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THE BOBTHEEH STAB SATtKOAY, APRIL 13, IS5O.
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. tr ^_____^^^____«»— —————^ u . NATIONAL BEN E FIT SOCIEYYv ! ' ] Enrolled , fursuant to statute 9 th and 10 th Tictoria , c 27 . ; ' v ' THE ABOVE SOCIETY , as amendefi and legalised' yr&s formerly known asrAs 3 TATIOXAL CO-OPERATIVE BENEFIT SOWETSjthe managere ofwhidihaTe long ' sua th » necessity-of leeal proteation for the sec « rity of its members In fianaiog the new rules , care bas been taken to equalise the e ? psaa § anindithereeai > la . * o that the permanent success of iihe Society sbonld be feewnflaUdoubts . ' . .. , The Society is divided into three sections , to meet the iucessities and reauirements of all classes of meenamesiena sbourers , from eighteen jears of age to forty . ¦ BI TOOomSO IS THE SOaCE OF IEES TO BE PilD JX TTEEHZr IIXJOWXSCB IV SI 8 S 3 TESS . esteasce : — - . ¦¦¦ ¦ s . *• Age . lstsection . 2 nd 8 eetion . 3 ndseetioa . First Section w « s . eL s . d . s . d . Second Section 10 " FromlStoSt .... 3 0 .... 2 0 .... 1 0 Third Sectien .. •• 5 ° — 24—27 CO .... 4 O .... 2 0 , _ 27—30 .... 9 0 .... 6 0 .... 3 0 mebibecs death . ^ a&eaaaB ., — 80—33 . „; 12 0 .... 8 0 ... 4 0 ¦ £ s . d . . * *¦ «¦ — 33—36 .... 15 0 .... 10 0 .... 5 0 First Section ...... 15 o « * ® " — 36-38 .... IS 0 .... 12 0 .... 6 0 Second Section ... 10 0 0 ouu — SS—4 O .... 21 O .... U O 7 O i Third Section & O O a u « Pint Section , 3 s . Cd . Second Section , ft . 40 . ThM Section , 3 * 3 d . The Socle * meets every Monday evening , at the Two Chairmen , Wardour-sireet , Soho , ^^^ ^ ^ mafion can oeliad , and members enrolled ! Country frieeds , applying for rules , can have them foi « ardod , by . enclosing ^ eSfofSate Cooperative Benefit Society , ™^ e ^^ pfJ ^ jgSS ^ A ^ ""^' 18 £ e ^ nd cu ^^^^^ ' e ^ eSwStSmtelikely tl transfer to the National IJeucfit Society ; and parties wfehitig to SSS ? Sto £ LuSlld « Sum new society , can be Belied with everv informauon , on application to the iWta ^ bv endosu ^ po ^^
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TO THE BMBARUASSED . FT 1 HERE are thousands of persons who have X longstnuKled against the force of misfortune , but feiv are arare that , by very recent Acts , aU small tniders oning debts not exceeding £ 300 . farmers , private aud professional gentlemen , and all others , owing to any amount ( the latter without any publicity ) , can be entirely nnseu fiom their difficulties at small expense , and without imprisonment or bankruptcy . All such Jlr . Westo . v Ik-jjs will apply to him at 6 , Essex-streeti Strand , by letter , or personally . 7 Office hoars from 10 till 2 , and 6 till S . H . B . —The above Acts stay all Palace Court , County Court , and other proceedings . Clergymen need not submit to sequestrations .
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TVEAi !? ESS . — Important Notice . — Mr . \ J FRANCIS , the eminent aurist , who has devoted his attention solely to DISEASES of the EAR , continues to effect the mo ' st astonishing cures in all those inveterate cases -which have long been considered hopeless , and . ^ f thirty or forty years standing , enabling the patient to hear a whisper , witiiontpain or operation , effectually removing deafness , noises in the head , and all diseases of the aural canal . Mr . F . attends daily from I « until a , at bis consulting rooms , 6 , Beaufort-buildings , Strand , London , l'crcons at a distance can state their case by letter . A . ivice to the poor , Monday , Wednesday , and Friday , from ( J tin Sin the evenins :.
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PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT . A PUBLIC MEETING , Convened bv the Pbovisio . vh . Committee of the UATIOJTAIi CHARTER ASSOCIATION , will be held it the LITERARY AJfD SCIENTIFIC IX-STITOTS , JOI 1 NSTHEET . TOTTEXHAM-COURT-KOAD , on TUES&AY EVENING XEXT , Area . "isD . 1830 , for the purpose of Bevietring the Tkoceedlngs is Taeliahest daring the past week . 6 . JuMan Ilarney , G . W . M . Reynolds , W . J . Ternon , Gerald Massey , and others , are expected to address the meeting . Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock , ADMISSION FREE .
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TO TUE CHARTISTS OF SOUTH LAXCA ' SHIKE . A SOUTH LANCASHIRE DELEGATE MEETING mil take place at the PEOPLE'S INSTITUTE , MANCHESTER , on Sunday , Apjul 21 st , 1 S 50 , on business of the utmost importance . All communications to ba addressed to 3 Ir . John Jackson , So . 51 , Ileyrodstrcet , Ancoats , Secretary to the Manchester locality .
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96 , REGENT STREET , LAMBETH . JAMES GJRASSBY takes this opportunity of informing his numerous friends , that he carries on the business of CARPENTER and JOLVEtt , at the above address , in all its branches , and assures those friends who may favour him with their patronage and support , that all -ivork executed by him , shall be of the best description of trorkmanship and materials , which , combined with the strictest economy iu charges , and punctuality ill l ) USillP 5 S , lie trusts will ensure him their favours . Estimates given for all kinds of work in the building line ; alterations , repairs , simp fronts , fixtures , &u , executed in the best possible stvle , and at the lowest charge for Cash . S . B —Bent collector , and General House Agent ; observe -the address , James Geassev , SG , Regent Street , Lambeth .
