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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATUKDAY, APBIIi 27, 1850.
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THE CHEAPEST EBITIOS EVES . TOBUSnED . Price Is . 6 d ., , 4 new and elegant edition , witk Steel Plate of the ¦ ¦ Author , of PAHIE'S POLITICAL WOBKS . : : Now Iteatly , a New Edition of HrTD'CONHOR'S WORK ON SSI ALL FARMS i . ¦ ! , ' . ¦ ___ SoldbvJ . Watson , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternoster row " , iondon ; A . Hejwood , Oldham-street , Manchester , and love and Co ., 5 , Nelson-street , Glasgow . And Ty \ aU Booksellers in Town and Countiy .
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PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT . A PUBLIC MEETIIfft , Convened bv the rBovisio-VAi CoMMrrrEE of the NATIONAL CHAiVTEB ASSOCIATION will be held ^ t the LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE JOHNSTREET , TOTTEXHAM-COBRT-ROAD , on TUESDAY ETSSETC KEST , Aram , 30 xn . 1850 , for the purpose of Keviewing the Proceedings is Pakliamest during the past week . ' G . Julian Harney , G . W . JL 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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"HEAFNESS . — Lnportaiit Notice . — Mr . U FRANCIS , the eminent anrist , who has deroted his attention solelr to DISEASES of the EAR , continues to effect the m < kt astonishing cures in all those inveterate eases which have long been considered hopeless , and © f thirtr or fortv Tears standing- enabling the patient to hear a whisper , withont pain or operation , effectually removing deafness , noises in tha head , and all diseases of the aural canal . Mr . F . attends daUy from 10 until 6 , at Ms Consulting rooms , 6 , Beaufort-buildings , Strand , London . Perbods at a distance can state their case by letter . Adnce to the poor , Monday , Wednesday , and Friday , from 6 till 8 in the evening .
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TO THE EMBARRASSED . TPHERE are thousands of persons who have , J- long struggled against the force of misfortune , but jew are aware that , by very recent Acts , all small traders owing debts not exceeding £ 300 , farmers , private and professional gentlemen , and all others , oning to any amount ( the latter without any publicity ) , can be entirely raised Jroin their difficulties at small expense , and without im « wisonment or bankruptcy . All such 3 Ir . Weston begs will apply to t } 'Bt at 6 , Essex-street , Strand , by letter , or personally . -. s Office hours from 10 till 2 , and 6 tU 18 . S . B . —The above Acts stay all Palace Court , County Court , and other proceedings . Clergymen need not submit to sequestratiens .
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« . ^ . EMIGRATION TO NORTH AM ERICA . W TAPSCOTT AND CO ., SHIPPING . YY .-i > rand Emigratiea Agents , Liverpool , continue to despatch First Class Ships—, pioiJEW YORK—every five Bays . j To ' NEW ORLEANS—every Ten Days . - - ToBOSTON and PHILADELPHIA—every Fifteen Days . . ' , And occasionally to -BALTIMORE , CHARLESTON , SAVANNAH , QUEBEC , and St . JOHNS . . ' Drafts for any amount , at sight , on aew York , payable ia any part of the United States . Tapscott's "Emigrant ' s Guide" sent free , on receipt of Four Postage Stamps . ( git About twenty-eight thousand pera ailed for the Kevr WorU , inTapseGtt ' slineofimeriean aciets . inlS 19-
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t , asd AJTD COTTAGES , Jj Tfae property of an independent gentleman . ¦ There in now a capital opportunity on the Dibdis Hill estate , Chalfont , St . Giles , Bucks ( two iniles from O'ConnorvBle ) , owing to the removal of the principal tenant to lie new estate near London . Eight acres , well known as the very test field in the parish of Chalfont ( as will be certified by those excellent judges , Whitsey , Roe , and Page , from ^ Northampton ] , with extensive right of Common , together with two four-Toomed cottages , built against each ffier , mayl ) 8 liad . WH' »« Kate ' y for st 32 a year . But the freeholder being anxious to honour labocb ( being himself a ' WOBKiKG gestlemax ) , and to see as many happy families as possible on his estate , he will accept nothing short of £ 31 for twelve months' rent in advance , if a rich man wants the whole ; but he wDl require only JE 8 for half year ' s rent in advance , if a iran takes only four acres and four rooms ; while he w ; ll be satisfied with only £ 2 , for one quarter ' s rent as a security , from any sober , honest , industrious , agricultural labourer , taking only two acres and two . rooms .
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A BLESSIXG TO THOUSANDS ! SUPTURES EFFECTUALLY A ^ D TERMAIJESTLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS !! EVERY SUFFERER FROM RUPTURE ( Single or Double , and of erery variety ) is earnetUy iaritedto write , or pay Sr . BARKER a Tisit , at in reqr case he gaaranteesthem a perfect cure . Bnring an ettensivB practice his remedy has been « ntirelv successful , as in man } thousands of cases , he has received from patients , and many eminent members oi the medical profession , amply prsve . It is applicable to Both sexes , old and young ; easy and painless in use , £ nd most certain in effect . The remedy is sent post free on receipt of 6 s . Gg . by post-office » rder , or cash , by Dr . ALFRED BARKER , 48 , Xiverpool-street , King ' s-Cross , London , where he may bo consulted daily from 9 till 1 , and 5 til l 9 , Sundays , 9 till 1 , only . Hundreds of testimonials and trasses have been left belund by persons cared , ns trophies of the immense success of this Temedy , which Dr . Barker will willingly pre to any requiring them after a trial of it .
