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March 28. 1846. THE NORTHERN STAH ' --—-...
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TO BUILDERS AND OTHERS. WASTED Immediate...
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RECEIPTS OP THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIY13
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The Land Society In Devo.Nsmbe, —We Have...
The Hawick Sanrrs . —Wehave received thefoMowing : — " Sir , —As your columns are ever open for the exposure ot injustice in any snaps , 1 have thought fit to aind yon a case which I hope yon will deem worthy of insertion , which is briefly this . A few friends of the new views of society , aspropotraded by Bobert Owen , were anxious to have two lectures on the above subject , and ' - having engaged the services of Mr . Cooper , S . M . of Edinburgh , application was made to Baillie Goodfellow for the Town-hall , which was laid before the town council and refused , on the ground of its being an immoralsystem ; from which it would appear they have examined the subject , but of which , I hesitate not to say , thiy are totally ignorant . Sow , Mr . Editor , the Town-hall has been let for all parties , frotn the
itinerant play actor to the passive-obedience spouter , but refused to the advocate of Socialism , whose end and aim is to fully develope the faculties of man phisicaHy , mentally , and morally , so as to produce a greatly superior character to what he aashitherto borne ; to produce and distribute justly all kinds of wealth , which would banish poverty , and tha fear of poverty , from the abodes of man , by the establishment of home colonies upon scientific principles , combining land , labour , capital , and skilL Our friends subsequently applied for , and obtained , the subscription-rooms ; but the lecturers wire bo sooner announced than some extra-pious souls took the alarm , went to the landlady , aud told her what a horrible tiling she had done in letting her room for such a purpose , and that tkev
would rather pay her double the sum than that she should let the ioom to the Socialists . The landlady , fearing it might hurt her interests , sent for the persons who took the room , and begged that they would give it up , who , out of respect for her , consented , on the ground that she should pay the bills . Sir , we have the satisfaction of knowing thata great portion of the public are thoroughl y disgusted at the cowardly and intolerant conduct of those pious ' busy bodies . 'KiCHAXD IUbeis , Hawick , March 17 , 1816 . " T . ETEHAN PaTKIOTS' ASB EXILES' TFlBOWfi' CHILtjkes ' s Fusns . —I beg to acknowledge the receipt of 19 s . from Mr . David Craw , Denny , Stirlingshire , Scotland . My own lecture at the Hall , Turnagahi-lane , last Sunday night , after payment « f expenses , left Ss . 6 d .
for the two thuds . Our weekly disbursements to the recipients of the two funds now amount to £ 2 . I just give this hint , that it may be understood how needful it is every true Chartist should exert himself to raise the support that is necessary . —Thosus Coofeb , 13 i , Blackfriar's-roai W . C , GtASeow . —The husband can claim the effects of the wife . The friends of the wife cannot claim any . thing . There may be a different law , however , in Scotland . Oldhajc—It was a mistake in last week ' s Star , when it was stated that Mr . O'Connor would be in Oldham on Easter Monday ; it should havo been that Mr . O'Connor will lecture in the forenoon at Oldham on Easter Sunday , and Mr . M'Grath will lecture there on the evening ;
ef the same day . Thohas Clabe , Loughborough . —We would be much Obliged to hita for the report of the Coramissiosers on the condition of the Framework-knitters of Leicester . ACosstast Subscriber , Staletbbidge . —We think he may now take a little cot without the fear of being butchered . Wiluax Ksowles , Faebiston . —The allotments will consist of two , three , and four acres , irrespective of the ground the house and offices stand upon—that is , that there will be two acres of land to ba cultivated . Bichabd HaMEE , Radcufte-bbidge . —We feel assured that he will not impose upon us for withholding the publication of his letter ; he must see that , with the
best possible intention , and while he has our best fhantrg for his kindness , that to continue the controversy would but lead to endless squabbles . The CHAsxisxe of the Towes Hamlets akd Mb . CCohsob . —Mr . O'Connor begs to acknowledge the motion and amendment proposed at the Whittington and Cat , thanks them for it , and begs iu reply to say that he will be guided by tiie motion , while , if not withheld from publication by their request , it should have appeared in the Star . Mr . O'Connor is glad to find that it is impassible to create dissension between those who are determined to act like man and wife . J . Smith , Usadfokd . —Mr . O'Connor would have much pleasure in accepting the invitation of his friends to tea , on Easter Tuesday , were it not for other previous
engagements ; during the following week he will have great pleasure iu paying them a visit . Thomas Kejistee , Wisbkach . —All monies for the Anti-Militia Association should be addressed to Feargus O'Connor , 16 , Great Tfindmill-street , Haymarket , London . The association still goes on , and if its continuance is not necessary alimonies will be returned to the contributors ; however , it is our conviction that the militia will be embodied as soon as the great commercial measures have passed . J . C , Hull . —We know nothing whatever of Mr . Hugh Carlisle ; and , unlike that gentleman , we are too just to give opinions upon those we know nothing of . However , for the protection of the Chartist cause in Hull , in which it appears he is busying himself , we will
state , word for word , the opinion of Mr . Doyle , of the Executive , of that gentleman . We were present when Mr . Wheeler asked the members of flic Executive if they knew anything of a Hugh Carlisle , from Belfast , when Mr . JJoyie replied— "Oh , is it that fellow ! I know enough of him . I never met such a man to drink whiskey—I declare I think he would drink a quart at a draught . He is a very dangerous fellow ; he did all the mischief he could at Belfast , and I was obliged to request the Belfast Chartists to ge : rid of him . He is a most unprincipled fellow , and if they write to Belfast abcrat him , they'll soon hear enough . You should caution the Chartists of Hull against that fellow . " Ths Chabtisi Exiles . —We have received several communications relative to Mr . Buncombe ' s motion for
the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones . It is impossible for us to find room for these communications in full , we therefore briefly notice tham : — James M-w , Middesboro ' , writes that a petition was sent from that place to Mr . Duncombe , with 1 , 400 signatures . All the ministers of religion were applied to for their signatures , bat all refused . All the employers also opposed the petition , and would not allow it to be seen in any of their " works . "—H . A . Donaldson , Warwick , writes that he got up a petition seven feet long , and more than half the persons who signed it were of the ultra-Tory party . The general feeling in Warwick is strongly in favour of the exiles . One of the members , Sir Charles Douglas , voted against the motion . This Douglas was returned by the Tory influence ofthe Earl
