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• V ' THE NORTHERN STAR. . „_-~-^^___ Au...
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Extensive Robbery.—On Saturday information ^vas given to the police that the residence of Sir
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Moses Monte&ore, of No. 7, Grosvenor-gat...
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THE LAND COMPANY.
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_^^ _j- ~ -:- ~ _~^ - _^?^^^—^ J The ot {§ = - > ' £ _' . % » _" _? S ? _s | - _* _J-y Messrs R . and L . PERRY and § _£ _§ _£ _* _^^ _Jp _^^ yli Co ., tha continued demand for heir work 7 entiUedrthe ' SiLEST FRlE . ND , '( one hundrei and _tweutv-fire thousand eopiet of whioh have been told " , and the extensive sale and high repute of their Medicines have induced some unprincipled perf ons to _asgutne the name of PERRY ami closely imitate the title of the Wo-k and names of tie Medicines . The public is herebv cautioned that such persoaB are not in any way connected with the firm of R . and L . _PEiiRY and Co ., of London , who do not Tisit the Provinces , aad are only to be consulted personally , or by letter , at their Establishment , i ? , Berners-street , Oxford-street , Londo-u . TWENTY-FIFTH _EDITlOS . Iflnstrated by Twenty-six _Anatomical Engravings on Steel . On Physical Disqualifications , Generative _inespaciiy _, and Impediments to Marriage . new and improved edition , enlarged to 196 pages , price 2 e . 64 . ; by post , direct from the Establishment , 3 s . _cd . in postage stamos .
Extensive Robbery.—On Saturday Information ^Vas Given To The Police That The Residence Of Sir
Extensive Robbery . —On Saturday information _^ _vas given to the police that the residence of Sir
Moses Monte&Ore, Of No. 7, Grosvenor-Gat...
Moses Monte & _ore , of No . 7 , _Grosvenor-gate , _Faili-Ln _> e , had been burglariously entered between 12 o ' clock at nighfe and 7 the following morning , and £ 900 worth of _« gold and silver plate , gold and silver _snnff boxes , a gold turquoise _. set with _preciosss stones the contents of a cabinet containing ancient bilve _^ relics , a gold medal presented to Sir Moses on laying the foundation stone of the Birmingham School , _anothej-tue gift of the Pacha of Egypt , and a thl-d f om Her Majesty Queen Victoria , carried off by the thieves , who are supposed to bare effected tbeir ta r _* _ics _^* skeleton ke ys ,
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r . \ . \ it ; t > niitouuuoUT tiie globe , HOLLO WAY'S PILLS . A CASK OV _MtOrSY . _tiitro _.-t i . t <» Letter from Mr William Gardner , of Hanstug tUugtitoti _, _Northumptoneliirv _, dated September Ufa , is *? t \ ' fcMieootH' Hiilltmtty . am . - t _bott _' co iut _. _'i'uied you that my wifo had been taWK-. l _tkreo _tiiuoo tin' the _ilrnpuv , but by the blessing of ti .. A _uj'i . u v . iut' i > i \ U . ami _lioi'i'oi'ieveraneo In _taltlnt ! them , _ttia _ttitoi haa ii _. ttv _beau Lfpt oil eighteen uioutha by their _» n ) su » , _ttltU'lt U a gloat mercy , ( Signed ) William _Gabdnkb .
The Land Company.
THE LAND COMPANY .
(From The Daily News ) Mr Feargus O'Conn...
( From the Daily News Mr _Feargus O'Connor is so bngely delighted that an official accountant ha * reported ( what his private accounts do not appear to have shown ) the National Land _Cimpany to ba upwards of £ 3 . 000 iu his debt as to derlare he will never accept payment of the sum . Unforinnately , however , this liberal resolution will ba of n _» earthly value to the 32 , 797 of its members who have not got _allotment on the land on which the money has been spent ; it will bf nefit OBly the 536 who wore lucky enough to draw prizes in the Great O'Connor _Lottery ; and
constdering It _waschiifly from the larger number that the turn to expended came into Mr O'Connor ' s possession , that gentleman ' * conscience ought , _ws sugpest , rather to require payment of the money from the _Company in order that they may divide it amongst the former instead of msking it a preseot to tbe latter ; s least that is what our sense of justice would dictat- ; and not merel y _btcause Mr O'Connor originally acquired the cash so spent from the 31 , 797 anlucky members of his Company , but _because its division amongst them 1 b all the return , they aro likely to have for their subscriptions and their membership .
Mr O'Connor , it is well known , is the proprietor of the Kolthesn Stak , and it is through tbat publication only tbat members ef the National Land Company can learn its proceedings , or the state of its affairs . In its columns they are informed cf tbe weekly increase of its funds , of tbe estates in which jilr O'Connor has invested their men _ y in his name , of the preparation for allotment , of tbe mode of agriculture by which a _starring weaver may , at five minutes' notice , be converted into a thriving farmer ; and , above all , of the place at which !\ _sej era to gamble for the allotments , the cottages , and participation of that rural felicity with which Mr O'Connor proposes to do such wonders in the way of eoeial re generation . The Northern Star is , _therefore , a paper of the utmost importance to those who have f uoh faith in Mr O'Conner _' s Bpec ' . fics as to take shares in his _Lind Compmy . Its members , accordingly , club together tbeir
ptnuicE to leara when they have any chance of admission into their leader ' s , or as he calls himself tbeir ' father ' * , ' happy valley . Just then as the numbers of tbe land Company augmented , co did the circulation of the _NokiHEBH Stab Increase , uatil it caoe to yield its proprietor an income at the rate of JS 4 . 000 a year at least , a sum , we believe , larger than Mr O'Connor _receUes from those paternal acres in Ireland about which he so frequently talks . Thus deriving to handsome an income , me are entitled to say that the money so _epent by him on the various estates of his Land Company , originall y came in a great measuro from tbe 82 , 797 persons who tiava not yet obtained allotments . And it is therefore we suggest that a division of the £ 3 , 000 amongst them would be a greater act of liberality on his part than making a _present of it to their 536 _suooesBful rivals .
