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' [ From the G& ^« o Saturday Port ; Jane 19 . ] ' f Amidit the jealouijf ' and personal hostilit y engendered by political pirtizapiom , there are still aomo proposals left for the Improvement of the human fate which happily do not partake of this character , and ' against which no opposition can be raised on account of their presumed injury to society . The proposals for homt colonisations ; the establishment of a cottage system ; the project of returning a portion of the population to rural life , and to the earning of their bread by tilling the soil , in place of their being dependent for au existenceonthe fluctuating employment afforded by manufacturers , is , we should . hope , one of those questions which maybe still studied apart from political strife , and which entitles its promoters to have their plans weighed without any other consideration but the' probable good they are likely to confer on mankind .
Impressed with this feeling , with a warm leaning in favour of any change , in the state of society which' is likely to make starvation and pestilence less prominent features than they are by the arrangements that sur . round us—anxious to discover if the nation may not bo able to find out a cheaper and more humane mode of renovating the evils of modern society than by the in . crease of prisons , poor rates , and public hospitals , we lately paid a visit to the rural setlement set down by Mr O'Connor in Hertfordshire , and we shall submit to the reader a correct description of the state and prospects of that establishment , to far as the opportunity was afforded us by a few hours spent on the grounds .
The settlement at Herringsgate , or O'Connomlle , the first set down by the Chartist Company , forme : ! under the auspices of Mr O'Connor , lies about eight miles west of the Watford station on the . North Western Railway . In company with a friend who takes an interest in such matters , we potted the distance from the station in question over a beautiful and strictly rural part of ( he country . Leaving the town of Watford on the left , the tra . Teller passes the deer parks and pleasure grounds of Lord Essex on the right . This is a , fine old place enclosed with a wooden fence , and studded with trees that have enjoyed the growth of centuries , A little farther on , the road runs near to another extensive mansion with woods and pleasure grounds ,, which we , were informed was the residence of Lord Clarendon , the newly-uppointed . Lord Lieutenant of . Ireland . . Something about twe and a half or , three miles from , the settlement we pass through the village of Ricbaianstrorth . Ricktnansworih is the original picture of » n o' . cj English
village ,, and contrasts strongly with a village ou . this . fldo the border . In . place of little houses , with ' -thatched roofs , five feet doors , and two foet windows , with a great gutter running in front , here you ^ ave , still the copy of the modern English cottage , —a self-contained two story house for the poorest labourer , with a kitchen below and sleeping roomB above . Fiail they are and of slender construction , making it difficult \ vhea they are patched up to decide whether wood or brick form the greatest portion ef the building . But still these old residences of the English cottages , let them be asauch worn out as they will , always possess the light folding window , which serves the double purpose of exhibiting tho well-tended flower-pot , and . the securing of wholesome ventilation . While , besides this , the outsideaji . pearanceoftbe houses convey an idea of clenliness and comfort within , which is too little known in Scotland , and which is heightened by the climbing roses , the flowers and shrubs which almost invariably decorate the humblest dwelling in the south . . ¦ ..
Bickmansworth it the post town of tha district , and contains a public reading-room , which we , ascertained was occasionally frequented by tho settlers at Herringsgate , for social enjoyment and intelligence . On passing a short distance beyond Ricksoanswortb , we leave the main road and turn up one of those , old rustic lanes which no conception can be formed of from anything seen in Scotland . In . Scotland , the present style of farms , farm roads , and agriculture , hat been adopted within the last three quarters of a century , at furthest .
In England , on the other band , when you get off the public roads , you find them as they have existed with little change from thujdajs ^ of Henry . VIII . and Queen Elizabeth . In Scotland , we see farming and agriculture conducted in a manner that is unequalled in any other part of the world , whereas in such rural parts of England as we refer to , we find funning much as it was in the sixteenth century , when Scotland was comparatively a wilderness , and when England stood . forward in agriculture aB the most advanced nation , excepting China , on the globe , . . ,, . ..
Tho road we had got into was one . of these country thoroughfares , just broad enough to admit a . single carriage , witha smooth , well-made bottom , and with for a fence an earthen bank on each side , which had at some period been planted with hawthorn ; but which , us we saw it , contained an equal proportion of Holland thorn , lime twigs , nettles and hawthorn , which , intermixed with a profusion ef cowslip and primroses in full blessoin , presented a pleasing and novel appearance , which could not fail to be attractive to the settlers from the manufacturing towns in the north , accustomed from thtir infancy , as they have been , to lire amidst smoke which would be the instant death of these ornaments spread by the hand of Nuture ; and to the sight only of diniry . never-ending , brick walls , which notonly preclude a glimpse at the green fields , but almost obstruct the light of heaven from those living in their precincts .
