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SUMMER DAINTIES . . Important to Confectwiers , Fruiterers , Cktmku , and the Pullie Generally . . M ONSIEUR EUGENE VILLENEUVE iuforms Ma numerous patrons and the public generally , that his annual collection of recipes for making nil the delicacies of the season , are now readv ; they mil be found to be uf a most suj « rior description , far surpassing anything that has ever before been brought before the public , and are not only se viwable to the above trades , but to mothers of faraUies , nurses , and medical men ; thev will be found invaluable . Professor v . haviug enlisted the services of his esteemed friend , Dr . Kalp& Bunlett , whose intimate , profound , and practical knowledge of his noble profession , is a sufficient guarantee that every formula therein contained vrill have a permanent beneficial effect on the health , as well as achieving a momentary restorative ( wlien such is its object . ) The'fulloaing are a few of the recipes that are given , arranged under their appropriate letter , and , be it remembered , that these are only a few , the book occimying many pages , I compiled at a great expense . OBDISABT ACIDULATED SUM- MISKRAL TVATEBS . STBUPS . ICES * Et bevehages . Carbt . siat-. d and Aerated Syrup of Ginger ' Iced Cream Ginger lteer ( three methods ) Fomkrs for producing them Ditto Orangeped Ditto Chololate Giramtmis siintilu Ditto D'Or- 'eat Ditto Raspberry Cream Lemonade Aerated Water Ditto Citron Peel Ditto Strawberry Milk Ditto Alkaline Ditto Ditto Raspberry Ditto Lemon Sherbet Aerated Magnesia Ditto Ditto Strawberry Ditto Creme de Noyeu Peman Ditto Best ' s Fluid Magnesia Raspberry Vinegar &c , die , ( VC . Aral'ian Ditto Carbonated lime Water Whey Powder Orangeade LeUiia Water Capillaire Ginjnrade Baden Water ^ xeT S manJ' otliers - Baspuerryjtde Carlsbad Ditto „ marmalades . Lemun aud Kali Eerr Ditto " Orange ( Butter superseeded ) Necsan . f the Gods Waricnbad Ditto Currant Ditto EmtCup Euis Ditto . ? ? . tcll 1 ir ,, The Sew Albert Top The Celebrated Purging Indian Marmalade Most of the above are in Saiss of . Marunbad Victoria Ditto liiluidsandpowdeK . Seidliss Water All the new Summer and Dulna Ditto medicated wines , which Siltz . rUirto occupy a great space . The abov ° recipes may be relied 011 fur accuracy , and Professor V . will also be happy to attend to the com munications of any of hfe friends , in case they are unsuccessful , which is very unlikely to be the case , the direction being simiile and complete . Price ' s . . n . 1 * ,. „„ ,. Monsieur Villencuve will bshapK to forward therecips by return of post , on receipt of 26 postage stamps , addressed at the Publishing Ofiuw , 6 . Spur- > treet , 1 cicester-square , London . General traders nill be able to manufacture them at a great advance , and saving a vast amount of profit , as Mr , V . now supplies aU the iriucipal ingredients for the powders himself at very low prices .
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TO TAILOfiS . Bv approbation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria , and JLR . IL Prince Albert .
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TO THE EMBARRASSED . fFHEliE arc thousands of persons who have JL long struggled against the force of misfortune , but few :. ; e aware that , by very rtwnt Acts , all small traders ow ju uelits not exeeedsug £ 508 , farmers , private and profes ? i mal gentlemen , and all others , owing to any amount ( the idttcr without any publicity ) , can be entirely raised from their difficulties at small expense , and without imprisonment or bankruptcy . AU such Mr . Westox begs will anJy to him at C , Essex-street , Strand , by leiter , or personally . Office hours from 10 till 2 , and 6 till S . X . I 8 . —The aboTe Acts stay a ! l Talace Court , Countv Court , and oilier proceedings . Clergymen mud not submit 0 sequesuvttieas .
