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    • THE NORTHERN STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1851
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      nEALTH WHERE 'TIS SOUGHT ! HOLLOW AY'S PILLS . Care of a Disordered Liver and Stomach , when in a most hopeless state . j Extract of a Letter from Mr . Matthew Harvey , of Chapel : Hall , Airdrie , Scotland , dated the luth of January , 185 ft . Snt , —Your valuable pills have been the means , with Cod ' sblessins , of restoring me to a state of perfect health , and at a time when I thought I was on the brink of the grave . I had consulted several eminent doctors , who , after doing what they could for me , stated that they considered ¦ my case as hopeless . I ought to say that I had been suffer , lag from a liver and stomach complaint of long standing , -which during the last two years got so much worse , that every one considered my condition as hopeless . I , as a last resource , got a box of your pills , which soon gave relief , and liypmevering in their use for some weeks , together with -xubhing night and morning your Ointment over my chest andstomach , and right side , I have by their means alone got completely cured , and to the astonishment of myseli and everybody who knows me . —( Signed ) JLmiiEw lLmtel—To Proiessor Hoixowat .

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      Just Published , IN NOS . AT ONE PENNY EACH , THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO THE GOLDEN LAND . C \ A L 1 f 0 ENIA , V ITS PAST HIST ^ Uf ^[ "" "" IT POSITION ; il'S FUTURE PROSPECTS ! WITH A HISDIE ASD AUTaENTtC ACCOUNT ^ <* THE DISCOVERY OP THE GOLD KM * UM » THE SUBSEQUENT IMMRTAXT PROCEEDINGS . I In the course of the work will heaven PLAIN DIRECTIONS TO EMIGRANTS TO CALIFORNIA , OR THE UNITED STATES , OB TO

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      In Nos . at One Penny each , splendidly Illustrated , A HISTORY OF THE DIFFERENT EXPEDITIONS ENGAGED IN THE SEAKCH FOR SIR J . FRANEIN CONTAINING AH THE RECENT VOYAGES TO _ TKE POLAR REGIONS . Including in particular the Expedition sent out under the command OP SIR JAME S BOSS TO DAVIS STEAITS : AND Of Commander Moore aad Captain Kellott , to Behring ' s Straits . With an authentic copy of the dispatches received from SIR GEORGE SIMPSON , OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY With other important and highly interesting information relative to the Eipedition under SIR JOHN FRANKLIN . Compiled from various Official Documents , and Private Communications , Bt the Late ROBERT nUISIT , Esq .

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      J \ ow Publishing in Nos . at One Penny each . By the Authoress of' The Gipset Gibl . ' Each Pesst Number of this Novel will contain Sixteen Pages of solid print . THE TRIALS * OF LOVE OB , WOMAN'S REWARD : BT Mns . IT . M . LOWXDES , ( Late HANNAH MARIA JONES , ) Authoress of 'Emily Moreland , ' « Rosaline Woodbridse . Gipsey Mother , Scottish Chieftains , '' Forged Note , ' Wedding Uinsr , ' 'Strangers of the Glen ,, ' Victim of fashion , '' Child of Mystery , ' etc .

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      • Therapeutics —The history of medicine is bv no means flattering to science . It is questionable whether more is known of diseases , their cause , and their cure , at this moment , than in the tune of Galen ; it is certain that diseases are quite as numerous , and in the aggregate as fatal . Every age has produced some new system of artificial therapuutics which the next age has banished ; each has boasted in its turn of cures , and they , in their turn , have been condemned as failures . Medicines themselves are the subjects unsettled ; in fact , that it has no established principles , that it is little more than conjectural ? ' At this moment , ' says Mr . Pinny , ' the opinions on the subject ot treatment aure almost as numerous as the practitioners themselves . Witness the mass of contradiction on the treatment of even one disease , Hamely . consumption . Stroll attributes its frequency to the introduction of baric Morton considets bark an effectual cure . Iteid ascribes the frequency of the disease te the use of mercurr . Brillonct asserts thatit is cur-

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      * a * ? os FaUiDbb- ~ -A serious kilure in ; toe * eotof'ij . i k * ^ announc ed at Liverpool , sappoaed ThA ^ L to J ranSebetween £ 200 . 0 a » and £ 3 &fhm > moltf ^ f M l 0 Dgenj ° y excel | eat eredit - r * ib foil Sl eicconnterepresent tba * wil ^ pay

