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THE 80RTHEM STAB SATURDAY, APKIt 27, 1850.
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NATION AL BENEFIT SOC I ET Y , Enrolled , pursuan t to statute 9 th and _lOOx-Victoria , c . 27 . THE ABOYE SOCIETY , as amended aud legalised , was formerl y known as the '* "HA . TI 05 . Ali _COJOfKiiTIVB BENEFIT . SOCIETY : ; the managers of vfWehhave long seen the necessity of _lecalnrotection fcr tbe-secwity of its members . In framing the _newTales , care has heen taken to equalise the _expeno ! ar _£ rith uie _reccipts , » thatthe permanent success ofthe _bociety-siould be heyond all doubts . . ' . ' „ * TA * Society is _divitleatnto three sections , to meet the necessities < ad requirements ofaU classes of mechanics ana MXMrtrs , from eighteen years of age to forty _, is _roixowrse is the scale of fees to be paid at weekly , _allowance in sickness . ENTBASCE : — S . _O . _ji ™ Istsection . 2 nd section . 3 nd section . First Section 15 ° " _^ s . d . s . d . s . d . _SocondSection .. ' - _J ? X " _FxomlSSeSt .... 3 0 .... 2 0 .... 1 0 Third Section 5 « _ 24—27 .... 6 0 .... 4 0 .... 2 0 _ 27-50 .... 9 0 .... 6 0 .... S 0 members death . _wiees death . . _ 38—33 .... 12 0 .... S 0 .... 4 0 1 £ s . d . £ s . _d . — S 3—36 .... 15 0 .... 10 0 .... 5 0 First Section .... 15 ° JJ I _„ „ _ S 6—33 .... 18 0 .... 12 0 .... 6 0 SecondSecUon .. 10 0 0 » V _" — -38—40 .... 21 0 .... 14 0 . „ . 7 0 Third Section .... 6 0 0 3 u u MONTHLYceSTMBDTIOSS . _. .. ,, First Section , 3 s . Gd . Second Section , 2 s . 46 * . Third Section , ls . M . , The Society meets every Monday evening , at the Two Chairmen , Wardour-sireet , _S _^ _'J _^& J _^ _bVSSto _^ _Tnafion _^ an oe had _. _andinembersenroUeC Country friends , applying for roles , can have them for « ardcci , Dy enclosing _^ _effi _^ _ater _^ _operativeBenefitSocietv , _who-liavc paid all dues _^ _J _^^ _t _*? _^ _" _^ 1819 , « an at once be transferred to either section ef the Nafional _B _^ a _^ _TJ _^^ _SSffi . inform the _Agents and _suh-secretariesof the late National _«*¦*<»• _* _£££ _^ | _^* _lf £ _J _3 KsSde _£ SS " gX General Secretary of the immher of members likely «> _**^ J _? J 2 _££ _** _£ _ _° l _^ _Slorn _^ _a . _tYoo , on appUcation to the bBceme agents , or to form branches ofthe new society , can be supplied with every _^ _Searetarj . _njeuclosuiffa _P" _^^ _2 _? « SS & Ut * _y . at , _Regent-street , _lamoetk
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THE CHEAPEST EDITION EVER rCBUSHED . Price Is . Cd ., A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate of the Author , of FAME'S POimGAL WORKS . Now Beady , a New Edition ot flu _O'GOHHOB'S WORK OH SHALL FARMS * Sold by J . Watson , Queen ' s Head Passage , PaternOStM row , London ; A . Heywood , Oldham-street , Manchester , snd Love and Co ., 5 , Xelson-street , Glasgow . And b \ aU BookseUers in Town and Country .
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PROCEEDINGS IX PARLIAMENT . A PUBLIC MEETING , Convened bv tbe _Pbottsio . vai . Committee of the NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION , will be _heldJ . t _£ e LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE J 0 H _£ STREET , TOTTEKHAM-COURT-ItOAD , on TUESDAY EVENING NEXT , _Apwl 30 th , 1 S 50 , for the purpose of Eeviewing the Peoceedikgs is Pabmamest during the past W 6 _Ct ___ G . Julian Hara « v , G . _VT . M . Reynolds , "W . J . Ternon , Gerald Massey , and others , are expected to address the meeting . . Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock . ADMISSION FREE .
