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RATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION. OFFICES, 1...
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THE NOBTHEM STAS SATh'UDAY, APRlIi 20, 1850.
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. PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW. OVER-GORGED BISH...
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second edition ofthe Budget to the Commi...
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NATIONAL BENEFIT SOCIETY , EaroUed , pursuant to statute 9 th and 10 th "Victoria , c . 27 . : "' . ' , " - THE ABOVE SOCIETY , as amended and legalised , was formerly known as the NATIONAL CO-OPERATIVE BENEFIT SOCIETY ; the managers of whieh have long seen the necessity of legal protection lor the security of its members . In framing the new rules , care has been taken to equalise the expendfrure with the receipts , so that the permanent success of the bociety should be beyond all doubts . The Sociely is dirided into three sections , to meet the necessities and requirements of all classes of mechanics and _Uko-ireis , from eighteen years of age to forty . IHE _J-OIJiOinKG IS THE SCALE OF FEES TO BE PAID AT _TVEEKLT AI & OVrANCE E * SICKNESS .. _ESTCAXCE : — ' S . d . .. Age . 1 st section . 2 nd section . _Snd section . First Section .. .. 15 ° "" _*!• s . d . s . i Second Section .. .. .. W . _*• FromlSto 24 .... 3 0 .... 2 0 .... 1 0 Third Section .. .. 5 ° _ 2 i—27 .... C 0 .... 4 0 .... 2 0 — 27—30 9 0 G 0 .... 3 0 _membebs death . _inn- _' s death . '•¦ _ S _0—SS 13 0 .... i 3 0 i 0 £ s . < L £ S . d . — S 3—38 .... 15 0 .... 10 0 .... 5 8 First Section .... 15 0 0 7 10 0 _ S _6—3 S .... IS 0 .... 12 0 .... 6 0 Second Section .. 10 0 0 5 0 0 — SS—40 .... 21 0 .... 11 0 .... 7 0 j Third Section .... 5 0 0 3 0 0 _MOSTHLT CONTBIBDTIOSS . . First Section , Ss . fid . Second Section . 2 s . 4 < L Third Section , ls . 2 d . The Society meets every Monday evenin " , at the Two Chairmen , _Wardour-street , Soho , Middlesex , where every information can De had , and members enrolled ? ' Country friends , applyingfor rules , can hare them forwarded , by enclosing four postage-stamps . Members of ths late _Co-opca-atire Benefit Societv , who have paid all dues and demands up to the 2 _oth December , 1819 , can at once ha transferred to either section ef the National Benefit Society , without any extra charge ,. Agents and sub-secretaries of the Lite National Co-operative Benefit Society , are requested to immediately inform the General Secretary of tlie number of members likely to transfer to the National Benefit Society ; and parties wishing to become ageuts , or to form branches ofthe new society , can be supplied with every information , on application to the Secretary , by ena osin _< j a postage-stamp for ; an answer . James _Gsassbi _* _. General Secretary , 96 , Hegent-streef _, Lambeth .
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THE _CHEATZST EDITION EVER rCBUSHED . .. Price Is . Gd ., A new anil elegant edition , with Steel Plate of the Author , of _PAJKE'S POLITICAL WORKS .
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Now Rea _« y , a New Edition of Hs . _O'OOflNOB'S WG 8 K OS SMALL _FARMS Sold bj J . Watson , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternoster row , London ; A . Heywood , Oldham-street , _Jlanchester , and Love and Co ., 5 , Nelson-street , Glasgow . Aud _bi all Bool-sellers in Town and Country .
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_NATIONAL CHARTER LEAGUE . THE F 13 ST PUBLIC MEETING , convened by the Council of this body , will be held at - THE NATIONAL HALL , 242 , HOLBORN , On Wednesday , May 1 st , 1 S 50 . ' Chair to be taken at Eight o'clock precisely . Office ofthe League , No . 5 , Snow-hill , City .
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HtOCLAMATION . TO THE SOCIAL REFORMERS OF GREAT BRITAIN AXD IRELAXD . WHEREAS , Jby a resolution of the " SOCIAL _BEFOBil LEAGUE , " at a meeting held in Loudon , on the 3 lst of October , 1 S 49 , it was agreed that a CONGRESS should he called together in the month of May _. _1850 . Now "We , the Executive Committee of the above League , in pursuance of the foresoinj _* i give notice , that the said Congress is herehy convened to meet at the Fabkingdon Hall , Snow Hill , " London , on JIondat , the 13 th of Max ensuing , at the hour of 11 o ' clock , A . H ., then and there to receive the report of the Executive Committee for the past year , and to deliberate thereon , and consider such olher measures as may he necessary for future operations . Representatives are invited from all bodies organised for propagandist or practical co-operative purposes , and from public meetings specially convened to consider the question ofthe Organisation of Lahour . All Delegates will he required to bring credentials of their appointment .
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TO TDS EMBARRASSED . THERE are thousands of persons who have long struggled against the force of misfortune , hut few are aware that , by very recent Acts , all small traders owing debts not exceeding £ 300 , farmers , private and "professional gentlemen , _an-i all others , owing to any amount fthe latter without any publicity ) , can be entirely raised from their difficulties at small expense , and without imprisonment or bankruptcy . All such Mr . Westox begs will apply to him at 6 , Essex-street , Strand , by letter , or personally . Office hoars from 10 till 2 , and G till S . N . B . —The above Atts stay all Palace Court , County Court , and other _prccesdiass . " Clergymen neednot submit to seguestratiens .
