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tion- the more directly to the fact , that jus . dcnaiions irom the high rcuid of sound principle and unswerving pro . Hty are fiaushtwitli ilangcr . Vt ' c know of no work in the whole extensive range of modern French fiction , that is letter calculated to elevate the human mind more than the novelliifore us : wit , wisdom , eloquence—the purest morality—the most profound . knowledge of the human heart , alike in the sunny brightness of its virtues , and in the dark and terrible depths of its prejudices and its vices —arc to be found in every page ; and we should form hut a poor opinion of his capacity for improvement , or even of Ms sensibility to the high , the beautifiil , the tender , and tlie ennobling , who could read this book without feeluiRhis he : irt stirred as with a deep and potent spell 'THE CKOSS ROADS' will henceforth be among the standard literature of the civilised world . " —Times .
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H ~ E DEMOCRATIC ' "" REVIEW ? Of BRITISH arid FOREIGN POLITICS , HISXP / tUT - and LITERATURE . ¦ Edited by G , JULIAN HARNEY , Oa , andaffer , the lBt of January , 1850 , ttie ^ Democratic ¦ Bwiew willie published by Mr . Jasces Waihbs , 3 , Queen's Head-passage , Paternoster-row . London . Arrangements have been made to ensure the publication ^ each number in ample time to reach all parts cfttie United Kingdom , ( if ordered by the local booksellers , } fcy * e Srst day of each month . " ' ' . ¦ - . Improrements—both politiod andliterary—will be commenced in the number for January , 1 S 50 , which will include in its contents the first of a oeurse of Historical Lbctcks from the pen of tfeat inimitable writer and champion of Labour ,
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TO THE PROLETARIANS . In this week ' s Number ( 80 ) , Price One Penny , REYNOLDS'S MISCELLANY . Edited btG . W . M . REYNOLDS , Is commenced a true , faithful , and unabridged translation of Eugene Sue ' s New Tale , entitled THE MYSTERIES OF THE PEOPLE ; ' OR ,
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RE-ISSUE OF ONE OF MR , G . W . M . REYNOLDS'S MOST POPULAR TALES . . In consequence of numerous demands from all quarters , it is determined to re-issue , hi weekly penny numbers , and monthly sixpenny parts , HPHE DAYS OF HOGARTH ; i . OR THE MYSTERIES QF OLD LONDON . Br G . W . M . Reixoids , Author of the First and Second Series of ' The Mtstbiies of London , ' ' The Mysteries of the Coukt op Lo . ndo . v , "Faust , " Wagner , ic ,, ic , ic . Number I . will he given , GRATIS , with next Saturday ' s number , ( So . 81 ) of REYNOLDS'S MISCELLANY . OBSERVE!—In Retnolds ' s Miscellany , price only one penny , is now publishing a triw ana faithful translation of Eoobnb Sue ' s "Mysteries of the People ; ' or , '" the Historyr of a Proletarian Family . " , Give your orders early for next week ' s number , BO as to avoid disappoiutment . London : Published , for the Proprietor , by John Dicks , 7 , Wcllington-streeet North . Strand .
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A SUPPLEMENT TO THE "POLITICAL INSTRUCTOR . " Next week ' s Number ( No . IXJ . price One Pjbs . nt , of REYNOLDS'S POLITICAL INSTRUCTOR .. Edited by G . W . M . REYNOLDS' . Will contain aportraitof George Sand ( Madame Dudcvant ) , the celebrated French writer ; and with . this number will he jjiven , GRATIS , . A SUPPLEMENT ; Of four pages , containing many articles of startling and exciting interest , and illustrated with the following woodengravings : — . ' ' The Mountain Party in the French Assembly . —A Portrait of Koanith . —A Portrait of Ledm lioilin . — Portraits of Hem and Dembinslu . Give your wdevs early to prevent disappointment !!! London : Published for the Proprietor , by John Diolcs , at 7 , Wellington-street North , Strand . '
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Off THE FIRST SATURDAY IN 1 S 50 , Will be published , ( Price One Pessi , ) So . I . OF A WEEKLY . PERIODICAL , To be entitled HOOPER'S JOURNAL : \ J To le conducted by Thomas Coopir , Author of the ' Piirgatary ofSuicides , ' And devoted to Intellectual , Moral , aud Political Progress , It was a saving of Napoleon that ' a name was a programme of ideas and opinions ; ' and the name of the Editor of the New Cheap Periodical is so well known as that of a « Plain Speaker , ' and an advocate of tho broad rights of mankind , that professions , in the present instance become unnecessary . ' . The new periodical will be Octavo in form , and consists of sixteen closely printed pages each number . The first number will be ready for tlio tiade on New Year ' s Day . . . Published by James Watson , 3 , Queen's HesLipassaee Paternoster-row , London ; and to be had of all booksellers and news-agents in town and country .
