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TO THE CHARTISTS OF NEWCASTLE AND GATESHEAD . The committee hereby give notice , that a members' meeting will . be held in Mr Greener ' s Long-room , Cock Inn , Head of Side , on Sunday evening , July 7 th , to take into consideration the propriety of getting up a good district organisation ; and also to elect a delegate to attend a district delegate meeting . Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock . Johs Beows , Secretary , All correspondence for the Chartists of Newcastle-on Tyne , te be sent to John Broira , care of Mary Brown , 8 , Harrison-property , Stepney-hank , Newcastle-upon-Tyne . Mr . James Nisbett , late of Newcastle , will much oblige the committee by sending his address to John Brown , Secretary .
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NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . — DISSOLVING . Notice is hereby given , that application is intended to be made to Parliament forthwith , for an Actio dissolve the National Land Company , and to wind up the undertaking , and to make sale ofthe Lands and property belonging to the said Company , and after the payment of all debts , liabilities , and expenses , respecting the same , to : divide the surplus monies , to be realized by such sale or Bales , between and amongst the shareholders and subscribers entitled thereto , rateably , according to their several interests in the said undertaking _.
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Ob . M'Douall ' b address is 292 , Buckley-terrace , Rochdale road , Manchester . Dr . M * Douall requests US . to State that the balancepaid to him by the Liverpool Committee _, amounted to £ 2 3 s . 4 d . He adds : ' I am consequently unable to _bepn my profession unless I can borrow £ 100 ; but where that is to . come from I have yet to discover . ' The Lacet . Tom—The following subscriptions have been received : —Sir J . Walmsley , Esq ., M . P ., £ 1 ls ; Tindal Atkinson , Esq ., 9 s ; S . Ward , Esq ., 5 s ; Mrs . Cobden , 10 s ; G . Lusbington , Esq ., M . P ., £ 1 : J : Hume , Esq ., M . P _., 53 ; . R . Gardner , Esq ., 10 s ; Sir B . Hall , Esq ., M . P ., 10 s ; C . Pearson , Esq ., M . P ., 10 s ; J . _HaU _, Esc ., £ 1 ; W . D . S ., 2 s 6 d ; T . Prout , Esq ., 10 s ; W . James , Is 5 ; Mr . Henderson , 6 d ; Messrs . Lewis , ls ; _Frienls , per Argue , 9 d ; Mr . Fleming , 6 d ; A Manchester Red , 6 d ; II . Wilks , Secretary .
Dear Sir , —Will you be so khnl as to correct a mistake in last Saturday ' s Star concerning the' Lacey Fund ; it should read as follows : —John Sewell , Esq ., treasurer , No . 2 , Kockingham-row , Kent-road , Surrey . All monies and Post-office orders to be made payable to him at the branch Post-office , High-street , Borough , and all communications to the secretary , Henry WiJks , No . 24 , Rochester-street , Westminster , London . Yours , & c . HENRr Woks , 24 , Rochester-street , July 3 rd . , Nottlngiiah . —J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums ( sentherewith ) viz .: —Foe the Honesty Fdsd . -Mr . Dalton _, 3 d ; Mrs . Perkins , Id ; Mr . Smith , 3 d . The M'Dooali . Committee desire to express their erateful
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Sir. Robert Peel. The Most Eminent State...
SIR . ROBERT PEEL . The most eminent Statesman of the age has been suddenly snatched away from us in the fall maturity of his physical : and intellectual powers . A few hours after closing a speech In the midst of loud and long continued cheering , in the House of Commons , he was stretched , braised , bleeding , and almost unconscious , on the bed of death . On Friday night week he was in his place in the Senate House , where , for forty-one years , he has held a distinguished position ; on Tuesday night he had ceased to exist . During the whole of that long period
Sir Robert Peel was , with short intermissions , entrusted in one capacity or another with the Government of the country , and he " died iu harness . " Other Statesmen have been permitted to retire , and in the leisure and calm enjoyment of private life to prepare for the grave , but he was stricken down in the midst of his labours . He may have cherished the hope that time would yet set him right with the great party from whom he was severed a few years ago , and again restore him to the proud position of Premier of England . But his " sun has gone down while it was yet day / ' All is over . His name and his deeds now belong to history .
