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BO YOtJ WAXT BEAUTIFUL &SD I LUXURIANT HAIR, WHISKERS, &c ?
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THE SOUTHERN STAR.. SATURDAY, MAY J 7,1851,
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TIT ANY preparations for the Hair have been jLYX introduced to the public , tratnonehave gained such ' . ¦* . world-wide cetefevitv and immense sale as Miss BE . KN ' s CRIMLEXE . It is " guaranteed to produce whiskers , anoustachios , eye-toiws 4 c ., in threee orlosrxreelts , with the utmost certainty ; andtriU be found etmnenuj successful in nourishing , curling , and betttifjing the hair , ond checking greyntes in all its stages , strengthening weak fcair , preventing its falling off , < fcc , < &c . For the reproduction rf hair in baldness , from whaterer cause and at Khatever age , it stands unrivalled , never having failed . One trial onlv'is solicited to prove the fact . It is an eleganilytcented preparation , end sufficient for three months' use wiU he sent ( post-free ) on receipt of twentribur postage-stamps ,-by Miss DEAX , 18 , Liverpool-street , Sing ' s cross , London . For children it is indispensable , as forming the basis of ateaatifulheaa of hair . ACTHESnc ' S'EETtHQSULB . I constandy use your Crinilene fur my children . It re Stored my hair perfectly . '—Mrs . Long . Hitchin , Herts . ' 1 bave aow to complain of the ttouble of shaving ; thanks to your Crinilene . '—Mr . Grey , Eaton-square , Chelsea . Professor Tire , on analysing the Crinaene says — « It is perfectly free from anr injurious colouring or other matter , and the best stimulant for the hair I havemetwith . The scent is delicate and very pewistent . * CURE Y O U R CO R SS AND BUSI O XS . Those who w < "rfi to walk with perfect ease , will find Miss DEAVS ABSORBENT the only radical cure for corns and bunions . It is- ^ o irantee d -ocure them in thre e days , vrithont cutting or pain . One trial is . earnestly solicited by all suffering from such tormentors . Sent post-free , © a receipt of fourteen postage-stamps , by Hiss DEAX , 4 S , Liverpool-street , King's-cross , London .
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TOURSELF ! TffHAT YOU ARE ! ASD WBAT FIT FOR ! Yoar Writing a test of Character . THE Secret Art of discovering the true cnaracterof Individuals from the peculiarities of their Sandwriting has long been practised b y Miss EMILY DE AS with astonishing success . " Her startling delineations of character are . both full and detailed , occupying the four pages of a sheet of letter paper , the style of description differing frora anything yet attempted . All persons wishing to'know themselves , ' or their friends , bj means of this extraordinary and interesting science , mutt send a Specimen nf their writins . staUnR sex and age , or supposed age , of Uie writer , to Miss EMILY . DEAS . Graphiologist , 48 , Liverpool street , Aroyle-square , London , ( enclosing fifteen uncut postage stamps ) , and they "vrittvtceweiaa few days a written dercript-on of the mental and serai qualities , tallents , tastes , affections , virtues , failings , it , of the writer , with many other things hitherto unsuspected .
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RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY AND ¦ no ^ S ^ UKESTLY WHBD WITHOUT A TRDSS ! JJK . G 0 TH . HEY stitt continues to supply the afflicted with his cel > brated Remedy for this alarming complaint , which ias never faitedjn effecting aperfect cure . It is applicable to every variety of S ' mgle and Double Rupture , in male or female of any age , however bad or long standing ; is easy anapa-niessin application , causing no inconvenience or confinement etc ., and will be sent free by post to any . part of the Kingdom ,- with full instructions , rendering failure impossible , on receipt of seven shillings in postage stamps , or by post-office order , payable at the Gray's-inn-road Office . Address , Henry Guthrey , M . D ., G , Ampton-street , Gray ' s-inn-Toad ' , London . At home for consultation daily , from 11 to 1 mornings , and 5 to 7 evenings ; Sundays excepted . A great number of old Trasses and Testimonials have teen left behind by persons cured , as trophies of the success of his remedy , which may be seen by any sufferer .
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MATKS . 1 SONY MADE EASY ; OK 11 OW TO UI . V A IiOVEK . MAD AME MAXWELL , 33 , Great Percy Street , Pentonville , London , continues to send free on receipt of thirteen uncut postage stamps , plain directions to enable Ladies or Gentlemen to win the devoted affections ef as many of the opiKKite Bex as their hearts may require . The process is simple , but so captivating and enthralling that all may be married irrespective of age , appearance , or position ; while the most fickle or coldhearted will readily bow to its attraction . Young and old , peer and peeress , a * well as the peasant , are alike subject to its influence ' ; and last , though not least , it can be arranged wuh such ease and delicacy that detection is impossible . X . B . —Beware of nameroas ignorant pretenders .
