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HOLLOWAT'S OINTMENT . Extraordinary Cure of a C « ntleman cbjkty years af age , farsrjBadLsg ; . £ rfraet if a Letter , fried Saxnamdham , lSfJi Jamtarg , 1 S 47 . To Professor Hollowly . Sis , —I beg to inform you that I niffered with a hid leg fors-onse years , and bad heen under tha Uaads of . i respectable Surgeon here for some uu . ut . ssi , without s ^ Uiup any relief , so that at last I mentioned fc > the Surgeon that 1
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IMPORTANT TO FAMILIES . THE POPULAR REMEDY .
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I-MP 33 TAXT TO MANY . If BE ?' COjlPOiJXfl SSSSXCE 0 * ' CUBEB 3 .-TIie « wist > spee : ! j nasi effectual remedy ever discovered furij .: cure cf die-. ' i . injj-s , gleets , strietures . tre .-. ' . ' * i : ss , whites , piins i ^ un ; iiijiis and kidnty =, heat irritatiou , au-i gr . ixcl , fns-. jv . sBi ' y rcmnvingevery sympt > = m of dis-rase in f . » ur -lays sr . i : i-iir . .- ; s soiiner . It cimtains in a cimceHtr . ited state a ; i tin ; eniracii . us parts < if tho Cuh : b combined wi' . h 'An ? n ' . i of sarsapariiht au 1 otiivr rhoice a ' tcrat vas which nuke it invaluable for cradiciiiiitrallimpurj : i ! .-s lf « : n tiic biuod . prcrentiug sccoiidarysyiiijitoias a ' , 5 v . 3 ' . > ff of t i « .: har , " olote ' i . es . & c , n : sd giviai . . ' . leii . ctit lid eccrgy to tee " . y hois system- It il . j-. _ s ; .,. t ooiit _; . ; : i mar cuiy J" J tnrln - aa , J Cl : « y 1 » taken by tiic must deikate or weskl f of f . tber s-. x witU perfect s ? f . ; tv , as well as benefit to HtHr central health . In ail easts of debiiitv it has hieu foand of the greatest utility .
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Case of Uin Lro of IS Yeass' Susdixo cured by Hoilowaj ' sOiuf . uo it and Pills —Cnpvuf a letter from Mr Fredk . Wright , chemist , 32 , Sidewcll-street , Exeter— " To Professor Holloway , Sir , —I have the pleasure to inform you that the demand for your pills aud ointment is rapidly increasing . Several remarkable and wonderful cases of cure by their means have lately come to my notice . One in particular , an old gentleman of this city , who had an ulcerated leg for sixteen years , and had spent hundreds of pounds without obtaining relief ; but was afterwards perfectly cured by the use of Holloivay ' s Quitmeut wd ras . "
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gout : uoutj : ooutiii The Xcw Speeyie P ^ en led Jftd ic ine / orGoat , Putronxsed . ^ the faculty , Kohilily , and Oenlry , &» . mUB Discoverer of this Invaluable Specific has , after I great study and research , proved , by facts , that this G . iut Mixture is tho only efficient remedy yet discovered for that excruciating disorder—tha expensive pills and mixtures , daily pulled off , having proved a complete fiiiiurd . This medicine claims a two fold suncriority over ? v * rv other jet producsd for the public good ; a certainty of cure , and are-establishment of health , in a few days at
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A X Additional and Important Evidence of the Salutary J \ Effects of BLAIR'S GODT and RHEUMATIC PILLS , from Mr . Thomas Yates . " 5 , Albion-road , Stoke Neivington-green 6 th February , ! St " . "Sir , —With much pleasure I acquaint you with tho benefit that I have derived by taking Blair ' s Pills . " On my journey five weeks since , whilst at Chepstow , [ had aistressing symptoms of an attack of Gout in otic foot , and with the " utmost difficulty reached Bristol . Uy : his time the disease had so much increased that I could outplace my foot on the floor , the swelling being extensive and the pain excruciating . Having oft- n heard of Rlair ' s Gout and Rheumatic Pills , I immediately sent to Messrs . Vcrris and Score , Chemists , Bristol , for a box , which when I had taken , the pain had wholly subsided I con-¦ i-iuedthe pills until I had taken two-and-a-half boxes more , when to my gratification I was perfectly restoicd to health , and able to resume my journey .
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P M-DOUGALLVS DROPS FOR GOUT , Ulieimia-• tism . Sciatica , Tic Doloreus , Lumbago , and all painful Afflictions r > f tho Joints . The unparalleled local reputation attained by these drops , during the time they have been before the public ( now upwards of eight years ) , has induced the proprietor earnestly to recommend them to the attention of those persons who arc lnhourillg under ihe painful eifects of t ?< e aiiore-inenti'iiied distressing cujiipi . iiiits . Authority has been given by upwards of 300 persons , re ? idi : ig within a mile of the proprietors residence , tdtiso their names as vouchers of Hie extraordinary effects and wonderful efficacy of these drops , which effectually relieve , in the course of a few hours , the most extreme case ) .. About 20 . C 93 bottles have been sold , without a sin-rie instance of f . iiiure having occurred .