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DE _AFNESS . — Important _Notice . — Mr . FRANCIS , the eminent aurist who has devoted his attention solely to DISEASES ofthe EAR , continues to effect the most astonishing cures in aU those inveterate cases wliich have long been considered hopeless , and « t thirtv or forty years standing , enabling the patient to hear a whisper , withont pain or operation , effectually removing deafness , noises in th » head , and aU diseases of the aural canal . Mr . F . attends daUy from 10 until 6 , at his consulting rooms , 6 , Beaufort-buildings , Strand , London _^ Persons at a distance can state their case hy letter . Adyice to the poor , Monday , Wednesday , and Friday , from C tiU 8 in the _evenins . ¦
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TO THB _EMBAttTiASSED . THERE are thousands of persons who have long struggled against the force of misfortune , but few are aware that , by very recent Acts , all small traders owing debts not exceeding £ 390 , _farmers , private and professional gentlemen , and all others . , owing to any amount ( the latter without any publicity ) , can be entirely raised from their difficulties at small expense , and without imprisonment or bankruptcy . All such Mr . _Westox begs will apply to him at 6 , Essex-street , Strand , by letter , or ¦ _personaUy . Office hours from 10 till 2 , and 6 till 8 . N . B . —The above Acts stay all Palace Court , County Conrt , and other proceedings . Clergymen need not submit to sequestrations .
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EMIGRATION TO _SORTU AMERICA . WT APSCOTT AND CO ., SHIPPING and Emigration Agents , Liverpool , continue to despatch First Class -Ships—To SEW YORK—every Five Days . To NEW ORLEANS—everv Ten Days . To BOSTON and PHILADELPHIA—every Fifteen Days . And occasionally to BALTIMORE , CHARLESTON , SAVANNAH , QUEBEC , and St JOHNS . Drafts for any amount , at si g ht , on New York , payable in any part ofthe United States . Tapscott ' s "Enugrant's Guide" sent free , on receipt of Four Postage Stamps . G _ _ p Abont twenty-eight thousand pers ailed for tlie New World , in Tapscott ' s line of American _askets _. in 1849 .
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LAND AND COTTAGES , The property of an independent gentleman . There in now a capital opportunity on the Dibdes Hni estate , Chalfont , St . Giles , Rucks ( tivo miles from O'Connorville ) , owing to the removal of the principal tenant to the new estate near London . _Eight acres , well known as the _veiy best field in tbe parish of Chalfont ( as will be certified by those excellent judges , Whitsey , Roe , and Page , from _Northampton ) , with extensive right of Common , to . gether with wo four-roomed cottages , built against each ether , may be had immediately for £ _oln . year . But the _freeholder being anxious to honour laboes ( being himself 3 wobkisg gentleman ) , and to see as many happy families as possible on his estate , he will accept nothing short of £ 2 r > for twelve months' rent in advance , if a rich man wants the whole ; but he will require only £ S for half year ' s rent in advance , if a man takes only fonr acres and four rooms 5 while he will be satisfied with only £ 2 , for one quarter's rent as asecurity , from any sober , honest , industrious , agricultural labourer , taking only two acres and two rooms .
