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_ttNiTJSI ) PATRIOTS' AND PATRI _ KCHS > 'BENEFIT SOCIETY . \ J _Enidl _^'? ' irea » ttolOGeo . IV , c . 56 , 4 & 5 'W _^^ J \ _rtnmji—T . a **» oscoiiBS , "fis _» , M . P . T . Wi __ r , Eia ., JtP . B . C _ mx , Esq ., 1 L 2 . ' " ¦ F . 0 'Co 3 reoB , Esci , M . P . _** . ottJ _ raHuui _» , Esc > ¦ ¦ _fcJJ « " . _ . fiie Sc _* iet 3 _TB C _ iaeamtos _ secaoiia ,. to ffitet the necessities tno requirements of an classes of mecMMcsana ttbotmas , fiomfifteen years _ofage to _forty-five . This Society consists of « bore tw _» thousand J _^^™ _£ _Je * . * fended capital of 2 , 622 t 16 s . 9 d . ; hating paid the Mowing sums" for benefits sines its _Jormahon .-Sickness , M 0 EL & . 1 M Funerals , 1 , 332 . _Saperannoalion . 301 . O * . * d . Pin ,, 3 SL Ms . . _fjl—Total , 7 , 1591 , 2 s- . 'J * _Tht fi _ fa » ril _ ii HIB SCALE OP FEEg to bepaid at _entnmce : Ss . mirt U paid trien _«^ n » tt _^* * ° _** _j ? e remainder can extend _oier a period of ax months , to bopaid trith thei subscriptions , m _^^'^ 3 *? rett : r . . „ .. ige 1 st section . 2 nd section . 3 rd section . « hsecbon . 5 fl » 8 _ecUon . _^ Mebn . Froml 5 to _32 _.-.., » 5 s . 2 d . .... £ 0 4 s . 8 d ..... £ 0 4 s . 2 d . .... £ 0 Ss . _Sd . .... £ 0 3 s . _Mr .... £ 0 2 s . 2 d . - 32-36 .... 0 7 2 .... 0 6 8 .... 0 6 2 .... f 8 .... 0 5 2 .... not admitted _- 36-40 .... 010 2 .... 0 9 8 .... 0 9 2 .... _f . * J ¦* 2 .... r - » - « .... l l 2 .... 10 2 .... 019 8 .... - •» 2 , 018 2 .... _twentyjears ' TBSLl U _. VOWASCE IS SICSSESS ASD SCriBANSOXTIOS . WU »*« _< »¦*« - _«« C « _HOMETOt ' a OEtTfl , _KmSecfioa _IsTSi . Ss . Od . S _^ S _ _T _•* " * S 2 'S * Sa _" « " . _SSeconaoltto ...... 15 0 6 0 _Sl _^^ "" _JS 2 2 "" ! S 2 _TKiiJj ;« _n 11 o 4 0 Thirdditto .... 12 0 0 .... SO 0 xmraaitto- ...... xi w _.... _*• * v _„_» _.. _* _:., _* -ia n a e a a ¦ _fonrthditto 9 0 4 0 Fonrthditto .... 10 0 0 .... 8 0 0 £ _UUTUl U 1 UU * W _*¦ *» _ i _«_ l 1 __ JUL * -. /» _ _ n a _ Fifth _di'tfn 7 0 ' 40 Jifthaitto .. ; . 600 ..., 3 0 » Sutbditto 7 0 none . _Sa & ditto .... 210 0 .... none / LOSS BY FIRE — In all the _Diriaoas ( with the exception of the Sixth ) £ 16 . Monthly contributions to ensure the above benefits . _UnderSOyearsofase . _* _£%$ . _^ _tslt _SddS " . ¦? " _" ' 1 General Expenses 3 2 | ] _Insurancein caseoffire , 3 7 " 14 d . a month for f - TWnt ditto * " 2 4 ! iucfadinff 2 6 . can be raised to 15 * ., 2 10 ! Medical * _KSl & _L ''' 2 a f P < Btaae , 4 c , 2 2 _lJd . _ _ oa „ Mrtra , 2 5 _^ f Attendance and _InXto ... ' . 1 8 j ljd . Monthly . 1 _ 10 J or 2 « . 3 d . a month . 2 l' J Medicine . Sixfliditto .... YoutI _^ _gj _^ _^ _jj ow god Orphans'Funds extra , far which , see ihe rules . 'Amiciesare established in many of the principal Towns throughout the King dom , and a gents are re q uired inall ¦ 8 rte . tovfhomaHberal alloirflneeisinade . Every information can be obtained , by . application to the Secretary , at tb * Office of the Society , 13 , Tottenham-court , Sew-road ( thirteen doors from the top ofTottenham-court-roadJ , St . PersoM * _ntheConntryapplyingforKulescanbavethemforwaiTled , by encloshrg twelre postage stamps , and if for tern of app'ication , or information , three stamps must be enclosed . D _ , _ i , Wiuuk Bkffv , General Secretary .
