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/^^"" ZT . the week a Dnsy > fTTSed one , and the aniiounce' - ^? tfflSt on Saturdays in future , ^ l ] l f wind-up of the Session ap-* *** tis fiaid that it vill dora m four '' ¦ £ & thi- time . We have alluded to * f ine ~ Government on the Ballot in V * * . , , On the same ni g ht they were i .: 5 fra -t ^ il ar maioritv ( thirty ) , but in a > * , House , on Lord K . Guosvekor ' s i 3 S Rep eal of the Tax on Attorneys . £ -and the Government had mus-* " ^ I ^' c of 300 members , and the defeat -3 v ' -anient on this question was imme-^ ^" fjerwards followed by that on Mr . & rf $ m otion . It seems to be a joke "f " l , Gov ernment of Lord J . Russell like
- - ] v They are like -Mawworm— lney ¦ - 'V' jesp ised ; ' and are introducing , il : ? -mv theory , at ; all events a new practice ^ 'tflinentin this country , -which isanyftl ^ vourahle to Parliamentary preceded constitutional usage . Heretofore , . ' . liuisters were beaten , it was held to * ' j , wast of agreement and confidence ' ~ . -n themselves and the majority ; and as T , 5 ority are understood to have the legit . ' rlnai to tbe reins of power , the % v made trav for them . ' We have % d all that . ' " Majorities -wish to show ' numbers , not t o " incur responsibility ; -Minorities contentedly pocket defeats und
~ - ~ at the same time . 5 House Tax , in the exceedingly objec-; . '; , lc form proposed by Sir Charles ' ^ will pass into a law . Numerous and . - reasonable amendments were resisted by '" "iiih the dogged obstinacy which is his ' . ] j ar characteristic whenever he feels that ^ ' opelcssly in the wrong . One argument , %$ : it has been very amusing to hear "Vni in opposition to a motion of Mr . a ' r ' = that the non-payment of the fi ^ not disfranchise persona otherwise do the
! ; ' { j ' ^ yi'at von think Whig Z & LUOL r ' ep lied ? - ' That he had always " an advocate of the prm ^ i- _ - ^ c u-: f , that * -- « uou and representation M S - 'gather ; and , therefore , It was iC , Dle a man sh ould pay his taxes before ~ j = qi , ? gir Charles , how could you i U you ' next year , act upon your declared t ^ nn- if we ' ask you to make ' taxation ^ presentation go together ?» » a important question , with respect to the
-r . auctive employment of pauper labour m Vd , has also been mooted during the week , Tiilcii " * re have not space to do justice at , - » Et . Mr . Scully , if ho introduced it , de-^ s credit for h aving brought forward the u racrical measure for the immediate evils Ireland that has been produced during the . skn : and the Irish Members are equally ^] fd to credit for the support they gave - As to the balder dash spouted by Mr . In Wilson , that lucky hack of tlie Trea--r it is not worth refutation . It was neither
in the abstract cor in fact , and if it had - „ was not , in the most remote degree , ap-> ile to the question . One assertion we £ ht had been so often refuted , w hen made [¦ iher unscrupulous Political Economists , : we should never hoar it again . He asii ihat the Pauper Colonies bad failed in : ar . d : whereas , the very contrary i s the f act , f - atislicalMr . WlLSOsmay convincehimself dav by sending to the Secretary of the av ' at ' the Hague . If not disposed to take ak'iible , be will find in recent numbers of kinbers ' s Journal' an account of the pre-: condition of these colonies , evidentl y -oi bv one who has no favourable leaning
-ms them , but which proves they are the rtsie of failures . Political Economy previa the House however , and the rate-3 H of Ireland are doomed to ' continue iE & t very rational and still less profiiie ivsteni of spending hundreds of thouds of pounds sterling without making any soft to turn it to use . They mi ght 3 it as well sink their money intheAtlantie . is ibat is government and statesmanship : v-a-iia \ s . When we take unsu ccess f u l r : j * jiiien—make them Government Undervamries—set them up as economical * : ie =. and demand that we shall obey the - ~ they lay down , w e much fear that the iona ] will fare no better than the individual
itess did . But their ' s tatistics , * ' avess , ' and ' general propositions , ' are bo 2 ie 5 s-like—so practical—so p hilos o p hicalinposing—who can resist the dealer in such L-ri , even though he does bring ns to bankney , or compel us to squander our money iMsl
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COXTISEXTAL POLITICS . i >« i the ' Times' cannot stomacb the last " = £ of its despotic proteges , and is obli ged iy out , * This is too bad V It is like y > KEXSTEix , afraid of its own monster . * ia and -Austria have been so long encou-? Hy it in their wildest excesses , Prussia ^ subed , whenever it showed the slig htest iicg towards Liberalism or Constitutional r tnmient , that we are not surprised they -eatlast been deceived into talcing the step -A excites the disapprobation of 'the ' ¦ sag journal . ' It w * as the onl y c onsistent
-sy they could pursue if their premises and : -s of the ' Times' are correct . It appears * die result of the recent Conferences of the . sb , t he Emperor of Austria and the King : r £ v ? siA , has been an alliance , offensive and ftiave against all Constitutional Governi : - Count Xesselrode has instructed e Russian envoys at the Courts of Rome , ^ b . and Florence , to inform the Govera"i ' -s to which they are accredited , that the : * Northern Powers have agreed to p lace * e disposal of those Governments all the stance they may require for the suppression ' vo ktionarv ' movements . This is
nei-• * r more nor less than a huge armed conspi-¦ ^ against the ri g hts of nations , and the ^ s tep towards a barbarous domination by ** force and the sword . The hireling " ' i s of these Northern marauders will soon , 'Jic-y have their own -way , be quartered - ' ' aghout the whole of the Continent , to * atain the dominion of foreign despots , or ' ka native tools . A reign of terror , such -as never yet been heard of will be
com-~« td , and liberty of thoug ht , sp e ech , print-• and action , will be trampled down in all 3 -us , under the feet of hordes of savage - | atks , unless this monstrous outrage upon -iaw of nations is resisted , aa it ought to ' - $ ¦ tlie beginning . ''ho can resist it ? England and France ? 1 tlie latter assist us ? If it depended on legitimists and the Orleanisb : Xo . But - ¦ -latel y they are powerless for evil . The ^ of the Committee on revision , drawn ^ M . TocquevillE , is proof demonstra" that the Hepublic is paramount in France .