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A BLESSIXG TO THOUSANDS ! RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY ASD _TERMASENTLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS !! EVERY SUFFERER FROM RUPTURE ( Single or Double , and of every variety ) is earnestly inTited to-write , or pay 3 > r . BARKER a -risit , as in every case he guarantees tliem a perfect cure . During an extensive practice his remedy has been entirely successful , as in man ) thousands of cases , he has receivedfrom patients , and many eminent members ol the medical profession , amply prove . It is applicable to both sexes old and young ; easy and painless in use , and most certain in effect . The remedy is sent post free on receipt of Cs . Gd . by post-office order , or cash , by Dr . ALFRED BARKER , -18 , Liverpool-street , King _' s-Cross , London , where he may be consulted daily from !) till 1 , and 5 till 9 , Sundays , 9 till 1 , only . ' Hundreds of testimonials and trusses have heen left hehind by persons cured , as trophies of the immense success of this remedy , whieh Dr . Barker will willingly give to any requiring them after a trial of it
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• - —The skin , thongh lovely fair , May quickly fade for want of needful care . ' THE PRIMARY CAUSE of the numerous DISEASES and Affections of the Skin is an impaired condition of the health , arising from a disordered state of the stomach , liver , and bowels . From these _causes the blood becomes corrupt , digestion impaired , the liver inactive , and the bowels constipated . Hence arise blotches and eruptions of the skin , bilious aflections , heartburn , sick headacbe , irritabiliry , spasms , flatulency , pain after eating , nervous debility , Sx . To correct all the crudities ofthe vital fluids , strengthen the stomach , remove indigestion and liver complaints , relieve the bowels , invigorate the system , and tranqmlise the nerves . DIL SCOTT'S FAMILY APERIEXT TABLETS wiU be found an -unfailing remedy . It is a medicine of pleasant flavour and _possesses extraordinary virtnes from its peculiar pre ! paration . With children , also , its effects « re most astonishing ; it speedily and effectuall y removes worms . Sold in hoses at 2 s . 9 d . Agents , Hudd and Co ., 151 , Strand . May be had ( free by post ) , and of aU dealers in patent mel _dieines .
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YOURSELF :- _"WRAT YOU ARE , AND WHAT FIT FOR . * To see ourselves as others see us . '—Basse . MISS GRAHAM continues with amazing success to delineate persons' characters from their * handwriting , pointing out gifts , defects , talents , tastes , affections , and many other things hitherto _unsnsjtected . , Persons dedrons of knowing themselves , or their friends , mnst send a specimen of the writer , mentioning sex and age , or supposed age , of the writer , and inclosing thirteen uncut postage stamps , to MBS GRAHAM , 6 , Ampton-street , Gray ' _s-inn-road , London , and they wiU J _^ e _eive a graphic , minute , and interesting written _de-^ _g _«« _M ofwha t the writer reall y is , and for what _pnrm _^ _bwS ° _- _f imonial 8 * daay received , and _thefa-^ _L f _« _Srf te _^ ° _^^ J _^ _nrecdvedfrom an _S _^ fL _^ _S & P * _' - ' 1 C 0 nsi < 1 « ?< _" _* delineation 01 character-a perfect masterpiece .. Hadyon _bemat-hrenoof
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NATIONAL CHARTER LEAGUE . The Friends of Political Progress are informed tliat A PUBLIC MEETING J \ . _WUl be held in the NATIONAL HALL , 242 , HOLBORN , On Wednesday Evening , Mat 1 st , Por 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 be present , and address the meeting . DECLARATION . The League rejects all other than Moral agencies for the accomplishment of its designs . t _^ ff" 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 TUE PEOPLE'S CHARTER . Committee Rooms , 5 , Snow Hill , City , April 23 rd .
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On Monday next will be published , wiih the Magazines ma Mat , No . XII . op THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW Of BRITISH and FOREIGN POLITICS , HISTORY and LITERATURE . Edited by G . JULIAN HARNEY . CONTENTS : L Refusal of Parliament to repeal fhe iniquitous Taxes on Kuowledge . 2 . Rural Slavery—A Voice from the County of Kent . 3 . Democracy defended in reply to tlie _' Latter-Day ' ravings of Thomas Carlyle . ( Continued . ) 4 . Universal Suffrage and the Ordermongers . 5 . Two Tears ofa Revolution . lSiS—18 id . ( Continued . 6 . Oe Flotte , Vidal , and Carnot 7 . Birthday of Maximilian Robespierre . 8 . " Respectable" Journalism . 9 . Literature : — "Historic Pages from the French Revolution . " By Louis Blanc . 10 . Letter from France . 11 . Editor ' s Address onthe conclusion of Vol . I . 12 . Title Page , Dedication , and Index , to Vol . I .
