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    • DEAUTIFUL HAIR, WHISKERS,
    • ikujaiasaaai io The Xew Propeiiti Tax Act.—This act, which PPPIVO.I :l.n i> I . ._ ,. m ¦ ... - 1 *
    • Just Published , IN NOS. AT ONE PENNY EACH,
    • Skrious Failure.—A serious failure in the cot-
    • NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION .
    • STERIOR OF THE CRYSTAL PMAGE
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    • THE EOEflEEH STAR SATCJUBAV, JUNE 14, IS51
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      Deautiful Hair, Whiskers,

      DEAUTIFUL HAIR , WHISKERS ,

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      HEALTH WHERE 'TIS SOUGHT ! HOLLO WAY'S PILLS . Care of a Disordered liver and Stomach , when in a most hopeless state . Extract of a Letter from 3 Ir . Matthen- J / arrey , of Chapel Hall , Airdrie , Scotland , dated the lath of January , 3 !> 58 . Sia , —Your valuable pills have been the means , with God ' s blessing , of restoring me to a state of perfect health , and at a time when I thought I was on the brink of the grave . 1 had consulted several eminent doctors , who , after doing what they could for me , staled that they considered my case as hopeless . I ought to say that lhad been suffering from a liver and stomach complaint of long standing , which during the last two years got so much worse , that everyone considered my condition as hopeless . I , as a . last lesource , got a box of your pais , which toon gave relief , and by persevering iu their use for some weeks , together with rubbing night and morning your Ointment over my chest and stomach , aud rigUt side , lhave by their means alone goteoaipletely cured , and to the astonishment of myself and everybody who kaoivs me . —( Signed ! Maitbew Hiavct . —To Professor Holujwat . Cure of a Case of Weakness and Debility , of Four

      Ikujaiasaaai Io The Xew Propeiiti Tax Act.—This Act, Which Pppivo.I :L.N I&Gt; I . ._ ,. M ¦ ... - 1 *

      ikujaiasaaai io The Xew Propeiiti Tax Act . —This act , which PPPIVO . I : l . n i > I . . _ ,. m ¦ ... - 1 *

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      ....... ... „; ; QU iUe om josd ., js oniy continue for on » . froni tue stu 0 f April last . xne loraier acts were for three years each , comfnwr ^ 'T- 1 *»* Glu t ! f lhe Q ° - Tk ' iSaL ^^^ - ' in tlle PK * a « t iwpeesing te * te ^ «^ J ? i , pwaoa occu p yin g l a nd s * mmtUthwproauJS 0 Sb ? wwir ^ w Burners , on an avpsal made to them IkhVa Z ™ months of tucwpirr . tton of the year , to cLJe ^ abatement to iw made , a ! -i in case tlie uion « * W , have beea puvl , to cause ibe sum overcharged to i * returned . e lu *'

      Geasd BaSQUEi at the Massios Hoese — On Saturday , ilic- iSth instant , the Lord Mayor and the kid ? il , ; , arwa will entertain the Royal c ^ nmissioiifry . ' jo : Fon-isa Coniuiissicners , the Executive Cs « ::: a : S { ce , aud tbfir ladies , .- . t dinner at the Mansion-boas-.:, ia honour of lhe ( i- eit Bxiiibition Of ledua -. j r a : all Xali < ns .

      Just Published , In Nos. At One Penny Each,

      Just Published , IN NOS . AT ONE PENNY EACH ,

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      THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO THE GOLDEN LAND . HALIF ORNI A , \ J ITS PAST HISTORY ; ITS PRESENT POSITION ; ITS PDTOBB PROSPECTS : WITH A MINUTE ASP AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OP THE DISCOVERY OP THE GOLD REGION , AS 0 THE SUBSEQUENT IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS . Ia the course ofthe work will be given PLMN DIRECTIONS TO EKMSTS

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      In Nos . at One Penny each , splendidly Illustrated , A . HI S TORY O F THE D I FFERENT EXPEDITIONS ENGAGED LV THE SEABfil F 01 SIR J . FRANKLIN COSTAIS 1 SC AtU TBE RECEST VOYA G E S T O THE POLAB RE GIO N S Including in particular the Expedition sent out under thc command OP SIR JAMES ROSS TO DAVIS' STBAITS AND Of Commander Moore and Captain Kellott , to Behring ' s Straits .