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j _ so THK BRITISH EMPIRE FREEHOLD LAND AND BUILDING SOCIET _. On an Advance yonr Bent is Saved—you become yonr own Land and Householder . - Patrons . —T . S . _Dcxcombe , Esq ., M . P . T . _Wasiet , Eso ,, M . P . B . B . Cabb __ Esq ., M . P . L . J . Eassasd , Eso .. _Bttnierj . —The Commercial Bank of London ( Branch ) 6 , Henrietta Street , Covent Garden , Chairman of Directors . —Seome W . M . Bests-olds , Eso , London Office . —No . 13 , Tottenham Court , liew Road , St . Pancras , London . —Daniel WniUH Korer , Secretary . Absakged is Thsee _Sechosss . — Value of Shares and Paymentfor Investors . Pun Shore .. .- £ 120—pajmeutof 2 s . od . per Weel _^ or 10 s . 6 d . per Month , IlalfShare .. .. 60 1 21- 5 3 Quarter Share .. .. 39 0 7 i 2 8 Applicants are requested to state in their form the Section they desire to be a Member of . Ko _Soavsross ' , _SauciroBs " , oa _KsDEaraos Fees . —The present Entrance Fee , including Certificate , Rules , & c ., Is 4 s . . per Share , and 2 s . 6 d . for any part ofa Share . Price of Rules , including Postage , Is . OBJECTS . lst—To enable members to build Dwelling Houses . 5 th . —To give to Depositing Members a higher rate of ina _ _j _< p _«„< _p _» j _« t , a n « M nt nni « 4 i ! ictn < r lvrth Frppiold terest than is yielded by ordinary modes of investment . _J _?^* So _^ _y _^}*^ _i _^ 6 th .-ToeniWe Parents to m _& _e Endowments for their and Leasehold Properties or tend , _ChUdren , or' Husbands for their Wives , or for Marriage Sri—To advance Mortgages on Property held hy Settlements _, members . 7 th . —To purchase a piece of Freehold Land of sufficient 4 _flL—To enable Mortgagers being members to redeem value to give a legal title to a County Vote for Members pi _ . eir _ ort < 'aee 3 . loi Parliament , f O _j—™ r __ By i ( fadne this section every _persoa'in town ot country can become the proprietor of a House and Land in _ s own neighboiffhoodrvrithout being removed from his friends , connexions , or the present means himself and family * _Shjt _ v 11 —Towise a capital by shares to purchase Estates , erect Dwellings thereon , and divide the Land into allot-«_ n _ froffl half-an-acre np « ards , in or near the toiras ofthe various branches of the society . The property to be the ionande freehold of the member after a term of seven years , from the _datexf location , according to his subscriptions . _ascziuxUL—saving or Deposit section , in which members not wishing to purchase are enabed to invest small sums , teeeiring interest at the rate of five percent per annum , on every sum of 10 s . and upwards so deposited . N B — £ 503 trill be advanced to the members ofthe first Section in November next , when aU persons who have and may become membersfor shares , or parts of shares , on or before the 4 th of November next , and who pay six months ' Hbscriptions in advance , or _othenvise , rrilI be eligible for an advance .
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EMIGRATION . mHE BRITISH EMPIRE PERMANENT _EMIGRATION X . AND _COLOXBATIOy SOCIETY , To secure to each Member a FARM of notless than _Tiveaty-five Acres of Laud ia AMERICA , Bg Small lF « Ky or Monthly Contributions . Losses Office : —13 , Tottenham Cour _^ "Sevr-road , St Pancras . —D . * W . Rom , Secretary . . OBJECTS . To narchase a large trac to _fland in the Western States To purchase in large quantities , for the common benefit , of America , upon which to locate Members , giving twenty- all necessary live and dead stock , and other requisites , five acres to each Share subscribed for . . supplying each member on location with the quantity re-To erect Dwellings , and clear a certain portion ofthe quired at cost price _, land on each allotment , previous to the arrival of the allottees . ..... . , r .. _ i _« _sfe To establish a depot from which to provide each family collective and separate rights and immunities . : own laud produced sufficient for their support . VALUE OF SHAKES . Each Share tobe of the ultimate _Talne of Twenty-five Pounds . To be raised by Monthly or _lFeeliy Subscriptions , as foUoas : — , A Payment ofXinepence per Week for Ten Years will amount to 19 / . 10 * . Bonus , S . 10 s . Ditto Sixpence per Week for Fifteen Tears will amount to 191 . 10 s . Bonus , 5 " . 10 s . Repayments may be made to the Society in Money , Produce , or Labour . Prospectuses , Rules , Forms of Application for Shares , aad every other information , maybe had at the Office as above . All applications by Letter , addressed to the Secretary , must be pre-paid , and enclose a postage stamp for reply , By enclosing twelve postage stamps a Copy ofthe Rules will be forwarded , post free . Forms of Entrance by enclosing three nostaze stamps . _AgenUrequiredinallpartsofGreatBritain .
