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THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER S3, 1849.
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Of The Law Deny"That Pro- September 22, ...
September 22 , 1849 . 4 . ., _ . . THE NORTHERN JTAR . _ ___
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T 1 ST OF BOOKS AND SHEETS •* " * SOW FGBUSm XG BV .
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CAUTION . ¦ R UPTURES EFFECTUALLY CUBED J * WITHOUT A TRUSS . ' -DR . WALTER DE R 00 S , 1 , Ely-place , Holborn-hill , London , still continues to supply the afflicted with his celebrated CURE for SINGLE or DOUBLE RUPTURES , the efficacy of wiiich is now too weU established to need comment It is easy in application , causes no inconvenience , and as the merit of this discovery , has never been disclosed , all others , are spurious imitations only . Will he sent fcee , on receipt of Cs . Cd . by port-office order , or stamps . Dr . de H . has a great number of old trusses left behind by persons cured , as trophies of his immense success , which he wiU almost give away to those whs like to wear them . N . B . —Inquiry will prove the fact , that this is the only remedy known , aU others being spurious , useless , and dasgemos imitations , against which sufferers are especially cautioned . Hours—10 till 1 , and from i . till 8 . Rev . ILWalcott , Higham Ferrers , writes : — " The person for whom you sent your remedy is quite cured , and you wiU be good enough to send me two more for others "
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DB . FLEISCHMAN'S CHOLERA DROPS . ' This Medicine is proph ylactic against Cholera . It has been administered to 150 , 000 persons in T 5 eana , and io $ >) , 000 in Hungary and Poland , and in not one of those instances did the result belie its preservative qualities . —Spectator . Sold in bottles , Is . 9 A , 8 s . Cd ., 5 s ., and 7 s . Cd . each , b y Sutton and Co ., Bow Churchvard Edwards , St Paul ' s Churchyard ; Barclay and * Co ., FairingdiMJ-strect , London ; and bv all respectable chemists and pateut medicine vendors in town and coimtrv .
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R VPTURES PERMANENTLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS 3 . ' -The Testimonials from members of the Medical Profession and Patients who have been cured that arc daily received by Dr . GUTHKEY , establish the efiicacy of this remedy beyond a doubt ; in every case , however bad , cure is guaranteed , thus rendering trusses unnecessary . It is easy ia application , perfcctly painless , and applicable to both sexes of aU a"es . Sent free on receipt of 6 s . by Post-office order or stomns hyDr . HEXllY GUTHEEY , 6 , Ampton-street , Grays-inn ' . TOac ^ London . At home daily , from Ten till One , morning : §* . T f ** » « aaDg ; mi Sundays , Ten tiU Oneonlf . Hundreds of Trusses have been left behind by persons cured , as trophies of the success of tliis the only remedy for Rupture , which wfll reaHy be given away to persons rel quiring them after a trial of it !•»« " » « =-"Bamgmtaessea the good effect of your cure for rup-Si & Sm m * : ™ au ordcr for " ** -- * £
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KOW IN THE COURSE OF PUBLICATION In Numbers at Three Pence each ;
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XOW READY with the MAGAZINES FOBSEPfEMBER No . IV . of THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW Of BRITISH and FOREIGN POLITICS , HISTORY and LITERATURE . Edited by G . JULIAN HARNEY . CONTEXTS : L . The Editor ' s Letter to the Working Classes on the New Reform Movement 2 . Letter from Paris . 3 . Our Inheritance : The Land common Property . Letter IV .
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THE CHEAPEST EDITION EVEB TCBIISUSO . Price is . 6 < L , A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate of the Author , of PAIHE'S POLITICAL WORKS .
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Oa the 1 st of October will appear No . II . of THE OPERATIVES' FREE PRESS . The New Cambridge Democratic Publication . Conducted by Wobklvg Mem . Published Monthly . —Price Id . Cambridge : NicholPs , Fitzroy-street ; London : Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head . passage , Paternoster-row .
