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TO THE MEN OF ENGLA . ND . \{ v Fbiends , — For the last two months I ebeen upon the Continent , to avoid the 1 v annoyances that I have had , and the ^ 1 actions with which I have been Seoed . I do not think that any man ho has endeavoured to elevate the poor , has fered the same persecution that I hare . Sfl , however I may be persecuted , I amie" ived to adhere to those principles which will 1 rate the poor , and release them from the Jinny of their oppressors I have received a letter from my friend
Sweet , of Nottingham , mviting me to attend meeting at Sheffield , atating that many of i ? fottingbam men will go there by special x j ^ n ; and my answer is , that when my friend crfEEX and the Nottingham mea make arrtogetaents with my friends at Sheffield , 1 ^ l be most happy to attend the meeting in jiat town . However I may he abnsed , pergccnted , or prosecuted , I am resolved never to abandon one point of the Charter ; and I am resol ved to carry on another Land Company , ipon my own responsibility , when the present ouo is wound up ; and when the ruffians , who
have been located by the money of the poor , axe ousted from the land which they have held for over four years , and have got £ 50 aid money , and loan money , and paid not a fraction of rent . Politics are so very dull , now that I need say no -more than that , I remain , . Your faithful and uncompromising friend and Advocate , Feabqus O'CoNNoa .
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POLITICAL VICTIMS' ASSOCIATION . Hug body met at Mrl BnMriage ' s , on gnnday evening . Mr . John Shaw in the ehair . ^ fter the regular business had been disposed of , it was decided that on and after Sunday , October 5 th , the Association should meet on Sunday evenings , at the Two Chairmen , ^ ardour-street , Soho . It was also announced that upwards of 120 tickets of the Concert to be held at that house on Monday , the 6 th , had been disposed of . —Mr . Jeffries having read the speech of Lord Falmerston to his coDstitutents at Tiverton , and commented
tbereoo , moved a resolution condemnatory of the falsehoods therein contained . —After along discussion , in which Messrs . "Wheeler , Hunniball , Bezer , Bryson , and others took part , an amendment was moved , that the Association issue an address on the subjectj both re-Eolntion and amendment : were lost . —Mr . J . Shaw then vacated the chair , and Mr . Martin was elected thereto . — Mr . John Shaw then stated that during Ma Tecenttour in the country , he had become acquainted with a case at Ashton-nnder-Lyne , which it was the bounden duty of the Association to take
up and investigate . During the excitement of 1848 , a person named Ratcliffe , of Ashton , had been convicted of the murder of a policeman and sentenced to death , which punishment , owing to information received by the G overnment , was afterwards commuted into transportation . Circumstances had since arisen which proved that Ratcliffe waB innocent of the charge . The mayor of Ashton , several of the Town Council , and Mr . Hindley , M . P ., were so convinced of this fact , that they
had proferred to get up a memorial , and come to London at their own expense to pTesent it to the Queen , praying for his pardon . He { Mr . Shaw ) had an interview with some of these gentlemen , also with Dr . H'Dooall , Mr . Aitken , and other known friends , and they thought much good might be done by arousing the sympathies of the men of Londoa on behalf of this man . Mr . Shaw concluded by proposing : — ' That a public meeting he called to lay the matter before the London democrats '—Mr . Wheeler moved as an
amendment : —' That the Secretary correspond with Mr . Aitken , Dr . M'DoualJ , J . Taylor , and other friends at Aishton , ar id-get poBie * - sionof the whole facts of the case prior to calling the public meeting . —Mr .- Jeffries seconded the amendment , but thought that the mayor was the proper party to correspond irith . ' —Mr . Bezer proposed a rider to that effect . After a long discussion , and other amendments in details , it was carried : — * That the Secretary correspond with Mr .
Aitken , and make him acquainted with the suggestions thrown out by the various amendments . ' Messrs . Bezer , Wheeler , Shaw ; and Prowting , were nominated as candidates for the situation vacant in the Executive by the resignation of Mr . Reynolds . —Mr . Wheeler declined standing , and the question was adjourned for a week . —A vote of thanks was given to Mr . Reynolds for his general conduct , and for Ms late present of the debt , &c , due to him by the Executive .
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THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PEOPLE . THE GOVERNMENT AND THE
Mb . Editor , —English legislation , as it affects the masses , is demonstrative of partiality . Wealth is adequately protected by numerous laws ; but Labour is without a regulation of a defensive character . As with Wealth and Labour , so it is with the conditions of the respective classes . The former has its institutions of power and influence
while the latter is left to shift for itself , and to experience , in most cases , the decay consequent upon so much indifference . The Government , by its legal enactments , has never considered the exigencies of those it is said to control . It is notorious for putting down a manifestation ; but it is ever wanting in raising up , to its deserved height , that help-mate in law , by which equality of Justice may reign supreme .
