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For you my stream s"hall run for evermore , And float your navies to the ocean shore . Pass on , pass on , and work with heart and will , And health and fortune shall reward your skill . The world , is yours , enjoy it while you can , And give your thanks to God , your , help to man . '" We have then representations of the emigrant ' s settlement , the backwoods , the inundation , the rolling prairie , the sleigh in winter , and , lastly , the happiness caused by the receipt of letters from the " old country . "
The second diorama is a representation of " Negro Life in Freedom and in Slavery , " which contains some spirited paintings , and delineates the horrors and sorrows of slarery and the slave trade . Mr . Russell ' s entertainment is an advance on everything of the kind we have yet seen , and may be rendered subservient to the very highest purposes . Carrying with him the sympathies of his audience , he has the power of impressing truths , on which depend the social welfare and advancement of his fellow-men .
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PROFESSOR ANDERSON AT ST . JAMES'S THEATRE . On Wednesday evening the Great Wizard of the North , transcendent and unapproachable in feats of magic and defiant of all rivalry , commenced his season at this aristocratic theatre . We shall not attempt in the small space at our command this week to describe the new wonders of the black art he has prepared , but content ourselves with remarking that the performances will continue next week morning and evening , on alternate days , with the French plays .
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SAI / TER'S WATERLOO BANQUET . The picture of the Annual Banquet at Somersethouse is exhibited by Mr . Salter , the artist , at 16 , Old Bond-street . It occupied the painter three years in the execution ; . and the set of portraits , eighty-one in number , includes those who were present on several occasions . It is not a fine picture , nor are the portraits of those faces which we know the best likenesses that we have seen ; still they are portraits , and the assemblage of so many gives the picture an historical interest , which the summer visitors to London are not unlikely to appreciate .
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[ The pressure of news compels us to postpone the publication of the " Organization of the Charter " until next week . ]
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LETTERS TO CHARTISTS . X . Spies Wanted by the Government . The Government are in want of spies , and no doubt they "will find them ; one might go further , and say they have them . An excitement has been got up , plots have been invented , the Times has gone all the way to New York , and imported the most extravagant conspiracy which even Yankee ingenuity , unscrupulous in everything , could invent . Building on these gratuitous foundations , the Government have added the lustre of official dignity to these windbag fabrications . What have they to show in
justification of the alarms they have fostered ? As much as they had in 1848 , when they tran > ported the English Chartists—nothing ! And they will have nothing now unless they do as they did then—concoct a plot themselves ; unless they get another Powell , they will not have the semblance of a conspiracy to give probability to their reports . I would not believe anything against the Government except upon proof , yet the experience of 1848 furnished proofs that there is no meanness to whi h the Whig Government will not upon or-casion descend . They who will avail themselves of the services of a Powell ,
and treat as a serious offence the extravagances which he instigated , justify contempt , and suspicion , and distrust of them in the most practical form . At present a man is going about unknown to everybody , and connected with no party of the People , propounding the absurdest possible plan for the establishment of a Western Republic . A congress of delegates from European kingdoms is to meet at Paris ! ! ! This Bedlamite scheme is qualified so as to lull the suspicion of the different parties to whom it is propounded . If any person , can be got to listen , even from curiosity , to this knave or fool , the police , who no doubt , know the fellow ' s movements , will
come in when he has laid down some brown paper map , scored with a charcoal stick , on a pothouse table . Then the Home Secretary will be called up , the pensioners called out , the military summoned , a hundred thousand special constables sworn in , the Exhibition will be closed and surrounded by a dozen regiments , headed by the Iron Duke ; Parliament -will meet in the morning to pass a new Alien Act ; addresses will be presented to the Queen ; the Times will come out peihaps with a black I . order , and three leading articles on the fearful conspiracy ; the editor of the John Bull will go in a cab to church to return God thanks for the marvellous escape of the
nation ; and a telegraphic notice will be conveyed to the New York Herald , to inform that ingenious journal that its plot has been discovered ! While this is going on , half a dozen poor ignorant or credulous workmen , who cannot tell the north from the south side of a map , who cannot point out the locality of any one of the kingdoms they are represented as conspiring to make into republics , will be apprehended and transported , together with some unhappy refugee , who cannot speak a word of English , who is unconsciously taking a glass of execrable porter in aa adjoining room , for which he has been charged double price because he wears a moustache .
