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    • THE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION.
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    • NATION AX BEN E FIT SOCIKfTY ^; . .,,:. ' ,,• Enionea. pursuant to statute 9th and lOUWictoriav c. 27r . :. j". ! / •"
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      THE ABOVE SOCIETy , as amended and legalised , was formerly known as the HATIONAL C 0-0 PE R 4 TIVE BENEFIT SOCIETT ; the managers of which hare long seen the necessity of legal prelection for the security of its members . In framing the new pules , care has heea taken to equaliae the expenditure with the receipts , so that the permanent success ofthebociety should be beyond all doubts . . ¦ - " The Society is divided into three sections , to meet the necessities and requirements of all classes of mechanics ana labourers , from eighteen years of age to forty . thb roixom > G is the ecu , * of ekbs to be paid at ttkeklt aixotvasce ec sickness . esxeasce : — g . d . Age . 1 st section . 2 nd section . 3 nd section . First Section .. .. .. 15 . 0 . *• i s . d . s . d . Second Section .. .. .. 10 0 FromlSto 31 .... 3 0 .... 2 0 .... 1 o Third Section .. .. .. 5 0 _ 21—27 G O .... * O .... 2 0 _ 37—30 .... 9 0 .... 6 0 .... 3 0 MEMBEBS BE 1 TH . WIFE ' S DEATH . _ 30-33 .... 12 0 .... 8 0 .... 4 0 £ £ . d . £% & . — 33—36 15 0 .... 10 0 .... 5 0 FirstSection .... 15 0 0 7 10 0 — 36—38 .... 18 0 .... 12 0 .... 6 0 Second Section .. 10 0 0 5 0 o — 38—40 .... 21 0 .... 14 0 .... 7 0 Third Section .... a 0 0 SO u MONTHLY CONTSIBtmON'S . . , ., first Section , 3 s . Gd , ........ Second Section , 2 s . 4 d . , „ Third Section , is . 2 d . The Society meets every Monday evening , at the Two Chairmen Tfardour-street , Soho , Middlesex , ^ J' ^ . ^ JL ^ w mation can oe had , amd members enrolled . Country friends , applying for rules , can have them forwarded , enciowug Memberlofthe ^ ate Cooperative Benefit Socie ty ,-wiio have paidaU dues and demands up to the 25 th December , 1819 , can atonce be transferred to either section ef the National Benefit Society , without any , ex * ra ^^ infnrm , i , p Agents and sub-secretaries of the late National Co-operative Benefit Society , are requested to ^ earately lnlorm tlie General Secrctarr of the number of members likely to transfer to the National Beneht Society ; and partieEi wislunfe ^ o become agents , or to form branches of the new society , can be supplied with every information , on applications tne Secretary , by enclosing a postage-stamp for an answer . . Tiwfs Okissbt . General Secretary , 9 B . Rezent-street , Lamoett .

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      6 S- THE MAi . cn NUMBER OF THE "DEMOCRATIC KEVIEVf" CONTAINS AN IMPOUTANr ARTICLE ' OX THE FACTOltY QUESTIOIT . Now ready , with the Magazines for March , So . X OF THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW J- Of BRITISH and FOREIGN POLITICS , lHSTORY and LITERATURE . Edited by G . JULIAN HARNEY . COST £ ST 5 : 1 . The Stamp Tax en Newspapers . - 2 . legal Plunder . ¦ 3 . The Ten Hours Question . 4 . A Glance at History . Fart II . -: 5 . Fourier ' s Theory . 6 . Anniversary of the French Revolution . 7 . The Bloodshedding Onlermongers . ' & Poetry : " The Past and tlie Present , " 9 . Letter from TraHce . 10 . Lt'Wer from Germany . 11 . Political Postscript , * Ac , &c 45 ? " Tlie letters from France and Germany contain very . important information of tUe diabolical designs of the " -Holy Alliance , " and their infamous instrument President Buonaparte , Fobtt Pages ( in a coloured wrapper ) , Peici THREEPENCE . - London : Published by J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Ileadpassage , Paternoster-row .

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      MK . G . W . JL REYNOLDS ' S PUBLICATIONS . Hie S . Howing Works are published every SATURDAY - MORNING , at Mr , Reynolds ' s Establishment , 7 , Wellington-street North , Strand , and may be procured of his Agents , and oi all Dealers in Cheap Publications in Town and Country ,

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      THE CHEiPEST ESITION EVEB rOBII 3 HQ > . . Pr iee Is . Cd ., . . a new and elegant edition , with Stoel Plate of th « Author , of : PACE'S POLITICAL WORKS . ' ¦ Now Ready , a JTew Edition of fp . DOOHHOR ' S WORK OH SMALL FABMS Sold bj J . Watson , Queen ' i Head Passage , Paternoster icw , London ; A . ' Jleywood , Oldliam-street , Manobester , ' uid Love and Co ., 5 , Nelson-street , Glasgow . And bi all Booksellers in Towm and Country .