Never was there a public man whose loss was so _Bincerely and deepl y regretted by men of all classes , and all parties . "We believe that the great mass of the people , whose political predilections are of a moderate description , and who do not take any active part in political struggles , looked upon the deceased Statesman as the right hand ofthe country _^! In the case of any emergency , or any _greatcrisis , the eyes of all parties would have instantl y turned to 43 u * Robert Peel as the man to solve the difficulty , and to carry , the vessel of tho State safely through whatever dangers might threaten it . His long experience of official life had given him a thorough knowledge of adminis-
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tration in alliits aspects ,. while ,.. his , political career _, ha & proved thai he _^ as pre 7 _« minently capable of marching with the , age , and . that he knew how to solve , that most difficult problem in Statesmanship—how to reconcile Conservatism with progress . Sir Robert was not an originator , but no man understood better how to apply new principles to action , how to introduce new elements into the . body politic , with the least possible displacement of existing interests , or how , atthe veryclimaxof _acrisis , to turn aside the threatened explosion . It was the general conviction of the existence of this peculiar faculty in his character which caused him to be generall y regarded as the sheet anchor ofthe State . '¦ " .:
Unlike many of our public men , who begin their career as Reformers , and end by being Tories , Sir Robert's public life was one of progress in education , ¦ _ in liberal ideas , and of corresponding liberality in his measures , He was brought up amidst the most rampant high Church and Tory influences , i and for many years faithfully and zealously maintainedthe Wind , bigotted , exclusive * , and intolerant doctrines and policy of a party , which looked down on the masses as born to be their slaves
and thralls . In that capacity , and , no doubt _,, most conscientiously , he resisted every proposal of a liberal character , or tendency , whether it affected our criminal jurisprudence , our civil and . religious or our commercial system ; and yet strangely enough in the issue , he has inseparably linked ibis name with all : the greatest reforms in these matters that have distinguished the present century , f To Peel we are indebted for the
amelioration and humanizing of our criminal code . 'Jie introduced and carried through the measure which placed Roman : Catholics on '' . % . social and political equality , with their _^ rbtestaht fellow citizens , and by him the . principle ; of freedom of commerce was . niade the governing principle of the policy of this country . It was impossible that any man could thus act in opposition to his early views and opinions without incurring odium and reproach : from , those with whom he had formerly acted _.-Incapable of reasoning themselves , or of appreciating the influence of expanding knowledge ' upon' such a mind ,, they attributed his conduct to the lowest motives , and stigmatised him as a traitor and a renegade . But the whole of
his public career proves , undoubtedly , that he must have been animated by the highest and holiest convictions of duty , and . that , the good of the country was . at ' all times his paramount , consideration .. ¦ _, He liad every thing to lose and nothing to gain by change , in the ordinary calculations of ; the . politician . .. In order to carry two of his great reforms , he had to separate himself from those with whom he had lived a lifetime of intimate friendship ; he - had to sever his connexion with two great and powerful parties of whom he was the acknowledged leader and head , and thelast of which he may be said to have created and organised himself . From the time the Reform Bill became law , Bir Robert set himself to form what was called the
Conservative Party . His celebrated advice" Register , Register , Register ,- ' 'laid the foundation of ,. and ultimately gave the supremacy to _. that party . By . separating _him-Belf from it he knew that he gave up ; the high position of Prime Minister and -. virtual Ruler of this mighty empire ... They must hare been strong convictions indeed of public duty which induced him 'to make * such ; sacrifices-as these . We have plenty of instances of public men sacrificing their princi ples to obtain power , _placed and dignity \ few , indeed , of their sacrificing all'these when" gained , in order to act upon ah _honeBt conviction of what wasbest for the public good . "" . ' , ' , '"'
Such a man cannot pass away from the arena in which he filled so large a place without causing a marked and important change in the position of parties ; and in the course of public events . Ever since the passing of the last measure of the Peel Cabinet , and its consequeut resignation , parties in this country have been > as / it were , checkmated . Sir Robert , and those who adhered to him , held the balance of power in then * hands , and they used it to maintain the status ' quo . They were