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' . PDULWniNSJ EVERY SATURDAY , K ^ OTES TO THE PEOPLE . *¦ " A new Periodical , to reflect the advanced mind of the age , and prepare the people for the advent of popular power , by
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Just Published , IN NOS . AT ONE PENNY EACH , THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO THE GOLDEN LAND f | A L I F 0 R N I a ! yj ITS PAST HISTOIIY ; ITS PRESENT POSITION ; ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS : VfTTa A HIN 0 TE ASD ACTHESTIC ACCOM ! OF THE DISCOVERY OF TUB GOLD REGIOK AND : THE SUBSEQUENT IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS . In the course of the work willbegiTen PLMS DIRECTIONS TO EMIGRANTS
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Shortly KiU be Published in Nos . at Oae Penny each , Splendidly Illustrated , A HISTORY OF THE D 1 FFEREST EXPEDITIONS ENGAGED XX THE SEARCH FOR SIB J . FSANKLBJ CONTAINING AW TOS REGENT VOYAGES TO JHE POLAR REGIONS , Including in particular the Expedition sent out under the command OF SIR JAMES ROSS TO DAVIS STRAITS ' AND Of Commander Moore and Captain Kellott . tO Behring ' 8 Straits . With an authentic copy of the dispatches received from SIR GEORGE 8 MH 50 H , OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY With other important and highly interesting information relative to the Expedition under SIR JOHN FEANKLIN .
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TO TAlLOllS AND OTHERS . EXttlBmOX . 1851 . By Approbation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria , and 1 I . R . 1 I . PrinceAlbert . THE LONDON and PARIS SPRING and SUMMER FASHIONS for 1851 bv Mes'M BENJAMIN READ & Co ., 12 , aXtrSt iffioiSKsqnave , London ; and sold bi G . BERGEft , HoljweUstreet , Strand , will be ready early in ilarch . The View of the Grand Building in Hjdepark fortheensuin ;' Exhibition , is executed with extraordinary skill , aud will be superior to anything of the kind ever published , producinc an excellent and beautifully coloured PKINT , represent ins various Costumes of diff .-rcnt nations . witUuut am additional charge . This splendid PRINT will be accompanied with the usual number of full-sized Patterns 'Dress Riding and Frock Coats ; Youth ' s new Fashionable Polka oacttet Also , the Novel and Fashionable Registered ExhibiUou Riding Cuat , with illustrations of all particulars , and every information forCutdnR and Making-up the whole . The
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NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Office , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand , IP HE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE L hereby announce the following meetings : — On Sunaaj next , at three o ' clock in the afternoon , the Lambeth locality iriU meet at the South London Hall , and Mr . Pattinson , thesub-secretarj , will be in attendance to enrol members . On Sunday evening next at the Princess Royal , Circus , street , Marylebone—Crown and Anchor , Cheshire-street . Waterloo Town . ' On the same evening , at the Bricklayers' Arms , Tonbridge-street , New-road , Mr . A . IlunnibaU will lecture . On the same evening at the AVoodman Tavern , White , street , Waterloo To » vn ; at six o ' clock the members of the locality will meet ; and at eight o ' clock James Finlen will lecture . On the same evening , at five o ' clock , the United Councils of the Tower Hamlets will meet at the Crown and Anchor On the same evening , at the Assembly Rooms . 99 . Yorkstreet , Broadway , Westminster , Mr . J . B . O'Brien will lecture .
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A MEETING of the DEPOSITORS of the LOSDON CO-OPERATIVE STORE will be held in the Board Room of the Establishment ^ , Charlotte-street , Fitzroy-square , on Friday , the 30 th iust , at eight o'clock p . vti ., to hear the second quarter ' s report and the . statements relating to the embodim . nt of the LONDON CO OPERATIVE STORE in a new institution , to be called the CENTRAL CO-OPERATIVE AGESCY , CONSISTING of a Commtrdellirm unier iraitetilip . Commercial Firm—Lechevalieb , Woodw , Jones , and Co . Trustees—E , YmrmKr SJeiie , Es * ., T . Htcseb , Esq . For the Council , A . L . J . Lechevaueb , Chairman . 76 , Charlotte-street , Fitzroy square , May 15 th . 1850 . K . B . —In order to make the division of profits for ihe quarter ending March 21 th , thepur Chase books ef the subscribers and associates are required , and all books . not given ia by the 21 & inst . the bonus trill be considered void .
