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      "" ^" ronOBed by I * ^ DdkGak . A Select 1 ? ^ irfcee to inquire into the salaries and ^ . Ss of offices , held duringtbe pleasure «^ 1 S by memhers of either Honse . of rf v ont voted in the annual estimatesftSK ^ LawU % aity -the , etiring pen-V allotted to the Judges , and the expends 8 toSwm & Establishments » charged upon ffohdated Fond- . This seemingly * Viand comprehensiveinqmry is to be £ ffeepin | and ^ f fiEMIER himse if ; whether ^ t he view of staving off the question in tne 10 rime , of ultimately entombing it manage jneann »« £ a gincere determination to * £ al practical reactions under these f *?„ Umains to be seen . We confess , thus

      aca T- * t the manner in which , at the very lo ebng atiue ^ ^ forward a l ) iU to fa la 5 t -f ^ rB ELL s salary atthe same amonut ^ t » aid to Lord Desman , and to exclude a sthatpa " from ^ operation of the " - ^ . wc have small faith in the honesty ^^ Prnr ^ cr The wax on the seal of the of 2 of the c * ' Chief Justice was O ommisi ^ p p 0 sition was made , « ' forward , in defiance of repeated ^ ltVal ! lSes that the salary should be P revl f ' ^ n aswell as all others . It seems K Tn 5 C oifbeix ' s luck tobriug his party SsSF ^ T these rankjobs ; and we can f ^ H scarcely wonder at the quixotic zeal

      WKted l * v his siUy son , wnenever an oppor-? S in the defence of the party , and Sa ^ ftbe -Democraticdement . " . Afr Ubvseb GibsO-V promises 1 a discussion on Ihe Taxes on Knowledge , on Tuesday , the Stf- ^ and , on the same day Mr Cms / means to P ™ P tlie re P ° * f * Slax . SirDE LACYEVASSgivesnoticcof Slf t hesesmall sham measures of enfranchisement for which that tinkering politician is so S lmown , to the effect , that parties shah twelvemonths

      S ve tbe vote who have resided Se same premises , andpaid Income and Sopcrtv Tax-or who have paid Poor Bates as occupiers of premises , of the net annual value of 5 / . or who have a certam amount of deposit in 1 he Savings Bants . Air . w . J . Fox s Education Bill is to be opposed by the Protectionists , 3 lr . STAFFOM ) -one . of Mr . Disraeli ' s lieutenants—having on the paper a notice to iWcit out Mr . EwAM wil mate his motion for the abolition of Capital Punishments , with the usual result ; and Mr . Disraeli promises to call the attention of the

      House to the Diplomatic and Consular ser--nees ] with a view to their more economical and efficient performance . Carrying out the policvof the Peace Society , Sir . Cobdek is to move , that Lord Palmerstox shall enter into negotiations with foreign Governments for a mutual reduction of warlike armaments 5 and Mr . Osborse gives notice of a motion for the abolition of the Property Qualification for Members of Parliament

      Such are a few of the more prominent questions , gleaned from the voluminous notices bequeathed by our legislators , for the amusement or consideration of the recess . Everybody will admit there is sufficient variety in them , at all events . There will , no doubt , be plentv of " talk : '' hut what will be done ? With the Whigs in office—NOTHING .

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      InONlES RECEIVED Ton the " Week Exnixc Thursday , Mabcii 2 $ , 1 S 50 .

      THE I 0 NESTY FUISB . Iteceired by TV . Rider . —J . Cook , Shincliff Colliery 2 d—Female Democratic Sick Society , Keighley , per J . F . KcUes 2 l 3 s—V . Sumcrton , Leamington 3 d—Cothal Mills , near Aberdeen , per L . FrancisSs—Johnston , per J . MThail fe—W . Ifalston r . ad J . Yerncr , Glasgow 2 s ^—a few Friends , Xonrieh , }> cr 4 . Fox Cs—Mansfield , per C . Caler l / 17 s 6 'dliaddiffe Bridge , per VT . Allen -is Sd—Lone ; Buelcoy , per J . Gx > i > er 5 s od-i Four-acre Shareholder , Uirmiugham , per J . 1 ' earce-fe—V . " . Uronu , Birmingham , per J . Fearce 3 s—J . Gott , IKnningnam , per J . Ptarce Is—W . Summerfield , Birminghani , per J . i ' earce Is—lielmont , per T . Walton Ss Cd—Oven-Ion . near Halifax , per W . Ilushworth 7 s 4 d—Ladyship . Sorthowran , near Halifax , per TV . Saulle 6 s od —J ) . " Fryer , Ilalto : ! , near Leeds 2 s—J . Bedwell and Mrs . Bttlneli , Brierie . i-liill is—Junction , Saddleworth 6 s—a few Friends , MirSefd . near Dcwobury 10 s—Sootliiih near Bailer , per A . Simpson 6 s Gd—a few Land Members ,

      Oswaldrnistlv , near Accrinston . . per 15 . Htsskcth 11—Stockport , per J . Scrag Ss—stoekport , per TV . Potts 7 s—Heywood , per J . Wholstcnholme Cs 3 d—Uochdale , a Female who intends to whistle at the plough 4 s—Rochdale Chartists { second subscriptton . ) per 1 L GiU 12 4 s—Nottingham , per J . Skerritt 21—Edinburgh , per TV . Anderson 17 s—Liversedge , near Leeds , per 0 . C . Swallow 21 os 4 d—Gorles ton , near Yarmouth , perM . Koyall 12 s Cd—a few Friends , Yarmouth , per M . Koyall 9 s—Devonport , per J . Rogers IIG . W ., Hawick Is—collected in the Cliartist HeadingHoom , lBdaleton , near Manchester Cs Sd—Nottingham , per J . Sweet 1 . 5-id—Salford , per J . Robinson 24 s 4 d—Kingston , near Carlisle , per J . Scott 43 s 9 d—Fiat Justitia , London 10 s—Jh-i Booty , per E . Stallwood 2 s Cd—Leigh , near Man diester per J . Howarth lis lfld—Bet & rd , per T . Dernie Cs

      Id—Chatham , per J . Fleming lis Cd—Bristol per C . Clark 4 s Sd—Warwick , a few Friends , perC . Tristram 10 =. —Received from Jlanningham , near Bradford—J . Hague Is—S . Ides-mis—L . llardakerIs—G . Riggls—J . Greenhough Is—W . Ideson Is—T- Lipsey Is—J . Robertshaw Cd—Danven , per T . Barnes -5 s—Bishop Aukland , per J . Wilkinson is—Xormck , } ser llr . Hurry 2 « s—Norwich , per Mr . Matdiett 4 s—Sheffield , per G . Cavil 103—Reading , per Messrs . Ellis and Lowndes ISs Cd—Georgie Mills , per Mr . SeehanlaiCa—J . R ., Hawick Is . Received by JohxAbsott . —Lynn , per James Twaits 10 s . Re & dved at Laxd Office . —Preston , per Iiddle lis Sd—Mr . Meads , Rlakeney is Cd—a few Tanners , in employ of Messrs . ilephurn , Long-lane , Bermondsey 9 s . 3 d—J . Giles 2 s fid .

