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      To Australia The Canadas August 26, 1848...

      August 26 , 1848 . _tHS NORTHERN STAR . I ... " ™ i _^ n _«^^ _» _inB » aMai » « _M —— _m—oa——»— _^ _aMj 1 _MM--- ____

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      WEEP ON , WEEP ON . ST TBOXlg KOO £% Weep on , weep en , your hear is past ; Tonr _dreami of pride are o ' er : _^ he fatal chain Is raund jroa east , And yon are sen no more ! In vain , the hero ' s heart hath Hed ; Tbe _sage ' s tongue hath _wara'd in vaiu : — Ob , Fratdom ! once thy flame hath fled , It never lights again ! _Ty " _c £ p on—perhaps in after days They'll learn to love jour Barae ; " And many a dead may w _* k » in praise , Th 3 t l .-ng hath _slrpt in blame t And when they tread the _ru ' . u'd isle , Where rest , at length , the lord and slave , They'll wondering ask bow hands it _vils

      Conld conquer hearts so brave ? _< Tws * fate , 'they'll say , ' a wayward _fste Tour web of _diicord wore ; * Aad while your tyrants jsin'd in bate , ' You _nsrer jo n'd in love ! * Bat hearts fell off , that _osght to twine , « And msn profanea what God had given , * Till some _tvera heard io cnrse tb _« shrine , 4 _'VTbers others knelt to _hiaven !'

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      THE LIGHT IN THE WINDOW . _BT _CH & BLE 3 HAC 5 AT , Late or early home _returning , In the starlight or the rain , I betel ? that lonely candle , Shining from his window p 3 ae . Ev _^ r _s ' _sr his tattered cur : ain , _Nigbily _looklt- £ , I eonld scan , Ay _IcdiziBg , _Wxising—writlrjg _, Tbep . ltfi ; uT < : of a man ; _S'ill discern behind bim fall The 53133 shadow < a the wall *

      Far _bsjond the murky midnight , By dim burning of my oil , _Filling ay his rapid leaflets , I have watched him it Ids toll ; Wafcbed his broad and seamy forehead , Watched hU white industrious hand , Ever _passing , And _repassing ; _VTatca-et end strove to nadsrstand _Wk-at _impslled it—gold , or fame , — Bread , or bubble of a name .

      Oft I've a = ke <' , debating vain _' y la the silence of my _rsind , What tue services hs rendered To his conatry or his kind ; _Whe'h _^ r tones _e-f ancient music , Or tho 60 _ind of mod-. _rn gong , Wisdom holy _. Humours lowly , Sermon , _esssy , ncvel , £ ong , Or philosophy sublime Pilled tbe measure of nig time .

      Of the mighty world of Londea He was portion unto me , Portion of my life ' s _experience , Fused Into my memory . Twilight saw him at his folios , _Morniag saw his _fisgen ran , Lab _uringever , Wearying ntver , Of the ta « k he had begun ; Placid and content he seemed , _Likt a man that toiled and dreamed

      No one sought him , S 9 ona knew Mm , _Undistinguished was bis name ; NcTer kad his praise been uttered By ths oracles of fame . Scanty _fsre and d-rcent raiment , Hamb ' . e _lodging and a fire—These ha sought for , _Thtse he wrought for _. And he gained his meek desire ; Teaching men by written word—Ciinging to a hope deferred . So he lived . At last I _miei ? d him ; Still might _evening twilight fall , Bat no taper lit hi 3 latiice— - _Lst no _shadow on his

      wallla the winter ot his seasons , In the nidnhrbt of his Say , 'ilid bis writing , And inditing , Deatcha-. h _bsskoned him away , Ere the sentence be h 3 & p ' . _anntd Found _cospletion at his hand . Bat tbi 3 man so old and _stmeless Left behind him products large , Schemes cf progress undeveloped , _TrVorthy of a na ' . ion ' s charge ; Noble fancies uncompleted _. Germs ot _beauty immature _^ , Only _nreaing _. _Kindly feeding , To _hsve _flourishsd and endured ; Meet _reward in golden store To have lived fcr evermere .

      Who shall tell what _tcherses _msjestie Pe- ish in the active brain ? Whit _humanity is robbed of , _Xe ' tr to be restored again ! What _ws lose , _beesnse we honour Overmaeh the mighty _dssd , And dispirit Liviog _mtrit _, _Hespinir scorn npon its _hetd ! Or perchance , when kinder grown , _Leaving it to die—alone ?

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      Emigration And Emigration Schemers By ' ...

      EMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION SCHEMERS By ' Stick'ast . ' London : A . Dyson , 5 , Paul ' salley , Paternoster-row . We quite agree with * Stickfast , ' that it would be 1 really no _j gke for the working men of England to be enticed away from their country , and to travel some thousands of miles towards the 'far west , '—to see what ihey never shall see—to eat what never Shall pass their lips—to be clothed with what never shall cover their backs—and to live in houses which never will be built . ' And we also agree with our wide-awake friend that it is too bad for reformersay , « social reformers ( - _)—*<> be seen linking themselves with _heartless aristocrats in working the

      dodge of emigration . We should like the celebrated ' social' regenerator who officiates as secretary to the 'Great Canadian Land and Railway Investment Association . ' to enlig hten us as to the grounds on which he makes the amazing assertion , that the ¦ welfare ef the working classes has long been ' a matter of anxious interest with the government , who have repeatedly expressed a desire to aid all rational schemes of relief to the utmost of their power . ' We should like him also to explain his confidence in the p hilanthropy of certain of his aristocratic patrons , to wit : the Duke of Argyle , the Marquis of Blandford , the Earl of Harrowby , & c , together with certain untitled , but not the less aristocratic gentry , who attended the late meeting at the London

      Mechanics Institution , and delivered their sympathetic outpourings on the sufferings of the working classes and the advantages of emigration . We should be g lad if the same _" gentleman would also explain bow he reconciles with his long-avowed principles , his hostility to the sensible amendment moved but not carried at the said meeting , ' That the waste lands in tbis country should be applied to tbe purposes of colonisation . ' The mover of tbe amendment comp lained that tbe lands in tbis country had got into the hands of too small a number of individuals , and that they were applied to the purposes of parks and hunting grounds . He spoke ' the truth without mystery , mixture of error , or f ? ar of man , ' notwithstanding which , that truth had not the support of the ' social' secretarv to the ' Great Canadians . '

      The'Great Canadians' modestly ask for a capital of £ 2 . 000 , 000 in four hundred thousand shares , of £ 5 each , for the purchase of government lands , and for investment in public works in British North America . The scheme includes a railway from Halifax to Quebec , sir hundred miles long . Down with your dust , boys ; the first instalment 10 s , with 6 d for ' preliminary expenses . ' Now ' s your time , if within twelvemonths you are not all 'railway kings' the fault wiil be your own ; blame not tbe ' Great Canadians . '

      We must r fer the reader to the pamphlet under notice for a show-up of this scheme . It would be unfair to tbe author to quote the entire dissection of the'Great _Canadians" prospectus , and we don't ble to do things by helves ; we will , therefore , quote a _paragraph or two devoted to an examination of the philanthropic motives of

      THE _AHloTOCSATIC PATBOKS OF ZM 1 GBATIOH . _Ith-113 lt : _j _sT _.-ngcibaniruo _. _' . hatt ' _mBeatisiouspromourt cf . _m- ' _grat-r-n sre _. _lareeiy , our nobles , our aria totrais , sn ur mffionaires ; thc : e are _tbs men at wora to _g-: t the poorer cUss s < U ' . cf the land , which , while it g * rg _.-s _thtrm _wi-. h _wctth , they profess cannot _euppoit h _turning _j ,.. 0 ! inii , _- . n . L . ok , reader , at one instanc _tf'Us . L . t i y , tbe D _; ko of Athol _ws 3 _announced te . _t ~ _* _ki the ci ; _z \ r ? . * s . pub : c _meeting fjr tbe promotio a of _tta _tipitrisiiing _ty-t .-m . WIjo and what ii tbis Cuke of A : b _,-1 ? U _^ i _; a mighty _L-iirJ of _CMed-. _mta , and he lt is _* huhs 5 hero'ucro : _ciicg on man ' s rig Ut of way , _topping , t _t . _paSit 3 t 0 the Highlands , and _driving " _"• _fti' _-ffais _estites . and _tureing ttoie landa Into deer * alk _§ aad gams _prcecrves ! _Fellow-men , whs can won-« r to tee . tbr Cuke ci Athol ia the chair of an emigra _kW _ffieeting ! Eia brother man may go , nay , he Ernst