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      NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Office , 14 , Southam pton-street , Strand . mHU EXEH ^ y - C 0 MMITT ;[ 3 E On toX ^ Tt ^ of ^™^' - ' the J , amh « -- , " ,: ? ® ni - e ° cl ° <* in the afternoon , «• - ' ¦ -- "i . iocalitj ^ nl ' . meet at ^ South London HaU toenrol'SmK' ° sub'secretary > «^ be iu attendance On Sunday evening next at the Crown and Anchor , Cheshire-street , Waterloo Town . On the same evening , at the Bricklayers' Avms , Tonbridge-street , New-road , a lecture will he delivered . On the game evening , at tho Literary and Scientific Institution , John-street , Mr . Ernest Jonei will lecture Subject : 'Labour , Capital , aud Wages . ' To commence at half past seven . On the same evening at the Woodman Tavern "Wliitestreet , Waterloo Town ; at sis o ' clock the members of the iocality will meet ; and at eight o ' clock a lecture will be delivered .

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      INTERIOR OF THEjCRYSTAL PALACE Agents and subscribers requiring Plates of tho Crystal Palace , must write to Mr . Daniel Cotter , at this Office , accompanying their order with a remittance for the amount , and stating how their parcels are to be forwarded . I have many letters from agents desiring me to supply them , and to add the amount to their " Star " account : this would cause a complication of accounts wo must avoid . The Plate , both plain and coloured , is now ready . W . Rider .

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      - ^ P » V ^ M _ DEFAULTING AGENTS . We are under the necessity of stopping the papers this week from several Agents whose accounts are ia arrear . We have in no case stopped an accounj unless where it has been long in . arrear , an < 3 where numerous applications have been mad < for payment . Subscribers who are disappointed will there fore know who to blame .

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      T . Brows ' s List . —J . Arnott 4 s Cd—Smith's Workmen 2 s lid—City Shoemakers , per Swill Cs 3 d—King , per Sharwood 3 s—Hr . Lunn , Harapstead Gs—Mr . Wright 2 s—Old Parker Gs lOd—Friend ( name forgot ) 3 a—Welchmnn 6 d . Let our hiends read tliis and think of forty men to be led , lodged , and clothed for two weeks . A . W . —You must got the certificate of the marriage , and then consult a lawyer . Mb . G . Hows , author « f The Four P ' s , ' is how lecturing in Yorkshire . He intends going through that county into Lancashire , and work his way into Scotland . Communications addressed George Hows , Boston , Liucolnshire , will be forwarded to him . National Land Company . —Mr . Boyle , in reply to a statement in Mr . 0 ' - onnor ' s letter last week , says lie informed that gentleman it was C . Doyle , and not Mr . Clark , who sent Lloyd ' s Newspaper to the Committee ; and Mr . M'Grath says he and Mr . Dixon sold the office clock to Mr . Clark , for £ 1 12 s . Gd ., and applied the money to defray the current expenses of the office .

      The Northern Star, Saturday, June 14, 1851

      THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , JUNE 14 , 1851

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      THE PARLIAMENTARY BREAK-DOWN . "Whitsuntide holidays have come and gone . The old lumbering Parliamentary machine is again in motion , if motion that can be called which does not " move on . " The sole results of its four months' deliberation at the present moment ( with , the exception of its monetary votes , ) area small bill to prevent the sale of poisons , and the preamble and first clause of a bill about which nobody agrees aud from which no one anticipates tho slightest advantage . In six or seven weeks more the session will close . Tho aimless and

      wearisome debates on Papal Aggression will vex no longer the dull ears of man with an oft-told tale . A bill will probably have become law never intended to be put in operationthe taxes for the year will have been voted with edifying unanimity—and that will wind up the history of the British Parliament for 1851 . If such deplorable results were the natural and inevitable consequences of representative institutions it would be far better that they should be abolished entirely , and a Government of some kind substituted , which had at least the power of fulfilling Governmental functions . But this utter negation of these functions arises not from Parliamentary institutions , but their perversion , we may say , t extent

