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November 10, 1851. THE NORTHERN STAR.
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jt. WOP.P TO THE WISE, (From the Clxisti...
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The English Republic. No. H. London: Wat...
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November 10, 1851. The Northern Star.
November 10 , 1851 . THE NORTHERN STAR .
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jt . WOP . P TO THE WISE , ( From the Clxistian Socialist . ) , Tjje Lawk swoops straight upoa the -victimquarry , The lion-fangs deep fasten on their prey , Glad despots sing Te Deums for their gloiy , And lucky burglars revel till the day . lawyers get guineas , Poets bay-leaf garlands , And Statesmen take their -welcome old age ease , liiey who explore the mysteries of the starlands , Sometimes get places , pudding , profit , fees . Prophets earn stonings , draw ings in the dirt , And crucifixion 'twixt two gibing thieves , That human souls may prosper by their hurt | Their corpse-bands hold the ages harvest sheaves .
"My work wants Wood /' Baith God , Almighty Lord—•• Take mine , " saith he , the martyr , Godinspired , "He mine the breast wherein to sheathe tho sword , That men may pause awhile , ¦ with slaughters tired . " He looketh not to right , or left , nor ever Stops on his way to draw reluctant breath ; Bui—as to ocean ceaseless runs the river—Jlarchea . high-fronted , steadfast , fixed , to death . The siren-juggling Uachiavels allure him . With promises ear-kept—with subtle wile , Thinking how they may hota his frenzy cure him , And drill him down into the rank and file .
Of plotting men , half-workers with the Devil ; » Dc-St thou want Heaven £ Cottle let . UB DUM new Babel ; "Where thou shalt dwell upstairs , secure from evil , And scribble party pamphlets if thou ' it able . " But the great heart of the elect of God , Speaks one sad word amid the tongue-brea strife . "Side here , and die upon the low earth ' s sod , ' Nor hope to see , in this thy span of life . A . tf . L .
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SrEAKBOLDLI : Speak boldly , Freeman ! while to-day The strife is rising fierce aud high , Gird on tbe armour while ye may , | In holy deeds to win or die ; The Age is Truth ' s wide battle-field , The Cay ia struggling vnta the Sight , For Freedom hata again revealed A Marathon of holy right . Speak boldly , Hero I while the foe .
Treads onward with his iron heel ; Strike steady , with a giant blow , And flash alofc the polished steel . Be true , O Hero ! to tty trust ; Man and thy God both look to thee I Be true , or sink away to dust—Be true , orjhenceto darkness flee . Bpeakboldly , Prophet I Let the fire Of Heaven come down on altars curst , "Where Baal , priests , and seers conspire , To pay their bloody homage first . Be true , O Prophet I . Let thy tongue Speak fearless , for ihe words are thine"Words that by morning stars were sung , And angels hymned in strains divine . Speak boldly , Foet ! Let thy pen
Be served with fire that may not die ; Speak for the rights of bleeding men , Who look to Heaven with tearful eye . Bo true , O Poet ! Let thy name Be honoured where the weak have trod , And in the summit of thy fame , Be true to Man—Be true to God ! Speak boldly , Brothers 1 Wake , and come 1 The Anakim are pressing on 2 In Freedom ' s strife be never dumb ! Gird flashing blades till all is won ! Be true , O Brothers I Truth is strong ! The foe shall sink beneath the sod , "While lore and bliss shall thrill the song , That Truth to Man is Truth to God . Wiixiix ! Olasd Botoss . rmrif r r m m m ^^ 0 ^^ . i . ¦ ¦ mi ¦
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The Shabby Fammerley j or , Some Account of My Missuses . JExpojed Monthly iy Emmer ~ ley IwWwate . Part I . November . London : 16 , Upper "Wellington-street , Strand . THIS may be regarded as the legitimate segnel to * The Greatest Plague in Life . ' As in ihat reracious and amusing work , the foibles , weaknesses , follies , and defects of domestics , were caught and subjected to truthful , but genial criticism . So « Emmerley Tiddirate ' has presented to herself the task of describbtg the Mistress-class from the servant ' s point of view . Tho Urst Part is full of humonr ,
lacy andMndlytempered ; but in the midst of its ebullience grave questions are handled in a manner "wMch shows the writer nas looked on society with the eye of a philosopher and philanthropist , as -well as a satiristj and the ' sowing up * which many of the well-bred phases of selfishness found in the pages before ns , cannot fail to have a beneficial effect on fie future treatment of the large class of domestic servants , by those npon whom that class is so greatly dependant for life being
made endurable . One thing we can vouch for"EmmerleyV portraits are all life-like . There is no mistaking them . Sharply and accurately outlined , they are filled up with the finest a » d most discriminating artistic touches , and pre * tent not only ' species , ' but individuals before you , with a truthfulness almost equal to thejjaguerrot ype ; while they possess a genial and kindl y glow of colour that the Daguerreotype has not yet attained . Miss Tiddivate thus announces her intention : —
There has been a many books wrote about us servintgals , aud what the missuses has to put up with from ns , and I think it i time some one stood fetched and clapt the boot on the tother leg for the iooksand housemades of Ingland , and gnst showed tae whirled a little of what we has to suffer from the missusses . People has pizined the publick again ns , and now I mean to step ia with an antelope , witch shall make all armless , if I can only get the publick to swaller it—so there I I means to teU all I ' ve seen—all I've knone—all 1 ' veheerd on—and all I ' ve felt and undergoa in ay cheekerd courier . 1 shall give my constiat subscribers an inside into the hawfnlplaces liked
to ; and so let ' em have an ocean of the dreadful Eittnations witch I ' ve sometimes got into . I shall dewhallop to them , munth after month , the seens . of that there dumestic mellyjdram . in witch B . 2 has took toe hintereating part of the - erroring . I mean to hold tbe mirro w up to nachnre , as they saye , and sboir all my missussesoncafter another continuously , and then ask ' em whether they oughtn ' t to be ashamed of tbeirseives to work a poor gal off her very legs , as I give yon my word , cautious reader , they have took and done me . Bnt E . T ., thank goodness grashous , has a little sperret of her own Still left , and what ' s more she intends to show it in monthly parts , price only one shilling .
