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ETERNAL JUSTIC E . BI caiUBB XACE& 1 W » man ii thought a Tauva ct fod . Or bigot , plotting crime . Who for the advancement of his kind , I » wiser than his time . Por him the hemlock shall distil ; For him the axe be barea ; For him the gibbet shall b « buHt ; For him the Hake prepared ; Km ihiU the scorn and wrath of mea Fame with deadly aim ; ¦ And taeliee , envy , spite , and lief , Shall desecrate bis nine . But troth shall conquer at the last , For rennd and round nt ran , ¦ Aad ever the right comes uppermost , And ever is justice done .
Face throagh thy cell , old Socrates , Cheerily to and fro ; Trust to the impulse of thy goal And let th « poiton flaw . Theynwy ( hatter to earth the lamp of daj That holds the light divine , Bat they cannot quench the fire of thought By any neb . deadl y wine : They caanot blot thy spoken voids From the memory of man , By all the poiton ever was braised Since time its conne began , To-day abhorrM , to-morrow adored , So round and round wo ran , And ever the troth comes uppermost , And ever is justice doae .
Hod in th y cave , grey anchorite , Be wiser than thy peers ; Augment the range of human power . And trust to coming year * . They may call thee wizard and monk accurKd , And load tbee with dispraise ; Thou wert bora five hmndwd yean too * oea For the comfort of thy days . But not toe soon for human kind , Tims hath reward in store , And the demons of oar stories become The saints that we adore . The blind can see , the slave is lord ; So round and round we run * Ana ev « r th » wrong is proved to be wrong , And ever is justice done .
Keep , Galileo , to thy thought , And nerve thy soul to bear ; They may gloat o ' er the senseless words they wring From the pangs of thy despair : They nuy veil their eyes , bnt they caratot hide The sun ' s meridian glow ; The heel of a priest may tread thee down . And a tyrant work thee woe ; But never a truth has been destroyed : They may curse and call it crime ; Pervert and betray , or slander and slay Its teachers for a time . Bat the sunshine ay shall light the sky , As round and round we ran ; And truth shall ever come uppermost , And justice shall be done . And live there now saeh men as
these—With thoughts like the great of old t Many have died in their misery , And left their thought untold ; And many lire , and are ranked as mad , And placed In the cold world ' s can , For sending their bright , tbr-seeiag souls Three centuries in the van . They toil in penury and grief , Unknown , if not malign ' ; Forlorn , forlorn , bearing the scorn Of the jneanest of mankind . Bnt yet the world goes round and round , And the genial seasons run , And erer the truth comes uppermost , And ever is jastice done . Totes from the Xmutams .
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REVELATIONS POLITIQUES . LES TROIS VICTIMES . PlK UC COMIK BE WlLtBROB . [ Political Revelations ,. The Three HcJww . By the Count deWillbrod- ] Loadon : Armand , Rathboae-place . [ Continued / mm the Star of . Octiber 2 nd . ) In his memorial to the king . General Donnadieu writes that , heading from the Baron de Damas , ( governor of the nineteenth division , ) the presence of Didier , in the department of Mre , he had several times communicated the intelligence to the prefect and commissary of police ; but that both had replied iathe same terms as Decazes , namely , that General Donnadien wag dreaming , and Didier had , long ago , left the country . Whiist things were proceeding in thiB manner , and Doimadieu was endeavouring , alone , to discover in what quarter the storm would first arise , Didier , who had traversed Savoy , and visited Geneva and Milan , to assure himself of their fidelity , returned to Isere .
April was drawing near : on all sides the most favourable assurances were made—the conspiracy became daily more powerful , and all was prepared . The Minister of Police had done hiB best for the insurrectionists ; Didier mistrasled only Donnadien ; sad Decazes proposed to the Minister of War to remove the general ; bat M . de Feltre , seeing no good reason for the singularly argent appeal of Decazes , refused to accede to hh request . The general remained at his post , bat on the 23 th of April was ordered off to Besancan on a courtmartial , and this order was issued by Decazes !
_ Iftlis was raally aeclc ! enta ] , it most be allowed tbat it was a singular coincidence , and that it was vers equirecal when tafcen ia conjunction with hig earnest request for the removal of Donaadieu . Donnadieu , himself , regarded the order as a deliberate treason ; and considering his duty to his sovereign as paramount , refused to obey , alleging that the state of Grenoble imperatively demanded his presence there . The triumphal entry of theDake and Duchess de Bern into France , caused a part of the troops of Grenoble to be ^ withdrawn , and Didier took advantage of thJB circumstance for the execution of his plot . We do not enter into the details of the final outbreak . The insurgents were repulsed in all quarters , and Didier , who proved himself a bold at , d skilful s&'dier , gained , with great difficulty , the woods of St Martin d'Hdres .
Many prisoners were taken ; threo of the leaden * ere condemned to death , —two met their bloody fate with heroic enthusiasm ; thethird was reprieved , and manifestoes were issued by the government offering large rewards to those who should betray the % i itiT < s , and threatening with death those who should grant them eTen food or shelter in their dkfres . Is was in the aftcrnosn of the 6-h of May that the sews of the insurrection reached the ministry , and die astonishment of tie cabinet was proportionate to die reliance it ; had placed en MtDecazes' assurances . « ce Vaublanc , who had almost dafy laid before « 9 government the causes of the serious apprehensions Le entertained , had endeavoured to think his ° J » alarms Ul-rouuded , arguing that the Minister « Police could not be deceived
. twV "* * 1 l 0 r il e ^ Pea bath ministers in Khuffi animosity , and M . VaublaBc £ * SR £ SK £ g ' " ; forhe ^ S ^ at GrSr ^^ ***** Aae unhappy conspirator who had . treated to tfee
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assurances of Decates bow found him their moat bitter ! enemy ; slat * he ceuld exculpate himself , only hi showing them ngenr . He represented tha innirJ ? tion to the ting in the darkest XSSV 22 J *" Mm it threatened the w * mJgf 3 Bi 5 Kg as »» jffitssi ? - J ^ sssasss& ^^^ srsLSL ^ S ^ SJ * ?™ , * - " erimeof insurrection ^ eSemnJft rt P ™ red , and twenty-one were SmS r ^ . " ^ n ^ 'eu petitioned for a SE 2 ? S > f tbe 8 entenco » 8 ° « " « , bat i « cai » i rfared not show leniency , and peremptory n& ? T 8 ent for t ^^ ecutions : the same expresi OffdlBd a large reward for tha < K «» verr nf DMIoV . ¦ «/ IHlVl asgTOBce « ofI ) ecate 8 nowfonndhim theirmo . f . K ; i ^ -
I Wdhtt £ ™ - — -www — J w » | lwetm-feur conspirators were , in three detaehmen j led out for exeeution-Didier was still undu-TV ^ ^" T , He ., had e 8 ca ? ed t 0 the ® 08 ntains with Uiusnt , Danf , and Cousseanx . Overwhelmed with Brief at the failure of the enterprise , he had yet furtner to endure the reproaches of his companions for Saving deceived them with regard to the ultimate design . Long he listened in rilenoe , but rousing himself at last , he observed'Tonsay , I have deceived you ; but tha implacable hatred we alike bear to the Bourbons—that race that has eriled and degraded you , and deprived your families of bread—that hatred , is it real , or but a dream ! I flare deceived jou ! but though Napoleon ' s name was not the rallying sound , is the cause for which we hare fought less dear or leas sacred t—the causa of National Independence and hatred of kings . ' Hi » companions walked on in silence ; bnt tho next day DuBsert entreated him to explain his real
intentions , if the plot had succeeded . The Duke of Orleans , ' replied Dicier . 'Tha Duka of Orleans ! Franco would not have suf . fered It ! One Bourbon for another t loub XVIII , was as good as Philippe Egalite . ' Finding taamselveB thus deceived , ; the three oonspi . ratora resolved on the denunsiatien of Didier .
