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    • TaniTISH EMPIRE FREEHOLD LAND AND BUILDIISGr SOCIETY jj "~ On an Advance your llent is Saved,—;you become your own Land and Householder.
    • Accident at the Fwra. Gardexs. — On .Friday night an accident of a serious character took place
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    • TO THE ELECTOBS AND NON ELECTORS OF NOTTINGHAM.
    • THE I01THE1I STAB, SATURDAY, AUGUST IS. 1S49.
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      Which Is Constantl The Northern Star, __...

      THE NORTHERN STAR , ____ Augcsx 18 , 18 ^ ^^ ¦¦— - ¦ - - ¦ - ** 1 i ¦ irfl-TI—T * —**— ' *^—^"'' "M ^ M **—^—*^—*^—»—^^^^ '"** " ¦ ' ¦¦ ' — ' -- — " ""* ' " ' ¦ — - ¦ — - ¦— " — .

      Tanitish Empire Freehold Land And Buildiisgr Society Jj "~ On An Advance Your Llent Is Saved,—;You Become Your Own Land And Householder.

      TaniTISH EMPIRE FREEHOLD LAND AND BUILDIISGr SOCIETY jj " ~ On an Advance your llent is Saved , —; you become your own Land and Householder .

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      J 7 ,, «„ - —T . « - Dcncombe , Esq ., 3 LP . T . AVaklet . Esq ., > . U \ B . B . Oibiieu , Esq ., MP . L . J . TLVXSABD , ESQ ., XP . j aii-o . 1- • BaH > . tr ^_ - . Commercial Bank of London ( BraacU ) , 6 , Henrietta Street , Covcnt Garden . Zand ™ Qpcc—So . , Tottenham Court , Xcivlioad , St . l ' ancras , London . —Dasiel William Kerry , Secretary . —— J Aio-. am ; ed in TiiKEE SEcno . vs . — -Value of Shares and Payments for Investors . Fu ll Share .. .- illiO—panneiit of i ' s . 5 d . \ 1 Week , or 10 s . Cd . per Month . JIaif Share .. .. GO _ 1 'Ji — 5 3 — < Quarter Share .. .. 30 — O 7 i — 2 S — tariirants are r .-ovtcsted to state in their form tlie Section they desire to he a Memher of . . . tv-rv-vJaV i-ni . i € iK > n !> . w llEDEwnox Fees . —The present Entrance Fee , including Certificate , Rules , & c , is 4 s . I $ . 0 set r . - jiare > ntul . _ , s GjL for anv part of a Share . Trice of Rules , including Postage , Is . OBJECTS . TV , ^ aljlc menibers to huild Dwelling Houses . , 5 th . —To give to Bepositing Mcmhers a higher rate of In-, n ? ffnrrt the means of p . trchasinj : both Freehold **«* « " »» * JJ elded bv ordinary modes of investment . 2 nd .-Tc afford thein cans p „ otto . —To enable Parents to make Endowments for their ena XeaseSoW rropemesorLano- Children , or Husbands for their Wives , or for Marriage 3 ro .-To advance Mortgages oa Property held by Settlements . fa members . _^ ¦ ""<& . —To purchase a piece of Freehold Land ef sufficient . * . TV . »„ nl . le "Morfcragors toeing members to redeem value to give a legal title to a County Vote for Members of 4 th .- ^ io enuu « - _ rarliament . luar-Xortgag 65 - _ . c- ^ -nv t —Bv joining this section every person in town or country can become the proprietor of a House and Land wT ~ r ; ' nrismlwurliood , without being removed from his friends , connexions , or the present means himself and family" ^^ iw U ^ To rW ^ aW ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^* 465 ' erect Dwellings thereon , and divide the Land into u J ™™ t 7 from half-an-acrc upwards , in or near the towns of the various branches of the society . Tlie property to be STwTflrflfr-ehold of the arember after a term of years , from the d ^ te of location , according * o his subscriptions . Q «! imvIIL—Savins or Deposit section , in which members not wishingto purchase are enabled to invest small sums , ^ nghlte ^ estatnw ^ at * offiTe Pe ^ ce ^ - a ^^ u ^ ,, on every sum oflOs . and upwards so deposited .

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      ALSO , TTTF UNITED PATRIOTS' AjSD PATRIARCHS' BEjSEFIT SOCIETIES . ^ VnrolledTOlT'saint to Act of Parliament . Thus securing to its members the protection of tlie law for their r a «/ i \ it ™« rtr Legalised to extend over the United Kingdom , with the privilege of appointing Medical Attendants , jWau ^& cTAn ^ opportunity is now offered to healthy persons , up to Forty Years of Age , of joining these flourishing Institutions in town «• country . -r . » -- „ . - nmcE .-13 Tottenham Court , New Road , St . Pancras ( thirteenth house eastward from Tottenham Court-road ) . iiOXDo * v ««^ . , JJamel William ItUFft , Secretary . Patrons . —T . S . Dgscohbe , Esq ., M . P . T . Waklev , Esq ., M . P . B . B . Cab « ell , Esq ., 3 LP . F . O'Coskob , Esq ., M . P . L . J . IIansabd , Esq .

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      GOLDEN HAT MART . A Good and rasluonahlc Hat is of the utmost importance as regards Personal Appearance .

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      TUf CHEAPEST edition ever tcblssued . Price Is . Cd ., A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate of the Author , of PAiNE'S POLITICAL WORKS .

