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Testimonial xo Alderman THoiirso.v On th,
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THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
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THE HORTHERH STAR SATURDAY, JUXY 20, IS51
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Just 1 'abiisnea , IN NOS . AT ONE PENNY EACH , THE EMISRANT'S Glliol TO THE GOLDEN LAND flALIP OR . N I A \ J ITS FAST HIST 011 Y ; ITS PRESENT POSITION ; ITS FUTOKE PROSPECTS : TSTTH A MISUTE AND ACTHESTIC ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE GOLD KEGIOX , AND THE SUBSEOTJEXT IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS .
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In Nos . at One Pennv each , splendidly Illustrated , A HISTORY OF THE DIFFERENT EXPEDITIONS ENGAGED IS THE SEASCH FOR SIR J . FRANKLIN COSTAtStSa ALL IDE RECENT VOYAGES TO THE POUR REGIONS . Including in particular the Expedition sent out under the command OF SIR JAMES BOSS TO DAVIS' STRAITS AND Of Commander Moore and Captain Kellott , to Bearing ' s Straits . "With an authentic copy of the dispatches received from SIR GEORGE SHIiPSOH , Of THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY With other important and highly interesting informa-
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Now Publishing in Nos . at One Penny eacii . Bv the Authoress of'The Gifsey Gibu ' Each Pessi Ncmber of this Novel will contain Sixteen Pages of solid print . THE TRIALS " OF LOVE OS , WOMAN'S REWARD ; BY JSss . H . SI . LOWNDES .
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BE AUTIFUL HAIR , WHISKERS , EYEBHOWS , & c ., may be , with certainty , obtained riynsing a very small portion of itOSALIE COOPELLE'S PARISIAN POMAIlE . every morning , instead of any oil or other preparation . A fortnight ' s use will , in most instances , show its surprising properties in producing and curling Whiskers , Hair , ic , at any age , from whatever cause deficient ; as also checking greyness , ic . For children it is indispensable , forming the basis of a beautiful head of hair , and rendering the use of die small comb unnecessary . Persons who have been deceived by ridiculously named imitations of this Pomade , will do well to make one trial of the genuine preparation , which they will never regret . Price 2 s . per pot , sent post free with instructions , & c , on receipt ot twenty . fonr stamps , by Madame COUPELLE , Ely-place , Holborn , London . Important Notice . —None is genuiue unless the signature 'Hosalie CocpEtLE , * is in red letters on a white ground on the stamp round each package of her preparations , testimonials , the originals of which , with many others , may he seen at the establishment .
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ISth mst ., about htty gentlemen , connected with the ward of Cheap , dined together at tbe Plough Tavern , Blackwall , on which occasion an elegant piece of plate was presented to Alderwan Thompeon , as a testimony of the estimation in which he was held . The alderman , in a speech of much feeling , acknowledged the compliment paid him and expressed tbe satisfaction he felt at havin ^ been adjud ged b y his fellow-citizens to have oerformed big dnty . The Kev . air . Blew , of Gravesend , who was suspended by the Bishop of Rochester , has sold his yroprietHry church to Cardinal Wiseman .
The Crystal Palace.
THE CRYSTAL PALACE .
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The following Engravings of Ms ^ rivalled edifice , are now readv , and may behaa at tma Office : — [ -View of the Exterior of the Building ; ' a munificent print-two feet long- exquisitely ™ ved ; from a drawing furnished by Messrs Fox and Henderson ; and consequently correct h . every respect . Pkice ONLY . SlXPESCE . it—Proofs of the Same Flint , printed on thick Imperial Drawing Paper . Price Ose SmixiNo .
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TUE PORTRAIT OF SIR ROBERT PEEL . A few impressions of this Magnificent Portrait of the late great Statesman are still left , and may be had at this Office .