about to appear , as a witneas of his truth . [ sent his revelations to the king by an extraordinary despatch , according to bis earnest request : thongh ho expressed a conviction that they would sever be parmitted to reach the king . This despatch ought to be in the archives , bnt the present laws do not permit me to reveal its contents ¦ On leaving Didier , General Donnadien , fall of enthusiastic admiration of the man , before the object of his severest reprobation , spake to the officers who had guarded him in terms of deep admiration of him . and horror at the dangers with which the state had been menaced . ,
Oa Ascension-day in the tame year , Didier was brought as a prisoner to the residence of General Donnadieu . After dinner , the General conversed with him upwards of two hours ; Didier entered into a full coflfessioaof the whale history of theconspiracy , regarding which , the General observes ;—He tola me many tkJng . which I daw not repeat hero . Alter his trial I saw him again , and enquired if , in that awful moment , be had no further revelation to make which concerned the public safety . Much agitated , he then utttrea words , which filled me with profound emotion , taking the Eternal Jud gebefore whom he was
• The king will create ma a marechal of France , ' said he ; aud you , Vautre , lieutenant-general , as an inadequate r ewara for the service we have rendered him . ' This proyeked some Bareasm from his companions , when , ranch excited , the General exolaimed : — ¦ Do youknow with what personage Didier held hU last coafidentuiintervlew in Paris , before tbe insurrections of Ljoa . and DanpWny . ft was with Prince Talleyrand , in whose cabinet he passed the entire evening , previous to leaving Paris . ' Prince Talleyrand ! ' cried they , 'impossible ! Prince Talleyrand , who restored Louis XYIII !' 1 Yes—bnt who Is now neither minUter , nor ambassador , nor anything , ' replied the General significantly . Didier wa 3 in prison : none suspected that he was prompted by higher authority , save those who dared neither esquire further , nor even give utterance to thought . Bnt a scrap of paper was found with these words , in ha handwriting : —
Mokseigkeor— Our efforts have failed , but the links are not yet all broken Yet was he never questioned who was the lionmgneur he thus addressed . Silence the most profoand was observed ; and he attempted no further revelations . Di p was calm and heroie throughout the short remaining portion of hia stormy career . He listened to the sentence with perfect serenitv . observing— ' 1 1 have made my sacrifice ; my family are equal to making theirs . I thank my advocate for his gensrous defence , but entreat him sot to impede the course of justice . I ask , I desire , no favour of the king . ' Jlis execution was to take place at nine o ' clock on the 10 th of June . General Donnadieu spent an hour with him in gad aad serieus conversation .
• What can I confess , further , ' exclaimed Didier , mournfiill y , « in another hourl shall be no more . However—ttll the kin ; to mistrust the men who surround Mra—otentcRoftaMhco oath * in their mouths . ' He hesitated—reflected for an instant , and a-lded— ' Ttll the Jang , further , that his greiiest enemg it op bis ow » fakilt ' . ' He met death with fortitude , and in the cemetery of Gtenoble reafc the remains of TATJL DIDIER , the first victim of princely and ministerial craft . Louia-Philippe is king of the French , and by his 5 i 1 J ? his councils Bits the arch-traitor , the Duke de Decazes-
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Ztri I " 8 y"tlnwaBdh » " ^ , wwWpaj < h . whole It « -I i , « ^ " <«»»«»* , leaving him about forty-2 fc ? » / yMr > 0 ll 0 Bitl * ten Wesksfor hay-tioe th «™ Z IS * !? Uvate «¦ own Iaad » »» a flw ' wWtoof San SSS **^ * *• - « a « ptlwi / Ana tho tr « fl « - £ Shto I n " " ^ . flwiihewto a shorterapprea-2 Si . ft 9 ^ | W *» ' ««» I labour , thai a « y ? XL »? ' ^ th 8 t ' aCcordin 8 t 0 « ola W * saying , wfnt men % a 800 dm »« i » b « v « t , 'when farmer , want men , and men , women , and children can make ,.., » . - . . .
