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NATI ONAL BENEFIT SO CIE T Y , EnroUea , pursuant to ( Utat * £ & ^ and 10 th "Victoria , c 27 . rnHE ABOVE SOCIETY , as amended .-and legalised , wa « formerly known as the JL RAT IONAL CO-O PERATIVE BENEFIT SOClEIETtthe managers of which hart long seen theneoetti ^ r of leeal protection ftr the seewity of its members . In frimlogiithe new rules , care hat been taken t 6 e ^ ualif 6 t&BseSpen . djture with the raceipU . so that the permanent success . aSthaisoeietyihouldbibejond . dl doubts . . - . Tht Society is dirided into three sections , to meet theawoeeaities * nd requirement * -of all claJies of mechaaiss »» labourers , from eighteen years of age to forty . MB I 0 IXOWISG IS TOT SCAH OF HKS TO BE PAID Jffi , KTKEKLT AI 6 OWASCB B » HCEMSS . ¦ rKTBAXCE : — : . -.. 8 . 0 . Age . litiection . 2 nd section . Sndsectioc . ,- first Section ... •• J' „ I . d . s . d . s . d . : Second Sectioa ? n Froml 8 toJ 4 .... S 0 .... 2 0 .... 1 0 Third Sectioa -.. .. -... ' ? ° _ 24—37 .... C 0 .... 4 0 .... 2 0 . „ _ . _ — 37—80 .... 9 0 .... 6 0 .... 3 0 keubem VMktn . WIF ^ B 1 ^™' — 30-33 .. .. 12 0 . . .. 8 0 .... 4 0 ' f «• *• f £ J ' — 33—35 .... 15 0 .... 10 0 .... 5 0 First Section .... 15 0 0 < » » — 36-S 8 .... 18 0 .... 12 0 .... « 8 SecondSection .. 10 0 0 o 0 v — 38-40 .... 21 0 .... 14 0 .... 7 6 ThirdSecHon .... 5 0 0 3 v KrstSeetion , 3 , « . sSSTS ^ Section , U M . J ^^ Se ^^ * % E ££ 3 S& . el >< V « am Benefit * o « . * , ™ h ? ve pHdte . ^ SSS ^ SAS" *""*"' SSSSKStoSltf S ?^ ^^^ -A ™* «» - *« . on Ration to the Secretary , * eWmga po ^ - ^ fbr ^^^^
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O'CONNORVIUE . k RAEE OPPORTUNITY FOR THOSE J \ . who havo the inclination and the means of having a first-rate FOUR-ACRE ALLOTMENT . This is no vain lwast , the present holder having spared no money , perse-Terance . or industry , bo : h in making convenience to die house , beautifying and improving the ground . Indeed , it onlv wants to be seen to be appreciated , as it is admired l ) y every body who see it , and it far outvies any other allotment on the Company ' s estate . The present proprietor , ttIio has been on it three jears , is compelled , through unforeseen ch-enmstances , Tery reluctantly to resign it The ground is cropped , as for as the season will permit , ana -there is 500 trees of every description of fruit , and the price , £ 60 , dear . Inquire of J . W . GambelJ , O'Connorrille , nearltickmansirorth , Herts . All letters must contain astimpinelosed for a reply .
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HEALIU WHERE 'TIS SOUGHT ! HOLLO ! AY'S PILLS . Care of Or ' . Lisordered liver mid Stomach , when in a most hopdas slate . Extract of a letter from Mr . Matthew Harvey , of Chapel Hall , Airdrie , Scotland ; dated tlie 15 th of Jannary , ISaO . Sib , —Your valuable pills have been the means , with God's Messing of restoring me to a state of perfect lisalth , and at a timl when I thought I was ou the brink of the crave . Ihadconsulted several eminent doetors , who , after aoingwhat they could for me stated that they considered mycase as hopeless . I ought to say that I had been sufierin" -from a liver ana stomach complaint of longstanding , which during fhe last two years got so much worse , that everyone consideredmy condition as hopeless . I as a lasj resource gota box of yonr pills , which soon gave relief , and by persevering in their use for some weeks , together with rubbing night and morning your Ointment over my che $ t and stomach , and right side , I have by their meaiis alone got completely cured , and to the astonishment <^ f myself and every body who knows me . —( Signed ) " Matthew Habvet . —To Professor Houaway .
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Read this , and judge for yourselvvs . GOOD HEALTH , GOOD SPIRITS , AKD LOSG LIFE , SECURED BY THAT HIGHLY ESTEEMED POPULAR REMEDY , PARR'S LIFE PILLS THOMAS PARR .
