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Act of Parliament would December 22, 184...
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Act Of Parliament Would December 22, 184...
December 22 , 1840 . « = * _ THE NORTHERN STAR . _ , ^ - — - ¦ M *
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THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW Of BRITISH and FOREIGX POLITICS , IUST 0 R 1
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ON TUE FIRST SATURDAY IN 1850 , Will he published , ( I ' riec One I'eksj , ) No . I . OP A WEEKLY PERIODICAL , To be entitled HOOTER'S JOURNAL V To be conducted by Tuoiiis Coomb , Author of the' Purgatary of Suicides , ' And devoted to Intellectual , Moral , and Political Progres . iiiu ueiuivu iu uuciicciuai , jiorai , anu i ouucai rrogress
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SOW PUBLISHING , THE SEW SERIES OF frn rjE PENNY PUNCH , X A Journal of Wit and Humour , Fun and Facetirc . In Weekly Sumbirs , One Penny aud Monthly Parts , Sixpence . The First Vol . is now ready with illustrati'ins by Kenny Meadows , Esq ., Archibald Hemiing , Esq ., B . J . Hamcrton , Esq ., Ac . Tlie literary matter from the pens ofthe ablest contributors to ' old Punch' in its palmiest ' days , the 'Puppet Show , ' 'The Man iu the - ^ -tis ^ - ^ Si Moon , ' ic . Among articles of a highly popular character a series on Labour and the Poor , is attracting universal attention . Office , 1 , Fickett-plnce .
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RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY AND PERMA XESTLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS !! Iji VERY variety of SINGLE and DOUBLE - * KUt'TUttE , however bad and long standing maybe permanently cured by Dr . BANKER'S remedy , wliieh ' has been established several years , and used with great success by many eminent members of the profession , that its efficacy is established beyond a doubt It is easy and painless iu use , aud applicable to both sexes of all ages . Hundreds of testimonials and trusses have been left behind by persons cured , as trophies of the immense success of this ' remedy , which Dr . Barker will willingly give to any requiring them after a trial of it The remedv is sent post free on receipt of fis . by postoflice order , or otherwise , by Dr . ALF 1 SEH HAItKEK . 10 S , Great KusseH-street . IHooinsbury-square , London , where he may be consulted daily from 10 till 1 , mornings ; 4 till S evenings ( Sundays excepted . ) Post-Office orders must be made payable at the Bloomsbury l ' ost-oflice .
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RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY AND PERMANENTLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS !! DR . WALTER-DE 110 OS' amazing success in the treatment of HUPTUKE , is sufficient proof of the unfailins efficacy of his remedy . Thousands a ~ e availing themselves of his discovery , which must ere long entirely banish this complaint . All so afllieted are invited without delay , to write or pay a visit to Dr . DE K 00 S , whose remedy is perfectly painless , free from danger or inconvenience , applicable to either sex and all ages , and will be sent free , with full instructions , & c , rendering failure impossible , ou receipt of Cs . Cd . in cash , or by Tost Office orders , payable at the Ifolborn office , A great number of Trussts which may he seen have icen left . behind by persons cured , as trophies of the immense success of ihis remedy , and which will readily he given to anv person requiring them after one trial of it . Address , WALTER HE I 100 S , M . D ., 1 , Ely-place . ITolboriihill , London , where he may be consulted daily from 10 till 1 ; aud 4 till S . —( Sundays excepted . ) >" . !! . — Letters of inquiry should contain two postage stamps . In every case a cure is guaranteed ,
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GRAPIIIOLOCJY . " Tlie proper study of mankind is man . "—Pope . ipHE extraordinary success MISS DEAN i . has met with in delineating the characters of individuals from their handwriting , induces her ( through the medium of the public press to diti ' use more widely the benefits of this interesting discovery . All persons wishing to " know themselves" by menus o f this science , must address a letter , statins sex and a ^ e . to . MISS DEAX , 103 , CHEAT IIUSSELL-STKEET , DLOOMSHUKV-SQUAIiE , LONDON ( enclosing thirteen , postage-stamps ] , and they wiil receive an accurate description of their mental anil moral qualities , virtues ; failings . & v ., and many things hitherto unsuspected , calculated to guide them ' through life . "Your truthfut delineation from ( lis specimen sent , has amazed me . ' '—Miss Ellis , Huntingdon . " I send you three mure specimens of writing—the answer I have just received is extraordinary correct . "—. Mr . Monk Newport . ' - V > V nisli Miss Hean awry success . Iter faithful por . trayal of character is beyond everything we ever met with Itfiire . "— Family lier' . td .