not prepared to let their ancient , allies , into power to interfere ' with the commercial policy they had inaugurated ; nor were they prepared _, to support the Whigs , even if the latter had been disposed to propose any very liberal measures . That this unsatisfactory state of things must , in some way or other , ; have been altered , there can be no doubt .. The nation would not much longer have tolerated . the policy of _stand-stillism and _do-nothingism , which has characterised the Administration of
the Whigs for the last four years . Sir Robert Peel ' s death has precipitated a change . Those of his party who were ' prevented by personal attachment to him from joining the party with whomthey are really in affinity , will now go over to the Conservative camp . Those of them who , have decided tendencies to such very moderate Liberalism in- politics as is embodied in Whiggism , ; may- be ; expected to make common cause with the Ministerial party , and take their share of the loaves and fishes , as the price oftheir adhesion . The Peelito party died with fits -head .: We are , therefore , getting back to a more natural state ¦
of things . ¦ - Parties will be fairly pitted against each other . The unhealthy stagnation which has marked English politics for several years back , will now give way to vigorous action . In the struggle , which may ensue , it is possible that reaction ofa decided character may take place . [ , The Tory party are powerful , and may secure a majorit y sufficient to carry them into _. office . But that , woiild in the end , we believe , ultimately advance the cause of popular liberty . The nation would be roused to active and earnest agitation , and Would find earnest and active mien to g ive utterance to its convictions—to demand the reforms which are
felt to be necessary , and which cannot be much longer withheld . Lukewarm friends , and sham Reformers , will be driven aside to make way for honest and sincere men . The reign of humbugs cannot be very long protracted . ' The Whigs , now that they can no longer dependon the aid of their best and most powerful supporters , will be compelled to move in one ' direction or another . They have , opposite to them , a party which out-numbers their , own . They have , on their own side of the House , eighty members , who , though giving them , a general " support , are yet pledged . to a much
more . liberal policy . If that party now does its duty to the country it will compel . Lord John to repay its past support , by conceding at least the moderate amount of representative reform , advocated by Sir Joshua Walmsley and his friends . Parliamentary Reform is the first great question that'demands settlement . The masses , who are now deprived bf all share in the government of the country , must have that fair and , legitimate participation in legislative influence to which . their numbers , their intelligence , and their value to the country , so justly entitles them . '" . " ¦
While , therefore we share in the profound and universal sorrow which is felt throughout the country at the sad event , which has so suddenly deprived us of a great man—while we are anxious to do all honour to his memory and to pass over without comment the shortcomings of his long and eventful career—while we are fully sensible of the great gap which for the time is caused by his withdrawal from
public life , and the loss of his matured and comprehensive judgment at moments of difficulty and doubt—we see reason to believe that his death will eventuate in benefit to the country , by restoring a more healthy tone to English politics , by putting au end to the transition period through which we have been passing , and by placing all parties in their true relative position . Stagnation must give way to Progress .
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. MINISTERIAL , _EOREIGW , EOLICY ; Lord Palmerston ' s splendid defence of his Foreign Policy _saved'h'imself and the Ministry from defeat : Notwithstanding the desertion of Messrs . Htjme , Cobden , ' Bright , ViLLiERb , Sir Wi Molesworth , andother Liberal _Membei's , _- ' and the union of the Peelite party with the Opposition , Ministers succeeded in getting _amajority" of forty-six , at four o ' clock on Saturday morning , in ; a house of 574 members _, ff Such a majority is ; scarcely equivalent to that by which the Government was . beaten
in the House , of Lords ; but somethingf must be allowed forthe larger question at issue ; in tbe . _' Cpmmons , and upon wbich greater difference of opinion might have been fairly expected . , The motion of Lord Stanley narrowed the subject to the affairs of-Greece , while that of Mr ; Roebuck opened up the whole of Lord Palmerston's Foreign Policy ; since he held ofiice . We do not see why so wide a question should have been selected , when the immediate object was to test ; the sense , of the Cpm-j mons oh the particular point respecting which the other House of Parliament had come to ah
adverse decision . Many Members might have approved of Lord Palmerston ' s conduct towards Greece , who might conscientiously object to otherportions of his policy ; and to such an . extent was this feeling prevalent a short time previous tothe division , that'it was not expected the majority would be more than fifteen , or twenty at the utmost . 'Such a small number would have been equivalent to a defeat and a resignation of the Ministry . We believe , however , that the larger number was gained entirely by the speech of the Foreign Minister .