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EMIGRATION TO 2 fORTH AMERICA . W TAPSCOTT AKD CO ., SHIPPING and _Emigration Agents , Liverpool , continue to despatch first Class Ships—To NEW TORE—every Five Days . To NEW ORLEANS—everv Ten Days . To BOSTON aid PHILADELPHIA—every Pifteen Days . And occasionallv to BALTIMORE , _CHAULESTON , SAVANNAH , QUEBEC , and St . JOHNS . Drafts for any amount , at sight , on New York , payable ia any part ofthe Uiiit £ _-d States . Tapscott ' s "Emigrant ' s Guide" sent free , on receipt of Four Postage Stamps . _rj _^* About twenty-eight thousand pers ailed for the _JTevr World , iu Tapscott ' s line of American a 2 kets , inlS 19 .
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BEAUTIFUL HAIR . WHISKERS . & c , versus BALDNESS , WEAK , axd GREY HAIR . EOSALIE COUPELLE'S celebrated PARISIAN _POJIIADE Is universally acknowledged as-the only preparation for the certain production of "Whiskers . Eye-hrows , Ac , in so short a time as six or eight _n-fieis , reproducing lost hair , strengthening and curling ** feak hair , and cheeking greyness at any time of life , ¦ Scabi whatever cause arising . It has never been known to fail , and will be forwarded ( free ) with Ml instructions , & c , on receipt of * 24 postage stamps . TEiTlMOXIAlS , & C . Miss Young , Truro , " . vrites : — "Ithas quite restored my _lixiir , which I had lost for years . "
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BROTHER CHARTISTS ! DO NOT BE BEGUILED . RUPTURES : RUPTURES ! RUPTURES ! DE . DE EGOS' astonishing success in the treatment and cure of every variety of B . UPTURE is ample proof ofthe unfailing efficacy of Ids discovery , which must ere long entirely banish a complaint hitherto so prevalent . All persons so afflicted shonld , ¦ without delay , write , or pay a visit to Dr . DE R . who may he consnltecl dail *; from 10 till 1 ; and 4 till 8 . —( Sundays excepted . ) This remedy is perfectly free from danger , pain , or inconvenience , may b : used without confinement , is applic able to male and female , of an ; age , and will be sent free , ¦ with Ml instructions , & c , ic , rendering failure impossible , on receipt of 7 s . in cash , or by Post Office orders , payable at the Holboi-n o ' nce , A great number of Trusses have been left behind by persons curei , as trophies of the immense success of this remedy , which will be readily given to any one _requiring them after one trial ofit . Letters of inquiry should contain two postage stamps . Address , Walter De U < _-cr , 33 , Ely-place , _Holborn-hiU , London . In every case a cure is guaranteed .
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BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH , 2 _vew Road , Losnos * . ARSENIC IN CHOLERA !!! OH ! OH ! OH ! FELLOW-Coiw-ra * iK * -x . — What to do think of this ? Arsenic in cholera ! Oh ! Oh ! Well , if yon will take the trouble of looking into the Medical Times , you will find printed in large letters , Case oe Asiatic _Chokea scc-CESSFULLr treated WHH Aesesic . * A doctor positivelv ad--vifdng arsenic in cholera—the case is also reporte _' d at length in the S 9 th number of the Hygeist , to be had at the office , 3 S 8 , Strand , price Id . or 2 d . by post Well , can you he-surprised , my friends , that we should have so many cases of felonious poisoning throughout the country by arsenic ? What is the real difference between the prisoner and the doctor ? Why , that in one case the party , when he dies , is said to have been murdered by arsenic , and in theother , to have died of some disease or other . Let tilings , we say , be called by their proper names . The doctors have made the public so familiar with poisons , that the lowei classes think there is no harm _taSing a lessen from tht Guinea trade gentlemen * and , for our own part , we do not see any real difference between the felonious prisoner and the doctor—the only difference is , that the doctor , in some cases , "ives the _paisoa in such doses as not to kill , _ttaougi in "many he does kill , but then don't you see it _iscaUed 'death or disease' and not ' murder '
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A PUBLIC MEETING , _pONVENED BY the Provisional Oom-V mittee ofthe National _CnAKTEa Association , will be held at the SOUTH LONDON CHARTIST HALL , Webber street , Blackfriars-road , on Monday Evening , April 22 ud , when the following persons wiU attend and address the Meeting : — G . W . M . Reynolds , G . J . Harney , Ruffey Ridley , G . Massey , W . J . Vernon . Chair to be taken at Eight o'Clock . ADMISSION FREE .
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" POLITICAL VICTIMS . A PUBLIC MEETING , convened by the Provisional Committee ofthe National Charter Association , wiU be held in the naU of the Literary and Scientific Institution , John Street , Tottenham Court Road , on Tuesday evening nest , April 2 Drd , for the purpose of adopting a memorial calling on her Majesty ' s government to release Ernest Jones , ' and other incarcerated Patriots . G . W . M . Reynolds , G . J . Harney , Walter Cooper , Bronterre O'Brien , and other friends to justice and humanity , will attend and address the meeting . Chair taken at Eight O'Clock . Admission Free .
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THE COMMITTEE OP THE FUND FOR THE WIDOWS OF SHARP AND WILLIAM S HEEEBY beg to notice that a Meeting of the said Committee will be held at the Office of the National Charter Association , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand , on Monday evening , April 22 nd , 18 D 0 . Chair to be taken at half-past seven precisely , when aU who have had Tickets for sale for the late Tea Meetinir at the National Hall , are especially solicited to a ttend . Signed , on behalf of the Committee , William Davis . Chairman .