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JS i ? IE CONCEALED CAUSE OF CONSTITUTIONAL . III ACQUIRED E 3 ILITIES OF THE GENERATIVE SYSTEM .
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This medicineis particularly recommended to be taken tofore persons enter into the matrimonial state , lest , in teovent of procreation occurring , the innocent offspring * ould bear enstamped upon it ho physical characters Urivable from parental debility Prioe Us ., or the quantity of four at lis . in one bottle or 33 s by which lis . is saved ; the £ 5 cases may he had , usual , which is a « avuig ' of £ 1 J 2 s . m
Indux Cor.Y.—Tlie Following Are Recipes And Instructions •Which Ave At The Present Time Extensively
Indux Cor . y . —Tlie following are recipes and instructions which ave at the present time extensively
Used, And With Great Advantage I>»D Econ...
used , and with great advantage i >» d economy , in the town and neighbourhood of Car . 'is ' e , and were furnished to us by Mr Jonathan D , Carr , of that town ; Plain-boiled Homint , or Indian Corn Shelled . — Tie one pound of crushed hominy in a eloih , allowing plenty of room to swell , and boil three hours . This pudding mfiy be eaten with sugar anil melted butter or treacle sauce . One pound of homily will make a pudding , sufficient as a meal , for five or six person ? , at a cost of not more than 2 d . when Indian corn is selling from 56 s . to COs . per quarter . Rich Homint Podding . —Mis the hominy , which has been previously boiled , c ither in milk or water , with egg * , a liule > ugar and nutmeg , a little suet , and nifh or with , out currants slid raisins , as preferred . Tie up in a basin , and boil two hours . It is excellent , cither boiled or hiked .
Pancakes . — -Take a pint of flour , one egg b « a < en li ^ lit , a pint of milk , and a little salt . Stir all ncU together , and hake on a hot gridiron in small cakes . Butter and Send them up hoc . Indian Flock Pcbihsg . —Mis a pint of ( bur with a quarter ofap .-und of fine sliri-d suet , stir into it a quart of boiling isilk ; when cool stir into it six beaten eggs , a lif . l ! nutmeg , lemon , and a half-pint of treacle ; tie in a cloth that has been dipped in boiling water ; boil four hour * , and eat hot with treacle suuee « r butter . To prepare H -mitiy ai : v Yi > g .. tabli \ boil whole Hominy in plenty of' water four hours , and strain it through a colander for the table . This is a beautiful looking dish , and forms an i-xrcllent substitute for potatoes . Equal parts of Indian and English flour make excel . lint household bread and cakes .
Elihu BunniiT , on the Modern Vulcas . —Elihu B limit lias-, with his uncouth name , some vary rude ideas of civilisation in general . Tho learned bhicksmitii . likc the learned pig , has but little harmony in his voice , and is anything but an "harmonious blacksmith . " His hammer-strokus of factorial stp . im , or ginokatori . il strength , are anything but sir . lets of wit : the latter commodity being with him a "dead nail . " But what lias the Elncan Elihu to do with wit—that " thin impervious essence of the soul ? " He has large views ( dissolving views ) of the political and Mahhusian economy of human life , lie is the " Delphian Oracle . No . 2 . " " Keep this bide up , —Glass ! " Another . Vulcan conic to revolutionise the lsiiigd-. iui ol Saturn , to transmute the clear limpid stream into streams t . f melted metals , the
" kisses of the sweet south " i . ito the Sirrocco blasts of sulphureous furnaces ; audio blacker , the bright and laughing sky with tha v ,-. jjoniy exhalaluiis and stenchy poisons of pestiferous cliiiunies , which he intends to plant like a finest , " thick as the leaves of Vallombrosa ! " But listen to the " Oracle . " "Then , " says he , ( after J have humbugged my victimised hearers ) the new furnaces and forges will illuminate the hills and clouds of Wales witk their mi ghty s ; iow , and the tall eiiimnies of Laih cashirc and Yorkshire will thicken to a forest . " Merry on us all ! what a total eclipse there will be ! But what a natural taste this modern Vulcan has fur " furnaces and forges . " Punch wonder * if he can sing—When Burriit forg'd the bulls of Fudge , At Mammon ' s shrine b . low .