It produced an immense effect upon _, the public _Uiind , and deputations were sent from several constituencies , to remonstrate ; with Members . who f were understood , to contemplate _< voting against him . ; Ainong those who had the screwput _; . upon them , was Mr . Bright , and ,.- we believe , Mr . Cobden had also to withstand solicitations from his constituents ; At ' all events ; in . his speech heseyeral times complained , with ; considerable bitterness , of the cabals that were got up out of doors , to prevent Members _fromigiving their votes according to the dictates of their own consciences : '
\ Intreating this subject last week , we complained / of Lord _Pamiersto _^^ it did not go far ' enough ; his speech , however , lead ' sto'the inference that , the ; blamei of this defect , does , hot ; rest ; upon his , shoulders .: ; He has to struggle against a despotic and . reactionary , party { within the Cabinet itself ; and hence his hands have been tied , and his efforts paralyzed , at the moment when . _vigour ; arid determination were most urgently needed . If
we want England to be efficiently represented in international affairs ; this clique of sympathisers with Russia ; Austria , and' . Naples , must be ousted froni power . In Mure , those who struggle for constitutional governments throughout the world , should know hot only that the sympathies of England are with them , but that if need ' be , her powerand her influence are at their disposal , and will be exerted in their behalf . , ' . _.,-, _.-. •>• . ¦ ¦
. ' . ' The debate was calculated to raise the intellectual character of the House of Commons in , the estimation , of the world .. With few exceptions , the speeches on both sides were maBterly displays of Parliamentary eloquence . Thetheme Avas a _^ great one , and the speakers rose to its level . Mr . CbcKBTJRN , the member for ' Southampton , ¦; produced . an impression almost unparalleled in the House of Commons , by the brilliant , fervent , and impassioned character of his ., speech . We , never heard such hearty and ringing cheers in that . house before as those which for some minutes followed his
powerful peroration , and the rush from all quarters of the house to shake hands with him was ; quite ; marvellous . The occupants of the Treasury bench were amongst the foremost to present their congratulations , and of course the learned gentleman will not be forgotten when Solicitor-Generalships ; or . other good things are ' next to be disposed pf . ¦ One good effect of the debate has been to draw public attention more to foreign policy than ' , ha g been the case heretofore ih this country . Our insular position tends , to some extent ; to isolate us from other nations , ' and
to render us indifferent to what is passing among' them . In the midst of this apathy and . want of information , it has been easy for the Foreign Minister of this country to play into ; tlie . hands of foreign despots ,: and to prostitute the great power : and influence of Great Britain ; to subserve the . most infamous policy and designs . It ¦ ¦ has also tended to puribeihg frequently hurried into wars with other nations for objects totally alien to the public' feeling * but the cost of which we have had to pay . If the attack upon-the policy of Lord Palmerston , by the Tories , has helped to dispel this indifference , and to arouse the' people to a sense ' . ' of the vast .
importance of keeping that department of the Governmeht under efficient and vigilant control iii future , it will have produced > a national benefit .. One thing is quite certain , that the speeches delivered on the question proved that bun present Legislators are better acquainted with foreign affairs than their predecessors : that they pay attention _< to them , and by so doing qualify themselves for pronouncing an opinion upon subjects which were formerly left to ' the exclusive controul of the Foreign Secretary arid a small and exceedingly select coterie , ' who were supposed to monopolise all the , ' information and all the wisdom extant upon these matters .
I We hope that Lord Palmerston ,, encouraged . by the resppnsehe has received from the country _^ will in future be . more bold , ¦ decided , andwhen necessary , practical in his assistance to . those _. who may require his aid to maintain free . institutions on the Continent . He will have the people with him : in any measures he hwiy adopt , to prove that England is not the tool of despots , but the friend and natural all y of all free peoples . Had tbis been done two years ago ; we should hot have witnessed the present prostrate and manacled state of Europe , and the glorious Kossuth , and his copatriots , would not now be wasting life in the gloomy solitude of a remote Turkish fortress ,
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; RAMPANT TORYISM . , The Lords have revenged themselves on the Commons for their adverse vote of Saturday last by virtually throwing out the Irish Franchise Bill on Monday night . By that measure the County and Borough Franchise was placed upon an £ 8 rating , ' and it was calculated that it would _givbtoa nation , possessing a population between seven and eight millions in number , a constituency of about one third of a million ; such a homcepathio dose of Parliamentary Reform did not seem to call
for any profound gratitude or extreme thankfulness on the part of the people , and it might have been fairly , expected that the Press would let it pass , especially as the total constituency of Ireland has now dwindled down into some six-and-thirty thousand voters!—less by twenty thousand than the number , on the register for the West Riding of Yorkshire ! A more flagrant mockery of an electoral bod y never was heard of ; but , true to their instinctive impulse to check every movement of