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- DB . 7 ILLIERS ON MEDICAL GALVANISM . _U piVEN AWAY , " A PAMPHLET _UT on the extraordinary influence and Milt ACOXOUS PROPERTIES OF GALVANISM , not alone , but in ccmiancHon with scientific medical treatment , without which BALVASISM IS USELESS in all XERVOUS _AFFECflOKSoftueMEfl ) and BODY , mental depression , delusions , contus i on , exc it emen t , involuntary blushing ' , paralysis , enilepsv , tic dolourenx , spinal eomplamts , bunbago , gout , sciatica _^ local and rheumatic pains , incipient insanity , indigestion , liver complaints , diseases of hot climates , prostrate glands , asthma , dulness of sight or hearing , stiff faints , deficiency of nervous energy , female disorders , 4 c . Bv G . VOMERS , M D ., formerly a Surgeonin the Army ,
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HEALTH WHERE 'TIS SOUGHT ! HOLD OWAT' S PILLS . _Clcre ofa Disordered liver and Stomacfi , when in a most hopeless state . Extract ofa Letter from Mr . Matthew Harvey , of Chapel Hall , Airdrie , Scotland , dated tlie 15 th of January , 1850 . Sir , —Your valuable pills have been the means , with God ' s blessing , of restoring me to a state of perfect health , and at a time when I thought I was on the brink of the grave . I had consulted several eminent doctors , who , after doing what tbey could for me , stated thatthey considered my case as hopeless . I ought to say that Ihad been suffering from a liver and stomach complaint of long standing , which daring the last two years got so much worse , that every one considered my condition as hopeless . I , as a last resource , got a box of your pills , which soon gave relief , and by persevering in their use for some weeks , together with Tubbing night and morning yonr Ointment over my chest and stomach , and right side , I bave by their means alone got completely cured , and to tbe astonishment of myself and e ve r y bod y who knows me . _—lSisnedl Matthew _Hab--vet . —To Professor Hollo WAT .
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MES . SHAW'S BENEFIT . The Committee beg to inform those parties holding Tickets and Cash ofthe late Benefit at tha City of London Theatre , that _ihtir final meeting will take place on AVednesday evening , the 31 st inst , at the Bird Gage , Bird _Catre Walk , Bethnal Greea , when a settlement is most earnestly desired . If more convenient , the same may be paid to Mrs . Shaw , 24 , Gloucester-street , Commercial-road East , or to J . Cotton , Honorary " Secretary , 16 , Norfolk . street . New-Road . Commercial-road East .
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NOTICE To the Members of the Mottram Branch of the National Land Cempany . A PUBLIC MEETING XX vrill be held at the honse of Mr . JIABTI . V ClaTTO . V , near the New Inn , HdUingKorth , on Sunday , July 28 th , at Two o'CIock , when every member is expected to attend . By order of the Committee . Martw Clmtoh _, Secretary .
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TO TAILORS . By approbation of Her Majesty Queen Hcforia , and H . R . IL Prince Albert .
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CHALLENGE FOR £ 500 STERLING . THAT DR . GREER'S SIXPENNY PAMPHLET ON MEDICAL REFORM ( which will be sent free for six Queen-head stamps ) , contains the most successful medical aud surgical practice since 1814 , yet published by any living man . 'Deab Sib , —After many eminent _daetors gave me over , even in the infirmary , where their best skill and medicine were used , till all declared it was impossible I could survive , as my lungs , they said , were as ulcerated as my neck , breast , aad arms ,, which bear many scrofulous marks , your pills cured me perfectly ; grateful to you and thankful to God . Philip _Tdbxie , 80 , Bridgegate-street , Glasgow . —To Dr . Greer . ' Mr . John Monfries , 29 , Simon-square , Edinburgh , agent . More agents wanted , at home and abroad , for these Genuine , Hygeian , Universal , Vegetable Medicines , which Dr . Greer , surgeon , improved in 1831 , after he had resigned the professorship to the British College of Health , London , ( see preface to _Mobisokiana of that date , ) when Dr . G . received the honour of being enrolled at the head of archi v es of t ha t Co l le g e , b y the l a t e g reat , but ill used , Morison , the Hygeist . ' Apply to Jahes Gieeb _, M . D _., P . H . S _., of the Scottish Hvceias iKSTrroiioM , Glasgow . ¦
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DEAFNESS AND SINGING IN TUB EARS INSTANTLY CURED WITHOUT PAD ? OR OPERATION . rj'HE APPLICATIONS OF DR ; PEARJ- SON'S wonderful discovered remedy in' aU cases-of Deafness enables sufferers of either sex , even an infant or most aged persons , to hear ; a watch tick at arms length and general conversation , although having been affireted with dea & ess for thirty or forty jears , _WitUOUt the use of any instrument , or possibility of causing pain or danger to a child many of whom boru deaf , with persons of all ages whose cases had been , by the - old treatment , pronounced incurable , after the use of this new discovery have had then
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CAUTION ! RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED YfnHOUT A TRUSS !! DR . DE ROOS still continues to supply the afflicted with his celebrated cure for RUPTURE tiie efficacy of which for ; both . sexes , andaUages _. i s _now too well _estabnshed to need comment . It is perfectly free from danger , causes no pain , confinement , or Inconvenience , and will be sent free , with _fifll instructions & C rendering feilnre impossible , on receipt of 7 s . in caskor by Post Office order , payable at _the-Holborn Office . ' A grea t number of Trusses hav e b e e n l ef t behind b v persons cure * , as trophies of the immense success of this remedy . -. ¦ ¦ uvwss " " s t a » ' Lette ™ ° ta 9 niiy ehoula ci > _^ _n two postage