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      M . P . LEE , Tailob , 19 , Albermarle-» street , GlerkenweU , begs to inform the puUic—al , thousli there are so . many Jews , and other adventurerscrept into the trade , who never served a moment to it , and who derive their profits from robbing , the poor unfortunate creatures they employ—he still adheres to the more wholesome systi-in to all—namely , to give a substantial article at a low price , retaining a remunerative profit for himself and workmen . : ijst of pbicek . DressCoats .. ... JE 1153 . to £ 2 5 s . Overcoats .. .. 110 - 2 15 DoesWn Trowsers .. OH .. 12 TweedDitto .. .. ' 0 9 Cd .. 0 16 " Waistcoats from .. 0 6 6 upwards . ¦ Youths doihing ; and every article in the trade , equally cheap . ' ' ¦ ¦ : ¦¦ = Observe the number—19 .

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      A S OUTH LANCA S HIRE DELE G ATE -C&- MEETKe -wUl be held inSteleybridge , on Sitndat v Mosmkg , Makcb IOih , OTecisely at ten o ' clock in the foreoS ™ > n \ ™ *? . CHARTIST ASSOCIATION BOOM , back of r ; . ™ lt M ^?* ' Angs . Kgh-street ; Hydes , ^ Staleybridge . , Ashton , Oldham , Stockpbrt , Manchester , Bolton , Mottram , - Jfjrde , -aacclesfi £ ld , and all the . surronnding localities , are rBS ^ ffi * of Snportancem K . B . —All oommhnica ti 6 n » tol » addreBBed . Wm . Hil . Secretary , care of Mr . Uwton , grocer , tSe ^ W d «^ —

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      NATIONAL BENEFIT SOCIETY , ( Enrolled pursuant to Act of Parliament . ) ' Edjtond Stailwood respectfully announces that he has resigned the Secretaryship of the above Society , and that all correspondence relative to its affairs must , in future , be addressed to Mr . James Grassbt , 3 G , Itegent-street , Lambetb , London .

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      PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT . A PUBLIC MEE TING , J \ Convened by tlie Pbovisional Committeb of the NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION , will be held at the LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTB , JOHNSTKEET , TOTTENHAM-COUItT-HOAD , on TUESDAY EVENING NEXT , March 5 th , 1850 , for the purpose of Reviewing Uie 1 ' koceedincs in Fabmament during the past week . Feargus O'Conuor , Esq ., M . P ., G . W . M . Reynolds , E « a ., G . Julian Harney , W . J . Vemon , Ambrose Tomlinson ( re . cently liberated from his dungeon at Wakefield , ) and others are expected to address the meeting . Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock . ADMISSION FREE .

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      TO THE MEMBERS OF THE WESTMINSTER BRANCH OF THE NATIONAL LAND COM . PANY . TVfOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , THAT JA the members of tlie above branch , will meet at the TWO CHAIRMAN , WARDOUR-STREET , SOHO . on Wedkesdax Evenisg , ilARcn 6 th , at eight for half-past precisely , to take iuto consideration the late trial , O'Connor o . Bmdshaw ; also to consider the propriety of dispensing with the Directors , aud other matters of the utmost importance to the Company . James Gkassbt , Secretary .

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      Nottlvcium . —J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums , sent herewith , viz .: —Fob the O'Cossoa isDEMsrrr Fond . —Mr . Gee , 6 d '; Mr . Burgin , 2 s 6 d ; Mr . Parker , Gd ; Mr . Broadkead , Gd ; Mr . T ., a Nottingham Catholic , Is Gd ; Mr . S ., 2 s Gd ; Mr . Lee , 5 s ; Mr . Cliipindale , 6 d ; Mr . Barton , Gd ; Mr . \ V . Hall , Is ; Mr . Wilson , Is ; Mr . G . Clark , Gd ; Mr . J . AUwood , Is . Mr . Raskin , Dudley , begs to acknowledge tlie receipt of the following sums , sent herewith , viz ; : —Collected by the Chartists who met in Campfeeli-street , Dudley , Win . Dunn . 2 s ; \ Vm . iloir , 2 s : James Dunn , Is ; Sarah Dunn , Is ; Simon TCatts , Is ; Richard Hays , Is ; Thomas Jones , Is ; Wm . Kankin , Is ; Win . Walker , Gd ; Samuel Cook , Cd ; Mrs . Wliitehouse , Cd ; John Daves , Cd ; James Moir , 6 d ; John Wettings , 6 d ; E . Hutchens , 6 d . Collected . by the Democrats of Keats' Hill , Dudley . —Win Besley , 3 s lid ; Wm . Insul bookseller , Stone-street , 2 s Gd ; Thos . Jukes , Is ; Joseph Woodel , is ; Pall Ehvell , Is ; A Friend , Is ; Wm . ElwelL . 6 d : — Gear , Cd . ; Thomas Kuston Gd .