a popular nature , the House of Obstructives decided , in a very lordly way that the Irish people—whom Lord Stanley calls " rubbish "—shall not be entrusted , even to a limited extent of the Whig Bill , with the power of self-government . The Earl of DESART—a very solemn young man , with a very considerable opinionofhis own abilities , and a corresponding , " contempt for . the rights or interests of other people— . proposed that the franchise should . be raised to £ 15 , or nearly double that agreed to by the Commons , and condescendingly , informed the Irish people
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I that _itehad considerabledoubts whethe ? . that would not give them too many voters , it cut ; down _-06 hfce : 'th ' e three hundred and ' _. eighty _ihbusana : who wefe _^ stimatea , under the . its franchise , to , one hundred , and eighty _^ thou _^ sand _} ' and thus ! swept away , the chance , of the enfranchisement of two hundred thousand Irishmen . But that was hardly enough for this amiable lordling . ; .: It was with reluctance hepersiiaded himself to give votes to , so many of the , " rubbish . ? ; He ; _was strongly backed by his i brother Obstructives ; and Lord
_Lansdowhe , seeing a defeat before ' him , offered to give up the £ 8 : franchise ;'; ifthe Opposition wpuld . giv e him _J 612 as a compromise _^ The overture' was refused , and , a majority / of twentyitwo against the Government conclusively put an end tb the Lish Franchise Bill for this Session , at least , because we can scarcely ; suppose that the Government will be craveneiibugh to agree to a qualification which is nearly double that they fixed upon , and which reduces the constituency they proposed to enfranchise , more than one-half ;
We presume that the . _Lords were stimulated to take the course they have done , not only by the desire to retaliate on the Commons for their vote on Foreign Affairs , -but also by tlie prospect of a general election at no distant date , and the certainty under the present constituency , of getting a majority of Irish Members to support a Protectionist policy and Cabinet . Their lordships , however , have but deferred the . pplitical enfranchisement of the Irish people j ' they cannot prevent it , even with the aid ' of , that most inconsistent and
unepmprehensible old turn coat , Lord Brougham , who ; at the close of his life ,- seems to take a pride in opposing ' every principle ; the advocacy of which ; in early life , made his name famous . He is a . bundle of . ' crotchets and contradictions , ih which it is in vain to ; look for any connecting link or consistent idea « . andit will puzzle many to reconcile the former part of his speech , inwhich' lie ; advocated a limited franchise , for the Irish ; with the closing portion , of it ,. in which , with his usual copious command , of forcible words , he advocated the extension ofthe franchise to the hard-working , hard faring , hard headed artizans of this country . . Most truly did Lord Brougham declare that
they were by far , more , honest and independent than the " capitalocracy , " -the shopkeepers , _^ and ten pound voters , who monopolize political privileges under , the present ; system ; . and most cordially do we echo his wish , that he may live to see that valuable , honest , and independent section of his fellow ; countrymehnow enfranchised ;; By , the . way , as , he must always be doing , something or other—mischief when he can find nothing else —why does his Lordship not introduce , a bill for the political emancipation of the class he lauds so highly ? We should like very much for him to test the real value of the cheers which
greeted bis g lowing eulogy of the artizans of this country . Meantime , the Lords have only to pursue the same course with -respect to one or two ether of the measures which have been , or may be . sent up . to them , and the present Session will be , to all intents and purposes , effectually nullified . AU the wearisome work which has been gone through from the lst of February till the 1 st of July , will have been thrown away , leaving a net product of nothing . The two houses are in collision , which of the two will yield ?
Madman Or ' Ruffian.-Which ?
MADMAN OR RUFFIAN .-WHICH ?
In our fifth page will be found an account of an examination at Guildhall , of " a young man , very respectably dressed , who refused to give his name , " who haB been masquerading in , and libelling the character of " adetermined Chartist . " It will be seen that the _saidMyoung man" has been giving publicity to certain revolting schemes directed against the aristocracy . Small love as we have for that class , we cannot too strongly repudiate the devilish devices , set forth by this fool or knave . Until the re-examination has taken
place , it would be premature to comment on this subject , other than to demand that , if the " respectably-dressed young gentleman" is proved to be insane , he . shall be handed over to the proper authorities ; or otherwise , if proved to be si , villain—a second Powell—he shall be adjudged to suffer the punishment of the cat-o ' -nine-tails ; the fitting reward of any one who , being in possession of his senses , could even imagine atrocities worth y of Austria ' s assassin-tools , but utterly opposed to the sentiments of Englishmen of all classes , and every variety of political opinion .