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1 ? MIGRATION TO GEORGIA , i-J Iinra COUNTY , UNITED STATES . COTTON' COTTON . * 3 COTTON . ' !! Inckpecdc-uce : —Self Government in Factories!—with Hxity of V . ' orkiag Hours ! Tli ? attention of Manufacturers and Operatives in Cotton of small capital is Killed to an t struct from the New Yovis C < BT- <|! oa .-: « i : of the Taitii , dated 17 th July . 1 S 4 ;> . wliicli sap . rvlutive to die Suite of Georgia— ' Advantage bus been iafcen of its extensi .-e wattr power to estauliflu-ottcu maui . facfjriec ! A fact no ; only true , but alsu tli ;» t the rctunic making ujxra the capital inv < sted in those factories averse at the present time from t - -vtnty-iiv ! o thirty per cea j . Why , therefore , do nut the Wall Manufacturers and Operatives of ilanehcs ' . er ar . d its vieinitv , who now only dbuiin a precarious liTclibooO , club ti ^ etlicr their fund < while thfcy liive any , and j . rootv . 1 it . a U . iiy to Irivin Confer , Georgia , whero , if a number-aiy from 15 J to 200 fanrii-es . with capital sufficient to erect a mill—will proceed iiv the vessels of the advertiser in : > -Mitir .: i to the ail . vant ^ cs he offers to the general emigrant , lie will allow taeni to choose in the vicinity of their town allotments , ires i roai all charge .
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Lro'Mir I'luirtislf Beware ! of " Wvlves in Sliceps ' Cotltinij . " RDPTDRES EFFECTUALLY CUUED WITHOUT A TKUSSJ ! ri ^ HE CRUEL IMPOSITIONS upon tho - « - uaivary by self-styled doctors , who for obvious reasov . s _ % Esumt Foreign name =, ;; nd the names of eminent English practitioners , forge tj ; tiinonial 5 , and have recourse to other practices equally base , should induce those afflicted with Itur . lxire to use great judgment as to whom tht v apyiy for ai ( 1 Testimonials from numbers of the Faculty and patients txu , . S stn cured of "" 1 ' ture , establish the efficacy of DR . 1 ) E . llOOS' UEMEDY iu cvti ^ r ci-. sehitherto tried . J ' 1 *™™* free fioin danger , causes no pain , coiifinem ut , or mrowemence , apnUcabk- to both seses , and all cilo ^
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NATIONAL CHARTE R ASSOCIATION . OFFICES , 14 , SOUTHAMPTON STltEET , STRAND , LONDON . The Provisional Committee of the NATIONAL CIIAlt-TElt ASSOCIATION hereby give notice , That those friends who are desirous of forming localities can be supplied with Cards of Membershi p 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 b y letter will receive 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 14 Southampton Street , Strand , London . ' | On Tuesday Evening , June Hth , a public meeting willbe held it the LITERAltY AXD SCIENITF 1 C INSTITUTE . JOHN-STREET , TOTTENHAM-COURT-UOAD , for the purpose of Renewing the recent Peoceedlngs in Pablia-JiEiT . G . TV . M . Reynolds , J . B . O'Brien , and other friends to Democratic and Social Reform , will attend and address the meeting Chair to be taken at eit ; ht o ' clock . ADMISSION FliEE . Signed on behalf of the Committee , Jons Aesott , General Secretary .
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EMIGRATION TO NORTtt AMERICA SM TAPSCOTT AND CO ., SHIPPING I ' ' and Enugratian Agents , Livernool , continue to despatch First Class Ships—! To NEW YORK-every Five Days . . I To XETV ORLEAXS-every Ten Davs . I To BOSTON aud PIULADELPlIIA-levery Fifteen Days . And occasionally to 3 « Y S 5 ) 55 ' C 1 IARLESTON , SAVANNAH , QUEBEC , Drafts for any amount , at sight , on New York , payable m any part of tlie United States . Tapseott ' s "Em ^ rant ' s Guide" sent free , on receipt of Four Postage Stamps . ^ Abou t twenty-eight thousand persons sailed for the Aew \\ orld . m Tapscutt ' slin » of American Paekets . iu 1 S 43 .