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PAINS IN THE RACK , ORAVEL , LUMBAGO STRICTURES , DEBILITY , & c . DR . DE HOGS' COMPOUND EENAL l'ILL : ? are the oni / t ci 3 : tai . \ ccnu fur the above destroying cumidaiuts . as-. dsoa'd diseases of the kidney * and uriuarvorgans generally , whether resulting from iinjiiudeuce or otherwise , which , if neglected , sn frequently einis in stone in the bladder , and an ' agonising death , ' jiy the salutary action of these pills , on acidity of the stomach they correct bile and indigestion . |> uiify And jir <> ui < it < - ti „ . renal Secretions , thereby j . reven . lug ih ' : f . rmitlioii of ral . culi . and establi-djiug throti / b life . -, h < - ; , / i | , y nrif ( , ruiaiiee ofthe functions of all ih . se <> n-: ms . 'Jl .. y have , „ . („ .,. „ known to fail , and cm be obtained llu . muU nil Hedieire Vendors . I'riec 2 s . ! l , | . and 1 * . ( id . | ,,-r h . « ., <„• wjl | l ,,. sent free on receipt ol the price j „ t „ lit ! , e « i . ii „ , „ - . hv Dr . lie Itoos lull , hn-cii .. u * ¦ ik 1-, m :. | . a considerable saving eliected bylpwcha , inj < the larger We * ACTmari '
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THE PUBLIC GOOD . X A'Xcw Monthly Periodical , Price 2 d ., Stamped 3 d . It will " advocate Manhood Suffrage , Vote by Ballot , > o Propertv Qualification , Triennial Parliaments Equal Electoral Districts , the Separation of tho Church from the State the K « i > eal of Primogemtnro and Entail Laws , the Abolition of the Gallows , Peace , Temperance , l-reehqid Land Societies , an Ocean Penny Postage , and Social ECO XoI . will appear on the 1 st of Jasoam , 1880 , ' London : Charles Gilpin , a , Bishopsffnte-strcet V iHiout ; Avion and Jones , l ' aternoster-row ; and all Booksellers .
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TUE CUEAMST EDITION EV £ H rUBLISHED . Price Is . Cd . ; A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate of the Author , of PAINE'S POLITICAL WORKS .
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FRATERNAL FESTIVAL . I SUBSCRIPTION SOIREE , A Consisting of TEA PARTY , CONCERT , and BALL , convened by the FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS , will be held at the Litkkabx and Scientific . Institution , Johs-stkrei Totienium-couiitno . u > , 'Mi New Year ' s Eve ., Monday , December 31 st , 1319 . All the Advocates of Democratic and Social Reform are hereby invited to take part in the proceedings . » The full Choir of the Apollonic Society have kindly consented to g ve their powerful assistance at the Festival , accompanied by the Organ of the Institution . Tea on the Table at Six o'Clock Precisely . Single Subscription One Shilling and Sixpence ; Double Subscriptions ( to admit Male and Female , or Two Females , ) Two Shillings and Sixpence , may be had as follows : —
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O'CONNORVILLE . —THE LASD . rPO BE LET , Otf LEASE , THE TWOX ACHE ALLOTMENT , now in the occupation of T . M . Wheeler . together with the crops , stoek , several tons of manure , gardening implements , & c . The house is pleasantly situated in the most fertile portion ofthe estate , and the soil is not to be surpassed by any in the county . The stock consists of a sow in pig , two store pigs , a quantity of rabbits and fowls . The crops consist of several tons of parsnips , mangel wurtzel , and Swedes , also a quantity of seed potatoes , several bushels of artichokes , aud seeds of every description , twenty apple trees , several damson and ; . hunb ditto , and also several dozen of gooseberry , currant , ami raspberry bushes ; there is an excellent barn , toolhouse , rabbit-house , a liquid manure tank , and other conveniences ; half an acre of the land is cropped with wheat , quarter of an acre with tares , and a quarter of an acre with rape , cabbage , & e .. The price demanded is £ 05 . This is the greatest bargain yet offered to the public , as uo monetary value can repay the advertiser for the capital mid labour he lias expended thereon . The only reason for letting this allotment is , that the proprietor has engagements in London , which compel him to reside there .