Constitution , if revised at all , will be bo ;^« 3 auce with the law prescribed for that ' . ^ , and b y a Constituent Assembly ^ 'y convoked . We have no fear , there-^ Whatever else m ay betide , that France ^ UttK rte i great influence into the scale of C ^ m : and if the Northern Powers com-^ a war of aggression upon Republican-^ let them beware that the tide is not ' ack into their o w n d om ini o n s ; th e y '
¦ * . l" ! n v strongly and affectionatel y i' { ects are atta «& ed to them , and how /^' they will rally round them to protect ¦ t . a £ ainst ' revolutionary movements . ' « tual confidence that subsists between i- ^ lhose they tyrannise over is seen in ^ iu ar maments which press like an \< s . P ° n tbe whole of the continent , in 3- ^ j ioIe suppression of public opinion in > . a , * - f ' ' ^ 'd especially through the me-^ t < I * 6 Press- Past experience has no <] -L , . 11 oyal and Imperial madmen . a ^ ia before destruction , and a haug hty
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spirit before a fall . Veril y , they will have their reward !
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MONIES RECEIVED Fob thb "Week Endlv-s Thursday , Jclt lOru , 1851 . THE HONESTY FUND . BECE 1 VXD BV W . 8 IDEB . £ s , d . Prom Paisley—Glenfield , per James Currie .. 0 10 0 Mr rgan ' s Printworks , per Robert Elliot .. 0 7 G Seedhills , per John Nixon .. .. 0 3 0 Seedhili ' s Factory , per R . Sisoa .. ° i 2 A few Friends , per \ V . Waddle ° 3 * Xeilson ' s Printers , per T . Smith -- J } : P Cameron .. .. 0 1 « W . Campbell .. .. .. 0 1 0 It . irGhie .. .. " rin A . Buchannan .. • J j J A . Robertson .. .. 2 J 2 J . Killoch .. .. 0 1 £ A . Paul .. .. •¦ J . Waddle -. -. ' 2 „ « W . Cameron .. .. " 222 A . Park .. .. 2 ° 2 A . M'Leod .. .. " 222 W . Marshall .. .. " 222 R . F . Smith .. .. " 2 ° 2 Nottingham , -Mr . Hellers , per Jlr . Sweet .. 0 0 3 WT 1
WINDING-UP OF THE LAND COMPANY BECEIVED BT \ S . S 1 DEE . £ s . d From Paisley—J . Waddle .. .. Oil J . Denald .. .. .. Oil London , R . Hanson .. .. 0 7 1 __ £ 0 _ 91 I EQUITY FUND . Ashton-uBder-Iyne , per W . Aitken , .. 0 15 NATIONAL CHARTER FUND . Received by AV . Rider . — O . Wilson , Alloa 3 d .- ——Re ceired bv John Aa-vorr—Exeter , per 3 . Sandford 10 s-Greenwich locality , per D . P . Foxwell is , d-Cheltenham per E . Sharland 5 s Cd-Xewcastle-upon-Tyne per A M'Leod Cs lOd-Arbroath , T . Campbell ' s book /« 10 Jd-Ditto . J . Y . Fairweather ' s subscription Is lid-Edinburgh , per W . Pringle 16 s—Lambeth locality , per E . Miles ds .-Total J 62 lis lid . MONUMENT FUNDReceived by John Absoit . — Alister , Edinburgh Is—O Biscox , Cheltenham Gd .
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iWxij AND INCIDENTS OF TILE GREAT EXHIBITION . The receipts at the Crystal Palace on Saturday amounted to £ 1 , 56515 s ., and the numbers entering the building were 11 , 747 . During the last few days nearly 360 of the most deserving boys and g irls i n the Jews' Free School , Spitalfields , were by the liberality of the patrons of that institution enabled to visit the Crystal Palace . On Monday by a sudden rebound the number of visitors to the Crystal Palace rose once more to 61 , 670 , and the receipts at the doors amounted to £ 2 , 652 2 s . For the first time since the opening the sale of season tickets presents a perfect blank . Among the crowds that thronged the interior were about 500 men and boys in the employ of Messrs . Clowes , the extensive printers and part contractors for the official catalogue . Mr . Gladstone treated fifty of his poor fellow-parishioners to a view of the interior , and , with a kindness which the public will appreciate , accompanied them ia their
survey . O n Tuesd a y the re c e ipts at the doors rose to £ 3 , 169 os . —except on two days the largest amount that has yet been taken iu shillings . According to the police returns 65 , 962 persons entered the building , and at two o ' clock , when the interior was most crowded , the scene presented was certainly one of a most remarkable and interesting character . On Wednesday the number of visitors amounted to 58 . 055 . and the total receipts to £ 2 , 718 14 a . Notwithstanding tbe unfavourable state of the weather on Thursday , 61 , 492 persons visited the Crystal Palace , and the large amount of £ 2 , 958 was taken at the doors . On Friday 30 , 067 visited the Crystal Palace , and £ 3 , 163 lis . 6 d . was taken at the doors .