JS ^ i mple faotbeborne in mind . let w £ n Br ^ M \ am 888 Of wa 8 « «« n «»* "tatedby am . S 1 i ° ear " ' 0 P"a « ve « , and let us premu » hat those operatives would now be but too happy « tL ? oTV 0 nrfuU daj »' work ln the w « j < . i / S egtlmatethe slaTeBearnintM . then . atiJj . ed . a day . oot of wh . en is , to PP , d a jarge pwtion for ' battnw ' " ??• " /;* - ' -na if h » is tau two day . in the We « k he is drfwudod of flv . . hillings a wek , . Jd £ to pay rent for tbe w . ok , and to live for the week and to clothe his family , and buy fuel for the « S , « " «} tho four days' earning ., and then let the landman re norJ rf . T £ " a Jear ' flnd that the " » » l 2 acres , of a homo , wi t * convenient rooms and splendid outbmldmgs , and interest upon £ 30 . eacital will ™* altogttb , r amount to as m ' ch a . the Z oft " . S days' labour to the artificial , hT 0 . And wouldUt £ of Lancashire and Yorkrtiro , of NoWnghanXe ™ & Derb , Sh . r 8 , be now r . joicod . ay , to madness , at the announcemeutthat th « , BVouldU insured four ftSdS work in the wesk ! Would n . t tailor , , woma Z& makers and hatters leap for m , joy at such nn an . roHHoement ! The four-aere MlotmentB here atMln sterLovel , will average less than £ 12 . a year ' with In tere » t of capital and all ; and now let this arMjm « ic » A fact , » his indisputable faot , be engraved upon every operative ' s memory , that tho oocupantu of the Land Company pay Usa rent for four
acreB of good land , a btautlful cottage and ou * . buildings , end £ S 0 . oapitsl , than the operative pays for thu loss of two days' labour In tho week . Now will not every man impress that fact upon the mka of bh simple neighbour , and will it not force itte'f upon tb « consideration of the fanner and the 8 hopk « 8 per , who , &b aconsequenee , will be compelled to pay an additional amount of poor iatts ! * * # * * Then there are advaat » Kes wbloh cannot be at all estimated , and wh ieh , if taken in t » : e aggregate , would secure another tnving of five ( billings a week , of which
tho artificial labourer cannot avail himself * for instance , last week , the occupants at Lowbandg co-operated and bought forty tons of coals , and had them delivered at six shillings a ton under the pric « that I was in the habit of paying for a single ton . They bought a latgc quantity of flour at eight shillings and siipence a bushel , for which retail , and of a worse quality and poorer weight , th « y should have paid twehe shillings a bushel , and so they will co-operate for everything elsefor taking them for all in all , there never was a better er more industrious set of fellows .
Such are some few of the beaefita to be conferred —but , never fora moment , did the founder of this plan , in his desire for tho social redemption of the people , forget his great POLITICAL MISSION . To the allottee—In a political point of view , his holding oo « f « rs the franchise , as well as parochial and local rights , whloh it would not in any other country . And though last , not least , it places him within view of that school-housiwhere his children are t « receive an education that will teach them how to defend their rights that their father purchased for them .
If I had not intended to make this plan a stepping stone to the achievement of political as well as social lights . I could have located a hundred thousand people with as great facility , as I could now locate ene thousand , thus—I could take a long lose of farms that were to be let to any extent , improve those faras by tbe addition of a cottage to ev » ry two , three and four acres , and then raise money by way of mortgage on the improvements : but then such holdings , for however longa term , would not confer the franchise , and although they migbt extend over a period of ninety-nlne years , yet the father and the mother , tso , would a&lculate upon the sad day of reckoning , when the idle capitalist would absorb the fruits of their Industry , of their children ' * isdustry , and of their grand children ' s industry , and the holding would lose that charm which ever beloaits to MT OWN FOR EVER .
In conclusion , Mr O'Connor lashes the mean envy of the press-whose poor calumnies he calmly and convincingly refutes , —and whose motives are mtly summed up thus : — What is a remarkable feature in the history of the press , is the fact that previous to tho establishment of the Land Plan , the hirelings ware loud in prais * of tbe allotment system , which meant the gilded link of slavery by which the B « f was bound to the lovsd spot for « hich hedtarlypaid , and affection for which induced him to starve in quiescence , rather than risk its lots by an appeal to charity . Th « n half a rood , the eighth of an acre , was e principality—now four * acres is perfect starvation .
If this land speculation had been adopted by money mongsrsin the city , and the certainty of four per cent , secured upon land , instead of five per cent upon land and ' labour , tho waters of the Stock Exchange would have been convulsed by the diving of the sharks , each contending fur the first plunge ; and long ere this , the sham would have been at a premium of 200 per cent . ; but the solution oftheridflluwill . be found in this facU—THIS 18 THE SPECULATION OF THE PEOPLE . With a proud consciousness of victory , he points out the mighty results of his plan ;—with tho true modesty of merit , he adds , alluding to his proposition , relative to government : I have ever theugbt , and still think , that the selfish , ness of leaders is the one great barrier that stands between the people and their rights ; and I truat that I shall be acquitted of this crying sin , when I thus offer to surrender an amount of power which no man in the world ever before possessed .
Yet no man is to suppose that I would relinquish my own control ot its economy , © r my own honourable situation of unpaid bailiff . Government patronage I shall ' protest' against , tho unnecessary expenditure ef a fraction of the funds 1 shall contend agalnBt ; nor would I vote for any measnro of transfer which , ' after being deliberatel y drawn up , ind after deliberate consideration , was not acquiesced in by a majority of the member * , nor would I acquiesce in any measure which would deprive me , nnder the most rigid . government control , from carrying out the plan in faithful obedience to those principles on which it was established , and in compliance with those rules , under whose faith the several members joined . In short , I would , as now , receive the monies each weeV , and within the same week , pay them over to the credit of tho Chancellor of the Exchequer .
So much for those cavillers who doubted the security of the funds , or attributed interested motives to that founder—who daily ties his own hands more and more , and renounces even the legitimate advantages he ought to derive ; who , through good and bud report , adhered to the same steady courae ; and who , with an invisible power , was guiding tho destinies of the people ; for , to u ? e his own words : If I bad confined myself to the mere exulting shout of the C ' uarter and Liberty for ever the pablio mind would not by this time have reached the exalted position it now occupies , end ther « fore , while the idle gentlemen who
are too proud to work , and too poor to live without labour , wc-re boasting of their heroic devotion to the glorious cause of liberty , I was silently and unnoticed sapping tha walls of corruption . Although tho people were unconscious of it , I was leading them from madness to sanity ; whereas , it I bad , coward-like , refused to toko my full share of that medicine , administered by the government to the insane of that day , I might have been justly looked upon as a quick , creating delirium that I might traffic in the malady ; but I thank God I have received copious draughts o ^ tho governmentjtlixir , which has given tha people an amount of confidence in me that no government , no torture , no porsecation , can now destroy .
\> e cannot , in our admiration of the plan , ovt-rlook its Fou . ndeii ; this great and good man , who has displayed hia own character in the words , that Virtue , unalloyed virtue , is the natural characteristic of man ; while cunning , hypocrisy and vice , are the evil * engendered , fostered , propagated and encouraged by a corrupt , a selfish , unjuat and monopolising system . It i 3 but the good who believe in the world ' s good- ness , and brighten the darkness ef life with tbe light of their own hearts ! We are no man worshipperswe eschew talking of men , even while weare analysing tbeir measures but in this instance , while we writo , the cold reserve of the critie melts away , and we cannot firbear paying our ttibuto of admiration to the great political and social Reformer of tho ninetenth centu-y .