In pursuance of this resolution we get sketches of the 'koddliug missus , ' the ' motherly missus , ' the * lodging-house missus , ' the ' dressing missus , ' the ' suBpishus mi ssus / the * tidy and pertickler missus , ' the ' slivenly missus , * and , lastly , we are introduced to the Stuckup Fammerley . The description of the lod g ing-honsezniseas * gives f tecasion to the following capital and well-Jeaerred hard hit at the wholesale adulteraxwa , who now poison the people under prefenee of cheapness , under the sanction and latronageof the Rt . Hon . Sir Chas . Wood , Jart , Chancellor of the Exchequer .
Oh ! I'd have them ihere tee and kawfee imposfcrers * with their goolden . T pots and their Little lennysters as ' ud hold tee anuff for a party at fftra Haul , severely panukhed for tbeircbeeiings , ¦ feo ahi . I'd have ' em nude to work their own earn steme indjans for the rest of their days—a piemng tbe siauimtx and a picking the pockets of th poor as has to find their oirn tee and efeoegar . * sa if any one , even if ho were a starving were I , ' aad . H ke £ 0 mnch as an apennjont of their MJthere'd be no one as would talk so morret as the would , or be so extra snoerfine «^ h „ K * and
red / to sing out stop theef , and hare the retch ^ ^^ ? ^ ' » i * BabnJy to think of them there wicked a < tn »™ £ « . Mag to black Utfete ffi ^ jffifift tltathereled the aervinfs best frond mill A . oSKSt ^ ' « tt oSniSW : gft 1 fwWB ' tttU what had eome to the Iou , hiUiDg black of late , as it were onpossible to Set good cup of tee no how , in . these degenerous
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times , —when low and be old ! out it come that the grossers bad been a frying up the old tee leeves after all the fi ; oo ; lnf 5 had been wrinclled out . of 'em with at least three waters , and the karpits swept with ' em into the bargane likewise ; and then they'd took to blaekledding ' em up into the best sowshong or pigo , and a strongly vrn'okomonding ' em afterwards for fammerley use . So HO wondow people mite put in a spoonful for eacb party , and even barf a duzzing for the pot , and still git not a bit of goodness out of it ; for how cood it be otherwise , seeing as the missuses hadhad fust drorat the tee , — and let them alone for putting as letle as tbey possibly can into the pot , and gitting as mutch as they possibly can out of it;—and when they ' ve
done with it , in coorse it goes to tho kooks and housemades , witch takes and squeedges all they can out of the leeves , and then gives them away in charity to the charwoman , witch tbe cautious reader may rest insured reglarly rings out the very last drop of jews asremanes in ' em , —for they ' re perfect Hogersfor tea , they are , —and then , after all the drorings and wrinchings , and equeedings and ringings , it turns out now that the washed out things 18 sold to he frizzled np into your fine full-flavoured wiry peaeo , and so finally at larst finds their way back to the Golden Teapots and Little Kannysters what challenges the whirled and defies repetition , to be there sarved out again as the best four
shilling mixed to the missuses of tbe capital of Tourhope ; and when the missuses has done their wusfc with the tee once more , it is handed down afresh to the kooks , and from them descends anew down to the charwomen , and so in the end gets back another time to the Goolden T pots , there to be sarved out over and over again once more to the missusses , and so to keep on working round and round threw a reglar change of waters , for all the whirled like a covey of gold fish in one of them there glarse globes . Oh , I'd have all your Goolden T pots and little Kannysters made to work in chanes at Bottoinmy Bay , and forced to get a honest living for theirselvea for wonce , I wood .
Here is another equally smart and telling blow at the system of competition selfishness , which works so much evil in society . It is the mean stuck up people who encourage the adulterators and sweaters , andbetween them they crush the honest labourer to the dust ;—< But of all the missusses I ever lived with , the greatest buty were Mrs . Stuckup , as I used to call her , tboe that in corse wertn't her rite name . She were the very pinck of shabbiness , surelie , and coods ' t have been shabbier nor meaner in her ways if she'd had a Scotch porn broker for her father , and her mother had been a close-fisted old made , a trying to make the most of a small penahun she were entitled toas the widder fof an offiscr in tbe Ingin
army—witch I needn ' t say she wertn ' t . Oh , the small things she and them two gals would do to appeer grate in the whirled ' s i , is quite onconsivable , and , I grre you my word , quite onbelivable into the bargane likewise . They'd walk the cheap brown paper shoos off their feet ^ to save a a sixpence , they wood . Talk of the Cornish Beckers , as is diskribed so gruffically in Mr . Loyd ' s Penny " Black Phut , or a Father's Cuss "— -no , no , what a stoopid I hm I there ant no cuss to the Black Pirut , it ' s the " Woolf of tho Black Forest ; " and yet it ant that ny ther , for now I come to think of it , it ' s the" Death Grarsp . " which has the cusses in it in penny parts , and I ' m a compounding them all together , Well , a & ll were a going to say , talk of the Cornish Beckers I they
were mere innersint babbies to the Stuckups . Only let them hear of a shop a going to pieces , and see signals of distress put out , in the shape of large bills , heded " Hawful Saekrefiee , " and down they'd fee to the spot in no time to see whatever they cood " pick up for nothink at all , " as they said . Why , they hadn't a gown to their bax as wasn't a " tremenguus failure , " nor a petticut belonging to them as hadn ' t been obliged to be " cleared off owing to the enlargement of the premmyses . " I used to say they was a pack of she wolves as went about in bankrupt ' s clothing , —witch I flatters myself wasn't so bad for a nousemade . Only let it come to there ears that some party was a selling his things off at fifty per cent ., as they says , under
prime corst . and onless it were a mere empty roomer on tho part of some sharp cutting blade in the linning draper line as were famed for " shaving the ; iad . es , " they'd hurry down to the place as quick as a return herse , and half fill a kab with their dirt cheap barging ; and when they got home , there they'd set a looking em all over , and a deliting theirselves by wondering how the peeple could live as made em ; and each insuring the t ' other that tbey reelly must have been stole , as they were serting share they never cood have been made for the money , but that , as they said , were nothink to them , being a matter for the defective pelisse to meddle there beds with , and not they , for things wood he come to a pretty parse , if peeple were
expected to demand the title aids of every trumpery yard of ribbing or calickur afore they cood lay out ' a hapenny on sitch things . Oh , they were reglar ogers for cheap things , they was . Every stick of there grand furniture had been bort of your «* Persons about to Marry , " or rnmmidged out Of Brokers' Utovr , or aggled for at Awckshuns ; and not a cup , nor a glarse had they , but what had come from some staring " Red house" or other ; wile as fore there tins and things , they had one and all formed part of the stock of some Little Dustpan , The verry shoes to there feet was the best Paris made brown paper things , as could be got at the lowest possible figger from some Golden Boot or
other ; and I do verily beleeve , if ever them gals had a chance of gitting settled , they'd have begun the world on one of them there cheap wedding wrings , as is said to be made out of old luckey ginneys , without never nomenshun of the brass fardens as is mixed up with em ; and when any of shabby fammerley pays the det of naehure , I ' m sore they'll spect some dishconnt to be took off for it in the tother world , and will leave word in their wills , that their funeral is to be got up and performed by the party , ' js & blacks his cheap eoriBns on the pavements , ano * give directions for their executioners to contract for the greatest possibul number of fethers for tho lowest possibul sum .