of Warwick ; ne has recently ratted to the ministerial free-trade ' side , aud Mr . Donaldson well says , that" ingratitude to a former patron , and servile obedience to present employers , constitute the parliamentary qualification '' of Sir Charles Douglas . Mr . Donaldson addresses a letter to the ex-Tory misrepresentatire of "Warwick , which we are sorry we hare not room for . Mr . Donaldson concludes his letter by promising Sir Charles Douglas to vote against him at the next elec tion . —The Merthyr Tydvil Chartists have passed a vote of thanks to Mr . T . C . Ingram , of Abergavenny , for his exertions iu behalf of the exiles . —M . Jude , Newcastleupon-Tyne , states that two petitions were sent from that town , the first having 5 , 000 , and the second 2 , 000 signatures—total 7 , 000 signatures . The Newcastle
friends regret the failure of Mr . Buncombe ' s motion , hut will support any future movement with increased exertions . —WilliamMnir , Llinlithgow , writes thata petition was sent from that place with 8 S 0 signatures . The Linlithgow friends will support the proposed National Convention . —Mr . Sweet , Sottingham , sent us copies of the replies ofthe two members of that toivnin answer to the request that they would vote for Mr . Buncombe ' s motion . As the letters could only have appeared in this paper after the motion was disposed of , it is unnecessary to give them now ; enough that we state that Sir John Cam Hobhouse declined to support the motion , and Mr . T . Gisborne promised to vote for it . A reference to the division list will show that the Nottingham members voted in accordance with their
replies . —Geo . HoUowaj , Kidderminster , writes that on making application to W . B . Best , Esq ., the Mayor , for his signature , his " worship" flew into a passion , and in reference to Prost said ;— " So , dVraiii him , he ought to be bnrnt—he wanted to destroy other people ' s property . " His " worship" charitably added that "hehoped they [ the exiles ] would stop whore they were for ever ! " They certainly do elect some queer brutesformayorsin Kidderminster , if this is their Best specimen!— " A sincere Chartist" writes that the rejection of Mr . Buncombe ' s motion should induce the people to at once form an election fond for thepurpose of infusing good blood into the House of Commons , and thereby obtain the return of the exiles , and ultimately the enactment of the Charter . Our
correspondent who wntesfrom Prescott says , he knows at least of ten real Chartists who would subscribe twenty shillings for so necessary s purpose . — "An Observer Of the Times" should have written his letter so that the compositors might have used it . He draws a just parallel between Hampden and John Frost , and concludes by expressing his satisfaction at the progress of the Ten Hours'Bill , and the purchase ofthe people ' s estate by the Chartist Land Society . He hopes for Mr . O'Connor ' s success at Edinburgh when opposing the " great criminal" Jlacanley . —We must decline Mr . Arnotfs poetry on the speech of Sir R . IL IngH » . The old bigot is not worth the trouble « f castigating . —Sir John Hope , M . P . for the county of Edinburgh , was written to by the inhabitants of George ' s Mills , to support Mr . Buncombe ' s motion . He refused , but did not send his reply until the motion had been disposed of . C & EE . VWIcn AM > DsptfoBD Chabtists . —If our friends
arc in doubt as to the presentation of their petition b y Admiral Diiadas , they should vyrite to him for an explanation . Mb . Mabsdes ' s Xohikatiou ros the Executive . —We have receives the following : — "IhtaT that I have been nominated forthe office of member ofthe Executivefor the ei ! suing year . I happen not to have seen the Star this week , butrf what Inave heard be true , J will thank yOU 10 jOSt COnrav to the Star office my wistt that thev would , through iu medium , inform my friends that 1 moss respectfully , but determinedl y , decline C * allow myself to stand the election . In ay letter to yoV last week I informed you that we had again voted for fhe continuance in office of the present Executive- and hi the present state of Chartism , I cannot help tiriuVini * thit it would be either foolish or worse to attempt to change those now at the head , so long as we have no jea « . n to complain of their conduct . Yours trul y , K . Maesden . —Preston , March 23 rd . "
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H . Olives , Bishop Auckland . —His advice to young man anxious to list isvery good , and we recommend him to force bis opinions upon all young men . Johw RoBEBTSoir , AtTA . —The roofs of the houses will be slate . All the rooms , except the kitchen , will be boarded and papered . We cannot exactl y say what the expense of erecting a four acre house will be , it will be according to the expense of materials in the neighbourhood . The six weeks' notice required to be given will just the ballot , as it will be that time before the houses will be built .
Cabpestebs aud Joisebs . —We received , on Thursday a very lengthy address " To the Operative Carpenters and Joiners of Great Britain and Ireland , " signed by Samuel Marriott , Nottingham . So lengthy a docunient should have been sent to this office earlier in the week , we can now only notice it . The " address" defeuds Trades' combinations of workmen , and shows that combinations exist extensively amongst the privileged classes ; as , for instance , the ShipownersVSociety , Bankers' Society , Attornies' Society , Xicensed . Victuallers' Society , the Carlton and Reform Clubs , and , lastly , the society ot Master Builders , recently organised at Manchester for the purpose of resisting the just demands of the operatives . The workmen arc appealed to , to trust only to themselves , and to unite together for their protection . It is an imperative duty on all operatives to support their Manchester brethren with full and efficient pecuniary aid , so that the
conspiracy of the masters may be defeated , and the Operatives' Union be preserved . The address thus concludes : — "One word to those who have no principle , and who , incase of strikes , go to the scene of the struggle and threaten to go to work if not bought off . The turnout ? , through fear , coax and compromise with such base characters . Good heaven ! a fellow who would threaten such a deed is of no worth to either master or men . Such characters tramp from one place to another ; they do not like work , and , therefore , should have no assistance from honest men . We hope the union will consider this , and act with jadgment ; for Jet it he remembered , that he who threatens treason is , in heart , a traitor . When our brethren of Manchester have triumphed over their tyrannical employers ( and that they will at no distant period ) , what will become of the poor heartless creatures who have thus betrayed their fellow workmen !
The finger of scorn . vill be pointed at them whithersoever they go : they will be miserable outcasts of Ssocietj . "
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TO BUILDERS AND OTHERS . WASTED Immediately , TENDERS for the erection of EIGHT COTTAGES , containing Five Rooms each ; FOUR of Four Rooms each ; and THIRTY of Three Rooms each . The Cottages to be double-detached , on an Estate about seventeen miles from London . Tenders , with plans enclosed , to be forwarded to Mr . T . M . Wheeler , S 3 , Dean-street , Soho , on or before Monday , AprilC . lStG . N . B . —The Three Rooms on the ground floor .