The settlement of Herringpgate bounds one side of the road wo have just described , and the neat new cot . tages scattered over it proclaim , whenever it mabe 3 its appearance , that modern improvement has been at work ; The estate lies on a gently rising table land , und is about three times as long as it is broad . It' consists of about 100 acres , and when purchased by Mr O'Connor was a farm that had been allowed to run very much out of order . It bad a slip of 12 acres , or so , in wood lying across the upper end , while the portion beloit was divided into a great many fields , with great waste und unpruned hedges and banks which are almost everywhere the disgrace of agriculture in England . The purchase , we were informed , was effected at leas than twenty pounds per acre , and on getting possession the new proprietory set about the improvement of their acquisition in a scientific and business-like manner . Without an
exception every one ef the old fences was cleared out , the wood was hewn down , the timber employed in the build , ing of houses for the settlers , and the roots grubbed up and piled in equal proportions ns firewood to the new proprietors . Every bank and every inequality on tho surface has been temoved ; wherever necessary the ground has bien thoroughly drained ; and while on the spot we observed about twenty workmen engaged under the superintendence of Robert King , a native of Fife , who had taken charge of the improvements , who fully understands his business , and who was overlooking the levelling down of the only bank that remained , by carting out the gravel for the bottoming - of the roads over the estate , and spreading down the soil afterwards on the only obstacle that was lett to prevent a plough from passing from one end of the hundred-acre field to the other . ..- ¦ . ¦• .-. ¦
The rnlo for giving out allotments is , that settlors may hold two , three , or four acres , according to the amount of their payment * . Two-acre allotments have had cottages with three apartments each erected on them ; tbree-acre houses , with four apartments ; and the four-acre lots , house ' s with five apartments . The settlement is laid off witha main cross road entering near iae middle of the grounds , and then with tno ' road * running lengthways from nearly ' the one end to tlie other . The roads are tach nine feet broud ] and fronting thrm , at suitable intervals on tho lots of the different ' settlers ! the cottages are set down . The first road intersecting the ground longitudinally as we entered , is settled with two-acre allotments . It has bouses only on the one side ,
and the ground for e- 'di cottage lies behind the tame , running , back to the public lane first described . The next road is near the centre of the ' settlement , with houses and plots of groutid on both sides , which is the principal thoroughfare of the settlement . Fronting the upper end of this avenue is the school-house , a handsome building , two stories high , with a pinnacle in the front surmounted with ' points to the four quarters , and a vano , At each end of the house there is a wing which is to be used , the one for a boys' school , and tbeothtr fora girls' . The centre house is for the schoolmaster ' s residence , and behind it there is an allotment of four acres of ground for bis use , which was in course of being ploughed up for a crop this season' when we wire on theepot . , " ¦"
On all parts of the settlement there is obvious indications that everything possible has been done-for utility and profit , and that little attention has been paid to mere pleasure or , appearances . The roadways are just broad enough to permit the passage of a cart ; there is no hedges or walls to the Beveral allotments , . ^ which ore mertily staked out with wooden pins as landmarks , each settlor being left to fence hunelf in , as ho may think most proper . The school-rooms and the houses for the settlers are all plainly but very substantially and comfortably finished , much more so , indeed , than the general ran of even new . workmen ' s houses that arc erected over England . The three apartment cottages have aviioat kitchen in the middle , and a room at each en . l , one of which maybe used as a workshop or parlour , and the other as a bed . ri . om , according to the occupation of the
owner . So minute have the company been in providing for the settlers that all the apartments have uew grates fitted into them , and the kitchen a grate and oven for the cooking of the family . The five apartment houses for the four-acre lots are very neat ereotions , quite beyond the style , and with far more conveniences thati ordinary workmen ' s houses . They are of two stories , with wings at ea h side . Two families occupy tho tenement , each family entering from a wing for itself , which answets the purpose of kitchen or cooking house and lobby . Beyond this there aro two neat sitting rooms on the ground floor , and two bed-rooms above for every family . These houses are thus quite self-contained , and every dwelling on the settlement has a court behind , with the necessary conveniences for a family , ' When we were on thegroundjibere was only one supply of water for the settlement—a large draw well . From information
we have since obtained , we learn that the company are about to sink a well for every house , which will be re . garded as so much more capital . invested , and which it is expected will add about five or six shillings per annum to the rent of each two-acre allotment . ' In addition to these arrangements for the accommodation of the settlers , the land had for the most purt been put in crop for them by the company , ' One-half of each allotment had been sown with barley , the completing of the improvements having been too late for any other crop , A portion of « acb lot btf been planted witn pota .
