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    • THE NORTHERN STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST * , 1S&1
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      TYE EOOS' CONCENTRATED XJ GUTXE "VTLE ( or Life Drops ) is as its name implies ji safe and permanent restorative of maaJy Vigour , whether -deficient from long- residence in hofcor cold climates , or arising from solitary habits , youthful delusive excesses , infection , &c It mil also be found a speedy corrective' of all the above dangerous symptoms , weakness of the eyes , Joss of hair and teeth , disease and decay of the nose , ' . gore throat , pains in the side , back , loins , A'C , obstinate ¦ di seases of the kidneys and bladder , gleet , stricture , seminal -weakness , loss of memory , nervousness , headache , giddiness , drowsiness , palpitation of the heart , indigestion , . Jowness of spirit , lassitude and general prostration of strength , < tc , usually resulting from neglect or improper treatment by mercury , copaiba , enbebs , and other deadly poisons . from its properties in removing barrenness and all . disorders of PEMALES , such as leucorrhoaa , or "the whites , " head-ache , giddiness , indigestion , palpitation « f the heart , dry cough , lowness of spirits , < tc , &c . It is admirably adapted to that class of sufferers , as it creates new , pure and rich blood , ( thereby pnriijlng and strengthening the ¦ whole system , ) and soon restores tile . invalid to sound health even after a ± \ other remedies ( which have usually a depressing tendency ) have failed : Jience its almost unparalelled success . May be oltainedukhdirections , &c ., at 4 s ., 6 s ., and 11 s . per bottle , or four Us . quantities in one large bottle for 33 t ., by which lit . tvillbe saved , through all Medicine Vendors , or it am &c eent securely packed from the £ }( aUithment , onretopi of the price by Post-office Order pagaMe atthcMoVnrn ( free . Io Prevent Fraud on the Public by imitations of the above valuable remedies . Her Majesty ' s Honourable Coaamiisioaers of Stamps have directed the name of the Proprietor , in white letters on a red ground , to be en . jTzred on the Government Stamp round each box and l ) Dttle , without which none is genuine , and to imitate which too closely is forgery and transportation . X . B . —Where difficulty occurs in obtaining any of the above , enclose postage stamps to the establishment . IN SEVEN . LANGUAGES . Jlltatrating the improved mode of treatment and cure adopted hy LaXUmani , Iiicord , Dcdandes , and etiicri , of thellopital des Fcnertens a Paris , and now uniformly practised in tltis country by WALTER DE ROOS , M . D ., Member of the Facultd de lleiicine de Paris . 35 , Eli Place , Holbobs Jim , London , THE MEDICAL ADVISEE , Improved edition , written in a popular style , devoid of technicalities , and addressed to all those who are suffering from Spermatorrhoea , or Seminal Weakness , and the various disqualifying forms of premature decay resulting from infection and youthful abuse , that most delusive practice by which the -rigour and manliness of life are enervated and destroyed , even before sature has fully estatnlshed the powers and stamina oi the constitution . It contains also an elaborate and carefully written a ¦ count of the anatomy and physiology of the organs of both sexee , ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS COLOD 11 EDENGRATEXGS , with the Author ' s observation on marriage , its duties and Mnderances . The prevention and modem plan of treating gleet , stricture , Syphilis , ic . Plain directions for the attainment of health , vigour and consequent happiness during the fall period of time allotedto ear species . The work is illustrated by the detail of cases , thus rendering it what its name indicates , the silent but friendly adviser of all who may be Buffering from the consequences « f early error and vice—a work which may be consulted ¦ without exposure , and with every assurance of complete success and benefit . Mag 66 Obtained in a sealed envelope through all 5 oofcsel . lirt , 2 * . 6 A , or to avoid dijSfiwlty , will tie sent direct from thi Jtu ( kor , by post ( free ) for fortgjmstagc stamos . OPIMOKB OF THE PRESS . Ihe papers containing which may be &e | n at Dr . De Roos ' establishment . Extract from the Medical Gazette and Times : — ' Fortunately for our country , a more efficient ( because certain ) mode of treating these deplorable complaints ii at last in . troduced ; and we hail the time as not far distant , when such diseases shall be comparatively unheard of ; we would earnestly recommend all persons afflicted with any kind ofgenerativederangementto avail themselves of the information -contained in almost every page of Dr . De Boos ' s work , which we unhesitatingly pronounce the best estaut . ' ' THE iffiDICAL ADVISER is indeed a boon te the public , as it has the two-fold advantage of plainness , and being written by a 6 ldlfal and duly qualified man , who evidently wellunderstandsliis subject . '—W . Times . ¦¦ Many a man , who unmarried and miserable , is now endHring in silent sorrow the penalties of former folly ( perhaps committed in ignorance , ) had he possessed such a book as this , would hare been a happy husband , a honoured parent sad useful member of society . '—j ? . A : Dispatch , lasting benefit can only be reasonably expected at the hands of the intelligent and practical physician , who , departing from the routine of general practice , devotes the whole oi bis studies to this class of diseases , the lamentable neglect of which by ordinary medical men , and their futile attempts at cure by mercury and other ' equally dangerous medicines , hive produced the most alarming results . - " From the great extent of Vs . De Boos ' s practice for many years , and his former connexion with the various institution ;? , both in London and Paris , for tho relief of those af . fiicted with Debility , Syphilis , Secondary Symptoms , Strictures , Gleet , Teneral and Scorbutic eruptions , < tc . of the lace and body ; he has had perhaps unusual facilities for observing thepecularities and consequences of each parti cular stage . Hence he is enabled confidently and consrien . titrady to undertake the removal of every symptom ( not excepting the most inveterate or long standing ) in as short a time as is consistent with safety or return of money . Country patients wishing to place themselves under treatment will be minute in the detail of their cases , and to prevent trouble , no letters from strangers will be replied to unless they contain £ 1 in cash , or by Post-office Order , payable at the Hol&orn Office , for which the necessary advice and medicines wfll be sent Patients in the country corresponded with till cured , Sv ^^ S ^ ssssaii " isS ^ sattsaaft&as : oepted unless b y preyuras arrangement TSESSSaSH * , t * ^?' * ' -7 Jonthml « lf-styIed ten shiuin » doctor { unblushing impudeace being his oniv quanfi ^ aon ) is now adyertis . Bg under the assumed name" « fU ^ SSS " riK Bican highly injurious imitations of these medicine * , a& an useless abbreviated copy of Dr . De Boos * celebrated Medical Adviser , ( slightly changing its title ) ' BUfFererd will therefore do well to see that the stamp round each . box o ? bottle is a bona fide GC-viassiEKT stamp ( not a base counterfeit ) , and to guard against the truthless statements oi this individual , which are published only for the fcastst . purposes $ f deception cm invalids and fraud on the rccnetor .

