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THE BOBTHEBN STAR SATUKI>A_, JULY 13, IH50.
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UNITE D PATRIOTS' AND PATRIARCHS' BENEFIT SOCIET Y Enrolled pursuant to 10 Geo . IV , c . 56 , i _ 5 Will . iv . c . 46 , & 9 & 10 Vic . c . 27 . —Instituted , 7 th Feb ., 1813 . _Pafroiw .-T . S . DoscoiiBE _. EsQ ., M . P . T . W __ _st , Esq ., M . P . B . Cabbsll , Esq ,, M . P . F . 0 'Cossok , Eso _,, M . P . Lbke J _ j _ IUm _ u > , Ess , ¦ . ¦ ¦ The Society is divided into six sections , to meet the necessities and requirements of all classes of mechanics and labourers , fromfifteen years _ofage to forty-five . This Society consists of above two thousand members , and has a fended capital of 2 , 6221 . lGs . 9 a . ; having paid the following sums for benefits since its formation : —Sickness , 5 , 7081 . as . lOd . Funerals , 1 , 3821 Superannuation , 3 < K . 0 s . * d . Fire , S 6 L Ms . 5 _Jd . —Total , 7 , 15 # . 2 s . 7 Jd . The following is the SCALE OF FEES to be paid at entrance : Ss . most be paid when admitted , and the remainder can extend over a period of six months , to be paid with the subscriptions , monthly , if desired : — - Age lst section . 2 na sect ion . 3 rd section . 4 th section . _Sthscction , Ctn section . Froml 5 to 33 .... £ 0 Ss . 21 .... £ 0 4 s . 8 d ..... j _£ 0 4 s . 2 d ...., £ 0 3 s . 8 d £ 0 3 s . 2 d £ 0 2 s . 2 d . — 33—36 .... 0 7 2 .... 0 6 8 .... 0 6 2 .... 0 5 8 .... 0 5 2 .... not admitted — 36—40 .... 0 10 2 .... 0 9 8 .... 0 9 2 .... 0 8 8 .... 0 8 2 .... over ¦ — * f>—45 .... 112 .... 10 2 .... 019 8 .... 019 2 .... 018 2 .... twent yjears _vraEttT AUOVfiSCE IS S 1 CKSESS ASD S 0 TEBANN 0 ATION . _HISBBB _' S DEATH . —WIFE ' S OB NOMINEE ' S DEATH , FiMtSection ISa , Od . 6 s . Od . First Section .... £ 20 0 0 .... £ 10 0 0 Seconaditto 15 0 6 0 _Secoadditto .... 16 0 0 .... 8 0 0 Thirdditto U 0 4 O Thirdditto .... 12 0 t .... GOO Fourth , ditto 9 0 4 0 Fourthditto .... 10 0 0 .... 5 0 0 Fifth ditto 7 0 4 0 Fiftuditto .... 6 0 0 .... 3 0 0 _Sixtaditto 7 0 none . Sixthditto .... 210 0 ; ... none LOSS BY _FIUE- —In all the Divisioas ( with the exception ofthe Sixth ) £ 10 . Monthly contributions to ensure the above benefits . Under 30 _yearsof age . Under 40 . Under 45 . FirstDirision .. Ss . 7 _$ o \ . 3 s . 101 d . _» 4 s . 3 Jd .. Second ditto .... 3 0 GeneralErpenses 3 2 $ Insurance iu caseoffire , 3 7 ) 4 d . a month for Thirdditto .... 2 4 , including . 2 6 can be raised to 1 M „ 2 10 Medical Fonrthditto .. 2 0 f Postage , 4 'ft _, 2 2 f lid . a month extra , 2 5 | ( Attendance and Fifth ditto .... 1 8 ljd . Monthly . 1 10 or 20 J . 3 d . a month . 2 1 Medicine . Sxthditto .... 1 3 J ' J } Youthful , Gift , Widow and Orphans' Funds extra , for which , see the rules . Agencies are established in many of the principal Towns throughout the Kingdom , and agents are required inall parts , to whom a liberal allowance is made . Every information can be obtained , by application to the Secretary , at the Office of the Society , , Tottenham-court , Kew-road ( thirteen doors from th _« top Of _Tottenham-COUrt-road ) , St _Fancras , London . Persons in _ eCtomitry applying for Kules can have them forwarded , by enclosing twelve postage stamps , and if for rm of application , or infcnnatiojJ , three stamps must be enclosed . Dakiel WittiAM Rum , General Secretary .