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      ETJTTUEES EFFECTUALLY CURED "HTTIIOUT A TKUSS 11 J—Dr . GUTIIREY having hen eminently successful in the cure of Ruptures , now Offers his remedy to the public . In every case of Rupture , however desperate or lor . g-standing , a CURE is GUARANTEED without tiie use of any Truss whatever . It is easy and simple in use , perfectly painless , and especially applicablefor both sexes of all ages . Sent free on receipt of Cs ., ty Post-office order or stamps , hy Dr . HENRY GTJTHREY , € , Ampton-street , Gray ' s-inn-road , London . At home daily , Ten till One . Dr . G . has received testimonials from all the most eminent ofthe faculty , as well as from hundreds of patients who have been cured ^ and his Discovery heing used at tlie hospitals in England aud on the Continent , is a sufficient guarantee of Its efficacy .

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      13 TJPTTJRES EFFECTUALLY CURED -Iw WITHOUT A TRUSS . '—CAUTION . —DH . WALTER BE R . OOS , 1 , Elv-iilaee , llolboru-hill , London , still eontinues to supillv tlie afflicted with Ids celebrated CURE for SINGLE or DOCELE RUPTURES , tlie efficacy of which is now too well established to need comment It is easy iu application , causes no inconvenience what ever , and will be sent , post free , on receipt of 6 s . Gd ., by Post-office Order , or Stamps . X > r . D . 11 has a great nuniher of old trusses left behind by persons cureS , as trophies of his immense success , which he will almost give away to those who like to wear them . Hours—ten till one morning , and from four till tightevening , " It has quite cured tlie person for Trtiom you sent it , and you -wiU be so good as to send two for other persons I know . "—Rev . H . Watson , l & giiam Ferrers . N . B . —Inquiry wiU prove the tact that no remedy is employed at any ' Hospital in England , Fiance , or elsewhere , his being tft « cjsfy remedy known .

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      THE REAL CAUSES OF THE Poverty and Degradation suffered l > y tlie masses in aU European countries is—private property in land ; the shutting out of the vcorlang classes from tlie advantages of national credit ; a restrictedand usury-ln-eeding currency ; and the want of an equitable system of exchange among the wealth producers . Believing these facts , the Eclectic Club , meeting at 72 , Newniau-street , earnestly invite public attention to the political and social "REFORMED . " Price , One Penny . Published erery week by VJckers , Holywell-street . Edited b y J . D . O'Beies , R . A . ; « ho also developes tlie same views in lectures ererv Friday evening , at the Institution , John-street , aud at T 2 , Newman-street , on Sunday evenings , at eight o ' clock .

      Accident At The Fwra. Gardexs. — On .Friday Night An Accident Of A Serious Character Took Place

      Accident at the Fwra . Gardexs . — On . Friday night an accident of a serious character took place

      Aitue Iiota. Gardens, Wyndham-Road , Cam...

      aitue iiota . Gardens Wyndham-road , Camberwell . -Amongst the entertainments was the exhibition of the Messrs . de Wittc , tho Flying Brothers the one as Mercury , the Flying Wonder , and Phoebus , the God of Day , who were to take a flight across the garden at an immense height , on a slack wire ; and surrounded with & eworks . At ten o ' clock the vonths commenced their perilous task , when , suddenly , to the ereat terror and alarm of the

      spectators , T ^ ien tne eyer or 0 f , h . er had reached the centre of the wire it snapped , and he descended to f f roui l " witl 1 fearful violence . He was speedily fSTf ^ » * nt not nntil he was severely burnt « SH « W andlcgs , but in other respects he ««™ - ^ 0 ufc injury . Bis extraordinary proserin ti » ^ ^ Datable to his having been caught in * L brasches of a tree . Mr . King , a neighbouring $ ? ° * * as sPcedayia attendance , and re-£ _ 2 L _? Vi * leUow t 0 consciousness . Mr . cnSF' - 8 WW ™**** * , suspecting foul play , ifS " MUMdiats . examination of tt ? e wire , when b-e * « n « v Ji f ^ - beat or tw j sted so as to w . eas on f he slig htest strain ,

      The Royal Etchings. Io The Editor Of The...

      THE ROYAL ETCHINGS . IO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sir , —I take the liberty of forwarding to you the following particulars , referring to matters which have recently transpired in connexion with the affair of the " Royal Etchings , " and | he oppressive proceedings instituted against me in her Majesty ' s High Court of Chancery . The Prince Consort has furnished me with 7 us hill of costs in the suit his Royal Highness instituted against nie . The Prince ' s bill of costs , alone , which his Royal Highness has called upon me , as a " pauper , " to pay , amounts to between £ 300 and £ 100 ! It will be recollected that , when the cause came on for hearing , before Vice-chancellor Kni ght Rrucc , on the 1 st of June , the Prince ' s counsel ( the Solicitor-General ) seated , that his Rov . il Hishness

      had abandoned all claim against Air . Strange for costs ; that , in point of fact , as . regarded Mr . Strange , the Prince would pat ail his . owa costs , and not call upon Mi-. Strange to pay one single penny . This " act of grace , " as it was presumectto be , on the part of the Prince Censort . Tvas highly extolled as an exhibition of great kindness and forbearance on the part of her Majesty ' s husband . But what are the facts ? They are ' these : — His Royal Highness has obtained an " order , " which has been duly served upon me ( and which I must comply with , although the Prince knows I am a pauper , and without a penny , or go to prison ) , calling upon me to pay Hie very costs he abandoned in the ease of Mr . Strange ; and for doing which he was so highly compfimentecJ /