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— ^ mm——m ^^—^^ —~ —^— * toes ; and even garden seeds and vegetables had been put in ' in « qual proportions to every settler . f ^ A part of the grtunditlH . stoodow for cropping , arid'in ' that , with one : or two eioeptibns where the parties proposed to sow turnips , most of the settlers informed us it was their intention to get in potatoes ; . it being their expectation that tha ' rot of last year nag only the digeaie of a sea . ion . To enable the settlers to complete the cropping of the remainder of their ground with success , what was planted had been well manured , and supplies of firstrate manure Were laid , down when we were there by the cempany on the various allotments for the ground that was still to plant .
-As the expenditure for the settlement is thus partly in progress , the precise price of each allotment cannot as yet be stated ; but bo far as the accounts havebeen mad * up , the settlement of Herringsgato appears likely to cost about £ 60 per acre for land and houses , being about £ 30 per acre for ground and capital advanced for improvements , and £ 30 per acre for the houses and buildings , which , at an interest of five per cent , on the outlay , will enable a settler to occupy a house , such as we have described , for a two-acre allotment , and that ground bis own for ever , either at a perpetual rent of about £ 6 a year , or redeemable in instalments of Is . per week .
As little notice has been taken by the press of this bold plan for elevating tho . condition of the . working population , by rendering thorn not only independent for Ufa , but what is of equal importance , imparting habits of sobriety , industry , and economy , not by coercion or abase , but by holding but b tangible obvious reward for the practice of these virtues , we may explain that to acquire the right of membership to this land comp any , it is but necessary that an applicant should purchase a copy of the rules , and contribute from 6 d . to Is . per week till the sum of £ 2 12 s . has been accumulated by him
when he is eligible to stand bis ch ance of drawing one of the two-acre allotments with a bouse on it , and £ 15 in cash advanced for improvements .. For the hrger allotments , a corresponding increase in the weekly payments and amount of stock is required ; while for the guarantee of the members who do not draw th « prize of a nettlement , security is held over the land , till it is redeemed ; and the rent paid yearly is added to the annual contributions , to aid in the purchase of add ] , tional grounds , and the increase of settlements for the members .
From the ordinary rent charged for houses and Und in this country , it will be obvious that it is q-iite a prize for an ordinary workman : to become owner of one of these allotments . One . of . the-new teWm at Her . ringBgate—Thomas Baton , an . industrious , oheerful weaver , from Wigan ' - ^ informed us " he '' had ' ' been" ' of . fereda bonus of ; £ 40 for his " land ticket , although h « had only contributed IT months in all , and paid into the funds during the time £ 2 Ms " . 4 d . Rather , than " accept this tempting offer , Eaton arid his family thought it preferable to free themsilves from the vic ' i'ttudes of trade , and the fluctuating miserable . wages of the hand , loem ; and , though poor and but little provided for tb « change , they resolved to try and obtain a reward for tbeir industry , in part , from the soil , rather than accept
the £ 40 . which , although a little fortune at the time , might be soon expended , and them then left helpless and miserable as ever . While on the ground , we were shown a four-acre allotment , which , with its house , had been sold by tho drawer for £ 80 of premium . The purchase was made by a tradesman from London , wh » was about to retire and settle with his savings on the freehold . This gentleman was at work when we were there , fencing his ground in irom the common road of the settlement with a wooden railing , and was otherwise improving bis purchase with the superior means which he possessed . Another of the settlers a hearty little bachelor , frota Yorkshite , whom we found busy plantingot the remainder of his vaoant ground with p » tatoes—told us he had been offerod a bonus of £ 715 if he
would give up his four-aere allotment . We joked him that he should rather marry , and make himself comforlable on his property ; but no " he was na gaun to do that , " he said ; and , in the peculiar dialect of his country , declared "he vnid improov and toad < m Mhe got eitty . twaa pawndfor hit prize . " Accordingly , be was earnestly at work , and we have no doubt but , if favoured with health , he will soon make his allotment worth far more than the premium which he stood out for . One of the greatest drawbacks to the , prosperity of this settle , ment which presented itself to us , was the rircumstance that many of the settlers had no spare money to begin with—no capital to hel p them through the first two or three years till they procure implements , and fall on some auxiliary means of supporting their f « .
