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From Mr Biess , Agent for DeiOBport . The following letter , just received by the respected Proprietor of t&e DETO . vroBT Inbemndbkt newspaper , clearly demonstrates the general utility of this muchprized medicine . Sirsilar letters are constantly received rom all parts of the United Kingdom . Some of these Testimonials are printed and may be had , gratia , of aU
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None are genuine , unle ? s the words ' PARR'S LIFE BILLS , ' art : in White Letters on a Ked Ground , on the Government Stamp , pasted round each box ; also on the foe simOi of the Signature ef the Proprietors , ¦ T . BOBEKTSand Co ., Crane-court , fleet-street , London , ' en the Directions . Sold in boxes as 13 ljd , 2 s 9 d , and family packets at Us each , bj all respectable medicine Tenders throughout the world . Full directions are given with each , bos .
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gj ^ fi ^ y . « .-. ^~ iqpS £ »™» tsij The ostensive practice of fS ^ J § "jJ % -. f # & § £ « £ } Messrs K . and L . PERRf and g ^ . j ^ - ^; fe v a"i . iAJ jw | ggS | Co ., the continued demand for beirworkrentitledrtnT ^ SlLE . S-T PRIENB , '( one Irandre 4 and twenty-fire thousand copies of which have been lold ) , and the extensive sale and high repute of tneir Medicines a « . ve Induced some unprincip led perrons to assume the name of PERRY and < Sosely imitate the title of tne Work and names of tfae Medicines . The public 13 hereby cautioned that such persons are not m any way connected with the firm of R . and L . PERRY and Co ., of London , trho do not visit the Prorincss , aai are only to be consulted personally , or by letter , at their Establishment , 19 , Berners-street , Oxford-street , Lon ^ oa .
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Extensive Robbert . —On Saturday information was given to the police Ihat the residence of Sir Moses Montefiore , of No . 7 , Grosvenor-gate , Park , lase , Lad been burglariously entered between 12 o ' clock at night and 7 the following morning , and £ 900 worth of gold and silver plate , gold and silver snuff boxes , a gold turquoise . set with precious stones the contents of a cabinet containing ancient silver relics , a gold medal presented to Sir Hoses on laying the foundation stone of the Birmingham Schoo l , sno'her the gift of the Pacha of E gypt , and a tbi d f om Her Majesty Queen Victoria , carried off by the ih : ere 3 , who are supposed to have . effected tbeir ca iftice with skeleton k ' eve .
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FA 1 IED THROUGHOUT THE GLOBEi IIOLLOwIiFs PILLS . A CASE OF DROPSY . Extract of a litter from Mr William Gardner , of Hanging Haugliton , Northamptonshire , dated September 14 th , 1847 . To Professor Ilolloway . Sib , —I before informed you that my wife had been tapped tirea iimea for the dropsy , but by the blessing of God upon your pills , and her perseverance in taking them , the water has now been kept off eighteen months by their seans , which is a great mercy , ( Sitncd ) William Gaidmeb .
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DISORDER OF THE LITER AND KIDNEYS . Extract of a Letter from J . K . Hejdou , dated 78 , King-Street , Sydney , New South Wales , the 30 th Septem ber 1817 . To Professor Holloway . Sie , I have the pleasure to inform you that , Stunrt A . Donaldson , Esq ., an eminent merchant and agriculturalist , and also a magistrate of this town , called on me on the 18 th iastant , and purchased your medicines to the amount of Fourteen Pounds to be forwarded te his sheep stations in New England . He stated that on « of bis overseers had come to Sydney some time previously for medical aid , his disorder being an affection of the Liver and Kidneys — that he had placed the man for three months under the care of one of the best surgeons , without any good resulting from the treatment ; the man then iB despair used your pills and ointment , and much to his own and Mr Donaldson ' s astonishment , was completely restored to his health by their means . Now , this ¦ urging cure was efected * about ten days . ^
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A DISORDER OF TIIE CHEST . Extract of a Letter from Mr William Browne , of 21 , South Main-street , Bandon , Ireland , dated March 2 nd , 1817 . To Professor HoUoway . Sib , —A young lady who was suffering from a ui 6 order oftie chest , with her lungs so exceedingly delicate that she bad the greatest difficulty ot breathing if she took a little cold , which was generally accompanied by nearly total Ios 9 of appetite , together with such general debility of body as to oblige her to rest herstlf when going up but one flight ef stair *; she commenced taking your pills about six months since , and I am happy to inform you they have restored her to perfect health . ( Signed ) William Browhe .
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A CURE OF ASTHMA AND SHORTNESS OF BREATH . Extract ef a Letter from the Rev . David Williams , Resident Wesleyan Minister , at Beaumarls , Island of Anglesea , Sorth Wales , January Htb ., 1845 . To Professor Ilolloway . Sir , The pills which I requested you to send me were for a poor man of the name of Hugh Davis , v » ho beforo be took th « m , was almost unable to walk for the want of breath ! and had only taken them a few days wben he appeared quite another man ; his breath is now easy aud natural , and he is increasing daily and strong . ( Signed ) David Williams .
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THE Earl of Aldborough cured of a Liver and Stomach Comclaint . Extract of a letter from the Earl of Aldborough , dflted Villa Messina , Leghorn , 2 lst February , 1845 :--To Professor Holloway . Sib , —Various circumstances prevented the possibi ity my thanking you before t' als time for v < aur politenes naing me your pills as you did . I now take this opportunity of sending you an order for the amount , and at the sa » e time , to add that your pills have effected a cure of a disorder in my liver aud stomach , which all the most eminent of the faculty at home , and all over the continent , had not been able to effect ; nay ! not even the waters of Carlsbad and Marienbad . Iwish to have another box and a pot of the ointment , in case any of my family should ever require either . lour most obliged and obedient servant , Signed ) Aldeoeousii . These celebrated Pills are wonderfully efficacious in
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( Frora the Daily News ) Mr Feargus O'Connor is eo hugely delighted that an official accountant has reported ( rtbat his private accounts do not appear to bavo 6 bown ) tha National Land Company to hi upwards of £ 3 , 000 in his dabt as to declare he « U 1 never accept payment of the mm , Unfortunately , however , tbi « liberal resolution will ba ofn « eartblj value to the 32 , 797 of ita members who have not go ; allotmen-s on the land on which the money baa keen spent ; it will benefit oalj the 536 who wero lucky enough to draw prizes in the Great O ' Connor Littery ; and conai .