      o a large , their suppression . It is because the people are unrepresented that the Legislative machine has come to a dead lock . There is , at present , ' an equipoise of forces within Parliament which prevents any party from moving . The existing franchise does not possess the power of remedying this state of things . If we were to have a general election with the present constituency , it is very questionable if the aggregate composition of parties would be materially altered . We should be placed virtually in tho same standstill position with a new Parliamerit * that wo are in the old . The Protectionists most probably would be brought more upon a level as respects numbers to the varied sections of the House , which , differing from each other on

      many . points , agree on the question of Free Trade ; but with the exception of Mr . Newdegate , and perhaps half a dozen more of like calibre , nobody either in or out of Parliament believes that would enable them to form a Protectionist ministry sufficiently powerful to restore the agricultural interes to its old position . The parties in Parlia ment would bo too equally balanced for that and the people out of doors , whatever the } may think of Cobden and Free Trade , are not ikely ever to demand that the price of their loat shall be raised from 5 d . to 9 d or lOd for the benefits of the landlords and farmers " ^ However it may suit Mr . < J . J . Young and the

      more enthusiastic and unreflecting members of the party , to excite delusive expectations , none are more thoro ughly aware of tho attar hopelessness of such an event than Lord Stanley and Mr . Disrakli , the leaders of the patty . They sedulousl y keep aloof from Protectionist demonstration s , and when they are compelled to speak , do so in the studiousl y vague language of the ancient Delphic oracles . They obviousl y are determined not to commit themselves to any specific proposition or policy . Iu effect thev say to the farmers , "Shut your eyes and open your mouth , and see what God will send you " On the other hand , the Free Tradew and the manufacturing-interest are equally held in

      cnecK , ana tho Ministers , weak in every respect , except the possession of place and patronage , have Bliown in , every action this year their utter powerlessness to perform any of the legitimate functions of a G overnment . We boast much of our glorious institutions and , at a time when the natives of so many countries have found a visit to our shores have almost exhibited a Yankee egotism , in their laudation . Lord Stanley , who always speaks well , whatever may be thought of his actions —almost exhausted the language of eulogkm and panegyric , at Merest Toots' UaiLm

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      THE COMING STRUGGLE . From amid the chaos of foreign politics something definitely heralding tho future is at length shaping itself . We are emerging from the uncertainty which has so long wrapped and shrouded the world ' s progress . Thanks to the strong will and tho determined energy of Nicholas of Russia , the liberals of Europe may now begin to understand their true position . Like a li ghtuing-flash , making all apparent amid the gloom , the vivid spirit of

      the Czau has burst through the imbecility of the Austrian Empire and the vacillating policy of the Sovereign of Prussia , and showed their true bearings . Henceforth , at least , _ there can be no doubt as to who are the enemies of Liberalism in the world . The three Courts of Petersburgh , Vienna , and Berlin , aro the trinity of despotism . Modern fact as well as an cient myth has its Cerberus ; but in the olden fable , the three headed cur guarded the gates of the Infernal Regions , now it bars the passage of the people to the heaven of liberty .

      There can be no doubt that Nicholas of Russia is a great man—great in contradistinction to good . With a hi gh intellect—with unwearied patience—with vast power—with an utter absence of the restraints which mora-Ijty imposes , he is just the man to do great things . He sees at once the weak point of his adversary—he waits till the opportunity occurs for seizing it , and he allows no considerations of right , none of the dictates of duty , to bind him in the prosecution of his plans . He is the most cautious , wily , and determined of the enemies of liberalism . He personates at once the spirit and the power of despotism . He

      embodies the right divine of Kings , and the wrong of which the assumption of divino right is the natural parent ; and , as though it were fated , that his position should be thoroughly consistent with his desires , he governs a , nation of semi-barbarian s , who are fitted to be the physical instruments of an intellectually devised system of tyranny . Like a dark cloud hovering over a beautiful landscape , the mingled ignorance and tyranny of the North hangs gloomily over the brighter prospects of the west , and buries in deepest gloom the sunny South .