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J Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums , sent herewith , viz . :-For Macnamara ' s Action—From Mansfield 2 s 7 d—Mr . Scrimshaw Is—Mr . Brown-td—S . ¦ Wrainrfittc-W : Mitchell Cd—S . Hudson 3 d—Mr .- Jncque * ls-P ? Alfrey 3 d-Mr . Broxholme fid-Mr . Bostock 3 d . Mr . T ; Siddelet , Hulrae , begs , to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums , sent herewith : —Far Macnnmara ' s Action—J . Bennett Is—AV . Shelraadine Is—IF . Burrows ls-J . ' Smith Is-J . Matson Is—E . Birlcy 2 s—G . Marsden Is—J . Jackson's book 2 s—T . Hbberts ' s book 3 s fid—G . " Warenm ' s boob 34—J . Slielmadine ' sboolJ la—J . Sulton ' s book 2 s 9 d—T . Sidi | eley ' sbo 6 k ! . > sGd . ¦ JIacxamasa ' s Action . —Two Friends , of Camdcn-town , pev Abraham-street , 2 s , . ' .-. ' . J . SKERiirrr , Nottingham , begs to acknowledge the receipt of 2 s Gd from F . Holmes , of New Lenton , for the
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the proprietor of the machine . Can any of our Irish readers inform us ? ' ¦ ' ¦ W . G . S .-Consult the file of the "Shipping Gazette" atany commercial house iu the City . Thomas Srown . —The money hitherto paid by Air . Rider , to exempt the Chartist prisoners-from oakum picking , over and above the sums received foc tliat purpose from the juolic , has been , of course , paid from the private purse Of Mr . O ' . Connor . D ; Sherrinqiw , —Received . Shall be attended to . PoEiTV .. " --Tlie lines on "The Fall of Hungary , " and those headed " Sympathy , " are inadmissible . . James Taylor , Glasgow . —Triennially . Juiian Harkey has received from James Barrie , Ashford , Is . for the . Fratertihl Democrats , and Is . forthe National Charter A ' ssociation . Also , the sums of' Is . from Mr . Barrie , and Cd . from Mr .- Nesbitt ( which have been paid ovor to Mr . Rider ) towards relieving Ernest Jones from oakum-picking . ¦
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AGENTS AND SUBSCRIBERS , LIKE . WISE ADVERTISERS , Are , perhaps , enjoying a " Merry Christmas " —at least , I hope . they are as happy as a system of misrule will allow them to be . Let the side-cracking joke go round , and congratulate your old friends on outliving . divers evilssuch as the Cholera and the Corn Laws ; but amid all 1 pray you will remember the 29 th oi December .. It is our quarter-day ; and , I am
sorry to say , it is not as punctually attended to as quarter-days are ; at the Treasury ., It is affirmed by some ; that every grade of society apes the grade , above" them ; yet I would not wish you to take an example from State cormorants in anything they practise , with one exception , namely , Puneluality on the quarterday . They are punctual to receive . Be ye punctual to pay , and you shall have . the thanks of your well- wisher , * - ¦ . ; ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ The Publisher .
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EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND ' FORTY-NINE . Ere we can again address our readers , 1849 will have been added to the Eternity of the Past . How stands its account with tlie nations—especially our own ? "What foundation has it laid for Progress in the Future ? If wo look only on tlie surface of affairs in continental nations , the balance is sadly against 18 A 9 . At its commencement , there were still in existence some of the Republics bom in 1348 . Rome has fallen beneath the fratricidal arms of Franco . Venice has been
subjugated by the forces of Austria . Constitutional government has , in Hungary , been destroyed by the combined despotisms of Austria and Russia . Mazzini and KOSSUTII are exiles . Tyranny is iu the ascendant . Even in the countries where the revolutionary parties stopped short of overthrowing the old Governments , and rested content with extorting constitutions , embodying largo extensions of popular rights , the reactionary tide has , for the time being , carried all before it . The vapidly won victories of tno people have apparently been as rapidly lost .