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HISTORIC PAGES FROM THE EEVOLUTION OF 1818 , ByM . LOUIS ; BLANC , And published under the special sanction of the autiier . The publication of the English translation of this important xrorlc U unavoidably delayed until next week . So . I , price one penny , will be ready on Tuesday nest , the 12 th iu 6 t ., and will be regularly eontinued every week until completed , in about - ± numbers . , Hiis work corrects the falsehoods and misrepresentattoss of Lamartine ' s Uistory , just published in English by Boha , and should be in the hands « f every Democratic and Social Reformer . Other standard works of the eame class will speedily follow . Where may also be had , TTHE CATECHISM OF SOCIALISM . A Price One Penny . By Look Btixc . This is the lest and cheapest exposition of the Oi ^ anisation of Labour Question everpublished . Also , THE ADDRESS OF THE SOCIAL REFOHM LEAGUE , with Exposition of the Rules and Objects of that Association . Price One Halfpenny , or 2 s . Gd . per hundred for distribution . Also , now Publishing , in Weekly Numbers and Monthly Parts , HPHE MYSTERIES OF THE PEOPLE . JL By Ecgesb Sue . This is the only unabridged version of this extraordinary Social and Democratic Romance , with all the valuable Notes . The First Division is now completed , price Ninepence , containing all that- relates to the French Resolution of February , 1818 . Office of the Weekxt Tubce , 11 a , Wellington street JTorth , Strand . London .
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LAND ASD COTTAGES . . ( The property of a private gentleman . ) TO BE LET , with-immediate possession , two miles from O'Connorville , ten acres of capital land , at £ 2 per acre per annum , for three years certain , and £ 1 per acre per annum , for ever afterwards . Also , two four-roomed cottages adjoining ; with ten "thousand square feet of garden ground each , at 3 s . per week each , which may be so divided as to accommodate four families at Is . Cd . per week each , allowing- for that sum two-little rooms on five thousand square feet of ground—that is to say fifty feet frontage by one hundred feet long . For further information , apply to Mr . Browne , Metropolitan-buildinss , Albert-street , Spicer-street , Spitalfields , enclosing stamps for postage .
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THE LAND AT O'COMORVILLE . TO BE LET , A FOUR ACEE FARM , situate in the best portion of the Estate , with barn , pigsties , enclosed yard , copper set , and other conveniences . One and a quarter acres are cropped with wheat , and the allotment is decidedly the best on the Estate . For particulars apply to Thomas Mabtin Wheeler , O'Connorville , near Rickmansn-ortb , Herts . AU letters must contain a postage stamp for reply . Also to let , with crop and stock , the TWO ACRE ALLOTMENT now occupied by T . M . Wheeler . For particulars inquire as above .
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PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT . A PUBLIC MEETING , a * Convened by the FBonsioxAii Committee of the NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION , will bo held at the LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTfi , JOHNSTREET , TOTTENnAM-COURT-ROAD , on TUESDAY EVENING NEXT , 3 Lutcn 12 ih , 1850 , for the purpose of Reviewing the Proceedings in Parliament during the past week . Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., M . P ., G . W . M . Reynolds , Esq ., G . Jnlian Harney , W . J . Ternon , Ambrose Tomlinson ( re . cently liberated from his dungeon at Wakefield , ) and others are expected to address the meeting . Chair to be tnRen at eight o'clock . ADMISSION FREE .
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THE FUND FOR THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF WILLIAMS AND SHARP . A TEA MEETING IN AID OF THE ¦ OL above fund ( and to celebrate the second anniversary of the memorable 10 th of April , 1818 ) , will take place in the tf ATIOSAL HALL , 242 , HIGH H 0 LB 0 KN , . On WEDNESDAY , APRIL 10 th . After the Tea A PUBLIC MEETING Will beheld , at which tlie advocates of democratic and social progress are hereby invited to attend . . ¦ ' ¦ Tea on the table at Six , and the Public Meeting to commence at Eight o'clock . - William Davis in the Chair . : Tickets for the Tea , One Shilling each , may be had at Reynolds ' s Political Lnstrcctob Office , 7 , Wellingtonstreet North , Strand ; Land Office , 144 , High Holborn ; the several Metropolitan Localities ; of Mr . Mills , at the National Hall ; of the Members of the Committee ; and of the Secretary , John J . Fcrdinando , 18 , Now TyssTen-street , Betbnal-green . Admission to Public Meeting : —Hall , 3 d . Gallery , 3 d .
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EMIGRATION TO NORTH AMERICA . W TAPSCOTT AND CO ., SHIPPING and Bmijjratien Agents , Lirorptol , comtinue to despatch First Class Ships—To'KEW YORK-every Five Days . To KE W ORLE ANS-everr Ten Days . T « BOSTON and PHILADELPIHA-every Fiftjen Dajs . And octasionally t « ¦ ¦ ¦ ' BALTIMORE , CHARLESTON , SAVANNAH , QUEBEC , anaSt JOHNS . Drafts for any amount , at sigh * , on New York , payable in any part of the United States . : Tapscott ' s "Emigrant ' s CuMe" seat free , on receipt « f Four Postage Stamps . £ 3 " About twemty-eight thousand persons sailed for the New World , ii Tapscott ' s line » f American Packots . in I $ i 9 .