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• The skin , theugh loTely fair , Hay quickly fade for want of needful care . * THE PRIMARY CAUSE of the numerous DISEASES and Affections of the Skin is an impaired condition of the health , arising from a disordered slate of the stomach , liver , and bowels . From these causes theblo » d becomes corrupt , digestion impaired , the liver inactive , and the bowels constipated . Hence arise blotches and eruptions of the skin , bilious affections , heart"burn , sick lieadache , irritability , spasms , flatulency , pain after eating , nervous debility , &c . To correct aU the crudities of the vital fluids , strengthen the stomach , remove i ndigestion and liver complaints , relieve the bowels , in . ¦ vi gorate the system , and tranquilise the nerves , DR . SCOITS FAMILY APERIENT TABLETS will be found an unfailing remedy . It is a medicine of pleasant flavour , and possesses extraordinary virtues from its peculiar preparation . 'With children , also , its effects « re most astonishing ; it speedily and effectually removes worms . Sold in boxes at 2 s . 9 d . Agents , Rudd and Co ., 151 , Strand . May be had ( free by post ) , and of all dealers in patent medicines .
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YOUBSELF 1-TTOAT . YOU ARE , AND WHAT FIX FOR To see ourselves as others see us . '—Bobkf . MISS GBAHAM continues -with amazing success to delineate persons' characters from their handwriting ' , pointing out gifts , defects , talents , tastes , affections , and many other things hitherto unsu * yectei Persons desirous of knowing thestselveS or their friends , must send a specimen of the writer , mentioning sex and age , or supposed age , of the writer , and inclosing thirteen uncut postage stamps , to HISS GRAHAM , 6 , Ampton-street , Gray * s-inn . roacl , London , and they will receive a graphic , minute , and interesting written delineation of what the writer really is , and for what pursuits qualified . The numerous testimonials daily received , and thefa-TouraMe notices of the public press , establish the aceumcy OI
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NATIONAL CHARTER LEAGUE . The FrieHds of Political Progress are informed that A PUBLIC MEETING XX " \ VU 1 be held in the NATIONAL HALL , 242 , HOLBORN , On Wednesday Evening , Mat 1 st , For the purpose of promoting the objects of the League . Chair to be taken at eight o ' cloek precisely . Several able and tried Friends of Popular Reform willbe present , and address the meeting . DECLARATION . The League rejects all other than Moral agencies for the accomplishment of i ts designs . 4 2 ? The League will co-operate with other Societies for the promotion of such Reforms as may seem to it likely to hasten the final accomplishment of : THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER . Committee Rooms , 5 , Snow Hill , City , April 23 rd .
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On Monday next will be published , with the Magazines fob Mat , No . XII . of THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW Of BRITISH and FOREIGN POLITICS , HISTORY and LITERATURE . Edited by G . JULIAN HARNEY . contests : 1 . Refusal of Parliament to repeal the iniquitous Taxes on Knowledge . 2 . Rural Slavery—A Yoice from the County of Kent . 3 . Democracy defended in rep / y to the 'Latter-Day ' ravings of Thomas Carlyle . { Continued , ) 4 . Universal Suffrage and the Ordermongers . 5 . Two Years of a Revolution . 1848—1 S 49 . { Continued , ) 6 . De Flotte , Tidal , and Carnot . 7 . Birthday of Maximilian Robespierre . 8 . " Respectable" Journalism . 9 . Literature : — " Historic Pages from the French Revolution . " By Louis Diane . 10 . Letter from France . 11 . Editor ' s Address on the conclusion of Vol . I , 12 . Title Page , Dedication , and Index to Yol . I . FoKTr Paces ( in a coloured wrapper ) , Pbice THREEPENCE . London : Published by J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Headpassage , Paternoster-row .
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Now publishing in Numbers at 3 d ., andTarts at Gd . THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO THE GOLDEN LAND . 0 A LI F O R N I A ! TS PAST HISTORY ; ITS PRESENT POSITION ; ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS : WITH A HtNDTE AND AUTHENTIC ACCoBli * OP THE DISCOVERY OF THE GOLD REGION , AND ; THE SUBSEQUENT IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS . In the course of the Work will be Given PLAIN DIRECTIONS JO EMIGRANTS TO CALIFORNIA , on THE UNITED STATES , OB TO CANADA ; AUSTRALIA ; NEW ZEALAND , OB ASt OTHEH » BRITISH SETTLEMENT . SHEWING THT 3 T WHEN TO GO , WHERE TO GO , HOW TO GO . Tables of Distances and Tables of Expenses , from British Forts to all Parts of the Tf orld . willbe correctly given : and Full Information respecting the Different Emigration Establishments under the Direction of the Government ; with the Class of Persons who are eligible for receiving Governmental Assistance , and Instructions how that Assistance is to be Obtained and in what it Consists . ILLUSTRATEQ WITH PLATES . Lonfon : Printedfor 6 . Tickers , Holywell-street , Strand ; and sold by aU Booksellers in To vn and Country .
