtion , every penny of which , of course , constates a permanent tax in the shape of rent up \ on the residents . In the next place , the window tax mounts up rapidly oh a certain number of windows , when they are all under one roof , and also . materially enhance the unnual or weekly payment exacted from the tenant . The latter obstruction to the erection of these dwellings is about to be removed , but , as yet , no decided step has been taken to alter the laws which stand in the

      way , not only of this , but of a hundred other good measures , which . the working classes would gladly carry out , by their own voluntary , associated efforts and means . The new buildings are , in fact , the adaptation of the collegiate system to the wants of the poor . Instead of being compelled to put up with one or two rooms of a house , constructed in the first place for one

      family , and which when thus split up into separate lodgings , is totally deficient of all the domestic accommodation requisite either for cleanliness , comfort , or economy , the working man will have a choice of a suite of rooms , large or small , as may suit his means and his family . But each separate set of apartments are complete in themselves , and provided with tbe requisite storage and

      conveniences . These houses , under proper arrangements , could be built so as to allow of the increased comfort , health , and economy of a family being attained at a far less sum in the shape of rent than is now paid for the wretched hovels and pestilential dens in which the poor are condemned to live ; and we cannot but hope that a movement so full of advantage to all classes , so urgently demanded

      by the sufferings of the poorer classes , and so certain to be remunerative , for the capital invested , will , even in this do-nothing session of parliament , be carried to a successful conclusion . If either the government or the Legislature stand in its way , they will be morally guilty ofthe murder ofthe thousands who are certain to perish by disease , in consequence of the present horrible and disgraceful state of the dwellings of the poor .

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      Parliamentary. Budget Number Two For 185...

      PARLIAMENTARY . Budget number two for 1851 ia characterised by Sir Charles Wood ' s well known obstinacy . Making some improvement in details , he retains all the essential features of his most objectionable and unsatisfactory plan , The house tax is still to replace tho window tax . The remission which is promised is more apparent than real , as tbe new tax of 9 d . in the pound on all houses above £ 20

      annual value , will sweep into the net , number of houses at present exempt from window duty , because they were built with a sufficientl y small number of windows to enable them to evade it . We must , however , admit , that if we are to have no substantial reduction of expenditure , a house tax is better than a window tax . It is not so objectionable on sanitary grounds , aud the exemption of all houses under £ 20 will enable the great bulk of the

      working classes to live in houses free from tho new impost , We suppose that the amended scheme will be carried . Nobod y else has a better to propose . Mr . Herries made a stand against the income tax , but in such a shape that it almost invited defeat , and defeated he was accordingly , The CHANCELLOR of the Exchequer owed his victory , however , not to either argument or justice , in fact , on this question he spurns the idea of both . The tax is in existence . He found it

      ready made to his hand , — -it is a tolerably fruitful one , aud , therefore , he means to continue it , " with all its imperfections on its head , " as long as he can . Sir Charles hates trouble , and if he can continue to get six millions yearly by this mode , why should he put himself out of the way to adjust the tax more equitably in proportion to the . means of . the payers ? We are , . however , promised more discussion on the subject , and , at all events , we hope that if renewed at all in its present shape , it will not be for more than one year . This will force a revision not likely to oe secured in any other way .

      The question of church rates has made an advance to a settlement . The prospect of going out of office bas made Lord John all at once wonderfully liberal . Two years agoeven last year , the proposal of a select committee , with a view to the abolition or eqvritable , settlemeut of this impost , would have been met with a determined resistance . This year the Prkmier thinks it is calculated to lead to great practical good , and willingl y gives his consent to it . " Sweet are tbe uses of adversity . "