      I have extracted only four items from tho extravagant and ruinous bill of costs the Prince Consort has obtained an " order " for me to pay , so that may be seen the great" liberality" evinced by his Royal Highness . This hill of costs , in relation to the " briefs , " only , furnislied to counsel on behalf of Prince Albert , alone , ( the "briefs" furnished to counsel on behalf of her Majesty is another affair ) contains the four following rather extravagant items relating to the proceedings on the 1 st of June : — " Three fair copies thereof [ of the & s . d . ' briefs' ] and of pleadings , « fcc ., for counsel , sixty sheets each . 30 0 0 " May 19 . Paid fee to the Solicitor-General , with brief on hearing , and clerk . . . . . 27 10 0 " Paid fee to Mr . Sergeant Talfourd , with brief , and clerk . . . 27 10 0 "Paid fee to Mr . James , with brief , and clerk . . . . 23 0 0 "

      Making a sum total for briefs to \ „ . „_ _ counsel , for one day only , of J ' " °

      The causes came on forbearing on the 1 st of June . ( I beg your readers' especial attention to dates , ) _ obtained an order to defend the suits in forma pauperis , on the 22 nd of May . The fees arc stated , in this bill of costs , to have been paid to counsel on the 19 fA of May ; just tliree days before I was pauperised—thus clearl y endeavouring to fix me with Mr , fitranga ' s costs , as well as with my own I Who , let me ask , ever before heard of briefs bcin < r delivered to counsel , in xa old cause ( for it had bcen before the court nearly eight months , upon four different oeeasions ) j for a fortnight previous ! v to the hearing ? It so happens , however , that if these briefs , with their enormously heavy fees , had riot been given to Prince Albert ' s counsel until the 23 rd of May , instead of the I 9 th ( as it appears ) , Field Marshal His Royal-Hi ghness the Prince Albert would have had no claim against a . pauper !

      1 attended witn my solicitor , on Monday last , by appointment , at the office of the Taxing Master Mr . Mills , to tax the costs of his Royal Hi ° -hness ! "When I found that , according to the ' order" obtained by Prince Albert , his Royal Highness very graciously demanded from me Mr . Stranqe ' s costs , as well as my own , I said to Mr . Mills— " Mr . Strange having been absolved , it now appears that Prince Albert has thrown all his own costs upon me . Am 1 SQ > to understand it , Sir ?"— " Certainly , " said Mr . Mills . — " Then , " Iobserved , "his Royal Highness Prince Albert applies to me to pay Mr . Strange ' s costs , as well as my own ?"— " That is so , " was the reply of the Taxing Master . — " TVhy , Sir , " I said , " it was considered to be an Act of Grace on the part of his Royal Highness Prince Albert , to absolve Mr . Strange from . -and to forego , the whole of his costs . "—Mr . Mills replied , "Then it ' s an Act of Grace which has not been fulfilled . "

      Thus am I called upon hy the Prince to pay him upwards of £ 300 ; not one penny of which I com polled his Royal Highness to expend ! p r whit said the representative of Prince Albert , who -it tended tlie Taxing Master on the Prince ' s behalf and to enforce his claim against me I These were his words on Monday lust : "At first we were groping about like aniole in the dark . " Iquestion , Wmuch , if the Prince -Consort ' s exti-aordinary affidavit threw much liyht oTthe matter . _ . - I remain , Sir , your faithful servant , Windsor , Aug . 8 . Joshua Tomsett Judge .

      Equivocal Complwext.—One Of The Toasts D...

      Equivocal Complwext . —One of the toasts drank at a recent celebration was— "Woman }; ere Quires no eulogy—the tpeaks for herself . '' '

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      Tonmss. Li'doeuu-Ilcccivcd By Andrew M'F...

      TonMss . li'Doeuu-Ilcccivcd by Andrew M'Fcc , No . 0 , Aucustine-strect , St . Martin ' s Cliurcli , Liverpool , irom Peter Sulton . Bolton , £ l _' - ' s .: six postage stamps from James Barrie , Ashford , Kent . , t «? wfft acknowledges the receipt of the following sums J ^ SierewU h ) , for the Victim l ' und , vi .:-Mr , 1 $ mith , Cd .: A friend , t > d . S . Mooues , Sowcrby . —We can see no utility m publishing Your letter . Jons Len . nox , rreston . -We have no room . &? s , j > re 5 S of matter compels us to postpone the following communications until next week : —Iteport of the Trustees of the National Co-operative Hcnetit Society -, the letter of Eanie Greaves , O'Connorville ; Sir . llubb , ChartorY-ille George Kill , Westminster ; John Dookcr , Knaresioroug h ; Manchester Victim Committee ' s Address and Balance-sheet ; George Harnett , Hull , Gateshead - the Address and Money List for the Hungarians of the locomotive Carriage and Waggon-makers ; . South Eastern Railway . _ . . . J < I