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HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE CITY . Her Majesty and Prince Albert on Wednesday night honoured with their presence the grand entertainment given by the Lord Mayor and corporation of the City of London , iu the Guildhall , in celebration of the Great Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations . The transparencies were " few and far between "—and the initials "V . A . " and "V . R . " shone resplendent on the establishments of those tradesmen who announce that they are her Majesty ' s shoemakers , sadlers , & c , by appointment . 20 , 000 lights were used iu illuminating Temple Bar . The royal carriage was preceded by carriages containing the royal servants . Among these were the grooms in waiting , the gold and silver sticks , the bedchamber woman , and the lady of the bedchamber , tbe master of the buckbounds and
the master of the horse . The procession was attended by Horse Guards and police , and thanks to the Exhibition , several thousands of country cousins joined the cockney throng , who , by their eager aud curious looks , appeared as though they expected to see a real live Lion and Unicorn , instead of her Majesty ' s a rms , but , like viewing the Koh-inoor diamond , their expectations were disappointed . Her Majesty wore a white satin dress embroidered in gold , trimmed with gold , silver , and white satin ribands , and richly ornamented with diamonds . The head dress was composed of poppies , golden oat and wheat ears ornamented with diamonds . Bis Royal Highness Prince Albert wore his uniform as Captain-General and Colonel of the Hon . Artillery Company , with the ensigns of the Order of the Garter and the Golden Fleece set in diamonds .
The civic authorities outdid themselves in the luxuries of the table . The peacock full-feathered , and with all the glories of his shining pluroUge , and resplendent tail—the hurc de sanylier , fresh from the Forest of Ardennes , with the ancient couplet so familiar to all our Oxford men , made pleasant companionship with loudin de oie gras aux truffes , and chapons d la Pompadour . Dummies in armour holding lights which flickered from their spearheads , lent a romantic character to the scene . A few cheers were given . Several persons were thrown down and trampelled upon , and the police used their truncheons effectively to quell the exhuberant loyalty of some of the sight-seers .
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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . ( Continued from our Seventh page . ) The Robbery at the London and Wesimissteb Bank . —W . Canty , 69 , labourer , and J . Tyler , 62 , carver , pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a cash-box and two £ -5 bank notes , the property of the London and Westminister Bank . Tyler also pleaded gnilty to having b een b e f ore conv i cte d o f felony . —The prisoner Cauty was then charged , upon a second indictment , with stealing a cash-box containing forty sovereigns and other coins . Mr . O'Brien said he did not keow what course was intended to be taken with regard to the second char g e , after the plea of guilt in the former charge ; but , if it were intended to go on with it , he should have to ap p ly to the court to postpone the trial to the next session . Mr . Justice Wightman said he could not entertain the application at present . He would look over the depositions , and consider what sentence ought to be pronounced .
Manslaughter . —William Eastwood , 41 , labourer , was indicted for the wilful murder of his wife , Elizabeth Eastwood , by stabbing her with a knife . The jury returned a verdict of Guilty , and the prisoner was sentenced to be transported for life . Arson bv an Attohney . — J a mes Hu g g ins , 37 , an attorney , was indicted for wilfully setting fire to a dwelling-house , William Strong and Elizabeth , his wife , being therein at the time , and also to defraud the Guardian , Atlas , and Phcenix Insurance Companies . —The plea of insanity was set up in defence , but the jury returned a verdict of Guilty . —Mr . Justice Wi g h tm a n p asse d sent e nce , and said judgment of death would be recorded against the prisoner , and it would rest with the Crown to decide to what extent that sentence should be commuted .
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LATEST FOREIGN NEWS . FRANCE . Paris , —The Council of State has decided that in case the President should provoke the overthrow of Article 45 of the Constitution , he-would be accused of high treason . General Fabvier gave notice on Wednesday of a motion for the election of a Constituent Assembly by universal suffrage , in case the revision should be voted . M . de Laboulie has been appointed reporter on the departmental province of the Municipal Bill . PORTUGAL . Resignation op Ministers . —By the arrival of the Tay we have news from Portugal to the 6 th iastant . A Ministerial crisis had taken place ; the resignation of Ministers had been tendered and accepted . _
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The Lieutesascy OP THE Tower . —We hear thai Maior-General Howies , Master of the Queen ' s Household , has been recommended for this appoint ment , which is a sinecure , and it remains tobt seen whether this nomination will be confirmed bj the government . The s e are not da ys f or c ontinu inj ; sinecures . . .. , , The Piedmontese Government having put up foi sale bonds for 18 , 000 , 000 francs , received offers tc double the amount—a striking proof of the solidity . r * L . Mn , i ; 4 . Af + lin nn-vormtieTit .