The present condition of the working classes is evidence in corroboration of this statement . As men grow older , they see Wealth drifting on one side of them , and Poverty , in huge heaps , encompassing them on the other . This ia the result . of a false distribution—the operation of a one-sided law . The Act of 1819 was passed to make the few rich and the many poor . Panics are the tell-tales of such misgovernment . There is far more difficult y in raising sixty millions in 1851 , than there was ever found in 1815 ia raising eighty millions . Yet the country has increased in riches , hb
people say , and her population has augmented nearly eig hty per cent . . This is one of the anomalies of the age ; and its cause is traceable to class rule . The truth is , the labouring classes have yet to be considered ; and when the time shall come , which shall witness legislation taking a direction hi then * favour , the iniquities of the present system will be a blot upon the escutcheon of the nation . The people are not only unrepresented in the House of CommonB , but they are , with few exceptions only , positively friendless in that governing power . A Slanet cannot obtain a bearing ; a Scrope seldom forty
hearers . These gentlemen no sooner mention , to ' ears polite , ' something relative to the working people , than uneasiness begins to be manifested on the part of the members ; the seats are less comfortable than usual ; the representatives are severely attacked with bronchitis ; and everybody is looking upon his neighbour for some means of escape . What wonder , then , that Labour is without the protection . of the law , and that the labourers are heedlessly passed by ? Such Governments are not formed for the diffusion of happiness broadcast , but on confined plantations , the property of the few .
Not alone are the dwellings of the poor a standing monument of shame and neglect to a liberal government , but the absence of those wholesome restrictions , whereby a qualified amount of protection would be bestowed , is a sin of omission of a fearful tendency , when the dependent state of the artisan is but for a moment considered . Look at the feeling of thrift , as shown by the people in the establishment of sick and burial clubs , out-of-work funds , and trades' societies ; and let the reader aBk himself the question—What has Government done either to
encourage the growth of this feeling , or to shield its possessors from the fraud of the wrongdoer ? The Friendly Benefit Societies' Act is a job , from beginning to end . ¦ Few inen ' can understand it , so contradictory are its clauses . And whilst it purposes to fix responsibility , upon the officers of societies governed thereby , it has made the chances of escape so numerous , that seldom can a conviction be obtained , by following its provisions . There is the rich man ' s bank , but there is no poor man ' s fund ; the law has made a monopoly of the one , in the hope of better protecting it ; but the other remains to be originated .
The Benefit Clubs of this country are an honour to the struggling classes—they are what they are , despite those who govern . Yet how frequent are their failures , how subject are they to the peculation of the dishonest . Prosper ing whilst the members are young , decaying as they decline in years . No graduated scales of payment to or ly the Societies will ever remove this inevitable tendency .
The numbers of each are so small , that an average of income and expenditure cannot possibly complete the circle of a fair trial , because a season of depression is made the pretext for a large secession . Thus fall the clubs of the working people . So it is with all their other plans of mutual benefit . They lack the one thing , without which it is impossible for them to succeed—viz ., the power of
Association . The Insurance Societies , fortunately , are now coming to the help of the people . In most of our large towns in England , consideration is being made for the sick and the friends of the departed ; and so far they are most worthy of approval . But they never can be made generally accessible ; for then : rates of payment are much beyond the means of tens of thousands of the labourers of this country . Again , what has been done In the way of forming savings banks for the people ? This :
that whilst the Government will condescend to use the money invested , . it Trill not guarantee its security to the inyeBter . Oh , it waB a deep-laid scheme to form these institutions ; bnt how much higher runs thecunningness up the glass , -when the protection vas withheld 1 Such things are extraordinary , in a country like our own ; but however singular , the whole system of Government is shown in the development—the poor man has never been considered , except it be to deceive and defraud him .
What duty is more compatible with the functions of a Government , than that of securing to the governed the protection of the state ? Could money be better expended , than by encouraging the working people lo be careful , and re warding them with benefits coincident with their own thriftiness ? Had the Government , in past times , formed an Insurance Association , if only for its poorer subjects—by receiving a small subscription and guaranteeing a few ~ shillings weekly in sickness , and a few pounds at death , vast ' numbers of those Societies that were only formed to give employment
to a Secretary and work to an undertaker , destined to last but a few years—would not have been so successful in their planB of deception . Security will always command support ; and it is because one society seems to offer this upon a sounder princi ple than another , that the changes of members amongst them are so frequent , for a few pence weekly , under Government recognition , ( not Government jobbing ) , all the benefits of our Sick and Burial Clubs might have been ensured ; thuB putting aside all chanceB of failure , and ever tending to make the people a frugal and contented race .
To my mind , this is one of the social duties of a well intentioned Government . I remark the absence of such a thought in hundreds of men who have belonged to societies whilst young' but through their failure and their advanced years , are now denied the privileges
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connected with such institutions ; and I notice the want of such a plan in the arbitrary rule of those who manage many of our benefit societies , when circumstances are shut out of consideration , and che strict letter of the rules only adhered to . Pecuniary difficulties are always remembered by the Associations of any respectability ; and , if a member have belonged to them for a given period , the fact of his inability to pay his subscription is not sufficient to exclude him from benefit or from the society . These are the real advantages of an extensive and well-regulated plan ; and , under the superintendence of an enlightened government , would be made the means , not only of securing to it the thanks of the nation , but also an instrument of civilization , working out a universal good . connected with such institutions * nd T notice
But such ways of promoting good are . not thought of , or if so not adopted , by British Statesmen , according to the ancient and : present models . Why ? Because they affect the labouring classes . It would seem to be dangerous to take up such a consideration . Even your Manchester economists are for avoiding suoh a theme . They have said , to talk about-helping the labourer is to , raise up a false hope within him / Sol say . He would beginrtpi think some infinitesemal quantity of Justice was about to be showered upon him ; and so , as this is not meant , why it is better to keep him as he is .