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Barnstaple, Devon.—The Chartists Of This...
Barnstaple , Devon . —The Chartists of this small town sent £ 1 Is . for the cost of Slat-iiamai-a ' s action last week , and they earnestly call upon the Chartists of other places to sub ' scrihe for the above object . They justly state that their number is small , but that if every town paid in proportion to its members , as they have done , the just claims of the Chartist bedy would not only soon be liquidated , but a good sum would remain iu hand for a future campaign . Xottingiiam . —J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums , sent herewith , viz , : —For Mao . vahaka ' s Action . —A Friend , Is ; Mr . Wild , ' - 'd ; A friend , £ 1 ; . Mr . S . Hudson , « d ; A friend , Id ; Mr . Burgin , o'd ; A Friend , fid ; Mr . fetor Alfrey , 3 d ; Mr . Cbipiiidale , b'd ; Mr . Bison , til ; Mr . NcHors , Cd-. from llnlwell , 5 s ; from Carrington , ( is 7 d . Less 3 d . for Fost-Ulnee Order .
J . Skeumtt , Nottingham , begs to acknowledge the following sums , sent herewith , viz . : — foil Macsamak . v s Actio .- * Seven Stars Locality , XI 10 s Oil ; Victoria " Tavern Locality . New Lenton , !) s ; Collected at Council Meeting , ditto , is fid ; A few Friends at New lladford , lis ; Collected by Messrs . Hall and Moison , Sis 5 Jd ; Colonel Hutchinson Locality , i'l lis » ld . Tils Fst-vmiSii . DEMOcaxrs . —Julian Harney has received , for the Fraternal Democrats , a donation of one rocxn from ' S . 1 ' ., a Ucd Republican ; ' also Is . ( id . from Mr . U'iiitconioe , Greenwich , and Is . from Mr . Mann , Greenwich , for the * Fraternal Fund' of the same society . Mr . Gerald Massey . —A letter for you is in the hands of G . Julian Harney . Lougusorovgu . —Mr . Skevington acknowledges the receipt , for Macniunara ' s action , of the following sums , sent herewith : —Mr . Hudson is . ; Berry Is . ; Skevington Is . ; Taylor Dd . ; Chamberlain lid . ; Harris Gd . ; Woodward ( id * ; Wright ( id . ; Coulson lid . ; Uishop Gd . ; Botes ( id . ; Gilbert Cd . ; Clarke fid . ; Destcr ( id ., Arnott Cd . ; Harding ( id . ; l ' ratt 3 d . ; Weldon 3 d . ; Helton 3 d . ; Sundries
-lid . ; Collected by J . Jackson 2 s . Cd . —Total 13 s . 4 id . likpen ' ses 4 Ad . —13 s . G . U ., Leeds . —Iii answer to your first—Cannon Hall . Wortlcy , near Shetiield . M . J , 15 ., Durham . —Send forty-eight postage-stamps . Thomas Wilcock , Bradford The late Whig members were unseated for bribery . J . Dim :, Hull . —The lines are defective—moreover ^ they give prominency to men who are not worthy ol that honour . The Animal and the Vjjgetadli ; , —A correspondent puts the following query : — " Does a hum . enjoy animal aud vegetable life at the same time ? " Answer : Yes—when he eats bacon and greens . James Twaites , Lynn . —Wc know nothing of the as . sent for the printer ' s bill . Was it sent in cash , stamps , or Post-office order—or to whom was it addressed ? It has been frequently announced in this journal , that all monies should be sent to Mr . ltider . DiRMiSGiiAM . —Wc know nothing of the thirty-nine postage stamps , Wc have forwarded your note to Mr . Kevnolds ' s oflice .