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Novel PBDBSiRUifFBAT . —Oa Saturday morning last Mr . George Ledstone , better known amongst the fancy by the cognomen of " Galiah Goodbody , " landlord or tha Roper ' s Arms Ian , Koottingley Bear Ferrybridge , Yorkshire , started from his inn door , in Knottingley , between gix and seven o ' clock a . m ., uoder heavy bete , to trundle a -wheelbarrow in nine days to the Bed Lion Icd , Horsleydown , being & distance of near 185 miles . Ledstone anticipates completing his task on Saturday or Sunday next , the 17 th or 18 th iustaRt , but intends , at all events , being in time to deposit his wheelbarrow in the Crystal Palace on the morning of Monday , tho 19 th instant . A guard was dispatched along with him on Saturday , to see that he faithfully executes the conditions on which the bets were laid . i ^ dswa fr iends express themselvea confidently as to his snecess .
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SriS ^^ I have a great number of letters before me from subscribers , &c ., expressive of their willingness to pay the postage of the plate of the Iuterior of the Exhibition , as it was announced to be given . I beg to say , That the plate is not to be supplied qratis ; the charge is , plain , sixpence ; and coloured ' , one shilling each . Wm . Rider .
Bo Yotj Waxt Beautiful &Sd I Luxuriant Hair, Whiskers, &C ?
BO YOtJ WAXT BEAUTIFUL &SD I LUXURIANT HAIR , WHISKERS , &c ?
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HONESTI FlJHD IS THE PoTTBBIES . —It 18 tlSelegJ to OOCUPV the' Sta » ' with any more appeals to ihe Democrats of England on behalf of our esteemed , but much injured friend , Mr . O'Connor . Owing to expenses , there U jet from three to four pounds required , but I have confidence in the Pottery men , that the entire sum wi ! l be raised . On behalf of the committee , I beg to tender their grateful thanks to the good and faithful Demo crats m each district ; trusting that the same fraternal feeling and brotherly kindness will ever be displayed towards . each other under all difficulties , oppression and persecution . Should no more money be received , from the out districts I will announce in the ' Star when the disposal of the china will take place . Fratei - nally yours , Robert Hopiinsoh , Old Hall Torrace Hanley . —The following sums have been received since my last communication : —James Hollas , Wm . Rilev
Alien SutcliHe , John Widhup , Abraham Dearden J Whiteley , George Leaver , and John Stephtmson , Rinnon . den , Yorkshire , Gd . each ; M . II ., C . H ., J . II ., V&Vw . - field , Gd . each ; Mr . Simcock and Sons , Brighton , Is . 6 d . ¦ James Taylor : ' Win and nought else , ' John Dawaon , Ralph Woifenden , John Lees , Ann Lees , Benjamin lees ' Henry Milhench , 6 d . each ; from James Taylor and friends , Ashtonuuder-Lyne , 9 s . —R . H . Mr . Alcock , Manchester , must send 3 s . more . The charge is 4 s . fid . for an advertisement . Mb . P . Johkbon , Holiday ' s Coffee House , Hatton Garden—Your communication is an advertisement , audmustbe paid for as such . —W . Rideb . T . Brown ' s List . —Messrs . Wilson's Tinmen , Wardour street , Soho 5 s Id—King , per Sherwood ' s , Typefounders 5 s -Welchman Cd-Smith ' s Gas Meter Makers 3 s
IdCrockett 3 d—Citj Boot Makers 4 s 7 d—T . Bland lsGd—Mr . Sturgeon Is Gd—Perkin ' s and Sharp's Tinmen 4 s 3 d —Few Frierds , J . Collins 3 s 9 d—A . Jones , Islington 4 s-Wilson ' s Tinmen , Wardour-street 2 s 7 d-Friends , Col . lectcd at Victoria Park 2 s id-Smith ' s Workmen 3 s 3 d-Mr . Arnett , per subscriptions 18 s 9 d—Mr . Greig ' s men , ' Pimlico , per Tanner and Wright lOg 8 d _ MivYoung Cd Welchman Cd—City Boot Makers 3 s Id—Kendrick 6 i ^ aLorerofTruth , a Friend 3 a Gd The money from the brmhmakera , next week . —97 , TurnmiU-street . Ww . Ucnn , Netherton We cannot answer your question . Thomas Hull , Rochdale . —Your communication is an advertisement , and should have been paid fur . Jobn Tatlob , of Ashton-under-Lyne , will oblige by send , ing his address to John Arnott , 11 , Southampton-street Strand : ¦
The Refooees , 41 , Turnmill-street . —T . Brown , in reply to the Chartists of Nottingham , cannot answer their hubs . tron , but thinks that the delegates ought to have considered at tUefc duty to have raited the Fraternal Home , independent of what any person might say to the contrary . All persons are invited to visit this Institution and judge for themselves . No polical meetings can he held at Turnmill street at present . In answer to a friend from Sheffield , T . B . fearlessly asserts that Mr . O'Connor has been one of the best friends the Refuges have erer had , and that the best of feeling exists towards him , with at least two hundred of them , possibly more . In answer to a friend at Newcaa . tie , the Democratic leaders who have been to
Turnmillstreet are Mr . O'Connor , Mr . G . Vf . M . Reynolds , and Samuel Kydd . He is not aware of any others . In answer to a friend at Brackley , as to who is best known among the English Democratic party on the Continent , from what he has learned it is Mr . O'Connor and G . W . . Reynolds . T . Brown , ha * given the letter from Sotting , ham to the Refugees , and hopes no more letters will ba ¦ sent to him . The excurMon to Alperton will take place on Whit Sunday . The TurnmiU-street party—number ninety-seven—sixty . five receive pay , and others have been working for Cd . per day since February . Mb . W . Tcckbb , Torq ay . —Received . Me . Wiwuard , Duisley . —The quarter terminated on the 3 rd inst .