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      go , to Australia , or the Canadas , or New Brunswick , _sr to the Styx ; while hi * lordship ' s deer and rabbits , the one shall stalk over the boundless park , and the other eat the bread of man , in . poor _impoverished Britain which is unable to _sapport man _up-jn its surface ! Do _&' _t forget that it is the Dake of Athol who promotes emigration . Bat L id _Palmerston also it an _emigralionlBt , —not by word , but in deed and of a truth . Ha has cleared his _ettates , and sent shiploads off . Yo who may be t » mpt- 4 by a _sctem- _- _) now _before the public , marie well , from facta we are about to adduco from Parliamentary document ? , what you may expect to esperlenoa when you get comfortably settled in _Naw Brunswick . Lord P & _lmernton _, and Sir Robert Gore B _. othe , Bart ., in their pity and in tbe _exuberance of their _benerolencp , 8 ? nt out a _va _* t namber of _emigrcntB to New Brunswick , from their _Iri'h estates . Very kind , was it net ? But stop ! Read the following : — eo . to _Anntrftlia . or tha _ftanorlno nr H . » B l

      'Extract of Resolutions _pas ? e _3 by the _Cnmmon Council of the Ci _' y of St John , ( New Brunswick ) , on the 3 rd _S-pt ? mber . 1817 . ' Re 6 olv d , —Tt ? _at the _Biurd cannot but view with serious _apprehension and alarm ihe _gtrievoua burdens to _whicb the inhabitants cf this city and in its vicinity bave became _futj ct ly reason of ih _; large influx of pauper It ish _emigrants _during _thPseBfcn . That in consequence ot ths _deDili'atfd and broken _t ' _osn stato in which ni ? nj of tbem embarked in tha _mother country , nnd the dla ease tngend . re _> _l thereby during tbe v : iyag _» , hundreds , not only in the passage , but also on thrir arrival here , _havt > fallen victims to fever of a most infection * _ani malignant _de'criptlon , whiie tbe _alnifbouse , _bor-pital , and other buildings _ars crowded _sith _tnounandg , in a moat . _lebilitated state , very _msny ef _» bom no human skill can

      p . _; _sibly save . That this board anticipate a frightful incrtase of the _burdtna _flow existing In tbe _commuaity duriB _f the rapidly approaching winter , and they feil that fuch calls , to prevent even tbe horrors of _starvetion , must inevitably _r-e made upon tha _pe- " > pla as cannot be endured without great privation . * # * # That the _beartlefs ? _ysteo pnrsu _< d ty somu of tbe _Irish landlord * , in » bippiog entire shiploads of paupers from _tV ; eir respective estates fcr tbe purpose of relieving thimselv-s from their undoubted aad legitimate liability of _providing the riquUite support , and thereby placing their own burthens oa _tie people of this province , calls _lou"ly for a _remen'trance to tho Homo Government sga ' . nst a rrpetitlon ofsnch unheard of practices , and also for ieg ! 3 laiive ae :: en io _prevent such proi : ee _31 ag 3 in future . '

      The jurors of the Midland Districtof Canada , on their oath , Oct . 2 1817 , thus present ¦ — This Jury are at a lo _? _a to findlasguage sufficiently _s'rong to _express thfir d ; pr « c » tton of the _xoral _turpitade _ofleaoiigmen and _landiordi who havo advised , _noouraged , and assivted to leava their native h : me , the kind sympathy of iriendfl , and even their best ehanca of _prolrngcd existence , eech " _arpe bodies of their deetitutscountrymen , many of _frem too old to work for their living , others exhausted by famine and _slcknesc , and some of them even blind and cripples , who , _cisgregiteri into c : ense masses on hoard ship , without _wbeiesoaae foed and fresh tir . bave generated such _contagiouB disease as usually arcompanics such complication of misery , and without sny refererce to the evtl consequences _reMiltins to ths inhabitants of this province . This conduct Is most _ctu-1 to the _immigrsats _tfeemaelvcs , rendtrln _? more bitter the last sorrows of a shortened _lifa , by casting them out from their native country to die in a distant Und . '

      New , the facts _brought to light here may teach us _sime i ; strcctive lessons . They ehow that a man mai profess on n public platform all the philanthropy of a Howard , while in practice he is nothing but an exporter of disease and pauperism , for anybody but himself to _enro and relieve . Aad it may tell to those who may b ? cherishing ia the _' r minds the idta of g _* ing to far off lands to reap there the reward of industry aDd _enterprise , _thst it is at the rtek of having , a : anytime _an-1 without notice , sbip . loads of _dieeass and pe » Bry cast upon their re « oure : _s , ot tho j . l _-njura of any Lord

      _Pslm . T _' tonor Du _^ e Athol . Oaly conceive—after _tSat you shall have clear , d your r ' _cr-. st land , built jour h > use _rsadered the soil pr . daciive , got comforts around yen , and just settled down with some prospect of success ami happ * . ne _? 3 , jast c _= _ncrive of a great _nunstir _et _»^ rant ship from _Irelani _discbarglrg its cargo of _wretcfefdnese upon your newly productive land , cot only to est the bread ( to them ) of _idleness , and to } oa of mEny toilsome days nnd night watches ; but also to _engender disease _anrngyoa , _asd _tobdasintoyosr v . list happy _hsmts _thepisnlenca _ihitwalketh in darkness .

      But it is not only the poor ; hat the rich are seeking to drive oat of the land . Of late ; , ears , and to a great extent , bs the _caeapnesi and dilution ot the issues from the pres * , working men hava become intelligent and thinking men . The working mm now wants to know w ! . y _, when th ' . u S 8 _U-js are tqaandered for the _luxuries of the great , the producing _chsEes can hardly get food to eat , raiment to put on , cr shelter to cover them _fro-n the rude blast , the piercing cold , or the violent _stiirm ; an « he _demhnds , ' Is this doing as you would bo done by ? Is this as Christ wouM _htva it ?'—and be remembers that the Bible says , ' L = t Ged ba true and every man a liar , '—aad then , to the chagrin of those Pharisees who Bra godless and

      loulles _? , he goes into tbe highways and hedges , and preaches _Cfcrist ' s own _gospel , telling the people that all men are brethren , that they should do to _others as they would _£ _> o done by ; and the wealth-hoarders , and the landlord * , and the game-lords take _fright—tbey can no Ion ; - ~ r revel because the _mssEea aro ignorant and unthinking ; if tbsy can in _sorao measure g ? g tho lips , tbey C 3 nnot annihilate mind—man will think , he does tbink , and he must fpeak , and their _only alternative is , at least , to take the mind a' jcay from too _closa a proxi inity to their hoards of ill-getten wealth—and thus we find the Dake of Athol , and the Dake of Argyle , and tie Eirl Harrowby , figuring at meetings to advise the people to _emigrate .

      We have not room for further quotations , but we earnestly recommend this pamphlet to our readers . Let us add that were we determined to emigrate , it would not be to any British possession . The ' system ' which so heavil y curses the masses here , is in course of growth in every colony owning the British flag ; and a few generations more will serve to bring that system to its full perfection from Canada to Australia . A pleasant prospect for those who have any regard for the happiness of their descendants J Even if their own happiness is the one consideration with persons intending to emigrate , they are not likel y to _at'ain their object by pitching their tents on land already monopolised by English aristocrats , and in countries subject to the classes who have made of England a pauper rarren , and of Ireland a charnel house-

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      Tracts . —Political , _Philosojrftkal and Moral . By R . D . Owen and Frances Wright . London : j . Watson _. _S , Queen ' s Head-passage _. _Paternoster-row . We do not profess unqualified admiration oi Mr Robert Dale Owen . His blood and thunder speech on tbe Oregon question , and his refusal to identif y himself with the Agrarian Reformers of the United States , testify to a change in his ' moral man , ' not at all to the advantage of the cause of progress . We do not insinuate apostacy , but we deplore the death of enthusiasm . Such is life !