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KATIOML CHARTER ASSOCIATION . OPPICES , 14 , SOUTHAMPTON STREET , STRAND , LONDON . " The Provisional Committee of the NATIONAL CHAR . TER ASSOCIATION hereby give notice , That those friends who are desirous of forming localities can be supplied witk Cards of Membership ' and Rules , by applying to the General Secretary , John . Arnott , as above , from ' nine till two o ' clock , daily ( Sundays excepted ) , and on Monday evenings from seven to nine o ' clock : if by letter , prepaid . All applications by letter will receiTe the most prompt attention . Notice is also given that all the receipts for the Cards issued , must be forwarded monthly , per Post Office Order , made payable to John Arnott , at . the Post office , Strand , and addressed to him at the Office of the Association , , Southampton Street , Strand , London . 14 , Southampton Street , Strand , April lGth , 1850 . Signed on behalf of the Committee , John Abnott . General Secretary .
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J , Moib , Glasgow . —Tour communication came to hand too late for insertion the week it was received , and last week it was placed in the hands of the ^ printer , but was accidentally omitted . G . Gatland , Mortack . —No room . Robert Shawcross , asd the Secbetaby or the Wbst Riding of Yobksiiibe ,. are requested to correspond with James Williams , 9 , Duke-street , Back Sandy Brow , Stockport . ' . R . H-, Tavistock . —We cannot answer jrour questions , being totally unacquainted both with spiritual and temporal turnpikes . Nottingham . —J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following suras , sent herewith , viz .: —Fob the Honestx Fund . —Mr . T . Scothern , Kirkby-in-Ashfield , Is ; Mr . VY " . Lee , Is ; Mr . Chipiudale , Is ; From Carrington , £ 12 a Mr . S . Hudson , 2 d .
Mr . J . Robertson , landerneau , France . —I received your letter in which you state that . vou sent the 8 um of 21 s for the Honesty Fund , and 11 s for Northern Star . There must be some mistake ; as the Jptter contained only a Post Office Order for six shillings and skpesce , obtained , at Dalkeith , Scotland , Tour friend who obtained the order does not furnish his name or address , otherwise I would have wrote to bin . Will you make inquiry ? - Wsi . Rideb : Ebbob , —We are requested to correct an error in the advertisement , which appeared in our last , headed ' Land and Cottages near London . ' Iistead of ' applj to Mr . Hallett , Shimmer's Farm , Colney Hath , ' read ' apply to Mr . llallett , Hummer ' s Farm , opposite the Orange Tree , Colney Hatch , Middlesex . ' Henbt WniTTAKEB , Bury . —We cannot answer your questions Mr . Dean , Belper . —The notice would be charged as an
advertisement . Mr . T . Hahmerslet , Bilston . —The 20 s was acknowledged on the 13 th as from ' Bristol , ' instead of from . ' Bilston . ' It was received on the 10 th ilist T . Haboett , York—Yes , the whole . Thomas Dickinson , . Manchester , informs his friends in Northumberland and Durham ; that , although he is well employed at his trade , he has already addressed six meetings in the People ' s Institute . J . B ., Heywood ; J . Tatiob , and The Operative TailOU , Hanley . —Next week Habtlepool . — W . Hall , of this place , is requested to send his address to Mr . Wm . Norman , of 292 , Wingate Grange Colliery , County Durham . ; : . ¦ Honestt Fdnd . —Julian Has received , and paid over to
Mr . Rider , from a few friends of Barmstaple , per John Buwden , the sum of 12 s . Geokce Mawbei , Chesterfield . —We have forwarded your letter to th » ' Weekly Tribune' Office . Julian Uabnei has received from Wm . Davies , of Edinburgh , i 2 5 s . 6 d ., for the following : —Macnamara ' s Action . £ 1 Is ! Oakuin picking money , 11 s . Gd . ( contributed by some Chartist friends ); for Mrs . Jones , 8 s . Gd . ; for the Monument Fund , Is . Gd . ; for the Fraternal Democrats , 3 s . The above sums have been paid over to the persons authorised to receive them . Fbatebnai , Democrats . —Julian Harney has received from G . Mawby , Chesterfield , Is . 2 d . ; and W . Ccstine and J . Skyllicorn , Liverpool , 2 s . 2 d . ? Mercobids , 'Dundee . —The trade price of the large lithographs is Is . Gd . each—the portraits Is . each .
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MEETING AT HANLEY IN THE POTTERIES . Mr Friends , —Although not ? ery strong , I will make it a point that you shall not be disappointed at the opening of your new Hall on Monday next ; but I have to request that all parties wishing to see me , will do so before the Meeting , as "I cannot stand the fatigue of discussion when it is over .
