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THE HORTHERN STAR SATKI6DAY, APKKI- 27, 1850.
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NATIONAL BENEFIT _SOCIETY , EuroSad , pursuant to statute Sth anS 10 tfc"" _7 ietoria , c . ST . '' THE ABOVE SOCIETY , as amended and _leguiised , was _ifomrerly known as the KA . _TI 0 _XAL CO-OPERATIVE BENEFIT SOCIETY ; the _maoa-jers of whieh _fcaveileng seen the necessity ot Ieeal prelection for the secsrity of its members . In framing the _newsies , care has beetrteken to equalise U » e « spen- ; -Tuturewitithe receipts , so _^^ that the _jwrmanent success ofthe hociety-shouW be heyond * ll ' doubts . ' . X The Society is diridea " into three sections , to meet the necessities _Jiad requirements of _« U classes of mechanics & _nalabourers , from eighteen years of age to forty . THE rOLLOWlSG IS THE SCAtB OP rEES TO BE PAID AT WEEKLY _ALTJOKAKCE EJ 61 CKSESS . ESTfUXCE;— S . d . Age . 1 st section . 2 nd section . Snd section . First Section 15 * s-d . s . d . s . d . Second Section '' J Froml 8 to 24 .... 3 0 .... 2 ( J .... 1 0 Third Section 5 ° — - Zi—il .... G 0 .. .. 4 0 .... 2 0 ' _ 27—SO .... 9 0 .... 6 0 .... 3 0 hembebsfKUTH . witbe © _ea-j-b . _ 30-33 .... 13 0 .... 8 0 .... 4 0 . & * ' *)• f . J * — 33—36 .... 15 0 .... 10 0 .... 5 0 First Section .... 05 0 0 7 10 O — 36—38 .... IS 0 .... 12 0 .... 6 0 Second Section .. UO 0 0 o 0 » — 38—40 ,, „ 21 0 „ ,. 14 0 .... 7 0 T hird Section ..... 5 0 0 A o « _sox * rai _* _f-Go ** _'n- * 5 ** T _* oNs . _. _- .. „ l 0 » _,, First Section , 3 s . Gd . Second Section , 'h . id Ihird Sectmii , ls . 2 d . The Society meets _evety Monday evening , at the Two Chairmen , Wuat _»^ Teet , l _^ t _^^^ _«^ nwtion can _tSehad , and members _enroUei Country friends , applying for rules , can . _- _havc them foiuarded _, by _enclosing _BbSSSSS . O-m _** _. _*** _. Benefit Society , _. _hoiavc . paid all _^^ _JS _?!! _^^ 7 } ' * emheP ' 1849 , can atonce be transfirred to either section ef the Natural- * . Be _^ _' _5 * _f _^ 5 _? _S _^^ i _™ _SS _*/ inform the A _^ ts and sub-se _^^ _S _£ _K _»^ _- th _-ery information , on application to the Secretary , hy enclosing a _PUgg _* _** _^ « _££ te « t «* _98 , _lUgent-street , _Lumheth .
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HIE CHEAPEST EMTIO * EWE * rOBUSHED . Tr ice Is . « M ., A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate ofthe Author , of PAIHE'S POLITICAL WORKS .
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LAND AND COTTAGES , The property of an independent gentleman . There iu now a capital opportunity on the Drams nut estate . Chalfont , St Giles , liuclis ( two miles from O'Connorrille ) . owing to the removal ofthe principal tenant to the new estate near Loudon . Eight acres , well known as the very best field in tlie parish of Chalfont ( as _wiR be certified by those exceUent judges , Whiter , Roe , and Page , from Northampton ) , with extensive _rij-htof Common , together with two four-roomed cottages , built against each tier , maybe had _im-aedta * * * _- " for _jfc-Ma year . But the freeholder being anxious to hoaour LABOCE ( being himself _awOEKlSG gestlemas ) , and to see as many happy families as possible on his estate , he will accept nothing short of £ 32 for twelve mouths' rent in advance , if a rich man -wants tlie whole ; but he wiU require only £ S for half year ' s rent in advance , if a man takos only lour acres and four rooms ; while he will be satisfied with only £ 2 , for one quarter ' s rent as a security , from any sober , honest , industrious , agricultural labourer , taking only two acres and two rooms .
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A BLESSING TO THOUSANDS ! _ETJPTtTR ES EFFECTUALLY AND PERMA 2 JENTLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS !!
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* The skin , though lovely fair , Hay quickly fade for want of needful care . ' THE PRIMARY CAUSE of the numerous DISEASES snd . Affections of the Skin is an impaired condition of tlie health , ar ising from a . disordered state of the stomach , liver , and bowels . From these cau ? es the blood becomes corrupt , digestion impaired , tbe liver inactive , and the bowels constipated . Hence arise blotches and eruptions of the skin , bilious affections , heartburn , sick headache , irritability , spasms , flatulency , pain after eating , nervous debility , & c . To correct aR the crudities ofthe vital fluids , strengthen the stomach , remove indigestion and liver complaints , reUeve the bowels , _iuvigorate the system , and tranquilise the nerves . DR . SCOTT'S FAMILY APERIENT TABLETS will be found an unfailing remedy . It is a medicine of pleasant flavour , and _possesses extraordinary virtues from its pecnRar preparation . With children , also , its effects are most astonishing ; it speedily and effectuaUy removes worms . Sold in boxes at 2 s . 9 d . Agents , Ruadand Co ., 151 , Strand . "May be had ( free by post ) , and of aR dealers in patent medicines .
