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      _r-iternoster-row . Just published , 2 nd Edition for the Million , in 12 rao ., 313 pages , closely printed , price 2 s ., bound in cloth : AMERICA COMPARED WITH ENGLAND . The respective social effects of tbe American aud "Giijdisli systems of Government and Legislation , and the Mission of _Democracy . By li"W . _Rt-sseu _., of _Cinciuati _. United States , councillor at law . This work explains the Institutions and the Laws ofthe Uuitcd States—shows the actual condition of all classes ofthe people , whether natives or emigrants , and contains an Abstract am " . Review of the principal English works on that country . This is an admirable boot—Width ) _Dispatdi . It contains elaborate matter of practical value . —Spirit Of ( he Age . This is an admirably written and excellently well-timed book . —Tic Standard of Freedom . The book should have been called a text borik for present and future _iw'iticiaus , for truly it will be . —Weekly Times ,

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      _IMPGHTANT TO BAKERS AND OTHER TRADES . An Enlarged _Edition of rpHE BAKERS' GAZETTE AND JL GENERAL TRADES' ADVOCATE , devoted to the Interests of Trade—the Defence of the Rights of Labouranil the Diffusion of . Moral and Useful Information , Pub-Jhheu every Saturday _moraing . Price Tliree-half-pDiice . . London : 6 _' cor . G .: Vickees , -S , and 2 ' J , Holywell-street , Strand ; anil may be had of all news venders . _2 _T 03 . 1 , to XIL , Sticlied in a Wrapper , price One Shilling and _SiMjence .

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      5 ' aluable and _kitekestixo presesx to tiie : aeai > ers and subscribers of tiie " weekly _, tribuse" _sewsp-U'ee , _< phice _fobrpbhce . On _Satobdat , _Decejibeb 1 st , will be presented cbatis with the « Weekly _Tbibune _, ' au original DEMOCEATIC AND SOCIAL ALMAS AG for 1850 . Containing the usual Calendar , and full of Statistical facts , on the Political and Social Condition of the People . Also , with the same number v . -ill be given a

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      TIIE SEW ERA . ON . SUNDAY ( to-morrow , ) November 25 th , PABM . vGDo . v-HAii , ( bottom of _Suoiv-hill _, ) will be openedfor Weekly Sunday Lectures , on a new organisation of society . ROBERT OWEN , Es « ., ( Late of . Jfew Lanark , ] will Lecture at eleven o ' clock iu the forenoon , 'On the _Neccessity for Union amongst tbe Friends of Progress . ' Mk . L . JOSES , WiU lecture at seven o ' clock in tlie evening , on' Social Reform and its Claims on Public attention . ' Price of admission to each Lecture 2 d . ; reserred seats _4 < L The members of the Appollonic Societjr have kindly ottered their attendance for tlie morning service . V The entrance to tho Hall is by King ' s Anns Yard , bottom of Snow hill .

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      LUXURIOUS HAIR , WlllSRERS , & C O RINILENE is the only Preparation that can really be relied upon for the _RESTORATION of the HAIR in Baldness from any cause , preventing the Uair falling off , strengthening weak hair , ic , and tlie production of those attractive ornaments , whiskers , & c , iu a few weeks , with the utmost certainty . It is an elegantly scented preparation , and sufficient for three months' use , will be sent free on receipt of twenty-four postage-stamps by Miss DEAN , 108 , Great Russcll-strcet , _Bloonisburysquare , London . ACTIIENTIC TESHHOyiAS . Dr . Thorapsen says : — * It is a beautiful preparation , and the only one I can recommend ; all tlie others advertised that I have seen are disgraceful impositions . I wish it erery suceess . ' —Oct 2 , 1849 . Mr . Ebnet , Truro , says ; ' It has succeeded , after all the other preparations had failed . ' Professor Ure , on analysing the Crinilene says : — " It is perfectly free from any injurious colouring or other matter , and the best stimulant fur the hair I have met with . The scent is delicate , and very persistent . "

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      PAINS IN TnE BACK , GRAVEL . LUMBAGO , STRICTURES , DEBILITY , & e . ONE trial only will prove the value of DE ROOS * celebrated COMPOUND RENAL PILLS , for speedily curing all kinds of pains in the back , stricture , debility , diseases ofthe bladder , kidneys , and urinary organs generally , whether resulting from imprudence or otherwise . They have never been known to fail , and may be obtained of all respectable Medicine Vendors . Price Is . _ljd ., 2 s . 9 d ,. aud ts . fid ., per box ., or will be sent free on receipt of thc price in postage stamps , by Dr . De Roos . Full directions enclosed . A considerable saving effected in taking the larger boxes . Authentic Testimonials . —Mr . T . Parry , Ruthin , writes : " Send me a 2 s . 9 d . bos for a friend ; the one I had has quite cured me . "— Sir . King , Aylesbury : " They are a perfect Messing , I have not beeft SO easy fuv years . " The late Dr . Hope : " 1 can strongly recommend your Renal PiUs having tried thein in very mast instances with most gratifying results , and sincerely hope they will be largely patronised , as they deserve to be . "

