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ARE ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE \ THE BEST MEDICINE IN TUB WORLD. (
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Ato uuuicin/icvi Extensive Robbery.—On Saturday information was given to the police that the residence of Sir HffHnfH Al nnl AhArA rv* V' Z*1 _- — - *-*k
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Are Acknowledged To Be \ The Best Medicine In Tub World. (
ARE ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE \ THE BEST MEDICINE IN TUB WORLD . (
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ThUm ^ ci . ehas b . cn ^ rct ^ Bri ^ puh ^ cnl y ^ j few years , and P " V \^ *? J ™ XL ; tke rirtUeS of never seen success fJll °£ Z & ^ wherever tried , his Medicine ™ " ^^ a ^ commendation ; huntad *«^ mra ^ n J £ }; Zl that PAnn's Li rs Pills had l dfe ?„ £ Hnd w £ e ° tou 3 ta their P rais < . The startling j saved them , and we . eiouu h » e teje public at acts tnat ^ " »* ra £$ ? £ some may have felt ; the ! ^ T ^ r / ood which wuItTa from their use spread their ! coutmual good wmen t ther 0 is Bcarceij- a , m « v ?™ ftefe « rftbe globe which has not heard of ! SffiS ! » £ bEve eW . t for t , u Ke , wh ^ e , j ! £ Sntb ° tbe cost of transmission . The United States , \ ( fen-da " ln-3 ia , and even China , have had immense quautiries shipped to their respective countri-s , and with the ' same icsu lt as in England-UNivEssAL Goon . : The s ; tleot" Pass ' s Life Pills amounts to upwards ot j 3 C 003 boxes weekly , more than all other patent medicines put together . This smple fact needs uo further coinruimt ; : t tells plainly that the pills of Old Parr is The Best Medi- J Cine in the World . J The following , with many others , have bioa recently r ! CClTCd *—Communicated by Mr W . WHITE , Agent for Cirea-, Gentleman , — Enclosed is a statement m ; iie to me iu person , by a female wbo requests that her case maybe made known , that others similarly nfflxted . may receive benefit as she has done , tkrough the use of 1 ' aeb s i * ipe « I " nadbeen afflicted withafevere weakness , so . much , as to ultimately prevent me walking across tne floor ot the house . I applied to a medical man fur his auvice , but ] his skill proved to be nil ia vain . At last 1 w : is recommended bv a person who had tak . u PiSi * S LlV £ FlLL > to givcthem ' a trial . I did so , and l-eforc 1 took the w ' cole of the first boi , found myself greatly improved ; I continued the use of them for six weeks , ana am now Stronger and reel better than I have beta for years past ; and i ^ hi ' e I lire I shall bless the name of you aad Jour Pass ' s Lira Pills . By applying to mo , 1 have the liberty to refer anv one to her at her residence- I remain , Gentfeman , your " obedient servant , W . White . —Cireacester , May 3 th , 15 A 7 .
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& - . £ ; -.- y . —3 & ££ ^ LE ! g 5- The extensive practice o f fsy ? -, ";'* ££ ? £ *[ $% ' && Messrs R- and L . PERRY and i . > v ?\ " jW 5 ^ J-, ^;^|** s *| Co ., the continued damand for heir WOrVreatitled , tut ^ SlLENT FRIEND , "( one hund-ed and twenty-Eve thousand copies of which have be ^ n told ) , and the extensive sale and high repute ot their Medicines ht , ve induced some uaprincipleu per ; ons to assume tbe name of PSKRY and closely imitate tbe title 9 ! the Work aad names of the lledieines . The uubhcia hereby cautioned that such persons are not in any way connected witi the firm of R . and L . VEllKl and Co ., of Loadon , who do Bot visit the Provinces , and are only to ha consulted nersenally , or by letter , at their Establishment , 19 , Berbers-street , Oxford-street , London . TWE 5 TT-FIFIH EKITlO-N " . Illustrated by Twenty-sis Anatomical Engravings on Steel . On Physical Disgitalijieationt , Generative Inoapacity , and Impediments to Marriage . new and iraorovci edition , enlarged to 195 pages , price 2 s . Sd . ; by post , direct from the Establishment , 5 s . Gd . in postage steniDS .
Ato Uuuicin/Icvi Extensive Robbery.—On Saturday Information Was Given To The Police That The Residence Of Sir Hffhnfh Al Nnl Ahara Rv* V' Z*1 _- — - *-*K
Ato uuuicin / icvi Extensive Robbery . —On Saturday information was given to the police that the residence of Sir HffHnfH Al nnl AhArA rv * V' Z * 1 _ - — - * - * k
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scs . , ^ . . t , uroivenor-gate , farfclase , had been burglariousl y entered between 12 o ' clock at night and 7 the following morning , and £ 900 worth of gold and silver plate , gold and silver snuff boxes , a cold turquoise , set with precious stone ; . the contents of a cabinet containing ancient silver relics , a gold medal presented to Sir Moses on laying the foundation stone of the Birmingham School , j no ' her the gift of the Pacha of Egypt , and a thl d f om , Her Majesty Queen Victoria , carried off by theihieves , who are supposed to have effected their vB iaice Trith skeleton keys . ^ * ^ . .
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FAMED THROUGHOUT THE GLOBE , I 10 LLOWATS PILLS , A CASE OF DROPSY . Extract of a Letter from Mr William Gardner , of Hanging Haughton , Northamptonshire , dated September Hth , 1847 . To Professor Holleway . Sia , —I beforo informed you that my wife had been tapped three times for the dropsy , but by the blessing of God upon yourpills , and her perseverance intakingthem , the water has now been kept off eighteen months by their means , which is n great mercy , ( Signed ; William Gasdneb .
The Land Company
THE LAND COMPANY
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( From tbe £ > aity Actus ) Mr Feargus O'Connor is so hugely delighted that an official accountant has reported (« ha < his private accounts do not appear to hava iho' . in ) ths National Land Company to ba upwards of £ ' 3 , 000 in bis dabt as to tieo !& re he will never accept payment of tbo sum . Unfor . ! u ; -atily , however , th ' u liberal resolution will be of no earthly value to the 32 , 797 of its members who have not go : aliotmen ' -s on the lend on whicnthe money has fccsn spsnt ; it will benefit only the 536 who were lucky enough to . lraw prizes in the Great O'Connor Littery ; and
considering it WBBcbiifly from the laretr number that the turn to expended came into Mr O'Connoi ' j possesion , that gentleman ' s conscience ougfct , we surest , rather to requ ' -re payment of the money from the Company in order that they may divide It amongst tha former in . stead of making it a present to the latter ; atl ¦ ¦ t that is what our sense of justice , would dictate ; end not merely because Mr O'Connor originally acquired the cash so spent from the 33 , 797 unlucky members of his Company , but because Its division amongst them is all tha return they are likely to have for their subscriptions and their membership .
