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A BOON TO THE AFFLICTED !! R ^ v £ ? F EF FECTUALLY AND PERMANEMLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS !! Tjy VERY SUFFERER FROM RUPTURE ± J ( Single orDoublo , and of evory variety ) U earnestly invitod to write , or pay l ) r . BARKER a visit , as in every case he guarantees them a perfect cure . During an extensive practice his remedy has been entirely successful , as the hundreds of testimonials he has received from patients , and many eminent members ot the medical profession , amply prove . It is _ applicable to both sexes , . old and . young ; easy and painless in use , and most certainin effect . ir ^ i The remedy is sent post free on receipt of Cs . by post , office order , or cash , by Dr . ALFRED BARKER , 108 , Great Russell-street , Bloomsbury-square , London , where he may be consulted daily from 10 till 1 , mornings ; 4 till 8 ercnings ( Sundays excepted . ) Pest-Office orders must be made payable at the Blooms , bury Post-office . Hundreds of testimonials and trusses have been left be .
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AN THE PREVENTION , CURE , AND v / G « neral character of SYl'IHMJS , STKICTUUES , Affbotions of tho PROSTRATE GLAKD , VE 2 JEREAL and SCORBUTIC ERUPTIONS of the face and body ,. Mercurial excitement , &c , followed by a mild , sucressful and expeditious mode of treatment .
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IMMENSE SUCCESS &F TIIE KEW UEMKDY , Which has never yet failed . —A cure tfected or the money returned . DU . WALTER DE ROOS , 1 , Ely-place , Holborn-liill , London , from many years experience at the varioas Hospitals in London and on the continent , is enabled to treat , with the utmost certainty of cure , every variety of disease arising from solitary liahita , delusive , ic , &c . ' , excesses , infection , such a gonorrhoea , gleet , stricture , syphilis , in all tiieir varieties and stages , — which , owing to neglect or improper treatment , invariably end in gravel , rheumatism , iariigestion , scxtual debility , sltin diseases , paius in the kidneys , back and loins , deheitney df natural strength , and iiiiiilly an agonising death . The lamentable neglect of these diseases by medical men in general is well known , and their attempt * to cure by tbo _ use of those dangerous medicines — mercury , copaiba , cubebs , itc —? iavc produced tlie most distressing- results .
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EXETER HAW * « . Erectors of Erter HaU having objected to the l- ' Tbe *™ " f ti , B Hall for the purpose of Shnkspere 1 fcrther nse " s ^ - enounced fliere by Mr . Nicholls ^ te ^ TW in St . Martin ' s Dan , Long Acre / Wdcertis { Uif » ' -3 ih Exeter Hall is a structure rare , Mfehtv , jet meek irithal , Tf- front unassuming , straight , formal , and square , i rtlle within it is spacious , and lofty , and fair : The large-hearted , cold-visaged men who meet tllere
TVell typify Exeter Ball , ifarrow-browed—g loomy—and frowning on all , most orthodox building is Exeter Hall . iQd good men meet there on the woes to debate Of suffering human kind . To abuse , with a Christian-like , orthodox hate , jli ose vile outcasts whose creeds from their own deviate , jo carse an old lady ( who ' s drest as they state , In scarlet ) , with fury blind . Or leaving our own poor in want and in sin , Jor the poor anthropophagi kick up a din , Jorgetting trhere Charity ought to begin , While "Want at our doors we find ; Bnt "Wisdom may reason , or Charity call , Por Bigotry governs at Exeter Hall .
Concerts are held there ; but concerts are pure—Music can injure none ; And the good men listen with looks demure , _ ind they smile , and are pleased , for they feel secure , So long as they wordly Jcys abjure , Laughing , and pleasure , and fun ; Basses may grumble , and tenors may bawl , For music cant desecrate Exeter Hall . -Oh' the Bard of Avon was England ' s pride , Chief in a mighty age ; Jlnd his marie pen as the poet plied ,
2 fatnre * s own spirit its point would guide , TViile ririne and truth ever sanctified The genius-inspired page ; Bat the poet is Exeter Hall denied , He ' s polluted by the stage ; And the good men hoot , and the good men bawl , for Shafcspere would desecrate Exeter Hall . So the Hall ' s still pure : The geod men still meet Heretics still to curse : Still storm away with intolerant heat , At the lady who has seven hills for her seat , Still go toconcerts by way of a treat ;
They're saved from Shakspere ' s verse . Bigots may bellow , and singers may squall , But Shakspere is hooted from Exeter Hall . Pasquin
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A Catechism of Socialism . By M . Louis Blanc London : IVeekly Tribune Office ; and by G . Vickers , Holy well-street , Strand . This is No . II . of a series of " Social Reform Tracts , " published by , or under the sanction of , the Social Reform League . The " Catechism" is a translation of Louis Blanc ' s contribution to the Almanack du Nouveau Monde for 1850 , and constitutes a most admirable synopsis of the principles common to Socialists in general , and especially of those taught l > y the great champion of the Organisation of Labour . As the tract entire may be purchased for a penny , "we shall quote but one portion , that relating to
"CAPIIA 1 , " " CBEDIT , AXD " MOSEY . " Q .: TVhat is capital ?—A .: It is the totality of the implements of labour . The laboHrer requires food , clothing , and shelter , and must have tools , materials , &c , to work with . These , together , form -what is called capital . Q . ; Doesituotfollowfrom this that without capital there can be no labour' —A .: Undoubtedly . Q .: Is it not just ; then , that capital should receive a share of the profits under the name of intend this being only a fair recompense for the services which it renders ?—A .: Snch are the arguments of the advocates of usury , and may be shown to be mere sophistry . It is perfectly trne that labour cannot exist without capital , but interest is paid to the capitalist , not to capital . 2 fow , capital
and the capitalists are two perfectly distinct things . Por capital to exist it is not necessary that it should he exclusively possessed by a few individuals to whom interest mu 3 t be paid . Suppose an association of labourers , possessing a common capital that is not belonging to any particular individuals , but ail thememSers in common . They "wonld wort on their capital without paying interest on it to any one , . is in this case there would be no capitalist , altbongh there would be capital . It is not possible to imagine labour without a labourer , but we can easily conceive of capital without a capitalist ' When a labourer dies , his labour ceases , but when a capitalist dies , his capital survives him . Xo similarity , therefore , can be established between capital and labour , from which to deduce the justice of any premium termed interest .
