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THE HORTHSRB STAR SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1850.
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KOTICE To the Mta ' - tersof the Mottram Branch of the Uational Land Cempany . A PUBLIC MEETING JDL ^ iil . ba hdd at thehonscofMr . MABTK Ga-ttos , ? S" % , - 1 ^ HoUinsworth , oa Sunday , Jnly 28 th , at Two o Cock . v .-hcneTery memDeris expected to attenfl . By order of the Committee . Maktdj Ctirros . Secretary .
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EUPTURLS EFFECTUALLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS !!! TjjBL HENRY GUTHRET'S extraor-XJ . dia : srv success in the treatment of upwards of 27 , 000 cases « sil Taneties of Single and Double Boptnre is tnthoni a parallel in the history of roeoicine . In everj rase , tow vver bad or long standing , a cure is guaranteed xte rem-Jv 13 quite easy , and perfecUy painless in anpucauon . causing no inconvenience or confinement whatever ; is free from danger , and applicable to male and icmalecfanj-age . - Sen . t ( ? o = t-free ) with full instructions rendering failure impossible , onrecei pt of 6 s ., by Post-office order , orpostage gap , iff Dr . HENRY GDTHBEY , 6 . Amptontitr ^ , bray ' s-iun-road , London . Hundreds of testimonials and truises have been left behind by persons cured , as trophies -if ¦ f ™*® of ttlis remedy , which Dr . GUTHREY will TO Hjngiy give to those who require to wear them after a trial of : r . Post-office orders must be made payable at the Craj's-ian-r .-adOSce .
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DE AF 3 JES 3 . —Important Notice . —Mr . FftAXCIS , the eminent aurist , who has devoted his attendoii solely to DISEASES of the EAR , continues to effect the most astonishing cures in all those inveterate cases -winch have long been considered hopeless , and of flariy or forty years standing , enabling the patient to hear » wlii 3 pi ; r , witliont pain or operation , effectually removing deafness , r . t-Ues in th » head , and all diseases of the aural canal . Jir . F . attends daily from 10 until 6 , at his consulting rooms , fi , Beaufort-buildings , Strand , London . Persons at a distaste can state their case l > y letter . Advice to * &e poor , xjo jday , Wednesday , and Friday , from 6 till Sin toe tT «! iH < r .
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CJULLEXGE FOR £ 500 STERLING . TH AT DR . GREER'S SIXPENNY PAMPHLET OX MEDICAL REFORM ( which vrill toe sent free for six Queen-head stamps ) , contains the most Euccesful medical and surgical practice since 1 S 14 , yet pnblisheu by any living man . 'Deih Sir , —After many eminent d » etors gaiemeover , even in i \ " > Infirmary , where their best skill and medicine were used , Jill all declared it was impossible I could survive , asiny LrsGS , they said , were as ulcerate dasmynccli , in-east , kwJ r . nns , which bear many scroralons marlts , your p : n * cared perfectly ; grateful to you and thankful to God . Pjiilsp Teuuoe , 80 , Bridgegate-street , Glasgow . —To Dr . Gnt . ' ISr . « to «; i iioafries , 2 D , Simon-square , Edinbnrgh , agent Hor ? ng ^ n ' s wa ^ t ? d at home and abroad , for these Genuine , Uvgtian , Universal . Vegetable Medicine ; , which 3 ) r . Grc- ? r , sur ^ eo ^ J , improved in 1834 , after he bad resigac-i the prcressorship to the British College of Health , lonaui . : > ce preface to Mosis-jxiana of thnt date . ) when 3 > r . G . rtcrived T ie honour ot being enrolled at the liead of arcliivm > ftliatConese , by the late great , tut ill used , Wflnwii , tiie Hvgeist . A ; ip ; y v . Jahes Gseeh , M . D ., P . H . S ., of the Scottish Htgsjan l \ irrrnnos , Glasgow .
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DEAFNESS AXD SISGIXG IX THE EARS INSTANTLY CURED WITI 1 OUT PAIN OR OPERATION . THE APPLICATIONS OF DR . PEARSC ^ 'S wonderful discove-ed remedy in all cases of Jteafncss fiiab ' es sufferers of either sex , even an infant or most :: 2 cd persons , to hear 2 watch tick at arms Icngdi a" « scnt-ral conversation , altiiough having been sfQielcd wiiii ( leafncss for thirty or forty yeai's , without the ise of any instrument , or possibility of causin ? pain or dauber ;•_ a cai 3 d many of whoaiboni ieaf , with persons ofa ' . ltt-ciwUose cases had been , by the old treatment , pronounced incurable , after tlie use of this new discovery bare hai tLeir lisaring per . ' eetly restored .