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Education for the Millions , ; _TflW DAJ JS [ PUBUSli _^ , yXy [ vf- _'lib . X . * . OP ¦ ¦ ¦ . •;¦• ::-:: ] ¦ " < ' . . '; " THE HATI 0 NA _£ _HSTpm " : _' PBICE ONE : PENNY . V '' - ¦ * .. ' The objeot of the Proprietor , iPisuiou » 0 'CoH « OB , Esq ., M . P ., is to place , within the reaoh of , the poorest classes tbat Political and Social Information of which they are at present _deptived _hj ' the Government" Taxes on _Knowledge / ' ¦ ' In addition to a . serial history , of . tho "• " Life and Adventures of _Fsabgus O ' CewoB from his Boyhood , " it will contain Essays by thai best writers on all the leading Questions ' ofthe day , written in an earnest , honest , and impartial spirit ; Tales and Sketches , illustrative ofthe working of our present Social and Political System ; _Bkfiewgaridabstraots of New Books ofa useful and instructive character , and Miscellaneous Information , suited alike forthe amusement and instruction of the fireside ;
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THfc CHEAPEST EDITION EVES _rUULUUEO . - _Pricels . 6 d ., . f _,,.. ; . . A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate of tb * Author _. of _PAINE'S _POLITICAL WORKS ,
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_FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH . Price ls . I'd , per Box , THIS excellent Family FILL is a Medicine of long-tried efficacy for correcting all disorders of tbe stomach and bowels , tbe common symptoms of which are _costiveness , flatulency , _sjasms _, loss of appetite , sick head ache , giddiness , sense of fulness after meals , dizziness of the eyes , drowsiness , and p a i ns in t he s to mac h an d bowels , indigestion , producing a torpid state of the liver , and a cons eq uen t in a c t ivity o f t he bow e l s , causing a-disorganisation of every function of the frame , will , in . this most excellent preparation , hy a little perseverance , be effectually removed . Two or three doses will convince the afflicted ofits salutary effects . The stomach will speedily regain its strength ; a healthy action of the liver , bow e ls , and kidneys will rapidly take place ; and instead of listlessness , heat , p ain , and jaundiced appearauce , streng t h , activity , and renewed health , will be the quick result of taking this medicine , according to the directions accompanying each box . . ' .- '
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NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . OFFICES , 14 , SOUTH A MPTON STR EE T , STR A ND , ' LONDON . ' The Executive Committee hereby announce tho following meetings :. . -. _- ¦ . ' On Sunday afternoon , July 28 th , the Metropolitan Delegate Council will meetat 26 , . Golden _4 ade . On Sunday evening , ( same date ) , Mr . Davia will _IfCtWe atthe King and Queen , _Foley-street , on "Currencv Capital , ahd Labour . " ¦ ' * On the same evening , the Marylebone Locality will meet at the Princess Royal , _Circus-sreet . . _¦ . - ¦ ¦ . On Monday evening , July 29 th , a . meeting will be held at the Charter Coffec-honso , Newton _^ treet _Hii rh Holborn .
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The _boildiso for the . exhibition , of 1851 is to be made in Birmingham and the neighbourhood . Messrs . Fox , Henderson and Co . ; of the London works , at Smethwick , havo the contract for the iron framework ; Messrs . Glance , of Spon-lane , will supply the enormous quantity of glass required ; and tho tubes aro also entrusted to a firm in the district . Theso three materials constitute , in fact , the entire building . PltOBAMS AND IiBIIBBS OF _AdMINISTBATIOI * ( InE usd ) . —The number of probates ahd letters of administration granted in Ireland in seven years 1847 ; has
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'Z •'" . '" ! ' . ' . Oa Saturday ,- 3 r _3 August . ' ' . a _-i'V- ' - ; -: Will _appsar , the'flrst number of the New Series of _^ i ft ? jH _¦'; vB " =:. _vlI-., 'fi _* I S H M' - > A ¦ ¦ Ni 'X ' - '; The « , ' Iri » hman . ' ? will be conducted oh the same principlesa _«' . befor '? ,. andwUIcont _^ nue to prove . Itself _«« fearleM and uncompromising advocate , of ne rights of tne Irish people ; _~ ; _'" _ ' : ' - '" ¦ f _-...- . ¦«• ¦¦ ' i . ' '; _'« r _« i _' _»' _i Subscrfntlont ( In all _oaws payable In _advanee _)—Yeawy , illsod j Half-yearly , 10 s lOdj Quarterly ,, 5 s 5 d ; Stogie a sub _«« ribe « Wthe former Series will receive the . tapei _'TroommimleattonstODe addressed to _Wtoisi _, _^ BAi ; atthe office ot ' " Irishman , " No . 4 , \ _An & _etea _street , ( near _Dame-strset ) , Dublin . .. ¦•¦ ' .. _
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- WORKS IN PREPARATION , '„ .. ; . . ¦ _- Br ERNEST "JONES , f ., =:. _..,:..,. ; . . .-¦ 0 _/^ i _^ _te ' 2 _!^' ' _*^ > _# _? _W' _' _-- _' To be _published _. ' _uhlform witfi _^ the Magaswes , ' on' the - - . f .- -. '; 1 st of September , _, : , -,. . - m H E N E WX % , & . _» f » f >' X A Political Pbom / fdettfc ftteito the people of . THE UNITED QUEEND 0 H , . ¦ ' ¦ •' : ' _-. ' ' ¦ ' , ; - _^ M ) or ¦ ¦ •' ,-. : THE UNITED STATES , ¦ With copious notes , addressed especially to the ¦ ,: ¦ : ' ¦¦ , . Working Classes . ' "¦' , OnthelBtof Ootoberv . - - : . d : bldag on c hue oh , D A Beiigious _; Poem , dedicated to
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, BANNOCKBUEN . In reply to the-invitation of my friend , Henry Kay , to attend the meeting at Bannockburn , on the 26 th of August , I beg to say that all other , business being laid aside , I will have great pleasure in making one ofthe congregation on the occasion , when I shall hope to find the Scottish mind of the present day , as energetic as in those days of which Bannockbum will remind them . Feaiiqus O'Conwok .