Q .: "What is represented then by the interest of capital ?—A .: It represents the privilege accorded to certain individuals to sit still and see their fortnne increase and reproduce itself , or it represents the price which labourers are compelled to pay for the permission to work ; or finally , it represents their subjection to a condition which few can successfully struggle against , and none escape . Q .: How do you understand gratuitous credit ? —A .: It consists in supplying the labourers with necessary capital without requiring interest from him .
Q .: Would not this be the result of tbeuniversal adoption of association 1—A .: Certainly ; for as soon as the labourer can always find admittance to an association possessing a commission capital , of which he is invited to take advantage , _ the problem is solved ; credit gratis is simply association . Q .: What is money ?—It is the representative of capital , and the circulating medium of exchange . Q .: Is a metallic currency necessary in the operation of exchanges ?—A .: Under the present social system it is , but notthat in which the socialist contemplates .
Q-: Why is a metallic currency the necessary medium of exchange in the present system of society?—A : Because having an intrinsic value it becomes a security as well as a token , as it can be melted down into ingots , and be employed in works of art ; it not only represents exchangeable commodities , but is actually of equal value to them . It , therefore , becomes a security to those who receive It , and it is the same as if they received the very object of which it is the token or representative . Sow , nothing less than such a security would be satisfactory under a system of dissimilar and opposing interests , -where fraud necessarily begets distrust . Q .: "Why will a metallic curres-. cy be unnecessary in the new order of things ?—A .: Because all the members of an assocation would know one another , and nothine would he left to chance or accident .
Q-: "What sort of money then will be employed in thenew state of society ?—A .: Paper money . Gold is the money of distrust and individualism ; paper Is the currency of mutual trust and association . Q-: Supposing Socialism realised , why would a paper currency be preferable to a metallic one ?—A : Because the former , being without real value , woold be exactly what a currency ought to be , a simple medium of exchange , while the latter , having an intrinsic value , becomes an object of merchandise , and thus renders the rich complete masters of exchange operations , which are the life and soul of trade and industry . Q-: Is there no danger in the use of a paper
currency I—A .: There is certainly , under the present order of things , because the facility of creating Jx , wonld icduce governments to extend the issue CpTOud all bounds , which would lower its value and disturb commercial transactions ; but there would be none in a state where the government really consisted of the best and ablest , and social intercourse was regulated on a systematic basis , in harmony with the laws of nature , as would be the case mi the fraternal associations contemplated by the Socialists , for in that case any arbitarv issue of paper money wonld be efiectually prevented by regulating it according to the amount of iroods in the warehouses .
We very heartily recommend this tract to our readers , trusting it may circulate to the extent of hnndreds of thousands of copies .. On the subject it treats of , it is the most admirable work ever written .
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The Frame-JVork Knitters' Advocate . Nottingham : H . Sutton , Bridlesiaith-gate . ^ 0 . II . of this useful little publication contains reports of meetings , and other matters Coiiaocted with the trade . We extract the bl owing notice of a Nottinghamshire poet : —
HENRr KIRK WHITE . « e was born on the 2 ht of August , 17 S 5 . Henry * as a rhymer and a student from his earliest years , and during the second seven years of boyhood assis-^ a bis father in the ungentle calling of his craft . ¦ lili s business , it appears , was not in consonance with mis feelings , as we find , that in his fourteenth year { l ^ - s apprenticed to a stocking weaver , and disced the idea , as he said , " of spending seven years J the shining and folding of stockings , he wanted ^ etW to occupy his brain , and lie felt "fcit he s ] I 0 U ! be wretcnej jf ue continued "nger at this trade , or indeed in any thing except one « tHe learned professions . " This idea triumphed
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overall obstacles , for he was removed from his disagreeable calling to one in an attorney ' s office , where he applied his leisure hours to the study of languages , and in the course of afetttnonths was not only able to read Horace with tolerable facility , but had made considerable progress in Greek . Hi 3 habits of study and application were unremitting . A London magazine , called the Monthl y Preceptor , haying proposed prize themes , for youth of both sexes . Henry became a candidate , and while only in his fifteenth year obtained a silver medal , for a translation of Horace : and in the following year , a pair of twelve inch globes , for an imaginary tour from London to Edinburgh . Having made an acquaintance with Mr . Hill , the proprietor of the Monthly Mirror , his encouragement induced him to prepare a volume of Poems for the press , which appeared in 1803 . In his preface to
the volume , Henry had stated that the poems were the production of a youth of seventeen , published lor the purpose of facilitating his future studies and enabling him " to pursue those inclinations which might one day place him in an honourable station in the scale of society . " This volume was severely criticised , which caused much pain and annoyance to the youthful author ; but , fortunately , the volume fell into the hands of Mr . Southey , who encouraged him , and with the aid of other friends enabled Henry to gain admission to the University of Cambridge . This was his ambition and his desire . The Kev . Mr . Simeon , of Cambridge , procured for himasizarship at St . John ' s College . This benevolent clergyman further promised , with the aid of a friend , to supply him with £ 30 annually , and his own family and friends were to furnish the remainder , to enable
htm to go through the college . # Poetry was abandoned for severer studies . He competed for one of the University scholarships , and at the end of the term was pronounced the first man of his year . Twice he distinguished himself in the following year , being again pronounced first at the great college examination , and also one of the three best theme writers , between whom the examiners could not decide . The college offered him , at their own expeme , a private tutor in mathematics , during the long vacation ; and Mr . Catton ( his tutor ) , by
procuring for him exhibitions to the amount of * 66 per annum , enabled him to give up the pecuniary assistance whieh he had received from Mr . Simeon and other friends . This distinction was purchased at the sacrifice of health and life . " Were I . " he said , "to paint fame crowning an undergraduate , after the senate-house examination , I would represent him as concealing a death ' s head under the mask of beauty . " He went to London to recruit his shattered nerves and spirits , but on his return to college he was so completely ill that no power of medicine could save him : ' hedied 19 th Oct ., 1 S 06 .
