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_TOMTISH EMPIRE FREEHOLD LAND AND BUILDING - SOCIETY . ± J On an _Advanceyoiir Rent is _Savecy-you becr , y 0 Ilr ovm Iand _^ sousenoluer . "raroas .- _' _-t & _BracottH- "E s _^ , 3 tP . T _"WA-aEv Esq ; , * M . t . . B . B . _Cabbelx ,, _"Es _^ , "M . r . L . J . _T _Lvksam ., Esq . _* * M . P . r * _rt / _' _* _' _^ T _^^ Imion Ofcc-So . IS , ToUenli-un Court , _> ew _Itoad _, r _^ _j _^ Loadon . _3 ) AMEi . Wnxux It 1 - **** Secretary . _AfcLttSED _K Tnm-E _& _eraen _^ . _* . - _|^^ ghares anfl iT 1 Iieilts for investors . _FnIlS « , rc .. -. _^ _" -J _^ _Vmentoft's . od . ¦ $ _Wsek , or 10 s . Gd . per _Xonfa llalf _^ jsrc .. .. 60 _ i 23 r - _? 5 3 — _Qnsi-fa-Share .. .. 30 q 7 x 2 S — _^ _App _Ucsetts are requested to state . " * - * their form the Section they desire to be a _Member of . _yo'Sravi-TO-ss - _, _Sfettrr-oiis ' , or _KED-Kmos _« E < i . _ - ri , c present Entrance Pee , including Certificate , Rules , -Sc , is 4 s . " - £ _!« Share , ana * _ii € a . for " tey- part _ofaSfcaro . _prifce of _Jtules , including Postage , is . - ( _hmts _^ t _*** 1 st—To enaKc _memTjers to _lsw _& l _DweSn _*^ Houses . 5 th .--To give to _DepositiRS Members a _bigliei rate of _In-MidLeaselioWiropcrtiesorLaBd . - _rjhil-Iren , oi * _Uusbands for thefe Vivos , or for Marriage 3 rd . —To -advance " Mortgages < 3 a Property held * ay _gctficnicnts . ¦ aiemhers _. . / th . —To purchase-a piece * Of _^ Freehold Land of sufficient 4 _tij _ Te eialilc _Mort--ag'' » f b * Hf' members _to-Mfcem _-neuetogivealcgal _^ tle to- _^ _Ooumy _A'ote & r "Members of " _icirMorV-agcs . ° ° " _Uai-li-uneiit _. _. _"'ECTOS * L- —BvioiniiS-H iS 3 ' _- _* * -, I _* tI < ' ** erery person in town er country can becomc-the " - ! iroprietor of a House and Land in Ins wti Bra _^ bourlto _^' _w-ifliiut being _remoTOa'IrohiiU & _' friends , _coniiexioesj-or'Uie- _^ _i-eseut means liimself andfamily _maJ S _^ _no \ U- —Toia ! _fe _^ ' _* _iJ _^^ ' _^ " _* * _Mtt _^ _'" _*^*^ _^ erect Dwellings "tUereon , and _divide the Land into allotmentsfrom _half-sa _^ icre ' uinvards , in or iwar the _tmves ofthe Tarious teanchesof the society . : The property to be _^ oo _ew-fidefreeliold-of-ase ' _rncmber-nTtera-teirmofye-irs _, from the date of location , accordhig" -o his subscriptions . . _^^ " _- _"" _" _ec-iiovIII _—fn _^ ios ' _^ Oeposit section , in-which mctshers not _wisliingto purehase are enabled to invest small sums , _rearing interest at _ihetSj- ef five per cent -per annum , on every _s-jan of 10 s . and upwards so deposited . . _tj -jj £ 500 _-tsSi _be'Sf . vanccd to the _meicbers of -the first Section in July ? ncst , when all persons who have and may ¦ _bc- > _-mieiiiembcrsfor _* S 3 « rjes , or parts of Shares , ou-or before the 4 th of July-next , and who pay six months' subscriptions in advance , cr _t >* _a-msc-w _* ill be eH _^ ble for an advance . ALSO , npHE _TJNX-mD PATRIOTS' AND PATRIARCHS' BENEFIT SOCIETIES . X £ nrolled . inir 3 uaut to Act of _Earlia-ment . Thus securiug teats members the protection of the law for tlieir fund * and propcrtr . Leg-dised to extendorer- the- * United Kingdom , with fee privilege of appointing Medical Attendants , Agents , ic _Atir _& iiovtunitv is now _cEcretl to _lietfithy persons , up to -Forty Years of Age , of joining these flourishing InsStufions in * bv _* 3 0 T country . . ' _* _- . * "Londox _OmcEf i- _"' ' * Tottenham Courf , _"Sew-Hoafl , St _Tancras ( thirteenth house eastward from Tottenham Court-road ) . " _Dasiet . WittiAM _Rnrinr , _Sesretary . _SPriNMi . —I . S . Btrscosn * E , Es « ., M . r . T . Wakley , Esq ., M . P . B . B . Cabbell , _Eso ; ., M . P . I " . 0 'C « 5 _Son , Esq ., _2 tP . L . J . -HissAiiD , Esq . * Ia _* -3 ie short space of Fwe _j - ears these societies have paid _« the following benefits to their members . . . . _scsijijlet of _etiiMs . £ s . d . Sickness anil _ScperaTiTraatioii .. .. ... .. 3 , 48614 7 Acconchiuents " -.. .. .. .. .. 3 , 003 0 0 Funerals .. -.. .. ., .. .. S 04 4 9 Loss by Fire -.. .. .-. .. .. 35 2 -0 £ 5 , 449 1 4 Present Capital-fended in the Bank of -England .. . 1 JE 2 , 1 SG 10 5 _TBcse Societies are in six divisions -or sections , for the Members to receive the following Benefits according to their SubseripEons : — * First Division . _Foon-rn Drvisios . _"Entian-- « acco- _^ _dh-gtoa ! 5 e , _fi-om 5 s . . tol 0 s . Monthly Con- Entrance , according to age , from 3 s . 6 ( 3 . to 8 s . Cd . uihudons for-Sickness and " Management , 2 s . 