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iU . VILL 1 EKS OS MEDICAL GALVANISM . GIYSN AWAY , A PAMPHLET 02 . : he extraordinary influence and miraculous properties of galvanism , not alone , but in c » njunciiun with Scientific medical treatment ,- without which galvanism is nseles rir . : dl nervous affections of the niind and body , xneutal O . tprcssion , deiu-iuns , confusion , excitement , iu-Tolun ; arv blushing , paralysis , ciiilepsyj tix doloureux , spinal Ci'aiplaiuts , lumbago , gout , sciatics , local and rheumatic jnias , incipient iiiS » uity , indigestion , liver complainu , oiseases of hot climates , prostrate glands , asthma , dniviiii ^; sights hearing , stiff joints , ikficitncy of nervou ? tnenrjr , female disorders , 4 c ., &c . By G . Villiers , M . D ., foi uierly a surgeon in the army , and on fit-r Majesty ' s Hcdkal Staff at Herra Lcoue . A Physician of forty years ' pretties ! experience hi every department of the medical profsfesoc . The pamphlet wjUbfi forwardtd to any address , n receipt of one stamp . Dr . YUlitrs may be consulted by invalids or their medical advisers , in all ca ? es of medicinal surgery , cr mid-Trifrey , iicrsoaally , or by letter , from 11 to i , at 3 , Alfredplace . Bedford-square , London .
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YOURSELF ! WHAT YOU ARE ! AND WHAT FIT FOB ! 'To know thysdf is the most important of all knowledge !' Mektos . MISS EMILY DEAN continues , Avith immense success , to delineate the characters of individuals rora a grapmological examin ; i * ioa of their handwriting . All persons wishing to 'know themselves , ' or tlsrir frienCiSj by means of tills extnvirdinnry and inte-S * Siii >!; 6 i .- » eiicei must send a spsclmea of their wridagr , sta ting ses , age , or supposed age , of the writer , to > . ! iss Dean , 4 S , Liverpool-street , King ' s-cross , London ( enclosing ttirfpcnyostace stamps ) , and they will receive a written descri' , * ' - '" of their mental and moral qualities , \ irtues , and failuigs , 4 c ., and many other thincs UitUerto unsuspected , ctilcrdated to guide them through life . Hie raany thonsands who have thankfully acknowledged ths vaius of advice given , and the accuracy of Miss Dean ' s delineation of character , establish the truth and value oi the science bsvond a doubt .
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LUXCQIAST AXD DEAUTIPDL HUB , ^ VniSKEUS , ie . AF ail the Pr eparations introduced for tke V ^ ^ Prcdnption of the Humtn Hair , and the production Of -Mnstarhois , Whiskers , Eyebrows , - * t , 5 S » tew gained such a World-Wide celebrity andiunmense Sle « MteMAS'S CUIXILESE . Itfa * en&S ^ £ Ee 3 fl £ nounshiug , curhng . andbaautifyinsthehair ; and checking and preventing greyneK in all ite stages , strengtiS « akhur . prerentms ta falling off , ^ c ^ Tofa ! rtproducuonof hair in baldness , from whatever cause and at whatever a ^ e , it staads unrivaUed . One trial onlv is sol-. wted to prove tnefket . It is an elegantly-scented preparation , and sufficient for three months' use will be sent post-free on receipt of Twenty-four Postage stamp . fcyMiss Dean , 4 S , Lirerpool-street , King - s-cross , London ! lor chiidien it 15 indispensable , as forming the basis of fci-auriful head of hair .
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THE " RED REPUBLICAN . " „ _ , NOTICE TO THE TRADE . % ¦« £ -u ^ " 5 edE eP"Oli < Mn . " ( &r Saturday , July 2 itt ) , mllbereadyfordeUveryto the publishing trade al twelve o'clock on Monoay nest , July 22 nd . SuccesdingHumt > ergwill also be published on the Monday in each . week . . . , . .
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Now Publuhlng fop Saturday , July 20 th , 1850 , No . V . of THE RED REPUBLICAN , Edited by G . JULIAN HAttNEY . contents : 1 . The People of the Prescribed . By Joseph . Mazzini . -. Fine w » rd 8 , ( Household or otherwise ) , Butter no Pitanips . 3 . institutions and Laws of Republican America . —Con . Etitution of the State of Ohio ! 4 . Ernest Jones ! Sacred Hymns , No . 1 , written by Ernest Jones , inTrison . - 5 . Conspiracy against the Polish Refugees . «• Translation of Mazzini ' snew work , 'Republic and Royalty in Italy . '—Charles Albert , and the Lombard Insurrection . 7 . Review of LedruRollin ' s Decline of England 8 . Poetry : ' The People ' s Advent' ' 9 . Life in London , ic . ic , &c .
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. PRICE ONE PENKT . I « ndon : Published by S . Y . Collins , 113 , Fleet-street . To be bad on order of all Booksellers and News-•* Agents in Great Britain and Ireland .