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"UP GUARDS , AXD AT THEM !" " BREAKERS A-UEAD ! LOOK OUT- " "ALL HANDS TO THE PUAll ' , THE SHIf ? IS SINKING !" To surfeit , have wc repeated that tho industrial classes of this country , upon whose labour ami industry tho luxury of all other classes is based , can entertain no hope of any , the slightest , improvement in their condition , save through a thorough union of their order . When catering for power , the Whigs have invariably excited the people to madness ; and when pinwr has been achieved through popular fury , the Whigs have been tho first to enact the most bloody and tyrannical laws , upon the
maxim that what the people have done the people can undo . Upon tiiis principle the people of this country have ever been governed , but more especially since the passing ot the Reform Bill , from which so much was promised and so much was expected . Wo are to presume that the lc » din « organ of any movement is to be looked upon as a fair index of the mind of that movement and if such is the case , we beg to call the critical and jealous attention of our Venders to an article extracted from tho Dail y News of Tuesday last , and from that article the reader will gain wisdom .
However unwilling wc were to offer any , tho slightest opposition to any movement that was calculated in any , tlio slightest , degree , to serve the cause of the working classes , we , nevertheless , assured their order iu the outset that wc would remain upon the wateh-toivei- , ready to give the signal when wc antici pated deception , fraud , or desertion . During the recess , large and " influential meetings of this new association have been held , and at not one of those meetings has a working man , although iim . ly attached to the principlesof Chartism , offered any , the slightest opposition ; a fact which irrefutabl y proves the desire of the working class to improve their condition , by moral rather than by physical force . Now , however , we find that this chirruping bird is to have its wings cli pped—tbat some Dowmng-street , intimating to the m i nister
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modification in the Rate-Paying Clauses , or tho adoption of ANY ONE ARTICLE in Mr . Hume ' s programme , in the Session of 1850 , will ho received as a boou by the working classes . ' If tho Chartists had g iven their unconditional adhesion to this movement , allowing its orig inators so to construct the machinery as thoy thought best , they may have
received the intimation of their prospects for 1850 with complacency and satisfaction ; but their now allies appear to have forgotten , that so far from tho Chartists having abandoned a single particle of their own principles , they have compelled their now allies more critically to define their definition of tho Suffrage , and to adopt tho "NO HtOPERTY QUALIFICATION" principW ]
We look upon the announcement in the " Daily News" as a kind of despatch to the concessions upon which the Whigs may base their continuance in office . It comes just in time to allow of deliberation before Parliament opens ; and , no doubt , tho reader will gather from the article to which wo refer , tho fact , \ vhich we have more than once stated , that dread of a majority of Protectionist members , consequent upon an election , would induce the Whigs aud the middle classes to join in
any plan or policy which may uphold the power of tho ono and the monopoly of the other ; but then comes tho question , whether the people , who have constituted the body and nerves of this new movement , will be satisfied 1 To tho organ of the party we attribute no blame , inasmuch as a newspaper , which represents a party , if tho policy of its managers is based upon Free Trade , must be tho index of the mind of that party j and taking this view , we entirely agree with the following passage , selected from the article which we are now
commenting upon : — But in the' division of tho country into two camp ? , many a man hastens blindly to the standard which is not its own . Now , although the " Daily News" has , no doubt , blindly hastened to that standard which is not its own , we are not going as blindly to rally around that standard which is not our own . Our standard is the CHARTER and
NO SURRENDER ; and while wo ^ were resolved not to sully our banners by offering an opposition , based upon vanity or ambition , to any project which , if FAITHFULLY CARRIED OUT , was sure to improve the -condition of the working classes , we will not allow them to be deceived when no such hope can be anticipated . Again , tho "Daily N «« s" says : —
That such an appeal will be more than usually solemn , serious , and critical in its results , no one can doubt . And if ministers have a due sense of their position and of the danger of the country , they will render that appeal more solemn and effectual by calling to the hustings and admitting to the franchise the large , but not enormous , body of ratepayers iu every locality . In faith , we havo no doubt that the appeal will " be more than usually solemn , serious , and critical ; " but wo aro much mistaken , if the working classes will allow their new associates ' -to administer a tonic composed of milk and water to strengthen the nerves of Whiggery . But what does the writer mean
by the term '' , large , but NOT ENORMOUS , body of ratepayers ? " Are we to understand that there is now to ho a retrograde movement , and that—as by the parent Reform Bill of yore—the people are to be again juggled by this new-fangled bantling ? We have more than once predicted that all parties would find themselves in a fix in the next session of Parliament , and wo have also statedand we repeat it , that ' any , the slightest , surrender of any portion of those principles to the support of which the Chartists have given their hearty and generous co-operation , will be the signal for total separation between the Now Reform Association and the Chartists .