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      Now Publishing in Nos , at One Penny each . By the Authoress of' Tbe Gipset Guli .. ' Each Pesni NminEB of this Sorel mil contain Sixteen Pages of solid print . THE TRIALS " OF LOVE OB . WOMAN'S REWARD :

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      TBEHAramcs . —The history of medicine is bv no means flattering to science . It is questionable whether more is known of diseases , their cause , and their cure , at this moment , than in the time of Galen ; it is certain that diseases are quite as numerous , and hi the aggregate as fatal . Every age has produced some new system of artificial therapeu . Hcs which , thfc next age has banished ; each has boasted hi its turn of cures , and they , in their turn , have been condemned as failures . Medkines themselves are tlie subjects unsettled , - in fact , that it has no established principles , that it is little more than conjectural ? 'At this moment , ' says Mr . Pinny , ' the opinions on the subject ol treatment arc almost as numerous as the practitioners themselves . Witness the mass of contradiction ¦ > n the treatment of even one disease , Haraely . consumption . Stroll attributes its frequency lo tbe introduction of bark . Morton cousideis bark an effectual cure . J ? eid ascribes the frequency of the disease te the use of mercury . Urillonet asserts that it is cur-

      Skrious Failure.—A Serious Failure In The Cot-

      Skrious Failure . —A serious failure in the cot-

      Wane Uas Been Announced At Hiverpooj, Su...

      wane Uas been announced at hiverpoOJ , SUppOSCU at lhe le . i 8 tto range between £ 200 000 and . £ 300 , 000 . Jhe house had io : i enjoyed excellent credit . H » most favourable accoutiissrpresent that it will pay in tall ; wmie others , estimating cotton at its present pnee , state the proiahle dividend at 15 s .

      National Charter Association .

      NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION .

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      Office , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand . THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE hereby announce the following meetings : — On Sunday next , at three o ' clock iu the afternoon , the Lambeth locality will meet at the South London Hall , and Mr . Patfms ' on , the sub-secretary , will be in attendance to enrol members . On Sunday evening next ot the Cr « wn and Anchor , Cheshire-street , Waterloo Town . On the same evening , at the Bricklayers' Arms Tonbridge-street . New-iroad , & lecture w " ul be delivered . ' On the same evening , at the Literary and Scientific Institution , Johu-street , Ms . Ernest Jones will lecture Subject : 'labour , Capital , and Wages . ' To commence at half-past seven . On the same evening at the Woodman Tavern Whitestreet , Waterloo Town ; at six o'clock the members ofthe locality will meet ; and at eight o ' clock a lecture will he delivered . The United Councils of tlifl Tower Hamlets earnestly request the attendance of all friends at three o'clock oil Sunday afternoon in the Hall , G o ld en Lane , to adopt some steps with regard to the ' monumentof Sharp and Williams . On Monday evening , the Emmett Brigade will meet at the Koek Tavern , Lisson Grove .

      Sterior Of The Crystal Pmage

      STERIOR OF THE CRYSTAL PMAGE

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      Agents and subscribers requiring Plates of the Crystal Palaco , must write to Mr . Damel Cotter , at this Office , accompanying their order with a remittance for the amount , and stating how their parcels are to be forwarded . I have many letters from agents desiring me to . supply them , and to add the amount to their " Star " account : this would cause a complication of accounts . we must avoid . The Plate , both plain and coloured , is mow ready . TV . RlDER ,

      Defaulting Agents. We Are Under The Nece...