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LAND AND COTTAGES NEAR LONDON , The property of a wealthy gentleman . SUPEEIOE AGEICIJLTUEA . L LABOURERS may have TWO OR MORE ACRES OP FIRST-RATE LAND , at 31 . per acre , and 31 . for each room , with immediate possession , on producing a good character for sobriety and honesty , and proving that they have the means of cropping the land , and- of maintaining themselves tiU harvest . There is a capital opening for small working builders ( men who can do the bricklaying and slating as well as the carpenters' work ) , and for bmckxakers asd pottebs as well , as this estate contains hundreds of thousands of yards of superior clay , within
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Codxor _Pahe , Debuts-use . —J . Gregory acknowledges the receipt of the following sums , sentherewith : —Wives and _Fajiiues of Victims The Chartists of Codnor Park 2 s Gd . _Hosestx Foxd . —The Chartists of Codnor Park 3 s 9 d ; a Friend , Swanwickls ; a Carrier , Alfreton Is ; aPubliean . Swanwickls ; W . "White ls ; 6 . H ., Swanwick Cd ; 6 . Walters , Swanwiek 3 d . _XorcrA-GHAM . —J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the foUoiring snms , sent herewith , viz .: —Fob the _HasEsir Fcsd . —Mrs . Burbage , 6 d . Mr . E . Fabubll , Uxbridgo . —The sum of six _shittiiiffs ' was received for the Ilonesty Fund , yet , inconsequence of an error of the printer , six pence was only acknowledged in our last Mr . Mathiis , Ratcliffe-cross . —The 17 s . ed . was acknowledged in our first edition published on the Oth ult . An accident occurred whereby the entire page was rendered one confused mass , and time would only allow of giving
the total amount received in the two subsequent editions . Mr . T . Walker , Monk "Wearmouth . —The same answer as the one to Mr . Mathias . The 3 s . Gd . came to hand . Mr . A . Smith , _Handbridge , near Chester . —We do not know the charge . Write to Mr . J . Watson , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternoster Row . Haslimdes . — Julian Harney cannot engage to visit Haslingden when at Padiham , but wUl do so if possible . Hosestt Fdxd . — The following sums received by Julian Harney , were paid over to Mr . Rider , and acknowledged in his list in last Saturday ' s Star ; Manchester , hy J . Alcock , 8 s 4 d ; Rochdale Female Chartists , 10 s ; A Few Friends , near ltochdale , per B ., os . J . H . has also rereceived , and paid over to Mr . Rider , from Barrhead , per David Stewart , lis .
The _yicidis . —Julian Harney has received , and paid over to Mr . John Arnott , from Dundee , per Mr . James Graham , for Mrs . Jones , 15 s ; for Mrs . Fussell , 15 s ; and for Mrs . M'Douall , los . J . Haudljie . _n-t , Xorwich , intimates that he will place at the disposal of Mr . O'Connor , two , four , and one , two acre scrips , to prove his confidence in that gentleman . Wsr . MnranEAD , Parkhead . —Next week . Leigh Glave . —We are sorry we cannot g ive your letter this week , it shall appear in our next . Edwabd Ciatton , Huddersfield . —Yes , a few months ago at Aylesbury . J . Sboadheas , Tillicoultry ; George Brown , Wakefield ; and David Stewakt , Barrhead . —No room .
Rational Charter Association. Offices, 1...
RATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . OFFICES , 14 , SOUTHAMPTON STREET , STRASD , LONDON . The Provisional Committee of ths NATIONAL CHAR . TER ASSOCIATION hereb y give notice , That those friends who are desirous of forming localities can be supplied with Cards of Membershi p and Rules , b y applying to the General Secretary , John Arnott , as above , trom nine to two o ' clock , daily ( Sundays excepted ) , aud on Monday evenings from seven to nine o ' clock : if by letter , prepaid . AU applications by letter will receive the most prompt attention . Notice is also given that aU the receipts forthe Cards issued , must be forwarded monthly , per Post Office Order , made payable to John Arnott , at the Post Office , Strand , and addressed to him at the Omce of the Association , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand , London . 14 , Southampton-street , Strand . April _lfith , 18 S 0 . Signed , on behalf of the Committee , John Abnoit , General Secretary .
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STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES . Mr . TV . P . Roberts will be at Hanley this day ( Saturday ) , the 20 th of April .
The Nobthem Stas Sath'uday, Aprlii 20, 1850.
THE NOBTHEM STAS _SATh'UDAY , _APRlIi 20 , 1850 .
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THE DREAD OF TYBANTS . " Let there be light . "—Holy Bible . "Whenever thepeople have achieved political freedom the press is also free . In proportion as they are politically enslaved , the press is subject to restrictions , graduating from the fiscal obstructions imposed by high duties , to the rigorous supervision of a hostile censorship . The oppressors of mankind in all countries , " love darkness better than light , their deeds being evil . " With the establishment of the Republic at Rome under the illustrious Mazzini , a flood of intellectual light wasthrown upon that city . A bold , unfettered , newspaper
press , sprang into existence as suddenl y as did the fabled full grown Minerva from the head of Joye . The Triumvirs , as long as they held power , never interfered with the papers opposed to them . They were free to say what they pleased of their acts , and the principles ofthe Government . Those who rule for the benefit of the people , not of themselves or exclusive and privileged classes , have no fear _offull and free discussion . The moment the bigotted , intolerant , truth-hating , and tyrannical domination of the Cardinals was re-established at Rome , the press was extinguished , and the dungeons * - of the " Holy _Liquisition" once more . thrown open for the I reception of vicldms .
