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tJKEAT AND IMPORTANT BEWBBMg 1 * 0 / j ^ CLASSES . ] THE UNITED PATRIOTS' NATIONAL ^ BENEFIT SOCIETY , AND j BRITISH EMPIRE FREEHOLD LAND ANP , BUILDING SOCIETY . ] Cmtedinacfioa . EnroUed and Empowered by Act of Par " j amenttoextenQOTertiieTjijitedKiDgdonJ . ] AGQTXS JEftCIBED TO IOTH MCAMTIES l \{ jpjj , pABTg 0 J QSSiT BBlTAW . Eankeri . —The Commercial Bank of London ( branch ) 6 , Henrietta Street , Coven t Garden . Society ' s Office . —So . 13 , Tottenham tourt , Aew Road , St . Pancras , London . D ± sv £ L "WiujAJi Ron * , rounder , Msager , and Secretary . —Ms . Johh Surra , Tre asurer . Soosn ' 6 Meetisg HonsK .- « Larnb and Flag , ' R / Se Street . New Street , Covent Garden—Meetings every esday ] erening at Eight o ' clock . * BENEJ ? n : S ASSURED DT THIS SOCIBir . BttlfaiiteWBgfteftto-flfflfteBoiEltein -to 6 m > DiT . \ ltfLDiv . 2 nd . Div . Srd . Dir . **• " £ £ 9 . d . £ . a . d . £ « . d . £ s . d . ** . J- . o 9 0 ,.,, 0 7 0 „ 0 7 0 uSidniBBiiafWttt . -. ., « 18 o .... 015 o .... on « ;;; \ J 0 , ' ; :. 6 0 0 .. 210 0 , Beath of Member SO 0 0 .... 16 0 0 .... 1- « g „ „ ^ 3 0 0 _ ^_ , Death of Member ' s 'Wife or Nominee 10 0 0 .... 8 O « - " „ 0 £ 5 toio 0 0 £ 5 tol 0 0 0 .. 5 0 0 1 XossbyRre , .. .. From £ 5 to 20 0 0 £ 5 to 20 0 •«»» ¦ * 0 * 0 4 e .... 0 4 O Superannuation . perWeek , » , ^ 0 6 u .- ¦ ForHedHune . « if ^ doff and Oxp l , an BenefiU , & C ., £ eeandread the rule .. Ss
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EMICJKAXIOIV . THE BEITISH EMPIEE PERSLfANENT EMIGRATION AND COLONISATION SOCIETY . To secure to each Member a Farm of not less than Twenty-Five Acres of Land in America , by small "Weekly or Monthly Contributions . Lokdox Office : —13 , Tottinbam-cour , New-road , St Pancras . —D . W . Hum , Secretary . OBJECTS . . YALUE OF SHARES Toparchasealargetractoflandinilhe Western States Each Share to be of the ultimate value Of Twenty-Five Of America , upon which tolocate Members , gmng twenty- pounds . ^ raised by Monthly or Weekly Subscriptions , five acres to each share subscribed for . as follows *—JW 5 rtBS £ 53 i * stss ss ja ^ -j-j-. ' j . - * « y Kr 3 a ^ ters-rtaa-iwaF ^ sSF *^* ^ ! » jeir collective and sepamte rights and immunities Money , Produce , or Labour . To purchase in large quantities , for the common benefit , Prospectuses , Rules , Forms of Application for bbares , 'd " necessary live and dead stock , and other requisites , and every other information , maybeb-dat the Office as jpnlring each Member on location with the quantity re- above . All applications by letter , addressed to the Secre' pired at cost price . tary , must be prepaid , and enclose ft postage Stamp for ' To establish a depot , from which to provide each fairaly reply . By enclosing twelve postage Stamps a copy Of the -jrith the required quantity of wholesome food , until their Rules will be forwarded , post free . Forms of Entrance by « wn land produced sufficient for their support . enclosing three postage stamps . Agents reqair parts of Great Britain .