      DEFAULTING AGENTS . We are under the necessity of stopping the papers this week from several Agents whose accounts are in avrear . We have in no case stopped au account unless where it has been long in arrear , and where numerous applications have been made for payment . Subscribers who are disappointed will there * fore know who to blame .

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      T. Bbown's List.—J. Arnott 4s Gd—Smith's...

      T . Bbown ' s List . —J . Arnott 4 s Gd—Smith ' s " lYorkmen 2 s lid—City Shoemak e rs , per Swill Gs 3 d—King , per Sharwood 3 s—Mr . Lunn , Hampslestd Gs—Mv . Wright 2 s—Old Parker 6 s KM—Friend ( name forgot ) 3 s—Welchman 6 d . Let our friends read thif and think of forty men to he fed ; lodged , and clothed for two weeks . A . W . —You must get the certificate of the marriage , and then consult a lawyer . Mr . G . Ilowi , author « f' The Four P ' s , ' is How lecturing in Yorkshire . He intends going through that county into Lancashire , and work his way into Scotland . Communications addressed George Hows , Boston , Lincolnshire , will be forwarded to him . National Land Company . —Mr . Boyle , in reply to a statement in Mr . O'Connor ' s letter last week , says he informed that gentleman it was C . Doyle , and not Mr . Clark , who sent Lloyd's Newspaveh to the Committee ; and -Mr . M'Grath says he and Mr . Dixon sold the office clock to Mr . Clark , for £ 1 12 * . fid ., and applied the money to defray the current expenses of the office .

      The Eoefleeh Star Satcjubav, June 14, Is51

      THE EOEflEEH STAR SATCJUBAV , JUNE 14 , IS 51

      The Parliamentary Break-Down. Whitsuntid...

      THE PARLIAMENTARY BREAK-DOWN . Whitsuntide holidays have come and gone . The old lumbering Parliamentary machine is again in motion , if motion that can be called which does not " move on . " The sole results of its four months' deliberation at the present moment ( with the exception of its monetary votes , ) are a small bill to prevent the sale of poisons , aud the preamble and first clause of a bill about which nobody agreesand from which no ono anticipates tho slightest advantage . In six or seven weeks more the session will close . The aimless and wearisome debates on Papal Aggression will

      vex no longer the dull ears of man with an oft-told tale . A bill will probably have become law never intended to bo put in operationthe taxes for tho year will have been voted with edifying unanimity— -and that will wind up the history of the British Parliament for 1851 . If such deplorable results wero the natural and inevitable consequences of representative institutions it would be far better that they should be abolished entirely , and a Government of some kind substituted , which had at least the power of fulfilling Governmental functions . But this utter negation of

      these functions arises not from Parliamentary institutions , but their perversion , we may say , to a large extent , their suppression . It is because tlie people are unrepresented that the Legislative machine has come to a dead lock . There is , at present , an equipoise of forces within Parliament which prevents any party from moving . The existing franchise does not possess the power of remedying this state of things . If we were to have a general election with tho present constituency , it is very questionable if the aggregate composition of

      parties would be materiall y altered . We should be placed virtually in the same standstill position with a new- Parliament that we are in the old . The Protectionists most probably would be brought more upon a level as respects numbers to the varied sections of tlie House , which , differing from each other on many points , agree on the question of Free Trade ; but with the exception- of Mr . Newdegate , and perhaps half a dozen more of like calibre , nobody either in or out of Par liament believes that would enable them to

      form a Protectionist ministry sufficiently powerful to restore tbe agricultural i uteres to its old position . The parties in Parlia meut would be too equally balanced for that and the people out of doors , whatever they may think of Cobden and Free Trade , are not likely ever to demand that the price of their loaf shall be raised from 5 d . to Od . or lOd . for the benefits of the landlords and farmers ! However it may suit Mr . G . J . Youx & and the more enthusiastic and unreflecting members of the party , to excite delusive expectations , none are more thoroughly aware of the utter hopelessness of such an event than Lord Stanley and Mr . Disraku , tho leaders

      of the party . They sedulously keep ah > o ? from Protectionist demonstrations , and when they are compelled to speak , do so in the studiously vague language of the ancient Delphic oracles . They obviousl y are determineci not to commit themselves to any specific proposition or policy . In effect thoy say to the farmers , "Shut your eyes and open your month , and see what God will send you . " On the other hand , the Free Traders and tho manufacturing interest are equally held in check , and the Ministers , weak in every respect , except thc possession of place and patronage , have shown in every action this year their utter powerlessness to perform any ofthe legitimate functions of a Government .