The proclamation of a free , and unfettered press was contemporaneous with the proclamation of the Provisional Government ofthe French Republic in 1848 . Nobly and consistently did that Government , while surrounded on all , sides by the elements of anarchy , land a convulsive excitement , such as has rarel y been chronicled in the history of nations , adhere to the fundamental doctrines , the ancient tradition of all democracy— "Full , free , unfettered discussion , liberty for every man _tospeai _£
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write , and publish his opinions , on allinatterfl _affecting the interests of , humanity .. " ' ' They well knew that they were surrounded . upon all sides by plotting and scheming conspirators , who had nominally accepted the " RepublicV only the more certainly to ; undermine ; _fanddestroy it j tliey knew also that those Verv conspirators were practised _yeteransin Newspaper Literature , skilful in all thearts of appealing
to , and working upon , public opinion ; but , in the greatness of their magnanimit y , the Provisional Government could not stoop to repressive , or even regulating , measures upon a matter which they believed should be free . as air . They were not afraid to let truth and falsehood grapple , for they had faith with glorious John Milton , that truth never fails in a fair aud open encounter . V
. When , by the vacillation and weakness of some of its members , the treachery of others , and the carefully prepared schemes of the enemies of the Republic , the reactionary party obtained possession of power , the unrestricted and open expression of p ublic opinion was at once assailed . From that time to the present , there has been an incessant war waged against the popular press , increasing in stringency , oppressiveness , injustice , and vindictiveness , as the designs of the party in power have become more reactionary and despotic . Yet , despite the fiues , proscriptions , imprisonments , and other violent and arbitrary measures which have been resorted to for the
purpose of silencing the Press in France , it is still powerful enough to beat . the Government with all the means of corruption and all the organised machinery at its back—as well a 3 the combined factions who for the moment fraternise for the purpose of destroying the Republic , only to clear the way for an after struggle between themselves , as to who shall have the power to plunder and oppress the people . No more conclusive or decisive-proof
ofthe immense value and wide-spread influence of the democratic Press can be offered , than that the reactionary part y are now engaged in an attempt to place , the journals of France under the same fiscal burdens and restrictions as those which , in this country , have proved so effectual in limiting the diffusion of political education , and reduced vast masses of the people , to the condition of contented or helpless—because ignorant—serfs .
That a Free Press is an indispensable and necessary element of Democracy , is conclusively shown by the example of the United States . No obstacle whatever to the publication of opinions , either in the shape of stamps on newspapers , duties on paper or advertisements , or security and caution money , have ever existed , or even been proposed , in any of the Free States of the Federation . In that great Republic the conviction is deep seated in the minds of all parties , that Democracy , in order tobe successful , must be intelligent , and that whatever hinders the diffusion of
knowledge among all classes of its citizens , is a public , universal , and heavy calamity , which endangers the prosperity and permanency of the commonwealth . The consequence is , that a Newspaper and Printing Press is an invariable adjunct of American civilisation . Wherever a village springs up——by the side of a river—among the wide and far-spreading undulations ofthe Prairies—or deep in the recesses of the Back Woods , the Newspaper makes its appearance . It is the one great bond that knits society together , the common utterance of the whole people . When the discovery of
thegold placers which lie between the westward slopes of the Sierra Nevada and the Pacific , first attracted the mighty rush of population which has since set in towards California , not a single Newspaper existed in a country which , for 200 years , had been under the dominion of Spain , and the Friars . With the appearance of the Americans there came also the never-failing agents of civilisation—the Printing Press and the Newspaper . In a
country , the population of which was composed of the most' heterogeneous and unpromising materials , and surrounded by the most extraordinary incitements to plunge into anarchy and lawlessness , the Press , to a great extent , kept society together in its incipient stages , and at length gave birth to a Convention , which has framed a Constitution for the New State , infinitely in advance of any Constitution ever yet proposed for the government of any community , either ancient or
modern . Contrast these facts with the relentless and remorseless cruelty of the despotic and quasi-Liberal Governments of Europe , which persist in dooming their subjects to mental blindness . See the results in the bitter antagonism , the deep degradation , the merciless oppression , and the wide-spreading evils of poverty , discontent , aud crime ; - which characterise the peoples thus infamously
condemned to ignorance—aud say whether * ' the Unlicensed Liberty of Printing , " contended for so powerfully and unanswerably by the immortal Secretary to the Protector of the English Commonwealth , two hundred years ago , is not one of the most important constituents of genuine freedom—the only guarantee for the peaceful , rapid , and beneficial developement of individual energies and national resources .
Yet our rulers at home are nearly as mucli afraid of a Free Press as the veriest despots on the Continent ; while , by an ingeniouslywoven net of fiscal burdens and restrictions , they have contrived to make what is the Press of a powerful section of the community apparently unrestricted . They virtually make Newspapers the property of capitalists—sworn to uphold the monopoly and the predominance of Capital ; and they thus stifle the voice of its parent—Labour . Hence it is that , upon all really fundamental and important questions ofa social , educational , and organic character ,
the Press of this country is centuries behind those in which the intellect of a people is allowed to utter its own inspirations , _unwarped by such influences . The " say is all on one side . " The doctrines , theories , and discussions , which are in accordance with the interests of landlords , capitalists , usurers merchants , manufacturers , traders , and profitmongers of all descriptions , find the fullest possible representation in the Press—because each section is powerful enough to support an organ . The " unattached" Press—which does not directly espouse any particular party , yet caters for the interests and selfishness of
Capital and capitalists / in all their various shapes and modifications . The wealth y journals are huge , monopolising corporations , ivhich buy up the talent , and corrupt the honest y of those who might otherwise enlighten and benefit society ; and while an active , almost omnipotent , and decidedly _unscrupulous agency , is thus incessantly at work to prop up the supremacy of the wealthy and the profit-mongering classes , tho poor , the laborious—upon whose toils they all subsist—from _whos _? exertions they wring all the conveniences , comforts , and luxuries of life—are not permitted to speak , either in Parliament , or through the Press .