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POMAIT OF -m EGBERT PEEL , . * Notice to Subscribers . — This splendid likeness , beautifully Engraved on Steel , of the deceased Statesman , is now ready , and may be had of any of the Agents , at the same price as the Portraits previously published .
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Mr . _Esnbst _Jotnts , —AU letters and communications for Mr . Ernest Jones to be directed for bim , during his absence . from town , to-62 , Queen _' s-road , Bayswater , London .. . _KoTiiNGUiK , —Mr . J . SwM begs to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums , ( sent herewith ) viz , : — For Winding-up Fund—Mr . Cox , 3 d ; Mr . Dalton , 2 d j Mr . Mellow , ' ls ; Mr . Elson , fid ; Mr . Lee , Is Mr . Barton , 6 d .- _—rForR . H . HorrEB—From the Eagle Tavern , 2 s 6 d . — -For JIbs . _Licr—From the Eagle Tavern , 2 s 6 d . _Ds . _M'Doiuu ,. —We are requested to state that Dr . M ' Douall has removed to Ashton ; his address in future will be "Park Parade , _Ashton Tunder-Lyne . " Having a Board of ifealth to attend to , Dr . M'Douall eanuOt , at present , accept Invitations to lecture , ' or attend' publio meetings . Friends disposed ' to assist Dr . M'Douall in his effort tq establish himself in his own profession will oblfge by forwarding any pecuniary aid intended for that purposo to the care of Mr . Aitken , schoolmaster , Ashtonunder-Lyne . The _Lacei Fond . —H . Wilks , Secretary , _acknowledges the
following subscriptions : —City Ladies Shoemakers , per Grpenslade , JB 2 ; Mr . Layton , « d . ; Mr . Farey ' _s book , King and Queen , 7 s . Sd . _; Collected , John-street , July 2 nd , 3 s OH ; E . Farcy , Cd . ; J . _Davies _, 6 d . ; G . Davics , Gd . ; J . Norton , Gd . J . J . L «—Received . _Wjc'Kat , Ediub ' urgh . —Tlie notice-would be chargeable as au advertisement .-.: Polish _Retoobe Fond . — Committee . of the Tower Hamlets Reform Association , 10 s ; Charles Duddnage , 2 s Gd j R o ber t Perr y , ls ; Philip Randall , 2 s 6 d ; Preston , 6 d ; Per Smith Barber , ls ; Taliboy , tobe continued while in employ , ls ; C , Eagerton , Marshall-street , 2 s ; William Cotland , Leicester , 3 s ; Hemmings , Cheltenham , Is ; Bu c kin g ham , ditto , ls ; _Bullas , ditto , ls ; Wilks , ditto , Is ; Algar , ditto , 3 d ; Eisiock , fid . ; Liverpool , per 0 . E „ M ., 9 s 2 d It . Snuggs , is ; a Jacobin , Penrith , 6 d ; A Friend to Liberty , 2 b Gd ; A few journeymen tailors , York , per Thomas Nmvry , 4 s 3 d ; Roberts , 6 d ; Stourbridge , 6 d ; G . W . Holland ; 2 s 9 d ; Shoemakers Rising Sun , Calendar-yard , per Brown , 5 s ; Morneig , 6 d ; Sherrard , Gd ; Moy , the slave , per Brown , 2 s 6 d ; Bezer _' s book , 2 s Id ; J . T „ 3 d ; _Pestofer , _Hare-street , per . Stranger , 5 s . . -
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PREVENTION OF COLLIERY MURDERS , At the very moment , that the lordly and wealthy owners of Coal Mines are engaged in the attempt to defeat an efficient plan of Government inspection , forthe purpose of preventing accidents in Coal Mines , a timely and terrible warning to the Legislature of the necessity for Buch a measure has occurred . On Tuesday morning , out of twenty persons who descended Mr . Sweden ' s " pit , " at
Commonado , near Airdrie , nineteen perished instantaneously . " AH ' of a sudden a terrific explosion occurred , " which not only caused this appalling loss of life , but " shattered and destroyed all the implements in the pit . " One maiv alone escaped . Ho fwaB standing near the bottom ofthe shaft when he heard the explosion , and suddenly threw himself down , to allow the fiery storm to pass over . On rising he found the buckets which communicated with the surface shattered , bat finding a piece of
wood _^ he inserted it in the links of the chain , and having given the signal , was drawn up alive , but incapable of giving ; _smy distinct account of the cause of a catastrophe b y which the whole of the party with which he descended the pit a few minutes before were converted into a heap of dreadfully : charred , disfigured , and mutilated corpses . For nearly twenty years this subject has been under the consideration of the _Leeislature . _Fluent inquiries have been made , and « blue books compiled on the _subjoot , in which tho extent of tho evil , arid the fomenttive necessity for Legislative interference were