Receipts Op The Chartist Co-Operatiy13
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LAND SOCIETY . SBABZS . PEE HB . O ' COHNOB . £ S . d . Bradford , per J . Alderson .. .. .. 10 0 0 Mr . Peter Martin , Bickmersworrh .. .. 544 Mr . J . Hopkins , watch engraver , London .. 544 Mr . Kobson , ladies ' shoemaker , London .. .. 644 Mr . J . Hyde , bookbinder , London .. .. 544 Worcester , per M . Griffiths 7 14 Pershore , per W . Conn .. .. .. .. 10 0 0 Finnicston , per J . Wilson .. .. .. 0 11 0 Bury ( Lancashire ) , per M . Ireland .. .. 598 Oldham , per W . Hamer 2 o 0 Sowerby , per J . Wilson .. .. .. .. 200 Xorwith , per J . Hurry .. .. .. ..-500 Xotringhanv per i . Sweet .. .. .. 5 0 0 Dodworth , per T . Croft 4 o 0
Leicester , per G . Aoon .. .. .. .. 900 Barnsley . perJ . Ward .. .. .. .. 500 Extter , per T . Clark .. i .. .. 255 Leeds , per W . Brook 10 0 0 Keighley , per J . Vicars .. .. .. .. 10 0 0 Totuess , Devon , per W . M . Tanner .. .. 5 12 4 William Rider 2 12 4 Liverpool , per J . Arnold .. .. ., .. 5 15 2 Preston , per J . Brown til 0 Rochdale , per E . Mitchell .. .. .. 400 Manchester , per J . Murray .. .. .. 33 15 0 Alexandria , per J . M'Intyre 4 19 8 Glasgow , per J . Smith .. .. .. .. 10 6 0 Hebden Bridge , per J . Smith C 10 11 Greenock , per 11 . Burrell 2 0 6 Stockport , per T . Woodhouse .. ., .. 200 Ashton-under-Lyne , per E . Hobson .. .. 10 5 11
LEVY FOB . THE USD COSEEESSCE , PES MB . O'COSSOB . Liverpool , per J . Arnold 0 16 Preston , per J . Brown .. .. .. .. 0 0 8 Alexandria , per J . M'Intire .. .. .. 0 9 'i LEW FOB SIBECTOBS . FEB MX . o ' CO . SNOB . Liverpool , per J . Arnold .. .. .. .. 0 1 10
NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . EXECUTIVE . PES MB . O ' COSNOB . Alexandria , per J . M'lutyre 0 10 0 NATIONAL ASTI-MIEITIA STSO . PEB MB . o ' COHJtOB . Sheffield , per G . Cavill 0 2 6 Sottingliam , perJ . Sweet .. .. .. 016 TOB THE WIBOW SEEKS . PEB MB . O ' COSSOB . Five Protestants of Surrey , 6 d . each .. .. 0 2 C Poland ' s begenebation ru . so . PEB MB . O ' COSSOB . A Mechanic , Manchester .. .. .. 020 Collected from a few Chartist friends for the Heroic Poles iu the Carpenters'Hall , by Daniel Donovan 13 9 S . Henclmff 0 10
RECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY . SHABES . PEB OESEBAI . SECRETARY . £ s . d . £ s . A . Ipswich ., „ 011 8 Hebden Bridge .. 410 6 Laiubeth „ .. HOC Uiudley .. .. 014 Mr . Boare .. .. 010 Burnley .. .. 610 0 Westminster , Mr . G . H . Chatwin .. 5 8 2 Brown .. .. 546 Monmouth .. .. 02 8 Ditto 18 8 Sutton-in-Ashfield o 10 0
Charles Fox .. .. 160 Somcrs Town .. 8 15 0 J . R . Newton .. 050 Mr . Dickson .. 0 5 0 Mr . Dale , Merton .. 0 5 4 Mr . romeroy .. 010 John Wliiddon .. . 0 5 4 Whittington & Cat 5 5 6 John Styring and " -Truro 5 10 0 Thomas Slackford 5 4 8 Newton Bushel .. 054 Bilston .. .. 400 Kettering .. .. 090 Derby 6 15 2 Birkenhead .. .. 400 Merthyr Tydvil .. 2 o 0 Worsbro' Common 0 2 8 Boulogne .. .. 5 16 2 Dunfennline .. 028 Mr . Willis , Rochester 10 2 Wigton .. .. 102 Edward Hurst .. 270
CABDS AXD 8 CLE 5 . Ipswich .. .. 026 Derby 010 Secretary .. .. 005 Boulogne .. ~ 0 0 4 Westminster .. 0 0 10 Hebden Bridge .. 014 Mr . Dale , Merton .. 0 16 Norwich .. .. 812 LEVI POB THE LAM ) CONEEBE . VCE . Truro 0 3 0 Norwich .. .. 009 Secretary .. .. 016 Glasgow .. .. 013 Derby- " .. .. 006 Wigton .. .. 003 Hebden Bridge .. ' 0 0 9 LEVI IOE . DIEECTC-M . Ipswich .. .. 007 Hebden Bridge .. 010 W . M'Murray .. 010 Littleborough .. 0 o 6 Warrington .. 026 Glasgow .. .. 0 3 4 Boulogne .. .. 0 1 10 Worsbro'Common 0 3 7 Secretary .. .. 0 0 10 All persons to be eligible forthe ensuing ballot for location on the land must havo paid their Conference aud Directors' Levy .
Notwe . —On and after Saturday , March 21 st , all communications for Mr . Wheeler must be addressed to him at the office of the Chartist Co-operative LandJ Society , 83 , Dean-street , Soho . Sub-secretaries are requested to cony the above address . T . M . Wheeleb , Sec .
NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . FES GENERAL 6 ECEETABT . Lambeth .. .. 050 Leicester ( profits Tillicoultry .. .. O 10 0 on Star ) .. .. 010 CAUSE OF POLAND . Greenwich and Deptford .. .. .. .. 050 Leicester ( Shaksperiau ) .. .. .. 020 Preston , per Marsden .. .. .. .. 0 10 0 VICTIM FOND . Sheffield 0 17 AGED PATEIOTS' AND EXILES' WIDOWS , Sheffield .. .. ~ « .. .. 017 EXILES' KESTOEATIOK IUND . Mr . Paddington ' s Book 0 2 6 Thomas Mabtw Wheeleb , Secretary .
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National Association of Uxited Trades . —The central committee met at the Trades' Office , 30 , Hyde-street , Bloomsbury , on Monday , March 16 tli , T * S . l > uncombe , M . P ., in the chair . Letters were read from Mr . Goldin , of Manchester , stating that an attempt had been made to get up a Masters ' Association in opposition to the United Trades' Association which had proved a complete failure . From Mr . iorest , stat * unj . that the chain-cable raakersof Cradley , near Stourbridge , 800 in number , were desirous of joining the association , and asking the necessary information for that purpose . From Mr . P . Moore , stating that the weavers' of York were desirous of joining the association , and desiring the necessary information . From Mr . Heard , sending the adhe-.
sion of the stockingers of Nottingham , with their first month ' s subscription . From Air . Flatt , inclosing the adhesion of the silk glovemakers of Dulueld . From Mr . Felkin , thanking Mr . J . Bush for his visit to Mansfield . From Mr . Scott , expressing the desire ofthe factory handloom-weavers of G lasgo w to become a portion of the association . From Mr . Major , conveying the adhesion of the cabinet makers , chair makers , carvers , joiners , and upholsterers of Bath . From -Messrs . T . Winters and Bucksby , containing the adhesion of SCO framework-knitters of Leicester , together with their first mouth's subscription , also
stating that they had attended a public meeting , held at Oadby , at which a resolution was unanimously passed by the " knitters" of that town to join the association . From Mr . Ileallicock , announcing a great increase of members on behalf of the horse nail-makers of Lye . From Mr . Sannt , announcing the adhesion of the framework-knitters of Snenton , accompanied with two months' subscription . From Mr . Elmer , stating the desire of the carpenters and joinc-rs of Halifax to join the National . Vfflodation of United Trades . After the transactioti of a considerable deal of business , the worthy president c ' eplared the niettimj adjourned .