My friend , Mr . Hopkinson , has requested me to state the train by which I shall arrive at Whitmore Station , but really Bradshaw ' s Railway Guide so very much resembles Parliamentary transactions that it ^ uite puzzles me . lean only say , that : I shall start by the ten o ' clock train in the morning , ; arrive at ; Biririinghsm at forty-five minutes past one , aad
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shall then take . thernext train . to ; Whitraorej of the arrival of which my friends can refeiyeinformatio ' n "; and as : Boon . &a X ge ^ well 'And ' strong again , I willjgiveihem another [ Qtiffflgfi breeze throughout t he . cbjihtry / as I am resolved neither to be snuffed outnor , extinguished . ¦ Yourfaithful Friend , ¦ Feargus O'Connor .
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NATIONAL JDDCATION . TO THE PEOPLE . My Friends , —As the Government bases its power upon your ignorance , while it refuses to open the channel of information , I beg to inform you that , in the ensuing month , I will bring out a cheap unstamped weekly instructor , to be called
THE NATIONAL INSTRUCTOR . " . I will engage the ablest writers belonging to your order to supply me with materials ; I will pay them well ; and I will open its columns for fair—but temperate—discussion . I will allow the several contributors to propound their own views and doctrines , but without one word of personal anger or hostility ; and , although it may be vanity to assert it , I undertake to say
that it will contribute more to the enlightenment of your order than any paper that has yet been published . And as it is necessary to blend amusement with instruction , I will give you , weeldy , "A True and veritable History of the Life and Adventures of Feargus O'Connor , from the days of his Boyhood ; ' ' and I am no judge of human nature if the history of my life does not amuse and instruct every man , woman , and child in the
empire . The publication shall be so managed that my life and adventures may be separately bound up in volumes , apart from the remainder of the work . All persons in Lancashire and Yorkshire , and the Northern districts , must send their orders through Mr . Abel Het-WOod , of Manchester : all persons in the Midland Counties must send their orders through
Air . Guest , of , Birmingham : all Scotch Agents must send their orders through Mr . LOYE , of Cflasgow ; and all other Agents in the kingdom must send their orders through Mr . Pavey , of Holywell-street , London . The publication shall be got up in the most finished style . Your faithful Friend , Feargus O'Connor .
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THE NATIONAL REFORM CONFERENCE . Periodical Conventions , or Assemblies , of the friends of any public movement in the Metropolis , or other central locality , are a portion of the machinery of public agitation . Next month , the Relig ious Societies will pour their tributary streams of pilgrims' pounds , shillings , and pence , from all quarters of the Kingdom , into the great central lake at Exeter Hall . The Charitable Societies have long since commenced their annual dinner conventions at the London Tavern , Freemasons , or the Albion . The yearly trips of Friendly Societies to Rosherville , or Southend , and the Nore , will put forth their attractions as the days lengthen . The National Reform Association has taken time by the forelock , and held its first Conference .
' ' ¦ One of the objects of such an assembly , is to ascertain what progress has ' been made during the past agitation ; a second , hovrto make the strength and the ., experience obtained conducive to farther progress . In the first point , we think the Association has ho cause for complaiut ; in the ' , other , the proceedings of the Conference do not appear to us quite so satisfactory . The attendance of so largo a
number of delegates , from so many different quarters of the country , may be fairly taken as a proof that the movement is really spreading , arid exercising a steady and substantial influence upon public opinion . At a time when parties are in a state of decomposition ; and when , in all other directions , signs of stagnation , indifference , or political paralysis , are manifesto—to have done this is something . We do not seemanv new converts to the cause
of Parliamentary Reform in the hat of members ; but it is fair matter of gratulation to the old friends of that cause , that they have been enabled , at last , to bring their whole power to bear in a centralised form , and to draw together , from remote parts of the country , those who entertain similar views and opinions . It would be a piece of hyper-criticism , to analyse too minutel y the proceedings of so miscellaneous a body at its first meeting , but we confess that one defect has struck us forcibly . There have been
far too many long speeches about generalities . That the delegates should have liked to hear Messrs . Cobden , Bright ,, Hume , and other Parliamentary luminaries , was natural enough . That these said Members of Parliament should , when once on the platform , have been excited by applause to deliver themselves at length upon the leading political questions of the day , is equally a matter of course . But we submit , with all deference to both speakers and hearers , that such exhibitions were a little out of place . The Conference met to work not to talk—at least the talk
ought to have been subservient to the work , which at the time we write does not appear to have been the case . At the various meetings which the Association has held , Messrs , Cobden , Bright , Hume and others , have boon yery chary of their presence and speeches—no doubt for good reasons . It was desirable that they should openly and unreservedl y identify themselves with the movement in the presence
of the representatives of the Association , and therefore of the country—but that ought to have , formed a less prominent part of the proceedings than it has done . What was really wanted was , that the delegates should have set to work in an earnest spirit , to ascertain what the strength ,. at ; their back really was ;; what obstacles—if , any—prevented' their gaining more— -what modes should be adopted for
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removing these obstacle ' s / and by what means the ' vhble ' oftha R ^ orn ' ¦ pn * tyTr : b ' ^ . wbich : we mean the . whole' of'the Wludejd '¦ and'Jvoteless adult ; males of England ; ' Scotland , Wales , and jlreiand , cctuldhayebeencombined ' in oneirre . sistible phalanx—for the accomplishment of a practical raeasureofreform . Up to the time at which we write we have seen , to our regret , few indications of this practical , workmanlike , and earnest spirit . There has been far too much time taken iip by speechifying about the abuses which exist : in our national institutions . It might fairly be presumed by the gentlemen who del ivered themselves of these orations , that the delegates from the members of the National Reform
Association required no suchMnformation , or incentives to action . Their presence there , in the capacity of delegate ? , was a proof that they wore fully cognizant of these abuses , and anxious to remove them . The only question waa , how the work was to be done ? And to that they ought to have confined themselves . The " eloquence" part would have been far more appropriately reserved for public meetings , where converts were to be made , or the cold and apathetic to be roused from indifference , into active sympathy' and cooperation .