Parliamentary Review. ; The Great Debate...
PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . ; The great debate oh Foreign : Policy appears to have unfitted members for ithe despatch of the ordinary business of the Legislature . The elevation has been too great to enable them to readily descend into the common and prosaic atmosphere of routine ; fin which they are accustomed to move . The sudden and lamentable death of the ' most eminent . and distinguished ornament of the House of Commons , still farther indisposed its members for doing business . On W . ednebday-rhy way of
testifying the profound grief felt for the bereavement they had sustained , and to mark tbe high estimation in which Mb public character was held—they separated , immediately after assembling , having just given utterance to the emotions excited by the painful event , whioh was uppermost in the mindsof all . On Moriday night the debates were of that miscellaneous and scattered description which characterises a Supply night . It is only needful to chronicle the result . The . money was voted . On Tuesday the business in the Commons was of a purely routine kind , and the House broke up early . _; : - ,
; Inthe House of Lords , Earl HARR 0 _WBY , on the part of the Church , made an attack on the disposal of the Government grants in aid bf Education , f' The clerical cormorants are not satisfied , with the immense revenues they already enjoy , they hunger arid thirst after thefewthousands spentineducating the people , and they , want to have the dispp _. _sal of those thousands , without being accountable to , or interfered with by the Government . . We are happy to say this barefaced attempt at plunder was defeated . On Thursday both Houses were occupied with a fruitless attempt to prevent the Monster Exhibition of 1851 from spoiling Hyde-Park . The longer this scheme is before the public the less attractive does it
become . ' We were among the' first to expose its true character , and to denounce it as a piece of Charlatanism ! and mock liberality unworthy of this country . At that time we " stood alone , but we have now plenty of co-labourers and the money comes so slowly in , that we _auspect the show will ultimately neither be of the vast dimensions , or the satisfactory character whioh its originators intended it should . We must say , however , that the opposition tb locating the Exhibition in Hyde-Park is too barefaced a developement of class-selfishnes , and exclusiveness , for us to sympathise very heartily with . If London reall y is to have this gigantic Bartholomew Fair , let the rich experience its inconveniences as well as the poor .
Lord John Russell > on Thursday , made the usual announcement , which heralds the approach of the close of the Session . " The slaughter of the innocents'' as it is called , has this year been a merciless one . Having lost ten days by the debate on Foreign Policy , and other matters not immediately connected with . Bills in progress , the Premier has availed himself of the circumstance for throwing overboard nearly every Government ; measure of impprtar ice on the paper . Among thbae so _ti-eated _^ efind the Bill for the Abolition : of the Lord _lieutenancy , the Seouritiea A _&
Parliamentary Review. ; The Great Debate...
vanceB ( Ireland ) Bill , * yhich" was intended to facilitate the workirig ' -of the Encumbered Estates Commission " ; _. theMerchantSeamens ' Bill , for the bbiter > egulatib h of our mercantile : marine , ' and the protection of _seamenj the Bill for the much needed reform of the Woods and Forests has . also ; been * ; bast into . that limbVwhich ' is the usual receptacle of Whig «'; good intentions . ' . ' ., With all ' these , and other deductions , we shall certainl y _> at the close of the Session ; have a beggarly account of deeds to reckon up , as the result of so much talk arid work !
On The Part Of The Queen, The Government...
On the part of the Queen , the Government and the Legislature , Lord John Kussell offered the friends of Sir Kobert Peel—if they were agreeable—the honours of a public funeral , and in doing so passed a-warm eulogy on his . great predecessor _^ in office , and for maiiy years his political rival , a eulogy which was . warmly responded to by the House . In the House of Lords a similar demonstration of respect was made by the Marquis of Lansdowne , on the part of
the Government , and responded to by Lord Stanley , foY the . Protectionists , and the Duke of Wellington , for the Moderate Party in the Peers . Mr . Goulburn declined the honour of a public funeral in consequence of Sir Robert Peel haying , like , the late Queen _Dowageb , . distinctly directed in his will that his funeral was to be without any ostentation whatever , and that his remains are to be interred in the Church , at Drayton Bassett , in the same vault where his father and mother were buried . . The honour of the
Legislature having suspended its sitting for a day was never before paid to a subject , and will testify to posterity the estimation in which he was held by his contemporaries .
.Monies Received For Thi "Vyebk Ending T...