He was « cll paid—and coull not grudge Ahead with knaves to go . Elian is in a Gx ! Like his i-rotoljpe Vulcan , he has stumbled in the act of presenting the blarneycup to the Jupiter Touans ; his deformity of purpose is visible to the world ; the million can despoil him of hi suffice of cup-bearer . to the purec-proud chimney kings , and destroy his elysium of " Universal lirotherhostl ; " tho million can consign him 10 a perpetual banisiinieut from the feelings , sympathies , and esteem of all mankind—of all who claim the green iields for tho revelling of the " harvest home , " and the cloudless empyrcum for their inheritance—unblurred and unauitnniiuatcd hv the
hlthy shadow of base , moncy- ^ ccking slims ! Vulcan had love lor his mistrcw , but . she ' despised him ; he made a mesh to ensnare her and her admirers , but the cries . ia ! s lauglied tlm awkward , bungling blacksmith to sown . Can Eiihu read the apologue ? —Miners' Advocatr , % 1 ) r Chalmers ' s linAix . —The cause of Dr Clialmer ^' s death was gfiierallyuuderiiiood to bo apoplexy , but the autopsy has sii <; wu it to have been disease of the hi-art , that organ having to a considerable extent been convcrtt d into fatty matter , and so becoming incapable of muicuiar action . The other parts of tiic body were decidedly healthy . Phrenology is rather at fault regarding J ) r Chalmers . From the
largeness of his head externally , and the peculiarity ol his mental temperament , the leading crauiologists have long spoken ol him as of necessity possessing , a large bii . in ; but the post mortem inspection of tho » nceplialtis has disabused this ie . ea . Thus , the weight of brain in Dupuytre-n was 04 f-z . ; in Cuvier C 3 , in Abctcrcmbic OS , in Chalmers 53—the average weight in pci sons from 50 to CD yearn of ago being 50 oz . 2 dr . O'Coiir . cU was also spoken of as possessing a brain ol extraordinary dimension * , and it would bo interestin ; . ; to know if dissection threw any light upon this . The removal of hu heart nmsjari-V inYWved the use of the scalpel , and doubtless it would have been used in the cranial as well as in the thoracic regions .
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( From tha Gazelle of Tuesday , June 15 ) Anthony Atkinson , Newcastle upon Tyrie , sharchroker —William Frederick Atkinson , Wakefield , Yorkshire , woolstaplcr— Wil . iam Uroster , Traniiicre , Chester , joiner —William Gideon Churches , liasinghall-street , Blackwcll . hull , factor—Henry Direks , . Vinsley-street , Oxford-street , manufacturer of malt and hop extract—Archibald Dun . lop , Lower Bglgrave-plnee , Chester-square , land agent-Edward Edmunds , Lowndes-strect , Knightsbiidgc , hosier —John Evans , Puinp-row , Old-street-road , paper stuiner —George Gilbert , Folkestone , Kent , shoemaker—Charles
Oilman , Canal-terrace , Camden Town , oilman—Thomas Jagger , Birkenhead , CUcsliive , vivtutiUer—John Fox Kern ; ., Uxbridge , grocer -Edmund Lord , Rochdale , Lancashire , flannel manufacturer—Joseph Naylor , Clcekhcaton , Yorkshire , clock niiiker—James ltobiuson , Man-Chester , perfumer—James Uollings , Lundport , Hants , stay inaiiufacturcr—John Longman Shepherd , BasinghaUstrcot , tavern keeper—Thomas Shiproan , jun ., William Birks , and Benjamin Shipman , Nottingham , laco manufacturers — Abraham Thomas , Liverpool , cart owner—John Watford , Stamford , Lincolnshire , innkeeper —William \ Yorsey , l ' orcbridgo , StafforiMiire , dealer iu , stoae .
Movement Of Tfhe Operative Masons F O R ...
MOVEMENT OF tfHE OPERATIVE MASONS F O R S H OR TENING THE HOURS OF
LABOUR . * Tim Masons ot London , who hare been agitating the Short-Hour question for tho last three months , hold their last public meeting , prior to presenting their testimonials to their employers , at the Temperance Hall , Waterloo-road , ' Lambeth , on Friday evening , June 11 th . The spacious building wa » crowded to excess . . Mr Jons Ward was unanimously called to tho chair , and said he apprehended nearly all present understood the object of . the meeting—it was convened for tho purpose of adopting a memorial to their employer . , urging them to permit the employed to leave work at four o ' clock on Saturdays , and thus shorten the operative mason ' s week ' s labour by an hour and a
half-Mr Warne , in moving- the first resolution , said the question " time" was a most important one , as the happiness of his fellow-men here and hereafter , in a grca * . meagre depended on it ( tleav ) . Ho bolievsd it was only necessary , in the present instance , to be unanimous to obtain success ( cheers ) . As regarded hours of labour , he thought alt trades should be put . upon an equal footing , and several trades already had the advantage of quitting their labour at four o ' clock on the Saturday . IIo repeated all should he on an equality in this matter ( Cheers ) . lie was h » ppy to sec so many present at this meeting . It showed that the feclinsin the matter was on the increase ( Cheers ) , lie thought it would he rcadilv admitted that , without " men , " there could be n ' o " masiers" ( hear ); and hence Labour should be respected . Too much labour was at present exacted from the men , and he could not conceive that their very moderate demandof a reduction of one hour
, ami a half per week , could be refused ( Loud cheers ) . No one could deny its necessity , and moderation ( Hear ) . We appear to be agreed that "time" is valuable . He even thought that a little mere leisure every day would be very beneficial—it would afford men time for self-culture , enable them to improve their minds , and , depend en it , as their minds were instructed , physical comforts would follow ( cheers ); and it would be impious to say that the Deity did not intend them to enjoy the manifold blessings by which he had surrounded them ( A pplause ) . The resolution he had to submit was as follows : — " Thai it is the opinion of this meeting that the present is the most favourable time for carrying into practical effect the o ; eration of tho four o ' clock movement , seeing that delays are not only prejudicial but highly dangerous ; this meeting , therefore , pledges itself to use the utmost energy , in order to secure for this question a triumphant issue . "