But , let us ask if Sir Joshua Wai . msi . ey , oi George Thompson , can acquiesce in the following ; pithy and understandable sentence , and expect for a moment to hold that powei which they have so justly achieved . The Daily News savs : —
" AND EVEN ONE OF THESE REFORMS , HOWEVER INCOMPLETE , WITHOUT THE MOST , SHOULD BE WELCOMED . " Now , what will a Chartist say to this molting down of the REFORM FAT ? Let us analyse this , and critically . Would they welcome , the ballot with the present suffrage , for that is one of the proposed reforms ? Would they welcome triennial parliaments with the present suffrage , for that is another
of the proposed measures ? Would they welcome the denial of the franchise to tho ENORMOUS BODY OF RATEPAYERS who were to be admitted within tho sanctuary ? And would they welcome the NO PROPERTY QUALIFICATION , with the present franchise ? With regard to Ireland aud tho present franchise , we havo too often analysed tho subject to justify repetition . Again , the Daily News says ;—
Nor is it merely the great questions of protection and free trade , which demand that the country at large should participate in them by their representatives—there is the question of finance bound up with them , and of expenditure bound up with finance . If through any dexterous , and party handling of the cry of protection , the landlord class should once more get possession of tho government of the country , and of a working majority in a parliament , we must be prepared to submit to a large increase of indirect taxation . Property will not pay , and industry must . And whilst property is not made to pay the holders of property , lioivevcr nominal , and of the govcrmn . cn t together , will scout economy , aud continue to the utmost the present lavish expenditure ; nay perhaps we shall see this expenditure- increase in order to support the despots of Europe , their tyranny and their reaction .
Now , in point of fact , does not the above resolve itself into the old dodge ? Keep out tho Protectionists by keeping iu tho Whigs , aud that you can onl y do by a large modification of your demands . In faith it-matters but little what party is in power , so long as the people aro excluded from a participation . We have so often defined the above probability , as to the restoration of the Protectionists to power—and our readers arc so familiar with the facts—that we shall
not trouble them with their repetition ; while wc may state , that a Parliament of employers , based upon the modicum of Reform pourtn-iyed by the Dail y News as likely to be satisfactory to the people , would be as unlikely to relieve the people from any one of their sufferings , as would a Protectionist Parliament . Wo agree that property never will bo made to hoar its legitimate share of taxation , and that INDUSTRY MUST , and move till the PEOPLE'S CHARTER becomes the law of the land . ' ¦ : ¦
"Live horse and you'll get grass . " We arcnow—upon the eve of tho meeting of Parliament , and after more than six months continuous agitation—told by tho organ of the active Reformers , that we " must bo satisfied with any change , however slow it may bo , and we aro to bo satisfied if tho Government will fling itself into EVER SO PARTIAL AN EXTENSION OF REFORM . And we are to look to Freehold Land Societies : while m the next day ' s number of tho Daily News we are assured , that it will require 200 / . capital , at least , for a man to work four acres of land . Now , could a greater absurdity bo propounded than that of
predicting that 1 avhainentary and Financial Reform may , ultimately arise from the Freehold Land Scheme ; while allottees , who hjtvo paid no rent for five half years , cultivating fertile land , and occupying commodious houses , arc pitied and -commisserated when asked to pay a halfyear ' s rent ? And , as wo have more than once stated , any increase of the franchise consequent upon the extension of Freehold Land Societies , Avovudbc used h y tho trustees , tho solicitors , the patrons , the guardians , ov the mortgagees of those allotments , whereas bv Mr . O'Connor ' s plan tho allottees would be independent voters .