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D * SE TO THREE FOTJXDS PER WEEK "WITH CERTAINTY REALISED . MR . ALLEN WOOD , who for Twenty , three Years superintended an establishment employing upward * of 200 persons of boh sexe * in var * « us branches , will forward , by return of post , Six valuable methods of earninc , by ordinary industry , one to three pounds per week , without the outlay of a sovereign or a [ billing risk . Address , Mr . A . WooP . ICO , High-street , Rochester , enclosing a directed envelope , and thirteen postage-stamps . Up to this day . Sept 4 th , near One Hundred Testinonials have been received , all expressing great satisaction . This week three new methods , making nine . Intending emigrants to Australia and America should not be without & em .
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Just Published , THE PROSPECTUS OF THE CENTRAL GO-OPERATIVE AGENCY . —Containing the necessary means for obtaining further Information . Hay tie hail at the following places : —The Central Office , 76 , Charlotte street , Fitzroy-square ; the Marylebone Branch , 85 , Great Marylebone-street , Portland-place ; the Manchester Branch . 13 , Swan-street , Manchester ; the Publiftiing Office of the Society for Promoting Working Men ' s ASEBriations , 183 , Fleet-street . Gkatis—if by personal application ; if by letter , one postage stamp .
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DE . CUI . VER'WEI . I . , ON THE PLEASURES OF HEALTH . A series of popular works , Is ., each , by post ls . Gd . each . EXJOYMEST OP LIFE . 'Health , recreation , and rational use of time . ' Contests . —Early rising ; Spring and Summer mornings , Excursions aliout the 1-nrirons of London—the Parks , lanes , Hills , Forests , Fields , High-roads , and other pleasant places , Country Trips and lUmbles ; the Sea ; lAston at Sight } Evenings atHome ; Miuic ; the Drama ; on Eating , Drinking , Sleeping , Bathing , Air , Rest , Ease , Occupation , 4 c .
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PUBLISHED LAST WEDNESDAY !! A Cheap Organ , by which now the isolated bodies of working men can communicate with each other every week throughout the kingdom , \[ OTES TO THE PEOPLE ,
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TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OP THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . FELLOW S H AEEHOLDERS , — Upon the investigation which took place yesterday before the Master of the Court of Chancery into the merits of the several candidates for the ofiice of Official Manage of the Winding-up of our unfortunate Company , it was b mere chance , and at the last moment , discovered tliat ' i far the greater part of the supposed signatures of share holders to the proposal of Mr . Ainger ( the nominee of ou Directors , aud the party put forward by Mr . Roberts ' were not the genuine signatures of t ! ie persons thej -e ) presented . ' Page alter page of the document , bound up in the form of a book , were written apparently in the same handwriting and at the same time , ' and the Master very properly adjourned the inquiry until the 23 rd instant , to enable Mr . Roberts , and those who nominated Mr , Ainger , to explain * this grave and most suspicious matter . "
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THOMAS C 0 0 P E E , Author of ' The Purgatory of Seicides , ' & c , ' Deliveks Orations os the Following Subjects ;—The Genias of Shahspeare , as Displayed in his Hamlet ; ' with Readings an-1 Recitations from the Play the Music of Ophelia ' s Songs , & c . The Life and Genius of Milton ; with l . ' ecita'ions from ' l ' aradisc Lost' ifcc The Life and Genius of Burns ; with the Music of so ' me of his Soiigp , Recitations of ' Tam O ' Siianter , ' & c . The Lite aud Geuius of Byron ; with Readings and Recitations from his Works . The life and genius of Shelley , with Readings and Recitations from his works . Civilisation : What it was in ihe Past—what it effects for Man in the present and the universal Human Happiness it must produce in the Future . The English Commonwealth : Founders of the Struggle-Coke , Selden , EUiot , Pym , Ilainpden , & c — Despotism of the King , and Tyranny of Laud—Civil War—Death of Hampden—Battle of Nasebv—Imprisonment , Trial , and Execution of Charles 1 st The English Commonwealth : Government by Parliament and Council
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] j ] ] Genius of HandeL The Ur and q ^^ , o { Hayden . vtotart aud Beethoven . With numerous Serial xHgcouraes : such as Four on Astronomy ; Tenon » History of Greece ; Sixteen on Roman History ; >> elve on British History ; Six on Papal History ; Four o ^ the German People ; Four on the Slavonic People , 4 o « & c ,, & c .