To all Buch partial judgment there must soon come an end . The people must be better represented in order that greater truth may prevail . Hitherto men have profited by the industry of the worker ; but there are strong inolications that the latter will be less disposed to be the hired Blave he has been , in the glor ious future . Not that that day 1 b near , nor that the minds of our rulers are intent upon wielding the sword of Justice with a more impartial hand . No ! The rancour is there
still ; as poisonous as ever . The people muBt work out b y themselves what they most stand in need of . They must declare , and struggle for its accomplishment . From their own ranks they must choose men to do the needful work ; if necessary they must support such men . But above all , the cry must go forth , that the Government must legislate for the people , both rich and poor , with a true hand ; and to raise this cry effectually , the people must be properly represented . Cbnsok .
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NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Offices—14 , Southarapton-street , Strand . ' The Executive Committee of this body held their usual weekl y meeting as above on Wednesday evening last . Present : MeBsrs . Arnott , Grassby , Hunt , JoneB , and Milne . Messrs . Harney and Holyoake , being in the country , were absent . Mr . O'Connor was also absent through indisposition . Mr . James Grassby presided . The correspondence received was read .
The Secretary having read Mr . Reyno'ds ' s letter tendering his resignation , it was unanimously agreed , on the motion of Messrs . Hunt and Milne ;— ' That the Secretary be instructed , in the name of the Chartist body , to thank Mr . Reynolds for his services in the Chartist cause . ' On the motion of Messrs . Jones and Milne , it was unanimousl y agreed ; — * Thai the vacancy in the Executive Committee , caused by the resignation of Mr . Reynolds , be . ; at once filled up , and that the Secretary be instrutted to forthwith issue orders for that pur * pose . ' * . ¦ .
[ In accordance with the above instruction , all localities are hereby requested to proceed at once to nominate a fit and proper person (" such person having been a bonajide member of the Association for , at least , six months' ) to fill the vacancy in the Executive , caused by the resignation of Mr . Keynolds . AH nominations must be forwarded to the office on or before Wednesday , October 15 th . ] The Secretary reported , that the auditors ( Messrs . Hunniball and Piercy ) had examined the accounts for the last quarter , and found them correct ; that the receipts amounted to £ 20 9 s . Sid ., and the expenditure to £ 40 15 s . 10 d ., leaving a balance due to the Treasurer of £ 11 6 s . lid .
A vote of thanks was given to the auditors for their services . . On the motion of Messrs . Jones and Milne , it was unanimously agreed : — ' That a plain and explicit statement of the present financial position of the Committee be published in the forthcoming Democratic journals , and that Messrs , Arnott and Hunt be requested to draw up the same . The Committee then adjourned to Wednesday evening , October 8 th . Tho following is the financial statement as drawn up by Messrs . Arnott and Hunt ;—
• TO THE CHARTISTS . ' Bbother Democrats , —We feel assumed there never waB a time when it was more important than the present for the Chartist machinery to be kept in working order , because , as a means of propagandist !] , its ramifications are unparalleled ; because , also , on looking at the serious aspect of affairs at Home and Abroad , we see that great events are looming in the distance , and that this strong engine can be so worked as to be of incalculable benefit to the Democratic cause , for it to be now broken up and dissevered would be a disaster . "We feel confident that all true friends to progression would deplore such an untoward event .
' We are aware that the so-called " World ' s Fair , " with many other circumstances , have diverted your attention for the last five or six months from . political subjects ; and , consequently , the t fuuds which have flowed into the Chartist Exchequer have been of that limited description , that we feel it to be our imperative duty to lay before you , as explicitly as possible , our present financial position , 'In addition to the above balance due to the Treasurer of £ 11 6 s . l ^ d ., there is due for rent of office , £ 13 4 s ., and for printing i' 9 10 s . 6 d ., making a total of £ 34 0 s . 7 | d . This debt is yours ; and we candidly ask you ,
as men who value justice , to pay it . What we require is two thousand sixpences ; and surely there can be that number found who will , with pleasure , subscribe this small sum , in order to save the organisation from becoming a wreck ? We have very briefly and plainly stated the case , and call on all who love liberty , to exert their utmost energies to raise this amount within one month . If it cannot be so raised within that period , we must conclude you are content to let the machinery fall , and that the attempt to elevate you by your own organisation is useless . On your response the movement depends .
• You cannot fail to feel the full extent of that responsibility . Chartism was never in a more healthful condition . After all the dissensions and doubts that hare hindered us , your organisation is continually recruiting itself . Most of you know this . But the recovered action has not yet fully developed itself ; you have not yet provided for the increased activity of your central machinery j and you are increasing the neglect of letting that fall through before your renewed strength is brought into working action . You will ap » preciate this frank appeal , and we doubt not respond to it at once . '
Signed on behalf of the Committee , John abnott , General Secretary . N . B . —Subscriptions received by the Secretary , at the Office , 14 , Southampton Street , Strand . A detailed balance sheet will bo published next week .
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PadiHAM . —On Sunday last two lectures were delivered in the Odd Fellows' Hall , by Mr . Thomas Cooper ; the first , in the afternoon , on 'Kosciusko , and the Struggles for Polish Independence . ' The second lecture , in the evening , was on the 'Life and Character of the lato Sir Robert Peel ; his Influence on our Age , and a Glance at Coming Events , which Cast their Shadows Before . ' Mr .