      _W ith regard also to Frances Wright , it is very evident that to a certain extent a change has come over the spirit of her dreams But shutting our eyes to the present , and not caring to anticipate the future , we are content with the past . These tracts were written years ago , and are to be judged on their own merits , not on the present opinions and views of their authors . In this list there are ' Fables by Frances Wri ght , ' of which—we must ungallantly confess—we have not a high opinion . ' Neurology '—an account of some experiments in cerebral p hysiology , by Dr Buchauan of Louisville , communicated by R . D . Owen . ' An Address on the influence of the Clerical Profession . ' This tract is _alreaely widely known , and as widely admired . It is one of the very best exposures of priestcraft ever penned , and contains passages of unsurpassed eloquence . Frora an article appended to this tract , we quote the following : —

      TEETH AND EBBOE . There are , besides tha great test of consutency _, other ttBts c f truth and error . Truth can stand abme ; _thu nqjir sm . t that men _thouid bolster her up _jBbe needs ne prop to preveut her falling _; she is willing to be seen f nd _oxaiuiued ; nor i 3 it _necessary for bur , tn erder to main _, tain her _tlknity among ber votaries , to retira , like tome eastern _tyrsnt in bis _paipca of state , behind the aocieut _bulwark of _1-gitimacy _, or in the time worn stronghold ef orthodoxy . Tbe vulgar exiom _regaui Dg the influence of _far / . iiia . ity , may a \ p ' y to tbe great m _^ oi this world but t > Truth it applies not ; the moro familiar we are sith ber , the less _likiiy ore we to cm-ana fir neglect h _; r . Truth is a p ' ain republican , who trusts forrcsncci an' power to the influence of _rrr o _» n staple character ; strong ia its _unprsScn ling excellence , unaided by the pomp of _t- ' _rcuccstancc or tbe dszxle of ceremony .

      But Error is a true _aristecrat—a despot 6 but up in _hisnv . _fey f : rtre 3 ? , surrounded hy outworks = nd _d-f . ndei by reioubt _?—aa _^ ibicg to bs _npproacrnd—fearing to ho , e ; . _Unonr . —! o- ];' . p . _3 for _Lia dreaded sway to lbs innuence of rr . _jsttrious _dignity , and uninvaded seclusion . _II- ! _declares it to bo a crime to enter his presence ur . le *< It b 9 on bended kne ; _-s and with _submissive heart . H " t « su v his _couitnauds to be obeyed , while Truth puM ' she _* herp _^ eo p _~ s te be _examined . Ha is haughty _cs ; into-Kraut ; , npstient of in ' ruiion , & nd _; ifrtid of _dtecuscbn ; she i « m ; : d and _courteous , _tolarant of the opinions of otherr , n r ev : r violent in _support _ofbtr own . univer

      _Thui it happens that we hrar of opinions so - sally admitted that it i _* denned _nnaecesssry to provj tbcru r . ition « l _, and cf doctrines do Sicrcd tbat lt _^ , im p iou _^ _s to deuBt them . Oa ths other _ban-J wo Bee n & n i'f _stien _^ , _mathema-ici _^ s , prnpiologijts , astronomers , _cbc-aU'S statirg tr e ! r _opiuioti 3 witbout _dogmatism . _Rnfl _het-rin ; ifcein _questioned witbout acrimony . Nom _»* hein . tci _' n _i-ver lmp . ai'iK-d th 9 _sceptic who phou'd deny _ehat in a right-angUd triangle the _tqaare of tbe hypothen u ; e is _tqaal to the _tquare of tbe other two sides ; he Is so thoroughly convinced cf the truth of this preposition , that _increiulliy provokes a smile , not an anathema : and if yua speak to him of persecuting tbo _iarHel _,

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      an ! vindicating the offenJed Causa of truth end _matbetaattos , yom will excite his astonishment and bis pityas tonishment , at the _supposition tbat there is not in _bifl science evidence sufficient to establish its t'Uth without _extraneous support—and pity , for the Ignorance that would produce conviction by force . _Mbh are apt to forget _whrra human power ends . Ono man is no more able to regulate the _opinlsns and doctrines of another , than to reguUte the weather . Public opinion may say , it is true , « Thus Shalt thou believe ;' but will belief ari . e at the command ? Legislators and _goveraors may issue their commands , and may fix the penalties of nonconformity , but the extent of their power is but to creato h risy __ _.... .

      ypoc , In the tract entitled an' Address on Free Inquiry , ' Mr Owen puts forth all his extraordinary powers of argument and eloquence in defence of the great natural ri ghts of free thought and free speech . In reply to the assertion that freedom of thought and speech is now permitted , Mr Owen exhibits the operation and results of

      HODEBK rEBSECOTION , Will you _roicind me thatfrcidora Of thought and speech is permitted in iheee latter days ? To a certain extent It is , Tho _d'tstnter from established creeds speaks not now with his lifa in hia hand . Honesty la no l . ngor a capital off . _'nca . A man may bo a hi ratio , yot he _suffered to llvi- ; he day even publicly _discloia his heresy and be allowed to survive the _dieoloourc . This is something ; ay , it is much ; to tho independent and tho fearless it is s costly heritage ; a privilege tbat has at laat been purchased for mankind by tbo _mwtjrdom nf the bost and ths boldest of all former generatloaB . But it is not everything , A man has many things to lose besides his life ; ho haB his popularity , his fair fame , his livoiibooi , To many these are _griivaus forfeitures —with all they we ' gh something ; and popularity , fair fame , a _livelihood , are , at this day , the common forfeitura for honest heresy _.

      I say for ftoriMC _btresy : a man may be a _sceptio Bnd welcome , it be will but wear a fashionable cloak over hlJ scepticism . His heterodoxy may bo of ns dark a dye as he pleases so he consent to mix a duBebaro of hypocrisy a ' ong with It . Bat let a _min dissent , in the _dep'hs of his heart , from those dogmas on which public opinion has set her arbitrary seal of approval ; and let him step forward , in conscious rectitude and _feonest simplicity , openly to _uprcss such _diseent , it Is an _effsnee wbich orthodoxy but ra'ely forgets or forgives .

      Men ir ay say what tbey please of such a state of things . It Ib immoral ; it crpatcs vice—it represses vlr : ue . We complain tbat the rarest of oil _estimable things is a hHman beir-g In whom there is no guile . It is very Idle to complain cf it ; as idle as It would be in a farmer who had sowed tares , to find it _Btrango t at he did not reap wheat . _Ws sow the tares of _bypoorUy thickly and _deeply over tho laud _-, ia it matter of wonder tbat we do not reap the wheat of honesty and upright . n : 33 ? Those who are partial to preachings will do well to _n _? ad the ' Sermons on Loyalty , '' Free Inquiry ' & c . Tbat they are orthodox nobod y can deny . ' Darby and Susan : ' a Tale of Old England , ' is a sad story of the ruin too often wrought by priestl y

      fanaticism , The purport of the tract entitled ' Galileo and the Inquisition' may be gathered from its title . There is much curious and instructive matter in the sixteen pages of this tract . « Prossimo ' s Experience' details the mental struggles of a child io escape the thraldom of superstition . ' A Lecture on Consistency' demands the consideration of all thinkers . The tract on ' Situations' illustrates the truth that' He is immorall y situated , whose apparent interest tells him one thing , and his duty another . ' The legal , clerical , and medical profes ' . sions are cited as examples . The tract entitled ' Address on the Hopes and Destinies of the Human Species , ' is extensively known aud justly admired for the eloquence and hopeful views of the author .

      Perhaps the most valuable of the series is' Wealth and Misery . ' In this tract Mr Owen stri ps Political Economy of its word y disguises , and in the compass of a very few pages lays bare the causes of the wretchedness of the millions , surrounded by the superabundant wealth tbey create . Any extract would be an injustice to the author , for the whole must be read to appreciate his argument . Every _reformer should study this tract . 4 Republican Government and National Education ' are the subjects of the last tract on this list . Speaking of the wealth-producing classes in the American Republic , Mr Owen shows the all-absorbing importance of NATIONAL _tDCCiTl-iN .