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TO BE SOLD , AT MINSTER LOVEL , A FOUR ACRE ALLOTMENT , J \ . exceedingly weU cropped ; together with stock aud implements , including one sow with twelve young ones , five weeks ; old , and a fine young sow nine months old ; also an ass and cart , and a gi-eat variety of tools , 4 c . ; there are also many additions to the house aud premises . The quality of the land is the very best on the Estate , being turned up from rich meadow hind , and bearing most luxuriant crops . For terras , apply to J . Gilbert , 31 , Brizenorton-road , Charterrilte , Witney , Oxford ; if by letter , prepaid , enclosing a stamp for reply ,
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , That a West Riding Delegate Meeting will be held in the Democratic School Room , Croft-str « et , Wakefieldroad , Bradford , on Sunday , the 30 th of September . A person will have to be elected to fill the situation of West Hiding Secretary for the ensuing year , a plan drawn np for the ensuing quarter , aud other business of importance . Those places who arc wishful to be placed on the plan are requested to send a delegate . CfllUSTOPHEtt SUACKLETO-V , West Riding Sec .
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TO BE SOLD CHEAP . TWO PAID-UP SBAiiES of the National Land Company . AU applications to be made to Samuel Boonhain , IU , High Holborn .
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RUPTURES PERMANENTLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS . —Two years * experience in hundreds of cases of every variety of single and double ruoture , in both sexes , and in many cases of a desperate na ture , proves thatDR . BOOTH'S REMEDY is unfailing , not a single instance of failure having occurred . It is most simple , and easy in application and effect , aud is conscientiously guaranteed a cure in all cases . —Authentic Testimonial : — "It is now ten months since I used your remedy for rupture , and I am glad to say I have gone through every sort of exertion without the least rc-appcarance of it . "—J . Mastees , Mill-street , Bedford . The remedy is sent , post free , with full Instructions , rendering failure impossible , on receipt of 6 s . by Post ' Office-order ( payable at Holborn office , ) or postage stamps , by Dr . JAMES BOOTH , 14 , Hand-court , Holborn , London . Letters of inquiry must enclose twelve stamps for a reply .
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LUXURIANT HAUt , WHISKERS , HAIR DYE , < fcc . DR . NEATE'S MEDICATED POMMADE is the only preparation to be relied upon for the reproduction of hair in baldness , from whatever cause , and at whatever age , preventing die hair falling off , and strengbening weak hair . It is guaranteed to produce Hair , Whiskers , & c ., in three or four weeks without fail . " I have recovered my hair by the use , ofyourpommade . " —Miss Jesdas , Uxbridge . It is a choice and elegant preparation , and sufficient for two months' use will be sent free , on receipt of twenty-four postage stamps , by Dr . Neate , 12 , lung-street , Long-acre , London . Two really unexceptionable Ilair-dye Receipts are also enclosed gratis ; they wiU produce any shade of colour required , and are unlike any trashy receipts before offered to tbe public . " The pommade has restored my hair . "—Mr . Waito , Listcard , Cornwall . "The dye is superior toaR I have ever tried . "—Mr . ElMErr , Cumiiigton , Cornwall . ' ' Yourpommade has produced a good crop of whiskers . "—J . Long , Acton . "It is an exquisite dye . " —Mr . BtAxn , Dorset .
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PROTECTED BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT . DR . LOCOCIL'S FEMALE WAFEUS , Have no Taste of Medicine , And are the only remedy recommended to be tahen by Ladles . They fortify the Constitution at all periods of life . and in all Nervous Affections act like a charm . They remove Heaviness , Fatigue on Slight Exertion , Palpitation of theHeart , Lowness of Spirits , Weakness , and allaypain . They create Appetite , and remove Indigestion , Heartburn , Wind , Head Aches , Giddiness , & c . In Hysterical Diseases , a proper perseverance in the use of this Medicine will be found to effect a cure after all other means had failed . tig ? Full Directions are given with every box . Note . —These Wafers do not contain any Mineral , and may be token either dissolved in water or whole .
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MATHON .
In Reply To Numerous Applications, Relat...
In reply to numerous applications , relative to the purchase of portions of the Mathon Estate , I beg to refer the applicants to the terms so frequently stated in the " Northern Star ' " and further to inform all who are anxious to become proprietors of any portion , that the money must be forwarded immediately ; that the price , as I have over-and over again stated , is 371 . an acre , of which 7 ^ per acre will'he returned , and perhaps more , but
certainly not less , when the timber and building materials are disposed of ; and if I had bought that estate myself , and sold it out in parcels , I could have realised over 10 , 000 i profit ; but because I have bought it for the benefit of the poor , and risked 500 / . of my own money as a deposit upon confidence in their order , I am a juggler . It . should be distinctl y understood , that having purchased this Estate in my own name , lean male a clear and unquestionable conveyance to every purchaser of anv nortitm i
and , as I before stated , I have been offered 161 . a-year , by numerous applicants , for land that will cost the purchaser 120 / ., with a year ' s rent paid in advance ; and if I had some thousands to spare myself I most solemnl y declare that I would sacrifice them to see the richest and most health y valley in England populated by independent proprietors , every one of whom , in less than twelve months , could double their money , if they were inclined to sell .