7 d . _Jfenthly Contribution for Sickness and Management , Is . 4 d . £ s . _d . Allowance , in Sickness , per week -.. O IS o £ . s . d . _-MeniiK-r ' _sF-nieral 20 0 0 , _"Allowance in Sickness , per week .. .. o 3 o Ditto Vfife _' s or Xominee ' s ditto ... .. 10 0 0 '" _Member ' s Fuueral .. .. .. . .. 10 0 0 "Wife'sLviug-in -- ' - - •• 2 0 0 --Member ' s Wife orXoininee ' sditto .. .. 5 0 0 _"Lussliv Fire , from .. .. £ 5 0 0 to 20 0 0 j Wife ' s Lying in : .. 100 _Sui-ei-annuatiou . per week ., .. .. 0 6 0 _HLoss by Fire , from .. .. £ 5 0 0 to 10 0 0 Second DivtsiOH . Superannuation , per week .. .. .. 0 4 0 Entrance , according to age , from 4 s . Cd ., to 0 s . Cd . j Fifth DivmoN . Mo nthly Contribution for Siofecess and Management , Entrance , accoiilin g to age , from 3 s . to Ss . Monthly Con-2 s . Id . tribution'for Sickness and Management , Is . id . Allowance in Sickness , per _wesi .. .. 0 15 C Allowance in Sickness , per week .. .. 0 7 0 "Member _' _sFmia-al .. 16 0 C Member ' s Funeral .. .. .. .. 600 " _MtHiJVife ' s or "Sominet ' s ditto .. .. 8 0 0 Ditto Wife ' s or Nominee ' s ditto .. .. 3 0 0 "~ _% V 1 fe'sliying-in .. --. - - 11-5-0 Wife's _Lying-hi 0 15 0 - _^ _Isl-yiFire , from .. _,-. £ -5 0 0 to 15 0 0 Loss by Fire .. .. .. .. .. 500 _^ gi _^ _wiiauation , per week .. .. .. 0 5 0 Superannuation , per week .. .. .. 0 4 0 _-Si-S- _^ _Sr i _, _; - . ¦ ¦ ¦ _ . TmcB _Divjsios . Sixm Division . " ' _^ _-Entraape , " according to _oge , froni 4 s . to 9 s . Monthly Cou- Entrance Money .. .. .. .. 030 _^ * " tribution for _SckncSS-aiHlilanagenJentj Is , 7 d . -Monthly Contribution .... .. .. 0 10 Allowance in Sickness , _perweek .. .. 0 11 0 Allowance in Sickness .. .. .. 0 7 0 "Member ' si ' _mseral .. -. .. .. 12 O 0 Member ' _sFunei-al .. .. .. .. 2 10 0 "Ktto _life ' s « _r"Xoaun- * e ' _sHni" -o .. .. 6-0 0 "So Leues in this Dmsion . "Wife ' s L \ _-ii * _g-Hi .. •• •• 1 10 0 . Loss by Fire , from £ 5 0 0 to 10 D 0 Levies according to the demands on each " division per Sujn .-i-umualaon , iter week -.. .. .. 0-4 0 quarter . S . B . —Tbe difference in the two Societies is , tlie Patriots have an Aceouchmcnt benefit , the Patriarchs have not that benefit , therefore do _iwtt-ay levies for it . ss- Applications for Agencies requested from all parts of the country ; information for appointment of Agencies can "be obtained by letter , _cut-losm ? a postage Stamp . -- Blank forms and information for the admission of country members can be obtained by letter , prepaid , enclosing threepostage stamps , to _BasiEi . William Hun _* r , GeueKd Secretary , 13 , Tottenham Court , New lload , St Pancras .
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_ _-V- :. LOS DON LIFE . v _VoivPuMislrinjr . Price IA . W ££ kly , _anSls . quarterly parts , _t-ONDON LIFE . ; OR , _MniROR OF - JLJ Mirfli _, Hainour , and Eccetia , containing all tlie racy -movenjente of the present _tlay : in short , embracinglife in all its varied p hases and _vark-ty . "London Life" _ivDI be _tplendidlvaiusti-atcd _-Kitlio-a _^ nal engravings , desgned aud esecnted _' by the most eniiaeut artists . Sent ( post free ) , 2 s . 2 d . per _ijnarter . 1 ' rinted aud published-Vy Wixs , _Holyivell-stree t , Strand , _audidi _Ik-oksellei-s .
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TO TAILOns . By approbation of Her Majesty Queen Tictoria and His _lii-yal _ISghuess lVinceAlbert . Jscwlicady , THE LONDON aad PARIS SUMMER FASHIONS for 1 S 10 , by Messrs . _BESJAMIX HEAD and Co ., 1-, Hart-street _ISlouinsbm-y-square , London : and bv GEOI 50 E DEItGElt , llolywell-street . Strand ; a _spleiuM VllIST , _elabui-aitly finished , and superbly _eolvnred , the _iAXDSCAPF , a correct view in the Queen's Botanical _Gai-Sens , London , ( by special _pcmiisaon _. ) the _u-osf _magiiiSeent _jilacc in Em-ope . This beautiful j - _fieturc ivjU be _acenmnaisietl with the most novel , good fisting , and fssliionaitlc Dress , Iln _. ing , FrocI _^ and _Huntiiig _* o . -i riittems , both doablesmd single-breasted : Hussar ' s Vonth ' s round Jae ] -ets . vh & n and with skirts - single and double-breasted Dress , 3 Jor _:: ing and Evening Waistcoats ; also tlie most fashionable and newest style Habit Pattern - everv particular p : u-t cf each pattern fully explained , and an _aiusb-ation of everytlnng respecting Style and Fashion ; price ICs . Sold by Itead and Co ., 1-2 , Hart-street , Bloomsbni-y-square _, _Ixindon ; G . _Bei-j- _; _ei-, _IIolyivell-sti-ee _^ Strand ; and _' _all Booksellers in Tov . nand Country .