      Where is , at thia moment , the gr _^ at difficulty to the working classes in obtaining jast laws , such as _shill _df fend their rights and advance their interest ? Their d i 5 culty may be traced to the fact that they can _hnrdly find suitable representatives . And why not find them ? Rccau 3 e _cjea ia other raDks of life bave interests _oppoitd to those of ths _working man , and men in his own rank have not the educational advantages that eoable them easily to compete with the eophUtry of the learned student , cr the eloquence ef a classic _ecbolsr . And will not this difficulty remain , until a National EJucition remove it ! Had _iqaal instruction been accorded in the last generation to tho child of the mechanic as of the _president , how could there now « xiBt ths slightest

      difficulty in selecting from among the producers of all wealth intelligent _representatives of their own class . —men who taken from among the people , would _legislata for tbe people ; and who , uniting common sense to _lireraty _acquirements , and practical knowledge to _theoretical refinement , would act with tha plain dealing of an honeet republican , think with the enlarged and liberal views of a dteciple of _sckues , and epeak with tha eloquent p r _. _spicuity of a man of _lettsrs . Thus are our imm 3 d ( ate difficulties , iqually with all ths thousand evils which ignorance has ever produced , to bs traced to tho _careleainees if mankind in neglecting to train np children when young , in tha way they should go , that , when thoy Bra old tbey may not depart irom it _.

      Tho real interests of the working classes are not the same _bb the apparent and immediate interests of whai are called tho privileged _classeB . Yet , in five cases out of six , the representatives of the people are _chosm from among hwyers , bankers , large landid proprietors , and rich merchants . In five cases out of _bIx , then , our representatives ( a 9 they are _inaccursttl y called ) are tempted to do wreng ; and if they do right , it ia ia ppite of the temptation . * # * * In despotic countries , where It rests with the autocrat to command , and with bis slaves to hear and to ( beyin lands where the power cf one is supported and tho obedienoe of the many enforced , by lanca or bayonetit is not tnouga to open the p _^ ople ' _d eyes to their real situation ; tbey must ait onl y bs enlightened , they must be armed also . For their wi _. l is but of small weight _ageiust his who has an army of mercenaries in his pay and at bis beck .

      Not 60 in this _ccmtnonwealth _. Whenever tho _e-yes oi the people are _opened—wbentver they know what tbi y desire to effect , and know how to unite their _efforts and make effeotive thtir ackaowledged power—they maycarry what measures tbey will . They have the power . They may le cheated into a belief that they have it not ' ; they may be urged on to jealousies and _internal _dissensions , and p » rty feud 3 _, tbat waste each other ' s _alreng _' h and neutralisa each other ' s influence ; and thus tbe p » ople may ba shorn of _tbfiir rights , without perceiving how they lose them . But the power thoy _hava . Ta _« y can dictate their _owa laws , and carry their own raca . sur = s ; can legislate for themselves . And if th « y be . _ppreifled , and If riche _3 and aristocracy legislate for them , and often legislate against them—it Is the peoplb ' s blindness , not their impotence , that gives their adversaries the day .

      How shall a mass of abuses be remedied by p iecemeal * How shall they be remedied at al \ if wo reach not tho _sset of the disease—tho human heart ? What availB it that our present monopolies are _destroyed if the ignorance remain tbat first permitted and may again bo cajoled to permit tbeui ? What would it prefit cs that all pecuniary inequality ceas < d in a moment . If tho _Ignoranceremais that first produced , and would soon reproduce it . How _should wo be advantaged by razing to tho ground our _bsi-ks , our law courts , and our gin . shops , if the spirit of _speculation , and of (! rur . _kennt-sa , which at first erected , wero _stiil tbere to rebuild tbem ? In a word , how Bball the abuses that mar all the beauty ot our national _lnstitu ions , the vices that stain the mine of our national character , and the miseries that depress or destroy our national happln ' _ss—how shall _theso be removed , but only S > y an _eqail , national , _intellectual , and practical education for ail ths _jounj cit ' _zma of our republic !

      Wn have bad tnough cf declaration ?; le > . us h ' . ve r . alities . Wo have said we are free and equal ; let us _become so . It _netda not tho o ! _aln or the _manacls to _consti uto tho slavo . There is a slavery beyend that of fetter * and dungeon?—tho slavery that bends not the body only , bat thd mind , to oppreosion ; that pus mon _'< reason in Irons , and shuts out from his reach common sense and practical _knowledge This is tha oppression ws must _dtsttoy ; _anl in tbj humm miiid , where it dweil _af , d reigns , thero we must destroy it . _Uad but equal _oJaeation b jen _e-pread over tho nations of _moderaBuropj , howal : er _* d should _ivarfadthaannali

      of ihD dark mUdlo ages . Where did iho feudil barons find 'heir power to enslave , if not in the cowed spin : and loyal ignarance of th _. ir degraded vassals ? Hmw did ths Catbo ' . io clergy , thai proud spiritual uria ' _-ocrary , tbat act its _snnialed leet on tin neck of kings , aad in Its robot of _aackcloth _. tnterodunushered _ihs _oiiWnrt . of the ina'ten of the world-how did these _preteaders to holy _humilitv , _ob-aln their despotic sway S Was it not _becau-e science bad retreated to _itucillof ( ha monk . end opened hir treasures only within rho walls of the monastery ? CjuM feudal -. r spiritual tyranny have _. _asttJ for on- year beyond the ti- _^ othat all _s _. _rts and all catnol , cs had been _taught to find ia real fcno _* b d , jo at ones thelsafetytheir _freedoma d iheir h _ippiness ?

      » , , L _* t Ui leave the _branet-esthen , _uni _etr . _lw at tha root . Th-y « ill wither and d _' _a of _themselves _wlien the _eources are eul off wbtnoe they have _derived their nourishment , I hav o stated the reasons that induce ma to regard a State B _Jucation as the first object to obtain which the people should combine their f renions , and _uniio their vote * . » * _» e reasons be goo i , let the _psoplo a if _eUo to

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      action . As tbey value the n « _ble institutions of America , bb they would _» av 0 their country from the convulsions of a bloody _evolution , as they would reform tho crying abuses of inequality , as they would oheok the frightful _enoruntles of vice , as they would build up virtue In the bumau heart , _chetish kindness In the human bosom , and cultivate Intelli gence in tbe human mind—in a word , as they value thoir own and their children ' s enduring welfare , let them awaka to aoti n . Lot them unite for action . Tho draggle is for n » paltry prize—it is for thn reality of those _blessings which wi _ro declared oars half a century _aga . Thia la _eha time and thia the country fur such a _struggle . Soon may it _comcence _, and speedil y as happily may it _ttraiinato . _ There i 9 appended a ' Plan of National Education' by Frances Wri ght , which regarded merely as an outline may be pronounced admirable . This tract should be widely circulated by the friends of popular progress .

      These tracts , which only number thirteen , are worth more than a _waggon-load of the trash issued by the self-styled ' Religious' Tract Society . Pity it ia that no societ y exists for the conversion of parsons and rich men to a knowledge of truth and a regard for humanity ; did such a society exist , it would find these tracts excellent auxiliaries in the carrying out of its mission . But Ihey will not be lost if they reach only the working classes . Were the masses once enli ghtened it would matter little as to the course pursued b y priests , nobles , and usurers . The i gnorance of the many is the usurp _, ing few ' s best safeguard .

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      PuBucATrriL RECFivBD _.-tfou / to treat Cholera in all us Stages . Guide to the Royal Stables .

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      THE FRENCH ' REPUBLIC TO THE WORKING CLASSES . Brother Frol _£ takians ' , Tha Report of the Committee appointed by tho French Assembly called 'National , 'to inquire into the causes of the Pare _Insurrections of May _ind June , published in the Northern Stab of Aug . 12 th , _diservea a few words of comment . Not tho patriotism and justice of tho _authors of that document—fcr they are innocent of any connexion with either of thoBo virtues-but the reverse , their treason and _villany , entitle _tluir i _recious _hacdywork fc _> ymr notice .