      W . Ciupsun , Leeds . —Yes . Apply at the office , Tottenhamcourt-road . ¦ _ Testimonial to toe Hdxgamans . —The following appeared in the Sun on Wednesday and Thursday evenings , Aug , I 5 th and 16 'th : — For contributions , per Julian Harney : — The Locomotive Carriage and Waggon-makers , Soutli-Eastern Railway , Bricklayers' Arms £ s . d . Station , Old Kent-road .. .. .. 129 A few Democrats , Sheffield .. ., 034 Afew Naitmakers , MerthyrTydvil ,, ,, 0 2 C Three Democrats , Lynu .. .. ,.. 016 The above sums for the Hungarians were handed to tlie proprietor of the Sun by Mr . Harney on the 14 th inst . Ekbatum . —Acknowledged last week , Kirkdale prisoners , Dalton , three friends , Is . should have been Is . Od . Parties in Yorkshire and Lancashire desirous that I should lecture in their localities must write immediatel y , and address to the care of Mr . Hudson , Dawsou ' s-court , Westgate , Newcastle-on-Tyne . Samuel Kxm > ,

      Portrait Of Kossuth, The Hungarian Chief...

      PORTRAIT OF KOSSUTH , THE HUNGARIAN CHIEFTAIN . We have succeeded in procuring a life-likeness of the noble Kossuth . It is now in course of progress , and specimens , to which a fac simile of the autograph of the Chieftain will be attached , will be in the possession of our Agents on the 18 th inst .

      To The Electobs And Non Electors Of Nottingham.

      TO THE ELECTOBS AND NON ELECTORS OF NOTTINGHAM .

      My Friends, I Will Meet You At One O'Clo...

      My Friends , I will meet you at one o ' clock on Monday the 2 iTib . inst . in the Market Square of Nottingham , and , as your servant , I shall be prepared to give an account of my stewardship , and to surrender my trust into your hands if you are dissatisfied with me as your representative ; and I shall also have much pleasure in attending the meeting at seven o ' clock , to join with you in expressing sympathy for the brave Hungarians ; and I will enable you to decorate your hall with several living likenesses ofthe brave Kossuth the Hungarian chieftain . I trust that we shall have a good gathering , as Ihave a groat aversion to ho tried by packed juries . Your faithful friend and Representative , Feargus O'Connor .

      The I01the1i Stab, Saturday, August Is. 1s49.

      THE I 01 THE 1 I STAB , SATURDAY , AUGUST IS . 1 S 49 .

      Union Is Strength

      UNION IS STRENGTH

      TVe trust that the Government and Aristocracy of this country—who appear to have been , and still to be , in total ignorance of the will , the mind , and the power of the middle and the working classes , and who have heretofore based , the one their legislation , and the other their exclusive privilege and enormous patronage , upon the antagonism of those two orders—we say , we trust that both

      will take timely warning , and gather wisdom and mould future action in harmony with the existing mind of the age , instead of relying upon what is whimsically termed the '' loyalty of the OUTS , " to enable the INS to uphold and preserve a system against which the progressive mind of the ago is now fully marshalled , and the continuance of which it will no longer tolerate .

      Upon the antagonism of tho veritable middle and working classes—that is , of the mental and manual labourers—both Whigs and Tories have depended to uphold their ' ascendancy ; and until recently—until devoured by taxation , and until the shop-keeping class discovered that they could not reduce—nay , make a profit of taxation by the reduction of wages , but , on the contrary , were the greatest sufferers from the poverty of the MANUAL LABOURERS , tliev , the shop-keepers—the MENTAL LABOURERS—were politicall y , socially—nay , virulently aud ignorautly—the greatest opponents of those principles by the adoption of which they have now discovered that both classes—nay , all classes—can be saved from bankruptcy and ruin .

      So long as speculation was open to all , and national wealth was a scramble , all classes had their grab . The labourer , until displaced by competitive machinery , was a good customer to all , and was satisfied himself ; but when the giant enemy stealthily increased in power and magnitude ; and when the tending of machinery by a man , a woman , or a child , produced as much as two thousand hands in

      former days—then the first and most successful speculators became MILLIONAIRES , as if by magic , and the displaced operative as suddenl y became a pauper ; and the shopkeeper by degrees became wise , when he discovered the difference between a good , because a well-paid customer , and a pauper-pensioneran unwilling idler—whom he is now compelled to support .

      It has cost us a long life of toil to explain the distinction between MONEY-LORDS , who employ labour , and whose whole profits consist in their ability to reduce wages ; and the shopkeeping class , who constitute a majority ofthe electoral body , and who wholly , depend Upon the fair remuneration of the labourer . We have shown that machinery came upon us with a hop , step , and jump , and that no laws were made to make it a national benefit until its

      owners became so politically powerful—as if by magic—that no government could continue to legislate tor its adjustment , until at length it has led to an accumulation of so much wealth in the hands of so few—aud wealth governs in this country—that it required the developement of its ultimate consequences to bring the united pressure of mental and man ual labour to bear upon the monopolists of power and capital . We have also laboured hard to show , that a well-paid and profitabl y-employed labourclass at home , would be better customers to our manufacturers , and all other trading

      classes , than any or all our colonies put together , while the enormous amount of our EIGHT MILLIONS a year might be spared in POOR RATES , to support unwilling idlers ; but Ave knew the difficulty we had to contend against , both socially and politicall y ; we knew that , socially , the MONEY LORDS had recruited the shop-keepino- class upon their hostility to the FEUDAL LORDS inspiring the belief that the power of that order should be first destroyed , leavino- the

      that wha t the mone y le rds contended for was a mere transfer of power to their own hands : but as self-interest is the basis of human action , we blame them not , hut wo do blame those who allowed themselves to be thus foolishl y recruited in such a service ; but we pardon the error , to which human nature is liable , and now rejoice that they have discovered the error of their ways , and will g 0 on with the manual labourer , rxa . the taobleT-and peaceful cause of regeneration , . and we trust ' they will SIN NO ^ IORE *