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PAINS IS THE BACK , GRAVEL , LUMBAGO , RHEUMATISM , STRICTURES , DEBILITY , &e . DR . DE ROOS' COMPOUND RENAL FILLS are tlie only certain cube for the above disteeKing complaints , as also all diseases of the kidneys and juinary organs generally , whether resulting from imprudence or otherwise , which , if neglected , so frequently end in stone ^ in the bladder , and a lingering , agonising death ! . It is an established fact that most cases of gout and Rheu . matism occurring after middle age , are combined with diseased urine , how necessary is it then , that persons so afflict , ed should at once attend to these important matters . By the salutary action of these pills , on acidity of the stomach , they correct bile and indigestion , purify and promote tlie renal secretions , thereby preventing the , formation of c . ilevli i and establishing for life a healthy performance of the functions of all these organs . They hare never been known to fail , and may be obtained through most Medlcine Vendors . Price Is . lid ,, 2 s . 9 d .. and 4 s . Gd . per . box ., or wiR be sent free , with full instructions for use , on receipt ot the price in postage stamps , by Dr . DE ROOS . A considerable saving effected by purchasing the larger boxes . . .
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BEAUTD 7 UL HAIR . WHISKERS . &c , utrtus BALDNESS , WEAK , akb GREY HAIS . ONE TRIAL ONLY is solkited of R 0 SALD 3 COUPELLE'S celebrated PARISIAN POMADE , for the eestain production of Whiskers , Eyebrows , &c , in six or eight weeks , reproducing lost Hair , strengthening and curling weak hair , and checking grey ness at any fame of life , from whatever cause arising . It has never been known to foil , and will be forwarded ( free ) with full instructions , < Ssc ., on receipt of 24 postage stamps . . TESTIMONIALS , < bc . Mr . Bull , Brill , says : _ " I am happy to say , after everything else felled , yours has had the desired effect , the areyness is quite checked . " - ' b ' Dr . Erasmus Wilson : — " It is vastly superior to all the clumsy greasy compounds now sold under various titleB aud pretences , which I nave at different times analysed and found uniformly injurious , being either scented , or colodbed with some highly deleterious ingredient . There are , however , so many impositions afoot , that persons reluctantly place confidence wheu it may justly be be . stowed . "
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. ...... _ # ^ THE MARCH NUMBER OF THE ' "DEMOCR ATIC * BBVIEW " CONTAINS AN IMPORTANT ARTICLE ON THE PACOJ 0 . RY QUESTKD 2 T . Now ready , with ; the Magazines for Msaieh , No . X . of rpHE DEMOCRAT 10 REVIE W ± Of BRITISH and FOREIGN POLITICS , iHS ^ ORY and MTERATDRE . > Edited by 6 . JULIAN HARNEX . oontentb : . . . .. 1 . The Stamp Tax on Newspapers . . 2 . Legal Plunder . 3 . The Ten Hours Question . ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ 4 . AGlauceatlKfitory . Part II . 5 . Fourier's Theory . ; 6 . Anniversary of the French Revolution . 7 . The Bloodsheiding Ordermongers . 8 . Poetry : " The Past and the Present , " 9 . Letter from France . 10 . Letter from Germany . 11 . Political Postscript , &c , &c . & The Letters from IFrance aud Germany ocnWin very important information of the diabolical designs of tlie " Holy AlUance , " and their infamous instrument President Uuonaparte . Fobtt Paces ( in a coloured wrapper ) , Fekb THREEPENCE . London : Published by J . Watson , 3 , Queen . " * Head , pusiage , Paternoster-row .
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PORTRAIT OF MR . WALTER COOPER . This day is published , price One Penny , No . XI 2 t . REY NOLDS'S POLITICAL INSTRUCTOR . Edited bi ft . W . M . REYNOLDS , Author of the First and Second Series of 'The Mk teries of London-, ' ' The Mysteries , of the Codrt op London , * ' The Dats of Hogarth , ' ' Robert Macaiue , ' « tc , &c , &c . This number of the Iiietructor contains a portraitof MR . WALTER COOPER , the eminent and accomplished Lecturer . The Instructor is established to advocate . the ' political W ^ fcts ot the masses in-the most liberal sense of the term , and to inculcate that sound political knowledge which will teach the proper use and worthy exorcise--of those rights when once they shall have been obtained . -, For tliis purpose Mr . Keynolds has ensured the assistance of fivstrate talent iii the several departments of the Jnstiujctoii ; and he trusts that his own sentiments upon ; tl \ e leading topics of the day are too well known to render it necessary to enter into elaborate details concerning the spirit in which tlie publication is conducted . ' : London : Published for G . , W . M . Reynolds , at his Establishment , No . 7 , Wellington-street North , Strand ; by John Dicks , and sold by all vendors of cheap publications in town and country . ' . V" Monthly parts in Wrappers , price 6 d .