Cooper passed in review all the political events of the late Sir Kobert Peel , amongst which was the Peterloo Massacre ; and , in conclusion , he said , now that Sir Robert Peel was dead , It would be impossible to keep the People ' s Charter from being obtained if the people would only organise ; and then strongly urged on the meeting to join the National Charter Association .
The Crys tal Coffee-house . — On Friday evening week Mr . WilliamWorselditie lectured on the 'RomanDrama . ' Finsbury Democratic Association . —A meeting was held in Martin ' s Coffee-house , Clerkenwell-green , on Sunday night , Mr . Daniel Hockley presided . The adjourned discussion on the motion for merging this Association into a London Democratic Union
was resumed by Mr . Osborn and others , and was ultimately—with a few alterations in its details—unanimousl y agreed to , and the following members were elected a provisional Executive Committee ' . —Messrs . Philip Johnson , Henry Hockley , Daniel Hockley , William Osborn , William Jones , John Hindle , and David Cater ; from which Mr . P . Johnson was elected Provisional Treasurer ; and D ; Cater , Provisional Secretary .
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WINDING-UP OF THE NATIONAL &AND COMPANY , ^^^^ BBB ™ , T « , «~ „ .
ADJOURNED MEETING . On Tuesday an adjourned meeting in this matter , in which a large number of persons are interested , was held in Vice-Chancellor . Turner s Court , before his honour the Master m ~ j iancer y Humphrey , to receive affidavits BDa depositions , to satisfy the court that the order absolute to wind-up the affairs of the undertaking had been obtained by the solicitors and
parties concerned , with the sanction and authority of Mr . Feargus O'Connor , M . P ., who was present during tho proceedings , occupying , with others connected with the ' defunct scheme , the bench allotted to solicitors , the Master at the last meeting having intimated vtfaat he would not appoint an Official Manager until all the circumstances connected with the transaction were full y explained ; and that unless this were satisfactorily done , there might be : reasons for rescinding the order . he counsel
Tfollowing were present ' . Mr . BagsW . Mr . Roxburgh , Mr . Wm . James , Mr . Chi-Chester , Mr . De Gex , Mr . Sweet , Mr . Rogers , Mr . A . Hill , and numerous solicitors . - ¦ ¦ ¦¦ Them-oceedings- were commenced by Mr . Brake , he chief clerk , reading the following " resolutions " handed in to the court , passed at a meeting of the Land members of the Leicester Branch of the National Land Company . on the 27 th of September . " We , being members of the Leicester branoh of the National Land Company , hereby declare , that for a considerable time past we have viewed with ' suspicion' the acts of the solicitor- and directors on whom devolved the management of the Company ' s atfairs , and being fully convinced that the
majority of our fellow members have long since censed to repose trust in these men , we cannot refrain from expressing our entire disapproval of their conduct -with regard to their appointment of an Ofiwal Manager in the winding-up of our affairs ; we therefore earnestly hope that the Master in Chancery will not be induced to gratify their sinister motives by the selection of their nominee , one whom we sincerely believe would be incapable of affording satisfaction to the poor men who have been induced to embark their hard earned pence in the project . We , after due consideration , feel confident that Mr . Thomas Price , having a prior knowledge of the misdeeds of the directors , and from his well-known business habits , his qualification of the highest order , his uniform uprightness and punctuality , — is eminently calculated for the office of Official
Manager ; and having tho utmost confidence in that gentleman , we hereby respectfully pray that faster Humphrey will be pleased to appoint Mr . Price to assist his Honour in winding-up the Company . Propesed by William Lap worth ; seconded by James Clarke ; carried unanimously . '—William Gbeehb , Chairman ; Thomas Nswton , Secretary . " Resolutions were also read , forwarded from a meeting of the Bristol branch shareholders , in favour of the same candidate for the Official Managership , and denying that because ho had been Manager of the Land and Labour Bank in connexion with the Land Company , he was " ineligible" to be appointed Official Manager to Tfincl > up the affairs of the latter Company . Mr . Swbbt then proceeded to read the affidavits filed with the court since the last meeting .