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ALSO TBE B RITISH EMPIRE FREEHOLD LAND AND BUILDING SOCIET , m i , _^ an AdTance your Rent is Saved—yon become your own Land and Householder _ af t **_ l S . _ftsw _» , _ . ? . T . _wma . Esq UP . \ b . _CabBE _ . _EsVTm . P . ITl ILuus _* Es ,. Bankers . —The CommemalBank of London ( Branch ) 6 , _ enrietta street , Covent Garden , Chairman of Directors . _—Seorge W . _ . _Hetkolds Esa . London _OJise .-Xo . 13 , Tottenham Court , XewRoad , St . Pancras , Loadon .-D 4 Ni _ . _Wsluau Rum , Secretary . v , i c . AmsGED « TaME _& CTioss _.-Value of Shares and Paymentfor Investors . Full Share .. .. £ 120-pavnient of 2 s . 5 i per Week , or 10 s . 6 d . per Month . Half share .. .. 60 1 2 _J 5 3 Quarter Share .. .. 30 0 7 _J- 2 8 _* e ___ _^ PP « cants are requested to state in their fond the Section tbey desire to be a Member of . _SoSctvctobs _. Soucitoss , oate ) BiPTiosP ££ s .-Ttie present Entrance Fee , including Certificate , Rules , & c , is _ . per Share , and 2 s . 6 d . ior any part ofa Share . Price of Rules , including Postage , is . OBJECTS . lst-To enable members to build Dwelling Houses . 5 th . _ To give to Depositing Members a higher rate of in-2 nd . —To afford the means ot purchasing both Freehold terest than is yielded by ordinary modes' of investment _, ana Leasehold Properties or land , otll _. —To enable Parents to make Endowments for their Sri—To _adTacce _Mortgages oa Property held bv _S , dren _i or Husbands for their Wives , or for Marriage _aembers . Settlements . . . . ,, „ „ . . , ' _«>•—To purchase a piece of Freehold Land of sufficient 4 th . —To enable Mortgagers being members to redeem value to give a legal title to a County Vote for Members ol tiieir Mortgages . Parliament Sierras L—By joining this section every person in town or country can become the proprietor of a Douse and land in his own neighbourhood , without being removed from his friends , connexions , or the present means himself and _familt 2 iay have of gaining a livelihood . - _Secitos ll .-Toraises capital _byshares to purchaseEstates , _erectDirellings thereon , and divide the Land into _alfotmenisfromhaU-an _^ cre upwards , ™ or near the towns ofthe various branches of the society . The property to be the _bomjide freehold ofthe member after a term of seven years , from _ftodate of location , according to Ms _^ subscriptions . Sbotox _IIL-Sava _^ _i ; or . Deposit section , in which members not _wishuig to purchase are enabed to invest small sums , _"SfS _^ _r _^ f _^ attherate of five percent per annum , on every _straTof 10 s . and upwards so deposited . KB . —& 00 -will be advanced to the members ofthe first Section iu November next , when . all persons who hare ana _ _ay become menjoers for snares , or parts of shares , oa or before the 4 tn of _November next , and who Dav six months ' subscriptions in advance , or otherwise , wiU be eli gible for ail advance . rjw »»» mmu _«
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EMIGRATION . THE BRITISH EMPIRE PERMANENT EMIGRATION ANT ) _COLONISATION SOCIETY , To secure to each Member aFARSI of aotlessthan Twenty-five Acres of Land in AMERICA , Bp Small Weekly or Monthly Contrioutioiw . _Losdos Okice : —13 , Tottenham Court , New-road , St Pancras . —D . W . Rofet , Secretary . OBJECTS . To _parchase a large tract of Land in the Western States To purchase in large quantities , for the common benefit , of America , npon nhich '< _* locate . Members , giving twenty- all necessary live and dead stock , and other requisites , five acres to each Share subscribed for . supplying each member on location with the quantity re-To erect Dwellings , and clear a certain portion ofthe quirea at cost price . Laud on each , allotment , previous to the arrival of the _^ _Tfp _^' _videforthelocationofgronps _. _holdingtheLandm To establish a depot , fromwhich to provide each family common , as well as for individuals , securing to each their with the required quantity of wholesome food , until their collective and separate rights aud immunities . own land produced sufficient for their support VALUE OF SIIARES . Each Share to be of the ultimate Value of Twenty-five Pounds . To be raised by Monthly or Weekly Subscriptions , as follows .- — A Payment of Xinepence per Week for Ten Years will amount to 191 . 10 s . Bonus , SS- 10 s . Ditto _Sixpence per Weekfor Fifteen Years will amount to 19 L 10 s . Bonus , 5110 s . Repayments may be made to the Society in Money , Produce , or Labour . Prospectuses , Bnles , Forms of Application for Shares , and every other information , may be had at the Office as above . All applications by Letter , addressed to the Secretary , must be pre-paid , and enclose a postage stamp for reply , By enclosing twelve postage stamps a Copy of the Rules will be forwarded , post free . Forms of Entrance by enclosing three postage stamps . Agents required in all parts of Great Britain .