The last statement may appear too _strongj but it is true . If , by chance , earnest , honest , self-sacrificing men contrive to set on foot a faithful , determined , and enlightened advocate of Social and democratic principles , it is quietly but not the less effectually tabooed . The advertising public will have nothing to do with it . The ordinary press never notice it , except to misrepresent or calumniate it ; and the publishers—that is the influential and
respectable publishers—keep it put of all chance of circulation in those quarters where it is important that the opinion ' s of the toiling and struggling masses should be heard . Thus it happens that a great gulf yawns between the producing and the wealthy classes , that they _are—jas Mr . Disraeli has strongly . biit not too strongly described— " Two . Nations " living upon one soil , wholly ignorant ; of each other ' s _/ eal feelings , sentiments / aud , _motifs *
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and growing daily more and : more / _estranged from , and hostile to , each other . ¦¦ . _/ X > . _' " .: /¦• ¦ If the' ifprmidable and dexterously devised obstacles which prevent ' the establishment of a' really free Press in England , were _removed , it . ' would do more to . place affairs , oh a . right footing than any single _measurethat can be named . Talent would be liberated from the thraldom of Capital and speak out its own honest thoughts . Genius would utter its own lofty inspirations instead of heing dependent upon the wealthy capitalists , ' who now make it tlieir exponent and their drudge , at
prices which are as scanty and unremuncrative , relatively speaking as those awarded to the manual labourer by tho same classes . Literary men would be enabled to become proprietors of journals themselves— -they would be freed from a debasing dependence which is not , more injurious to themselves , thaii it is hurtful to the best interests of the country . Newspapers and periodicals with higher objects , purer principles , and a healthier tone ,
would make their appearance in every part of the country . We should no longer be struck with the anomaly of Huddersfield with nearly thirty thousand inhabitants , being without a local newspaper , _^ and a collection of rude shanties in the backwoods , with three hundred inhabitants , posssessing that article . Apart altogether from the purely political , social , or intellectual aspects of the question in its lowest —the commercial and material point of viewthe abolition of all restrictions on the Press ,
commends itself to the true statesman as a measure of primary and paramount importance . It would open up new markets for industry , release an important manufacture from the galling and absurd restrictions of the Excise , stimulate enterprise , and increase employment at the same time that it educated the ignorant , and incited the intelligent to act in accordance with higher views Of social and self-interest , than those by which they are now actuated .
One of the most touching and sorrowful of laments written by an eminent living poetess , is entitled " We might have been . " It is indeed saddening to contrast what we might have been in this respect—what we might beand then rememember that all the evils we have g lanced at , are inflicted ostensibly to raise taxes which are afterwards , squandered in maintaining extravagant and useless establishments , or in keeping up the physical force required ito perpetuate the oppression of rulers , and the degradation of the people .
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LEGAL INFORMATION FOR IGNORANT JUDGES AND LAWYERS . We observe that the members of the baron the Western Circuit , are getting up an address to the Judge , by way of rejoinder to the almost unanimous condemnation of his conduct by the Press , in the case ofthe Birds . They intend to justify that conduct , on the ground that it was strictly legal . Now , as we remarked at the time of the trial , if it was legal , it was high time the law should be altered , which permitted so gross an outrage onthe moral feeling of the whole community . But unfortunately for Mr . Justice TALFOURD and
his legal defenders , he has not even a leg to stand upon here either , and must be convicted of ignorance of the law , and of his duties as Judge , when he summed up the case in such a manner to let loose two murderers upon society . As it would appear that the members of the Western Circuit are as ignorant of the law as the Judge , we shall , for their special benefit , teach them what the law reall y is in such cases . It is so clearly and unequivocally laid down , that not one of them , with all the subtlety of the lawyer-intellect and power of quibbling , can get over it .
In the 7 th of William the IV ., and 1 st Victoria , cap . 85 , sect . 11 , there is the following clause : — - * Be it enacted , that on the trial of any person ' for any of the offences hereinbefore mentioned or for any felony whatever , vohere the crime charged shatlinclude any assault against the person , it shtll he lawful for the jury to acquit of the felony and to find a verdict of guilty of assault against the person indicted , if the evidence shaU warrant such finding -and when such verdict shall be found , the Court shall have power to imprison the person so found guilty of an assault f # r any term not exceeding three years .
Now , if the Judge ' s statutes had been worked up as they ought to have , he could not have committed such a legal blunder as directing the jury to acquit the Birds . The evidence might not sustain the charge of murder , and the indictment did not charge the inferior crime of manslaughter by an unpardonable blunder on the part of the person who drew it up . But Mr . Justice Talfourd was clearly bound , under the clause we have quoted , to direct a verdict of guilty of assault ,
and therefore sentence each of the prisoners to a year ' s imprisonment . The felony with wliich they were charged , and which in the judgment of the court was not legally brought home to them , most certainly did include " an assault against the person" of then * unfortunate and brutally maltreated victim , and the Judge ought to have known that the law was in existence , and had been acted upon in other courts . No less than nineteen cases having occurred in which this law has been applied .
The conduct of the judge is therefore asmdefensible in law , as it was in morals ; and the " learned gentlemen" on the Western Circuit , will do well not to proclaim their own ignorance of law , by asserting that his summing up was legal , or in accordance with the statutes by which he ought to have been guided in such a case .