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YOURSELF!—WHAT YOU ARE , AND WHAT FIT FOR * To see ourselves as others see US . ' —BCBSf :. MISS GRAHAM continues with _amaj ang success to delineate persons * characters frora their handwriting , pointing out gifts , defects , talents , tastes , affections , and many other things hitherto unsusyected . Persons desirous of knowing themselves or their friends , must send a specimen of the writer , mentioning sex and age , or supposed age , of the writer , and inclosing thirteen uncut postage stamps , to 3 US 8 GRAHAM , 6 , Ampton-street Gray's-hm-road , London , and they will "receive a graphic , minute , and interesting written delineation of what the writer realJv is , and for what pursuits qualified . " _™^ m u _" ! _5 T ous _tarfmonials daily received , and thefa-V _JTm _^ _S _^^ _^^' establi & bth _^ cewil _^
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NATIONAL CHARTER LEAGUE . The Friends of Political Progress are informed that A PUBLIC MEETING Ji _WiUtbeheldinthe NATIONAL HALL , 2 i 2 , HOLBORN , On Wedsesbai" Evening , Mat 1 st , For the purpose ot promoting the objects ofthe League . Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock precisely . Several able and tried Friends of Popular Reform will he present , and address the meeting . DECLARATION . Tlie League rejects all-other than Moral agenciesfor the Accomplishment of its designs . _Jg _?* The League will co-operate with other Societies for the promotion of such Reforms as may seem to it likely to hasten the final accomplishment of THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER . Committee Rooms , 5 , -Snow Hill , City , April 23 rd .
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On ilonday next will be published , with the Magazines Fiut _JIat , No . XII . of THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW Of BRITISH and FOREIGN POLITICS , HISTORY and LITERATURE . Edited by G . JULIAN DARNEY . CONTEXTS : L Refusal of Parliament to repeal the iniquitous Taxes on Knowledge . 2 . Rural Slavery—A Voice from the County of Kent 3 . Democracy defended in reply to tlie 'Latter-Day ' ravings of Thomas Carlyle . ( Continued . ) ¦ L Universal Suffrage and the Orderinongers . 5 . Two Years of a Revolution . 1 S 48—1819 . ( Continued . ) 6 . De Flotte , Vidal , and Carnot 7 . Birthday of Maximilian Robespierre . 8 . " Respectable" Journalism . 3 . literature : — ' * Histor ic Pages from the French Revolution . " By Louis Blanc , 10 . Letter from Fkihcc 11 . Editor ' s Address on the conclusion of Vol . I . 12 . Tide Page , Dedication , and Index to Vol . I . iz . line rage , _xieojcation , ana index to vol . _l .
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Now publishing in Numbers at 3 d ., and Parts at 64 . THE _BMlGIiAST'S GUIDE TO TIIE GOLDEN LAND . flA _' LIFORNIA _^ _"t TS PAST HISTORY ; _rTS PRESENT POSITION : ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS : WITH A _mSOTE ASO AUTHENTIC ACC 0 _DSX OF THE DISCOVERY OP TUE GOLD _KEGION , ASD THE SUBSEQUENT IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS . In the course of the Work will he Given
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ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES . London : Printed for G . Vickers , nolywell-street , Strand ; and sold by all Booksellers in To vn and Country .
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_NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . OFFICES , 14 , SOUTHAMPTON STREET , STRAND , LONDON . Tlie _Provision-d Committee of the NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION hereby give notice , That those friends who are desirous of forming localities can be supplied with Cards of Membership and Rules , by applying to the General Secretary , John Arnott , as above , from nine till two o ' clock , daily ( Sundays excepted } , and on Monday evenings from seven to nine o ' clock : if by letter , prepaid . All applications by litter wiR receive the most prompt attention-Notice is also given that all tlie receipts for the Cards issued , must be forwarded monthly , per Post Office Order , made payable to John Arnott , at the Post Office , Strand , and addressed to him at the Office ofthe Association , 14 , Southampton Street , Strand , London . 14 , Southampton Street , Strand , April 10 th . 1 S 30 . Signed on behalf of the Committee , John * Absott , General Secretary .