The Southern Star.. Saturday, May J 7,1851,
THE SOUTHERN STAR . . SATURDAY , MAY J 7 , 1851 ,
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"NO HOUSE . " Last year , the House of Commons was " counted out" a few minutes after Mr . O Connor commenced his speech on hringing forward the motion for the " People ' s Charter . " This year , the idea of any Parliamentary Keforni is bo fri ghtful that , at four o ' clock , only twenty-one members could be mustered ; and there was , consequently , " no House" to discuss Mr . Hume ' s " Little Charter . " This does not sav much for fchn
zeal or- earnestness of the middle class Parliamentary Reformers , at all eventB . Mr . Hume ' s backers are , to say the best of it , rather lukewarm . Upon former occasions , somewhere ahout eighty votes have heen recorded in favour of Household Suffrage , Vote by Ballot , Triennial Parliaments , audEqualized Electoral Districts . . Half that number would have made . " a House , " independent of either Ministerialists or Protectionists , but only a quarter attended . The zeal of the so-called Liberal Party grows ¦ ¦
" Small by degrees , and beautifully less . " At the very moment when their daily organ is proclaiming aloud that an extension of the franchise has become the question of the day , to which all others have become insignificant in comparison , they manifest so little interest in it , that only a score of members can be dragged to their places . Sir Joshua Walms-LEY ' S Association seems to be progressing erab-like . Having severed itself from the masses , and consequently deprived itself of the weight and momentum which it would
otherwise have acquired , the members who countenanced it when it appeared likel y to be popular , now treat it with conempt . In vain may Mr . Fox deliver sententious and fluent essays to select coteries of coffee drinkers at the London Tavern , or Mr . Miall treat " respectable " but scanty assemblies , to sarcastic dissections of our anomalous Parliamentary system . Such exhibitions produce as much effect upon the House of Commons as a lecture upon the torpedo at the Polytechnic , or a description of the Panorama of the Nile at the Egyptian Hall . The pith and essence of a veritable public movement are absent . The people take no interest in it , and " hon
members " feel , therefore , that they may give it the cold shoulder with impunity . We warned the Parliamentary Association of this rock a-head , and advised them in good faith , frankly to carry the principles they professed to their legitimate conclusion , and cast in their lot ¦ with the Manhood 'Suffragists . They have chosen another course , and we now see the result . Parliamentary Reform , in their hands , is in a worse position in Parliament than it was two years ago . In proportion to the expenditure of funds , and the lapse of time , the visible results grow smaller . They spend their strength in vain , and their labour ' for naught .