Feargus O'Connor
To The Manchester Victim Fund Committee....
TO THE MANCHESTER VICTIM FUND COMMITTEE . We have received a communication from the Sheffield Secretary , that the 21 . lis , received by Mr . O'Connor , at Sheffield , is to he applied to the relief of the Kirkdale prisoners ; and upon application to Mr . William Rider , " Northern Star" Office , the Committee will receive that amount .
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R . H . P ., Castle Eden The charge would be 4 s . fid . for each insertion . Mr . E . Bbqwn , Caraelford , Cornwall—The postage of the Review will be W . Mr . H . Pabrott , Mitcham-green . —Received . J . S . N . —Seven shillings and eleven . pence . J . Lesson , Preston ; w . Tjxkih , Sutton-in-Ashfield ; R . BiiooK , Huddersficld ; W . Wilson ; W . Davies , Edinburgh . —Received . T . X ., Saxmundhani . —Not received . Leicester Chartists . —George White has received 10 s . from the Leicester Chartists , through Messrs . Francis Kirk and Charles Bentley , for which he returns thanks to the subscribers . — [ This communication iras received on Saturday last—too late for insertion in our country edition . One shilling ' s worth of stamps came to hand , which we acknowledged last week , as desired , for the Hungarian refugees , but we are not in receipt of anything for tbe Italian exiles . —Ed . N . S . ]
The Northern Star Saturday, September S3, 1849.
THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER S 3 , 1849 .
The Press And The Huxd Scheme. The Land ...
THE PRESS AND THE hUXD SCHEME . The Land Scheme , like the Charter , is a GOOD CAUSE , but in BAD HANDS ; and it is a most remarkable fact , that , that very portion of the Press which has derived most profit by puffing and advertising bubble schemes , should be most virulent in its attacks upon the only honest and practicable plan ever propounded for the regeneration of the working classes ; and to this fact we must ascribe tho vituperation of those organs , who represent the enemies of labour , and misrepresent the friends of the people .
The "Morning Chronicle" had , some days ago , au article upon Mr . O'Connor ' s Land Scheme , which must have been written by Lord Brougham , whose boast , at a recent agricultural meeting , was , that ho might be able to distinguish between an ox and a sheep , but beyond that distinction his knowledge did not go . He launched into high encomiums upon the discovery and improvement of agricultural machinery worked by steam ; and laid great stress upon the profit to bo derived by the complete substitution of steam power for manual labour .
The " Dispatch of last week , wholly unmindful of the " Gravel Pit farmer , '' who in the course of twelve years was metamorphosed from a drunken idle pauper into a sober industrious squire , has another fling at that diabolical Scheme , by tho realisation of which alone the industrious can be released from the grasp of the profit-monger , and the dissolute from the fascination and temptations of the hired scribbler . Murders , drunkenness , and vice of every description is the stock-in-trade of the "Dispatch" and many other papers , and hence all dread the plan which would magically reduce their storos .
The readers of the " Dispatch ' are told , that great inducements were held out to those who would join the Land Scheme ; but alas ! they have failed . Our readers have not forgotten the great benefits that were promised to the working man from Free Trade ; but , perhaps , they aro not aware that the celebrated Sidney Smith , who would not know a cucumber from a handsaw , although , like Harr y Brougham , ho may be able to distinguish between an ox and a sheep—perhaps , we say , they are not aware that this enthusiastic Free Trader is now the editor of the " Weekly Dispatch ; " and he has not forgotten , and never will forget , the trashing he received from Mr , O'Connor , at Chelsea .
It is tho practice with hired scribblers to write upon every subject that is before the public , whether they understand it or not—as , like fine ladies , out of the fashion out of the world—sheltering themselves from personal responsibility and criticism , under tho plural mask WE . We , upon the other hand , are not only construed into O'Connor ; but that gentlemen is held responsible , not only for every word that appears in the " Northern Star , " but for every word spoken , and every act committed by every individual of his party .