mihes with what they require , beyond the produce of their ground . This disadvantage arises principally from the short duration of the society , and the inadequate means which , it may be easily supposed , poor workmen with families , and eight or ten shilling per week of earnings , most have for settling down in the country , where their ordinary souroe of supply is withdrawn from them . Considerable privations will thus unquestienab ' y be felt by the first and poorest settlers , which may , perhaps , end in the failure and disappointment of some , But on the whole , the effort is a noble one . By sobriety , industry , and the submitting to a few privations for a time , ultimate success wil certainly be obtained if the parties be but favoured with health ; and even if health should fail , they have got something saved—something
to fall back upon in addition to their character , elevated as it will have been by their good intention ' , which cannot avoid gaining them aid and commiseration . The length of this notice preclude ? us from making many other comments which we shonld have Wished on tbeprospects of th « undertaking . We recommend the subject to the consideration of the working population , and also to those in more affluent circumstances . The rules and regulations have ba > n extensively circulatec , and may anywhere be had from the booksellers . Wo do not presume that the plan is net capable of improvement , and of alterations to suit the circurostances . of different individuals and localities . But as a whole , as a well-intentioned , woll-devised beginning , we conceive the proposals of Mr O'Connor if but honestly
and ably followed out , likely to lead to great changes in British society—changes which are calculated to restore that rural simplicity which has beon vanishing progressively , as crowding into towns and its accompanied demoralisation have been on the increase . If there bo any defect in the regulations of th < - Land Company Whatever , is Is that the terms are if anything too liberal to the first , settlers ; and the rent perhaps a shade ' too low , ' considering the perishable nature of the houses and some other parts of th « investment .. This or any other defect in the plan can , however , be easily improved on , if experience should point out our conjectures as correct , before many more ballots for land ore made . In the meantime , before taking have of the subject , we must state that one , and that
not the least of the advantages which this plan of land settlement presents , is the circumstance , that at Herringsgato we saw 35 independent county electors set down , everyone of whom ' rniiybe depended on forgoing to the poll and giving an independent vote . If this plan be taken up and ptirsued as we could wish , there is not a county in the oountry where many such settlements might not he spuedily formed ; and by this means we should not only Bee the parliamentary influence of such persons as the Dukes of Bucclcuch , Richmond , and Sutherland reduced and counteracted ; but we should also see the nuisance of an Established Cburch put an end to , and the gentlemen educated at Oxford and Cambridge kft to whistle for their tithes and their church rates . * ' ' ' ¦ " ¦ " . "
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GORE AND AGLORT !" % - * : ! i * ' * * . ¦ -. ANNUAL MORTALITY fPER . 1 , 000 TROOPS , NATIVES OF THE BRITISH-ISLES . SERVING IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES , DURING PEACE . ¦ :- , S £ . && . , Annual Mortality per 1 , 009 New South Wales ... 1 * Cape of Good Hope 1818 to 1836 15 : Nova Scotia and New Brunswick " " 18 ; Malta ' ... " " 18-7 Canada ; Upper and Lower ... " " 20 Gibraltar ... ~ ... ... ... " " 22 I
¦ _ T _ l »• « OQ Ionian Isles . " 28 Mauritius ••> " - " 30 St Helena " " 35 Madras Presidency ... ... 1826 to 1830 52 Bombay Presidency ... ... " . " 55 Ceylon Presidency 1821 to 1836 67 Bengal Presidency ... ... 1826 " 1830 63 ? Windward & Leeward Command 1817 " 1836 85 fJamaica ... ... ••• " " 148 Hong Kong : ... ... — 1844 " 300 The aboro statistics are mostly from Marshall and Tullook ' s Reports—given by " Surgeon Balfour on the Health of Troops . " The mortality in Scinde is not included in the above ; nor the deaths among troops on sea
voyages . AVERAGE ANNUAL MORTALITY PER 1 , 000 MEN IN CIVIL LIFE IN BRITAIN . , . Died per 1 , 000 per , ann . at the age of 29 to 39 Mortality at the age 2 ft-r 30 , by the Carlisle Tables ... ... ... ... 10 Mortality by " Finlayson on Government Annuitants" ... ... 13 Mortality in 17 of the largest towns in Britain , where troops are stationed ... 15-7 Mortality among the East India Company ' s Labourers ... ... ... ... 12-5 Mortality among parties insured in the " Teetotal" Temperance Office , Concon . . . ¦¦ . .. ' . f .... . ¦¦ »'»» ' ., * . ' .,.. . 4 . Mortality among parties insured in tlie Equitable Office , between 20 and 40 ... 9
Mortality amqnir : troopa ! serving in the United Kingdom i .. ...- ¦ : , „ , „ 16 Mortality among the Foot Guards ... ., .... . 21 Mortality among BlaveVin Cuba . ; . ... 100 - ' . ' . ' ' .. ' . ;• ' . ' . TROOPS PBOM INDIA . Chatham , 11 th June , 1847 V—The Ship Bombay arrived fn the river , landed 148 soldiers belonging to various regiments in India . . On medical inspection , 47 men were gent to the invalid depot , and 5 soldiers found to be" lunatics , were taken to the military asylum . * " - ; On the voyage home , there died 12 soldiers and " a , child . ' ' The Bombay sailed' ^ rom Bombay , 14 th February . —Times . ;
THE OVEHLAND INDIAN MAIL . Scindb , 10 th April , 1847 . —The construction of Barracks for the European troopa at Hyderabad , is proceeding apace . The cost of these buildings will be near seventy thousand pounds sterling . Yet re * taining our countrymen in this'Golgotha , is against general opinion . - Near the spot are two monuments which tell a fearful tale . One erected to the memory of 98 persons of the Queen ' s 86 th , who died in five months , and the other to the memory of _ 291 persons belonging to the 78 th Highland regiment , who died at Hyderabad , in two months . Yet the mortality at Sukkur had been far greater than ever it wa s at Hyderabad . > Scinde is visited every few years by frightful attacks of Asiatic cholera , which carry off vast numbers of the inhabitants . : " "
A lotof cami'ls were sold off by government the other day—they cost from £ 8 to £ 18 sterling , per camel , and sold for 103 . to 30 s . eaoh . . , M 1 UTARY LAW IN CHRISTIAN BRITAIN , 1847 « The mutiny laws are said to be nearly alike throughout Europe , and are but little amended since the barbarous ages . About 150 thousand of our countrymen in the army and navy are under military law . Young men should study the following extracts from the Act of the 4 th of Victoria , before they enter the array , viz . : — 1 . Any soldier who shall misbehave himself before the enemy , .