Mr O'Connor , it Is oell known , Is the proprietor of the Sovthebh Stas , end it is through that publication onlv that members ef the National Land Company can learn its proceedings , or tha state of its affairs . In its columns they are informed of the weekly increase of its funds , of tha estates in which jilr O'Connor hai invested their meney In his name , of the preparation for allotmerit , of tbe modo of agriculture by which b starvine wearer amy , at fiva minutes' notion , be converted into a - . driving former ; and , ' abovo all , of the place at which . key are to gamble for the allotments , ths cottages , and participation of thst rural felicity with which Mr O Con . nor proposes to do such wonders in the way of social regeneration . The Nobthebr Sua is , therefore , a paper of the utmost importance to those who have each fai : h in Mr O'Connor ' s spec fics as to take shares in his Lind
Company , Its members , accordingl y , club together their pennies to learn when they have any chance of admission into their leader ' s , or as be calls hfmsglf their ' father ' s , ' hsppy valley . Just then as tha numbers of the Ltnd Company augmented- , eo did the circulation of she NotTHEES Stab increase , uatil it came to yield its proprietor an income at the rate of £ i 000 a yesr at least , a sam we believe , larger than Mr O'Connor receives from thoso paternal acres in Ireland about which he so frequently talks . Thus deriving bo handsome an income , we ars entitled to eay that the mosey so spent by him on tbo various estates of bis Land Company , originally came in a great measure from the 32 , 797 parsons who have not yet obtained allotments . And it Is therefore we suggest that a division of the £ 8 , 009 amongst them would be a greater act of liberality on his part than making a present of it to their 53 S successful
rivals . And justice as well as liberality ( now that Mr O'Connor is In thehumour to be generous ) requires this eppropmtien ; for it is , we repeat , t he only / oturB they are likely to have for the sums they have subscribed to the Company . Large as the funds subscribed to it bare been , they are nearly all invested in land ; and all the land in which the ; have been invested hos been allotted . So that Mr O'Connor bis no more laad in hand on which to locate the 32 , 797 persons who are still un located , but who have . an undoubted claim on him for land . Fresh subscriptions from other parsons would of course enable Mr O'Connor to bay other estahs , but their purchase Kould of course increase bis obligations
to furnish allotments , and diminish the chances of his clients in the ballot box . Or suppose tbe ' reproductive p rinciples' on which Mr O'Connor has established the Company , to ba successful , as each allotment costs nearly £ 250 , it will require ( sotn * fimucial SBeretary , Mr M'Grath , told tbo committee ) a reproduction of £ 5 , 000 080 at least cef . rethe 33 333 persons Mr O'Connor has undertaken to provide land for can all be located ; and this sum it is admitted b y other wltcerses the ' utmost success couldonly produce in moralthan 109 jears from the present time . So that we are entitled to Eiy that the chances of the 32 , 797 to snjthlnjj but a rateable proportion of she £ 3 . 000 Mr O ' Connor ' s generosity has given the Company is sm ? . ll , and their cbaace to that is , wa fear , not very great .
Mr O Connor , we kaoiv , threatens to mortgage the esta-cs on which he has located hla fortunate gamblers to buy other estates with the mosey so raised , te divhlu them into limllar faims , and to locate o . her allot' . een theresa . An 3 fo he neys he will go on repeating this system of bujing , mortgaging , and buying , until he discharges the claim for land uudar the weight of which he now staggers . But he forgets that mortgagees in this country require the regular payment of interest on tbe auiB 3 for which they hold land pledged that the rocsipts of rent by mortgagors is a condition precedent to tac pajment of such interest—that np to this time he has msde no provision fir the payment of ront by his allo'teos—and that wh < never ho does fix thoir rents and name a rent day ha may whistle for tha money . It is exsctythls question of rent which will burst the gay bu ' nblfchehas Mown . Hitherto ths fundamental
principle of tbe allotment system has been that it shall be in aid of wajes only—that the land shall bo allotted in qiuntl'iej so small as to be cultivable at tbe leisure of the allottee—and that the greatest care shall be taken that the allottees do not become dependent on it for subsistence . Mr O'Connor ' s fine theory reverses all this ; his obj . et is to convert weavers into small farmers , and to make them dtp ? ndent for existence on the Isnd . He gives to each of hie allottees on an average three acres of laad with a cottage thereon ; and out of is produce end by their labour he exptcls thtm not only to live comfortably but to pay a rent equal to four psr cant , on ths cost ef their allotments . And this is juit the impossible part of his schema ; it Is what cannot to done . Mr Revans , the poor-law subcommissioner , who tg himself an agriculturist of large experience , states that eut ot thiea acres
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of land a man ennnut , with biswifu ami fninily mbolsi ¦ vtn il hop- 'y no rent . This ntntenu at li probably mi ciln mo one . But all ixpcriencu linn ohovrii tliui Incunnoc live if ho have to pay rent and tuicos . And umli i iiiih circumstance *—under o system the ba nil t . iul tin end all of which appears to bo the extension of pauperism wherever a-. topted—who will advance moni yon the uiort . gr . go ef these estates ? What , then , Is to becomo of tbo National Land Com . pany ? We await Mr O ' CuBnor'n reply with nonio ourlo aity . But onr own opinion is , thut the soonor ho yivoa the present allottees a title In fee sitnpli ) tbo sooner ho will be out of the groat * st scrape into which ho ever got , and that then his escape whl bii founded on dishonesty and injustice to the 32 7 !) 7 . ( From the Weekly Dispatch . )
The Select Committee appointed by the Commons to Inquire Iniotbfe National Li & d Comply , after a silting of nearly two mouths , have at length brought their labours te a close . On Tuesday night , their Cnnlrman , th . Right Hon . William G . Hayter , presented their Report te the House , which was embodied In tbe following moo ., lutlons : — ' 1 . That the proposed additional provisions to the Friendly Societies Acts , which are incorporated la the Bill , entitled a Bill to alter and amend an Act of the 9 . h and 10 th of her present Majely , for the amendment of the Laws relating to Friendly Societies will notlnoludo the National Land Company . 2 . That the National Land Company is rot consistent with tbe general principles upon which the Friendly Societies are founded . 3 . Thai the National Land Company , as at present constituted ,
is aa > Hogal scheme , and will not fulfil the t xpectations held out by the Directors to the Shareholders , i . That it appearing to this Committee , by the « vid : nco of neve , ral witnesses , that tbe books of procaedlnga of the National Land Company , as well as Hie accounts of tbe Company , have been most Imperfectly kept , and that the original balance sheets , signed by tha auditors of the Company ha ve been destroyed , and only three of those balance sheets , for the quarters ending the 29 ih of September , and 25 th of December , and the 25 sh of March , 1848 , respectively , have been produced ; but Mr O'Connor having expressed an opinion that en impression hod gone abroad , that tbe monies subscribed to the National Lsnd Company had been applied to his own benefit , this Committee are clearly of opinion that , although the