He ( MrWarne ) thought the adoption of the proposition would be beneficial to the employer as well as the employed ! as certain it was that the men would work mere cheerfully at their " banker '' when thev obtained this instalment of the debt so justly due to them ; and if they only united as ono man—speaking as with one mouth-their , labours must result in a speedy and triumphant success ( Great chewing ) . Mr Nus seconded the motion , which was carried unanimously . Mr Joseph Wood , the secretary , rose to move the second resolution , amid loud cheers , and said , they must be aware that , some time ago , they had met in this Hal ! to agitate the four o ' clock question , and on that occasion the resolutions were adopted
unanimously , and that a committee was then appointed to carry out its objects ; that committee have faithfully and diligently continued its labours up to tho present time : it has caused public meetings of the masons to be held in several parts of the metropolis , at all of which unanimous resolutions had been come to in support of the short time movement ( hear ); and hence the present "demonstration , " —it being a gathering from all part ? , and intended as the last prior to the presentation of the memorials . He conceived the present time well chosen for that object ; business was brfcli , anil there Vas plenty of employment , and shortening the hours of labour was the p ' revailing question , and therefore should be " the order of the day" with the masons ( Loud cheers ) . The resolution he was about to submit was as follows . —
"That this meeting foregoes the consideration cf any other grievance for the present , and concentrates its whole energies on this important measure , helievirn : that the best interests of the masons are involved in the triumph and concession of this right ; and , to the obtainment thereof , that we memorialise the employers of the metropolis to concede it . " They did not wish to make wider the gnlph at pvi sent existing between masters and men , but to conciliate and create a better feeling . Perhaps had this question been mooted at an earlier period , wo should have struck lor . it , but we have seen the evil of strikes , except on extraordinary occasions ; we would obtain it by other means . Let it be our duty to wait on the employers , in a peaceful , moral , yet
firm manntr ( loud cheers ) , and he had no doubt their firmness and unanimity would obtain for them what they asked ( Great applause ) . The drapers , pawnbrokers , engineers , and others , bad succeeded in obtaining a reduction in the hours of labour , and why should not the masons ? ( Loud cheers ) He believed that Trades' Unions , properly carried out , were the lest bulwarks of a people ' s freedom ( much cheering ) . He was aware that objections had been raised to them , and that some of our legislators had evinced a desire for their destruction ( hear , hear ) , but tho learned professions had their trades' unions—there were the UnivcrsUics ( cheers )—the parsons had their trades' unions ; for instance , a bishop would not erdain a mason , bo his piety ever so deep or his
learning ever so profound ( Loud cheers ) . V hy 1 becanse he did not belong to their trades' union s ( renewed cheer *) . Again—they could not practise as a surffcon unless they first obtained a diploma from the College ( hear , hear , and cheers ); neither could tli y practise as a barrister until they had taken their degioos ( loud cheers ) ^ Working men were told they were not to have unions because they had not brains f muigh ; yet only walk throueh London and see the magnificent works of geniu ? . Do you ask who created them ? certainly not my Lord Brougham , or the ivvistocraey . but the poor despised working classes ( great ciiecrim . ) . They had intellect enough for ihnt , but they bad not yet displayed tact enough to look to their own welibeing ( .. heers ) . Tradesmen and
orspl'iyers might increase their profits by enlarging the price of tho article but only let the workmen attempt to obtain sixpence per day mors for his labour , and it was criminal ( loud chee ; s ); but for his part he would infinitely prefer a reduction in the liours oflabonr to a rise in wages ( hrar . lirar ) . IIo did not despite little beginning ; . —we could obtain the h » ur and a halt , snid then proceed in our onward course until we had reduced the day ' s work to eight hour s , and entirely emancipated the labourer ( great ehceriiiL' ) . He had been put to the "banker" at ten rears of age , and kept at it for ten hours a day ever since , and therefore had but small time to devote to the cultivation of his intellect ( hear , hear ) . Chambers' said that the working men a century
or more ago , in tho Elizabethan era , were worso off than now;—that might bo true , but they were only just emerging from the feudal system —that system which only knew lord and slave . ( Load cheers . ) He had no objection to Brougham having a pension for his services , but he thought six thousand a-year too much , and he thought there should be an approximation something nearer to the wages of the industrious , inueniotis artizan . ( Much applause . ) lie had no objection to the monarch being well paid for her services , but he thought some of the gilded baubles attached to the crown might be dispensed
with—( great cheering)—let them obtain the hour and a half lor themselves , and they had the same amount of leisure in prospective for their children . All who wished for home comfort and domestic felicity would support the proposition . ( Loud cheers . ) Thecari enters had asked for a similar compliment , and had been refused ; but while Mr Grfcsell refused them , ho had said , " The masons are about to ask for the same , and 1 believe they will obtain it . " ( Loud cheers . ) The carpenters had made no previous preparation . The masons wore well prepared —( hear , he . r)—then go on , and remember the Cornish motto , " One and all , " and they would succeed . ( Great ch ' . erinc . )