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t : le doings in newgate . MR . BEZER ( Lately liberated from the Gaol of Newgate for so-called seditions speaking ) , Will deliver a course of POUE LECTUBES OS NEWGATE FAVOURITISM ! At the Iliii of Science , Citf Road , . near Old Stbeut , Being extracts from his journal , impounded by the ma ^ is trates as ui ; iit to nit-et the public eve .
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ENEMIES IN THE CAMP !!! Brother Chartists Beware . ' . ' RUPTCHES EFFECTUALLY AND PERMANENTLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS CACTIOX . —Sufferers are earnestl y cautioned against various youthful quaelts , who impudently copy this announcement , forge testimonials as > urae the naraes of cmicent practitioners , place Dr . before their names , make assertions , the most extravagant and absurd , and have resource to the basest practices to victimise the public , A LL WHO SUFFER FROM RUPTURE XI ( Single or Double , and of every variety ) arc earnestly invited to write , or pay Dr . Lagrasge a visit , as in every case he " guarantccs them a perfect cure . During an extensive practice in many thousands of cases here ami m 1 < ranee , his remed y has been entirely successful , as the hundreds of testimonials he has received from patients , and many eminent members of the medical profession , amply prove . It is free from danger , applicable to both sexes , old and young ; easy and painless iit use and most certain in effect
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Education for the Millions . THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED , "No . III . of ' THE HATIONAL _ IISSTRUGTOIL " PRICE ONE PENNY . The object of the Proprietor , Fkabgus O'Connor , Esq ., M . P ., is to place within the reach of the poorest classes that Political and Sosial Information of which they are at present deprived by the Government " Taxes on Knowledge , " In addition to a serial history of the " Life and Adventures of Fkarous O'Connor from his Boyhood , " it will contain Essays by the bost writers on all the leading Questions of the day , written in an earnest , honest ; and impartial spirit j Tales and Sketches , illustrative of . the working of our present Social and Political System ; Reviews and abstracts of New Books of a useful and instructive character , and Miscellaneous Information , suited alike for the amusement and instruction of the fireside .
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SECOND YEAlt OF T 1 HE DEMOCKATIC REVIEW X fjf BRITISH and FOREIGN POLITICS , MSTOltY and LITERATURE . Edited by G . JULIAN IIABNEV . This day is published No . 13 , being the first number of VoL II . of this monthly exponent of Democratic aud Social Progress . The contents of the number for June include a letter from the Editor on the Conspiracy in France to destroy Universal Suffrage ; Tactics and Programme of the Countcr-Kcvolutionists ; articles on Democracy , Aiuzzini ' s work on the Popedom , &c , &c . This numbur ' also contains certain letters excluded from the Korthern Star , including the Editor ' s defence of Chartism , in reply to aHenegade ' s Revelations ; with other matter important and interesting to the Chartists , aud all friends to Democratic and Social Reform .
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THE CHEAPEST EDITION EVER PUUL 1 SUED . Price Is . ( id ,, A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate of the Author , of FAINE'S- POLiTIOAL WORKS . Now Heady , a New Edition of Mr . Q'OQflHOB'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS Sold by J . Watson , Queen ' a Head Passage , Paternoster row , London ; A , Ileywood , Oldhitm-strect , Manchester , . ind Love aud Co ., 5 , Xelsoii-street , Glasgow . . And In all Booksellers in Town and Country ,
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AGRICULTURE , MANUFACTURES , TEETOTALISM , The best of trades-unions , ( A holy TIUNlTr-lN-UNITY . ) T AND , MOST FERTILE , £ 2 per acre , -Li Cottages ( two Email rooms ) , € 4 ; Double ditto , £ S . One of the latter , which can be divided into twe tworoomed ones ( with large gardens each ) , and three acres of land , is all that remains in hand ( with immediate posses sion , ) for the ^ accommodation of one or two more families . There is nothing to take to , and no payment in advance will be required from handicraftsmen of good character who are pledged TEETOT . u . Mins , ' The real blessings resulting from uniting Agriculture Teetotalisni , and Manufactures , arc exhibited by the splendid crops raised by shot-makers and other teetotallers from Northampton , now to be seen on this estate , the pro perty of a wobki . no gentleman , who ones a splendid fortune to teetotulism , and continues , nevertheless , to work hard every day of his life , from religious principles , and to improve the murals of society .