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distinctly enunciated , ' and . strongly enforced . Biitfiapithy onfthe one hand , . _^ andf selfishness on _^ iheToiber . have ,. : heretofore ; , combined , to prevent any thing , like an ; earnest attempt : to carry out these recommendations ; and , not the least- influential cause of this lamentable delay % 4 been . _tho . warit of any combined and [ _dtieww _^ qment on the part of tho , ope-Tativfi _. _minewinemselves . _,, . . ,. .. .... » ,.. ,
; i Qflate years , however , they have shown themselves alive to the paramount importance ofa question ; which affects not only their , own lives and safety , but the welfare oftheir . wives and . _cJiildr _? P »; _, who by these sudden * nd desolating explosions are liable at any moment to be rendered widows ' and orphans , and to be thrown on the cold charity of the Poor Law officials . !
A bill providing for the Inspection of Coal Mines was accordingly prepared and brought into the House of Lords hy Earl Carlisle , who , in his speech , outlined the nature ofthe evil against which he wished to provide , and the very moderate nature of the provisions of the measure itself . The noble lord was peculiarly desirous to conciliate the extensive owners of coal mines , to whom he addressed himself ; but his bland tone , and really amiable disposition , did not avert a storm of lordly indignation atthe bare idea of such an interference
with the rights of capital as was . involved m the proposed measure ; Lord Londonderry might have been , a Manchester mill-master for the nonce , so warmly did he expound and defend the Canons of the devilish gospel of Political Economy , which makes Property _, everything , and Man nothing . . ' The objects ofthe bill , as originally proposed , were , to-pro vide for a : due inspection of the mines , by officers appointed by the Government " at all reasonable times j" to give these Inspectors the power of reporting to Government where they found the ventilating , and other working arrangements of the mines , were deficient , and to _require-the preparation and production of proper and complete plans
and sections of the whole of the works , wherever such plans and sections do not now exist . It will be seen ,, therefore , that the Inspectors were precluded from any direct or personal interference , however imminent the danger might be . They were rigidly restricted to a report to the Home Office , and a statement to , the coal master , as to the nature of the defects they had observed . They had no power whatever to enforce any immediate remedy , . by which an accident might be prevented , and thus'the Capitalist was left to his own . discretion , as to whether he would "do what he liked with hia ownv " . by working the pit without the necessary precautions , after he had received warning from the Inspector that it was dangerous to do so .
If he chose ; to disregard these warnings , however , there was one clause which would have brought such conduct under the _purvieu of the law . Hitherto it is well known ' that Coroners' inquests on colliery accidents have been the most contemptible and hollow of all mockeries . A jury , suddenly assembled , _hearB as witnesses overseers , viewers , and others , all of whom have a direct interest in smothering inquiry . They , one and all , _swear ( of course ) that the pit was inthe very best working
conditionthat they cannot form the least idea how the accident happened , unless , indeed , it . was through the carelessness of the , men themselves . The _coroner sums up , and the jury forthwith return a verdict of" Accidental Death ; " and there the matter rests . The pitmen aro . murdered by the neglect of proper precaution on the partof the owners of the pits , and then the murderers and their agents malign their victims , and . charge them with what in fact amounts to deliberate suicide .
To put au end . to such juggling tricks as these , the fifth clause ofthe original bill provided that no inquest should be held without two days previous notice to the Home _Secretary . This would have enabled the Inspector for the district . to have attended the inquest ; and if any report had been made and disregarded with respect to a pit which was afterwards the scene of an accident , to have brought home the blame of such accident to its real authors .
This clause was , in fact , the only efficient protection to the pitmen contained in the bill . It would have substituted a bona fide for a sham inquest . It would have compelled the coal masters to pay attention to , and to act upon tbe reports of the Inspectors , at the risk of being found guilty of manslaughter , or culpable homicide . The proprietors of mines in the Upper House , succeeded in striking it out , and if it is not restored by the Commons , the bill will be almost useless ; practically , wo may say entirely so .