accounts have not been kept with strict regularity , jet that irregularity has been against Mr F . O'Connor ' s interes ' , instead of in his favour ; and that It appears by Mr Gray ' s account , there la due to Mr O'Connor the sum ol £ 3 293 5 ' , 3 d . ; and by Mr Flnlayaon ' B account , the sum Of £ 3 400 , 5 . Tha ' , consid- ring the great number of persons interested in the scheme , and the oona / des wl ' . h which it appears to bavo been carried on , it ia tha opinion of this Committee that p-jweis might bo granted to thi parties crncerned , if they hfcall so deeiro to wind up the undertaking , end to nli . ve them from the penalties to which th- y ciey ha * e incautiously sulj-cted themselve * . In tubmUting these resolu ions to ins IlouiO , it is the opinion of yi .-ur C -mmi ' . ree thnt It should be left cntlrelj i-. pen to ihe parties concern d to prrpose to Parliament
jev new meaiure :. jr the purpose of cutr ; Ing out the ejpecatiom and ol j Oic i ( rb * promoters of the Cimpiny . Such is the Report mu'if by tliu Committee , bf ; er exa mining every witness tendered by Mr O ' Connor In support ef his 8 "b < m * , and othero , whose praotleal experience in sach mat era , and icquiries iuto tbo present condition and future prospects of tbe allottee ? , led thsm to the conclusion that tho i cheme would in a short tin c prove a complete failure . On iho reading of tho report Mr O ' Conaor rose , end after some complaints of tho at tacks that he alleged had been raado upon him in tie public prints , he denied that he had established tbo phn forhh onn benefit , or that the account * hadbstn improperly kept foranj such purpose , and enterrd into som ^ explanations with reference to the missing balance
sheets , a & d concluded by saying that when tho gonerd question came en bo would go further into the subject . It is qai'e char , and , indeed , is admitted by the lest observation of Mr O'Connor himself , lhat eves , aa far a . * tho Hoase of Commons is concerned , the question is fur from being finally dhposed of , It is troe that tho Committee , to whoa the whole question was referred , have made their report j but , beyond ordering that report to be printed , tho house has not token any further slips In the matter . After the report has been printed and distributed among the members , tbe next proceeding will be to move that it be adopted ; and on that motion , the bouse having all » he t-vldcnce before it , may . arid will , enter into a full discussion of the whole question , Sucb motion , howevpr , is not likely to be made at this late
period of the Session . The chairman , after the observations made by Mr O'Connor on tho bringing up of the report , said— 'He should decline enuring into the ge neral question at present , but would ba psrf . ctly rsa ^ y to do so at the proper time , when the wholo of tho evidoLCQ ta ^ en before tho Committed had bean kid boforn tho house ( thi fifth report of tho evideuco had not thtn been prints ) . S ' r B = dJ atrin Holl thru ob-. erred th-t admitting tho facilities that bad been given to tha Com mittee to investigate the tflairs of tho Company , facould not conceal from himself the fact that tha win le of the original nccoun's , as stated to hf » ve been audited by Messrs Cuffoy and Knight , with three excoptisns , bad been destroyed , and would have been more satisfactory had thoso accounts boen forthcoming ; but without en
terlng into the practicability of tbo scheme at present be thought that in accordance with the last resolution oi the Committee , Mr O'Connor ought to takn some step tither for dissolving the Company , or introducing some measure with resptct to It . On the 15 ' . h of March , in answer to a question put to him , Mr O Connor stater ! that if tho Bill which ho then brought in should not pass , he intended to proceed to complete ri-glatratisu ol the C > mpany , Ho would , thertfero , now ask whst course he intended taking with reference to complete registration , for there might be some difficulty In obtaining coraplete registration after the evidence that bad been adduced , and he hardly thought ho would ba able to carry out that promise . There was another ' question which he wished te put to the honourable member . He
would r . collect that the fee-simple of a'l the propert ) purchased , with the funds of the Company , was vested exclusively in his name . All the property was assigned to himself end his heirs , and no other p . rson had an ; power with reference to thatproperty . In tbe Committee Ye was asked If thiy ( tbe C-jmmittee ) should decide upon recommending the scheme for Legislative powers would he transfer the property to thosa persons who bad r-ceiv .-d allotment !) , and his nnsuer nas— 'No dcubt ol is . ' He was , therefore , again asked , whether ho pro posed to make over the estates , which were then vested in his nam ? , to those perrons who , under the rules oi tbe Company , had received allotments , but for which allotments tbsy had at present no title ! The above weroi certainly leading questions , such as Mr O'Connor
put to his own witnesses when exarsined before ihe Comiiittse , and required a simple anewaC-yes or no ; but the lcarnei member did not choose ' to answer them in a straightforward manner . He began his reply by saying— ' The bon , baronet has gone more txtcneivelj into the question than I Intended ; ' and then said— 'If be had read the resolutions , ho would have found an answer to his question , because it was there left to the promoters of tbe Society to consider whether or no they would wind . up the affairs of tho Society , or apply for an extension of power from Parliament . Ashe had hot had time te consult any one on the subject , and it having been recommended by the committed that a meeting of tho shareholders should be held for the purpose of their being consulted , be tbonght it rother- hard that he
should bo asked to decide where seventy thousand per . ? ons had a voice in the txatter . ' When Will the bon . gentleman call this ' Meeting , ' and where can it be held ? Ktnntngton Common , the . scene of some of his recent exploits , might , perhaps , find room for oeventy tbousacd persona , to assemble and discuss the question ; but that locality might not exactly suit the convenience of ALh tho suhscribors , and somo of t cm might rather obj-iet to being put to iho expense of comiwc to town for that purpose . The ex-Trustee of the Company , Mr Ernest Jones , tho barrister , would , no doubt , very wil-Singly attend tbe meeting , but he is at prts ^ ut ; o particularly , but rathtrunprofesslonally , engaged ' at WiBtrnlnstcr , ' us banisters state , in little holes on their chamber doors , that he cannot possibly do so . In hit