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TUY _EllE YOU desi'ah :. H OLIO . WAY'S PILLS . CPRE OF ASTIIMA . Extract ufa Letter from Mr . Benjamin Mackie , a _rsspeetable !} _u-tker , dated _Creeimgli , near _Loughall , . Ireland , dated September _lltli , 1 S 1 _& _lSisr--cTi 3 > Fnn-xn , —Thy excellent Tills have effectually _cm-ed ine of an _sirtiima . wiiidi -nUictcd me for three years losnch ' _nncsteat-that Iwas _oLlijjed to -walk my room at _inght for air , _afi-aiilofbeiiigsuffoeatedif 1 went " to bed by cough anil j : _lil- * gm . Besides taking the Fills , I nibbed plenty ol ' lhy Ointment into _in _^ -chest night and morning . — < Sgned ) B £ XJA 5 ! ix -Mackie . —To _Fi-ofessor _JIolwivat . CUKE OF _Tri'IIUS _VEVEK "WHEN _SCITOSEI ) TO BE AT THE 1 _'OIXT OF DE ;\ T 1 L -A respectable ftinale in lhe i ; e : glil _* ourhood _ofiouglndl wse attacked with tyj . h-. 53 _fi-ver _, and lay for five days without having tasted any description of food . She was given over by tlie surgeon , and preparations were made for her den-use . Mr- Benjamin Haclde , ihe < _2 _ua"ksr , whose case is j _eferrea to above , heard ot the _cii-eum _= tanee , _iusd knowing the immense benefit tliat he liimselihad derived from Ilol-
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REGISTER ! REGISTER . ' REGISTER ! Sow Published , and _raidy for circulation , hy the _INATIOXAI . ElECIIOXASD _ReGISIKATIOX COMMITTEK , A COMPLETE HAND BOOK AND GUIDE TO REGISTRATION , compiled from the Reform Act and other Parliamentary Papers , making thc subject of Registration so plain and simple , as to bring it within the capacity of all classes . Published by James Watson , 3 , Queen's Headpassage , Paternoster-row , London , _andseld by all booksellers in the United Kingdom . Price , only _Tueee Pexce . May also be had of the Secretary , James Grassby , 90 , _Recent-street , Lambeth .
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. CHARTERVILLE . TO' BE SOLD , a _FOUE-ACRE ALL 0 TMEXT , situate in thc Brize _Sorton-road , in consequence of thc prescut holder having au engagement in America . The Land is well cropped witli wheat , barley , potatoes , polts , _vetelic--, _can-ols , swedes , _mangel-wurteel , cabbages , _vfcc , & c , and is equal to any in tlie county . Apply , for terms , to Taos . _Lurcr , _Biiza Korton-road , Charterville , near Witney , Oxon .
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GD . AND DEMONSTRATION SEAR 25 ROMSGROVE , OX THE DODFORD ESTATE , ON THE DAY OF LOCATION , MONDAY , JULY 2 . ND , 1810 . " Homes for the sons of toil . " PARTIES ARE RESPECTFULLY _IN-1 FOUMED that a EAILWAY _TlllF will leave the Camphill Station . Birmingham , at Eight _o'Cloek in the lr . oniing , afiording all persons _desh-ous of _visiliug the Estate an opportunity of so doing . Fabes—First Class , 4 s . ; Second do ., 3 s . ; Third do ., ls . Od . A _' ans will be in attendance to convey parties from the Bromsgrovellaihvay Station to the Estate and back . For Tickets apply to Mr . Botthiwick , Xews agent , 73 , _Stiifibrd-street ; Air . C . Goodwin , Darwin-street , and Mr . Alles , Smethtriclc
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GREAT DODFORD . MR . _XIBLETT , _PUBLICAN , begs to announce tu those persons who may visit the Great Dodford Estate , on Monday , the 2 nd of July , ( the day upon which tlie Occupants will take _possession of tlieir allotments ) , that he will have in readiness Refreshments upon the most MODERATE TERMS , aud that every attention will he paid upon his part to ensure their comfort and con venicnee . _5 . B . —liis House is within twenty yards of the Estate , on Bellbroughton-road .
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TO BE SOLD A BARGAIN , FOR £ 12 10 s . rrHE RIGHT TO LOCATION ON A J- FOUR-ACRE ALLOTMENT , drawn in tho November ballot , 1 S _17 . Any person purchasing the same will be entitled to location , or £ 2 * 1 compensation money . The reason the present proprietor is parting witli it is a sudden cbair'e of circumstances . Application to he made to the Directors of tlio _"National iand Company , U 4 , High Holborn , London .
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TO BE SOLD , A PAID-UP POTJH-ACRE SHARE in -La . the National Land Company . Cheap . _Juqnire of Joseph 1 ' urday _, 1 ? " , _Mai-garct-street , ' Limehouse . Also , A TWO-ACRE PAID-UP SHARE . Inquire at thc Land Oftiee .
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TO BE SOLD , rpWO EOUR-ACRE PAID-UP SHARES X __ in the _National Land Company . Price , £ 4 each . It is very desirable that all applications be made as early _aspessiblc to Mr . James M'Farlane , National Land Office , as-the advertiser is going abroad in a few days .
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A _POUfilACRE SCRIP , DRAWN IN Pa- Ballot of August 1847 . Applications , to be made to tlie Directors , at their office , 144 , High Holborn , London .