      A veritable inquiry into the causes of the _terrib ' e combat of Jum ; would have been & work worthy of _legislators anxious to heal the woundB of Bociety and prevent such frightful catastrophes for the future . An inquiry into the _causei which induced _thousarjdi of despairing men to sternly offer up their lives in a fearful struggle with their own countrymen , such an inquiry honestly conducted would havo been of immense benefit . But no such _Jrquiry has been gone into . The pretended investigation has bad but one object—the proscription _snd destruction & f the fewvery few men who , sympathising with tbe proletarians , have not already been disposed of in tbe dun . geons _, or by the muskets of the terrorist bourgecn ' e _' e _. Of the men who were borne to power by ihe revolution of February , tbe only _ttvo who may comraanH _itur unqualified respect are _Albbhi and Louis Bla : < c I can believe that Lamartink meant well , buthia _' _aood intentions' have been tha ruin of the

      revolution . lean believe , too . that Lrdru Rollin and _FtocoN strove to do well , but failed _becausa overborne by their traitorous _colleagues . I should , however , feel more respect for the _Rf . poemb chiefs _CDuld I satisfy myself that all that _bas been said of their assumption of _atistoeratic aira has been pure lying on the part of their enemies . Under no _cir _cumstances should the palace 3 and rquipageg of kings be appropriated by professed D _.-mocrats to their _personal use-. No ! men whom the rectitude cf their souls , and tiie purene 3 s of tbeir hearts , _devote _themjelvea to faveordie for mankind , do not hacker after the dross of royalty , and the rlcbauchine luxuries of _aristo _irscy . lie who would faithfull y _aeryo the poir must hare felt the _woea of tbe poof , and _undev all circumstances must abide with tbe poor . ' l > is fasiei- for a camel to pass _through the eye of a needle' then for a rich man , or an _upalarrevelling in newly acquired luxuries , to lea thorough dem crat .

      Whatever their siss of omission or commission _, still this must b ¦ . said for Ledru Rcllin and _Flocon , that the former _Jabiured _tos 6 oure to the working cla sea veritable _political power , and the later in _proposing afcherae of agricultural ooionies , in which _toat't » b ish a _landed dtmocracy formsd from the _unemployed town population , did at least take a step in the riiht direction for the abolition of want and pauperism . It is , moreover , n > ? ault of either _Fitcon or Li . dhu _Ri-llin that the National Assembl y is _oomiosed _nine-tentba of the remorseless enemies of Labour ; fcr that result of _Uaiversal Suffrage , tbe _wotlung classes of France may in a great measure blame _themselves ; that ia if any ono can be _justified in blaming ignorance worked _up-n by

      knavery . Those worthy of blame and hatred are undoubtedly the scoucdrels who tvadid oo popular credulity . The letter of George Sand published in tbe Northern Star of _August 5 b , lets in a flood of light upon tho horrible cmspiracy of the aristocrats aid _usurers of Frarce to damn the work iDg of Universal _Suffrage , a conspiracy in which they too well succeeded You will remember tbat in that letter it was _thown b y what lies and calumnies the _enemies of democracy _gulled tbe simple people of tl e rural districts into electing them to theAssemby Every truly democratic candidate _wai represented to be a Communist , _asd the Communists were describ d as a flet of miecteantB , who wished to kill all tbe eb 1 ben under _thren years of _aste , and a 1 the o'd

      meu above sixty ; abolish marriage , and establish the promiscuous intercourse of the sexes ; and , finally , reducing tbe _Jaboureia to live on six sous per day , live themselves upon tbe _spoils of the rest ot tho community . _Thete are but a few of the lies ton _successfully employed to poison the minds of the ignorant peasants . You who can think for yourselves will probably be inclined to doubt that any set of men on the face of this earth _csuld be _brought to believe such insensate calumnies : but n flfct that even amongst _thfl English working classes , particularly in tbe a' _: ricultur : » l districts , there aro _thousands who from their _latueatable state of _ignorance , could , if p layed upon by their employers , parsons , and preachers , ba brought to believe lies equally _atrocious and not less aburd .

      , When you bear in mind tbat the rural population _comtitutes tbe immense majority of the French peoples , and when you _take into account ; the diabolical mean 3 employed to dupe that _majority , you will be at no loss to understand how it is that _sueh _acoundre _' sas Thikrs , Barrot , and Fauciier are taking the lead in the Assembly , supported by nn overwhe ' min _» majority of landlord . " , bankers , manufacturers , generals , lawyers , and political charlatans , a' 1 tha sworn _foss of labour ' s _rights , and tbe bloodthirsty er . emles of every man who , by voice or pen , has ever said or written oue woid in dofence oi Man _afjaii'st Mammon , and in opposition to the present canniral state of thir g—dern . mii'ated by Drummond , Humb and Co ,, — ' < JWili . _* atiin !'

      To return to he ' Report : Ledru _Rollki ib charged with the responsibility of the insurrections of May f . nd June , on the strength of the bulletins issued from tbe office of tbe Ministry ( if the Interior during the time of tho _Pioviaional Government . It is also alleged that he stimulated or connived at plots to overthrow tho Government , of which ha was a member , with the view of getting himself made Dictator ' _Locib Bland ia _fiercely denounced as the principal author of the * disorganising doctrines , ' which , it is assorted , induced tbe PariB owiriers to rebel against their ' very worthy and approved _toodmasters . ' tha bourgeoisie , A _iabi-iired attempt ia made to cxh'bH him us oca cf the concoctors of the movement of the 15 th of May , and to _preve bis presence at the Hotel _t ' e _Ville on tho occasion of _Barbei and others

      attempting the formation of a Committee of Public Safety . Lastly , a lame and impotent tffjrt is made o link him with the _bnrricadci ef June . _Causbibierb , though no _philonopher , i 3 an honest Democrat , a sufficient offenee in the eyes of Bar hot and his pant—ho , therefore , is accused cf participating in all the plots , resl or _ima-dtied , not forth in this ' Report , ' and also of a rich vari . ty of amhiiisus and destructive projects , including the dictatorship and tho burning of Paris ! Finally , he is aecuied of having been seen behind tha barricades ia the days of Juce , Lastly , Pi . oudw _' N is accused of having preached war _Ufciiintiproperly and family , ard of having goDC to view the combat , of Juno as a spectacle ! These charges aro baaed , partly upon _anonymous and secret denunciation " , and partly upon evidence extorted by terror or volunteered by " treachery !

      When the accused attempted ti _Jelend themselves , they wero silenced by tho _Prudent—Iho _Iraitor Makrast—or ho v ed down by the clam , ur of tho Royalists . _Lediiij Rollin , by his superior _energy , wis enabled to _oblwin a brief _heiirin _? , and d « livared himself of an outburst of indignant e ' lrquenco , which told with _crushing effect _upsn his accusers . But no amount of truth or _fvirca of eloquence can save him from the destruction flitted by _n's enemies . _Barrot , Thiers , _acd < a >„ will never forgive tho part hu took ou the 24 . h of February , in _iniisting on tha proclamation of tha Republic . If he had aimed at

      the Dictatorship , he might have obtain * d it on tno 17 th of March , and at the _heid ol f . ho then vic _' _orioui proletarians , ho rai _^ bt have trampled tbo bourgeoisie in the dust . _Iasto . id of so doi _: g , ho _siiL-l with Limartine and ' m ) deraion , ' and so saved the usurers frora the wiath of tha _peopla . Bthiid his rewaid ! What a iessoa for temporisers Too ' _dijorganising d 03 trine > " imputed to Louis Blanc , entitle him rather to your _applaus 9 than your condemnation . He is charged with having , at tbe working . riln . 3 s delegate meetings , at the Luxembourg , said , « My friends , understand , this 1 trail and take