daring it was cbhny frosi the larger number that the sum so eip ^ nded came into Mr O'Connor ' s possession , that gentleman ' s conscience ought , ws surest , ratber to rfquira payment of the money from the Company in onier that they may divide it amongst the formor inatead of mek'ng it a present to the lactrr ; at leu t that is what our sense of justioo would dictate ; tud not merely beciuse Mr O'Connor originally acquired the ca 3 h so spent from the 33 , 797 unlucky numbers of his Company , bat because its division amongst them is all the return they are likely to have for their subscriptions and their membership ,
Mr O'Connor , it is well known , Is the proprietor of the IfOiTHEKN Stab , and it is through that publication only that members ef the Nuional Lsnd Company can learn its proceedings , or the state-of Its affairs . In its columna the ; are Informed of the weekly increase of ita funds , of tbc estates in which jMr O'Connor bag Invested their mamy in his name , of the preparation for allotraent , of the mode of agriculture by which a Btarving wearer msy , at fi ? a mlnuteB notios , be converted Into & thriving farmer ; and , above all , of the placa at which ikey era to gamble for the allotments , the cottage ; , and participation of that raral felicity with which Mr 0 Connor propoaes to do Mich wonders in tho way of social regeneration . The Noetheen Stab is , therefore , a paper of the utmost importance to those who have euch faith in Mr O'Conner ' s specfics as to take ehareB In hie Land Compiny . Its members , accordingly elab together their
pennies to learn when the ; have any chanoe of admission into their leader's , or as he calh himself their ' father ' * , ' happy valley . Just then as the numbers of the Lind Company augmented , eo did the circulation of the No&thebjj Stab increase , nstil it came to yield its proprietor an income at the rate of £ 4 000 a year at least , a sum , we believe , larger than Mr O'Connor receWeB from those paternal acres in Ireland about which be no frequently talks . Thus demlng io handsome an income , we are entitled to say that the money so spent by him on tba various estates of his Land Company , originally came in a great measure from the 32 , 797 parsons who have oot yet obtained allotments . And it is therefore we Buggest that a division of the £ 3 , 000 amongst them would be a greater act of liberality on his part thun making a present of it to their 53 S successful rivals .
And justice as well as liberality ( now that Mr O'Connor is In tho humour to be general *) requires this spproprietieu '; for it is , we repeat , » he only retura they are likely to have for the snms they have subscribed to the Company . Large as the funds subscribed to it have been , tbej are nearlj all inreBted in land ; and all the land in which they have been invested has been allotted . So that Mr O'Connor bas bo more lasd in hand on which to locate the 32 , 707 persons who are still unlrcated . but who have an undoubted claim on him for land . Fresh subscriptions from other persons would of course enable Mr O'Connor to buy othar estatts , bat their purchase Kould of course increase bis obligations to furnish allotment * , and diminish the chances of his
clients in the ballot box . Or enppoae the ' reproductive principles' on ¦ which Mr O'CDnnor has established the Company , to ba successful , as each allotment costs nearly £ 250 . it will require ( so tha fiaaaelal secretary , Mr M'Grath , told the cemmtttee ) a reproduction of £ 3 . 800 090 at least before the 32 333 persons Mr O'Con nor has undertaken to provide land for can all be located , and tnis sum It is admitted by other witnesses tbo ' utmoat euccess could only produosin more [ than 106 jears fron tho present time . So that we are entitled to say that the chances of the 32 , 797 to anj thing but a rateable proportion of the £ 3 . 000 Mr O ' Connor ' s genero ? ity has glren the Company is small , and their ChaECB to that is , we fear , sot very great .
Mr O Connor , we Uaow , threatens to mortgage the esta ' es on whiih he bas located hi 3 fortunate gamblers to tuy other citates with the money so raised , te divide them into fiajilar fataiB , and to locato other a ' . bt ' . ees there&n . Ani eo ho sayg he will go on repeating tbh system of buying ; , mortgaging , nnd baling , until he discharges tha claim for land under the weight of which he now staggers . But he forgets that mortgagees in this country require the regular pajmeut of interest on the sums for which they hold land pledged—that the receipts of rent by mortgagors is a condition precedent to the payment of each interest— . that up to this time he has mide no provision for the payment of rcnS by his &llo ~ tees—and that whenever hsdoes fix tbeir rents and neme a rest day he may whistle for the monsy . It is exactly this question of rent which will burst the gay bubble he haa felowu . Hitherto the fundamental
prlucipla of the allotment system has been that it shall be in aid of wages only—Ihat the land shall be allotted in qtrnti * ie 3 so small as to be cultivable at the leisure of the allottee—and that the grsat » st care shall be taken that the allottees do not become dependent on It for sub-BisteBse . Mr O'Connor's fine theory reverses all tnis ; his otjiCt U to convert weavers into small farmers , and to make them dependent for existence on the lind . He g ives to each of nU allottees oa aa overage three seres of laad with a cottage thereon ; and oat of its produce and by their labour be expects them not only to live comfortablj but to pay a rent equal to four per cent , oa tns cost ef their aUohntnci , And this is just tha impossible part Of his schema ; it is what oanno t be done . Mr Re vans , the poor-law subcommlisioner , who is himself en agriculturist of Ur ge experience , states that eat of thres acres
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uf land a man cannot , with bis wife and family , subsist , even if hep' ? no rent , This Btotement is probnWv sn es . tr « m 8 one . But all experience has shown thai ho cannot live if he have to pay rent and taxes . And under :-uch circumstances—under a system tbe ba all and the end all of which appears to bo the extension of pauperism wh » rever adopted—who w ill advance monty on the mortgage ef these estates ? What , then , Is to become of tho National Land Company I We await Mr O'C janoi ' a reply with some curio sity . Bat our own opinion is , that tho sooner be gives the present allottees a title In fee simple the sooner he will be out of the greatest scrape icto which he tvergot , nnd that then his esoape wiil be founded oa dishonesty and Injustice to the 32 , 797 . ( From the Weekly Dispatch . )
The Select Committee appointed by tho Gouimona to inquire into the National Land Company , after a Bitting of nearly two months , have at length brought their labours te a olose . On Tuesday night , tbelr Casirman , tb . Right Hon . William G . Huyter , presented their Report to the House , which was embodied in the following resolutions : — ' 1 . That the proposed additional provisions to the Friendly Societies Acts , which aro incorporated in the Bill , entitled a Bill to alter and amend an Act of the 9 h and 10 th of her present Majesty , for the smendment of the Laws relating to Friendly Societies will nortnclude the National Land Company . 2 . That the National Land Company Is cot consistent with the general principles upon whiob the Friendly Societies are founded . 3 . That tfee National Land Company , as at present constituted , is aa illegal scheme , and will not fulfil the ixpeotatlons