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Ixorhase op Prestos Poor-Rates . —The Blach lum Standard says : —• 'Such is tha pressure upot the office for relief , in oonsequonce of the short tim < or no time at many of the mills , that tho next si : months' poor rate ia expected to b » 8 s . in tho pound Th ' tf is a greflteasreasQ from Gel , to Sd , as formerly .
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LETTERS ON GRAMMAR . n 77 . TO THE W ORKING CLASSES . MrDfcAR Fbihnds , I have yet a few observations to make with regard to Adjectives before I proceed to the consideration of the next part of speech-the Pronoun . I wish to point out to you the ri ght u of Adverbs with Adjectives .
Adverbs are of great service in pointing out the degree in which one thing is better or worse , larger or smaller , than another . Thus , if we say « The sun is brighter than the moon , ' we state , indeed , the fact ; hut we do notmark with sufficient distinctness the vast superiority of the one to the other . For ! his purpose we must use adverbs , and say , ' The sun is infinitely brighter , or incomparably bri ghter than the moon . ' Rather , ' ' very , ' and many other adverbs , are also used to mark the degree in which a quality is possessed : 'he is rather clever , '' she is very pretty , ' are quite accurate .
Remember , when comparing Adjectives , not to use the Sup rlative when comparing only two things . If you have but two children , you must not say , ' John , Tf . el esl' -it »• q « ite sufficient to observe , ' John » the elder . ' In this , as in all other cases it is fooiuh to waste emphasis on subjects that do not require them . To use powerful language about nfles , s like throwing yourself into a passion , and heating your child for breaking a cup or a gia 83 . You can do no moreto express your disp leasure at his committing a theft , or uttering a lie , and he loses all sense of the gradations of evil . Just so , if you use great words on ordinary occasions , you exhaust the
powers that should be reserved for seasons of intense thought and passion . People will not estimate the power of the feelings that prompt you ; they will say , « It is only his way of talking—he means nothing ' whereas , their observations of those whose ordinary language is more guarded , would be , ' He must feel deeply wounded ( or greatl y delighted ) when he speaks with so much emphasis . ' But there is another and a better reason for using guarded language , ' and suiting our words to our meaning . It engenders a truthful habit of thought and speech , and , although few people would
endure to be termed liars , there are really very few indeed who do not deserve the title . If we accustorn ourselves to use words disproportioned to the occasion , we acquire habits of exaggeration , which invariably lead to deliberate falsehood . The child who is permitted te say , Oh ! father , I saw such hundreds of sheep in the road , ' when , in fact , there were not more than fifty , will not hesitate to tell a real lie , if it suits bim to do so . Never , therefore let your children , for whose future welfare you are la ' bouring so hard , acquire habits which will frustrate all your designs . Teach them to examine facts , even in small matters , and to state those facts exactly . Punish severely anything which you are sure is a deliberate falsehood , but be very very readv to
pardon an accidental error ; and take my aasurancn that you will be blessed with truth-loving , truthspeaking children . More liars are made by careless , ness than even by terror ; and terror , the argument of tyrants , creates thieving and lying , the vices of slaves . I need scarcely repeat to you the old adage , ' Example draws where precept fails . ' If you would have noble , truthful children , you must be manly and exact in all your own words—never exaggerating wilfully , nor from want of reflection . There is an anecdote recorded of the early days of that great and good roan "Washington , which sufficientl y shows that even his childhood was marked by the integrity which so pre-eminently distinguished him in after life .
"Washington ' s father had , in his garden , an English cherry-tree , which he valued very highly . He , hiroBelf , had a hatchet which was scarcely less prized . Childlike , he amused himself with chopping everything that came in his way with his ne , w toy , without much thought of the injury he might be doing . One morning his father found the valued chrrry tree dying ; the bark was hacked and hewed , and the life of the tree destroyed . ' George , ' said he , ' did
you kill my tree V George hesitated for a moment ; he feared his father ' s just displeasure , but he had been taught to love the truth , and he replied , 'I cannot tell a lie , father , you know I cannot tell a lie ; I did cut it with my hatchet . ' 'Come to my arms , my boy ; ' replied the father . Such a proof of virtue in my son is more dear to me than a thousand cherry-trees , though their blossoms were silver , and their fruit of gold V
Who can read this anecdote without seeing , in the training of the father , the future virtue of the son : who can fail to observe the effect such a speech must have had on the boy , in showing him practically that the value put on his honesty , was greater than that of the cherry tree ; that manly truth was of more consideration in the scale of virtue than childish mischief was in that of vice . Were there more such fathers , there would be more such sons !
I must really apologise ( though , as a woman , it is , perhaps , scarcely necessary to do so ) for allowing my pen to be guided rather by my heart than my head in this letter to you to-day . Let me hope you will consider my observations as prompted by the same sincere regard to your welfare and happiness , that first actuated me in addressing to you my epistles on Grammar . A futurity lies before you , differing verf widely from the dreary past of the working men of England . You have friends in the House and out of the House , such as you never had before . But if you would see the realisation of your brig ht dreams of happiness you must labour for yourselves , you must not rest—you do not rest
contented to improve merely the pecuniary position of your families—to feed and clothe a little more luxuriantly thrse poor bodies that are but the temporary tenements of the immortal soul . I am sure it is your aim to train that soul itself for the duties of its new position ; to make the rising generation fit to use and appreciate the social and political privileges you and your friends are toiling to earn for them . I will not , then , fear your misconstruction of anything I say : I will only conclude my digression by saying to you , as a poor old lunatic soldier did , many years ago , to the mayor of Tiverton , ' I did not mean to bft impertinent , indeed , your worship ; I meant only to he pertinent . '
The fourth part of speech is the Pronoun , wIhcIi is used instead of a noun , to avoid the unpleasant repetition of one word . There are three kind * of pronouns ; personal , relative , and adjective pronouns . Personal Pronouns relate to persons , and are tbe simplest substitutes for nouns . Like nouns , thev have gender , number , and case : they have also person , which nouns have not . Inconversation we shall find , if we think at all about the matter , that there are three persons and
no more . 1 st . The person speaking . 2 nd . The person to whom we speak . 3 rd , The person of whom we speak . All these may be in tbe singular or plural ; that is , there may be one person speaking , or more than oue _ and so of the others . Thepersonal pronouns , therefore , are—Singular . Plural . I 1 st . We Thou 2 nd . You He , She , It 3 rd . Thev
Although than is correct \ rt \ en we axe- speaking to one person , we generall y use the second person plural , you , except in very faroAllar and affectionate conversation . Gender belongs only to the third person singular , because ft w unnecessary in any other case . The person , speaking , aud the person spoken to , do not require the gender to be noticed , but in spcahng of a tiling it is requisite : we , therefore , say—He for the masculine , SAe for the feminine , It for the Eauter ; But for the , -plural of all genders we use the same word , ihey > I am , your very sincere friesd , M . M . it
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Reduction of WAOB 8 .-Me » 7 g flTha ^^ aTtoJ Co ., oi Preston , ha 7 e given notice of a reduction of flve per cent , in their spinners' wa ft ei . and ether firms wero declared likely to adopt the same course . The strike on account of the ten per oent . reduction at Mossly continues . Mossrs Swainson , Birley , and Co . ; and Mr Riley , of Preston , who had suspended work , have recommenced at four days a week ; and Messrs Gardner and Atkinson at eleven , instead of ten hours a day . In this town , we are sorry to lay , that some of tha beit mills arc working only three ? days a week for the present , while several are BOS pended altogether , for tbe purp , o ? o of repairs . Novel Strsbi Gab . —Oi Monday several vehicles , named ' Septibus Victoria Cabs , ' made their appearance in the thoroughfares of the metropolis .