Mr Smith seconded tho motion , which was earned unanimously . MrJosKrit Tuknkr said , if their agitation had done no other good it had brought a great number into the Union that was not there before , lie thought no man could object to sign tho memorial , and , he believed , the application would result in success He had much pleasure in moving the following resolution : — " That this meetingview with pleasure the success that has already attended this agitation , and believe that a / inn , manly , and peaceful stand is only nocossary t ttiumphantly establish this right ; . and , thereby , emancipate ourselves from the withering effects of excessive toil and long hours . " Th resolution was seconded by Mr Kvlbs , and carried unanimously . lvwas then resolved : —
"That the memorials should be signed by all the men in employ . " " That a de putation ot two persons from each job do wait on the employers with the memorials to learn their pleasure thereon , and that such memorials be presented on the 21 st instant .. " Mr AxnnKW Hooo , in moving a vote of thanks to the chairman , stated , amidst loud cheers , tiiata full report of this meeting would appear in tho AWf / teru Star of Saturday , June 10 th . The thanks of the meeting having been awarded bj acclamation to the chairman , the meeting was dissolved ,
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The r-AiE lamented Mr Youatt , in one of his orations to the members of the Veterinary College , observe * — " that by tho improvements iu modern chemistry , tho medical profession are enabled suceesstully to treat dlseases which were previously supposed as not within thf reach of medicine . " This truth has been mnnifestr . d fjr many years , hut in no instance of greater import , mice tomnitklndtliaii by the discovery of Ulna ' s Oont and UhueniiiiUi rills ,
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THE CONDITION-OF-ENGLAND QUESTION . The following !• $ iJie " substance of a speech delivered by Mr Samuc ! Kydd , at the meeting at the Crown and Anchor , reported in our last : — Chairman and Men of Loudon , — " It is true liberty when free-born men , having to adviso the public , may speak free ; " and as it 19 seldom my lot to meet the rich and influential , I embrace the opportunity of stating a few facts and arguments bearing on the rich and the poor , the really idle rich , and the really industrious poor . The resolution moved by Mr Cochrane declares that the working classed are not idleworking men obey nature , and to labou ' v is natural . It is a false and ignorant notion to suppose that men
are naturally idle . If man was not naturally laborious , property could not exist , an d the hall in which we now stand could not have been erected . The fact is , that the working classes of England have not worked too little , but too much . The Chairman has alluded to the times of Elizabeth . What was then tko relative relationship of England to the nations of tho globe , 80 far aa hor manufactures were eonccrned ? Why , at that time wo were in our mercantile infancy . The rich of the land were clothed with silks , linens , and woollens , of French and Flemish manufacture . Bounties were given by government to foreign manufacturers to settle in this country ; laws were passed to prevent the importation of foreign fabrics and the exportation of home-grown wool —passed wisely , to encourage homo trade . Since
4 hen a change has taken place in our commercial relationships . Wo are not now the apprentices of France and Flanders . England is the commercial mistress of the globe ; and is a people to be branded as idle whoso industry and skill have clothed the world and left her own peasantry naked ? ( Cheers . ) History affords no parallel to the increase of the powers of production , or a like increase in taking away from the producers . ( Hear , hoar . ) The foreign trade of England had been doubled since the passing of the lieform Bill , and by what process had this been effected ?~ by giving more labour and receiving less money in return , and , consequently , affording less wages to the labourer . Some idea of the result might be formed from Mr Fielden ' s letters to Fitten , in which the fact is demonstrated that from 1815 to
1832 , seventy parts out of one hundred constituting tho whole for labour , expenses and profits , had departed upon the four leading articles of cotton manufactures alone . Woollens and linens had in similar manner increased in quantity and decreased in nominal value , whilst the silk trade suffered still more from the increased competition and decreased prices . This system had enhanced the fortunes of tho rich , and reduced the labourer to a state of starvation , making him give two pieces of cloth instead of one—two days' work instead of one , while he himself possessed less command of every necessary of existence , bread and meat keeping more than their average value . ( Cheers . ) The plain deduction was , that tho working man ate half a loaf instead of a whole one , and knew of eating meat more in name than in practice . He spoke within the limit warranted by fact , when he said that this system of " rob labour and increase capital" had doubled the fortunes of the Jews within the last
fifteen years . An idle people , indeed I The shipping of a country is ever a ready and sure index of a people ' s industry . Well , how stands our shipping ? The number of vessels that entered inwards in 1839 was greater than that of 1833 by 7 , 635 , the tonnage by 1 , 303 , 027 ; the vessels cleared outwards greater by 5 , 442 , and the tonnage by Slf . OoS ; showing , in the course of six years , an increase of nearly one-half . Since then our shipping had gone on increasing , and shipowners were now reaping a harvest of prosperity , aad the people suffering a seed-time of adversity . Such is the reward of industry ! Their wives and children had been starved in factories , and their husbands turned out to be vagabonds and dependants , and when the sinew and marrow of womanhood and