      Mr . Paeeott , Mitcbani-sreeu . —9 s . 9 d . Laxdeswean , France . —Money received . Mr . P . Cameeov , Paisley . —The order sent is made payable in Dublin . It ought to have been made payable at the Charing-cross Post-office . - Sir . W . Lindsay . Aberdeen . —I have been personally acacquainted with Mr . Samuel Fisher , bookseller . Weststreet , Leeds , for many years , and am of opinion that lie wi'l see to jour nffiiir . If his own business engrosses too much of his attention , I will recommend you some other person resident in that town . Correspond with him . —W . Uideb . J . L ., Belfast . —I have sent your letter to Mr . T . Clark . — W W . m . GitEconr , Eccles . —Ask the question of the " Mark Lane Gazette , " or "Bell ' s Weekly Messenger . " The UatioxalChahter Association . —Cards of membership can be obtained on application being made to Mr . Jno Arnott , care of Mr . Truelove , stutUuer , John-strtot

      FitEroj-square . Ihe Honesty- Fosi > . —Collectm ? books may be obtained kj applying to Mr . Clark , 144 , High Holborn . NornxGAM . —To Me&srs . Barber , Rodders , Etnhes . Harri-. son . Radford . and many other Chartists meeting at the Temperance Coffee-house , \ Loiv Pavement I have not s « en the "Nottingham Review" of Saturday last , which . it appears , contains an editorial notice of Mr . Clark ' s " sensible pamphlet" I am not surprised to learn that your reply to Mr . Clark and the " Nottingham Review , " has been-refused insertion in that paper . That reply must also be excluded from the "Northern Star , ' Mr . O'Connor having , both publicly and privately , declared ! that lie will not allow any further controversy between myself and Mr . Clark in Ms paper . ' I except the Mowin *; portion of your reply , which assimiatcs to resolutions already published in this journal : — " We are glad that Mr . Clark has resigned his office of member of the Executive Committee , because , if he had not , we should have been compelled to call upon him to so , he not being worthy the confidence of the working classes . " I must reserve further comment until I again

      have the pleasure of addressing the men of Nottingham —which , I hops , to hare ere many weeks are passed , when I will do myself justice , and Mr . ^ lark , and the ' Nottingham Rerien- '' likewise . —G . Jcliah Hasset . Samuel Jackso . v ( Attercliffe ) . —Thanks for ysur friendly letter , and for the Whig " Sheffield Independent , " containing a eulogistic notice of Mr . C ' ark ' s pamphlet in which notice I am pleased to find that I am denonnccd as a "truculent personage , " and that Mr . Clark is pardoned by his Whig friends for " the misdeeds in which he has shared . "J My earnest prayer is , that I may continue to be denounced , and Mr . Clark praised bv such papers as the " Sheffield Independent "—G . Julian Harnet . Leigh Gleave , Rochdale—All right . The letter from Mr- James Sweet , also the letters from Carlisle , Leicester . and Stourbriiige , will be given in next week ' s Star . - . ... Maschestek , Paislet , and MEETHraTrnva . —Received the names and monies for the Fraternal Democrats . Jons Pemucfs , Joss , —Your excellent letter cannot be published ; you will understand why .

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      Mr . O'Connor will be at a public meeting at the People ' s Institute , Manchester , on Sunday night next . Mr . M'Gkatii and Mr . Clark will also be present .

      The Provisional Committee Of The National Charter Association.

      THE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION .

      All Lettei' 3 intended for the Provisional Committee must be addressed to Mn . John Aknoit , care of Mr . Truelove , Institution , John-street , Fitzroy-square , until the Committee shall have > taketfan Office , the address of which will be announced ' : in ' . th ' e . " Northern Star" of next week . . .- - ... . .

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      NATIONAL EDUCATION . . Education is alike important to individuals and to communities . '' This fact has been recogirised aud admittedin all ages by those to whom , society loofo up with reverence . The basis of Plato's : ideal . Republic was a strict system of regulated public or State Education . The Hebrew Monarch to whom the attribute of wisdom is" pre-eminently ascribed , has forcibly compressed the , whole philosophy of the . question into one sentence—" . Train up a child in the way he should go , and when he is old he will not depart from it . " The duty of instructing the people , has , under , every form

      of government , been recognised as the highest and most essential duty of the State , and provisions for its discharge have been made , in various shapes , in every country , front despotic Austria to democratic America . ¦ 'England constitutes almost the sole , exception .. to the nations which profess to take a hig h stand . We have yet to agree upon a principle and plans by which the busings of instruction may be brought home to-Jthe whole of the children who are to forni thei men and the women of the next generation , and upon whose knowledge orignorance the destinies of this great country must mainly depend .

      It is scarcely to be wondered ; that this is the case . A few years only have passed away since the State in any m anner recognised and admitted any claim upon it . Previous to that Education' was considered . anybody's — or , rather , nobody s— -business ; Here . and there benevolent and active persons , or zealous sectaries , bestirred themselvesi to impart a Bmat tering of book-learning , intermixed with dogmatic teaching ; but . the great bulk of the upper classes were of opinion that , upon the whole , the less education tithe lower classes " bad ; the better for all parties . " It would tend td put notions ' into their heads " subversive of the " order and well-being of society . " Thby

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      would grow discontented wttbtheb :. conditiorii and grow less lowly-mv their subraissibh to their •' masters . and . pastors . " By common consent , therefore , " the' ; people were as much as possible left uneducated ., They were treated much : inV the same manner as the slaves ; of Georg ia or Delaware , ; Their business was to work , and not to think . The best master considered he had done his duty in first-rate style , when he saved them the trouble of thinking- — kept them hard at work , and supplied them plentifully with rations , to keep them hale and fit for labour .