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EMIGRATION : TO 5 ORTII AMERICA . WT APSCOTT AND CO ., SHIPPING and Emigratl 9 n Agents , Liverpool , continue to despatch First Class Ships—To Xfi IV XO 11 K—every Five Bavs . To NEW ORLEANS-every Ten Days . To BOSTON and PHILADELPHIA—every Fifteen Days . And occasionally to BALTIMORE , CHARLESTON , SAVANNAH , QUEBEC , and St . JOIiXS . Drafts for any amount , at sight , on New York , payable in any part of the United States . Tapseott ' s "Emigrant ' s Guide" sent free , on receipt of Four Postage Stamps . | J ^ " About twenty-eight thousand perso ailed for the ITew World , in Tapscott ' sline of American P * : kets . iu 1 S 49 .
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BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALT H , Xew-eoab , London . to the financial & social reformers THROUGHOUT GREAT BRITAIN . Fki&ow-Coentryme . v , —Prove , as most easily you can , how tbe doctors for ages cheated the people on the question of tbeir health , and all the 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 01 Salutary Reforms , Tub Members of the Bbitish College April 11 th , 1850 . op Hbaltii .
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Gbsat Axn-SrATE Church Meetiso at Xotiixc-HA 1 L—On Tuesday evening an immense meeting was field in the Exchange Hall , Nottingham , for the pur-. pose of electing delegates to the ensuing conference , and hearing addresses from John Xingsley , Esq ., the Bev . J . G . Mtall , and Thomas I&ight , Esq . Alderman Knight presided . A great portion of the audience consisted of Orangemen , collected from the ranons lod ges of the town and neighbourhood , who . manifested considerable zeal in defence of their pnneiples . bnt after a tremendons fifcrngrfe were signally defeated . The proceedings , therefore , pS ? took of an unusually turbulent character At the kte Northampton assizes there was only f ^ LI ? - ? the Clvd C 08 r < » no ^ ss than sixty paw barristers . J
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THiS CHEAPEST EBITION BVER rUBLISBEO , Trice Is . 6 d ., A new and elegant option , ivitli Steel Plate of ( the Author , of PAIHE'S POLITICAL WOBKS . Kow Ready , a . New Edition ot Mr . O'GOHNORS WORK ON SMALL FARMS Sold by J . Watson , Queen ' a Ilead Passage , Fatcracfiter row , London ; A . llcywood , Oldham-strect , Manchester , und Ia > xc and Co ., 5 , Xclsou-Eiroct , Glasgow . And In all liookscllcrs in Towh and Country .
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Xottixgiiam . —J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of tlse following sums , sent herewith , viz .: —Fob tue IIonests Fdxd . —Mr . Mild 3 d ; Mr . Kirk 2 d ; Jlr . Gumley Cd ; 3 fr . MeUars Is . —Total , Is lid . —ITue following shouJd have appeared last w . ek . ]—Mr . John Hunt 5 a ; Mr . Wild 3 d ; yfr . Hudson 3 d ; llr . UroaJJiead Cd ; 111-Hurst Is ; Mr . \\ . Cheadie Is , Mr . Bostock 3 d , Mr . Edson 3 d . —Total , 8 s Sd , the sum sent as see last week ' s receipts . The O'Coxxok iNDEM . vnr Fom—Subscription at the Reading-room of Mr . Wright , Eagle Tavern , Garner ' s Hill , Nottingham , Mr . William James , collector : —Mr . James M'lntyre Is ; Mr . Hardy Is ; Mr . John Simpson Is ; Jlr . Mitchell Cd ; iiv . William James 3 d ; Mr . Robert James 3 d ; Mr . James Warner Is ; Mr . Iiovington , 6 d ; 3 Ir . Holmes 6 d ; Mr . Turner 2 d ; Mr . William Knowles Is ; Mr . Cooper 4 d ; Mr . Attewell 5 d ; Mr . Fletcher 3 d ; 3 Ir . Shore 3 d ; Mr . Joseph Mason Is 3 d : Mr . Bullock Gd :
Jlr . Lawson Is ; Mr . Armstrong Id ; Mr . Edward Mason 4 d ; Mr . William Mason 4 d ; Mr . Bavley od ; Mr . King Is ; Mr . Elliott 3 d ; Mr . Wilson Cd : " Mr . flaigh , 3 d ,-Total , 14 s 4 d . . HosErrr Fdxd —J . Skerritt , Nottingham , begs to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums : —Mr . Poyser ' s book 3 s : Mr . Christie ' s book 2 s 6 d j Mr . Ualloun ' s book Is 8 d ; Mr . French ' s book Is ; Mr . Mason ' s book 2 s fid ; Mr . liggett's book Is 4 d ; Mr . Oldknow ' s book 2 s 5 d ; Eagle Tavern , per Mr , James Us 4 . Mb . J . MrrcnELi , Janvnr . —Receired . Mk . P . Wabdlaw , Corstorsphine , near Edinburgh . —We cannot ansn er legal questions . Grace Ssowbam ., Kirkalde will oblidge by sending her address to John Arnott , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand , London . Thojus Dams , Bilston , will also oblige by sending bis addrass as above . J . J . C . —The order has not come to hand .
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PUBLIC HEALTH . One of the most prominent points in the Ministerial programme for the present session , was the premise it held out of extensive sanitary reforms . At the commencement of tbe year , the salutary terror inspired Ly the calamitous and deadly visitation of the Cholera had not quite faded from recollection . But in these cases " Time v orks wonders . " With the lengthening- days of spring , the memories of
last year , ard the desolation and mourning which entered so many homes , grew fainter . Sanitary Reformers are listened to like the tellers of some thrice told tale , very good inits way , hut rather a hit of a hore ; and our hardworked Government and Board of Health , have , as yet , gone no further than the initiatory Bine Books—if we can apply the term iuitiato / y—to that which may introduce nothirg .