      The state of Ireland formed tho subject of an important debate on a motion of Sir H . W . Barron , to go into Committee on the subject . It may appear , perhaps , to many , that this is a threadbare question , and that Ireland ' s woes are somewbat pertinaciously thrust upon legislative attention , to the exclusion of other topics . But be it remembered , that we prevent the Irish people from managing their own affairs , and are , therefore , bound to give them a fair hearing when they complain of grievances unredressed—of misery caused b y unjust laws—of disease , starvation , and death , the result of social

      malarrangements , and the tyranny of an alien aristocracy . The small majority against tin motion ( only nine ) is , perhaps , the best possible proof of the magnitude of the evil , and the urgency of its nature , as well as the power which the Irish members exercise , in consequence of acting in concert on this question . Lord Ashley ' s Bill for tho Encouragement of Model Lod ging Houses is a step iu a right direction , and there is reason to hope , from tbe reception it experienced , that it will meet with little opposition in its future progress , In connexion with sanitary matters , tbe decisive defeat of the Corporation Bill for continuing Smithfield Market in the heart and Citv of

      London , may be taken to indicate that the Market must be removed , in spite of all the efforts to preserve it , But whether the cockneys are to have one market , or a plurality of markets , in the suburbs—whether it will ultimately be under a Government Commission , or the superintendence of the Corporation , are matters as yet undetermined . A squabble arising out of the St . Albans election has , at various periods , occupied the attention of tbe House . That gross and open corruption took place as usual in that

      immaculate borough , on the occasion of the last election , there can be no doubt . But a new and bold method bas been adopted to defeat tho inquiry ofthe Committee into the affair . The witnesses were seen to set forth from St . Albans to attend the Committee , but they never made their appearance . They were abducted by the way , and there has been ever since a very pretty game of hide and seek playing , between the agents of the sitting Member » nd the Committee , The proceedings before them disclose an amount of perjury , prevarication

      , and unblushing corruption , perhaps unparalleled in the history of such cases . " The House '' assumes virtuous indignation , orders the recusant witnesses into custody , and arrests the tempter who causes others to abscond for the purpose of prostrating the inquiry . All this looks remarkably well . But it is mere sham . Ask the " honourable House"'to give us an extended Suffrage , Equal Electoral Districts , aud the Ballot—ask them to pass measures which would render bribery and corruption impossible—and see if they will grant the request . They know better than that . The

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      whole system is rotten and corrupt andTV ^ and corruption at elections is an inherei !! C ' > Jf * . J- 1 * ™ Jy tMng is to take ol « J ^ be found out . WtUenot t 0 Colonial affairs received notice in admirable speech of Sir . W . MmW tllQ and the debate that followed w ^ surely , after a few more of these erl 8 h ; i ' get our eyes opened to the extrav a £ T ??' and mischievous results ofthe present " °% The Lords being a 3 U 8 Ual iE ^? S idleness , waiting for the crumbs ff til Dt which fall from the table of tueLowerV ° rk have taken at last , to cutting out * w > < vork for themselves . LoH V » l * '' We

      County Court Extension Bill ha , s through committee shorn of many of P Sllcd portions , but wo believe extending rer ? £ tenally the jurisdiction and powfr J , ? ' courts , and opening up still farther J sa for obtaining speed y and cheap justice aCCCS 3

      HOME NEWS . The banquet given by the Lord Mi . Her Majest y ' s Minister , is 0 niyre i T , to from the absence of any allusion r ?? - blfl interest , except tbe Exhibition « , ? pics of ish remarks of Lord C Kt ? ** * t " memorable tenth of A pril , im » ° ° Mr . Geach , a Radical Reformo ,. l . i returned Member for Coventrv % ? « for Longford is likely to afford B ' electio « amusement . TheLibJral Cto & ZZ ^ through the Morning Jb ^ fi ^ p ** . geant Shea had declined , and that Mr at O'Ferbail , the ex-Governor ofS ^ T refusedthe rights of hospitality to GAiimnY and his followers ) , was to be the LiS P * didate . Sergeant Shea , however , unext , e ( 3 made his appearance on Wednesday Li- ?' difficult to say how the matter will if " ranged . M "

      The Sailors' Strika still , «» , « .... „ _ . The Sailors' Strike still continues Ti "Justasses" of Bolton , followingthc exa ' mp 2 the Manchester magnates , sent two Sailor . 1 prison for street-begging . They aftmrid , relented , and liberated the men , on condS that they left the to wn in two hours S Sailors , against whom no charge bad hZ made , were in court , anxiousl watching 2

      y proceedings . They , also , were ordered t leave the town , and on their refusal , Jl committed to prison . We trust that the Sea men and their friends will teach the Solons of Bolton a little law , and that this act of min . tice will be the means of their expulsion f om the bench which they have disgraced .