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      ! RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS ! _""tf VERY variety of SINGLE andDOUBLE JLJ RUPTURE , however bad and long standing may be permanently cured by Dr . BARKER'S remedy , which has heen established severai years , and used with great success by many ciuiueut members ofthe profession , that its efficacy is established beyond a doubt It is easy and painless in use , and applicable to both sexes of all ages . Hundreds of testimonials and trusses have been left behind by persons cured , as trophies of the immense success of this remedy , which Dr . Barker wiU willingly give to any requiring them after a trial ofit . The remedv is sent post free on receipt offis . in postage stamps , or by _posUffice order , by Dr . ALFREB BARKER , 108 , Great Russell-street , Bloomsbury-square , London , where he may be consulted daily from 10 till I , mornings ; 4 tiU 8 evenings ( Sundays excepted . ) Post-Office orders must be made payable » t the Blooms _, bury Post-office . Xo letter of iuquiry can bo answered unless twelve postage stamps ave enclosed . In every case Dr . Barker guabaxtees a cdre .

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      THY ERE YOV DESPAIR . HOLLO WAY'S PILLS . CURE OF ASTHMA . Extract of a Letter from Mr . Benjamin Mackie , a respect . able Quaker , dated Crcenagh _, near Loughall , Ireland , dated September 11 th . 1 S 48 . Respects ) Friend , —Thy excellent Pills have effectually cured me of an asthma , which afflicted me for three years to such an extent thatl was obliged to walk my room at night for air , afraid of being suffocated if I went to bed by cough anil phlegm . _Desidcs taking the fills , I rubbed plenty of thy Ointment into my chest night and morning . — ( Signed ) Desjasux _JLicsie . —To i 'rofcssor _Houoivay . CURE OF TYPHUS FEVER WHEN SUPPOSED TO BE AT THE _I'OINT OP DEATH .

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      POPULAB , POLITICS AND HISTORY . Now ready . _price-OsE _Pexnt _, containing eight _Iai-ge . _pages ttwenty-four columus _, ' No . III . of "DEY _-SOLDS'S POLITICAL XV INSTRUCTOR .

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      On Tdesdat next , November 27 , will be published ( t 9 DC completed in about Six _Fensv _Weekxv _NdmbebsJ npHF DESTROYING ANGEL . X A _ET 0 RT OP LIFE . BY 'TERRIGENOUS . ' Author of ' Our Inheritance : Land , Common Property ;' 'The Vision : or Love and Life—a Fairy and Ghost Story ; ' 'Rationality , ' e £ _e ., etc . l ' rice One Penny . Published by James Watsok , Queen ' s Head-passage Paternoster-row .

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      TOE CHEAPEST EDITION EVBB PUBLISHED . Price 1 b . 6 d ., A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate of the Author , of PAINE'S POLITICAL WORKS . Now Ready , a New Edition of mn . O _' _GQNKOR'S WORK Oft SMALL FARMS N Sold by J . Watson , Queen ' s Ilead Passage , Paternoster row , London ; A . lleywood , Oldliam-street , Manchester , and Love and Co ., 5 , _Sclson-strect , Glasgow . And bi all Booksellers in Town and Country .

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      NOW IN THE COURSE OF PUBLICATION . In Numbers at Threepence each . Illustrated by appropriate Engravings , executed by Artists of the first Celebrity . THE PROGRESS OF GRIME ; OB TUB AUTHEXTIC MEMOIRS OF MARIE MANNING , OF MINVER-PLACE , BERMONDSEY . BESCWPTIVE OF THE EXTfiAOBDLVABr SCENES OF HEIt EVENTFUL LIFE , FHOM _HEK EARLIEST YOUTH TO THE PERIOD OF . THE _ATUOCIOUS MOttDEtt OF Mil . O _' CONNOB , o Br ROBERT HUISH , Esq . Strange , Paternoster-row ; Vickers , Holywell-Strcet ; and all booksellers in town and country .

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      FARMS ON SALE . TO BE DISPOSED OF , TO THE highest bidder , the right of location upon farms of two , three , and four acres , on the estates of the National Land Company . All applications to be made to the Directors , at their office , 144 , High Holborn , London . By order of the Directors , T . Clamc , Cor . Sec .