We recommend the ' Shabby Fammerley ' as a monthly -visitor to the firesides of our readers , who are both merry and wise .
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The English Republic . No . H . London : Watson , Queen ' a Head Passage , Paternoster-row . TJndeb , the head ol ' our martyrs' the present number contains a stirring memoir of Marat ; and several other papers exhibitsthe stern and consistent adnereoce to principle which has distinguished this periodical from its commencement .
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The Girldhood tf Shaliespears Heroines . Tale XII . Olivia , the Lady of lllyria . By Mar Cowben Ciasee . JLondos ; IV . H . Smith and Sobs . AsaiHEKj and , alas ! fast drawing towards the last , of the beautiful series of tales with which Sirs . Clarke has enriched our literature , and aided tbe English people to comprehend yet more thoroughly iihe genais of their immortal and « iec " walled poet . We have not space for comment or extract ; but , in brief , may say , feat it exhiuit all that feminine excellence af discrimiaaiton , that fine insight into the influences which form character , and in early , life react on mature life , which we have so frequently seticed and praised in the earlier tales .
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EECEIVED . The Cftmlian Socialist . Nob . XLiV . and 5 . LV . Tracts by The Christian Socialist . Labour and tie Poor . Part L Bezer , 183 , Fleet-street . Notes to the People . By Ebeest Jones . No . XXVI 1 L Pavey , Holywell-street
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Uxdergrousd Losoisos . —The General Board of Health have issued a notification , under the 67 th section of the Public Health Act , on the subject of cellar dwellings . The act referred to makes it unlawful to let or occupy as a dwelling any vaults cellar , or underground room , built or rebuilt after 31 st of August , 1 S 4 S , or not let or occupied before that date , aud any person so letting or occupying is liable to indictment . The act further provides that ao underground chamber that does not answer to a certain description , that is to say , that is not seven feet in height , of which three feet mast be above the level of the street , that has not an open area of two feet ' six along its entire frontage , that j is not drained , warmed , and ventilated in the man-1 ner prescribed , shall bo inhabited notwithstanding that such room may have been inhabited hitherto . The penalty of neglecting these provisions is 20 g . a oi aeaitn 10
day where there is a local ooara . thw notification is appended extracts from theltenorts of the Commissioners on tbe State of Large Towns and Populous Districts , and from the Heoarts of the Superintending Inspectors to the General Board of Health , descriptive of the condition M cellar dwellings and common lodging houses u £ \ rious towns throughout England and Wales . irMbe articles found in the Crystal Palace by iU «« ii 4 between the 1 st of May and 21 th of October , I t a' 1 848 have been restored , and 3 , 318 yet he at the > ilBttS ** aiti 0 Stbe PPW of l ^ 'r ownerfl *
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MR . BROXTEERE O'BRIEjST AND THE GLOBE . ' TO THE EDITOR OP THE JfOnTIlEEX STAR . The Secretary of tho [ National Reform League presents his compliments to the Editor of the ^ ' Northern Star , and requests , on behalf of the Council of the League , the favour of his inserting the accompanying letter of their President in reply to the calumnious misrepresentations made by the Editor of the ' Globo' in reference to Mr . O'Brien ' s speech at the Highbury Barn Banquet . The letter has been sanctioned by two public meetings ; and a copy was sent to the ' Globo , ' but all the satisfaction rendered by that paper was the insertion of one paragraph , to which was added some sneering comments , after the manner so commonly practised by ' respectai We' Editors when they wish to throw mud at truths of which they are either afraid , or have no sympathy with , | Eclectic Institute , Denmark-street , Soho ,
Nov . 11 th , 1850 . TO THE EDITOR OF THE « GLOBE . " Sin , —I have just been favoured with a copy of your impression of Tuesday last , containing a report of the Kossuth Demonstration , and your editorial comments upon the banquet which followed . In the latter I find , amongst other analagous matter , the followingsignificantremarlJS Upon what , for lack of better information , I must pre * sume was intended by your reporter to pass current for a sample of my speech at the Banquet . I extract the passage verbatim from your second leading article ;—Plant plant the Tree—fair Freedom ' s Tree-Mid fire , and blood , andsIaugUer J The patriot ' s heart its soil shall be , And tyrants' blood ite water .