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NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Ornce , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand . IT HE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE - hereby announce the following meetings : — On Sundaj next , at three o ' clock iu the afternoon , the Lambeth locality will meet at the South London Hall , and Mr . Pattinson , the sub-secretary , will be in attendance to enrol members . On Sunday evening next , at the Cr « wn and Anchor , Cheshire-street , Waterloo Town . On the same evening , at the Bricklayers' Arms , Tonbri < lge- £ ireet , 2 few-road , a lecture will be delivered . On Sunday evciiinn , July 27 ih , at the Literary and Seion ' tific Institution , Jolm-street , Mr . Henry Knight will lecture . Subject : ' Sunday Services and Sunday Sermons . ' On the same evening , at the Literary and Scientific In . stitution , Leicester-place . St . Peter ' s-terrace , Hattongarden , Mr . W . Broom will lecture .
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EMIGRATION . THE LAND ! THE LAND ! TO THE ^ ORlilNCr CLASSES AND OTHERS . - In consequence ot the immense success that has attended the societies instituted by Mr . W . 1 ) . Huffy , a few friends have joined with him in a society , for the purpose of Emigration and General Colonisation ; they purpose to issue 5 , 009 shares of one pound each , deposit 2 s . Od . per share , calls 'Js . CI per month . The following eligible investment is now offered : —A freehold estate in Eastern Canada , comprising 20 , 000 acres of land , within seventeen miles of a market town and the port of St . Francis ; from which steamers ply daily to Montreal and Quebec ; tlie River Nicolet , and the River Becancour , runs through the Estate , and are navigable for boats and floating timber down to the St . Lawrence . This estate presents as much as twenty miles of frontage to these rivers , with several mill sites , & c . ; the land , which is of a fair average quality , abounds with timber , which , on being disposed of , it is considered will more than pay the price required for the land .
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ME . CALDWELL ' S SOIREES DASSANTES every Evening from Eight to Twelve . Admission , ( id . ; per quarter , £ 1 Is . Snendid new Ball Room , and all the arrangements complete . Musical Director , Mr . J . Bradley , of tho Koyal Italian Opera , Covent Garden . Mr . Caldwell guarantees to teach any lady or gentleman totally unacquainted with the routine of the ball room to enter with grace and freedom , and take part in the fashionable amusement , in six private lessons , for £ 1 la . Dean-street , Soho .
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BEAUTIFUL AND LTJXUItlANT HAIB , WHISKERS , & c , can only be obtained by the use of MISS DEAN'S CItLNILENE , which has a world-wide celebrity and immense sale . It is guaranteed to produce whiskers , moustaehios , eye-brows . & c , in threee or four weeks , with the utmost certainty ; and will be found eminently successful in nourishing , curling , and beautifying the hair , and checking greyness in all its stages , strengthening weak hair , preventing its felling off , & c ., & c . for the reproduction of hair in baldness , from whatever cause and at whatever age , it stands unrivalled , never having failed . For children it is indispensable , forming the basis of a beautiful head of hair . One trial is solicited to prove the fact . It is an elegantly-scented preparation , price is , and will be sent ( post-free ) on receipt of twenty-four postage-stamps , by Miss DEAN , -IS , liverpoolstreet , King ' s-cross , London ; or it may be obtained of every respectable chemist in the Kingdom .
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T . Brown ' s List . — The friends at Norwich are thanked for taking two more Ucfugees , making nine men . Literary Institute , Horsleydown , lecture IDs Id-Mr . Blunt oiwelcfcman Is—W . Leelhouse 3 s 6 d—Mr . Sturgeon 2 s . Mb . Phaser , Edinburgh . It was received a fortnight ago . All is right to present time . The Anti-Truck Association . —We should have published the trial which took place at Derby , on Friday , the 18 th inst , if we had received the continuation of the report . The proposed act will appear next week . George Cbokeb , Leeds . — We must decline publishing anonymous letters containing ex parte reflections upon character , when we are not able to ascertain whether the charges made arc true or false .
The Hortherh Star Saturday, Juxy 20, Is51
THE HORTHERH STAR SATURDAY , JUXY 20 , IS 51
Free Trade Fallacies. The Elections For ...