      £ s . d . Received by W . Eider .. .. 30 4 S Received by John Arnott .. 0 10 0 Received at Land Office .. 1 4 11

      FOR MACNAMAHA ' S ACTION . Received by W . Ksdeb . —Bristol , per C . Clark 2 s—LeamiEgton , per J . Green Cs 7 d . AGITATION FOR THE CHARTER . Received hy Jons Absoti . —G . T . Floyd , Deptford Is—Rober t Mann . Deptford Is—William Jtwis , Westminster ls--George CiU Is—Henry GiU la—George Hitchins , West-Buhner Is—Thomas Uickens , Westminster Is—Charles Barnes , Westminster Gd—Henry Fenney Is—collected at Public Meeting , John-street 3 Ss lid—Stalvbridge , per Wm . Hfll 20 s—Westminster Locality , per James Grasshy lis—Salford , per John Robinson 5 s—Sheffield , per George Cavil as—Rovton . per J . B . HorsfaU 10 s—Andrew Porter , Xynu , F » James Twaits Is .

      DEBT DUE TO PRINTER . Received bv Jons Aesoit . —Bradford , Yorkshire , per Thomas Wileock 40 s . MONUMENT FUND . Received by TV . Hidhl—XotUngham , per J . Sweet 6 d .

      DEBT DUE TO MR . NIXON . Beceived by W _ Sa > rs . —Salforf , per J . KoMnson 3 s 2 a . FOR MRS- M'DOUALL . Received oy TV . Rmrs . —IL Gale , Tower Hamlets Is Cd—Stockport , per M . Scraggs 5 s Cd . TO exemp t PRISONERS FROM OAKUM PICKING . Rectlred byJoiM Ae-VOTT . —Joseph Morgan , Deptford Is - ^ . T . Flo yd , Deptford Is—West-end Boot and Shoemaktr ' s Meeting at the Two Chairmen , Wardour-street , fcano , per Messrs . llickens and Barnes 5 s-WIVES AND FAMILIES OF VICTIMS . Receded ly v . Ridec-a Democrat , Chepstow Is-XotflSn ^ J ^ i- Sweet Cd-Rising Sun , Calender-yard , from tw ? p i % ?*? * boemakers , Per 3 Ir . Scotter ISs—Bristol per o . ^ Jark 3 s 3 d .

      NATIONAL VICTIM FUND . n , r !^ . « . ' Jon - Ae - » Sccretay . —Proceeds of Harmome Meeitng held at the King and Queen , Foley-street , 79- ^ L e 5 'endBoot and Shoemakers , per Mr . PenneU TwTf ^ lZ 63 ^^ ^ d Shoemakers Meeting , at the iwov-nairnian , Waraonr-street , Soho , per Messrs . Uickens SrtrtfS , * ^ Morgan , Dejrtford Is-G . T . Hqja , Deptford ls-Mr . Rider , as per Star 22 s 9 d-Gerald

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      W ^ ersC /^ wHcfccoinmunicatesanotablemethod Of destroying rats , by means of a phosphoric compound , to be prepared in the following proportions ;—Procure of lard or dri pping a quarter of a Pound , of phosphorus one drachm , of spirit of wine one gill : place the whole of these in a pint wine oottle , thoroughly cleansed previous to use . This "Wold be covered , up to its neck , or rather middle , T ^ h hot water , which may be managed by putting we bottle into a saucepan deep enough to hold it ; * jw . h y graanaiij heating the water . "When the im ° i driPPhig is dissolved , remove the bottle <™» the water , cork it firmly , and shake it until finni COhteut-s are thoroughly incorported . When """ pour off the spirit of wine . By this time , the eaann" will have nearly been " worked . " Little flo 6 * ? aJns t 0 oe done * Procure some wneatcn tvZ' ^ having rubbed sugar into it warm the A %¥ * of the " charmed" bottle , and pour suffiharv m U t 0 make the ^ hole into a paste of ordi" ^ . n ??^ » - favouring the above is the atf ^ f - bdH" the master piece . To this much and mHSt be Pa 1 " - Gefc some oil of rhodium diWn ^ me ou ° aniseed , both powerful oils ; and taenn - ?? rdou S mU > iwo portions , " charm " The „„ . S _ i .. rhodi ? ' tLe other ™ th aniseed , ^ ae quarry of oil requisite is very trifling . Harh ? S , r , Paste V ? anuml ) erof small globu-E 2 S ? abound . ***« " > existence of the -sner wiu goQabecomeamere " matter of history . " I

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      LETTERS TO Tflfi WORKING CLASSES . LXXXI . «• Words are things , and a smaU drop of ink Falling—Ilk * dew—upon a thought , produces That which makes thousands , perhaps millions think . " BYE 0 J , LETTERS

      " MEASURES OF REPRESSION . " Brother Proletarians , Being unwell—and , consequently , in anything but the humour for writing—I would have given my pen a week ' s rest , but that I consider it indispensably necessary to at least tike notice of the proceedings of parties in France , since the date of my last Letter . Any apology for again directing your attention to French politics cannot be needed , seeing that , just now , every other subject is insignificant by the side of the great drama of which France is the theatre . I was in error in stating , in my last Letter , that the seats contested in the recent elections

      numbered twenty-eight—the number was thirty-one . The . Reds returned twenty-one , and the Whites ten , of their candidates . The Ordennongers have declared the election of the representatives for the Saonc-et-Loire void , on the ground of an alleged irregularity . It is asserted that , in certain districts , a considerable number of electors whose names appear on the lists for 1850 , but not in those of 1849 , took part in the ballot ; while , by a previous decision , it was determined that take

      the elections of the 10 th of March should p lace on the lists of 1849 . Tbe number oi such electors amount , according to the calculations of the Prefect of the Saone-et-Loire , to about 6 , 000 ; but the majority of the Democratic candidates amounted to 16 , 558 ; and , supposing that the whole of the 6 , 000 had taken part in the ballot , and that they all voted for the Democratic list ( neither hyp othesis being very probable ) , it would leave a majority considerably exceeding 10 , 000 votes , iu favour of the Democratic candidates . In