Prance _ is still a nominal Republic , The name of its Government is changed—its head is a different person ; but the principle-on which it is conducted is tlie same as before the Revolution of 18 ^ 3 . Louis Philippe ruled France uuder the title of King , in accordance with his notions of what was right . Louis Napoleon does the same . The Ministers of each , instead of being counsellors , were , and are , mere instruments for registering the decrees of the head of the State , and seeing them carried into effect . True , that the Assembly is elected b y Universal Suffrage , instead of the two hundred thousand voters who sent Deputies to the former Chamber . But
umvOTssu Duurago is a farce in a country where the majority-though at war among themselves-unite for the purpose of prosecuting , proscribing , transporting , and exiling the compact minority . Legitimatists , Orleailistf . Buonapartists , tricksters , and jobbers of all kinds , combined against the rear Republican partym tlio Assembl y ; and , by fraud ' and torce , they have succeeded in neutralising the power , and stifling the opinions , of that part of the peopleof France who sent at least one-third oftheontu-e members of the Assembly in « , n .
porta Democratic and Social Republic . Democracy includes the whole of thepeople . Fashionable j- rench Democracy excludes onc-tluvd of their representatives , and by such exclusion nopesonce more to subject France to Kinriy or Impcnal sway . w ™ l * S . T ^ ' tilen ' ve ^ ve said , Popujar liberty has . little to thauk 1049 for but if we look beneath we may , -perhaps find that ithas aot been altogether o unfflula nnfr ^ °° ** been fS no beensheduivain . Thenoblc eies wh ¦ ar various
e now , xa parts of the world , testifymg their nnoere devotion to the principles they so nobly uph eld in the hour of « Xt and of danger kave not suffered in vain £ e acfaon has taken place , but it has not , fad never can carry the nations back to the point from whence they were hurried forward , by he revolution of 1848 . The people have " sxsis ^ &sssS |^ n ^ feX ^ ^ H ^ I ** " * 1 new-gained &T les
*^ to pracucal and beneficial purposes If this ,. done rteadil y and determinedl y Do mere arbitrary , or external physical-forco ob Actions can prevent thek onward p-ogret Kings and Emperors have received a salS 5 S ? SS « g
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bond , '' and dares not return to the home from which he fled , in the guise of a lacquey . Drained and empty Exchequers— failing powers of taxation—sulky and unwilling tax payers—and reluctant loan-mongers—these are the visible results of their last struggle with the people . The effects are to be seen in the more frequent recognition of the people , in one shape . or . another . Formerly they regarded the masses with . supreme indifference , if not contempt . They have now learned'to fear , if not respect . . , >
One step in advance ought not to be forgotten . The absurd and galling restriction on personal liberty , implied by the passport sy stemin France , will not disgrace that country in 1859 . It is difficult for an Englishman to conceive how any people could exist under such an intolerable interference with the power of transporting themselves from one place to another . It is totally opposed to all ideas of veal liberty ; and its' abolition is a consequence of the Berolution upon which they , have every reason to felicitate themselves . It wilL put an end to a system of extortion and corruption , which spread' its' network over the entire country . It ¦ w ill' give the people at large a
sense of freedom , which it was impossible they could ever feel or acquire , whilom the moshes of that abominable slavery , and it must necessarily give an impetus to the freedom and social progress of the nation . . To . give every one his due , it is but fair to say , that for this benefit France will be ' mainly ' indebted lothe President of the Republic . His long residence hi England has enabled him to comprehend thoroughly the inutility of passports as an instrument of police—and their impolicy in . every other senBe . Who ; knows but that a feeling of self-interest , and a desire to prolong his tenure of power , may lead him to other beneficial changes ? ' . .
With respect to Home AffairB , we havo little that is positive to be grateful for to 1849 . The Government did nothing , and Parliament helped them . , Parties were so divided , thatas in the case of Loxjis Napoleon ' s late Cabinet—» we ' " ¦ onl y obtained a neutralisation of forces . " Our Constitution , instead of working smoothly to promote the welfare and improvement of those who live under it , absorbed all its motive po < vers in keeping itself in stalu quo . ¦ " ¦¦ '' . ' ... ' :. There is , however , some prospect that this state of stand-stillism has reached its climax .
The pinching effect of our recent commercial legislation is beginning to tell . severely on the agricultural interests . ¦ The farmers naturally feel incensed against'the party to- whom they attribute their present unfortunate position . It may be quite true that their interests , and those of the landlords , in the matter , may be very different from each other , but they have notyetbeen able to learn that as a body .