      The first inroad upon this system—so well calculated to maintain the empire of dense ignorance—was made by . Joseph Lancaster . The effect of his exertions-r-after the first and usual attempt to crush him had failed—was to bring a rival scheme of Dr . Bell ' s into the field . The Church , and Aristocracy , failing to put down the Educational Movement , resolved to counteract it by using similar means . They

      saw clearly enough , that children could be as easily trained to become Episcopalians as Wesleyaus , or Quakers , and that to get hold of the young mind was the cheapest vray to uphold their supremacy . The instruction of the people was thus , for many years after the commencement of that movement , left entirely to the voluntary efforts of competing sectaries , each with their own narrow ' aud proselytising motives to setthem at-work .

      When at last the Government were awakened to the fact that they were bound to act in a matter of bo much importance , they were too much afraid of the nest of hornets thev would bring about their ears , >' to venture upo ' nthe establishment of a system based upon plain and just princip les . They simply contented themselves by voting a small sum of money annually , and made , the rival Church and Dissenting societies the medium through which it was to be spent . :: ' .-.. ¦ -

      The great question , whether the education was national , and by what arrangements it could be so , has been left in abeyance . ;; Our states men shrink from touching it—our public men dread it . Every successive attempt made by successive Governments to compromise the matter , or to get better terms for the public from the waning sectaries , has failed . Rather than let the whole people be , saved by any other way than their own , they would . sooner see them perish . ; >

      While this unseeml y and most unchristian warfWfor the upper hand has been waged in the name of religion , the masses have been left uninstructed . In no other civilised country is there such a large proportion of totally uneducated persons as in this . The consequence ia to bo traced in the amount of social evils which flow directly from that ignorance , and which entail enormous ' pecuniary burdens , as well as grievous moral calamities , upon the nation . ' . ¦ - ' ¦ .. ;

      Under these circumstances , there can be no doubt but that a crying necessity for some measure existed-it was equally apparent that whoever attempted to propose one required both courage and judgment . Besides those who object to State Education on religious grounds , there is another , and ^ not an unimportant party , who . . object to it . on political grounds . They do not like the idea of investing the Government with so much additional patronage as a national scheme involves ; and they also object to the State having the power of moulding the minds of their children , as conferring an influence which might , in the hands of a bad-Government , be made to act most prejudicially to the cause of liberty .

      But despite all these difficulties , it was clemthat something should be done . Mr . Fox , the Member for Oldham , lias , attempted \ that something , and introduced a Bill to provide for the Secular Education of the People , which proves that he has not sat in the House of Commons an inattentive observer of . the tone and temper of . that Houso . Instead of attempting to grapple with the want in all its vastness , and to propound a plan consistent dn all its details , and rigorousl y "deduced from

      first principles , Mr . Fox lias . sought to ; neutralise the opposition ofall existing educational bodies , and to base his plan upoii such general propositions as would find most favour with the existing popular mind . We cnrididly confess , that Ave could have wished him to go much further than he has done ; and yet , looking at the complicated and formidable opposition he had before him , it may be doubted whether the proposal of more would not have prevented his Bill from being read a first time .

      The measure merely proposes to occupy whatever ground may bo now unoccupied by societies , or benevolent individuals ; and , in the case of such admitted deficiency , to levy a rate on the property in the district , for the purpose of educating the neglected children . The amount of the rate , the . appointment of masters , and other details of the school system , he leaves in the hands of those who' pay the money . The advocates of the principle . of

      local and municipal self-government cannot , therefore , object to it , ¦ The point . where it is likely to encounter most opposition is , the absence of any definitive provision'fo , r religious instruction ; the rate is simply to , provide secular education ;; the . other must be voluntary , and cannot in any case be enforced contrary to the opinions of the parents , who have the sole -power of determining the religious tenets their children should be tanght . :

      The able and temperate manner in which the subject was introduced , had the wonderful effect of charming even the most prejudiced and bigoted opponents ' of •• education into eulogiuni and ¦ acquiescencej !/ as ; far . as the first stage , of the measure was ' concerned ; but many a tough ¦ : fight lies between . it and the Royal assent—^ a point , we fear , it , will never reach" . '• As a step : in the right 'direction—as a

      means of turning the attention ; of Parliament , tothis most grave and' vital . ' question , in . a conciliatory spirit — the iintroduction of the measure / is a public benefit ; whatever may be the immediate fate of the Bill , -it cannot fail to help forward the good work . . "If Wo , proposer does not garner the harvest , he may , at least , console himself with . having : ; sown , seeds , that must , atnodistant day , bring forth an abuD-

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      credit ; &r " ip ^ inOi on ^" ' -aM ^ to ^ p irig any real measure frpm befog bro ught forward ; and thus inthuC ; a |; in' al ^ ottieVjmafterB / tlie stop-gap Jand obstructive ! policy on whuih , tMr Government is founded , w ^ s consistently ^ cirr ried ' Out , ¦ '¦¦{ ' : ¦ ¦ i : ;' " iiiur : i ¦ ¦ ¦ , ! .: '" . •; .. ' ; . ;;• : ' ; •> vj ' jii ¦' : It ^^ appears , libwever ^ that ' the-mockeryOf d representative and electoral ' : constitution in Ireland , is now so palpable and so ludicrous , that even Whig stomachs revolt at- it . Peri haps there may also be a less dignified motive at work ! As the present constituencies stand ; they . may give a clear majority to the ,