Among the questions which might have formed the subject for a longer and more thoughtful debate than they appear to have been honoured with , were those submitted on Wednesday , by Mr . Reynolds . Wedonofc , for a moment , moan to impugn the right of the Association to lay down certain fundamental principles for its own guidance , and to say—here we take our stand , as being what we conceive the only attainable and practical measure under present circumstances . Not at all .. But we have on former
occasions asked the leaders of the association some serious questions upon the very points mooted in the resolutions proposed by Mr . Reynolds . Most of the leaders of the Association—nearly all the speakers we have ever heard at any of its public meetings—avow their preference of a manhood to a rating suffrage . Lord John Russell has declared , that he too would prefer a manhood suffrage to such a complicated , if not confused , suffrage , as that proposed by Mr . Hume and the Association ; Aa far as the House of Commons is concerned , the one proposition is considered nearly
tantamount to the other ; and therefore , until public opinion becomes too strong for it io resist , will be doggedly refused . On the other hand , hundreds of thousands—perhaps we might say millions—remembering how in lormer times the working classes were , deceived by the middle and upper classes , after having aided them to acquire political power , not unnaturally hang back from the new Association . Under the advice of Mr . O'Connor and the
Chartist leaders , they refrain from offering any active opposition ; but that ill compensates for the negative effect of their standing aloof . Wh y should Sir Joshua Walmsley and his friends , throw away the immense strength they might derive from this quarter , when the concession of a principle they themselves approve of , could be met by nor more strenuous hostility among the privileged and ruling classes , than that which is offered to the more modified one they have adopted ?
Upon the fair , open , and honest settlement of this important point depended in our estimation the real value of the Conference . Had it brought about a genuine cordial union between the middle and the whole of the working classes , by which the latter , instead of being content to stand aside as neutrals , would have been converted into hearty , active , and hardworking allies , the cause , of Parliamentary Reform would have made more progress in one year than it can do in three , with the present elements at work . ,- . ¦
As to the second question , the Payment of Members , it was riot of so pressing or important a nature . If the Non-Property Qualification be carried , the Payment of Members will follow in due season as an inevitable corrollary ; but we must express our regret that the Conference threw away the opportunity of cementing a cordial and effective junction between themselves and the operative classes , by declining to substitute manhood for rating or . residential suffrage ^ The Common Sense of
the countiy cries for the vote to be given to the man , not to the bricks and mortar , or to the rate-book ; and though we shall continue , as heretofore , to offer no opposition to the Parliamentary Association , though we shall on all proper occasions aid them wherever that can be done without compromise or sacrifice of principle , still we cannot help feeling that the cause is placed in a Ies 3 advantageous and powerful position than it would have occupied had a contrary decision been come to .
It is the more to be regretted , because the signs of political decrepitude are visible among all existing parties . The frequent defeats of the Ministry indicate their tottering and helpless position , and their loss of all hold over a Parliament , formed under their own auspices . Their continuance in office under such circumstances proves the weakness and the incoherence of the Parliament , and any parties opposed to them . What an opportunity for the formation of a NATIONAL PARTY , and the final suppression of the Factions who have so long alternately preyed upon the people !
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nju' *< K w » ' ^ w ^ y ' ' » - — - , " THE BENEFICENT WHIP " QUESTION . What to do with our Criminals is a question which very much puzzles our Legislators , in both Houses . The Colonial Minister ; in the Peers , made a lengthened exposition , recently , of the very complicated and elaborate contrivances which have been jdevised for what may be called the adult and matured criminal population who have been sentenced to transportation . From that statement , it bo gathered that very little satisfaction has resulted from the protracted and expensive experiments that have been made on this class of criminals , and that very little more is expected from the system now pursued .
In the Lower House the class of juvenile criminals—those who are grad uating in vice , the candidates for transportation—have been the objects of attention , but we regret to say with no better result . Oar law makers are one and all terribly afraid of dealing with , first principles . If any body proposes to them , as a necessary parfc of law-making , for any particular evil or grievance , that it would bo well in the first place , to ascertain the
cause of the evil , they shrink from the suggestion as a revolutionary one . According to ' their theory—or at all events their practice—of Leg islational duty , the leas a man knows about causes the better . The only things he should deal with are effects ; these can be seen and felt ; put an inquiry into causes , pre-supposes a habit of abstract reasoning , of close observation , and a logical capability of deducing conclusions from premises , to which ninety-nine out of every hundred of our Senators can lay no claim .