      , If we required proof-strong and irrefutable proof-of the horror and dismay wSx which - this HAPPY UNION has LS SS ^^^ JT ^^ ' 'ito ^ V Prm , ^ comment of our SmiAiKP 11 of "WNWNG HOUSE SQUARE , upon the glorious meeting of

      Union Is Strength

      Monday night • and we could not possibly give a stronger instance of the value of this mov ement tl ^ au the opposition ofthe "TIME S . " Our PUP " iL endeavours , like a child , to pick all the small plums out of the pudding , as is hia custom j he would seize upon sentences , which were not meant as points—the mere puddling to fill up a gap—and would wholly pass over the material , nay , the onl y question —viz ., Parliamentary Reform as the means , and Fiuaneial Reform as the end . Now does our pupil thus analyze the vague sentences of toadies ' speeches in the House of Commons ?

      No ; when he understands them he grapples with the strong points . In contending for the Charter , we have often declared our greatest difficulty to consist in meeting the foolish prophecies of enthusiasts as to what would result from the measure ; we have declined giving an opinion beyond this—that it would make the small minority tributary to laws enacted by the representatives of a largo and overwhelming majority , and thus ensure cheap obedience to good laws , made for the mutual benefit of all , instead of expensive and compulsory submission to bad laws , made to uphold the privilege of a fraction .

      But lot us analyse our PUPIL'S theme . We shall commence with his exordium aud conclude with his peroration . This is his first sentence—The ' speechesdeliveredatthe aggregate meeting of the Metropolitan Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association arc specimens of the extent to which a good cause may suffer in bad hands . Did we not write for a class who require tho strictest definition , not only of our own , but of other men ' s views , opinions , and notions * ,, we mig ht have been satisfied to base the justice , if not the hope , of the ultimate success of our cause , upon this the first sentence from our pupil ' s theme ? What then have we here ? The admission that our cause is a GOOD

      CAUSE , but may suffer in BAD HANDS . Admitted ; and upon whom rests the responsibility ? upon those who devolope its principles , and contend for their adoption , or upon those who admit its justice , and base their opposition upon the plea or flimsy pretext , that it has fallen into BAD HANDS ? Has not this been the invariable policy of our Whig rulers ? They say , " weadmitthcjusticeofyourclaimS , but you do not make your appeal respectfully ;" or the TIME , the DAY—nay , the HOURhas not just arrived for making the concessions you demand—and the justice of which we are prepared to admit , were your cause in GOOD HANDS , Ah ! Mr . " Times " tho cause is now in the hands of those who will give your Minister the SQUEEZE he asked for , and

      hmc Ma lachryma . Our pupil says : — In the more deliberate report , however , of "the Council " upon the same subject , we find it announced that by means of a little contrivance "the 40 s . franchise is brought within the reach of every industrious man placed above the struggle for the merest necessaries of lite ; " so that by the operation of the very constitution so loudly decried , tlie highest electoral privilege is already accessible to the lowest class who can , with any semblance of reason , be held to deserve it .

      Our pupil has not read Mrs . "" Glass's Cookery Book , because , had he done so , he would have found that you must catch your hare before you can make your soup . The constitution does not give tho mail : a fortyshilling freehold ; it only gives a right to vote when he has acquired it—so he . must first catch his hare . But has . the commentator forgotten the main feature of this GOOD CAUSE ? Could his DEVILS of Printing House Square possess a forty-shilling freehold , and do their work at tho office , and vote for a county member ; for be it remembered , that forty-shilling freeholders are only county voters ? Could the London mechanics ,

      artificers , and artisans , and those of other towns , become forty-shilling freeholders with benefit to themselves or their order ? No ; and was this the whole principle upon which the Association is founded , wo should oppose it with as much vigour as we now support it , and for the p lain and simple reason , that if carried out alone , as the means of ensuring Parliamentary Reform , it would but teud to strengthen the feudal system and ultimately create stronger and more direful-feuds between the agriculturist and mechanical labourer , and thus tend to weaken the GOOD CAUSE . But a few lines further on , our pupil says , the acquisition of such a vote is now easy and sure —MISFORTUNE APART . We think the

      two last words ; " misfortune apart , " will at once show tho injustice of making misfortune a pretext or justification for with-holding what the constitution doesreallyprofess to guarantee , Our pupil goes on : — Tlie operation of tlie income-tax—that enormous and illdistributed impost—is almost exclusively prejudicial to the middle-classes of society ; nor do we mean to say that our burdens are generally adjusted with all the convenience of which tlie load is susceptible . Hut when such points as these , instead of being plainly and soundly urged , are cither wholly overlooked , or altogether misstated , ami when the entire delinquencies of the Exchequer are thrown on "the bishops , Lord -Brougham , and the illegitimate children of Charles II ., " the argument becomes ridiculous , and all the real strength of the case is lost . If people are

      enlisted in a cause upon the persuasion that it takes £ 01 , 000 , 000 n-year " to govern this country ; " that the Queen ' can he served as cheaply as the I ' resuient of the United States ; " that the House of Commons is composed of "military officers , pensioners , and sons ofthe nobility , " and that " by developing the resources of th » . country a working man ought to receive 80 s . or 40 s . a 4 ay for his work instead of 5 s . or Cs ., " they must , sooner ov later , discover themselves egregiously befooled , and , according to the period when their enlightenment comes , will either desert or destroy the guides " they have been induced to follow . How long does Sir . Cobden really think he could keep company , on "the great question of labour , " . with Mrl Feargus O'Connor ? How long does either of them think a sober-minded audience can be led by such assertions as were made on Monday ?