2 . Or who shall abandon any post or guard committed to him to defend , 3 . Or shall leave his post before relieved , 4 Or shall be found sleeping at his post , 5 . Or shall hold correspondence with the enemy , 6 . Or shall strike his superior officer , 7- Or shall desert the Queen's service , 8 . Or shall disobey the lawful commands of his superior officer , . 9 . Or shall treacherously make known the watchword , 10 . Or shall cast away his arms or ammunition in the presence of an enemy—shall suffer DE ATII , transportation , or such other punishment as a courtmartial may award . WARS OF THE JEWS . Pboclamation KBFORB Battm . Deut . xxi 5—8 .
5 , And when ye'come nigh unto the battle , the Officers shall apeak onto the people saying , What man is there that hath built a new house , and hath not dedicated it ? let him go and return unto his house , lest he die in the battle , and another man , dedicate it . C . And what man is he , that hath planted a vineyard and hath not yet eaten of the fruit of it ? Let him also go and return unto his house , lest he die in the battle , and another man eat of it . 7 .. And what man is there that hath , betrothed a wife and hath not . yet taken her ? let him go and return unto his house , lest he die in the battle , and
another man take her . 8 . And the officers shall speak further unto the people , and they shall say , —What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted ? let him go and return unto his house , lest his brethren ' s heart faint , as well as his heart . [ . The Israelites were never to go to war but when they had God ' s command . Christian governments wait for no such authority , " The title of Conquest ( says Wickliffe ) is utterly worthless and untenable , unless the conquest itself be expressly commandeu by the k \ ta \ g \\* y . " -rJohn Wickliffe , Professor of Divinity Oxford , 1372 . . ; '
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# It appears that in the Windward and Leeward Com .-mand , viz ., Barbadoefl , Trinidad , &c—there have died since 1817—upwards of 10 , 300 British soldiers . f in the Jamaica garrisons since . 1817 , upwards of 11 , 000 British soldiers have died . ' Barracks have rectntlj been erected : in ' Jamaica and the health of the troops is much improved . ( 1847 . )
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War a Horrid Tbadk . —It is no part of our intention to deny the justness of the present war in Mexico ; on the contrary we believe that it could not have been avoided by our government , and that it will prove beneficial to the' people of Mexico , and probably to the civilised world . . Yet the awful spectaclo of two contending forces having all tho inventions used jn modern wars , is dreadful to behold . An officer in our army , engaged in the battle at Buenni V ista , writes as fullows : — " I went over the battle-field after the right , and of all the shocking and most horrible sights I ever witnessed , this exceeded . . Hundreds of dead , wounded , and dyingsome with their heads , arms , 'and legs shot off , and some torn literally to pieces by shell and shot . I
never wish to witness such a horrid and awful spectacle again . You could see the mark of a cannon ball through a regiment , leaving a column of dead , showing the trace of the shot . " Another officer of the United States' Topographical Engineers thus describes the horrors of war , as felt by . himself , at the bombardment of Vera Cruz : — " I hope this siege will , for tho sake of humanity ,-soon terminate . The foreign consuls , who came out this morning , say that two-thirds of the town is in ruins , and the streets strewed with the dead . The bombardment was perfectly terrific for three days and nights . Such a night I hope never to see again . > It was sublime and awful . When our shells fell you could hear the crask two miles off . Day before yesterday , in the ,
morning , having nothing to do in the trenches , I went up on the sand hill in front of our camp . Our battery of six 24-pounders . a navy battery of six 32-p ' ounders , and fourteen 10-inch mortars , were in full operation , while the enemy were returning , the fire -with nearly an equal number . The day was magnificent , the sky was perfectly clear , the air fresh and balmy . Before me lay the beautiful but doomed city . The firing was ; inceBsant ; the blaze one continuous sheet of Same , as if two volcanoes were belching forth red hot lava at each other , while the smoke gathered into a funeral pall over the devoted town . I looked on for some time but the sight made me sick , and I
returned to my tent ; the reflection came over me , " What a horrid trade is war—what a dreadful spectacle to see man thus marring the work of God and turning into a Pandemonium that whioh a few moments before seemed as lovely as a Paradise ! " When in tho trenches , where shot and grape were falling and shells and rockets bursting around me , I had no such feelings , for I was then in hot blood ; but looking coolly on , and out of the way of danger , it seemed to me truly awful . " Such is the effeot war iroduces upon the minds and feelings of those who trade in war . " [ From No . IS of The American Statesman , a carefully and spiritedly-conducted , and enlightened weekly New York journal . !