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On Saturday , 3 rd August . .. . Will appear , the first number rf the Ue w Series of THE I B I S . H < M A N . The "Irishman" will be conducted on the same principles as before , and will continue to prore itself the fearless and uncompromising advocate of the ri ghts of the Irisb people . Subscriptions ( ia all cases payable in advance )—Yearly £ IIs 8 d ; Half-yearly , 10 s lOd ; Quarterly , 5 s 5 d ; Single Paper , 5 d . ¦ . Subscribers to the former Series will receive the Paper asusuaL - . AH communications-to be addressed to WiituH Ddkbab , at the office ot the "Irishman , " No . A , Angleseastreet , ( near Dame-street ) , Dublin . ^
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TOE CHEAPEST EDITION EY £ K rDBUIHB . Price Is . 64 , ; A new and elegant edition , ivith Steel Plate Of tbt ' Author , of PAIHE'S POLITICAL WORKS . Now Beady , a New Edition ef Mr . O'OOHBOR'S WORK OH SMALL FARMS Sold by J . Watson , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternoster row , London ; A . Hey wood , Oldhara-strcct , Manchester , snd Love and Co ., 5 , " Kelson-street , Glasgow . And ty all Booksellers in Town and Country .
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NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . OFFICES , 14 , SOUTHAMPTON STREET , STRAND , LONDON . The Executive Committee hereby announce the following meetings : On Tuesday evening , July 23 rd , a Puttie Meeting will be held at the Literary and Scientific Institution , Johnstreet , Htzroy-square . Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock . H . B . —On Sunday , July 21 st , the Fraternal Democrats will tats X Rural . Excursion by canal boat to Appletou , Bear Greenfora . green . Pare there and back , Ninepence . Cheques may be obtained ot Mr . D . W . Ruffv , 13 , Tottenham-court , New-road ; Mr . John Godwin , Queen-street , Ed ? eware . road ; Mr . Truelove , John-street , Fitzroy-square ; Mr . John Mime , Union-9 treet , Berkeley-square , and of John Arnott , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand . Signed on behalf of the Committee , John Absott , General Secretary .
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THE FRESCH RET 0 LUT 10 N OF 1790 . A L E O . T . U B E ¦ OL On the above subject will be delivered at i Kemp ' s Coffee-bouse , 94 , Usiox-sntEtT , Bobotch , On Sunday Eveninj next , July 21 st , to commence at sine o'clock . ADMISSION FREE .
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THE CHAKTEK AND SOMETHING MORE ! A PUBLIC MEETINCr OF THE il NATIONAL KEFORM LEAGUE wUl be held on Monday , Jutr 22 , at Eight o ' clock , p . m ., at the literaby iKsrmmoN , Jou-s-stseet , Fitzbov-squabe , to receive the Quarterly Report of the Council , and to discuss the principles and objects of ths League , especially in reference to a just and efficient Poor Law ; Self-sustaining Employment of the Poor ; Equitable Adjustment of Taxation Mitigation of the Evils of Partial Free Trade ; The Gradual Nationalisation of the Land and Public Works of . the Country ; the establishment of a system of Nation *! Credit , open to all deserving applicants requiring aid in the prosecution of Industrial Operations ; the abrogation of a Uatalic Standard Talue in the Currency ; and the establishment of Public Stores , for the equitable interchange of the Productionnf Industry . J . B . O'Bries , Pkhidest of the League , in the Chair and the meeting will be addressed by Several Popular Advocates of the Rights of the People . Admission Free .
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TO JOURNEYMEN SHOEMAKERS , CLICKERS , AND MALE ASSISTANTS IN THE SHOE TRADE . A PUBLIC MEETING will be held on -ii Tcesday Evesixg , Jclt 23 rd , at the Mechanics' In-Etitution , Chancery-lane , Hslboro , to consider the proprieiy of establishing . 1 Society for the Belief of aeed mid decayed Journeymen Shoemakers , Clickers , and Male Assistants in the Shoe trade , when the attendance of ill ! persons connected with the trade is earnestly requested . The Chak to be taken at Sis o'Clock . J . LucAK , Sec , pro . tern ,
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EMIGRATION TO NORTH AMERICA . WT APSCOTT AND CO ., SHIPPING and EmigratUm Agents , Liverpool , continue to despatch First Class Ships— . To SEW YORK—every Five Days . To NEW OELEANS-every Ten Days Te BOSTON and PHILADELPHIA—every Fifteen Days . And occaskually ta BALTIMORE , CHARLESTON , SAVANNAH , QUEBEC , ittdSt . JOHNS . Drafts for any amount , at sight , on New York , payable IB any part of the United States . Tapscott ' s "Emigrant ' s Guide" sent free , on receipt of Foar Postage Stamps . $ 5- About twenty-eight thousand persons sailed for the Kew World , in Tapseott ' suVof American Paekets , in 1849 .
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TO TAILORS . By approbation of JItr Majesty Quttn Victoria , and H . R . U . Prince Albert .
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Southampton . —At a very numerous meeting of the Tnwn Council , held on Monday , the will of tho late Henry Robinson Hartley , Esq ., was produced and read by the Town Clerk ! , whereby the testator has left the enormous sum of £ 80 , 000 , tho largest portion of which he gives to the mayor and corporation of that town , to apply the annual proceeds " in such a manner as may best promote the study and advancement of the sciences of natural history , astronomy , antiquities , classical and Oriental literature , in Southampton , by forming a public library , botanic gardens , observatory , or other such institution , in the parish of Holy llliood , " which is a very conspicuous situation , and an extensive area for all purposes , excepting that of a botanical garden , . which wUl no doubt he placed on some of the public lands . It is to be muoh regretted that , from the will being inaccurately prepared , a suit of chancery will be necessary to carry out the intentions < g the testaor .