      Yet we are b y no means certain that the Northern potentate , although the most uncompromising and able opponent of political progress , is its most dangerous enemy . A thorough opponent is , sometimes , the best friend of the cause he endeavours to beat down We all recollect the fable of the Sun and North Wind , who contended as to who should first deprive the traveller of his cloak . The wind , the blustering foe , roared and threatened , and whirled around the traveller but it only made hiin hug his cloak more closely ; but the sun , the insidious enemy pouring down his soft warm rays , gently in . ^ ced the traveller to throw aside thegarment Pretended friends , like the nmJLTun

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      stable King of Prussia , act upon the liberals of Germany like the sun upon the traveller . They hold out illusory hopes , and false , and deceitful promises . They make constitutions only to break tnern , £ ™ ]^ ' a small portion of Ubei'tY only to nv ^ k th eir " subjects more bitterly feel tho loss of it when it is withheld ; They paralyse efforts for progress by pretending to coincide in them . They put themselv . es at the head of movements only to betray them . They convert the unbendin g

      determination of a people to be free by their own efforts , into dependence upon the condescension and graciousness of sovereigns . They place liberalism in a false position by encumbering it with their hollow friendship . Frederick of Prussia , and Charles Albert , of Italian memory , are fur more dangerous , though less able , " than a host of Czars . They are more to be dreaded , because they gain the confidence of the people , while the open despot provokes their opposition .

      Thanks , however , to the North wind , all this is at an end . Wo shall , in the future , know our friends and our enemies . The parties of Europe will become every day better denned , and their objects more palpable . Fighting in ambush is drawing to a close . Royal ambuscades will cease to be upon tho broad field of opposing principles , two standards will be hoisted , under which . Upon one side or the other , kings and peoples must

      range themselves in . battle array . The double headed eagle , ' ready to whet its beak and talons in the life stream of liberty , and the ruddy coloured flag of human ho pe ; the rainbow emblem of liberty will at the same time wave in the air . Men must make their choice between the two . Of every human mind the plain , distinct question will bo asked , are you for progress or retrogression ? For the barbarism of the north or the

      civilisation of the west ? la the world to be under Cossack rule , or to be governed by free men , shaping their own destinies ? And to those questions some answer must be given . Henceforth there are in Europe only two parties claiming support . The question has been simplifiedto that extent , and for that wo have to thank the strong , consistent will of Nicholas of Russia , His is a great mind striving for a great object . He is no petty gambler playing for an insi gnificant Stake , but a man who hazards all upon the cast of tho dice . He dwarfs down minor

      differences into their own intrinsic insignificance . He promises nothing—he practises no subterfuge—he attempts no concealment—he does not hold out hopes of a little liberty—he does not delude men with promises of progress , slow and gradual , but sure . He is definite , decided , and determined . He raises upon the present the standard of the past , and defies the future ; and thus , if liberalism be a worthy cause , and liberals worthy of it , he is a friend to humanity by rendering the trial possible , and hastening it on , We do not , of

      course , mean that he wills to be the friend of human progress , but that he is so in his own despite . Men may or may not believe in a Providence ruling the world by special decrees , and making men the blind instruments of its behests , but they must acknowledge , that all history teaches the truth , that progress has been as much indebted to the efforts of its enemies as to the help of its friends ; aud we think that tho agreement of the heads of the three great despotic Courts of Europe , will not prove an exception to the

      ruta It may well be , indeed , that when the parties aro first set in opposition to each other , those who are devoting their lives to raise the masses who have been degraded by long centuries of despotism , may seem the weaker . They will find that their ^ enemies have possession of the revenues of the state , the machinery of Government , and the organised physical forces which have hitherto controlled the fate of the world . In Russia , Austria , Prussia , and Italy , the despotic three will be all powerful . There is no party with

      the ability to say nay to their decrees . It is truth against power—might against right . For the instant the breathing present will be smothered under the dead past ; but it will retain tho elements of life . The philosophy of Germany has become so instinct with free thought , that it must go on , working against despotism . The ardent soul of Italy , burning with the hope of freedom , will be compelled to bide their time , arid strive patiently for power to be used hereafter ; but it is in France , chiefly , that the effects of the Northern Alliance will be fnlt .