case ' at Westminster does not mean Westminster Hall , but Westminster Bridewell . There are many ot the subscribers who can also plead Important engagements of a similar kind , as an excuse for their absence . So that it would be d fflcult to obtain tho go . neral seuse of the subscribers—if , in fact , tbey have any ecnao among thorn . Mr O'Connor conslud & d his observations by stating that he had received a Utter desiring lhat ha would ask tho honourable baronet ( Sir Benjamin Hall ) a question reapectigg his own adm ' nistia tion of public funds , and of tbe manner in which he makes u ? e of some of bis own property in the county ( Wales , ) This lu quoque style of defence was ft quontly adopted | by Mr O'Connor , pending the proceedings befori the Committee . Havo younev * r haard of any other
att . rapt to humbug the public , was the renl question often put to witness , though in a somowhatroundabout away ; and whenever it was hinted that tho party originatii g the L ' -nd Schcmo was a humbug , he merely said , 'Yen are another . * Mr Bjmverio asked witbin what time all persona engaged in tho soheme would obtain possession of their expected allotments . To which tho Chairman of the Committee replied that , according to tho evidence of Mr Finlayson , It would take one hundred and fifty yen ) to locate 70 , 000 persons , and that it was perfectly impracticable for all tho shareholders to obtain allotments . There , for the present , the proceedings have closed , aa far as the House of Commons is concerned . Wo are anxious to call tne attention of our renders to tbe feet that tho report of the Committee fully confirms all tho statements ih * t we havo , from time to time , made with reference to tho National L « nd Company . With reference to is Illegality , not the slightest doubt
exists among persons at all qualified to form an opinion on the sutject . On that qutstion ths CjmmUtee were unsnimous , With regard to the accounts ( of which more will one cay be sold ) the Ciiumiiteo passed ( v < r tbo matter very lightl y—but that is a matter on which wo made but few remarks—but as ! o the complete hum bug of the whole coneern , the report completely confirms all we have said , for the scheme is not only declared to bo illegal ^ but ia further stated to be one that will not fulfil the expectations holdout by tho dlrcc'ora to tbe shareholders . It is stated in tbe mos' - distinct terms that the whole concern is a complete failure , and all the Committee can say In its favours is , that considering the manner with which it hos been carried on , and tho great number of parties interested In it , pow . r might be graated them to wind up the undertaking , and to relieve all ths parties concerned from the penalties which they have incurred , Sat the public will naturally inquire
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why "i" ' ' a vorT moog ' "part has boen presented by tho OotninO-tco nfior a protracted sitting of nearly two months . Nothing whatever Is suggested , oven with re . forrnoo to tho allottees who have not the slightest security for tho t < nuro of tho land of which they are at present in posseaslon . The labour and skill they have appllid to its cultivation niay oil go for nothing , and tho projector of tho scheme may turn his ' chlldrtn' off the Inntl at any timo he pleases . The wholo affair Is left to Mr O'Connor and his dupes , who are to ' settle it nmoin ? thomflflves , ' no for as tho Committee ore con-CurilOlii Bat the Hnuso of Commons whenever tbe question again comos before thom , cannot allow tbe matter to reit whore it Is , In the meantime it is open to Mr O'Connor either to adopt the recommendation of the
Committee to wind up tbo Affair altogether , or to go on to complete registration . As to the bill he has brought in all tho legnl men exomlncd on the subject declare that tho Laud Company cannot be brought vUthlu tho meaning of the Friendly Scoietv ' a Act , and aa to complete reg istration , there is but little chance of that bt ing effected after tho evidence that has been given , and even if It could be , tbo expense will be enormous ; but there la this further and greatest difficulty , that no plan whatever will be bin Jing , unless the consent be previetinly obtained of the wholo body of the shareholders , a thing which Mr O'Cjanor well knows Is absolutely im . possible . On both these subjects Mr O'Connor was si . lent but by woy of throwing dirt in the eyes of the Committ ! e and of the House , ho pretended to sbink that the
charge agaiuat him was , that he had falsiflad tho ac « counts . That is not the charge , as he very well knows . The c harge is , that the scheme he has started is not one for the benefit of all the subscribers—for the advantage ( hfl has siated ) cf the tolling millions ; but a g igantic lottery , on a scale most unfavourable to the gambler . Tho lottery is one in which the holders of the prizes are wholly unsecured in t e possession of tbem , and those who « r « expecting pfizes may wait for ono hundred and fifty years before they gain ono . The whole scheme , as we havo stated from the beginning of it , is a mere bubble ; or , to quote the words of a learned judge on another subject— ' a mockery , a delusion , nod s snare . ' There are many parrs of the evidence which have not been noticed in the report to which wo may perhaps ad . vert whenever tbe report itself is brought under the
consideration of the hoase , ( From the Examiner . ) The prospectuses of Mr Fnargus O'Connor ' s Chartist Co-operative Land Company , or National Co-operative Land Company , or National Land Company , or by whatever alias It may now be known , appealed most skllfully to some of the jtrongest propensities that ex ' st In
man . They promised ' social and political emancipation , ' and tho more tangible henefils of two acres of land and acomfortablo home , with an advance of money to begin the world with , to every subicriber of £ 2 10 s , upon a perpetual lease , at a rental of £ 5 per annum , with the power of transforming tho tenure into fee simple on the payment of £ 100 . The first prospectus declared that 372 persons might be easily located on these terms , in tho oourao of four years . In a subsequent prospectus the directors , ' with tho great occasion rising great , ' pledged themselves that' within a very few years a great and beneficial change will be tff . cted in tbe Rendition of the t . llfng millions of Eogland . ' To exchange a life of dependence upon wages , exposed to be thrown out cf employment , abut up in close and stifling workshops from the free breeze and tbe sunbeam , for tbe life of aa independent proprietor , were irresistible attractions . And these promises were sbown to bo possible , by a most imposing array of arithmetical calculations .
After having witsiesosd among the educated closesamong men whose lives have been spent iu business pursuits—such focile belief is the promises of tho multiplication tnbleas engendered tbe Thtllussoa bequest , and tbe railway mania of late years , it is co wonder that men bent with ilepressing , hopeless , ill-remnnernted toll , ehould grasp esgeti ! at such promises . The Company was launched in tho latter end of 1846 ; and in February , 1848 , it consisted of more than 60 , 000 members , holding 180 , 000 shared , and having subscribed nearly £ 90 , 000 . Whatever we may think » f the judgment which guided these subscribers , their aims were spirited and honourable ; and the power of accumulating such a capital in so short a timo inspires respect for the energies , and confidcr . c 3 in tho ultimate destinies of the English working classes . But our immediate objict is to icquire what these men have got , or what they ara likely to get for their money , by Mr O'Connor's Land Scheme ?