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¦ Nottingham . —J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the ' following sums , sent herewith , vis .: —For THE O'CONNOtt Imdemmtv Fond . —Mrs . Ann Burbage , 6 d ; A Devoted Friend , 5 s ; A Middle-class Friend , 10 s ; Mr . J . Brown , 6 d ; Mr . Gee , Gd ; A Friend , 2 s Cd : From Bulwell , 2 s 9 d ; A Friend , Gd ; A Friend , Is ; Mr . White , 3 d ; Mr . Chipindale , 12 s Gd ; From Hyson-green district , 8 s lOd ; A Friend : 3 d .- —Foil Mns . M'Dodall . —From Carrington , 5 s . . J . Riciubds . —Thanks for you letter . Please to send your full address . B . F ., Uxbridge . —The lines are passable , and shall be insetted on a future occasion . Mr . II . Johnson . Syston . —The work contains tit whole of Paine ' s political writings . Mr . Bakbie , Strathaven . —We do not send the papers . Mr . Lore must have forwarded it from Glasgow . Havlng received a great number of letters from various parts requesting a supply of subscription Looks for the
collection of the Honesty Fund , I beg to state that all such applications must be made to Mr . ' Thomas Clark , 1 U , High Holborri . Several letters have also been addressed to me for card 3 of membership of the National Charter . Association . Those I have handed over to the Secretary , Mr . John Arnott , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand . —See Notice in this day s paper . —W . Rider . Foe the'Fajiily of Db . M'Douall , —Received by Andrew M'Fee , Liverpool , ' a post-office order for IGa . from Joseph Cooper ; Limdport ; also from Mr . W . Norman , Isle of Wight , eighteen postage stamps , ¦ Public Libraries , —Any properly organised public library will oblige the Chartist ' s of Loiigton , by forwarding a . copy of their rules to Henry , Clay , Paradise-street , Longton , Staftbrdshire . A Constant Readeic , Berwick . —Physicians are entitled to charge for their prescriptions . They do not generally supply medicine . You should see the gentleman and . plead your inability . Several Communications are unavoidably postponed this week through press of matter .. Among others we may enumerate ; J . N . Leicester : D . Sherrimrton , Glasgow
I J . ; Smart , Aberdeen ; The Frie ' nds at Radcliff ; a letter on Pottersville ( America ) , and several others , wliich will receive our earliest attention . (} . J . IIabnex cannot at present visit Newcastic-upon-Tyne and Northampton . The latter placo he will visit within a few weeks ; his visit to the former must be deferred until some time in the ensuing summer . G . J . H . will arrange to pay an early visit to Stockport and Rochdale . ' . ' : . . . - J . M'CftAE . —Received . Shall hear from us by post . The " Weekly Dispatch , " and Mb , ThomasCiakk . —We have much pleasure in announcing ' that Mr . Clark ' s lying pamphlet was favourably reviewed in tho " Weekly Dispatch" of Sunday last . According to the reviewer , Mr . Clark " bravely confesses tho old errors of the Chartist tonne , apuiaXbj with regard to the Com Laws . " The reviewer adds . au expression of his " sorrow and amazement that any number of men can be found so besotted as to listen to or read the ravings" attributed by Mister Clark to Julian Hartley . This must be highly gratifying to Mr . Clark . It is most certainly gratifying to Julian Harney . .
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THE NATIONAL LAND PLAN . The working people are more just than Chief Baron Pollock—more clear-sighted and impartial than a Special Jury of the Court' of Exchequer . From all parts of the country expressions of undiniinished confidence in Mr . O'Connor pour in upon us . The rancorous and factious persecution to which he has been subjected , has had the effect of attaching them more-warmly to a man who has given his life and fortune to the advocacy of their interests . To the extent of their limited means , they have voluntarily , come forward to aid in defraying tho expenses heaped upon his head by the perversion of the law ; and the intrigues and misrepresentations of his enemies , instead
of severing , have only more closely united , the Leader and , the Party . Apart from this gratifying feature of the correspondence with which our columns have been filled for the laab two weeks , much valuable light has been thrown upon the character and conduct of the persons who Were brought byBRADSHAWtothrowdiscredit upon the Laud Plan itself . On the very face of the enterprise , it
was evident , that , from want of personal health and strength , or previous training and experience , some allottees might fail in realising the . results anticipated ; - But .: itivaa equally evident , to all impartial men , that such individual failures would not , in the slightest degreo , impugn the general soundness of the Plan , or be detrimental to its capability of producing a eubstantial and aggregate improvement in the condition of the persons so located .