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STRAND THEATRE . A dramatic version of the Ticar of Wdkefield was produced here on Monday evening with complete success . The work of adaptation has been dona by Mr . Tom Taylor , who has performed his task with much ability , adhering as closely as possible to the language of Goldsmith , and supplying all that was required to render the story effective as a drama . The piece is in three acts , each act concluding with a well developed " situation" arising out of the incidents in the original story . The action progresses somewhat heavily , owing to a superabundance of dialogue , but this is a defect which may be easily remedied . The simple-hearted vicar is played by Mr . Farren , and the character being peculiarly
adapted to his genial style of acting , the result is admirable ; indeed the actor realises the true spirit of the author , and nothing more laudatory could be said . Mrs . Glover ' s Mrs . Primrose was also a most life-like performance , and it formed a very effective contrast to the character of her husband . Olivia was played by Mrs . Stirling with much true pathos , and a delicacy of sentiment which placed the book itself most vividly before us . Mr . "W . Farren , jun ., was the Moses , Mr . Leigh Murray , the Mr . Bur . chell , and each proved himself to be intimately acquainted with the " internal workings" of the character he represented . On the whole , the p iece was extremely well played , and was most effectifely put upon the stage .
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ADDRESS OF THE ASSOCIATIVE TAILORS ( Of 3 ± , Castle-street East , London , opposite the Pantheon , ) TO THEIR BROTHER TOILERS OF ALL TRADES . Fellow Workers , —The time has arrived when the working men of England can help each other , against the many ills and distresses incident to the lot of those who have nothing but industry and skill to give in exchange for the means of life . Enough , too , it might be thought , seeing that without industry and skill there is no real wealth ; but that is not enougfe is evident from the daily increasing poverty of large masses of the industrious population of this country . We have reasoned long and thought much , sometimes in sorrow , sometimes in an ^ er , on the anomaly involved in a comparison of the resources and condition of labour . Those , exhaustless of real
good to man—thus , wretched , with every day a deeper and a deeper shade of want and suffering . We believe that the cause of this is , that labour ha 3 been under the direction , of a competitive principle of individual selfishness , which ha 3 cheated it of its full reward , and that to secure opposite results it must be organised on a principle of associated effort for the common good . With this view we have united together , under the designation of " The Working Tailors' Association . " We have extensive and healthy workshops , and business accommodation sufficient to enable us to execute with facility the largest orders ; and we now appeal to you , fellow workers , for your intelligent sympathy , and your hearty support .
We have found that there is in what are termed the upper ranks of society , a real feeling for the sufferings of labour , which only wan's a healthy direction to work mighty effects , and you wiH be rejoiced to hear tbat it is to kind and generous assistance from thence that we are indebted for the means of thus associating . All true-hearted people will be happy to become our customers , because they see that they are helping us on a right principle to the great duty of helping ourselves . Grateful for this sympathy and assistance , and with high resolve to be worthy of it , we , nevertheless , feel that our great concern is with you . From you , above all , we expect that steady adherence which results from identity of interest , and conviction of duty . Let us speak
faithfully to you . Here are we , fellow workers , associated for an end common to us and to you—the means of life , and ultimate freedom from the effects of a murderous competition . It is your battle we are fighting and your custom is the weapon which , in our hands , will enable us on an ever-increasing scale to maintain a successful struggle with an enemy as formidable and aggressive to you , in your se }> arate departments of toil , as to vs . Continue this custom to our antagonists , and you will be denying to us personally the means of life , and blast our glad hopes for the elevation of labour . Will you thus arm vnconsdentious capitalists against us ? Will you furnish the degrading and horrid slop system with life and sinews ? It is but the skeleton of a dreadful iniquity if you hold back—with the profits of your custom in its mighty hands , it is a living giant , able to crush everything
which opposes it . Let there be no mistake between us on this point . In spite of plate-glass shop fronts and royal arms , two-thirds at least of the slop-sellers ' custom lie with the working men . In most cases it cannot be otherwise , as well we know . In the fierce struggle for a maintenance , the working man must deal in the cheapest market . High prices exclude him from the " honourable" tradesman ' s shop . Justice to his brother workmen is a luxury beyond his reach . But if we offer you our goods at slopsellers' pr ices , and from selfish indifference , indolence , servility , you still continue to patronise our tyrants and your foes—fellow workers ! will you be guiltless ? Shall you not have to answer to God and man for the good you have neglected to do—for the wrong you have done ? Shall it ever be said , The Woikina Tailors' Association failed because the working men did not support it ?