And justice as weU as liberality ( now that Mr O'Connor is in the humour to be generous ) requires thiB _appropriation ; for it is , we repear _, the only return they are likely to have for the sums they have subscribed to the Company . Large as the funds subscribed to it have been , they are nearly ell invested in land ; and all the land in which they have been invested has been allotted . So that Mr O'Connor has no more land in hand on which to locate the 32 , 797 poisons who are still _unseated , but who have an undoubted claim on him for land . Fresh subscriptions from other persons would of course enable Mr _O'Connor to buy other _estatis , but thelrpurcbase vrould of course increase his obligations to furnish allotment ; , and diminish tha chances of his
clients in tha ballot box . Or suppose the ' reproductive principles * on which Mr O'Connor has established the Company , to ba successful , as each allotment costs nearly £ 250 , It will require ( so the financial secretary , Mr _M'Gratb , told tbe committee ) a reproduction of £ 3 , 000 , 080 at least before the 3 » 333 persons Mr O'Conner has undertaken to provide land for can all be located ; and this sum It is admitted by other witnesses the ' utmost _euccess could only produce iu more [ . than 108 jears from the present time . So that we are entitled to sis that the chances of tho 32 , 797 to _ani thing but a rateable proportion of the £ 3 . 000 Mr O'Connor ' s gene _, rosity has given the Company ib small , and their chance to that is , we fear , not very great .
Mr O Connor we know , threatens to mortgage the _eBta'cs on which he has _Iocited hi 3 fortunate gamblers to buy other estates with the money so raised , te divide them into flmllar farms , and to locato other allottees there > h . And so he says he will go on repeating this system of buying , mortgaging , nnd buying , until be discharges the claim for land under the weight of which he now staggers . But he forgets tbat mortgagees in this country require the regular payment of inter « Bt on the sums for which they hold land pledged that the receipts of rent by mortgagors is a condition precedent te the payment cf such interest— . that up to this time ho has made no provision f . r the payment of rent by his allottees—and that whenever _hedoes fix . tbeir rents and name a rent day he may whistle for the money . Itii _exsctly this question of rent which Kill bnrst the gay bubble he has blown . Hitherto tbe fundamental
_prlncipls of the allotment system has been lhat it shall be lu aid of wages only—that the land shall be allotted in _quantities so small as to be cultivable at the leisure of the allottee—and that the _greatest care shall betaken that the allottees do not become dependant on it for tub . _aisteaee . Mr O'Connor ' s fin * theory reverses ell tl . _ls ; his objtot is to convtrt weavers into small farmers , and to make them dependent for _wistoaoe on the Und . H * gives to each of his allottees on an average three acres of laid with a cottage iheroon ; and out of its produce _audby their labour he expects them not only to live comfortably but to pay a rent equal to four per _osnt . oa ths cost of their allotments . And this is juat the impossible part of his scheme ; it La what cannot be done . Mr Revans , tho poor-law _suboommiiEioner _, who Is himself an agriculturist of large experience , states that eut of three _acrei
(From The Daily News ) Mr Feargus O'Conn...
of lend a mau cannot , with bis wifo and family subsist rven it _hop-iy no rent . This stateroom . In probably at ' _eitremo one . But nil _dporiuneo bus shown tlmi u * cannot live if he havo to pay rent and ' . arm . And under _» uch circumstances—under a system tho be all anil the end all of which _appears to be tho extension of pauperism wherever adopted—who will advance mom you the mortgage ef these estates ? What , then , is to become of tho National L » _nd Company ? We await Mr O ' _Cjbdoi ' s repl y with _sonio curio _sity . But our own _rpinion is , that tho sooner ho _aivos tho present allottees a title in fee simple tho sooner he will bo out of the greatest scrape into which ho ever got , and that then his escape whl be founded on dishonesty and injustice to the 32 , 797 .
( From the Weekly Dispatch . ) The Select Committee appointed by tho Commons to inquire into tho National Land Company , after a sitting of nearly two months , have at length brought their labours to a _olose . On Tuesday night , their Cuairman , th _. Ulght Hon . William G . Hayter , presented tbeir Report to the House , which was embodied in the following _tobolutlons : — 'I , That the proposed additional provisions to tho Friendly Societies Acts , which are incorporated in tho Bill , entitled a Bill to alter and amend au Aot of the 9 . h and 10 th of bor present _Maj Bty , for the amendment of tho Laws relating to Friendly Societies will notlnolude tho National Land Company . 2 , That the National Land Company is cot consistent with tbe general principle ! upon whioh the Friendly Societies aro founded , 3 That
tfce National Land Company , as at present constituted , is aa Illegal scheme , and will not fulfil tbe expectations held out by the Directors to the Shareholders . 4 . That It appearing to this Committee , by the _evidence of _several witnesses , that the books of proceedings of the National Land Company , as well as the accounts oi the Company , have been most Imperfectly kept , and that the original balance sheets , signed b y tho _auditors of tbe Company have been destroyed , and only three of those balance sheets , for tho quarters ending the 29 h of Sep . timber , and 25 th of December , and tbe 25 th of Mnrcb , 1818 , respectively , have been produced j but Mr O'Conno _> - having expressed an opinion that an impreBalon had gono abroad , tbat the monies subscribed to the National Lind Company had been applied to bis own benefit this
Committee are dearly of opinion that , altheugh the accounts have not been , kept with Btrtct regularity , yol that irregularity has been against Mr F . O'Connor ' s interest , instead of In his favour ; and that _Itoppearaby Mr Gray ' s account , thero Is due to Mr O'Connor the sum of £ 3 , 298 Si . 3 d . ; and by Mr _Finlayson ' e account , tho sum of £ 3 , 400 . 5 . That , consid ring tbe great number of persons interested in the scheme , and the bono fides with whioh it appears to have been carried on , it is the opinion of this Committee that powers might be _granted to thi parties concerned , if they shall so desire to wind up th » undertaking , and to relieve them from tbe penalties to which thf-y may have incautiously _aul-jooted _themselvoa . In tubmiiiing these _rtsolu ions to the Home , it Is the opinion of your C _'mmiste' .- that It should bo left _entirely
¦> peu to ; be parties _concerned to propose to Parliament _iny new _moasure for tbe _purposo of _carrying out the expectations and _obj _cts of tho _promoters of tho _Company . ' Such Is the Report mala by the Committee , c far cXa mining every witness tendered by Mr O'Conn . ir In support ef his sch . mo , aEd others , whoso practical experience in such matters , and irquiries into tho pre » em condition and future prospects of the allottees , led them < o the conclusion that the scheme would in a short tin < prove a complete failure . On the reading cf the report Mr _O'Conaor rose , end after some complaints of the at tacks that he allegod had been made upon him in the public prints , he _donled that ho had established the plan for bU own benefit , or that tho _accounts bad b > 'rnimproparly kept fur any such purpoio , and entered into some