Now , considering the fact that measures introduced after Easter have but little chance of passing in the same session , and that the two great measures of Sanitary Reform , which are most imperative , are also certain to he bitterly opposed , because they involve interference with private vested interests of considerable value , it is certainly high time that the promised measures of the Government made their appearance .
One of the most important and interesting of these measures to the whole of the inhabitants of London , is that relative to a better suppl y of water . The two millions and a half of inhabitants in the province of brick which lines both sides of the Thames , are dependent for a supply of this most indispensable article upon a number of private companies , who measure their extortions Ly the extent of the necessities ofthchelpless masses the Legislature has delivered up to them . The filthy , partially
filtered , water of the river—itself the common outfall and receptacle of all the unutterable aud enormous impurities of London—is the main supply for its inhabitants , and that at very high prices . There are tens of thousands of houses not even thus supp lied , and in the case of whole districts , which are solely inhabited by the poor , the suppl y is intermittent . AU medical authorities have agreed that this was one cause why the cholera was so deadly m these districts , and why so large a proportion of disease is constantly present in them .
Considerable activity was evident some time since with reference to this matter ; bui , if we are rightly informed , nothing is to be done this year at least . The new plans referred to a Committee of the House of Commons will be reported against , and the whole question shelved for the present . We do not , in the slightest , mean to impugn the decision of the Committee with respect to these plans , but Ave do say , it will be most disgraceful , if , after all
that has been said and done , the public are still left at the mercy of the Water Companies , and compelled to pay dearly for the scanty and impure liquid now doled out to them . No doubt the question is one of considerable difficulty and magnitude , but that is an additional reason why no time should be lost in dealing with it . Further delay will onl y give greater strength and means to those whose interest it is to maintain the present system .
Another sanatory measure of the most essential importauce , is the abolition of burials in towns . The public are deeply indebted to Mr . Gr . A Walkee , surgeon , for his untiring zeal , and for the time , energy , and resources , he has , devoted to the exposition and demonstration of the evils arising from this cause . But the necessity for a large radical and general measure , no longer rests upon his authority , or upon the authority of single individuals . The General Board of Health has presented a Beporfc to Parliament , in which the
pestilential effects of the practice of intramural interments are fully set forth , and a new and comprehensive p lan of extramural interment is proposed . It is shown , that the gases generated by the decomposition of putregcent bodies permeate the surrounding soil , and escape into the air above and the water beneath j and that this decomposition and expansion often takes place with so much force that they break the leaden coffins in which the bod y is confined . In the great majority of instances , they rise upwards , and directly pollute the air . In estimating the effect of these deleterious ema-
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nations « a t % ; Hwug / syetem , -it should ' _ be known tihafoorganic matter , whicti Vis passing throug h itlie . -I j ^ ooess of decay , is capable / of c 6 ihmutticatiifig » ife 5 ' . 9 . ? T ? " . peculiar stateto ^ similar organic forms , with which U ' may c ?^ . — contac ^" whether living or deacL " Decaying wood , < iff . tainted flesh , for exampie , is capable of causing similar decay , or putrefaction , m another-piece of wood or flesh . 'When the
living ^ bd y . ki .-oxposed to these putrid emanations , in a ihighly concentrated state , the effects ai ; e immediate and deadly * when more diluted , they still taint the system , inducing a morbid condition , which r 6 ndei'i it mdi ' e pi'on 6 to disease in general ; but especially to all forms of ^ ep idemic disease , ' Malignant '' fevers , ' and dyBBttteiy , are almost' specifici results of their action . ' Two instances of the terrific
and fatal-character of these gases are given in the . Report , among many of a similar kind-Two graTe-diggers perished instantly , in 1841 , on descending into a grave in St . Botolph ' s churchyard , Aldgate . Four of the ' crew of au American . ship went on shore in Whampoa Roads , near'Canton , to bnry one of . their comrades , who had died of dysentery , they happened to select a spot where . a human body had been interred two months previously . The instant the spade went through the lid
of the eoffiu , a most dreadful effluvium issued forth , and the two men engaged in the vork , fell down nearly lifeless . With difficulty their companions * approached near enough to drag them from the spot and to fill up the place with earth . By the succeeding morning , the symptoms of malignant putrid fever were full y developed in both men , of which disease one of them died on the fourth day , and the other on the morning of the fifth , their comrades were also affected , but more slightly .
The mass of evidence adduced as to the deleterious effect of the church-yards of the Metropolis , must bring conviction home'to the mind of every person who reads it , that by permitting these centres of pestilence to remain . amongst a large population , we are surely and largely poisoning them . The evidence is , moreover , not confined to London ; in every one of our large towns the deadly miasma is at work . The report also shows the inconipatibility of town burials with the decency aud the
solemnity of interment , aad the consequent injurious reaction on the moral feeling of the community . Hitherto , however , this most objectionable and fatal practice has been maintained , because the clergy , and »> class of speculators in town grave-yards , had a vested interest in it . The General Board of Health proposes io abolish entirely all interments within towns , and to provide public ' burial grounds at suitable distances , with a limitation as to the building of new houses in their vicinity . They also propose to make it
unlawful to enter more than one corpse in . one grave , and , with respect to expense , theypropose to regulate all funerals according to a ser ies of scales or classes ; the tariff to be prepared by the Board of Health we presume , from time to time , in accordance with , the varied e ' reumatancas of each case ; and , to prevent imposition , that all the charges for each class shall be paid in one sum . Compensation is to be given to existing interests , and the present public rights are to ho preserved intact in the new burial grounds . ;
Now such a measure as this is imperatively called for . The poor man—as wo have frequently shown—suffers far more from the loss of health than the rich man . To the former health means bread and shelter , and the means of supporting his family ; its want means poverty , debt , starvation , the workhouse , and the pauper ' s grave ; with the consequent degradation , dispersion , and probably criminality of his family . But as yet there is no appearance of the Bill , by which benefits of so
important a character would be conferred upon the community . We have heard , in quarters where correct information is likely to circulate , that the Board of Health , even after their admirable report and outline of an efficient remedy for the evils they set forth , are likely to succumb to sinister influences , aud play into the hands of the Parsons . If so , it will only be another illustration of the baleful influence which a privileged State Clergy exerts on the public interest .