      former cases , when Royalists had obtained seats nnder similar circumstances , the Assembly voted the validity of those elections . Now , however , that Democrats were to be sacrificed , the majority , to effect that object , coolly set aside its own precedents . The truth is , that not the alleged irregularity , but the fact that the Saone-et-Loire had elected six Reds , was the motive for the vote of the Ordermongers . By that vote , citizens Madier de Montjau , Esquires , Charassin , Buvignier , Charles Dain , and Victor Hennequin , have , for the present , been deprived of the power

      conferred on them by the people . But their exclusion from the Assembly can only be for a few weeks . The Saone-et-Loire is too intensely Red to allow the Royalists any chance of a victory . It is well known , that had the Socialist-Democrats put forth their whole strength in the late election , their majority would have been nearer sixty than sixteen thousand . Put upon their mettle by the unjust and insulting decision of the legislative ' majority , the Reds will , of course , take good care to ensure the triumph of their candidates , all efforts of the Ordermongers notwithstanding .

      The " measures of repression , " relating to the press and electoral meetings , were laid before the Assembly on this day week , March 21 st . By the first of these measures , it is proposed to be enacted , that the proprietors of "journals or periodical publications" shall be bound to deposit with the treasury a sum in specie of 50 , 000 francs , caution mouey , for daily papers ; 40 , 000 francs for papers published tM-ice a week , and 20 , 000 francs if published only weekly , or at greater intervals . This last clause is designed to catch such publications as Louis Blanc ' s Nouveau Monde , which is

      published monthly . In a few of the departments sums lower in amount are proposed for the several daily aud other journals . By the same hill it is proposed to enact , that the several journals , & c , in the principal departments shall be subjected to a stamp-tax of four centimes on each impression . The proposed law will include all " periodical writings treating of politics or economic-social subjects , ' * and published in numbers of less than ten sheets of impression . Engravings will be

      included ; it having been found that prints of all kinds have been employed , with great effect , in propagating the principles of Red Republicanism . Publications not complying with the proposed law may be seized . Offenders to be fined at the rate of 50 francs for every unstamped sheet , and 100 francs on a repetition of the offence . The responsible editors , authors , writers , and distributors of the said journals to be held conjointly responsible for the fines imposed .

      Having in my lastLetter so fully commented on the villauous motives and treasonable objects ofthe projectors of this new scheme to fetter the press , 1 shall offer no further comment on the measure itself , other than to bid the reader mark the distinction made between periodical publications ( not newspapers ) intended for the people , and those published under the patronage of the rich . Bulky Reviews , written for , and bought by , the wealthy , will escape the tax ; while monthly magazines , of the character of Louis Blanc ' s Nouveau Monde , written for , and , to a great extent , bought by the wealth-producers—who , unhappily , are not consumers , as well as producers—will be subjected to the tax . From the first clause to the last the measure is

      devised for the purpose of perpetuating ignorance , and preventing the progress of enlightenment and true civilisation . Its authors dare to denounce the Socialists as " barbarians , '' while it is patent to all the world that the Ordermongers desire , before all things , the conservation of ignorance—the last pwp df lai'larism . Thai prop is , however , crumbling away , and ere long—in spite of caution-money and taxes—the preponderating majority of the French people will be thoroughly enli ghtened as to their own interests , and , being so , will bring to a conclusion the reign of those polished barbarians , and

      gilded savages , who have built up their wealth and power by speculating in the sweat and blood of the unhappy millions . Buonaparte , Barrot , Thiers , Guizot , Montalemberfc , Changamier , and the classes they represent , are inadequately described by the title of "barbarians , " or " savages ; " cannibals is their proper designation . The food they eat , the wine they drink , the garments they wear , the mansions they inhabit , the luxuries of every description they enjoy , are theirs only because the producers and useful workers are robbed , starved , used-np , and no , not

      murdered" They die so slowly , none dare call it murder . " Excepting , indeed , when driven to despair , the unfortunate sufferers precipitate themselves against the cannon and bayonets of the possessors of property ; and then onl y a few dare breathe the charge of " murder" against the conquerors . The blatant brutes of the " respectable press , " so far from having a word of pity for the victims , hail their defeat and destruction with paeans of exultation . The people beaten and " mowed down in masses , " the Swiss of the press immediatel y pour forth their rejoicings that " society is saved , anarchy is crashed , and order established ! *' Yes , the " order" of victorious brigands " Who make a solitude , and caU it peace . "

      The second measure introduced b y the Ministry proposes to prolong the existence of tho gagging law , relating to the clubs , and to extend the same to electoral meetings . Both measures were discussed in the bureaux of the Assembly on Saturday last . Baroche , Minister of the Interior , avowed , that the measure affecting the press , was intended to pat down the Republican journals . Speaking ofthe elections of the 10 th of March , he asserted , that trade bad been stopped , ship-

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      ments suspended , and orders countermanded , in consequence of the results of those elections , and that the . press had kept , up the public alarm . Baroche . well knows , that if any alarm has existed , it has been excited solely by the Government journals . He added , that " people spoke of moderation and conciliation , but such means would not succeed in these times , and stringency was necessary . " A lesson to he remembered by the veritable Republicans when they shall arrive at power Very foolishly the people tried " conciliation " and " moderation ; " and we see the results ! Baroche repays the people with " stringency . " " We thank thee , Jew , for teaching us the word . " ___ _„ : _ . __ .. , z

      In the struggle now , and henceforth , " farewell , a long farewell" to sentimentalism and Lamartine s "balmy balderdash . " Amongst the supporters of the government measures , Mole and Thiers distinguished themselves . The Ordermongers were , however not unanimous . Larochejaquelin , the Legitimist ; Gustave de Beaumont , the Orleanist ; and other members of the two Royalist factious , opposed the Stamp , & c ., on the ground that the proposed exactions would kill a number of the journals devoted to ' Order . '' The measure was opposed by Cavaignac and Lamartine , who , of course were taunted for then

      inconsistency , having themselves established precedents for the present proceedings of the government . Lamartino delivered one of his dreamy orations , in the course of which he defined Socialism to be " a nightmare , a momentary madness , " having its source in " ignorance . '' The remedy , he added , was '' light , reason , and discussion ! " Methinks I hear our enraptured sentimentalists aud political humbugs exclaiming : — "How true ! how poetical ! how wise ! how beautiful ! !! " Let me add—how absurd ! There is no truth more