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Now publishing in Numbers at 3 d ., and Parts at Cd . THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO THE GOLDEN LAND . _HALIFORNIA _^ _JTS PAST HISTORY ; ITS PRESENT POSITION : ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS : with a minute and authentic account of THE DISCOVERY OF THE GOLD _REGION , AND THE SUBSEQUENT IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS . In the course of the _IVorkwill be Given PLAIN DIRECTIONS TO EMIGRANTS
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3 fATIOA AL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . OFFICES , 14 , SOUTHAMPTON STREET , STRAND , LONDON . The Provisional Committee of the NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION hereby give notice , That those friends who are desirous of forming localities can he 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 ) , ond on Monday evenings from seven to nine o ' clock : if by'letter , prepaid . All applications by letter will receive tiie most prompt attention . Notice is also given tliat all tbe receipts for thc Cards issued , must be forwarded monthly , per Post Ofiice Order , made payable to John Arnott , at the Post Ofiice , Strand , and addressed to him at the Office ofthe Association , 14 , Southampton Street , Strand , London . 14 , Southampton Street , Strand , April 10 th , 1 S 50 . Signed on behalf of the Committee , John Aenott , General Secretary .
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G . _Gatusd , Jlortach . —No room . Robeet Shaw cross , asd tub Secbetabt of the West _Kroisc of _Yobeshibe , are requested to correspond with James Williams , 9 , Duke-street , Back Sandy Brow , Stockport B . H ., Tavistock—We cannot answer your questions , being totally unacquainted both with spiritual and temporal turnpikes . _Xottixgham . —J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the _foUotving sums , sent herewith , viz .: _—Poit the Honest * Fund . —Mr . T . Scothern , _Kirkby-in-Ashfield , ls ; Mr . W . Lee , ls ; Mr . Chipindale , ls ; Prom Carrington , £ 12 _s : 3 fr . S . Hudson , 2 d . Mr . J . Robertson , Landernean , France . —I received youi
letter in which yoa state that you sent the sum of ' 21 s for the Honesty Fund , and lis for Noriliern Star . There must be some mistake ; as the letter contained only a Post Office Order for six shillings and _sixpence , 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 ? yvm , Rideb , . Ebeob . —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 ilr . _ITallett , Shimmer ' s Farm , Colney Ilath , ' read 'apply to Mr . Hallett , _Plummer's Farm , opposite the Orange Tree , Colney Hatch , Middlesex . ' _Henmt _Whittakeb , Bury . —We cannot answer your question . ;
Mr . Dean , Belpen—The notice would be charged as an advertisement . Mr . T . _Hammebsley , Bilston . —The 20 s was acknowledged on the loth as from 'Bristol . ' instead of from' Bilston . ' It was received on the 10 th inst . T . _Habgett , York . —Yes , the whole . Thomas Dickenson , Alanchester , informs his friends in Northumberland and Durham , that , although he is well employed at his trade , hc has already addressed six meetings in the People ' s Institute . J . B ., Heywood ; J . Tatxob , and The Operative Tailors , Hanley . —Next week . _IfAKTLErooL . —W . nail , of this place , is requested to send his address to Mr . Wm . Norman , of 292 , Wingate Grange Colliery , County Durhsm . 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 . George _Mawbey , Chesterfield . —We . have forwarded your letter to the ' Weekly Tribune' Office . Jclian Habney has received from Wm . Davies , of Edinburgh , 1 . 25 s . 6 d ., forthe following : —Macnnmara's Action , £ 1 ls ! Oakum picking money , lis . Cd . ( contributed hysome Chartist friends ) : for Mrs . Jones , 8 s . Cd . ; for tbe Monument Fund , ls . 6 d . ; for the Fraternal Democrats , 3 s . The above sums have been paid over to the persons authorised to receive them . _Fbatehsax . _Oeuocrjlts . —Julian Harney has received from G . Mawby , Chesterfield , ls . 2 d . ; and W . Costine and J . Skyllicorn , Liverpool , 2 s . 2 d . 'Mekcubics . 'Dundee . —The trade price ofthe large lithographs is ls . Gd . each—the portraits ls . each .