In the meantime , they hold by the old traditions , and though very much in want of a reliable leader , " will evidently show , fight for the restoration of Protection , or a dissolution or Parliament , and an appeal-to the" country . The ' Free Trade party , on the other hand , is arming itself for the coming struggle . Mr . Cobden at Leeds , gave the signal note of defiance . The political stagnation of the past year will not characterise 1850 . 1
• But whilethis ' ' stagnation marked the surface of British politics , a strong and steady under current was flowing in the direction oi Reform—1849 vrill , we trust , have to be gratefully remembered as a year in which the middle and working classes agreed to co-operato , on independent and mutuall y intelligible terms , for a large extension of the suffrage and improvement of our representative system . That
movement nas now taken root , far and wide , and will exercise no mean influenco over the legislature in the coming year . The indifference of the masses has been broken in , ugon . Lord j . Russei / l will no longer be able to sneer at the petitions for Parliamentary Reform on that ground . They will speak * and in a voice which ho ' will either understand and obey—or retire , and leave to somebod y else the task of doing tlie bidding of the nation .
It is well , that in the prospect of the struggle between the landlords and the commercial interests , there should be an organised and a powerful party to hold the balance between them , and insist upon Parliamentary Reform as the indispensable preliminary to all permanently beneficial change . If the leaders of tliat party play a bold and determined game , theycould , mono session , compel the concession of their claims . There are numerous forms
of which they ^ could most justifiably avail themselves , to insist that no party or privato business should be attended to , until the claims of the people were discussed and satisfactorily settled . If this course should irritate Ministers , and lead to a dissolution , the middle classes who have joined the movement would , if they are iu earnest , have the power of sending a largely increased number of members ° to Parliament .
Suffice it however , in the meantime , to say , that 1849 leaves the question of Parliamentary Reform better than it found it . Some other questions of deep importance aro maturing among us ; questions winch reach down to the very foundation of society itself and which will be well worth y of the attention of a real People ' s Parliament , when wo get it . First among these stands the Condition-of-Labour question , whether in the rural , manufacturing , or metropolitan districts . The revelations of the Morning Chronicle have thrown a flood of li ght upon this question of the most valuable character , inasmuch as the authority and authenticity of these revelations will not be questioned .
In the attempt to deal with the awful state or things thus disclosed , it will be found that no mere isolated or fragmentary ameliorations will be sufficient . We must begin at the boguming , and , grappling with the evil at its source , trade it through all its subsequent ramifications , in order that we may ( Lisa JP ^ f ^ e , effective , and sy . toniic
rC-This may involve the downfall of territorial commercial manufacturing , and monetary theories , which have heretofore guided our atatesmen and legislators ; but when theories ail-when society is 0 , ie huge and weltering mass ot misery , corruption , and immorality- ! under heir operation the theories must go to he wall . Whatsoever exclusive interest mil ? tates against the general welfare , mi ? l 0 MnW * " The gmt P ^ pCthat the land , labour , capital , and skill of the people , ought to be applied to produce he health wealth intelligence , and happiness of ££ ? Si *' . ^ be > ^ cd upon . It must become the 116
ruling axiom of the Govcrn"Si u ' ltl ^^ V « M wmen all plans , and all existing institutions are to be tried . The latter half of thf S century must not rest under tho stigma of having tailed to solve the enigma of of much wealth , and too much poyerty-too n ^ uch mo due ion , and too Vch destitution fii problem must be solved , and speedily too If not in peace and with the general conSont If tta ^ ssw * - £ ? te . trsfciS a ievensh and precarious splendour * iY
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and the storm . At the close of one year , when looking back upon the apparently . small result of their past efforts , they must not despair or relax their energies ; but , noting accu rately what , has really been accomplished , gird ud their loins anew for the task , and pile patiently brick upon brick , beam upon beam , onthe basft already . laid . In this spirit do we loo k upon the close of 1849 , and the Advent of 1850 , The one has notbeen unfruitful—it dependsonour own exertions whether the other shall be—what wohov cordially ' wish it may be to all our readers—A Harpy New Year ! Let them join U 8 ^ the determination , and the endeavour to make it SO . , ' :
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WHAT SHOULD BE BONE WITH THE WOODS AND FORESTS ? We have on various occasions presented glimpses of . the way in which the Crown nro . perty is managed by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests . We shall now , from the last report of the Select Committee , give a little insight as to the state of their accounts , and the manner in which the financial business is conducted . Mr . Anderson , the Accountant appointed to audit the accounts of the
department , found them very much in arrear—nearl y ten years' accounts were not made up . The opening for fraud s and malversations which such ' a state of things affords , will be immediately perceived . It must have necessaril y led to many irregularities , even if all the parties were thoroughly and unimpeachabl y honest . Nor does it appear that these arrears accumulated in consequence of the disproportion between the business , and the staff to do it . The Commissioners took the matter coolly , as they did everything else . It must have been
no slight impetus that roused them from their slumbers , and caused them to send in to the auditors five years' accounts , during the last twelve months . It is shameful that sucb arrears should ever have been fallen into ; and the country is indebted to the Select Committee , which has so effectually dealt wi th a flagrant neglect of duty . As might be expected , the Auditors found the books in a state of great confusion . The different funds were mixed together in such a way as to render it very difficult to ascertain the balance belonging to each ; and the Commissioners annear . in
some instances , to have followed the Hudson " dodge , " - and blended capital "with income . Mr . ANDERSON set to work on this crude mass of undigested material , and proposed the adoption of . a new set of booka , by which the confusion and mixture of accounts would be obviated ; taking for his model the system of accounts established b y Sir J . Graham , in 1831 , in the . Naval Department . Of that system he speaks very highly . When it was introduced the accounts were in the same disgraceful state as those of the Woods and Forests , and the new system so completely rectified these defects , that it lias since been extended to other departments .