However , to return to Mr . Sidney Smith ' s landscape and portrait , which will be found at full length in our first page , and to the perusal of which we invite the closest attention ; and when the reader has perused it , the only conclusion that he can draw from it is , that under any circumstances , however reproductive , the Land Scheme must bo a failure , because we are told that even those who are located , iriust endeavour to return- to ^ their former occupations , or become paupers in the workhouse . Now let us ask , in the name of common sense , how this prediction of last
week tallies with that which we published from the same prophet but a few weeks since ; and in which the reader was told to be of good spirit—thatthoplan wasgood—thatb y it alone , all trades and handicrafts could be placed in their legitimate position if the thing was only placed under tho control of HONEST TRUSTEES ? What has become of the vision of the two and a-half acre "Gravel Pit man ? " Where now is the hope of the manufacturer , tbe trader , tho merchant , the shopkeeper , the
mechanic , the artificer , and tlie artisan all of whom the " Dispatch" told us must rest their hope upon the more profitable employment of the agricultural labourer upon the soil ' occupied for his own benefit ? This class , to be located upon the land , under the supervision of HONEST TRUSTEES , was to have constituted a greater source of wealth than all our colonies . Ireland was again to embrace her sister ; the rose , the shamrock , and the thistle were to constitute the pure national emblem and to displace the Bible and the sword , the arms of Church and State .
In our comment upon that article , we showed that poor Sidney Smith— who based the great value of te Xra . de upon , cheap
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~^ r _ had literally extracted all that was C from tie columns of the "Northern C » and feeling convinced that he and his % & Tu yet be compelled to adopt the $ U » ^ ud ^\ % ^ tJ ^ Plan but it was in BAD HArWfe . But let Z & ttWFpl S ^&*^? r Enve invested then-money m the scheme
have been deceived-nay , that they are ruined ; hi there are no Trustees , and that the names of the parties from whom the money came to purchase the several Estates , are not set forth in the conveyance ; althoug h he tells us , that he is not sure whether such a course would be requisite . Really , commenting upon such profound ignorance , coming from one who professes to be a public instructor , is almost too ridiculous , was it not necessarynay , indispensable—that the folly of such writers should be exposed ?
We are asked , " HMr . O'Connor has not made a profit of the Land Plan , who has ?" We answer , " Those only who could make a profit of it as yet—the located members . And we would ask this scribbler to visit those several Estates , not for the purpose of seeing the cr 0 pS _ as , like Harry Brougham , he would not be able to distinguish between wheat and rye—but to judge of its value , as far as health and contentment are concerned , by contrasting the appearance of the occupants with those of their order who are still working for slave masters . But let us analyse the position of the founder and members of this society , and we will
do it by contrast . If Sidney is a lawyer , or understands anything of law , is he not aware that there must be two parties to a contract , and that each party must perform the several covenants therein contained ? Mr . O'Connor was the contractor to perform a certain amount of work ; the shareholders were the contractors to pay a certain amount of money to enable him to complete the work . Suppose a casein which Sydney Smith stood in Mr . O'Connor ' s position , and undertook to build a chapel , or a free trade hall , a school-house , or any other building , upon condition that a
certain number of subscribers would each pay a given sum , aud suppose that sum to be 100 , 0007 . ' Now , if 99 , 9501 . of thai amount was paid up , and if there was a deficiency of 50 / ., Sidne y would not lay the foundationstone—the greater portion of the capital would be divided amongst barristers and lawyers ( none , of course , would stick to Sidney's fingers ); while tho " Dispatch , " and many other papers , would describe him as a martyr , as aphilanthropist , and a demi-god , and revile his dupes for having sacrificed him to his own
credulity . But suppose further , that Sidney had devoted four years of his time , and nearly 7 , 0002 . of his money to the realisation of his darling object , there would be a niche prepared for him iu Westminster Abbey as the great philanthropist and martyr of his day . Well , then , let us measure Mr . O'Connor ' s position by this contrast . The subscribers who entered the Company , and who were bound by tho rules of the Company to pay nearly 300 , 000 / . within a given time , paid little more than 100 , 000 / ., while Mr . O'Connor had
embarked every farthing of his own money in the Land Plan . Let us ask Sidne y , under those circumstances , whether Mr . O'Connor or the defaulting members violated the contract ? We cannot refrain from reprinting the following passage , as illustrative of the stability and the consistency of the former eulogist of the Land Plan . Here it is : —
Their inability to live on the produce of the land , even though they paid nothing for it , shows how entirely illusory was every calculation on which the system was professedly founded . The fund which was to ensure its continued existence cannot he obtained—the men who were to furnish it arc ruined—and the whole attempt endsin the amassing , in the hands of the projector , ofa large quantity of land which cannot be profitably worked in the way originally proposed .