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      NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Office , 14 , Southamptea-stxeet , Strand . rp HE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE J . herebyannounce the following meetings : — On Sunday next , at three o ' clock in the afternoon . the Lambeth locality will meet at the South London Hall , and Mr . Fattinson , the sab-secretary , will be in attendance to enrol members . On Sunday evening next , at the Crtwn and Anchor , Cheshire-street , Waterloo Town . On the same evening , at the Bricklayers' Arms , Tonbridge-street , New-road , a lecture will be delivered . On Sunday evening , July 27 th , at the Literary and Scien * tlfic Institution , John-street , Mr . Ernest Jones will lecture . Subject : Aristocracy and the Irish Census . ' On the same evening , at the Literary and Scientific In . stitutton , Leicester-place , St . Peter ' s-terrace , Hattongarden , ifr . W . Broom will lecture . On the same evening at the Woodman Tavern , Whitestreet , Waterloo Town , at Six O ' clock the members of the locality will meet ; and at eight o ' clock a lecture will be delivered . On the same evening , the Washington Locality will meet at the Two Chairmen , Wardour-street , Soho , to enrol members , and other business , and also fer . discussion . On the same evening at 21 , Vine-street , Hatton . garden , a lecture will be delivered . On the same evening , the Victims' Association will meet at Mr . Duadridge ' 8 , Corner of Queen-street and Frithstreet , Soho . i On Monday evening , the Emmett Brigade will meet at : the Bock Tavern , Lisson Grove . ; On the same evening , at the Eclectic Institute , 18 A Denmark-street , Soho , a public meeting will be held to . adopt measures to secure a return of Mr . J . B . O'Brien lor i the Tower Hamlets , at the next election . Chair to be : taken at half-past eight o ' clock . i On the same evening , at the lecture-room , 5 , Gale's-¦ row , Straight ' s Mouth , Greenwich , a lecture wUl be dellj vered by Mr . Charles Murray . Subject : 'The French j Public , Louis Napoleon , and the Russian Alliance . ' On Tuesday evening , in the Coffee-room ot-the John , street Institution , a meeting * will be held for the" purpose of discussing ' The relative merits of Free Trade and Protection , ' The sub-secretary will be in attendance to enrol members . Chair to be taken at half past eight o ' clock . On Tuesday evening , at the Paragon Chapel , Bermondsey Hew-road , a lecture will be delivered . On the same evening , at the Literary Institution , Leicester-place , Ray-street , Clerlcenwell , a public meeting will be held to review the political events of the week . On Wednesday evening , the United COuucilBOf the Tower Hamlets will meet at the Crown and Anchor . On the same evening , at the Paragon Chapel , Bermondsey NeW'road , a public meeting will be held to adopt petitiODS to both houses of Parliament , praying for an inquiry into the inhuman and cruel treatment of the Chartist Victims of 1848 . Messrs . Bezer , Fussell , Bryson , and the Other victims , are especkd to attend . Ott Saturday evening , the Cripplegate Locality will meet at the City Hall , 2 G , Golden Lane , Barbican . N . B . —Lectures are delivered every Sunday and Friday evenings at the Eclectic Institute , 18 a , Denmark-street , Soho . by J . B . O'Brien . ' IJJ& * Notices of Lectures , &c , will be gladly inserted in tliis list , provided the same be forwarded to the abQYC office On w before Thursday noon . Signed on behalf of the Committee , John Abnott , General Secretary .