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      KOTICB . A WEST RIDING DELEGATE il MEETING will be holden in the Democratic Schoolroom , Croft-stbeet , BRADFORD , on Sunday , December _Dtii , 1849 , at ten o ' clock in tlie forenoon , to which the following places arc desired to send delegates : Leeds , Bradford , Halifax-, Wilsden , Keighley , Bingley , Birstal , Birkensh . w , Heckuiondwicke , _Holmfirtli , Ilanley , ' Huddersfield _, _Braus _iniY-lane , Queen ' s Head , Deivsbury , Wakefield , and every other place in tlie 'Vest Killing of Yorkshire , for tlie purpose of discussing and adopting the best means of carrying out the new plan of organisation , which will be drawn up by the Metropolitan Conference , is to be holden in London on December the 3 rd . Dy order , Thomas _Wii-cock , W'estRiding Scerctary .

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      EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS ! J RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUVS _' _-Dn . WALTER DE ROOS , l , Ely-place , _IlolbBi-n-hill , London , still continues to supply tlie afflicted with his celebrated cure for Single or Double Ruptures , the efficacy of which for both sexes , of any age , is now too well established to need comment . It is easy in application , causes no pain or _inconreiiieiice ; and will be sent free , with full instructions , & c , rendering failure impossible . A great number of Trusses have been left behind by persons cured , as trophies of his immense success , which he will readily give to those who like to wear them after a trial of this remedy . Hours . —10 till 1 ; and 4 till S . —( Sundnys excepted . ) N . B . —Post Office orders payable at the Holborn office , and to prevent unnecessary correspondence , all letters of inquiry must contain twelve postage stamps , or they will not be noticed .

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      BALDNESS , WEAK , OR GREY HAIR . WHISKERS , & c . AND COMFORT IS WALKING . MISS COUPELLE respectfully solicits ose trial only of her celebrated Parisian Ponindo , for speedily restoring lost hair , strengthening and curling weak hair , and chucking greyness , from whatever cause . As also produce whiskers , eyebrows , < tc , in six or eight weeks It has never been known to fail , and will _bs torwarded ( free ) oil receipt of 24 postage-stamps . AUTHENTIC TESTIMONIALS . Miss Young , Truro , writes : — "It lias quite restored mine , which I had thought impossible , after everything else had failed , and I shall never be without some by mc . " Jlr . Bull , Brill— " I am happy to say it has had the dc . sived effect , the greyness is quite checked .

      Latest Foreign News.

      LATEST FOREIGN NEWS .

      France.—Paris, Thuhsday Evewng. — Withou...

      FRANCE . —Paris , _Thuhsday Evewng . — Without a very lengthened report it would be impossible to give an idea of the sitting of yesterday in tho Assembly . Tbe tumult was avowedly originated by a member of the Rit > ht . M . Segur d'Aguesseau having got leave to occupy the tribune without any right , proposed simply , and by way of insult , to give pensions to the gendarmerie who had resisted the people in February , 1848 . M . Segur , after firing this kind of shot , retired to his seat , and enjoyed himself in loud laughter at the hubbub which ensued .

      The republican and the Left side of the Assembly of course rose in disgust and rage . Yet all that it asked was , that the President should call M . Segur to order . President Dnpin , however , would do no such thing . Hereupon , M . Baune rushing to the tribune , declared that the President acted tho part of procureur-general of the majority , but never that of advocate of the minority . For thus speaking this home truth , not half so outrageous as the insult of M . Segur d'Aguesseau , tho Assembly inflicted a censure upon M . Baune . Several duels have taken place . Ono alone has proved fatal , M . Pierre Bonaparte having , it is said , shot M . Xavicr _Darrien , of the Temps .

      Tne Suicioe At The South-Western Railway...

      TnE Suicioe at the South-Western Railway Station . —On Thursday morning , at eleven , an inquest was taken before Mr . W . Carter , at the Hero of Waterloo Tavern , Waterloo-road , Lambeth , respecting the death of James Allan , Esq ., M . D ., a surgeon m the Royal Navy , aged thirty-seven , who committed suicide at tho above station . The particulars will he found in our sixth page . The iury after hearing the evidence , returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity . "

      The late Fatal Occurrence on tub Southwestern Railway . —On Thursday cvenin" an inquest was held at the Rose and Crown , Wimbledon before Mr . Carter , upon the body of Mi * . M'Arthui _' , ' a baker , lately residing in the above _village . Several witnesses were examined , and the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death , " at the same time suggesting that a lamp should be fixed at thc extreme end of the down platform . The Trial by Lot at Lewis . — Miss _Logcatt the young female tried at thc last Leeds BoroiHi Sessions on a charge of stealing a violin and

      sentenced to six weeks imprisonment , was on Thursday last liberated from tho Borough Iiouso of Correction by order of Sir George Grey , tho Homo Secretary , the crown , under the extraordinary circumstances of the case , havingNgruiitcd her a free pardon . In reply to a letter of inquiry by the shipowners of Cork , Sir Denis Le Marchant has been directed be the Board of Trade to state , that from the 1 st of January next , all ships duly owned by British subjects will be admitted to registry , without inquirv as to their place of build . '

      The Bishop of Exeter has pasied sentence of deprivation on the Rev . Charles Rookcs M A _w-L of Nymctt-Rowland , Chumlei gh ! Devon \ _Sl whom Widow Brooks lately recoroS ffin , _2 _!? ? the seduction of her _danger _hhria _^ *" Tub A yr Observer notes the trappin _g of a fo _* on _xCttStoSssr ' > and ieft _*•

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      J, Sweet, Nottingham, Acknowledges The R...