The affidavit of Mr . W . P . Boberts , solicitor , of Manchester , get forth that' he was solicitor on behalf of tbe Company , appointed by the general body of shareholders , and had been so from the Company's formation . Mr . Feargua O'Connor , M . P ., late of Notting Hill-terrace , was one of the promoters , and chairman and manager of the Company , and as such always gave deponent the necessary instructions for transacting the general legal business of the Company , either directly or through Mr . Chinnery , of Robert-street , Adelphi , who was formerly depondent ' s managing clerk , and was now his London agent . Mr . Feargus O'Connor , as such , general manager , having failed to get the Company permanently registered as a
a joint stock company , by the decision of the Court of Queen ' s Bench , in Trinity Term , 1850 , instructed deponent in July of that year , as his solicitor , to apply to Parliament for an act to wind up the Company , to do all that was necessary to obtain such act , and to wind up its affairs as soon as possible . Steps were taken for this , bnt in consequence of the lateness of the session , Sir . Peargu 8 O'Connor informed deponent that he had been assured by members and officers of the House of Commons that the bill could not be got through all its stages before the session' closed , and instructed him to suspend further proceedings until November , when Mr . Feargus O'Connor , again instructed deponent to do all that was necessary for
renewing the application to Parliament in the last session . Notices were given , and the bill was prepared and introduced into the House of Commons upon the petition of Feargus O'Connor and other directors of the Company , representing the general body of shareholders ; and during its progress through both houses deponent was constantly in communication with Mr . O'Connor , personally or by letter , or through his agent , on the subject of the progress Of tho bill ' and the Company generally , and Mr . O'Connor attended tbe standing order committee of the House of Commons , and gave evidence in support of the preamble , and was constantly in attendance in the House of Commons during its progress , and was fully aware of
its passing the house , and of its introduction and progress through the Lords , but at the time it went into committee , and shortly before its third reading and passing , Mr . O'Connor left England for the Continent without communicating with deponent or his agent . Deponent was consequently unable to communicate with Mr . O'Connor further upon the business and fltate of the Company , but considered that he had full perfunctory instructions so soon as the act of Parliament was obtained to procure tbe necessary order for winding-up the Company without delay , in the name of Mr . O'Connor ,
notwithstanding the absence of the latter , and deponent ' s inability to communicate with him as general manager , after having given in that capacity the fullest instructions to deponent to Wind up the the Company in his name . Had he not done bo he would have neglected his duty , and deponent was bound to preseDt the petition to the court in the name of Mr . Feargus O'Connor , to show the earnest desire of that gentleman so often expressed during the progress of the bill in Parliament , to fulfil his promise to the House of Commons to have the Company wound up , and its assets realised and distributed , as tlie law would not allow the association to nxiat us a
Company . Deponent was not aware that Mr . O'Connor knew that the act of Parliament hail passed , or that an order had been obtained to wind-up the Company , although tho order had been obtained by witness nominally in Mr . O'Connor's name , which was prominently mentioned in tho act of Parliament . An affidavit was also read in confirmation Of the above statements , from Mr . Chinnery , the London agent for Mr . Roberts . The affidavit of Mr . Fkmwuis O'Connor , of Colham . hquse Hillingdon , set forth that gentleman ' s recognition and approval of all the proceedings that had been taken in the matter in his name by Mr . Roberta , as solicitor to the Company . His absence
on the Continent since July last was caused by illhealth . Mr . Sweet , prior to entering upon his case , begged to contradict an assertion which he had made at the last meeting , viz . that Mr , Price had mismanaged the West India property , of which he had the care . He believed he had been deceived upon that point ; he also suggested to his Honour that , as some suspicion had been oast on his client , in consequence of his connexion with the promoters of the Company , that Mr . Ainger should be entrusted with the management and disposal of tbe estates , and that anether competent person should bo appointed to investigate the accounts . Mr . Sweet then contended tbat the facts contained in the affidavits that had been read were strictly consonant trith each other , and
that the parties had not any intention of misleading the court . It was possible that Mr . Roberts , on the first starting of the Company , might have been Mr . O'Connor ' s private solicitor ; and Mr . O'Connor , on finding that he belonged to a class of men in this country , whose political opinions coincided with his own , and finding him fit in all other respects , might , with the sanction of the shareholders , appoint Mr . Roberts solicitor to the Company for its formation , and Mr . O ' Connor alone being the recognised actor , with the responsibility of everything being done in his name , but in all his private affairs , on the Company being formed , employing another solicitor . Mr . Roberts , had not , has had heen alleged , any private connexion in his capacity as solicitor with Mr , O'Connor , 0 wing to some alleged illegalities in the con-
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stitution of the Company , all matters wero done in Mr . O'Connor's name , and there was nothing moro in it than in a common case of trying to evade the revenue laws , in which iheir was nothing heinous . In order to avoid tho liability to penalties by carrying on the Land and Lubour Bank ia connexion with tho Lind Company , in order to Sln x . forfeituro of the estates , everything was aono in Mr . O'Connor ' s name by Mr . Roberts , aa ins solicitor , and that was what was meant on a P ™' ^ occasion , by gayinj . tlmt Mr . Roberta acted as his "private ' solicitor r , Jn ! i T MAsiER . ~ Am I to understand ™ UZ \ Z ™} 10 ? 3 thafc lho Bank wm ' carried on for the benefit of the Land Company ! Mr . Sweet-Of that thero 1 b not th ' e slightest doubt ; but the Company got no benefit from it ( Liughter . )
Mr . Jambs . —It was clearly ascertained that the Liud Company could not be bankers , and Mr , O'Conner was then registered as tho proprietor . 2 c was his private bank and not the shareholders ' bank . " . ¦ ¦ ¦ The Master . —Did Mr . O'Connor ever intend to claim any inteniiedinte benefit arising from the conduct of the b . tiik ? Mr . Sweet . —No , I believe not . Mr . James . —Mr . O'Connor being advised by Mr . Sweet , as counsel for the company , that ; lie must be die solo banker , it was carried on in his name . Ml ' . Sw'EP . T believed it would be -found that the bank w : i 9 Mr . O'Connor's and not the company ' s . Mr . Ciii . n'nery . —The bank was established contrary to Mr . O'Connor ' s wish .
Mr . Swkkt . —Some of tho witnesses , in the House of Commons , stated that the bank was esBential to the success of tiic scheme and theory of the Land Company , and that the money without it would not come in fast enough . Mr . Price was paid his salary out of the deposits of the bank , Mr . Jambs . —Mr . Price ' s engagemeut was a personal one with Mr . O'Connor , and his payment was also personal . The Master . —Probably Mr . O'Connor held a letter of indemnification from tho shareholders for whose interest he did this . Mr , Roxburgh . —Tho deposits were paid into the bank , aniline salary of Mk Price and other clerks , was paid out ' of them , and aB Mr . Price had been , manager" of tho Land and Labour Bank for five years , sit £ 500 a-year , the Company would be £ 2 , 500 the woise for Mr . Pries .