. That was tho tune Copenhagen Fields echoed to some " sixty years since , " in the old French Revolution days , when , as Louis Blanc reminded his audience , * the republicans of France announced that they would send 50 , 000 caps of liberty to the republicans of England . ' And that is the tune Mr . llronterre O'Brien is of opinion can be successfully struck up again now : — When France gave the signal for this movement all the despets of the world would attack them , then Eng * land would give the signal for a democratic rising , and they would fly not only at the political tyrants , but at all the rich mercantile monied classes who supported them , and they would sweep away all vestiges of feudal tyranny all over Europe . ( Cheers . )
" Kcgociantism will he made a crime again , as under the regimen of the glorious and immortal Robespierre ; and « money coined on the Place de la Quillotinc '—if Mr . JbVonterre O'Brien , and his kind , get their way . " Now , is it not precisely because incendiaries of this class are justly dreaded—is it not precisely because pure democracy could not work in France a fortnight , without bringing out in arms tho subsi " dised bands of the national workshops to pull : down the very Legislature which Universal Suffrage had just set up , —is it not precisely because—in a country where 'feudal tyranny' had already been long Swept away—it was found , in the months succeeding February , 1848 , that not only ' . all the rich
mercantile nwnied classes , ' but every man who had the most modest competence to guard , or the most useful industry to exercise—was alike threatened by clubs iu his possessions , and broken in upon by tumults in his occupations-is it not because 1793 , with its ' unlimited powers' of Jacobin commissaries , its inconvertible currency , its maasmum law of prices—its turbid torrent of utter ecouomical confusion , aggravating political anarchy —is it not because all this was plainly coming in again—because there was no single revolutionary absurdity or revolutionary violence that was not revived in the language , and sought to be translated into act , by the Louis Blanc ? , Ledru-Rollins , and the rest—that the reaction , so much deplored , followed 1 "
Without seeking , Sir , or curing for the good will of the mercantile class for whom you write , allow me in self defence to say tbab I owe entirely to the genius of your reporter so liberally accorded me in his . pretended extractfrom my speech ; and that I am no less indebted to yew own liberality for the , particular revolutionary sentiments you are pleased to tag thereto . I never spoke the words attributed to me by your reporter , and I hold with none of the revolutionary tenets you so magnificently endow me with in your editorial comments , The particular passage of my speech which your reporter has so ingeniously mangled , referred exclusively to France and the Continent . It referred to the notorious threat of Leon Faucher and others , to place
the propertied Classes of France under the protection of foreign bayonets , in case the bayonets of France should not suffice to extirpate the * Red Republican party . It had no reference whatever to the " rich mercantile , or monied classes " of England , who have not , so far as I am aware , yet threatened us with an importation of foreign bayonets , to strip us of the few rights we have , nor even to prevent the enfranchisement of the working classes . I asserted , and do still assert , the right of the French Democracy , and of every other continental democracy , whose constitutional rights hwo been suppressed by brute force , to rise up in self defence against the despots who enslave them , and against the rich mercantile and propertied classes , in whose hands
the despotaare but mere irresponsible tools . Bat I deny the right of the British people , or of any other people amongst whom public opinion is free to express itself , and to whom legal and constitutional means of redressing grievances are opes , —I deny the right of all such peoples to employ other than snch legal and constitutional meansfor tho attainment of the reforms they seek . It'is only when ail such means are swept away , and when publicopinion is suppressed by arbitrary power , that I recognise the right ia any people to take the law into their own hands . This , Sir , is my-creed ; whether good or bad , I never held any'other . Yonrreporter , however , has given me a very different one , which lass : you , byipubVishrngthia letter , to give me the opportunity to repudiate .
The quasi-patriotic slang of the stanaa you introduce is not my slug : it suites neither my taste cor sentiments . I never wrote , nor spoke , no * approved such trash , !!! prose or averse . If there was a marked difference between the " sobriety " of Monday ' s demonstration and tfchose of fermar days in * Copenhagen » fiolds , you owe that difference , sir , tome , —as much , at 3 easfc , astoany other person concerned in it . I was-oiie of the General 'Committee vhohelped togetit np . Iconcurred-ir . everything that the managers did , that was conducive towards giving it the character of " -sobriety" which you so
much admire . MA I believe I am the only public roan in England who repeatedly advised , in public , that no demonstration at all shoulditaie place in oftse the authorities , or M . Kossuth himself , should be adverse to it . : For this , of . course , \ yeu will give me no credit , because I am entitled to . it . But with true Whig liberalily , you credH me abundantly for the turbulent spirit which characterised a Copenhagen-fields ' demonstrations-some fourteen years before I was bom : ! This is exactly the sort of Mbtrality which -real reformers always get from " moderate" ones , and "friends of order 1 "
ITou call me ^' andacendiary . ;** and you sajr ntgovianlism will be again made a = crime , "if Ahv Brunterre O'Brien and Ms kind . get'their way . " ; I deny your morahrighk , and I beliere * yoa have no legal right , to misrepresent me in this atrocious manner . I hold no-oae opinion-or doctrine which can give you the right thus to hold , me up to the feateed and vengeanoe < of a class whoare-salf-armed , with almost unlimited power , ower the lives and fortunes of their fellow subjects ; and > whohave neser yet ( as a elassf evinced Justice , itruth , or mercy towards any-reformer opposed tothek * selfish class interests . I would not , as you pretend , mafce negodantism a crime , nor coin money on the Place de leu Guillotine . But if I had * ' my way , " a would
take care that negotiant And negociwti & m did not , as they have done in this -country , usarptheiKghts of a whole people , in order to coin saouHtams of cold oat of the sweat and blood and marrow of their victims , the producers , whom the «»^ ootow , and their feudal accomplices , hare left without a shred of eonstitutional right or power , in anyone of our institutions . I would not suffer them to dictate at their caprice tbe laws which govern landed tenures , public and prhraie credit , currency , and commercial exchanged . I woald no more concede to them such powers than I would concede to fhpm fchu nrivileee of buying and selling , their
fellow men as their friends , the planters , do tne blacks in America . I would not suffer them , m concert with the landlord-class , to expel from the constitution every man who did not , more or less , live at other peoples' expense ,, through the fraudulent mechanism . of property and tax'jualificatipns I would not suffer them to exterminate a whole race , as they have done with our Celtic brethren in Ireland . In a word , I would make producers as independent of negotiant as negotiant are now of producers ; and let negocianlism , like . every other im , find its level under just laws , which gave it neither more nor less protection than might exist for alliums .