The two great agencies < f the Company are a land purchasing and a banking establishment . It is to tbo assets and proluctiou of these two busiassses that tkv subscribers are to look , not only for ths realisation of the ppleuJid promises which have attracted them , but for security for tbo money actuary paid . How stand tha offsirs of the Land Company and tho Sank at this mi meat ? It appears from the evidtnee of Mr M'Grath the financial secretary of the Land Company , tbat on the 21 th of last Ma > oh tbe aggregate receipts amounted to £ 91 , 181 , and th ? expenditure bad been £ 4 , 373 , leaving a balance of £ 89 , 805 . As yet allotment hos taken place or only four estates ; tho eerll .-st locations being tffected in December , 184 G , the most recent in June , 1818 . Tho sg-Z rebate number of houses on those estates is 259 . No
rants havd yet been paid by any of the allottees , though these rents are a main source looked to for reproduction of tho cstitali The occupants do not even know what rents - . hoy arc to pay ; they have only * a general notion . ' Not above four or five allotments have been purchased , though this was another means relied upon for the reproduction of capital . The occupants have no leases , no titles . The contributions of upwards of 60 , 000 scbicribera have only sufficed in the course of two years to put 2 S 9 persona iu possession of houses and allotments upon a precarious teburo , tbo conditions of which are unknown to ( bum . Tbia is not all . The capital of tbe Company is stated at £ 130 , 000 and the expense of locating each individual , at £ 243 10 s . ; without reproduction of capital only 538 shareholders can be lecated , and as yi t there are neither rents nor sales to reproduce capital .
So much for the prospects of tbe promises held out by the directors be'n ^ realised . Let us next see whit so . curlty thd tubscriberfl have for the repayment of their advances in the evi-nt of ul ' . icuate failure . Their sole securities are the lands , tbe Exchequer bills , in which tbo b ^ lanc . ! of subscriptions arc said to bo invested , and the B-nk . There has been invested in the purchase ef land ( that in , actually paid ) £ 35 , 037 ; and there are two mortgages amouniing to £ 10 , 880 . The Company ' s ( or Mr O'Connor ' s ) stockbroker tolds £ 6 , 080 of Exchequer bills ; and there is a balance of £ 8 , 000 in the London and Westminster Bank : - The deposits In the Bank amount to £ 16 , 000 , on which it promises to pay fonr per cent , peranmm ( for the smallest sums ); and it has lent £ 6 , 391 to the Land Company , These are the only data we have whence to infer the state of tho Bank ' s affairs . Altogether it is to bo feared that if , In const qnmoe of the recommendation of the Committee of the House of
Commons that the subscribers be allowed to wind up the coocern , they avail themselves of ibis permission , the portion of tho original subscriptions refunded Is not likely to be very great . And for their ability to lay hands upon the fuads actually ia existence they have nothing but the personal security of Mr O'Connor , who holde ttw titles to all tbe land , is sole treasurer to the Lsnd Company , and sole proprietor t . f the Batk . Great anxiety is evinced in the Committee ' s Bsportto clear Mr O'Connor from any imputation of fraudulent design in this scheme , or of having unduly profited by it . It appears that he has expended some £ 4 , 000 or £ 5 , 000 more than he has received . To the full benefit of this fact he is fairly entitled . But wa would raspsetfally submit tbat the mere circumstance of the projector being out Of pocket at fke time the bubble bursts , is net sumcient to exonerate him from every moral imputation .
The scheme was hatched by Mr O'Connor . He is titular owner of all the lands , sole treasurer of the complicated scheme , nominal proprietor o f the Bank . He has taken upon himself tbe whole direction and the whole reBpsnslbility . The directors , the auditors , the trustees were collected by him , and aro for the most part merely bis creatures . ' Of three of tho trustees , one has been long incapacitated by sickness , and , though a gentleman of honourable character , Is In involved circumstances ; another has been Insolvent since January . 1846 —since before the Company was started . The auditors are two journeymen tailors , one of whont has bo place of businps » , and the ' other ia MrCuffey , the valorous member of tho National Convention whosa wife goes out a charing . Of the directors originally registered , cue gave as his address a house which does not exist , A deep degree of culpability attaoh'ea to Mr O'C nnnr for entrusting the management of so complicated a scheme , and the savings of so many poor Industrious men , to so incompetent and untrustworthy an ogency .