      indisputable than that Socialism and ignorance can have no connexion . Without pretending to preach the infallibility of Robert Owen , or Pierre-Leroux , Considerant , or Louis Blanc , there can be no question that their place is in the first rank of the representatives of intellect and champions of knowledge . But it may be said , " admitting the mental powers ofthe leaders , their followers are ignorant ; for none but the ignorant would accept their theories . " Another mistake , or , rather , misrepresentation . Wherever ignorance abounds Socialism either has no existence , or if a few cling to the proscribed creed they do so , at the peril of

      their interests—their safety—their very lives . The progress of Socialism is the best possible proof of the intellectual advancement of the people . None but thinkers can be Socialists , and thinkers are not the men to abandon themselves to the influence of dreams , nor are they likely to be carried away by any fit of midsummer madness . Lamartine may assure himself that no men were ever more thoroughly in earnest , than those who laid down their lives in the June Insurrection , and those who returned Carnot , Vidal , and De Flotte , to the Legislative Assembly . The first fought and died , the second voted and

      live , —to establish the Social Republic . If , indeed , Socialism , instead of being a mighty fact was but the phantasm of a set of enthusiasts and fools , Lamartine ' s remedy"light , reason , and discussion , " would , no doubt , be found efficacious in dispelling the delusion . But , precisely , because Socialism is a fact—the great fact of this epoch—Lamartine ' s " remedy" is calculated only to advance the "disease . " AU that the Socialist Democrats ask for , is the liberty to shed abroad the "light" of their principles ; to be permitted the employment of unfettered " reason "

      in propagating their views ; and to be allowed to combat their opponents with the weapons of free " discussion . " They know that by such means they could triumph without ever again having recourse to muskets and barricades . And Baroche , Thiers , and Co know the same . They are not blinded by the fine words of Lamartine . They very well comprehend the character of the Socialist movement ; and , therefore , they say— " away with the right of discussion ; stringency and repression are the only means to save ' society '' '—meaning by that term the system by which they are enabled to maintain their homicidal

      supremacy , at the cost of the rights , the happiness , and the lives of the great majority of their fellow creatures . Let no man be alarmed at the word " Socialism . " Let no man , who desires his own social emancipation , allow that , or any other word to stand in the way ofthe duty he owes to himself and his fellow men—that of investigating the causes of Labour ' s wrongs , and ascertaining what are Labour ' s rights . The social question is of paramount importance , and to its consideration every true reformer—every earnest and energetic friend of progress , will devote his untiring attention .

      To come back to the measure affecting the French Press ; there can be but little doubt that that measure will pass , notwithstanding the hostility of even the " Moderate" journals . Is is anticipated that while some of the cheap Socialist journals will be crushed , a good many of their Conservative rivals will share tlie same fate . The combatants will be fewer , but the fight will not be the less earnest . The result may be safely anticipated . The stamp and excessive caution-money ( 80 , 000 francs ) did not save the government of Louis Philippe , nor will such means prevent the downfall of the present tyrants .

      The hill to abolish electoral meetings meets with the almost unanimous support of the ordermongers . So much the better . So flagrant a violation ° right proclaimed sacred by the constitution cannot but add immensely to the popular hatred of the government , and must vastly accelerate the grand overthrow . It appears that , besides the measures affecting the Press , and forbidding electoral meetings , Buonaparte and his Ministers have six other bills in readiness , relating to the Suffrage , Foreign Refugees , the Transportation of Political Offenders , Ac , & C . "As matters are as yet , " says the correspondent ofthe Times , "the Government cannot exactly shoot every man who writes in favour of

      Socialise doctrines ; " hence these " measures of repression" constitute the only feasible mode of " arresting the evil" of Red Republicanism . It is evident that the Times man does not yet despair of having the pleasure of narrating the events of a new St . Bartholomew , to begot up by the "friends of order . " The editor of that paper , however , is by no means sanguine that the shooting system would he a very sate game for the enemies ofthe Kcpublic . Having misgivings as regards the "fidelity " of the army , the Times implores the "Moderates " to study moderation , (!) and entreats the " friends of order" not to rush into violence !! This is exceedingly amusing , and speaks volumes for the fears ofthe antidemocratic conspirators . L'AMI DU PEUPLE . March 28 , 3850 .

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      New Regulations bespkctixg MEiaorouiAS Public Carriages . —The new act of parliament respecting metropolitan public carriages , which will come into operation in a few days , was issued on Wednesday . By this act the office of Registrar of Metropolitan Public Carriages is abolished , and a saving of £ 1 , 400 a year will be effected . The Commissioners of Police are to discharge the duties hitherto performed by the registrar without any additional salary . There is power given to pay retired allowances to officers whose situations may be abolished or " superseded" under the provisions of this act . The Commissioners of Police may appoint standings for hackney carriages , and make regulations respecting the same , as also enforce order at every standing . This act , which is to commence

      and take effect from the 5 th of April , is to be construed as one with the 6 & 7 Vic , cap . 86 , for regulating hackney and stage carriages , and all the previsions of that act are extended to the present law . One of the Commissioners of Police may discharge tho duties transferred . The licenses respecting metropolitan carriages , drivers , and conductors expire on the 5 th of April . Mb . Pembektox , who had been for many years attached to her Majesty's Treasury , has retired from the public service ; and the other office held by that gentleman—viz ., agent for the Russian-Dutch Loan—has been abolished by the Lords ofthe Treasury . We also understand that it is not their lordships' intention to fill up the vacancy occasioned in the office by Mr . Pemberton ' s retirement .

      Brewers in the United Kingdom . —On Wednesday a return to parliament was printed , showing that on the 10 th of October last there were 2 , 507 brewers in the United Kingdom , comprising 2 , 257 ia England , 151 in Scotland , and 00 in Ireland . They consumed in the year J , § 051 , 052 bushels of malt .