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INSTANT EASE—LASTING CORE . Price Is . perPackot . BRANDE'S ENAMEL , FOR FILLING -DECAYING TEETH , and RENDERING THEM SOUKD AND _PAISLES 5 , has , from its unquestionable ex _cellence , obtained great popularity at home and abroad Its curative agency is based upon a TRUE THEORY of th < cause of Tooth-Ache , and-hence its great " success . . _Bj most ether remedies it is sought to Mil the nerve , ami so stop the pain . Buttodestroy the nerve is itself a ven painful _ojjeration , and often leads to very sad consequences , for the tooth then becomes a dead substance in tlie living jaw , and pcoduccs the same amount of inflammation and pain as would resnltfrom anv _otherforcicmbody embedded
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TOE _CHE 1 KB 3 T EDITION _EVEU _rClSllSBED . - "Price ls . 6 < 1 ., A . new and _eJtgarit edition , with Steel Plate of the . Author , of ' _-..-. _PAIHE'S POLITICAL WORKS , _f Now Ready , a New Edition of ' MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS . THE LABOURER MAGAZINE . : Vols . 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , may still be had , neatly bound , _pi-iee 2 s . 6 d . each No . 4 , the Number * containing Mit . O'Conxor _' s " _Treatise on the National Land Company ;" 2 fo . at ) , tlie one containing Mb . _O'Connou ' s Treatise " On the _National Land and Labour Bank connection with the Land Company : "Have lately been reprinted , and may be had on application , Price Gd . each .. ..- ' ,... , , " ¦¦; Imj - mrfections of the ' labourer _Magaauie' may still be had at the Publishers . In a neat Volume , Price ls . Cd . "The Evidence taken by the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to enquire into the National Land Company . " This Volume ought to he in the hands ef every Memher of the Company , as it strikingly illustrates the care , and economy that have heen practised in the management of the Funds of the Company , and proves / beyond contradiction , the practicability of the Plan . which the Company was established to carry out . , Just published , Nos . I ., II ., and III ., Price . ' . Sixpence Each , of THE COMMONWEALTH . - - ¦ ¦ ' -h * Sola , "by J . "Watson , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternosterrow , London ; A . Heywood , Oldham-streot _, Hanchesterr and Love and Co ., 5 , Nelson-street , Glasgow . And by all Booksellers in Town and Country . r .
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" THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW . NOTICE . - As printing the J ? e » ieiu on thin paper , and without . . 1 wrapper , would injure the appearance of the work , copies will not , in future , be printed to pass ' through the post As perfect copies wsuld cost in postage alone 4 d . each , aU subscribers are requested to give their orders to their nearest bookseller or newsagent . To ensure punctual delivery orders should be given by subscribers ( to their booksellers , < Sic . ) a week in advance . ¦ j **? " * No . 2 trill include in its contents the Manifesto of the German Red Republicans , the speech of _Armaml Barbes , the Principles and Projects of Louis _XSUme , an important Letter from , Paris , mid a faithful review of public events now in progress in _Fmnce , _Gem-niy , Italy . < fcc On tlie 1 st of June was published , No . I . of THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW Of BRITISH and FOREIGN POLITICS , HISTORY ,
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J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of thc following sums for the Victim Fund ( sent herewith ) , viz . —Mr . : Lec _, Gd .: Mr . Dalton , 2 d . - Mr . J . . VrrciiELL _, Jarrow . —They were posted on Friday evening . * Mr . Chancellor , Yarmouth . —Twopence each , also for carriage . __ Mr . Bullock , Blggar . —AVe did not receive the letter you allude to . ¦' .. _- ¦ Mr . Clayton * , _Hiiddersncld . —The address of Mrs . M'Douall is 71 , _Front-street . Portland-street , Liverpool . _rETEmiOKOucii . —E . Scholey begs to acknowledge thc receipt of the following sums for thc Victim Fund ( sent herewith ) , viz : —Mrs . Ward , fid . ; Mr . Walker , ( id . Jons West ' s Family—Owing to an item in the Manchester Committee ' s balance-sheet , published iii a recent number ofthe Star , which might cause some misapprehension _, we are requested to state that Mrs . _"ffesthas not received
any money from the Manchester . Committee . T . 1 ' . —Mrs . _l'indlay ' s address is not Gallon-gate , Aberdeen . It is Bruce ' s-court , Loch-street , Aberdeen . Ma . Kydd and the Li-eds Ciiaktists . —We have received a letter from Mr . Kydd , which we are obliged to . postpone until next week , owing to press of matter . The letter thus concludes : — "I apologise to the Leeds friends for my absence from their meeting on Sunday . Tlie disappointment was inevitable . A mistake occurred in the delivery of letters at Padiham , and if I had not gone to 1 ' adilmm thc disappointment would have heen immense , as numbers had come a long distance to ho present . 1 am now on my way to Ncweastle-ou-Tyue , in whicli district I will begin my labours on Suiidav , the 2-1 tli of June . —I remain , yours truly , Samuel ICibd . Lancaster , June 18 . " We am * unavoidably compelled to postpone several communications for the reason ahove stated .
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THE CHARTER . While ivc aro prepared to admit the anticipated benefits from . Keform and several- other chaugos , made by a reformed House of Commons , wo nevertheless def y any—the most enthusiastic theorist—to po ' int out one single benefit that Reform , or any other measure , has conferred upon the "working classes . " We arc aware , as trumpeted b y some ofthe middleclass organs , that it was ' the co-operation of
the working and the middle classes by which the Retbrm Bill was curried ; while the ar-mmeiits in favour of another co-operation are weak and unsupportable . Wc arc told that , while it is an admitted truth that all that might have been effected , by Reform has uot been accomplished , that , nevertheless , what is now promised by the caterers for workingclass support , is certain to be accomplished .
. To tliisargiroieiit we answer— -if nothing lias been accomplished by the great political measure which promised Peace , Retrenchment , and Reform , and which was intended as the political mcaiis fo the social _end—rwe , , say , if _* no benefit has resulted from that measure , beyond the transfer of power from old enemies to now oppressors , what benefitcanthe working * millions . anticipate-from '" any measure " , of which their voice does net constitute the _mainspring aud essential element ? " Three removes are as bad as onefire , " POOR RICHARD says ; and those several political moTes , which have taken place since the passing of the Reform Bill , have but established one set of taskmasters instead of another .