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yi'Etosffioi ' M ^ ih ^ MtonB . ' - ; : ::: yfms : i ) AT ispti [ j ^ , ' :-Ub . IX . oy - " . THE NATIONAL ^ iHSTSUGTOB , " PRICE ONE ; PENNYV The object of the Proprietor , FeamusO'Conkob Is © .., M . P ., is to place within the reach of the poorest . classes that Political and ; Sooial Information of which they are . at present , deprived bv ths Government . " Taxes on Knowledge /? addition to
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Nottingham . —J . Sweet acknowledges the reneipt of the following suras ( sent ' herewith ) viz .: — Winding-up Fond . —T . Baylis , 31 ; T . Swinfield , 3 d ; ' II . Doar , 3 d ; E . Price , 3 d ; A . Burgin , 6 d ; S . Gregory , 3 d ; 3 . Palmer 6 d ; A . Burbage 6 d . , Polish Hefogee Fond The following sums linve been rereived by VVm . Davis , secretary ' . —S . M ., 8 s ; Tea Party at John-street ; £ 13 s 9 < 1 ; \ Vliutin ~ tonand Cat , 4 s ; Collected after a lecture at the King and Queen , by W . Davis , 4 s Id ; Crown and Anchor , 2 s 7 Jd ; AUam Shire and Holloner . per Smith Barber , Is 9 d ; W . S ., lied Republican , Is ; Little Dean-street , 6 s ; Mr . Raymond , Is ; Mr . Kcll , White Horse Hare-street , 2 s j Concert at Crown and Anchor , 7 s lOd ; Mr . Hindeb ' s Book , Is Sid ; Mr . Thompson , 6 d ; Mr . Moring , 3 d ; Mr . Greenslaile , 6 d ; J . Wood , per Mr . Harney , Is ; R . W ., Manchester ,
per ditto , Is ; A Proletarian , per ditto ; Is ; B . Hall , Darlington , Gd ; Thomas Castle , Esq ., per Mr . Jeffries , Greenwich , 5 s ; L . G . N ., 4 d ; C . Tallboy , to be continued while la employ , Is ; Paisley , per Mr . Gormby , printer , 9 s 6 d . Mr . 6 . Cbatdos , Halifax . — The notice ' sent would be charged as an advertisement . - Mb . H . 11 . Kay ,. Edinburgh . —Your resolution would be an advertisement . LicY Fond . —The following sums have been received by Mr . H . Willies - —West End Boot and Shoemakers ( Bann ' s meeting ) second subscription , 1 { 33 ; Ditto ( Rymer ' s meeting , ) 14 s ; Mr . Small , per Mr . Young , Is ; Mr Eyles ,
Gd ; a Red Republican , fid . We trust the friends to democracy will exert their utmost energies to support this truly deserving and necessary fund . Seventy pounds are requered to send Mrs . Lacy to her exiled partner . Metthxh Tidvil . —We have received a letter , signed by a Lover of Fair Play , condemnatory of the manner in which the miners , in the employ of—Crawshay , Esqi ; were inveighed to sign a petition against the miners ' petition for the health and preservation of miners in general . We wish to hear from Mr , Williams , whether there is any truth in the statement . i $ 3 F The space occupied by public meetings , compels the postponement of several communications .
The Horthsrb Star Saturday, July 30, 1850.
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A . GE AND POVERTY PUNISHABLE BY TRANSPORTATION . " Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride " —— ; wo need . not finish the old proverb . A couple of illustrations of its truth , which have occurred this vreek , deserve to be noted When plain John Campbell commenced life as a reporter , the probability is , that he never contemplated the possibility of his being a peer and a Lord Chief Justice , or , if such a brilliant destiny did come within the range of
his vision , it must have appeared of the most remote and doubtful character . B y steady plodding—by unscrupulous partisanshi p—by sticking -with the most limpet-like tenacity to the skirts of the Whigs—and b y never losing an opportunity of pushing his insatiable demands for the good things at the disposal of those ia power , he has managed to climb to the height we have mentioned , and secured a snug income of £ 10 , 000 a year , to which , as to many other of his lucky wind-falls , attaches the savour of the huge job . '
But " plain John , " though thus sprung from the people , has no sympathy with them . Indeed , it would appear that the true characteristic of the parvenu class to which he belongs , is their endeavour to dissociate themselves , as far as possible , with the classes to which they originally belonged . They are always more aristocratic than the aristocracy ; wanting in real dignity , they make up for it by an affectation of extreme hauteur . Among other things which " plain John " has . done in the course of his long career , and , we must add , done very well , is " the Lives of the Lord Chancellors of England " Among these worthies fi gures that infamous scoundrel and bloodthirst y monster Judge JEWBIES . Lora Campbew has drawn a
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graphic picture of the unjustifiable Seventies and the unprincipled , conduct of that pre-eniinently bad toan . ; ' : fiut ' ii ; must be reinejnih bered , that grossnes ^ , andnbt a fe ^ ' bf his nicies , were in keeping , with the coarse , licentious , heartless , and cruel age in which he , lived . He was , an embodiment in a , somewhat exaggerated form of the predominant influences of : the time .