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All tho delegates who attended the meeting held at Ilebden IJnO se , on Sun < liij-, May 26 th , are requested to send their mimes and udikoss to Thomas Fielden , Secretary , at Mr . J . Kobinson ' s , George street , Todmordon , in order to facilitate the distribution of tho bills convening the camp meeting . Nottingham . — , 1 . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums , sent herewith , viz .: — Fok llosiart Fund : —Three Chartists at Kirkby , in Ashficld , ' . » s j Mr . MeaUin , 2 d . T . A . C . —Upwards of . tfl . OOO . Mr . Head . —Received It will terminate on the 20 th of
July . Mr . Westxev , Wclliniiorousli . —Wo have seen Mr . Claris relative to the £ 1 senl some lime ago to tho Land Offiui ) for the Honesty fund , and find it was properly appropriated . The error in the amount acknowledged must have originated with the compositor . John Askill , near Swindon , ought to know that his overtures have been rejected by the body ho mentions , and that consequently no lasting union could by any means be effected . G . Cavill , Sheffield . —Wo have already answered your question , and can see no good that would result in publishing your present letter . Your letter to Mr . Reynolds ' s weekly newspaper might have miscarried . The fact that it , or a portion of it , appeared in two papers out of the three should convince the Sheffield Chartists that you are not to blame in the matter . J . O'Fabbell , Ilulme . —There was a society of that kind in existence m London about one or two years a ™ , but we have- not heard anything of it lately . We cannot answer ynur second question . A . B . C , Stockton . —One of the editors of this paper
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The Aviaiiy of the Liverpool Zoological Gardens was burnt to the ground on Monday Pght , through some of tho fireworks Which were displayed on that evening dropping on tho thatohed root . beveral of the . birds , were soorohed to death ,
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, The readers of the " Northern Star , " and the Democratic party generally / are informed , that therei'is-now a re-issue of the various Steel engravings lately distributed ' with the "Northern Star . " They consist of . . ; KOSSUIH , . MeaOHEB , Louis Blanc , Mitchbii , ' : . Ernkst . Jones , . Smith O'Brien , Richard Oasiler , ' John Frost . ; These Engravings have excited the admiration of every one who has seen them . They are faithful portraits , and are executed in the most brilliant style . Price Fourpence each .
There has also been a reprint of the undermentioned portraits , which have been given away at different times with the " Northern Star , " and which are striking likenesses , and executed in the most brilliant manner—Andrew Marvel , ' William Cobbett , Arthur O'Connor , ' Henry Hunt , Patrick-0 ' Biggins , F . O'Connor , Bronterre O'Brien , W . P . Roberts . J . R . Stephens , There is also a re-issue of tho two large prints , " THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OP 1839 . " " THE PRESENTATION OP THE NATIONAL PETITION , by Mr . DUNCOMBE , in 1842 . " To be had of J . Eavey , Holy well-street .
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THE IATTOIALJJID COSPAHY . COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH . THE QUEEN v . P . WHITMARSII , Esq . In this case a mandamus had been issued to the defendant ,. Avho was the registrar-general of joint-stock companies , to command him to register the National Land Company . The defendant had made a return to this mandamus , setting forth that the company in question was not a joint-stock company , established for any
commercial purpose , or- for any purpose of profit ; and further , that the company carried oil the business of a bank , being constituted of more than five persons , and carrying on such business within sixty miles of London ; and lastly , that it was a company for carrying into effect an illegal scheme of lottery . There was a demurrer to this return , and the case was argued on that demurrer . The court had taken time to consider the judgment .