Is it necessary to furnish , or , if necessary , could Ave furnish , a stronger proof of the sincerity of the representatives of the middle classes in a reformed Parliament , than the fact that our taxation has increased under this reformed system , by over ten millions a-year , within this reforming period—the very parties who not only acquiesced in , but supported , this extravagance , now catering ' .. tor popular , support upon the pretext , not-of reducing expenditure below or even to the . standard of the old unre formed times , but merel y to reduce it to * the standard of 1335 , embracing the first three
years of Reform , and during which time these . rep resentatives of Financial Reform sanctioned and permitted this enormous increase ? But , if-wo required further proof that that Reform , transferred political power from the hands ofthe landlords tothose of the moneylords , we have only to refer to the Acts of the newest reformed . Parliament , and . from them we learn that acts were passed to suppress those very associations aud :- combinations by whose power-and influence the Reform Bill was carried : that the 43 rd of Elizabeth , which operated as a barrier to protect the poor fromthe stringent oppression of the rich , was
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so altered arid amended as to mate tho heretofore protected poor _vholly * _dependen t upon the rich ; arid that while the Financial Reformers , who op- posed the PEOPLE'S CHARTER— the only possible means of achieving _-vmad'ultei'ated liberty— complain , and i bitterly , o , x our enormous expenditure , as regards our naval , military , and governmental _establishuients , not a yoico is heard , liota murmur is uttered , against tho prodigious increase in poor rates . And why ? Because it constitutes . the fund which preserves 'that unwilling , idle , ; competitive reserve , upon
which depends-the profits of speculators upon the people's jealousy , rivalry , and competition . It was not a _TovyiHouse that sanctioned the Transportation of the Dorchester- Labourers ; it was not a Tory House that . squandered Twenty Millions of English Money upon Negro Emancipation : No ; it was a Whig-reformed House ; which now scoffs at-the bestowal of any poor pitiful dole to preserve the miserable existence of . the starving Irish . It was not a Tory House that passed the bloodiest Irish Coercion Bill , and substituted trial by ., courtmartial for trial by jury ; it was not a- Tory
House that took away the right of discussing the petitions of the people from twelve till three o ' clock every day ; it was not the Tory Government that enacted the most bloody laws against political offenders , and for the suppression of public opinion , upon the flimsy pretext of using the hour of calm for the purpose of developing the mind's progress iu enactments in harmony with that mind ; it was not a Tory Government that prosecuted the people ' s only organ , and the people ' s only leaders , with a virulence and abrutality unequalled in any country , in any age ; it was not a Tory Prime Minister who
recommended the administration of justice to destroy the people by " ruining them with expenses ; " it was not a Tory Government that used Ton Young , of the Home-office , as an instrument to excite the people to rebellion , and then hung and transported those people when their threatened rebellion had accomplished their own ends ; it was not a Whig Government that carried Emancipation ; it was not a Whig Government that carried Free Trade . But , on the contrary , during the
occupation of office b y the Whigs , for the over forty years' agitation for Reform , they wore the greatest tyrants ever in power . -During their administration the most bloody Coercion Bills were passed for Ireland , and to which the English people assented—or were supposed to assent—upon " the mockery , the delusion , aud the snare , '' that the Whigs required calm , and a legitimate developement of the popular mind , to achieve that change of which popular freedom was to liave been the result , and wliich they alone could legislate for .
We may be told that Whiggery is defunct ; that these professions were made in unreformed times—when legislation was confined to the aristocratic ranks : but if we are met bv such an argument , we refer to our statistical table of Reform legislation . Then we come to Free Trade , which was the great social benefit supposed to be foreshadowed in tho great political change , and we ask what benefit has resulted to the industrious classes from tliat measure ? while every individual belonging to those classes who have a monopoly of political power , whether they possess fixed incomes , or make thoir incomes by speculation in trade , have received au _enoi'mous benefit , because tho
reduction in the price of corn— -the staple produce of the nation—has reduced the price of their food , and reduced the price of every other article and commodity , without reducing their profits or fixed incomes , all of which the people have to produce . And now , with these not antiquated but recent professions and disappointments ' before us , shall wc again bo enlisted in-the ranks of that retrograde army , upon the flimsy pretext that another sectional Reform , another rung in the Reform ladder , is necessary to complete the Reform machinery ?
If an oft-decoived peoplo , whoso little store has been filched from them , in order to base capitalists' profits upon the people ' s destitution —we say of the same people—no , not tlie same now , thank Goi > !—for tliere is knowledge upon every passing breeze—but if THE PEOPLE of this progressive age allow themselves to be enlisted as recruits in this foraging party , we swear b y Heaven , that wc would rather stand alone , holding the old banner of the Charter , although wc may be the laughingstock and . target of all—even the people themselves—than surrender one bristle of the animal .
"'Tis true , and pity'tis , 'tis true , " that that progressive mind has no means of communicating its will to those who are bound to represent it ; and this fact is wc think irrefutably ' established by the following' circumstance : —A petition for tho Charter was forwarded to Lord Maiion from Hertford , tho borough he represents : hc returned the petition upon tlio plea that he did not acquiesce in its principles . Let us ask , then , if there is any danger to the privileged classes equal to that which withholds popular will from those called the people ' s representatives ?
Wo liave frequently declared that the ignorance of a people is the tyrant's best title to power , said that thc true developement of popular , knowledge is the sharpest arrow in the popular quiver . Our readers will understand that wc address them thus to meet the argument used by middle-class journals , for the purpose of convincing the people that the present middle-class movement is the veritable aud only moans , from tho success of whieh
the working classes can acquire their rights ; while , true to our text , and rivctted to our principles—strengthened by . conviction , and endeared by persecution—and after years of anxious and ' deliberative thought , wc tell them , that no measure save THEIR OWN CHARTER will achieve their own legitimate object , and that let them abandon that , or even an atom of it , to-morrow , and the feathers , everv one of thorn , of the reformed bird , will fly after it the next day .