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . OVER-GORGED BISHOPS-THE BROKENDOWN BUDGET—TORY WHIGGISM—IGNORANCE PERPE TUATED — EXTRAMURAL INTERMENTS—COMMITTEE ON WORKING CLASS INVESTMENTS . Lord John Russell's motion for a Select Committee on Public Salaries was made the occasion ofa great party fight . Mr . Disraeli , with considerable tact , proposed an amendment to the effect , that as the Ministers and the House were already in possession of all the information necessary for Legislation , the
appointment of a Committee was a waste of time , and that a Bill on tho subject should be introduced forthwith . The truth of the statement , as to the capability of Ministers and the House to legislate immediately on the subject , was not disputed , and it is difficult to understand why the so-called Financial Reformers should , with the exception of Mr . Hume , have voted in a body against the proposal ofthe leader ofthe opposition . Mr . Disraeli showed far more honesty and public spirit on Tuesday night , when he both spoke and voted in favour of the first of Mr . Milner Gibson ' s four resolutions for the abolition of
the Taxes on Knowledge . From the guarded language of the Premier , it is very doubtful whether any reduction in the Salaries of the parties enumerated in the resolution is really contemp lated . It would appear rather as if the Select Committee was intended principally for two objects , namely : to postpone the question for as long a time as possible , and to get up a Report whitewashing the present system . If any actual and active measures are taken in consequence , theywiUprobably have only a prospective operation , and thus the Whigs will'save their own Salaries , whatever may become of their successors in office . Mi * . Horsman . took advantage of the
occasion to make an exposition of extravagant and unjustifiable salaries paid to the bishops , which , for force and terseness , has rarely , if ever , been surpassed in that House . He proved that , if there was any ground whatever for inquiring into tbe salaries of Ministers , public officers , judges , ambassadors , and consuls , there were tenfold greater reasons forinquiring into EcclesiaBtical Salaries . Comparing the income and the , duties of tbe Ministers of State , judges , aud ambassadors , with those performed
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y bishop S _* , lie , dempnstra _* _« d- that tiae ; latter are monstrously over-paid . There is , besides , this essential difference between these classes of civil , judicial , and diplomatic _functionaries , and . bishops , that their duties require men in thevery prime of-. life and vigour . In the case of the judges , a remunerative profession has generally to be given up by the person elevated to the Bench . High office is generally the temporary reward of a life of active political service , and the attaches to our embassies have to undergo a long , unpaid probation , before they are rewarded with permanent place and pay . But bishops are promoted from such active services as rectors and college dignitaries ever . perform , to a life of comparative repose .
They are appointed for life ; and long after age has totally unfitted them for the active performance of any duty whatever , tliey continue to receive the enormous incomes attached to their sees . The salary of a Prime Minister—with all the unquestionable hard work and anxiety attached to the office—is only one-third of the Parliamentary income o an archbishop , and one-half that of the BlsnOP of London —the Parliamentary income , be it remembered , being very considerably below the amount actually received , and the prelates having . besides , palaces provided for their residence . Contrasting the Episcopal Bench with any of the Public Boards entrusted with the
administration of the National business , the same disparity is observable . The whole Board of Admiralty , consisting of six Lords , do not receive as much as a single primate . Yet they are entrusted with the management of our large navy aiid dockyards . The two Boards of Customs and Excise , through whose hands the largest proportion of the annual revenue passes , are not paid so much money as two bishops . The salaries ofthe whole of the thirty-three ambassadors and charge " d' affaires do not come within fifty percent , of the sum annually divided among the Bench of
Bishops . Forty-three Governors of Colonies do not receive as much as twenty-seven Bishops ; and thirty-three Judges in England and Scotland are paid less money annually than the Members of the Episcopal Bench ! Truly " Godliness" in their case , "is profitable both for this life and that which is to come ! The scandal and disgrace ofthe whole affair is , that while the dignitaries of the Church receive these monstrous salaries , the poor curates and hardworking parsons are paid , in numerous instances , far lower salaries than the Coachmen who drive the Bishops about in their luxurious carriages . Of course there were plenty of defenders found for the
well-paid highly-worked prelates ; and Mr . Horsman was vituperated for having made a most unfair attack on the Church , by Members who seem to be of opinion that Christianity consists in pounds , shillings , and pence , and that unless we . paid Bishops extravagantly we should all become Pagans or Atheists . It need scarcel y be added , the House refused to meddle with these favourites of Parliament and Providence—tlie gentlemen in lawn , though every thousand pounds that was . cut from their salaries should have been applied to the diminution of that ignorance and irreligion which some of the friends of the Bishops are in the habit of bewailing .
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second edition ofthe Budget to the Committee on Monday ni g ht . But even then he failed . He was asked in rain for the data on which he legislated , and at last the House divided against him in a most essential principle of his measure , leaving him in a minority of 29 . He proposed that the stamp on securities for money under -650 should be 2 s 6 d . The House decided that it should be only Is ., whereupon Sir Charles declined to proceed further that night , and asked time to consider what he should do next . "We by no means regret these frequent defeats of the-Ministry .
Sir Charles "Wood ' s Budget this year , bids fair to be as unfortunate as his last year ' s production . The proposed alteration in the Stamp Duties when looked into , turned out to be an addition instead of a diminution of taxation ; and , besides , was intended to subject many transactions to taxation which are now exempt from it . The threatening attitude assumed by the bankers , the mercantile world , and the legal profession with reference to some of the items in the Bill , frightened the poor Chancellor , and accordingl y he submitted a
The "Whigs are like stock fish , all the better for being beaten . But ' the ' marvel is the equanimit y and meekness with which they submit to these repeated proofs , that they have ceased to have any hold . on the confidence or respect of the House of Commons . It must now be evident , even to themselves , that they are only tolerated in power , because from the accidental state of parties , no one is strong enough at the present moment , to sustain himself in office . As we have already said , the
whole Budget is one of the most flagrant _finanuial blunders that ever was perpetrated . A surplus of nearly two millions in the hands of a capable and shrewd Minister of Finance , would have been the means for effecting either a large and immediately perceptible reduction of some pressing public burden , or of reducing the permanent expenditure upon the debt . But Sir Charles "Wood has frittered it away in driblets , and with a perverse ingenuity , has contrived to do the least possible amount of good that such a large surplus put in his power .