infancy had glutted the market of the world , they were moeked , and called idle ! The old feudal lords had joined thoyoung factory lordsin the unjust course of aggression and oppression ( Applause ) . Tho fact was notorious in the history of English agriculture , that there were now 263 , 000 fewer persons employed in agriculture in 1841 than ^ ere employed in 1811 , whilst rent had increased £ 8 , 000 , 000 sterling per annum . If any doubted that statement , he referred them to the population returns for 1811 and 1811 , and to the property and income tax ot 1814 and 1843 . The system of the land barons had been one of extermination . From Scotland ' s . cold northern hills to England ' s domestic dales , there had been but one motto— "Oust the cotter , and increase tho income
( cheers ) , destroy the independent yeoman , and build mansions for farm-houses . " But" Rent , rent , rent !" was still the cry ( cheers ); crowd the towns with beggars , and ridthecountryof the poor ( Applause ) . Why did this state of things exist ? Mr Wakley had answered the question when he said . if tho people wer <; intelligent they would abolish every bad law . If bo could be allowed to enter into this question he would r ? ad some of those young men a lesson who talked so flippantly about civilization and liberty . These were pretty words and sounded well , but were they understood ? He feared not . A small quantity of humanity mongering—a grain or two of civility—a profusion of smiles , and some small talk about civilisation and liberty , bottled up . poured out occasionally , formed a
neat stock-in-trade for a genteel and enlightened election affair ; but they were weary of words , and required acts—acts of civilization . The fact- , were , property had increased to an unlimited extent , and knowledge to direct the same had increased in a limited extent . The great mechanical minds of the past had left behind them roiahty engines of power . Activity had employed them ; but , barn ignorant , and having but a short time to acquire knowledge , the people found the civilization ot the past was not sufficiently enlightened to direct the same . Man moves from barbarity to civilization by degrees—slowly but surely , and th oy were now entering upon a new erathe era of direction . Let them not doubt the truth , but look abroad , and be not deceived , The desire for
the possession and direction of property was as universal as the injury sustained by Labour . That desire was indicated in tho words " self-supporting schools , " " co-operative leagues , " " co-operative land societies , "—faith in the powers of Labour , anil faith in ( he possession of Capital Working men had resolved not only to feed the pig , but to eat the bacon —to keep the cow , and drink the milk—to point to the factory , and say , " There is our labour , and there is our property . " The old stereotyped doctrine ol the relation of classes , and duties of classes , would not fit such a change ; but the intelligent and growing mind of England was creating tho thoughtit was a new thought—and it was new not only in the history of England , but in the history of civilisa t ion , and it was for this great industrial country to lead the van of nations in tho direction of capital , as she had surpas-scd the eld states in her production of oroperty . The old forms of society were
gradually breaking up , and tho new forms were in conception , and in gradual development . This was a momentous era in the history ot civilisation , the greatest that the universe of Mind had as yet suggested ; but , the fire once lighted , would spread to earth's horizon—the thought once realised build up the future for all nations , savage or semi-civilised . The resolution contains the words "great and free people" ;—great we are , free wo are not . Their greatness was in the past ; but grandeur and freedom were in the future . ( Applause . ) Tho new thought of which he had spoken had originated in the centre of society ; it had floated like tho nebulas , but was now becoming a planet—a habitable world . Ideas formed institutions ; institutions formed government , All depended on Labour , and Labour desired the time when no New Four Law would be necessary , when no able-bodied poor could exist , iLoud cheering . )
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Biumixoium Co-orsRATiva Lhague . — At the weekly meeting : of the Birmingham Co-operative League , on the 8 th instant , the fourth number of the Labourer was read . At the close of the reading tho following vote cf thanks was passed , which I have much pleasure in communicating : — " That tho cordial thanks of this meeting bo given to Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., for his exertions in tho cause of the People ; and that this meeting respectfully suggest , that ho will carry out more fully the principles of cooperation . "—Yours respectfully , John Akfred Lasoror . D , Secretary . I | A Poachkb ' s Thap . —A gentleman , with the view , it was suspected , of introducing the poachers to the
constable and the convict gaol , applied to purchase a pheasant , the best from the preserves over which they occasionally exercised unlicensed surveillance . Price was agreed on , and money paid ; but as seeresy is the soul and safeguard of such transactions , he was taken to a darkened corner , and the bird warranted fine in flesh and beautiful in plumage , cautiously stowed away in his capacious pocket . Homeward ho went chuckling oil his success ; but upon unpocketing his prize , out there came " the bird of wisdom and of night "—an owl—• yhich , of course , was considered too serious looking a subjost to carry the joko any further : — Essex Herald .