held out by the Directors to the Shareholders , i . That it appearing to this Committee , by the evidence of several witnesses , that tbe books of proceedings of the National Land Company , as well na the accounts ot tbe Company , have been most imperfectly-kept , and that tbe orig inal balance sheets , signed by tha auditors of the Company have been destroyed , and only three of those balance sheets , for the quarters ending tho 29 ; h of Sep . tember , and 25 th of December , and the 25 ih of March , 1818 , respectively , have been produced ; but Mr O'Connor baving expressed an opinion that en impreesion had gone abroad , that the monies subscribed to the National Lind Company had been applied to bis own benefit , this Committee are clearly of opinion that , altbeugb tho ac « counti have not been kept with strict regularity , yet that irregularity has been against Mr F O'Connor ' e interest ,
instead of In hia favour ; ana that it appears by Mr Gray ' g account , there is duo to Mr O'Connor the sum of £ 3 , 298 5 i . 3 d . ; and by Mr Fialayson ' s account , tho sum of £ 3 , 400 . 5 . That , conoid ring the great number of persons Interested In the schemo , and tbe bona fides with which it appears to have been carried on , it is the opinion of this Committee that poweis might be granted to the parties concerned , if they ahull so desire to wind up the undertakieg , and to rclkve them from the peniliics to which tiny may hare incautiously sulj cted tbemselvei , In tubmluing these reaolu loiis to the House , it io the opinion of your C rnmrteu that it should be'left entirely opsvi to ihe parties enncerntd to prrpoao to Parliament . icy new measure for the purpose of carrying out the ex . pee'etions and olj cts t f tb « promoters o- the Company . ' Such is the Report matfts by tho Committee- , afmr
examining every witness tendered by Mr O Connor in sup . port ef his sent me , and others , whose practieal experionce in such matters , And inquiries into the present condition and future prospects of the allottees , tad them to tho conclusion that tho tcbeme would in a short tiac prove a complete failure . On ( he reading of the report Mr O'Canaor rose , and after somo complaints of tbo at tacks that he alleged had been made upon him in the public prints , he denied that ho had established the plan for his odd benefit , er that the accounts bad been improperly kept for any such purpose , and entered into some explanations with reference to tho missing balance shsets , and concluded by saying thnt when the gfEerul question came en bo would go further into the subject . It is quite clear , and , indeed , is admitted by the last observation of Mr O'Connor himself , that tven , as far as
the Hoase of Commons is concerned , the question is far from beiog finally di-p ised of . It is true that tho Committee , to whoa the whole question wos referred , huve made tbelr report ; but , beyond ordering that report to be printed , the house bas not taken any further stpps in the matter . After the report has keen printed and distributed among the members , the nezt proceeding will be to move that It bo adopted ; and on that motion , tho house having all » he evidence before it , may , and will , enter into a full discussion of the whole question . Such motion , however , ia not likely to be made at thl « late pc-rioJ of the Session . The chairman , after the observations made by Mr O'Connor on the bringing up of the report , said— 'He should decline entering into the ge neral question at present , but would ba perfectly ready to io so at ( he proper time , when the whole of tho evidence ta' < en before the Committee had been laid before
the bouse ( the fifth report of tho evidence had not then been printed . Sir Benjamin Hall then observed thtt admitting the facilities that had been given to tho Committee to investigate tbe tffaira of tba Company , h ' could not conceal from himself the fact that the win le of th-j original account , n g stated to havo been audited by Messrs Cuffey and Knight , with three csoeptisns , bad bten destroyed , and would have been more satisfactory had those nooounts been forthcoming ; but without en terlcg into the praeticability of tho scheme at present he thought that in accordance with the last resolution oi the Committee , Mr O'Connor ought to take somo step tither for dissolving tbe Company , or introducing some moaearo with respect to it . On the 15 th of Maroh j in answer to a question put to him , Mr O'Connor stated that if tbe Bill which be then brought In should not
paBB , ho intended to proceed to complete registration ot the C impany . He would , thertfdr » now aBk what course he intended taking with reference to complete registration , for there might bo some difficulty In obtaining complete registration after the evidence that had been adducod , and he hardly thought ho would be ablt to carry out that promise . There was another question whtch he wished te put to the honourable member . He would recollect that tka fee-simple of a'l ihe property purchased , with the fundB of the Company , was visttd exo ' usively In his name . All the property was assigned to himself and his heirs , and no other person had any power with reference to that property . In the Committee he was asked if they ( the Committee ) should decide upon recommending tha schsme for Legislative powers would he transfer the property to thoBe persons who bad
r < ceivrd allotments , and bis answer vra 6— 'No dcubt ot it . ' Ee was , therefore , again ashed , wbetlier he pro posed to make over the eBtates , which wero then vested in hie name , to those persons who , under tbe rulja of the Company , had received allotments , butYorwhicb allotments thev had at present do title t The above wero certainly leading questions , such as Mr O'Connor put to his own witnesses when examined before the Comaittee , and required a simple answer—yes or no ; but tbe learned member did not chooBe to answer them in a straightforward manner . He begun his reply by eaying— ' Tho bon . baronet has gone moro extensively Into the question than I Intended ; ' and then eald— ' If ho had read tbe resolutions , he would have found an snswer to his question , because it was there' left to the promoters of tbe Society to consider whether or no thev
would wind-up tbe affairs of the Society , or apply for an extension of power from Parliament . As he had not had time te oonsult any one on the subject , and it having been recommended by tho committee that a meeting of the shareholders shonld bo held for the purposo of their bting coaaulted , he thought it rather hard that he should bo asked to decide wbere Beven'y thousand persons had a voice in tbe matter . ' - When will the hon . gentleman call this 'Meeting , ' and where can it be held ? Kennington Common , tbe scene of some of his recent exploits , might , perhap s , find room for seventy thouaaDd persons , to assemble and discuss tbe question ; but that locality might not exactly tult the convenience of all the subscribers , and some of t em might rather obj- ; ct to being put to the expense of corniER to town for that purpose . The ex-Trustee of the Company , Mr
Ernest Jones , the banister , would , no doubt , very willingly sttend the meeting , but he is at present > -o particularly , but rathtr unprofesslonally , engaged ' at Westmiaster , ' as banisters state , in little boles on their chamber doors , tbat he cannot possibly do so . In bid case ' at Westminster' does not mean Westminster Hall , but Wcstmiastor Bridewell . There are many ot the subscribers who can also plead Important engagements of a similar kind , as an excuao for tbeir absence . So tbat it would be d f&cult to obtain the general senBe of the subscribers—if , in fact , they have any eense among them . Mr O'djnnor concluded hia obserrations by stating that ho bad received a letter desiring that bo would ask tbe honourable barenet ( Sir Benjamin Hall ) a question respeotlag his own Bdm ' nistJB tlon of public fund 3 , nnd of tbe mantur in wb'ch b «