      Tlie income tax ( loos press hardly , and very hardly , but not most hardly , upon the veritable middle classes , who have not the power ot meeting it by increasing the price of their commodities or b y reducing wages ; but it presses most hardly upon those whose wages are measured by the dependouce of an unwilling idle competitive reserve—whose horror of the cold Bastile , and separation from wife aud family and home , will compel them to submit to any reduction the employer thinks proper to make , The arguments advanced against this present expensive system were not confined to Bishops , Lord Brougham , and the illegitimate children of Charles II ., but were legitimatel y urged against the system .

      The fact of tho President of the American Republic receiving no more than 5 , 000 / . a year , was not urged as a reason for reducing tho salary of tho Qukkn to that amount ; it was adduced , and legitimately , as a fair test of our expenditure , as compared with a much better governed country . Who will deny that the most servile members in the House Of Commons—and those having the least interest in the proper application of labour to the developement of the national

      resources , so long as they can have a pull at the Exchequer on quarter day , or the future hope of it , are military officers , pensioners , and expectant sons of the nobility ? Mr . O'Connor said , "by developing the resources of the country a working man , now "receiving 5 s . or Gs . a WEEK , would then " receive 30 s . or 40 s . a WEEK . " We now . wind up , and clap the climax with our pupil ' s peroration . He says , in concluding his comments upon Monday night ' s proceedings : — . '" ¦

      W ^ T ^' i bcC < ? alamed < au ! l , hc Fratont "is . hem tencd and a good cause will he thrown overboard , for the want of information and foresight . Here we have from first to last our pupil ' s admission that the cause is good , while he apprehends danger that might be created in tho mind of the timid , we presume , by the over enthusiasm of the people . . But if the cause is GK ) , OL \ why -should its . accomplishment be postponed in consequence of the timidity of oldwoihen ?; Why should the " Times" notadvocateit ? Why should the Minister not adopt it ? What description of pressure does Lord John Russell require to make him squeeze able ? and what phase shall the cause assume to : induce the "Times" to adopt it ? From the article upon which we have commented , wesee

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      the future foreshadowed ; we see thai our cotemporary , still wishing to preserve Ins ascendancy , would lick the movement into the shape whichmight insure his co operation and tlie destruction of the GOOD CAUSE ; for our readers may rest assured that the time » not far distant when the columns of our pupil will ring with self-laudation for having established this holy union between the middle and working classes , which must , and that ere long , insure the success of the GOOD CAUSE .

      PUBLIC HEALTH—THE CHOLERA . Considerable and general alarm has been excited by the renewed visitation of Cholera to this country . That valid grounds for such alarm exist there can be no doubt , ' and we are by ho means desirous of underrating the actual danger of the crisis , or of deprecating every possible and necessary precaution that can be adopted with the view of preventing the spread of this dreaded-disease ,

      There is , however , an Eastern apologue which appeal's to us very applicable to all such cases . A traveller leaving Cairo met the Plague on its way to that city . " Where are you going ? " asked the traveller . "To Cairo , " was the answer . " What to do ?" '' To kill 3 , 000 . '' Some time afterwards the traveller encountered the Plague comiug from Cairo—and said : " You killed 30 , 000 instead of 3 , 000 '" "No , " was the rejoinder , "I killed 3 , 000 , Fear killed all tho others . " There can bono doubt that in many cases the

      influence of fear has acted most fatally during the present ep idemic , and we cannot help thinking that the publication of alarming and exaggerated reports of the prevalence of the disease , and the full details of inquests supplied by the indefatigable " penny-a-liners , " ' to whom such occurrences are perfect godsends , has very materially and causelessly increased the public trepidation . Some of the measures adopted by Parochial bodies , in the well-meant endeavour to check the spread ofthe disease , have aided in no small degree in producing this effect . We know instances in which a certain

      allowance in money is made for every Cholera case reported to the Board of Guardians . Now every one knows that at this season of the year there is invariably an increase of cases of ordinary dysentery and of mortality from ordinary causes , and there can be no doubt but that under such a stimulus many additions have been made to the lists of deaths by Cholera , which , if strictly examined ^ ought never to have been so reported or classified .