. MONIES RECEIVED For thi "VYebk Ending _Thursdav _, Jvirijin , 1850 .
THE HONESTY FUND . Received by W . Ridke . — W . Rlgg , _Bridgeford-gate , ls 3 d —Preston , per J . Brown , 2 s—H . H ., New Swindon , per W . _Bennetl , 2 s 6 d-W . Simpson , New Swindon , 6 d—D . Morison , New Swindon , 6 d—A Friend , New Swindon , ls—Nottingham , per J , Sweet 7 d . ¦ ¦ .. „ £ _s , d . Received by W . Rider ; . .. 0 8 4 AGITATION FOR THE' CHARTER . Received byJoffifABHOTr . _—Sutton-in-Ashfield , per W . Felkin , 15 s—Exeter , per R . _! Snow , 10 s—Washington locality , per Mr . Marsden , 4 s 4 d—Collected at John-street , l / 8 s 0 jd—Cards at John-street , 4 s 8 d—Marjlebone , per J . Goodwin , 5 s—Keighley , per Benjamin Morrell , 11—Bermondsey locality , per John Pearcy , 10 s—Mr . Antill , for cards , 6 s _^ _-Leicester , per B . Thompson , 10 s—Huddersfield , per James Ewsall , 10 s—Mr . Rider , as per Star , June 29 th , 3 s . —Total , 616 s Ojd . -
TRACT FUND . Received by John Abnott _, —A few Friends , Poplar , per Mr . Matthias , 3 s 6 d—Mr . Simmons _^ Poplar , per Mr . Matthias , ls—Mr . Starling , Marjlebone , Cd—Collected at the Marylebone locality , 7 d—Charles Jones , Islington , ls—Alfred Jones , Islington , Is—Yarmouth , ' per John Royall , 8 s . FOR OR . M ' DOUALL . Received by W , Rn _> M .-Mr . Whiff , _Uxbridge _, ls-T . _Redruppj Oxbridge , 6 d—W . Barber , _TJxhridge _, 6 d—J . Rogers , Uxbridge , 6 d—W . Ri _* g , Bridgeford-gate , Is 3 d—Preston , W . Parkinson ; per J . Brown , ls—Abergavenny per D . Harris , 4 s—P . Cameron , Paisley , 3 s 2 d-J . Redrupp , Cd . FOR MR . E . JONES . Received by John Abnott . —A Paisley Friend , per Mr , Reynolds , 5 s . ' ; FOR MRS . JONES . Received by W . Runs—P . Cameron , Paisley , 3 s 2 d .
FOR MRS . FUSSELL . Received by W . Rideb . —C . Cameron , Paisley , 3 s 2 d . Received by John Abnott . —Mr . Jordan , per Mr . Turner , 6 d—a Pianoforte Maker , per Mr . Turner , 6 d . FOR WIDOWS OF THE LATE MESSRS . WILLIAMS
. AND SHARP . Received by W . Rider . —Preston , W . Parkinson , per J . Brown , ls—J . Waddell , Paisley , 5 s . 4 DEBT DUE TO MR . NIXON . Received by John Abnott . —A Friend , John-street , per Mr . Shute , 6 d . . WIVES AND FAMILIES OF VICTIMS . Received by W . Rideb ;—Preston , per J . Brown , 2 s—J , Ronald , Paisley , is—R . Irvine , Paisley , 6 d—A . Davies , Paisley , Is . . _t _* i -- »
, T*I --» M.. ;" To The Public. An Appea...
m .. ; " TO THE PUBLIC . An appeal is respectfully , but earnestly made to the British public on behalf of a large number of Polish refugees who are at present in London in a state of extreme suffering and distress . - Most of those brave men have been engaged inthe Hungarian struggle for national independence , and having escaped the vigilance and tyranny of the Northern despots , and suffered fearful privations , have succeeded in reaching the hospitable shores of England , expecting to find that sympathy and support which their patriotic and gallant conduct so preeminently entitle them to .