makes use of somo of his own property in the countj ( Wales . ) This tu quoque style of defence was frequently adopttd ( by Mr O'Connor , pending the proceedings eefon tha Commlttoe . Have younevtr heard < t Rny other « tt-. mpt to humbug the public , wbb the realqaestion ofterj pat to witness , though In a somewhat roundabout away ; and whenever It wbb hinted that the pnrty originating the L nd Sobimo waa a humbug , ho meivly said , ' Ysu are another . ' Mr Bjuverle asked within what time all psmns engaged iu the scheme would obtain possession of their expected allotments . To which the Chairman of the Committee replied that , according to the evidence of Mr Finlayson , it would take one hundred and fifty yean to locate 70 , 000 persons , and that it was psrf-. ctl . » impracticable for all the shareholdtra to obtain allotments . There , for the preaent , the prooeodiBgB havi closed , as far as the House of Commons is conccrnod . We are anxious to call tne attention of our readers to the fact that the report of the Committee fully confirms all tho statements that we bove , from tipiB to time ,
made with reference to the National Land Company With reference to Us illegality , not tho ellghtest doubt exists among persons at all qualified to form &n opinioa On the Subject . On that question the CjmmUtce were unsnlmoue . With regard to the accounts ( of which more will one day be said ) tho Committee passed ever the matter very lightl y—but that is a matter on whlcb we made but few remarks—but as to the complete bum bug ef the whole concern , tbe report completely coBflrms all we havs said , for the scheme Is not only deolared to bo illegal , but is further stated to be ono that will rot fuiai tb « expectations beJd out bjr the dirtc ' ora to the shareholder ! . It Is stated ia the moBt distinct terms that the whole concern is a complete failure , and all the Commlttao can soy in its favours is , tkat considering the manner with w&ichit has been carried on , and the great number of parties interested In it , pow . r might be granted them to wlnS up the undertaking , and to relieve & 1 I th » parties concerned from the penalties which the ; have iaoonod . But the publlo will naturally inquire
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why such a very mosgre repart has been presented by the Committee after a protracted Blttteg of nearly two months . Nothing whatever Is suggosted , eren with reference t » the allotteos who havo not tbe slightest seourity for the tenure of the land of which they are at present in possession . The labour and okill they havo ap . piled to its cultivation may all go for nothiBg , and the projector of tbe scheme moy turn his ' children' off tho land at any time ho pleases . The whole affair is left to Mr O'Connor nnd bis dupes , who are to ' Bettle it among themselves , ' far as the Committee are concerned . But the House of Commons whenever tbe question again comes before them , cannot allow tbo matter to roit Where it in , In the meantime it is open to Mr O'Connor either to adopt the recommendation of tbe Committee to wind up the affair altogether , or to go on
to complete registration . As to the bill ho has brought In all 'b e ' & ' mcn eEanitBed on tbe eurjeet deolare that the Land Company cannot be brought within the raeaniugof the Friendly Scoietj ' s Act , and as to compiete reg istration , there is but little chance of that bang effected afcerthe evidence tbat has been given , and even if It could bo , the expense will be enormous ; but there is tbis further and greatest difficulty , that no plan whatever will bo tinging , unless the consent be prevl-9 ( JBIy obtainsd of tbe whole body of tfee shareholders , a thing which Mr O'Cmnor well knows is absolutely impossible . On both these surjects Mr O'Connor was si . lent but by way of throwing dirt in the eyes of the Com " mitt ' ee and of tho House , he pretended to think that the charge against him was , that be bad falsified the
accounts . That iB not t / t « charge , as be very well knows . The charge is , that tho scheme ha has started is not one for the benefit of all the fcubaoribers—fer tbe advantage ( be has stated ) cf the tolling millions ; but a gigantic lottery , on a scal a most unfavourable to the gambler . The lottery is one in which the holders of the prizes are wfcoily unsecured in Vne possession of tbtm , and thoBe who era expecting prizes may wait for one hundred and fifty years before they gain ou « . The whole scheme , as we have etatcd from the beginning of it , Is a mere bubble ; or , to quote tbe words of a learned jadge oa another subject— ' a roookery , a delusion , and a snare . ' There are many parts of the evidence which have not beea noticed in the report to which we may perhaps ad . vert whenever the report it self is brought under the consideration of tbe house .
( From the Exammer . ) The prospectuses of Mr Ftargus O'Connor ' s Chartist Co-operative Land Company , or National Co-operative Land Company , or National Land Company , or by wfeutever alias it may now be known , appealed most ekllfully to Borne of the Btroogept propensities tnat ex st In man . . They promised ' social and political emancipation , and tfeomore tangible benefits of two acres of land and acomfortable home , with an advance of money to begin the world with , to every subscriber of £ 2 10 s . upon a perpetual lease , at a rental of £ 5 per annum , with the power of transforming the tenure into fee simple on tbe
pnymttit of £ 100 . The first progpECtug declared that 372 persons might be easily located on these terms , in the course of four years . In a subsequent prospectus tbe directors , ' with tbe great occasion rising great , ' pledged themselves that' within a very few years a great and beneficial change will be effected In the eonditlon of tbe toiling millions of England . ' To exchange a life of dependence upon wages , exposed to be threwn out of employment , shut up iu close and BtifiiHg workshops from tbe free braez i and the sunbeam , for the life of aa independent proprietor , were irresistible attractions . And these promises wero shown to be possible , by a most Imposing array of arithmetical calculations ,
After having witnessed among the educated classesamong men whose lives havo been spent in business pursuits—such facile belief in tbe premises of the multiplication table as engendered tbe Thellusson bequeet , and tho railway mania of late years , it is no wonder that men bent with depressing , hopeless , ill-remunerated toil , ebould grasp eogerlj ot Buch promineo , The Company was launched in the iattor end of 1846 ; and in February , 1818 , it consisted of more than 60 , 000 members , holding 180 , 000 sbcreB , aud baving subscribed nearly £ 90 , 000 . Whatever wa may think e . f tho judgment whioo guided these eubf cribera , their aims were spirited and honourable ; and the power of accumulating such a capital in so snort a time inspires respect for tbe energies , and cosfidGDCS in tbo ultimate destiuiea of the English working olssBee . But our immediate object is to icquire what these men have got , or what they are likely to get for their money , by Mr O'Connor ' s Land Scheme ?