      Sweet , _Nottingham , acknowledges the receipt of the following sums , S 3 iit herewith . — foil Chartjst Executi ve—Mi _, _liurgin _, fid ., —Foil Macnamara _' s Actios Jlr . Knott , fid ., Mr . Chipinuale , Od ., Mr . MCllors , Od ., Mr . Cox , _Ciiihvell , 2 sM from the Colonel Hutchison , 5 s Foa Victim Fond . — Mr . W . Smaller , Cd .. Mr . J . Brown , Gd ., Mr . B . Drown , Ud ., Mr . J . Waplington , Cd ., Mr . It . Spencer , Oil ., Mr . II . Lowe . Cd „ Jlr . H . Lov / e , junr . Cd ., Mr . J . Smith , Cd ., Mv . J . _AlUred , Cd ., Mr . Milliard , Is . _Cow-boted at Ma , Cox ' s—( For _Jlacniimarii ' s Action . )——Mr . Wm . Cox , Is ., Mrs . Win . Cox , Gd ., Mr . Win . lloare , ( id ., Mrs . Wm . Eoave _, 3 d ., Mv . E . Wright , 6 ( 1 ., Mrs . E . Wright , 3 d ., children , 2 d ., Mrs . Henry Cox , Gd ., Mr . Wm . lloare , Sd ., Master Feargus O'Connor Wright , 3 d ., Mr . Wm . Cox , 3 ci .. Mrs . Wm . Cox , 4 d . —Total , 4 s . Vd . Mr . J . _SxEitarrr , of Nottingham , begs to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums for the I _' iii . nteu ' s Debt : — _v . 7 .. „ , _y „„„ , _; _, „ Sc _fininnni Hutchison , 7 s . fid .,

      nresent quarter . Send in seven weeks . Mr 1 ! Hosmit . _DuMn . -Fivepenee , including postage . 1 V Stalevb rldga _^ -My time is wholly occupied during J lIdr _SStance , and at some _distance from the place , or I would _onost willingly do the business for you . _jirS . _WEno , _Cobridge—We took your letter to a gentleman who will , doubtless , communicate with you . A Chartist , Northampton .-Mr tally labours under a mistake . We have forwarded your letter to the

      Directors . Dr . M'Douall _' s Family . —Andrew _M'Lee , of Hollinwood , lias received eighteen _postage stamps from Joseph llaynor , John _Uricrly , and William Taylor . The Pmsteii ' s Bill . — Mv . T . _Clauk . —Sir , I forward you the sum of one pound , being the sum required from Dudley , for the Printer ' s Debt . I have not seen that any p lace lias sent tlieir ratio for the same , and I hope this will stimulate them to action : —Samuel Cook , Is ; Wm . Muir , 2 s 6 d ; Wm . Insul , Is ; Sampson Watts , 6 d ; Wm . Dunn , Cd _; Richard [ lays , Gd ; Win . Rankin , Cd ; John Davis , ( Id ; Joseph Wasindage , Is ; John Chanee , Stourbridge , 2 s ; Chartist Association Dudley , 10 s 4 d . —Total , £ 1 Us . Jd . J . Black , Rotherham , C . Sanders , Marylebone , and J . Fidoe , Tower Hamlets . —Your communications are

      advertiscments . Wm . Huiggs _, Long Sutton , who sent 4 s . to this office a tortnight ago , lias _luxd a letter sent to him , and returned as not known . Where is Long Sutton % Wm . Briggs is _requested to send his address in full . " Samoxai . Association of Thades . — The lengthy report of the proceedings of the Irish Conference prevents our publishing Mr . reel ' s conynunication . It shall appear next week . A SuDSCituiEii , Bolton . —Not having a copy 01 the Newgate calendar , we cannot answer your question . Mr . Walter CooMit . —Your letter shall he delivered to the proper person . He will return to London this day .

      The Northern Star Saturday, November S4, 1849.

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , NOVEMBER S 4 _, 1849 .

      Progress Of Political Education. All Par...