Now , reader , what say you to that ? The men who have received two , three , and four acres of the best description of Laud , with a house in the centre of each allotment—Land cultivated , and money at the rato of * ll . 10 s . an acre paid as aid money—and no rent yet demanded—and all paupers , booked up , unable to live , and juggled by Mr . O'Connor during two years of such a depression in their trade , as would have driven nine tenths of them to
the workhouse , and not a few to the grave . Contrast this fact with the position of the ' 'Gravel Pit man , " paying high rent for a pond and a gravel pit—scraping enough to buy a pony—turning it into a prime horse—having furniture and utensils , and 400 ? . of capital saved in twelve years from Land and water . Must not this angler have now and then hooked a golden fish ? Parties connected with tho Commissariat department , upon being asked how they realized such fortunes during the Peninsular war , replied : — " That if they threw a lump of wood into the water at night , it would come out gold in the morning . " But another contrast is furnished by the Cobden-Scholefield FREEDOM FOR THE
MILLION PLAN . " IT IS SOW ASCERTAINED BY PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE , THAT A MAN CAN SUPPORT HIMSELF , WIFE , AND FAMILY , UFON THE PRODUCE OF TWO ACRES OF LAND , COSTING ELEVEN POUNDS AN ACRE , AND PAY RENT AT THE RATE OF THIRTEEN AND A HALF PER CENT . " Upon the other hand , it has now been discovered by the practical agriculturist , Sidney Smith , that a man , his wife and family , must go the workhouse or starve upon
four acres of land , costing 32 / . js . Gd . an acre npon the average ; cropped , roads made , house built , 30 ? . aid money , and in numerous cases , 20 / . extra loan money , and no rent demanded for two years , in consequence of the potato failure . Now what will the practical agriculturist , Sidney , say to such a contrast ? and would tho propeunders of tho FREEDOM FOR THE MILLIONS Plan remit a year ' s rent or a day's vent if all the crops failed , and the land become sterile .
In talking of the money , the writer who undertakes to criticize Mr . O'CdxNOit ' s legal knowledge , says : — . Whether that money was raised by subscription , or came from his . own pocket , is a matter with which the conveyancer did not trouble himself , and which , on the face of the deeds transferring , the property is , in all probability , not oven meidently mentioned . " Now what will the reader think of a lawyer receiving payment for an estate , asking the purchaser : " Pray , sir , how did yon come by this money ? That soverei gn smells awkward , that 5 / . note looks rather suspicious ; neither bear she stamp of virtuous traffic V * Sidne y concludes his effusion thus
;lobe chary of believing m extravagant promises of impossible advantages ; to put no faith in schemes which » rotess to guarantee a vast return for a trivial outlay ; to eschew quack mcdicmes for social ills ; and , above nil to keep dear of ' lotteries" ofevery sort and kind-such as we read it , is the moral to be drawn by working men from the history of the O'Connor Land Scheme . 5 If any danger is to result from the Land Scheme | the "Dispatch" may be chargeable with all the contingencies , as that paper has more enthusiasticall y recommended the Scheme—if faithfully carried out—than Mr . O'Connor or the " Northern Star . "
However , having criticised thepractical agricultural knowled ge of Sidney Smith , let us again re-state the position of this much reviled Land Company . The Press is making the most of the long vacation—that interval which must elapse before the Queen ' s Bench will be called upon to pronounce its final decision as ^ u }? rT ? f tho Land Company . Should it be favourable , of which we entertain not a shadow of a doubt , then Mr . O'Connor will show his revilers his renewed operations upon a more extensive acalQ ^ sWa tho
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gloriouB uncertainty of the law deny " that protection to the poor which it never refusesupon a quibble to the rich , Parliament w homid . Dy the unanimous report of the Committee , either to legalise it by special Act of Parliament , or to grant Mr . O'Connor powers to wind up ; ana in such an event every subscriber would receive back twenty shillings for every pound he paid , and perhaps more ; while , if Mi-. O'Connor died to-morrow , the property is all vested m honourable , uprig ht Trustees , to be app lied to the sole and onl y benefit of the members . We _ _ ^
wonder whether Sidne y Smith and his associates would have invested their own money in such a project , and would have observed such good faith with those who had reposed confidence in them ? ,,,,., , ,,, Poor Bradshaw , who looks like death s head upon a broomstick , and is out of sorts with a turnip because it looks less like a ghost —endeavoured to . criticise the Land PJan some few weeks ago ; and amongst other strictures , makes Mr . O ' Connor say , "That the stamps for the registration of the Company cost 350 ? ., " whereas , Mi-. O'Connor said no such thing ; what he said was , " That they cost from 600 / . to 800 / .: " so poor Bradshaw must have another "FLY SHEET . " _ ^
The " Dispatch , " the " CJtronicJe , " and all other papers omit to announce the fact to the public , that the New Land Plan is duly Enrolled under ActofParliament , uppn thc very same principle as Building Societies , and that the officers and trustees have been legally appointed . But let us conclude with the assurance , that , however the law may oppose—the press may revile—or the most fortunate may attempt to damage the Land Plan—that itis , nevertheless , Mr . O'Connor ' s fixed resolution to go on , in sp ite of all opposition ; not juggling , but benefitting the working classes , until he releases them from the slavish bondage in which the press , more than any other holds them .