Yet , the question which really lies at the root of all these measures , is in itself a Bimple one if there were but courage to attack it . It does not involve : that recondite knowledge which might be mentioned as belonging to other political , commercial , and social questions . To the query , what are the main causes of juvenile , crime , it would not be difficult to give an answer , based upon demonstrable facts of the most conclusive description . Want of proper training and useful occupation—these lie at the root of the social disease called crime—these annuall y furnish their contingents to , swell 'the vast army of criminals , which , not only eats up a large portion of the wealth of the country ,: but does far wwso than that , wliicu infects the whole
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bddy'politi&wJth ? : a . mQral leprosy * Lfiom the taint oft whichino clasB is perfectly exempt . ¦ The question ; that follows . , the ascertaining of ' that fact is equally susceptiblei of-a distinct ifip ' y . ; v ; Haye ; we—has England—the means of providing proper , training , combined with useful occupation , to -the growing > population ,: or to ' ¦ that part of it which , from the'ignorance , the vicious habits , or the poverty of their parents—or which , - from the utter want of parents / and : guardians , is peculiarly liable , and almost certain to
become criminal ? But at this question our legislators take fright . ' It : involves , to their apprehension , an alteration of the existing social arrangements , than which nothing can be more dangerous . They are afraid that the loosing of a single brick of the present crazy and artificially propped-up . edifice will bring the whole about their ears ; and they prefer rather to let things remain as they are , than to risk that possibility , accompanied , though it might be , by great good to them in common with the reBt of the community .
-Lord Ashley had a distant glimmering of the r ight sort of cure , when he proposed , in connexion with Ragged Schools , a limited and regulated emigration of the pupils previously trained to orderly and industrial habits . Our only objection to the plan is , that it was too limited , and went too far a-field for what could be done more cheaply and effectively at home . The records of numerous Industrial Schools , in connexion with the administration of the Poor Law in this country , and of others set on foot by enlightened and practical persons , demonstrate that , by means of spade cultivation , and ' school training combined , we possess the means of bringing up usefully , morally , and profitably , the rising generation . Why we should expend the money in sending the unfortunate children abroad who have been
bereft of the nurture and tenderness . of home and-parents , we do not understand—though , as an auxiliary measure to a large and welldevised system of Home Education and Employment , there might be no objection to it . But , even to that scheme—defective as we think it , and-limited as its operation would have been , compared with the extent of the evil requiring ( a-, remedy—the Government turned a deaf ear . They gave , one year , a few thousands to aid it , and they withdrew all assistance the next .
Still , however , the ranks of the juvenile criminals grew thicker andthiokerj the Government and the Legislature had ignored the remedy , but they could not so easily ignore the evil . Thereupon , Sir John Pakington , overflowing with " the wisdom of our ancestors , " proposed a return to that cheap , easy , and jfficacious remedy of Squirearchy—the whipT ping post . What had mocked the efforts of
philanthropists , moralists , and benevolent experimentalists of all kinds , was to be forthwith and summarily accomplished by what Mr . Carlyle calls " the beneficent whip . " Mi ghty are the virtues of whip-cord , or , better still ; . a knotted cat o' nine tails ! Sir John's Larceny Summary Jurisdiction Bill was , in effect , a Bill for abrogating the British Constitution as ' far as all offenders under sixteen
years of age were concerned . It gave to two Justices , of the Peace—everybody knows the equivalent of'that title—the power , at their will and pleasure , of flogging without limit , and which they might have exercised so as to make , it extend to a power of life and death . Juries , are , Heaven knows , quite subservient enough as it is , but we are not yet prepared to see them abolished , and uncontrolled and
irresponsible power given to a couple of fox-hunting Squires , or game-preserving Parsons . The House of Commons was of : the same opinion . Powerful as are its affinities to the Squirearchy , the pill was too strong for it , and the essential clauses of the Summary Whipping Bill were rejected , and the . Bill , in other respects , so mutilated that it may be pronounced one of the failures of the Session . That it tras
rightly condemned , may be judged of . by the facts- stated at the Middlesex Sessions , on Wednesday , by Mr . Sergeant Adams . James CooKj aged ten , was brought up for a petty theft . He " had no home , and no means of subsistence . " "In little more than twelve months , he had undergone seven sentences of imprisonment , and six whippings . " " And yet , " said the Judge ,: " here h © was againand still he was not more than ten years of age—what was to : be done with such a child ?" Unhappy little victim of bad societarian arrangements , driven to crime , because deprived
of a home and the means of subsistence , whipped and imprisoned—imprisoned and whipped , hardened in crime , and tortured into revengeful and vindictive feelings against those who , though they have neglected , have not forgotten to punish ! . The history is that & ( thousands . But the House of Commons haying rejected the Whipping Bill , was the more bound to provide some other , remedy , Mr . M . Milnes gave it the opportunity on Wednesday , when the second reading of the Juvenile Offenders Bill came on . It was founded upon an official
report , and based upon the reformatory principle of action . It combined the establishment of asylums , with a moderate degree of corporal punishment , and the responsibility of parents . Incomplete as this Bill was , it xvas still a step in the right direction ; and especially in the proposal to establish county or district industrial schools . Sir J . Fageisgton , however , who had so much faith in the whip , had none in' the schools , and gave utterance to this solemn piece of "just-asses'' wisdom : — " If industrial schools of reform were established
in every county m England , he feared there was great danger that they might prove to be a premium upon vice . ' " Upon this , and similar valid grounds , the Bill was rejected . In the matter of criminal jurisprudence the House has resolved to let bad alone . They will not assist Lord Ashley ' s ragged protegees toemigrate- ^ -they will not allow the Squires to flog young' men up to the age of sixteen , d la disd'etion—and they refuse that education and
industrial training which can alone offer an adequate counterprise to the temptations which surround the ignorant , the neglected , and the destitute children , whose condition is a disgrace to the country , and whose moral and mental degradation constitutes a heavy accusation against those classes who , with the power , have neither the knowledge nor tho will to grapple with a question of such magnitude and importance . :
This is the legislation of the nineteenth cen tury of the Christian Era !