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NATIONAL CHARTER LEAGUE . . The . Council met at their business rooms , 5 , ' Snow Hill , Oity , on Wednesday evening last . . There were present , tbe President , Mr . M'Grath , Mr . Side , Mr . Robden , Mr . Alkutt , Mr . Nobbs , Mr . Fairchild , Mr . _llison _^ and the 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 OP HEALTU , JfEw-aoAD , London . T 0 T _^? _?^^ _^ _Ts ° CIAL REFORMERS THROUGHOUT GREAT BRITAIN . _FBtLOW-CouNiRYMEN , —Prove , as most easily you can , how the doctors tor ages cheated the people on the question or 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 the cause oi Salutary Reforms , Tue Membeks of the British College April 11 th , 18-50 . of Health .
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A very extended plan for the promotion of native education in tho north-west provinces of India has beea promulgated by the government . ' _.,,
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STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES , _; Mr . W , P . RoBERttS will be at Hanley on Monday next , the _29 fch of April .
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MEETING AT HANLEY IN THE POTTERIES . My Friends , —Although , not very strong , I will make ita point that you shall not be disappointed at the opening , of your new Hail on Monday next ; but I have to request that aU parties wishing to Bee me , will do so before the Meeting , as I cannot stand the fatigue of discussion when it is over . My friend , Mr . Hopkinson , has requested me to state the train by which I shall arrive . I shall start by the 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 I am resolved neither to be snuffed out nor extinguished . Your faithful Friend , ' Feargus O'Connor .
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THE LAND PLAN . No doubt the nnlocated Members will read with pleasure the Report of the Argumemt which took place in the Court of Queen ' s Bench on Wednesday last , in connexion with the complete Registration of the Land Company : as , notwithstanding the violent opposition of the Attorney- General , 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 , ii the opinions foreshadowed in their comments upon the speech of the Attoreny- General are conclusive of their legal opinions , we may hope for complete Registration .
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NATIONAL JJ ) U C A T 10 N . TO THE PEOPLE . My Friends , —As the Government bases its power upon your ignorance , while it refuses to open the channels of information , I beg to inform you _thafy in the ensuing month , I will bring out a cheap unstamped weekly instructor , to be called
THE NATIONAL _INSTRUCTOR " I will engage the ablest writers 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 be 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 been 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 Heywood , of Manchester : all persons in the Midland Counties must send tlieir 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 Mr . Pavey , of Holywell-street , London . The publication shall be got up in the most finished style . ' ' , Your faithful Friend , Feargus O'Connor .
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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 supply 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 .
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THE 80 RTHEM STAB SATURDAY , APKIt 27 , 1850 .
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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 of the machinery of public agitation . Next month , the Religious Societies will pour tlieir tributary' streams of pilgrims' pounds , shillings , and pence , from all quarters of the Kingdom , into the great central lake at Exeter Hall . _* he 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 such 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 no cause for complaiut ; in the other , the proceedings of the Conference do not appear to us quite so satisfactory . The attendance of so large a number of delegates , from so many different quarters of the country , may be fairl y taken * _ab a proof thatthe movement is really spreading , and exercising a steady and substantial
influence upon public opinion . At a time when parties are in a state of decomposition ; and when , in all other directions , signs of 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 have been enabled , at last , to bring their whole power to bear in a centralised form , and to draw together , from remote parts of thecountry , those who entertain similar views and
opinions . It would be a piece of h yper-criticism , to analyse too minutely the _proceedings of so miscellaneous a . body 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 , havebeeri excited by applause to deliver themf selves 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 . ' The Conference ; met to work not to talk- —at ieastthe _; talk ought to have been subservientto . the -work .