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MONDAY . Lord Moust Edoecombe os Free Tbade . — It is always refreshing to be able to direct attention to anything sensible from a class whose usurped rights and privileges stand as a good substitute for sound sense . Lord Mount Edgcutnbe has decidedly written one of th e most sensible letters we have read for a long time : so sensible and pertinent to the subject , as well as prophetic of what will occur , and declaratory of what may follow Sir Robert Peel ' s measures , that we publish it at full length , and invite Strict attention to it , with this comment , that the great improvements in manufacturing science ; so rapidly adonted by all connected with trade , furnishes a woof
of the cupidity rather than of the ability or philautrophy of speculators ; while at the same time Lord Mount Edgecumbe has fallen into the old error of altogether omitting to notice the unequal distribution of the profits made by those who so actively and speedily adopt all tho newest improvements in macninCTy . This part of the subject does not appear to have struck his lordship with the great importance attached to it . Wc deny the ri ght of a class , by ability , activity , and speculation , to absorb an amount of what is injustice national property , to their own sole use ; and we again contend not only for the justice but the expediency of subduing all sources of national revenue to the requirements of the whole people ; and , however they may spring from class ,
eleven individual speculation , as soon as they become a portion ofthe staple ofthe country they become legitimately taxable for the necessities of the state . It is as unjust that one class should perish by the cupidity , or even by the ability , activity , and speculation of another class , as that they should be mown down by the scythe of the oppressor . If the agricultural labourers of England have suffered from the inattention and ignorance of the landlord class , that is no reason why the manufacturing class should be more submissive under suffering created by the activity , ability , and speculation of the steam-lord class . Upon the whole , however , as we observed before , the letter of Lord Mount Edgecumbe is very creditable to an English Peer , who has hitherto thought that his
distinction and prosperity depended not upon his attention to the condition of those beneath him , but upon his prescriptive superiority and exclusive privileges . Morrison ' s Railwat Pux . — The motion of Mr . Mormon , for a Committee of railway review , must have an astounding effect upon all railway property , and may result in subduing this branch of national wealth also to national purposes ; however the labours of the committee may terminate , one thing at least is certain , that the extensive criticism to : which his project will subject all railway concerns , must have the inevitable effect of creating another railway panic ; indeed , the rapid decline of prices , in almost every line , is a foretaste of what speculators have to expect . Our readers will remember , that we have
always contended that railroads should be national property , and should be made subservient to national wealth and public convenience , instead of constituting & monopoly for speculators ; and it is not at all unlikely that the investigation which Mr . Morrison has succeeded in opening , may end with government buying up the present lines , and making railway travelling so cheap , that the working-classes may live in wholesome air in the country at a distance ol twenty miles from their work , and pay rent for a healthful cottage , and go and return from their work at a cheaper rate than they can how occupy a stinking hole in the back slums of unhealthy towns . Tbade . —From all manufacturing t » wns in the
kingdom we have mournful accounts ofthe depression of trade , the addition to the unwilling idlers , and the general despondency of the working-classes This is in general a period of the year to which the operatives look for increased activity , as a means of wiping off their Christmas score ; so that , when the shopkeepers begin to consider , what we bare often told them , that an empty till on Saturday night makes an ugly wife on Sunday morning , they will then believe that men employed are better customers than idlers ; and that cast-iron men , mules , and spinning jennies , never walk into their shops on Saturday night for tea , sugar , bread , beef , bacon , tobacco , hats , bonnets , shoes , clothes , or any other article used by man .
Moset Market . —Notwithstanding the ten lines brought to the Times otficeto-day by TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH PHOAI -MARSEILLES , announcing 0 U 11 VICTORY over the Sikhs , Consols , after a short rally of an eighth , tumbled do < vn rapidly to their previous low figure , 96 . The city men , no doubt , are good Christians , and require something more than such a text as
DEFEAT OF THE SIKHS . Their education has taught them to expect a long sermon upon so important a text , and even the salute of twenty-one guns fired at Bombay in honour oi OUR TRIUMPH , will not reconcile them to the absence of the usual lengthy details . They must have the list of the killed aud wounded , what the Governor-General said , how he lojkcd , and what he thought , and what the army did , and all about it , ' before they believe the State of things furnishes wholesome prospects , wholesome speculation for investment in blood-money .
IRELAND . Another of the Best Landlords is the World . —A Mr . Pierce , of Carrick , has been murdered , on his return from attending a road sessions . To the English people , who do not understand the detail grievances of which Irishinen have to complain , it may not be unnecessary to state that even under the improved grand jury law these road sessions are amongst the most fruitful sources of jobbing , injustice , and irritation . Under the old grand j ury law the squires fed their pimps , their dependents , their bastards , their creatures of all sorts , their animals , and even themselves , upon road jobbing ; indeed , we have known many a man who , without any other description of property in the world , has made from
£ 3000 to £ 4000 a year by road jobbing . We have known parsons of four contiguous parishes whorealised between them over £ -1000 per annum by this species of traffic , in county taxes , called county rates , paid by the farmers . We have known £ 3000 voted for a job which never was performed ; and when the reader understands that over a hundred thousand pounds has been levied as county rates in one year iu the county ot Cork , he will not say that it is a trifling grievance to those who pay it . In the next accounts of this transaction , we shall no doubt hear from the hired correspondents ofthe London journals that the mind of the neighbourhood is perfectly at a loss to discover any cause whatever for the murder of this the very best of landlords , the kindest of neighbours , and , ii a justice , the poor man ' s magistrate . Well , we may be asked if we are justifying this system of assassination . Just as much as we justify coercion ,
until the causes which lead to assassination are first destroyed . The present Coercion Bill is a declaration of war against Ireland : and we cannot consistently or feelingly censure the Irish serfs who resort to savage revenge as the only means of procuring justice , while we sympathise with the brave Poles who are physically struggling against tyranny , against which they have petitioned and remonstrated in vain . We say , and we defy contradiction , that the government which sanctions the cause , who are aware of its evil tendency and inevitable result , and not Ihe poor Irishman who seeks justice from the law in rain , is guilty of every murder that has been committed . We receive severe , indeed insolent , strictures upon our denunciation of the tyranny of the upper classes in Ireland . Many friends and relatives have even done us the honour to cut our acquaintance , for no other reason ; but yet , if we lost EVERY
SUC 1 I FRIESD , AND EVERY RELATIVE L \ TIIE WORLD , we will , in spite of all , still persevere in denouncing the real murderers . The "Times" and the " Nation . "—The Times is in a perfect phrengy at the Nation and the freeman DARING to publish a statistical account of English murders , and , whimsically enough , would upset all the fair reasoning of those journals upon the addresses of the several Irish Judges to the grand juries in their respective counties , upon one passage in Judge Ball ' s address to the grand jury of the county of Tipperary , not delivered until after the summary of those journals had been made up ; and the Times , ludicrously enough , makes a parade of the fact of Mr .