explanations with reference to tho missing balance sheets , and concluded by saying tbat when tbe _gvaervl question came on bo would go further into the subject . It is quite clear , and , indeed , is admitted by the last observation of Mr O'Connor _hlmstlf _, that even , as far as the Hoase of Commons _Ib conrerned , the question U far from being finally _disposed of _. It Is true that the Committee , to whom the whole question was referred , hare made tbeir report ; but , beyond ordering that report to be printed , the bouse has not taken any further steps in the matter . After the report has been printed and distributed among the members , the next proceeding will be to move that it be adopted ; and on that motion tbe
bouse having all the _evidence beforo it , may , and will , enter into a full discussion of the whole question . Such motion , however , is not likely to be made at this late _period of the Session . The chairman , after tho _olseivatioos made by Mr O'Connor on tho bringing up of tbe report , said— ' Ho should decline entering into the go neral question at present , hut would be perfectly _rosu'y to do so at the proper time , whan the whole of tho evi . dence to 'en before tho Committee had been laid befors the house ( the fifth report of tho evidence , had not th > n been _printed . Sir _B-jujansin Hall then observed th t _admitting the _facilities that had been given to the Committee to investigate tbe tffairs of the Company , h could not conceal from _himself the fact that the wh < le f
tha _original _accoun's , as stated to have been audited by Messrs Cuffey and Knight , with three exceptions , bed been destroyed , and would havo been more satisfactory bad those accounts been forthcoming ; but without en terlng into the practicability of the scheme at present he thoaeht that in accordance with tho last resolution ot the Committee , Mr O'Connor ought to take some step either for dissolving tbe Company , or introducing some measure with respect to it . On the 15 th of March , in answer to a question put to him , Mr O'Connor stated that if the Bill which he then brought in should not pass , he intended to proceed to completo registration o ' the Company . He would , therefore , now ask what course ho intended taking with _reference to complotc registration , for there might _beaomo difficulty in
obtaining completo registration after tho evidence that bad _bten adduced , and he hardly thought ho would bo abh to carry out that promise . There was another question which he wished to put to tbe honourablo member . He would recollect tbat the fee-simple of a'l the property purchased , with the funds of the Company , waB vested exclusively In his name . AH the property was assigned to himself and his heirs , and no other person had any power with reference to that property . In tbe Committee fee was asked if tb _> y ( tho _Committee ) should decide upon _recommendiBg the _schetno for _Legislative powers would he transfer the property to those persons who bad riceiv . -d allotments , and his answer was— 'No doubt of it . ' ne was , therefore , again asked , whether he pro posed to make over the estates , which were then vested
in his name , to those persons who , under the _rulse of the Company , had received allotments , but for which allotments tbey had at present no title ? The above wera certainly leading questions , such as Mr O'Connor put to his oWn witnesses when examined before the _Committee , and required a simple _anawer—yes or no ; but the learned member did not choose to answer them in a straightforward manner . Ha began his reply b y saying— ' The hon . baronet has gone more _extcnflivolj into the question than I lntonded ; ' find then said— 'If be had read tbe resolutions , he would hare found an answer to his question , _because it was there left to the promoters of the Society to consider whether or no the ; would wind-up the affairs of the Society , or apply for an extension of power from Parliament . Ashe had sot had
time ts _oonsult any one on the subject , nod It having been recommended by the commitcco that a mooting of the shareholders should be held for the purposo of their being _consulted , he thought it rather hard that he should ba asked to decide wbero seventy thousand per . eons had a voice in the matter . ' When will the hon . gentleman call this ' Meeting , ' and where can It be heldt _Ktnnington Common , the _sceno of some of his recent exploits , might , perhaps , find room for seventy thousand persons , to assemble and discuss tbe question ; but that locality might not exactly suit tbe couveuience of ill the subscribers , and some of t em might rather object to being put to the expense of comiag to town for that purpose . The _ex-Trustce of tho Company , Mr _Ernest Jones , the barrister , would , no doubt , viry nil .
lingly _attfnd tbe meeting , but be is at present ? o particularly , but _raihtrunprofesaionally , engaged ' at _Wtstmiaster , ' as banisters state , in littio boles on their chamber doors , that he cannot possibly do bo . In hicaBe ' at Westminster' does not moan _Wesimiueter Hall , but _Westminster Bridewell . Thero are m » uy ol the subscribers who can also plead important engagements of a similar kind , ob nn excuse for their absence . So that it would be d fflcult to obtain the general sense of the subscribers—if , in fact , they _havt any sense among thom . Mr O'Connor _con-. _'ludod his ob . eervatlons by stating tbat he had received a letter desiring that be would ask the honourablo baronet ( Sir _Benjamin Hall ) a question _reapeotiag hia own adm ' _'nistra tion of public funds , and of tho manner in which he
make * u _» e of some of his own property in the county ( Wales . ) This tit gw _^ _Kestjlo of defence was f . vqueiitl y adepted ( by Mr O'Connor , pending the proceedings feefor _« the Committee . Have you _nevtr heard ot any other attempt to humbug the public , was the realqacst ' on often put to witness , though ! n a _somewhatroundubout away ; and whenever It was hinted that the party originating the L"nd Scheme wa 3 a humbug , be merely aald ' _Yju are another . ' Mr Bjuvcrle asked within what time all persons engages in tho schemo would obtain possession of their expected allotments . To which tbe Chairman of tho Committee replied that , _accordiog to tbe evidence of Mr _Finlayson , it would take on « hundred and fifty ywrs to looate 70 , 000 perBons _. and that it was _perf-cth impracticable for all the _shareholdtrs to obtain allotments . There , for tho present , the _proceedings _havi closed , as far as the House of Commons is _oonctrnod . We are anxious to call the attention of our _readors to the fact that the report of tbe Committie fully confirms
ell the _etateraeuti _th » t wo have , from timo to time , made with _reference to the Natumal Land Company . With reference to its _illegality , not the slightest doubt exists among persons at all qualified to form _an _opinion on the sabjict , On that _qurstlon th ; _Committee wete unanimous . With regard to the accounts ( of which more will one day be said ) the Committee passed ever _tbematttr very lightly—but that Is a mutter on which we nude but few remarks—but as to the complete hum bug ef the whole ooneern , the report completely _cosfirmi all we have said , for tho scheme is not only declared to be Illegal , but is further stated to be one tbat will net fulfil tbe _exptctatioas held out b y the _dlrrCora to the ghsreholaen . It li stated In the mos ; distinct terme that the whole _oonoern is a complete failure , and all the _CMsmlttve oan say in its f _uvours is , that _considering the manner with which it has been cairied on , and the great number of parties interested in It , powir might be graated thra to wine up the undertaking , and to relieve all the parties concerned from the penalties which thoy hats _iaoeued , Bat the pabllo will naturally inquire
(From The Daily News ) Mr Feargus O'Conn...