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THIS HUiWAKLAN REFUGEES . The following letter has been addressed to the editor of the Dai ly Netvs : — u Dear Sir , —Lord Palmerston avowed it in the house , at the question of Mr . TJrquhart , that tbe Hungarian Refugees , now at Southamp ton , have been sent off from Turkey by the advice of the English government ; but he did not tell us in what manner this advice has been put in execution . A recent communication from Constantinople enables me to give you the details ; they are contained in a letter of Af . Kossuth to the American Charge d'Affaires , and in the protestation of the Hungarian officers , of which I inclose a copy . "Allow me , & c ., & c , " Hungarus " LETTER OF LOUIS KOSSUTH , LATE
GOVERNOR OF HUNGARY , To Homes A . Homes , Esq ., Charge d'Affaires de interim , of the U . S . of America at Constantinople . Kutayah , the 4 th May , 1851 . Sir , —Scarce have I learnt from you the rebuke given by the Turkish ministry to the generous proposition of your glorious country's congress and government , that an Austrian commissary also arrived to put the barbarous decision of the Porte peremptorily to execution . An Austrian commissary in Turkey ! You must , of course , feel how deep this empire must have fallen , till it was io suffer such degradation , nay , abdication of her independence . She is falling fast , poor
Turkeyfalling , not by want of strength , not by fatality , but by the cowardice of her leaders , who have not the courage to act according to their own judgment . Of course , all the contestations about the " September and no longer , " as the term of my detention , is mere humbug ; nay , more , it is aSront added to oppression . Has the Porte given the assurance to the United States that such a day of September next you can take me without any further application on hoard an American ship ? Of course no . Be , therefore , sure of this , my dear sir , it is mere humbug . The real value of their words I have had opportunity enough to appreciate . Full well I understand the case . I am doomed
to perish at Kutayah—to fall a victim here to the fears of abominable Austria . There are many ways to come to that end , now that the companions of my prison , they who have accompanied me by free choice , with the agreement of the Porte hither , are by force tow away from my side , and I stand almost forsaken—alone ! Well , I will look to for myself , and meet the worst if needs be . I must frankly tell you that I have anticipated the failure of your negotiation . The Turkish government yields but to fear or to protection , and it
must be fully aware that whatever may be the power of the United States , Turkey has nothing to fear and no protection to hope from them ; nothing , because your government , your legislative bodies , all your organs of publicity , are very anxious to proclaim once again , and again , that non-intervention in European matters , is the first fun jamcntal principle of the political system of the United States . To be sure , wise were the men who established this principle , and wise were the men who followed it . It was a necessary one for the foundation as well as for the growth of the United States . Neither would it be convenient to me to
investigate whether the dress which is so well suited to protect the childhood and to develop the youth will still prove suitable when tbe much-promising youth had become a full-grown man—nay , a mighty giant , as your country is . Time is going on , aud every hour may bring its own convenience as it brings its own necessity . May be that even your g lor i ous country may soon b e ca lled to f e el that every position has its necessities , has its conditions—has , I would almost say , its Ymavovia . \> fatality ; the more , the greater , the mightier that position is . " God acts not by special will , but by
general laws / said an English philosopher . Maybe that even your country will very soon be called to feel that it is determined ( as surely it is ) to uphold , nay , still to heighten tho glorious position it already hold s , it will scarcely be possible , should it even be convenient not to put a weight into the balance , where the destines of the old word and its civilisation are to be weighed , it will scarcely be possible not to give anything more to the sufferings of nations than the noble sentiments of sympathy to the struggling , the commiseration to the fallen , an asylum to the persecuted , or , as the most , a generous offer , but which even a Turkish minister may dare to decline .
There may be some who believe that the nonacceptation of the generous offer of the United States is but an indirect answer of Austria to the glorious declaration of Mr . Webster , which found so mighty an echo in every American breast , an answer scarcely less arrogant than the first foolish provocation was ; there may be some who believe that the United States may even not speak , but having once spoken their word must be obeyed . As to me , it is my duty not to repress even any humble wish about the further steps of your government ; to me it would be quite inconvenient either to entertain or to express any feelings else than the most fervent gratitude for the generous intention of your country and of your government ,
and tbe most respectful appreciation of their noble conduct towards myself and my companions , which I beg you will be so kind to convey to the government and the people of the United States , together with the humble declaration of mine that whatever may be the fate I have to meet , it will be , even in the moment of my death—after the trust to God , always my chief consolation , that your glor i ou s c ountry , the grave judgment of your wise men as well as the sentiments of your people , have deemed the poor Hungarian exile not unworthy of their sympathy . I may d ie , but the cause will yet rise—and , with or without me , the battle will be fought once more , which met the approbation of great , glorious , and free democratic America . Amen .
But , dear sir , there is yet one thing which I must beg you to clear of all misrepresentations before y o u r gov e rnm e nt , that t he ans w er g iven b y t h e Ottoman ministry may be fully appreciated . Now , I have no doubt the thing will be represented to the world as a benevolent step of the Sublime Porte . They would make the world believe that " though political considerations did not allow them to restore all Hungarian exiles to liberty , still it was a noble resolution of the Porte to restrict the detention only to eight individuals , freeing all the rest . "
But no , sir , the case is quite different : the present resolution of the Porte not only partakes nothing of benevolence , but it is rather the most barbarous , the most inhuman deed amongst all we havo yet experienced here . Before stepping over the threshold of Turkey , I asked if they would give me or not asylum and hospitality . I asked them , let me be your guest , or else let me pass , that I may carry my weary head to more hospitable shores . They answered me , be w e lcome , be our guest ; our house will be an asylum to thee : we swear thee protection and hospitality . I trusted—I arrested my steps , that I mi ght yet feel the breeze which swept over the plains of my neighbouring native land , that I may see the billows of the Danube mixed with Hungarian tears from Presburg to Orsova .
A few months later they gave me a prison in far Asia to be the asylum which they had sworn tome . At the sad moment of this change in my fate , the poor ruins of independent Hungary , my fellow exiles , almost all , with few exceptions , demanded the only concession , to s ha re my fate . It was refused . At last to twenty-three of them was granted the permission to accompany me . So they came with me . They came firmly decided , and declaring this their resolution to the commissary of the Porte , rather to undergo every privation , rather to struggle w i th starv ati on , than to let me be forsaken , alone . It was a noble deed , sir , worthy of the sjmpathy of humanity . Now , sir , these are the men who are now driven away from my side by force by the Turkish government .