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      ^ STpo ^ rfX ^ Ko ^ elled us to d ^ communications from several correspondents . NOTICE . Bv mistake the latter portion of the report of the meeting for the emancipation of the Jews was not inserted in its proper place , and the error was not discovered until it was too late .

      The Northern Star, Saturday, August * , 1s&1

      THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , AUGUST * , 1 S& 1

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      THE STAFFORD CONSPIRACY AGAINST LABOUR . "¦ Some weeks ago we called the attention-of the Trades' Unions and working classes generally to an approaching trial at Stafford . This week we give a somewhat copious report of that trial , which we have no hesitation in saying in its results deeply and directly affects the independence , the freedom , and the very existence of the labouring classes of this conntrj . We have not had time fully and calmly to consider the nature and bearings of the opinions expressed by the Judge , or the verdicts of the Juries ; and on the present occasion , therefore , can merely venture to give utterance to a few cursory thoughts , arising out of the more prominent facts presented by the trial .

      In the first place , it is evident that the case itself was totally denuded of any appearance of violenceriot , intimidation , or personal threatB . Never , in the history of Trades' Strikes , Was there one conducted with greater moderation and decorum ; however strong might be the feeling against the opposing employers , never was there one in which calmness and forethought were more habitually exercised . Whether this was—aB we believe it to be-rattributable to the counsels and the influence of the Central Committee of the National Trades

      Association , is , comparatively speaking , a matter of little moment compared ; with the fact that during a protracted and exciting struggle , not one solitary case of violence or personal threats could be substantiated . The only instance in which it was attempted to be shown that such had been resorted to , was by a person of whom we need not say more , than that a special jury , evidentl y by no means favourable to the defendants , disbelieved his . evidence , and pronounced a distinct verdict of ' Not Guilty , ' in refutation of his trumped-up testimony .