Even bis bloody campaign—rather than assiize —in the . "Western Counties , after the unsuc cessful rebellion of Monmouthwas to . some extent—not palliated—but accounted for by the circumstances which preceded h is judicial slaughters , and were not altogether out ^ of unison with characteristics ^ of an ' age which had scarcely recovered from the demoralising and brutaliaing influence ' s of a long and better civil war . .: ' .
Since then , a vast change has passed over English society ; the laws _ are usually administered in a ; gentler spirit—the ^ laws themselves have . been gradually ameliorated , and made responsive to the . humaner public opinion which now prevails . Severe sentences , disproportionate to the offence , and accompanied ' with language unnecessarily harsh andinsultingto a prisoner , aretherefore far less excusable at the present time than they were in the days of Judge Jeffries . ' How will the present Chief ¦ Justice bear the test if thus applied ? Let one case at the Oxford summer assizes answer . : i
An old man , aged sixty years , was charged with having Btolen from Henley Union Workhouse , a snipclcfr ^ a pair of trousers , a waistcoat , and other things , ' on the 10 th of May . The prisoner said he had been fourteen winters in the workhouse , and having in the . spring applied for admission , he was taken in and treated for the itcji , the surgeon . at the Barae time putting him upon low diet for a fortnight . -The doctor was mistaken in Baying he had the itch , ' and at the end of thefortnight he was worse than when he went in . In reply to his application for more
nourishing diet , an improvement was made in his allowance , but it was still too scanty ; and determined not to be slowly starved to death if he could avoid . it , the old man left , we presume , in the hope of picking up . a living in some . way . or other outside . He failed in this , and having . no other way of obtaining a subsistence , he resolved . that if he was to be imprisoned at all , 'it would be preferable to be so in a real prison , where there
was " far better treatment" than in the pauper prison , or whoso tender mercies he had so much experience . He therefore took the articles mentioned to make an appearance of committing a burglary , in order to be sent to the only comfortable house which in England was open to an old man , destitute . of friends , and of the strength to earn a living for himself . "He merely , " says the report , with forcible conciseness , wanted to get into gaol !"
What a terrible commentary upon our boasted civilization lies in that short sentence ! " He merely wanted to get into gaol ! " We have turned society topsy-turvy . Involuntary pororty is treated with indignity , and all but starved in pauper Bastiles . For the convicted criminal we provide comfortable lodgings , and nourishing and plentiful diet . We hold out a premium for infractions of the law , ' and then we grow virtuously indignant , that famishing , uutaught , destitute , helpless wretches , yield to the temptations we have placed in their way , and punish them severely for our own errors . .
Surely , the simple facts we . have narrated warranted some kindly and merciful consideration at the hands of the presiding judge . The spectacle of an aged mau , driven to the desperate resource of committing what was , after all , merely a colourable and nominal offence , that he might obtain , even for a short time , shelter and food in a gaol , might so have tempered judgment with mercy . Not so
thoughtLord Campbell . Heburstintoapassion at the idea of a pauper having the assurance to dream of even gaol comforts in his old days . He abused the -prisoner as " an idle dissolute character , who wished to be pampered in idleness , at the expense of the community ; " and who * had ' committed this offence iu order to be fed in idleness , where the fare was more to his taste than that in the workhouse . But the
virtuous Chief Justice was determined the old man should be disappointed , and , instead of a short imprisonment , in Oxford gaol , sentenced him to be imprisoned for seven yeaes ! "We did not doubt an informant when he told us that the pcoplo of Oxford wore horrified and disgusted at the severity of Lord Campbell ' s sentences .- What with Judge Talpourd ' s leniency , and " plain John ' s " uureasonble and disproportioned severity , the erminecl'bench ; hitherto looked up to with such confidence and respect , is in some danger of declining in public estimation . The " common people" especially , may see by this sentence how much sympathy the quondam , reporter lias with their not unnatural desire to
obtain the means of barely prolonging existence . Now for the other side of the picture , illustrated by Lord Brougham , "whose contempt for the people is only equalled by his obsequi . ous toadyism to the class to which he has been raised . ¦ On Tuesday he suddenly jumped up , and on the pretence of putting a , question to Lord Lansdowne , delivered himself of a speech so outrageous that it completely out-Broughamed Brougham . It is rumoured that the Select Committee on the Estimates of last
year have put their fingers on our diplomatic establishments abroad , as nosts of corruption and financial extravagance , which , in these days of heavy taxation , must be dealt with ; and it has become a prevalent belief that , at iio distant period ,- a sweeping reduction will be made in these establishments . Ambas 3 adoors , with £ 10 , 000 a year , , and a staff of attaches , will be cut down to Ministers at half
the pay ; and , with more moderate appointments , a Minister' will be converted into a ¦ Charge d'Affares ; at a still smaller cost in other case s . Consuls will be found sufficient for all our / wants' in most instances , and in many others separate establishments may be rolled into one , without detriment to the interests of the country , and .. with considerable saving to the national Treasury . ¦ . . : .