      Protectionists . If they are driven to a General E lection on the existing registry , Ireland would return a large reinforcement of Tories to help to turn them put of office . A sense of selfinterest , therefore , at la&t compels them to bring forward their measure , with the intention of really carrying it if they possibly can . But they have , at the same time , taken very good care that it shall not go beyond the exigencies of their party . Ati the very utmost , the measure would not raise the constituency for the whole of Ireland to 200 , 000 ; the probability is that it would be

      50 , 000 less . The old defective principle of rent and rating is maintained ; and the complicated tenures by which votes were held , remain , with all their meshes , to entangle the feet of claimants , and supply the means for thinning the register , according as it may suit the interests of the factions who . watch its revision before the Barristers . The Bill is the smallest of small reforms , but small as it is the landlords will not have it . The very possibility of its serving the Ministerial Party is , of itself sufficient to cause their determined opposition ; and , apart from that powerful motive , they have a rooted and inveterate hatred of all

      measures that tend to emancipate the people from their thraldom . . . ; For one whole night , therefore , the landlord party stopped all business in the House of Commons ; : They were resolved — as Lord J . Manners said—to teach the Premier " a lesson he would not forget . " Upon various pleas—each of them false upon its very face —they objected to proceed with the Bill , and forced the House to no less than Seven divisions , the majority against them growing larger every division , until at last Lord J . Russell , wearied out , and seeing the impossibility of doing anything at this hour , gave up tho contest at midnight , amidst the cheers of the victorious Obstructives .

      There are , no doubt , occasions when minorities , very much smaller than that which supported Mr . Disraeli on that occasion , may most righteously avail themselves of all the forms of the House to obstruct the progress oi obnoxious measures . These forms constitute the most effectual safeguard against the tyranny of a unreasoning numerical majority ; but they should , therefore , only be used when the object in view is clearly for the benefit » of the nation at large . When they are resorted to—as upon Monday night—for purely party and selfish purposes , they become the

      instruments of faction , not constitutional weapons in the hands of patriots . - With reference to this factious opposition , and gross abuse of the privileges of an Opposition , the " Times" and other Ministerial journals have given us some curious expositions of Ministerial morality . They hint , that if the Tory faction will insist , in this very unreasonable and ill-considered manner , to obstruct small reforms , Ministers , in self-defence , will he obliged to buy the support of the country with

      larger ones . Precisely what we anticipated , the moment we saw Mr . Gladstone secede from Sir Robert Peel , amidst the vociferous applause of the Protectionists . Yes ! the Whigs will be compelled by a real opposition to bid higher for public support . The buttresses by which they were kept in office have been taken away . They must either stand on their own merits and deeds now , or fall to the ground . A short time will show which they prefer .

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      ¦• • ¦ ¦; ::: " : : " ' - ME . ^ Inest ^ Mes ; - ^ -r- ^ So little intcrcourseis ' tliere ' perinitted between Mr . EBNBSx / JpHKS . ) anQ ihis . nearesfc ; relatioBs 3 other persons being rigidly . exclu'ded from holdif communication witn ; him-that > even thestatAIf l- health has been but , very imperfectly Ltl t t !^ We are at this time , however , in poKo ? of in - formation , from which we learn that Mp ™ SU « £ ' been for some time past suffering from ill hl , u 2 We know that at th / present time heToSflS ^ * the infirmary of , the prison ; and ! althoS ? ^ reportedby theprison . authorities as ' « 3 eShi better , '' we have reason to believe that ffscSf tution js gradually giving way under th « . tl " treatment to which he is aubSfl p fieverc efforta-wbich we hoSe ' will"fi ^ ce sS' ** about to be made to secure Mr JoW , vk ~ are Should thoSeeffort 8 fcU i " weSlUon idef UaS ' to give . publicity to revelations of the cruel trea / stas , besfc ser ^ MS'Aite

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      M 0 NIES RECEIVED For shb Webk Ending Thursday February 28 , 1851 ) .

      THE HONESTY FUND i ^^ i i m ^ mm FriPnrl- it ? t CSt ? li"ster Charasts 10-W . Haigh and 1 C £ ' "f ^ eds 2 . s ed-two IIiindloomV m fj ' u r ~ i 2 l c "I Sd-VljmouQi , per J Rogers Uj-Vnends of Justice and Liberty , Colne , per J Watson l / Oakhampton , per H . Fink 5 s .. Cd-l a few Friends , Leigh , per J . Howarth , 10 s . 2 d-DudIey per w Itanlnnll . Is-Broomflelds , Bradford , per N . FrW . / ls . 1 M -J . 1 ' nce , ilmster Lovel 1 J-E . Todd , West Auckland Is ™ Dairy 3 s-Mcssrs . Tristram , Cooper and Millhencl , f « T ' « ham 5 s Cd-T . Waddington , per V Arnoti * 1 ° " ia ^ V ^ S i J « ' c l 5 ls -- Bo 01 PJ s

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      ANNIVERSARY OP THE 21 tii OF FEBRUARY While it was not permitted to the French democracy in then own country , to celebrate the anniversary of the revolution of February by banquets , the exiled democrats of many nations , ' now living in London , could , . it least , meet on that day . A supper had been arranged by the French Eepubli ' can . Social Democratic Society . The banquet came off at a first-rate' tavern at the West-End of London , on the evening of Monday , the 25 th of February . The large room was speedily filled ; there were

      from two to three hundred democrats present , including , besides [ Frenchmen , Germans , Poles , Spaniards , Hungarians , etc . ; the fair sex , too , was numerously represented . The French , Polish , and German colours , adorned the end wall of the room ; the Red flags , ! however , were most numerous . The speakers ' : platform ,, too , was covered with a Eed flag , adorned with funeral emblems , and the following inscription : " Second anniversary of February , 22 nd , 23 rd , 24 th of . February , lS 4 S ; to the memory of the victims ' . "