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      H along with you : y 0 a arc tbe only power—yon are all Kings ; for in a repnblio all men are equal and are kinga . In a republic there ara no longer the odious distinctions of rich and ; oor , tbe deadly _syutem on which is based the _present _unfavorable atate of ' ur _> l repu J 10 _lbere 0 H _ff * ' not . and in a real republic there would not , be tha _odious distinctions h ! . '' _™«? _f PT' Bu T hat say 0 d ™ _babrot and 5 l & wi ! Tt _^ ks _^\ ftcd trul y republican doctrine ? Why this : 'The oon . mi . sio ,, cannot conceal from itself what a poisonous influence such _l j « _' . i ! nU 8 t h , _™ ° hild over tbB mind 9 "f toe great body of the workmen . ' Mark those worthies : they have no objection to Liberty , Equality , and Fra ternity on a government lacardbut let

      p , any one show that he entertains the idea of _establiRhin" a state of veritable E quality—without which ' Liberty and Fraternity' are mere phrases—and forthwith they _eet upon him as a ' poisonous' disturber of the order of _acoifty . In the words imputed to Louis Blanc you seo unveiled his ideas of Equality , and very noble ideas they are . He doe 3 not aim at an equality of _bscgir _*; he _doei not desire to pull down , on the contrary , he desires to r . iise up . He would bave all men kings ; that is , ho would elevate the working men in their social position , until gradually social distinctions should disappear and the empire of ' _eaate' be for _evttr abolished . I beg the press ging of this country , who are _stifntilatins ! tbe French bourgeoisie to destroy Louis Blanc -I bo * them to

      understand that his personal destruction will not ensure the destruction of his principles ;—principles not now confined to France , but adopted by men _throughout Europe who hope to one day—by the force of popular intelligence , virtue , and unionsuperseding theory by practice , The _charges _againBt _Proudhon are perfectly _oontemotible , but then he bas already a bad name , and is , therefore , fair gamo to _l _« rundown by the bourgeoisie . Has he not _propped to _confisoata one tbird of _Vae property of tho rich ; and bat be not declared war against ' property ' and ' familv ?'

      Terrible ! But sto p a minute , the charge of ' confiscation' amounts to this ; ' he has proposed that the possessors of land , _bouae 3 , funds and every other description of realised _property—exoluding the small landholders and others , who really work for their incomes—bo has proposed that these idle consumers _, together with placemen and pensioners , be compelled to contribute , for the next three years , one third of their _inoonrs to tbe state—one-half of tho proceeds to be appropriated to tho public service , and the other half to be applied to the relief of the workmen and humblo shopkeepers , at _oroseut in a state of destitution and bankruptcy . For making th ' s just and wholesome proposition , he was inBuPed , abused and calumniated in tbo most

      _strooiaus manner , and oil but driven from tho Assembly . _Although Thiers had delivered a long and lying report , prcfe _^ ing to show the _injustice and folly of Proudhoh ' s proposition , yet , when the accused representative rose to reply , a hea-iog was tnall intents and purposes denied bira , H ? spoke amidst a storm of Rroans , taunt ? , and hyena-like laughing , and at every ten sentences was violently interrupted—often by the president ; finally tho Assembly voted his proposition ' an odious _at'aek on tbe principles of public morality ; a iligrant violation of the rights of property ; an appeal to the violent passions , &; . & c . / and passed to the order nf the day .

      _Proudhos _' s proposition is hut an _amplification of the principle of Sir Robert Peel ' s income tax ; that tax is a confiscation' of prtpetty to the extent ot three per cent . In fact , our whole system of taxation ia in reality ' o _nfiscatior .. ' If any _nm dsubts tbis let him try the question . If direct taxes are levied on him , let him refuse to pay , and he w ill soon find his goods and chattels ' confiscated ' by the government auctioneer ; if he refuses to pay indirect tax _^ _s be can only do so hy abandoning foed , clothing _, and shelter , and then he will soon find bis life * c » n fiscated . ' The difference between Sir R , Pekl and Cit'z n Prouduoh is this : —tbe former uphold * our _grinding _sysiem of taxation ( ie , ' _cootiscatior , ' ) f .. r t , ho benefit , of the _cormorants of society ; the Utter proposes his plan of' confiscation , ' ( i e , ' taxation , ' ) for tho benefit of the bankrup _t , unemployed , aud Btarvinz masses !

      As _regards the ou ' ory about ' property' and family , ' I am not in a position to stato what aro the schemes suggested by Proudhon fur the _regeneration of society . _Piobably he would _entirely ohange 'he present system by which all _property is mono polissd by those who are the con creators of property ; and possibly he may entertain tho notion that some _syBtem lor tbe education of children in common , it n _^ cev-ary to break down tho spirit ot _amtoor . 'oy . Whatever hia vieva , he has _acknowledged tbat _society 19 not iu a fit state for their full application at present ; he , therefore , _contemphtts no vio' ence ti tho wealthy and _rxclisive classes . But be bis ideas wise or the reverse—and , as I have

      just _siid , I am not in a position to criticise tbem , ar . d , therefore , cannot take upon _myself to defend or comdemn tbem—this I will say that I have no dtu _' it that _Prououon ia in bis heart _atdsoul devoted to _thu interests of tho unhappy ohildren of industry , and therefore he is hated hy the . plunderers and op pressors of tha masses . It is on all sides acknowledged thfct Proundon is the reverse of a fool , he must , there . fore , be either a clever bad man or a clever good --nan . The character of his enemies settles that question ; then hatred is the best testimony to his virtues . Show me a man ha ted and denounced by that accomplished scouiu drel Thiers and held up ' to execration ly the ' respect able' press of France and England , and 1 will s / ioiv vou an honest man !

      The clap trap cry of ' _property and family 1 E _danier , ' when raised by the p > -e ? s gang of this country , is only the o'd dodge of Tee Church in danger altered to suit the present times . It never mattered a straw to the working men of this country—at least since the suppression of tho monasteried—whether or not the church was in danger ; but as long ai Brum migem mobs could be ' led by the _ncBeas asses are ' that' cry' was just ns good or rather batter than any other , for exciting a _hulabaloo _against , every man

      who epened h \\ mouth about ' Re ' orm . But that dav ban _gnne never to return . Tho great majority of the working classes of this country would certainly , at this time of day , not lift a finger to save ' the Church' from what the Yankees call ' _eve'rlaeting smash . ' Priestley , were ho alive now , might therofore feast with hia friends to hia heart ' s content with out fear of even a broken pane of glass . 'Church and King , ' and 'Church in danger' will not _di now . So hurrah for a still bitter cry : — ' _Property at > d family in _danger . '

      Before any working man join 9 in th's cry , let mm ask hira 8 _tlf whether he has anything to fear from any _sict of _French Social Reformers on the score of of property' end 'family . Supposing all the lies told of the French Social Reformers were truths , it would przz ' e Proudhon himself to strip the _wormian men ot this or any other country of their propert ) . To take tte _breaks eff a highlandman has generally bs'e _? . held to be a feat something like as pessiUo as eating one ' s own head , but either would be a 3 easy of accomplishment as to take ' property ' from the majority ' ot tho _workmn classes not only of Franca but Europe _generally . Suppope ' pr perty in danger , ' what Has th 6 English agricultural labourer , the Scottish _weaker , ard the

      Irish _unbouoed peasant to fear ? Were the Cossacks in London , Ihey would not _tbiok of takibg up their quarters in _Spitalfields , and were Cavaionac ' s African brigands to pay us a visit , tbey would find li ' . tlet ) tempt their cupidity in _Bethraisreen . ' Property' indeed ! When an agricultural _labiurer _hai toiled forty years ; what property has he accumulated for himself ? He has produced pro perty , but tbe landlord , farmer , and ( rain-monger havo reaped the produce ; at tbe best the labourer '; reward is a claim on tbo union woikhouse . Precisely the same is the lot of nine-tenths of the _wo-kin _? classes employed in manufactures and trade . What ' property' have the _multitudes of _paupera in Irelard , supposed to number between two and three millions ? I must correct mystlf ; the Irish _paurers were supposed to amount to that _number , but _M . - . eo that cal"ulation was mad . ? , tha ' surplus ' have _bcai