These were the fearful prospects which opened : the mouth of Lord Brougham , formerly known as Henry Brougham , the Man of tho People . He protested against , " the foreign phantasy , that the time has come for lowering the English aristocracy , " and he threatened , if the scheme of placing these diplomatic Binecures on a just footing was persisted in , that he would propose they shall begin at the top , and cut down the civil list ef the Queen herself ; notwithstanding he was aware that that was definitely settled at the commencement of each reign , and that a
bargain is a bargain . Now what does Lord Brougham mean by " lowering the aristocracy ? ' If we can form any idea at all , it is that they should give any return for the money they receive . ; He says : — " The English aristocracy will be lowered , if such things are allowed to pass as I know are now passing , namely , that a lad y of the highest rank—a lady connected with families of dukes and marquises by the nearest ties—ia reduced to the humiliating necessity of advertising for
necessary employment . "' Shocking , isn't it , to think of a "lady , connected witlvdukes and marquises / ' exerting herself to * earn an honest livelihood ? What will the world come to ? We are well aware that we hold heretical—if not horrible—views on this subject : but at the risk of drawing down upon ourselves an explosion of Broughamic abuse , we must say that the humiliation and lowering of the aristocracy ^ consists in their taking money without rendering any service as an equivalent for it-not m trying to live by their own industry . Itisthat which Qoustitutes themteulypaupers ,
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who' wish / as Lord Campbell expresses it / "to be pampered " in idleness , at ,: the ezp ^^ e ofljthe ' f-rest ; of 4 the community . ! ' ; . Will ' plain John ' . ' carry out his principle rigidly and inflexibly 1 Oh ! for a Rhadamanthus , who w'oiild sentence to transportation for seven years , all who " are pampered in idleness at the expense of the community ! " . :
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LEGISLATIVE BREACH OP FAITH WITH THE WORKINGS CLASSES . ... .
The hope we entertained that the House of Lords would do that justice to the factory operatives which the dominant rnillocracy in the Commons refused , has been disappointed . Lord Harrowby moved the inclusion o . f children in the clause which requires the labour of " females and young persons" to be performed between six in the morning and six in the evening . As that proposition was only lost in the Commons by one , it might have been fairly expected that it would have been adopted by the Lords ; The Tory leader ,
however , spoke and voted , against it , and the consequence was , its rejection by the large major rity of thirty-three . The other amendment , which went to make the law what the Legislature intended it should be in 1847—namely , abonafide Ten Hours Act , was also negatived but by the smaller majority of thirteen , Lord Stanley having upon , that point joined the friends of the factory operatives . It is intended , we believe , to move this , amendment again on the bringing up of the report , or upon the third reading , ' when as proxies may be used , which they cannot be . in Committee ;
the result may yet be a decision in favour , of the Legislature keeping faith with the mill hands . We confess we are by no means sanguine that this will be the case . The conduct , both of the Government and of the Legislature throughout this affair , has been most' discreditable , and even , taking a selfish view of the matter for their own sakes , most dangerous in its character and probable results . In spite of numerous proofs to the contrary , there exists , or has existed , a latent disposition to trust in the John Bull spirit of our public men , and to
believe that they would not knowingly and openly be guilty of a breach of faith , or sanction unfair play . Wherever these illusions may have lingered they must now be utterly dispelled . The proverbial manliness and honesty of which we so proudly boast as a feature in the national character , has no exis « tence when the game of party requires the sacrifice of a weak to a powerful interest . The appeal of the producing classes to the honour of the British Parliament , has proved as unavailing as their petitions for justice , when these petitions have involved " the selfish interests of privileged classes . Until industry is
directl y represented , and its rights boldl y sustained in the Senate , the labourer will be the step-child of the state . Political must precede Social emancipation ; that is the great deduction from the struggle in which the factory operatives , with justice , right , humanity , and experience on their side , have been worsted . If after this'decision the working classes place the slightest reliance either in the honesty , or fairplayof the Legislature , when their interests are concerned ,: we can only'Say that they will be the most gullible and credulous simpletons over whom an Oligarchy ever exercised tyranny under the forms of a sham representative system .. ¦> : .