, vhy such o very meagre _repert has been presented by the Committee after » protracted sitting of nearly two months . Nothing whatever is suggested , even with re . forcnoe i * tbe allottees who have not tbe slightest Beourlty for tho tenure of the land of _whleh they are at present In possession . The labour and skill they have applied to its cultivation may all go for nothing , and tho projector of the scheme may turn his ' children' off the land at any time he pleases . The wholo _offiir ia left to Mr O'Connor and bis dupes , who aro to ' settle it 0 rnonK themselves . ' as far as tho Committee are concerned . But the Ilmse of Commons whenever the quel _, tion again comes before them , cannot allow the matter to rest wh ere it is . In the meantime it is open to Mr O'Connor _elthrr to adopt tbo ncommendntion of the
Committee to wind up the nffalr altogether , or to go on to completo reg istration . As to the bill he has brought in all tho _lrgil men examined on tbe subject declare that the Land Company cannot be brought within the meaning of the Friendly Society ' s Act , and as to completo reg istration , there is but little chance of that bring effocted after the evidence that has been given , and even if it could be , tbe expense will be enormous ; but there is this furiher and greatest difficulty , tbat no plan whatever will be _binding , unless the consent be previously obtained of the whole body of tbe shareholders , a thing which Mr O'Connor woll knows le absolutely im . possible . On both these subjects Mr O'Connor was Bi . lont but by way of throwing dirt in the eyeB of tha Comraittco and of the House , he pretended to think that the
charge against him was , tbat be had falsified the accounts . That is not thi charge , as he very well knows . The charge is , that the scheme he has started is not one for the benefit of all the subscribers—for the advantage ( ho has stated ) of the toiling millions ; but a gigantic lottery , on a ecaU most unfavourable to the gambler . Thelottory is one lu which the holders of the prizes are wholly unsecured in t _^ e possession of tbem , and those WilO are _eipeotinjj prizes may wait for one hundred and fifty years before they gain one . The whole scheme , as we have stated from the beginning of it , is a mere bubble ; or , to quote the words of a learned judge oa another subject—' a mockery , a delusion , and a snare . ' _tf here ore many parrs of the evidence which hftvfi not been noticed in tbe report to which we may perhaps ad . vert whenever the report itself is brought under the
_consideration of tbe house . ( From the _Examiner . ) The prospectuses of Mr Feargus O'Connor ' s Chartist Co-operative Land Company , or National Co-operative Land Company , or Natiooal Land Company , or by whatever alias it may now he known , appealed most skilfully te some of the strongest propensities that _exist In
man . Tbey promised ' social and political emancipation , ' and tho more tangible benefits of two acres of land and a comfortable home , with an advance of money to begin the world with , te every subscriber of £ 2 10 s , upon a perpetual lease , nt _n _ret-tal of £ 5 per annum , with tbe power of _transforming the tenure into fee simple on the payment of £ 100 . The first prospectus declared tbat 372 persons might bo easily located on these terms , in the course of four years . In a subsequent prospictus tho director !) , 'with tbe great occasion rising great , ' pledged themselves that' withia a very few yeare . a great * nd beneficial chango will be effected in tbo condition of the toiling millions of Eugland / To exchange a life of dependence upon wages , exposed to be thrown out ot employ mint , shut up iu close and _etifliBg workshops from tbe free breezi and tho Sunbeam , for the life of aa independent proprietor , were irresistible attractions , And these promises were shown to bo possible , by a most Imposing array of arithmetical calculations .
After having _vtitr . _cSBtd among tbe educated _clatseBamong men whose lives have been spent In business pur . suits—such facile belief in tbe promises of the multlpHcation table as engendered tbo _Thellussoa bequest , and tbe railway mania of late years , it Is no wonder that men bent with depressing , hopeless , ill-remunerated toil , tbould grasp _esgerly at such promises . The Company was hunched lu the latter end of 1816 ; and in February , 1818 , it consisted of more than 60 , 000 members , holding 180 , 000 shares , and having subscribed nearly £ 90 . 000 . Whatever we may think ef the judgment whioh guided these subscribers , their aims were spirited and honourablo ; and tho power of accumulating such a capital in so short a time inspires rospect for tbe energies , ana confidence in the ultimate destinies of tha English working _olaeses . But our immediate object is to icqulre what these men have got , or what they are likely to get for their money , by Mr O'Connor ' s Land Scheme ?
The two great agencies rf tbe Company are a land purchasing and a banking establishment . It is to the assets and production of _thesa two _businesses tbat the su _b scribers are to look , not only for the realisation of tbe _ppltajid promises which have attracted them , but for security for the money actually paid . How stand the affairs of the Land Company ana the Bank at this moment ? It appears from the evidence of Mr _M'Grath the financial secretary of the Land Company , tbat on the 24 th of last Ma eh the aggregate receipts amounted to £ 94 , 184 , and the expenditure had been £ 4 , 378 , leaving a balance of £ 89 805 . Ab yet allotment has taken place oa only four estates ; tbe earli : Bt leca'ions being effected in December , 1846 , the most recent in June , 1848 . The _aggregate number of houses on those estates is 259 . No
rents have yet been paid by any of the allottees , though these rents arc a main source looked to for reproduction of th ; capital . Tbe occupants do not even know what rentB they are to pay ; they have only ' a general notion . ' Not above four or five allotments havo been _purchased , _though this was another means relied upon for the reproduction of capital . The oceupants have no leases , no titles . The contributions of upwards ef 60 , 000 _sebieribers have only _euSiced in the course of two years to put 259 persons in possession of houses and allotments upon a precarious _ter-ure _, the conditions ofwblch are unknown to them . This is not all . The _capital of tbe Company is stated at £ 130 , 000 and the expense of locating each individual , at £ 242 10 s . ; witbout reproduction of capital only 536 shareholders can be located , and as yet there are neither rents nor sales to reproduce _cspitkl _.