      We boast much of our glorious institutions , and , at a time when the natives of so many countries have found a visit to our shores , have almost exhibited a Yankee egotism in their laudation . Lord Stanley " , who always speaks well , whatever may be thought of ins actions —almost exhausted the language of eidogium aud panegyric , at Merchant Tailors' Hull , on

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      Wednesday ; and the same self-praise has been bountifully dispensed at all the banquets , soirees , conversaziones , & c , to which " distin guished foreigners'' have been invited . We have , indeed , very vigorously " blown our own trumpets ; " and our courteous , polite guests * have aided in inflaming our self-conceit to an enormous extent , by their well-bred acquiescence in what we choose to say of ourselvess ; but if , turning from post-prandial orations , we look where we ought for the practical evidence

      of the superiority ot those institutions , we find no such evidence . The Legislature , which ought to be the centre of national activity and intelligence , is as inert as an assembly of Russian boors . It does nothing but dawdle and twaddle—and that by no means coherentlyas if the brains it does possess had been stupified by over doses of beer and tobacco , If our " free institutions" were to be tried by their capability of producing a working and a practical body of Legislators , they would be found to be lamentably below of the lowest standavd that could be set up .

      There are , however , things to which the attention of the foreign visitor may be usefully , and even pleasantly directed . There is an orderly industry—a ceaseless enterprise , and an earnest pursuit of political and social information and improvement to be found pervading British society , not without interest to the student of men and manners . The stranger , however , will be puzzled how to reconcile so much activity and energy among the people with such inertness in tho Legislature which

      assumes to represent them . The solution is simple : the people are not represented . That is the solo cause of the discrepancy . In order to restore due harmony between the various powers of the State , it is requisite that the franchise should be extended beyond the narrow boundaries to which it is at present limited . The people who exhibit such admirable qualities have proved , by their conduct , the possession of all the qualities required to enable them to take an intelligent and a beneficial share in the business of the nation .

      The coteries to which it has been the object of the oligarchy to confine the exclusive possession of political power , have as signally failed in doing either . The time has come when , for their own sakes , their monopoly must be destroyed . England cannot afford , in an age of progress , to have its Legislature dozing away month after month , in the disgraceful fashion which has characterised the present Session , arid which is certain now to mark it to the end . The people and their representatives must march together —the institutions of the country must be

      adapted to its growing wants—and give free scope to its growing intelligence . It is now generally understood that tho present Ministry expect to retain possession of office until next year at ail events . The head ot the cabinet has promised a new Reform Bill , and though as has well been said , we cannot expect an eagle from a wren ' s egg , the nature of that bill will very much depend on the attitude assumed by Parliamentary Reformers during the recess . Lord John Russell is , no doubt , essentially an aristocrat , and from his peculiar idiosyncracy as well as his position

      and training , is , to a large extent , incapable of exercising that comprehensive political prescience , which is one of the highest attributes of statesmanship . He inherits principles aud traditions , and has originated nothing . The whole of his ministerial career has thus been marked by a want of self-reliance in construction , and a tendency to fall back upon external support , which is otherwise at variance with his pride of birth and overweening attachment to his class . But these very qualities , while they render him incapable of exercising that political foresight and insight

      requisite for tho construction of a great and comprehensive measure , place him at the same time greatly at the mercy and under the guidance of " a pressure from without . " It has become proverbial that the Whigs are a " squeezable " race of officials . If they had more of the powers of statesmen they would probably be more self-reliant and independent as His they are compelled to trim their sails and shape their course according to the prevailing current of popular opinion . And hence , though Lord John , if left to himself , would give us a very small bill next session , he may ,

      duly influenced from without , make as great a step in advance of the representative system of 1851 , as he did in advance of that which existed in 1831 . If Lord JOHN really be tho only possible Premier at the present juncture , let the people determine to squeeze as much as possible out of him . His antecedents are full of encouragement . A vigorous and an united movement out of doors , may- bring the Franchise question nearer to a satisfactory settlement in 1852 than many parties' now anticipate .