Last week a delegation of police visited a respectable inn near the Strand , where a number of political friends of intelligence and character have been accustomed to meet weekly for two or three years , and endeavoured to intimidate the assembly , and a police officer has been introduced into the room . This bodes mischief . It is an indication of the intention of the authorities to make it , if it does not exist as they did in 1848 . There ought to be a Spy Committee formed , with an intelligent secretary at the head , to watch all the itinerant plotters emanating from Scoiland-yard , and carry them before a magistrate , that the police may identify their clandestine colleagues , and the Government have the credit of their patriotic and amiable contrivances for the preservation of tlie peace and credit of the nation .
If ili « r Government would take half aa much trouble to he well-informed nn they do to be ill-inlonnod , they might learn the real wants and intentions of the People , and a cordial and honourable undcr .--taiuliug would grow up hot ween the rulers and the ruled , which would conduce to the dignity of Government as well as the security of the kingdom . Instead ol this they trade in petty treason , ; unl spend die hardearned money of the poor in pulling down the <
lisaffections they have ; lirst net . up . Tin : middle clans win a character for courage in meeting danger which never existed , and military aristocrats get promoted for the support thry rendered to " order" which whs never endangered , more new ofliccs are created , and the industry of die People burdened afresh , ainiil the applaune of the ( \ nut , and the Ministers ; and t . his is the sample of the science of diovcmuieul in Kngland , presented to the assembled nations at , the opening of the Great Inhibition . Ion
At the meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Charter Association on Wednesday evening last , there were present—Messrs . Arnott , Grassby , Holyoake , Hunt , Jones , Milne , and Reynolds . Messrs . Harney , through unavoidable circumstances , and O'Connor , through indisposition , were absent . Correspondence was read foom Brechin , Carlisle , Devonport , Dundee , Falkirk , Glasgow , Hastings , Leicester , Sheltun , Sutton-in-Ashfield , and "Worcester . Ernest Jones reported that he had written to Sir George Grey , desiring to be informed when the depuration appointed to present the memorials on behalf of Frost , Williams , Jones , and Ellis , would be received , but at present no reply thereto had come to hand . John Arnott reported that John Milne and himself had waited on Messrs . M'Gowan and Co ., and he also produced the various accounts as furnished to them by thatfirm . On themotion of Messrs . Reynolds and Jones ,
it was agreed that Messrs . Arnott and Milne be appointed to examine the items in the said accounts , and report thereon at the next meeting of the committee . Ernest Jones then read an address of the Executive Committee of the National Charter Association to the people , which was unanimously adopted . Mr . Reynolds volunteered to attend as a deputation from the Executive at the public meeting to be held at the Phoenix Tavern , Radcliffecross , on Tuesday evening next . N B . The agents in the various localities are advised to issue duly attested collecting books , for the purpose of collecting the National Subscription , and those friends resident in the metropolis , who feel desirous of aiding in this laudable undertaking , are hereby informed that by applying at the office , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand , that John Arnott , the general secretary , will be most happy to supply them with collecting books for that purpose .
The Address . —The address alluded to above sets forth the duty of holding public meetings for adopting petitions for the Charter , at which meetings the public will have the first opportunity of discussing the programme of the body . The meetings must be well prepared , so as to be effective in numbers and purpose , as trie Chartis's' strength and business capacity will be judged by their earliest movements . An earnest call is made upon the localities to immediately send in the requisite subscriptions , as ordered by the Convention , to enable the Executive to act
effectively in the metropolis , and organize the provinces . The Working Phinteks to the Labouring Classes . —Non-employment , or but partial employment , is the unavoidable effect of the present arrangements of society . In every trade good workmen are suffering in the most deplorable wretchedness from either one t » r other of these causes , while , in many of the trades , the workman is in iio better condition from full employment . This is so well known and so generally experienced , that it has long since been an admitted and an indisputable fact . We know full well the correctness of this
statement , having ourselves , with many of our brethren , experienced this lamentable evil . But we , are not ignorant of its cause—namely , our competitive system ! This system is life-destroying in its effects . The remedy in our hands is cooperation—labour and money combined for the mutual benefit of all , and machinery and other useful inventions peculiar to each trade so admirably adapted to the wants of all , as to prove a real blessing to the wofkman . On this principle it is that we have founded our association , in which every man is a workman , holding an equal interest therein , having equal , and , if possible , a full share of employment with remunerative wages , and an equitable share of the net profits . This , in brief , is the object of our
association—selfemancipaiion for ourselves , and for all who shall from time to time enter it . As the admission of each new member will be entirely dependant upon the quantity of work received , so as to give full employment to all its members , it must be evident that with you mainly will our success rest . On you the growth of our association depends . All of you , according to your capacities , require , to a greater or a lesser extent , for your cards , your circulars , your rules , your addresses , your pamphlets , and your journals , the printing press ! Most of you , as members of societies for trade purposes , for
philanthropic objects , and for political and social reforms , can render us the service wo ask . Let each endeavour to secure us their various kinds of society printing , and we cannot but succeed . And , in thin respect , we rely in the fullest confidence upon you , because , as men struggling only for your rights , we believe that you will act as consistent men , and show by your actions that you will ( poKHesaing , as you do , the power ) aid those who alone seek to obtain that which is the justri ( j ; ht of all , constant employment and living wages !—On behulf of the Working Pi inters , liioiiAiti ) Isham , Manager . —Office of the Association , 4 a , Johnson ' s-eourt , Fleet Btreet .