FREE TRADE FALLACIES . The elections for Scarborough and Knarcsborough indicate that the reaction against Free Trade proceeds steadil y among the electoral classes in those parts of the country not purely manufacturing . Theministerial organs , while they depreciate the constituences who send such representatives as Mr . . G-. F . Young and Mr . Coixitss to Parliament , show , under their affected contempt , that they dread very much the prospect of a general
election with the existing electoral body . The philosophy of Free Trade may be indisputable in the abstract , but , somehow or other , its practical operation is by no means pleasant to large classes of the community . It may be very unphilosopbical of them to grumble , but they can ' t help it . The galled jade will wince , and the crumbs of comfort which fall from tho tables of such learned economists as Mr . James Wilson , and such transcendent statesmen as Mr . Labouciierk , don't appease the irate sufferers from' our recent commercial policy . '
We must say , without being : Protectionist 8 , that we sympathise with the sufferers from that policy , and agree with them , in thinking that they ought either to have their case taken into consideration , with the view of applying a practical remedy , or they should have it clearly demonstrated , that their sufferings are inevitable , and counterbalanced by a general gain to the community at large , in which they themselves will ultimately participate . But neither of these things is done . To specific and distinct compliants the most inconsequent and inapplicable replies are made . The statement of the grievance and the answer have as much relation to each
other as Tenterden Steeple and Goodwin Sands . In a recent debate Lord Naas on behalf of the Irish , millers complained that they were in a state of extreme distress , many of their mills standing idle , their work-people unemployed , and their condition progressively growing worse . In answer to that statement , Air . Laboucueke replied that the condition of the very lowest class in London is much better than it was . What sequence is there here ? What connexion between the two things ? By what strange association of ideas did the one statement follow the other ? Equall y unsatisfactory was the answer to the allegation of the millers that their distress is caused
by the importation of foreign flour , ground . Prima facie , that seems to be a very likel y cause indeed . If a large proportion of our foreign supplies comes in sacks read y for the use of the bakers , of course the home miller can be dispensed with to the extent of that supply . How does Mr . Laboucheke meet the allegation f Iu the first place he says that it cannot be the case hecause larger quantities of unground foreign corn have been admitted and , therefore , the millers must have more to do . That , however , is contrary to the fact , and an explanation was needed . Mr .
Labouchere found it in the fact that there had been ' improvements' in the machinery . More work was done with fewer hands , by a few ' successful competitors on a large scale , ' whose success was so great that one experiment had destroyed several small businesses ; but it was added , for the comfort of the parties thus exposed to be swallowed" np by wealthy capitalists with improved machinery , that the increased competition to which they are exposed will stimulate them to ' improveinenls' in machinery which will be of permanent advantage to their interest .
Now we cannot see how the conclusion flows from the premises . The additional improvements to which the stimulus of competition will give rise , can only be made by persons with capital , and able to manufacture flour upon a largo scale , with all the labour-saving processes which a large establishment permits to be introduced . The * small businesses ' must , of course , go to the wall , before their powerful competitors , who , while they absorb the trade of perhaps a dozen or two small millers , will not employ a tithe of the men , because the' improved' machinery will do the
work . By this very intelligible and too frequently repeated process , an increase of unground foreign—or even home-grown cornmay be quite compatible with an increase of idle mills and unemployed hands . But then it is argued by the closet theorists , who write in nonsensical terms about' supply and demand , ' ' averages , ' and other familiar phrases in the vocabulary of political economy , that though ' improvements' may be followed by ' temporary suffering , ' it is always succeeded by change of employment , ' and ultimate ad vantaSe j & tne persons engaged in the superseded branch of industry . For the reasons we have assigned this cannot be the case , even reasoning in - the abstract . That it is not true in
actual life , wo need only appeal to the personal experience of almost every class engaged in industry or trade . ' Change of employment' is not so easily effected , as written about , in every department of life men find the places pre-occupied by busy , pushing , struggling competitors for employment already too numerous . Thoy need no addition to their number from' superseded branches of industry . ' The suffering does not prove « temporary , ' as assumed by the theorists . The hand-loom weavers are only one refutation of that assumption , which , nevertheless , like many others emanating from the same school , continues to be repeated as confidently as if it were a truth , insfeadpf being a palpable falsehood .