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THE CRYSTAL PALACE . The following Engravings of this nnriyalled edifice , are now ready , and may be had at this Office : — ,. , I—View of the Exterior of the Building ; a magnificent print—two feet long—exquisitely ' engraved ; from a drawing furnished by Messrs . ' Fox and Henderson ; and consequently correct in every respect . Pbicb only Sixpence . H . —Proofs of the Same Print , printed on thick Imperial Drawing Paper . Price One Shilling . III . —The . Same Print , Superbly Coloured ; on extra . Drawing Paper , and finished in the most exquisite style . Prick Two Shillings and Sixpence . IV . —View Of the Interior , as it appeared on one of the most crowded days ; a magnificent Print , twenty-eight inches long , taken from the centre of the Building , showing the entire length , and containing several hundred figures . Pbicb Sixpence . V—The Same Print , on Super Drawing Paper , coloured in the richest style , forming an exact representation of the Building . Price only One SniMiNO . . The usual allowance to the Trade and Dealers . Office , 16 , Great . Windmill Street , Haymarket .
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Just Published , IN NOS . AT ONE _ J » ENNY EACH , THE EMIGRANT'S GUioTfo THE GOLDEN LAND . CALIFORNIA , U ITS PAST HISTORY ; ITS PRESENT POSITION ; ITS FOTURE PROSPECTS : WITH A MINUTE AND AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE GOLD REGION , . AND THE SUBSEQUENT IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS . In the course of the work will bc given PLAIN DIRECTIONS TO EMIGRANTS TO CALIFORNIA , OR THE UNITED STATES , . . OH tO CANADA ; AUSTRALIA ; NEW ZEALAND , OS AN ? OTHEtt BRITISH SETTLEMENT . SHEWING THEM WHEN TO GO . WHERE TO GO , HOW TO GO
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Iii Nos . at One Penny each , splendidly Illustrated , A HISTORY OF THE DIFFERENT EXPEDITIONS ENGAGED IN THE SEARCH FOR SIR J . FRANEIN CONTAINING ALL THE RECENT VOYAGES TO THE POLAR REGIONS Including in particular the Expedition sent out under the command OP SIB JAMES BOSS TO DAVIS' STBAITS AS 1 > Of Commander Moore and Captain Keliott , to Behring ' s Straits . With an authentic copy of the dispatches received from SIR GEORGE SIMPSON , OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPM With other important and highly interesting information relative to the Expedition under SIR JOHN FRANKLIN . Compiled from various Official Documents , and Private Communications , By the Late ROBERT IIUISII , Esq .
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Now Publishing in Nos . of One Penny each . By the Authoress of' The Gipset Glut . ' Each Vessy Nombeb of this Novel will contain Sixteen Pages of solid print . THE TRIALS OF LOVE ; OB , "WOMAN'S REWARD : nr' ' Mrs . Hi ' M . LOWNDES , ( Late HANNAH MARIA JONES , ) Authoress of 'Emily Moreland , '' Kosaline Woodbridffe , ' ' Gipsey Mother , ' Scottish Chieftains , '' Forged Note , ' ' Wedding lting , ' ' Strangers of the Glen ,, ' Victim of Fashion , '' Child of Mystery , ' etc . OPINIOKS OH THIS WOBE . 'After a long silence we again welcome—most heartily welcome—this delightful Authoress , who comes before us with one of those heart-stirring , soul-exciting Tales , that none but' herself can produce . When we sa ^ that the Trials of Love equals anything that this fascinating miter hiis yet produced , we are uttering the highest praise that can l . e given . '
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fivlW 1 TUJJ «* o *" l In Weeklv Numbers , Price Only OnkPbwi Each , 1 j ii „„ thlvP « ta , Price Fodmbicb Each , . rHRAP VALUABhE 1 nd POIJULAB STANDARD iiuaaa , *» --- 6 VINGS
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THE CHEAPEST AND BEST WEEKLY PERIODICAL EVER PUBLISHED . price One Penny . '" , '"¦' THE LONDON JOURNAL , a Weekly Ep itome of Instruction and Amusement , has now obtained the largest circulation of any periodical in the world , its sale being upwards of 170 , 001 ) of each edition—a sufficient guarantee for the merit of the publi-One ' ofthe leading features now distinguishing the'Loxdon Journal is an entirely new romance , replete , with interest and pathos , entitled ' Amy Lawrence , the Freemason ' s daughter ;' a tale which should behead by every lover of the pure and beautiful in domestic life . The narrative is richly iUuJtvated ^ by Engravings in' thfe' style o { excellence for which the ^ L ^ S DOH Journal has ever been distinguished .. ..... .. also series of
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tfATIOXAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . ; Office , 14 , Southamptari-street , rand . '' THE EXECUTIVE ; COMMITTEE JL hereby announce fhe ' followlng meetings : — On Sunday evening next , the late Crown and Anchor locality will meet at the White Horse , Hare-street , Bethnalgreen , and a lecture will bo delivered by Mr . W . Davis . Subject : 'France and Democracy . ' Discussion invited . On Sunday Avening , at the Literary and Scientific Institution , John-street , Mr . Jlenvy Knight will lecture . Subject : * Woman , —Is her mission understood by man . ' On the same evening , at the Literary and Scientific Institution , Leicester-place , St . Peter ' s ^ terrace , ' Hattongarden , a lecture will be delivered . On the same evening , at the Ship , High-street ,-Great Garden-street , Whitccliapel , a discussion will take place . On the same evening at 21 , Vine-street , Hatton-garden . a lecture will'be delivered .