A calm calculation of the elements which compose the profits of trade will satisfy you that you can deal with us on better terms thin those which you are now permitted to make with the stop-seller . We have all the advantages of being our own capitalists , and have access to the best markets . We constitute in ourselves an undivided mastership , and Brotherhood Js its name ; display and luxury , or bankruptcy , which is worse , have no place among our hopes and fears . We are determined tbat our work shall bear a higher impress than the tasker ' s scrutiny , the impress of good faith and common interest between producer and consumer , a « d by reference to our List of Prices , and an estimate of " the cost of cheapness , you will find that humane principles of trade are the best guarantees for a judicious outlay of your money . We have made allusion to the great aim of associative efforts , and we ask , How long will any trade remain in bondage after the Working Tailors ' t
Association has emancipaed its principle from the thraldom of individual interests ? The success of our Association will surely be the signal for all the oppressed sons of toil to combine for peaceiul and harmonious labour in their respective crafts , and thus a demonstration of the vitality of associative principles in its will be the first step in a great moral revolution of the trade and industry of England . From the moment that associated labour can deal with associated labour , progress will be rapid arid easv , because a healthy and powerful stimulus will be given to consumption by means of a true , and not of a false , cheapness . For that cheapness alone is true which results from the taking off one or other of the burthens which heighten prices , as in the case of customs and excise duties ; that cheapness is false , which is made up out of the maintenance of the workman . The former really extends the sale of commodities ; the other xavPt iu the long run
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diminish it , by lessening the power to purchase throughout the most numerous clasa of the population . " The fair maintenance of the labourer is -no burthen upon pr ! ces . fi > rjtis labour which often gives the article its whole available worth . Nay , if these penny-wise and pound-foolish economists would look into the heart of things , they would find one burthen upon prices , the very result of their senseless competition , and which we claim to remove , —the tveight of the starvation , of the disease , of the vice , of the crime , ofthe operative ! You will not pay living wages ?
Look to see your poor-rates increase , and your streets swarm with prostitutes and beggars ! Would you shut up your workhouses ? Count first the cost of police and soldiery , of the gaols and of the hulks ; of a war , perhaps with some distant colony which refuses to receive the overbrinimings of home wickedness . And mind , that all these things have , sooner or later , to come out of prices , so that you do but add to the expense of production on the one haud what you take off on the other . S > delusive is the search after cheapness when divorced from justice and humanity !
But we , on the contrary , maintain that to secure to labour all ita just reward , is to increase in the same proportion the ability to purchase , and to lessen the weight of pauperism and crime . The recoil of our experiment then will move you , and if you rightly estimate its importance , it must be regarded as the pioneer of a new order of things in which all the advantages of skill , industry , and integrity , will redound to the possessors of those qualities , and yet not all to them alone , for there are no real blessings but those which are shared by all . The period , we hope , is not far distant when , by unity of purpose , and enlightened direction , Labour will bid adieu to its foes , and to its ceasless repining , weary life and death struggle of strifes and combinations , and find time to say once more " Glory to God in the highest , and on earth peace and good will towards men . "
But this is not to be done by dreaming of it . but by working for it heart and soul , day after day , life after life , through never so many checks and struggles , disappointments , and , if need be , failures . Work for us , then , 33 we will work for you . For you we work in every sense ; for our promoters are pledged to devote whatever capital we repay to them to the formation of other associations on the same principle : so that by helping us to pay off our debt , you do but create a fund which may necessarily benefit many a Working Man's Association in other trades . Work with us , then , as we even now work with you . In addition to your custom , you may greatly conduce to onr success by advertising us . It is hardly to be believed what enormous sums of money are thus spent under the present system of trade ,
all of which must often come out of the wages of labour . Neither you nor we have any real interest in this expenditure , and you can save it to us first , and to yourselves in the end , by using every opportunity of making known to the world the existence of " The Working Tailors' Association , " and the objects it has in view . If , therefore , we do not fill , day after day , the columns of a highly taxed press , nor send monstrous advertising eccentricities to perambulate the streets , be you , every one of you , our walking advertisements . When you meet with friends and companions , tell them what is being done for the emancipation of labour ; use
every seasonablo opportunity of drawing attention to our operations : we cannot cast bills into every dwelling , but to many thousands have you access ; we cannot haunt the doors of public meetings to thrust the hire of cheapness into men ' s hands ; but you are the public meetings—give us , then , publicity wherever you go , wherever you are , in every shape , by every means . Tradesmen pay heavy sums for pr ivilege of advertising their business at places of resort , Refreshment Rooms—Clubs , &c , you meet at Benefit Societies , Coffee Rooms , Reading Rooms —let it be known that you are interested in our welfare , and a prospectus of " The Working Tailors' Association " will be welcome at all such
p laces . Our patrons in every home , our advocates in everyplace where men meet , nothing will be able to resist such an application as you can mako of a cherished principle to the every-day concerns of life ; and we believe , that it is only by working for each other thus that the world will be saved from the thousand tyrannies , named and nameless , which now afflict it . And now , a word to the high-paid artisan , though we believe that that class is becoming less numerous each day . You may even yet be only on the skirmishing ground of this great battle of competition , and in confident security that you can hold your own against the world , you may imagine that you are not interested in this experiment . Ah ! this is a great mistake . It is true that the labour
market may still afford you the comforts , and , perhaps , some of the luxuries of life , but it is a market , nevertheless . The reason why you obtain high wages is , not because you are skilful and industrious , but that there are fewer of you yet than are wantedthe supply docs not exceed the demand . If there were ten of you where there is one , instead of ten skilful and industrious artisan ? , each as rich as that one , the ten , if all employed , would receive each but a tenth of what the one now gains , or if not employed , still less . The supply exceeding the demand your wage 3 would fall lower , and lower still , the difference passing ever more and more into the hands of capitalists and merchants , flung away to the foreign purchaser , or absorbed by a public whose cupidity is constantly appealed to by those
who trade upon it , until that turning point which we have endeavoured to point out , at which cheap labour becomes dear labour to the community , and grows dearer and dearer from the moment , by all the enhanced eost of workhouses , brothels , hospitals , prisons , penal colonies—and all the harsh surgery , the blundering quackery under whioh suffering society now groans . We have attained to this Knowledge through suffering ; why should you not avail yourselves of our experience , and avoid our suffering ? Save your order ! save , perhaps , your own children , from passing through this dreadful ordeal to the means of euro ! Help us , then , help us , while yet'you can . On the part of the Association , Walter Cooper .