Ihej look very much like aa omnibus in mwiatiwe , the entrance being at the back , with seats and win * dowa at the Bide ; they run upon four wheels , are drawn by one horse , six persons can ride in » ide and one out ; they charge the same fare as the other description of caba . Tim Convict Establishment at Woolwich . —Capfc . Voules has b » en appointed man&ser of the convicfc establiahraent , Mr John Henry Capper , late super * intendent , having retired * n a psnsion . —[ This , w » presume , is the result of the exposure by Mr Dimcombe of the disgrapelul and shocking mismanagement of the hulks under Mr Capper . ] At Ashley Down , near Bristol , a large asylum is being eree'ed , at a cost of £ 10 , 000 , for a sect known ? RS Mullerites .
Fro ^ eriok Douglass is now assistaat editor of the * Ram s Horn , a spirited weekly newiwaper , published in the city pf New York , by Thomas Van Rennsalaer . a coloured individual , believed also to have been » slave . Thb First Fojiqkd Bank Note . —Sixty-four yeaw after the establishment of the Bank ot E'jg ' and , the first forced note was presented tor pnynvnat ; and to > Richard William Vaughan , a Stafford linendraper , belongs the nieUxncholj celebrity of having ltd the van in this new phase of criincj in tho year 1768 . The records of his life do not show want , beggary , or starvation urging him , but a simple desire to sews greater than he was . By one of the artists employed , and there were several engaged on different parts of tne notes
, the discovery was made . The criminal bad filled up to the number of twenty , and deposited them in tho bands of a youtg lady to whom he wa 4 attached , as a preof of his wealth . There is no calf culating how much logger Bank Notes might hare ) been free from imitation , had this man not shown with what ease they might be counterfeited . Front this moment forged notes became common . His execution did not deter others from the offence , and many a neck was forfeited to the halter before the late abolition of capital punishment for this crime . ' Gold FisH .-Thia beautiful little fish , called in this country , Gold and Silver Fish , are originally natives of China and Japan , where they are held ia great estimation , and are called Kinyu . ' From China tho English carried some ' of thera to the
Island of St Helena , and from thence the captain o ? one of our East India ships brought some of them to England in the year 1728 . It is said by . a learned foreigner ( Dr Baster ) that having great quantities of them in his ponds , he used to regale his friends with them , and had them dresasd with various sauces ; but that egg sauce , in particular , save them an excellent relish , even superior to carp . Thete fish are said to grow no larger in China than an anchovy , but they arc to be seen in England of the length 0 ? ten or twelve inches ; so that our climato seeina to agree with them better than their native country ' . It is in the second year of their age that they acquira that splendid appearance fop which they are aa prized ; and they undergo but little or no change ia the third year ; but there are many of them that continue always black .
An inquest held before Mr Waklay , M P ., at the William the Fourth , Beacham-atie 3 t , Holborn , to > investigate the circumstances attending the death of Matilda Clifton , agrd thirty-eight , whose death was occasioned by Wm . Joseph Clifton , now a prisoner ia Tothill-fields Prison , having been committed there for re-fximination on a eharee ot wilful murder , by Mr Tyrwhitt of Clerkenwell Police-court . The witnesses examined at the police-court were called before the coroner when they reiterated the evidence wkich they gave before the magistrate . Mr Poll ock , surgeon , llatton-garden , who was called in after the assault , ; aid that the deceased died from the loss of blood caused by the injuries she received . The coroner summed up . and the iurv after beine in
consultation about an hour , returned a verdict of' Manslaughter against Wm . J . Clifton . ' Tna Nrw Iksolvbnct Act—The new Insolvency Act will come into practical oper ition on the 18 tbV instant , whe . cases will be heard for tbe first time by the Insolvent Debtors Court under the jurisdiction transferred from the Court of Bankruptcy . Tne Insolvent Debtors Court now possesses two systems besides tha privilege of hearing applications under the Small Debts Act . By the Act 1 and 2 Via ., cap . 110 , persons in custody can only petition , and may be . ' liberated on bail . On their hearing they can , on any , of the offences sot forth in the sections being proved ' i against them , be remanded at the suit of particular _ creditors , for a period of two years from the vestingi
u < uer , ana ior ni&King away wiui or concealing prow pcrty a remand can be ordered for three years . Thtf » creditors who detain the parties in prison can libe- * rate them ' without the authority of the Court . butthe benofitot ' the Act isnotextendeflte them until theperiod of remand has expired . Tbo new system has very different features . A debtor can now , by the " new Act , obtain a protection whilst out of custody , to tho duya appointed for his hearing . Tho Court has , however , power to dismiss the petition , er to adjourn the case sine die . On the dismissal of the petition , the party , on being taUcn to prison , could apply , under the 1 st . and 2 d . Vic . ; but oa a case being adjourned sine die , on which adjournment hi *
protection would cease , he could only apply under the 23 th prevision of the transferred Act fora ' protecting order , ' which could ba given by the Court ia a short time , or at at a period to be named . Tii ' era are various difficulties to surmount in an application under the transferred jurisdiction , and it is very probable , now that the two systems are to be administered by the Bame Commissioners , that pavties will prefer applying under the old system , Retting thimselvcs friendly arrested on lona fide dVbts , and obtaining thoir discharge 6 n bail . Under the new systems they must appear en two ( cea ^ ions ; but under the old system , alter bail , ono attendance may suffice .