      PROGRESS OF POLITICAL EDUCATION . All parties complain of the futility and barrenness of several late sessions of Parliament , and many theories have been invented to account for the fact . We believe that one main cause was the non-introduction of well prepared and properly matured measures by the Government , It has been the practice for many years , for the Administration to take the initiative in all practical business ; and , despite Lord John Russell ' s repudiation of the responsibility of doing so , we are convinced that it offers , under existing circumstances , the best guarantees for the business

      being really and effectually done . In a country where so many complicated and conflicting interests exist , it is of the utmost importance that the machinery by which it is proposed to carry out any improvement , alteration , or addition to the law , should be fully considered , and adequate to the object in view . The consideration and preparation of tho multitude of details requisite for this purpose , camiot be done iu the midst of large assemblies : they are only fit to deal with thc

      broad and palpable characteristics of a measure , Any one acquainted with the House of Commons , and who has attended continuous sittiugs when it was in . " a . Committee ox ihe whole House , " will agree with us in the opinion , that it is out ofthe question to expect anything like a close , practical , and consistent attention to minute details , upon which , after all , a great deal of the success or 11011 -success of any measure must , iu the long run , mainly depend .

      Taking these _circumstanced into consideration , it has been recommended that persons , practically conversant with the drawing of bills , should in all cases bo employed to give shape and form to tho intentions ofthe Government , in a manner that would avoid the continual blundering of officials and evasions of the law , which occur under the present loosely conducted system . The Ten Hours Act is a memorable instance of the facilities which carelessly constructed statutes offer to thoso who desire to break the law .

      Whether the Cabinet adopts this suggestion or not , one thing is certain ; that they should be preparing a programme of measures during this long recess , which will relievo tlie forth " coining session from the stigma justly attached to thc previous sessions in which they have sat as Ministers . It is a mistake to suppose that the deliberative functions , either of Members of Parliament or of Ministers , begin and end with the session . The recess affords an interval of reflection , and an opportunity for calm and practical effort to master the numerous and pressing problems of our present political and social system , of which all public men , but especially , thoso entrusted with tho Government of the country ought to avail themselves .

      This , which is true at all times , is pre-eminoiltly so at the present moment . We will not refer to the examples which have been reccutly exhibited by Continental nations , as to the dangers to bo apprehended from prolonged oppression , and general discontent and _disaffection . The state of affairs among our labouring population , alike in the metropolitan , manufacturing , and agricultural districts , is of a sufficiently threatening character to enable us to dispense with . any arguments drawn from that source .

      The disclosures of the correspondents of the "Morning Ckronkle " have move than substantiated all that ever was stated by Chartist and Socialist lecturers , as to the degraded , impoverished , ignorant , oppressed , and miserable condition of the masses , under aristocratic and capitalist misrule . They are shown to fare alike at all hands . The landlord , farmer , mill-owner , army-contractor , wholesale slopseller—all who live on the fruits of labour , display the same disregard ofthe great princi ples of national justice . England contains a population which—in the midst of a superabundant wealth , or the means of creating it—is worse fjsd , worse housed , worse clothed , and worse instructed , than the people of any other socalled civilised couutry .

      Tho Peelite organ , cogitating upon those matters , trul y says : — There is no security in concealing the real state of the case . It is this that is now filling the minds of all tliinkin " men with the most serious reflections ; they know that large classes ofthe peoplo havo just causes of dissatisfaction , both with the structure and the working of our institutions . So long ns this continues to be the case tvan _( _nri'hry » no proof of good government , though it mav be of good police . ° J " ¦ The same authority proceeds to discuss the propriety of taking advantage ofthe present _tsssir rK , iuta " '* ' » - " SS

      And b y way of indicating the policy of tho party it represents , thus expounds its views on '' the organisation of our political system" : — After atrial of seventeen years it cannot bo domed that , with regard to any systematic legislation for the amelioration of the moral and material condition ofthe working classes , the lteform Act has failed to make good the professions which it held out , nnd by means of which chiefly it was carried . The objects which its authors then pro - fussed to desire havenotbeen attained by the measure which they prescribed as sufficient to effect them . AVe do not wish to undervalue that important constitutional change . It has unquestionably greatly diminished corruption , secured the purity of public men , confirmed the principles of religious toleration , and , above all , reformed the commercial system of the country . This it did bv _brnnifinn

      effecting „ change _^; ich J _^ L _}*™™* 1 _* " vas _«» _<* to the interests of tl 10 , . _wn _? W 8 C ? W'e a el'eatci" attention

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      we have had a systematic course of eg . s afton m which the wants and wishes of . the midde class lave » fully attended to , and their interests hah to . 1 ; _«™^ _Huthave we seen signs of « w same « obeit _^ o _^ n _res-gw to the necessities and intercsts-certamly not _'<" P 1 ess' " ° nor less important —of the working classes . It will be seen that this organ of an influential party in Parliament , fully admits . ill that wo hare ever stated as to the real character and consequences of tho Reform Bill . > bubscquently the writer , though guarding _hmisolt against the possible inference , that he considers there is a necessary antagonism between the employer and the employed , repeats the allegation of neglect of the labouring class , in another and a stronger shape : — . . _ ,,