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ROSE TAYERS . GREAT _WILBE-STEEET , _IDfCOLX'S-IXX-FIELDS . Proprietor . _ r- J . C . Butcher , ( late of Gravesend . ) A SELECT VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL COXCEKT wiU take place every MOSDAT ASD _IVTDSESDAT _EvEKIXGS . Mr . J . C . B . begs to inform bis friends and the public in general , that he intends opening his Spacious Boom for a beixci coscebt on the above evenings . In making this announcement he hopes that by engaging Professionals of talent , and strict attention to _business , he will meet with a . continuance of patronage frein his friends and the public Several Professionals are engaged who will appear during the Evening . Ibe Concert will be interspersed with _Xegbo Hoodies by the _Etbiopus Minstrels . A Professional Geutlen . au will preside at the Grand Pianoforte . Chair to be taken at eight o'clock .
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DEAFNESS . — Important Notice . — Air _FBASCIS , the eminent aurist , who has devoted his attention solely to DISEASES of the EAR , continues to effect the most _astopishutg cures in all those inveterate Cases _Vfhich have _lODg been considered hopeless , and « f thirty or forty years standing , enabling the _patiest to hear a-whisper , without pain or operation , effectually remoring deafness , noises in ths head , and all diseases ofthe aural canal . Mr . F . attends daily from 10 until 6 , athiscousulting rooms , G , Beaufort-buiidings , Strand , London . Persons ot a distance can state their case by letter . Advice to the poor , Monday , Wednesday , and Friday , from 6 tiU 8 in the _evenins .
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HEALTH WHERE _"HS SOUGHT ! HOLLOWAY'S PILLS . Cure of a Disordered Liver and Stomach , when in a most hopeless state . Extract ofa Letter from Mr . Matthew Harvey , of Chapel HalL Airdrie , Scotland , dated the 13 th of January , 1850 . Sia , —Your valuable pills bave been the means , with God ' s _blessiuj , of restoring me to a state of perfects-abb , and at a time when I thought I was on the brink of the grave . I had consulted several eminent doctors , who , after doing what they could for me , stated thatthey considered my case as hopeless . I ought to say that 1 had been suffering from a liver and Stomach complaint of long standing , -wliich during the last two years got SO much worse , that erery one considered raj-condition as hopeless , I , as a last resource , got a box of your pills , which soon gave relief , and by persevering in their use for some weeks , together with rubbing night and morning your Ointment over my chest and stomach , and right side , I bave by tiieir means alone got completely cured , and to the astonishment of myself and ererybody who knows me . —( Signed ; Matthew _Hab-TEr . —To Professor _Hoixowat . Cure oJ a Case of Weakness and Debility , of Four
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THE LANCASHIRE AND _TORESIHRE AKNUAL CIUttTIST CAMP MEETING will be held near the White House , _Blacksione-Edge _, on Sunda ) ( to-morrow ) , July 14 th . The following distinguished advocates of the popular cause wittVnttend _:-FeargHS O'Connor , Esq ., M . P ., W . P . Roberts , Esq ., Mr . G . Julian Harney . Mr . l » . M . M'Douall , Mr . James Leach , Mr . Christophe Shackleton , Mr . George White . The chair to be taken at one o ' clock in the afternoon . A delegate meeting of the Chartists of Lancashire and Yorkshire will be held at the White House , Blackstone-Edge , the same day ; to commence at one o ' clock in the forenoon .