      The abstinence from violence , either of language or action may , in the first instance , have been poorly repaid by the Staffordshire juries , who , upon other counts of the indictmeut , could dream of attaching the idea of guilt or criminality , however slight , to the exercise of such established and indefeasible rights as those claimed and exercised by the members of the Central Committee , and by the body of the Tin Plate Workers , ' during their reasonable endeavour to assimilate

      prices in the various manufactories of Wolverhampton . But we beg the trades of this country not to be discouraged by the result , We confidently believe that they have only to persevere in the same course , to ensures permanent and a satisfactory settlement of the claims of labour . It is impossible that such qualities can be habitually exhibited without commanding the respect of the intelligent classes of society , and penetrating through those seven fold barriers of prejudice and mutual ignorance , which unfortunately separate the wealthy and the working classes from each other .

      With respect to the manner in which the trial was conducted on the part of the Prosecution , the Judge , and the Jury , we regret that we cannot speak favourably . Not that a mere verdict of' Guilty' would have called forth our disapprobation . We might , previous to the trial , have been in error , either as to the facts or the law of the case . Matters haying an important bearing upon the question , might not have come to our knowledge , which being disclosed at the trial , might have induced us to agree in the conclusion arrived at , in spite of oui « sympathy with the defendants . But having been present during the trials , and watched most attentively the whole of the proceedings , we have to state that , as far as the conduct of the Central Committee was

      concerned , not one single point was substantiated against them , contrary to the principles by which they professed to be guided in conducting the business of the National Association of United Trades . They claim what they believed , and , notwithstanding the hostile decision of the Stafford special jury , what we still believe to be a legal right—namely , the right to persuade free journeymen to combine for the purpose of fixing the rate of wages at which they will sell their labour . To deny that right is , in fact , to convert the whole working classes of this country into the bond

      slaves of the masters , without giving them in return what the African slave does receive from his owner—food , clothing , and shelter , in return for his labour . The decision would , if it cotild- be practically and generally enforced , give all the disadvantages of Chatel slavery , without any of its compensations for thelosB of personal liberty , and make this country utterly unendurable by any working man who had a spark of intelligence or independence in his breast . Fortunately , however , for the producing classes , theSolonsof Staffordshire were not entrusted with the final settlement of

      this important question . There is a higher court of appeal , to which we understand the whole subject will be referred , and we will yet hope , that in a Court of Error , the Judges will quash a verdict , which , as delivered on Wednesday last , was not only opposed to the evidence , but to the summing up of a Judge , who had shown himself , throughout the trial , to have a decided loaning against the defendants .

      Stripped of all verbiage , and reduced into its naked elements , the question at issue appears to us to be essentially this : The statute of Geo . IV . makes it legal for working men to combine for the purpose of fixing rates of wages or hours of labour . This ri ght is conferred upon every working man by the statute . To persuade a working man , or a bod y of working men , to do that which is logal cannot bo illegal . If it is , in what doos the illepalitv consist ? Clearly , neither in tto j ^ . ' of the prices or the rate of wages , nor tho combining to obtain those prices or wagos . Thcso are statutory rights . Tho illegality , then , must consist in tho persuasion . But it is forco intimidation , and violence , that tho statute , and