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G . _Gaylant ) , Hortack . —Jfo room . ROBKUT _SUAWCSOSS , ASD THE SeCBETAHY OF THE WEST Hiding of Yobkshibb _, are requested to correspond with James "Williams , 9 , Duke-street , Back Sandy Brow , Stockport . E . II ., _Tavistock—TVe cannot answer your questions , being totally unacquainted both with spiritual and temporal turnpikes . _XbTnsGHAJi . —J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following snms , sent herewith , viz .: —Foe the Honesty Fran . —Mr . T . Scothern , Kirkby-in-Ashfield , _Ig ; Jlr . W . Lee , ls ; Mr . _Chip ' mdale , Is ; Prom Carrington , £ 12 s ; Mr . S . Hudson , * 2 d . Mr . 3 . Robertson , Landerneau , France . —I received your letter iii which vou state that vou sent the sum of lis
for the Ilonesty Fund , and lis for Northern Star . There must be some mistake ; as the letter contained only a Post Office Order for sis shillings asd supjjnce , obtained , at Dalkeith , Scotland , Your friend who obtained the order does not furnish his name or address , otherwise I would have wrote te him . Will you make inquiry ? _ytm . Rideb . Ebkob—We are requested to correct an error in the advertisement , which appeared in our last , headed * Land and Cottages near London . ' Instead of ' apply to Mr . _EaUett , Sluramer _' s Farm , Colney Hath , ' read ' apply to Mr . ffallett , Plummer ' s Farm , opposite the Orange Tree , Colney Hatch , Middlesex . ' _Heskv Whittaker _, Bury . —We cannot answer your question .
Mr . Dean , Belper . —The notice would be charged as au advertisement . Mr . T . Hammegsley , Bilston . —The 20 s was acknowledged on the 13 th as from 'Bristol , ' instead of from * Bilston . ' It was received on the 10 th inst . . T . Habsett , York . —Yes , the whole . TnoMAs _DicKEssojJ , Manchester , informs his friends in Northumberland and Durham , that , although he is well employed at his trade , he has already addressed six meetings in the People ' s Institute . J . B ., Heywood ; J . Taylor , and Tub Operative Tailors , Hanley . —Next week . _njjHXEPooL . —W . Hal ) , of this place , is requested to send his address to Mr . Wm . Norman , of 292 , Wingate Grange Colliery , County Durham . Honesty Fond .-Julian Has received , and paid over to
Mr . Rider , from a few friends of Barnstaple , per John Bowden , the sum of 12 s . Geokge MAWBEr , Chesterfield . —We have forwarded your letter to the « Weekly Tribune' Office . : Julian IlABNEr has received from Wm . Davies , of Edinburgh , t 2 os . 6 d ., for the following : —Macnamara's Action , £ 1 ls ! Oakum picking money , lis . 6 d . ( contributed by some Chartist friends ) : for Mrs . Jones , 8 s . 6 d . ; for the Monument Fund , ls . 6 d . ; forthe Fraternal Democrats , 3 s . The above sums have been paid over to the persons authorised to receive them . _Feateknal Democrats . —Julian Harney has received from G . Mawby _, Chesterfield , is . 2 d . ; and W . Costine and J . SkyUieorn , Liverpool , 2 s . 2 d . ' Mebcueius . ' Dundee . —The trade price of the large lithographs is Is . Cd . each—the portraits is . each .
National Charter League. The Council Met...
NATIONAL CHARTER LEAGUE . The Council met at their business rooms , 5 ,. Snow Hill , City , on Wednesday evening last . There were present , the President , Mr . M'Grath , Mr . Side , Mr . Robden , Mr . Allnutt , Mr . Nobbs , Mr . Fairchild _, Mr . Dixon , and tbe _Secretary , Mr . Clark' The principal business of the evening consisted in preparations for the approaching public meeting , all of which were most satisfactorily completed .
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. BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH , ¦ New-hoad , LosdON . T _^ _rmS _*^ " _^ OCIAL RE _PORMERS THROUGHOUT GREAT BRITAIN . Feixow-Coustbimbn , —Prove , as most easily you can , how the doctors tor ages cheated the people on thequestion oi their health , and all the reforms that you demand must follow , and that , too , in quick succession . The dishonesty of the medical body can be most easily established . We are , Fellow-Countrymen , Yours in tho causo 01 Sal utary Reforms , The Members op the British College April 11 th , 1850 . of Health .
A Vbbt Extended Plan For The Promotion O...
A vbbt extended plan for the promotion of native education in the nortJi-wesfc _prorihoeB ot India has been promulgated by the gorernment .
Staffordshire Potteries. Mr. Tv. P. "Eto...
_STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES . Mr . TV . P . _"EtoBEB-r-s wfll be at Hanley on Monday next , the 29 _feh-ot April . J ,
MEETING AT HANLEY IN THE _POTT-ERIES . : My Friends , —Although not very strong , I will make it a point tbat you shall not be disappointed at the -qpening of . your new HaU on Monday next _f but I Lave to request that all parties wishing to-see me , will do so before the Meeting , as I « amnot stand the fatigue of discussion when it ie over .