fcEW Peehs— The Dublin Evening Packet announces ' with inexpressible pleasure' that Si p Charles Coote , Bart ., Chief Justice Doberty , and Sir John Cam Ilubhous ? , Bart ., are to be raised to the peerage . [ We expected that the rejected of Nottingham would be pitch-forked , ho has outlived whatever of usefulness he once possessed , and is most appropriately sent to the' hou ? e of incurables . ] Impjstube . —A Domestic 1 ' nAOFDY . —A curious east } has just been broaght to light in our own good city . Tho facts are briefly these , and they are given upon the most unquestionable authority . A young unmarried woman of this city , a servant , we understand , who had always borne an irreproachable character , was guilty of an imprudence . She consulted
a certain Dr Hornbook of the city as to how she might hide her shaiuo from every eye . The father of the child is a respectable merchant , and was wilting to be at any expense to get tho thing decently dona and save his good ranie . Fortunatel y for the doctor , and nil concerned , an acquaintance of his , another lady , was happening to be living on easy terms , at the same time , with a most respectable and extensivo grain dealer , and was atix \ ou 3 to have a child as ft proof of her affection ? . She had frequently consulted the doctor on the affair , and it now occurred to him that he oould put all parties to rights , put money in his pocket at tho satno time , and , in short , kill two dogs with one stone . The grain dealer had to be absent some tbreu or four
months upon business , ' aud itwua during this absence that tfce plot ripened . The welcome intelligence had been communicated to him that hia ( air inamorata was enceinte .. The first mentioned female was safely delivered of a fine boy , privately , which , under tho doctor ' s directions , was conveyed to the house of the former , who had previously assumed all the nppearonoe of ? . fruitful vine . Fifty pounds was tho sum paid jthe skilful ^ negotiator and accougbeur for his trouble . Information was immediately forwarded to tha grain dealer thai he could now assume the endearing t it'e of father , and everything went " merry as a marriage bell . ' On his return a wet nurse was provided , and all arrangements entered into which such an important event
demanded . An English troraan , a kind of hawker , had been in the course of her vocation , a regular caller on Miss or Mistress . She , too , had a male child about the sanio age , and the latter thinking it a more promising h-7 than her own , " or the ono she called her own , prevailed upon the former , by sundry arguments , to tnak > an exchange , whioh wa 8 done accordingly , and tbo hawker returned to England . These things took place about t » vo yrars ago . and' falsehood , frau'l , and wilful iuijiosflkm' seemed to be triumphant . But * conscience , thou hr . st made cowards of us all ! ' The real mother of the chill began to feel certain qualms and yearnings , and ap . Plied to tho doctor toW ***}* *«»*****
lirat-bsrn . A » tofling anwer «« Ri « n ^™> by advice , applied to the sheiiff , who granted a warrant for tto a pprehension of the guilty partic ? . The ab minab 0 transaction was partly brouent out ia . SaSSnton , antltUe doctor was onW iterated an . £ ? heavy bail , to appear when called upon . Aa fhVev was despatched to England , who » her muck ¦ SiCVieeded in restoring the child to us ri ' btful m other . Wertfrajn at present train making any remarks upon tkis affivir ; but there arc some thiV 3 involved in it on which we shall altn-rards hivo a few words to say . . TUo doctor waa indicted for fnud and wilful imposition ; but was outlawed for nona ppearance .- « fl * S <«? Eraminer .
Lord Emuiklllen has , within the h 3 t month , enabled 700 families ou his Irish estate to emigrate .
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LET US BB SOBER . ( Written for the Aijrftern Star . ) BY XBi B . T . rofcTEB . Ah ! let as be sober , for ghastly tbe crimes That drunkenness bringeth on man ; It sappeth < mr strength , ' tit the curae of our times , 'lit industry ' s , honesty ' s ban . Look , look bow tbe drunkard goes staggering by , How loathsome , degraded , andbnss ! QaEnehM , cpenetfdi * thelijftt of As wulia Ms eye Asd gone i * God ' s stamp from his face . Ana see the pale woman , who follows his path , With infant unfed and unclad ; She speakftth not bow ia the accents of wrath , Her voice is too hollow and sad .
Ko loDger the nttert entreaty and prayer , But straining her child to her breast , She follows his track , like a shade of despair , A spirit that knoireth not rest . She taketh her seat on the cold flag-stone . To watch by the ale-house door . Bnt loag ere the morning her babs is alone ; The drunkards young wife is no more : And whea from tha workhouse the children pass by , "Watch ; e for & countenance mild , And sickly , and old , with a fireless eye , — That girl is the drunkard ' s child . Oh ! let ns be sober , there is not a vic 9 That drunkenness will not let in ; All happiness , honour , attd virtue , its price . Its eoasequence , soebow acd sis . Behold the red Indian , how noble yna he ,
When white men first taoght him to drink ; How long was he virtuous , happy , and free ! Te sons of debauchery , think ! Then let ns be sober , if proiper we would , Aad win back oar rights in onr land . Let ns prove to the world they ' re the rights of the good , Then , who shall ourpower withstand . Oh 1 let cs be sober , and we shall succeed ; Remember that he who caa gain A conquest o ei self is % victor indeed , And never shall straggle in Tsin .