      There can be but little doubt that that alliance has been prompted by the aspect of French politics . France is the great seed-bed of revolution . She is the signal nation of the world . It is practicall y against her that this combination is formed . She has made a republic possible , where a monarchy formerl y existed . That is an example not . to bo tolerated , and for that she will never be forgiven . The period to which she is approaching so rapidly will form an era in the world ' s history . To govern it is the real object of the

      Russian Monarch . He would be disposed to tolerate whatever form of power can be established there , so long as it is not the powev of the people . His sympathies are most closely blended with the cause of the representative of the old Bourbon dynasty ; yet , he would upport a successful Orleauist effort , and tolerate even a Buonapartist Empire ; but ho will not hear that the French people shall govern themselves , and prove to the world that Kings can be dispensed with on the continent of Europe . He knows full well that a Commonwealth really established , tho liberties of

      tho world would there find a rallying point . He feels that a despotism cannot exist alonethat it must spread itself or die—that it must have allies , or be defeated—and that teaches him to believe , that Republicans would seek to propagate their doctrines beyond their own borders , so that sister republics might spring up side by side , and oppose a real holy alliance of free states , to the powers of absolute rule ; and he is determined that , if he can help it , that shall never be . To prevent that he has crushed Hungary , and enabled Austria to grind Italy into the dust : To render it

      impossible he has by turns bullied and cajoled , threatened and embraced , liis brother of Prussia . To that end he has stifled the German national movement , and fenced about the old basis of government . For that purpose he has connived at—if not prompted—the coercion of Switzerland ; and having thus pushed his operations to the very frontier of France , he is prepared to interfere there . There can be no mistake as to his intentions . Liberty is not , if he can help it , to plant her foot upon tho continent . r

      i v ^ S ? , ° ple genei'a « y speaking , know but little of foreign politics . Protected by their own insular position , they are sepa rated from continental atrife ; but it is high time their attention was directed to these matters They may feel safe enough now but if Cossack sway could be extended from the steppes of Tartavy to the banks of Z JZU 7 ° ^ WouId En S li 8 h lil * rty be ZlJ ^ * 6 y W 6 ak en 0 U « think that 5 ponO ? 5 ! u 6 X r nent of Ab «> lutism , if he succeeded thus far , would stop there ? Canr « Un / vthe ? d that their own freedom ivM ? ? "ith the advanciDg libel * y ° f the Zt i A / , theyHotawareth ^ the influence ot England depends unon its . n ; . t , pM ™ iti

      , Liberal states ? If this be true-and but few who give it a moment ' s thought will doubt it —we should be prepared to take our part in toe coming struggle . We stood by , and saw Hungary drowned in Wood ; we looked on While Italy was destroyed ; -we folded our arms when Rome was invaded . Let not those great errors be followed by a greater . If we would go < m improving our own institutions in peace , we must be ready to insist that , in 1852 , the

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      French people shall be left to ^ jT ^ affairs , without being menaced bvtht ? ° ** who seek to govern the world . dos P o t «

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      PARLIAMENTARY . On Thursday night the House of Commons met , after their short recess , and proceeded with the Navy Estimates . Previously , however Mr . Anstey brought forward the conduct of Sir W . Denison towards Messrs , M'Makus , O'Dohehty , and O'Dosohue , and moved a condemnatory resolution , which Sir G . GflEY parrcd by the technical excuse , that the Government had no official in formation of the facts stated by the lion . Member . The resolution was therefore withdrawn , and the

      rest of the evening was spent on the Estimate ?! Some half dozen votes having been agreed tOj when the House rose at one o'clock .

      DOMESTIC . Railway " accidents" are the order of tho day , Everything else being as dull as stagnation , tho directors of our iron roads liave undertaken to supply excitement in these piping times , and contrive to supply new excitements with such rapidity that the old one has never time to grow stale before another is

      served up . The last " accident" is novel id its circumstances , but old in its essentials . A reckless gallop down a steep incline with short sharp curvcB with the tender in Iront-a-leap over a bridge of great heig ht into a road below of tender , engine , and carriages , and cossequent fractures , scaldings , amputations , aD " deaths . Such are the leading features . *>™ dfiftd bndifis tinri-ililv r iicfimuvri illld mW ^ T

      are the result . 0 f course the railway o fficials havo shown a vast amount of solicitude a ' the catastrophe , and expressed their readiness to assist to the utmost in the inqmr < into the causes of the deplorable occurrence But their solicitude comes too late—they «*' not restore tho dead to the homes now ic '• dessolate . They might have prevent ed tne evil : to remed y it is beyond their power . the Wa