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DISTRESSED CONDITION OF JOURNEYMEN TAILORS . On Monday a general meeting of the master tailors resident in the metropolis was held at the Freemasons' Tavern , to adopt measures for the alleviation of the distress under which so large a number of journeymen are at present suffering . Most of the principal firms were represented . Air . Cartwright presided , and Mr . Sprague moved the first resolution , which expressed the deep regret the meeting felt for the great distress and degradation of the journeymen , which it attributed to the practice which prevailed in many establishments of giving outdoor work . In speaking to this resolution the mover stated , that both men and women who were employed in the trade were ill paid , and were reduced to the lowest deDth of moral and social degradation . He
was not one of thoss who maintained that women ought not to be allowed to work in the tailoring business . There were at present a great number of women employed , at wages wh ch kept them just above starvation point . A woman who worked for a slop shop stated , that sometimes she only got 4 d . for making a waistcoat , sometimes she got as much as Cd ., 8 d ., or lOd . She could not commonly earn more than 2 s . 6 d . a week , sometimes by extra work she got from 3 s . 6 d . to 4 s . But as a sample , she stated that from September 13 to October 31 , a period of seven weeks , her total receipts were 13 s ., being about Is . 101 d . a week . Turning to the men employed , he found that one poor fellow , whose name was in his possession , was engaged in making coats , one which
was riven to him last week bad to be stitched and braided—it cost him three days an 3 a half close labour , and he was to have received 8 $ . for it , but it was returned upon his hands because it was not stitched with silk . He had made shooting coats and other garments on still lower terms , and if they were not delivered to the employers at the exact time agreed upon he was fined 3 d . for the first , and 6 d . for each succeeding hour . If he worked eighteen hours a day he could not make more than 12 s . a week , and out of that he bad to pay Is . for trimmings , Oil . for candles , and Cd . for coals . Such a sum was insutticient for the support of a respectable man and his family . Another man was making for an employer a coat , which occupied him twenty-six hours , tor the
paltry sum of 2 s . —not a Id . an hour , i Mr . Adeney —a gentleman with whom the trade were well acquainted— had visited that man , who had a wife and three children to support . He said he had another coat in hand , which would occupy him two whole davs to make , for which he was to receive the sum ot 3 s . " Gd . Another man was to make a Chesterfield coat , which would employ him three days of eighteen hours each . He was to receive Gs . for it , but out of that sum he had to pay 6 d . for trimmings , 3 d . for candles , and 9 d . coals . After reciting several equally fragrant cases , Mr . Sprague proceeded to speak Of the sanitary condition of the men so employed . Last week an industrious man and his daughter made five coats , for which they obtained 13 s Jd ., out of which sum he had paid 4 s . rert , Is . tor candles , and 2 s . Id . for trimmings , loaving just Gs . Sd .
for the supporb of the two . The dau ghter was twenty years of age . The room in which they worked and slept was about nine feet by eleven ; but , besides the father and daughter , the room had to accommodate two young men and one young woman ; and all these persons worked , and ate , and slept m this small apartment . Master tailors and heads ot families were deeplv interested in the question . In such confined apartments fever and other diseases were likely to be generated ; aud these might be communicated through the work to the persons who received it The resolution , having beenseconded by Mr . »« 'a y " » was agreed to ; as also was another , moved by Mr . Stowasser , and seconded by Mr . Adeney , affirming that it was highly important , as a means for the improvement of the moral , social , and physical cohdiiou of the journeymen tailors , that all workmen
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% > ul < Vbe employed on tbe premises of the master . 1 he master- tailore present , individually and collectively , placed themselves to carry out the remedial measures saggested ; and the meeting separated , after a vote-of thanks to the chairman .