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SOLE LESSEE , HE . C . J . JAMES . QU E EN'S THE A T R E . Fourth week of tha Kaffir War ! Unprecedented success having attended ., the revival of Susan Mopley , with all its original effects ,, including the celebrated scene of Waterloo Bridge by Moonlight ! it will be played on Tuesday , Thursday , and Saturday , during the present week . The Historical Drama of "the Bed Mantle oa Monday , Wednesday , and Friday . On Monday , and during the . weak , The Kaffir War . * characters by Messrs . . E . Green , H . Chester , Burford , Rundall , Burroughs , Philips , and Dean ; Miss M . Huddart , Miss Rivers , Miss Warde , and Miss C . Gibson . After which'the ' Farce of J beg you iBQuldn't iftnJion it . To conclude with , ou Monday , Wednesday , and Friday , the Red Mantle . Col . Blood , Mr . E . Green ; Margaret , Mrs . J . Parry . On . Tuesday , Thursday , and Saturday , Susan Bbpley ; George Remordcn , Mr , E . Green ; Mabel , " Mrs . J . Parry j Susaii Hopley , Miss Rogers . '
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NOTICE ! TO HEADERS , SUBSCRIBERS , AND FRIENDS . We have lately issued a circular to all our agents , intimating that , on and after Saturday , the 30 th inst ., the publishing arrangements of tho' Star' would be placed on the same footing as those of all other metropolitan weekly journals . From that date no papers would be supplied except for cash . In carrying out this arrangement , ^ is quite possible that some of our readers may be disappointed in receiving their papers ' for the
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Thomas Cooper ' s Lecturing Tour . —Communications intended to reach Mr . C . next Monday , Tuesday , or Wed-. ncsday , should be addressed— 'Care of Mr . Councillor Ironside , Sheffield ; ' next Thursday , Friday , and Saturday , — 'Care ofMV . E . Forster , Esq : ; Kawden , near Leeds j' Sunday or Monday ( the 21 st or 22 nd inst ., )—''Care of Mr . C . barker .. . Co-operative Society ,- Halifax : ' Tuesday or Wednesday Che i' 3 rd . or 2 lth , )— ' Care of Mr . Thomas La ' zenbr , Kbrtbcate , iv ' aktfiold . '
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GOVERNMENT-PRESENT AND FUTURE . While the Absolutist ; Go vernments on the Continent arc robbing , tho people in " nrv imimtf their lately ^ l j . ^^ 1
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ticipate in the management of public affairs , and re-establishing a more rigorous and perfect despotism toan , previousl y existed ,- the men entrusted with administrative powers and duties in this country seem determined to show us , that it ; is practical to do without any Goreroment at all .: Since the . close of the Session the members of the Cabinet have dispersed themselves in every , direction , in search of pleasure and , relaxation ; and , as yet , there is no appearance of their prolonged holiday rambles drawing to a close . The Premier
has been rambling in the Highlands , basking in the smiles of Royalty , at remote Balmoral , or enjoying himself in a free and easy way at nearer Minto ; and' though the last accounts bring him closer to the scene of his duties , we suppose that at Hickleton Hall the' occupations of . the Chancellor of the Exchequer and himself will be anything , but official or onerous . . The Secretary for Home Affairs is cruising about in a- Qoyernment steamer--of course at the public expense j for , like John Gilpin ' s ' loving wife , '—
Although on pleasure he it bent , ' He has a frugal mind . The heads of the other departments are scattered far and wide . Lord \ Palmerston alone remains at his . post ; but for all that appears before the ' public he might as well join in the holiday gambols : of his colleagues . Indeed , it would he much better for the country if he did , for there is no telling what a pretty bill of costs we may have to pay in future , through the business of the country being left to his sole and uncontrolled discretion . With special reference to his own department ,
his absence . would have been far better than his presence , at head quarters . When the . revolutionary outbreak , which all men gifted with the slightest degree of political prescience foresee at no distant date upon the Continent , does come , we shall probably find that Palmerston idle , is better than Palmerston busy . , « The noble Viscount' makes very . liberal speeches in ParliamemV His diplomacy is professedly liberal , aud his interference hi foreign affairs always ostensibly on the side of constitutional government ; but , some how , a perverse fatality at-r