Even the Times—the great advocate of this so-called compromise —in its earnest and timely appeal to the Peers , on the morning previous to the discussion , to support Ministers , was obliged to admit the immense benefits that have resulted from the practical adoption often hours , by the majority of millowners . Referring to the Reports of the Inspectors for the half-year just ended , it adduced triumphant and unanswerable evidence of the soundness of the political philosophy embodied in the act of 1847 . Instead of extracting Mr . Horner ' sown statements on the subject , let us give them as condemned by the Times . — . - . ' ¦ ¦
The report before us cannot fail to remove anv misgivings that may be felt as to the sound sense and genuine humanity of our Legislature up to this point . Mr . Hornercontiuues to receive favourable accounts of the working of the Ten flours Act . That gro . it experiment , dangerous aa it appeared to many , and , as he confesses , to himself amon <» others , on account of ttio suddenness of the tran sition from twelve hours to ten , has succeeded , so far as it . has had a fair trial , better than the most sangumo of its promoters ventured to anticipate The workpeople appreciate more and moro the hours they have gained , and tho masters are daily uecier
reconcuea to tne cnangc ; The workpeople being more vigorous , and the machinery somewhat more speedy , the produce of ten hours is found muoh nearer that of twelvo hours thau could possibly hare been , imagined , and there is a marked improvement in the health , appearance , and contentment of the . people . On the other hand the Ten Hours Act has not produced any of those ruinous consequences which were freely and confidents predicted . It has not driven away capital from manufacture . On tho contrary , it appears from particular inquiries ,-made by Mr . Horner and his sub-inspectors , ' that since the passing ol that act the inv
estment of capital , in the erection of new mills the extension of old mills , and the fitting up of old DUlldmgS for the purposo , has been beyond all decedent During the last two years alone sixty-one new cotton mills have commenced workinu in Mr ' Homer ' s district ; six of them being small GuUdines " which have been converted into cotton mills These sixty-one mills have , together , a power of steam and water of about 1 , 330 horses . Besides the " there are . twenty . one now in tho course of being greeted , some of them very laree , which , according to tho best information that 1 , 285 horses . At the estimate of fivo persons to every torso power these new millswith 2 C 15
, , . horses power , will give employment to about W . OOO people . In the same period there have been 15 ( 5 instances of tenants taking possession of mills and parts of mills that had from various causes becomo vacant , which together have now a power at work of . about 2 , 733 horses . Thero have also been many instances of additional machinery whore there was previously unemployed power . Thus , in spite of ¦ peculiar difficulties and discouragements arising from other quarters than the Ten Hours Act , It appears that capitalists both great and small have passed into the trade or extended their ope&tions in it , more thau ever since tho passing of that act . °
Tho direct and inevitable conclusion to be deduced from all these facts is , that tho law which has produced such results Bhould be upheld in all its integrity . Instead of weakening its provisions , or relaxing its stringency , they ought , if possible , to have been more rigorously enforced : Whatever laches might have been discovered in the wording of the act ought to have been carefull y supplied and a . measure , which had so fully realised the anticipations-of . its promoters , ought to have been made as perfect as possible in all its details .
. But in the face of the facts , the Times and the Government , of which it is the mouthpiece , counsel concession and compromise with the opponents of this measure . Every one of those facts is an unanswerable refutation of the predictions of the millocrats when the measure was passing through Parliament . ¦ Uunng the discussions on tho measure now under consideration , Mr . Bright , and tho Political Economists , have indulged in similar predictions ; perhaps , we should say in the case of the member for Manchester ^ direct falsehoods . We heard him declare in th House of Commons , with that effrontery which distinguishes . hinvupon such occasions that when the labour of children was first hunted to sir and a half hours , manv tho , aands of children Were discharged Bat
EH ' \ T ^ edictea ' tLat the ^ motion to . include children with females and young persons under eighteen years of age wa 8 camed-the practical effect of whEh ^ KS £ n ken t 0 , lirait the labow > of « in to five hours and a quarter-that they " woK I discharged wholesale . The onlrSS we can test the truth of that prefion ft coding the facts mtMWcofit «
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tions of Bally Bright r If the limitation to six and a half hours , and half had the effect of causing'the discharge of thousands of children , when the bill passed in 1844 , how is it tt&t since that time there has been so great an increase in the number of children employed ? Before the Act of 1844 there were employed , in Mr . Hobneb ' s 'district , alone / 8153 children . ; there are -now employed 13 , 461 , or an increase of 65 per cent . ! After such a specimen of the truthful statements of the unscrupulous and selfish opponents of the Factory Act , we may be fairly excused from condescending to notice anything that may ia
future eminate from a party whose object is pelf , and whose appropriate means for obtaining it is mendacity . . The Duily News—the organ of millocracy and selfishness under the high sounding title of political economy—congratulates its readers on the fact that the Factory Bill , and the agitation raised by it , have been set at rest , at least for sometime ; and it stigmatises that agitation as one " which , though patronised by the upper class and the , Tory party , led more directly to some worst theories of Social ism than any doctrines preached in the penny publications of the day . "
This is the old-fashioned system of giving a dog a bad name ; but the dodge is too transparent , and too easily seen through to be successful . The Daily News and its masters may depend upon it that the Factory agitation is not set at rest because justice has not been done—because the Legislature have broken faith with the operatives , ' and because the system of working mills , fifteen . hours a day , by
means of relays of young children , will lead to such inconveniences , hardships , cruelties , and iti many cases death , that the country will rise up against it from one end to the other . What the " worse theories of Socialism" maybe , to which the Ten Hours Act may directly lead , we cannot imagine . One thing is quite certain , that if we may judge from past experience of the effect a further extension of the same
principle , and the regulation of all labour , so as to proportion supply and demand , that experience would lead to the conclusion that ) though the millocrats might not be able to acquire colossal'fortunes in the course of a few years , the industrious classes would be vastly benefited , physically , intellectually , and morally . The Reports of tho Factory Inspectors place beyond doubt the . immense , substantial , and truly valuable benefits derived from the partial application of this great principle of
regulation and proportion , They completely falsify all the prophecies of the " Manchester School ; ' ! atid it is to be hoped that , guided by the experience thus acquired , public opinion will , in due time , operate so powerfully on the Legislature as to impel further efforts in the same direction . The health , comfort , and moral elevation of the people at large , are of incalculable greater importance than the creation and preservation of a cottonocracy , or of any other class of wealth monopolisers .