Tho system of management which he , the real sole d rector , allowed to be caried on , Is also discreditable to him In the highest degree . On hla first examination the financial secretary boldly stated that there wore minute bookjof the proceeding ! , of theCompany , and that he could produce them . Oa the second he qaalified his assertion by stating that tbtre were minutes book , bot the most-Injs were net regularly reported therein . 'Strictly peaking , there are bo minute books . ' Tbe manager of tbo Dank has' never examined obo ol the balance sheets which are sent out of bis office . ' Under the first
manager , the accounts ' were not ktpt In a regular form : ' ' since then we have balanosd the books pretty accurately . ' No ledger or correct account book has been kept of tbe expenditure of the different estates . Discro princiea exist between two accounts to the amount of £ 4 , 000 or dS 5 , 000 , The original balance sheets signed by the- auditors are said to have been destroyed , Mr O'Connor , the great Atlas of tho undertaking—he who by his ( Uttering promises Induced upwards of 60 , 000 poor men to invest their savings in tho Comptny , and who undertook the whole responsibility—ia solely responsible for the ineitricabls confusion in o which tbo las
endlrrrgulnr proceedings of his incapable instruments have involved tho affairs ef the concern . Tho worst feature of the case remains to be pointed out . According t * Mr M Oratb , the word ' Chertiat ' was droi pt d out of the title of the C mpauj in consequence of the unfortunate prejudice which exists throughout the country against the designation . ' * We wtro wishful tha ' , it should not be considered at all In the light of a political institution . ' Tho shareholders look upon it as , ' etrie . ly speaking , a social institution . ' Yst , on the 23 th of last April , £ 75 12 s 81 . ia entered as' paid ( out of the Company ' s monies ) to Mr O'Connor for Convention . ' It appears that some of the members of the Chartist Convention applied to Mr O'Conaor for money to enable them to return borne , and this money was given them for that
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purposa . No trace appears In tho books of this sum 1 aring been repaid . At the timo of the last general election nn entry uccura : « Election fund ; received by Mr O'Connor £ 629 . ' This earn wag received by Mr O C iDllOr for tho general purposes' of a Committee appointed to promote the election of liberal members throughout the country ; ' and there is no trace on the books of its having been repaid . There was also ' an intellectual departmr-nt belonging to this establishment In tha shape of lecturers . ' Three lecturers received each £ 2 a week ; and of theae lecturers , one , Mr Kydd , was a member of the Chartist Convention , and another wafl the notorloas Dr M'DoubU . Tho No » tdeb , h Stab Inserts the advertisements of the Company free of charge ; but its printer , a mere agent of Mr O'Connor , has ' been paid about £ 1 , 000 , '
by the Company for job printing * The profits of the Kobtbssn Stab average £ 00 a week ; and have been largely increased by making it the medium of information respecting the L < md Company . All the directors of tho Company , all tho trustees , all the auditors , the treasurer and solicitor tho financial secretary , ana ' tho gentleman to whom the monies are paid over , ' are ' prominent members of the Onanist body . ' All tbe Officers of the Company were members of the National Convention . Wo find political retainers of Mr O' Connor quartered on the Land C jmpany as salaried officers , though from their precedents little likely te be qualified , and from thoir intsrmlsslono obviously disqualified for the trust ; end we find others quartered upon it as lecturers , at a time we know them to have been traversing the land lecturing to a vorv different end than tbe
promotion of the Company ' s interests . In the midst of their anxiety to whitewash their parliamentary colleague , Mr O'Conaor , the Committee would have done well to have noted these matters . It le ntt enough fo clear our St John Longs and Hollowaye of the charge of quackery to say that tbey pay their woy as they go , It Is the quackery which enables them to do it . And the same rnle applies to political as to medical quacks . Mr O'Connor does not practice gratuitously . He paye his agents by appointments under the Land Company , and he drives up the profits of his Northb » n Stab to £ 4 680 a year obit fly by its means . No person has benefitted , or is likely to bentfit , by tbe ecbetne , ex . cept Mr O'Connor and his agenti ; and they have profited largely by it .
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ITS ENGINE DR 1 YEK 8 . Another numerous meeting of the Begins drivers and firemen , lately in the employment of the London and North vVestern Railway Company , took place at the Railway Tavern , Hampstead-road , on Saturday night . Mr Jonas Baow . v , engine driver , again presided , and opened the business by reading to the meeting the following address : — 'Fellow-Workmen , —Wo are now no longer the ser . vents of the Loudon and North Western Railway Company ; and no one will , I am sure , refuse to pay attention to tho statement I am about te make , at ti .-e moment we are leaving the greatest company in the world , to whom we have been for many , many yean—even by Mr Glyn ' s admission—diligent , able , and faithful
Servants , I say we ore now no longer in tbe employ o * this great and powerful establishment ; and it will btcome us to inform the public , without fear , favour , or affection , of tho reasons and motives that havo led to a result which we must of course naturally regret—and deeply regret—and which , as suri as I ata sitting hero , the travelling portion of the public , as well as our late employers , will aa deeply deplors . Why , follow-workmen , havo we left our employment t Mr Qljn admitted , at tbe meeting of the proprietors held yesterday , that tbey were almost under obligations to us for tbe manner in which we have worked the Immense and difficult traffic of the line - , but Mr Olyn states that 'the directors have not thought It right to allow those who hold sub . ordinate situations to dictate to the executive whether
or not tho superintendent who has been put over them , and whom the board have found a faithful , zaaloua , and active officer , is tbe proper ptrson to bo at the head of the establishment . ' We never dictated , fellow-workmen , as to whether Mr M'Connell should be locomotive superintendent or not ; what we complained of was , bis irregular , uncertain , harab , and tyrannical conduct to us ; and surely to complain of this is not to dictate . We bore this , as I stated to you last night , up to a point at which we saw it was absolutely necessary to make e stand , unless , indeed , we were disposed to submit to the cunningly devised classification scheme of Mr M Connell , which we were quite satisfied , from what we had seen of him during the two years we were under bis control , was Introduced for no other purpose than to carry out
his threat of 1843 , of reducing tho maximum wages of drivers to t > 3 . per day ; for that each was his intention can be proved by the testimony ef a person who is sow in this room . And now , fellow . workmcn , let us tell the public who this 'faithful , zealous , and active officer ' of two years' standing is , and at whose shrine we , the older , and surely , even according to Mr Glyn ' s admission , equally faithful , zealous , and active servants , have been so hastily and cruelly sacrificed . The public have aeen Mr Glyn ' s highly-coloured amateur plctire of Mr M'Connell ; It is but fair , therefore , tbat tbe public should also have his lineaments roughly yet truly sketched by the hands of those to whom he has acted as an oppressor . Fellow-workmen , Mr M'Connell was brought upon this line for the sole purpose of reducing
the expenditure . The directors know this ; and it was the character earned by him ton the Birmingham and Qlouocster line which prompted certain gentlemen , backed as I believe by the influence of Ciptain Moorsom and another , to introduce him npon this railway—a circumstance to bo deplored by tbe whele railway proprietors of tblii kingdom . Take the career of Mr M Cjnnell on tbe Birmingham and Gloucester line , Several of tbe victims of tho * economy' which recommended him to two or three gentlemen connected with tbe London and North Western Railway aro now present , and they can testify to the accuracy that he discharged every engine , man and fireman , with the exception of two englnemon and two firemen who accepted his reduction , at that time , of 8 d , per day—the highest pay on tbat line being