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      tha common law , as well aa the common sense of society , levels prohibition , isfoi persuasion . If persuasion to exercise legal rights , and attain legal objects be criminal , what is to become of us ? Shall we not make a chaos of society , unsettle its foundations , abandon all sound principles of action , and be driven helplessly along at the mercy of the impulses and the prejudices of the hour % We can imagine many things to which this new doctrine of the criminality of persuasion

      would be applicable that would rather startle ' good easy souls . ' It would shut up Exeter Hall , for instance , —Bible Societies , Tract Societies , Missionary Societies , and a host of others are not exactly legal . They are permissory , not statutory . How would the orators like to be prevented from persuading their ' dear brethren , ' and their still dearer ' sisters , ' to contribute to such laudable objects ? Whatwould Mr . Newdegate or Mr . Spooner , the members for one of the divisions of the

      county in which a special jury came to this preposterous verdict , think if they were told they were liable to be imprisoned for conspiracy to persuade people that Protection was a good thing , and must be restored ?—what would Mr . Cobden and Sir David Bbewster say if they were sent to Tothill Fields , for persuading people that gunpowder and blunderbusses are not the . most rational way of settling disputes ? You smile at such questions being asked ! But not one of these objects stands upon so strong a legal foundation as the right to combine for the purpose of fixing the rate of wages and the hours of labour .

      But we must draw these cursory remarks to a close for the present . We will only add , in conclusion , that it is always a source of pain to us , whenthe honest discharge of a duty , as public journalists , compels us to rebuke the Judges for the manner in which they administer . the law . We wish the judgment seat to be pure and unspotted , and those ' . who oc £ cupy it to possess the confidence , the eBteem , and the respect of the masses . But they can only do so by holding the scales of justice with an even hand , and that , we regret to say , Mr . Justice Eble did not do to pur apprehension at Stafford . Mr . Sergeant Ambu broke down

      in opening the case on Monday morning , and the judge in the evening came to the rescue . In his summing up in the case of DutfHELD , Woodnorxh , and GrArar , he became the Counsel for the prosecution , and argued with a zeal and a tact , and a one-sided fervour , that threw the learned gentlemen who had received briefs completely into the shade . In fact , we could with great certainty havo predicted the nature of his charge to the jury at half-past eleven in the forenoon , Mr . Perry's statement of the case , in the evidence , had taken full possession of his mind , and , though that individual was sorely shaken by the cross-examination on the following day , Mr . Justice Erie never recovered from his influence . He

      saw the whole case from beginning to end , through Mr . Perry ' s spectacles , We do not wonder that , under the influence of example , on Wednesday the jury should have been more egregiously wrong , and capped the climax by returning a verdict in direct opposition to the evidence , and to hig own summing up . We are rather pleased at this result than otherwise . The preposterous nature of the verdict , conjoined with the exceedingly exceptional character of the Judge ' s summing up , will make the reversal of the verdiot all the more easy , when it comes to be heard in the more calm , judicial , " and unbiassed atmosphere of the Queen ' s Bench .

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      PETTY TYRANNY . Lord Seymoub has , at length , replied to the charges made against him by Ann Hicks . As might be expected , he has taken refuge in a jungle of quibbles and evasions . The case is not mended , but aggravated by his explanations . All that we can gather clearly from them id ; that the poor woman is a victim to the spite of some of the underlings of the Park , who have made the Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Forests the instrument to workout their malignity , or to serve their interests . Lord Seymour professed to class the woman

      he has turned out of house and home , with " many other persons who kept stalls in the park ; but there was an evident and a substantial difference between these stall-keepers and HiKCS , even according to his own showing . Not one of them was suffered to occupy an old conduit , and when that was pulled down to erect in succession a wooden and then a brick building for shop and dwelling . It might be wrong in the first instance to give such a permission , though we can't see where the wrong lies , but having given it , compensation was clearly due for the loss of any property constructed upon the basis of such a

      permission . As we lately warned Lord Seymour , such conduct as this will neither conduce to the popularity of his own order , nor the security of monarchical institutions in this country , These instances of petty tyranny do more to alienate the people fro m their rulers , than general measures of a more sweeping and comprehensive nature . The injustice iB personified and made palpable , and the same instinct which prompts Englishmen to rush in and demand fair play when they see a strong man striking a weak one , impels them to action when they see a ' lord , ' high in office , perverting the power of his rank and station to the oppression and impoverishment of a poor apple-woman .