power , ^ As a newspaper proprietor , Mr . O'Connor has devoted every fraction of his money to the support of the Charter and the Land . The Charter as the political means , and the Land as the social end , to make himself , and those for whom he struggles , independent of faction , class and party . We have frequently shown the difference between tho profit—both individual and national—created by the free labourer , as compared with the profits of the feudal serf , universally and nationally ; and in confirmation of our opinion , we cannot offer stronger proof than is contained in the following passage , extracted from an able article which appears in the "Nation" of last week : —
Look to the Republics of Italy ; how Venice grew up from the slime of the Adriatic—how Milan battled against Barbarossa until razed to the earth—how ( pigeons wares and rare manufactures spread the fame of the Italian artizan over Europe—how the sea floated more ships into Venice , Pisa , and Genoa , than into all the other harbours of the world—how the agriculture of the lombardand the Tuscan farmer was so skilful , that , to this day , the-land once cultivated by the hands ot freemen , is easily distinguish aWe from the waste or half-tilled possessions of the feudal lord .
Another Chartist Martyr. Alexander Sharp...
ANOTHER CHARTIST MARTYR . Alexander Sharp has followed Joseph Williams to an untimely grave . The feeling of indignation and horror caused by the death of the first victim had not time to subside , before a second fell a sacrifice to the same detestable and cruel system of prison discipline . In the case of Mr . Sharp , however , it appears that the illness which followed his being placed
in solitary confinement , and fed upon bread and water , did not follow that treatment so rapidly . A longer time elapsed before tbe mischief done to Mm showed itself , which can onl y bo accounted for by tho fact stated at the inquest , that Mr . Sharp was " a remarkably healthy man . " But no constitution , however strong or powerful , is able to bear up against such inhuman treatment , at a time when a fearful pestilence poisons tho air , and slays the inhabitants of London by thousands .
It is a fact admitted by all medical menwhatever may be their differences upon other subjects—that one of the most powerful predisposing causes of Cholera is insufficient or innutritious diet , and one of the professional witnesses at the inquest upon Mr- . SnAgr , stated , that lie wtTOTa not keep a person coilfined , even in a parlour , upon a bread and water diet , at such a time . In this case , however , ll ( usual appearances of true Asiatic Cholera were present , and the Jury returned a simile verdict of death from that disease , though there can be no doubt that confinement and low diet were the primary causes of the attack which hurried the victim to a premature grave .