M y friend , Mr . _Koeeinsoj * , has requested me to state the train by , which ; I shall arrive . I shall start by tbe ten o ' clock train in the morning , arrive at the Stoke station at three o ' clock ; and as soon as I get well and strong again , I will give them another Chartist breeze throughout the country , as lam resolved neither to be snuffed out nor extinguished . Yoar faithful Friend , Feargus O'Connor . _^
The Land Plan. No Doubt The Unlocated Me...
THE LAND PLAN . No doubt the unlocated Members will read with p leasure the Report of the Argumemt ivhich took place ia the Court of Queen ' s Bench on Wednesday last , in connexion with the complete Registration bf the Land Company : as , notwithstanding the violent opposition ofthe _AttorneYtGenekal , the opinions of Lord Campbell and of the other Judges , appeared to be decisive as to the complete Registration of the Company .
The Judges have , however , and very properly , deferred giving judgment until they have maturely considered the case . While , if the opinions foreshadowed in tlieir comments upon the speech of the Attoreny-General are conclusive of their legal opinions , we may hope for complete Registration .
Nationaljj)Ucation. To The People. M Y F...
NATIONALJj ) UCATION . TO THE PEOPLE . M y Friends , —Aa the Government bases its power upon your ignorance , while it refuses to open the channels of information , I beg to inform you that , in the ensuing month , I will bring out a cheap unstamped weeklyinstructor , to be called
THE NATIONAL INSTRUGTOU . I will engage the ablest wnters belonging to your order to supply me with materials ; I will pay them well ; and I will open its columns for fair—but temperate—discussion . ' I will allow the several contributors to propound their own views and doctrines , but without one word of personal anger or hostility : and , although it may he vanity to assert it , I undertake , to say
that it -will contribute more to the enlightenment of your order than any paper that has yet heen published . And as it is necessary to blend amusement with instruction , I will give you , weekly , "A True and veritable History of the Life and Adventures of Feargus O'Connor , from the days of his Boyhood ; ' ' and I am no judge of human nature if the history of my life does not amuse and instruct every man , woman , and child in the
empire . The publication shall be so managed that my life and adventures may be separately bound up in volumes , apart from the remainder of the work . All persons in Lancashire and Yorkshire , and the Northern districts , must send their orders through Mr . Abel Hexwood , of Manchester : all persons in the Midland Counties must send their orders through
Mr . Guest , of Birmingham ; all Scotch Agents must send their orders through Mr . Love , of Glasgow : and all other Agents in the kingdom must send their orders through Mi * . Pavey , of Holywell-street , London . The publication shall be got up iu the most finished style . Your faithful Friend , Feargus O'Connor .
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¦ ~ I , NOTICE . Many of our Agents being in arrears , and inattentive to our applications for their outstanding debts , we are compelled to announce our determination to discontinue , after this date , all further suppl y of the paper to such Agents , unless their accounts be discharged early in the ensuing week . Subscribers will therefore know the reason should they be disappointed on Saturday next . We wrote to each ofthe Agents a week ago ; consequently , they have had timely notice .
The Horthern Star Satki6day, Apkki- 27, 1850.
THE HORTHERN STAR SATKI 6 DAY , APKKI- 27 , 1850 .
The National Reform Conference. Periodic...
THE NATIONAL REFORM CONFERENCE . Periodical Conventions , or Assemblies , of the friends of any public movement in the Metropolis , or other central locality , are a portion ofthe machinery of public agitation . Next month , the Relig ious Societies will pour their tributary streams of pilgrims ' , pounds , shillings , and pence , from all quarters of the Kingdom , into the great central lake at Exeter Hall . The Charitable Societies have long since , commenced their annual dinner conventions at the London Tavern , Freemasons , or the Albion . The yearly trips of Friendly Societies to _Rosherville , or Southend , and the Nore , will put forth their attractions as the days lengthen . The National Reform Association has taken time by the forelock , and held its first Conference .