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si power . I wai TOUR TOOL—I ara now the PEOPLE'S M 1 HISTER . Wo are nojr led te contemplate the immense benefits accruing to the people from tbe government support ; and brought to a most important oonaide . ratios ,-viz ., would the Company bo placed under government control , and its democracy thus immersed in the muddy pool of ministerial patronage ? This supposition is triamphantly refuted;—it is , on the contrary , proved to demonstration , that by the mean 3 advocated , government would be placed nnder the the control of the people , and It cannot be adTanced , that the persons located would bennder the influence of government , because , upon location , each member should receive his conveyance , for ever conditioned topajarent charge at the rate of £ 5 . percent , npon tha capital expendad and advanced ; and hence , the occupant , npoa receiving possetsion , WOUld he as wholly independent of the government as ho iinow . ,.-.- r ... m ^ . . __ ,: ^^ v ^
With regard to the general , independence , Mr O'Connor states : — Before I would consent to invest the Company ' s prospects and money in the hands of the gorernroent , I would contend for the additien of a minister of Agriculture and PubJic Instruction to the Cabinet , aa 4 that ever ; single benefit guaranteed to the members by our rules should be guaranteed by tha government—that is by Act of Parliament ; and still further , as my object erer has been to make the plan national , antl to secure as little delay as possible between full payment of the share money and location of the member , I would
ttipulate that As mode of sulection by ballot theold be sltogcthtrdons away with ; that the Company should consist of but one section , and that whenever a certain number , three or five thousand , or fire hundred , had paid up , that then that number should be at onte located , and upon location , that each member should receive a conveyance of his allotment for ever , npon condition to pay the stipulated amount of rent , and with the power re * erred t » him , at any time , te redeem his land in fee by the payment of the stipulated purchase money , er by instalments of not les » than £ 10 . to reduce his rent by the standard of twenty-fire years * purchaso . In fact , ' he adds : —
Ewn after theeonsent of the government to accept the management of the Company , a Conference , chosen by all the members of the Company , should sit in London for a month , if necessary , to deliberate upon the Act of Parliament , by which gotemmemt would be bound , and my suggestion woald be , that the toti of three-fourths of that Conference should bo required to acquiesce in the J « opoi § d plan . Surely then , if the advantages to be derivfcdfram the further extension of the plan , from tbe fact that all timber , bricks , and building materials used for tbe benefit of the Company WOULD BE FREE OP DUTY ; that the protection derives from ActofParliamentagaiBStthe possibility of litigation ; the exemption from all stamp duties ; the cheaper terms upon which government can buy land , and ptrfonn all the renuin d
work , and' the rapidity with which operations HOHld progress ; if all these advantages are taken into consideration , it must be admitted , that the Land Plan would be then national , instead of sectional , the great abject which I have always had in view , and aeore and before all othtr consideration * It must be admitted , that I have discharged my trust faithfully and honestl y , especially when it is understood , that setting my face against patronage , I hereby renounce a » y payment from the Company , or fr » m government , from mither of whom will I « ver accept of a place , pension , or emolument , of fee , fat our , or reward for labour or service performed for the people , for their social or political redemption . We refer the reader to the snlendidlv wrnntrht de .
tails of the plan . the general outline of which may be partially conceived bj the above remarks , but of which we , of course , do not attempt to give even a passing summary . Such being the aspect of the plan under its proposed newerganisation , the author , secondly , adverts to its present position and prospects , without tbe aid of government support—asd a more charming picture , ! a more satisfactory analysis of its working could not be given . The rapidity of location is the great point in this section—and here we have figures met with Ggures , and the whole of the magniGcent machinery of the plan opened to our view . The Bank , of course , U a prominent point , in achieving speedy location , ' but' the author
observes—Mark , the facility with which I can raise a large amount of maney , iBdependently of the bank . I will illustrate this by the nature of the five estates I have purchased . Upon Herringsgatt ? , I might have allowed a laige pattioa of the money to Temain on mortgage . On Lowbands , for which I gave £ 8 . 100 , thera were mortgages to the amount of over £ 7 . C 00 . Upon Snig ' * End there is a raortgage of £ 7 , 000 , payment of which the mortgagee will not aecopt of , sni at £ 4 per cent , so there is a loan of £ 7 , 600 . Upon Minster Lovel there is a mortgage of £ 5 000 . ' . which is to standfor seven yearsthere ' s a loan of £ 5 , 000 . On Mathon , there is an annuity payable to an old lady , and by that annuity we become onr own insurers and get a loan of nearl y £ 3 , 000 s « that npon those three last purchased estates , there is a loan , without a farthing expense in raising it , of £ 15 , 000 , precisely tbe Bame as if it came through the banft , with tkis exception , indeed , that it costs not a farthing expense , requires no trouble , and cannot be called in without dn « notice of six months .
And then , as to the rapidity with which estates can be got ready : — In the first instance cf our experiment , it took n > e nearly a year to build thirty-five houses , ln the second instance , I built forty-five houses in little more than three months , and now I am engaged in building 100 houseB , and which I hope to perfect within a shorter period than three months ; and when our plan is sufficiently understood to enable me to proceed with a thousand houses instead of a hundred , I will find less difficulty and much ' greater economy in building that number than in building a hundred . The stability of the company is thus placed beyond denial-and an entire chapter is devoted to the security of the bank . We extract the following : —
Messrs Hibbs and Selsby have asked we what security the Land and Labour Bank gives to depositors ? I ask what security Sir Benjamin Heywood and Co ., or any other private banker give to their depositors , beyond the security of confidence , while tbe National Land aad Labour Bank gives the security of £ 5 a year for every £ l for which it is liable , and receives itself £ 411 s 3 d as the Interest upon Exchequer Bills , for its unsppropriated capital . The security of the Land and Labour Bank is , that it does not issue notes which may be called in when its capital has been applied to the legitimate purpose for
which it was intended—the purchase of Land . Tbe security of the National Land and Labour is , that its proprietor would not , and could not speculate hazardously with the funds . WonH not , because the wealth of the world would not compensate him for thelois of that confidence , which is indispensable to the success of his project . Could not , because the open mouthed prces , and the eaves-droppers upon'Change , would very soon proclaim it to the world — that the demagogue was speculatiHg in railway shares , ia stocks , or in fascina . tine bubbles .
The National Land and Labour Bank is seenre beyond all other banks , because a fictitious high rate of interest would not tempt the proprietor to discount the bills of speculators in c . irn , speculators in cotton , or speculators in railway , and thus jeopardise the property of its confiding dupes . The National Land aad Labour Bank is secured , be . yond all others banks , against the failure of Glasgow firms , Liverpool firms , Belfast firms , Maik-lane firms , London firms , and Dublin firms The National Land and Labour Bank is secure bejend all other firms , because the property which it guarantees to pay interest upon , must be increased , and cunnot be diminished in value . The National Land and Labour Bank is more advantageous to the small depositor than any other bank , because it gives a larger permanent amount of interest than an ; other bank .
TheKationnl Land and Labonr Bank is more seenre than any other ba&k , because its depositors are not only secured ia £ 4 of interest upon £ 5 of landed property , but they are further secured by the additional value given to laud by labour , by the additional value given to the land by additional buildings and improvements made by tbe occupants themselves , and still more by the smoant ot money iu the Redemption Fund , which the occupants cannot withdraw . The National Land and Labour Bank is more secure than any other bank , because its proprietor ' s name is not affixed to bill , bond , or note , to the amount of a guinea . The National Land and Labour Bank is mere secure than any other bank , or rather its insecurity may be more easily detected , inasmuch as its proprietor gratuitously and cheerfully undertakes to submit a statement of its condition , and to publish it annually .