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r ASLIAMENTARY REFORM . *? £ J ° u evenin £ . a public meeting was held at the bchool Room , Cowper-sfcreet , City-road . C . LcsmsGioN , E ^ ., m . took the chair at seven ococlc , to consider the subject of Parliamentary and Financial Reform . rt I : v . 9 , RMArf havin g explained the objects of tne National Reform Association , proceeded to congratulate tho friends of tho movement on the in-Sf /; ™ eip supporters in parliament , as proved by the division which had taken place in tho House min % ? x 1 . fOTr evenings ago . However , their minorities m that house would be of little service as long as the people wero unrepresented in it . ( Hear , near . ) None but tho aristocracy were represented there fully , and he was not wrong when he stated that out of the number in that house there were dob composed of militarv and naval offiGors . and
their immediate friends . They had besides marquises and earls usque ad nauseam . He did not object to lords sitting in the house , but he objected to their not being the choice of tho people , but merely the nominees of tho aristocracy . ( Cheers . ) Lord John Russell said that the people of England had not sufficiently indicated their desire to have Reform ; but he would ask whether such meetings ' t a % t whioh had takon P lace at Nottingham , Leeds , Yarmouth , and other places , were not a sunicient proof of what was the desire of the masses of the people of England . They had discovered how useless it was to present notitiona to the' House
ot Commons , and they now adopted a more wise plan of intimating their wishes . It was said that tho labouring classes were not qualified by their knowledge to hold-the suffrage , but that he most emphatically contradicted , and he asserted that those classes had lately shown how well fitted they were to hold a voice in the management of their own affairs . Ho was glad to find that those who went further in their claims than the National Reformers had for the time given up their extreme views for the purpose of assisting the association in carrying out an object which was undeniably desirable . Ho himself had voted in the Ilouse of Commons in favour of the Chartists , not because he agreed with them in all their views , but because he was impressed with the belief that they had a right
to have their opinions fully discussed in the Houses of Parliament , no thought that by the course they adopted they had acted in the wisest possible way to secure a general advantage , for they had withdrawn that opposition which they had held to the more moderate opinions of their truo friends . ( Cheers . ) He had hopes that when they should have made some progress in reforming the Ilouse of Commons , other concessions would be looked for and granted , and the Chartists may not , therefore , despair of having their views ultimately carried out . ( Cheers . ) To return to the question of the qualification of the labouring classes to hold a vote , he would remark that Mr . Fox , tho other night , in his admirable speech on secular education , had clearly proved that at present they were fully competent
to exercise the right of voting for a member of parliament . No man should be taxed without having a voice m tho representation ; and he hoped that they would continue to contend for that privilege . It was said by one of the wisest and brightest iudges of the land that the taxation of any persons without their consent was nothing more than robbery , and he ( the chairman ) considered that the people were robbed , inasmuch as they were not fully represented . The chairman concluded by observing that they were completely in the dark as to what were the reductions which were to be made in the taxation of the people by the Chancellor of the Exchequer , who proposed to make his financial statement on the 16 th of this month , but he was perfectly sure that nothing would be done in that direction until
the taxation was taken off knowledge , for it waa that alone which would teach the people to perform their duty , and moderately to assert their rights . Mr . Tindai Atkinson moved the first resolution , to the effect , that this meeting convinced of tho necessity of a general agitation of the United Kingdom on the question of Parliamentary Reform , with a view to an early and universal expression of public opinion on that subject , ' would record its cordial and emphatic approval of the plan proposed by the council of the National Association for tbat purpose , and pledge itself to render immediate and efficient co-operation . He in eloquent terms advised the people to throw off the trammels of toryism and whiggism , and to fight their cause until they succeeded in sending to parliament men who would vote for the best interests of the community .
Mr . Shillibker seconded the resolution , which was carried unanimously . Sir J . TVALMstEV here presented himself to the meeting , and was received with loud cheers . He stated that he had just come from the House of Commons , where be had been engaged in voting for a Reform Bill for Ireland—( cheers )—and then proceeded to propose the second resolution—namely , that the meeting earnestly recommends to the friends of Parliamentary Reform throughout Great Britain and the colonies to furnish prompt and efficient assistance to the council of the Natiou . il Association , by the holding of meetings , the passing of resolutions , the formation of committees , the employment of local agents , and the contributing of funds . He
then alluded to the verdict which was given against them in the Ilouse of Commons , and snid that it was the duty of the people to satisfy that house that they were determined on having their great measure of reform passed . It had already been his good fortune to witness various meetings in all parts of the country , and they were all unanimous on this important question . ( Hear , hear . ) He pointed out to them how they should work so as to enable them to compel the Ilouse of Commons to listen to their demands , and promised them that he would not cease night or day to agitate the question until National and Parliamentary Reform was granted , and expressed a hope that three years would not have elapsed before their grand object would be attained .
Mr . Weir seconded the resolution , which was carried . Mr . A . Walker proposed the third resolution to the effect that this meeting regnrds with feelings of heartfelt satisfaction the proposition of holding a national conference in London during the month of April next , and calls on the friends of the movement in all parts of the country to assist the council by selecting earnest reformers to represont them at that important meeting . This having been also carried , and the usual vote of thanks to the chairman having been responded to , the meeting , which was very numerously attended , separated .