A careful examination of the evidence of the hostile witnesses will show , that , in every case , the condemnation they pronounced upon the Plan , was the result of their own personal incapacity , or the palpable want of the necessary means to cultivate their allotments profitably . Not that the Company was to blame for this latter defect . The Aid Money—which was mainly , if not entirely , intended to be expended in seeds , implements , and labour , of a reproductive character—was paid , but it was laid out ia a way that was certain to yield no
return . Take the case of Alexandeh Cle-IAND as an . instance . He endeavoured to make himself a mueh-injured man , by his removal from Scotland to Snig ' s End . According to his own account , he was earning excellent wages , aad was exceedingl y comfortable , before he was entrapped into this delusive Bcheraf t Mr , Dusgan Sherrington has given us the other side of the picture . By the account of the expenditure of the £ 15 Aid Money , paid to Cleland , two things are evident—first , that Cxeland—nf ' he received
the wages he stated in the Court of Exchequer—must have a very indifferent knowledge of Domestic Economy ; an * 1 second , that he expected to reap , without plan tin £ sowing . Now the Land Company neve . P tended to impart , instant aneously the k '' ledge and practice of Household Thrift ; ana ' the domestic virtues to all its members : n > *» did it promise that corn , potatoes , cabbage * '
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and bacon , were to spring-spontaneously from the small fems upon whirfh it placed its allot ; teea . It did not profess rto work - miracles Of that kind . 'The old fashion of beings industrious , frugal , and sober—the old custom of sowing seed , and expending labour , before ike harvest w « s gathered in , constituted the foundation aad the guarantee of the success of that Plan ,-quite as muoh as they do in any of the other ¦ occupations of life . The only difference waatfihat the Land Company proposed to leave fche producer a . ' much larger share of the results of his own labour than has ever tr —^——^«^^—1^—¦ ———1 ^^^^^^^^^ " ^^^^^»^™^
before beea suffered to remain with them . It gave them land in small quantities at the wholesale price , or upon a small rental calculated uposa that amount ; it gave them houses at the cost price of enaction—or at an equally small rental upon that cost price . It subdivided tho large estates purchased by it into suitable farms—fenced' and drained where necessary—planted fruit treesy-made r oads , so that there might be convenient access and facilities for transporting produce and goods ; and lastly , supplied—either in money , or work and manure , or by all three—the means of raising the first crop . -... ; ...
, What more could be aBked of the Company 1 Are those who annually emigrate to the " far west" of America , or the cattle runs of Australia , provided in anything like an equal degree with the facilities for maintaining themselves and families in substantial and permanent comfort ? Not at all ! Yet the very journals which villify' the Land Plan as a swindle , are loudest in their advocacy of foreign Emigration as the panacea for all our grievances—the cure for the destitution and misery which exist so abundantly around us .
But in the case of Clbland , as in the case of many others , who have made similar complaints , it is clear that the failure was in himself , and not in the plans or arrangements of the Company . He does not aver that he was not placed in possession of the farm and house allotted to him . He does not deny having received the £ 15 awarded by the laws of the Company to a two aero farm . But instead of applying that money to its legitimate objects—the cultivation and stocking of his farm —it is expended in passage money , and the carriage of baggage—and in the purchase of shoes and pinafores for the children ! Surely ,
a man who earned £ 1 a week in Glasgow , might have been provided with these very necessary articles , without trenching upon the fund supplied by the Company for the purpose of producing a crop on his farm , Under the head of " Potatoes , turnip , cabbage , carrot and onion seeds , and cabbage plants , " however , we find that two pounds seven shillings and sixpence was the whole amount expended out of the £ 15—and if to that we add thirteen shillings and sixpence for agricultural implements , it makes exactly four pounds , or less than one third of the whole , employed as capital in the cultivation of two acres of land . No
wonder such a maa failed ! Ex nihilo nihilfit —out of nothing , nothing comes . We submit , however , that the Land Company , who gave the money , is not to be condemned for the failure , but tho man who misappropriated it . Yet it is upon such instances as these , which carry their own refutation along with them , that the Times and other journals found a sweeping and wholesale condemnation of small farms and spade labour . The absurdity of such conclusions , ^ when based upon such data , is so obvious as not to need comment or reply . The superiority of spado culture , as far as the quantity of produce is concerned , over the plough , is now admitted by every practical man . The difficulty under our
present system of farming is for the farmer to fiud the requisite amount of manual labour at the time he wauts it , and to get rid of it again when he does not need it . If these two things could be assured them , we have no hesitation in saying , that spade labour would become general among , the enterprising farmers of this country . But as they cannot , they are obliged to content themselves with the inferior productive machinery ,, which rests upon the plough as its basis . When , therefore , we hear such palpable nonsense as , that a man cannot support himself and family , by their united labour , on average land , by tho spade , the inference is , not that spade labour is defective , but that the man who complains is himself in fault .