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CHALLENGE FOR £ 500 _STiSKLISli . THAT DR . GREER'S SIXPENNY PAMPHLET ON MEDICAL REFORM ( which will be sent free for six Queen-head stamps ) , contains the most succesful medical and _surgical practice since 1814 , yet published by any living man . * Deab Sib , —After many eminent doctors gave me over , even in tha Infirmary , where their best skill and medicine were used , till all declared it _n-as impossible 1 could survive , as my luxcs , they said , were as ulcerated as my neck , breast , and arms , which bear many scrofulous marks , your pills cured perfectly ; grateful to you and thankful to God . Pmxu ? _Teibnie , 80 , _BridgeCTte-street , Glasgow To
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DEAFNESS AND' SIX GTS G IN TUE EAJtS INSTANTLY CURED WITHOUT PAIN OR
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OLD _PARtt _OATHEaiSO _BBHB 3 . . j TOE ONLY RATIONAL REMEDY _PABR'S LI EE PILLS . The Advantages derived from taking Pabk's Live Pills are : lst—long Life and Happiness . 2 nd . —Sound and Refreshing Sleep , 3 rd . —Good Appetite . 4 th . —Energy of Mind and Clearness of Perception . 5 th . —General Good Health and Comfort . ( ith . —They are fo und , after giving them a fair trial for afew weeks , to possess tlie most Astonishing and Invigorating Properties . To have produced a medicine so benign' and mild in its peration and effects , and yet so effectual in searching out and curing disease of however long standing , exhibits on the part of Old l _' arr deep research and a thorough knowledce of his snhipnt
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POLITICS , LITERATURE . SCIENCE , ENTERTAINMENT . ; ' ' : _¦•' M' D O TJ AL L > S MANCHESTER JOURNAL , \ f . ; . ' WiU be published on Saturday , July 13 th ,. Price One Penny . Dedicated to the intelligence of tbe middle ahd working classes , with the view of securing a common understanding for the PUBLIC coon , and a co-operation of head , heart , and hand for the _CojimonweALTH of England , Beal , 2 , Shoe-lane , London ; Heywood , Oldham-street , Manchester .
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IBE CHEAPEST EDITION EVJGB _rOBLISHED . Trice ls . _6 d ., A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate of thi Author , of _PAIHE'S POLITICAL WORKS .
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EMIGRATION TO NORTH AMERICA , i W TAPSCOTT AND CO ., SHIPPING and Emigratian Agents , Liverpool , continue to despatch First Class Ship-To NEW YORK—every Five Days . To NEW ORLEANS-evcrj Ten Days . To BOSTON and PIIILADELPIIIA-every Fifteen Days . And _occasknally to BALTIMORE , CHARLESTON , SAVANNAH , QUEBEC , and St JOHNS , ' . , ff Drafts for any amount , at sight , on New York , payable ia any part ofthe United States . Tapscott ' s "Emigrant ' sGuide" sentfree , on receiptof Four Postage Stamps . i _^"' About _twenty-cight thousand persons sailed for tho New World , in Tapscott ' sline of American I ' ackets . ia 1849 .
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RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS . THOUSANDS OF TESTIMONIALS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED . Beware of copies of them by knavish quacks , who assume foreign names , and resort to every conceivable mode of swindling the public and damaging the character of long-standing practitioners . . DR . BARKER'S REMEDY has been entirely successful in curing man . ) thousands of cases of Single and Double Ruptures , of every variety ; and has long heen recognised by the whole of the-medical profession as the only remedy ever discovered for this alarming complaint . AM sufferers are earnestly invited to write , or pay Dr . B . a visit , as in every case ho guarantees a cure by his peculiar mode of treatment . The remedy is equally applicable to male or female of any age , and is easy and painless in use , causing no inconvenience or confinement _, ic .
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AMONG THE MANY DISCOVERIES XX that characterise the present age , none have contri . bated so much to the comfort and ease of the community , nor conferred such a boon upon suffering humanity , as tiie important discovery of BL & _ia's Gout and Rheumatic r u , Ls , the efficacy of which has benn _tesfcad by the approval and recommendation of mony ot the greatest men of our day . They are effective for gout and rheumatism iu all its various forms , including sciatica , lumbago ; paincs In the head and face , frequently treated as toothache , & c . They require neither confinement nor attention of any kind , and invariably prevent the disease _a'tacktug the stomach , brain , or other vital part . In testimony of , which Mr . Blake , Kingscliffe , Northamptonshire , writes"Twelve years ago I became afflicted with rheumatic gout . 1 procured the best advice possible , but without deriving benefit ; ind tho doctors recommended me to go to the Stamford Infirmary , where 1 continued twelve weeks and left it without obtaining nny benefit , aud all my hope state of
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Mb . Fairbaiiw , an English engineer , is on his way to Petersburg , invited thither by the Emperor of Russia taerect a tubular brid _^ o in his dominions .