At all © vents there can bo no question that if the Government means to do anything towards the redemption of its pledges on this subject , it is high time that their measures should make their appearance . If they do not do 60 soon , we may make up our minds that another year is lost , and that , the public interest in the matter having cooled down , it will be suffered to rest until another visitation of the Cholera spreads dismay and death among all classes of the population .
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.: ~ ''' " ,. . . . ¦ ¦ . , .. . ¦ ¦ ¦ , ¦ . ir ; PAKdilAMENTABY REVIEW * ... ; ' .,: ; NAVY SOKSEONS ^ EXPENDITURE IN / fr-HE ORDNANCE AND ADMIRALTY . - THE ! WINDOW TAX .-COUNIT COURTS extension . ; ' ¦ . ; ' . . , ;¦ ¦• ¦¦ ¦¦ : . ¦ - - ¦¦ - ¦ ¦ >¦• " Wheia tfhe Premier coerced his reluctant follower * into : voting ; against their consciences upon the African Squadron , it will bo remembered tfaat Mr . : Charles Lushingtow- said that step ihad seriously diminished the confidence : of " the Shattered Party " at the command of the Ministers ., If the ' * -Party '' was , " . Shattered" thea the events of the
first three sittings of the House of Ommona of the Easter recess must have destroyed , entirely , what little remains of cohesion and vitality it sfciJl possessed . If the Manchester toadies and tuft-hunters , who crowded : round Lord Jonr Russell during his Easter visit to that City , had been more truthful and less flattering 5 if instead of gloziug and sugared compliments upon his past political career ,
they had epolcen plainly as to the requirements of the present hour , he might have perhaps better comprehended his position with the public , As it is , it almost seems as if he and his Cabinet were of . opinion that they may safely defy public opinion , and deny with impunity every reform or improvement that may be asked for , whether that reform be large or small . , ,
Previous to going into Committee on the Ordnance Estimates on Monday , Captain BOLDEKO proposed an improvement in the position of Assistant Surgeons in the Navy . Their case offers a striking illustration of the oligarchical and offensive character of our institutions . The assistant-surgeons have the nominal rank , and the real pay of a lieutenant in the army , but they are really placed on board ship in the same conventional position as the midshipmen . ] Instead of being allowed to mess with officers of their own , or even inferior rank , and like them allowed
separate cabins '' . for * sleeping and study , they are huddled into the cock-pit to consort with young lads boiling over with fun and animal spirits , and are allowed only the few inches of space necessary to sling their hammocks . The cockpit , as Cap ' t . . BOLDEUO described it , is " a place in the hold of a ship where the sun never penetrates , where the only lig ht is afforded artificially by means of lamps or candles , and where an impure atmosphere constantly prevails . " ¦ A nyone , who wants to get an accurate idea of the accessories amidst which an assistant surgeon must pursue his professional
studies has only to read Smollett ' s Roderick Random . The writer himself had endured the indignities and the disgraceful treatment he so ' , graphically and powerfully describes , but from that time to the present little has been done to ameliorate the condition of this most useful and indispensable class of public officers . They arc still compelled to associate with the " middies" under circumstances totally opposcd to anything like ' consecutive study , or professional improvement , and made to smart under the consciousness of a social indignity . Their case has been frequently brought up ,
and as frequently admitted to be one of great individual hardship , V > as well as public loss ; but successive Governments have been obstinately obstructive . Neither a sense of personal justice nor public benefit , has prevailed upon them to give the men entrusted with the care of the lives of our "jolly tars , " those fitting means and appliances which are indispensable to the efficient performance of their duties . . Engineers have been provided with separate cabins , and masters' mates also ; but then they have charge of
property , surgeons only look after life . Everybody knows the difference in the estimate set upon the two things in this country when the fees happen to bo those of the working and poorer classes . The consequence of these offensive and degrading arrangements on'board ship , has been to deter well qualified persons from accepting the situation ; and notwithstanding the pressure of competition among a tolerably numerous profession , the Admiralt y have , at times , been unable to find persons to fill the place , the pay of which is admitted to be , upon the whole , liberal .