6 s . 81 per day . Fellow . workmen , this 8 d , per day was a severe loss to tho company ; so much so , indeed , tbat the directors interfered , and recommended that the wages of tbe ' Grand Junction , ' which were much higher / should be given , to induce active and experienced eaginemen to come on the line ; and those wages exist up to tbo present moment on the Birmingham and Gloucester Riilway . If tbe public desire to know tbe manner in which we have been treated by the ' faithful , z ? a ! ou » , and active efficer , ' namely , Mr M'Connell , let tbem call upon the directors to publish the memorial presented to them by us In April last , and to which bo answer was gives till the following July , although the answer , when we got It , , was dated in May . Aa another proof of the false economy to which we have
been sacrificed , we would refer the public to tha state ment made by Mr Qlyn , to tbe following tffucl : — 'In out working charges , ' says Mr Glyn , * we are able to show a saving of between £ 12 , 000 and £ 13 , 000 . ' How an ; pertion of this saving has been effected upon tbe northers division of the railway , I know not ; tut I can easily understand bow this saving has been effected by tbe 'faithful , zealous , and active officer' alluded to ty Mr Gl ; n . I havo now in my hand a paper furnished me since I left tbe company ' s service , by whioh I find that the number of engines under repair on the southern division of tbe line was , about six weeks since , upwards of 70 . Recollect , fellow workmen , we have only 211 engines to work the southern division of the line , and » e have had delivered npon it nearly 109 , new first . clasa engines
during the last two years . This delivery has enabled Mr M Conn & U to allow these engines to get out of repair and so keep out of the locomotive account tho expenditure far repairs whioh ought , properly , to havj come into the half-yearly Btatiment produced to the proprietary yesterday . The majority of the 70 engines that I have alluded to require to undergo a thorough state of repair ; and I ask you , and the proprietors of the London and North Western Company , how much of the saving of between £ 12 , 000 an 3 £ 13 , 008 would havo been left for Mr Glyn to talk about it tbo fair proportion of the halfyearly repairs had been charged ogalnat the last halfyear ' s receipts ? But Mr Glyn has bsea deceived by a false cry ef economy . A gentleman of his numerous and important avocations has not time to dive into the mystery oi that system of locomotive management which Mr M'Connell is now pursuing , to the certain and permanent detrimeat of \ hi interests and honour of the company , and to the want of accommodation ,
inconvenience , and safety of tho public . I om convinced , fellow workmen , that tbo groat body of London and North Western directors are utterly Ignorant of tbo scanduleus conduct to which we , ( heir late servants , h « ve been subjected ; asd the time will shortly come when tbey will be satisfied tbat it was not upon us , but upon our oppressor , tbat their condemnation abould have fallen . We , fellow workmen , can lay this pleasant eonvietion to our hearts , —that we offered to the directors end Mr M'Connell to submit our case to arbitration , and tbat we expressed ourselves reaoj to uo anything that any one dlslntcreited and honourable man should say we ought to do ; but misrepresentation hag succeeded , and we are now r . o longer Mr Glyn ' s old , diligent , and faithful aervants . We I solemnly declare , have been 9 aer : ficed by false Information and personal influence . We have honeatl y dene our duty ; the public will aoon find how Mr Glyu ' a ' faithful , zealous , and active officer' does hie . ( Loud cries of 1 Hoar bear . ' )
Mr Mahshali . stated that ha had it upon the moat authentic information from the city , that aome of the persons engaged to suppl y the placoa of the old engine drivers w ere such parsons as those who had the management of the engines in steam boats on the Thames . The Cusumah said , there was another eecurlty which tbe public had under tbe care of the old engine drivers , and which the new men knew nothing about . They hai a set of private signals amongst themselves which enabled them at all time e \ o tell ; he atfite of the line , tma to run their trains at any speed with the greatest safety .
NicnoLis Addison stated , that the 11 a . m . train that morning ( Saturday ) , from London , ought to have reached Birmingham at 3 . 35 p . m . The train tbat left Blrmlnirhflm at 3 . 50 p m . did not meet tho 11 a . m . train until it reached the Hampton Junction . In consequence of this the company had to be at tbe expense of a special train to Derby . ThU arose from the . Incompetency of the new
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driver being incapable of bringing on his train , BeJffeen Berkhampstead and Trinj he camo to a dead stand thereby delaying the half-past 11 s . m , trafa out of London a considerable time , After some further statements of a similar description ' not necessary to make public , the proceeding ? terminated at a late hour .
DEPUTATION TO MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT . Od Sunday evening the largest meeting which baa yet been held of the englno-drlvera and firemen who hava seceded from the employment of the London and North Weatern Railway Company , again assembled at tha Railway Tavern , Hampstead-read , for the purpose o ! considering what furth * r steps it may be necessary to take In reference to their position with the autborltie i of that line , Mr J . Beowh was called to the chair at nine o ' clock and said , the course he proposed to adopt was to read a statement which should go forth at the reply of the eath-e body of those who had quitted the strrlae of the North . Western Oampwy to tbe allegations which hai been made against them . He then read the fellowln g state .
ment;— ' Having seen a letter from Mr Cmd , tho Sacra " tary of tho London and North-Western Railway Com . pasy , In the Obsebveb , of this day , r » fleetin g upon the course which tho englnemen and firemen of that com . pany wha have left the line In consequence of a dlsputo with Mr M'Connell thought It a duty towards themselves to pursue , wo beg most reapectfully tu state , in the aam » snd on the behalf of those persona , that they took every possible moans for preventing tha woull which ha . Uu . fortunately occurred , viz ., their secession from the ser . * vice of the company . Though no longer in tbe employ of the company , we are doing merely simple justice to ourselves by declaring that we offered , firstly , to submit tbe case to arbitration ; secondly , that the whele of the old servants of the company who were receiving 8 s
. per day , offered voluntarily to have their salaries reduced to 7 i . 6 d . per day ; and , thirdly , that we would all be satisfied with the regulation of Mr Gooch , on the Gr « at Western Railway , being adopted upon the southirn dl . vision of the London and North Western Railway . Mr Creed states , tbat mony of tho ' old drivers and fl reme * have withdrawn their notice , and that others may be ex . pected to follow the example . ' Now , It Is true that about twenty men did , through misrepresentations , withdraw their notice , but fifteen of them , upsn learning the trick tbat had been practised upon them , recalled their withdrawals , and determined to adhere to their original no . tices to quit . It is with great regret we observe that Mr Crc « d States , < a sufficient number of new and praotieal enginemea . with unexceptionable testimonials from their former
employers , have bs « n taken into the SerVlCB . and employed In working the trains during the week ' iir Creed has In this ca . e , as our late employers havo been throughout this unfortunate dispute , most wickedly deceived , as we were prepared to prove , if the Locomc . tive Committee would have allowed the representatives of the preas to be present at our interview with ilium » n Friday morning- . We most solemnly deny , as Is insinuated by Mr Creed , that we have been in this matter misguided men , and we as solemnly assert that we have been sacrificed through tbe misrepresentations of Mr M'Connell , end the private influence of that gsntlemaa and two or three of hla supporters . Ie can ba clearly ehewn b y figures , which tvery actuary would allow to be correct , tbat whereas under Mr Bury ' s system a man
by good behaviour obtained bis maximum pay In eight years and a half , he would , under Mr M'Conaell ' s clas-B'fieation system , be at least from twenty-five to thirty years before he could arrive at the maximum rate of payment . In fact , the more steady and skilful the men engaged upen the line , the leas chance would there be of those In the lower classes obtaining » n advance to the higher classes until tfcey were too old to be intrusted with the charge et an engine , and , having been working many years at a minimum rate of wages , they would bo thrown upon the world without having been able to make any prevision for their declining years . Mr R . Waikeb , moved that this statement be adopted . Mr F Ailbn seconded the resolution , which was car « ried unanimously .