The National Land and Labour Bank is more secure than any other bank , be ; ause its expenses are less , and its profits more certain . The National Land and L&baur Bank is more secure than any other bask , because the depositors cannot capriciously make a run upon it , and make it bankrupt with a surplus , but not immediately available , capital . The Naticnal Land and Labour Bank is more secure than any other bank , because its proprietor repudiates the bare notion of making the banker ' s profit upon the concern , because universal confidence reposed iubim ia dearer than the world ' s wealth .
And yet I did not , and would not undertake to establish the Bank on my own responsibility , until I hod received the clearest and most explicit opinion of tJjo ablest counsel , that the Bank could only be safely esta-Wished in the name of one individual , whereby the trustees could assign the landed property of tho Company as security for the funds lint by th « Bank to them , for the purpose of purchasing land . Addsd to this , Mr O'Connor makes theunparallelf d c . of annually publishing astatement of the affairs of ha Bank . ' Tho benefits resulting from this colossal plan are greater than even the author could enumerate in the limited space of his treatise : wo must remember that : —
The English oceupantis inthevery market thatothcrs send their produce three thousand mll « s to ; but above nr . d before all , the English occupant ' s spare labour , at tVe periods ot the year when it * sala is most profitable , commands ahighcr prica in Boglana than in any other country . For instance , as I have frequently asserted , a nun aul his family may rocsive for Wred labour a «
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The Faini' . y Herald . Part 52 . Published by George Big » s , 431 , Strand . This periodical steadily continues its unexceptionable career ; and increasing in merit , as well as in tho reward of merit , popularity . We vish that some periodicals of higher pretensions would evince the samo pood taste , e 3 pocially in the sclcctiqji of poatry , which is rarely of interior qua > lity . We have be ™ especially pleased with the lines , by Sharks Mackay , on 'Eiprnal Justice , whick we have transferred to our ' Poet ' s corner ,
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© - — - _ l / ounWa Journal . Edited by Willliam and Mary llowitt . Parts 8-9 . Lendon : W . Lovett , 171 , Strand . lu our second page our readers will find a lengthy but ably written article by Mr Howitt , exposing the enormities of' Delegated Taxation , ' which we iecomraend to the serious attention of all earnest reformers . We have extracted tho said article from the ninth part oi « ilowitt ' s Journal , ' in whioh will be found several ethor interesting contributions from the pens of tho editors and their clever assistants .
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^»~ THE LABOURER , A Monthly Magazine of Poli tics , Literature , Poetry , < fco . Edited by Feargus O'Connor , M . P .. and Ernest Jones , Esq . London : Northern Star Office , 16 , Great Windmilktreet , Haymarket . fContinuedfrem the Star of October 2 nd . ) III . It now remains to be seen in how far the kind Plaa will respond tojthe intentions of its founder . —this is the great object of the present treatise ; and , surely , a more convincing and conclusive line
of argument has never been advanced . The author treats firstly , of the means by which he intends rendering the plaa national—viz ., by making it a government measure ; and this section falls under two divisions—the benefits derivable by government ; the advantages accruing to the people . Secondly , the author proves the security of the Land Plan in itself , and by itself ; refutes ene after another the objections urged against it , from the idlest calumny down to the painfully idle calculations of cavillers ' , as to the time it would take to create a section .
This portion of the work is the one from which we would most willingly quste ; but this is the very part to which we are constrained to refer our readers for iBfonnation to the work itself , since the different data are anued with mathematical precision , and we cannot extract a part without reverting to the whole . We will , however , briefly advert to some ef the leading points . Firstly , then , with regard to making the Land Plan a government measure . With reference to tbi 3 proposition Mr O'Connor says : —
• Being not only an advocate of , bnt a r Jiglous believer in , the principle of Universal Suffrage , and feeling convinced of ^ the damage that the popular cause must BUitaia by the slightest violation of trust or confidence repo 3 ed in the most humble of its leaders , I have resolved upon testing the opinions of all , before I venture upon the realisation of this , my primary object , and to that end it ia my intent ion , prior to the ' meeUBg of Parliament , to call meetings in the several largo towns of England , Scotland and Wales , to which the members shill fee invited , with the view to taking into their serious consideration tbe propriety of making the Land Plan a National Plan , by the following means ; but without the concurrence of an overwhelming majority , I shall not have recourse to those means .
The plan advocated by Mr O'Connor ia : — To transf = r the whole affairs of tbe jCamptny to tha management of the government , under a special Act of Parliament , The nature of which is then adverted to . The author nest enters into the particulars of his stneendoas plan , and expatiates on the advantages to ba derived by government from its adoption . . In return for the advance of sixty millions sterling , government would clear , at the end often years , a profit cf forty-three millions , and pay off the sixty millions by the sale , at twf nty-five years' purchase . of the estates bought with the advance . The government would also derive incalculable advantages—Ia the shape of increased trade , increased consumption , diminished poor rates , and increased tranquillity . And as one of the features of the plan would be , tor Parliament
To pass a special Act , whereby the members of the Compaay shall be cxtmpt from all Stamp Acts and Stamp Duties . And , of course , the non-payment of duty or taxes on those articles employed by government : the author meets the assertion that government would lose in taxes by stating thofact , that the materials employed P ? a U n « iT haTe been ^ * ? ifc rot fw tf » Lind Plan , while commerce and trade would receive an unparalleled impetus . »«* civo « u Government might then set at nought the political handte cow made of Drainage and Health of Towns ' Bill * , of schools , and sectarian education schemes as the working classes wenld wait patiently until they could educate their children in their own school-houses , nnd breathe the fresh air in their own well ventilated C 0 ttlg € 8 .
It might say to the foreign despot and domestic faetionisi : Behold , I was the slave of one , and the tool of ' . he o : her , measuring national honour by the nation ' s ability aEd willingntst to pay the expense of a w / ir , and dcsiestic policy by tbe expediency of trucking and succumbing to there whose will or caprice was capable of burling me from office . But now you see my volunteer legion capable cf defending me against the tyranny of ; bu one aad the vengeance of tha other . You now see my exhiU 3 ted treasury replenished by demvstic indust ; y . Yoa now see ma independent of your caprice , independent of your will , because I have realised the purest of ail political principles—that labour is the soareaofall v : eal » b , and . ought to be the souiaa of all
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