      This is our charce against the Reformed House of Commons-that it lias dealt effectually with no questions where the interests of the middle class ceased to be coextensive with those ofthe working class . The long and anxious discussions , the thorough and effective legislation , on all commercial questions-contrasted with the indifference to educational and sanitary measures , and with thc miserably insufficient provision for these objects—comiilcto ' v establish our position . The predominant influence islature had direct interest in these questions

      111 the Leg no , and tliey consequently went to thc wall . * * * * The complaint of the working classes against parliament now is just the same as was that ofthe middle class before the llcfonn Bill—that tlieir peculiar wants arc not attended to ; and it is useless to expect any really efleetive measures for the improvement of the moral and material condition of the working classes , until their interests are more directly represented in the House of Commons . These are rare words to find in the leader

      columns of a powerful Morning Paper ! If they imply , as we hope tbey do , the determination of the party it is generally believed to represent , to act in a similar spirit , we most heartily congratulate the people on the prospect of next Session . The writer emphatically adopts the proposition so often laid down in this Journal , that the revision aud _rc-organisation of our Electoral System is the necessary

      foundation on which to erect a legislation , steadily and continuously directed to thc aU-essential object of a permanent and thorough amelioration of the condition of the labouring community . We hail with pleasure , the adhesion of such a powerful auxiliary to the ranks of Electoral Reformers . It is no matter to us that they may stop short of the Six Points of tho Charter . The . first great object is gained when we have an admission that the Reform

      Bill has failed—that the middle classes whom itenfranchised , have habitually overlooked and neglected the interests of the labouring classes , and that a revision of our political system is essentially necessary , and imperatively required by tho present state of affairs . Wo are perfectly content to leave all the rest to the influence of fair argument and free discussion , believing that the abstract justice , as well as practical nature of the People's Charter , will ultimately secure the support of the great mass of the peoplo .

      Meanwhile , Lord Joux must make up his mind to encounter , next Session , the spurring of the clever and influential party of Peclites who face him , as well as the Parliamentary Reform party who sit on his own side of the House . He had better take the hint in time , and prepare to introduce a carefully digested new Reform Bill at the commencement of thc Session . Let him remember the advice of his late colleague , Mr . Macavlay , that it was better to grant gracefully what is certain in tho course of a short time to be extorted from you without leaving behind any sense of obligation .

      Official Incapacity And Public Plunder. ...

      OFFICIAL INCAPACITY AND PUBLIC PLUNDER . Whenever light is let in upon any Government department , it discloses the fact , that the husiucss of the nation is grossly mismanaged . Yet , as the heavily-burdened taxpayers know , to their cost , a very high price is paid for having the work thus badly done ; and in these days of cheapness and competition , it appears , at first sight , a puzzling question , why the nation should bo forced to pay for an article at _ouco dear and bad in quality . The solution of the puzzle is very simple .

      The aristocracy have managed to secure and retain the upper hand in tlie Legislature . They dispense places mid emoluments with reference to their own interests , without any regard to the interests of the public . The people aro looked upon as being born for tlie mere purpose of payingtaxes , in order thatthey may enjoy the produce Previous education and national aptitude are the ordinary qualifications required for the filling of any situation in private life , and , once appointed to it , the individual is expected to attend closely , regularly , and vigilantly , to the duties he

      undertakes . All these plain and reasonable conditions are thrown overboard in our public departments . Influence—not capacity aud practical knowledge—constitutesthe " Open Sesame " to a place under the Government . The heads of departments are appointed—not because thoy know anything ofthe business they have to superintend , hut because they are younger brothers , brothers-in-law , cousins , nephews , & c , of some powerful family , or because they have been useful political hacks to their party , and have never hesitated to say " aye" or " no , " according to orders . The vice taints the whole

      system . The understrappers are appointed upon the same principle . Fitness is scarcely ever made the test of admission into the public service—even the very porters in the Halls of tho Government Offices—the messengers who run errands and carry parcels—are selected , because , in thc majority of instances , they have bceu stewards , butlers , footmen , or hangers-on of some sort or other to the aristocracy .

      Our readers will recollect the doingg of Mr . Kent , tho attorney ' s clerk , who was appointed to tho Deputy-lveepcrshi p of Salcey Forest . No other reason for that appointment has yet been assigned than that Mr . Alex . Milne , the Permanent Commissioner and real manager of the department of the "Woods and Forests , had employed him in somo private business , in making np somo executorship accounts , " and that the solicitor by whom _Kks- ' was employed "—whose name ' Mr .