" To be forewarned is to be forearmed , " and if thc people aro not forewarned the blame does not rest upon our . shoulders , but upon their own . Wo have pointed out tho several disappointments arising from past confidence in those classes who would now re-establish that confidence , upon the plea that they have done nothing HITHERTO , but that they arc prepared to do something NOW .. We , " too , arc prepared to do something—wc are prepared to
take the lion ' s share in that something , provided the people arc prepared to assist in aiding us iu the accomplishment of that something * ; but wo ' are not prepared to surrender our own principles for the adoption of minor ones , from which , even if accom plished , it is admitted that thc Charter should be the means , and , therefore , our motto is , as it ever has been , and ever shall be— . ' - " THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER AND
NO SURRENDER . "
THE LAND . Wo beg to call the attention of our readers to the letter of Miv O'Connor , which appears in our present number , and from its perusal the people—if they are not thoroughly blindwill discover that they have it in their own power , not by sacrifices or the denial of comforts , ' but by the abstinence from brutality and dissipation , to accomplish real freedom for thoir order in less than one year from the * present time ; and one of the circumstan « es which strikes us as thc most marvellous and inconsistent is , that parties , who denounce Mr . O'Connor ' s plan for establishing , real
" FREEDOM FOR THE MILLIONS , " should attempt to * establish their freedom upon the same principles , but within narrower more prescribed , \ legs defensible limits .
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wide surface of the coun _try-that her _^ dehcien in that mechanical machinery ieqn _^^ for the formation , but for the 6 oncenka ion , of opinion-while his enemies are . m P ° _~***" ,. _sion of an easily recruited staff in each district . The small capitalists and shop keepers , stm anxious to preserve their social and conventional acquaintance and alliance with the professed representatives of middle-class mind , become enthusiastic in a p lan which is calculated to confer additional political ppyror _.-apou their order , while their antagonism to Mr . O'CoxXnor ' s Plan is based upon the presumption that the ach ievement of power by the many , would destroy t he exclusive privileges _-.
of the few . , , ,. _, For ourselves ; we care but little whether Mr . 0-Co-ViVOR '¦ or his opponents . are the instruments by which the valuo of free labour , applied to the cultivation of our national resources , is developed ; while we cannot too strongly or indignantly express our reprobation and censure of those who would develope the value of dependent labour , as illustrated in their own plan , while they decry t he value of independent labour , as developed m Mr . O'Connor ' s Plan . However , he has this week most distinctly pourtrayed the value of Land , as a free labour field , and as the most secure and profitable Savings Bank for parties possessing a little capital and not inclined to agricultural pursuits . ; . ' - - \
The great difference between tho projectors of those respective plans , is ; Firstly *—That the one gives real freedom to the owner , and the other imposes trammels upon tho occupant ; as , according to Mr . O'Connor ' s Plan , tho occupant of any amount ofiand becomes its freepossessor ; while , bythe other plan , the occupant who may have paid a portion , becomes depen dent on the mortgagee who holds his conveyance , until the stipulated amount is paid in full , and who is , therefore , a serf in his hands . „
-The next , and perhaps the greatest difference , is , that one p lan is conducted by many solicitors , none of whom have the slightest interest in its success beyond the amount of money thoy can crib from the poor and defenceless client ; while , in the other case , there is no need for the interference of any solicitor . Indeed , we may carry the comparison further , and observe , that while one plan is confessedly established for the purpose of creating voters , to secure the political pre-eminence of a particular class , the other plan is established for the purpose of
securing political equality for a majority ofthe people . ¦ Itis strange—nay , it is pitiful—tliat men can bo so blind and obtuse as to believe that they can support themselves , wives , and families , upon two acres of Land , purchased by one company— -a company with enormous legal expenses ; while they are informed that a man becomes a pauper upon four acres of better land , with neither rent nor purchase increased by legal or other expenses , but , on the contrary , to tlie _furtlicraiico of which the projector devotes his unpaid service . It is a startling fact , as announced iu
the document to which we refer , but yet it is an irrefutable one , that the working classes of this country may possess themselves of a majority of county representation by the investment of thi'cc-quarfcors of a million of money in the most secure and profitable speculation , or , rather , undertaking . We believe that we uudor-ratc the amount of money expended upon the Convention of 1839 when we put it down at GO , 000 / . ; and that sum , lavished upon " poor gentlemen , " drunkards , speculators in credulity , and vagabondswould have secured the balance of
power m two English counties , leaving thc subscribers a large per centage for their money , instead of lavishin g it upon idle rascals . Wo have frequently called the attention of our readers to the fact , that if they possessed-political power to-morrow , the fair application of the Land to the employment and support of-the people would be the social end ; aud Mr . O'Connor very clearly proves , in his Letter of this week , that this social power , very limitedly developed , may be the political means of establishing tho full-length social benefit .
But as our support of thc working classes is based upon love of justice , affection for their order , and thc interest of all mankind , and as we have not , and never shall , close our ears against knowledge , from whatever quarter it may como , we would ask this simple question : How is it possible for a machinery-employed people , requiring eight millions a year to sustain the paupers of their class , to ' prevent that griping and desolating competition in the Labour market by any other possible means than opening * a channel wide enough to give profitable employment , not only to the existing population , but to double its amount ?