Justice Ball being a Catholic . We have often asserted , and we now repeat , without any the slightest reflection upon Mr . Justice Ball , that a bad Catholic is worse than a bad Protestant . If a judge , and at all biassed , he proves his impartiality by marked hostility to those of his own faith . If a juror , he is afraid of the censure of his Protestant associates ; and if a middleman , he justifies his tyranny upon the eriuciple that he has a right to do as he likes with his own . U an Englishman commits wholesale murder , be is sure to be insane ; if an Irishman fires wide of the mark , with INTENT NOT TO KILL , he is a Papist , Ribandman , White Boy , murderer , demoralised and blunted by the teaching of his profane pastor and horrible religion .
One murder makes a villain , v Millions a hero . Johnstone , though he fell short of the heroic number , is fed better and has more liberty than the unwilling idler ; while Seery , whom the real murderer tells us did not intend to kill his victim , is a murderer ,
, FOREIGN . The English press is beginning to find out , that so far from free trade policy leading to a pacific understanding upon the Oregon question , that it is likely rather to lead to a rupture between the Northern and Southern States , in which the war party considerably nreponuerate . Our readers should bear in mind that , in the outset , we stated that in the question of war between England and America all minor considerations would be merged into tiie all-absorbing thought of nationality and hatred to England , and everything that wc hear upon the subject but serves to confirm us in our view ; and , however the unsettled state of affaire and parties in England may cause the Peel administration to play fist and loose with the war question , at present no rational man can entertain a doubt that Jonathan is pauting for an opportunity to measure swords with the English aristocracy ; for we hold that the English people will
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not fight against American democracy and in favour ot oligarchical oppression .
TUESDAY . ihe Protectionists asd the Minister , —/ Ihe Protectionists , as we predicted , and as Lord George Bentinck announced , are still determined to fight the battle from "pillar to post , " Left without a leader in the onset , they were obliged to fight in divisions without concert , in fact , compelled to carry on » Junu . of desultory war against the combined force ol Whig and Tory . Miles undertook the command of the grand army of Protectionists , but since then it has been divided into sections and reserve . Lord George Bentinck , to the astonishment of all , has led on the right win « with extraordinary ability ; while the Marquis of Worcester has feebly commanded the left ; and last night , Mr . Elliot Yorke , representing the Cambridgeshire farmers , boldly brought the reserve into action . We , prognosticated that neither tho threatened famine in Ireland , nor all the
threatened danger to trade in England , would intimidate the Protectionist army from protracting this war of lite and death ; and upon the motion , last night , that the Bill be read a second time , Mr . Yorke moved , as an amendment , that it be read that day six months ; while , on Friday last , Lord Stanley , on presenting some petitions against the measure , took the opportunity of expressing a hope that their lordships would throw the measure out altogether . We again notice the details ofthe measure here withe purpose of confirming an opinion that we expressed early in the Protection war relative to the length to which the landlords would go rather than abandon their privileges , and to' prove that they would look upon mere Chartist physical force language as" soft sadair , " and which we Shall sub . stautiate by a few extracts from Mr . Yorke ' s speech He
said-He had received a communication from a gentleman of great experience , who expressed his conviction that if the measure of her Majesty ' s government was adopted , the . valuc of property would be reduced one-fourth , and the demand for labour would be curtailed to the extent of Oiie-thku ; and that the general effect ot the measure would be to reduce wages from 20 to 25 per cent ., to lower tenants' profits , and to prevent the continuance aud extension of the improved sjstcm of cultivation , w ^ -th was now very generally adopted . He was a ! soaequ »* --teJ
with a case in which a farmer , who was about to dt- ^ . a a large portion of his farm , had stopped his operations when the right hon . baronet ( Sir It . l ' eel ) brought forward this measure , because he was satisfied that if the proposition was adopted , it was impossible for him to obtain a . return for the outlay he was about to incur . That . armer also expressed his belief that by next harvest wheat would be between 40 s . and 40 s . a quarter , that the wages of labourers would be considerably reduced , and that many of them would be thrown out of employment , aud compelled to take refuge in the union workhouses .
The above was the opinion of a farmer , who will , no doubt , risk something for the preservation of his capital ; and now we come to the consideration ofthe influence of the measure upon the agricultural labourers , and the description of resistance which their landlords tolerate in the House of Commons . He proceeded thus : — He had received a communication from a poor , but intelligent man , who said that in tho neighbourhood from which he wrote there was not a village in which the people were not ready to assert , by brute force , if necessary , their right to taste of the fruits of their own labour ; and he added that every village in the vicinity was ripe
for outrage at the first reduction of wages . lie assured the house that great apprehensions existed in the agricultural districts as to the effects of this measure ; and he held the right lion , gentleman on the Treasury bench responsible for occasioning those apprehensions . Now , we ask how such an announcement would have been received by the Commons of England , if made on behalf of the working classes looking for their rights ? What , we should be glad to know , would have been the feelings of Mr . Yorke , and in what words would he have expressed his indignation , if , upon the appeal of three millions and a half of Englishmen , who thought they had a right to taste the fruits of their own labour , Mr . Duncombe had rend
a letter FROM A POOR BUT INTELLIGENT MAN , stating " that every village in the vicinity was ripe for outrage at the first reduction of wages ?" Would not Mr . Yorke , in such case , be the first to sanction the Whig government in arming the tenants of Mr . Yorke against the operatives complaining of the reduction ot wages ; and can we now do less than rejoice that Air . Yorke has been bitten by one of the pack which he and his associates have so unmercifully hounded upon those who remonstrated against a reduction of wages , but who never said they were ripe for outrage to resist the infliction ? It is the melancholy fate of oppressors that they cannot give the legitimate weight to truth , because they have so often resisted its influence when proclaimed by others . Air . Yorke now knows that rents will be diminished by one-fourth , and that labour will be diminished by a third , and , he might have added , that poor-rates would be doubled ; buc when we told the
very same thing five years ago , in our letters to the Irish landlords , his class were teo insolent , overbearing , and confident , to receive truth from the only source through which they could acquire it ; and now that they suffer from their ignorance we cannot sympathise with them . Mr . Yorke's farmer told him that by next harvest wheat would be from 4 . 0 s . to 45 s . a quarter ; we tell him that it will be under oos . a quarter , and wc tell him that that , and that only , will bring him and farmers tu a sense ef their duty to the pour slaves whom they have so long oppressed . As to his agricultural serfs being ripe for outrage , wc would caution him io take warning by the terrible example set by the Austrian government in Gallieia , and to take care , lest the strife encouraged for one purpose may not be directed to the accomplishment of . another . If the strife commences , it will not cease until his brother ' s ( the ani'l of llardwicke ' s ) estate is once more restored to its legitimate purposes—the support of the poor , and
' THEIR RIGHT TO TASTE OF THE FRUITS OF THEIR OWN LABOUR . " These were the words of the correspondent of Mr . Yorke , and these are the purposes to which the next strife will be directed . Upon the whole , we were not far out when we named May , and not the beginning of the month either , as the earliest period at which the measure to relieve Ireland from famine would be brought to a close . Neither the Lords nor Commons , except in as far as hunger is threatening to the lives of their order , would care three straws if the English and Irish people were dying of plague , pestilence , and famine . Shake Market . —The shares are still looking down ; and , if he doesn't look sharp , the Draper King ( Hudson ) will turn out to bo no king at all , after all .