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THE LAND PLAN . No doubt the unlocated Members will read with pleasure the Report of the Arguinemt which took place in the Court of Queen's Bench on Wednesday last , in connexion with the complete Registration of the Land Company : as , notwithstanding the violent opposition of the Attorney-GrENEilAL , the opinions of Lord Campbell and of the other Judges , appeared to be decisive as to the complete Registration of the Company . '
The Judges have , however , and very properly , deferred giving judgment until they have maturely considered the case . While , if the opinions foreshadowed in their comments upon the speech of the Attoreny-Genebal are conclusive of their legal opinions , we may hope for complete Registration .
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•*¦ NOTICE . Many of our Agents being in arrears , and inattentive to our applications for their out * standing debts , we are compelled to announce our determination to discontinue , after this date , all further supply of the paper to such Agents , unless their accounts be discharged early in the ensuing week . Subscribers will therefore know the reason should they be disappointed on Saturday next . We wrote to each of the Agents a week ago ; consequently , they have had timely notice .
The Northern Star. Satukday, Apbiii 27, 1850.
THE NORTHERN STAR . SATUKDAY , APBIIi 27 , 1850 .
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . AUSTRALIAN COLONIES .-THE UNIVERSITIES . —AFFIRMATION . — » THE STICKET : . MINISTER . " The week has been mainly occupied in discussing in Committees the details of various Ministerial measures , upon the principles of which we have already expressed our opinion . The Australian Colonies Bill drags its slow length through Committee , as though it would never emerge from it—though so far Ministers have been enabled to hold their own against a host of assailants .
It does not appear to us , however , that the real defects of the measure have been touched by any of its opponents . Instead of dealing with the . tangible and practical grievances which it will perpetuate , the debates have turned upon purely fanciful or theoretical points . It is a question of far less importance to the Colonists whether . 'they shall have one Legislative Chamber or two , than it is whether they shall : really , truly , and practically have the power of taxing themselves , and of appropriating that taxation in the way best adapted to promote , the interests of the j Colony .. We have . no abstract Jove for two Chambers like Sir W . Moleswobth and some of his friends . The example of the French Single Chamber ,
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shoe's that . one canfbe re-act ionarvTl 7 ~ *" structfve enough ,., without putting a « °° " drag ' chain . ' upon' ! : the ; wheel of tT * There is always a" sufficient prepondera ? eSS < the Conservative element in society to £ ° * too rapid changed weseeno reaaofe ? ever for . artificially , augmenting its at Besides , in such thinly peopled district ^* " ' Australian Colonies now are—and as th Ollr likely to continue * for a very long time + ^ ^ —there is much force in the mere teclmi C , jection , that there is not sufficient mate i form two Legislative Chambers andrtT ! to contest about the question has been a e tic and unpractical one , which could ha , an entered into only by speculative thcoS n acquainted with the actual conduct of u * affairs . l Public
The real defects of the measure are . limitation to the free and full exercis ' ? franchise , and in the power which it s ?| i tho serves of taxing the colonists to pay « laries of officers appointed by the Horn p vernment , and who are not responsih ) ° " those who pay them , but to a distant V- ° may be-in many cases , a hostile autX ' The bill is in these and many other 11 ty ' adverse to the principles of true constitur 5 > Government , and our so called Phiwl ° - nal Radicals , and Colonial Reformers , vSt shown themselves more adequate to flip f f they have undertaken , if , instead of adv ting favourite crotchets , they had tried ? render the measure intelligible and coher t and to expunge those portions which niilibf against the full operation of elective and sponsible constitutional Government re *
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The question of the Universities , r aised bv Mr . Heywood , on Tuesday , is one UD 0 J which the great majority of our readers can be expected to take but a remote interest and yet the reflex action of the mismanagement of those noble , but sadly abused institution ? affects them most injuriously , as well as other portions of the community . It is of the most vital importance , that facilities for acqujrino '
knowledge , accompanied with honourable dis . tinction in consequence , should be freely thrown open to men of all ranks , sects , and classes , The enlightened founders of tho various magnificent colleges at our two Universities , fully comprehended this 'fact , and , had their endowments been applied in the game spirit aa they were made , the whole intel / ecfcaal character and standin * of the nation would have been incalcut
labl y ^ elevated ,, compared to what it now is . But , instead of promoting know . ledge , the course of study prescribed at these hi ghest academies has obstructed its attainments . Instead of marching with the progressive discoveries of science , it preferred to tread the old , narrow , and circumscribed routine bequeathed from an age when it was
in advance of what was generally known , and comprised all that could be then taught . In . stead of being natural they became the heri . tage of a dominant sect , the snug nests where in corruption reared her unclean broods , and masters and teachers were paid magnificently , who never taught , or whose part in the business of tuition might be expressed b y the lowest sign known to algebraists .