The two great agencies cf tbe Company are a Iani purchasing and a banking establishment . It is to tbe a 99 cts and pro 1 action of these two businesses that the subscribers aro to look , not only for the realisation of ttio splcnJid promises which have attracted them , but for security for the money actual'y paid . How stand the affairs of the Land Company and the Bank at this me mem ? It appears from the evidtnofl of Mr M'Grath the finan . oUl secretary of the Land Company , that on the 24 th of last March tbe aggregate receipts amounted to £ 94 , 184 , nnd the expenditure had been £ 4 , 878 , leaving a balance of £ 89 805 . As yet allotmint has taken place ' oa only fous estates ; tbe earliest looitlons feeing tffecteo" in De . cf mber , 184 G , the most recent in June , 1848 . The eg-« rec ate number of houses on thost estates is 259 , No
rents have yet been paid by any of tba allottees , though theBO rents are a main source looked to for reproduction of thi cajltal . Tho occupants do not even know what rents they are to pay ; they have only a general notion , ' Not above four or five allotments have been purchased , though this was another means relied upon for the reproduction of capital . The oceupants have no loaacs , no titles . Tlio contributions of upwards of 60 , 000 subscribers have only sufficed iu the course of two years to put 259 persons in possession of houses and allotments upon a precarious tehuro , the conditions of which are unknown to them . TcU is not all . The capital of tbe Company is stated at £ 130 , 000 and the expense of locating each individual , at £ 242 10 s . ; without reproduction of oapittlonly 636 eharohuldero can be located , and as ytt there are neither rents nor tales to reproduce capital .
So much for theproBpects of the promises held out by the directors be ' ru realised . Let us n « t see what security thj ( ubecribers havo for the repayment of thtir advances is the event of ultimate failure Their sole securities uro tho lands , the Exchequer bills in which the balance of subeoiptlons are said to be Invested , and tbe E-nk . There has been invested in the purchase of land ( that i » , actually paid ) £ 35 , 037 ; and there are two mortgages amounting to £ 10 , 800 . The Company ' s ( or Mr O'Connor ' s ) stockbroker holds £ G , 000 of Exchequer bills ; and there is a balance of £ 8 , 000 in the London and Westminster Bank , The deposits is tbe Bank amount to £ 16 , 000 , on which it promises to pay four per
cent , per anmtm ( for the emalleat sums ); and U lies lent j £ e , 39 i to the Lsnd Company . These are the only data we have whenco to infer the state of the Bank's affairs . Altogether it ia to be feared that if , in conecqmnoe of tbe recommendation of the Committee of the House of Commons that the subscribers be allowed to wind up the concern , they avail themselves of this permission , the portion of the original subscriptions refunded i » not likely to be very great . And for their ability to l&y hands upon the funds actually ih existence they have nothing : but the pmonal security of Mr O'Connor , who holds the titles to all the land , is sole treatnrer to the Lind Company , and sole proprietor cf the BaDk .
Great aexlety is tvinced in the Committee ' s Kaportto clear Mr O'Connor from any Imputation of fraudulent design in this echeme , or of having unduly profited by It . It appears that he has expendod seme £ 4 , 000 or £ 5 , 000 more than he has received . To the full benefit of this fact be is fairly entitled . But we would resptctfully Bubmit tbat the mere circumstance of the projector being out of pocket at the time the bubble bursts , is not sufficient to exonerate him from every moral imputation . The scheme was batched by Mr O'Connor . He Is titular owner of ail tbe lands , Sole treasurer of the comp licated scheme , nominal proprietor of the Bank . He bas takes upon himself tbe whole direction and the whole responsibility . The directors , the auditors , the trustees were collected by him , and are for the most park merely his creatures . Of three of the trustees , one has been long Incapacitated by eick&ess , and , though a gentleman of honourable obaracter , is in in \ otved circumstances ; ansther h&a been Insolvent since January , 1846 —since
before tho CampBny was started . The auditors are two journeymen tailors , one ot whoa has ao placo of business , and the other is Mr Cuffey , the valorous member of he National Convention whose wife goes out a charing . Of the directors originally registered , one gave as his address a house- which does not exist . A deep degree of culpability attaohe * to Mr O'C nnor for entrusting the management of so cemplicated & scheme , and the savings of so many poor induatrlous men , to so Incompetent and untrustworthy on agency . Tho Bjstera of management which he , the real sole d 16 eio * . allowed to bfl onrled on , also diseradltiatto to him in tho highest degree . On his first examination the financial secretary boldly stated that there ware minute books of the proceedings of tbe Company , and that he oould produce thorn . On tho aecond ho qualified ate aBsertion by stating ihat there wereminutos book , but the
meat-Injs were net regularly reported therein . 'Strictly "poaklBg , there aro no minute books . ' The manager of tbe Bank has ' never examined one of the balance sheets which are sent out of hie office , ' Under the first manager , the accounts 'were not kept In a regular form : ' ' since then we have balanced the books pretty accurately , ' No ledger or correct account book has been kept of the expenditure of tbe different estates , DiBcrepincies exist between two accounts to the amount of £ 4 , 000 or £ 5 , 000 . The original balance sheets signed by tbe auditors are said to hare been destroyed , Mr O'Connor , the great Atlae of tbe undertaking—ho who by his fUtUrlng promises Induced upwards of 60 , 000 peor men to invest their savings in the Company , and who undertook the whole responsibility—Is Boitly responsible for the inextricable confusion Irro which the laz and ird gular proceedings of his incapable instruments have invelved tho affairs ef tbe concern ,
The worst feature of the case remains to be pointed out , According te Mr M Grata , ttio word ' Chartist' was dropped out of the title of the Ccsapsuj 'in consequence of the unfortunate prejudice which exists throughout the country against tbe designation . ' 'Wo wtre wishful that it should not be conaldortd at all la the light of A political institution , ' Tbe shareholders look upon it as , ' strio . iy epeaking , & eooiil imtitHtion . ' Yet , on the 25 th of luat April , £ 75 19 s . 81 . is entered aa' paid ( out of the Company's monies ) to Mr O'Connor for Convention . ' It appears tbat some of the members ot the Cbaitlst Convention applied to Mr O'Connor for money to enable them to return home , and tblsmquez t ? m gives , tbssa f oy that
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purpose . No trace » PP ea » in the ^\ ° !* l \ *™ baring been repaid . At tbe time of tho last general l * to an entry % ccurs : Election fund j rjecived bj M O'CoBnor £ 6 2 s . « This sum was received b , Mr O ^'" nor 'for the gen . ralpurpo . es ' of a Committee appomted to promote tbe election of liberal members throughout he country ; ' and there is no trace on tbe books of its h . rwg been repaid . There was also -an intellectual d . psrtmant belonging to this establishment in the > "bape of lecturers . ' Three leciurers received each i . i a ween and of these lecturers , one , Mr Kydd , WM a member Of the Chartist Convention , and another was the notorious Dr M'Douall . The Nohthbbk Stab inserts the advertiiements of the Company free of ohnrgo ; 6 u « Hi printer , a mere agent of Mr O'Connor , has ' been paid about £ . l , tM . of the . , _ * _ t *« . i ^ n « P * -M » an