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_Educ _^ ioii forthe Millions . ' 2 y „ 5 DAYls ~ PVBLISBED , No . VIII . of TEE NATION _^ INSmCTOi
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JULIAN HARNEY'S NEW PUBLICATION . : NOTICE TO THE T 1 UDE . . ' Publishers and Booksellers are respectfully informed that in future the " lied Republican" will be ready for delivery to the trade on the Tuesday in each week , at an early hour . ; .
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SIR ROBERT PEEL'S PORTRAIT . A . Magnificent Portrait , beautifully Engraved on Steel , of the late Sir Robert Peel , aud printed on 4 to . imperial , will be read y for delivery with our next week ' s number . To prevent disappointment , and ensure early copies to our subscribers , orders should be immediatel y forwarded to their respective Agents . London A gent , Mr . _PaVBy , Holywell-street , Strand _, . i
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VR . MDoaAii . —Andrew _M'Fce , Liverpool , has received a lost-office order for 2 s 9 d , from John Russell , Southampton , for Dr . M'Douall . Fob Eknest Jo . ves . -5 s , from E , S . This party complains that her former donations have not been acknowledged in the Star , as requested . [ The 5 s above mentioned , , was immediately handed over to Mrs . Jones . We know nothing of former donations . Ed . N . S . } Subscriptions to tue Lacey Fund . —Mr . Stuart , Is j Mr . Forbes , Cd ; Mr . Gregory , ( id ; Mr . Booth's Book , 2 s ; Mr . Hunt ' s Bonk , 12 s lUd ; West End Shoemakers—Hoby ' _s Meeting , , 61 5 s Cd ; Goatby ' s Meeting , 16 b _GJd ; Mr . Dieken _' s Rook , 8 s 6 d . —If . Wii . kks , Secretary . Mr . W . Nohman _, _AVingnte . —The notice would be charged as an advertisement . The portraits are not yet ready . Polish Rivuoee Fund—Mr . O'Brien's lecture at
Johnstreet , £ 8 5 s 9 d ; 1 _' art Proceeds of Concert at the Crown nnd Anchor , £ 1 18 s 7 d ; II . Fletcher , pcrTruelovc , Cd ; ft Jones , Is ; Mr . Moses , Is ; Mr . Button , Cd ; Mr . Badger , Cd ; Crown and Anchor , 3 s 7 d ; Whittington and Cat , per Mr . Wcstcrby , 1 _s Od ; C . Tallboy ( to bo continued while in employ ) , ls ; Bricklayer ' s Arms , Somers Town , per Mr . Brown , 2 s ; Two Workers , 2 s ; Given on tlie night of the Concert at the Crown and Anchor by a Friend to the _Oanso , IDs < Mr . 1 ) ., Mile-end . 5 s ; Mr . _Xennon , Manchester , Is . — W . Davis , Secretary . Damel Fiirrn , Bradford . —Your communication dated the 9 th , and posted on the 11 th , arrived here on the 12 th , too late'for insertion . Tag Monies _Received for the National Charter Association and other funds will bo acknowledged next week . —Joira Abnott , Secretary . The Million . — We cannot answer your question _.
The Bobthebn Star Satuki≫A_, July 13, Ih50.
THE BOBTHEBN STAR SATUKI > A _ , JULY 13 , _IH 50 .