tends his efforts . They invariably , turn out the very reverse of what they are meant to effect . Now Lord Palmerston is , unquestionably a clever man—• t / w clever man of the Whig Cabinet , and it does excite , some wonderment , and not a little suspicion , in the minds of those who narrowly watch his course , that his policy should so constantly tend to play into the hands of the very parties he professes to oppose . At a time when the unholy alliance of sovereigns on the continent have combined to put down
by the strong hand every relic of Constitutionalism within their dominions , and to trample even on the treaties which at the close of the Great European , War bound them to some show . of decent respect towards their , subjects —a vigilant , determined , and enlightened policy -was peculiarly demanded on tho part of this country , mixed up as it is with these treaties , and having paid so many hundred millions of sterling money to effect the settlement of affairs , ultimately agreed to at Vienna .
Lord John Russell and his colleague , hdwover , . think ! differently . As if all the world were in astateof stagnant tranquillity , they disperse in search of amusement , without leaving any check upon the Minister for "Foreign Affairs , who , they well know , will speak in their collective name without scruple or hesitation , and who may bind them to a policy which , in future , may be . both disastrous and disgraceful to this country .
One deduction , however , may be drawn from this light-hearted abandonment of their official duties by ' our rulers . The / have the highest faith in our powers of sell-government . When Lord John Russell returns therefore to Downing-street , and sets to work in the preparation of his promised New Reform Bill , wemay fairly expect that he will keep the fact of our . ability to dp . ' this , prominently before him . The people who for months can get along prosperously , and manage their own affairs quietly and efficiently without aristocratic or bureaucratic help , must not in future
be made the slaves , dupes , or tools of ' hereditary families , 'or political cliques of any kind . In answer to all pretences in favour of continuing thepoliticalpredominanceof the few , and the political exclusion of the many , we can point conclusively to this Ministerial testimony , in favour . of an unstinted participation in all the rights of citizenship , seeing- we know well how to perform its duties . Any allegation as to the want of education , inclination , or
capability to exercise the franchise with benefit to the country at large , will be a self-convicted libel on the people , to whose knowledge and ability Lord John Russell now so unreservedly cummits " the destinies of the nation . He has taught us that we can do without Downihg-street . The best use we can make of the lesson , is never to let Downing-street again stand between us and those rights we have shown the power and the inclination to use so well and so beneficially ;
It is rumoured that before the end of the year , more than one change of the Cabinet will take place . Such rumours are usual at this season—and , in most instances , are set afloat by parties whose ' wish is father to the thought . " There seems , however , some reason for believing that , in this instance , rumour will ' not prove false . It is very probable that Sir George Grey will not again encounter the labours of Home Secretary during such an arduous Parliamentary Campaign as lies before us ; while it is equally obvious that the increasing infirmities of the . Marquis of Lands-DOIVNE , and the declining health and vigour ot' others of the ' Family Party * who now monopolise the Government , will render some changes and . re-distribution of-offices ,
necessary . , On that hint the organ of tho manufacturing interest speaks . . It is determined that in the next shuffling of the . cards , some of the * honours' shall fall into the hands of Its patrons , and has commenced betimes to decry the character and , capabilities of the present occupants of office , in a manner which ' physical force Chartists' and 'Red Republicans /
its standing bugbears , will , m vain , attempt to imitate or excel . They are ' wooden worthies , ' ' mock ministers , and burlesque bureaucrats '—' mere lay figures tricked out in the Windsor uniform , and stuffed out with Whig straw . ' When the push for power comes , lumber of this kind would be only in the way . ' 'It is high time to have done with the family cliques , and therefore' continues the ' Daily News : '— ... .