Now , when that question is satisfactorily answered , and when it is proved to us tliat any other field but tbe Laud is sufficientl y wide to employ all profitably , and do away with unprofitable competition , wc would most cheerfully abandon the Laud Plan , and adopt that which we could recognise as its real substitute . If wc required stronger proof than we have hitherto published , ofthe means resorted to by those million liberty professors to destroy the Land Company , could we give a better illustration than the two following letters furnishthe one supplying thc character , and the other thc policy , of Mr . J 3 ,, of Nottingham , referred to in Mr . _O'CoxzorSs letter ofhst week ? Mr . Wheeler says : —
Dn . ui Sir , —I see . your notice in tlie - Star of some " Nottingham Booby . " I did not sec Mm when here—in •" act such _fiillows _sclil-im will on me . I Imvc not soon a Review or I _shou'd probably answer it ; but in case von sire him n _"bcllnwsing , " Igiveypu this little information _, llisiiaine is _Brooksbank . When hero he was drinking with Jem llrown , a country chap , that used to work on the estate ho worked for me the first week I came here , lie told me about this man _tre-iliu-x him . and showed me a letter lie hue ! liiul irom him since this article was in the Review ( for in thc letter he enclosed the slip from thc Review ) . The " sentimental traveller" commences his letter thus : — "Dear J cm , —You aro : i good brick . " lie then . refers to
their drinking bout whilst here , and asks * Jem" to semi him word about the poor deluded people here and if ho had hoard any more about O'Connor ' s doings . "Jem " asked mc to answer it for hiin , and if 1 had seen the article , I wouldlmvc sent him some " startling disclosures •" but" "Jem" had lost the slip from the . Review , anil * i knew nothing * about the affair , so I believe . 'Mem" mnnuircil to scrawl him hn answer himself . "Jem" said , as loii" - as he continued to treat him , lie would tell him as _, _'ood _a ' ia ' e as he could . I could not see llrown to-day , or 1 would have sent you tho letter , and I _thought you mi-slit be _--ivm- _* - liim a poke this week . 'M y brother lms written to NoUiii " * liainfoi ' _jiiJfiiikiii . * routs truly , ° t , c _„ ¦ " .,. '¦ ¦ T » ° s- _M- Wheel * - **! . T > G _*!**"* 11 i » * r _sscZiliOH ,
* i . _b—Ivxciise this scrawl , as I am very _sleepv _, and keep Thl _^^ wT ¦ " d ° _*» _^ onJkd see us \ Now then , so much for Wheeler ' s " startling disclosures ;" . and now for the ' , disclosures ot a _Nottingham man , who appears to have some little knowled ge of this new ' -Whistler " and we think , in the words of this romantic scribbler , we miw say of those hawks— « SUM 'NUM , ARE WOES NUll SUM 'NUM " _. i _^ _i _^ T *?' 0 " _^ _"g _tam' character of the Kottmgbamboob y , '' aSpropcrlychl . istcne ( 1 by Mr . Wiieeleii : ¦ — * Dw a _llimn ' .- The fellow signing ln _- m , _„* B „ in tIie Nottingham Review is ari hid _Wv , ;" i _vi , .-.. ' » _Bi-ooksbank . Ho lm : _^ he tVtervir _f ' ° tho _-naT uf .. s . i _r _...-...... . "WI- _« ' ¦ _'ei-i'tliiuir l > v . turnsand
_no-, _ , T _^ himi 5 » hth _^ v , l l _^ _fcried-to bo a llepuhlican . if 5 iS J _^ _W-toa _Ofc words of nyron in his " Vision " -He bin r ' _-tl " 1 " l , l _' a 5 se _<* * _neftkMo ' ' He had written i „ favour of all Kings whatever ¦ AM' _^ y ntte » f _« r Wepublies . tar and wide _? ' When I _fiilf _"Wrt'thcni bitterer than ever . " in Kottta -1 . im ? _- mo " . ccd the movement for the Charter J _^ ed we _^ saymore of the Land Company SPrf 11 G ' ' f 11 V _WW _^^ _tions ail _ctaafiiU y received , _audas cheerfull y published , _» _V too _Vrcsaot tho _wQiayi _•& conclusion , we
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commend tbe letter of Mi-. O'CONNOR tothe attentive perusal of our readers .
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PARLIAME NTARY _UBVIBW . Tlio state of _affivirsin Canada has given visa to animated debates in both Houses of larliament . In tlio Commons , the talk lasted two nights , the promised Budget , bemg set aside on one of them for thc purpose of finishin * it—that is nominally—because the postponement of the Annual Financial Statement , irom Friday ,-15 th , to Friday , 22 nd , was evidently not required' by the Canadian debate * Sir _WooB
It is more probable , that CuARLES could not get ready sooner . In the House ot Lords , tho question was dismissed in one night by means of sitting till between two and three o'clock on a Midsummer morning , I _" . ""* Lower House , Ministers had a majority oi Hi—in the Peers , there was a majority against them of nine present , and , in order to neutralise it , they were compelled to have recourse to proxies ,-by means of which they ultimately escaped defeat by the narrow majority of three . * The repeated occurrence of such divisions in the House of Lords , proves that the Whigs are by no means strong in that branch- of the Legislature .