      There was no chairman ; the committee who had organised the banquet , presided over and directed the meeting . In the name of this committee , and with an appeal to universal democracy , ( one of the exiles wounded in June , 1848 , sentenced to transportation for June , 1849 ) , after the cloth was removed , opened the proceedings bjr a toast to the Revolution of February . The meeting gave three hearty rounds of cheers for the victims of February , and three cheers more-for all nations combating for the cause of democracy , nnd to the numberless victims fallen in their heroic struggles . The cries of : Vive la Revolution , Vive la Rcpuhlique' Romaine ,- Vivelaliepublique ffniverselle , Vive VEqalitcbrolie forth from ' all parts of the room .

      , The following sentiments were then given and responded to by the several speakers : — " The Organisation of Labour . " " The Republican Army . " - " The Insurrection of June 184 S . ' "The Insurgents of all Times and all Countries . " " The coming Revolution . " "Aux Partageux . " "Ala fdmille . " - " The Socialist Proletarians of France . " " The menaced French Schoolmasters , the Apostles of Socialism . " " The Dissolution of the Armies of Europe . " " To the Imprisoned Martyrs , " "Ala Revolution sans Phrase . " Responded to by a Ger-M in citizen . ; ' ¦• ' •

      A numberof patriotic hymns -were sung by several citizens , alternate with the speeches . The" C hant du depart . " , The ' " llepublique des Paysam . " The " Chant des Travailleurs , " a German national song , &c , were produced . The proceedings terminated aftei- midnight , all present joining in the " Marstilla'ise , " and in the oft repeated cry- ; Vive la Jiepublique Universelle AeinodratiguA- itSotiah . The most fraternal feeling prevailed throughout the evening , and the only thine to be regretted ; was ; that under present circumstances , it had been , from motives easily to be conceived , impossible to invite thQ''British Democracy to join in . this fraternal meeting . . v ; ' V ¦ ¦•• ¦ ' ¦ . ; . ' : ¦ ¦ - ¦

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      Two Russian line-of-battle ^ ships , one of . 120 and the other of 84 guns , , as well as seVeral smalltr vessels have been lately launched at Niko ' aiou . Dbith op Genbrai Lord Atlmer . —The above nobleman expired somewhat suddenly on Saturday night at his residence in Eaton-square . . ' Another Peerage . —It is rumoured , only we no riot believe the rumour , and hope the reader will display the same intelligence , that Mr . Disraeli is to be made a peer , forth * purpose of . getting him out w the Hou 8 epf GpmtaonB . He will asaume . no title . ic is . ' . Baid ; - , ^^ Wat . sderaly change ilM name to f ' UpPer B ? nUmiD ?< Vf \ tiKft ,

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      ¦ ¦ . "'"""" .. """^"" 7 ¦' J . .. '' . ''' PAELIAJ'tENTARY ^ feVIEW . : ! PROTECTIONIST TRIUMPH ^ -Ai FACTION FIGHT ON THE IRISH FRANCHISE : — WQOPS AND . FORESTS ; Ac . V i-. i / . : .- . S : \ In a Hduso'pf 525 ' members ^ and aft er two nights' debate , the . Protectionists . > rei ' e . ipnly beateu by a majority ; of tweiity-orie . This . is virtually a ' victory , and , has entirely altered the complexion of the whole Session , us well as the relative position arid policy of parties . The very large . majorities in . Jboth Houses iii favour of the-Address , :. > ver ' e < hailed ., by '; the , Fr , ee

      Trade party > nd . their organs , ¦ . as ,.. conclusive proofs that their policy I was indeed irresistible ^ and that the Question was settled finally and for eveiv ; The division of ; Thu r > day ,, the 21 st ; must have convinced even them that they are mistaken . The agricultural classes , and those connected with them , are not yet subjected to the rule of "Manchester , " In re-Bolving that the produco of "tho land . shall have no protection against foreign competition , a host of collateral ; questions , have boon raised ; the discussion of uwhicli

      mas t lead to results , as little desired as-they were foreseen by ^ the Man ufacturei'S . They may indeed continue" for a time to' resist successfully any | attempt . to rq-impose protective duties—but in a House equall y divided , it Jb impossible for Ministers long to avoid one of twa , courses , either to ; concede ' such a : re-adjuatment ^ of local ai ^ d gener al burdens ; as'thb landlord class demand—and wKich . jvould be an * mp le « icompen 8 aiion ^ l ; tn ^ m | w these fatwa- ^ or toiteyy . ihejwWe question by : referrfigit to fcipresenti ooifetaiuenoieBi « nd