In 1805 , it was agreed by the Lords in council , that assistant surgeons in the navy should be placed on the same footing as those in the army , Iu 1838 , the present sovereign ordered that the medical officers in the two services should be assimilated ; and so late as 1847 , the committee on' the army and navy expenditure strongly condemned the existing system ; but the oligarchical exclusive spirit which prevails among the aristocratical 'classes who monopolize the superior positions in these two departments , has rendered all these orders and recommendations nugatory . Admiral Dtodas , in reply to Capt . Boldero'S unanswerable Speech , mumbled a few disjointed sentences , which were as devoid of common sense as they
wore of logic , pertinence , or argument . In one thing , however , he showed himself a true Whig . In the face of an overwhelming avalanche of petitions , in favour of the change , he averred , that it was not wanted by the navy surgeons , who had not petitioned . Mr . Hume promptly and properly replied , that when the Admiralty Board snubbed even admirals when they presumed to find fault with its management , it was not likely that poor men would
run the risk of censure aud dismissal , for complaining of their High Mightinesses . The House showed its sense of the official reply , by beating Ministers with a majority of eight , whereupon Sir F . Baring—the Frst Lordbacked by a subordinate Lord ( Admiral Berkeley ) virtually snapped their fingers in the face of the House , aud told them'it was no use agreeing to resolutions'that could not be carried out , videlicet , that these same
" lords" are determined not to carry out . YVe shall see what the upshot will be—whether Ministers or Parliament will succumb . In the discussions on the Ordnance and Navy , which occupied the remainder of the night , the usual revelations were made of tho expensive , unsatisfactory , and , in many instances , profligate expenditure in our National Establishments . "What do our readers think of a , charge of £ 86 , 961 for an establishment maintained for the purchase of about £ 100 , 000 worth of old stores a year ? The only defence offered by Col . Anson , was that , bad as that is ,
there w » s a time , when it was much worsewhen it cost more , and did even less . That , no doubt , is . true enough . But what then ? Is it any justification for making " duck' and drakes" of the money wrung from a toiling , and , as far as large masses are concerned , a suffering people ? The establishment not only costs this enormous sum for doing such a small business , but it does that very badly . Col . Anson himself was driven to admit , that the store accounts "have been kept in a most
imperfect and unsatisfactory manner , " though presenting in themselves no difficulties to men of real business . The truth is , that the whole department seems to be eu-ranged upon the principle of " hide and seek . " It has abundance of strength , but it is so arranged that the officers spend their time in hunting after each other . The machine is curiousl y contrived to produce the least possible effect , with the largest possible expenditure of power and money . Jack does nothing , and Tom helps him . '
As usual on a " supply night . " the House was almost empty , Tlie Ministerial benches had a few members thinly dispersed to make a show . Colonel Sibthorp , and one other Member , for a very long time , were the sole occupants of the Protectionist—and , so-called " Opposition "—benches . This fact enables us to judge of the sincerity of some of the tenants of these benches , who , upon other occasions , put themselves forward as advocates of economy and reduction of taxation . There can ho only one bona fide way of reducing taxa-
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iioa ^ el ^' r ^^ otheVi ^ hK' niem jugg ^ aad ;^ an ; « g end in * hifi » ag . the burden from , one part of the community to . another . u-That-taAe Pwtew tionifit- " d « ige . '' : They are interested , as a p ^; ' ^ fl ^^ in ^ our . j ^ e ' ^« ctravagmt expenditure in ever ^ depai'tment of the . state , because iffcey belong to theM kine who pasture ' upon the Goshen thus provided for them ,-WH « a they tiilk of financial remissions and alterations , they simply intend to keep all they , have o&w got for their , class , aud to throw some-of : the taxation they now pay on the shoulders of" the middle and -industrious classes . They want to get morc / ro / K , and to pay less tothe National Exchequer .
, The gallant Member for Lincoln made an unsuccessful . attack upon the salaries , and establishment of the Admiralty . Ho flew at hi <* h game , and proposed not only a reduction iri ° tlic fialaries . of the'Lords themselves , but also in their number ., That there was room for reduction may be judged from the fact , that the management of the Admiralty costs the round sum of £ 137 , 100 . Of this £ 13 , 700 goes to six Lords " and '' their Secretaries , and no less a sum than £ 37 , 700 to ; tho porters , messengers , and servants who wait upon , and run the messages of , these said Lords
and Secretaries ! The manner in which this singulav ' result is brought about , is a curious illustration of the ingenuity of official folks , in contriving plans for spending the people ' s money , and multiplying places and patronage'for themselves . They keep two different establishments in London , in preference to conducting till the business under one roof , or at least iii ' contiguous '
premises ; hence ; the host of porters and messengers required . Then the salaries of these same porters and messengers are most gentlemanly . True , there is not quite as much intellect and scholarly qualification required for the situation ; as for a ' . National Society schoolmaster , or the surgeon of a Poor-law Union , but the pay is ,, in some cases ; six or soven times , in others ithree or four times as much . A happy and a well-paid set of porters , messengers , and servants , are they who live under the benign and generous sway of the Lords of the Admiralty . But lookiiigat the composition' and duties of the Board itself , our wonder ceases at this . The members are evidently an easy-going ,
p leasure-loving race . Their mam duty seems to be to run down occasionally to our groat naval ports , and under the pretence of a "tour of inspection' ? to indulge in sundry junketings , and eat a few good d ! niiers , with the magnates of the locality . Now we have no objection to anybody enjoying the good things of this life , but we grumble , * ' rather , '' when we have to pay the . piper , and are * mulcted of even ordinary comforts , in order to provide , the means for these and similar extravagancies .
IVe need not say that the voting of the Estimates was not interrupted by any " untoward accident . " Mr . Hume , Mr . Cobden , and two or three other m emr-crs , kept up a running fire of interpellations and objections ; but the business proceeded steadily , and at an 'hour past midnight , the few who had veatheved out the long sitting , vent home with the satisfaction that-they had disposed of a good round amount of the annual taxation ; and maintained , untouched in all their raiik luxuriance , those " p leasant fields and pastures green , " which form the refuge and browsing ground for that aristocracy that does us the honour to condescend to manage our affairs for us .
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existing law Has Deeh ,: peiSp ^ rirr moet beneficial , of ita kind ,, that , eZ ! tho through 1 the Legislaturei ;; and that the ????* feel ng wasi'unaniroous'y in favour of ¦ b " tension of this nieihou 6 f ' bringing c } , au e *" summary ; justice to every' man ' s door ** * n < proved by the shoals of petitions Iw ? poured in from all classes . / . Theonl y purti had any interest in opposing the BilhvS lawyers , who . would , thereby be deprived the opportunity of swallowing the oW theold fashion , and leavirg the empVXfi for their clients . . 1 "elJs .