I never said it was a crime in merchants or landlords to be merchants or landlords ; hut I say , and still say , it is a horrible crime- in merchants or landlords to conspire against the rights of their fellow men , and to usurp both the prerogatives of the sovereign and the rights of the people , as they have foully and feloniously done in this country . Landlords and profit-mongers have , I assert , usurped an almost unbounded power of life and death over tbe great bulk of their fellow subjects in tWs country . Tbey lm & * hut m out of both
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houses of pariiame . nt-. 0 uS , of muMMpaliUes-onfc ot an pabho hoards-out of vestries and'bo . uds or guaraians—out of all offices of tviut and emolument—out of grand and petty j . u-ies—out of all « f Mi P yticipation in judicial ' procoodiriKa—out oi an control over the army , navy , and ordnanceout ot the church-out of the public press—and out Ot all participation in the administration , and beneficial resources of our- colonics . These iieror was more complete exclusion for one class , —never more complete usurpation and monopoly for . an . other class ; The fruits are , what-we see around ^ .-unbounded wealth and luxury for the usurpers -unbounded poverty and wretchedness for the excluded . To all this I would put an endI would
. do so , however , by just and legal means ; and not by proscriptions and confiscations , as you insinuate , l would not resort to a single one of the revolutionary appliances you so gratuitously connect mv name With , —I would have no " unlimited powers " of Jacobine Commissaries—no " inconvertible CUT rency —no "law of maximum "—no «• requisitions " —no ' forced loans "—no sponging of tho debt—no violation of public faith—no " revolutionary absurdity , nor " revolutionary violence . " In a word , I would effect every change that was needed without invading tbe rights or liberties of a human being ; and without any ' interference with property , or acquired possessions , other than such interference as the laws of every civilised country
sanction , —namely , the commutation of property upon equitable principles , wherever such property existed of a nature or kind to interfere with other peop 03 * right of property , and which , by right , should never have been private property at all . If you ask how I would effect my contemplated reforms , without resorting to the revolutionary means you so justly , stigmatise , my answer is : read the seven propositions of the National lleform League ; a society eonspiring _ some 300 of the most intelligent of their class in London , and of whioh I , its president pro ecm , will be happy to enrol you a member . In these seven propositions you will find enough of my political and social creed to satisfy , even you , that I am no revolutionist of the Babceuf
or 1 , 793 schools . And if you desire any further satisfaction , I offer it to you in this shape : I challenge any man of the party you represent , or of the other great party opposed to you , to discuss publicly with me , tho reforms needed in this country ! to guarantee us against a revolution of violence ; and I will undertake , ( on the condition ol fair play on both sides , ) to carry my propositions against both parties by aaoverwhelming majority . And , moreover , that my proposed reforms go to prevent a revolution , while those you can advocate go directly to provoke , and ever to necessitate ft revolution ! I am , Sir , your humble servant , 53 , Castle-street , Oxford-street . J . B . Obbien . November ! , 1851 .
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Olympic Theatre. A Farce Called Tho "Ori...
OLYMPIC THEATRE . A farce called tho " Original Bloomers" has been brought out at this theatre , but without any remarkable success . The subject has already been done to death upon the stage , and the youngladies in the present case , who find themselves exposed to the taunts and ridicule of a mob of Londoners , and thereby get cured of the disposition to be reformers , are now neither very novel nor very agreeable personages , llowever , as a piece de circonstance , the farce answers a temporary purpose , and will probably be found for a few nigUta in tho list of ontei ' - tainmentSi
STRAND THEATRE . Mr . Augustus Mayhew , and " another , " are the authors of a bagatelle produced here on Monday night , under the title of " The Fifth of November , " in which an old gentleman , who does not choose to let old customs pass into desuetude , makes great preparations for a Guy and bonfire to do historical honour to the day . Tho Guy is personnated by a young innamorato , who takes this method of obtaining a chmdestiuo interview with the daughter of the old gentleman . Ic is unnecessary to say that the latter objects to the union of the lovers , but his fears are successfully worked upon when ho is made to believe that the youth , whom he has denied alliance with his family has been burnt bodily on the green . The extravagant nature of tho farce will be easily understood from these facts . It has all the advantage derivable from smart and whimsical acting at the hands of Mr . Tihury , Mr . Rogers , and Miss Marshall .
The Great Exhibition. The Points Which N...