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      In commencing his uiiial weekly lecture in the John street Institution , . on Friday last , Mr . B . ? , 'r A- , P l aent of thisassociation , congratulated himself on bemg . able to give his audience another proof of the progress which the doctrines of the League were making ho alluded to the hearty and unanimous manner in which those doctrines were received by the large assemblage called together by the National Regeneration Society , at the Institution m > Leicester-square , on Saturday evening . That society having invited public discussions for the laudable purpose of eliciting the best plans for removing poverty , pauperism ? and crime , he had felt it his duty to attend their meetings ; and , after due notice , to ovnnnnd to tho

      ? 7 « Sm t * *" , P"nciples of the National Rofoim League as the only substantial basis for national regeneration . He did not mean to say that all those who were at the great meeting on Saturday agreed to those princi ples , although tlicy might applaud them at the time : many swallowed them as bitter pills—as nauseous medicine taken to cure . ° . ^ PP ^ bended disease . He had long felt thoroughly convinced that tho present evils of society could be cured by nothing short of a radical reform in the existing laws upon land , credit , currency , and exchange ; and this truth all parties , sooner or later , would be compelled to acknowledge . Unless our neighbours , the French , come to the same conclusion , torrents of blood would again be

      shed in that convulsed nation . The lecturer then went on to say that for want of a correct knowledge of the universal principles of economical and social science , the revolution of France had not yet begun ; and that the mere change in tho personel of the government which tho people in that country had ettected , had strengthened , instead of weakened , the arms of despotism ; and had increased , instead of diminished , tho miseries of the people . Mr . O'Brien then entered , in detail , upon the circumstances attending tho recent elections in France , and upon the abominable overt and secret acts , by which tho government vainly hope to strangle democracy . He maintained , the base bourgeoisie , or middle class , were the main abettors of tho

      barbarous system of persecution now going on in France —those kind of people who cared not how much the producing classes suffered , so that the five per cents could be kept from fluctuating much below par ; and so long as they could buy the produce of labour cheap , and sell it dear . He again repeated what he had often uttered before—tho merchant class were the deadliest enemies the working classes had ever known ; and to talk of other enemies while that class possessed its present power , was mere declamation , and deceived the people . What was the use of going about the country proclaiming that the poor were too poor , and the rich too rich , without proposing an adequate remedy for the evils deprecated ? " Where was the good of

      newspapers , like the Wipatch , giving long Jeremiads about tho abuses of Church and State , without showing what relation such abuses have , or have not , to the distresses of the people ; or of merely running down one humbug by running up another humbug * Would the Disp ' atch show us how those 160 poor Wiltshire labourers , who struck work the other day because their grinding employers wanted to reduce their wages to six shillings a week , wore to be relieved from such diabolical oppression ? We all know that six shillings a week was nothing less than slow murder—even an American nigger earned more than that by working over time . There was undoubted authority for the statement that many a nigger in America kept a horse for his own use , and that many saved from £ 10 to £ 20 a year , to expend in mere luxuries . And yet , in this free country , many agricultural labourers were un

      able to earn more than six shillings a week—or £ 15 12 s . a year—working every day ; and if they attempted to combine with their fellows , to protect themselves against this monstrous injustice , warrants were issued for their apprehension , and the police and military were put in requisition against them . Vague declamation , then , upon party questions—upon priestcraft , aristocracy , government expenditure , taxation , Ac . —was a . waste of time and effort , because it left unscathed tbe horrible monsters which profitism , landlordism , and usury , had now become . After some further exposures of the ravages of these monsters , Mr . O'Brien concluded by reading the following resolutions , which had been unanimously passed at the meeting of the National Regeneration Society before referred to , and which would be found in their printed report of the debates : —

      "I . A repeal of our present wasteful and degrading system of poor laws , and the substitution of a just and efficient poor law ( based upon the original Act of Elizabeth ) which shall centralise the rates , and dispense them equitably and economically for the beneficial employment and relief of the destitute poor . The rates to be levied only upon the owners of every description of realised property . Tho employment , to be of a healthy , useful , and reproductive kind , so as to render the poor self-sustaining and self-resnecting . Till

      such employment be procured , the relief of the poor to be , in aU cases , promptly and liberally administered , as a right , and not grudgingly doled out , as a boon . The relief not to be accompanied with obduracy , insult , imprisonment in workhouses , separation of married couples , thobveakingup of families , or any such other harsh and dograding conditions as , under the present system , convert relief into punishment , and treat the unhappy applicant rather as a convicted criminal than as ( what he really is ) the victim of an unjust and vitiated state of society . "

      " 2 . —In order to lighten the pressure of rates , and , at the same time , gradually to diminish , and finally to absorb , the growing mass of pauperism and surplus population , it is tho duty of the government to appropriate its present surplus revenue , and the proceeds of national or public property , to the purchasing of lands , and the location thereon of tho unemployed poor . The rents accruing from these lands to be applied to further purchases of land , till all who desired to occupy land , either as individual-holders or industrial

      communities , might be enabled to do so . All such lands , and the rents payable thereupon , to bo ever after the inalienable property of the State , and to be appropriated ( in lieu of the present taxes ) to defray the expenses of the public service , tho construction of public works , the education of the population , and all other such useful purposes and public functions as are now provided for out of the revenues annually raised by taxation . A general Jaw empowering parishes to raise loans upon the security of their rates , would greatly facilitate and expedite the operations of government towards this desirable end . "

      • ' 3 . Pending tho operations of these measures , it is desirable to mitigate the burdens of taxation , and of public and private indebtedness upon all classes who suffer thereby—the more especially as these burdens have been vastly aggravated by the recent monetary and free trade measures of Sir Robert Peel . To this end , the Public Debt , and all private indebtedness affected by the fall of prices , should ho equitably adjusted in favour of tho debtor and productive classes , and the charges of government should be reduced upon a scale corresponding with the general fall of prices , and of wages . And , as ^ hat is improperly called tho "National Boot , " has been admitted , in both Houses of Parliament

      to be in the nature of a bona fide mortgage upon the realised property of tho country , it is but strict justice that tho owners of this property , and they Only , should be henceforward held responsible for joth capital and interest . At all events , the industrious classes should not be held answerable for h , seeing the debt was not borrowed by them , nor for them , nor with their consent ; and that , even had it been so , they have had no assets left them for the payment ol it . Moreover , the realised property of this country , being estimated at eight times " the amount 0 / tho debt , the owners or mortgagors have no valid excuse or plea to ' . ottev on tho score of inability , for refusing to meet the claims of their mortgagees . "

      " This meeting is of opinion that , in addition to a full , fair , and free representation of the whole people in the Commons House of Parliament upon principles the same , or similar to those laid down in the People ' s Charter—( great applause )—the following measures-some of a provisional , the others of a permanent nature , are necessary to ensure real political and social justice to the oppressed and suffering population of tho United Kingdom , and to protect society from violent revolutionary changes . " 4 . The gradual resumption by the State ( on the acknowledged principles of equitable compensation to existing holders , or their heirs ) of its ancient , undoubted , inalienable dominion , and solo proprietorship over all the lands , mines , turbaries , fisheries , & c , of the United Kingdom and our colonies ; the same to be held by tho State as trustee ,

      m perpetuity , for the entire people , and rented out to them in such quantities , and on such terms as the law and local circumstances shall determine ; —because the land , being the gift of the Creator to all , it can never become the exclusive property of individuals—because the monopoly of tho land , in private hands , is n palpable invasion of tho rights ofthe excluded parties , rendering them , more or less , the slaves of landlords and capitalist * , and tending to circumscribe or annul , their other rights and liberties—because a monopoly of tho earth by a portion of mankind is no more justifiable than would be the monopoly of air , light , heat , or water— . and because tho rental of tho land ( which justly belongs to the whole people ) would form a national fund adequate to defray all charges of the public aervice , execute all needful public works , and educate the population , without the necessity for any taxation . "