We are happy to perceive that the party headed by Sir Joshua Walmsley has taken up these cases of deliberate homicide . At a meeting of the Council of the Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association , held on Wednesday night , it was-stated that they had memorialised the Home Office on the subject , and that it was hoped good would result from the remonstrance . It was further stated , that there were in the House of Commons , even now , eighty Members , with Mr . Hume at their head , who were determined to institute a most searching investigation in Parliament . The
blood of our murdered brethren will not , therefore ) be allowed to cry from the ground in vain . With reference to the extreme stretch of power assumed by the Justices of the Peace in prescribing labour to misdemeanants and first class prisoners , we see that Captain Williams adduced the 38 th section of the Act 4 , George IV ., as a justification of the local authorities . That section undoubtedly empowers the Justices to set the prisoners to any labour , " not severe by which they may earn their own maintenance . '' Even this , however , ought to be
acted upon with caution in the case of first class prisoners , because it is clear that the sentence of the Superior Court simply implies deprivation of liberty . In the case of Mr . Sharp—as in that of Mr . Williams—however , the labour they were required to perform , in accordance with the rules laid down by those sapient justices , was not only " severe , " but was absolutel y the kind of labour which is assigned to . the criminal class , who are specifically sentenced to hard labour by the Superior Courts . If earning his own maintenance , according to the extent and letter of the
section reterredto , was all that was required from Joseph Williams , why was he not employed in his own trade , as a baker for the prison ? But the fact is , that such an addition is , in itself , altogether unwarranted and extra-judicial ? No inferior authorities ought to have the power of adding to the sentence finally pronounced on any person by a judge in an open court . The circumstances attendant upon the death of Mr . Sharp were so similar to those in the case of Mr . Williams , that we neednot extend our remarks . The observations we made last week apply to both . We learn with pleasure that the Chartists of the
Metropolis intend to honour the remains of this additional martyr to the cause of political freedom with a Public Funeral , on Sunday next The procession will start from Golden-lane ! Barbican , at two o ' clock , and will proceed thence along Chiswell-street , Pinsbury Pavement Moorgate-street , Princes-street , Cornhih \ Leadenhall-street , Ald gate High-street , Whitechapel , Dog-row , and Bethnal-green to the Victoria-Park Cemetery . Wo have no doubt that there will , on this occasion , be another display of respect for the dead , and of attachment to the cause in which ho died equal to that which marked the funeral of Mr ' Williams last Sunday ; and . we trust , th . it
the Widows and Orphans , who have been bereaved by the oppressor of their natural protectors , will receive substantial proofs of sympathy with their sufferings and tlieir deprivations , &
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. mb ^ m ^ . MORE PARSON PLUNDER . Having shown , by evidence drawn from a variety of sources , that the annual income of the Established Church , derived from tithes alone , cannot he less than six millions sterling we now proceed to examine the other portions of its revenues . The next item is the incomes derived from estates belonging to spiritual di gnitaries and ecclesiastical corporations , generall y termed episcopal and capitular estates . They were originally bestowed under the notion that heaven could be propitiated through those do .
nations and the intervention of the priest——that the sacrifice of property here would secure the soul ' s safety hereafter . The value of these estates was entirely unknown until Henry VIII . appointed a commission of in , quiry into the ecclesiastical revenues , upon which he founded his scheme for the creation of new bishoprics . In accordance with that scheme a new diocesan distribution took place and the value of episcopal estates in the vari ! ous sees was determined . The mere fact o £ such an inquiry and redistribution having taken place by the authority , and under the auspices of the State , is sufficient proof that
those estates must be looked upon as public property . They were , in fact , confiscated from the time of the abolition of the Romish Church , and their ownership vested in the State , which exercised uncontrolled power in their disposal . In the subsequent administration of ecclesiastical affairs this was partiall y lost sight of , and returns of the periodical increase of the value of these estates were not insisted upon as they ought to have been . With the usual policy of the pai'SORS , wherever their interests can be promoted by it ,
they have shrouded the subject in darkness ; and hence the Liber Regis—or record o f Henr y VIII . —is still the only authorised account of the value of monastic , episcopal , and cathedral property . Of course , the value of that property has enormously increased since that time ; and if we could precisely ascertain the amount of that increase , this portion of the Church revenue would then be seen in its full dimensions , spite of subterfuge or fraud . Its rate of advance has been variously stated . The returns of tho Ecclesiastical
Commissioners for 1831 , gave an increase of only sevenfold from the time of the Reformation , which contrasts marvellously with the four-fold in « crease of the value of tithes in the four years from 183 i to 1838 . The net aggregate income from this source , according to these returns , was 435 , 049 / . But the incomes of many of the dignitaries were known to be considerably larger than such a rate of increase would account for ; and several bishops , when negotiating for large Parliamentary loan swhich could only be obtained on condition of the episcopal estates being equal to their repayment within a specified