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THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND THE CHARTER . Mr . O'Connor rose shortly after eight o ' clock this evening ( Thursday ) to bring forward _lii ' s motion for the adoption of the Peoplo ' s Charter . It was evident from the appearance ofthe House that it was the intention to burke the question , and Mr . O'Connor , therefore , made the best of his time . In the
course of tho short period he addressed the House , he tersely , but powerfull y _. touched upon the leading topics suggested by his motion , and administered some hard hits to the various parties in the House . The speech was ' what he himself would call , " a rouser . " He had scarcely spoken ten minutes when the son of _"i VlT _&* p AMPBE" rose and moved that the House be counted , and having done S _STW _- b ind the S P _^ er ' s chair , in order that he might not be included ia the
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_^" _^ _TheTesultwas , _^ that- the House S having been designedly « whip t : out , " only _twnty-£ members icCp * cW and _^ theJw _Sd _^ adrourned at : half-past eight o'clock . A considerable number of . the members connected withthe _National . Parl . iamentary Asso-SaS were present , including the P _^ _sidbnt Of St Association , but there were > , others whose absence may form a suitable theme tor _J _. _mmeStsome other time . In the meantime the pe _o ple hare this one item more to put _^ _J the long account against an alien legislature . . __;;| _^
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THE FRANCHISE . Upon several recent occasions when the propriety of extending the franchise has been discussed in the House of Commons , the Premier has repudiated the notion of the nnality ofthe Reform Act . _Believing-tmd very naturally—as its Parliamentary sponsor , in the value and importance of that act , he yet declared himself by no means averse to any well-considered and practical extension of the suffrage , not inconsistent with the principle of the measure which he himself introduced some twenty years ago . As a proof of that ,
even he—cold " , _impassible , and . Conservative as he is—could appreciate the reasons for an alteration of the franchise , when they were of an urgent character ; he introduced this session the Irish Parliamentary Voters Bill , by which he proposed to increase the electoral body in Ireland from 36 , 000 to 380 , 000 , or more than tenfold . In order to do this , he moved that the qualification should be the same in boroug hs and in counties , and that in both cases it should be fixed £ 2 per annum below that which confers the right of voting in England , Wales , and Scotland . The inferior rent-charge of the holdings and houses in Ire _^ land rendered this rating , necessary , in . order
to create a constituency of about one third of a million , out of a population of 8 , 000 , 000 ; and Lord John was not afraid of such an electoral body as that . The magic number ten was abandoned in the case of Ireland , aud for once in his life he admitted the idea that , it was possible a man , paying less than £ 10 a year might be capable of exercising the _franichise in a way not incompatible with the welfare ahd safety of society . Lord John s political progress and , practical liberalism is of such Lilliputian dimensions—his . steps are so feeble , timid , and childlike—that in these _dayk of small men and small measures , it was _somfi nonsolation to see even this indication
that we were not retrogressing to Chinese immobility . Though the actual progress was of the most limited description , it was valuable , because it indicated we wero still moving . . Well , one would have thought , that after these manifestations on the , part of the Premier , Mr . Locke King might have fairly expected the support of the First Minister of the Crown to so very _moderates motion as that he made on Tuesday night . He did not propose to reduce the franchise in tbis country to £ 8 a year rental ; he simply asked that Lord . John should consent to do for the county voters of Great Britain what he had proposed to do for the county voters of Ireland—namely , to give them a qualification similar in amount to the borough voters .
It will be remembered , that by the so called Chandos clause of the Reform Act , the minimum rental entitling to a county vote is £ 50 . Mr . L . King moved that it should in future be £ 10 ; and he supported this exceedingl y moderate proposal with arguments so cogent , that in any other assembly of English men than the House of Commons would have secured instant and unanimous assent . A farmer paying £ 250 a year rent pays no income ; tax , but he has a vote ; while a country surgeon , whoso income is assessed at £ 300 , has to pay an exceptional and special impost of £ 9 a year tp the Government , while if his house is rented , at £ 4910 s . a year he has no vote . As Mr . King forcibly said : " A £ 10 hon . ifiholdGr at Halifax was entitled to vote
for the Chancellor of the Exchequer , wh y should not a £ 40 householder at Dews * bury not he entitled to vote for the Member for the West Riding ? Wh y should a £ 10 householder at Andover have a vote , when a person renting a house of £ 40 a year at Basingstoke was not entitled to a vote ? "Why , " simply because the oligarchy under the mingled influence of selfishness and caprice have decreed that it shall be so . Rut if _Rvpr there was a motion which
tested the real character and animus of the opposition of that oligarchy on both sides of the House , to any extension of the suffrage , it was Mr . Locke King ' s . Upon other occasions , when more extreme measures are breached , we are treated to solemn plausibilities about the necessity for those who are intrusted with the franchise" being persons of intelligence , respectability , and some little property and _atandiug . These qualifications we are gravely assured are absolutely indispensable as a guarantee that the suffrage will be exercised discreetly , and in such a manner as to
maintain those institutions under which Great Britain has attained her present position among nations . They are required , as a guarantee , that hasty , ill-considered , intemperate , and violent changes , shall not be made in the framework of society . We do not intend , on the present occasion , to show the hollow and untenable nature of these pretences for excluding tho wealth producers of the kingdom from all participation in political
power . What wo mean to show is , that the conduct of tho opponents of representative reform on Tuesday , proved that they are not in earnest , when they _wge such arguments aganst any addition totheElectoralLaw . They are mere paltry excuses invented to cover the real intention of those who use them—namely , their determination to monopolise legislative and administrative power , and to use them for the advautageof a privileged order , atthe finst . nf thfl _niifinfranchisp . d classes .