So much for the prospects of the promises held out by the directors bein < realised . Let us next Bee whit security the subscribers havo for the _rcpaymvn < of their a ! vat , ce 9 in the evvnt of ultimate failure . Their sole securities are tbe lands , the Exchequer bills in wbich the balance of subscriptions are said to be invested , and the E nk , There has been invested in the purchase ef land ( that i > , actually paid ) £ 35 , 037 ; and there are two mortgages amounting to £ 10 , 800 . The Company's ( or Mr O'Connor ' _b ) stockbroker holds £ 6 , 000 of Exchequer bills ; and thero is a balance of £ 8 , 000 in tao _Loadon end Westminster Bank . The deposits Is the Bank amoaat to £ 16 , 000 , on which it promises to pay four per
cent , per annum ( for the smallest sums ); and it has lent £ 6 , 391 to the Land Company . These are the only data we have whence to infer the state of the Bank ' s affairs . Altogether it is to be feared tbat if , in conscqumce of the recommendation of the Committee of tbe House of Commons that tbe subscribers be allowed to wind up tbe ooneern , tbey avail themselves cf this permission , tbe portion of the original subscriptions refunded u not likely to be very great . And for their ability to lay hands upon the fundB actually in existence they have nothing but tbe personal security of Mr O'Connor , who holds the titles to all the land , is sole treasurer to the Land _Company , and sole proprietor cf the Batk .
Qreat anxiety in evinced in tbe Committoo ' _s Rsport to clear Mr O'Connor from any imputation of fraudulent design in this scheme , or of having unduly profited by it . It appears that he has expended seme £ 4 , 000 or £ 5 , 000 more than he has received . To the full benefit of this fact he is fairly entitled . But wo would resptctfolly submit tbat the mero circumstance of the projector being out of pocket at the time the bubble bursts , is not sufficient to exonerate him from Lvery moral Imputation . Tho scheme was hatched by Mr O'Connor . He Is tttu _' ar owoer of all the lands , sole treasurer of tbe complicated scheme , nominal proprietor of tho Bank . He has taken upon himself tbo whole direction and tho whole responsibility . The directors , tbe auditors , the trustees
w « o _oalltctod by him , and are for the most part merely his creatures . Of three of the trustees , one has been long _incapacitated by sickness , and , though a gentleman of honourable character , is in involved circumstances ; another has been Insolvent sines January , 1846 —since before tho _Compsny was _startei . The auditors are two journeymen tailors , one of whon _hns bo place of bus ! - no 3 « , and tho other is MrCuffoy , the valorous member of he National Convention whose wife goes out a charing . Of tbe directors _originally registered , cno gave as his address a house which does not _exiBt , A deep degree of culpability attaohes to Mr O'C uuor for entrusting the management of so complicated a Bcheme , and the savings of so many poor industrious men , to bo inoompetent and untrustworthy an agency .
The _sjateqi of _management which he , the real sole d rector , allowed to be oaried on , is _bIbo discreditable to him in the highest degree . On his first examination the financial secretary boldly Btated that thero wero minute _booksof the proceedings of _tbeCsmpany , and that he could produce them . Ou the Becond ho qualified hia assertion by stating that there were minutes book , but tbe _meetings wero net regularly reported therein . ' Strictly _-peaklsg _, there are no minute bosks . ' The manager of tbe Bank has ' never examined one oi the balance _sheots which are sent out of bis office . ' Under the first manager , tho accounts ' were not kept in a regular
form : ' ' since then we have balanced tbe books pretty accurately . ' No ledger or correot account book has been kept of the expenditure of the different estates , Discrepancies exist between two accounts to tbe amount of £ 4 , 000 or £ 5 , 000 . The original balanco sheets signed by tho auditors are said to havo boen destroyed . Mr O'Connor , the great Atlas of the undertaking—he who by his _fluttering promises induced upwards of 60 , 000 poor men to invest their savings is the Company , and who _una _' _crtoak the wholo responsibility —la solely responsible for tho inextricablo confusion In ' o which tbe lox and irr . _gular proceedings of his incapable instruments htive invslved tho affairs of tho concfrn ,
The worst feature of the case remains to bo pointed out . According t » Mr M Qrath _, tue word ' _Ciarttof was _drovpid out of tho title of the C , mpan / 'in _constquenco of _theunfortunato prejudice which exists _throughout tho country against the desi gnation . ' Wo wire wishful that it _sV . ould not bo considered at ail ia the Iigbt of a political institution . ' The eharoholders look upon it as , strictly speaking , a social Institution . ' Yet , on tha 25 h of last April , £ 7512 s . 81 . is catered as' paid ( out of tho Cempanj ' _s monies ) to Mr O'Connor for Convention . ' It appears that some of the members of the Chartist Contention applied to Mr O'Connor for money to enable them to , return homo , and thlsmoney was given them for that
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purposo . No trace appears _W _^ 0 b ooks o _'» . " » taring been repaid / At the time of the las general . _leciio n an _entrjeccurs _: Election _toj S _fjoalwj _^ O'Connor £ 62 _s . ' ThiB sum was received by Mr O Conor ' for tho general purposes' of a Committee appointed to promote the election of liberal members throughout the country ; ' and there is no trace on the booke of its having born repaid . There was also ' an intellectual _department belonging to this establishment in the eba _? _e ot lecturers . ' Three lecturers received each £ 2 a week ; and of those lecturers , one , Mr Kydd , was a member of the Chartist Convention , and another was the notorious Dr _M'Douall . The NoaTHEBK Stae Inserts the advertisements of the Company free of charge ; but its printer , a mere agent Of Mr O'Connor , has' been paid about £ 1 , 000 , of the
by the Company for job printing * The profits NoSTHEBN Stab average £ 90 a week ; and bave been largely increased by making ii tbe medium of Information respecting the Land Company , AH tho _directors of the Company , all tho trustees , all the auditors , the treasurer and solicitor , the financial secretary , _and the gentleman to whom the monteB are paid over , ' are _prominent members of the _Caartist body . ' All tbe Officers of the Company were members of tbo National Convention . We find political retainers of Mr O'Connor quartered on tbe Laud _Company as salaried officers , though from their preeedents little likely to be qualified , and from their in _tsrmisslouB obviou-iy _disqualified for the trust ; and we find others quartered upon it as lecturers , at a time we know them to bare been traversing tbe land lecturing to a very different end than the
promotion of the Companv _' 6 interests . In the _midet of their anxiety to whitewash their parliamentary colleague , Mr O'Connor , the Committee would have done well to bavo noted these matters , It le n _. t enough _» o clear our St John Longs and Hollowaye of the oharge of quackery to say that they pay their way as they go . It is the quackery which enables them to do it . And the eame rule applies to political 08 to medical quacks . Mr O'Connor does not practice gratuitously . He pays his agents by _appointments under the Land Company , and he drives up the profits of his Nobtbebn Stae to £ « , C 80 a year _chitfly by its means , No person has benefitted , or Is likely to benefit , by tho aoheme , tu cept Mr O'Connor and his agents ; and they have profited largely by it .