As further i indications of the animus by Which the Lords were actuated , we may notice that the original second clause gave the inspectors the power of visiting the pits at all reasonable times . The Lords have added the words , " so as not to impede nor obstruct the working of the colliery . " Now , it _^ appears that the Inspector . cannot go down into a pit when the work is going on—the only useful time for him to do so—without in some degree impeding the work . It is clear , that if the machinery is employed in lowering and raising the Inspector , it cannot be at the same time hoisting up tubs
of coal . His going down at all , therefore , may , under this proviso , be legally objected to by any adverse overseer or manager , True , the _Inspector , when once down , will not in terfere in the slightest degree with the people at work ; but the very fact of his descending at all will , for the time being , stop the sending of coals tothe "bank ; '' and , as . Inspectors will no doubt be looked , upon with anything but friendly eyes ' ¦ general , we are not going too farin anticipating that the whole machinery of the Bill , if it ever passes into law , will , in very many cases , he rendered a mere caput mbrtmim . The Inspectors will be
there , but they will only be allowed to perform their duties on the sufferance of capricious , adverse , obstinate , or interested proprietors and managers . If the bill passes in this shape , it will scarcely be worth the paper it is printed upon . A fine of £ 10 is to be imposed on any one who obstructs the Inspectors ; buta manager , who has refused to allow ; an inspection , ou being summoned for that refusal ,, will always be able to point , to the words we have quoted as a sufficient justification ; and when we remember the intimate " relations which in a coal mining district subsist between coal
masters and " Justices of the Peace , " we may be pardoned ifor remembering the Scotch proverb , that " hawks dinna pike out hawks ' e ' en . " The £ 10 fine will be as great a sham as the coroners'inquests . But even in the case of the fines nominall y imposed , something more than we find in the bill is needed to make them real . . There are two penalties imposed—one not exceeding £ 20 , and another not exceeding £ 10 . But , as no _mwiimMwis fixed , it will be in the nower of
tne magistrates , who are almost all colliery proprietors , to make the fine so light that the party convicted will , laugh at jt . There is nothing to prevent the magistrates froni fixing it at a shilling in one case , and sixpence in another , The Miners' deputation , now in Loudon , ask—we think most justly—that a minimum of £ 10 should be fixed in tho case of Uve £ 20 penalty , and that not loss than £ o be levied where parties havo rendered themselves liable to a fine of £ 10 .
If Parliament is to _logislato at aU on this subject , lot it be in good faith ; tho _moA-e . fact of its having boou ukon up at last , after long delay , proves tliat its importance _$ m m longer be denied , or _th _© n « wa % itW atta ) i «_ with it evaded . In the speech of the Karl A Cakmsu * , however , we find the « i _» i _VfiuJ evil very _nadeqHately _atfttad , _'i ' _^ _Au _, & his _tordslup , _upwavdi Gf _1 Q 0 _^ _M by time * _Mmb 1845 j k Mi Wm mi j ia 1047 , ft pwwai } _^ _^ _* 4 ?
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* persons . been multip seven or ten fold ; they : would have been nearer the truth . .: The' following table of _ddathB by accidents in coal mines in the first five months of . the present year , and which , has been- carefully compiledfrom the columns of the Mining Journal , will _flho . w the wild waste of life which actually takes place under the present system : — z . Z- . '¦ : ' . ' ;' }"' . ACCIDENT S IS MINES , TAKEN FROM THE "MINING JOURNAL , " FROM JANUARY « th to , MAY 25 _ih , 1850 . 1 _fcl _3 _g _§ $ : 'f % i H zv _> _? i * Januarys .... 1 3 1 „ „ - S „• 12 .... 1 „ 2 » 1 4 „ 19 .... „ „ 3 i ,. i > „ 26 .... 1 1 5 „ 18 Feb . 2 .... „ 2 2 „ „ * „ 9 .... 9 2 . 4 „ „ 15 „ IS .... 4 S 1 2 - 3 IS ,. 33- 1 1 „ 2 4 March 2 .... 1 10 4 „ 2 17 „ . 9 .... 2 2 „ 16 .... 16 1 5 „ 4 2 S „ 23 .... „ 1 3 „ 4 8 „ 30 .... „ 4 4 „ 1 9 April 6 .... . 4 „ 3 „ 1 8 . „ 13 .... 3 6 5 „ „ 14 20 .... : 73 2 „ -2 14 . 27 .... 2 2 5 „ 4 ' 13 ' Ma , 4 .... 1 2 1 ,, 4 8 „ 11 .... 1 „ 6 . ,. 1 _» „ 18 .... „ 4 „ „ 4 3 „ 25 .... 2 . „ 1 . ii 1 _ 4 _ " _^~ ' g 8 47 g 8 2 35 . 195
We have no doubt that numerous other cases have occurred which have , from various causes , escaped publicity ;¦ but here we find , ia less than five months , a total loss of nearly two hundred lives from causes , which , we have no hesitation in saying , are every one of them preventible ; We have , indeed , only to contrast the number of accidents that take place in tho mines of this country with those which occur in thosefofMulheim / the most fiery mine on the Continent , in order to see the criminality of our past neglect , and the imperative
necessity- of vigorous and . effective measures in future . Mr . Tremenherb states , that the number of killed in the _[ Mulheim Collieries ia one in two thousand , while in England it ia one in one hundred persons . What is the cause . ofthis startling difference ? Why , that rigid Governmental inspection baa been instituted in the one case , while the capitalists have been allowed to . make money in the other , heedless of the wholesale slaughter and misery caused by their reckless and heartless conduct . ' ¦ '' - ¦ ' ..