Our contemporary concludes its comment thus : — The carrying ; of even ono article of Mr . Hume ' s mo . gramme , would he a great achievement for so early an eiwch as the commencement of 1850 . Nov should the olforU o reform assertionshe left dormant wlth 5 Ucn „ ° ™ °
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Chartists , if you aro satisfied with this foreshadowing of the anticipated result , from jour co-operation with tho new Parliamentary Reform Association , say so ? Attach no suspicion to Sir Joshua Walmsley , or George Thompson—offer uo opposition to their prograss until you extract from them-upon the platform-thatthe doleful foreboding in the Daily News reflects their opinions . But now is the time In little moro than a month the
. " Showbox" will open—the several jugglers will be prepared with their magic lanthorns , to represent the prosperity to arise from their several schemes ; but Eng land m now united with Ireland ; tho object of the Whigs will be to destroy the power of the Protectionists , in both countries , but so great has it become that it cannot now be demolished , except by the enfranchisement of the whole people , by the adoption of the PEOPLE'S CHARTER ,
NAME AND ALL . ,, ,,,, -j The reader must understand that we ascribe no blackslidhig or surrender of principles to Lord Nugent , Lord Dudley Stuart , Mr . Hume , Sir Joshua Walmsley , George Thompson , Mr . Lushington , Mr . Hall , Mr . Atkinson , and others who have taken a prominent part in this new Parliamentary Reform movement ; while it becomes the imperative duty of the people , to ascertain from them , whether or not the sentiments expressed in the Daily News reflect their opinions , and whether it is their intention to contend for , or rest satisfied with the alterations foreshadowed by the Daily News , should they , or any of them , be propounded by the Government .
This understanding is of the utmost necessity , inasmuch as the working classes—when deceived by leaders in whom they have reposed implicit confidence—are sure to be driven to madness and fury , which ever results in persecution and oppression , while , upon the other hand , we now feel convinced . that the union of the people will accomplish everything from the antagonism and disunion of their oppressorsand . to the people , therefore we say , " BE
STEADY , BE WATCHFUL , BE RESOLUTE , AND PREPARED . " Give up a bristle , and the animal will be skinned . The people can hope for no amendment in their condition , except through a full , free , and fair representation of their order , and that they can only achieve by a THOROUGH REFORM . READ , MARK , LEARN , and INWARDLY DIGEST the following : — ( From . tho Daily News , Tuesday , Dec . 18 . )
The present moment is one , which strikes us as imperatively requiring that all men " visited with fiscal burdens should be called to partake in the final decision of how they arc to bo borne . . On this subject there exists the greatest diversity of opinion ; of opinion not merely theoretically entertained , but deeply , passionately , interestedly disputed . The country has avowedly come , to this pass , that its most ' wealthy classes declare their inability or reluctance to bear their share of tho burdens of tlio state , unless they are protected , or
in other words helped to do so . This is tho case with the landed aristocracy of the country , not indeed with its more intelligent' members , or those most versed in the practical science of politics and finance , but still with a majority of that class . To got that protection , or to shake off the analogous shares of burden , is but too certainly the aim of this powerful interest . On the other hand , witli the continuance or restoration of the old dearness of corn , all that capital which derives its profit from the production of manufactures must become profitless and idle , and the hands which livo upon it
destitute . The interest of tho commom mass of consumers is identical with this ; ' and so indeed is the interest of the farmer and the labourer , could these dependent classes rightly understand it . Hut in the division of the country into two camps , many a man hastens blindly to the standard which is not his own . In this war of opinion , and amidst tho desperate efforts of tho party , against which judgment went , to reverse it , a ministry or any band of officials is comparatively powerless ; and political party , in its present fractionary state , is equally without the authority or power duly to resist , or permanently to decide . There must come the necessity of an appeal to the country at no very distant day . That such an appeal will bo more than usually solemn ,
serious , and critical in its results , no one can doubt . And if ministers have a due sense of thenposition and-of the danger of the country , they will render that appeal more solemn and effectual by ' calling to the hustings and admitting to the franchise the largo but not enormous body of ratepayers in every locality . Could there in each locality he secured to all an independent vote by means of tho ballot , and to each interest its fair influence in representation proportioned to its wealth and population ; then , indeed , a decision of parliament might be considered so autboritive and final , as to stifle the very murmur of discontent . It is impossible , however , to hope for all reforms en masse . And even one of these reforms , however incomplete without the rest , should be welcomed .