One ofthe objects of each an assembly , is to ascertain what progress has been made during the past agitation ; a second , how to make the strength and the experience obtained conducive to farther progress . In the first point , we think the Association has ho cause for complaint : $ in the other , the proceedings of the Conference do hot appear to uo quite so satisfactory . The attendance of so large a number of delegates , from so many , different quarters of the country , may be fairly taken as a proof that the movement is reall y spreading , and exercising a stead y and substantial
influence upon public opiaion . At a time when parties are in a state of decomposition ; and when , in all other directions , signs oi stagnation , indifference , or political paralysis , are manifest—to have done this is something . We do not see many new converts to . the cause of Parliamentary Reform in the list of members ; but it is fair matter of gratulation to the old friends of that cause , that they havo been enabled , at last , to bring their whole power to bear in a centralised form , and to draw together , from remote parts of the country , those who entertain similar views and
opinions . .-. - ... .. It would be a piece of hyper-criticism , to analyse too minutely the proceedings of so miscellaneous a bod y at its first meeting , but we confess that one defect has struck us forcibly . There have been far too many long speeches' about generalities . That the delegates should have liked to ¦ hear Messrs . Cobden , Bright , Hume , and other Parliamentary luminaries , was
natural enough , That these said . Members of Parliament should , when once on the platform , have been excited by applause to deliver themselves at length upon the leading political questions of the day , is equally a matter of course . But we submit , with all deference to both speakers and hearers , that such exhibitions were a little out of place . Tlie Conference met tb work not io talk—at least the talk ought to have been ' subservient to the work ,
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which at the time we write does not appear to have been the case . At the various meetings which'the Association has held , Messrs . Cobden , -Bright , HUiME ated others , have been very ohary of their presence and speeches * ---- _^ doubt _* for good reasons . Itwas desirable that they -should openly and unreservedly id « sa 1 _o _% themselves with the movement in the _preseace of , the representatives of the Association , -arid therefore of the country—but that ought to have formed a less prominent part ofthe _pa-oceedingB than it has done . What was really wanted was , that the delegates should haw set'to work in an earnest spirit , to ascertain what the strength at their back really _^ _was ; what obstacles—if any—prevented their
gaining more—what modes should _oe adopted tor removing , these obstacles , and by what means the whole ofthe Reform party—by which we mean the whole of the excluded and voteless adult males of England , Scotland , Wales , and Ireland , could have been combined in one irresistible p halanx—for the accomplishment of a practical measure of reform . "Op to the time at whicli Ave write we have seen , to our regret , few indications of this practical , workmanlike , and earnest spirit . There has been far too much time taken up by speechify ing about the abuses which exist in our national institutions . It might fairly be presumed by the gentlemen who delivered themselves of these orations , that the delegates from the members ofthe Natioual Reform
Assoeiation required no such information , or incentives to action . Their presence there , in the capacity of delegates , was a proof that they were fully cognizant of these abuses , and anxious to remove them . ¦ The onl y question was , how the work was to be done ? And to that they ought to have confined themselves . The " eloquence " part would have been far more appropriately reserved for public meetings , where converts were to be made , or the cold and apathetic to be roused from indifference , into active sympathy and
cooperation . Among the questions which might have formed the subject for a longer and more thoughtful debate than they appear to have been honoured with , were those submitted on Wednesday , by Mr . Reynolds . We do not , for a moment , mean to impugn the right of the Association to lay down certain fundamental principles for its own guidance , and to say—here we take our stand , as being what we conceive the only attainable and practical measure under present circumstances .
Not at all . But we have on former occasions asked the leaders ofthe association some serious questions upon the very points mooted in the resolutions proposed by Mr . Reynolds . Most of thie leaders of the Association—nearly all the speakers we have ever heard at any of its public meetings— -avow their preference of a manhood to a rating suffrage . Lord John Russell has declared , that he too would prefer a manhood suffrage to such a complicated , if not confused , suffrage , as that proposed by Mr . Hume and the Association . As far as the House of Commons is concerned ,
the one proposition is considered nearly tantamount to the other ; and therefore , until public opinion becomes too strong for it to resist , will be doggedly refused . On the other hand , hundreds of thousands—perhaps we might say millions—remembering how in former times the working classes were deceived by the middle and upper classes , after having aided them to acquire political power , not unnaturally hang back from the new Association , Under the advice of Mr . O'Connor and the
Chartist leaders , they refrain from offering any active opposition ; but that ill compensates for the negative effect of their standing aloof . Why should Sir Joshua Walmsley and his friends , throw away the immense strength they might derive from this quarter , when the concession of a principle they themselves approve of , could be met by no more strenuous hostility among tho privileged and ruling classes , than that which is offered to the more modified one they have adopted ? Upon the fair , open , and honest settlement of this important point depended in oar estimation the real value of the Conference . Had it brought about a genuine cordial union between thc middle and the whole of the
working classes , by which the latter , instead of being content to stand aside as neutrals , would have been converted into hearty , active , and hardworking allies , the cause of Parliamentary Reform would have made more progress in one year than it can do in three , with the presentelements at work . As to the second question , the Payment of Members , it was not of so pressing or important a nature . If the Non-Property Qualification be carried , the Payment of Members will follow in due season as an inevitable
corrollary ; but we must express our regret that the Conference threw away the opportunity of cementing a cordial and effective junction between themselves and the operative classes , by declining to substitute manhood for rating or residential suffrage . Tho Common Sense of the country cries for the vote to be given to the man , not to the bricks and mortar , or to the rate-book ; and though we shall continue , as heretofore , to offer no opposition to the Parliamentary Association , though we shall on all proper occasions aid them wherever that can be done without compromise or sacrifice of principle , still wo cannot help feeling that the cause is placed in a leas advantageous and powerful position than it would have occupied had a contrary decision been come to .
It is the more to bo regretted , because the signs of political decrep itude are visible among all existing parties . The frequent defeats of the Ministry indicate their tottering and helpless position , and their loss of all hold over a Parliament , formed under their own auspices . Tlieir continuance in office under such circumstances proves the weakness and the incoherence of the Parliament , and any parties opposed to them . What an opportunity for the formation of a NATIONAL PARTY , and the final suppression of the Factions who havo so long alternately preyed upon tho people !