period—acknowledged themselves to be in receipt of incomes which proved these estates to have increased in value from twelve to fourteen-fold . The general calculation is , that property has increased more than twenty-fold in value during the last three centuries ; and as the Church property can only he leased for short periods , and is , therefore , constantly in the market , it may be fairly assumed that it has at least advanced in value as largely as any other kind of property . This assumption is borne out by the following extract from Mr . HoRSMax ' s speech on temporalities and church leases , August 2 nd , \ 1848 : —
1 believe few people have any idea of the value of the episcopal and capitular estates . No return of them has ever been made , nor . is it likely to be , unless the government institute that inquiry for wiiich I am no \ vnsking tand on which Parliament has a light to insist . It is known , however , that these estates are immense , and that a very small portion of their rental comes into the coffers of the Church . They are leased on a system which makes the life interest of the bishop or chapter , for the time being , at
variance with the permanent interests of the Church , aud compels them to impoverish their successors in order to sustain themselves . I will not further describe the system , but will show you its results . When the committee on Church leases was sitting in 1838 , it attempted to get a return of the actual value of these leased estates . From some of the prelates and dignitaries they did receive them —others indignantly refused any information . But those that did return them were sufficient to establish the whola
case : — The present Archbishop of Canterbury , then Bishop of Chester , returned his income at .. £ 3 , 931 Rut the rental of hisleased estate was lti , 2 : jt » Blffercnce £ 12 , 285 The late Archbishop gave his income at 22 , 216 Rental 52 , 000 Difference £ 00 , 000 The late Archbishop of York , income 13 , 70 S Rental 41 , 030 _„™ . — , * , ^
Difference £ 27 , 232 Some others were also given , but those I have cited suffice to establish , at least , a strong prima facie evidence of what I contend fur ; but I hold in my hand a parliamen . tary document , which works it out at greater length ; it is the calculation made by Mr . Finlayson , for Lord Mel . bourne ' s cabinet in 1838 , and is founded on the returns of the Commissioners of Church Inquiry . Mr . Finlayson takes the report of the Inquiry Commissioners , who give the annual sums derived from fines on episcopal : md collegiate estates at 260 , 0001 . The rental of these estates betakes to be 1 . 400 , 000 ? ., and he states this to be a very low estimate , and gives his reasons for so stating . 1 observe , also , that that estimate is adopted by the lessees ; and in a recent publication put forth by them , the gross value of these estates is calculated at 35 , 000 , 0001 .
It is true that the returns of the Bishops would make the amount much less , hut we have already seen what they are worth . B y a collation of the returns made successively during the last twenty years , it has been found that there has been a deliberate understatement of the revenue of those dioceses , the incomes of which were to be curtailed , in order to provide more liberall y for pporer Sees . "When tho late Archbishop of Canterbury
wanted permission from Parliament to borrow money for the repairs , enlargement , and decoration of his Palaces , his average income was stated by Br . Lusiungtox , his advocate , to be at least 32 , 000 / , ; but when he was required to furnish returns the following year , for the augmentation of the income of poorer Sees , it then dropped down to 10 , 000 / . I The Bishop of Loxdon has played the same game , and returned his income as
being only 12 , 204 / . Since then a magnificent new city has been built on the Metropolitan Estate , hounded by the Edgeware Road on the one side , and the Uxbrid ge Road on the other ; yet this worthy Bishop still returns his income at 12 , 000 / . ! Honest man ! he derives no benefit from the streets of palaces that have been erected on his ground J The owners of these buildings are squatters who have taken possession without paving anything to him at all events ! _ Tho whole list of Episcopal returns show similar discrepancies , and are onl y valuaable as proving the utter unscrupulousness of the Clergy , from the highest to the lowest , in matters of finance .
The facts wo have adduced warrant the statement , that the income of the Church from this source is at least a million and a half annually . The twenty-seven Bishops receive about one-third of this largo sum . The remainder being swallowed by the rotten boroughs of the Church—those snug spiritual corporations which afford so many " good things " to their members . Not content with the revenues derived from those two sources , the Clergy have invented new claims upon the community , of a permanent character . In Scriptural language , they resemble the three daughters of the horse leech
, whose cry is still , Give \ Give ! Surplice fees and Easter offerings were orig inally presents to the Clergy on the occasions of christenings , weddings , funerals , and oblations at the various festivals . They were voluntary offerings . But they were soon exacted as a ri ght , and enforced by civil authority . This practice was condemned by various oecumenical councils as Simony ; and the English establishment is the only Protestant church which has persisted in these exactions . A curious instance of the way in which these voluntary gifts were manufactured into fixed exactions , may be mentioned . In early times burial fees wo strictly probi
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 22, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_22091849/page/4/
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