One peculiarit y , however , attaches to the department of the Woods and Forests . The whole revenue is placed directly under the disposal of the Commissioners , by the Act of 10 Geo . IV ., and they are not restricted as to any particular sum they may spend .. Perhaps this accounts for the fact , that last year the immense property under their management cost the country £ 5 , 000 more than it yielded . Other public department * have to frame an estimate of tho sums they will require for specific purposes , and submit it for the approval of Parliament ; and , although ve know by experience that the House of
Commons , on a " supply night , " is not the most vigilant guardian of the public purse , yet , the publication of the estimates , and tl : e chances of exposure must , to a great extent , be productive of a salutary influence upon the officials who prepare , as well as those who have to defend these estimates . Mr . Anderson recommended that the Woods and Forests should bo placed on the same footing in this respect as other public departments under the
present system ; he states , that " largo sums escape the control of Parliament ; that where a department pays itself it escapes Parliamentary control . If the gross revenue were paid in [ to the . Treasury ] , that department would be compelled to go before the House of Commons with a detailed estimate , and obtain the sanction of the House , before the expenditure was increased ; at present , Parliament knows nothitig of that expenditure until the department hands over the balance . "
Io this proposition Mr . Hatter and Mr . Wilson opposed every possible obstacle on the part of tlio Government , Mr . Wilson asked what advantage the witness would anticipate from having those sums voted by Parliament annually ? The reply was : " The great advantage of bringing the department of tho \\ oods under the control of Parliament , which I consider it is now free from ; I think the necessity of preparing annual estimates , the revision that would take place in the department itself , the subsequent examination at
the Treasury , the sifting and discussion in Parliament , that all this would tend to promote economy , and , that indirectly , the revenues themselves would be more productive to tho exchequer . " No" doubt of it . Eut these important advantages counted for nothing , in the estimation of Mr . Haytek . That worth y iuquisitor , who constituted such u ri gid scrutiny into the accounts ottlxcLand Company , has " no wish that those ottheWoods and Forests should be as fully investigated . He raised a number of peddling objections on mere matters of form and detail the principal being , that the Forests
belong to tho sovereign , though the public nro interested in them as tenants for life ; that theso Forests aro , by act of Parliament , directed to bo planted out of the revenue which belongs to the country , and that Parliament might , on the estimates being submitted to it refuse to grant the sums required by the Act . Tho obvious answer to this was , that Parlial inent might break faith and refuse tho amount but it was very unlikely . Mr . Hayteu supposed " a very economical Parliament might violate that act ; » but Mr . Anderson , with a higher faith in the integrity of his fellow countrymen than the Government official , uoubtedif au economical Parliament would do it . "
Irom the dread which Mr . IIayter evi- t " , L fi taiDS , ° ecollom ^ l Parliament , jema y gather why he and his colleagues opl pose such a reform m Payment as would SSs s r ° t 3 nt ° ° *»*» 5 to people . He knows that such dishonest , ex-W W ? WaSteM mism «« agement as ?« « i f ? P ^ ment ' vould te spedily put an end to In addition to the absolute excess jSf'i ^ year endin S ^ e 31 st ot March , 1849 , amounting to ifan them ! Sh fQ i ^ f ™™ Mjn ± 22 this ™ il T thosedue in that K month , s ^ s-rr , 'ivS thlf ' J 1 Udt ° W over andaW he Pt * of * w Knuos derlwl from the »*• :
it appears to us , that by far the bestwaT counti-y W r taiHng a loss « P ° * ' 'tfc s ^ SS ?
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THE CONDITION OF ENGLAND QUESTION . A condensed reproduction of tho Reports in the Morning Chronicle , on the condition of the Working Classes of the Agricultural , Mining , Manufacturing , and Metropolitan districts will appear in the . Nor // tero Star of Saturday next .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 29, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1554/page/4/
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