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" THE BENEFICENT WHIP " QUESTION . What to do with our Criminals is a question which very much puzzles our Legislators ; in both Houses . The Colonial . Minister in the Peers , made a lengthened exposition , recently , of the very complicated and elaborate ' . contrivances which have been devised for what may be called the adult and , matured criminal population who have been sentenced to transportation , From that statement , ; it be g athered that very little satisfaction has resulted from the protracted aud expensive experiments that have been made on this class of criminals , and that very little more is expected from the system now pursued .
In the Lower Houso the class of juvenile criminals—those who are graduating in vice , the candidates for transportation—have been the objects of attention , but we regret to say with no better result . Our law makers are ono and all terribly afraid of dealing with first principles . If any body proposes to them , as a necessary part of law-making , for any particular evil or grievance , that it would be well , in the first place , to ascertain the
cause of the evil , they shrink from the suggestion as a revolutionary one . According to their theory—or at all events their practice— of Legislational duty , tho less a man knows about causes the hotter . The only things he should deal with are effects ; these can be seen and felt ; but an inquiry into causes , pre-supposes a habit of abstract reasoning , of close observation , and a logical capability of deducing conclusions from premises , towhich ninety-nine out of every hundred of our 'Senators can lay no claim . _^ Yet , the question which really lies at the root of all these measures , is in itself a simple
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one ,. if there wore . "but , courage " toattack it . It does not iavplne that _recon-Ete . knowledge which might be mentioned aa , belonging to other , political , _icommercial , aad social questions .. To the query , what _^ ro the main causes of _Juvenile crime , it -would riot he difficult to give an answer , based upon demonstrable facts -ef the most conclusive description . Want < of proper training and useful _occupation-r _^ _heae lie at the root of the social disease called « rime— --these annually furnish their contingents to swell the vast army of criminals , which not . only cats up a large portion of the wealth of the country , but does far worse than that , , which infects the whole body politic with a moral _lsprosy , from the taint of which no class is perfectly exempt .
Thequestion that follows the ascertaining of that fact is equally susceptible of a distinct reply . Have we—has England—the means of providing proper training , combined with useful occupation , to the growing population , or to that part of it which , from the ignorance , the vicious habits , or the p overty of their parents—or which , from the utter want of parents and guardians , is peculiarly liable , and almost certain to become criminal ? But at this question our
legislators take fright . It involves , to their apprehension , an alteration of the existing social arrangements , than which nothing can be more dangerous . They are afraid that the loosing of a single brick ofthe present crazy and artificially propped-up edifice will bring the whole about their ears ; and they prefer rather to let things remain as they are , than to risk that possibility , accompanied , though it might be , by great good to them , in common with the rest ofthe community .
Lord Ashle y had a distant g limmering of the right sort of cure , when lie proposed , in connexion with Ragged Schools , a limited and regulated emigration of the pupils previously trained to orderly and industrial habits . Our only objection to the plan is , that it was too limited , and went too ' far a-field for what could be done more cheaply and effectively at home .. Tlie records of numerous Industrial Schools , in connexion with the administration of the Poor Law in this country , and of others set on foot by enlightened and practical persons , demonstrate that , by means of spade cultivation , and school training combined , we possess the means of bringing _up usefully ,
morally , and profitably , the rising generation . Why we should expend the money in sending tho unfortunate children abroad av ho have been bereft of the nurture and tenderness of home and parents , we do not understand—though , as an auxiliary measure to a large and welldevised system of Home Education aud Employment , there mig ht be no objection to it . But , even to that scheme—defective as we think it , and limited as its operation would have been , compared with the extent of the evil requiring a remedy—the Government turned a deaf ear . They gave , one year , a few thousands to aid it , and they withdrew all assistance thc next .
Still , however , the ranks of the juvenile criminals grew thicker and thbker ; the Government and the Legislature had ignored the remedy , but they could not so easily ignore the evil . Thereupon , Sir John Pakington , overflowing with " the wisdom of bur ancestors , " proposed a return to that eheap , easy , and efficacious remedy of Squirearchy—the whipping post . What had mocked the efforts of p hilanthropists , moralists , and benevolent experimentalists of all kinds , was to be forthwith and summarily accomplished by what Mr . Carlyle calls " tlie beneficent whip . "
Mighty are the virtues of whip-cord , or , better still , a knotted cat o' niue tails ! Sir Joiuy ' s Larceny Summary Jurisdiction Bill was , in effect , a Bill for abrogating the British Constitution as far as all offenders under sixteen years of age were concerned . It gave to two Justices of the Peace—everybody knows the equivalent of that title*—the power , at their will and pleasure , of flogging without limit , and which thoy might have exercised so as to make it extend to a power of life and death . Juries are , Heaven knows , quite subservient enough as it is , but we are not yet prepared to
see them abolished , and uncontrolled and irresponsible power given to a couple of fox hunting Squires , or game-preserving Parsons . The House of Commons was of the same opinion . Powerful as are its affinities to the Squirearchy , the pill was too strong for it , and the essential clauses of the Summary Whipping Bill were rejected , and the Biil , in other respects , so mutilated that it may be pronounced one of the failures of the Session . That it was rightly condemned , may be judged of by the facts stated at the Middlesex Sessions , on Wednesday , by Mr . Sergeant Adams . J amiss Cook , aged ten , was brought up for a petty
theft , - He ' had no home , and no means of subsistence . " ** In little more than twelve months , he had undergone seven sentences of imprisonment , and six whippings . " '' And yet , " said the Judge , "here he was againand still he was not more than ten years of age—what was to be done with such a child ?" Unhappy little victim of bad societarian arrangements , driven to crime , because deprived of a home aiid the means of subsistence , whipped and imprisoned—imprisoned and whipped , hardened iu crime , and tortured into revengeful and _vindictive feelings against those who , though they have neglected , have not forgotten to punish . " " The history is that of thousands .