      Even with all this exaggeration , the deaths , relatively to the aggregate population in the Metropolis , at least , have been comparatively small . The highest number of deaths attributed to cholera per day , we believe , amounts to . 150 ; on many days they did not amount to 100 . Now , taking the population at 2 , 000 , 000 , that will give a mortality of not more than one in 10 , 000 , while the highest weekly return is under 1 , 000 . No doubt the average number of deaths for the season has been raised by the visitation of the epidemic , but the total excess is , after all , so small , that we see no reason for the excessive alarm that has been created ,

      and which seems to have been got up more for the purpose of putting money into the pockets of the medical profession than anything else . When the mortality we have named is contrasted with that caused by the visitation of the Plague , in the months of August and September , 1665 , it shrinks into utter insignificance . The whole resident population of London at that period cannot bo rated higher than 400 , 000 ; while it was

      estimated that the mortality , in one week , was 10 , 000 ; and the bills of mortality—confessedly incorrect and incomplete as they were—give a total mortality of 38 , 195 , in five successive weeks : so that one-tenth ofthe whole inhabitants perished in little more than a month . If the ravages of the Cholera had been on the same scale , the number of deaths returned last week would have been about 41 , 000 ; whereas , tho deaths returned reached only 1 , 9 ( 57 , from all causes .

      While we deem it our duty to urge these facts in mitigation of that extreme aud exaggerated feeling of alarm which has been unduly excited , there are , however , obvious considerations connected with the subject which must not be passed over . It is now seventeen years since the Cholera last visited this country , and it is b y no means creditable to the national aud local authorities , that all our towns should have in the interval made scarcely any progress in tho improvement of their sanitary condition , There has no doubt been a " great cry" on the subject ; but , as in

      too many instances , it has been followed by awfully "little wool . " . Yet , if there is one thing upon which the varying authorities on the subject all agree—it " is , that Cholera is a preventive and - ' removable disease . The conditions upon which its manifestation and its virulence , or comparative iuuocuousuess , depends , have been generally laid down by thosc who have written upon the subject . The absence of good sewerage and drainageof an abundant and constant supply of fresh water—ofthemcausof maintaining cleanliness , aud providing a copious suppl y ef fresh air to

      tho dwellings of the poor : these have all been repeatedly insisted upon , until the ear and the eye are wearied by their repetition . But we are a strange people : We can for years admit the existence of an evil , and having the remed y in our own hands neglect to apply it . Iu local and municipal , as in general politics , talk is substituted for action . Words arc easily found , but real , honest work costs sonic exertion . In tho Health of Towns Acts which have received the sanction of the Legislature , there is invariably some hitch or other which renders them comparatively useless . Their framers are

      afraid of grappling with the privileged classes , who have an interest in maintaining existing abuses . Hence the tenderness with which the monster evil of intramural burials has been invariably treated . Deadly as the poisonous exhalations may be which arise from cesspools , and the imperfect drainage of largo aggregations of houses , manufactories , mows , markets , slaughter-houses , & c , they arc comparatively harmless , when contrasted with the mephitic and life-destroying gases which emanate from the town ' grave-yard . Yet , because clergymen , vestry-clerks , and others , have a vested

      interest in tho maintenance of this crowninoabomination , it is allowed to continue almost untouched , and any regulations enacted with reference to it , are more shams . For the sake of the fees , the pal-sons are allowed to poison their fellow-men by wholesale . Such visitations as the present give weight and emphasis to any observations on sanitary questions which is not accorded to them iu ordinary times . It is now seen by the wealthy and powerful classes , that in suffering the existence of general causes of ill-health , they are , in reality , exposing themselves to danger . They find that the pollution of the whole atmosphere of a large town cannot be allowed

      with impunity ; that Cholera . aud T yphus find their way into elegant drawing-rooms and richly-furnished mansions , as readil y as they do into the , dwellings and overcrowded lodginghouses of the poor . This lias been shown during the present visitation of Cholera in a very marked manner . It is by no means a respecter of persons , and by striking down such men as Mr . Justice Colxman aud others , it reads a solemn lesson to that class for their neglect of the , general sanitary arrangements by which alone the public health can be maintained in a satisfactory state .

      _ In these matters Government and individuals must ' co-operate , and each should understand their proper , isphero of action . It is beyond the power of individuals to control the drainage , sewage , flushing , trapping , and other measures by which the continual accumulation

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      of unhealthy agents , which is constantl y « ;))() on in a town , may be effectually removed « . „?„ ;; neutralised . That must be entrusted to Co M lectiveaad legalised eftort , but at tho sain ^ time each individual has it in his power UYJ ,. personal cleanliness—by careful attention to H , ^ ventilation and neatness of his own d \ velliUt , ^ and , above all , by strict habits of rogularit y iljilT diet aud regimen , to diminish the virulence Ulu |^ the spread of the epidemic . How the diseased originates , and what is its real nature , tho , J , . „ .. ... _ ., iiti--..- * .- __* A— ... ^ wili in AA «* l .. II

      dical profession have not yet discovered—0 I- m { all events , not yet agreed upon , but they j ,,, ^ unanimous as to the preventive and removal , | f „ powers of the conjoint agencies we have brioilX enumerated , an I we trust that these remark ^ will have the twofold effect of inducing c i 0 Se , attention to personal and domestic cleaiiijii ( . ) S ) i and of producing such a general and vi gorous * demand for effective Sanitary Reforms , that noia Ministry—no party of obstructives , hoH- CVPl , p owerful—will be able to withstand it .

      Grand Metropolitan Demfj^.. Stration In ...