      The small space of ground cut off from tho park , for the cottage of Ann Hicks , made no perceptible encroachment on the space required for the recreation and health of the people of London ; and theaccommodationwaB repaid by services , . which , though humble , were useful . Can Lord Seymour say as much for many members of his own class , which , if not under bis own official reign , at | least under his predecessors , have contrived to filch from the public domain spaces sufficient for mansions , lawns , and gardens ? If his lordship really desires to evince vigour in the protection of the public property , he had better turn his attention to that class of offenders . He will find work

      enough to keep him occupied for many a long day with these wealthy and titled plunderers . When he has done with them , and has extra leisure , he can commence again his warfare with stall-keepers and poor apple-women .

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      CONTINENTAL POLITICS . Under the head of Reviewa we have given this week an appalling expose of the state of affairs in Naples . The source from whence those horrible revelations is drawn , places the facts beyond dispute or cavil , and they lead to . the conclusion so forcibly expressed bv Byron , that— * y Alone can cleanse earth from hell ' s pollution " JJ ^ ft" ! ° ne g 0 ? effect of Mr - GladsrONES disclosures has been , for the time Doing , to shame the Absolutist Times into something like decency . Had the statements been made by Mazzini , Pepe , L < Sf f T !~ 7 > y V < th 08 ° * ho have tought for Italian freedom and independence , they would have either been passed over in contemptuous silence , or summarily decreed as falsehoods . But , no ; Gladstones details are too hideous , sickening , and substantial , to be thus disposed of ; and his position , and veil-known views , render ma authorit y unimpeachable , even by the unscrupulous and unprincipled organ of foreign despots in this country . Tho Times , therefore , nflects to condemn—in common with Mr . Gladstone and the Earl of Aberdeenthe atrocJtice perpetrated by the King of

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      From the Gazette of Tuesday , Juhj Wlh BANKRUPTS . E-wa Herring , Trinity-street , Southi fflrir , » JKj , turrnR chonmt-John Limbird , Strand , * t ** f * rftt * ke

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      MONIES RECEIVED For the Wbbk Endino TflUBBWtf , Jusx 31 st , 1851 . WINDING-DP OF THE LAND COMPANY . BECEIVED BY W . RIDEK . £ } jj , Bristol , per J . Linney .. .. 0 s " NATIONAL CHARTER FUND . Received by W . Rider . _ W . Rigg , Bridgeford-gate »•

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      Naples , But this mock detestation comes ton late to Bare it from the guilt and tho inf ahl of having hallooed on the tyrant in his blood . , thirsty , brutal , and perjured career , and u-e trust it will have the effect of ultimatel y opey . ing tho eyes of Englishmen to the utter false * hood and baseness of that journal os ] i matters affecting foreign politics . The nev Society of the Friends of Italy should receive the hearty co-operation of all who sympathy with struggling patriotism , and detest op . pression and cruelty . v '

      In France , the Assembly having snubbed the President , and put an extinguisher upo n his Imperial pretensions , are about to adjo urn leaving a committee to watch over the machi ! nations of the Elysee during tho vacation " M . Buonaparte , however , will scarcel y be able to give them so much trouble as he did last year , seeing that his coffers are empty , and-w e presume , therefore ihat there will be no semiimperial progresses , no grand reviews , no

      champagne , sausages , and cigars , to the soldiery this recess . The Republic stands in spite of all its assailants , and every year that it ig enabled to hold its ground , will its roots strike deeper and take a firmer hold . The people of France will become accustomed to its institutions , will , in the course of time , receive a political education under them of a superior character , and gradually remove the imperfections which experience may Bhow to exist is the Constitution .

      That is a very different thing from destroy . ing it altogether , which is the object of tho Beactionists . In Portugal , Marshal Saldauha , finds it difficult to keep his position as military dictator . His legions are becoming troublesome , even to mutiny , at several points , and tho reputation of strength is leaving him , the gura precursor of his downfall . In Germany the despotic policy of the crowned conspiratorB against European freedom seems for the

      moment prosperous . The Frankfort Diet has resolved to entertain the Austrian proposition for the incorporation of its foreign provinces into the Diet , and repudiates the right of the other European powers to interfere . It remains to be seen whether this violation of the treaties , by which alone these artificial nationalities were created , and the powev of Austria over them recognised , will be submitted to by the other powers .