But the Houso of Commons having rejected the Whipping Bill , was the more bound to provide some other remedy . Mr . M . Milnes g ave it the opportunity on Wednesday , when the second reading of the Juvenile Offenders Bill came on . It was founded upon an official report , and based upon the , reformatory principle of action . It combined the establishment of asylums , with a moderate degree of corporal
punishment , and the responsibility of parents . Incomplete as this Bill was , it was still a step in the right direction ; and especially in . the proposal to establish county or district industrial schools . Sir J . Packington , however , who had so much faith in the whip , had none in tho schools , and gave utterance to this solemn piece of 'just-asses ' * wisdom : — ' * If industrial schools of reform were established
iu every county in England , he feared there was great danger that they might prove to be a premium upon vice ! " Upon this , and similar valid g rounds , the Bill was rejected . In the matter of criminal jurisprudence the House has resolved to let bad alone . They will not assist Lord Ashley ' s ragged protegees to emigrate—they will not allow the Squires to flog young men up to the age of sixteen , « la discretion—and they refuse that education and
industrial training which can alone ofler an adequate cbunterprise tothe temptations which surround the ignorant , the neglected , and the destitute children , whose condition is a disgrace to the country , and whose moral and mental degradation constitutes a heavy accusation against those classes who , with the power , have neither the knowledge nor the will to grapple with a question of such magnitude and importance .
This is the legislation of the nineteenth cen tury of the Christian Era 1
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . , AUSTRALIAN COLON 1 ES .-TDE ' UNIVERSITIES . — AFFIRMATION " - " THE STIOKET MINISTER ;" Theweek has been mainly occupied in dis .-cussing in Committees the details of various Ministerial , measures , upon the principles of which we have already expressed our opinion . The Australian Colonies Bill'drags its' slow length through Committee , as though it would never emerge 'from it—though so _fai'Miuisters have been enabled to hold their ownagainst a host of assailants . ' !; - , '/ : ' ' _^ It does hot appear to us , -however , that the _reaTdefects-of the measure havo been touched
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by any of its opponents ; Instead _ofT T _* with the tangible and practical *»! _S which it will perpetuate , the debit _^ turned , upon purely fanciful or th _^ points . It is a question of far less ini ! -, 0 reti ( " ' to the Colonists whether they shall h h ' 'e Legislative Chamber or two , than it hi ? _*& they shall really , truly , and practical ) _i '' r the power of taxing themselves , and of _Vfi piiating that taxation in the way best _^* ° * to promote the interests of the Colo _Vkd have no abstract love for two Cham / ' _^ Sir W . Molesworth and some of h ?* _* _? Iilv ' o The example of the French Sina ] e fl > "ls . shows that one can be re-actiouarv T _?* * _structive enough , without _putting . _? ° _- _" -
_v-. » _g < , ua-u _u-jwii -me _wneel of D 1 . ' - " There is always a sufficient preponJ , er ° - the Conservative element in society t e of too rapid change , and we seo no _i-easo-fT - ever for artificially augmenting j ta lat - Besides , in such thinl y peopled di stri t r ' Australian Colonies now are—and as _A _» ° likel y to continue for a very lon gtime * *' ' are —there is much force in the mere tGehu ! i _n - jection , that there is not sufficient mat ? ' i * form two Legislative Chambers , andth i * ° contest about thequestion has been a i e tic and unpractical one , which could hafi entered into onl y by speculative theovJ Ccn acquainted with the actual conduct of _« n " affairs . P _-ic
The real defects of the measure arc • limitation to the free and full eX ercise _f . _, ! franchise , and in the power which it still serves of taxing the colonists top av Z laries of officers appointed by the Home P _vernTnent _, and who are not responsihlnT those who pay them , but to a distant anils may be in many cases , a hostile _au _' thoH ? The bill is in these and many other resDccf adverse to the princi ples of true constitution . ! Government , and our so called FhilosonlS Radicals , and Colonial Reformers , would _h- > v shown themselves more adequate to the to they have undertaken , if , instead ofadn , ting favourite crotchets , they had trie d to render the measure intelligible and coherent nnd to expunge tliose portions which militate against the full operation of elective and responsible constitutional Government .