6 y the Company for job printing * The profits Nobthmn Stas average £ 90 a week ; and have been largely increased by making it the medium of information respecting the Land Company . All the director * of the Company , all the trustees , all the auditors , the trea . eurer and solicitor , the financial aeoretary , and the gentleman to whom the monies are paid oyer , are prominent members of the Caartist boly . ' All tbe officers of the Company were members of the National Convention , We find political retainers of Mr O Connor quartered on the Land Company as salaried officers , though from their precedents little likely te be qualified , and from their intarmissions obviously disqualified for the trust j and we find others quartered upen It as lee . turors , at a time we know them to bare been traversing the land lecturing to a very different end than the
promotion of the Company ' s interest * . In tho midat Of their anxiety to whitewash their parliamentary colleague , Mr O'Connor , the Committee would have done well to have noted these matters . It Ii n » t enough > o clear our St Jobs Longs and Holloways or the oharge of quachery to say that they pay their way ss they go . Xtia the quackery which enaWea them to do it . And the same rule applies to political as to medical quacks . Mr O'Connor does not praotice gratuitously . He pays bis sgmU by appofottmt&u under the Land Company , and be drives up the profits of his NORTHERN Stab to £ 4 C 80 a year ohl-. fly by Ub means . Wo person has bentfitted , or is likely to bentfit , by tbe scheme , er . cept Mr O'Connor and his agents ; and they have profited it it
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largely bj , , largely oj , ^_^______—_—« TRADES' MOVEMENTS . THE NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY AND ITS ENGINE DB 1 YER 3 . Another numerous meeting of the eegino drivers and firemen , lately In tha employment of the London and North Western Railway Company , took place at the Railway Tavern , Hampetead-road , on Saturday Bight . Mr Jonas Bbottn , engine driver , again presided , and opened tbo business by reading to the meeting the followisa address : —
' Fellow-Workmen , —We are now no longer the ser . vants of the London and North Western Railway Com . pany ; and no one will , I am Bure , refuse to pay atten . tlon to tha statement I am about te make , at tbe mo . mtiit we are leaving the greatest company in the world , to whom webavebeenfor many , many yeari—even by Mr GUjb ' s adaiifiBion—diligent , able , and faithful eer . vants . I soy we are now no longer in tho employ of this great and powerful establishment ; and it will become u » to Inform the public , without fear , favour , or affection , of tbe reasons and motives tbat have led to a result which we must of course naturally regret—and deeply regret—and which , as surj as I am sitting here , the tra . veiling portion of the public , bb will as our late cm . pleyera , will as deeply deplore . Yfhy , fellow-workmtn , have we left our employment Mr Glyn admitted , at the meeting of the proprietors held yesterday , that they were almost under obligations to us for the maneer in which we have worked the immense and difficult traffic
of the line ; but Mr Glyn states that the directors have not thought it right to allow those who hold subordinate situations to dictate to the liecutive nhethsr or not tha superintendent nbo has been pat over them , and nhom the board have found a faithful , zealous , and active officer , is the proper person to be at the head of the establishment . ' V / e never dictated , fellow , workmen , as to whether Mr M'Connell should be locomotive su . parintendent or not ; what we complained of was , bia irregular , uncertain , harab , and tyrannical conduct to ui < , and surely to complain of this ia sot to dictate , We bore this , as I statsd to you last night , up to a point at which we saw it was absolutely necessary to make s stand , unleBB , indeed , we were disposed to submit to the cunningly devised classification scheme of Mr M Connell ,
which we were quite satisfied , from what we had seen of him during the two years we were under hU control , was Introduced for no other purpose than to carry out hiB threat of 1813 , of reducing the maximum wages of drivers to S 3 . per day ; for tbat such was his intention can be proved by the testimony of a person who is bow in this room , And now fellow . workmen , 1 st us tell tbe public who tbis 'faithful . zealonB , and actlvo officer ' of two years' standing is , and at whose shrine we , tbe older , and surely , oven according to Mr Glyn ' a admission , equally faithful , zealous , and active servants , have been ea nattily and cruelly sacrificed , The . public rave seen Mr Glyn ' s highly-coloured amateur picture of Mr M'Connell ; it is but fair , therefore , that tho publlo should also have bis lineaments roughly yet truly
sketched by the hands of those to whom he has acted as an oppressor . Ftsllow-workmen , Mr M'Coanell was brought upon this lino for the sole purposo of reducing the expenditure . The directors kBowthis ; and It was the character earned by him on the Birmingham and Gloaoester line whiob prompted certain gentlemen , backed as I believe by the influence of Captain Moorsom and bu > other , to Introduoe him upon this railway—a circum-Blanco to be deplored by the wbolo railway proprietors of this kingdom . Take tbe career of Mr M C mnell on tbo Birmingham and Gloucester line . Several of tbe victims of the ' economy' which recommended bim to two or three gentlemen connected with tho London and North Western Railway are now preaent , and they oan testify to the accuracy that he discharged ever ;
engineman and fireman , with the exception of two enginemen and two firemen who accepted his reduction , at that time , of 8 d . par day—the highest pay on that line being 6 a . 8 i . per day . Fellow-workmen , this 8 d . per day was a severe loss to the company ; so much so , indeed , that the directors interfered , and recommended tbat tbe wages of the ¦ Gcand Junction , ' which were much higher , should be given , to induce active and experienced CHginemea to come on the lino ; and those wagBS eaist up to tbe present moment on the Birmingham and Glou . oestor Rillway . If the public desiro to know the man . ner in which we have been treated by the ' faithful , zealoui , end active officer , ' namely , Mr M'Connell , let them call upon tbe direoters to publish the memorial presented to them by ua In A p ril last , and to which BO
answer was given till the following July , although the answer when we got it , was doted in May . As another proof of the falso economy to which we have been sacrificed , wo would refer tbe publlo to tho statement made by Mr Glyn , to tbe following effect : — ' In our working charges , ' fay » Mr Glyn , * we are able to show a saving of between £ 12 , 000 and £ 13 , 000 , ' How aay pertion of this Baring haa boon effected upon the northern division of tbe railway , I know not ; but I can easily understand how this saving has been effected by tho ' faithful , zealous , and active officer' alluded to ry Mr Gljn . I havo now in my haad a paper furnished me since I left tbe companj ' s service , by which I find that the number of engines nnder repair on the southern division of the line was , about liz weeks since , upwards of 70 . Recollect , fellow workmen , we have only 211 engines to work the southern division of the line , aud we have bad delivered upon it nearly 100 new first . class engines