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      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The one bill of the Session ultimatel y passed the House of Lords without a division , and the Catholic hierarchy are now subjected to a regime more stringent than they were previous to the ill-advised policy of the Pope . Looking at some recent proceedings of the newly-created Cardinal-Archbishop and pre . lates , we incline to think that they -vviJI contrive to make the act practically a dead

      letter . They will probably give no excuse for invoking the penal clauses of the mea sure ; for , though the Romish Church can be insolent and aggressive enough when that course is safe and expedient , it can be equally humble and submissive M'hen its immediate interests demand the assumption oi a humility foreign to its real nature . It can bo all things to all men , and , finding that it was mistaken in supposing England was ready to return to its bosom , it will quietly lock up its titles from general use , until a more favourable opportunity .

      As far as the House of Commons is concerned the fate of the Crystal Palace is decided , though there is still room to fear that the evident disinclination of the Government to its continuance , will ultimately cause it to bo taken down , unless public opinion declares very unequivocally in favour of its permanent retention . At present it is only respited to May next . The uses it can be put to are to bo discussed in the interval . Whatever may be thought of the Exhibition under its roof , there can be but one opinion of the marvellous beauty of the structure itself , and it would be a thousand pities to destroy so admirable an illustration of the mechanical science and

      constructive skill of this country . But one condition of its preservation-should be , that . whatever purposes it may be devoted to , should be thoroughly popular , and the arrangements of such a nature , as would permit all clasaea of the community freely to participate in their advantages . In the long disputed question of Jewish admissibility into the Legislature , Lord John has succeeded - in placing Mr . Alderman Salomons in the same state of suspended animation as he . has kept his own Colleague for the City of London in for the last four yearB , The seat for the borough of Greenwich is not vacant , and yet Mr . Salomons is not a member ! ? Next session' is to solve the puzzle .

      But we fear , if the matter be left to the same parties , it will suffer the same fate as it did last session , ' and several sessions before that . Lord John has evidently no heart in the cause . In the meanwhile , unquestionably the Jews have gained strength by the delay . The decided , course taken lay Mr . Salomons , and its probable repetition will seriously inconvenience the Lower House , and and ' my lords , ' who are inacessible to abstract reasoning , ¦ will , in the end , be forced into an ungracious concession of the right contended for by the apparition of some half dozen Jews , within the bar' of the House of Commons , sent there as the viBible exponents of public opinion on this question There can be no doubt that Jews have a

      decided advantage in the electoral market over their Christian competitors at the present time . A year having passed away without aiT )« thing being done to carry into effect the much vaunted measure of last year , for the abolition of Metropolitan Church-yards , much sparring has taken place between the officials , as to where the Wamo lies , According to the Earl of Silvftesbury , ife is owing to the Btingine& 3 of the Chancellor of the Exchequer , who refused the necessary means ; while he , not unreasonably , retorts that the scheme was so gigantic in its proportions , and so doubtful

      in some of its propositions , that his notion of duty revolted at it . While this squabble is going on nothing is done , and the rotting carcases in the numerous burial grounds of tie metropoh ' B . pollute and poison the atmosp here inhaled . by two miUions and ahalf of p eople . In other respects , the parliamentary week has been a busy one as far as mere work J » concerned , As to the quality of that worfc we do not speak . It is announced that next Friday the Queen will close the Session in person ; and this will terminate one of tie most barren and useless sittings of Parliament during the last half century .

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      ... THE NORTHERN STAR . August 2 , Igdl : 4- _ : _ " i — - ———— - ———^***™^ ¦ '" * ¦ ¦ Mm

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 2, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1637/page/4/