      In this case it is sought to fasten »« on a boy some ten years of age , who is saw have placed the end of a sleeper on ono the rails at a point where the curve was exceedingly sharp . The great pro bability that this is the fact , and that it was djjo either from utter ignorance , or from *» * unmalicious curiosity which boys of tn » age so frequently exhibit . But the «» tecedents which were calculated to tfJJ * flie end of a aleeper bo deadly and oj tructive were all of' the company's creatio n-They made the ateep incline , and added ttv

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      IA 20 UU AJ ? P THE ^ CRY ^^ PALACE , " b iAI « Whether it is to be attributed to « , » ther or the disinclination of the workh ,,, i * ¦ * we do not pretend to say , but the hn !? have passed without bringing to th » £ T a )' s Hyde Park the hundred ! of ¦ £ „ Z * 3 ° * in

      were expected from tho manufacturi , „ ? ° tricts . Lancashire and Yorksh ire S , - their anticipated myriads , and tho ! lol ( 1 rather fell off than increased durS ff bor « week . The middle class and wealthy •' tsim continue nearl y as numerous aa ever ™ ° ra is something significant in thesc f . ^ " ^ they indicate that the non-prodnctiw i ° expect from the Exhibitio n to bo able ' ? to procure still more labour and skill rT ® money , while tho labourers aaticinit * 7 S Ubour for less wages ? Some such S ^ imagine must be at the . bottom of tl ?! ¦

      existeusiuamresiauonsot ponul'ir fnni- * respect to the so-called W& ££ F . h T ' the holding aloof of the producing M , « ' " bo wondered at , when we keep if ! i ? tone in which the journals in tlm ; ? ° the capitalist havJ habitu ^ l ^ Tn f Exhibition . It has been J ^ Za' J * them as affording additional indieJnenU f 7 competition between nation and nation > showing to each where they excelled , andiJ what respects they were deficient , it has be said that they will be impelled to make grout ? efforts to maintain their supremacy in tU peculiar productions , and to improve in tlioJ departments in which they aro less advanced A general and immensely accelerated im peuJ

      to competition has been the almost unkerJ deduction , drawn from this vast assemblage If the products of tho world ' s industry . Now , however pleasant tho prospect of thi 3 increased competition may be to those wh ose good luck it is to have had " their fathers born before them , "— " who toil not , neither do they spin , " aud whose whole mission ia society is to spend and enjoy the interest of accumulated wealth ; it is the reverse to " the classes who havo to produce these articles

      uuder the pressure of this boasted compoti . tion . Already , with the comparativel y limited field of commercial and manufacturing rival ™ in conjunction with the present condition and powers of our machinery , they fiud it difficult enough to make both ends meet in the bestoj times ; what it is likely to be when that field j B enlarged ; when fresh and eager comp etitors enter the market , when new and more powerful labour-saving machines aru bvou « ht into operation , they shudder to contemp late The desperate struggle for work at anv price '

      already waged , will become still moro deadly as the work decreases , and the numkr oJ competitors for it increases . The beggars for leave to toil will find it more difficult to obtain that leave , and when granted it will he on harder conditions than before . Instead of arresting , it will hasten the downward teu . dencies of our present productive system , and they were already so "fast" they needed no acceleration .

      U e can imagine a similar World ' s Show gathered together for very different purposes , but composed of precisely the same materials ) to which Labour would flock gladly , as to a high Carnival , aud the inauguration of a better era . If instead of avowing that this marvellous collection of skill and industry was made for the purpose of stimulating competition , it had been to ascertain what were tho actual means at the command of tho world for producing wealth of all kinds , aud for promoting a regulated system of distribution

      which would ensure to all nations the full and fair participation in the aggregate wealth so produced , the case would have been very dif . ferent . No one then would have grudged tho instruction conferred upon nations less ri vanced then ourselves , because no one would have feared rivalry and ruin . A natural direction would have been given to tho powers which- —beneficent in themselves—are new made the source of unmitigated evil to tho producing classes . The Utopian dreams in which certain impracticable sentimentalists

      iudulge , about tho promotion of universal Peace , would then have had souietluV like a tangible bas ^ s . But there can be no gouuino or permanent peace in conjunction with hostile interests . Commerce , as at present conducted , is essentially antagonistic aud subver . sivo . It aims , by more circuitous means , at the same object which our less sophisticated ancestors sought by the strong hand . To buy cheap and sell dear is , in effect , to rob both tho seller and the buyer of some portion of the fair value of the articles thus exchanged :

      because the dealer adds nothing whatever to their value , by the mere process of taking from the ono and haudiii g to the other . While trade stands upon this essentiall y immoral and dishonest foundation , strife , dissension , and their concomitant evils , must afflict society ; and the new conquests of genius , science , and skill over the material elements , will be perverted to the purposes of a selfish and degraded individualism , instead of being made subservient to the promotion of tho universal well-being of mankiud .