during the last two years . This delivery r > aa enabled Mr M Cjnnoll to ellow these engines to get out of repair , and so keep out of the locomotive account the expendituro for repairs which ought , properly , to hav * come into the half-yearly statement produoed to the proprietary yesterday . The majority of tbe 70 engines that I have alluded to require te undergo a thorough state of repair ; and I ask you , and the proprietors of the London and North Western Company , how much of the saving of between £ 12 , 000 and £ 13 , 009 would havo been left for Mr Glyn to talk about ii the fair proportion of the halfyearly repairs had been charged against the last halfyear ' s receipts ? But Mr Glyn has beea deceived , by & false cry sf economy . A gentleman of his numerous and important avocations has not time to dive Into the mystery oi tbat system of locomotive management which Mr U'Connell is & < ra pursu ' ng , to the certain end permanent detriment of ih ? interests and honour of the
company , and to the want of accommodation , inconvenience , and safety of the public . I am convinced , fellow workmen , tbat the grsat body of London and Nortb Western directors are utterly ignorant of ihe ec andaleus conduct to which we , their late servants , have bten tubjeoted ; and the timo will shortly come when they will be satisfied that it was not upon us , but upon our oppressor tbat tneiv condemnation should have fallen . Wo , fellow workmen , can lay this pleasant conviction to our hearts , —that we offered to the directors and Mr M'Connell to submit our case to arbitration , and thnt we expressed ourselves ready to do anything that any one disinterested and honourable man should say we ought to do ; but misrepresentation has succeeded , and we are now co longtr Mr Glyn ' s old , diligent , and faithful servants . We I solemnly deolare , have been sacrificed b y false information and personal Influence . We have honeBtl y dene our duty ; the publio will soon fiiid how Mr Glyn ' s faithful , zsalous , and acktoe officer' dees his , ( Loud crieB Of ' Hour , hear . )
Mr Mabbhall stated that he had it upon the most authentic information from the city , that some of tne persons etgajed to supply tbo places Of IDS Old engine drivers were such persona as those who had the management of the engines in steam boats on the Thames , The Chaibmam said , there wao another security which the publto had under toe care of the old engine drivers , and which the new men knew nothing about . Thoy ba * a set of ptivate signals oraonget themselves whioh enabled them at all times to tell ihe state of the line and to run their trains at any speed with the greatest safety .
KiCBOlAs Ai > diso » stated , that the 11 a . m , train that morning ( Saturday ) , from London , ought to bave reathed Birmingham at 8 . 35 p . m . The train that left Birmlnsoam at 3 . 60 p m , did not meet the 11 a . m . train natll It reached the Hampton junotlon , In conseqaeaca of this the company had to bo at the eiponao of & gpecJal train to Derby . This arose from the incompe ' . eacy of the new
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driver being incapable of bringing on his train , R Bsrkhampstead and Trin $ he cam * to a de ' id * a thereby delayiDg the balf . paat n a . m . traia out of r m > a considerable time . London After some farther statement ! of n similar deacrl not ntcessary to make public , the proceedinei Hr on at a late hour . 61 terming DEPUTATION TO MEMBERS OF PARLlAJ , gv Od Sunday evening the largest meeting which h ' beon held of the engine-drivers and firemen nh V " seceded from * he employment of the London andW Weitern Railway Company , again aissmbled fr " " Railway TaYSrn , Hamp » tead-read , for the p aro considering what furth * r steps it may bo nee ° ' take In reference to their position with tQfl b 6 , * « o of that line . »« noritiei Mr J . Bbown was called to the chair at nine ' and said , the course he proposed to adopt was t k | statement which should go forth a » the replsof tv teai * ntsitiu iuo rtrtaAr bain ? Incfin&hle of brlnp . ns * nn h \ ?_*!__ ^
vaiupou ; vu Hiiegstuaj which hai h made against them . He then read the follo ^ n ! » n mont : — ' Having seen a letter from Mr Creed th s tary of the London and North-Western IUlwo * p 6 " pasy , in Ihe Obseeveb of this day , Kfloottng uLnT eourse which the engincmen and firemen of that pany who have loft the line in coascquenee of a d | ° * with Mr M'Connell thought it a duty towards them , ?]" ' to pursue , we beg most respectfully ts state , la too J ' and on the behalf of tkose persons , that they t ook ' possible means for prev » nting tha r » sult which hij ' * fortunately occurred , viz ., their secession from the » ^ Wee of the company . Though no longer ln the omniT
of tbe company , we are doing merely simple instil ... ourselves by declaring that wo offered , firstly to nuZ > the ca » e to arbitration ; secoadl y , that the whsle ofTh old servants of tbo company who were receiving 8 , * day , offered voluntarily to hava their eatarfe . reivZ to 78 6 d . per d . y ; and , thirdl y , that we would ellZ satisfied with the regulation of Mr Goocb , on the 6 «« WoBtera Railway , beiog adopted upon the Southern d ! vision of the London and North Western Railwty M , Creed gtates , that many of ths ' old drivers and fir emJ have withdrawn their notice , end that others may be « . peoted to follow the example . ' Now , it is true that aboui
twenty men did , through misrepresentations , withdraw their notice , but fifteen of them , upsn learning the trick that had been practised upon them , recalled their withdrawals , and determined to adhere to their original no ticee to quit . It Is with great rejret wa observe thnt Mr Cretd states , ' a sufficient number of new and practical enginemea , with unexceptionable testimonials froa their former employers , have been taken into the service and employed In working tbe trains during the week ' ilr Crted has in this ca « e , as our lato employers hare been throughout this unfortunate dispute , mo « t wickedly deceived , as we were prepared to prova , if tke Locomo . tivo Committee would have allowed the representative of tbe press to be present at our Interview with them en Friday morning . We most solemnl y deny , no Is in » i . nuated by Mr Creed , that we havo been in this matter mlBgulded men , and wo as solemnl y assert that we have been sacrificed through the misrepresentations of Mr
M'Connell , and the private influence of that gentlemaa and two or three of his supporters . Ii can be clearl y shown by figures , which every aetuary would allow to bo correct , that whereas under Mr Burj ' s system a man by good behaviour obtained bis maximum pay in ei ght years atd a half , he would , HDder Mr MConneU ' sclas . b fication syitem , be at least from twenty-fivo to thirty years before he could arrive at the maximum rate of payment . In fact , the more steady and skilful vhe men engaged upsn the line , tbe lees obsnee would there tw of those in tbe lower classes ohtainlDg on advance to the higher classes until they were too old to be intrusted with tbe charge &f an en jlne , and , having been working many years at a minimum rate of wages , they TronM be thrown upon tbe world without having been able to make any previsioD for their declining years . Mr Ii . Walked , moved that this statement be adopted , Mr F , A . ilbh seconded too resolution , which was csri ried unanimously .