Mr . Heywood ' s motion was certain to hare been negatived , for the House of Commons ij full of aspiring barristers , lordlings , and others who have a atrong affection for alma mater ; totf the Pkemier astonishes all parties , by taking the opportunity of declaring that he meant to propose a Royal Commission to inquire into the management of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge . . That rather took away the breath of some of the sons of Cam and Isis ,
and an adjournment was requested and agreed to . The Commission , " it is understood , is only to have power to receive such evidence as may be voluntarily tendered to it—not of compelling the production of " papers , books , and records ;" and , under the circumstances , perhaps very much information may not be expected from it . But it is the thin end of the wedge inserted , and by and bye we trust it will be driven home . The state of the whole of the
educational Charters of this country , from the Universities downwards , is disgraceful to the GovernmemVand the ruling classes . Immense sums are annually absorbed b y Masters , Wardens , Trustees , and other Officials , which of right ought to be expended in educating the poor ; and which , if so applied , would provide schoolrooms and masters for hundreds of thousands of children , who are now suffered to grow up at once the pest and the disgrace of society .
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Mr . Page Wood ' s Bill for extending to persons who conscientioutly object to oath taking the same privilege as that now enjoyed by Quakers , Moravians , and Separatistsnamely , of g iving testimony in Courts of Law upon evidence , has been thrown out by a majority of nineteen . The old stale and threadbare objections were repeated by Mr . Goulbourke , and they were as success ful as they have been on former occasions , vhen this melancholy badge of bigotry ignorance .
, and alone moral feeling has been attemp ted to be removed . The Founder of Christianity said—" Swear not at all . " Orthodox Christians compel their fellow citizens to swear at every turn , under penalty of losing then rights as citizens , and forfeiting the protection of the law in case of injury to their lives or property . It is one consolation , however
to see that the defence of this antiquated ana unreasonable practice is growing gradually weaker ; nineteen of a majority , in a House of nearly 300 Members , was scarcely wortu the " Loud cheers " with which Mb ann ouncement was received . Another " Strong-F "> and a pull altogether " -will abolish the grievance , and with it the wholesale perjury aud wide-spread demoralisation of which it is the source .
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Sir Charles Wood has tried his hand at another edition of his Stamp Duties Bill , ana is as far from being ri g ht as ever . He liaa better give up the scheme entirely , an « > F p ting the three hundred thousand pounds to tne seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds , reserved to advance the landlords' money ior drainage , employ the whole for the repeal oj the Window Tax , with such savings as lie ma ) be able to effect in other quarters . He wtf
not be Chancellor of the Exchequer anot ber year , and , for his own sake , he should try to do one solitary thing by which he may be ta " vourably remembered . We fear , howevaj th at his case is a hopeless one , and that ho re * Bembles a character formerl y ( perh aps novr ) notunfrequent in Scotland , called " a Sticfr * Minister . " . The " Sticket Minister ' was a
person whose ambitious , but injudicious fl'ien ^ - had determined to make a clergyman , WJ who , after all the drilling he could receive , v » found to be totally destitute of allthenatanj faculties requisite for the office . Sir Cdabie Wood ' s friends and relatives have » cteQ , . | i unkindly , by pushing him into a p lace fonv m he has not a single qualification , and exhiWjluJ him to the world in the character w " Sticket Minister" of Finance .
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BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH New-road , LoNnou . TO THE FlttANCIALTsOCIAL REFOR ^ THROUGHOUT GREAT BRITAIN . Fbllow-Cotjmtrtmen , —Prove , as m ost eaS ^ Joii can , how the doctors ior ages cheated the pe » t ! ^ the question or their health , and all the r ew , ^ that you demand must follow , and that ., too , '' i , « jii sueceamm . The dishonesty ' of the medical dooj be-most easily established . Ware , Fellow-countrymen , ^ . ¦ Yours in the bause 61 Salutary ¦ B * " * ji The Members op the Bbiibh ww * - Aprmuh . 1850 . orH ^ "'
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STAEFOBDSHIRE POTTERIES . Mr . W . P . Roberts will be at Hauloy on Monday next , the 29 th of April .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 27, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1571/page/4/
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