To be lorded over by a particular coterie of common-place notabilities , distinguishable from the rest of their class by nothing deSneable , and successful simply because they have all intermarried , or have uncles and aunts iu common , this 15 about the most mean and barefaced usurpation we can imagine—a mere sordid cabal and money itiakin ' o conspiracy against the intellect , worth , wealth and rank of the realm . To break up this odious intensification of oligarchy , and to prevent its i-eburrence ouce . iD has been prostrated , we want electoral reform as much as for anything else .- *¦ * * « Tho ; midille classes of this country , the inventive , thoughtful , creative , highly informed , and practi cally wise men of the people , demand their share in
nih ,, r ° r - ^ - tho country thoy have coutiibu . e . 1 , more than any orthari every other class fL % ? T ' - Vesu ! er BWWi ' ofiS 3 fee . 1 be exclusion of p ebeians from power save thoso who have in some wav contrived S ' cfifeS alliance with aristocracy . Ls hateful in the eyes of the malcontent many . * ••¦ - . » * The monopoly c flf L ^! entil ? d intelligence-of . the middle hn ^\ 1 . ° " " ¦ ttt'Mne of the nomination bmoughs , or the exclusion of three millions of ratepayers from a voice in the representation . ' « t ? ° T J cat fi" 6 ^ the bag . The ropKlar larty 'in Parliament , for whom the l ^ y .-N ews' . speafe oil : tliis occasion , look to electoral reform is -a meana of breaking in upon } he anstbciatical and exclusive govern-
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ment of the country , -and- securing for the ' middle classes ' that ' predominance in the Cabinet which they * claim to ¦ possess . in th » country . It is " for . the people . to , ; say whether they think : such'a change worth struggling for . We think -it . would only : be substituting King . Stork . for / King ., Log . Miserably inefficient asthe Whigs have been j we ; do not call to mind one . member of ¦ . the . . . ' . Popu » lar Party'in Parliament who hag shown anyhi gher qualifications for ; administrative office . On the contrary , they have- been content to
be the tools and toadies of ' the honourable and ; right honourable imbecilities' whom they now depreciate and abuse ., ' . They . have ,, io defiance of principle and political consistency ,, retained them in ofiice against the assaults ofi the opposition—they have been participators in almost every weak or imischievous measure carried by the Government ; and . they have been the sole cause oFperpetuating a Government , which , by their own . confession , was incapable of discharging : its functions ; which ; not only did nothing jtself , but prevented ^ any other party from doing anything .
We therefore suspect very much that in th 6 approaching campaign the unenfranchised masses will fight for something morevaluable than electoral reform ,, merely to turn Lord SEYMOUR out , and . a 'Manchester man'in . Such share , in the Government asihe middle classes are fairly entitled to they , ought . to have ; but before both upper and middle " classes we place the People , whoselabours sustain the whole political superstructure , and whose welfare and interests ought' to be the first and paramount care of any and of every govern ? ment
. It is because we believe that no government will ever attend to their interests in this spirit until the whole of the people possess the franchise that we advocate—the People ' s Charter . The exclusion of any class from the suffrage will be followed by a corresponding monopoly , in the Government—and we are opposed to all monopolies . All classes are interested in good government , all classes ought , therefore , to possess control over it , and to participate in its production . The day has gone by for the mere exchange of middle class for aristocratic government .
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THE BLOOD RED BAIL . Any interference with railways by the Legislature or the Government has been condemned by the railway magnates , and the Free Trade journals , as subversive of all sound principle—injurious to the shareholders , and-mischievous to the public at large . We have been solemnly assured that if left to themselves ,-they would meet all'the"
requirement of the public in a far more economical and superior style , than if they were encumbered and obstructed by Governmental regulations and" interference . Iu railways , as in evey other department . of life , we have been told that the highest policy of . the government was to do nothing , and tha directors aud managers would be compelled , by a sense of self-interest , to do everything in the very best manner , for . the satisfaction of their customers .