And , after all , what do such replies , put forward as pompously as if they contained the concentrated essence of political wisdom , amount to ? Even if accurate , as a statement of fact , they contain no consolation or satisfaction for the Irish millers . The economical philosophers seem to think that when they tell you the causes of your distress , nothing more is necessary . That is not the opinion of the sufferers . When millers , farmers , and other ignorant people , are unphilosopbical enough to cry out because they are hurt , they are rather exasperated than appeased by the sort of cool comfort derived from the theory of causation — comfort very like the consolation offered by
' a friend who , in the midst of a calamity , exalts his own wisdom at the expense of yours , and reminds you— ' 1 told you so , ' No doubt the superiority may he made apparent ; but that does not mend the case for the sufferer . When suffering classes complain , they want relief , not lectures upon the causes of their distress . Farmers and millers have no more right to be satisfied with such answers as they receive , than a complaint from Yorkshire clothiers of stagnation in their trade , with a reply that it arose from a falling off iu the demand . That is exceedingly cheap political wisdom , and the complainants may , with great justice to those who utter it , exclaim—• Thank you for nothing !'
However successfully such stuff and twaddle serve to prevent the discussion of practical measures , and to supply the place of practical legislation in the ; present partisan House of Commons , it will fail with the country at
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large , in the event of a general election . The Times sees that clearly ; and hence it renews its adjuration to Lord John Russell to bring forward a new Reform Bill at the very commencemen t of next session . But it is evident , from the context , that the motive for such a recommendation is not the enfranchisement of the people on the plain and distinct principle , that they have a right to the suffrage . The .., _ .., __ mL .
measure is not to be based on that principle , or have that for its object . It is intended as a piece of political juggling , by which continued supremacy may be given to a particular policy and class . With that view , no doubt the new franchise will be of an exceptional character , and carefully contrived for the admission of those parties only who are supposed to be well affected to the domination of the commercial and monied classes .
We have repeatedly alluded to this subject , and called attention to the necessity for an extensive organisation and vigorous direction of the popular strength during the coming winter . The complexion of the new Whig Reform Bill will , after all , depend very much upon the attitude taken by the people out of doors , and knowing that , it will be their own fault if it is not a real and a comprehensive enfranchisement of the masses ,
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roL . iTiUA . ii nu ^ s . Thero can be no doubt that within the last quarter of a century great ameliorations have taken place in our criminal jurisprudence , and in the treatment of those who have violated the laws enacted for the protection of life and property . In the opinion of many thoughtful men there has been too much done in this way , and that the criminal is now so petted , pampered , and surrounded by comforts , that a residence in some of our Model Prisons amounts almost to a premium upon crime . It is curious to find that , while we have been growing thus tenderly solicitous about the
physical , mental , and religious welfare of pickpockets , burglars , incendiaries , robbers , and persons guilty of having shed the blood of their fellow-creatures , the treatment of political prisoners has increased in stringency . Mr . Fox remarked in the debate on the case of Mr . Ernest JYwes on Tuesday , that Leigh Hunt , Montgomery , Daniel Whittle Harvey , Cobbett , and others , were treated very differentl y during their imprisonment b y a Tory Government . They were lodged in comfortable apartments , had a choice and variety in their food , wore their own clothes ,
selected their own hooks , saw their friends , and were allowed to supply articles and communications to the journals with which they were connected . Their sentence being simply imprisonment , the punishment was confined to that . They were not classed with felons , subjected to penal discipline , condemned to repulsive and degrading labour , clothed in a prison dress , denied books , papers , and writing materials , and fed upon bread and water in solitary cells , at the discretion of a mean , malicious , and spiteful official . These alterations in the status and treatment of