THE GREAT EXHIBITION . The points which now most interest tho public in connexion with the Great Industrial Exhibition are the disposal of the surplus , and the preservation or otherwise of the building , both of which , although the royal commissioners have given some indications of their viewo , are still sii & judfee . It may bo assumed as certain that the surplus fund wilt be appropriated to the inculcation and diffusion of scientific principles , and the application of those principles to arts and industries ; but by whr » t organisation these indispensable desiderata are to be secured remains to bo determined , We shall probably have to wait till the powers of tbe royal commissioners are renewed before they promulgate their scheme . With respect to the building , it appears that the subject o £ the
agreement with Messrs . Fox and Henderson was considered at tho last meeting of the royal commissioners , and tho following resolution adopted : — ' « That although under ordinary circumstances the payment of a higher sum than that agreed upon for work executed under a contract , after public tender , is highly objectionable , and would establish a very dangerous precedent , and although the commission -could admit no claim on the part of the contractors , yet that they were of opinion that under the circumstances recapitulated in the report of Lord Granville and Sir W . Cubifct , Messrs . Fox , Henderson , and Co ., should be secured against ultimate positive loss , and that the sum of £ 35 , 000 , as recommended in the above reportshould be forthwith advanced to them upon
, itheir written agreement to abide by such terms and conditions as the commission may hereafter prescribe . It is also agreed that the further questions raised in that report , as to the final verification and settlement of the accounts , and as to the -conditions to 'be imposed in case of the materials being sold for a higher sura ithan that estimated , should be referred to tho finance committee . Tho above conditions agreed to : ;—Charles Fox , John Henderson . —Nov . 6 , 1851 . " ¦ 'Kb one who remembers the circumstances which attended the completion of the Crystal Palace , and tho vast efforts then made by the contractors , would desire to see them losers by the transaction ; and the public ,
we have no doubt , will loarnwvth satisfaction that they have been thus equitably-dealt with . It will be seen that the royal commissioners have > not as yet come to any definitive ^ resolution with Tegard to the purchase of the building . Prince Albert has written rtc the Marquis of . Anglesey expressing his gratification at the good conduct of the engineers employed at the Crystal Palace , and adding : ;—The royal commissieners have thought fit to award a sum of £ ( Mfi , 5 to be laid out either in drawing or mathematical ( instruments , -or in other suitable lasting memorial of their connexion with the Exhibition , for the non-commissioned officers . and iprivates ofthaiReyul Sappers and Miners , to bs-dier ifcributed by -the-oScers .
The following notice has been ^ iven : — " STJRBBNDEE OP . 'BEE BUIMING ro EBB COKIBACSCBS " 1 . The executive committeeihave received Abe instructions of her Majesty's oommissionere to announce that the possession-of She building will be given up to Messrs . Fox , Henderson , and € o ., the contractors , on Sat Dec . nest . " 2 . The executive committee hasre , therefore , < to recommend that any exhibitors who may not yat have removed their ^ goods or fittings should do so without further delay , as it will not'bs in the power of the executive . committee to affowLany assistance to eshibitors after that date . On ihe 1 st of Dee . the staff of the eMoutiee committee will be withdraw *) , and the cranes , platforms , aad various applianees for assistiag-the « xhibitors removed .
" 3 . Any exhibitors wiho permit their . articles , after ike 1 st Dec , to remain in the building , must apply to the contractors , and make their own arrangements as to the hours , & c ., for admittance , das . " 4 . It must be distinctly understood that , like her Maje « ty » s Commissioners , the contractors , during any period , they may suffer the exhibitors ' goods to remain in the building , will not be re-B | wosihlo for any loss or damage , or for accidents which may arise from the necessity of removing the goods from one part of the building , to another , and collecting the remaining articles into one spot . " By order of the executive committee , " M . Dronr Wwir' Secretary . "
Tub " Moniteur Da Fioiret" Gives The Fol...
Tub " Moniteur da fioiret" gives the following as the plan of campaign proposed by an individual at Orleans , well known for his violent demagogical opinions . At a given moment possession would be taken of all the bells of the churches , first securing the persons of the clergy . At the sound of the tocsin all the members of the secret societies would assemble and attack the Chateaux , the farms , and all isolated habitations . All the offices of the notaries would be set fire to in order , to destroy the isecurities of creditors , release debtors , < fcc . the authoritws are mi to be aware of these facts , and to hare an eye on this dangerous individual . Ir is said that the Austrian government has determined to have a general Industrial Exhibition oi tbe 'Works of All Jiations at Vienna in 1853 .
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A Cube tor B .-. d Legs . —Bloomerism , —Punch . Oossi— "When is a clock on the stairs dangerous ? —When it runs down . Why are authors who treat about physiognomy like soldiers ?—Because they write about face . Why is a steam valve like a person who has been in imminent danger ?—Because it has a narrow escape . Debts . —It is a remarkable peculiarity with debts , that their expanding power continues to increase us you contract them . Struck by lightning , is ihe cai . t term used by thieves , . to ., when arrested through information conveyed by telegraph . Study is the bane of boyhood , the aliment of youth , the indulgence of manhood , and the restorative of age —W . S . Landor .
"I am happy , Ned , to bear tho report that you have succeeded to a large landed property . "— " And I am sorry to tell you that it is groundless . " Mind your own Business . —Let cverv man mind his own business , and there will not be half the trouble in the world that there is at present . — Olive Branch , Honour and IIoNisTY . —The difference there seems between honour and honesty seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honest man dues that from duty , which the man of honour does for tho sake of character . A Tar at Church— " I would not always live , " sung a chorister one Sunday . A burly son of Neptune , who had dropped into the church , to see what was going on , bavfled out , " You couldn ' t do it it you would !"
A Modest Ladt . —An exemplary young lady uptown is very particular about closing the windowcurtams to her room before retiring for the night , in order to prevent " the man In the moon" from loo King in . An eminent special pleader was once asked by a country gentleman if he considered that his son was likely to succeed as a special pleader . — " Pray , sir , " he replied , » 4 cau your son eat sawdust without butter ?" Proof Positive . — " How , " said a county-court judge to a witness , " how do you know the plaintiff was intoxicated on the evening referred to ?"" Because I saw him , a few minutes after supper , trying to pull off his trowsers with a boot-jack . "Verdict for defendant .
Rogues . —Muggins says that rogues ought to be well paid ; it gives a fellow so much trouble . He once cheated a man in a horse trade , he says , and was in law about iti afterwards for over fourteen years . Unless you have got lots of patience , therefore , never set up for a rascal . Shki . Ii Fish . —Upwards of fifty-six tons of shell fish , gathered by the Boston fishermen , from the sands about Boston Haven , and which before the Great Northern Railway ran were uncollected , are now taken daily to Leeds , Liverpool , and the populous inland towns , and sold at a remunerative profit . Gold and Silver Coin . —The value of gold and silver coin of all denominations , in all quarters of the globe , is said to be £ 500 , 000 , 000 , and the quantity used up in plate and ornaments at about £ 500 , 000 , 000 , making in all about £ 1 , 000 , 000 . 000 of the precious metals in use at the present time in
various ways . Back Hastily . —The most attentive man to business we ever knew , was he who once wrote on his shop door— " Gone to bury my wife ; return in Tialfan hour . " He was no relation ( 0 the iawvet who put on his onlce door , "Be back in five minutes , '' and returned only after a pleasure trip of three weeks . Examination op the Alphabet . —Which are the most industrious letters ?—The Bee ' s . Which are the most extensive letters ?—The Sea ' s . Which are the most masculine letters ?—The He ' s . Which are the egotistical letters ?—The I ' s . Which are the leguminous letters?—The Pea ' s . Which are the sensible letters 1—The Wise .