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      the CzAn has burst through the imbecility of the Austrian Empire and tho vacillating policy of tho Sovereign of Prussia , aad showed their true bearings . Henceforth , at least , there can be no doubt as to who are the enemies of Liberalism in the world . The three Courts of Petersburg !! , Vienna , and Berlin , arc the trinity of despotism . Modern fact as well as ancient myth has its Cerberus ; but in the olden fable , the three headed cmguarded tho gates of tho Infernal Regions , now it bars tho passage of tho people to the heaven of liberty .

      THE COMING STRUGGLE .. From amid the chaos of foreign politics something definitely heralding the future is at length shaping itself . We are emerging from the uncertainty which has so long wrapped and shrouded tho world ' s progress . Thanks to the strong will and the determined energy of NICHOLAS of Itussia , the liberals of Europe may now begin to understand their true position . Like a lightning-flash , making all apparent amid the gloom , the vivid spirit of

      There can be no doubt that Nicholas of Russia is a groat man—great in contradistinction to good . With a high intellect—with unwearied patience—with vast power—with an utter absence of the restraints which morality imposes , he ia' just the man to do great things . He sees at once the weak point of his adversary—he waits till the opportunity occurs for seizing it , aud ho allows no considerations of right , none of tho dictates of duty , to bind him in the prosecution of his plans . Be is the most cautious , wily , and determined of the enemies of liberalism . He personates at once

      the spirit and the power of despotism . He embodies the right divine of Kings , and the wrong of which the assumption ^ of divine right is tho natural parent ; and , as though it were fated , that his position should be thoroug hl y consistent with his desires , he governs a vuvtitm of semi-bar btmatis , who are fitted to be the physical instruments of an intellectually devised system of tyranny . Like a dark cloud hovering over a beautiful landscape , the mingled ignorance and tyranny of the North hangs g loomily over tho brighter prospects of the west , awd buries iu deepest gloom the sunny South .

      Yet we tire by uo means certain that thc Northern potentate , although the mont uncompromising and able opponent of political progress , is its most dangerous enemy . A thorough opponent is , sometimes , tho best friend ofthe cause he endeavours to boat down . Wo all recollect the fablo of the Sun and North Wind , who contended as to who should first deprive tho traveller of his cloak . The wind , tbe blustering foe , roared aiid threatened , and whirled around the traveller , but it only made him hug his cloak more closely ; but tho sun , the insidious enemy , pouring down his soft warm rays , gently induced the traveller to throw aside the garment . Pretended friends , like the vacillating xm-

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      stable King of Prussia , act upon the liberals of Germany like the sun upon the traveller . They hold out illusory hopes , and false , and deceitful promises . They make constitutions only to break them , and confer a small portion of liberty only to make their subjects more bitterly feel the loss of it when it is withheld . They paralyse efforts for progress by protending to coincide in them . They put themselves at the head of movements only to betray them . They convert the unbending

      determination of a people to be free by their own efforts , into dependence upon the condescension and graciousness of sovereigns . They place liberalism in a false position by encumbering it with their hollow friendship . Fbedebick of Pbussia , and Charles Albert , of Italian memory , are far more dangerous , though less able , than a host of Czars . They are more to be dreaded , because they gain the confidence of the people , while the open despot provokes their opposition .