Lord Campbell now delivered judgment . The first question raised on demurrer was , whether the National Land Company . was a joint-stock compauy , entitled to registration under , the 8 Viet ; , c . 110 , sec . 2 . The object of the company was , by subscription to purchase land , and then to allot out among certain of the subscribers the land which had been thus purchased . It was contended that the company was a company established for the purposes of profit , that the directors had the power to buy and sell land , aud that the rentcharge which would accrue from the allotments
constituted a profit which was to be employed for the purposes of the company . It did not , however , appear to the court that this principle was maintainable , so as to justify the company being treated as an ordinary jointstock , company , for tho purposes of registration . The principal object of the company was , it was true , to buy land ; but that was to be , done by funds which wore to be raised by subscription , aud this land was afterwards to be divided into portions which were to bo allotted to certain of the subscribers by a mode of proceeding which depended on chance . Each subscriber who became an allottee was
to retain , subject to his liability to rent-charge , all the advantages which his possession of the land , and the buildings on it , and the improvements previously made , and those made by himself , could confer . These advantages to the individual subscriber certainly could not be called profit to the company . The money forming the funds of the company was to be raised by subscription , and the profits , if any , wore to be disposed of as already described . Then as to selling the lands which had been bought , it was true that there was a power conferred on the directors to soil certain of the
lands , but that was not for the general purposes of profit to the company , but the sale was -to take place as an act subsidiary to tho governing principle of the company , which was declared to be the providing of allotments for all the small subscribers to the company ; The profits , whatever they were , would bo merely accidental ; and , when made , would belong to the individual member , and not to the company . Then , as to the rent charge of five per cent ., payable on each allotment , though that rent chargo would certainly increase the funds of the company , still it was not properly to be called a profit such as was obtained from the employment of manual labour , or of capital which had been employed in commercial and trading companies , but was , in fact , in the nature of a further subscription , to provide fresh land for allotments . Under those circumstances tho court was of opinion that judgment must be entered for the defendant on this point ; and the case being thus disposed of , it became wholly unnecessary to decide whether the company was an illegal company , as being a compauy instituted to carry into effect a certain object by moans which were an infringement of-tho lottery ada . ¦— Judgment for tho defendant .
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THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . Judgment has at length been pronounced on the long-litigated point , whether the Regis * 'nun under the Joint Stock Company ' s Act , was bound to Register tho National Land Company . . The Government have . thrown every obstacle they possibly could in the way of its legalisation , and , even after a mandamus was obtained , caused a return to bo made to that mandamus in such a shape as re-opened the whole question , and , of course , involved tho necessity for a still larger expenditure on the part of tho _ applicants , for the protection and facilities given by tho law . •
t Lord Chief Justice , after taking time to deliberate , has pronounced judgment against tho claims of the Company to bo Registered , on the distinct ground that it is not established as all Joint' Stock Companies must be—for tho purposes of profit . On the last objection , that it was a Company for carrying into effect an illegal scheme of lottery , the Court refrained from giving an opinion ;
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and , we think , very judiciously for the- defendant , because-the plea was utterly unsupported by fact . - The arguments usedby the Chief Judge , in the Court of Queen Bench , to justify the conclusion to which he has come on the question , appear to us somewhat singular . Not being lawyers , we cannot tell how they appear to the legally-constituted mindfbut they certainly do run counter to common sense and common practice . His Lordship says , that the power of the Directors to buy and sell land , and that the rent charges arising from allotments , constituted a profit which was to be employed for
the purposes of the Company , does " not appear to him to justify the Company being treated as an ordinary joint stock company for the purposes of registration . " Now , we have always understood the principle to be in Common law Courts , that statutes are to be strictly construed . The simple question is , whether the buying of land at one price , and selling it at another and advanced price , constitutes what is called a " profit , " or not , in ordinary commercial language ? If not , we cannot conceive what " profit ; ' is . But lord Campbell says , the advantage went to
indidual subscribers , not to the Company corporatoly . If all the individual subscribers , by the operation of the plan , received personal advantage or profit , then we contend , that the Company being made up of these individuals , would , as a whole , undoubtedly derive advantage from its trading in land , and the profits thence accruing . But we should like to know on what ground his lordship took the manner in which the profits were to be divided into consideration at all ? It vr&s a legal , not equity , question he was called upon to decide . Whether the mode in which it was proposed to appropriate the profits was right or wrong in
Lord Campbell ' s estimation , had nothing to do with the question , which was simply—is the Company formed for the purpose of profit ? And that it is so , seems to be admitted by the judge himself , though he subsequently nullifies the admission by objecting that the manner in which these profits are applied , takes this Company out of the category of " ordi-nary Joint Stock Companies—a statement which may be accepted either as a compliment or a censure , according to the taste of the reader . One thing is certain , had the Company been formed on less philanthropic and just principles , it would have had more legal favour shown to it .