Mr . James . —The bank is £ 3 , 000 the better for Mr . Price . ( Laughter . ) Tho bauk began viib » deficit of £ 6 , <}( M , and ended , under Mr . Price ' s management , with a deficit of only £ 3 , 000 . - Mr . -Roxburgh . —And no profits thrpughout , ( Laughter . ) The banking profits were purely visionary . Mr . Sweet , —The profits were made by lending money to the Rational Land Company and receiving interests . ( Cries of " Not eo . " ) Mr . James protested against these unauthentio assertions , and denied their correctness . Mr . Sweet submitted it was of great importance tnat tho question raised , as between Mr , Roberta and Mr . O'Connor , should be set right . Mr . James urged tbat the connexion he formerly asserted to subsist between Mr . Roberts and Mr .
O'Connor was still so , and that Mr . Roberts was Mr . O'Connor ' s solicitor , as it suited , and according to the emergency of the moment . Mr . O'Connor . —No , no . Mr . Baoshaw ( addressing the Master )—Mr . O'Connor wishes me to inform you that Mr Roberts never was his solicitor ; and that he knew nothing of the proposal of Mr . Ainger or Mr * Price , The Master said it still appeared to him that be was right in requiring the further evidenoe that had been given respecting the authority received from Mr . O'Connor to present the petition for Winding-up the Company in hi 3 name . The affidavits were not inconsistent one with
another , bub the original affidavits were defective in not having stated that the petition was presented with Mv . O'Connor ' s sanction . Unquestionably , on , a review of all the facts , it would have been far better and far moro correct for the parties to have stated that the petition had been presented and the order obtained " nominally" for Mr . O'Connor , and in his name , in consequence of the manner in which ) i ) 3 name appeared in the act of parliament . It would havo been hotter to have stated that the order was obtained under Mr . O'Connor ' s generai authority , but tho origin . il affidavits made no averment of this . The affidavits , however , of Mr . O'Connor confirmed tho fact of a general delegation of authority . With respect to the connexion thafc
might be supposed to subsist between Mr , O Connor and Mr . Koterts , in the capacity of solicitor , he confessed that he did not quite understand it . With reference to the appointment of either an interim manager or of two official managers to windup the Company ' s affairs , it was a point to which he wou ' -d give particular attention . He was not , OH the present occasion , prepared to come to a conclusion , but would take time to consider , and notify it by public advertisement . Mr . Jambs , prior to quitting the Court , wished to state that ; in answer to a-letter , sent to Leamington , fifty-four totes has been sent up ior Mr . Price , but had been reckoned , and Bent in lor Mr . Ainger . Mr , Chinnebt . —I am ignorant of the mistake the signatures were 6 ent to my office . The proceedings then terminated .
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Central Asia . — The " German Constitutional Gazette" contains the following article on thecomplications of -which Central Asia is at tbis moment the theatre : — "Twelve years ago the Persian army , directed by agents of Russia , was repulsed under the walls of Herat , and England undertook the fatal expedition to Cabul , led either by ambition , or by a desire to put an end to the Russian influence on the frontiers of India . Russia accepted the challenge , and marched an army against Khiva . Tbe two rivals accordingly gave each , other a rendezvous in the plains of Bactriana , for , had tbe English succeeded in establishing themselves in Cabul , and the Russians in Khiva , the pulks of the Baskirs and Cassocks would have soon come to blows . But both
expeditions failed , and when England had avenged the honour o ( her arms by a new expedition , and vigorously chastised the Affghans , she definitively withdrew her armies from the country to achieve more easy and useful conquests in Scinde and the Punjab . Russia alone did not renounce her plans , and waited an opportunity to execute them . The first object of tbe Cabinet of St . Petersburgh was , to subject to her domination the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea , in order to obtain a point d ' appxd for future operations , and secure supplies , reinforcemerits , and a means of retreat , in case of reverse . With tbat view , Russia erected forts on different
points , and placed garrisons in them , She then opened negotiations with tbe Turkomans . TheKerg *' hises readily consented to recognise the white Czar for their master . By similar mancouvres , pursued with perseverance during several years , the Russian domination extended to Lake Aral , the Siedarja , and the frontiers of Turkistan . Russia thus acquired a basis for more important undertakings , when a fa » vourable opportunity should offer itself . Now the moment has armed ) and sue is preparing to profit by it . The death of the Khan of Herat gave the Bignal of a war of succession , in which Persia has engaged , and will , in all probability , as she did in 1838 , invoke once more the assistance of Itosia . In tliemeantime
Vhe Russians , under , the pretext ot an incursion of the Turkomans , landed a body of troops on the . southern coast of the Caspian Sea , which is now marching towards Herat . General Perowskh who , notwithstanding tho fatal result of the expedition to Khiva , is considered as one of the ablest generals of Russia , has returned the chief command of the Russian forces in the Government of Orenburg . Should ' he march alone , or in conjunction with a Persian army towards Herat , it will be ea ^ y for him , if provided with a sufficient artillery , to reduce that tortress , where he will not meet this time a Pottinger . Will England remain an impassive spectator of events which threaten to shake , at no distant period , hej empire in India ? We do not believe it , and we are convinced that ere long we shall hear of measures adopted by the British Government . "