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! "men of one Idea ? —" ^ I ' TO THE EDITOR OF THE iHHwnoBw I Mb EWTO « .-That ertremeKttLV ^ ' I the Wtihfy DiyaUh , haa , 1 oKervra ^! . I brutawifulmen at Mr O'Connor" ? ft , ^ i I Wea /' fowtting that it » "iK ^ SafSi hare in aU ages ruled this globe of oura If f % tleman who undertakes tbe ''Univem Kn l , ^ department of rbe Diipatch , and who « l ( % " " Constant Reader" or " Subscriberfrl >«« ginning , " ( unhappy mortals !) any inform , ! - ™ Be . thecolouroftheJa 8 tmurderer ' ZrH '? ll fro W of the central sun , would brush un h ?« fr et «« itudies , he would discover the correctness ; 58 *» 1 aertion . The " one idea"of Moses ™ ft > as . tionoftheoeonle oFTr ™! > nj h «„" : _ . ? . « bet » .
the Persian monarchy , an d he achieved it S deolared in his youth , "he would sooner be fi ^' in a village , than second at Rome . " Ui « » nJ ™ ., Dl » tt was universal empire- ^ he suceeeded-and amr ? ea " aut nullus" has passed into a proverb Thn Jar idea of Christianity is , the equality of 1 ?^ therein lies its vitality . TOaD ' » nd To come to modern times—the " nnpij > . Washington was "American IndSJendenCe ^ i ° need not say how gloriously he worked' if l Croakerelike tho Dispatch writers were not want ^' who stigmatised thn immortal patriot as imprSl They would have had him agitate for the wf the Te . Duties , tbe ^ tarf ^ SjfJJ Bill . Mirabeau ' s great single "idea" was & struction of royalty and aristocracy in France « iiV « his death-bed he could say- " I ca ' rry w 3 X to fi grave themonarchy and its supporters . " NapoW « rjsSr 111 conqueBt ' ^'"^ oTJs
Te descend again to late times . O'Connell ' a w . i Un " ^ a . " " Catholic EmancipS ? - fi quered ; had he been true to his second- ^ ZK it might have also been victorious . "The bill L whole bill , and nothing but the bill , " was the " one u ??' n Whlch P ? duced Reform in 1832 . The cry of Jo tapro ^ tot a ! and immediate Repeal 3 the Cora Laws , " gave Cobden and the cotton lords all their power , and heralded their success . And so it ha ever been , ' and ever will be . Man ' s powers are too nimted te grapple with a dozen subjects at once iLT ^ k ? « great aim , one great fructifying SSJ ? make a » his . thoughts , ' words , and actioni subservient to it . This is how the Jesuits produced such great men . . Gravitation is the great law of swence . Popular Sovereignty is the grelt law K iwics
, ana the presest peneration will see the one as fully anduniversally acknowledged as the other « f w £ t «" ' fell ° w-co « ntrymenin the vineyard of truth ! Be constant to your " one idea , " the Charter it is our /« t love , and may the curse of falsehood and perjury be upon us , if we forsaW Accept , Mr Ed . tor , the assurance of my hig hZmU deration , and beheve me . youre respectfully , Clapham , June 14 , 1847 . Xeso
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A VOICE FROM NORWICH . TO THE LOVERS OF * PEACE-OF NATIONAT ECONOMY-OFNATIONAL GOOD FArffi OF CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY CousTRYMEN-The present Ministry have most ? Cp ! L S ^ ta ^ * Mlrt Asaumlng to belong to the . class above enumerated they have drawn the sword to coerce the Portuguese ftrugghngfor constitutional ( in the room of despotic ! government—have secured for us the undying hatred of thatgallantand injured people—and have furnished to the despots of the Continent a precedent and apology for interfering in every case against tha ¦
oppressed . Our b ' ood is to be shed , and our treasure wasted , in order to strengthen the tyranny which an allied people were on the point of abating—the mitea of our poor countrymen , already crushed to the earth by taxation , are to be wrenched from their o ' erworked handi , and the pence which Bhould have been employed to purchase bread fer their children expended in powder and ball , with which to destroy the men who are struggling in the holiest of causes that of political freedom ! To .. those who believe that he who strikes with tha sword shall perish by the sword , no appeal is neceisary , they must have already groaned at the prospect of our weapons being bathed in the blood of the innocent and injured .