Congrhsh ltKDKMJ"rioN Socikty . —Mr . James Uradley . of Hyde , was elected , by the unanimous votes of the society , as a member oft he Welsh community on WedneBd . ty , the lGih instant .. We shall tdiortly have three shoemakers at work , and ahull consequently be able to supply a few of our members vvilh long wislird for community made shoes . It lias been resolved to hold a CongrcHH of the friends and mcmlxTH of the society from all partn of the kingdom . To thin Congress is also invited all friciuls of cooperation and coiiiuiuniMn The day and pluce of meeting in Leeds , on June "J ( Whitiuonday ) , at ten o ' clock in the morning , in the society ' s room
Liunbertyanl , Briggate , or l > y adjournment , to larger pieiniHCH . The tiocu-iy will pay for printing , room , and other incidental « 'xp « -ns « 's ; so tbiit tin- varioiiM brunches will ( inly have to |> ny the personal expenses ol the inemberH of CongrcHH . The Redemption . Society has repn seiitaliv « 'n in nearly forty towns and < : itie . s iu the kingdom . Thin in a liroiid b . i . sis on which to found a supernti net ui e . The society Iii » h now heen insistence for between live ; and six yearn . I ts wealth hi . h gene on incrcnniiig from the drat lo tne present , time . An far as n . has gum- ii has beru sueechslul , and it is iu a luice way ot mice , edinir now than ever . We believe it i « the only society in lluu country aiming at a pure community of property
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MACHINE PAPER-STAINING . It is generally anticipated that in paper hangings we shall have little chance of competing successfully with our French neighbours in the approaching Exhibition , France having long enjoyed preeminence in this respect . In one department , however , England will stand alone . We mean machine paper-staining . Great Britain has heen the first to apply mechanical power in alrrost every process of manufacture , and paper-staining is by no means an exception . Messrs . Hey wood , Higginbottoin , Smith , and Co ., of 02 , Watling-street , City , and Hyde-road , Manchester , have lately succeeded in accomplishing some very remarkable improvements in this curious and interesting process , and admirable specimens are to appear in the Crystal Palace . Until recently it was considered a surprising effort to take off six : or eight colours in once passing through the machine ; but by the experiments just made by Messrs . Hey wood and Co ., no less than twenty or even thirty colours can be worked off at one time ! The effect obtained is exceedingly good , the paper impression equalling in many respectB the block itself . The price at which these machine papers can be sold is not the least astonishing feature , and is one of the points to be considered by the judges in estimating their merits . The poorest cottager in the empire may now be enabled to ornament his abode with many of the best designs ; a circumstance that must contribute to develope taste in the very abode now given to squalor . Ah to time—a single machine is capable of printing , in one hour , 2 f >() pieces , each twelve yards long ; 2000 pieces , or ' 24 , 000 yards per day . One man and two boys can do the work of seventy men and seventy boys under the old system . The improved method , therefore , is complete on all the cardinal virtues of a marketable manufacture—beauty to the eye , cheapness , and rapid production . Kaiinkhtn l ' . ss . — All great questions have hecii settled by men in earnest— by men who have l . omul n princip le , alioul their hearts which they coin * ' to regarl as ' pint and jmrcel' of their heing . Little , peddling , U'nipoi iy , mg policy never yd conferred a laming benefit upon the world . — M tail ' s NonconJ ' ormwt'a Sketch-Book .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 26, 1851, page 398, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1880/page/18/
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