Mr E . Letcbtoxd , engine driver upwards of ten years on the North Western Btflwaj , said he has a most Important resolution to propose . It was as follows : — 4 That a deputation consisting of Messrs Brown , Allen . Melbourae , and Woodley , be appointed to wait upon Mr Osborne , the member for Middlesex , tbe members for Marylebone , Mr Hume , Mr Wakley , and other members of Parliament , requesting them to inquire In ihe Hoase of Commons of She Government , whether it Is true that a number of men have proceeded from the Government dockyards te take the charge of locomotive esgines on tbe London and North Western Railway , and whether members of tbe Metropolitan police have been allowed to ontsr the company ' s service to supply the place of porters put upon the trains in accordance with Captain Hulsh ' s circular , and also to inquire of Mr Glynj the chairman ef the company , whetlier there is or is not any truth in the statement made at the meetings of the englnemon relative to accidents and delays on tho line during tbe past week . ' ( Loud cries of' Hear , hear . ')
Mr R . Hodokinbon , upwards af ten years an engine driver on the liae , seconded the resolution , which was also put and carried nem . eon . A variety of statements were made , for the purpose of showing that when a deputation waited npon Mr Smith the chairman of ths locomotive committee , that gentleman declared that C > . 61 . per day was excellent weges , and tbat Mr Glyn also declared that in the pretest times persons who had £ 1 a week were glad to get 16 s ., preying tbat the object was reduction , The meeting separated at a late hour .
Oa Monday afternoon a deputation from the engine drivers , late In the employ of the Lnndon and North Webtern Railway , had an Interview wish the members for Marylebone , Lord Dudley Stuart and Sir B . Hall . They were very courteously received , and proceeded to state that their object was to show a substantial reason why the Government should be called upon to appoint a committee of inquiry , in order to ascertain if , under ex . isting circumstances , the safety of the public was really guaranteed , as stated by Mr Gljn , the chairman of the North Western Company ; whether it was true that the engines on the line were placed under tho control of per . sons selected from her Majesty ' s dockyards ; whether ths police had been employed to take the place of porters placed on the trains , in accordance with Captain Hulah's
circular ; and also tbat they would be pleased to inquire of Mr Glyn whether there is or is not any truth in tho statement made at the meetings of the engine m » i > , relative to accidents and delays on the line during tbe past week . Lord Dudley Stuart informed tbe deputation tbat at the morning sitting of tho House of Commons that day , Mr 61 yn , in answer to a question put by Mr Thornely , had stated that an attempt had been made by the engine driver clubs to induce the men from Rugby to Carlisle , also to resign , but that it tod failed , and ali that a great number of the men , who on tbe southern division of the line had sent in their notices , bad withdrawn them , and had resolved to stay in the company ' s service . Mr Brown ( the chairman of the bod y ) begged
to give this latter statement tho most explicit and emphatic contradiction . After a full explanation of their grievances , in the course of which Lord Dudley Stuart expressed his conviction , if the statements of the deputa . tlon were correct , tbey had been meat unjustly treated , Sir Benjamin Hall suggested that vhe engine drivers should confine their statements to matters of fact , —that they should make out a statement In writing of the delays whieh had taken place on the arrival of trains at Buston-equare and other places during the past week , and place it in the hands of his noble colleague for the purpose of inquiring whether such statements were founded in fact or not . It would then , in the tvent of the answers not being satisfactory , be competent fer a member of the honso to move for a com mitt on of in .
qulry as to tho state of tbo line . Lord Dudley Stuart expressed his concurrence in this suggestion , and laid he would give Mr Glyu due notice of his intention to put tbe questions . The deputation then withdrew , and subsequently waited ca Mr B , O-sbome , M . P ., Mr Wakley , M . P ., Mr Hume M . P ., and other members of Parliament on the same subject . On Tuesday evening the adjourned meeting of engine drivers and firemen wbo have seceded from the employ of the North Western Railway Cjmpany , took place at the Railway Tavern , Hampstead-road , for the purposa of receiving the report of the deputation appointed to wait on numbers of Parliament , as to the safety of the railway , and as to the position of tffiirs generally .
Mr J . Brown , engine driver , was agaia appointed to the chair , and the meeting was attended by deputations of engine drivers from the various other railways . The dfputatien reported that they waited on the hon ! members for Marylebone at tho St Pancras vestry rooms , and that they hid substquenily seen Mr B . Osborne , MP ., Mr Hume . M . P ., and Lord Dudley Stuart , M . P . at the House of Commons , Lord Dudley Stuart told them that ha had aeen Mr Glyn , the chairman of the North Western Cjmpany , and on informing that gentleman that he had , with Sir B . Hall , been waited upsa by a deputation from the engine drivers , who represented tho line to be in a most dangerous condition to parties travelling , and that he iaUnded therefore to put some
questions to him on tbe subject , Mr Glyn requested ha would not do so without giving him notice of tho questions he Intended to put , They were therefore , preparing statements of every accident and delay which had occurjred in const qut nee of the inefficient hands em . ployed on the line as engine drivers . Mr B . Osborne urged that the men should do no act which should com . promise their characters for respectability , either with rrgard to tbenewhsnds or with the company ( cheers ) , and Mr Hume was particular in inquiring who drove tha expreas and mail trains , as he wished to travel by the line but was somewhat afraid under existing oiroum . slanci'B . Allthehon . members expressed their determination to give the matter tktir most serious
consideration . Several of the dr ' . vers also made stfttemtntJi Qao declared that a new engine driver oa th & West . Loudoa Junction bad that afternoon run into aome coal wagons , smashed four of them , and nearly killed two or three men , Another that a new driver new employed oa tb » North Western had been dischsrged from the Eastern Counties Railway six weeks since for running Into a cattle train at Thetford , and throwing the va » , containing two guards and five or six drovers into . a wheat field , and tbat ho had been reduced three er fear times previously for causing collisions .
A resolution was come to directing tb * rules of tha clubs to be forwarded to Mr Gljnand th & thcee members of Parliament wbo had been waited ujouby the deputa . tlon . In order to disabuse their minda . of the statement that tha men , haj resigned iu ccawq ^ eace oi such las flueace ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 19, 1848, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_19081848/page/2/
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