They protested against this inhumanity , as you will see from the adjoined memorial ; they declared to be willing to stay with me without the slightest aid of the Turkish government ; they asked nothing but the permission to share my fate ; they declared not to submit to this inhumanity . The answer was—if you don't g o w illing ly , you will be set upon the horses and bound up , and carried away by force . ,.. ' ..,, ! Onl y five of the whole number is permitted to share my martyrdom . T h ere have b een sev e n officers , w h o more pa rticularl y devoted themselves to the service of daily guard to my person , a precaution of necessity , as the Turkish government itself acknowledged again and again , that Austrian assa s sins were plotting against my life . I asked at least to spare me the mortification of choice amongst these seven . No , it was not permitted ; two even of these were driven away .
On the contrary , I was willing to sacrifice the consolation of the presence of my family , for the sake of the education of my children . I intended , therefore , to avail myself of your government ' s gen e rou s o ff er to sen d a w ay my infant children , un d er , or even ( if it can't otherwise be ) without , their guardian angel , my dear L . loved wife . It was explicitly refused . That is the real state of the question , sir . It is not for the sake of relieving the burden of my feelings by a weak complaint I dwelt upon these particulars : I will bear my fate ; but it is that barbarity
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m , y not M ^ ^ sbeltering itself under the mask of humanity , and that my gaolers may not sell for benevolence a deed which is the mo . t shocking cruelty . It is for that reason that I pray you Tf MZ il , f J . forni your government about the » e , as the real issue of your country's generous proposition , as I wu \ als 0 state the tSev before the publicity of the civilised world . Now , my dear sir , as the greatest part of mv dnven-awaj companions have decided to profit of your generous offer and to go to Amorioa , in the confident hope , that with the aid of God , they may yet see again their native beloved fatherland in freedom and independence , it is my duty to trouble l ° u jS ^ w * md lsPensanle prayers on their behalf , Which I trust you will feel authorised to comply with , Ac . L Kossuth .
PROTEST OF THE HUNGARIAN OFFICERS IN KUTAYAH . We , th e under signed , vo l untary comp a nions of Louis Kossuth , late Governor of Hungary , being warned that the Sublime Porte having ordered our separation , and intends to execute tins unexpected order without delay ; ' Considering that " we followed this illustrious man into the place of his exile , and afterwards of his detention , in full liberty , and voluntarily determined to share his fate and his sufferings to the end ; Considering , that afterwards the Sublime Porte , with the award of the diplomatic agents of Austria , permitted us to join our before-mentioned chief , and to accompany him without conditions , not Separating US during the term of his detention ;
Considering finall y , that all of us in desiring the termination of the imprisonment of this illustrious man . never demanded our individual freedom , Seeking and finding Our liberty in the manly resignation to share the misfortunes of the man of our choice ; We declare by the tenure of the present , that the before-mentioned order is unjust , cruel , and contrary to the law of nations , protesting solemnly against its execution , before all nations sensible to misfortune , and before the disinterested opinion of the civilised world ; declaring further , that wo will not yield save to the actual force of those who may be charged with the effectuation of the order . ( Signed ) The Voluntary . Companions op Louis Kossuth , late Governor of Hungary . Kutayah , in Asia Minor , May 4 , 1851 ,
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OP UNITED TRADES . T . S . Duxcohbe , Esq ., M . P ., President . Established 1845 . " HAT justitia . " "If it were possible for the working classes , by combining among themselves , to raise , or keep up the general rate of wages , it need hardly be said that this would be a thing not to he puakhed , but to bfe welcomed and rejoiced at . " Stuabt . Mill . A glimmer of light seems to be breaking in upon minds hitherto shrouded in the murky twili g ht o f prejudice and of party . There are occasions when some sudden unlooked-for
calamity , some unexpected concurrence of circumstances , will force tbe most thoug htless or the most stupid amongst us to think . An apple one day fell from a tree , and an idle boy lying listlessly on the grass , observed it spinning round and round its own axis , in its descent . This , to him , new and unexpected fact , set that boy a thinking . From so simple an origin arose tho Newtonion system .
A tea-kettle of boiling water , puffing out its steam from its spout , impressed another mind with an idea of a new motive power ; and , as it were by enchanment , the steam engine , with all its wouder-Trorking consequences , rushes into existence . From some cause or other , five years ago , a blig ht seized the potato p lant , and the chief article of food for a population of more than
eight millions of human beings was destroyed . Prayers and fastings , lamentations and other app liances , which , time out of mind , have been considered the most effective remedy for such visitations wer e sent up ( by order ) to the great disposer of events , who was unblushingl y charged as the author of the calamity . The pot a toe disease has nearl y worked itself out , and so have the poor Irish people , whose sole food was that same root .
Lord John Russell said in the House of Commons , that not more than one million of th e I r ish peop le perished from the combined effects of starvation and pestilence at that fatal period . The potato blight was another of those little incidents which set people thinking . Another m illio n or two , who bad escaped the ravages of starvation and pestilence , having lost all faith in potatoes and patriotism , packed up themselves and what little capital they could scrape together , and soug ht new homes in the new world .