      The boiler explosion at Stock port , after four adjournments , and the ex amination of several scientific engineers , has resulted in a verdict censuring the engineer employed , aud a recommendation from the jury which ou « ht to be adopted in all cases where the lives " of numerous individuals are exposed to a power , the gmdance or mismanagement of which they are totally ignorant of , and to which power the lives of many of the industrious classes are daily ia danger of being sacrificed The inquiry into the cause of the boiler ex ^ plosion at Manchester has terminated in the

      committal of EQERxoif , the engine tenter , and Williamson , his employer , for manslaughter ,

      FOREIGN AW COLONIAL . In France the aspect of political affairs grows daily more threatening for the powers that be . The speculators and money-mongers see a storm approaching , and button up their pockets , Trade is paralysed , and Socialiim spreads with great rapidity in the provinces , Le / our viendra . The day is coming . _ In other parts of the Continent nothing particular has occurred . Austria aud Prussia are

      still enacting the drama of "He would and he would not ; " and affairs are as far off a settlementasever . The last mail from the United States brings no news of political importance . Gold still continues to pour iu abundantly from California .

      Monies Received For The Week Esoi So Thi...

      MONIES RECEIVED For the Week Esoi so THimsDAr , April 10 th , 1851 . FOR THE HONESTY FUND . SECE 1 V £ D BY W . B 1 DE & . £ s . a . From Sheffield—W . Tarry ,, ,. o 0 ( J- Dale .. ., .. 006 1 . Bradley .. .. .. 0 0 « trom Sivtnehead Clough , Todmorden—J , Sutcl'ffe .. 0 2 i ) J . Carter .. .. ,, o 3 u J Stiinsfield .. .. .. 020 J . Cuncliffe .. .. .. 0 o i J . Gibson .. .. .. 008 T . Townsend .. .. .. Oil ) J . Ilaworth .. .. .. 006 It . Dearden .. .. .. 016 Newlr ill ii ii ewnui

      A . .. e a . a .. .. .. 006 J . StuusBeld .. .. .. 0 0 6 " -H" •• .. 0 1 0 H T « .. .. .. 010 iTia s WINDING-UP OF THE L 4 NB COMPANY .

      BECEITED BI W . BIDEB . r , £ * d . * rom Lowton , near Warrington-J . Wadsworth .. „ .. o l 0 James and John Ilindley ,, ,. 0 10 From Sheffield—T . Dale .. .. 006 J . Morton .. ,. .. 006 W . Tarry .. .. .. 006 From Lewes—W- West .. .. 006 3 . Baiter .. ., .. 006 1 ) . Ouden .. .. .. 006 J . Mcplesdens .. . , .. 006

      T . Howell .. .. .. 006 It . Dury .. ., .. 06 S . Eagar .. .. „ 1 t i ¦ W . Durrant .. .. .. 006 F . Brechin .. .. .. 006 H . S . Walls .. .. .. 006 Prom Fallsirk—W . Anderson .. .. o il W . Braid n-ood .. .. 0 0 6 W . Watson .. .. .. 010 W . Finlayton .. .. .. 01 6 T . Thompson .. .. .. 006 T . Wheeler , Coggeshall .. ..