A NoN-UiGiiLAND Puoduction . —On the arrival of ono of our carriers from the North on Tuesday , and when in the act of unloading , an Excise officer politely pointed out two tea chests , addressed " Mr — -, Glass—keep this side up , "—and instantly causing the lids to be taken off , displayed to the wondering on-lookers two . casks of prime whisky , which , being unaccompanied , of course , by a permit , were at once seized as tho rightful property of her most gracious Majesty . " Glass—keep this side up ! " what a label for a Highland package ! Had it been " blue slates , " or " ptarmigan ' s eggs , & c , " it might have passed muster ; bub glass frem the Highlands is a thousand times k . < mo ridiculowa Vlwn driving salt to Dysart . —Perth Advertiser .
Mtal AccmKST . —A youug man , named James Chappie , belonging to tho Mary Ann , of Goolo , now lyiu ^ in Picklo Herring tier , off the , Custom IIowso , iu descending tho vessel ' s side , for tho purpose of entering a small boat to go onshore , was unfortunately drowned . Ho had just placed his foot on hor gunwale , when tho swell raise ! by a passing steamer caused her to lurch . and ho was { pitched . oYerhoard { and did ust rise again ,
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of Westminster have won golden opinions Thr ^ set an example worth y of universal imitation r ? Te Have rcpudiated-disc arded-Faction , and tnii . J embryo subterfuge iu the shelj . Vernal honour ' 1 "' -they have nailed the Charter to the nast-h , ad ! * onset of the action . " NO SUHKEi YDER" u : „ " . *» on the . potto ,, pendant . Morally the , have proc £ l themselves- Do or . diu" men to the whole Wrtdl cannot brook theideaof compromiser even mtll , ' ?* the enemy The heavy broadsides showed amolT t . mbers of the open foe and their covert awiliS h 9 already made their craft dangerousl y Ieakj and ? , M requires a keeping up of the fire to send the-i hi ° * D & vey's locker . Uo ! D 8 to
Talk of Chartism being "dead '" Wbv u . only immortal , but invulnerable , ' its prin ' , . " not founded iu etcrnaljustice . it is the em . ^ W e / Tr , * , ? which abidetu for ever . No weapon , b , ThoilT ' wielded , can prevail against it . Chartism can ^ 1 " afford to stand at ease , while the factions fight 1 each other up , tails and all ; but the moment SJ . tagomsts of universal right aisail our cause ZlT strong giant aris « , and shakes the M & m ' , , \ " ? lion of the forest shakes off the dew from l 8 * 'j ! mane . ua sgy Chartism "dead , " indead 1 In days past it was known and felt to be alive in Westminster , under thehononr » bla title of " . Radicalism . " Then hundreds met and re sponded to the principles as propounded by Baory Um and Gale Jones . The holy Are which animated those men
burns in tho breasts of Feargus O'Connor and Ernest Jones , and other patriots now on tho stage , and thousands attend at a moment ' s call aad respond to the glo . nous truths which hundreds werttwmUosubscribe lo Men of Westminster , you have done nobl y . Yon bars yet at your head an Henry llunt-and more in Fear » UJ OConnor . You have yet a Gale Jones-and more m Krntit . Persevere , and show you deserve your laurels A word about Leeds . As a native of that reeky olaca I teel a right to have a word . ^ The Chartists (?) there talk of supporting Joseph sturge Joseph may have travelled in India , bat he has not marched with us in our travels through er / 1 and through good report—through persecution andprosecutionfor the cause sake . No , he eschewed the name of Chartist , and wished to bamboozle a section of the people by assuming the soubriquet of Complete Suffragist literal translation—complete humbug ! '
Joseph avows himself a complete Free Trader , which signifies , accordin ; , ' to the rules and practices of that fraternity , a grinder of the faces of the poor ; a monopolist ; a forestaller . Joseph declares his dissent from one of the essentials of Chartism , vote by ballot ; that is , he would keep open the door for the admission of the unjust interference of the landlord and the employer , whose interest mialit prompt them to the exercise of undue political influence over their dependants , Is this principle ! Is this keeping whole each link of the Chartist chain f Is this " No Surrender V Had Feargus O'Connor , Ernest Jones , or Philip M'Grath gone to Leuds on the same mission as Joseph Sturge , would the Whig Town Clerk , Jamea Richardson , a Whig to the backbone , have occupied the chair ! Had Joseph been one of onr brethren , would Edward
iiaincs second a resoiution . jcalling ujon * Joseph to allow himself to be put in nomination , and pledging tho support of the meeting to use every exertion to promote hit election ! Would Edward Baines say in his paper of a Chartist , as he spenks of Joseph , — "It is perfectly cer . tain , and has been from the fir-t , that Mr Sturge has the huarty support of the Liberals as a bod y V If any one under the guise of Chartism think ? ( to adopt the language of Brnest Jones ) to " stupefy English , men by such miserable narcotics , " as Joseph has vended in Leeds , may he find himself miserably mistaken Chartists ef Leeds , remember the two old adages : " You may know a man by the con \ p . my he keeps , " " . Birds of a feather flock together . "—Yours , London , June Hth , 1847 . \{ m Rides
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNITED TRADES . 11 , Tottenham Court Boat" , London , June 10 th , ISt " , TO THE EDITORS OF THE NOBTHEBN STAB , Gentlemeh , —I very much regret that the pressure of business ( arising in a great measure from our late annual Conference ) has until this moment caused me to forget a pleasing duty I ha > l to perform , viz ., that of transmitting to you a copy of a resolution unanimously adopted by tha vaid Conference : I now beg to send the following copy , and to assure you that the vote was carried with the ut . most enthusiasm and respect . I have tho honour to be , Gentlemen , Very rtspeelfully yam's , Thomas Babratt , Secretary ,