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      taking the test of a . General Eleclion .,. In either , case , they ; will be driven ' into the position Mr , Disraeli and his supporters desire ; and after all the abuse heaped upon him as a mere political adventurer and practical nincompoop —after alrthe , hymns , 6 f glorification chanted over defunctProtection , the Manufacturers and Moneymongers will ; be compelled to fight the battle over again . ^ : This singular and sudden change in the relative strength and prospects of parties , is to be accounted for by the secession of Mr . Giai ) -

      stone , and a large portion of the Peelite party ,, who have , ever ' since the dissolution of the Peel Cabinet , voted with the Ministry on all loading questions . That party has indeed occup ied a very anomalous and uncomfortable position , and it is a wonder that a change has not sooner taken place . Composed , to a large extent , of men who had held office and acquired administrative experience , they found themselves much in the same position as ; the staff of an army cut off from the main body , and doing the work for an opposite staff , without sharing either in the honour or the

      emoluments . ¦ ¦" " : »• From time to time , rumours of a coalition between the chiefs of the Ministerial and the Peelite party , indicated the disagreeable nature of this position ; but the Whigs are too fond of place , pay , and patronage , to relish the notion of sharing them with any other party , if they can help it . Years rolled on , and still they kept p ossession of the Treasury Bench . ¦ Sir Rohert Peel , Sir James Gbaham , and one or two more of the chiefs who have attained a

      considerable age and large honours as statesmen , might afford to look across tho table calmly ; but it was not in nature , that young aspiring—^ perhaps needy—noblemen and gentlemen , who had once or twice tasted' the sweets of office , could long endure , their

      continued exclusion . On the other hand , the main body of the Conservative party have been virtually without a leader ever since the death of the chivalrous Lord George Bentinck . The demise of that nobleman took away one great obstruction to a fusion of the severed party . His honest detestation of anything like double dealing or inconsistency , would have operated at all times to prevent any union between the party under his leadership and tho persons by whom he felt , with all the warmth of his nature , they had been betrayed and deserted .

      Since his death , various members of tho party have temporarily acted as its representative and leader : until at length Mr . Diskaeli seems by general consent to have gained the position . Ho has no such antipathies as his departed leader ; and , besides , he occupies an infinitely inferior position with an aristocratic party ; However hig h , their admiration of his talents and his eloquence may bo , the" noble lords" and ' . ' right hon . gentlemen" by whom ho is supported , cannot forget that after all he is only a plebeian . Their patrician prejudices

      bound them to Lord George Bentincb : —the son of a Duke—quite as strongly as his fearlcsi advocacy of their interests . If the Marquis of Guanby—heir to another dukedom—had been capable of ihe post , the author of Coningsby would never have been promoted to it . Mr . Disraeli sees , under these circumstances , that an effectual Parliamentary victory , and its substantial results , the possession of office , cannot be secured unless by an alliance with the party which comprises men who have held office , and who have the birth , rank , and feudal influence of which he is deficient .

      Hence , no doubt , the junction effected between a part of the Peelites and the Country Party . How long the remaining members of the thinned ranks may continue very faithful to the ex-Premier , will soon be seen . As far as he and Sir J . G-raham are concerned , it is evident that they have given up all idea of reconciliation with their former supporters ; and we therefore anticipate that , one by one , those who yet maintain their allegiance , will gradually fall into their old and natural positions , and that we shall have an out-and-out Tory party once more . .

      Most sincerely do we congratulate the country on this prospect . The past three years have been a gap in the history and progress of the empire . Tlie unnatural state of parties caused a neutralisation of forces , and a paltry faction has been suffered to usurp the powers , and privileges , and wealth of office , on the simple understanding that they were to do nothing , and to prevent , as far as possible , everybody else from doing anything . It must be confessed , that such a task was

      peculiarly congenial to the Whigs . They have always shono in the discharge of their vocar tion of obstructives , when in power , : So long as they can be kept on the bleak andnonsiilaried side of the Speaker's chair , they are the advocates of Liberal opinions and progressiro Reforms ; but the moment they step to the other side , the famous line of Dante might be inscribed over the entrance to the House of Commons , as a warning to all reforming members : —¦ . .

      ''AH hope abandon ye , who enter here !" The formation of a largo , powerful , and real opposition , which may at any moment place them : in a minority , and compel them to the alternative of resigning office , or trying 1 the chances of a General Election , -will have a most beneficial effect on the political and social destinies of the country . Stand-stillism is no longer possible . We must either go forward , or go back . Parties will be sifted , and properly classified . Tories will be Tories , and Reformers Reformers . There will be an open arid earnest struggle—not mere sham contests , ' as we iikve ^ had / lately . "We do not fear the

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      THE SPY POWEIiL . ( From the Berkshire Chronicle , Feb . 16 . ) We have this week to announce the arrival of the ship Caroline ,, from London with 179 passengers ; and the ship Louisa Baillie , from London and Plymouth with 16 r passengers . ' Amongst the passengers by the Caroline is a person whose proper name Is TAo ) nasPowell , but who shipptd himself in the name of Thomas-Richards . It seems that , having been one of the principal witnesses against the English Chartists , the English government have secretly provided Mm with the necessaryfunds for removing himself and hi * family to this colony . Another passenijer , named John Morley , ' from Ashford , Kent , jumped overboard on the 23 nd of May ; It was said that he had parted from his friends manger , and hating been , subject to bitter compunctions , - his remorso became insupportable . —Adelaide Observer .