political prisoners , were reserved for the mild and tolerant government of Lord John RUSSELL , in tho middle of tho 19 th century . The little finger of the ' Liberal' Whig Government , is thicker than the loins of rampant Tory despotism . We have now the answer of the Whig Cabi net to the charges made against them for the cruel , cowardly , and vindictive treatmentof Mr . JONES aud his fellow prisoners . It shows how silently hut certainly despotism may bo established under the guise of ' liberal institutions . ' The Home Secretary ' s office has
quietly usurped a power wllich removes political prisoners from the protection of the law , and places them entirely at its mercy . In fact , persons who have made themselves obnoxious to the Ministry for the time being are as directly subject to the tyranny of their political opponents as if they lived under the merciful sway of King Bomba of Naples , or could be sent by the Emperor of Austria to the' dungeons of Speliberg , and tortured under special instructions from their Imperial Gaoler . According to Mr . Bouverie there is now no distinction between political prisoners and felons . ' The law recognised no distinction of that sort . ' It sweeps into the
same net and treats with indiscriminate severity , the man whose only offence is that he advocates a manhood instead of a ten pound suffrage , and the man , who having imbrued his hands in human blood , has by some legal technicality been convicted of manslaughter instead of murder . The duty of preparing rules and regulations for the treatment of prisoners is delegated to the ' visiting magistrates , ' subject to the approval of the Home Secretary ; and between them , with their naturally hostile and prejudiced feelings against political offenders—in other words , against persons who denounce misgovernments and class domination—it is no wonder that
they take advantage of their position , and make official power minister to the gratification of personal and party vindictiveness . Mr . BouvEitiE , in an e x cessive fi t of cando ur confessed that oakum picking was not a very pleasant occupation , but Mv . Jokes preferred being a ' martyr' to paying a small weekly sum , which would exempt him from that occupation . Mr . Jqnjes , in point of fact , refused to ' work or pay ;* and by the rules of the prison he was placed in solitary confinement , and put on bread and water—and that was the whole of the matter—in which , he for one , saw
nothing wrong ov any ground of complaint ! Now , Mr . Bouverie is not quite correct in his facts . Mr . Jones did not refuse to pay or willfully encounter the honours of such a martyrdom as that of Tothill Field ' s Prison ' , under the mild domiaion of its present Governor . Being unable to pay himself , the proprietor of this paper and other friends supplied the money for exempting him from that degradation ,, with a slight interval when the money -was not sent in , and in consequence he was subjected to the severe and disgraceful treatment described by Under Secretary , Bouverie . But we contend that if not
illegal , it was , at least , inequitable to add a pecuniary line to the sentence passed by the judge , under the guise of rules and regulations drawn up by visiting magistrates , and sanctioned by the Home Secretary . We are not aware that either magistrates or secretaries are lay popes , and claim infallibility in such matters . On the contrary , we think them the very last parties to be entrusted with such powers , and believe , that as long as
they possess they will misuse them , in reference to persons convicted of holding different political views from themselves . Mr . Williams , the member for Lambeth , sought to exonerate the visiting magistrates from the charge of voluntary harshness , by the statement , that they had no discretion but to enforce the law as they found it , which , at the same time , he denounced as a disgrace , alike to the Legislature , and the age in which wo live : aud he confessed that his
duties in that capacity were very unpleasant . But we should like to know , why , if the ' visiting magistrates' are the parties who frame these rules and regulations , they don ' t take care to remove this double disgrace ? The power is in their own hands , according to Mr . Bouverie . Let them exercise it be ° fore they are absolved from their share of the blame of these most disgraceful pr oceed ings .