      " 5 . That , as it is the recognised duty ofthe state to support all those of its subjecSs who , from incapacity or misfortune , are unable to procure their own subsistence ; and as the nationalisation of lauded propertyypuld open up new sources of oc-

      In Commencing His Uiiial Weekly Lecture ...

      cupation for the no w . surplus industry of the people ( a surplus which is daily augmented b y the accumulation of machinery in the hands of the capitalists ) the same principle which now sanctions a public * provision tor the destitute poor , should be extended to the providing a sound system of National Credit , through which any man might ( under certain conditions ) procure an advance from the national funds arising out ofthe proceeds of public property , and thereby be enabled to rent and cultivate land on his own account , instead of being subjected , as now , to the injustice and tyranny of wages-slavery , ( through which capitalists and profitists are enabled to defraud him of his fair recompense ) , or being induced to become a hired slaughterer of his fellowt ... u , _ .. _ , .-.. . -

      creatures at the bidding of godless diplomatists ; enabling them to foment and prosecute international wars , and trample on popular rights , for the exclusive advantage of aristocratic anil' vested interests . The same privilege of obtaining a share in the national credit to be applicable to tho requirements of individuals , companies , and communities in all other branches of useful industry as well as agriculture . " " 6 . That the National Currency should be based on real , consumable wealth , or on the bona fide credit of the State and not upon the variable and uncertain amount of scarce metal ; because a currency depending on such a basis , however suitable in past times , or as a measure of value in present international commerce , has now become , by the

      increase of population and wealth , wholly inadequate to perform the functions of equitably representing and distributing that wealth ; thereby rendering all commodities liable to perpetual fluctuation in price , as those metals happen to be more or less plentiful in any country ; increasing to an enormous extent the evils inherent in monopoly and usury , and in the banking and funding systems ( in support of which a legitimate function of the law—the protection of property—is distorted into an instrument for the creation of property to a large amount for the benefit of a small portion of society , belonging to what are called vested

      interests ;) because , from its liability to become locally or nationally scarce , or in excess , that equilibrium which should bo maintained between the production and consumption of wealth is destroyed ; because , being of intrinsic value in itself , it fosters a vicious trade in money , and a ruinous practice of commercial gambling and speculation ; and , finally , because , under the present system of society , it has become confessedly the ' root of all evil , ' and the main support of that unholy worship of Mammon wliich . now so extensively prevails , to the swpplanting of all true religion—natural and revealed . "

      " 7 . That in order to facilitate the transfer of property or service , and the mutual interchange of wealth among the people ; to equalise tho demand and supply of commodities ; to encourage consumption as well as production , and to render it as easy to sell as to buy , it is an important duty of the State to institute , in every town and city , public marts or stores , for the reception of all kinds of exchangeable goods , to be valued by disinterested officers appointed for the purpose , either upon a corn or a labour standard ; the depositors to receive symbolic notes representing the value of their deposits ; such notes to be made legal currency throughout the country , enabling their owners to draw from the public stores to an equivalent

      amount , thereby gradually displacing the present reckless system of competitive trading and shopkeeping—a system which , htvrcver necessary or unavoidable in the past , now produces a monstrous amount of evil , by maintaining a large class living on tbe profits made by the mere sale of goods , on the demoralising principle of buying cheap and selling dear , totally regardless of the ulterior effects of that policy upon society at large , and the true interests of humanity . " " It ia not assumed that the foregoing Propositions comprise all the reforms neided in society . Doubtless there are many other reforms required besides those alluded to ; doubtless , we want a sound system of national education for youth , made compulsory upon all parents and guardians ; doubtless , we require a far less expensive system of military and naval defence than now obtained ;

      doubtless , wo require the expropriation of railways , canals , bridges , docks , gas-works , water-works , < fcc . ; and , doubtless , wo require a juster and more humane code of civil and penal law than we now possess . But these and all other needful reforms will be easy of accomplishment when those comprised in tho foregoing propositions shall have been effected . Without these , indeed , justice cannot be done to humanity ; society cannot be placed iu tho true path of improvement , never again to be turned aside or thrown back ; nor can these natural checks and counterchecks be instituted , without which the conflicting passions and propensities of man fail to produce a harmonic whole ; but with which , as in the material world , all things arc made to work together for good , reconciling man to his position iu the universe , and exalting his hopes of future destiny . " The reading of the above propositions was received by the meeting with much applause .

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      Brighton.—The Following Petition Was For...

      Brighton . —The following petition was forwarded to Captain Pechell for presentation . " To the Honourable the House of Commons , the Petition of the Undersigned Members of the National Land Company , residing in the town of Brighton , '' Sheweth , —That your petitioners bavo hoard with sorrow and indignation , statements made to your honourable house by a part of the Allottees of ^ linster Lovel , Oxfordshire , that they have been ill-treated and deceived by the promoter of the Land Plan ; Feargus O'Connor , Esq . " " That your petitioners know the statements made by three of the ' allottees to be false . Letters have been received in Brighton , from John Harne , shewing that he was doing well ; he also stated at a meeting of the members since his ejection , that he could obtain a living on his allotment ( three acres , ) but would not pay his rent to Mr . O'Connor .

      " That your petitioners have seen letters from Aaron Rose , ( who had purchased stock , and right of location , from a former occupant for £ 70 , ) that ho was obtaining a good livelihood . His father , on showing letters , expressed himself , with tears of gratitude In his eyes , the p leasure ho felt—stating at tho same time the utter impossibility of his son doing so well in Brighton . " That your petitioners have seen it stated In the public press—and such statement has never been denied—that James Beattie , a'four-acre allottee , has sub-let three acres of his-land , from which the said James Beattie obtains more rent by £ 1 per year ( receiving the rent six months in advance , ) than he is charged by Mr . O'Connor on behalf of the

      Company . " That your petitioners have no reason to be dissatisfied with Mr . O'Connor ' s management of the Company—the power being placed in his hands by a full representation of tho whole of tho members ; the funds and property belonging to tho Company we consider to bo in honourable hands , " That your petitioners have abundance of evidence in tho neighbourhood of Brighton , and other sources , to prove that the Land Plan is perfectly practicable , which we are willing to produce to your honourable house if required . "That your petitioners hope your honourable house wi'l assist Mr . O' Connor to obtain the legalisation ofthe National Land Company , your petitioners being awaro that Mr . O'Connor has spared neither his time or his money to accomplish that object . " Ana your petitioners will ever pray .