Mr . O'Connor , by the earnest perseverance he has exhibited in his endeavours to procure the legalisation of the Company , has proved himself worthy of the confidence and the gratitude of its Members . It now remains to decide what step shall bo taken in consequence of the adverse judgment of the Court of Queen ' s Bench . Whatever that may be we have no doubt that it will ultimatel y redound to the credit of tho Founder of the Company , and be of such a character as to secure justice to all the contributors .
If he is driven to apply for a private act to wind up the Company , it will bo one of the most forcible illustrations of the injustice of the English Law with respect to associations of the working classes for mutual help , that the history of this country has ever afforded . In fact , the law of partnership seems to havesbeen expressly framed for the purpose of preventing any co-operative attempt on the part of the producers to benefit themselves and to improve their condition . The injustice of that law is so palpable , and its injurious consequences so undeniable , that even the Economist—that organ par excellence
of the Political Economists—in a recent article on Partnerships , strenuously recommends the adoption of the French system of Partnership en comviandete . The law of partnership in this country makes every partner responsible to tho whole amount of his fortune . In the partnership tn commandetc , each partner is responsible only to the amount of the shares he has taken . The system has been found to work most successfull y both in France and America , and it it is mainly to its existence that in both countries so many associative experiments in Social science have been made by persons with individually small
means . If tho difficulties and obstructions which the National Laud Company have had to encounter from tho want of legal protection and facilities , have the effect of drawing attention to this subject , and of eventually leading to such an amendment in the law as will allow of tho formation of partnerships en mmmendite , it will prove a great national benefit , aud the experience gained during the progress of the Company will be of the utmost value , on any future combined and co-operative movement for the permanent emancipation of the labourer from the thraldom of capital .
The past career of the National Land Company has shown , in a most gratifying and striking manner , the immense resources possessed by the masses ; and whenever the obstructions to their legal collection and secure application are removed , we may fairly anti- " cipato that the high personal integrit y of Mr . O'Connor , the unstinted sacrifice of time , labour , and means , which has characterised the whole of his career iu connexion with the Company , will , in conjunction with a satisfactory settlement of its difficulties , produce another well-organised combination of the concentrated energies of the masses , which shall lead to a triumphant aud a prosperous result . •*¦ - *¦ - " - - ' -------- ^ ifftfr _ , ,
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' . ? heep . Never , perha ^ s yT nTthT ? ^ I warfare , was there a more wanL S « I Ie 3 S attraction of human life th " - V I the closhtf batt . es . in which ffi >« f I sought his filial-laorelB-at . the cS S I sands of widows , and tens of tl . K orphans , ¦¦¦ . ¦ : tho il sand } ' H Fear that his recklessness would „ ., I the maintenance of our Indian Emn - ^ H based as it is upon the pmtioe of H I military force , induced the authoriti' IK I to despatch Sir C . Napiek , in ' J K I take the place of Lord GfoTOH r ?^ *• I arrival , however , a lavish expenditniT h * Jlllfl tho TOll . Vnnmn L . 1 ! J . K ° HUl ' e Of lie .