      Thanks , however , to tho North wind , all this is at an end . We shall , in the future , know our friends and our enemies . The parties of Europe will become every day better defined , and their objects more palpable . Fighting in ambush is drawing to a close . Royal ambuscades will cease to be upon the broad field of opposing principles , two standards will be hoisted , under which . Upon one side or the other , kings aud peoples must range themselves in battle array . The double headed eagle , ready to whet its beak and talons in the life stream of liberty , and the ruddy coloured flag of human hope ; the rainbow emblem of liberty will at the same time wave in the air . Men must make their

      choice between the two . Of every human mind the plain , distinct question will be asked , are you for progress or retrogression ? For the barbarism of the north or the civilisation of the west ? Is the world to be under Cossack rule , or to be governed by free men , shaping their own destinies ? And to those questions some answer must be given . Henceforth there are in Europe only two parties claiming support . The question has been simplified to that extent , and for that we have to thank the strong , consistent will of Nicholas of Russia , His is a great mind

      striving for a great object . He is no petty gambler playing for an insignificant stake , but a man who hazards all upon the cast of the dice . He dwarfs down minor differences into their own intrinsic insignificance . He promises nothing—he practises no subterfuge—he attempts no concealment—he does not hold out hopes of a little liberty—he does not delude men with promises of progress , slow and gradual , but sure , He is definite , decided , and determined . He raises upon the present the standard of the past , and

      defies the future ; and thus , if liberalism be a worthy cause , and liberals worthy of it , he is a friend to humanity by rendering the trial possible , and hastening it on . Wo do not , of course , mean that he wills to be the friend of human progress , but that he is so in his own despite . Men may or may not believe in a Providence ruling tho world by special decrees , and making men the blind instruments of its behests , but they must acknowledge , that all history teaches the truth , that progress has been as much indebted to the efforts of its

      enemies as to the help of its friends ; and we think that the agreement of the heads of the three great despotic Courts of Europe , will not prove an exception to the rule . It may well be , indeed , that when the parties are first set in opposition to each other , those who are devoting their lives to raise the masses who have been degraded by long centuries of despotism , may seem the weaker . They will find that their [ enemies have possession of the revenues of the state , tbe machinery of Government , and tho organised physical forces which have hitherto controlled the fate of the world . In Russia ,

      Austr ia , Prussia , aud Italy , the despotic three will be all powerful . There is no party with the ability to say nay to their decrees . It is truth against power—might against right . For the instant the breathing present will be smothered under the dead past ; but it will retain the elements of life . The philosophy of Germany has become so instinct with free thought , that it must go on , working against despotism . The ardent soul of Italy , burning with tho hope of freedom , will be compelled to bide their time , and strive patiently lbspower to be used hereafter ; but it is in France , chiefly , that the effects of the Northern Alliance will be felt .

      There can be but little doubt that that alliance has been prompted by the aspect of French politics . Franco is the great seed-bed of revolution . She is the signal nation of the world . It is practically against . her that this combination is formed . She has made a republic possible , where a monarchy formerly existed , That is an example not to be tolerated , and for that she will never be forgiven . Tlie period to which she is approaching so rapidly will form an era in the world's history . To govern it is the real object of the Russian Monarch . He would be disposed to

      tolerate whatever form of power can be established there , so long as it is not tho power of the people . His sympathies are most closely blended with the cause of the representative of the old Bourbon dynasty ; yet , he would support a successful Orleanist effort , and tolerate even a Buonapartist Empire ; but he will not hear that the French people shall govern themselves , and prove to the world that Kings can be dispensed with on tho continent of Europe . He knows full well that a Commonwealth really established , the liberties of the world would there find ' a rallying point .