How is the truth of this assertion to bo sustained ? 'We find the proof read y made to our hands in the loading columns of tho Times , that inveterato enemy of the political enfranchisement of the masses , with a vigour and raciness , which is peculiarly its own , and which fow of tho parrots who repeat its promptings in Parliament can imitate it , has , over and over again , repeated the commonplace objections to whicli wo havo referred _. Yet , in the following passage , it completely gives up the question as regards tlje £ 10 county householders . It opeuly and fully admits that exclusion in their case is no
longer tenable on such grounds : — In the very wide interval between £ 10 a year and £ 58 a year , are included some of . the mast important members of the social state . The surgeon , the solicitor , the curate , the grocer , the stationer , theinnkeeper , the schoolmaster , and fifty different sorts of shopkeepers , the captain on half pay , tho retired army surgeon , the tradesman living on his savings , are all , as 3 general rule , comprehended between these two limits . If it is a . mere village or a market town , but no borough , it contributes perhaps to the county constituency a dozen tenant-farmers , as many small freeholders , and two or three persons occupy ing mansions ; but all the rest are disfranchised . The man of science , the man of law the who has received education
man a university , the shrewd old tradesman , the village Busby , the man who has sailed two or three times round tho world , the _cantab who has seen forty years' service and characters enoueh to stock a novel or make a parliament of themselves , _nfeall out of the pale of the franchise . They aro no more repre sented than they would bo in Turkey or Siberia . _S rates , and taxes may amount altogether to 6 W , or 701 but so long as the rent alone falls below 501 , they are excluded from a privilege possessed by almost any labourer who _^ t 1 reg , 9 , teP m * t >* w _ i . I _«« most parts of the country these classes are increasing in number , strennth and self-confidence . They are learning to compare them selves with the represented classes , especiX _wtth the " more favoured 10 / . householders in narliamW , v X !
I rougus . sucn persons feel ' themselves wronged . " That I sense of injustice is itself an argument . j Bating tlio fiction about " almost any labourer who chooses to register in aborough , " the whole of this is excellent as an exposition ofthe monstrous anomalies , and the crying injustice and inequalities of our illiberal system . It is more . It is a conclusive repl y to all . tho sham pretences b y ' which the _opponent of Parliamentary Reform resist alteration , as
The Franchise. Upon Several Recent Occas...
far as education , competency Z , and so forth , in the case of these clasBeB are concern * - But the concluding sentences are worth grave consideration in connexion with other parts of the same article , by tbe _Chartist * and the Parliamentary Reform' Association . " The sense of injustice is of itself an argument , " which , indeed , ought not to be lost sight of in this great controversy ; and the Times warily reminds the parties , of which it is the organ , that the time is coming when _, the old style of pooh-poohing the claims of tho unrepresented will not meet the emergency . _ _^_ , - _^^^** *
Parliamentary Reform { says our contemporary ; ib a question of rightandalso a question of fact . When we say " right , " of course wo do not use tho word in a legal sense . We only use it in the sense that if one class has the _suffrajre , another class equally * ubstantial , respectable , and educated , has a sort of right to it too ; and that if a man is heavily taxed he has a sort of . right to be directly represented , The question of fact is tbat to which the statesman will probably be led , both by habit and by necessity ,
to give the ' greater attention . Are there so many persons of competence , education , character , and influence without vote * , but desirous of them , that it is no longer safe to deny theml The represented classes are indoors , and the tmrepresen ted classes are out of doors . So long as the two parties are agreed all is well ; but as soon as the out-of-door party is dissatiified , 8 / . pr « 8 _« rDOtt 0 n dictates that me should _nott theirnumbers , their tlrength _, their animus , and their Chance of ultimate success .