      ' _thinntd' by famine , and famine-created _pestilercs , to the number of some say _half-a-niiliiop , _awme a mil i n , and si ma say a million acd a half . These victims of our _bsBt-p . s _« bie social system , perished in a land which contains of foil fit tor cultivation , two acres for every man , woman , and child , in tho country . _Lat _. d abounded , labour was _incalculably ' surplus , ' and capital could have been had if _vho j ; _overnrnsnt , bad asked fcr U . Even had the government bad no _olfor resource than _Prjudii m _* _.-j sche ; _-ne , or the _'confiscation' ot ono year ' s iuteru : t on the debt _c-dbd ' Nat ' ooal , 'ouo or th ; other should have been adopted , rather than a million and a hsi' , orovonbaifa million of human b _iogs should havo been allowed to parish of faaino Tse hunger stricken victims in Ireland lud not a ' property' even iu their own ; _ives ; or if they had tha : _property wa 3 ' confiscated . '

      But 'family ; ' what will a man not sufi .-r , ratler than have 'he _wmctity of bin domestic _oirels invaded ? Aim ! my _frb-nds , you know thst the _ebnae . stic _cbc o has no existence lor tens ofthou . _'audsof ycur order , er whiit of it lha ' . does exist is a curse and net a bi _^ - « - illg . Tha ' Happpy Homos of Ens { l » i > d * r _.-ad _-.-erT pre tty in tha charming poem by Mrs _IIemass , so _MtU ' ed , but the poetry widel y _differ from tne prose . I might _enlarge on tbe family miseries of thous * nos in ibis Babylon ; I might repeat the _revelat'Ona ui tho brute state oi tin ' ha ; py _h-, m : _a' in Dorfo ; : diirs ? and other atricukural districts , to siy _nottjitu- nf _Irskad , but want of ap ' _-ico forbids ; 1 f ha'i thcrfil ' _.-iro confir . e _mysslf to ono illustration of ' the _aar . _etity of ths family , ' undo : - _tbeexiitin _^ _system , as exhibited iu tho _miHiiifaoturini' distrio' 8 .

      Tha _SiscTAT k , perhaps the very * h ! cs _^ of Vu _journals devoted to tha th : >' . > rk * s oi tbe _political economis ts and tho interests of tbe _manufacturing ru : d _trading _proprietor , contained in its impre .-M-. n of July 29-h , a remarkable article bc . \ ded ' The Traio in Children to Bury . ' This article was written I ' oHfce purpose of _directing public attention to the poisonings which it is alleged havo _beoome a practice smorg cer'ain olasses ot tho population , for tte sake of gain , by frauds op . _insurance , _oi & _ete ani feudal _oiuba _,

      The French 'Republic To The Working Clas...

      ' Thu 8 , _' _sajs the Spectator , ' tho habits of provi . dence wmoh are inculcated on tho indm ; riou acuSseB become instruments ot depravity . » * « . ' The factory _system gives ns cheap cottons , makes us the workshop of ths world ; amraenfcs ihe national wealth , _eDablts iho facrnry _dintri , _ts tn dia ! a * . e free trade and decree cheap br _^ ad ; bu a ' on : r with it goes this hideous depravity tlnS pervirts the atronzese and raoBt sacred of _ins'incts . ' The _Spectator then goes on to show tbat the 'division of _employments . ' and ' the competition of labour' have ' _piwn to the

      millowner the pick of thu labour market , ' and he selects ' young persons—and women' to take upon themselves _libour which beforetimn w _.-w performed by men . ' The natural head of tbe family is deposed , and the _young persons are prematurely independent . Boys and girls marry in ha-to Tho whole day i 3 spent in the _fao _' o-y ; th < : re is no home . Children ara an _itilietion ; they are put out _ti nur ? e at a _s ? t # _charge nicely reduc _? d to a minimum by the higgling of the market—to have a child raeans to psy h _* lf-a . orown a week to a woman who trades in nursin _? , until tneobild be old _giibuo ! . to enter a factory : unloss a burial society should offer a more ready source of profit . In short , throughout large sections of our population , thb family is _biiukbn up and tub family instincts ark DESTa- Yhi ,. _s « cA are among the incident * of our boasted _factory sr _/ HCm !'

      Suoh are the _confessed results of a system not the work ct I RicDHos . When the supporters of that system raise the howl of ' famil y in danger , ' do they not protlaim themselves hypocritsB ? Judge jo to whom truly apples the accusationthat' they make war against property aLd famil y . '

      This Letter Was Thus Far Written, And In...

      This letter was thus far written , and In type , for last Saturday ' . - ) Stab , but waa withdrawn to make way for matter of more pressing _importance . Tbe Britannia of _Saturday last contains n lengthy sketch of Pboudiiom , fr _^ m the pen of its Pars cor * respondent , in which tbat famous writer and popuiar tribune is described as ' the mo-it remarkable , till most _dange-rous , the raoat terrible , tho most , hated , most pestiferous , most obnoxious , and most U ba dreaded man in France . ' Again : — ' All admit that he _pessessos _intellectual power of the hi _^ _hpst order . _IliB power of intellect , indeed , is _undeniabto . lor it

      makes _ir-solr / _eft . ' Of course , tho wortbv _comspoadent of the Britannia denounces Proudhon aa the most pestiferous and most to bs dreaded man in France , because , a 3 I have already said , _heis devoted —heart and _soal—to the interests of th » unbappy children of industry . The editor of the _Bkitan-u joins chorus with his correspondent in _danouncirg the object of tbeir _indignation as % _perfect monster , a second Marat , and so forth . They admit his ex . traonlinary aud almost _aatcniefla _int-lleet , and tbey admit , too , that he is as g _x , d in priva _^ life as he is great in _pul-lic . The ' corre 3 po . dent' _savs , " Proud _, hon in private life is perfectly _WnmeJes _.-, and lives io a style of aus ere simplicity . ' Yet such a man ti held up to execration by the p ress of _ihh country J The correspondent of tho _Bbitanma devo _' _es a couple of _oolnmna of that paper to an exhibition of _Proddhon ' s _doctrines . d _.-nr _. unofd by the editor as 'horrible' and revoking . ' I qmte _twobarm-les : —

      * The gorernment was inspired by _Milthan wVen , _having ono hundrel thousand workniin to _whem it save ara . _tultotiB wages , It r _. _fuced to employ them in useful _wotkl —wben it subsequently , _aft-r tin civil wjr , _demandad a tawef _trainportati . m for them . With the < spetis sot the pretended national workshops , _witli tte cost of war , _ofpro' _-ccuthm , of _prison , of _Ciinv . yance , _wo-k might bave b 3 cn niv <\ U rbo insur / _tnl ? for sir mon ha , c-d _' so _hava _changed i . ll our _eonocnlc : _!) regime . Bat work io a monopoly—revolutionary _industry couM not be _a'l' _. wed to enttr into _coaipetiiin with thp laduo ry of _privilege —in the _work-hop of the _nation _?> ru is _nat room for

      overy one . The gr . at broaches of in ius _. ry leave no hi m ; o bn dono by the little—ii is f _> . 0 | lW 0 f cnv \' . e \ , it ia Malthui . Wco _' tBilo trade _po-xaio * it _? df lit ' _lo by little of I tho _tetaH _iradV—ic 13 _Milrtus . Ort'nt pro . _pertlas _iorada and _swallt . w up Uo little—it ie Ma'chur , Son one half o the people will 6 ay to t' . o other ' Tne earth and prodacto aro t / y _prop-r'y—tnduslry and ltd products are my property—tra . _Je _ao _