To those who deem the glory of our name the ereat . est of treasures , how intense a sorrow , how deep a sense of degradation , have this faithless , this scorncovered ministry occasioned . Shall we leave to them the power of further soiling the national character ! To the insulted body of DibEenterg , who have so strenuously protested and struggled against the educational trickery by which a pretended liberal ad . ministration has sought to increase the influence of government , and shackle the rising generation , it needs but to point to Portugal , to justify the most energetic exertions against a band of wolves in sheep ' s clothing . Countrymen I—The general election is rapidly ap < preaching—UNITE and drive from the helm of the State , the most dangerous of enemies—a body of falsa friends !
Let the real friends , of civil and religious liberty , of public economy , and national good faith , start « candidate in every county , city , and town returning members to tbe Lower House ( heed not if but a score of votes can be polled)—if none can be found , let the true patriots abstain from voting ; nay , if bo other mode of securing the rejection of the man ( be hii nick-name what it may ) who refuses to pledge himself to join in a vote of censure on the present govern , ment , remains , let the reed Liberals vote in a body ( announcing on the hustings , by a deputation , tha reason for so doing , ) for the Tory candidate : it is far better to be governed by open adversaries ( if sincere m their opinions ) than by renegades from principle , assuming for our injury the mask of friendship . This is the advice of ONE WHO HAS HITHERTO . CONSTANTLY VOIBD FOB THE SO-CALLED L 1 BBBAL CANDIDATE .
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THE GAME LAWS . The indefatigable denry Dowell Griffiths , secretary to the " West London Central Anti-Enclosure Association , " has put forth an address to the electors of the kingdom , urging them to give their votes for nose but Anti-Game Law Candidates . We give the following extracts : — There are now , in the various County Gaols , manj victimB of such system , some of whom have been immured for more than five years , and can only he released at th « " pleasure "« f the Queen , who , in all probability , is not aware the ; are there , ( for if she was , I vertljr believe her goodness of heart would induce her to ralease them ) i
these men have done no more than what all who ara for the Laws of God have admitted they were perfectly jniti * fied in doing , viz . taking ? that which is no more the exclusive property of particular individuals than tbe air w « breathe is , and which , in many cases , was taken only to save famishing children irom death by starvation ! Thousands have been imprisoned in their efforts to put an end to such monstrous system . But you , the Electors , can put an end to it at any General Election , by withholding your votes from every candidate who will not pledge himself to vote for its immediate and entire abolition ! ¦ .
Better be without representatives than represtntatirei ( if representatives they can be called ) , who would support such a system ! Better have no Parliament than a Parliament , which upholds oppression ! but we are not reduced to that alternative . There are plenty of Antl-Gama Law Candidates if you would but support them ! From you all Parliamentary power comes , bel t good or evil you make the Parliament , and if it ii a bad one ( us it generally it ) you have none but yourselves to thank for t , for if you did not send bad men into it , Parliamen would bs well enough . I would remind you of the «'
cellent advice which that great enemy to the Game Law ' , Henry Hunt , gave to Electors : " Wait not , " said he , " to be asked for y « ur vote , but offer it ; wait not to be fetched ( in a coach ) to give your vote , but go and give it ! " ( for honest candidates of course , Hunt was for none other . ) It is surely not too much for candidates who study your interests to expect that you will study theirs , and no one can , In reality , study the interests of a candidate who would put him ( 6 the unnecessary trouble and expemeo ' asking "friends" for votes and actually carrying them W the Poll . to give them / as if they were 10 many cripp le 1 from an hospital ! ¦ ¦ .