iiShmenVh ; r I I erabi ; dT ; r 7 GrG f v those opposed to him . F orthwith ^ S 1 breath of popular applause" in J , ° ^ I oevated the reckless soldier ^ J * ^ General and an illustriou s hero- nlu gr ^ I were conferred upon him by Pn ' -i } "" ^ the Sovereign , Ld since 4 iS ? <* I country a-succession of fetes have be * - ^ 1 to him by the most eminent and aS * " * I bodies in the kingdom . «¦ " « ansto cratU I The most recent exhibition of thu i ' I pitiable manifestation of hero ! , a » d I P lace hi the city of London la " tS ?* I Lord Gough was presented with H- * S I of the City , and made the guest at , t ^ cent entertainment at the M »« ™^ b . H T > speeches on the occasion of thf H ° Use ' I
nausea : „ the least-sensitive" nun ,, * these subjects . The p ™™ I Ol 1 I and the monstrous blasphemy Jftfe 1 they abound ,. out-herodS Herod a ^ 1 ening cant of piety pervadM rt , A »<*• of the Chamberlain ; aSd of Sp v ^ ^ I shedder : and the name of rt 2 r f bloQl I sssssP ? our possession , and are kept in a vitiated a I a depraved condition . m
The same week that saw these fresh honon * I showei-ed Upon a Soldier , whoso reputa ? I of so dubious a kind , even among that 1 I olaaa of heroes , and an illustrationof thonT I ner m which the benefactors of the hui I race are treated by those in power . ^ I Lieut . Waghorn devoted the best part of I his htetime to opening np a 5 afe and s « 1 overkndCommun . cation between this cou . 2 I and India In the pursuit of this object m I portantand essential as it was to both com I tries united as they now arc , and with such I immense interests contingent upon the succe * I of such an enterprise , -he spent health I strength and fortune . He had to encounte I the usual obstructions from red tape offiriak I tho sneering scepticism of . " practical men of 1
business , " and « all the wrongs that patient I merit bears" when it undertakes the thank- I Jess task of benefiting humanity . At Ieu « th I mainly m consequence of his undaunted per ' I severance , of his travels by land and sea , and I of his unparalleled personal exertions , he sue 1 ceeded in establishing that route with all its I varied resources and final y dovetailed arran t ments , which has brought our enormous I Eastern possession s far nearer and more ac- I cessible to us than America was half a century 1 ago . Hesucceeded but not for himself . Ihcca- I
pitahst stepped in and reaped the profit . This 1 was the barren reputation of being the pio- I neer and perfector of this great enterprise . I jiut surel y the Government or the East India H House showed their gratitude to one who liad I ( . one more to consolidate and maintain the 1 Jwitish empire 121 India than all the successful benerals , from the time of Clive downwards ! i > ot at all—his claims were unrecognised , and when , after long years of unrewarded toil , he was about to make another effort , which should benefit himself as well as the public , lie died , leaving his widow and family poverty as their only inheritance .
Itepentance , however tardy , does in such cases fr equently come , when hardship and suitenng , and disappointed hopes , have broken the heart of the victim , and laid him in an untimel y grave . Repentance has come in this case also , but in so niggard and stinted s shape that it must raise the blush of shame on the brow of every intelligent Brit n—and wherever it is known throughout the world , stamp an ineffaceable stigma upon us as a people . Her Majesty , or rather Her Majesty ' s Ministers , last week were graciously pleased to confer upon Mrs . 'Waguoux the magnificent pension of twenty-fiye pounds
a-year , in consideration of the eminent services of her husband !" We let the fact speak for itself . Comment would fail to stigmatize such conduct in language sufficiently severe . But whou the peerage , pension , and honours of tho blood spiller are contrasted with the poverty and untimely grave of the inventor and promoter of the overland route , we have reason t o hang our heads in shame , and much reason to abato our loud voiced and false eulogies upon the
progress of civilization and Christianity 111 this so called groat and enlightened nation , We have put on an exterior covering of refinement with our changed attire ; hut essentially , wo are as savage , as blood-thirsty , as S little capable of appreciating tho triumphs i and the true objects of real civilization as i wore our aucestors , when clad with skins of tho I wild beasts they had slain iu tho chase ; they depended on mere brute force ami physical skill for the gratification of their animal wants .