. IRELAND . Lord Grey brought forward his remedies for the grievances ot Ireland last night in the House of Lords , upon the pretext that the removal of the causes which rendered coercion necessary , should , at all events , follow the enactment of that hellish measuiv . Bow often has it fallen to our lot to assert , that every single Tory assault upon liberty was justified , as tar as precedent can justify tyranny , by some previous act of Whiggery . This said nobleman , so crooked in mind , as we before observed , that if he swallowed a twclvepenny nail it would come out a corkscrew , is endeavouring to follow in his father ' s footsteps . The late Earl Grey more than once succeeded in achieving office by his professions in behalf
of Ireland ; and suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act , or some such boon , was invariably the reward given for Irish support , until he characteristically wound up his claim to Irish affection by the BASE , BLOODY , and BRUTAL COERCION BILL . Now , surely the present Earl does not suppose that either the English or the Irish people have forgotten that he was one of his father's Cabinet , who trampled the ordinary law under foot , and substituted trial by court martial ! He cannot forget that at that period justice to Ireland was promised when coercion had tranquillised the country ; and although coercion , court martial , transportation , and the worst description of martial law , that tender justice of a spy police force , was hurried through the house ;
and although the government of which he was a member subsequently rejoiced and congratulated the country upon the tranquillising effect of the boon , yet , that although the causes of discontent were the same as now , not a single one of those causes have been removed to the present time . Away , then , with such humbugging nonsense in the present distracted state of factions ! The Whig expectants will bid for Irish support through patronage offered to Irish place-hunters and pensioners , but not through justice to the Irish people . The patriots do not want to kill " the goose with the golden egg ; " they hail every grievance as a good cry , and mourn over the destruction of every " rung" in their political ladder .
Famine . —The tyrants , with enough to eat of the produce of other men ' s labour , have now tho audacity to deny that such a tiling as famine theatens Irc" , and that there is no deficiency in the potatoe crop . We give them this bit of information , of which they stand much in need . The fact of there being an abundance of potatoes in the Irish markets at this particular season of the year , when the supply is usually scanty , is ho proof of an abundance being ' in the country . Tlie fact of their being cheap , which tkey are not , would be no proof , and for this simple reason—those who have them are afraid to keep them , and when scarcity does come , it will come like an electric shock , when the whole store has been
simultaneously exhausted . One fact is worth a bushel of argument . We requested a friend , who lately visited Ireland , and has just returned , to procure for us eight stone weight ot four descriptions of seed ; and with the assistance of our steward , and the neighbouring farmers , well inclined to serve us , for three weeks he could not procure that amount of those in most general use . Wc visited ; t nursery and marketgarden ground belonging to a person at Fulham yesterday , for the purpose of arranging for the purchase of a number of two-year-old quicks for the use of the Land Association , when wc saw several bushels of potatoes strewed upon a heap of dung , and pn remonstrating upon the waste , the nurseryman
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told us that he had lost eig ht hundred bushels by the disease . Now , for another word of information upon the sub ect . The . potatoes are iugm Ireland usually about toe month of Wniber they are then P > Ued and covered up with straw , witha tootaiid a halt or two feet , of earth packed over them in . the shape > o the roof of a house ; those pits are seldom opened till the planting season , which is just now . . Enough tor the use of the family , for a few months , is reserved in a" ^« m * er , "andmore are deposited in a smaller pit for the use of the house ; but the general crop for sale , for seed , for spring and summer consumption , stored in the large pit . Hence , the farmers haye generally remained in ignorance as to the state of their general crop from November till March , and even now many aro actually afraid to open them ;
and in nine cases out of ten , where they have been opened , the farmers have discovered that the potatoes , which appeared generally sound in November , are now wholly gone , or nearly so . This is not the only misfortune—this calamity not only affects the tenant and the labourer , but it has also caused the death of thousands of landlords . A poor Irish labourer very truly calls his pig THE LANDLORD . It is the pig that keeps the house over his head . The peasants boil the apparently less diseased potatoes for the pig , and cnrelessly throw the worst at the door ; the pig , as a matter of course , eats even the worst , and great destruction amongst the swinish multitude is the consequence . Add to these simple understandable facts , not communicated by the government commissionersthe pressor by the debates in Parliament ,
, , we must sorrowfully state that scores of acres in the most luxuriant parts of the county of Cork remain undug to the present day . Now-then , with these facts , which ought to be known to those who undertake to govern the country , we ask , if the present calm state of Ireland , aye , quiet , quiescent , submissive state of the Irish people , compared with the tovtuve they suffer , can justify county members , to whom the grievance must be familiarly known , in resisting for a single night , nay , for an hour , those measures which promise temporary relief ? Much is made of an Irish murder ; but where is the sympathy for a starving nation of grateful , hospitable , brave people , whoso nerve and courage were obliged to be called into action in India to save the character of England . "Voni ignominous defeat ? .
FOREIGN . Spain . —The devil Narvaez , that bespattered the walls of Madrid with tho brains of the brave sergeants and soldiers , has again succeeded in installing himself as dictator ef Spain , and has commenced his new career precisely as Charles the Tenth , acting under the instructions of Polignac , commenced his in 1830 . He has dissolved the Cortes , and suppressed the Jittlo liberty that the press had . Of course the English press would die in a paroxysm of grief if this heroic murderer fell by the hand of a BASE ASSASSIN .
WEDNESDAY . The Famine Debate . —The famine debate is again adjourned , while the Irish people are literally dying of "plague , pestilence , and . famine . " But this delay is only chargeable upon the Commons ; the noble Lords are more tender of human life , and communicated the glad tidings to Ireland last night , that the Fever Bill had received the Royal assent . Aye , go on—castor oil anil coercion for ever!—good enough for an Irish labourer ; at least , so think Saxon peers and the Saxon Queen . But we aro straying , wo must return to the plums of the debate . Mr . Piumtre said—His own impression was , that the movement was brought about by what he did not hesitate to call an unconstitutional body , the Anti-Corn Law League . Other leagues would be established on tho confidence of the success of this , and , having given way to this , how could they resist the Chartists , or any other combination ?