      Alexander . Milne cannot recollect , " called to toll me that lie was * i very active , intelligent person . " This protege ' ' of ihe Commissioner , was , however , in respect of his previous ignorance of the planting and management of forests , only upon . a par with other persons appointed to similar situations . In looking through the first Report of tho Select Committee for the last Session , we do not find a single Deputy Surveyor who had received any special training for the onerous and important duties ho was expected to perform . The result

      is that everywhere the lands under their char « e are—even as forest lauds—grossl y mismanaged , and instead of yielding a profit as they ought to do—entail , in the majority of cases a positive burden upon the country . Take the Chopwell Forest , iu tbe County of Durham as a _suiglo instance . It is situated in the valley ofthe Derwent , which is extremel y Well adapted for growing timber , and what is of

      equal—if not greater—importance , commands a capital market , " being " surrounded bv colheries " -having "lead mines to the west -extensive iron works in tho immediate neighbourhood , and the town of Sunderland , where the trade of ship-Wilding \ 6 ™ cxtonsiv ] v oyna of eight hundred or nine hundred acres or wood adjoining the Crown forest , and whose father and grandfather were wool t

      growers o a 'profit , cond emns the' management of the public propert y in the strongest possible manner , as did Ins father before him . When the lands _ll'CI'C first planted tho elder Mr . Subtees addressed written representations to the Board upon the subject , which — looking at his large practical knowled ge of the question—ono would have expected to be listened to . But Boards iu those days had a sublime contempt for public opinion as well as private remonstrances . They continued their wretched system of planting , and the consequence is , that , although '• the land at Chopwell is extremely

      Official Incapacity And Public Plunder. ...

      well adapted for growing timber , '" tho rd tations "havo grown very badl y , and ! " _^ looking very ill . The oaks and other t _/'' quite stunted , from being alJo \ red to _W , „ _? too close . " The causo of this is _Caq-Jf p lained . ? . _lr . James , thu deputy surv _, _^" was , previous tohis appointment » r ; ' _„„* _* ' ' " in 'the _Jsfc West Yorkshire , Wfti , _Z lt _^ _yeans' _^ _dthoonly _inatructi _^ _jyo tho important situation l , obtain ™! .. „ r to have been " during tho _shoT ' _tS'T was sent to the New Forest after L ° ment . Mr . Rest took a short and JipP 0 " , t " method with tho Salcey Forest . i ? e _T _^ the trees , sold them , and pockotted the C ? lets tne trees : _r : z : _^ _,.

      air . _james grow too thickthus renders them for all practical pun ™* valueless . In both cases thc result is thesa Tho public are defrauded ofthe return w }\ i a proper management ofthe national pronow would make to tho revenue . _^ Now , surely , if we agree to tlie postulate that it is necessary to keep up those Forost _^ for tho purpose of growing timber for the _HinV and thus rendering ourselves independent ' of foreign countries for that article , wo may _^ least insist on thc corollary , namel y—that thev shall be placed under tho direction of me n w \{ 0 thoroughly understand their business , and wl ' o will make them grow wood in the best maimer . So far from tin ' s being the case , wc now rccoiv . '

      almost all our navy timber from abroad . Tltc New Forest and other Forests have not _supplied any oak directly to the dockyards for many years , and when it has boon supplied , thc Admiralty , instead of getting the timber direct from the Commissioners of thc Woods and Forests , insists upon its being sold to wood merchants first , and then re-purchases it at au advanced price—the difference between the buying and selling price going into the pocVct of the dealer . Surel y such a simple affair as thc transfer of a few hundred or thousand loads of timber might be effected betwen two public departments , without thus robbing those who pay both of them !

      The same slovenly and wasteful , if not po sitivcly dishonest , management is _observable in whatever direction we turn . The select committee have just issued a second report which relates to tho management of " tho lauded estates and manors in England and Wales , of the land revenues iu Ireland and Scotland , of the revenues of Alderney am ] Man , and of thc leasehold house estate ia London . ' *

      This department of Crown property is under the management of Mr . Gone tlie co ] . league of Mr . Milne , whose attention to tho woods , forests , aud parks , is of so edif ying a character . Mr . Commissioner G ORE litis lidd his situation ten years , and obtained it _tlii-oiic-ft the influence ofthe late Earl of _BEsnonouon to whom he subsequently became son-in-law _. How ingenious is this process of feathering nests with down plucked from that most silly of all gulls—the public !