Itis , however , not too late for Sir Joshua and his colleagues to take a lesson from the past , and form a junction with the Manhood Suffragists , in anticipation of the comine general election , and the full discussion on representative reform which must accompany the proposal of any ministerial measure . It is quite certain that Lord John is pledged to bring in a bill upon the subject , and that it will in ita first outline be liberal , or otherwise , in proportion as he finds the middle and working class Parliamentary Keformnra
united or divided . Even if there were no pledge to that effect , the necessities both of the Whigs and the Free Traders will compel them to enlarge the franchise , as the only chance of maintaining their ground against the " Country Party . " The questions therefore certain to come fully before P arliament The way in which it will be settled will mainly depend upon the union and the honesty of those who profess to advocate a reconstroetion of the popular branch of the Legislature upon principle . If they stand together , large , substantial , and beneficial
improvements may be made—if not the tricksters and political jobbers will succeed in another plautible swindle , which , under the name of Reform , will merely subserve the base designs of trafficking politicians , and factious intriguers for place and power . But whatever may be the lesson derivpd from this "No House » of Tue ^ y J | S by Sir Joshua Walxisley and his friend s there cannot be two opinions as to the eonducfc and policy of the Members who , having previously absented tfiemselves from the . House Un on that occasion . foaegaaes to t&jr fcS
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professions , they must lay their account to be distrusted , suspected , and repudiated by all sincere , honest Reformers in future . Men who can so culpably betray the trust confided in them , at the instigation of the Ministerial " Whipper-in , " or from the fear of periling some pet policy of their own , are not worthy of the confidence or support of Suffrage Reformers . The weakness of the Ministry , and the precarious tenure by which it holds office—which no doubt induced many of them to stay away—were precisely _ the
reason why the whole eighty should have been present . It is from ricketty and feeble Cabinets that the greatest concessions to popular demands can be . wrung . " Strong Governments " can carry on affairs with a high hand . Weak ones are compelled to pay high prices for support . If the Members who formerly voted for the " Little Charter " were in earnest , they never had a better opportunity of testing the Ministry than on Tuesday last . Their refraining from doing so , is the best possible test of their own insincerity .
More . It throws light on tho probable course of events in the case of a General Election , and a consequent new scheme of Electoral Reform . It shows that the suspicions or open shavges that &e Middle Class Reformers merely sought for such a further extension of the suffrage as would suit their particular interests , and strengthen them still more against the influence of the territorial interest , had but too much truth in them . They have
played fast and loose with the question , and will do so in future if returned to Parliament , according as the cards turn up . The " Eighty ' are as little to be trusted as the Whigs . Parliamentary Reform has nothing to hope either from the honesty , or the zeal of its advocates , in the House . Its only chance , of realisation lies in the sturdy , earnest , industrious , and unenfranchised classes out ; , of doors .
It is with pain we come to that conclusion . Far rather would we have witnessed a cordial union , and an intelligent co-operation between the middle and working class reformers , because the chances of immediate success would have been so much greater . But wo do not yet despair of seeing an honest and efficient juuetion between the two classes . A vigorous and judiciousl y conducted agitation on the part of the Chartist body , could not fail to react advantageousl y upon a large portion of the trading classes , and show them that their real interests are closely interwoven , and really inseparable from those of the industrial
masses . Until all the interests are fairly represented in the Lagislature , cheap and good Government can never be attained b y any . Until the public voice is fully heard in Parliament , the progressive and salutary measures required by public opinion will never be granted . Educational , Social , Commercial , Legal and Administrative reforms , all wait for that first and indispensable preliminary , —a reform of Parliament . How far it is likely to be promoted by members , who resort to the shameful trick of preventing even discussion upon the question , by making " no House , ' we leave the country to decide ,
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enjoy the fruits of their own industry , it has , for the time being , failed . To the production of this melancholy result many causes contributed . The novelty of the plan itself—the inexperience of all parties concerned—the magnitude and variety of the various interests implicated in the scheme—and the natural impatience which hurried on both shareholders and managers , were all calc ulated to render success difficult and doubtful , even had there
been no external hostile agencies at work . Failure in such an attempt would have neither been singular nor discreditable . How many Joint-Stock Companies are now before Masters in Chancery , to be wound up , in which the parties had all the advantage of great experience in such matters—the advice of lawyers at every step—the affairs conducted by Directors accustomed to business transactions upon a large scale , and the security and protection of the law in every step they took ? The National Land Company had none of these aids , while it had a thousand fold more natural obstacles to encounter . Above
all , the Press , tho Government , and the Law , were opposed to it . The Press created a hostile public opinion , by misrepresentations well calculated to justify its own assertions , for it is easy to prophecy , when ths prophet has the power of fulfilling his own predictions . The Government resolutely opposed every attempt to gain the power and protection of the law , and at length , when malice and misrepresentation had produced their intended effect upon the public mind , the directors were deserted by shareholders , over whom thoy had no power , and who , instead of fulfilling their obligations , turned round , and demanded the completion of arrangements , to which they were parties , but for the formation of which they withheld the means .
No wider that an imperious necessity drove Mr . O'CONNOR" and the Directors to seek the aid of . Parliament in winding up the affairs of the Company under such circumstances . As far as they are individually concerned , such a termination of the movement , however mortifying to their feelings , would be a blessed riddance from toil , anxiety , and grievous responsibilities . But in what position would it place the popular cause ? The fulcrum on which a powerful and influential movement might be laid would be removed . The field on which an experiment in Social science , for the benefit of the masses , might be tried , would be lost . Politically and socially , it would be a heavy blow and great discouragement . "
The admirable and practical letter of Mr . Leach , in last week ' s Star , proves that time and reflection are giving birth to a new opinion on this question . Whether it is yet possible to arrest the progress of the Winding-up Bill , and to form arrangements for discharging the comparatively small liabilities of the Company , and restoring its estates to public and patriotic purposes , we do not pretend to say . These are grave and important business questions , which must be left to the consideration
of the legal adviser of the Company , and of the shareholders who are animated by the desire to preserve for their order the inestimable and incalculable advantage of possessing landed property , whereon they can practically try the soundness of their politico-economical opinions . Without such a base for their operations , Co-operative Stores will sink into mere competitive huxtering , in which the most sordid propensities of our nature will be nurtured into baleful strength .