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Lion Hunting is Algeria . — M . Julns Gerard , the sub-lieutenant in the Spahis , who has gained such great celebrity as a lion-killer in Africa , writes from Constantino , -that he went to the hills of Serazer , in the district of Segnia , where he had been told that lions might be found . Ilavinjr discovered that the lions were in a clump of trees surrounded by rocks , he placed himself on an adjacent rock , and presently saw two lions among the trees . Tho animals appeared grontly irritated at having been disturbed , and one of them frequently issued from the trees as if to reconnoitre . At length M . Gerard sent away all the Arabs who had accompanied him except one , and loaded his rifles . Presently the two lions came forth , oneabout fifty steps in
advance . On seeing M . Gerard the first lion rushed towards him , and leaped on the lower putt of the rock , looking at him fixedly . The animal having turned towards his companion , M . Gerard fired and hit him on the shoulder . The lion fell with a fierce howl , hors de combat . The other lion then rushed to the attack with tail extended , and roarin g furiously . Gerard shot him in the shoulder . The lion gave a tremendous spring , and aligned on tho very rook on which Gerard was . The brave man calmly took a second rifle from tho Arab by liis side , nimed at tho animal ' s temple , and killed him on the spot . A coup de grace was given to tlio other lion , and , as Gerard said , "the job was done . " lacluding these two , Gerard has killed altogether seventeen lions . — Galignani ' s Messenger .
Sunday Labour in Post-okficks . —The West India mail , which arrived at Southampton on Saturday at midnight , was rcoeiverl at the General Post-office on Sunday morning , and , owing to tho present arrangements for expediting lottors through London , tiio mail was sorted and the letters delivered in the North of England on Monday morning at the same time that the West India letters were delivered in London . Thus the London merchants Ii : id no undue advantage over the provincial ones . Tho arrangements for sorting letters in railway carriages on Saturday nights and after midnights on Sundays are fast completing , by which tho Sunday labour in the General 1 ' ost-offico will bo dispensed with—Daily News .
• Dumxo 1819 , deposits of Californian gold to tho extent of 6 , 000 , 000 dollars ( about £ 1 , 360 , 000 ' sterling ) were placed in the mint of Philadelphia ,
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I- IM-W 0 RKBtf CJwm ^ The great political ! aod / soeiBl problem of tho time is furnished by tho 08 » - ditiisn and attitudo of the working classes Here & the-hidden rock whi 6 h < calfefor the most consuiwmate- pilotage . The immenae and constantl y increasing ftumerical force of these classes—tho general abjeetness of their physical and mental conditionthe intelligence and talent displayed by what may be termed their aristocracy—the growing sense of their degradation , and the' growing willingness to ascribe that degradation to- social and political causes , mt to the eternal oi'dmation of nature ; all point tO' danger present , and danger for the future , if prompt ; and efficient remedies T > e not found for whatoverof evil may lurk in these gloomy portents . —The Revetwtion of France .
We may set it down as an axiom , that young ladies cannot know everybody ' s names , when it is utterly impossible for them to know what their own may be a twelvemonth hence ! Thb tobacco grown in New Sonlh Wales has hitherto been considered of inferior quality ; but the colonial manufacturers have lately improved tho method of preparing the leaves , and now hope to exclude American tobacco from colonial use , and even to export Australian tobacco to England . A . Treasury warrant has appeared in the Gazette , which orders tbat in future a uniform rate of fourpence shall be charged on all letters not exceeding half an ounce in weight , and posted in this country for Belgium , or on such letters sent from Belgium to this country , or to any of the British colonies .
Tub Fife Herald celebrates the connubial constancy and courage of St . Andrew ' s hen . Her liege lord quarrelled on the streets with a rival cock , aud , as with other biped bodies , a duel must repair their wrongs . At it they went , and furiously they fought , until the lady , fearing that widowhood would be her fate , flew upon the antagonist of her spouse , beat him bravely off , and strutted away with her mate , chuckling over her victory . A description of theft has of late been practised in Glasgow , and which entails heavy pecuniary loss upon the proprietors of cabs , omnibuses , &c . It consists of stealing the cushions of these vehicles for the sake of the hair with whioh they are stuffed . To show tho extent to which this offence is perpetrated , it may be mentioned that it was stated in court by one of the cab oroprietors in a recent prosecution that his loss on this account , during the last nine months , had not been less than £ 900 . the dlffkrenck netween a tradesman in the Year 1750 and 1850 :- 1750 . Man , busy in his shop ; Wife , brewing malt and hop ; Girl , scorning not the mop ; Boy , active , not a fop ; Bills paid , and fortuae made . 1850 . Man , at his country soat ; Wife , plum'd andjewell'd en suite ; Miss , aping the elite ; Boy , on his hunter fleet ; Claims unmet , and tho Gazette . Hbnrt tiik Four ™ of Fkanck . — When Henry was entreated to take more care of his person than he had done , and not to go so often alone or illattended , he answered , " Fear ought never to find admission into a royal breast . The man who dreads death will make no attempt upon me : the man who despises life will always be master of mine , though I were encompassed with a host of guards . I recommend myself to God when I rise , and when I lie down ; I am in his hands ; and , after all , the terror of my life is such , as to leave mo no just cause for distrust ; it belongs only to tyrants to live in perpetual terror . " True friendship is a delicate union of like rninds , that exalts the human nature .