Here again , however , the want of calnnl tion , or of tactics , or the desperatibh « 5 party , who are aware that they are pi- • a a ' losing game , and are driven almost fra ^ by the conviction , were exhibited . The \ r nistry were beaten by the overwhelming jority of seventy-seven in . a House of ^ members . The Government which so peat ' odlv encounters defeats , both on lartm ^ j small measures , must , accordin g . to the r uary rules of political reasoning , \ ) e \ 1 Q ] / *'
nave lost tne conncience ot the country d i tlic Legislature ,. and ought , therefore , to Jfrom office . The question which k \ au everybody , and alone keeps them in office who is to succeed them ? But , we believe i ] even that fear will not much longer serve fh Whi gs—the nation will not much lonm * 2 upon the idea in their care , that 'tis
" Better to bear the evils tliat we have Than fly to others that we know not of . " and risk all the awful chauces enum erated by Mi-. Lusuington , as the cost of turning the "W higs out of office . n "
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. MONIES RECEIVED Fob the Wkkk Exdixg Tjujhsdat ' Apiul 11 , 1 S 50 . . * TEE HOKeTtY FUO . Rocekad bj W . Ridhi . —From Sandbacli-K String . 2 sfid-J . Buttenvorth Is-T . Evans is-5 . Bostock Mi Sisclton : cd—W . M . 6 ( 1—T . Stringer 6 d—J . Cotterill G ( Cj Lee . Gd—J . Smalhvood Gd Dawgreen , Dewsbury pe 7 j ' Holt Is 2 d—W . Coats , Stolcesley Is—J . Casson , Clifford Ik « d—a few Friends , Luddeiuien , per J . Lord 2 s—UxbrM » fid—J . Smith , Komoway Burns Is—Thorp , nearTamwor Qi 8 s—a tew Chartists , Wotton-ur . deivEdge , per R . Lacey lj _ Frienils of Democracy , Bristol , per F . Hammerslej- ] j __ Nottingham , per J , Sweet Is lid . —From Lhnehouse-J Varty Is—J . Addy Is—11 . Pitt Is—II . Squires ls-J . An ! derson Is—J . JMyerscougli Is—J .-Bowman Is—G . Rowellls
W . Uoser , Bnxton Is—Slielton , per J . Yates ll _ E , Clark , Sniper ,- Dewsbury 10 s—a few Friends . Dcighton , near Iluddersfidd , per E . Clayton 4 s—Thomas Jackson , ( Viiigate Is—T . Lewis , Raglaml , per J . C . Insrani , Alergavenny 2 s Gd—Bristol , per C . Clark 3 s Od —From Lough , borough , per J . Skevington—J . Arnott Cd—JI . Gil « d-a Friend 6 d—Mr . Taylor 0 ( 1 Loughborougn , aFiiendCd . ™ From Kidderminster—G , Ilollowiiy 5 s Cd—W . Hatton 1 $ , > V . Paton ls-O . A . twood Is—J , O'Leary 6 d—T . Wanbury 3 d ( less , order , 3 d ) . —From Higham , Derbyshire—C . Tinley Is—J . Bryan Is—( J . liopkinson Is—G . Naylor Is—A . Jlrlner fid—T .-Cupit Cd—From Newton Ayr—W . Davidson la-J , Kusk Is—Manchester , per J . Alcock 8 s-id—Rochdale , Fe . male Chartists 10 s—a few Friends at a work near Rochdale , per B . as—Northampton , per Mr . Jones as— llolbeck , pur Air . Svkes 17 s 2 d .
Received by John Anwar . — Esther Waddington , I ' ppe Hollowor Is . : £ s . d . Received by W . Rider .. .. 0 4 10 Received by John Arnott .. 0 10 Total £ 3 5 10 FOR MACNAMARA ' S ACTION . Received by W . Rider . —Mr . Haddon , Loughborougli , per J , Skevinjjton 6 d , AGITATION FOR THE CHARTER . Received by W . Rider . —E . Clark , Dewsbury 2 s Gil—Received by Jons Aunott . —Merthyr Tydvil , per Matthew J « hn 10 s—Gainsborough * per \ V . HowlettlOs—J . lluwlett , Thiime Is—Thovp Hull , per W . Wilkinson Kk-tfewcastle on-Tyne . per Martin Jude lGs 9 ( 1—collected at Jolir . treet U 0 s Idjd—Cards at . John-street 7 s Od—Ricliard Ish . imls —John 15 . Leno Is—Archibald Campbell Is—Charles Jones Is—Alfred Jones is-A . J . Is—Kirstal , per F . W . Sucksmith Us-IIanley , per J . Yates KlOs-Mr . Rider : ' s 6 d-High Wycombe , per Mr . A . Turner as—Mr . Robert Dud . geon , Padiham la .
FOR MRS . JONES . Received by W . Rideb . —Ultra , Bradford , Wilts Is . FOR MRS- M ' DOU ALL . Received by W ; Uider . —E . Clark , draper , Dewsbury Is , WIVES AND FAMILIES OF VICTIMS . Received by Vi . Rider . —Uxbridge 6 s—J . Smith , Kcnnoway Burns Is—a few Democratic Tailors , Bond-street OsiSd—S . Clark , draper , Densbui'y Is Gd—Bristol , perC Clark Is 9 d . NATIONAL VICTIM FU NO . Received by Jon . v Auxorr , Seeretay . —Proceeds of liarinonic Meeting , Whittington and Cat , per II . BloomficlJ 4 s ( id—collected at llarmouic Meeting , Whittiugton and Cat , p er H . Bloomfield 5 s Cd—Mr . Rider , as per Stay Ms Gd . Bv a typographical error in our list for Honesty FuaJ , published last weak , silence is stated as the first subscrip . tion from Chester ; -it ought to have been six shillings , per J . Roberts .
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR , Dkab Sir , —When a m an in whom you had some confidence becomes a liar , a calumniator , and a slanderer , it is the bounden duty of honest men to lend a hand in exposing the knave . I hope that Air James Beatty will feel peculiar pleasure on seeing his two letters , which I herewith oncloso , in "tDB ly in « r first page of the Northern Star . " Those letters , with a thousand others from various parties , were seized hy Luke Prender , of the Dublm Detective-force ( whose initials they hear ) , at mr house on the 27 th of July , 1848 . It may be well to file the originals for the inspection of the curious . Trulv yourB , TAiniCK O'UlGWSS .