With a labour-field of their own , upon which the staple necessaries of life could be produced abundantly , by well-directed labour —• with workshops and factories , in which the industry that could not be profitably or continuously employed upon the land , might be set at work—and with stores for the reception of all kinds of agricultural and manufactured produce , at wholesale cost , and ¦ their delivery either to the colonists or the outside market ,
at fair remunerative prices—the producers of wealth would not only be enabled to participate justly in the products of their industry , but to exercise a powerful political influence , everv under the present limited franchise . That influence would not be measured b y the number of votes which would be at the command of the parties located upon esta tes so managed . A new public opinion would be created . Chartism , instead of being considered destructive and subversive in its entend .
c j es , would be seen in its practical operation to W constiYictYve and conservative . By showing the way in which industry , intelligence , content , and prosperity , could be diffused , among , tho labouring classes , without trenching upon the rights or interests of any other class , it would tend to destroy that deplorable antagonism which now separates the upper and middle from the industrious portions of the community , and would lay , broad and deep , tlie foundations of a far more durable and prosperous state of society . The
people who could imagine and make such a use of power would bo no longer dreaded , but admired . Their admission within the pale of the constitution would be hailed as an accession of strength , not repelled as an explosive element , likely to shatter the whole to pieces ; and the insane system by which poverty and pauperism are perpetuated , in the midst of superabundant means for producing general prosperity and contentment amon g the population , would be abandoned by the consent of all classes .
Such are the things that mi ght be realised if there are public spirit , virtue , intelligence , and faith enough in the ranks of the share ' - holders to make an effort in earnest and in sufficient numbers . We believe the co-operative system is spreading rapidly in the manufacturing districts . To all such societies the possession of land for raising provisions , and the erection of workshops and dwellings for the location of members , is an indispensable condition of real success . It is , therefore , an important question for them to consider how far they could- aid ih preserving the estates of
me JNational Land Company for truly national purposes . If done at all , it must be done promptly . - The individual claims aud liabilities which are a mere trifle when compared with the value of the property on which they form a li | p , f equ jffi to . be immediately mot and diechargrd . - 1 That once done the purchase of the interests of the various parties , -who might decline to join the new Company , might be proceeded with under fair and equitable arrangements . ¦ The estates would he preserved for the people , and with them that aenaeof property , which is power . .
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and are alivo only to tho other-connected with it—that it is a capital chauce for making money . The result is , that half a do z ™ people are slaughtered on the spot , and scot ™ are bruised and maimed . In such a case tha jury does not think . the motives which caused such a lamentable loss of life come under th criminal category . It is merely returne d n « * case of "Accidental Death . " a Such is the conclusion of the lengthened in quiry into the fatal occurrence in the Sntin Tunnel ; a conclusion which can only h-. vu ? effect of making railway managers still I reckless and careless as to the destru io 7 o 0 f human life . If ever there was a case in 2 \ £ the evidence established gross palpable crimf nahtyit was this . Had the nJt iC 5
odvjous precautions oeen taken , the collision by which so many lives were destroyed , coj never have occurred . On the contrary . They did all they could have done , had it been thofc deliberate intention to produce a collision and to slaughter and maim the passengers ' That was the legitimate conclusion of the coursa they took . It would have been wonderful if ? had been otherwise , seein g the nice and care , ful adaptation of means to ends .
Yet the fatal result of this criminal ncrW of every obligation incumbent upon jw ' who undertook , in return for tho inonov oft ?" public , to convey them in safetv , is onlv In cording to the " Crowner ' s quest" dental . " The jury no doubt had a fellow frdl l *! ni * ' "Tf ™ \ their fiance to the " till , " and thought any means were justifiable , so that the money was secured Wedeprccate Government iLrferen wtb K » i ; rt : sp ^
persons , we think itis wa « moT IT * persons , we Hun * , iris Wgh time that some trong supemsion should be excised over them . The neck or nothing Sy 6 tem , arising out of excessive selfishness , or excessive competition , is not to be trusted for the safety o £ the public to the extent which the advocates of the "let alone system" would persuade us . The frequent recurrence of such melancholy and deplorable events proves the necessity for a strict ' serveillance , by some independent and impartial power , and but that the " railway interest" is so strong in Parliament wo should have it ere this time . As it ia Mammon is in the ascendant , and passengers must be slaughtered to increase dividends .