Yes , Saint Piumtre , your saititship . will find it difficult to resist the heavy blow in store for MOTHER CHURCH , and for "NATIONAL FAITH" too , ai men as the oligarchy of England have received the blow that they have been so long provoking ; and as for the Chartists , you are quite right , we only " bide our time , " for " every dog will have his day , " and Bully ' s tlay is coming . Sure then , arid man alive , didn't we always tell you , that when every ship in the fleet of faction was wrecked , that the crew wouldn't find a foot of ground to rest upon , except the little rock called the Charter . Sir J . Trollope , agood landlord , who has more than verified our calculation as to the respective rates ol wages earned by the agricultural labourer and the manufacturing slave ,
said—During the last twunty-six years the wages he , as a landowner , had paid to his labourers , varied from ! U . to 15 s . a-we ' ek . The average amount of wages was 12 s ., and that was the present rate , but tho better class of labourers could earn a largersum ' . If , however , the present bill was adopted , the consequent restriction of cultivation would necessarily compel the farmers to reduce their expenses ; and that reduction nould first hs applied to the wages of the labourer . Well , Sir John , we exceedingly regret that you and the other good men of your class did not make head in time against the great majority of land oppressors . No ; Ave retract the expression oppressors , and substitute thoughtlessness , folly , want of knowledge
and confidence , for wc will ever contend that the landlords of England are not the oppressors tiiat they have been . represented . They have certainly , in their folly , enacted laws which cunning , hired barristers and ignorant interested manufacturing justicoa have construed in the letter rather than in the spirit , Of course Sir John Trollope in his calculation estimates , as we did , the additional wages earned in hay time and harvest , and other busy periods of the year ; and now , where is the manufacturer who can say that his hands throughout have earned the same amount of wages even during their shorter working life ; and how much more healthy , satisfied , and comfortable are the labourers of Sir John Trollope than the slaves of friend Bright ?
Mr . Rashleigh , one of * tiie Young England party , as good a man as breathes , said-He lived at some distance from their smoky regions ; but he could tell them this , that some of those very personages whom they held in contempt were his greatest friends—they were friends ho should feel proud to have at his table—he meant some of the operatives in those districts they treated with so much contempt , and whom they had constantly , and on all occasions , tried to put down—the men whom they were afraid to niett in open meetings on this question .
There , tyrant capitalists , where is there one of you who wouldn ' t turn up his stinking nose at the very idea of one of the slaves who feed you , houses you , clothes you , and warms you , coming in to your august presence ? Oh , what a ferment from the kitchen to the nursery the announcement that an honest operative was going to honour you with his company would create ! Suppose that Miss Fiddlestick , whose father had just jumped out of the clogs and dung-cart into patent leather boots and a princely drawing-room , was asked to play and sing for Dan Donavan , the weaver—crikey , what a shindy ! For
Miss Fiddlestick would never think that but for Dan Donavan she'd hare neither piano or drawing-room . Well , we won't dwell upon these , unpleasantnesses , lor , please God , they'll be only subjects of romance , surprise , and wonder for the next generation . Mr . Rashleigh was quite right in saying that the League dare not meet those contemned operatives in open discussion . Again , it appears that the Protectionist army is being drilled in sections , whose work is cut out according to the taste of the respective officers . The debate upon the second reading is a compendium of the grand fight , with a spice more ol personality thrown into it .
Tub Land . —The following deserves rather more distinction than mere notice to correspondents . By Saturday ' s post we received a letter from Hull , informing us that some suspicious worthy , in that town , had attempted to throw discredit upon our assurance that we were offered £ 2000 for the Rickmansworth estate . It is unfair that wc should be called upon to meet mere rumour , without any evidence being offered to disprove our assertions . However , as it is difficult to prove a negative , we will give our incredulous friend the benefit of the difficulty ; and to establish the truth of what we said , we beg leave to submit the following letter , received on Mo . day , for his perusal : — Rickmuusworth , March 20 th , 1846 . Sir , —The gentleman for whom we made the application as to purchasing Uerringsgate-uirm , desires us to
say that he considers £ 2000 more than it is worth , but if you are willing to take £ 200 for the purchase , making £ 20 GO ( two thousand and sixty pounds 1 ) , we are directed to make the offer . We shall be glad to hear from you ; and in the event of your not accepting it , have the good , ness to consider the treaty at an end . We leinaiu , sir , your obedient servants , Sinrwics and Son , To Feargus O'Connor , Esq . Now , what we stated was , that we were offered £ 2000 , and here is an offer of £ 2000 . Now , then , will our incredulous friend believe us when we assure him that we have been since offered
TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED POUNDS ! Docs this require comment ? If it does , our incredulous friend shall , have ; tho name of the bidder , who is a member of Parliament , with property in the neighbourhood , It is extremely foolish to give us these perpetual opportunities of proving itieotitestibly what might otherwise appear doubtful to those who do not know us .
IRELAND Conciliation Hall . —Nothing startling occurred at the last meeting beyond the fact that the week ' s rent had dwindled down to £ l 7 'i ils . Mukdbr of Sekiiy . — Two men have been recently executed at » Longford , John Buchanan and Bernard M'Gcoy , both of whom affirmed their innocence on the scaffold ; and the Times , true to its calling , would make its readers believe that these unfortunate men were induced to adopt this course from the example set by Bryan Seery . Wc shall not stop to contrast the two cases , further than merely to observe that one half of the men who arc executed in Ireland are hung upon the false oaths of prejudiced policemen . Wc speak from knowledge , not from hearsay . We have mor etlian once or ten times received a severe
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rebuke from the court for persevering' in the crossexamination of a wily policeman , but we have invariably broken down tfeeir evidence , wmen nas always been sent to the jury as some U-NAOtuun i « ABLE MISTAKE on the part of the policeman-However , we have almost invariably succeeded m destroying the effect of their evidence . But now w contrast the cases moro minutely . The Rev . Mr . Savage corroborated Seery in his declaration of innocence , while the Rev . Mr . Farrell tapped Buchanan on the shoulder , and stopped h ' un in the middle of a sentence , lest he should die with the lie upon his lips . We treated Bryan Seery ' s casa as a whole ,
and so we shall this , and we venture to affirm , that the Rev . Mr . Farrell and the Roman Catholic clergy of Longford will not proclaim the innocence of those two men , or endeavour to enlist universal sympathy in their behalf ; and herein is the difference—that had Seery merely declared his innocence upon the scaffold , without having persevered in asserting it to his pastor , however we might have believed him to have beon murdered , from a close perusal ot the evidence , yet the Irish people , not conversant in the knowledge of Saxon laws , however they might have sympathised with him , would not haye proclaimed their belief in his innocence , but for the assurance of the Rev . Mr . Savage .
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TO THE MEMBERS OF TIIE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND ASSOCIATION . My dbau Friends , —You will learn from this week ' s Summary that I have been offered £ 2 , 060 for the land that cost £ 1 , 860 ; and that since then £ 2 , 000 has been offered—that is , £ 440 more than it cost . Now , allowing that this amount locates forty-four occupants , at two , three , and four acres , each occupant will ha , vc received for ever a bonus of £ 11 for my day ' s work—because the rent will be estimated according to the amount paid , and not according to the actual value . There are two or three questions put to me , which I take this opportunity of answering .
One is—why , if the land costs only £ 1815 s . an acre ,, the rent of two acres , with a house , is to be £ 6 ? Those who put the question could not have read the rules . The two acres of land that costs £ 18 Ids . an acre , with £ 15 capital , and a bouse that costs £ 30 in building , will be leased for ever for £ 3 a year ; but if £ 50 is expended upon the cottage , instead of £ 30 , it will be leased at £ 6 a year—that is , five per cent , upon the additional £ 20 . expended upon the cottage , if the occupant pleases ; if he does not please , it need not be so , and he may have the land , cottage , and £ 15 for £ 5 a year ; but the directors are anxious to insure—firstly , domestic comfort ; and secondly , uniformity of architecture .