We earnestly hope that the defects we have pointed out'in the bill , as sent down from the Lords , will be remedied , and that a foundation may thus be laid this session , for measures which will still further protect the lives of a body of men , to whom this country is more indebted than to any other _clasB of workers . Our manufacturing and mercantile greatness rests upon our coal and iron mines , and they whose labours Bet in motion the mighty engines and the gigantic machinery , which makes Great Britain known iri every portion of the habitable gl obe , deserve pre-eminently the protecting care ofthe State , while pursuing their ' arduous and trying , hut moBt valuable avocation .
How The Poor Are Made And Kept Poor. It ...
HOW THE POOR ARE MADE AND KEPT POOR . It will be remembered ; that Mr . SiANar succeeded , in the early part of the Session , in obtaining the appointment of a Select Committee to consider and suggest means of removing obstacles , and giving facilities to safe investments for the savings of the middle and
working classes . The importance of such an inquiry must be obvious to all who have given the subject the slightest consideration . In no other country in Europe has there been a more palpable and deplorable absence of facilities for safe and attainable investments by frugal and prudent persons - of small incomes than in England . The whole tendency of our Legislature has been to encourage the accumulation of vast fortunes in the hands of the
few , and to discourage , in every possible way , the desire or the habit of self-helpful foresight and independence among the great mass of the community . Indeed , with the exception of tlie Savings Banks , it is only very recently that Parliament recognised the existence ot persons , or attempted to give them any protection whatever . B y the Friendly Societies Act , a timid and temporising provision was made , through the means of which a small number of persons might , under great restrictions and difficulty , obtain protection to a very limited extent ; but as soon as the
Government saw that the working classes were availing themselves , in large numbers , of a stray expression in a clause of that act , to combine their savings for the purpose of purchasing real property , the act was at once rendered more stringently prohibitive of their attempts to raise themselves in the social scale . The oligarchy who rule us , are determined , as far as in them lies , that the industrious classes of England
shall be socially , as well as politically , slaves . As to the Savings Banks , we have frequently shown how they have acted as a cunningly contrived piece of machinery to induce the slaves to provide the oligarchy with the means of rivetting their own chains . It it very doubtful indeed , if the Government of this country could have maintained its hostile attitude to progressive political and financial reforms in the manner it has done for the last
fifteen or sixteen years , if it had not had the £ 30 , 000 , 000 invested with the Savings Banks to trade upon . Recent events have shown the worthles 8 nesa of the securities these institutions were supposed to offer to depositors , and the alterations proposed b y the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER , are not such as to cause any increase of confidence on the part of the labouring classes . Limited as were tho benefits derived from them , under their best aspect , they will be still more attenuated in future . -...- :.
In any case , however , neither Saving Banks nor Friendl y Societies present what is desiderated . The Select Committee in the report they have -just made , truly remark , that investments in land , or landed securities ; are much desired by the-middle and working clas s es ,. but . tho uncertainty and complexi ty of titles , and the length and cost of conveyances together with the cost of stamps , place these investments geuerally beyond the reach of these parties . ' They recommend , as a re > medy , the simplification of titles , and the shortening of conveyance *) , by which thev
tniuK tne greatest benefit would be conferred , both upon the owners of land , and upon the smaller capitalists desirous of purchasing land in small portions . The present system virtually shuts out the great bulk of the population from , any stance of owning as much land as will bury them in , Upon one topic—to which we have frequently and earnestl y adverted , as lying at t he very basis of co-operative industrial efforts tor the social improvement of the masses—tha _beleot _Committee have dwelt very fully , and we are happy to add , they endorse theopU _mons we have long advocated
. . The defective state of the law of partnership w thtt country is a disgrace to our jurisprudence . It _iuterposea no barrier whatever te the concoction aud perpotratiou of deliberate plans for swindling * while it throwB _insurmo _« nt _» We _'( _ib _4 t _^\ _lt ) a ' iu the way of any well . T _OWtt m _& _Mn _ttiforta «* tno part of _tha _labouring 0 _^ fo _impwvo their own con-< MUWk Ti \ _o _flwwu _^ hi _obtain cases , empowered V _$ _& _M < _dMNftWt V > UwAt tho _« , „ % of part . _NVr _^ . 'j _% _wm \ _a _^ _donv oxeroisecL , involves w _WWem WW greater _exDonse than the _onlr of
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 27, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_27071850/page/4/
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