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PARLIAMENTARY . Another week of which we may write as wo have often written before , " nothing done . " Three successive attempts to proceed with the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill have only ended in showing how difficult , if not impossible , it will be to push it through the House . On the first occasion , the motion that the Speaker leave the chair , was met by an amendment
tantamount to a vote of censure on the Ministry , as having encouraged the aggression they now pretended to repel ; on a division , the Whigs had a motley majority of seventy . On thenext , a question of order was raised , ¦ whi ch occupied nearly the whole night . Mr . Moore . contended that , according to the orders of tW House ^ the Bill should have been originated ia Committee . This would have necessitated a
commencement de novo ; but the Speaker decided against tho positiOD , and after a long debate the amendment was negatived . The remaining portion of the evening was occupied by successive motions for adjournment , and divisions thereon . On the third night ( Thursday ) tho Irish members commenced a new mode of obstructing the progress of the Bill . Each member , of what Sir R , Ikglis styles « the Irieh Brigade ' with an armful of petitions against the Bill claimed , in accordance with the rules , to state at length the place from which such petitions sentto
were ; give an abstract of the contents , and read the , prayer at full length , though they were all identical in terms , as far as the-Auti-Pivpal Bill was concerned ; while others had no reference to it , and were evidently merely dragged in to consume time . The scene was as laughable as it was provoking , to those who wished to get on with public business . As member after member unrolled portentous looking sheets of paper , shouts of merriment arose , and the prospect of arriving at the end of a debate , the commencement of which was thus ingeniousl y staved off , became very dubious indeed . On the merits of sucb
an obstructive policy towards the measure immediately under consideration , we shall offer no opinion but this , that the dogged determiuatioa of the Irish members , in support of the policy they have agreed upon , contrasts most favourably with tho apath y , disunion , and insincerity of the professed Parliamentary Reformers in the Lower House . They helped the Government to prevent a House being ™ d ° °° Tuesday , to discuss Mr . Hume ' s Little Go ; an event which formed the topic of somo rather edifying and instructive conversation on the following day , for which we refer to our Parliamentary Report .
Aa to thoAnti-PapalBill , the debate of lhursday night closed without the House getting into Committee ; and as the Tablet has issued orders to the Irish Members to avail themselves of every possible obstruction , it may yet take another week to get the Speaker out of the chair . Once in Committee , the debates threaten to be interminable , if not cut short by the resignation of Ministers on the Ceylon motion , which stands for the 24 th . Mr . Lacy s Bill for preventing the forcible Detention of Females in Nunneries , was thrown overboard on Wednesday , on the ground that the title inaccurately described the intent of the measure . Sir G . Gee ?
intimated that tho Government , with an eye to Miss Taiboi ' s case might be induced to bring in a bill to prevent tho nunneries from seizing the property , of young ladies ; but , as to the young ladies themselves , he ignored the troublesome ; office of guardian . This excessive watchfulness and , tender care over pro-: perty is peculiarly , ^ i 6 b . Mt is the distinguishing characteriBtic of our laws and in stitutions . The Bank-parlour and the shop-Wlhave only expended themselves in the Legislature ; the men . who set there act in na tional matters as if there were no higher wtereBtB to be concerned or protected , no loftier or more important principles at Btake , than those involved in nnfisttnnR nf nmmnB
shillings and pence . It is no wonder that a body so constituted should , have come to a dead lock , and still less , that it has earned the contempt of- every thinking man in the community .
. . HOME NEWS . "With the exception of the gossip connected with the Exhibition , and the verdict of the jury in the case of the railway slaughter , there is nothing calling for comment under the head of home news . As yet the number of foreigners who have come to see the Crystal Palace and its . varied contents , have by no means answered the expectation of the speculators on the occasion . Notwithstanding
this , however , and the high price still charged for admission , the receipts during the pro sent week have been upwards of two thousand pounds a day , on an average ; season ticietB still sell largel y , and the financial success oS the Inhibition is placed beyond a doubt . The probability now is , that the building will be purchased from tho contractors , and , together with many of the most valuable and interesting articles it contains be preserved as a promenade , for the metropolitan public . It wm make a magnificent winter garden and palace . ., . . b Among the churoh clergy aivi 8 ioBB multiply ,
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THE CHARTER AND CO-OPERATION . Property is power . AKCHIMEDES , with all his knowled ge , could not move the world for want of a fulcrum . In the present system of society , political influence as necessarily follows the acquisition of property as light does the rising of the sun . Burns has very properly called the man " a coward slave " who " hangs his head for honest poverty ;' but there is also much truth in the observation ,
"That though poverty is no crime , it is a great misfortune . " We would b y no means counsel the industrious classes , who are robbed by our monetary and distributive arrangements , to wait for tho franchise until they acquire property , because that would be equivalent to telling , them to wait until "Tib ' s Eve ;" neither do wo wish to be understood as meaning that property is absolutely indispensable to their enfranchisement , hut simply , that its acquisition is ono of the elements of an effective movement for that object .