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      Business was proceeding pretty steadily up to the division of Thursday , which so entirely changed the aspect of the political world . On the subsequent night , which is generally one of the busiest and most important of the week , the House was nearly csmpty , and the attention languid to what business did come on .. What ' over would bear postponement was set aside . Measures that would have elicited discussion , were forwarded a stage , sub silentio , and an

      important measure for the Reform of a Government department , was introduced by the Premier , ; in a House of about twenty-five or thirty members , "with fewer words and less ostentation than an ordinary Turnpike Bill . It was . clear that the venue was changed for the time being , from the open arena of the House of Commons to the clubs , and that the various parties were calculating ; the ; probable conser quencesof the previous night ' s division before taking any further step .

      Yet the measure referred to was one which well deserved the deep and earnest attention of the so-called representatives of the people . The Blue Books published b y tord'DuNCAN ' s Committee , have disclosed such a system oi gross and' criminal mismanagement , peculation and profligate wastefulness , on the part of the Commissioners of the Woods and Forests , as is unparalleled in the annals of jobbery and corruption . The immense estates under their care have been nests for the hatching of every

      conceivable abuse . The nation instead of deriving an income frorn ' property—the estimated fee simple of which is worth many , millions sterling-Trhave absolutely been in many cases paying money put of pocket to those engaged in ' plundering it . Open undisguised robbery , by day arid night , was suffered to proceed under the watchful eyes ; of the Commissioners and th . eir : tmsty ,. Officers ; The . Bfew- Forest , containing upwards of 60 , 000 ; acres in i tho most beautiful district of the south-west of

      England ; > instead of yielding any revenue , actually COSt the country nearly Jive thousand pounds ^ mpre than it returned , last year ! If these immense estates were properly managed , there can-be no doubt that they might . be made , ri <> t orily conducive to the'physical and social well-being of large masses of persons ; who are now , compulsorily , idle arid depen r dent ; . . upon the poor rates for subsistence , but also ; . become a source of ,-permanent and increasing' revenue to the State . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' . > . ¦

      The changes- proposed * by the . Ministry , in the ! composition of the Commission , nwill , as far ' as they go , tend to prevent the perpetration of such monstrous and- disgraceful abuses as have' heretofore distmguished' the administration of this department ; but it does not ; propose any new and improved plan , for the more profitable and beneficial management of tti 6 property itself . The change is purely administrative .- In future , two permanent . paid Com missioners , assisted by one unpaid , will have the management of the . Woods and Forests , and Land Revenues , but without a seat in Parliament . The FiRsir Commissioner will

      be . at the head of the Board of Public Works , with a ; seat in Parliament , arid no' monies will be allowed to be expended until , the items have been submitted to the Treasury , and approved of , we presume , by Parliament , in the . ordinary manner , as all other Treasury estimates are , in the usual Committee of Supply . This . is > undoubtedly , a great improvement on the former system , which was

      without any , check whatever upon misappropriation and malversation . The First Commissioner will have the responsibility of proposing all votes on account of the department , and of answering 'all questions las to the management of the property under its control . Thisis all " well , sp far ; and perhaps the reconstruction of the Boardj upon a business-like foundation , may by-arid-by . eventuate ! in ft better appMcation of the propertyitself . , ^

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      issue . ' > ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦• ¦ ¦ ¦ : f Mr . Disraeli does not seem disposed to let his newly-acquired strength lie idle , or to give Fillisters any respite for breathing time . He follows up his victory , and , -fortunately , in such a manner . that the country can be at no loss to understand his principles and policy . They are rank , unmitigated Toryism . The predominance of , the landed aristocracy , and an inveterate and uncompromising resistance to the extension of political rights , among the people at large , 'are the cardinal objects at which he aims . Thisis as it should be . We like an open foe ; . and the course adopted by

      him and his backers , on Monday night , on the question of the Irish'Franchise , deserves all credit for its unmistakable declaration of hostility to all political Reform ^ . however small or temporising the proposition iriay be . Sufficient for himand them are " our good old institutionsj and our ancient . English laws . " Those who would put . their hands upon themj for the purpose of ' 'altering-or amending them , arc rash ; impious , ^ and dangerous men , who must be boldly encountered , and , if possible ; " put down . " The' modern Canute has planted himself in ' the front of the swelling tide of Progress , and commanded it to retire . Will it obey , or will he be swept away by its advancing waves ? . ,,,

      We have already intimated our opinion of the exceedingly sniall Whig measure for extending the franchise in Ireland ... The stamp of its parentage'is unmistakably impressed upon it . ' The constituency of Ireland hasj during the last three years , become almost extinct . The workhouse , the grave , or the emr gration ship , ' has received the mass of the £ 10 voters , until at last there are' fewer electors remaining for the whole of'Ireland , than

      there are for the West Riding'of Yorkshire . This process of extinction has been gteadily going on , yet so fearful were the Whigs of doing anything that could tend to counteract it , thatffor two years they have intrpiduced a ¦ measure and' then withdrawn it , apparently fidghteried ' at . -fihe very ideapfiextending , the ., francliise , h pweyer , ; infinitessimally .: The ^ ih ^ duction of the measure ^ had tlie ^ ffeot intended , of gaining th » m

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      1 ^^; NO R'EH , E . R ^ -S'rA ^ r Matoh ; 2 ; 1680 .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 2, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1563/page/4/