Much controversy takes place at times between Free Traders and Protectionists , as to the relative number of persons engaged in manufacture and in agriculture . On whichever side the truth , may be , everybody must admit , that the millions of quarters of corn , and the 7 ast amount of other provisions , raised annually in this country , are produced by a very small fraction of the whole community . Many yearsi ago William Cobbett , with that
searching : analysis which distinguished his writings , instituted an investigation into the productive and distributive statistics of a single parish . The result of that inquiry demonstrated , that out of every fifteen days the agricultural labourer was at work , he received for himself the produce of only one ; the other fourteen days were appropriated for the . support of the " institutions of tho country , " aud absorbed bv tho classes who live upon profits
in various proportions . If the productive classes mean to amend a system which , thus steadily and insidiously transfers the fruits of their labour to those ¦••• w ho toil not , neither do they spin , " they must adopt measures far different to those wliich are proposed by mere surface and popularity-hunting agitators . The Land Plan may not be perfect in all its arrangements . It was not to be expected that ; in a scheme involving so much that was novel and untried in practise , everything that might happen could have been foreseen and provided for . A large
margin . is always allowed for contingencies m all new experiments , and we do not see why this should be refused the same advantage . The main question is , whether it is founded upon principles sound in themselves , and capable—if prudently and practically carried out—to permanently and substantially improve the condition of the labouring classes . . If . this . can bo , answered in the affirmative / then , we say ,. that the difficulties and obstructions which defective knowledge , and defective moans , may interposo in its progress , so far from beingthe ground of either condemnation
or despondency , ought , merel y to be considered as the necessary steps towards the completion of the Plan , and the realisation of its objects . : ¦ •¦ : - •• ¦¦ . ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ' In t he meantime , we conclude by observing , that those who spent on themselves money which should have gone into the Land , in the shape of manure and seeds—those who have withheld the subscriptions by which alone the Plan could be carried out as intended , and on the faith of which Mr . O'Connor and the Directors purchased Estates and built Cottages , are the very last persons who ought to complain of the effect of their misappropriations and bad faith . ¦
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more practical and more' efficacious incasT ^ But the House of Commons think . , " powerful . interests ought to be protected all weak ones to be neglected . Railway , their Board—not ; of unpaid , but paid cotni - sioners—Trade , and Navigation are dnlv p lied with a paid Board , to watch over them all interests , but Labour , have their rem-p tatives in Parliament , and their Govern ment ^ department / by whom their interests arecn ^ A for and protected . Property , when r ealisetl Property , when in the process of realisatin by means of trade , manufactures , or merce—Property in lands , houses , ' or monT * are the sole words of the British Constituti For the industrious classes—b y whose lab all these kinds of propert y are supplied * there is no protection , no care . Thev exposed , to be plundered , oppressed , and ?/ 6 graded , by all who choose to take advant-T of their weakness , their ignorance , or their di nion ; and when they complain , theprofessmJ \ the dismal science" of Political Economy J them their murmuringg are impious , becau ? these things are ordained of God , and in . cordance with the laws of Nature ' "U " long , 0 Lord ? " ' Ho ¦ ••¦ 1 J _ ^ ¦ _ ..- /*» . - * 3
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The illness of the Chancellor of tho Ex chequer has served as an excuse forposhxf ning many promised measures until after Eas ' , ter , and has served as a convenient answer to many "inconvenient" motions made by independent members . It ia probable that bv these means , the end of the Session will arrive and leave the same meagre result as the pro ! duct of such made" talk" and trouble as have distinguished former Sessions under the present incapable Ministry . » Much Ado about 2 fc thing " , seems to be the onl y play they can per . form in . :
Most of the Government sittings have been occupied since our last by the discussion , in Committee , of the Bill granting facilities ' foe the manufacture of Whig constituencies in Ireland . The Tory opponents did not venture upon repeating so flagrant a system of factious obstruction , as we noticed last week ; but thev have fought every ~ clause with numerous amendments , which prove how strong is theirde . termination to leave no stone unturned in order to maintain Tory domination in that country .
Despite their opposition-, however the two principal , clauses in the Bill have been carried —the one fixing the borough franchise at £ 8 rating , and the other , the count y franchise at ; £ 5 to tenants in fee , or in tail , or for life or of the rated value of £ 5 . The majorities by which these clauses were carried—after prolonged debate , and repeated divisions werq large enough to induce the Peers to suffer their passing , without damaging opposition in the Upper House .
To the proposal of Mr . Reynolds , that thfi borough franchise should also be reduced to £ 5 , the Government gave the unusuall y ungenerous answer , that if they did so , the same thing would he asked for England and Scotland , and as they did not mean to give it to the one they would not to the other . In fact , throughout the debate , the real object of the measure , that of giving the party in power st
preponderance at the next general election was transparent , and all but avowed in words , The measure is a sham reform—one of those things that are " neither fish , flesh , nor good red herring . " The people of Ireland , we be « lieve , are not such fools as to believe that it will confer those electoral rights and privileges upon them , which are essential to their poli « tical freedom , and their social improvement .
We have noticed , in another place , theresulf of the devision upon Mr . Hume ' s motion , The Ministerial organ treats it as a mew " show question , '' which means nothing mon than the harmless gossip of a night about as unattainable and Utopian croctliet . We coe « fess that . we have a suspicion , if the matter was left in the hands of some of the " respect * able" advocates it had last week , such was likely to be its fate for many years to come , The manner in which Mr" Hume , Mr . Page Wood , and others who voted for- the motion , revenged themselves for being obliged to do so ,
by abusing Mr . O'CorftfoR , was very amusing . Why should the Chartist leader , and the Chartists as a body , be thus maligned and vituperated ? They havo surely as much right to propound and maintain their sis points of political reform , as Ml * . Hume has his "four . " Mr . Page Wood , who is a lawyer , has a great horror of " abstract propositions , and took the ; hon . Member for Nottingham severely to task for indulging in them . One of these " abstractions" vaff , " the labourer shall first be partaker of the fruits . " That was , in his opinion , a very
dangerous doctrine . Now , we believe thai Mr . Wood prides himself upon being a very religious man ; we presume , therefore , lie has read the Bible , and we ask him if , in the course of such reading , lie never stumbled upon this dangerous " abstract doctrine" in that book ? Oh ! but the learned gentleman may reply , the doctrine must be taken as it is expounded by the parsons and the lawyer ? . It must not be rashly meddled with by the unlearned , or even "the hon . and learned Member for Nottingham . " In the language of his own profession we ask , " If not why not' ?"