Like every thing else , property has . its uses and its abuses . Speaking generally , the abuses predominate at present . Under the direction of an ignorant and selfish individualism , the wealth of society and tho productive powers in its possession do not produce one hundreth part of the happiness they might do . By another more brotherly and more rational application aud direction of these powers poverty , ignorance , and crime originatin g in these two fruitful sources of human error and
misery , might be almost—perhaps altogetherprevented . . But , in order to induce society to take that better course , somebody must set the example , and illustrate practically the superiority of the new Bystem of production and distribution . Who is to do that ? Clearly it cannot be expected in the first instance from those who benefit most largely by the existing institutions , which give them a monopol y of wealth , power , influence , station , and luxury . It is contrary to the" nature of humanity , to expect anything else than that they Bhould be
conservative of a system by which they are so highly favoured ; and that they should look with dread upon any proposition for altering it . The greatest Radical among us all would , if he were placed in the same position , fee andact in precisely the same way . But this instinct of self-preservation and self-love is capable of a better education . No man—unless he bo constitutionall y malformed—loves evil , or would inflict misery , for their own sake , or the pleasure of giving pain . The average of mankind reconcile themselves to the existence of both , because they believe them-to be irremediable . That want of faith
in God and man—of knowledge , aa to the boundless resources which are at the disposal of society , is not to be removed by mere words . Denunciation will only make the possessors of wealth cling more closely to it , and regard with horror and hostility those who attack them , for being ' what nature and society have combined tosmake them . Mere theories , howi ; SYercaptivating , -will have little effect on the cautious , calculating , matter-of-fact man of business . Ho wants proof . Demonstrate even upon a small scale the superiority of new principles of social action , and conviction will be produced , if not rapidl y , at least surely and steadily . J
As an auxiliary to the Chartist movement , we always looked upon the National Land Company as one of the greatest importance . To say that its plans were perfect in the first instance , or that their realisation to the fullest extent , would havo produced all the results anticipated by their sanguine projectors , would be contrary to all ord inary experience in such 2 S J £ S ? , * T wtahMhw promised to lay the foundat
ion of a new method of employing land labour , and capital ; which at its outset placed the worker in a more independent position , as regarded the possession of property , and - he disposal of his own industry ; and we always anticipated , that if the experiment had been successful , time and experience would have gradually BUOWn the advantages to be derived from ' greater cooperative action . When such convictions wai-a
rormed , the means of giving them effeoW ' o \ rid have been in the possession of the allottees on £ ach estate . Co-operative farming , work , shops , and stores , could easily ' have been mad . e to supersede the isolated individual system of labour and the distribution of wealth . We need not repeat what we have often stated as to the causes which frustrated the success of that Plan . It i 8 BUfteifint to know that , hke many other , well-meant : and sincere o&ndeftToura to enable the working fi ! assefi to
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KILLING NO MURDER . A couple of i gnorant dissipated wretches quarrel over their drink , and , in the heat of passion , the : one gives the other a blow , of which he dies . Forthwith , that ancient and venerable institution—the coroner ' s inquestis brought into requisition . Witnesses are examined ,, the fact that the blow wag . struck is proved , and the resulUs , a verdict of Wit ful Murder flowed b y a trial in a Criminal Court , and the han ging of the poor slave of tT -T ? ? . S ' * burglar anThfi associates , break . into a house in the dead of the m ght , with the view of carrying away such En ° d y th ' ca ; lftythe * hand « 4 ° t Resisted wVr ' 86 ° f th 6 ir , ^ edations . are resisted bythe owner , who is Mlkd iniw
struggle Thegallows claims the actual m « T derer and his accomplices as its lawful prey , and they aro strung up , a hideous spectacle betore gaping thousands . Far different is the caBe when the . chain of causation is a little more lengthened , and the parties implicatedare respectable . A railway co mpany , for instance , in anticipation of an extra influx of passengers to witness a race , neglects all the obvious precautions for tho wfety of life » nd limb , Bugg&ted by that fact ,
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4 , THE NORTHERN STAR . May 17 , 1851 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 17, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1626/page/4/
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