      He feels that a despotism cannot exist alonethat it must spread itself or die—that it must lutvo allies , or be defeated—and that teaches him to believe , that Republicans would seek to propagate their doctrines beyond their own borders , so that sister republics might spring up side by side , and oppose a real holy alliance of free states , to the powers of absolute rule ; and he is determined that , if be can help it , that shall never be . To prevent ( hat ho has crushed Hungary , aud enabled Austria to grind Italy into the dust . To render it

      impossible ho has by turns bullied and cajoled , threatened * nd embraced , bis brother of Prussia . To that end ho has stifled tl . o German national movement , and fenced about the old basis of government . For that purpose ho has connived at—if not prompted— -the coercion of Switzerland ; and having thus pushed his operations to thc very frontier of France , he is prepared to interfere there . There can bo no mistake as to his intentions . Liberty is not , if he can help it , to plant her foot upon the continent .

      Tho English people , generally speaking , kjiow but little of foreign politics . Protected by their own insular position , they are sepa rated from continental strife ; but it is high time their attention , was directed to these matters . They may feel safe enough now ; but if Cossack sway could be ' extended from the steppes of Tartary to the banks of the Seine , how long would English liberty be secure ? Are they weak enough to think that the northern exponent of Absolutism , if he succeeded thus far , would stop there ? Cannot they comprehend that their own freedom

      is bound up with the advancing liberty ofthe world ? Ave they not aware that the influence of England depends upon its alliances with Liberal states ? If this be true—and but few who give it a moment ' s thought will doubt it —we should be prepared to take our part in tbe coming struggle . We stood by , aud saw Hungary drowned . in blood ; we ' looked on while Italy was destroyed ; we folded our arms when Rome was invaded . Lot not those great errors be followed by a greater . If we would go on improving onr own institutions in peace , we must be ready to insist that , in 1852 , tho

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      French people shall be left to settle th * ^ affairs , without being menaced by fa f ° 5 who seek to govern the world . esPotj

      Labour And The "Cbystir Palace." ^ Wheth...

      LABOUR AND THE "CBYSTir PALACE . " ^ Whether it is to bo attributed to the titer or the disinclination ofthe working d *" ' we do not pretend to say , but the hoi ?*' have passed without bringing to the Sho Hyde Park the hundreds of thousands * ^ wero expected from the manufacture v tricts . Lancashire and Yorkshire wuuT their anticipated myriads , and the n ^ T rather fell off than increased during S , week . The middle class and wnnll i'S ««« u xu « uuwub ciass and wealthy i

      VU , continue nearly as numerous as ever ' ? is something significant in these fact * n thoy indicate that the non-productive eW expect from the Exhibition to be able in f „? to procure still more labour and skill fori money , while the labourers anticWn i ' labour for less wages ? Some Sfife imagine must be at the bottom of ilm existent mamfestations of p 0 pmai . Wfai ; ° JJ respect to the so-called World ' s Fair ft the holding aloof of the producing classes to be wondered at , vh « a ^ heop hi v ief th * tone in which the journals in the intom . f «« thc capitalist have habitually Spoke J , „ ? . £ *

      Exhibition . It has been always talked of bv them as affording additional in citements for competition between nation and nation . Bv showing to each where they excelled , and ia what respects they were deficient , it has been said that they will bo impelled to make greater efforts to maintain their supremacy in their peculiar productions , and to improve in Uioeq departments in which they are less advanced , A general and immensely accelerated impetus to competition has been the almost universal deduction , drawn from this vast assemblage of the products of the world ' s industry .

      Now , however pleasant the prospect of this increased competition may be to those wliosa good luck it is to have had " their fathers born before them , "—" who toil not , neither do they spin , " and whose whole mission in society is to spend and enjoy tho interest of accumulated wealth ; it is the reverse to tho classes who have to produce these articles under the pressure of this boasted competition . Already , with the comparativel y limited field of commercial and manufacturing r ivalry in conjunction with the present condition and powers of our machinery , they find it diffitvilt enough to make both ends meet in tho best of times ; what it is likely to be when that field is

      enlarged , when fresh and eager competitors enter the market , when new aud more powerful labour-saving machines are brough t into operation , they shudder to contemplate . The desperate struggle for work at any price already waged , will become still more deadl y as the work decreases , and tho number of competitors for it increases . The beggars for leave to toil will find it more difficult to obtain that leave , and when granted it will be < m harder conditions than boforo . Instead of arresting , it will hasten the downward tendencies of . our present productive system , and they were alread y so "fast" they needed uo acceleration .