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ITS ENGINE DRITERS . Another numerous meeting of the engine drivers and firemen , lately In the employment of the London and North _rYcstern Hallway Company , took place at the Railway Tavern , _Hampstead . road . on Saturday _aigbt , Mr _Johas Ebowk , engine driver , again presided , and opened the business by reading to the meeting tho following address : — _'Fellow-Workmea , —We erenow no longer the servants of the London and North Western Railway Company ; and no one will , I am sure , _refuso to pay attention to tbe statement I am about te make , at tbe moment we are leaving the greatest company in the world , to whom we have been f jr many , many jean—even by
Mr _Qlyn's admission—diligent , able , and faithful servants . I say we are now no longer in tbe employ of this great and powerful _estahllahment ; and it will _btcome us to Inform the public , without fear , favour , or affection , of tbe reasons and motives that have led to a result which we must of course naturally regret—and deeply regret—and which , as aurj as I ant sitting here , the travelling portion of the public , as will as our late em . pl & _yers , will as deeply deplore . Why , fellow . workmen _, have we left our employment ! Mr Gljn admitted , at tbe meeting of the proprietors held yesterday , that tbey were almost under obligations to us for the manner in whioh we bave worked the immense and difficult traffic of the line ; but Mr Glyn states that Mho directors have not thought it right to allow those who hold
subordinate situations to dictate to the executive whether or not the superintendent * ho has been put over them , and whom the board have fouBd a faithful , zealous , and active officer , Is the proper person to be at the head of the establishment . ' We never dictated , fellow , workmen , as to whether Mr M'Connell should be locomotive _su . _ptriotecdent or not ; what we complained of WM , Lit irregular , uncertain , harsh and tyrannical conduct to us ; and surely to complain of this is not to dictate . We bore this , as I stated to you last night , up to a point at which we saw It was absolutely neoesft & ry to make s stand , unless , indeed , we were disposed to submit to the cunningly devised classification echeme of Mr M Connell _, which we were quite satisfied , from what we had seen of him during the two years we were under his control ,
was introduced for no other purpose than to carry out his threat of 1813 , of reducing the maximum wages of drivers to 5 s . per day ; for that such was his intention can be proved by the testimony ef a person who is now in this room . And now , fellow-workmen , let us tell the public who this 'faithful , zealous , and active officer ' of two years' _stRndiDg is , and at whose shrine we , the older , and eurtly _, even according to Mr Olyn ' _s admission , equally faithful , zealous , and active servants , have been so hastily and cruelly sacrificed . The publio have seen Mr Glyn ' s highly . colourod amateur picture of Mr M'Connell ; it is but fair , therefore , that tbe public should also bave his lineaments roughly yet truly sketched by the bonds of those to whom he has acted aa _i an oppressor . Fellow . workmen , Mr M'ConnUl was '
brought upon this lino for tbe sole purpose of reducing tbe expenditure , The directors know this ; and it was the character earned by him on the Birmingham and Gloucester line which prompted certain gentlemen , backed as I believe by the influence of Captain Mooreom and another , to introduce him upon this railway—a circumstance to be deplored by tho whele railway proprietors of this kingdom . Take the carter of Mr M'Connell on tbe Birmingham and Gloucester line . Several of tbe victims of the ' economy' which recommended him to tw * or three gentlemen connected with the London and North Western Railway ore now present , and they can testify to the accuraoy that he discharged every engineman and fireman , with the exception of two englnemen and two firemen who accepted bis reduction , at that
time , of 8 d . per day—the highest pay on that line being 6 s . 81 . per day . Fellow-workmen , this 8 d . per day was a severe lots to tbo company ; so much so , indeed , tbat the directors interfered , and recommended tbat the wages of the 'Grand Janctfon , ' wbich were much higher , Bhould bo given , to induce active and experienced _enginemen to come on the line ; and those _wagss exist up to the present moment on the Birmingham and _Gloucester Railway . If the public desire to know the manner In whleh wa have been treated by the ' faithful , i ? _aiou » , and active officer , ' namel y , Mr M'Connell , let them call upon the dlreoteri to publish the memorial presented to them by us in April last , and to which no answer was given till the following July , although tbe answer , when we got it , was dated in May . As
another proof of tho false eeonomy to whioh we have been sacrificed , we would refer tbo public to the statement made by Mr Glyn , to tbefollowlng _iffect : — 'In our working charges , says Mr Glyn , ' we are able to show a saving of between £ 12 , 000 and £ 13 , 000 . ' How any portion of this saving has been _tffaoted upon the northern division of the railway , I know not ; but I can easily understand bow this saving has been effected by the ' faithful , zealous , and active officer' alluded to ly Mr Gl ; n . I have now In my hand a paper furnished roe since I left the company ' s service , by which I find that tho number of engines under repair on the southern dlvi . _slon of the line was , about six weeks since , upwards of 70 . Recollect , fellow workmen , havo only 211 engtneB to work the southern division of the line , and wo have
had delivered upon it nearly 100 new first-class engines during the last two years . This delivery has enabled Mr M Connell to allow these engines to get out of repair , and so keep out of the locomotive acoount tha expenditure for repairs which ought , properly , to bar * come into the half-yearly _statcmunt produced to tho proprietary yesterday . The majority of the 70 engines that I have alluded to require to undergo a thorough state of _rtpalr ; and I aek you , nnd the proprietors of the London and North Western Company , how much of the saving of between £ 12 , 000 _and £ 13 , 000 would have been left for Mr Glyn to talk about it the fair proportion of the halfyearly repairs bad been charged against the last half _, year ' s receipts ? But Mr Qiyn has been deceived by a false cry ef economy . A gentleman of his numerous and important avocations has not time to dive into the mystery ol tbat system of locomotive management which Mr M'Connell is bow pursuing , to the certain and permanent detriment of thi Interests and honour of the