      In an _artiel' ; published ' . his week , in which _Proulhon labours to show to the work ;!' , n that tliey _hpra not _euo . cecde _. i in obtoinin _? tbt : R pu '~ _lis for _nhich ihey feu St in Fftbruiry—thr R public , lint ia , fl 3 > hiy _unlrrs'ool it—a R-pu ' _ilio whieh should _t iv 9 them work and foodh _obsBrrcB _;—' _Ah's ! we can how no lon _^ ir s _^ y to tne w _. > rkmtn , 33 we said scm . i time hack , 'f > i _pini _> _nj with joy . -o tha conquest of t' e _new world , _yircdea'ined r . \ e _; - ! ' For , nn « there i » no more work , th ; re ar _« no-.--ore _ronus ! We had rather suy to thim . 'On in mourning with crape oa your arms , _tht Mack _flig fl > at n _^ , your wives ia _teara , your chiltren _rep-ating in _chorui _ttio cry of _-Bi _^ ry—eo ,

      d _tpatnng race , and ask wfcr , t _hns b come of thn Re . pub ; ir ! ' Tno bay harvest _haa bom fin" , the com hir . _vestiBiich _. thc vine is _luxuriant , ti . e fi his j , _» yfal . The pre'tty _poasant e , n ! y wants to _cuc ' aa _^^ n htr _Iruits , her _choea , ! , h ? r _fowla _, foe tho f _. _sbiona ! nd _menufhctur-B oi your workwomen . The countryman _blcssol with Khun _, dancs it _ri > ndy to purehaso thp pro . _Juo . 5 of jour Industry aud _atts with tho gifts of nature , But pr _vih « e _with - holding its _motKy has pine-d a-: interdict ! , 11 on labour aud ot , _exchange ; _comtnunicn'i . 'ni aro cut eff b ¦ _'w _^ a ths town and the coun ' _.-y . And that i _* why _abunditue ruins thfi _peasant , . vhi _flt want of work _i-Iaya tlu , workman . G>—jo and a > _-k your _ruh . _-is when _thi-y will pie bo to give you the It public !'

      lam no ' _surpriscd to loam that these _'doctrines ' are producing ' an immense effect , '—• have _nbteinfA immense _)> opi _. larity tand a _* e _arnw no- m' _^ o aLd mi ra in favour evpry day _amou _.-: th- ; ow _? r c ! _- ' 3 Sis of tbo community . ' It would indeed bo it _strange wero it otherwUe . I am _hap-. y ti earn thif . _Puoiidh _^ n i * a chiM cf the _yeople ; he is tbe _? on ., f a oiv . per _, sn .-- h _« w . rked as a _compesittr , ' lie has a viry io'ty _fo-ehe _^ d , - > T ? d carries on iiIs fea _' . tins tho imprint / if a _thinh-r ' Ilia _courage ia ereat , and _enables him to defy the ln > w ' _nrs of the banded _kuavei by whom ha is su > _roi ; n . ed . O . i tbe oscasion of tbo recen' _du-cmiUn of hia fin _' . n * ciat proposition he ' treated the interruptions and impatience of thu Assembly with _cantcraptuoas ciadain . '

      The Britasxia ' s _donunc a ' . i' _-n 3 of _Proudron ara quite in keeping with t _^ e _character oi _ihs' . jo-mil . In tbe tamo _niuober from wV ' e i I b ¦"»» _y _q-JO'td !; or _> tions ot its ketch of tbo celebrated _Fotiibraap , the editor declares tbat the famine ir . Ir-isnd -. _> _- . _•>« ' tha hasd of Gnd _punishin _? tbe land mr ye ivs i _, f _u-i _^ ssi * nation and centuries of idolatry , ' And < h ' s _'HitoP bas tbe assurance to denounce Pnonjii t ; _¦> . a ' h a _?« pheme-r . ' He _rleclo-es thst ths v . _nthbefVi _rjd-i of _ihe _ people in France are san _^ _uina _^ y _murrey ' s , whilst in tho _s _.-. _m" _? _c-py nf hia paper Le _davnnds death ss the doom of the ' Irish reh / ii _, ! ' IV ,: s . _e ? a to the cry _f . r pardon , ' favs this editor , ' wmid b- in _« excusable _weakDes" . We must i : _ra-j the viper it _wq would _b-3 secure frrm it 9 _v _. oison . ' A we ' ll- ! -mown parson of the EstiMinud _Cnmeh i « vq . v . _rc-. i < _.-., bs the editor of tha Britannia ; _whi-ver ir ; -: _ei-t-r . hia sen'iraenta—to use his o _.-vn espr « s _» ions . ' _o' _-cumioft _Pr'iudiion ' s doctrine-. — ., ie ' tii- _< h _.-i :. _>; i . ;> , ' ' l . orrift . e , * and ' revolting !'

      I purp ) S 9 to return in try next b _' _tter to tat French _c-inmi'tee ' s' report ., ' '; : ni 1 ike cvidi . ro \ '" t _» in _ooiirje of publication , on wbiah h ia _tnuii-ivi . Vjc tho present , let mo obecrve , tha ' . the _joc'i _q-. e _^ _tion in France is not ytt di _^ _poftd 0 '' . In ? lu > tewn of Elbouf alove , cu ; of a population uf M _. i'OO _rorlt : neP , 11 , 000 are in a state of destitution . Tee _urempiiyed in P . _iris are nnmbrr _^ d by _t-c-ns cf tlmu _^ 'tid * , ar . d this , ton , in spite of tbe _vass nlimbers _b'j'e _^ _efi- 'l ia tbo c _» --fl ' ct of Juno , aid in add tion to 'he thousand . ? transported or yet i n ,- ; e'ri , ' !< n _tii ? forts and _pris' _-ma nf tho capital . A _fo-v d _; r , s 340 ic \ vi « s _i _^ t'd tbit 7 000 failures were _impending iu Pin- si me ! Cavaionac ' s sabrn may bo _os keen ; n v . n _AuxtN ' _- EBs ' _ti sword , but I venture 'o _n-e iiit i _:.. < ki it will cut cm the Goriiiari _liintiof / _t / s . _iillictM a . G . JULIAN HAUNtY . August 22 jd . _ISiS .

      L'Atal Accident At Dalry.—A R.U-Larcholy...

      l'ATAL Accident at Dalry . —A r _. _u-larcholy accident occurred in the neighbourhood _,. f Dairy on Monday _moiniiifr last , hy wbicii James i ' _auL-k , _K _? q ,, of Thirdpait , ( actor to Captain \ V . F . li ' ai _" , ot _illair , lost his life . Mr Patrick l : ad left lioiiu' i " » r a _tbiy ' s _fcrc-. _use-shootinjr , accompanied by Lis _cous-n , David Patrick , _Ejq ., banker , Dairy . 'flu : two _yunL-men had reached Blairpark Moor , and were walking in company with the gamekeeper a _.-i ! , _i ! nt !> . ? r individual , when Mi" Patrick , _crossing li . _u ily _ln-i ' _ire the party , bis leg ca :: ie in contact _wi'h the _im . _zzle of bis cousin ' s gun , _when-by the ilea-My _weapon was

      discharged , and the contents I xit ;< ¦ .: in _tbrf calf of his _right leg , a little below the knee join r . The main artery was fatally lacerated , pr . _i'iu . i'itj v t ;! ent hemorrhage , _followed , of coins . ' , .. y a th . _'sm _^ h _prostration of strength . Mr Patrick was _eairicd to the Park farm on Hie estate , in a very ( _-xliuisted condition . _Messengers were _dilute hi \ l to _Lirgs ami Dairy for medical _assi-ilance . ] h- (" a : _ku \ of the former place , arrived i : _i alum a :: h iw , a » J ivas joined by Drs Peebles an-1 _You-. i : ; , i , | D . _iisy -, hut the _siiii ' _criir was beyond th- - ; reach o : t _' _K-. e _jkill . Lock-jaw tup > rvei ! i'd , n ti lc _srirvivt-i ! _imly four hours . lie has b . l ' t a widow an ' _frvir c ' '' _di'pn

      to ! aui ? nl l _. isi ' ate . _Tn-jir _fe-. ! : _isy _^ , "r ' . _^ _'se _..- neir . ' . _fibe'ed relative who vwis ib :: _iinr-c . ' ¦ . ¦! . > _u _-o uf tin ' s _iiitlrtiiciiol y i vent , it is Mii _^ _ossibl-j t _;> _v ! , _ot . it > _' . Mr Patrick was a _gentleman much r ; . j :: _vied iu tho locality in which be resided . 11- : was ? . ¦ ¦< . _f-ntcrp _. i . _sing coal-mas cr , _einplojing a large _iiu-iiber _r . _t nv ; n . His lu .-s cannot but be _s-evarcly felt . l : i a' ! _> ch cases the p lan tbat ought io bj _adiped ; . _> , immediately io bandage the limb ti _g Uly _al ) jve the wounded part , — ; iyr Advertiser .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 26, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_26081848/page/3/