      We can imagine a similar World ' s Show gathered together for very different purposes , but composed of precisely the same materials , to which Labour would flock gladly , as to a high Carnival , and the inauguration of a better era . If instead of avowing that this marvellous collection of skAU and industry was made for the purpose of stimulating competition , it had been to ascertain what were tho actual means at the command of the world , for producing wealth of all kinds , and for promoting a regulated system of distribution , which would ensure to all nations tho full aud

      fair participation in the aggregate wealth so produced , the case would have been very different . No one then would have grudged the instruction conferred upon nations less advanced then ourselves , because no one would have feared rivalry and ruin . A natural direction would have been given to the powers which—beneficent in themselves—are now made the source of unmitigated evil to the producing classes . The Utopian dreams iu which certain impracticable sentimentalists indulge , about the promotion of universal

      Peace , would then have had something like a tangible basis . But there can be no genuine or permanent peace in conjunction with hostile interests . Commerce , as at present conducted , is essentially antagonistic and subversive . It aims , by more circuitous means , at the same object which our less sophisticated ancestors sought by the strong hand . To buy cheap and sell dear is , in effeel , to rob both the seller and the buyer of some portion of the fair value of the articles thus exchanged ;

      because the dealer adds nothing whatever to their value , by the mere process of taking from the ono and handing to the other . Wliilo trade stands upon tliis essentially immoral and dishonest foundation , strife , dissension , and their concomitant evils , must afflict society ; and the new conquests of genius , science , and skill over the material elements , will be perverted to the purposes of a solliah and degraded individualism , instead of being made subservient to the promotion of the universal well-being of mankind .

      Mv Mttm Flwroi

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      Parliamentary. On Thursday Night The Hou...

      PARLIAMENTARY . On Thursday night the House of Commons met , after their short recess , and proceeded with the Navy Estimates . Previously , however , Mr . Akst-EY brought forward the conduct of Sir W . Dexison towards Messrs . M'Maxus , O'JDOHEltTY , aud O'Doxohue , and moved a condemnatory resolution , which Sir 0 . Obey parried by the technical excuse , thattheGovernmeutlmd no official information of the facts stilted by the lion . Member . The resolution was therefore withdrawn , and the rest of tho evening was spent on the Estimates Some half dozen votes having been agreed to , when tho House rose at one o ' clock .

      DOMESTIC . Railway " accidents" are the order of the day , Everything else being as dull as stagnation , the directors of . our iron roads have undertaken to supply excitement in these piping times , and contrive to supply new excitements with such rapidity that the old one has never time to grow stale before another is served up . The last " accident" is novel iu its circumstances , but old in its' essentials . A reckless gallop down a steep incline with short sharp curves with the tender in front—a leap

      over a bridge ot great height into a road below of tender , engine , and carriages , and cunst-qneut fractures , scaltlings , amputations , »« d deaths . Such are the leading features . Five dead bodies horribly disfigured aud mangled are tho result . Of course the railway officials have shown a vast amount of solicitude after the catastrophe , and expressed their readiness to assist to the utmost in the inquiry into the causes of the deplorable occurrence ' But their solicitude comes too late—they cannot restore tho dead to tho homes now left

      dessolate . They might have prevented too evil : to remedy it is beyond their power . In this case it is sought to fasten the blame on a boy some ten years of age , who is said to have placed the end of « sleeper on one of the rails at a point where the curve was exceedingly sharp . The great probability is that tins is tho fact , and that it was done either from utte-r ignorance , or from th at uumalicious curiosity which boys oi that age so frequently exhibit . But tbe antecedents which were calculated to make the end of a sleeper so deadly and dis » tractive were all of tho company's creation . Thoy made the steep incline , and added to th e

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 14, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_14061851/page/4/