In truth , these airs of superiority areridica * lous and laughable assumptions . Mr . IV 000 and his Colleagues may assure themselves , that we shall neither trust in their dogma ? , nor in their interpretations of " abstract doc « trines , " so long as we can read and think lot ourselves . Protestant England has assorted and maintained the right of private judgment , with respect . to the doctrines pertaining to things spiritual . It is is not likely to set up 2 Pope in the person of Mr . Wooi > , aud uccep
his dicta as infallible upon things temporal * We beg to suggest to Mr . Hume , and . h « s supporters in Parliament , that they will do their work more graciously , and more oftectu < ally , if they will in future keep all their arguments , satire , and energy for the opponents oi all reform , and leave those alone who ico& little farther than themselves , but who refrain from opposing them . They may — who knotf otherwise—provoke an out-door collision which would leave them in as ^ great a miuoi'itj out of doors as they are in .
Mr . FmnoY has introduced a Bill of gwf importance ,: namely , an extension of jurisdic tionof the County Courts from £ 20 to i 5 ft Tho advantages conferred by these Courts , jD bringing cheap and summary justice within the reach of all classes , in cases where tha amount does not exceed the former sum , have been abundantly demonstrated . During tl » 4 short time they have been in existen ce , up ' wards of a million cases have been decided $ them—being in the proportion of more t han four to one , as compared with the trials & Westminster . Hall . This sufficiently test s
public opinion . The Lawyers have lost , no * ' * ever , as the public have gained . They arc f longer able to fleece their clients by ruuninS up heavy bills of costs , and making law s " dear , that persons deliberately preferred t 0 submit to injustice , rather than seek redrew They complain bitterly of the " heavy blo ^ i and sore discouragement , " their profession has received from the Small Debts' Act , a ^ they will no doubt stoutl y resist any further aggression upon that portion of the domiM on which they can yet grow rich at the ex « penseof the unhappy wretches , who arc forced to apply for their assistance
. The tone of the Attorney-Genekal , ana other Lawyers , withreferenceto Mr . Fitzko ? j Bill , indicated the determined hostility it wl » encounter from " gentlemen learned in thfl law ; " and looking at their immense influence in Parliament , we fear there is small cbau «" of the measure being carried .
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The Northerii Star Saturday, March 9, Iuso ,.
THE NORTHERIi STAR SATURDAY , MARCH 9 , IUSO ,.
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. demption , by -their > ¦ own unassisted efforts . Either way tlie people are condemned to endure ithe pressure of the numerous burdens , and the gross injustice inflicted upon them by the present order of things . ^ Two recent occurrences have strongly exemplified the hopelessness of any efficient or Honest Reform being carried in the present . constitution of the Legislature . Mr . HUME S annual motion for his " Little C harter , " was debated in an almost empty house , for the greater part of the night . As the time for the division approached , members rushed in ready to vote , who had not heard . It was mere brute force—unreasoning and unreasonable obstructivenessbased on the determination to main-__ ... .- ¦ ¦¦ ¦ . ¦ . . "' ' - ¦¦ ¦ ¦ „ .
, tain class rule and class legislation for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many . The arguments—if they may be dignified by that name—which the Premier , and others opposed to the proposition , were ; of the flimsiest texture . But one declaration will not be forgotten as long as Lord John Russell lives , namely , that the people otthis country were not fit to be trusted with the franchise . We look upon that declaration as an insult to the nation , and one which , if the people at large felt any regard for their own reputation in the eyes of the world , they would speedily seek satisfaction for , by turning the puny lordling who made it out of
office . ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ . . , -An increase of twelve in the number ot those votedfor the Motion , as compared with tho minority of last year , may be accepted as an indication that the out door agitation ^ is beginning to tell upon constituencies , and that the waverers , and those who are-unncertain as to the tenure of their seats , begin to think it is . time to , choose their side . We have still , however , to ; observe a lamentable want of energy and of union on the part of the middle class reformers both iii and out of Parliament .