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      Wednesday ; and the same self-praise has been bountifully dispensed at all the banquets , soirees , MWMtioMs , &c , . to which "distingn ^ fK ^ ' ^^ . S ^ JJ j have , indeed , very vigorousl y 'Mmi ^ trumpets ; " and our courteous *' , polite guests , have aided in inflaming our self-conceit to an enormous extent , by their well-bred acquiescence in what we choose to say of ourselvess ; but if , turning from post-prandial orations , v ; look where we ought for the practical evidence of the superiority : of those institutions , we

      find no such evidence . The Legislature , which ought to be the centre of national activity and intelligence , is as inert as an assembly of Russian boors . It does nothing but dawdle and twaddle—and that by no means coherentlyas if the brains it does possess had been stunned by over doses of beer and tobacco . If our " free institutions " were to be tried by their capability of producing a working and a practical body of Legislators , they would be found to be lamentably below of the lowest standard that could be set up .

      There ave , however , things to which the attention of the foreign visitor may be usefully , and even pleasantly directed . Ther © is an orderly industry—a ceaseless enterprise , and an earnest pursuit of political and social information and improvement to be found pervading British society , not without interest to the student of men and manners . The atrauger , however , will be puzzled how to reconcile so much activity and energy among the people with such inertness in the Legislature which assumes to represent them . The solution is simple : the people are not represented . That

      is the solo cause of the discrepancy . In order to restore due harmony between the various powers of the State , it is requisite that the franchise should be extended beyond the narrow boundaries to which it is at present limited . The people who exhibit such admirable qualities have proved , by their conduct , tho possession of all the qualities required to enablo them to take an intelligent and a beneficial share in the business of the nation . The coteries to which it has been the object of the oligarchy to confine the exclusive possession ^ of political power , have as signally failed in

      doing either . The time has come when , for their own sakes , their monopol y must be destroyed . England cauaot afford , in an age of progress , to have its Legislature dozing awa y month after month , in the disgraceful fashion which has characterised the present Session , and which is certain now to mark it to the end . The people and their representatives must march together —the institutions of the country must bo adapted to its growing wants—and giva free scope to its growing intelligence . It is now generally understood that the present Ministry expect to retain possession of office until next year at all events . The head ot the

      cabinet has promised a new Reform Bill , and though as has well been said , we caunot expect au eagle from a wren ' s egg , the nature of that bill will very much depend on the attitude assumed by Parliamentary Reformers during the recess . Lord John Russell is , no doubt , essentially an aristocrat , and from his peculiar idiosyncrac y as well as his position and training , is , to a large extent , incapable of exercising that comprehensive political prescience , which is one of the highest attributes of statesmanship . He inherits princi ples aud traditions , aud has ori ginated nothing . The wholo of his ministerial career has thus been marked by a want of self-reliance in

      construction , and a tendency to fall back upon exter . nal support , which is otherwise at variance with his pride of birth and overweening attachment to his class . But these very qualities , while they render him incapable of exercising that political foresight and insight requisite for the construction of a great and comprehensive measure , place him at the same time greatly at the mercy and under the guidance of " a pressure from without . " It has become proverbial that the Whigs are a " squeezable " race of officials . If they had more of the powers of statesmen they would probably be more self-reliant and independent as it is they are compelled to trim their sails

      and shape their course according to the prevailing current of popular opinion . And hence , though Lord John , if left to himself , would give us a very small bill next session , he may , duly influenced from without , make as great a step in advance of the representative system of 1051 , as he did in advance of that which exiated in 1831 . If Lord John reall y be the only possible Premier at the present juncture , let the people determine to squeeze as much as possible out of him . His antecedents are full of encouragement . A vigorous and an united movement out of doors , may bring the Franchise question nearer to a satisfactory settlement in 1852 than many parties now anticipate .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 14, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1630/page/4/