Cobbett . —Without the Border blood and minstrel spirit of Scott , he had much of his soundness , geniality , and broad strength . Morbidity was a word he did not recognise as English . Mawkish senfcimentalism , in all its shapes , Tie abhorred ; and cant found in him an inexorable foe . Hence we account for his celebrated criticisms on Shakspeare and Milton . In his heart , perhaps , he appreciated both , but was indignant at the false and wholly conventional admiration paid them by the multitude , Or , even granting that his tasto was bad , and that , from native inaptitude , lie could not feel the more delicate and spiritual duties of either poet , was he not better to avow it openly than to wear " a foolish face of praise , " and pretend to what he had not ? In his nonsense of abuse there is
something infinitely more racy and refreshing than in others' nonsense of commendation . We prefer him making a foot-ball of the " Paradise Lost , " kicking it with all his might—impotently indeed , and to the damage of nothing but his own toesthan to see it shining in illustrated editions in the libraries of those whose simpering imbecilities of affected enthusiasm convinco you that they have neither understood nor really read it . Much , as we admire Shakespeare and Milton , we arc not disposed to sacrifice Cob ' bett as a whole burnt-offering at their shrine . —Gilfillan . Mohe Candour than Courtesy . — A formal fashionable visitor thus addressed a little girl " How are you , my dear ? " " Very well , I thank you , " she replied . The visitor then added , "Now , my dear , you should ask mo how I am . " The child simply and honestly replied , " I don't want to know . "
Robert Tannock , who in youth was a bedfellow and companion of Robert Burns , died lately , in the S 9 th year of his age . Noble Refia * . —John Locke , the philosopher , was persecuted by the court of Charles II . for opposition to popery and arbitrary power . When James II . offered him pardon , he replied , that "he had no occasion for a pardon , not having been guilty of any crime . " In one of the angles of Dartmouth church-yard , Devonshire , is a large tomb , on the stone of which is tho following strange inscription : — " Thomas
Goldsmith , who died in 1714 . He commanded the Snap-dragon , a privateer belonging to this port , in the reign of Queen Anne ; in which vessel he turned pirate , and amassed much riches . " And under tho above are the following lines : — " Men that are virtuous serve the Lord , And . the devil ' s by his friends adored ; And as they merit get a p lace Amidst the bless'd or hellish race . Pray , then , ye learned clergy show , Where can this brute , Tom Goldsmith , go , Whose life was one continued evil , Striving to cheat God , man , and devil !"
Daniel Lambert died at Stamford on the 21 st of June , 1809 , having arrived in that town on the previous day , from Huntingdon , for the purpose of exhibiting himself to the curious at tno races . He was thirty-nine years of age ; his height was 5 feet 11 inches ; 3 yards 4 . inches round the body ; 1 yard 1 inch round tho leg ; his weight , a few days before his death , was found to be , by tho Caledonian balance , 52 st . 111 b . ( 141 b . to the stone ) . His coffin measured C feet 4 inches long , i feet 4 inches wide . 2 feot i inches deep , and contained 112 superficial feet of elm : it was built upon two axletrces and four clog wheels , and upon these his remains were drawn to St . Martin ' s burial ground ( in the church of which is a splendid monument to the memory of the Lord Treasurer Burleigh ) . The grave was dug with a gradual sloping for many yards , and upwards of twenty men were employed in depositing tho coffin in its resting place . Lambert was a native of Leicester , and was for some time keeper of
tho gaol in that town . A tombstone marks tho spot where his remains are deposited , erected at the expense of some of his friends in his native town , but a recent visitor to the churchyard says , that if tho humble appearance of tho grave was seen by some of Lambert ' s townspeople , ho thinks they would bo induced to raise a fund for a gravestone worthy of the spot which contains the remains of that extraordinary man . During his life he cultivated . tlio esteem of all who knew him ; and to show how he was respected by the magistracy of Leicester , on his retiring from the situation of g . ioler , they voted him an annuity of £ 50 without any solicitation . He first exhibited himself for profit in Ticcadilly . Youth is a glorious invention . While the girls chase the hours , and you chase tho girls , the months seem to dance away , " with down upon their feet . " What a pity summer is so short!—before you know it , lovers become deacons , and romps , grandmothers .
The winks of Stuttgard are noted for their bad acrid quality . There is a proverbial saying there of two of tho sourest of them—to wit , that the . oae is liko a cat going down your throat ; and ihe other the same cat being drawn back again by the tail . A Gentleman who hud gained a handsome fortune by unremitting industry , was once accosted with , " I say , John , why don ' t you have a coat of arms on your carriage ? "— " Oh I * ' said the gentleman , " I want no coat of arms ; when I first eame into L , I wove a coat without arms . " " Mn . S , is your customer B— -a man to be trusted ? "— " I know of none more so : he is to bt >
trusted for over ; he novoi pays . " A Pugilistic Pausos . —A clergyman in Devon * shire , remarkable for nothing bui his wit , : md a life perfectly inconsistent with his profession , particularly the' practise of pugilism , one Sunday , after divine service , hsid a quarrel with some' of his parishioners in a public house , in consequence of which a severe battle ensued ,-and though , ho had several to encounter with , yet the parson gained a complete- victory . Tho next Sunday his antagonists appeared at ch ' urch with black eyes , and other marks of the parson ' s prowess , who , to mortify them the more , preached on theso words of Nehomiah xiii ., 2 u;— " And I contended with them , and cursed them , ' and smote certain of thorn , and plucked Qff their hair , and made them swear b y God . "
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BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH , New-Road , Lonhon . TO TIIE FINANCIAL & SOCIAL REFORMERS THROUGHOUT GREAT BRITAIN . Fellow-countrymen , —Prove , as most easily you can , how doctors have for ages cheated the people on the question of their health , and all tho reforms that you demand must follow , and that , too , in quick succession . The dishonesty of the medical body can be most easily established . We are , Fellow Countrymen , Yours , in the cause of Salutary Reforms , The Members ot tub British College of March' 6 th . 1 S 50 . Health .
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March 9 , 185 O THE NORTHERN STAR . 3
Ruptures Effectually And Permjumswix Cured Without A Truss !!
RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY AND PERMJUMSWiX CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS !!
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 9, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1564/page/3/
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