Dublin , April 3 rd , 1850 . Roekcon-y , 23 rd August , 1 S 42 . Sib —I return you and Mr . Woodward my sincere thanKJ for vouv kindness in sending the six Stars and other m *" mII 6 f which have been going the rounds of this neighbourhood , and . since then , every person I incut is mcjuiaug IOT more . I had a Star paper of the week before l ^ t win » person from GLvgcw , which gave an account of }« r ceedings , wherein Mr . O'Connell got pretty well to . O <* Jiany of his old friends say they have done wi t : !«» . others would like to see proof positive , before tlie > » omu credit what was said at jour meeting , concerning aa i . « - 1 , ' uage about the Irish priesthood . Perhaps , you W < ua favour me with the whole of his speech on the occasioi .. i am just after reading his address to Mr . Sw ^ . trom tW iWiWar . niul the sl L'ht he seemed to throw on > oui
Auudalion . Poor Dun , to his eternal f ^' i £ *" , £ appear to nil enlifthtened Wngdom , tliat ^ alone i . i has been the check , the only cheek or hindrance , to we rapid advance of the princip les ot eqaal unns > t , jus ^ glorious freedom ; he has , at last ( housh to ) , sw . vUo a most uf the disagraeable potion , dfl ^ him a tl ^ Sh ^ d ^ a i'Siftii 3 f : ( SS . ' o ^ i « . Bz ^^^^ B ^ ik ^^^ f ^ tinues to point the finger of scorn at the taft *^ eiili K htcned , and . thank God , tennidaUc boflj ¦< * " '"' f ,, nor at any portion of them in our United King dw . J weakest intellect can see through h « pettj fJ ^ J ^ Universal SuffraKe . I would advise him to turn . i iw « * and , ifpossible . hide the old book . Go on . , « - « %£ leave your cause in the hands of a w . se Pr ? ^ Lrfs » ... ; n „*«» . „««* . ; . A » * i . « nnnv f ! linrtisfs from him . oi " *¦ - »• :., wim ¦¦
Will UUl LU 3 b U » Cll II 1 C yuvi . " — . ... jjj them , but when he sees their cause a just , aho 1 % o | it . Jf in his own time and manner , give them that a . j u « ' i 9 he thinks them worthy to enjoy the blessing ° » " «•' . ^ - dare say no ? Hitherto your firmness has beeni »< - Of all the concessions that have been ma . c : to j , om i _ pies . Continue that firmness , and m > life ou u " Turn neither right nor left , let thoSrf that ilc » Ml j weakness take care not to reckon without tuu '"" " ^ tt assure you , if you had a few lecturers out tor a «» J sj time , they would have little to do but enrolmembere . i . for one visit from the dear ltqbcrt l . owry >; I begg no to come ( nice more to Ireland , and he told me he «< w » ' it before the Executive , and would not fail it they s ¦ ^ tioncd it . A few like him would do the business . , j forth lecturers , send them out . You npi > vei » eudi ? a " would meet with great d ifficulties , but they are taj '
pected . Knowledge , I consider , is of the first IMP "' ' lain towards the recovery of lost rights and privileges ,, * ^ firmly convinced , from the effects of the pMiU- 'I '' " iuc l . Charier on myself , that wliat will be gained W ' | pie from a union of all , will never be lost by oui n pal . I hope . Sir , you wiU send me , from V ,, ^ i ,. Ss in your of that knowledge which may . be lymg »"; 5 iwilliiny hands ; and , rely on it , I shall spread and ^ , h Js a own feeble exertions . I reside in ll ockcoriy , v ^ dly iwst town , but mv exertions gofafther , l >>» ^ ,, ; , ig to number in Cotehill also .- The peoplu here ai t . o a w talk ofgulueribiue for the Star , and some ^ «— --rssftf ^ ssSsa ,. . Hockcorry , 25 th July . lSi--c n T tni , n tlm liberty of writing a few lilies to VO'Jr » Hfe 5 & ^ sS
a " where I have heard Mr . Robert Lowry n « l « on the principles of the Charter which I ^ f « \ S approve , and since I came home I have , . on all otw- „ , striven to spread the principle . If I could get ^ " J ^ i assist me , I might do much good to the cause . * ' ^ gladly receive Stars , or other papers , Of oh'flulnK , -j ' '| j . may rely on it I would make the use intended W ^ j , ! ting them . I have had one Star , dated Oth July , V i ..-ti » o given the greatest pleasure to both of the foousn wt j here ; they all appear to be sick of the present s >»«; tJ beg of you , Sir , to g ive me » U the aid In . VOUP W ^ u , sending a part of the old lladical papers , SfaM , < - ' h j , a » and , 1 think , a copy of the NutiomU Petition . «» ' aIfl . not been seen here , would be useful , the C luivtei , « phlet , with such tools I could , effect much good . ¦ I am , Sir , n friend to universal J ustl ^; , , „ ' . James Be ^ X , Shoema ^ Oi -.- ¦ -. Hockcorry , county Moii'V
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A deaf and dumb child , aged six years ha ^ expelled from Zurich , as a " politically dan .,-character . "
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SALE OF THE GREAT DODFORD ESTATE . There are eighty acres , or thereabouts , of the Dodford Estate yet unoccupied , which will be put up and sold by auction in Bromsgrove , and will be duly advertised in tbe local newspapers . The sale will take place on the loth of April .
The Bobtheeh Stab Sattkoay, April 13, Is5o.
THE BOBTHEEH STAB SATtKOAY , APRIL 13 , IS 5 O .