Of these reforms , the extension of the franchise to all . ratepayers is . most . to be pressed , because it is that which even the Whigs must contemplate . There are none of them , indeed , who must not sec that to leave tho Irish with . their present limited franchise and dwindled electoral body , is neither more nor less than to give up that country and its parliamentary influence to malcontent and frantic landlordism .. There is but the ono remedy , the one safeguard , the extension of tho franchise to ratepayers--which , however , imperative and indispensable , would still be impossible to adopt as a principle in Ireland , without extendi !! " it to
England likewise . Ministers , we are convinced , cannot meet parliament without a large measure dealing with the Irish franchise , and how they are to do this without enlarging the English electoral body at tho same time , we are at a loss to conceive . Nor is it merely the great questions of protection and free trade , which demand that the country at large should participate in them by their representatives— there is . the question of finance bound up with them , and of expenditure bound up with finance . If through any dexterous and party handling of the cry , of protection , the landlord class should once more get possession of the government of tho country , and of a working majority in parliament , we must bo prepared to submit to a hr » e in of indirect taxation
crease . Property will not pavand industry must . And whilst property is not made to pay the holders of propertv however nominal and of the government together ; will scout economy , and continue to the utmost the present lavish expenditure ; nay , perhaps we shall see this expenditure-increase in order to support the despots of hui-ope , their tyranny and their reaction However the fears of such danger may he exaggerated , they arc still not to bo slighted ' And over confidence is as much to be doprooated as extra e ? nl k ^ r . tSUC ! ' , ngei ' ' tlui POimlnr paitv can do is to be done by slow degrees , by those popi lar associations for electoral and financial reform which have spread their ramifications throughout the country , and the -freehold land societies , S ? cl , ? e « k to kiiso to an independent franchise the noor
nuusma , wmch the franchise will not stoop to reach . It would ,, however , be a great advance sunly so odious , it the government of the dav were compelled . by its necessities to fling Itself in o eve ? so partial an extension of reform BVU The carrying of even one article of Mr . Hume ' s programme would bo a great achievement for £ early an epoch as the commencement of 1850 Vol should the efforts of reform associations be left dormant with such a prospect in view .
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A GREAT SWINDLE . Sonic impostures can outlive detection It takes a long time to drive out an established . den , however conclusivel y its fallacy mav be demonstrated . People net more from tlhil than reason , and , like sheep , follow the bdl wotnor ft ] S on ] y by consiaeraf 101 ° ^ cse , that the continued faith of poor penS n Savings Banks can bo accounted fo T the early par of last Session , the defal cation s of several Irish Savings Banks were broSf before Parliament with the view of sadS
, the Governmnnt . with + i , « - ° ««« uing the Government with the pecuniary = b , . ties winch , it was supposed , they woiTsut ibvthe . ap ^ but Sir Charles Wood atW ^« 5 » 7 ; most unfair manner , c & t ^ h *^ *» vantage thereby gained Li * ? , adcommittee ™ obvioLlTl tod fl *™** ¦» poseof stifling inquiry ffi ' l * ° P ^ lK 0
mattne ailtur ended iu llothiu 7 % &* > people , vho had been awin & ut 5 fu ™ money by relying upon au alimed rl ** ment security , procured no 352 th oT ? ' = » 0 tas ^ S ^
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of tho Act of Parliament , they would have stopped the robbery of the depositors , years before it vas discovered . Another lamentable instance of the insecurity of these banks , has just been made public ; the late actuary of the Rochdale Savings Bank has appropriated between 70 , 000 / . and 80 , 000 / . of the small savings of the poor to his own purposes . The robbery went on for many years ; and such was the careless , if not dishonest , management of the trustees and managers , that it was not until the death . ., ^ ^ _
of tho actuary , this enormous defalcation was discovered . Every one of these banks is conducted on a somewhat similar system , which apparently offers no effectual protection against fraud , and when that is committed , the plundered depositors have no legal remedy or redress ; the whole scheme is a heartless and impudent juggle by which the few shillings that by chance escape the other modes of extracting money from the pockets of
the labourer may be grasped by the capitalist . Tho parties who combine to perpetrate the jugg le are tho Government and the " respectable classes . " The mode pursued is ingenious . An Act of Parliament is passed , giving a Government Commission the direct superintendence of these Banks , and requiring that , as funds are deposited , a certain proportion must be deposited in the safe keeping of the Government ; that is , invested with the Commissioners for the Reduction of the
National Debt . Then tho rector , vicar , magistrates , and " respectable people " of a town or district , start a bank for the benefit of tho poor in their respective localities , and their names appear as Presidents , Vice Presidents , Trustees , Managers , and Treasurers , on the faith and security of which the prudent and thrifty sons and daughters of toil aro induced to deposit their savings . Tho Actuary of tho bank is merely the paid servant of these managerial bodies . On his own responsibility the
investors of small savings would not deposit a single shilling . They expect that the managers ,-to whom they really entrust their money , will look after him , and see that he does his duty . honestly . They believe that these trustees and managers are really responsible to them , and that , besides this , the Government are bound by a « Act of Parliament to keep a sharp eye upon their proceedings , and give warning if anything is going wrong . The whole is a delusion . There is no actual
responsibility anywhere . Sir Charles Wood ' s doctrine and conduct , last Session , entirely divested the Government of any responsibility . It is now proved that th © trustees and managers cunningly contrive to evade all liability except for monies actually paid into their own hands , and as they take care that shall be very little , the security they give to the depositors is as hollow as that of
tho Government . The specious and attractive checks , by which it is pretended that frauds can be effectually prevented , arc mere shams . They afford no protection whatever ; either because they are in themselves worthless , or because the ostensible managers merely lend the use of their names , and never trouble themselves about the performance of their nominal duties .