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which at the time . we ,. write does not appear to havebeen , the case . At the various meetings which tiie Association has held , Messrs . Cobden Bright , Humb and others , have been very chary of their-presence and speeches— -ho doubt for good reasons . It was desirable that they should openly and unreservedly identify themselves with the movement in the , presence of tho representatives of the Association , and therefore of the country—but that ought to
have formed a less prominent part of the proceeding s than it has done . What was really wanted was , that the delegates should have set to work in an earnest spirit , to ascertain what the strength at their back rcall _ya Was ; what obstacles—if any—prevented their gaining more—what modes should be adopted for 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 , aud
Ireland , could have been combined in one irresistible phalanx-r-for the accomplishment of a practical measure of reform . Up tothe time at which we 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 speechifying about the abuse's 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 of thei National Reform
Association required no such information , or incentives to action . Their presence there , in the capacity of delegates , was a proof that they were full y cognizant of these abuses , and anxious to remove them . The only question was , how the work was to be done ? And to that they ought to have confined themselves . The " eloquence" part would have heen 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 tho 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 Jay 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 of the association some serious questions upon the very points mooted in the resolutions proposed by Mr . Reynolds . Most ofthe leaders ofthe 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 nearl y tantamount to the other ; and therefore , until public opinion becomes too strong for it tb 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 tho middle and upper classes , after having aided them to acquire political power , not unnaturally hang back from the now 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 thoy might derive from this quarter , when the concession of a principle they themselves approve of , could be met b y no more strenuous hostility among the 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' our estimation the real value of the Conference . Had it brought about a genuine cordial union between the middle and the whole of the working classes , by which tlie 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 vear than it can do in three , with the present elements at work .
As to the second question , the Payment of Members , itwas 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 ; hut we must express our regreti that the Conference threw away the opportunity of cementing a cordial and effective junction between themselves and the operative classes , b y declining to substitute manhood for rating or residential suffrage . The Common Sense of
the country cries for tho 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 he done without compromise or sacrifice of principle , still we cannot help feeling that the cause is placed in a less advantageous and powerful positioii than it would have occupied had a contrarv decision been come to .
It is the more to bo ' regretted , because the signs bf political decrepitude are visible among all existing parties . Tho 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 . Their continuance in office under such circumstances proves the weakness and theincoherence ofthe Parliament , and any parties opposed to them . What an opportunity for tho formation bf a NATIONAL PARTY , and the final suppression of thc Factions who have so long alternately preyed upon tho people !
" The Beneficent Whip " Question. . - Wh...
" 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 gathered that very little satisfaction has resulted from the protracted and 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 House the class of juvenile criminals—those who are graduating in vice , the candidates for transportation—have heen the objects of attention , but we regret to say with no better result . Our law makers are one and all terribly afraid of dealing with first principles . If any body proposes to them , as a necessary part of _lawmaking , 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 Leg islational duty , the less a man knows about causes the better . The only things he should deal with are effects ; these can be : seen , and felt ; but an inquiry into causes , presupposes a habit of abstract reasoning , of close observation , and a logical capability of deducing conclusions from premises , to which ninety-nine out of . every : _hun _^ dred of our , Senators can lay no claim . ! _. Yet , the question which reall y lies _, at the root of all these measures / is in itself a simple
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one , if there were but courage to attack it . It does not involve that recondite knowledge which might be mentioned as belonging to other political , commercial , and social questions . To the query , what are the . main causes of juvenile crime ; it' would not be difficult to give ah answer , based upon demonstrable facts of the most conclusive , description . ' Want of proper , training and useful occupation —these lie at the root of the social disease " called crime—these annually furnish their contingents to swell the vast army of criminals , which not only . oats tip a large portion of the wealth of the country , but doeB far worse than that , which infects the whole body p olitic with a moral leprosy , from , the taint of which no class is perfectly , exempt .
The question 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 bf it which , from the ignorance , the vicious habits , or the poverty of their parents—or wliich , from the- utter want of parents and guardians , is peculiarly liable , and almost certain to become criminal ? But at this question our
leg islators take fri g ht . 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 of the 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 _tothem , in common with the rest of the _comaiunity .