The policy of the Ministry which has thus triumphed , was , however , that to wliich every liberal-minded man must give his adhesion . The question resolved itself into a very narrow compass . It was simply whether , having granted to our North American provinces a local Parliament , and the full power of managing their own local affairs , the Imperial Government was to step in and override the decisions of that Parliament . Lord
J . _ItusSErx and his colleagues decided against such au unjust . and unconstitutional interference with the Canadian Legislature , and declared that the principle of responsible Government should be carried out in good faith , and by such a course have entitled themselves to thc approbation of all who desire to see countries governed on just principles and by popular institutions , instead of the whims , caprices , and * selfish views of a small dominant and exclusive class . The facts of the case are briefly these : In 1337 and 1838 , there was a rebellion in Canada , which was ,
in fact , a rising of the French population of Lower Canada and the liberal British population in both provinces , against the tyrannical and monopolising policy ofa small clique of Colonial Tories , who ruled Canada with a . high hand , and in the genuine spirit of rampant old Toryism . When the rebellion was suppressed , an Act was passed giving compensation for losses sustained by inhabitants in Upper Canada during the struggle , and such compensation was duly made under the provisions of the Act . The Tory party , who remained in power for sometime after , admitted that the same principle ought to be extended to Lower Canada , and that
compensation should be granted there also to all persons who had sustained losses , and not having been convicted of taking an active part in the rebellion . It appears , however , that no steps were taken to give practical effect to this declaration by them . In thc meantime , tho policy of Lord Dunn am aud of Lord Sydenham , was gradually carried out in tho provinces . There was a larger infusion of the popular will in tlie election of ths Colonial Parliament , and the natural consequence was , that it became a truer reflex of the popular feeling . The Tories , from being tho majority under the
old close , monopolising system , became the minority . The _Goveukoh-Gexekal was obliged to select his Ministers from that party whicli hold the ascendancy in the Legislature , and thus it happened that men , whoso names some few years ago were spoken of as being cither sympathisers with tlie rebels , or ns having actually becu among their number , arc now occupying high office in Canada . Of course such a turning ofthe tables as this could not be very palatable to the Tories , who had been accustomed to have everything their own way . _, J 3 _ut it was their fate , and tliey had no hel p for it , except to lay h y and watch for some act of the Parliament and Ministers , which would give them an excuse for raising
an outcry , and attempting a coup d ' etat to regain possession of power . Thc proposal of a Compensation Bill for Lower Canada seemed to afford them that handle , and they eagerly availed themselves of it . Overlooking the fact that they themselves , when iii office , had admitted tho justice of such a measure , they raised a storm of misrepresentation , and a howl of indignation at the proposal , when made by . their opponents . They described it as being directly intended to remunerate rebels , though the Ministry in proposing , Parliament'in ' passing it , and Lord Elgin , the Governor-General , in g iving his assent to it , explicitly and repeatedly declared , that no such intention was entertained . In the midst
ot great excitement the Bill was carried by a large majority , and at last the loyal Tories—who arc such orderly , peaceable , well-condiicted people , when they are feed for being so , and have tlie loaves and fishes of office at - their disposal — broke out into open riot and outrage on the occasion of tho assent of tlio _GovEiixon-GExisiiAr , being : given to tho Bill .- Tliey sot fire to the Parliament House , and burnt it , with its Library and Offices , to . thc ground , and Lord Kloix himself was assaulted and insulted so tliat he _tliouslit it prudent to-retire from the city of Montrealwhile thoan <* _-rv
, and infuriated passions of these soi-disont " _loyafi _*? ts _Jn _- _"c ! lt xMv hc-ght . They tin-eaten now , if the Bill is not vetoed by the Imperial Government , that tliey will throw themselves into tho arms of the _Lmteu States . Let ihcm do-so . ¦ Ifc will be _^ jiiinpuuj * out of the frying-pan into tlio lire . " 1 hey will hnd even less chance of _reiraiiiins * that predominancy and exclusive power—the deprivation of which lias maddened felicm—under the Republican Institutions of the Federal Union , than thoy have under tho Constitution of Canada . Po * - our own part , we entertain the belief that ultimate annexation to tlio States is certain to be the case , aud the interests of the world- of humauitv will he
promoted b y it ; but wo would rather see thatconic when it may-take place in a calm , rational and _diRiiified maimer , and with a due appreciation ot the solemn and important step , than sec in ifc merely tlie revengeful whim of a spiteful and disappointed clique , because thev have been _pi'ove _** tod irom longer domineering over their fellow colonists . . " _aspect * to the debates on this question , whicli have ended in sustaining . the principle of responsible government , tliey were among the _mosfinterosti-i «• ot tho & CS 81011 . It . is curious to mark tho conduct « _SS ( 8 _* i ? _! UHtei " 1 ) 1 , csonfc _civc-iuiistancos . _; ' _billing to strike , but yet afraid to wound ; " ] on _£ nig tor pl _* ice , aii ( l yet ; not seeing anv -imm « flin ?»
chance ot _havw- that longing gratificd-they aro _compelled to make a- show of ¦ Parlmm _* rata _**" 7 activity , _, and to bring ftrnrard motions which end in . no thing more than keeping _theinsclvcs before tho public . Ihat wc believe is the onlv thin * real above them . Mr . _Gladstone , - in introducing _& 0 question « chvoreil himself of a speech of nearly . _thrSfi dura ion and concluded it without _makmq any , no tion . liis speech was mere sec-saw and hair-split- ' ting , and he did not want to-pusli the . _^ _Yhigs into a corner ifho could help ifc ; biit the _Protectionist sect tion were not satisfied with this sham opposition , and , thorciore , under Mr . _IIbubiks , they mkio a S fag-lit on the question and were beaten ! as we ha _^ e said by a _majonty of 141 . Sir U _. _Partook * 0 c _5-^ " ? . _Pn m ks P _* and solemn adhesion _tS Sp iSlble and
he i _^ _uJr ° _; _SS ?™™« it _reprcscntaa sin . ut rap over the knuckles to his quondam _Goloma Secretary .- .. _Su-. Romm _dow'hot w _& place and- can afford to do without it ; but _t-hSX no he ease with his supporters . In the Ilouse of uf' Jhe opposition to popular _g-overnmon fc was ' ou by that eccentric apostate Lord Brougham _whft now seems quite at home among " niy noble friends" on the Tory benches , and who seems to be ever on the eager look-out to do any divtv iob that he imagines will give them pleasure . His Lordship however , _towardn the conclusion of his speech told some home truths respecting the views of the
Americans as to * ree Trade and Protection , which we recommend tothe careful perusal of our readers The who o coiitrpvcrsj ' _. conncctcd . _witli this Bill , is now settled as tar as the British Legislature s Jon ! uo an act of justice too long delayed—it will ii , A fiTVo _S _° COlm f _^ _tPteWtafidtlio MiS tyaie m earnest in maintaining tho _pi-wcidR local _sc lf . govcrii . ne » t , as applied _^ thci _? cS ! bu
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 23, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_23061849/page/4/
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