. The question of the Universities , raised fo Mr . -, _Heywooh , on Tuesday , is one upon which the great majority of our readers can be expected to take but a remote interest , an ' yet the reflex action of the mismanagement of those noble , but sadly abused instituti ons affects theni most injuriousl y , as well as otkl portions of the communit y . It is of the too * - ! vital importance , that facilities for acquiri _™
knowledge , accompanied with honourable dis tinction in consequence , should be freely thrown open to men of all ranks , sects , and classes . The enlightened founders of _{] _$ various magnificent colleges at our two Universities , full y comprehended this fact and , had their endowments been applied in the same spirit as they were made , the whole intellectual , character and standing of the nation would have been _iiicalcu . lably elevated * , compared to what it now is . But , instead of promoting knowledge , the course of study prescribed at
these highest academies has obstructed its attainments . Instead of marching with the progressive discoveries of science , it preferred to tread the old , narrow , and circumscr ibed routine bequeathed from an age when it was in advance of what was generally known , and comprised all that could be then taught . Instead of being natural they became the heritage of a dominant sect , the snug nests wherein corruption reared her unclean broods , and masters and teachers were paid magnificently , who never taught , or whose part in the business of tuition might be expressed by the lowest sign known to algebraists .
Mr . Heywood ' s motion was certain to have been negatived , for the House of Commons is full of aspiring barristers , lordlings , and ottos who have a strong affection for alma mater ; but the Pbemier astonished all parties , by taking the opportunity of declaring that he meant to propose a Royal Commission to inquire into the management of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge . That rather took away the breath of some of the sons of Cam and h \ i , and an adjournment was requested and agreed to . The Commission , it is understood , is only to have power to receive such evidence as may be voluntarily , tendered to it—not of compelling the production of'' papers , books , and records ;"
and , under the circumstances , perhaps very much information may not be expected from it , But it is the thin end * of the wedge inserted , aud by and bye we trust it will be _d-irai home . The state of the whole of the educational Charters of this country , fiom the Universities downwards , is disgraceful to tlie Government and the ruling classes . Immense sums are annually absorbed by Masters , Wardens , Trustees , and other Officials , which of right ought to be expende d in educating the poor and whicli , if so applied , would provide schoolrooms and _lnaslefl for hundreds of thousands of children , who are now suffered to grow up at once the pc"i and the disgrace of society .
Mr . Page Wood ' s Biil for extend' ** - ? to persons who conscientiously object tooatH taking the same privilege as that noir enjoyed b y Quakers , Moravians , and Separatists--namely , of giving testimony in Courts of Law upon evidence , has been thrown out by a majority of nineteen . The old stale anil threadbare objections were repeated by Br , _GouLBomiiNE , and they were as success !! " ) as they have been on former occasions , _w
this ' melaucholy badge of bigotry , ignorance , and a low moral feeling has been attempt a to . be removed . . The . Founder of Christianity said— " Swear not at all . '' ¦ Orthodox Christians compel their fellow citizens to swear at every turn , under penalty of losing _& e ) _i rights as citizens , and forfeiting the protection of the law in case of injury to the ir lives or property . It is one consolation , howevei j to see that the defence of this anti quated aja unreasonable nractice is growing gradual j
_v . _* eaker ; nineteen of a majority , iu a H ° ue of nearly 300 Members , was . scarcely won- * the "Loud cheers . " with wliich its _aiuiouu «' ment was received ., Another " Strong-P , _**''' and a pull altogether " will abolish the _§"¦ - *' ance , and with it the wholesale perjury "j wide-spread demoralisation of which it is •* "
source . .. ( Sir Charles Wood has tried his _h-i"" - a J another edition of his Stamp Duties . Bill- an is as far from being right as ever . _^ _\_ better give up the scheme entirely , _an'li P _" ting the three hundred thousand pounds to tc seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds , r _e - served to advance the _landlords' money w drainage , employ the whole for the _rcpeathe Window Tax , with such savings as he « _w be able to effect in other quarters . _Be not be Chancellor of the Exchequer a " " year , and , for his own sake , he should try _^ do one solitary thing by which he may _> J _^ vourably remembered . We fear , howevei , _^ his case is . a hoDeless one . and that *"* ' _»
sembles a character formerl y ( pei-h » P * _^ not _unfi-equent in Scotland , called " & 3 Minister . " The " Sticket Minister" _^ person whose ambitious , but injudicious n ' _^ had determined to make a- clcrgyn * ' 111 , ' who , after aU the drilling he could receive . * j found to . be totally destitute of all the _n" _^ faculties requisite for the office . Sir Cha _^ Wood ' s friends and relatives have _. _^ unkindly , by pushing him into a place _^ . Z he has not a single qualification , and ex lno _^ him to the world in the character
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 27, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_27041850/page/4/
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