      The Honesty Fund. 10 Fearous O'Connor, E...

      THE HONESTY FUND . 10 FEAROUS O ' CONNOR , ESQ ., M . r . REsrecrED Fbhikd , —You will find enclosed a post-office order for £ 2 3 s . Ad . matte payable to William Rider . The money is to defray the expenses of the late action against Bradsbaw , tho proprietor of the Nottingham Journal , and wc trust you will accept the above sum as a debt due to you for your past excrtionsin the cause of honesty and freedom . We hope every town and hamlet will do their utmost in supporting you against all such slander , vituperation , and calumny . On behalf of tho Liversedge subscribers , I rf oaain , yours truly , " in the cause of Democracy , Hightown , March 25 th . J . C . Swallow .

      fO FBAKGDS O ' CONNOR , ESQ ., M P . Dr . in , Honoured and Respected Sir , —We , the Land members and Chartists of Gorgie Mills , cannot find words sufficient to express our feelings of good wishes towards you , knowing the debts of gratitude wo owe you for the super-human exertions you have made , in defiance of every danger that threatened your life and liberty , to emancipate our order , politically and socially , fromthethraldom of oppression , We cannot find words comtemptible enough , for the treatment you have received at tho hands of a dastardly few of the allottees , whom you so diligently laboured to servo ; having taken them from tho hot beds of disease , poverty and crime ; from the polluted atmospheres of towns ; from

      the will and caprice of their task-masters ; and placed them in happy homes away from tyrant capital ; and yet for all this , they have recompensed you by joining in league with a dastardly set of ruffianly scribes—emjadoyed , no doubt , for tho occasion—to malign your character . But , thank God , they failed in their unjust design . Your character for honesty is unimpeachable . Tho cause has gained by it , as we confidently ussure you , that we know that those who were your enemies before are now your friends . Wo are extremely sorry to see that yon have been compelled at last to wind up the Company . But who is to blame ? Mt you , dear sir , but' the members , by not pay ing up thoir shares ; government for refusing to register ; and lastly , the conspiracy entered into by a few of the located

      The Honesty Fund. 10 Fearous O'Connor, E...

      members themselves against you , because yon would not allow them to play the fraudulent part they intended , in not paying the Company's just deman d * ( their rents ) , whose means were the cause of obtaining for them such rural felicity . Dear sir , as a proof of our regard for your sterling , patriotic , and philahthrophic worth , we enclose a post-office order for fifteen shillings and sixpence , as our first remit * tanco to the « Honesty Fund . " t 'v v , „ re ' dcar 8 h \ yours respectfully , In behalf of the Land Members and Chartists of this place , William Sojimehville , James Chalmers , Alexander Mc Donald , John Lejimow , n -., ¦ ,, , WlLLI"I MeCHAX . Gorgie Mills , March 25 th . ... ,

      TO F . O ' COSJJOR , ESQ ,,, M F . Dear Sir , —We have not forgotten you , although late m remitting our portion , viz ., 41 to the Honesty I und . Chartism and the Land is not dead jit Devon port . There are several who were very energetic in the cause a short time since ; but from the apathy of their own order ( tho working classes ) , and dreaded persecution of their omployers , ( Whigg , Tories , tke . ) , ths organisation ia broken -up for the

      present . We hope the time is not far distant when tho banner of the " Charter and No Surrender " will again be unfurled at Devonport to brave the battle and tho breeze . A few Old Guards and Land members have felt it to be their duty to fly to your rescue , and add their mite to assist in relieving you from your present embarrassment . Ouv confidence in you and tho Land Plan is not diminished but strengthened , and wo sincerely hope that . from the wreck of the present Company , one will be established that will bid defiance to its

      enemies , and realise the object so devoutly wished for by you and the Old Guards of Devonport . On behalf of whom I beg to submit myself , Yours faithfully , Devonport , March 26 . James Rooehs .

      TO FEARGUS O CONXOR ESQ ., M . P . Esteemed Friend , —We , your political admirers , residing in the village of Kingstown , near Carlisle , in public meeting assembled , hereby tender to you our heartfelt thanks for your indefatigable exertions , in behalf of tho toiling , enslaved , and oppressed _ millions of this country ; we view with honest indignation the base and cowardly attack which has been made upon yotir reputation , by that weekly progeny of lies , the Nottingham Journal , and can assure you that we yet retain full confidence in your political integrity , and if ever we

      entertained a doubt on the subject , the fiery ordoal you have gone through has completely removed it , for you have come through the fire " like gold that has been seven times purified . " As an irrefragable proof of our attachment to the principles which you unswervingly advocate , we enclose a post-office order to the Honesty Fund , for the sum of £ 2 5 s . 0 d ., fondly hoping that other localities " will go and do likewise . " Hoping that you may live to see your labours crowned with success , is the sincere wish of your democratic brethren . Signed on behalf of the meeting , Jonx Scott , Chairman .

      TO Mil . WILLIAM niDEK . Sik , —Enclosed you will find 10 s . which I desire to contribute to the " Honesty Fund , " towards reimbursing Mr . O'Connor the " heavy liabilities contracted in his consistent and persevering advocacy of the cause of labour against the tyranny of capital . Though not myself—in the strict sense ofthe word —a labourer , ( my daily bread being earned rather by brain-sweat than by brow-sweat ) , I entertain a sincere sympathy for that class , which the iron despotism of capital , under the present vicious and unholy system , eontinually grinds and impoverishes ; and I have watched with no little interest and anxiety the progress of Mr . O'Connor ' s admirable scheme for relieving the surplus pf the labour market by the natural and legitimate means of tha land . Alone and unaided , he has fought with a giant ' s strength the combined power ef the whole

      army 01 blood-suckers and capitalists ; ana though , for the present , his efforts appear to be paralysed , by the wicked and artful contrivances of his enemies , be assured that the inherent justice ofthe cause he has undertaken will—must ensure a speedy triumph . Under these circumstances it is the bounden duty of each and all to assist , to the utmost of their power , the champion who has shown himself ever ready to sacrifice self to the interests of the Oppressed workers ; and , I trust , that your columns will show , weekly , an increasing amount , until the whole of the debt is liquidated . My means are , unfortunately , far more circumscribed than my good wishes ; but I promise to send you another 10 s . the first week that tho subscriptions in your paper exceed £ 50 . I am , sir , your obedient servant , Fiat Justitia . London , March 27 , 1 S 50 .