Ireland , which , in the ordinary course of events , should at the present time have had a population of over nine millions , has actually a considerably less number of inhabitants than she had thirty years ago . This depopulating princip le , which is still in full operation , and likel y to continue , has set the Times' Editor thinking ; and we would earnestl y recommend all who have the opportunity , to read the Times' leader of Saturday , Jul y the 5 th , The Times says : — ' The
facts connected with the Irish census suggest some grave questions . ' To what extent will Irish emigration and Irish depopulation proceed ? And how far is the examp le lik e l y to be followed in the island ? Quote the Times : —* There is always a great deal to be said for the status quo , { i . e things as they are , ) and tho safest course is to predict no considerable change ; but they who expect nothing out of the way are sometimes disappointed . ' It then proceeds to express a very innocent sort of astonishment that Irshmen should ever have
been induced to enter a workhouse , or a pp l y for public relief . Ten years ago a man would have been laughed at who would have predicted such an occurrence . But , ' facts are , however , sometimes more paradoxical than opinions ; and we now find ourselves in tbe full tide of the most considerable facts with which history acquaints us . We may , then , venture to ask a question , which would have sounded ridiculous ten years ago . How far will Ireland leave Ireland and England follow after her V
We think it must be admitted that this is a very important question . Again , ' Are there really no bounds to this emigration ; or even a probability of its being confined to its present amount ? ' Why , less than four years ago , the columns of the Times were daily filled with invit a ti o n s to the peo p le to emigrate . It was then the great and onl y panacea for o u r social evils . As lately as August 1848 the language diurnally put forth by the Times , Chronicle , and Herald was something in tbe following strain : — ' Go away , dear , good ' natured , useless labourers , encounter climates you are not inured to , change all your
accustomed habits , conquer the wilderness and the forest , drain the marsh , and subdue unpopulated wastes to the use of man , which , though thousands of you may die in the work , and we , the capitalists , may , by and bye , come and take possession of the countries ye have prepared for human residenceswhat does it matter ? You were born to labour , and we to enjoy . It is the will of Providence that there should be rich and poor , and though we may enjoy the good things of this life , you know the everlasting good things of the life to come are promised to you in reward for your toil and sufferings here . '
These literary Frankensteins laboured long and sedulousl y to call into existence this m onster emigration , and now they stand ag hast at their own offspring . It hai scarcel y , ' proceeds the Times , ' entered into the heads of economists that they would ever have to deal with a deficiency of labour . The inexhaustible Irish supply has kept down the price of English labour ,
whether in the field , the railway , the factory , the army , or the navy ; whether at the sickle , the spade , the hod , or the desk . We believe that for fifty years at least , labour , taking its quality into account , has been cheaper in this countay than in any part of Europe , and that this cheapness of labour has contributed vastl y to the improvement and power of the country , to the success of all mercantile pur-
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suits , and to the enjoyment of those who have money to spend . _ This same cheapness has placed tho labouring classes most effectually under the hand of money and the heel of power . ( Hear , hear . ) But will not there he a change and a beg inning of changes when our great reservoirs of human labour beg in t o fall short ? Will it not be a day of change when instead of two men being after one master two masters will bo after one man ? Perhaps it will be thought that thc condition of the labourer will be so much bettered that there will be no English emigration ; of that wo are not sure . What keeps the Eng lish
labourer at homo is profound ignorance ( hear , hear ) , his want of versatilit y , aud his habits of dependence ? But these peculiarities will be much nffected by any social changes that shall make the labourer more actuall y indedendent than he now is ; aud we can conceive a great demand for labour , skilled or uns killed , increasing emi gration instead of repressing it . Such changes will givo the labourer the means , the combination , the selfmanagement , and perhaps also , iu the increasing quarrels between master and servant , the provocation necessary for trying a new country . '
TI ell , a mighty change is indeed in progress when the 'leading journal of Europe' can thus philos o p hize upon the future destiny of labour . we never have been and arc uot advocates for forced emigration . Our axiom is 'England for the English ; ' and we have always contended that it is in the power of the working classes to make this island the abode of hap ° piness and peace . That it is Otherwise , is to bo ascribed , as the Times trul y says , to their profound i gnorance , ' which h a s placed them and keeps them most effectuall y und e r th e hand of capital and the heel of power . ' Tho
fate of Ireland should be a warning to the people and government of England . That the tide of emi gration from that ruined land will still flow on , is , we think , unquestionable . The ties of kindred , which are much atronger than those of country > however they may bo rudel y severed for a time , have an overpowering tendency to reunite . There is , therefore , a prospect that the field of British industry w-ill be—to a great extentrelieved in future from that unnatural competition with Irish labour , which has worked so injuriousl y in almost every department of trade and manufactures . In the mean time
it is consoling to find that the Associative principle , in its many p hases , is making rap id progress . The amalgamation of isolated bodies of men into large confederations , is a precursor to that more extended and perfect organisation which we advocate . It is not onl y as an efficient conservator of the rights of industry , that a national union of labour is desirable . That * profound i gnorance ' which the Times charges against us , would sur e l y disappear when labour had at its command the power and advantage of associative arrangements .
Education , which now to so many thousands is perfectl y unattainable , and to a few doled out so grudgingl y in an imperfect diluted form , in our ( improperly named ) National Schools , would receive from a thorough organisation of labour , that attention its importance entitles it to , and ' profound ignorance ' would no longer present itself as an argument , and justification for political debasement . The same facilities which would thus
exist for nationalising education for the masses , independent of political or sectarian subserviency , would also ofier themselves for amalgamating in one extensive national institution , our thousand sick , burial , and superannuation clubs , and of retaining and applying for the uses and purposes of labour , the millions which are now so senselessl y handed over to the capitalists , to be used by them to forge the chains and gyves for our own and childrens ' thraldom .
The pecuniary resources of the working classes are prodigious , and it is their ' profound ignorance' alone that prevents them making a wiser application of them . ' Surplus labour , ' the favourite bugbear of the Political Economists , would be found to exist no where but in their sophistical writings , and that machinery which is now so much and so justl y dreaded as the antagonist and destroyer of industry , would be hailed as its best friend
and servant . But the great value of an industrial combination would be found in the absolute control it would give over the value of wages . It would not be then , as now a system of individual bargain making , in which the labourer is almost invariabl y at the mercy of the master , but we apprehend what should be considered a fair day ' s wage in any trade would be a question to be discussed and arbitrated on by those interested , upon something like equal terms .