Caution to Sportsmen . —On Sunday the fol * lowing important caution to sportsmen was affixed at all the church and chnpel doors throughout tho metropolis and vicinity , by order of tho Commissioners of- Inland Revcnuo ( Stamps and Taxes ) , which will be fully carried out by the authorities . " That any person who intends to use any dog , guh , \ . net , or other engine for taking or killing game , or any woodcock , snipe , quail , landrail , or coney , or assist in the taking or killing the same , must annually pay the duty chargeable by the acts 48 George III ., chap . 55 , and 52 George III . chap . 93 , together with , the additional ten per cent , thereon am , posed by the 3 d Victoria , chap 17—namely , for every gamekeeper being an assessed servant £ \ Is . 6 ( 1 . ; ditto , not being an assessed servant , £ i 0 s . 10 d ., and obtain the requisite certificate from the collector of assessed taxes for the parish . in which he resides
. The following are the penalties : —Pursuing game without first obtaining a certificate £ 20 , aud a liability in double the amount of duty . Any person in pursuit of game refusing on being duly required to produce his certificate for the purpose of being read or a copy to he taken , or refusing to declare his true name and place of residence , £ 20 . Persons who km obtained gams certincate 3 for the current year in Ireland must before they are entitled to kill game in Greater Britain pay the difference of duty—viz ., 17 s . Jd /^ J to the distributor of stamps for the districgm ^ AJ which they reside . N . B . —All game certifldJRi&g ; mufct be obtained in the parish in which the © ft ^ pl ties requiring them reside , as tlioso obtained gj ^ si * where will not protect them from the P 8 « alSo ZT No person is allowed to deal or sell game unle «*| | ij If , has previously obtained a license of £ 2 On . annv ^ y ^ ,-under a penalty of £ 20 . " ' ¦ . ^ YTP 0 :- . - « 5 \ yX ^
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A public meeting was held on Sunday evening at the WWttington and Cat , Church-street , Bethnal Green , " for the purpose of electing a portion of the Central Committee , to watch over the interests of the Land Company . Air . Lawrence occupied the chair , and stated the objects for which the meeting was called . Mr . Wilson moved : — " That the meeting proceed to el ect four persons , to form a portion of the committee . " Mr . JJndean seconded the resolution . Messrs . Allum , Carey , Pickersgill , Darliston , leferer , and others spoke on the question , chiefly in favour of the motion ; the result was , that two persons were agreed to be appointed bv the meeting , and two persona on the following Sunday evenin g , at the White Horse , Hare-atreet , Brick-lane . Messrs , Lawrence and Darliston were then duly elected , and the meeting adjourned until the ensuing Sunday evening , at the White Horse . WVJ-. J-LJ-. jnjr ! 11 . H i ^ J ^^— ' ¦ " " " " " ' * " *
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Eedemphon Socieit . —Upwards of one thousand persons attended the camp meeting on Woodhonse ifoor , lasfc Sunday . In addition to the speakers named in our last report , Dr . ¥ . R . Lees delivered an excellent address on ' Co-operation , ' as a means of benefiting all classes ; " hia amply illustrated discourse was listened to with deep attention . At the members' meeting on Wednesday September 24 to , it was unanimousl y decided
that ifc is desirable to have a Co-operative Store in connexion with the Eedemption Society . Part of the roles prepared by the committee for the store were adopted , and the meeting was adjourned for a week to consider the remainder . Monies received for the week : ^ -Leeds , 19 s . Ud . ; Sfcanningley , per Mr . Wilson , 5 s . 6 d . ; Longton , per Mr . Hiley , lB . 4 d . ; Hanley , per Mr . Wilbraham , s . Gd ;; Building Fund , Leeds , oi . 6 d . ; Longton , 3 d . j Propagandist Fund , 2 s . lid .
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THE KEW REFORM BILL OUTLINED . The last number of the " Yorkshireman , " a respectable and Liberal provincial contemporary , but a novel organ for the promulgation of Ministerial intentions , announces positively , " and upon " the most unquestionable authority , " the principles upon which it is intended to base the Parliamentary Reform measure promised for next session , Our readers can take it for what it is worth . The entire paragraph is as follows : —
We are glad to have it in our power to announce positively , and upon the most unquestionable authority , that Lord John Russell and his friends have been engaged in recently framing the provisions of the new Reform Bill it is his purpose to introduce early next session of Parliament With a view of arriving at correct conclusions as to the present state of the electoral system , circular letters have been despatched from the Home Office to the various returnieg officers ¦ throughout England and Wales , commanding a return of the number of Parliamentary voters at the last general election , which return ] will be compared with the census recently taken . We believe the measure of reform about to be introduced—and in stating our belief , we beg it to be understood that we are not speaking without authority—will be satisfactory to the moderate
Reformers of this country . It will not give them all they desired , but we believe it will . enlarge the suffrage to a greater extent than , looking at Ministerial difficulties , the people bad any right to expect We understand thatone of the Cabinet Ministers comforts himself somewhat restively because of the liberality of tbe measure ; which restivenef s , however , it is expected , will be overcome by the firmness of the Premier and his colleagues . At the present moment—and we believe no alteration will be conceded in this particular—it is contemplated to recognise a certain educational test , apart from occupancy of houses , as conferring a right to vote . Clergymen , lawyers , merchants , literary men , clerks , the higher orders of mechanics , &c , will , we believe , although non-householdprg , be invested , under certain cbnditiens . with the privilege of voting . Thtse conditions will suggest themselves to our readers without expianati ' d . As respects the franchise and householders , as the law at present stands , very considerable alterations , we believe will be made .