So far from the defence setup by Mr . Bouverie on behalf of the Government extenuating their conduct iu the slightest degree it aggravates it . If the law is really in that disgraceful state that it ' makes no legal distinction between political and ordinary offences of felony , ' ifc is hi gh time that the law should be brought into harmony with common sense
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and common justice , and a distinction made in two things so palpably morally different ; . Jt is monstrous , on the face of it , to treat tho advocacy of political changes and alterations iu the existing constitution of Parliament iu the same manner as a burglary or a highway robbery . Such laws are repulsive to the moral sense of the community , and , instead of adding to , detract from , the security of the very institutions they are meant to protect . We trust that Lord-Dudley Stuart will redeem his pledge to bring this subject fully before the House of Commons next session , and persevere until such an abuse of power , on tho part of either magistrates or home secretaries , is rendered impossible in future . _„ J < .-1 / . __ J - j ' i . . !• .. ... ,-
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OFFICIAL TYRANNY AND OPPRESSION . THE LORD AND THE APPLE WOMAN . Lord Seymour ' s administration of the Woods and Eorosts has been characterised by a seriee of acta of the most offensive character , and by not a few aggressions upon the public rights and the public convenience , more fitted for the atmosphere of St . Petersburgh than London , Few can liave forgotten the trick by which , at the close of last Session , he was enabled to take a huge slice out of St . James ' s Park and give it to Royalty ; fewer still his last exploit of turning the mob of mounted
fashionables into the quiet and beautiful grounds of Kensington Gardens , on the pretence that the Glass House in Hyde Park would interfere with their daily equestrian exercise . These leetle jobs , however , though sufficiently indicative of the arbitrary character and aristocratic superciliousness of this scion of a ducal house fade , into insignificance when compared with a case of gross oppression , in which the ' noble lord' has just been engaged ; a case so shameful that we cannot believe it will be suffered to pass with impunity . The facts are briefly these : —There
lately stood in Hyde Park a building kuown as the White Cottage , in which Aott Hicks sold cakes , custards , and fruit to the juvenile frequenters of that popular metropolitan resort . This privilege had descended to her from her grandfather , who , upwards of a century ago , rescued George II ., of ' gracious memory , ' from drowning in the Serpentine . Iu return for this service Royalty granted to Hicks the ri ght to sell refreshments in the Park to its frequenters , iu perpetuity . The privilege thus accorded continued , in the first instance , for sixty-nine years—in the person
of his successor for forty-nine years moreand lastly descended to Anjs t Hicks who , with the express permission of the Woods and Forests , some time since , expended the savings of her whole life in the erection of the White Cottage . It might have been thought that a privilege thus conceded , a building erected with such a direct sanction from the proper authority , and undisturbed possession for such a lengthened period , would have created an indefeasible right in law ; or , at all events , a claim for reasonable compensation in ease of its deprivation . Not
so thought ' my Lord' Seymour . Among other regulations contingent on the erection of the Glass Show House , was the prohibition of the sale of refreshments such as those vended by Ann Hicks . His ' Lordship' issued a Ukase , commanding her forthwith to ' clear out , ' and offering to pay five shillings a week rent for her somewhere else , for the term of one year , as an act of gracious condescension . Now the White Cottage cost £ 137 of hard money—it was held in perpetuity rent free , and Ann Hicks , who built it with the express sanction of Lord Lincoln , when he was First Commissioner of the Woods and Forests
naturally thought £ 13 4 s . too small a compensation for such a sacrifice , so arbitrarily demanded . She refused to move , and then his ' Lordship ' pulled tho cottage—erected with her own money—about her , ears , aud turned her adrift on the world , homeless and pennyless ! The poor woman—whose sole occupation through life had been to supply such harmless articles of refreshment as we have mentioned—thus dispossessed , made her appearance in tho Park with a few cakes and . apples to supply her old customers , was seized upon , brought before the Police Magistrates , and told a tale of distress which might have made tears roll down even Pluto ' s iron
cheeks—misfortune had followed upon outrage , and misery marked her for its own . But' the law must be obeyed ; ' and so , without taking into account the original injustice which had made her an offender , the Magistrate enforced the law . We can hardl y believe that so infamous , so flagrant , and so disgraceful a violation of all the princi ples of equity as this case discloses , will be permitted to be perpetrated with
impunity . Admitting that it was desirable , or neccisary , to prohibit the sale of such simple refreshments as we have named—a point on which , with all deference to Lord Setmouk , we differ from him—it is plain , from the facts we have stated , that Ann Hicks had , if not a legal , a strong equitable claim to full and fair compensation . The facts are not disputed ; and they mako out one of the clearest cases we have ever heard of .
The first Commissioner of Woods and Forests should recollect that , in thus gratifying his propensities for aristocratic oppression—in thus openly exhibiting his contempt for such vulgar people as apple-sellers—and thus wantonly placing the arbitrary dictates of his own imperious will in the stead of the ordinary and recognised practice of the people of this country , he is acting a most unfaithful part to the Sovereign of whom he is the sworn servant , and is teaching the people , at the same time , to look upon his ' order ' in a light , "ffhich IS neither complimentary or safe for them . Aristocracy does not stand upon such a sure foundation that it can safely indulge in such wanton freaks of capricious and causeless tyranny and wrong-doing as this .