      GRAND METROPOLITAN DEMfj ^ .. STRATION IN FAVOUR OF PARLIAMENTARY REFORM . The new movement for Parliamentary rie . ; . form has taken firm root . At the outset itid had to encounter the supercilious silence , ore contemptuous sneers of opponents , and to over ...., come the apathy and lukewarmuess of pro ... fessed friends . In addition to these usual . ! . ; accompaniments to all new enterprises , it wag s commenced . among a portion of the population ! : the most difficult to move in masses , and t | . . least liable to spontaneous and general excite-

      ment in the whole country . London—wliidx i is almost always the last to take an active } part in any-popular agitation , and which has , on many occasions , proved the grave of vi gorous and thriving movements originated " in the provinces—has , in this instance , prove } the birthplace of what is certain to become ; i great national association . The Metropolis '«; effectually roused , and has declared , uuequivo-. cally , its adhesion to the plan of Parliamcu- tary Reform ultimately decided-upon by tho leaders , as that which is equall y practical ^ i and moderate ; and will , at the same time , secure the largest amount of popular support . The originators of the agitation have judici-.

      ously enlarged their original propositions , and hold out the hand of friendship and sympath y to those whom they knew to go farther thaij themselves . They said to the Chartists , " Concession is not compromise . We arc at present unable to agree with your views , but as far as we go we proceed in the same direction as yourselves . Let there be no counteraction , but lotus all travel together , as far as our path lies the same Avay . We do not sav that you must stop when you get there j awl it is obvious , that our points gained , you will be in a much better position than you arc now , for prosecuting such further representative reforms as may then bo just and necessary . "

      To these overtures the working classes have returned an equally honest and friendly reply . They have not disguised their belief that anythingshortof a Manhood Suffrage , accompanied by the political machinery laid down in tlie People ' s Charter , will fail either to do justice to the people or to secure good Government . They have openly proclaimed their own determination not to stop short of that goal ; but , in the meantime , they have judiciously mid heartily united their forces with the middle classes for the purpose of securing an intermediate measure of representative improvement .

      To this great and gratifying tact—the restoration of good feeling and union between the middle aud working' classes , wo mainly attribute the steady and rapid progress of the movement in the Metropolis . Its continuance and extension throughout the provinces will most assuredly herald a speedy and a triumphant issue . It was the union of these two important classes which carried the Reform Lil ! , and no matter what the party or who the men that may be in office , they will be utterly unable to withstand the mighty and resistless power which they will again exert when thus cordially united .

      The judicious manner iu which the opening campaign of the Association has been conducted , deserves credit also as having in no small degree contributed to tho gratifying progress which has alread y been made . In the first instance District Metropolitan Meetings were held in the largest buildings that could be obtained , and public opinion freely and fairly tested upon the question . Having thus in detail received the adhesion of every metropolitan borough , except Westminster , a grand aggregate meeting was hold in that ancient city on Monday night , on which occasion . one of the most brilliant .

      numerous , and enthusiastic assemblages , ever congregated within the Avails of Drury-lanc Theatre gave in the adhesion of the whole Metropolis to the movement thus auspiciously commenced and carried out . During the palmiest days of the League , aud when all the attractions that wealthy confederacy could , command in the shape of eloquence , rank , and influence wore collected together , wg never saw a more magnificent demonstration of public opinion , and the meeting was all the more satisfactory because it was not brought together by mere extrinsic agencies . It depended not for its numbers upon tho eloquence or standing of the speakers , so much as it did on tho thorough , honest , and hearty appreciation of its great and important objects .

      From such an unequivocal aud powerful demonstration of the public opinion of tiie Metropolis of the empire , there can be no doubt but that the spirit of union , determinat ion , and energy will radiate into the provinces , and that during the recess , and previous to the rc-asscmhling of Parliament , the whole nation will have spoken out its decision upon tho question of Parliamentary Reform . The Ministerial journal already perceives in s the grovving proportions of the new movement the gigantic influence it is likelv to exert , and has , therefore , betaken itself

      to the congenial task of sneering at tne motives , misrepresenting the objects , aivA ^ citing , as far as it can , jealousy and disunion among its supporters . ' The " Times "—with its usual command of Billingsgate—accuses the advocates of tho proposed reforms ot . "folly and violence , '' and charges them with having recourse to " exaggeration and uutnilh in recommending them . '' It affects to sec ' tluvt no unity of purpose or principle really existed ( among those who addressed the meeting ) , and that it would be difficult to compose a party ot more incongruous or explosive elements than those Avhich were drawn into momentary

      affinity for the experiment of Monday evening . ' In proof of this the " Times" proceeds to adduce the fact , that the Chartists openly avow ed their intention to stand by "Universal Suffrage , Annual Parliaments , and Payment ot Members , though none of these points an ? contained in the plan of the new Leagii ' --We have already explained the grounds upon which the Chartists , without waiving or com * promising a single point of their oavu Charter ,

      ¦ have resolved- on giving their support to a measure which falls short of what they consider a just and final settlement of tho political claims of . the people . So far , therefor *' , from this difference of opinion being likely to cause any " explosion , ' ' the very franknes s or the mutual avowals of the middle aud working classes is a guarantee for tho permanence ot the good understanding which now subsi & ts between them .

      After making a forcible-feeble attempt to decry the expediency and practicability of the modified propositions ot the new association , the " Times" very generously proceeds to propound its views of reform , and to point out what it thinks " sober-minded" people oug ht to be content with j and having done this , returns to its dirty work ' of sowing dissent

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 18, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_18081849/page/4/