The £ 10 qualification in boreughs will be reduced in amount , while a variety of other popular concessions will be made , which will increase the constituency of this country at lenst one-fourth . We have no doubt that the great difficulty encountered by Ministers relates to the counties ; but we believe that those difficulties will be overcome , and that the various county constituencies will be popularised to a greater extent than at present anticipated . It is not often tbat a country journal , has the opportunity of authoritatively announcing the probable tendency of a Ministerial measure scarcely yet framed ; but our readers may accept the above statement witbout demur , and as conveying as nearly as possible the gist of the Parliamentary Reform Bill of 1852 . We have only to remark , in connexion with this part of our subject , that on the opening of the session tbe Premier will formally announce his intention with respect to the franchise , leaving the matter to be discussed by tbe press and the country .
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Austrian Jews and the Adstrian Loan . —There i 3 a grim bit of humour in the Jewish Chronicle , in a letter from a Jew , bearing date Vienna , Sept . 15 . It touches on' tbe Austrian loan . The Jews , says the droll Israelite , would have nothing to do with the loan of £ 8 , 000 , 000 because they feared future persecution . Whereupon the < rovernment assured the Jews that they would be left in the enjoyment of their present liberties . " Since this assurance the rich Jewish bankers of Vienna have exerted themselves with all their might in aid of tie loans . This is an important fact in Jewish history . " A very important fact , and very illustrative of tho Ilebrew mind . But let us proceed : —
" From this they can learn that the acquisition of civil and religious liberty is in their own power , if they will but have moral courage enough to exert the power they possess , holding , as they do , the purse-strings of Europe . " There is a fine philanthropy in this—an enlarged sense of the blessings of religious liberty . If , the synagogue may stand , money will be supplied for the destruction of Christian citieB . If the halter be kept from the neck of the Hebrew , tbe Hebrew will undraw the purse-strings of Europe to buy any number of halters for the patriots of Hungary . Certainly , " an important fact in Jewish history !" —Punch .
It ia related ( weare telling an old storv , but it Is worth the resurrection ) of Dr . Langhorne , that on bis learning that Collins the poet was buried at Chicbester , be travelled there to enjoy all the luxury of poetic sorrow over his grave . On inquiry , he found that Collins was buried in what is called the Paradise , near the Cathedral . He wen * there , and after an hour ' s seclusion came forthwith all the solemn dignity of woe . That night , however , on describing his pligrimage , he found—not that bis tears had been . wasted . but tbat he had been bedewing the grave of a very honest man and useful member oi society , Mr . Collins—a tailoj *!—Weekly Times ,
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The " Tablet" states that the anonymous contributor of £ 1 , 400 for the . Catholic UniverBity has intimated , in a letter to Primate Cullen , his intention to raiBe that amount to £ 5 , 000 , by an additional subscri pts of £ 3 , 600 .
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5 ATI 0 ML LOAJS SOCIETY . This body still continues to progress in its operations . At the meeting on Wednesday , correspondence of a favourable nature was received from several large and important o * istricts which bad not previously taken up the question . The Secretary gave in a report of the proceedings in the Master ' s Court ; and considerable business of a pecuniary nature was transacted . A discussion also ensued on the propriety of taking a more commodious and eentral office , where business could be transacted during each day of the week , instead of being confined—as at present—to tbe Wednesday evening . The Secretary was authorised to inquire and report thereon .
Edisbuhgh . —Several meetings of the Land Company shareholders have been held in this place , at which resolutions bxve been passed in favour of Mr . Price , as Official Manager ; also in favour of the objects contemplated by the National Loan Society . The secretory was instructed to procure all possible information regarding tbe workings of the above society , in order tbat » branch might be formed in Edinburgh . Several shareholders expressed a wish to see the scrip collected together , and an estate purchased with the dividends ; the estate then to be presented to Mr . O'Connor , in token of their gratitude and esteem , for the services which , during many years , he had rendered them .
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MINERS' AND SEAMENS' UNITED ASSOCIATION—GREAT PUBLIC MEESING-. A public meeting of the Seamen and Miners of Sunderland took place on Tuesday last , in the Large Hall , which was crowded . Mr . Robert Young was called to the ehair , and opened the meeting with some pertinent remarks . The meeting was addressed by Mr . William Daniells , from Derbyshire , and by Mr . Henry Greensides , of Hull , both missionaries of the above-named Association , amid the plaudita of the large assembly . The following resolution was moved by Mr . J . T , Chapman , and seconded and supported by Mr . Chalk , and passed unanimously : —•• ' That this meeting being convinced of the great benefits that would result to both
Seamen and Aimers by effecting a general union among both parties , hereby resolve to support the Missionary Fund , as being the best and most effective means to carry out so desirable an object . " It was also passed unanimously that no Seamen Ehould sign articles under £ 410 s . the voyage , after October 1 st , during the winter months , and £ 3 lOd . during the summer months ; likewise the meeting pledged themselres to attend tbe great public meeting on Newcastle-town-moor , on Saturday next ( this day ) . A vote of thanks was then given to the chairman ; and after giving three hearty cheers for the Union and for the missionaries , the large meeting broke up in the most orderly manner .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 4, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1646/page/1/
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