The vigour which he exhibits ia attacking helpless applewoinen—the rapidity with which he seized upon and appropriates for his own order grounds sacred to the invalid and the wearied , pent-up citizen—contrasts most unfavourably with the tardiness which characterises his administration in other respects . Session after , session passes away , and still we are without those reforms which were promised when the light was first let in upon the monstrous abuses perpetrated in the department of which he is the head . We should
like to see him exercise as much determination in expelling from the public prop erty the aristocratic robbers who , under various Dre > tences , have appropriated Royal demesnes and residences . That , however , we suppose must bo done by . a Chief Commissioner appointed by a People ' s Parliament .
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W "" ' -r / WWUUWW ' VIVE LA EEPUBLIQUE . ' thJ p i 0 ! : v . S ? aspirators against the Republic in France have , for the time been signall y defeated . They C lS onlSat- £ ™ ™* ° I < Wce , and failed ;™ , . <> btain the legal majority . That this result is felt as - a heavy blow , SI g eat « . lscoul ' agement , 'may be inferred SS wi 8 ^ and ™< K ° tive spiri t in which the ' Iimos' in this country , and the reactionary and absolutist journals in France comment on the subject . Their rage knows s c arcel y any bounds . For months upon months tney have devoted themselves to the task of writing down the Republic ; all the machinery at the disposal of the hig hly centralised Government of France has been put in motion to produce an appearance of popular dissatisfaction with the Constitution . Yet journalists , ministers , prefects , mayors , and police have all broken down in the attempt ,, and the defeat on the question of revision has
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been followed up by a decisive vote ofTrT ^ upon the ministry , for having reccing such an illegal perversion of their off - powers . Thoy were appointed as tht » vants of the Republic and the defendci **' the Constitution , and they traitorously -J * , of to subvert it . Their treason has beeii \» n ritatively declared and rebuked bv tho \ sembly , and they now stand ' unma , i ! before the people of France . in their t characters . u ^ Three months must elapse before the a tion can be renewed ; but , in the mcanti we see little prospect of any accession to ?' power of the Revisionists , or , asthey shn . ii be called , the Revolutionists . Louis ? LEON has played a foolish , as well as alJ ° ' , n ,, . - _ —z :
g ame , by allowing his dynastic and nn ™ . ? g ame , b y allowing hi s d ynastic aild porc „ 1 pretensions to appear so plainly , If i „ L . ' of acting in the way he has done , he li «] a simple , straightforward manner perform' !) his duties as the first executive officer of th Republic—acted himself in good ftuth to ( l nation , and selected for his advisers and sistants men of the same stamp , the pom " larity of his name would have been replace ! by a solid and genuine popularity bW on his own good conduct iu tho Cmi nent station to which he was raised l six millions of votes . Instead of ' stooping to chaffer with trafficking politicians , ' and lose himself in the tortuous and miry lab yrinths o * political intrigue , his true policy » -as to have
shown himself the servant of the millions to whom he owed his position , and who alone possess the power to prolong his tenure of office . They would have formed a much Surer alliance to fall back upon than the tribe of partisans and adventurers for whom ho forsook them . Had he used the powers given him by the constitution to promote the political au ( J social amelioration of the masses , such a policy would much more surel y have led to a pro . longation of power than that he has acted
upon . In constitutional monarchies tho 'first magistrate ' may be a puppet without real responsibility—i n republics they are judged b y their own acts . What has Louis Napoleox to show for the time lie has occupied the Elysee and St . Cloud ? Positively nothing , but the betrayal of the millions who elected him , into the hands of the enemies of the Republic . He was directly particeps criminis in the infamous act by wftich one-half of the
electors of France were disfranchised . That act will never be either forgotten or forgiven . He has alienated the people from him , and now , if he ever contemplated a coup de main and the seizure of power by force—he has tllQ pleasantprospectofC ' AVAiGNAG ^ LAMORlClKiiE , Chakgaenier—in short , all tho Generals ot mark and mflueuce voting with tho Red Republicans , for the maintenance of the Constitution , which makes his re-election impossible , and vowing that they will defend that Constitution with their swords . His prospects ,
therefore , of a renewal of power by any means whatever , grow ' small by degrees , and beautifully less ; ' and , notwithstanding the number of parties who , for their own selfish purposes , would gladly see the Republic destroyed , the very nature of their several schemes prevents their co-operating with each other for its overthrow . The Republic is the only possible Government for France ; and if its public men would only accept that fact in good earnest and act upon it , a career of greatness and prosperity would open up before all parties .