A Committee has been formed for the purpose of receiving contributions ; -and , in appealing to their fellow-countrymen for this truly benevolent purpose , they anticipate such a noble response that will at once prove to these gallant men , that although driven from their _^ native land by the miscreants of the north ( and they deserve no milder term ) the British people appreciate their noble conduct , and honour them for the principles of liberty which they have bo firmly and gallantly defended _, i
Subscriptions will be received by Mr . Harney ,. 4 , Brunswick-row , _Queen-Bquare , Bloomsbury ; John Arnott , 44 ,. Southamptonstreet , Strand ; Mr . Dav _is _^ _fyButtress _' -sfcreefc , "Waterloo-town . ' Z : Z Contributions from the country may be forwarded , by post-office order , or made payable to the Treasurer , atthe post-office , " 180 , Strand , in postage-stamps . :
Cr . W . M . Reynolds Treasurer . William Davis , Secretary . Monies Received . —Stirling , _" per Mills , 2 s . 6 d . _* Member of National Reform League , 6 d . Thomas ' WeUb , 4 d . ; Wm . Morsing , ls . ; Mr . Beer , 4 s . 5 id . ; Crown and Acnhor , 33 . Ud . ; Hall of Science n _^ n ° _. _i 6 s - 5 Two tod Republicans , Whittington and Cat , 2 s . ; Mr Maskell , Is , ; Mr . Morrison . 6 d . ; Mr Denny , 6 d _: _j Mr Masters , Gd . ~ Total , £ 1 Is . fid —William Davis , Secretary . . . ' . '
S Y ^L, Pu ^ ,8hes ' A Circul Ar > A Few...
S _^ l , _^ , 8 hes ' circul ar > a few copies of ; whichhad then just reached Trinidad , announcing the , _discovery ofa . new gold region in the republic _r _riSn _^ _TWcircular , 4 ich was printedI at i Oiudad Bolivar , m Angostura , is in Spanish , and is _i \ Hr vl ° r % dd _? " !**• ' • ' _¥ 8 et 3 _^ _&* one I senor Pedro _Monssteno , an inhabitant of the » ro- > . viuce : of _^ _BarqvieaimetQ . , had , just arrived from i Upate , bringing with Km the intelli gence that rich auriferous grounds existed iri the vicinity of he _Yururajr rivers , aiid producing visible tokens Of thi authenticity of the fact in the % hape of _Spkfs o \ the . _precous mineral to the amount of _lS _ouTces These are stated tobe _composed . of grains of _vwfous s sixes , some of whioh are as laree a _, wnj _«!» grains of coffee , and _^ ome _so _^ _largefs i _eSdUff an ounce in weight . ' The standard of _tboio i . .
authority , but the Port oi' fminVJ _^ _mflt seems to _' make no doubt o / _tffS 4 b _£ s _Kee announcement ; considers this is a verv natfli iv , f stitute for the editorial •< we" in IK _& TwWehh publishes no newspaper , though _t _Se « e _^\ l printing press and types . A _postcript _aCJed too his document . makes the further anEenVent t that since the departure of Son ™ . Vr T _•*•' another individual hSd c _' olfected -S _?& bSSn _^ m hedutnetof _Yururay _. Alettet _^ _ffiJifcfflSSi m the paper we have _^ _a _luded to , _fromthe agent 33 arespeotabefirmin Trinidad , confirming the _inte-e _.: resting intelligence . It » a curious fact that thereroi is every reason to behove the _newly-discovered mMMI 1
_X'ViUTi _K- _5 the Bl _-. _^ Dorado _ofsiisui H _$ t _L _? _£ * _$ ' m _v , . 0 Me _» u there be anynyi _anot ; gJ _tv , d 800 T 6 ry 'J l tory _™ We to _nwkeaSi apology to the manes of that much maligned hero . > . _CltJfiSS _^^ _T _^ woman _i _** _b 5 _& Clayfield died in Stroud Workhouse last week , _ageqecc _sixty-seven years . It is understood that she beoamawE an inmate of _Horsley Poor-house when , an _infananll tnree weeks old , and remained there until the for ' or _nation of the Stroud Union , consequent upon whiolioll she was removed to the establishment in which _shahw died . Supposing , then , the _oost of her maiutenancmew averaged 2 s . 6 d . per vreek , > the deceased _bascosiosi the pariah upwards of £ 440 ia hard , © ash , vrithouovi counting interest , which , for suoh a long period ai ai her lifetime , would be a very handsome bonus . ; . You _havk broken the Sabbath , Johnny , " _niaaii a good . man to h ' uson , MYe » , . taid his little il iii ter , " and mother ' s long comb , too , right in tbnbw _piewa . " ¦ ¦¦¦ ¦ - _>' Z _^> ¦ ¦ ¦> _K _* . < _. _\^ * r . — ¦ ' _.- _¦ ..
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 6, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_06071850/page/4/
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