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The Prime Minister becomes daily more reactionary . There was a time in the history of this country when he might have claimed--with some degree of truth—the title of a Reformer , and a Liberal . There is not now on the Tory benches a more" inveterate opponent of all progress , -whether political , social , oi educational . The Chancellor of the EXCHEQUER opposed Mr . Gibson ' s motion for the repeal of tho Taxes on Knowledge , by the ancient threadbare argument of Chancellors , that he could not afford the money ; but Lord JOHN took up a position based on different grounds . He opposes a cheap Press upon
principle . He thinks it good that the people should be kept ignorant ; and , therefore , he not only opposed tho motion of Mr , Gibson on Tuesday night , but Mr . Fox ' s Bill for Educating the People , on Wednesday . His Lordship refuses political enfranchisement ; he denounces a cheap Press as synonimous with revolution ; and he opposes Secular Education , on the ground that it would make the people irreligious . "What worse than this could the most bigotted High Church Tory party do if they were in power ? And y et the man who does all this has the transcendent impudence to call himself a ¦• liberal . " From such liberals " Good Lord
deliver us ! " ¦ ,: It is enough to excite the indignation ofthe whole country , to see the vicious circle in whicli our rulers' move and reason . When they are asked to enfranchise the people , they object , because the great body of the people they say , are not sufficiently enlightened to exercise the franchise properly- When they are asked to givo the people a cheap Press , in order that they may acquire the political knowledge of which it is averred they are deficient , they refuse to do so , because a cheap Press might be abused ,. and because also , it might
make the people more discontented under misgovernment , than they now are in their partially enlightened state . When they are asked to educate the rising generation in a knowledge of reading , writing _/ arithmetic , and such other branches of _seoular instruction as may enable them to perform the ordinary business of life in a creditable and efficient manner , up start Roman Catholics , Churchmen , and Dissenters , and bawl in chorus , " irreligion , infidelity , atheism . " They are terribly afraid of light being let in upon the flaws _oxA orevicea I tithe * : of our political or _eccl _^ ic _^^ l . iaatitu-
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Itions . Does the fact hot ' tprove their T " nate consciousness of their unsoundness _^" ' ness , and indefensibleoharacter ? Tji ev _^ ea ' that their only chance of perpetuatin g th cendancy ofthe aristocracy and the p a 8 ' is to keep the . people _. ignorant , and thev t ° i ' good care : to do so as . far _. as their corpor ' gislative , and " administrative influence t Such Government is a curse to the _couT and cannot fail to end in severe and hea _^ tribution on the parties who thus _sacrif _"'"'"' " ' the great and permanent interests of 1 _^ - a _'* to the selfish aggrandisement of a - , . u CIet" * vileged class . n , < * PH .
The Long-Expected Measure For Extra Inte...
The long-expected measure for Extra Interment has at length made its a _^ ance , and , with few exceptions , seems _^ f ' well adapted for the object in view . 'Tho _} B system of burial is proposed to be rof ? iil .. f i ' Act of Parliament , and the und eriXIr % _venteu iruiH
iieeciug poor widows and ornh at the time when affliction renders the ' helpless prey to the employers of those \ Z • Let out tkeir bodies by tlie hour , To mimic sorrow when the heart ' s not sad . ' Existing cemeteries , and burying . « L _, are to be purchased on terms fixed in th * dinary manner , by awards of juries-soil ' ; the cemeteries being made , perhaps , availaTM under the new Bystem , and the others \ , \ X 1 under regulations deemed more conducive * public health and advantage . Public Win
grounds are to be instituted m certain sitt > carefully selected , within suitable _distant from the Metropolis ; and , after the lapse of certain time , interment in these grounds is _u be compulsory—no funeral , except under license , being permitted to take placo else where . The . management of these _buryinj ' grounds , and the arrangements con nected with funerals , are to he _entrusted to tlio G eneral Board of , Health , and iis officers ; and u _<> fresh houses are to be erected within a , g _' distance of the cemeteries .
The objectionable feature of the arrange _, ments iu these public cemeteries to us , se e _^ a to be forced On the framers of the measure hy the bigotry and antipathies which separate one denomination of Christians from another One would think , that it would be sufficient for these followers ofthe " meek and lowl y JESUS , " to hate and live apart from each other during their lives , without insisting that even in their graves the line of _separation
shall be strongl y drawn between them . The cemeteries are to be divided-into two portions , consecrated and unconsecrated . * Li the one the dust of the children of the Church Vil mingle together , while in the other , the asheg of Dissenters will repose , uncontaminated by any admixture with their fellow Christiana What odd ideas these people must have of religion who , even in death , contrive elahorately , schemes to perpetuate such senseless if not blasphemous , divisions ! '
The existing rights of incumbents and parishes are duly provided for in the bill ; and though the plan is a vast one , it does not appear that it will involve any expense to the public , which will gain largely in health , hy the abolition of one of the most disgusting , deadly , and objectionable practices of modem times .
Mr. Slane Y , Wonderful To Tell, Has At ...
Mr . Slane y , wonderful to tell , has at length succeeded in extorting from the present Government a Committee to inquire into a matter connected with the welfare of the working classes . The scope of its inquiry is certainly a limited one and that we presume was one reason why Mr , Labouchere did not oppose it . It is to consider and suggest means of removing obstacles and giving facilities for investin g the savings of the middle and working classes . . A second object , the original motion , of much greater importance , was struck out , namely , to " afford them the means of forming societies to insure themselves against coming evils frequently recurring . " Mr .
Slaney very properly reprobated the existing laws of partnership in this Country as a great obstacle to the co-operation of the working classes in any practical effort to improve their own condition , and of his Committee for ths effect of amending the law in this respect , and giving the industrious classes the protection and benefit of the law in any associative endeavours , it will confer a great boon . From the want of such legal protection and security many a well intended and noble enterprise has failed .