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SUCCESSFUL MORAL FORCE REBELLION . The Colonists at the Cape of Good Hope have regularly defeated " Her Majesty ' s Secketaky of State for the Colonies , " and thereby set an example to other Colonies that may be catching . Earl Grey , in defiance of the arrangement that the Cape was not to be a penal Colony , sent over last year a cargo of convicts in the ship Neptune , with a full determination to land them there ; and issued positive and unbending instructions to General Smith , the Governor of the Colony , to enforce hia mandates . The Colonists immediatel y
formed themselves . into an Association , and resolved upon sending the Governor and all his , understrappers to Coventry—they would neither buy with them , sell with them , eat with them , nor drink with them . Contractors , who had entered into engagements under penalties to supply the Colonial Government with stores , were compensated for breakiug their contracts , and , in short , the Governor and his troops were regularly " starved out . " At length , however , the obstinacy of even Lord Gkey was subdued , and with a very bad grace he ordered the shi p with its cargo of convicts , which had , during all the months of the contest been lying in the bay , to proceed to Australia . .
The victorious Colonists have , thereupon , duly celebrated their victory by passing a series of resolutions , which must be gall and wormwood to the Colonial Office , and in which they treat some offensive remarks of tho " noble lord " very cavalierl y . They , inform his lordship , in return , that they " are fully prepared and resolved to follow the same course , should his lordshi p or any other of his successors in office , even threaten them with a similar insult or wrong . " A grand illumination wound up tho affair upon the departure of the obnoxious vessel .
This is quite a new method of -warfare , and we hope that this instance of its efficacy will have the effect of causing it to be more generally adopted in disputes with obstinate and -wrong-headed Governments . We observe , also , that • Annexation '' Candidates have succeeded in several important districts in Canada ; that , as we have already said , is only a question of time . The vaunted constitution for the Australian Colonies , about which so much has been said at home , seems , by the
last advices , to have produced no excitement whatever at Sydney . Our hold upon our Colonies is relaxing . The Free Trade system has loosened the bonds which might otherwise have hound them to this country as the centre of a great empire , closely knit together by race and commercial ties They will how form such alliances as may most conduce to their own immediate advantage , and pursue their own career uninfluenced by any considerations of the effect that may be produced in Great Britain . It may take some time before
that policy is consummated , but that it is alread y in progress seems to admit of no question .
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The consequence of reckless and unjustifiable extravagance on Monday night , was illustrated on Tuesday . Lord Duncan moved for the Repeal of the Window Tax ; a clearer , stronger , more unanswerable case _ . never was laid before Parliament . On every ground it was triumphant . In 1845 , when he first mooted the question , Sir Robert Peel , then Minister , admitted tho justice ot the demand , and promised it his consideration . Had ho
remained in office , we have no doubt he would have redeemed Ins promise , aud dealt with the question in some way or other ; but in that year , Lord John Russell , by a factious and unprinci p led combination , drove him from office , and , in 1348 , was obliged by Lord Dusfcan to confess , that the argument was wholly in favour of the suggested remission . Why was the tax not repealed , then ? Because the then deficiency iu tho revenue would not permit it . Tho case is now altered . We have a
surplus , not yet exactly disposed of , notwithstanding the Chakcemob of the Exchequer ' s Budget . Besides , we have the mischievous and costly African Squadron , that we might easily get rid of . That would furnish of itself one million sterling towards the sixteen or eighteen hundred thousand pounds produced by this most partial , unequal , oppressive , and health destroying tax . Sir C . Wood , in reply , blundered and stammered und boggled more
than usual with that burning and shining light of Whiggery . He was evidently at fault , and did not know what to say , while with the obstinacy in wrong-doing which characterises the whole party , he was resolved not to yield . He was the only man who ventured to open his mouth in opposition to the motion tor Repeal , the other " noble lords" and "hon . gentlemen , " who voted with the Government , were as dumb as Egyptiau mummies . It would have been satisfactory to have had Lord
Ebrington ' s reason , for instance , for voting against the Repeal of the Window Tax . He professes to be a great Sanatory Reformer ; and so enthusiastic was he in the cause , that he even went down to Plymouth and delivered a lecture to his Constituents on the subject , in which he strongly and unequivocall y condemned this tux , as the fruitful source of manj physical and moral evils among the working and poorer- classes . Yet , on Tuesday night , he voted against its remission . The unanimous opinion of all great economical , social , and medical authorities are decisively condemnatory of the tax ; and the excessively partial way in which it foils upon only a very small section of the community , and that mostly a struggling one , renders it a most obnoxious
impost . On a division Ministers were virtually beaten . Seventy-seven voted for the Repeal , and eighty against it , leaving a miserable majority of three ! in support of this most nefaririous and unjust tax . Mr . King and Mr . Alcock , the members for Surrey , were prevented by the Quarter Sessions from arriving in time for the division—which , by the way , was pressed on with all the consciousness that nothing could be said iu defence of the tax —• otherwise the majority would only have been
one . If we had honest men , or capable men in office , such an unequivocal demonstration of the feeling of Parliament would produce an immediate effect ; but we have no hope whatever of the present Government . They seem to be devoid of an official conscience . Defeats make them only cling more closely to their seats . Warning divisions impel them to a more determined defence of abuses : they seem to glory in defying not only the opinion
out of doors , but also in Parliament , wherever they think they may do it , and not lose place and salary . If Lord Duncan , however , follows up his virtual victory on Tuesday , as we think he ought to do , or if some other member was to renew the motion before the brick dust and illusory budget of the CHANCELLOR is carried , we are of op inion , that oven in this session this most indefensible tax could be swept away , despite of the instinctive tenacity wherewith Whigs cling to an abuse .
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Another instance of tho almost infatuated determination of the Cabinet to resist e / ery improvement , --as far as they possibly can , was afforded on Wednesday , when Sir G . Gkey opposed the extension of the jurisdiction of th © County Courts from £ 2 Q to # 30 . The
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 13, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1569/page/4/
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