It is true there were some palpable fallacies in this statement of the case , and that however applicable the doctrine , of laisses faire might be to private , manufacturing , and commercial concerns , it could-not apply to affairs of such magnitude as those of a trunk line , and to matters in which the whole body politic- are so directly interested , as quick , economical ,. and safe conveyance from one
part of the country to another . But the ' railway interest' is strong in Parliament , and it has carried things its own way . The Treasury Benches are powerless before the phalanx of warriors , who buckle on their armour on behalf of the right of railway directors to 'do what they like , ' not only ' with their own , ' but with , the Jives and property of the public .
- Wo see the resul t in the constant occurrence of accidents , involving a fearful destruction , of life . Train after train come into collision , with each other in broad daylight ; and the carriages and passengers are strewed in fragments along the straight and narrow . iron road , ' which leadeth to destruction . ' This . week has been peculiarly prolific in such occurrences . ¦• An excursion , train , proceeding to Oxford-, on passing the ' points ' , near the Bicester station ,. was severed in two—the engine running for some distance on one line
of rails , while the . train ran along-side oh another , until the'jerk , ' caused by their separation , overturned both . Seven were killed on the spot , ' great numbers , had . limbs fractured , and . severe - flesh wounds and contusions ; while to add to the horrors of the scene , the overturned carriages , under which the dead , the dying , and the wounded , lay heaped together pell mell , had to be sawn asunder before the wretched victims could be extricated from their fearful position . On the Great Northern ono excursion train runs into
another-iu daylight . —doubling up carriages as if they were ab much , "paste board , and . covering the line with the wrecks of carriagesand bruised and bleeding passengers ; and , shortly afterwards , the passenger train from Derby to Nottingham , on tho Midland Line dashes into a luggage train on the same lino , in front of it , at a fearful speed , crushing tho poor stoker ' s body between the engine
and the break , so as to completely flatten it . Of course the passengers were ' much bruised and shaken , ' and . the engine and tender smashed to pieces . In all these cases we have ' inquiries , ' and the ' company's officers' duly attend , and ' show the greatest anxiety to afford every ¦ information in their power , ' but this is a mockery . ' It is shutting the stable door after the steed is stolen . We do not
want to know what caused these accidents , but a complete and efficient code of railway regulations by ' which they shall be prevented . And prevented they ' can be . Constructed as railways are , there is scarcely a single contingency that can happen upon them which may " not be foreseen and provided for or guarded against . Every thing connected with them is under the control of the active managers to a far greater extent than by any other mode of locomotion . If , therefore , careless * ness or selfishness lead to the loss of life audi
limb , the guilt- ^ for no less—is directly traceable to tho directors , under whose superintendence these slaughters , wounds , and bruises are inflicted . " They have . shown , by the abuse of the immense and practically uncontrolled powers confided , to them , that they are unfit to exercise them , and it is high time that the ^ Leg islature and the Government , as the guardians of the public intore ' st / should interpose to prevent any further wholesale
slaughters of this descri ption . Such interference will , no doubt , ' be very bad political economy , hilt it will . be appreciated with thankfulness by hundreds of families , to ' whom it will preserve , their sole support and mainstay We reall y cannot afford to let ' the country thus drift along to please the ' whims of a sot of pedantic and heartless crotchet" mongers , or to put money in the pockets of greedy shareholders and directors . '' ¦ ' " '"' ¦
Liberation Of Kossuth. This . Illustriou...
LIBERATION OF KOSSUTH . This . illustrious , patriot- may be expected daily in this country . It has been announced that lie" was to leave the Asiatic prison , in which ho has been so long ¦ confined , on the 1 st inst ., accompanied by .. a number of his fellow captives and ; their families . They were to leave" Jeuraeth in a Turkish steamed on the 2 nd , under a strong escort to protect them from the Russian and Austrian troops , and emissaries who have been sent out in the hope of either capturing , or assassinating Kossuth . The steamer was . to proceed to the Darda- nejles , from whence the American frigate , the Mississippi , sent : ; by ' . tHe . Government of the United Stater W . as to convoy , thero ^ to this
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 13, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_13091851/page/4/
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