company , and to the want of accommodation , Inconvenience , and safety of the public . I am convinced fellow workmen , that the great body of London and ' North Western directors are utterly ignorant of the scandalous conduct to which we , their late servants . h « ve bten subjected ; aad the time will shortly come when they ulll be satisfied that it was not upon us , but upon our oppressor that their oo » _demnatlon _e-houia have fallen . We , fellow workmen , can lay this pleasant conviction to our hearts —that _ws offered to tho directors and Mr M'Connell to submit our case to . arbitration , and that we expressed ourselves read y to do anything that any one disinterested and hosourable man should say we ought to do but misrepresentation has succeeded , and we are now r . o longer Mr _Giyn's old , diligent , and faithful servants . We I solemnly declare , have been sacrificed by _falso infor _^ mation and personal Influence We have honestly dene our duty ; the publio will soon find how Mr Glyn ' s ' faithful , zealous , and active officer * _doos his . ( Loud _ories of ' Hear , hear . ' )
Mr Mabshall stated that he had it upon tho most authentic information from tbe city , that some of the persons cngagid to supply tbo places of the old engine drivers were such persons aa those who had the _management of the engines in steam boats on the Thames , Tho _CiuiBKAN said , there was another security which tho publio bad undor the care of the old engine drivers , and which the new mon knew nothing about . Tbey had a set of _privato signals amongst _thtmsclvos whioh enabled _tbum at all times to tell the state of the line . and to run their trainB at any speed with tbe greatest safety .
Nicholas Anwsow stated , that the 11 a . m . train that morning ( Saturday ) , from London , ought to hove reached Birmingham at 3 . 35 p . m . The train that left Birmingham at 3 50 p . m . did not meet the 11 a . m . train until it roaoh »< l the _Hamptaa junction . In consequence of this the company had to beat the expense of a special train to Derby , This arose from the incompetency of the new
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driver being Incapable of _bringing on his train . Between _Barkhampstead and Trlnj he camo to a deed stand thereby delaying the half-past 11 » ' , m , tr » l » out of London a _considerable time . After some further statements of a similar descri ption ' not _necessary to make public , the proceedings _terminal at a late hour . DEPUTATION TO MEMBERS OP PARLIAMENT , On Sunday evening the largest meeting which has yet been held of the engine-drivers and firemen who hava seceded from the employment of tbe London and North . Wcitcrn Railway Company , agaia _aisembled at the Railway Tavern , _Hampstead-read , for the purpose of considering what further steps it may be necessary to take In reference to their _poBltion with the _authorUiei of tbat line .
Mr J . Brown was called to the chair at nine o ' clock ' and said , tbe course he proposed to adopt was to read at statement which should go forth as the reply of tho entire body of those _nho had quitted tbe _sim ' oeofthe North . Western Company to the allegations which had been made against them . He then read the following statement ;— ' Having seen a letter from Mr Creed , the Secre _< tory of the London and North-Western Railway Com « pasy , In the Observes of this day , r . _fleoting upon tho _eourse wbich the enginemen and firemen of that com . pany who have left tbe line in coaeequence of a dispute with Mr M'Connell thought it a duty towards themselves to pursue , we beg most respectfully to state , in the noma and on the behalf of those persons , tbat tbey took every possible means for preventing tha result which boa un .
fortunately occurred , viz ., their secession from the service of the company . Though no longer in tbe employ of the company , we are doing merely simple justice to ourselves by declaring ; that we offered , _flratly _, to _a-ibmit tbe case to arbitration ; secondly , that the whole of tha old servants of the company who were receiving 8 s . per day , offered voluntarily to bave tbeir salaries reduced to 7 s . C J . per day ; and , thirdl y , tbat we would all bo satisfied with tbe regulation of Mr Goocb , on the Great Western Railway , being adopted upon the southsrn division of the London and North Western Rallwsy . Mr Creed states , that many of the ' old drivers and _firemta hbve withdrawn their notice , and that others may be ex « peoted to follow tbe example . ' Now , it is true tbat about twenty men did , through misrepresentations , withdraw
their notice , but fifteen of them , upjn learning the trick that had been practised upon them , recalled their with * _drawals , and determined to adhere to their original notices to quit . It 1 b with great regret we observe that Mr Creed states , ' a sufficient number of new and prao * tlcal englnemen , with unexceptionable testimonials from their former employers , have been taken into the service , and employed in working the trains during the week , Mr Creed has in this cate , aa our late employers have been throughout this unfortunate dispute , most wlckedhjf deceived , as we were prepared to prove , if the Locomotive Committee would have allowed the representatives of the press to be present at oar Interview with tbem en , Friday morning . We most solemnly deny , as is insinuated by Mr Creed , that wo bave been in this matter misguided men , and we as solemnly assert that we hava beeB sacrificed through tbe misrepresentations of Mr M'Connell , and tbe private influence of that gentleman
and two or three of his supporters . It can be clearl y shown by _figures , wbich every actuary would allow to be correct , tbat whereaB under Mr Burj's Bystem a man by good behaviour obtained his maximum pay in eight years and a half , he would , under Mr _M'Consell ' _s _clasa'fjeation system , be at least from twenty-fiva to thirty years before he could arrive at the maximum rate * t payment , In fact , the more steady and skilful tbe men engaged upen the line , tbe less obance would there be of those In tbe lower classes obtaining an advance to the higher _clasies until tbey were too old to be intrusted with the charge t-f an engine , and , having been working many years at a minimum rate of wages , they would be thrown upon the world witbout having been able to m » _ks any prevision for their declining years , Mr R , Walkeb , moved tbat this statement be adopted , Mr F , Allsn seconded the resolution , which was car * ried unanimously .