      NATIONAL CHARTER fUNO . Received b > - John Aknott-GI . is kow , uer J . DoildS , £ 11 I Waterloo , Myth , per J . Hubinson , 7 s 7 i ; Brighton , per «'• J . 15 . Mills . 18 s ; Omega , per C . Younir . Is ; lloxtoii , per J . . tdinonda , 2 s ; A . liobmson , Bradford , Is ; John Gray , - , Bariowl ' ord , Is ; Newcastleupon-Tyne , per J . Watson , i , t » s Gd ; ClusliertHwn , per E . diariand , 8 a . —Total , £ > »* ^' FOR THE HUNGARIAN AND POLISH REFUGEE S . ' . ' Heceived by W . lliora—Wigton , per S . Brown & - M'Cabe , Easington-hme , County Durham 6 < 1 .

      CONVENTI ON FUNP . Received bj W . llum-J . Dereril , Didcot 61 -Re : e ceived b y John Aknott . —Newtown , per J . liickanlsfc- - UahUx , per Ernest Jones £ 1—Tower Hamlets , V" J' J ' ihatv lOs-City and Finsbury , per J . Finlen J 0 s- » ' « f '>[' minster and Marylebone , per A . Ltatwb'All £ 1—Uradfor d , -A , per A . ltobinson 10 s—Nottingham , per W . Felkin life- i-Ci . e .-liire , per W . Benfold ill-Leicester , per G . Wrav * l- - Kettering , per G . J . Harney Is Gd—J . G . C , per 1 ) . W . « ult - ' " •' Cd—llenvick-tipoii-twced , perG . J . llamey 2 s-Tora » aJ < ij j per ft . LawreU 2 a Gd-Stweastle-upon-Tyne , ]> er J . Wf ; < j 10 s—Portsmouth , Democratic Society , peril . Liresay A' - » -f —D . Hopkins - » s-Exe or , per J . Sandfurd lOs-Omi-ga . ]« r [« r C Y .. un la-I / imbeth , per G . Shell Ss-Tiverton , per ; ' j M . Wheeler 10 s-ptr Mr . Rider 2 s Cd-Greenwu * anu mu

      Debtford , per G . W . M . Ue \ nsld 8 £ 1-J . B . WelchmaM * V ditto Is—Dundee , per J . Graham 1 0 s—Bermondsey . iwrw-f ' Shell 10 s—Hull , per II . Baxter 10 s—Hirmiiiglwm , i « r •»¦ ¦ . Smith , 10 s— Brhtol , per ' T . Savaee fl-Gtasgow , 'f , '' Pau 10 s _ A . h . 3 d— lludderffiVhl , per T . Hirst I 0 i-Sou ! Biu Shields , perl ) . \ Y . Bully . 10 i-i \ orlh Lancashire , P \* " \ , Gray 10 s—I'aislei , per Uev . A . Duncanson lOs-l ' ottentVi per J . Capewell lOs-C . llubb , per 11 . Edward ? , Berm «»»« ' « Locality 5 s-S „ per ii . J , Ho ' yoake Is-Kincardine ^ i Forth , per G . J . Harney 3 s tid-Merthjr Tydvil , l ' . er ° 'sr Owen I lg—Balance from Supper , per 1 ) . tt ' . Rutty w « - * ' - Workhng Man , lUidclifte-bridRP . per R . Hamcr lj W--W Greenwich and Debiford , per Air . Heath ii-Eienwmti per W . Pringle 10 s . . , Small sums for Uefugecs , & c , will bBackuowleilgw ^ w week .

      Nationa L Land And Lab Our Bask; ,. 493,...

      NATIONA L LAND AND LAB OUR BASK ; ,. 493 , New Oxford-street , London . NOTICE . . . . This Bank will be closed for the Easter VacatKW from the 18 th to the 28 th instant , inclusive . By order , . April 10 th , 1851 . T . Pmcs , Manage

      Railroads In England. — The Railway" 1 /...

      Railroads in England . — The railway " /? , * lions of 1860 amounted to 625 miles makmg g total length of tbe lines opened up to Decern ^ m 6 , 621 miles .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 12, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_12041851/page/4/