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TO THE AGENTS OF THE " NORTHERN STAR . " Now I tell the agents of the Northern Star that I am not longer going to be fleeced by them . They owe me now nearly two thousand pounds of arrears , and if they are not paid within the next week , I will hand © very one over to Mr . Robeiits , to be dealt with according to law , as I caunot pay for stamps and paper , and pay my workmen . every Saturday night—which I have never onco failed to do—unless I am' paid ; and porhaps the Northern Star is the only paper that never was mortgaged for a fraction , and the proprietor 1 b the only one who has never failed to pay punctually for paper , stamps , ar id labour . Now I give this as the last notice , as I have determined to adhere strictly to the announcement . Feaegus O'Connor .
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . Tho most noticeable event in the Legislative proceedings of the week has been the attempts of the Irish Landlords to force through Parliament , at this late period of the Session , a measure giving them power over their tenants and over their crops , which seem more calculated for the meridian of remote Persian and Turkish provinces , than the temperate climates in which Constitutional Governments have been established . Lord Westmeath and Lucan , two of the most ferocious and bigotted supporters of landlord despotism , introduced
into the Lords a Bill , giving the landowners more summary powers of evicting their tenants than they at present possess , and , at the same time restraining them from cutting their standing crops , save at such times as might suit the landlord ' s interest and convenience . Such extravagantly absurd propositions of course received no obstruction in the House of Landlords . In that House all the members look at such questions through the same spectacles . They " stand by their order , " and as tho whole border" stands upon Rent , they naturall y have a strong pre-possession in favour Of anything that makes rent certain .
But the rapacious short-si ghted and suicidal policy pursued by the Irish proprietors , the misery it lias entailed upon their own country , and ths heavy burdens it has laid upon the United Kingdom , ought to have been a sufficient yarning against allowing them to intertere with such amatter again . We cannot afford a famine and a present of £ 10 , 000 , 000 every two or three years . Precious though the Irish landocracy may be in their own estimati
on , that is far too high a price to pay for the preservation of the breed . For their own sakes , as well as ours , we must in fuure prevent them from cutting up the geese that lay them golden eggs , and protect the geese against their murderous onslaughts . One would have thought that the Governr aent which had to borrow the last large Irish loan would at least have had the wisdom ascribed to children who hare once been burnt , and said decidedly naT to ™
monstrous a measure as that we have desenbed . Not so ; Sir W . Someryille , while admitting its objectionable character , coolly asked the House of Commons on Wednesday to affirm its principle b y agreeing to the second reading . If it had not been for Mr Roche manfully speaking against time until with hx o clock came the adjournment of the House pertpree , there is every probability thnt
tins miquitous bill would have passed that stage with the sanction of the popular branch of the Legislature . As it is , the Irish memhers must watch it waril y for the rem aSr of the Session , or a march will be stolen upon ho people of that country , and theyWnfbe handed over to the tender mercies of my W Wesxmkaxh , Who look s upoii £ 8 , £ & Zt £ 15 , as mere paupers , beneath the contempt of such grandees as himself , and only useful in as far „ they can be squee . eS Kent The Government have suffered another defeat on the Attorney ' s Certificate Duty Bill bir Charles Wood tried to reverse the vote
against him on that point , but failed : and we presume will have to yield ; though we think with him that , as the repeal of the tax will reduce the income by £ 100 , 000 , there are other taxes to that amount which have a nr * fevable claim to be removed . But the wholo ofourfinanoiul system requires revision and re-adjustment , and Sir cVkles i not S man to effect either . We must wait im ? L « tho advent- of a Minister oSf * capacity and courage to erarmln , « uV T task . In tho meaStim , the &" ? ^
. MHwua noift , Huuing with the invol- ,, ••""" " ¦ cession of the money demanLT llaWe coument OneofthelS d ^' the G n . arose out of Sir jS Th , S 6 " talka " among the alleged Ses ? n °°£ S ^ loits Archipelago , thloon senuZ h the Eaatern = fe 5 F ^ -s sas ^ T eS 8 *?* John Bull is pa £ tnTR L . ° besides « duloua in buc ^ Z 2 til " SttffemS » * nd ere * patd \ Tc ? ' ^^^ iected bv thft t T ' most likoJ y t 0 ^ re . termentsBTin L ° rdSl ? he M < Wolitan Inwm enis Bin has Dassed into a W >«;„„ * v-
mZS ?*«**"> ** I * »* aMhis mo . Cd Si -, i eC 01 - ° ; Both Houscs ™* W l , Ucontmi V d 0 80 ** two or thiee weeks longer , when thecurtain will drop for the Session and we ahall then have time to reckon up the result of six moatha' X gulative wdastry , ""
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 20, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1583/page/4/
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