Parliamentary Review. Sittings Protracte...
PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . Sittings protracted from the noon of ono day to the dawn of another , and then only broken off to be resumed again at noon , attest that our legislators , like repentant prodigals , arc doing penance for their waste of time heretofore . That in such sederunts business should be either well or wisely done , is impossible . It is either slurred over in hot haste , dispatched almost without knowledge , or , on the plea of being too late , consigned to the limbo of next Session .
The topics which have attracted the largest share of attention , aud consumed the greatest quantity of time , are the Jew Question and the Anti Papal Bishops Bill—old worn subjects , and merely freshened up this week by the accidental circumstances connected with the introduction of each . Thus , the . courage and firmness of Alderman Salomons threw the temporizing and lukewarm Premier on his beam ends . J \ ever was man so completely taken aback as the Little Lord , when , at the instigation of Sir B . Hall , on receiving an evasive Whig reply to a straightforward question , the member for Greenwich raised the iron rod which
conventionally separated him from the House , and deliberately passing the bar , seated himself on tho front bench , below the gangway . The opposition stormed , yelled , hooted , groaned , nearly foamed with rage , while Lord John was struck dumb with amazement , and found his tactics completely overthrown by this intrepid and simple mode of dealing with a subject which , ho has dallied with for four years . The subsequent legal arguments which followed this courageous assertion of the right of the electors of Greenwich to send whom they think proper to represent them iu Parliament , were too purt-ly legal and technical for our taste , but that was unavoidable under the
circumstances . The question was removed for the time from the ground of princip le to that of fact . Had Mr . Salomons taken the oath or not ? We feel bound to say , that the clear and logical argument of Mr , Bethell , sustained , as it was , by the learningand reasoning of other legal members , went to prove that the member for Greenwich had done all that was required by law . The 1 st and 2 nd of Vict ., upon which the argument was mainly based , distinctly declares , that ' upon any occasion whatsoever , ' a person may claim to be sworn in the manner he declares to he most binding on his conscience J and this statute is ill COB ' fbrmity with the uniform practice of the realm-Mr . Salomons declared that he substantially .-
as well as legally , fulfilled the conditions required by the law , as thus interpreted . He Imd truly and fatt y taken the oath of abjur >» , and was , therefore , entitled to his seat . The Government , and therefore the majority , w'W e against him ; but he took his seat , voted twice , and spoke once , and thus fairl y raised tho question of penalties , which , it appears , <"" be tried , in spite of the efforts of the Whig " to prevent such an issue . At the meeting w Baron Rothschild ' s supporters , on Tuesday , he announced that ho had been serred with two writs , each for £ 500 ; and for every th »» he may sit or vote , he will be liable to a similar penalty , beside being—if convicted—deprived of all civil rights .
We may expect , now that the struggle !»« arrived at this climax , a speedy settlement . The Lords always yield , when fairly euconntered—and , in this case , they have iieitntr reason , right , nor popular opinion with them-We think ,-indeed , that from the commence ' ment , it was an error to refer the matter W them at all . It was one which solely aftect «<» the House of Commons ; and , had it beflj duly careful of its own privileges , it wou < J never have asked the Lords who it shou » th
admit or exclude . With the excep tion of « case of Mr . Ernest Jones , referred to iu a ' ' ther place , the only other long debate *» one on the well-worn topic of the Navigat > y » Laws , in which Mr . G . F . Young , the netfv elected Protectionist Member , inflicted » speech , bristling with figures , so rapidly stm "* together , that it was impossible for the heave' j to remember them , still less to comprehcW their purport and bearing . The debate was » mere ' show' one , aud ended in smoke , as t » Protectionists did not go to a division . ¦>/* speeches were made , the amendment , wl ' ^ was the peg they were hung upon , was wit' - '
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 26, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_26071851/page/4/
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