      The want of experience and of information which we have adverted to as forming tlie < lis tiiiguishhig characteristic of public _serrauts , is most forcibly illustrated by Mr . Commissioner Gore . By his own confession he is utterly and deplorably ignorant of everything appertaining to thc duties he professes to perform . He is Majocchi Bedivivus with improvements . That worthy , whoso iteration of " mn mi ricordo , ' * has made him celebrated , was positively outshone by this " good and faithful servant , " when examined by the select committee on matters immediately under his own superintendence , direction , and control . Take a specimen or two : —

      Q . IViHi respect to the accuracy of this return , have jva any reason to doubt it ? Ano . I have not examined tlie details nnd tliercibro I cannot state . Who _liroiiglit such and such bills into parliament authorising the investment of these monies 1—Ido not know . Why was not 11 curtain account submitted to you ?—A 115 , _Icznnolsuy . Why wis a certain £ 0 , ( 100 transferred to the land rereime 1—Imn not aware . Here is a defalcation of £ 41 , 000 : how much ofit has been recovered _'i—Ieaunotsay . Have active steps been taken to recover it '—/ cai !!! 0 _{ tell .

      vfii . it are Uic Chantry rents 1—1 do not kn ' . w . Were the _l ' emh'ell vents granted by Charles the Sccimd " —Probably . What are the collective rents —from personal recollection 1—Iw _. mot stale . What is the amount ofthe Viscontial rents ?—As I had no intimation from the committee until ten o ' _cl-n-k tills morning that my attendance would be _reijuircd _this day . t am not _prejiared to answer that question . Is not this a delectable specimen of a publio

      servant ? A graphic illustration of tlie dense ignorance conjoined with downright dishonesty which prevails in high places ? If Mr . Goitv : is so profoundly ignorant of the business of his office , what right has he to draw the large salary he receives 1 Instead of being paid ho ought to be indicted for gross and wilful neglect of duty to thc great and serious detriment of the property placed under his charge and thc public interest therein .

      This in souciant aud remarkably ignorant official is , it appears , however , not without somo sense of shame . When his evidence was printed , he did not altogether like the figure he cut , and minted to strike out one-half of it , for the purpose of substituting other answers . Perhaps , in the meantime , he had seen the necessity of _knowing something about the matter , and had boon " crammed" by somo subordinate official . The Chairman , however , very properly objected to such sweeping altera- ¦ tions , aud the matter was referred to the 1 House of Commons , which ended in his being ; examined , and putting in the result of tho ) said " cramming " in two pages of corrections 3 and errata .

      It appears that the wholesale disforesting of f : Salcey by Mr . Kent , is not an extraordinary ] " ? illustration of the plunder which these ofticialsls carry on , of tho property thoy are sworn toxi protect . Defalcations are matters of commomi occurrence in tho Woods and Forests . Alr . r ; _, Commissioner Goke looks upon them as quiti : capital jokes , and excited the laughter of thoi « Committeo by describing one of the _inostsr serious of them as having occurred " when ? n he was four years old , '' and his parents wenye ? no doubt , in the _' v own hearts , rejoicing overe ? tiie bantling future Whi g Commissioner .

      But the Commissioners of Audit do nofiO ) quite , compvd \ ewd tlws levity in such gravaw matters . When called upon to examine _thctHi accounts of this precious pair of Commissionon crs , they report pretty strongly to the Treasunm as to the neglect or malversation which thtll accounts disclose , and the existence of a' masat of '' arrears " that speaks little either for thtn vigilance or the efficiency of tho public sercicek It

      appears that there are at present . _lO'l _. _OOOOM ot outstanding arrears , and Mr . Wilkins , a a experienced collector of Crown Revenues , _savav that " if he was authorised to employ a privalvar solicitor , instead of sending _everything to tl : tt woods and Forests , he could recorer _thoihci arrears with tho greatest facility . " To SCISCG anything to the Woods and Forests is to _subject it to neglect , incapacit y , aud malvcrscrr won . The arrears themselves are the consonu

      quencc ofthe inattention and ignorance of tif ' parties who arc at the head ofthe _department and who seem to take their money for the p « pp pose of seeing that the property of thc Crowrov and tho revenues of the pub . ic shall be * ac « w heed and plundered , instead of _protected a : l •¦ augmented . A few instances will indicate itopractical consequences of tho mis-m ; n ;; : si ;; _: ; ment of those gentlemen . Mr . W . II . _AYnri mi a receiver of Crown llents , became a _defanliami a tow years since to the amount of il , 001 , 00 (

      although there is an Act of Parliament piovuoo nig that no Crown collector shall havo im 111 than 500 / . in his hands at one time . I _fcrappiTiis , another receiver , in Wales , vs , a so a large defaulter . An Auctioneer , w _,, ployed to sell materials , pocketed 3 , 000 / ., >/ _.,, produce of tho sale . Last yoar thc rcceiwe « J _* e Crown Revenues of the ArchbisIioisliiH ot Gl asgow becamo bankrupt , with nc « no * 5 , 000 / . public money in their hands . TS Ti facts show the nature of tlie supervision h n ; tuted by Jlr . Commissioner Gore ; aud , md < 3

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 24, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_24111849/page/4/