      British College Of Health, Kew Road, Lon...

      BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH , Kew Road , London . the case of ann jier 1 utt , and' mrs . spry and MRS . DOKE . The case of Ann Merritt is somewhat similar to that of Mrs . Spry and her daughter , Mrs . Dore , only not quite so conclusive—both however have nearly gone to the public scaffold tlirough the ' guinea-trade' gentlemen !! At this extraordinary crisis in medical jurisprudence we think it is most important to reconsider the ease of Mrs . Spry and her daughter . It was on Tuesday , the 29 th of August , 1848 , that these unfortunate but highly respectable women were charged capitally before Mr . Baron Piatt , at the Central Criminal Court , with the wilful murder of their child by arsenic—the coroner ' s jury having ; , j # on the evidence of the guinea-trade gentlemen , ' returned a verdict of ' wilful murder' against them . But what do you think

      , gentle reader ? why it turned out that so far from these poor women having anything to do with the arsenic , it had been by some mistake or other given by the medical attendants themselves . The doctors , as usual , began quarrelling , upon which , Baron Piatt , with considerable-warmth , said , " the ;/ were not sitting there to justify medicfi ^ men , but to justify the poor women atthe har , ' and they were Of " course at once acquitted . : y-: i .. , / , -. ¦ - -:..- ¦ Now we should state , thdt ' -immeaiately upon - their acquittal , Mr . Spry and his wife called at * the British'Oollege of Health , and informed Messrs .. Morison that he had heen either page or butler to his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester , and that he was then liring with Mrs . Spry and Mi's . Dore his daughter , at No . 4 iiii ' d 5 , Lower Grosvenorplace , Pimlico . That the cliarge'bvoughfagaiiist the women had nearly been the cause of the ^ death of one of them , and that altogether they had been put to the expense

      Of 200 ( . in defending themselves from ttiis . odipus charge of murder by arsenic , supported by tlie guinea-trade gentlemen ! Messrs . Morison advised Mr . Spry to mcmoralise the Secretary of State for a return of the 200 Z ., and offered their services in endeavouring , in case of the claim not being attended to , to bring the matter before the House of Commons by petition ; and further to head a subscription with 101 . on their behalf . Upon this Mr . Spry went away , having faithfully promised to return , but from that day to this we have not seen him or the women . Now we ask this question—has there bees a compromise between ant OP THE AUTHORITIES OB ANT OTIIEK PABTV AND MB . SPKY OB THE WOUEN , EITHER . BIR-ECILV OK ISDWECTLV , WITH BESPECT TO the 2005 , ob any pabt of it ? if so we can only say that it is a disgraceful compromise , because such a case , " involving the public Security , should have been exposed , as it deserved ; if it hud been exposed , Ann Merritt would not have been convicted .

      Thanks to tho Daily News , Ann Merritt's life is saved ; but why is she not immediately restored to her poor children ? ffO tl'USt llCl' Majesty will immediately Issue her free pardon and set her at liberty—for who can fathom the anguish of mind which the poor creature must have endured i We are oi opinion that the Editor of . the Daily iVetos i entitled to the thanks ofthe nation for his noble conduct in the case ; but as regards the way in which that expressionshould he carried out we leave to more able and inttuentia hands than ours This case of Ann Merritt ' s should be a caution to all per . sons not to buy arsenic for any purpose , whether Of destroying rats or otherwise , for if a party taking the poison , even accidentally , were to die , and unluckily belonged to a burial club , or had at si me time or other taken ai-jeit " medicinally , " ( which , according to US , Kaspail , would appear on a post-mortem examination , ) such persons Stand

      good chance of being tried for wilful murder and executed , provided the ' guinea-trade gentlemen' will only swear pretty confidently . By the bye . this analysing of Stomachs must not be a bad trade , provided you can get plenty of it , 'They manage these things differently in France . ' * What would such a man as Orfila or Kaspail think of a country like England leaving these important questions , whereon depend life or death , to a parcel of twopenny-halfpenny doc tors , whose only recommendation is the humbug piece of parchment which they carry in their pockets ! Why does not tho government appoint men of undoubted science to attend to these matters , and not let the remuneration ia suoh cases depend upon tho number that the party can manage to scrape together ; this is , we emphatically declare , a disgrace to this counu-y . The lives of the people are actually placed in the power of these ' guinea-trad » gentlemen ; ' and provided they come armed with the miserable humbug of a diploma , no one , not even the most

      acute Judge , IS to question their evidence , but they swallow all that they tell them as Gospel . Oh ! Oh ! What , pray , would have been tlie fate of Mrs . Spry and her daughter , if Baron Piatt had not questioned pretty severely the guinea-tradegentlemen ?' Therefore , Sir , we repeat it comos to this , that so long as doctors themselves use and patronise these deadly poisons as medicines , or ' medicinally' as they call it , It will be IMPOSSIBLE to tell who has heen FELONIOUSLY or MEDICINALLY murdered ! :: and the innocent will bo made to suffer for the guilt 3 \ as we predicted many years « go , One would , suppose from the stress which is put on arsenic , that it is the ouly poison in existence , whereas there are fifty other * in all chemists' shops , ten times more subtle aud deadly , to be had for the mere asking and paying for—poisons which leave no trace Mind them , and therefore cannot be detected , At present when a party dies from any of these poisons , given medicinally , he is

      said by the guinea-tvade geuUemen' to have died of a ¦ parlicidar disease . ' hut let the people possess the same I knowledge of theie . poisons as they now do of arsenic and where , let us ask , is the tribunal that will be competent to deal with sueh cases ? Doctors themselves are constantly recommending ar «» iitf , medicinally , ' even in cholera 'I WeU , when the patients die , It is called ( H «« ue / in the other case it is called wilful murder / Let , therefore the p eople arise from their lethargy and inquire for theuisclve « zutj this truly momentous matter . As to the lie , the wicked lie , that theso deadly chemicals are necessary m medicine , we have only to ask this question : llow comes it that hvmureas and thousands throughout the world who for 3 ears had tried all these poisons of doctors without avail , have been restored , to . health by ^ the simple means ofthe Vegetable Universal Medicine S The poisons only serve as props to tlie ' guineatrade , and to keep people ! n tlie d & rk .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 30, 1850, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_30031850/page/5/