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Mr Daniel , the African Traveller , has reached this country , after escaping all the vicissi . tudes of a comparatively-unknown country in Southwest Africa . He has had several attacks of fever , and escaped death under various guises . He has , however , reaped a rich ethnological harvest , which he intends immediately to lay before the Ethnological Society , lie has minutely studied the distinctions which the various tribes of negroes of the south present compared with the uncivilised men of the north of Western Africa . The Portuguese possessions , especially the penal settlements—a new and rick field of inquiry—have engaRed his marked attention . ' The slave trade is rapidly gaining ground in Angola and the adjacent countries , to the . great
detriment of our legitimate commerce , and , notwithstanding tho reputed vigilance of our cruisers , a vast number of slaves have been transmitted to the Brazils—the exports of a few months exceeding the ordinary amount of past years . A vessel had even been equipped in the port of LoanJa , tho chief Portuguese settlement in South Africa , , and had successfully escaped with a full cargo of slaves . One of the members of the Portuguese Court was ; implioated m this aftair , and has been dismissed from his post by the government . : ' . ; . ; Haricot Beans . —A . correspondent of the Times saya : —Sir , —I lose not a day in acquainting you , that , in consequence of Mr Westwood ' s valuable communication in the Times a lew days ago , I directed
my gardener to examine the potatoes in my garden , which to all appearance were more flourishing than 1 ever remember them . Thcman ; though skilful in his business , was thoioughly incredulous as to the possibility of any dhenso iu the potatoes ; but on testing them by the signs indicated by Mr Westwood we found it to bea sad truth that the disease had really commenced , and was insidiously spreading itself over the whole plantation . There is not tbe smallest doubt about the matter . He will , therefore , immediately dig them up , and sow the plot with the white haricot bean , for which there . is still time enough . That this golden opportunity niay not be neglected by those who are likely to be subject to the same visitation , is the reason for my invoking your powerful aid en thin melancholy occasion . ,
Matrimony and Meal .- —A buxom country girl in Ayrshire left her place last Whitsun term , with the merciful determination of putting a matrimonial period to the doubts and sighs of her stalwart swain '; but , having the bump of caution large , she . read of high markets , and sagely pondered thereon and ultimately , she last week arrived at the dwelling of a civic functionary ; in whom she placed implicit relinnce , and requested as- a most particular favour that he would give her his advice . The question she Pii . S ? > h , et lelm ?* ets . were likely to rise or fall ? tor added she , fe a /^ hisper , " AM and me SK * eang jh ^ ther at this time , but I can ™ T& ? y min ? W * ' * he mcal at 2 s . 3 d . a peck . Vlft il ? ' T iviik ib at twa 8 llilli * Bfi 5 butMh lu ™» try t aboon augMetn pence . " 20 , 900 ate Ecgliib ,
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Determination of Blood totho head , apop lexy , * c ., ectunlly prevented by the occasionaluse of Frampton »« of . Health , which , by strengthening the action ot tlw sw , maeh , and promoting a healthy and regular digestion the food , pievonts a recurrence of those symptoms o - \ alarming Oitorder , giddiness , oppression of tue uru singing noise In the ears , head-nehc , &c . They jw excellent aperient , without griping or pros tratwu > strength , create appetito , relieve languor , andinng w the spiritB ; while , to the free liver , or sedontar j , " ^ offer great and important advantages . S 014 - ' ^!! venders of medicines . Price Is . i $ d . per box . » V , ] , name of" Thomas Prout , 223 , Strand , Londou , ° government Btamp ,
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The Roman HKLMEi . —The grand annual procession of Corpus Christi has just taken place with a splendour and devotional enthuaiam never witnessed id by-gone days . The most novel feature , however , was the brilliant appearance of the noble guard » their new Bteel helmets . This new head-gear is after the fancy of Pius himself , who is a connoisseur m military points , and has produced something wpe * rior to your " Albert hat . " It is of the old Roman model , and garnished behind with an abundant ca > raet of horsehair . The previous cecked hat ana feathers gave these young nobles a mere effeminauK and holiday semblance . Their present accoutre " ment is to them an admonition to prepare , it necev sary , for hard knocks on the head , if they wag mean to prove an effioient body-guard to the cna » pion of human progress in the teeth of the old as * pots of Europe .
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Mwre Cubes by Hoilowai ' s Pills . —Head tliis . —Mrs JORiima Albert , the ^ yidowofa naval officer , residing iu Campbell-place , St George ' s in . the-East , had been ill for a longtime with a distressing cough , accompanied with much oxnoutoration , groat weakness of the ohest . imd continued lioadacbos ; besides this , lior digestion was greatly impaired , appetite completely gone , and always drowsy . She considorcd hcrselt cured ; yet notwithstand . ini ; im advanced age , she is restored to the highest state of health and vigour by tbe use | of Holloway' « Pills , declaring tu ; it she feels moro like a young eivlthun onsofher years , beiag « o bale and strong ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 26, 1847, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1424/page/2/
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