The Times in the extraordinary article we have quoted , seems to see the inevitable approach of some such state of things , and sees at once the consequences which would follow . If all depended on what is called the market of labour , as soon as the population had fallen to a certain level , labour would command such a price as would overpower all inducements to emigrate . Hut besides the market of labour ( here are some things not quite so self-adjusting , though quite as important , to the interests of labour . The institutions of the country are adapted to the actual condition of the labourer , to the rate of his wages , the actual sphere of his expectation , the actual calibre of his intelligence , to his actual education , sympathies , and manners . But these institutions , the work of ages , are not easily adjusted to a rapid change .
Should the labourers of this country find that they were masters , and that the rate of wages depended no longer on the market table , and should the same discovery be made even quicker in our manufacturing towns , who does not see that a new element would be introduced not only in our industrial , but also in . our political calculations . The Parliamentary Judicial and the Ecclesiastical systems of the country might feel the unwonted presence" of rude and newly conscious energies below the present smooth surface of things . * * « it This Is the time to consider these questions , for if the working population of these islands is to acquire greater actual power , it is high time they should be prepared , and the house put in order for so great and perilous a change .
We think these passages are deserving the most thoughtful consideration . We have always considered that a national union of labour could give to labour that control over wages which it is now entirely deprived of . That the position and value of the labourer in the social scheme would be then at once enhanced and acknowled ged , as a consequence , the institutions of the country would be no longer adap ted to hi s condition , feelings or tastes , and would require , and speedily obtain , a total revision a nd read justment . But we think that these desirable changes will never take place until the labourer has a control or influence over the
market of labour , and this can be onl y obtained through a national organisation . Wo gratefully acknowledge the recei pt b y the Defence Committee this week of several handsome contribution to the Fund ; amongst which may be mentioned £ 21 from T . S . Duncombe , Esq . ; £ 15 from the Newspaper Compositors , £ 10 from the Coopers of Bristol , & c , and a multitude of smaller amounts and promises , which we have not at present an
opportunity of more than alluding to . It has been asked why the amount subscribed is not published week by week in the report . A little reflection will , we think , lead our friends to see the extreme injudiciousness of such a course before the trial . It would expose at once to the prosecutor the strength or weakness of our position , in either case most undesirable ; but we assure all our friends that immediatel y after the trial a full detailed balance sheet will be issued and forwarded to the
subenbers , We beg to call the particular attention of our members to the handsome contribution of our valued President , proving , in the most unmistakeable manner , the sincerity and genuineness of that gentleman ' s sympathies with the working men's interests , and how e a rnestl y ho desires to assist them iu their efforts to improve their condition . The work-
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nig men of Great Britain have few such true friends as Thomas Slingsci- Dumcombe . William PuiiL , Secretary , 259 , Tottenham-court-road .
The Truck System. A Delegate Meeting Of ...
THE TRUCK SYSTEM . A Delegate Meeting of Operatives of all tndes , convunod hy public advertisement , for the purpose o lormim ; an Universal Anti-Truck Society , took place on 1 uwday , tho Sth inst ., at Defbv , at a room in iron-gate , at which there were present the following deletes : —Mr . Thomas Mulauaphy and Mr . Geoi-Ko ^ endM , of Sutton-m-Ashflcld ; Mr . Joseph Linny . o Lihton , delegated fr om the whole South Stnliordsnirc Anti-Truck Association- Mr .
T ) iom . 'iS winters , of 250 , Tottenham-court-road , London , from the United Trades Association ; Mr ! llonry Parker , of 50 , Burton-road , Derby •/ Mr * . Samuel BhiCkwell , of Buhvell , near Nottingham ' , delegated from the United Glove Association of the three counties ; Mr . Thomas Greaves , of Great Holme-street , Leicester ; Mr . John Faithful , of ( leaner , Derbyshire ; Mr . James Bullivant and Mr . William Mason , of Derby , Framework Knitters ; JXr John Skovington , of Derbv , mechanic ; and several others .
On the motion of Mv . Linsev , seconded by Mv . Parker , Mr . Jeremiah Briggs , solicitor , of Derby , was unanimously called to tho chair . The business was opened by the Chairman- in explanation of his views of an " Universal Anti-Trunk Law , —" That the entire amount of all wages , the earnings of labour , shall be actually and positive paid in the current coin of the realm , without any deduction or stoppage of any kind whatever . " The Chairman urged the necessity of now forming a strong society for tho security of the wages of working men ; letters received from several
members of Parliament were then read , as also numerous letters from individuals suifering from Truck ; after the necessary business was proceeded with , several of the delegates present expressed their opinions and views . Mr . Kendall spoke to the existence of a great number of independent frames in his locality , and he would gladly support the Society if it went for the " poundage" principle , and that a man shall have what he earned—that when work grows short truck is put more upon them , that all their localities are in union , and that they employ a truck committee , yet still the evil is not put an end to .
Mr . Linxev , from Staffordshire , in a very feeling speech explained the position of the Truck System in his locality , the sufferings of tbe miners , how their society had expended hundreds in fin di n t h e Truc k m a sters , tho petitions they had presented , the kindness they had received from Sir George Grey and Lord llatherton , that an inspector was now making a report for government , and that a commissioner was expected down to inquire into the evil effects arising from the system of tampering with men ' s wages . He urged the adoption of this society , and advised all men to join it , and to draw to one focus all the sufferings that the Truck System engendered , and that he was there to vender every assistance to the cause that he could , that he never met with a b etter p r i nci p le of Anti-Truck , nor one more likely to succeed , if the rate-payers would but do their
duty in conjunction with the working men , in resisting stoppages from wages . Mr . Winters explained that he came down from London instructed by the Committee of the Trades Association to lend his utmost exertions in bettering the condition of the working-men for the security of their wages . It would do good to abolish the frightful system of stopping frame rents and charges from the working-man ' s wages . Hg detailed the demoralizing effects of the system . It was our duty to look to all mankind . The "Wire Drawers ' Masters once attempted tho same system of trying to charge a rent tor their blocks , but it was resisted , and on inquiry , those masters found it would be detrimental to trade ; he urged upon all classes to co-operate throughout the kingdom , to abolish every stoppage from wages , no matter from whatever source it came .