With a minority of ninety-six—if there was a sturdy determination to push , the ministry home—could soon alter the supercilious and insulting tone with which their motions are met . The © ther occurrence—which proves that the working classes have nothing to hope from Government and Parliament as now constituted—was the reception given to the motion of Mr . Sianey , for the appointment . of an unpaid Commission to consider and report upon practical plans , ( not connected with political changes ) for the social improvement of the working and poorer claeses . Nothing could be more unpretending , cautious , and modest , than . such ' a proposal ; yet it was made to a thin and inattentive House , and
ultimatel y withdrawn , from a clear perception that even such a ; small recognition of tho claims of " the working and . poorer classes " would have been ignored by the ; . " honourable House , " that pretends to represent the " Commons of Great Britain and Ireland . " In truth , the industrious classes are theoretically and practically eacluded from all participation-in legislation , and in legislative care and protection . They are the sheep to be
shorn i or devoured wholesale , as tlie case may be . The House of Commons represents the wolves who prey upon them . We live under an Oligarchy composed of landed aristocrats , and middle class profit-mongers—they may quarrel with each other as to the division of the spoil , but they always cordially unite their forces agaiust any attempt of the despoiled to acquiro strength to resist ciggressiou or redress , for the wrongs they endure , or a chance of emancipating themselves from oppression .
Mr . Slaney ' s statement of the amount of these wrongs , and the deadly and demoralising nature of that oppression , was , in fact , a heavy indictment against those before whom he preferred it . In no country of the world , is the labouring man placed in a worse ' physical and social position , than he is in this boasted land of freedom ; At the end of a long life spent in hard work , the aged peasant has no prospect before him but the workhouse ; when he is able to toil no longer , society gratefully awards him a pauper ' s fare and treatment , and when that kills him , a pauper ' s coffin and
a pauper ' s grave . His family have the same prospect before them . From early morn till late night , they may labour on for long years , in producing all that ministers to the physical well-being of the community , at wages barely sufficient to keep soul and body together , and when no longer able to labour , their father's fate is theirs . To tulle of the tiller of the soil ever rising above this object and most hopeless of conditions , is a mockery . All the arrangements by which he is surrounded seem as if they were expressly contrived for the purpose of making him physically , mentally , and
morally , a slave to the landlord and the farmer , who share the products of his toil between them . It is not good . for them that he should eat of the tree of knowledge , and have his eyes opened to discriminate good and evil . Honce , generally the opposition to all educational or social measures , which might raise the peasantry in the scale of society . Schools and small allotments , are all so many encroachments on the means by which the labourers are held in mental and physical thraldom ; and they ask themselves ,, if these things are conceded , " What is to become of us ?"
When we turn to our large towns and cities , and to our manufacturing districts , \ ra find that the demons of class-interest and classtyranny , produce effects more pernicious , and even more deplorable . 0 f one thing even landlords " and farmers cannot deprive their slaves , —the benefit of the fresh air in which they pursue their avocations .. But the worker in the mine and the factory has no such compensation . During his hours of labour ho is surrounded with an atmosphere which slowly impairs vitality ,, and lays the seeds of disease and early death in the frame . When away from work , " the close , unrentilated , and undr ained lanes and alleys , and the overcrowded tenements in which ho is
compelled to live , exercise an equally deadly influence upon health and morality . Sickness , mortality , and vice hold their revels amongst the huddled-up masses , who keep the wheels of our manufacturing and commercial maenmery in motion . The children born of such parents , brought up amidst such baleful influences , and employed as early as their limbs will enable them to bear the toil , are stunted , pale , sickly , equally deficient of moral and physical stamina , According to high authority , they are fast sinking from the human to the brute type . All that has been taken to distinguish man from tho lower animals is being rapidly obliterated in them , and they aro
approximating to the form , the intellect , and the passions of baboons . Large masses in particular occupations have not the slightest hope of escape from the perennial misery by which they are environed . Death is the only door that stands open—a door frequently opened for them by the hand of fever , or of £ liose numerous diseases which ravage the poor man's dwelling . Pauperism and crime increase , and the whole condition of the masses is of the most lamentable and appalling character , in the midst of loud boastings of the magnitude of our commerce—the vastness of our wealth—the wide extent of our dominion —and the augmenting quantity of exports and imports .
Surely such a state of things demands some attention and some remedy . For the sake of those even , who imagine it serves their interest , it is desirable that something should be done to lessen the discontent and sense of oppression which ferments in the bosom of society . Mr . Sianey ' s motion for an unpaid commission , and his suggestions as to remedial measures , were so very small and inadequate that they need have frightened no one . If granted , they -would have little , If any , direct effect upon the condition of those whose wretchedness he so truly depicted ; but they might , at least , have laid the foundation for
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THE WOLVES AND THE SHEEP . Nothing appears to frighten our public men so much as any proposal to deal definitely and directly with the social and political condition of the maBses . If it is proposed to extend tlie Suffrage , it is at once objected that they are not yet fit for its exercise , but that some time or other they may be so , when such an
extension may be safely conceded . If the other tack is taken , and improved educational and social arrangements are asked for , in order to give the people at large the intelligence and the superior moral habits of which it is alleged theyare now deficient , the answer is then , ' that nothing can be done b y Ac . t . of Parliament for such purposes—that " let alone " ia the Alpha and Omega of Government and legislation , and that the people must work out their own re-
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NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . All letters and communications for the Provisional Committee , must be addressed , till further notice , as follows : —John Arnoit , Office of the National Charter Association , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand , London . N . B . —The Secretary will bo in attendance at the Office daily ( Sundays excepted ) from nine to two o ' clock .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 9, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1564/page/4/
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