Mr E . LetchroBD , engine driver upwards of ten years on the North Western Riilway , said he hat a most im . portant resolution te propose , It was is follows ;—1 That a deputation consisting of Me » 3 rs Brown , Alien , Melbourne , and Woodley , be appointed to watt upon Mr Qaborne , the member for MiddUstx , tho members for Marylebone , Mr Hume , Mr Wakley , and other members of Parliament , requesting them to inquire in the House of Commons of the Government , whether it is true that a number of men hare proceeded from tho Government dockyards t 9 take tho charge of locomotive engines oa the London and North Western Railway , and whether members of the Metropolitan polioe have been allowed to ent » r thecompaDj ' s uerrice to supply the placa of porten pnt upon the trains in accordance with Captain HuUh ' j cireular , and also to inquire of Mr Gtyn , the chairman ef the company , whether there is or is not any truth in the statement m 9 de at the meetings of the enginemea relative to acoldents aed delays on the line during tbe paat week . ' ( Loud cries of ' H » ar hear . ')
Mr R . yoDQsiNBoN , upwards ef ten years an engine driver on the line , seconded the reeolation , which naa also put and carried nem . eon . A variety of statements were made , for the purpose of showing that when a deputation waited upon Mr Smith , tbe chairman of tbe locomotive committee , that gentleman deolared that Ci . Gf . per day was excellent wages , and that Mr Glyn also declared that in the present times persons who h&d £ 1 a week were glad to get 18 s ., proving that the object was reduction . The meeting separated at a late hour .
Oa Monday afternoon a deputation from the eDgine drivers , late in the employ of t& « Lmdon and Xortt Western Railway , had an interview with the mtmbera for Marylebose , Lord Dudley Stuart and Sir B . Hall , They were very courteously received , aud proceeded to state that their object was to show a substantial reasoa why the Government sbould be called upon to appoint a committee of inquiry , in order to ascertain if , under er . isting Circumstances , the safety of the public wao reall ; guaranteed , as stated by Mr CMyn , the chairman of tbe North Western Company ; whether it was true that tbo engines on the line were placed uader the control of persons selected from her Majesty 'a dock-yards j whether the police bad been employed to ts te the place of porters placed on the trains , in accordanoe with Captain Hulih ' s
Circular ; and also that they would be pleased to inquire of Mr Glyu whether there is or is not any truth in the statement made at tbe meetings of the engine men , relative to accidenta asd delays on the line during the past week . Lord Dudley Stuart informed the deputation that at the morning fitting of the House of Commons that day , Mr Olyn , in answer to a question put by ilr Thornely , had stated that an attempt bad been mads by the engine driver clubs to indnce the men from Rugby to Carlisle also to resign , but tkat it bad failtd , and ula that a great number of the men , who on the southern division of the line bad sent in their notices , had withdrawn them , and had resolved to stsy in the comp&uj ' a service . Mr Brown ( the ohairmnn of the body ) begged to givfl this latter statement the most explicit and emphatic contradiction . After a full explanation of their grievances , In the course of which Lord Dudley Stuart expressed his conviction , If the statements of the
deputation were correct , they had beea moat unjustly tteated , Sir Benjamin Hall suggested that the engine drivers should confine their statements to matters of fact , — thai they Bhonld mike out a statement in writiag of the delays which had taken place oa the arrival of trains at Euston-equare and other places during the past weelr , and place it in the hands of his noble colleague for the pHrpoae of inquiring whether each statements were founded in fact or not . It would then , In the event of tbe answers not being satisfactory , be competent far a member of the house to move for & committee of inquiry as to the state of the line . Lord Dudley Stuart expressed his coneurrence in this suggestion , and sa id ho would give Mr Glyn due notice of hia intention to put the questions . The deputation then withdrew 8 nd subsequently waited oh Mr B . Oaborne , M P Mr Wakloy , M . P ., Mr Hume , M . P ., and other members of Parliament ob tbe same subject ,
On Tuesday evening the adjourned meeting of engine drivers and firemen who have seceded from the employ of the Korth Western Railway Company , took place at tbe Railn-ay Tavern Hampatead . road . for tho purpose of receiviDg the report of the deputation appsbttd to wait on numbers of Parliament , Bs to tho surety of the railway , and as to the position of effairs generally . MX J , BrOWn , engine driver , was agala eppointea to tile Ckair , and the meeting was attended by deputatlons Of engine drivers from the various other railr ? ays . The d ? putatlen reported tbat they waited oh the bon . members for Marylebone at the StPancrasvestr ? rooms , nnd that they hid subsequently seen Mr B . Otborne , M P ., Mr Hume , M . P ., and Lord Dudley Stuart , M . P ., at the House of Commons . Lord Dudley S : uart told them that he had seen Mr Glyn , the chairman of the North w « tern Company , and on informing that gentleman that he had , with Sir B . Hallbcon waited
, upsa by a deputation from the engine drivers , who represented tbe line to be in a most dacgerous condition to parties travelling , and that he intended therefore to put some questions to him on the subject , Mr Glyn requested be would not do so without giving him notioe of the queitlons he intended to put . They were , therefore , preparing statements of every accident and delay which bad occurred in const quince of the inefficient bands employed on the line as engine drivers , Mr B Osbornfl Urged that Ihe men should do no act which ebould oci »" promise their cbaraoters for respectability , either witl » rfgard to tbe new hands or with the company ( cheors ) , and Mr Hume was particular In Inquiring who- drove to # eipresa and mall ht&ine , as he wished to travel by tbe line but was somewhat afraid nnder existing oiroumstanocs . Allthohoa . members expressed their determination to give the matter their most Milous consideration .
Several of the drivers alto made statements . Oae declared that a now englna driver ontae Weet Losdoa Junction had that afternoon run into some coal wagon »» smashed foui of them , and newl y Wiled , two w threa men . Another that a new driver now emplojed on tb » North Western had been discharged from the Kastero Counties Railway bIx weekji since for rwalng Into » cattle train at Tbetford , and throwing the van , cos * talning two guards and five or six droma into a whe »» field , and that he had been reduced tbiee er foar tia «* previously for emitlng eoUisionr .
A resolution was corns to dlraotlng the rulea . of til dabs to be forwardod to Mr Gljn and the threa sauaberi of Parliament who had been waited upon b y tb » depute tlon is order to disabuse their minds of tia- statement that the men had resigned lacoiueoq <»>«> , « £ |) u . oh . i !!? flo « ao # , ' ' — •* -
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 19, 1848, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1484/page/2/
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