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PARLIAMENTARY RE VIE W . ADMISSION OF JEWS TO PART . IAMEXT . - POST OFFICE LABOUR OX SUSDAY . - ECCLKSIASTICAL JUUISDICTIOX . - DEFEAT OF THE EDUCATION B 1 LL .-WEST INDIAN COLONIES . Time presses , aud our legislators , stimulated by the amount and tho nature of the wovk before them , have recovered from their Uoli * day fit , and set to it in earnest . The question of the admission of Jews into Parliament lias
been renewed by the Pkemiek , thoug h 111 a somewhat difterent shape to that assumed ou former occasions . Availing himself of ft * report of a Committee , appointed early uM 5 Session on the motion of Mr . Page Wood ' inquire into the state of the law on the subject , his lordship briefly introduced a bill to regulate the mode of administering the oaHi ol abjuration . According to tho report of that Committee-, it is by no means tho ^ viiioiplo " the British Constitution to exclude Jews iroiH
the highest honours of the State . Tho w ° r ( ' 3 ' " ou tho true faith of a Christian , " first introduced into the oath of abjuration in the reig " of William III ., were not intended at any time as a test of Christianity . They hail !¦ *> reference to Judaism , but were used mei'i ' )' conform tho oath to an old Parliament precedent of the reign of James I ., when " , oath , called tho Oath of Obedience , wasiuttj , duccd , iu which these words were « 5 Cl ' Various exemptions have been made »' time to time ; aud in one act ( 13 Geouge 1 ;» cap . 7 ) there is a special exomptiou in ccr ' " cases in favour of Jews . Wh ; it . is now p 1 '
posed is in effect to extend that exempt ' " ; , J a simple Bill , enacting that whenever a » . is called upon henceforth to take the oath ° ab j uration , he may tuko it ill conformity ^ the provisions of the act just cited , nnd * ' * distinctly enacts that the words " on the " faith of a Christian" shall bo omitted . . It is certainl y a great pity that tlio iMimja and their law advisers should so long " % been ignorant of such a legislat ive prec e » for the step they proposed to take four sessx t ago ; and it is still more to be regretted 1 the measure is brought forward at sucli a
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THE BARBARISM OF THE 19 tn CENTURY . Iu tho midst of our boasted civilisation wo are essentiall y a barbarous people . Nothing more painfully betrays that fact than the honours we shower upon successful warriors—the neglect with which those who benefit their fellow-creatures are treated . The statues of the "Iuou Duke ' —which are exhibited in various parts of tho Metropoliswill suggest themselves at onco as forcible exponents of tho pvononoss to worship mero brute force- —the tall pillar to Nelson , iu Trafalgar-square , being another illustration of this lowest and worst form of heroworship .
Wo can conceive of tho time when the possession of brute courage , and the skill of military chiefs , should have naturally excited this sense of veneration by their superior prowess . When the strong right hand was the ruling power in the world , and security for life and property depended mainly on tho possession of physical strength and bravery those \ yl \ o towered abovo the bulk of the community not uuuaturally became the heads and rulers of the people . But , with tho advance of civilisation— tho substitution of law and
constitutional rule—and tho profession of a milder and purer religious faith—wo might have expected a progressive change in publio opiuiou on these subjects . Tho man who triumphed in the arts of Peace—who improved existing , or invented new modes of producing wealthor opened up -new means of communication between widely-separated nations—would supersede the men of war , and-bloodshed , and destruction , as the true benefactors and heroes of mankind . Has it been so ? Let two recent events
answer . Lord GouGiihas latoly returned from India . Last year Sir Ciiarles Napier was sent out to supersede him in tho' command of the Indian army . His rashness luid , on more than oue occasion , caused him to throw tho forces at his command into situations whero they could not grapple with their concealed opponents—they were unable to form any idea of their strength , or the manner in which they weredispbsed in the recesses of thejungle , from which , with sure and murderous aim , they shot down the British soldiers aa helplegs . lv as .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 8, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1577/page/4/
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