Another Invention . —Mr . John Davies , the master attendant of the Royal Clarence victualling establishment , at Portsmouth , has just compieteua ship ' s cooking-galley of extraordinary dimensions , for her Majesty's iron steam-frigate Simoom . It cooks food for a thousand men , and will disi i ! ninety gallons of fresh water from salt water pec hour . Husbands "Wanted . —Four go-a-head young ladies , advertise themselves in the " Troy Whig " ( U . S ., ) as severally in want of a husband . They will receive scaled tenders through the Post ollicu , post paid ; and widowers are specially notified not to apply , as the ladies do not deal in secondhand goods ! EPIGRAM . —On hearing a Lady praise a Reverend
Gentleman ' s Eyes . I cannot praise the Doctor ' s eyes . I never saw his glance divine ; For when he praya he shuts his eyes—And when he preaches , he shuts nunc . Feathers and Fur—They tell a story of a man out west who had a hare-lip , upon which he performed an operation himself , by inserting into the opening a piece of chicken flesh , it adhered , and filled up the space admirably . This was all well enough , until , in compliance with the prevailing fashion , he attempted to raise a moustache , when one side grew hair and the other feathers .
Hapton . — The township of Ifapton , near Burnley , in Lancashire , is about four miles in length , and nearly the same in breadth , and contains many respectable farm-houses , besides some scattered villages , numbering , in the whole , not far from 1 , Q 00 inhuMt & uts ; yet in all this township there is neither church , chapel , meeting-house , Sunday-school , clergyman , dissenting minister , lawyer , surgeon , nor magistrate . Water Gas . —A very beautiful invention has recently been patented in France , that of producing an illuminating gas from steam , by passing it over red-hot _ charcoal . There is little doubt ^ hat this simple invention will sooner or later supersede coalgas , which , cheap as it is , yet lacks perfection in many points . The water-gas is so pure that , in combustion it produces nothing to deteriorate iiifi air , and will not discolour metallic articles that aru exposed to its influence , a quality much desired by jewellers and philosophical instrument makers .
How to Judge of a Book . —A worthy tobacconist , in the High Street of Auld Reekie , was complaining one day of a book which a very erudite doctor had published , " It ' s a bad one , " said he , — "How ? " said his friend ; "I always thought Dr . Findlay had been a worthy , good man . "— " It ' s the worst book I ken , " said the shopkeeper ; "it ' s ower big for a pennyworth o' snuff— and it ' s no big enough for three bawbees' worth !" Lwhrart © inkers . —We know a man who invariably reads while eating his dinner . The table is never set unless a book is placed beside his plate . Whea he leaves the house in the morning , lie telia his housekeeper to have Tennyson and tomatoes for dinner , or Shakspeare and " smothered chickens : " Bacon and pork and greens ; Burton and buttered beans ; Oarlyle and calf ' s head ; the " Edinburgh Review" and grouse , & c . He is so ardent an admirer of the" Rylstone Doe , " that he can ' t eat ven sion without-a copy of Wordsworth beside him .
SuttSiBLE EROrosiTiON . —A prisoner in gaol lately sent to his creditors the following proposal , which , he believed , would bo for their mutual benefit : — " I have been thinking that it is very bad for me to lie here and put yon to expense . My being BO chargeable totyou has given , me great uneasiness . I know not what it may cost you in the end ; therefore , what I would say is thisi—You let me out of prison , and instead of nine shillings , you shell allow ' me only seven shillings a week , and the other two shillings go towards the debt . " Mess , of ins 'Great Exbebiieon . —The beautiful porphyry yaas , contributed by the King of Sweden , has been , presented by his Majesty to Prince Albert .
At ataeeting ofsihe Commissioners ! it is understood thtt votes , ofanoney for the designer of the Crystal Palace , and -other deserving persons , were liberally jpassed : Sir Joseph Pa-xten to receive £ 5 , 000 ; working members of the Executive Committee to receive good sums ; betweea £ 2 , 000 and £ 3 , 000 , to be divided an rewards among the Sappers and Miners- and a considerable sum ; to be handed to Sir Richard Mayne , for distribution among his Exhibition division of Eolice . Through Lord Granville , and ia consequence of the warm interest which he takes ia the . Schools of Design , the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been pnevaiied upon ta authorisean expenditure ^ £ 5 , 000 iu the purchase of objects from tbe Exhibition
which may serve at models for study , and wheih may thereby exercise a permanently elevating influence upon the art manufactures of the country . A suggestion made by Professor Ansted and Solly , for the formation of a Commercial Museum for Imports and Exports , has been adopted by the Executive Committee ; and the selecting and arranging of specimens is in progress . Among the instances of handsomely liberal co-operation towards this object , is that of the free gift by Messrs . Lawson and Son , of Edinburgh , of their collection of Scottish agricultural produce , which cost some £ 2 , 000 to gather and arrange . It is announced that a considerable portion of the " surplus" will be devoted to the formation of a fund for maintaining this Museum .
The following are the ' quantities of eatables and drinkables consumed in Mr . Younghusband ' s refreshment courts , from the openinglto the closing of the Exhibition t—Bread , 24 , 536 quarterns ; coffee , 9 , 181 lbs . ; pound cakes , 28 , 828 lbs . ; Savoy cakes . 20 , 415 lbs .: Bath buns , 311 , 731 lbs . ; plain buns , 460 , 657 lbs . ; cottage loaves , 57 . 528 lbs . ; milk 17 , 257 quarts ; cream , 14 , 047 quarts ; ice , ISO tons ; meat , U 3 tons - , ham , 19 tons ; potatoes , 30 Jons ; salt , 16 tons ; soda water , 40 , 869 bottles ; lemonade , 130 , 098 bottles ; ginger beer , 365 , 050 bottles . The above is exclusive of articles gold by Mr Masters , in the eastern and western refreshment coiris .