Thirty Millions of sterling money have been invested on this rotten basis . The industrious and thrifty workmen- —the hardworked domestic servant—the village Club and town Benefit Society—have poured their accumulated savings into the coffers of these banks , under the belief that they were guaranteed , against loss , both by the Government and tli j trustees . It now turns out , that there is not the slightest real responsibility anywhere . That they are at the mercy of any rogue who is clever enough to throw dust in the eyes of
lazy " respectables" who may choose to aspire to the honour of being trustees and managers . For at least ten years , Mr . HawoRTH , the Rochdale Actuary , has been carrying on his gigantic frauds ; and though he had abstracted the vast sum of nearl y 80 , O 00 Z ., the managers had not the slightest suspicion that anything was wrong . It was only after his sudden decease that it was found there was a " screw loose , " and the investigations were set on foot , which have resulted in the announcement of so appalling a loss to the poorer classes of Rochdale aud its vicinity .
The late Actuary was " a very respectable man . " He was a Quaker , and kept up tho appearance of great wealth . He embarked largely in speculations of all kinds , and with the money of which the poor were plundered , made a show of affluence which deceived his victims . Who among the depositors could suspect a man who was a cotton spinner and manufacturer , as well as steward for several influential families ? The besetting sin of the English people is to worship Mammon . They will prostrate themselves in the dust before
any man who possesses the reputation of being rich . While George Hudson was carrying on his gigantic frauds , dukes and duchesses , earls and countesses , lords and lordlin < rs" respectable people , " of all degrees—crowded his parties . Ho was a vulgar , bullying , purseproud man : but his ignorance and his coarseness did not repel the polished fashionable of May-fair . Ho was beslavered all over with adulation , and worshi pped almost as if he had been
a Deity . Gold covered all defers . The discovery of his " cooked accounts "—his curious mode of . " making things pleasant "—we verily believe would not have dispersed the sycophants who fawned upon him , had they not involved at the same time the loss of the wealth he had so nefariousl y heaped together , lhat was a blow their attachment could not survive . It destroyed that which' alone constituted him their idol .
» i e imprison and transport miserable , ignorant and wretched creatures , for stealing a few shillings , under the influence of want aud destitution ; but our respectable criminalsour plunderers upon a large scale—go scot tree . The frequent recurrence of such fririitnil robberies in these Savings Banks , ought to make the people at large reconsider tho whole question , and demand either that they shall have a bona fide securit y given to them , or their nionov hnol .- ., ~«;„ - \ xr . . ' ., their money back again
. Wo wonder , if there was a general run upon Savings Banks , how much of the Thirty Millions v-ould be missing ( We have some uneasy suspicions ^ lir ^ ' «**»«* * at a special act , , nX it " CilSh pa > 'raeuts > WW spe « % make its appearance . * J At Rochdale it appears that a large number of uncnrolled Friendlv sinner Druids Sm 1 ? \ f V ? Fl -eemasons , imuda , Udd lellows , Shepherds , Foresters and other sim lar bodies , Jaaretand uSS associations , though their objects are of the rl . P ^^^ ***** It is iu the of the other
power depositors to take auobicS pa icipation m any composition that may be SSaSKi ^ si and dra ^ m f ia SS ° l he ™ ° / ™> d b-itgSiafia ^ jects , offe " 'T 2 ? ^ n 01 ' to can 7 out its dbonheSTefforts Stl 3 *»*&* . The Mime 1 * the Wo ^ S elan ** the depositors ia
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 22, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_22121849/page/4/
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