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- _—¦*•********•*»•— MONIES RECEIVED For the "Week Ending Thursday , * - April 18 , 1850 . THE HONElTY FUND . Received by W . Rides . —W . Tennant , Gilling , near Kieh . mond 6 d—W . Sutcliffe , Luddendenfoot , near Halifax 3 d—TTrougliton , Dewsbury ls Gd—Blakey Hartley , Colne 23—Worcester , per J . Hardinj- 11 ls lOd—Codnorpark , Derbyshire , per J . Gregory 83 Gd—a Democrat , Dowlais , Merthyr lid—Derby Chartists ( second subscription ) per W . Chandler 21—E . Self , Great Cbeverill 6 d—Norwich , per J . HurreU 6 s —Lye Waste , per S . Welch 7 s Sd . —Received by D . Sherrington , Glasgow—J . Lang ' s book 7 s 3 d—J , M'Laren's boofc 7 s Id—J . Dunn and others 5 s—a _Triend 8 _d . —Receired from Braintree—J . Howe is—Mr . Knopp ls _* Gd—Mr . Russell ls—Mr . Linsell Is-Nottingham , per J . Sweetls-G . _Ilenm-in , Coventry 10 s—Parkhead , Shelteston , and Tollcross _, per W . Muirhead 317 s—J . Hunter , Dublin ls-J . Hardiment , Norwich 2 s—Cheltenham per J . Hemmin is Id—Friends at Barrhead , 8 s 6 d—Friends at Nitshell , per David Stewart 2 s Gd
. Received at Land Office . —A . Friend to Justice 5 _s-J . Sttllt 2 s 6 d-T . Dunn 2 s 6 d-G , Tato 6 d-T . Alderson 6 d-T . Wiley Is—T . _Middlemiss 6 _d—T . Young 6 d-A . Tasl ** Od—T . Dunn ls-J . Dunn Is—W , _Fur- * usson 2 s 6 a-J . Greaves Gd—J . Watson ls—G . Stefien 2 s 6 d—T . Dunnls-T . Kirkls-E . Whinham Cd-W . Tent ls- tliree Friends 2 s 9 d-P . Elliot ( second subscription ) _Ss-Leiccster _^ per Newton 2 s-Henry _Gouse , Derby ls-High Wycombe os . £ s _. d . Received by W . Rider .. .. 10 8 10 Received at Land Office .. 118 » Total .. .. .. £ 12 - "J FOR MACNAMARA'S ACTION * Received by W . Rider . —S . Ward , Bermingliara Is ,
AGITATION FOR THE CHARTER . Received by W . RiDEB—BarnstapIe _, per R . Farleigli 1 « - Codnorpark , Derbyshire , per J . Gregory 10 s . — -K „ _"„ ls by Jon ;* Arkott .-Robert Bevill ls-Patrick _M-Donnel l l _» -Burnley , perR . Holgate 13 s-collected at _Greenwichiicolleeted at _John-street II 5 s 10 id-Cards at J ° hn _* st v £ _* 8 s 4 d—Cripplegate Locality , per Mr . Slocum 10 r _* r AntlU , for Cards 2 s-Cheltenham , per R . _Hemoun bs-Thomas Heywood , Padiham Is—J . E . Duncan 13 .- _" Rider , as per-Star , lis .
FOR MRS . JONES . Received by W . Rideb . —Cheltenham , per J . Hemmm lS Received by Joh _'** Aa-forr . —Dundee , per James lira ham 15 s .
FOR MRS . M'DOUALL . Received byW . Rideb . —J . Scott , Lynn Gd—J . Cummin ? and Friends , Edinburgh 2 s 6 d—W . Wragge _, Heanor 60-J . Scott , Lynn ( second subscription ) 6 d . . Received by Jo *"" ' _AnNOTi—Dundee , per J . Graham 15 s . FOR MRS . FUSSELL ; Received by Johs Aknott . —Dundee , per James Gf » _hamlSs .
MONUMENT FUND . Received by W . Rideb . —Bridgeton , Glasgow , perD . S '' er * rington 2 s—Edinburgh , per G . Bremner 12 s . WIVES AND FAMILIES OF VICTIMS . Received by W . Rn ) KB .-Barnstaple , per R . j _*"»* i _* " _£ r _* Codnorpark , Derbyshire , per J . Gregory 2 s _< "f- _° ' u ' ; .,. j * Birmingham , per J . Newhouse _I 5 s- CUeltenham , pel J Hemmin 3 s Id—Edinburgh , per G . Bremner ws , NATIONAL VICTIM 1 _* ! , :.... Received by John Absott , _Secretay .-Ph _^ p Elhott u-E . T ., John-street ls-T . E ., Greenwich 6 d-Mr . Man _»« Greenwich 2 s-Mr . Wliitoombe Greenwich _W 3 per 11 . Holgate - ; Part Proceeds of affarmome _Meetas Ktreetf Paddington , per Charles Procter , ls 6 d .- _^* Rider , as per Star , 1 * . Us 7 d .
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DREADFUL _ACCIT _^ _AgD LOSS _^ PABIS . -The 11 th light infantry Reg _^ j : under orders for Algeria , met with a dreadful ; aw dent , on the 16 th inst ., near Angera , part ot a" * talion having been precipitated into the Loire 1 the breaking down of a wire suspension bridge . los 3 of the battalion is supposed to amount _«*•¦; „ men . Seventy bodies were found the' _„ f th « morning ; four of whom were officers . _J _^ JLttl bodies were much wounded . One was ww _* _" . W ) . _, through with a bayonet . Some of the w _«^ were bent double . 123 bodies were found Jiy _^ the last moment . During their atay . at Anger » men frequently sang ; tho , Marsellaise , aw v _* _^ democratic songs , and on their departure , _«*¦ . j companied apartof , the-way by _*»« _--1 " ?!? , dflB 9 shouts of "Vive la ; RepuMique ! Tito « " _plwi-HMW * - _''''' '''
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 20, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_20041850/page/4/
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