Mr E . _LiTcnrom , engine driver upwards of ten yean on the North Western Rill way , said he had a most important resolution te propose . It was as follows : —« ' Tbat a deputation consisting of Messrs Brown , Allen , Melbourne , and _Woedley , be appointed to wait upon Mr . Osborne , the _raemter for Middlesex , tbe members foe Marylebone , Mr Hume , Mr Wakley , end other members of Parliament , requesting tbem to inquire in the House of Commons of tbe Government , whether it is true tbaS a number of men bave proceeded from the Government dockyards te take the charge of locomotive engines on tho London and North Western Railway , and whether members of ths Metropolitan police bave been allowed ta enter the company ' s servico to supply the place of porters put upon the trains in accordance with Captain Hulsh ' s cireular , and also to inquire of Mr Glyn , tbe chairman ef the company , wbetber there 1 b or is not any truth in the statement made at tha meetings of the enginemen relative to acoldents and delays on the line during tho past week . ' ( Loud cries of' Hvar , hear , ')
Mr R . HoDOKiNSOl * , npwards ef ten years an engine driver on tho line , seconded the resolution , which was also put and carried nem . eon . A variety of statements were made , for the purpose of showing that when a deputation waited upon Mr Smith , tbe chairman of the locomotive committee , that gentle _, man declared that 6 ) , 61 . per day was excellent wages , and tbat Mr Glyn also declared that in the present times persons who had £ 1 a week were glad to get 16 s ,, proving tbat the object was reduction . The meeting separated at a late hour .
On Monday afternoon a deputation from the englna drivers , late in tbe employ of tae London and North Western Railway , bad an interview with the members for Marylebone , Lord Dudley Stuart and Sir B . Hall . They were very courteously received , and prooeeded to state that their object was to show a substantial reason why the Government should be called upon to appoint a committee of inquiry , in order to ascertain if , under ex . isting circumstances , the safety of the public was really guaranteed , as stated by Mr Glyn , the chairman of tho North Western Company ; whether it was true tbat tha engines on the line were placed under tbe control of persons selected from her Majesty ' s dock-yards ; whether the police bad been _employed to take the place of porters placed on the trains , In accordance with Captain Hulsh ' s
circular ; and also that they would be pleased to inquire of Mr Glyn whether there is or is not any truth in tha statement made at the meetings of the engine men , _rela _. tlve to accidents and delays on the line during the past week . Lord Dudley Stuart informed tbe deputation tbat at the morning sitting of the House of Commons that day , Mr Glyn , id answer to a question put by Mr Thornelv , had stated that an attempt had been made by the engine driver clubs to induce the meu from Rugby to Carlisle also to resign , but tbat it bad failed , and als that a great number of the men , who on the southern division of the line had seat in their notices , had wits * drawn them , and had resolved to stay in the company ' s service . Mr Brown ( the chairman of the body ) begged to give this latter statement tha most ezplicic and em > pbBtic contradiction . After a full explanation of their grievances , In the course of which Lerd Dudley Stuart expressed his conviction , if the statements of the
deputation were correct , they bad been most unjustly treated , Sir _BeBJamtn Hall suggested that the engine drivers should confine their statements to matters of fact , — that tbey Bhould make out a statement in writing of the delays which had taken place on the arrival of trains at _Euston-square and other places during tbe past week , and plaee it in tho hands of hia noble colleague for tho purpose Of inquiring whether each statements were founded in fact or not . It would then , in the event of tbe answers not being satisfactory , bo competent far a member of tho bouse to more for a committee of inquiry as to tbe state of th 9 line . Lord Dudley Stuart expressed his coneurrence in this suggestion , and said he would give Mr Glyn due notice of his intention to put the questions . The deputation then withdrew , end subsequently waited on Mr B . Osborne , M . P ., Mr Wakley , M . P ., Mr Hume MP . , and other members of Par . liament on the same subject _.
On Tuesday evening the adjourned meeting of engine drivers and firemen who _bavbsecoded from the employ of the North Western Railway Company , took place at the Railway Tavern , Hompstead _. road _, for the purpose of receiving the _report of tbe deputation _appei-. ' . ttd to wait on numbers of Parliament , as to the safety of the railway , and as to the position of _effdire generally . Mr J , Brown , engine driver , was again appointed to the chair , and the meeting was attended by _deputatioas of engine drivers from the various other railways _. The deputatlan reported tbat they waited ou the hon . members for Marylebone at the St Pancras vestry rooms , and that they hid _Bubs ( _quen'ly seen Mr B . Osborne , MP ., Mr Hume , M . P ., and Lord Dudley Stuart , M . P ., at the House of Commons . Lord Dudley Siuart told them that he had seen Mr Glyn , the chairman of tbe North Western Company , and on informing that gentleman that be hadwith Sir B . Hallbeen waited
, , upsa by a deputation from the engine drivers , who represented the line to be in a most dangerous condition to parties _traveling , and that he iatended therefore to put some questions to him on the subject , Mr Glyn requested he would not do no without giving him notice of the _queltions he intended to put . They were , therefore , pre . paring statements of every _aocident and delay which had _ocourred In consequence of the inefficient hands em . ployed on the line as engine drivers . Mr B . _Osborno urged tbat the men should do no aot which should com . promise their _Oharaetere for respectability , either with regard to the new hands or with the company ( cheers ) , and Mr Hume was particular in Inquiring who drove the express and mail _trains , as ho wiihod to travel by the line but was somewhat afraid under existing _oircums-anoes . AlIthehoB . members expressed thoir determioatton to give the matter their most serious _oonslderation _.
Several of tho drivers also made statements , Oae declared that a new engine driver on the West London Junction had that afternoon run into some coal wagons , smashed four ef them , end nearly killed two or Three men Another that anew driver new emplotedon the North Western bad been discharged from the Eastern Counties Railway six weeks since for running into a cattle train at Thetford , and throwing tho van , _contalnlng two guards and five or » ix drovers into a wheat field , and that he had been reduced three or foar times previousl y for causing _eolllslons .
A resolution was come to directing the rules of the clubs to bo forwarded to Mr Glyn and tho three _menberi of Parliament who had been waited upon by the deputation , in _arder to disabuse their minds of tha statement that the men h » d resigned , la _{ _oattqaence of such in » _nueooe _.
* The Printers Of Tha Examinsb , Mere Ag...
* The printers of tha _Examinsb , mere agents of Mr Fonblanque , did a goodieal _tftfHprinting _.
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 19, 1848, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_19081848/page/2/
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