Now , if a man wishes to build a cottage himself , he will receive a lease short of the amount that building the cottage would require . . Upon the other hand , if an occupant wishes to add £ 20 , £ 30 , or £ 50 to the £ 30 allowed as a £ 5 cottage , he may do so . Now , I will lay down a scale that none can pretend to mistake . The Society proposes giving two acres of land that cost £ 18 los . an acre , a house that cost £ 30 , and £ 15 capital , for £ 5 a year ; but as it is utterly impossible to establish a uniform price for land , or even for building , which must be regulated according to the facility of procuring materials , the Society was obliged to render a scale by which the
rent of higher or lower priced land would be regulated ; thus , if we give £ 30 an acre for land , or £ 60 , instead of £ 37 10 s „ for two acres , the rent , with a £ 30 house ,. would be £ 6 2 s . 6 d . ayear , or £ 5 per cent , upon the additional £ 22 10 s . paid for the two acres ; if we give £ 40 , or £ 80 ^ for two acres , the rent will be £ 7 2 s . 6 d . a year ; and if we can get land , which we may yet , for £ 10 an acre , the rent for two acres would be but £ 4 Os . Cd . a year , or £ 5 per cent , deducted from the original price named in favour of the occupant . Now , no one can misunderstand that . The other question is , whether the two acres is
exclusive of the ground that the house and offices stand upon ? In answer to that , I may say that the allotments will consist of the respective amoup . ts of two , three , and four acres , exclusive of the ground that the house and ollices stand upon—that is , that each occupant of two acres will have that full amount of ground to be dug . Now I have nothing further to say upon the subject , than to congratulate the Association most heartily upon our prospects , and to refer you to the proud figure of our weekly receipts , I am , my friends , Tour faithful servant , and Chartist Farmer , Fp . migvjs O'Coxnor .
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Colosseum , Regent ' s Pa * k . —We recently visited this magnificent exhibition , which , by the liberality of the proprietor ( Mr . Montague ) , is now placed within tho reach of the industrious millions , the priee of admission being reduced one-half , whilst its attractions are increased . We were first introduced to tbc Glyptotheea , or Museum of Sculpture , in which are exhibited the finest works of our modern sculptors ; embracing every variety of subject from mother Eve down to Sir Fitzroy Kelly , her Majesty ' s Solicitor-General . From this we wercconductcd into the Stalactite Caverns of Adelsberg , which are truly described as "the most magnificent of all the temples that nature has built for herself in the regions of night . " Leaving these , wc found ourselv & s surrounded by a blaze of splendour , arising from the Illuminated
Conservatories and gorgeous Gothic avliirUs , in which are to be found exotics of the most rare and costly description , aud birds ofthe finest and most variegated plumage . The aviaries and doors of the Conservatories bting lined with plate glass , greatly magnifies the scene , and gives the appearance of one of those magic temples we read of in an eastern tale . We were next introduced to the neat and picturesque Swiss Cottaje , in which those whose means and inclinations permitted , sipped their wine , while those of a humbler grade , in true Swiss style , sipped , with apparently equal relish , their tea or coffee , as from the windows they viewed the stupendous Mont Blanc , the Mer de Glace , or gazed with awe on "the mighty Alpine torrent . " Iteturning through tho elegant suite of refreshment rooms into tho Glyptotheea , we were ushered into the Elizabethan ascending room , and having taken our seat on a sola , the room began to rise , and we
found ourselves in a spacious gallery near the top of the building , gazing on that chef-d ' ecttvre of art , the Panorama of London , as seen by night from the top of St . Paul ' s ; looking down on tlio river , the bridges , the boats , the myriads of lights issuing from the numerous shopwindows , the rippling of the waters , or lookiug up at tho fleecy clouds and silvery moon , the illusion is complete . This is not all—the moon becomes overcast , the atmosphere changed ; the rumbling of thunder is heard , the Hashes of lightning become vivid , and the rain pours down in torrents . This colossal picture comprises an acre of canvas , and elicits the highest encomiums from people of all nations . We should commit an act of injustice if we did not mention the great attention paid to visitors by the attendants and officers of the establishment ; each appeared pleased when they added to the comfort or convenience of the numerous visitors . To our
friends we would say , take an early opportunity of visit- - ing this enchanting exhibition , ' Royal Politechnic Institution . —The directors of f the above establishment have given an addition to thee ordinary features lately exhibited here . This attraction n is some opaque microscopic portraits of several of the e most distinguished leaders ofthe Sikhs , nil but one of if whom wore opposed to our troops in the late battles on n the Sutlej . The managers of this institution have very y wisely conjectured that at this period , so shortly after the « recent engagements in India , there would be a natural il anxiety on the part of the people of this country to see « what sort of beings the race are whose acts have led to- . 0 so much slaughter in our armies ; and therefore , in n having selected these portraits , which have only just st arrived in England , they have shewn great tact and judg- jment . By this means they will have afforded to the le public an opportunity of forming some opinion of the le
character of the enemy , by an inspection of their coun- ntenances , forms , and attire . The portraits have been en selected from the works of a lady of eminent avtisticalial talent , who was resident in the Punjaub a number of of years , and her portraits are coiisideredstriklng likenesses . es . Those which have been exhibited do not iudicute , either ler by the peculiar construction of tho face or by the ex-expression of the eye , that great feeling of ferocity andindl cruelty which is stated to be their leading characteristic . tic , On the contrary , the majority had regular and handsomomoi features , almost feminine , and might be classed askindl ydly r and generous men ; thus showing how much we may at atl times be deceived by appearances . The instrument by by ; which these interesting pictures are exhibited is the the ! onague microscope invented by Mr , Longbottom . It 1 st isi intended , we hear , to give a scries of portraits of thosaosa 3 engaged iu the present struggle—the late Sir Robertbertl Sale , Lady Sale , Sir Henry Ilardinge , Sir Hugh Gougb , igb ,: and other distinguished individuals .
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( Quken Pom . vrk , —Some tew years since , her MaMa-.-jesty Queen Victoria presented a very luindsom < Dmcc carriage to the unfortunate Queen IJomaro . ThrThd Polynesian , a weekly journal publishcd ' at llonoluluului the capital of the Sandwich Islands , in its impresiresi sion for the Sth of November last , contains the fo « foil lowing announcement in reference to the royal emiiquii page : — " Rhodes and Co . offer for sale the ' camagfisWM of Queon l ' omare , of Tahiti , bnllt in England . I , it is a well-constructed article , light and capacious , an ^ ami well suited for a family carriage . Two sets of harr . esrr . es accompany it . " The " editor of the Polynesian sayssayss iu relation to thcabc-ve , " It will be seen that Rhodciodcc and Co . offer for sale tho carriage of this truly ury urn fortunate , though meritorious woman . It was ras present from her sister tjuoon Victoria , and is m \ now offered for sale in order to supply the royal damdamii with the means of existence . She is said to be ibe ii very straitened circumstances , being entirely wittwittt out revenues or other means than the charity of hef hec friends affords . "
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