The admissions as to " a sort of right , " are sufficiently guarded , and evidentl y most reluctantly extorted . But the inference deserves to be specially noted . It is that " the class which Mr . Locke Kino has taken in hand deserves . much consideration . " Well , let ns see whether the premises of the Times will not lead to larger conclusions . Is the £ 10 Buffrage in boroughs so equal that it admits the same class within the pale of the Constitution in all cases ? Is it not , on the contrary , notorious that a rental of , £ 10 in large commercial and manufacturing towns is paid by a
class of persons whose counterparts in a social position and occupation in small country boroughs , do not pay more than £ 5 or £ 6 a year ? "Wh y should the former be admitted , and thelatter excluded ? Here is ground , on the showing of the Times itself , for a large extension of the suffrage . As to the argument drawn from taxation , that is still more generally applicable , who is there in England who is not "heavil y taxed ? " Except the pauper class , who are supported entirely by the labour of others , not a single class or individual escapes the pressure of the enormous burdens of taxation which weighs npon us . The upper classes , to a large extent , are
compensated by the lion ' s share of the spoil , which their monopoly of political power enables them to appropriate . It is upon tho producing classes that the burden of heavy taxation falls crushingly , grindingly , and without any alleviation . Yet itis precisely these classes who are excluded even from the '' sort of right to be directl y represented , " which the Times BO grudgingly and ungraciously admits . In the words ofthe oracle of Printing House-square we say , " Such persons feel themselves wronged , that sense of injustice is of itself aa argument" of a practical character , which entitles them to " much consideration , " as well as the class whose eansfl it . arlvnri . ir . es . We trust that Lord JOHN
in his cogitations respecting "thenumbers , strength , animus , and chance of ultimate success of those who now clamour for admission within the pale of the Constitution , will not forget these suggestions , deduced as they are from the organ of his own Cabinet . Whether he does so or not , we venture to tell him , that the controversy hastens to its consummation , and that every debate similar to that of Tuesday night , accelerates its final settlement in favour of the people . The outrageous Toryism of Mr . Disraeli and hia party , will speedily come into open and direct
collision with the policy which demands for the Commons of Great Britain , a real , a full , and unfettered representation in their own House of the Legislature . When that time comes , Lord John must make up his mind whether to be on one . side or the other . If ho declines to be on either , he must stand aside , and let the battle be fairly fought between those who wish to maintain privileges for an exclusive order , and those who take their
stand on the great principles of the British constitution , namely ;—that Taxation and Representation aro coequal — that whoever contributes to the support of the State , has a right to a voice in the management of its affairs , and that any artificial ratings or pecuniary powers which stand between a man of sound mind and the exercise of this right , is a gross injustice and tyranny which the people are bound to resist , and to put down by any and by every means in their power .
The Bitter Observance Of The Sabbath. Th...
THE BITTER OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH . The reign of Cant and Humbug is , it seems , to continue for some weeks longer , because Lord John Russell quails before the conventicle and Exeter Hall . After having arranged with an independent Member of Parliament to bring forward a motion , who was willing to face the howl of obloquy , wbich such a courso was certain to elicit from the bigots who wish to force their crotchets down the throats of others—after taking all the usual methods to
secure a good attendance on the Ministerial benches , in order virtuall y to reverse the late decision with respect to Sunday mails , Lord John ' s little timid heart failed him at the pinch , aud ho cut off the onl y strai ghtforward , manly , and useful part of the motion , to the drawiug up of which he himself had been a party . Mr . Locke ' s motion was a very reasonable one . He asked that inquiry should be made iuto the lest means of reducing
Sunday labour without quite stopping the post , and that , pending the inquiry , matters should be put on the same- footing as they stood in previous to the passing of Lord Ashley ' s motion . That proposal would undoubtedly havo been carried , had not the Premier at the last moment caught at a suggestion from the opposition , and proposed as an amendment , that the latter part of the motion should be omitted , and a motion , merely for inouirv . ha
substituted . Of course that sealed * the fato of Mr . Locke s motion , and , grumbling audibly , many of the Ministerial followers who had come prepared to rote for that motion wero dragged through the mire at the tail of the Minister , who seems equally ready to oblige and give way to his opponents , and to insult and degrade his supporters . Wo presume , however , that tho result wiU be a return to the old system , keeping in view always the very desirable object of _reducing
labour to the utmost possible extent on the Sunday . Without professing to attach any special value to the reli gious sancti on to the setting apart of one day out of seven for rest and relaxation , we look upon the institution itself as one of the most valuable and important ever established by mankind . To all who are compelled to labour , either by head or hand , such periodical abstinence from toil is absolutel y indispensable for the renovation of the worn-out mental and physical energies . In a moral point of view it is equally necessary , in order to give time for the exercise of those domestic affections , and those finer sympathies of our _naturo which give sunshine to existence , and strew the path of life with its sweetest flowers .
But in order that these important advantages may be secured , it does not follow that the machinery of society is to be thrown out of gear , and a sudden and violent stoppage of all the ordinary business of life tako place every seven days . On the contrary , such interference would necessaril y interfere with tha full enjoyment of that relaxation and change which constitutes genuine rest to the majority I of minds . No . one sect or individual has any right to presoribe to the whole community tha 1 precise manner in which the day of reBt shall j be spent The attempt , on the partof a _amall _aoct of bi gots , to force , firet the _auspensiga < _rf 1
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 13, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_13071850/page/4/
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