Cox Vict. Life At Pout Abtfluit. ,R Th R...
COX VICT . LIFE AT POUT ABTflUit . , Th ri " ' ,, tio n " orS ; ilii ! dl ! . V hng A lollcr from - ; ' ' - OI > , - '" < pfioe , oiioofUm persons sentenced to rtwitn for pacticipatinein rhe Irish n ' . ' iolJion of 134 S , IlUC wlio , vi , || tf 1 L , t , t ! , o | . ,, vip :. wi le . vlor-J , was t «« * P ;>««* l for life . Ho received » "ticket of uvi on Ins ar .-iol j „ Australia ; but , having broken bounds , he was scut for three months to tlio ctmin-jrangs at 1 W Arthur . T . ' . e niiliapnvmau e , rM the i ., 1 lo * ing account of his suffering while undergmiijr this punishment-
" The entire number of convicts at this station of Port Arthur was 300 . These were divided into gangs of ahout sixty c . icli , with two overseers over each c »» g . I was placed in the gang called the ' agricultural gang , ' at task work . The 300 men slept in a lorn ? , narrow , . jow-roofed shod , culled a dormitory , their hods , or birtlu . . or pincos of sleeping , arc nulled 'ImnUs . ' There av >> fcw <> tiwa of them , one over another—the bunks bcine ; . separated by mere laths—each bunk is moroiy the length and breadth of a man—you must crawl in ou'linnds and feet , roll yourself in u filthy rag and blanket , alive with vermin , and there sleep if you can . A clean pigsty in ; my part of Ireland is preferable to a Port Arthur bunk . Having crept into this loathsome hovel , nothing but oath . ' ' , imprecations , and
obscenity mot the ear from tho wretched companions all around , and between tiiwo sounds , the darkness of the den , and the torture of . ill sorts of vermin , ic was truly an earthly hell . It was summer when I was there ; nine o ' clock was the hour for retiring to tUis place of rest , and four o'clock in the morning tho hour for rising . A bell rung at four , and you were allowed five minutes to dress , fold yourruj :, and sweep out your ' bunk . ' The 300 men were marched rank and file two deep ; to acistcrn io wash ; and ' here men witliinvoterntoophthalmia on ttie eyes , ulcerated legs and arms , and all manner of diseases , performed indiscriminately their morning ablutions . This process lasted half an hour , the gangs asaia mustered rank and file , under their overseers' orders , and were marched to their
respective places of worship ; prayers lasted half att hour , and at five o ' clock the gangs were again mustered and marched rank and file , two deep , through the outer gate of the prison , where the superintendent and tuustor-maater stood and called out each man ' s name , to which an answer should be given , accompanied by a salute . The gangs were then marched to their work-, and each mnn was at his daily labour by half-past Sve o ' clock in tbe moraing . TYe worked till eight , and were marched in to breakfast , when we got some coarse brown bread and a pint of skilly , skilly is made of coarse flour , and water without salt . After breakfast we mustered again , and were marched back to our
work , where « ve continued till twelve o ' clock ; thett we were marched to dinner , when wo got some coarse broth and bread , with a very few ounces of very bad meat—mustered again , and marched to work till six o ' clock—brought to prison again , rank and file—general muster—names called over—Stood in colnniiis with legs bare and uncovered ( this waff the most insulting and degrading scene in the vile discipline , it was quite unmanly )—got some brown bread and Skilly—to prayers at half-past six , prayed till seven—then to school—remained at school till eight , listening to atrocious recitals of crimes of every enormity—after school to the ' bunks . '
" TliJS'is a short Account of one day ' s life at Port Arthur—multiply it by ninety-seven , and you will form a sort of estimate of what I had to endure . During thu early part of rny time , I was kept SOW * ing corn , digging ground and sowing vegetables . It was broiling hot weather , and to be kept seventeen hours out of twenty-four , standing under a blazing sun , was hard enough . I remember one day being marched eight miles into the bush with a scythe to cut down grass , tie it up , load a bullock dray with it , and then walk eight miles back , and never taste food or drink all the while . I presume tho Whig press will call this merciful treatment' of au Irish rebel . During tho latter days of my sentence I was put to besom making . This was considered a sinecure !
"While unJertaking my besom making proba » tion , 1 had to go into the bush at half-past five o ' clock in the morning with a sickle in my hand , cut down a load of ' cutting grass , ' tie it up , carry it throQ miles on my back to .- » hut , then cut dowa New Zealand ftax , split it , make twisted gads of it , then sit down and make twenty-four besoms , tie them up imd carry thetu in on my back , and deliver tliein to tiio storekeeper and if I were one short of that number I should go into a black hole for solitary confinement . This was the most dangerous work that could be invented for mo , because erery time that I put my hand among tho tuftsor tussocks of cutting grass , I was in danger of being bitten by a so . ike , and yet this was a sinecure . "
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HERE IS YOUR REMEDY . UOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT . A . MOST MIUACULOUS CURE OP BAD LEGS , AFTER FOllTY-TlIItEE YEARS' SUFFERING . Extract of a Letter from Mr . William Galpin % of TO , St , Mary ' s Street , Weymouth , dated May loth , 1 S 51 . To Professor Uowhtat , . Sib , —At the aye of eighteen my wife ( who is now sixtyone ) cuuirlit a violent cold , which settled in her legs , and ever since that time they have been more or Jess sore , nud greatly inflamed . Use uguuuis were distracting , and ! i > j- mouiiis- to ^ etlier she was deprived entirely res t - .-. ud sievn , livery remedy that medical mtn advised was
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 15, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_15111851/page/3/
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