Lord Ashley had a distant glimmering of the right sort of cure , when he 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 . The 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 moans of spade cultivation , and school training combined , we possess the means of bringing np usefully , morally , and profitably , the rising generation . Why we should expend the money in sending tho unfortunate children abroad whohavebeen bereft of tho nurture and tenderness of home arid parents , we do hot understand—though , as an auxiliary measure to a large and welldevised system of Home Education and Employment , there might 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 tho Legislature had ignored the remedy , but they could not so easily ignore the evil . Thereupon , Sir John Pakington ,
overflowing with " the wisdom of our ancestors , " proposed a return to that eheap , easy , and efficacious remedy of Squirearchy—the whipping post . What had mocked the efforts of philanthropists , moralists , and benevolent experimentalists ofiall kinds , wasto be forthwith and summarily accomplished by what Mr . Carlyle calls "the beneficent whip . " Mighty are the virtues of whip-cord , or , better still , a knotted cat o' nine tails ! Sir John's Larceny Summary Jurisdiction Bill was , in effect , a Bill for abrogating thc 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 they 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 thatit 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 . James Cook , aged ten , was brought up for a petty theft . Ho . "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 tho 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 societariau arrangements , driven to crime , because deprived of a home and the means of subsistence , whipped and imprisoned—imprisoned and whipped , hardened in crime , and tortured into revengeful and vindijtive feelings against those who , though they have neglected , have not forgotten to punish ! The history is that of thousands . But the House of Commons having rejected the Whipping Bill , was the more bound to provide some other remedy . Mr . M . Milnes
gave 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 . Paciungton , 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
in . every couuty in England , he feared there was great danger that they might prove to be a premium upon vice ! " Upon this , and similar valid grounds , 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 , a la discretion—and they refuse that education and
industrial training which can alone offer an adequate _countcrprise 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 century ofthe Christian Era !
Parliamentary Review. A£?E?A]"A Iir Colo...
PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . A _£ _? _E _? A ] _"A Iir COLONIES .-THE _.-OTITER 8 ITIES . -AFFIRMATION . - " THE STICKBT _. MINISTER . " The week has been mainly occupied in discussing ' in Committees-the details of _yariouS 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 _itVquld never emerge from it _^ _-though so _. far Ministers ' have been enabledto ' hold their , own agaiust a hoJBt ; pfassailants . ! -. ; ¦ . :. _•> . . i > _^ . r ' , ' ' ¦!¦ ; It does riot appear to us , however , thatthe real defeofcs of the measure have- been touched i
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by any of its opponents . _Instead _ofdv with the , tangible . ; and practical _m . m g which it will perpetuate , the debate i , nce 8 turned upon purely fanciful or tlm Ve points , ¦ It is a question of far lesB _i _^ _f'cal to the Colonists whether they shall ha Legislative Chamber or two , than it is Tb ° ne they shall really , truly , and practicallvt _r the power of taxing themsel ves , and of priating that . taxation in the way best a _^ ° _" to promote the interests of the Colon _^ have no abstract love for two _Chamlf i _^ Sir . W . Molesworth and some of h » r llke The example of the French _Single n , _i _* - shows that one can be re-actionarv _S er > structive enough , without _putting an ° "" drag chain upon the wheel nf _, _° ( al | , _« _iiiino am
_^ ay a a , _BIUUUUJUI prepOnUei- rn the Conservative element in society to n 0 f too rapid change , and we see no reasoii uP * ever for artificially _augmenting it 8 _ at * Besides , in such thinly peopled dfstricts _, ' Australian Colonies now are—and as th ° likely to continue for a very long t ; to _ey are —there is much force in the mere _technim _?? jection , that there is not sufficien t _matei-i 1 form two Legislative Chambers , and the _S i contest about the question has been _aD-i tic and unpractical one , which could have * entered into only by speculative theorists nf acquainted with the actual conduct of „ , iT affairs . l _Publ «>
The real defects of the measure are in "i limitation , to the free and full exerc ise of th franchise , and in the power which it still !? serves of taxing the colonists to pay the _<* ' lariesof officers appointed b y the Home Go vernment , and who are not resp onsible t those who pay them , but to a distant , ' and _ _T _^ . } a . ma y casc , > a hostile authoritv Ihe bill ib m theso and many other respects adverse to the principles of true constitutional
Government , and our so called Philosophical Radicals , and Colonial Reformers , would have shown themselves more adequate to the task they have undertaken , if , instead of advocating favourite crotchets , they had tried to rendcr the measure intelligible and coherent and to expunge thoso portions which militate against the full operation of elective and responsible constitutional Government .
The Question Of The Universities, Raised...