Mr . Samuel Blackwell explained that he was there to do all the good he could to abolish the system of stopping frame rent and charges from the wages of workmen j that , i n b is o p inion , it was t h e sole cause of a man not progressing . It was the duty . of every working man to merge his little differences in this one good cause , that every man's actual earnings should bo paid without any stoppage . He believed every working-man ready to make even personal sacrifices to remedy the grievance . It only wanted the opinion of the workingmen to be fairly and candidly explained . He urged co-operation ; and if obstacles were thrown in the way by the masters , for the present society fairly to meet them and discuss the question , as he truly believed more profit would accrue to tho manufacturer by abolishing the frame rent system than keening it on .
Mr . Wm . Mason , of Derby , for many years acquainted with the system , believed it was more injurious in other places than in the town of Derby , The stoppage was an evil , it was getting worse and worse every year , it extended itself , and there were large houses in the county that had established t h e sy stem to o p erate so fri g htfully , that he knew men were now having stoppages for half a dozen frames when work was only given for o »&; that the basest of impositions were daily practised upon defenceless workmen , and that no progress could be made by any man under it ; nothing short of entirely abolishing it , could free the workman from the trammels of having all his labour taken from him to pay the employer for the use of his machinery . Mr . Faithful , from Heanor , could speak positively to the stoppage of frame rent and charges from the wages being the sole evil of the workingman ; no power on earth but the entire abolition
of the frame rent system can better the workingman ; every christian must help to relievo him from the thraldom he is now suffering under . Why not every employer simply pay him for his labour , without mixing up such employment with the mas * ter ' s property ? Mr . Greaves , of Leicester , came , at the request of several bands , to say that 6 , 000 were now out of work there ; that a short time back the factory system was established , so as to take the frame rent and charges from the wages ; but that instead t h ereo f , Id . in Is . was deducted ; now , however , such was the continued avarice of the masters , they not only now took tho 4 d „ but they also put on Is , 2 d . for frame rent and charges ; and to prevent a man getting more than a few shillings , they will not let him go to work until Thursday , shutting up the factory for half the week that they might not earn too much . The pauperism was dreadful and the : misery awful—all arising for want of the universal Anti-Truck law—midlemen
were now paying rent on their own frames to get work for them . After a long and animated discussion of the evil of any kind of stoppages , it was resolved , that a Society be formed , to be called the " Universal Anti-Truck Society , " and that a Committee be formed for drawing up a code of Laws and regulations for conducting such Society ; the Committee was then formed of the delegateslpresent , with power to add to their number .
Strike Among Thb Colliers Or Nobth-Statf...
Strike Among thb Colliers or Nobth-Statfordshibk . —There has been a turn out of the men employed in the coal pits of Earl Granville , to the number of 200 . The coal and iron trades have been seriously depressed for some time past , and a reduction of wages has been in consequence expected . Mr . Lancaster , the agent to the noble earl , proposed , it is said , to reduce the wages about sixpence per man per day , and to introduce some fresh regulations in the colliery , which the miners considered to be oppressive , hence the present contest . Tivo pits only have stopped work at present , but it is feared that the
strike will become general , as the other masters of this district are supposed to be meditating a similar course . Tbe potters , who are very busy , look with some anxiety on the aspect of affairs , as their interests are bound up in the speedy settlement of the contest . They are large coal consumers , and if the supply of this necessary article is stopped , their ovens cannot be kept at work , an d the w h ole manufacture is interfered with . No acts of violence have been committed , but the miners are parading the adjacent pottery towns , an d vent their indignation in no measured terms . A detachment of light dragoons entered Hanloy and Sheitoh on Saturday evening .
EsFRAKcnisEMENi ot Dr . Penkinston , —Some of Dr . Pennington ' s friends having ascertained that he was still legally a slave in his native land , and that the operation of the iniquitous Fugi t i ve Slave law rendered his return perilous , set on foot a subscr i ption , and a negotiation with his legal owners —the legal owners of a Doctor of Divinity !—for his manumission , which have happily proved successful . The document rendering him a free man was presented to him at a soiree in Danse , Berwicks h ire , he
and on a subsequent evening took a farewell of his Scottish friends at a soiree in Edinburgh . The Fatal Accident . —The adjourned inquest for the purpose of investigating the circumstances connected with the deaths of Margaret Meridith , Aim Davics , Lhz a beth Sk yrm and Sarah Skyrm , who were killed on the evening of Monday week by a loaded truck running into the procession as it was Rd ° Fnfhor nin 7 on itB w * yto the residence of JlwlS T \ t ' F V ° n cluded with the jury ' s S T ° „ ^ slaughter against David Hughes and warrant " ^ committed on tne coroner ' s
A veky v a luable gold mine , writei our Malta corespondent , on the 2 nd inst ., has , according tonews ] u » t received at this island , been discovered at a point equi-distant , or nearly bo , between Tunis and Algiers . The French and the Bey of Tunis equally claim it , and some very sh a r p letters on the subject have passed . Unless matters can be adjusted , a serious disturbance way probably result .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 12, 1851, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_12071851/page/5/
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