BES 0 LDT 1 OK . That the thanks of this Conference are due , and heroby given , to the proprietor of the "Northern Star" for his kindness in setting apart a portion of his valuable paper for the use of the National Association , and to the Editors of that Journal for the ability and ssal they have invariably displayed in advocating the principles of the Association . Thomas Barbatt , Secretary ,
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City of Westminstkr Mental Improvement Socibtv . —On Saturday evening a large number of persons attended the Temperance Hall , Broadway , to hear " The Merits of the several Candidates aspiring to represent the City of Westminster in Parliament" discussed . Mr Stallwood , in opening the debate , said there was a great evil attendant ia having cither military or naval officers as representalives , as it too frequently happened that they left the honour of representing the people to the more honourable and profitable one of cutting throats on foreign shores ( loud cheers ); and a Parliament , having many such members , was to a great extent , the mere creature of the government of the day , Looking at the votes of General Evans since his
last election , he had been pretty tolerable , and would do very well to follow , but was unfit to lead . The great demerits of Mr Lushiiigton were that he refused to vote for Universal Suffrage , under the pretext that the people were not intelligent enou » h . He also objected to a repeal of the New Poor Law Act , and to a limitation of the hours of labour ; and then his great age , sixty-five , precluded the possibility of his performing the duties of au efficient legislator ( Loud cheers . ) On the other hand , Mr Charles Cochrane had evinced great merit and fitness for a legislator by his successful exertions on behalf of tie poor victims who were deluded away to Portugal and Spain to fight for Don Pedro and Christina , and then refused their hard-earned pay ; by his
establishment of the National Philanthropic Association , and thereby laying the foundation of the measure— " Tha Health of Towns' Bill "—by the establishment of the " Poor Man ' s Guardian Society , " and the bringing of the witnesses from Andover . and thereby enabling Mr Wakley to bring that inquiry to a triumphant issue ; by his adoption of the great principles held bf Major Cartwright , the same principles so long and dearly cherished by the electors of Westminsterunder the title of civil and religious liberty ; by his courage in attending White Conduit House on the Fast da)—by his visit to O'Connorville on Whit Monday—and bv his courtesy , diligence , activity , and great attention to tho wishes of the people on all occasions , and by his great and unprecedented
humanity . Those things convinced him ( Mr Stall * wood ) that Mr Cochrane was the best fitted of all the candidates to be a representative of the city of Westminster ( Loud cheers . ) Mr Waltord did not think either a general in the army or a member of the K ; ist India Company were fitting persons to be tho representatives of a city like Westminster . He l thought'the member should beentirely free of govern * ment . Mr Lushington had told him ( Mr Walford ) that he would not support Universal Suffrage be- cause the people were not intelligent enough . Now , , he knew many shopkeepers , who were so ignorant , , that they knew nothing ot politics whatever ; yet i they had the vote . He , therefore , could not give J him any interest he might possess . He liked Mr t
Cochrane s humanity and his inquiring spirit , in i fact , ho liked him the best , and if ho had fifty voles s would give them to him ( Loud cheers . ) Mr Trumble a could not go the length his friends had done , as he a was not pleased with Mr Cochrane on his first appear * r « ance in that llall—at the same time , as Mr Lush- iington had lived in the world sixty-five years without it doing anything worthy of notice , it was much too x > late for him to commence now ( Loud cheers . ) H ° [ thought it would be quite possible ts and a candidate te with a greater expansion of intellect than either ot ot tho present possessed . Mr Brooms agreed with iM ? At Trumble ' s concluding remarks . He fully agreea ed with tho opener of the debate that we neither wantea ea military or naval officers , but civilians , who unaer * er stood the political civil and social wants of bepW ; f '
, , pie , to be our representatives ( Loud cheers . ) MJ iM Portwine said , the gentleman who preceded dwl m had entered into a sweeping condemnation of ah tD ° ' ° candidates—allowing Imorit to none—would it B ^ ^ have been -well had he told us what sort or manner « t « man a candidate should be to suit his taste ? ( lle ?'' X ' hear . ) Although Mr Broome could not scet a ttt , merits and qualifications of Charles Coohrane . he w » was happy to tell them that the electors of Westmiastcr stc saw with very different eyes , and that Mr Cochran ^ triumphant return was now placed beyond a nouu juu ( Loud cheers . ) On the motion of Messrs Bowler ana an Walford , the question was then adjourned un tint Saturday ( this evening , ) June 19 tb , at haltfwpitf eight precisely .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 19, 1847, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_19061847/page/2/
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