The question of the Universities , raised bv Mr . Hbywood , on Tuesday , is one upon wliich the great majority of our readers can be expected to take but a remote interest , and yet the reflex action of tho mismanagement of those noble , but sadly abused institutions , affects them most injuriously , as well as other portions ofthe community . It is of the most vital importance , that facilities for acquiring knowledge , accompanied with honourable distinction in consequence , should be freely thrown open to men of all ranks , sects , and
classes , The enlightened founders of the various magnificent colleges at our two Universities , fully comprehended tbis fact , and , had their endowments been applied in the same spirit as they were made , the whole intellectual character and standing of the nation wouid have been incalculably elevated , compared to what it now is . But , instead of promoting knowledge , the course of . stud y prescribed at these highest academies has obstructed its attainments . Instead of marching with the
progressive discoveries of science , it preferred to tread tlie old , narrow , and circuroscriLed routine bequeathed from an age when it was in advance of what was generally known , aud 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 magnificentl y , who never taught , or whose part in the business of tuition might be expressed by the lowest sign known to algebraists .
Mr , Heywood ' 5 motion was certain to have been negatived , for the House of Commons is full , of aspiring barristers , lordlings , and others who have a strong affection for alma mater ; but the Premier astonished all parties , by taking the opportunity of declaring that he meant to propose a Royal Commission to inquire into tho management of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge . That rather took away the breath of some of the sous of Cam and ' _lsis ,
and an adjournment was requested and agreed to . The Commission , it is understood , is onl y 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 , and by and bye we trust it will be driven home . The state of the whole of the
educational Charters of this country , from the Universities downwards , is disgraceful to tho Government and the ruling classes . Immense sums are annually absorbed by Masters , Wardens , Trustees , and other Officials , which of . right ought to be expended in educating the poor ; and which , if so applied , would provide schoolrooms and masters for hundreds of thousands ot children , who are now suffered to grow up at once the pest and the disgrace of society .
Mr. Page Wood's Bill For Extending To Pe...
Mr . Page Wood's Bill for extending to persons who conscientiously object to oath taking the same privilege as that now enjoyed by Quakers , Moravians , and Separatistsnamely , of giving testimony in Courts of Law upon evidence , has been thrown out by a majority of nineteen . The old stale and threadbare objections were repeated by Mr , Govjlbovjiise , and tbey were as successful as they have been on former occasions , when this melancholy badge of bigotry , ignorance , and a low moral feeling has been attempt d 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 tlieir rights as citizens , and forfeiting the protection of the law in case of injury to tbeiv lives or property . It is one consolation , however , to see that the defence of this antiquated aud unreasonable practice is growing gradually weaker ; nineteen of a majority , . iu a House of nearly 300 Members , was scarcely worth the " Loud cheers " with which its announcement was received . Another " Strong-pull , and a pull altogether ' * will abolish the grievance , and with it the wholesale perjury and wide-spread demoralisation of wliich it is the
source . _~___ . Sir Charles Wood has tried his hand at another edition of his Stamp Duties Bill , and is as far from being right as ever . Hc had better give up the scheme , entirel y , and , p utting the three hundred thousand pounds to the seven hundred and fifty thousand pouuds , reserved to advance the landlords' money for drainage , employ the whole for the repeal oi the Window Tax , with such savings as he may be able to effect in : other quarters . He may not be Chancellor of the Exchequer another year , and , for his own sake , he should try _j ° do , one solitary thing by which he maybe favourably remembered . We fear , however , that
his case is a hopeless one , and that ho re * sembles a character formerly ( perhaps now ) not infrequent in Scotland , called " a Sticket Minister . " The " Sticket Minister" was a person whose ambitious , but i njudicious friends , had determined to' make a . clergyman , but who , after all the drilling he could receive , was found to bo totally destitute of all the natural faculties requisite for the office . Sir Chabi . es Wood ' s friends and relatives have acted _» 5 unkindly , by pushing him into a place for which he has not asingle qualification , and exhibiting him . to , the world in the character ofa " Sticket Minister" of Finance . _:
KiDDBHMissTBR , _EhBCiioN . —The Committee oi the House of Commons . have . declared Mr . Best to be-dulv elected .
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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/ns4_27041850/page/4/
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